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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (May 28, 1908)
f THE VALENTINE DEHOCRi VAIiEXTIXE , XEIi. tJ. 51. RICE , . . . . Publlsti FLOOD WOJRKSHAVC JSVKIIY 1IAILROAD IX OKLAIIO ? IJIlOrGIIT TO STANDSTILL. of Twenty Inches in Ten IIou faking Total of More Than Thi Inches in Three Days Railrc Tracks and Bridges Swept Away. Not a railroad in Oklahoma was operation Sunday night as a result "the heavy rains and cloudbursts tl had occurred in various parts of t etate during the past three days. T last road to suspend operations \ \ the Missouri , Kansas and Texas , whi -was forced to quit at noon Sund when the bridge onthe main line 13ufaula went down. To add to the disaster the mr supplying natural gas to the Indi Territory part of the state was cr Tied away with the Clarksville brid late Sunday and the supply of gas f ! Muskogee and several other cities the southeastern part of the state h been entirely cut off. Officials of t , gas company say it will be a week 1 ] lore repairs can be made so that t gas supply can be carried. As natui gas is used for light and heat , bu : ness will be suspended in a measui Elevators have been forced , to st running and hotels and restaurar Iiave practically been put out of bu : 11 oss. During ten hours Sunday there AV a rainfall of twenty inches in th section of the state. The previo fall during- the past three days of mo than ten inches contributed to tl damaging flood. liAXDITS HOLD UP TROLLEY. iTa-ke Up Collection of $125 from Crc and Passengers. Not satisfied with the $125 in ca ! and two watches secured from tl -conductor , motorman and nine pa iBengers on a car of the West Per Electric railway near Boston , a smf town between McKeesport and Eliz : "both , which they held up , two mask * highwaymen a short distance fro the robbery halted John Mo wry , farmer , and his wife and relieved the of $ lo. Mowry's horse was stoppc and he a id his wife dragged from tl buggy. They were obliged to stan until searched and then allowed 1 drive away. Of the eleven men on the car whe it was stopped , not one carried a r < volver and not one showed any dispc sition to resist the demands of th desperadoes. One man hid $ GO in h shoe and saved it. Others conceale watches. Detectives have no clew o "which to work. FAILED BANKERS ACCUSED. Officers of Oklahoma Concern Are Pi Under Arrest. L. A. Conners , president , and L. E Key , cashier of the International ban of Colgate , Okla. , which was close Saturday , were arrested upon order c State Bank Commissioner H. H. Sod upon their refusal to repay $0,000 an $5,000 , respectively , which amount they borrowed from the institution 5 violation of the state banking law ; They were released under hear , bonds. When the bank failed the state im mediately took charge and began pay ing off the depositors under the stat depositor's guarantee law. The stat had practically finished this wor ] Saturday. Many depositors , however Iiave refused to apply for their money "knowing it safe. 'AIRSHIP VICTIMS RECOA'ERIXG ! Xonc Injured in Accident at Barkelc ; Will Die. The seven men seriously injured ir The sensational airship accident a JJarkeley , Cal. , are all doing well a the Roosevelt hospital. None of their Avill die. L. A . Rodgers , one of the assistant engineers in the crew of four , teen that went up in the huge dirigible balloon , who was believed to be fatallj injured , will recover. J. O. Morrell the inventor , and Capt. Penfield , th < Australian aeronaut , who stowed away in the aircraft after he had been ordered off and had both legs broken are both much improved. Morrell de clares he will commence work on an other airship as soon as he leaves th < hospital. Sioux City Live Stock Market. Saturday's quotations on the Sioux City live stock market follow : Beeves. $ G.OO@G.G5. Top hogs , $5.30. Dies in Ball Game. Heart failure caused by a long throw from deep left field to the home plate in the second inning of a game .between two local baseball teams re sulted in the death of John 11. Perry , of St. Louis , Mo. , an amateur player Ari/ona Bank Opens. The Globe National bank , of Globe } Ariz. , which cloc d its doors Nov. 4 , < j reopened Saturday morning , prepared j to pay all depositors. P _ f t V tf , ' - . FIREBRAND IN HOUSE. Cruttipackcr Scores \\ith Bill Aimed South. A campaign contribution public bill , embodying an amendment by I Crumpackei , uf Indiana , providing a reduction in the representation the house of representatives in thi states having disfranchisement la was passed by the house Friday b : vote of 165 to 125 , following a llv debate. The measure was brought under suspension of the rules , and f ty minutes were allowed in which discuss it. The southern members particular were bitter in their dent elation of the apportionment provisi of the bill. Mr. AVilliams , the minority lead was especially vigorous in his attac characterizing the bill as being an ; tempt to revive the conditions of : construction days. After the Crumpacker amendrm had been adopted the democrats vet against the bill in its entirety , brief the provision regarding public of campaign contributions is made a plicable to the national commitU and the national congressional coi mittee of all political parties and committees , associations or organis tions which shall in two or me states influence the result of an elt tion at which representatives in co gross are to be elected. The Crumpacker amendment pi vides for the re-enactment of certa sections of the old federal electi law , except that the idea of thu u enacted "force" bill , authorizing t ase of troops at the polls , is elimim id. LAMP1EERE IS INDICTED. Seven True Bills Against Mrs. Gu ness' Alleged Accomplice. In returning seven true bills again rlay Lamphere Friday afternoon tl L.aporte grand jury also indicted Mi junness for the murder of Andre Jelgelein , of Mansfield , S. D. No wa ant was issued for Mrs. Gunness , ; he was declared officially dead by tl rerdict of Coroner Mack , but in ord < o vote a true bill against Lamphe accessory in the killing of Helgele t was necessary to indict Mrs. GUI less as the principal. Lamphere no tands before the bar of justice officia y charged with arson , five murde .nd being an accessory in the Helgi 2in murder. The digging Friday resulted in tr inearthing of a human skull which 3 believed belongs to one of the bodi < ug up In the chicken yard two weel go. At that time three skeletor 7QTG found in one hole , but thei : ere only two skulls. The skull foun 'riday was in a cesspool , and why ras dropped there and the rest of th ody buried in the little cemetery th uthorities cannot explain. Long haJ ttached to the skull is considered e\ lence that it is that of a woman. One of the three dismembered boc is referred to was that of a.female. ACCUSED OF KILLING SIX. [ ichigan Man Arrested for AVholcsal Murder. James Brimmingstall , aged 40 , i nder arrest at Dowagiac , Mich larged Avith six murders. The police say he already has con tssed to two. Prosecutor Bresnaha confident the prisoner will admi tat he has committed other crimes is arrest followed an alleged attemp ' make his wife his seventh victim ic escaped and appealed to the po ie. The list of Brimmingstall's vie ms , according to the officers , are : Man in Kansas ; killed by Brimming all when 1C years old. Railroad man in Missouri , name un 10wn ; killed seven years ago. Two men who were sleeping in i nt in Missouri ; names unknown. David Ruff , Dowagiac , June , 1907 Smith Hortium , Dowagiac , Feb ary , 1908. TWENTY PEASAXTS IIAXGED. ttrcme Penalty Inflicted for Agrariar Kiots in Russia. Twenty Russian peasants who tooli .rt in recent disorders in Yekateri- slav district were hanged at Kher- n under decree of a courtmartial. icy belonged to a peasant associa- m the avowed object of which was drive out landed proprietors by the rning of their estates. The resort the death penalty for agrarian out- ? es is a new departure , flogging and ort terms of imprisonment having en the usual punishments evening ring the great disorders of 190G. Another Fire A'ictim. The body of Louis Bender , Fridays , -s found in the ruins of the AVintei- ; yer box factory , burned at Chicago ursday. The relatives of eight men iployed in the factory reported to ; police that they had not returned their homes. AVas the Father of 21. Leonard Bertram ! , of Green Bay , s. , father of twenty-one children , dead of Bright's disease , aged GS ira. All of 'the twenty-one children re born of the same mother , and hteen of them are living. Mrs. Ber- nd is alive and in robust health. Arrested for Minim * Fraud. 3. Chapin Card , mining promoter h offices at Denver , Colo. , who was icted by the federal grand jury on charge of using the mails in fur- ranee of schemes to defraud , has n arrested. Cloudbuist Breaks Levee. Bloods following a cloudburst broke Illinois river levee near Havana , and drove twenty-five families m their homes. MAE WOOD TO JAIL. Abrupt End of Plait Suit Sensational. The case of Mae C. Wooc1. the ha woman who sued I'luted : ; ta' ' Senator Thomas C. Platt for dlvon came to a sudden and sensational e Thursday afternoon when Justi O'Gorman , of the supreme court , d missed the complaint and directed t complainant be committed to the ci prison under $5,000 bail on a char of perjury. Miss Wood was taken the Tombs. The climax came after the introdu tion in evidence of the deposition of man v\ho manufactured the ban ! upon one of which the alleged Plal Wood certificate had been prepared , which he declared that the blank for in question was not lithographed un three months after the marriage Miss Wood to Platt is alleged to ha occurred. The senator's son , Frank : Platt , also testified'that it is his beli no such letters ever had been writti to Miss AVood by his father as we represented in alleged copies off en n court by the complainant. The ca lias attracted exceptionally wide a : ention on account of the prominem 3f the aged senator and the nani ) f other widely known persons who Mjss Wood involved in her sensation charge in support of her complaint. Miss AVood was at once taken to tl Tombs prison. One the way she cha : ed laughingly with the officers. The commitment on the perjui marge was made by Justice O'Gorma m his own initiative. He had persoi illy questioned the complainant , wl lad been recalled to the stand , an vhen she reiterated her former test nony regarding the marriage the ju : ice said : "The court cannot believe there w : L marriage. Being convinced of tl : > lalntiff's guilt in committing perjui n the case , I commit her to priso inless she furnishes $5,000 bail. " IS AID HORKOR IN BELGIUM. A'orst Disaster of the Kind in Her History. The worst railroad catastrophe eve ecorded in Belgium took place nea ! ontich , six miles southeast of Ant . erp , Thursday morning. The Ant erp Express , running fifty miles pe our , crashed into a train loaded wit ilsrims on a siding. Three cars wer teraJly ground to pieces , and practi ally all the passengers either kille r badly injured. Up to an early hour Thursday afert eon 38 dead and 79 wounded hai een removed. The occupants of th irs were mostly workmen and peas nts. Succor was extended to more thai 00 injured. Surgeons , doctors am urses arrived early from Antwerp a ie scene of the wreck. Many shriek ig and helpless , wounded person re still pinned under the debris. Tin : ene is one of horror and beggar ascription. MARRIED OX' DOG LICENSE. oles AA'edded by Mistake of Sonll Xonvalk Town Clerk. When William Krisick and Mis : lexandria Kirszeka , two Poles , 01 ) uth Norwalk , applied for a dog lie- ise from Town Clerk Herbert R nith on Saturday they got a marriage : ense and John Curnow , justice ol e peace , married them. The bride has now instituted pro- edings for divorce and threatens the ficials. She says all that they wanted as a dog license. Krisick's dog was named Louise , id in his broken English all he could y was that he wanted a license foi > uise , which accounted for the mis- ke. The bride is a cousin of the ideeroom. Robbers Kill Chicagoan. Robt. P. Holmes , a purchasing agent the Commonwealth-Edison Electric mpany , of Chicago , was found dead th the marks of garroters on his ck and his face black from strang- ition in a downtown ally 'early lursday. His person had been dives- 1 of all its valuables. Billion Dollar Congress. The sixtieth congress will have rned the title of a "billion dollar ngross" at its first session before journment. It is climated that the : al appropriations will reach the srmous sum of $1,026,000,000 , which said to be the largest amount ever propriated at a single seesion. New Bridge Blown Up. \ new bridge under construction the Harlem branch of the New rk , New Haven and Hartford rail- id , at Bay Chester , was wrecked by lamiters Thursday. A charge of y pounds of e-plosive was dis- irged under the first span. Many Lives ia Peril. \L \ fire broke out Thursday afternoon the large box factory of J. Winter- yer. The flames swept through the Iding and spread to a number ad- ling structures. Loss of Slock in Blizzard. leavy losses of sheep and lambs reported from Dawson county , tit , by a bhzzard that began Wed- day. The snow lies two feet on level "and five and six feet in the : ts. Carload of Mail Burns , .n entire carload of United States il A\as burned near the eastern end : he AVyoming division of the Union : ific Wednesday night. IM INTEREST H3HiPF.WJES ? IMI § Fion Day to Day Gonteed S JO I je Jfi 12 FOR OUR EU3Y READERS CLIIS IXSAXITY. I'titirn : ii X ' 3 > ri 'xi IV piial Tic'lev by JIM CipCTiiltoii. After having been violently in a for three years th" mind of Mrs. Mu * aelson , a Platte Center patient in t ; Nebraska state hospital for the insa at Norfolk , has been very material and almost completely restored to i normal clearness as the result of surgical operation for gall stones , her reason is permanently restored. Dr. G. A. Young , superintendent the hospital , now hopes it vrill be , will be the first case of record in tl medical and surgical world where 1 sanity has been cured by removii gall stones and the gall bladder. Dr. Young personally performed tl operation. Ho removed 415 small gi stones , as well as the entire gall bla der. From the moment that Mi Michaelson recovered from the anae thetic it was apparent that her d mented condition had been veiy mu ( relieved. Mrs. Michaelson had been one of tl very violent inmates of the hospitt She suffered from pains , which provi to be those caused by gall stones , ai an operation was performed. It said the physical disturbance caus < by the gall stone irritation might en ? ly affect the nervous system and d vclop all tendency toward insanity e : istent in the patient. Insane patien have been known to be complete cured as the result of an attack of t ; phoid fever. LITIGATIOX OVEK COUKT IIOUS1 County OHiccrs Are Enjoined from O ciipyin * * New RuiUUng. The old court house at Fender become entirely inadequate to provu suitable quarters or a safe place fi the county records. The county boui entered into a contract with Mr. St < venson , proprietor of the Palace hot for suitable quaiVrs. A large vau was constructed and several rooms i < arranged and lltted up for county o : fices , also a large and commodiot court rooms. As soon as these wet ready for occupancy the board wi enjoined. This case has had its tim in court and has been appealed to th supreme court. The question is wheth er the county board has any authorit to provide the quarters for count records. County Attorney Chase is th only official who beat the game. II moved into the new quarters befor they were completed and so holds th fort. BLOODHOUXD TKACES TiriKF. Man AVho Broke Into Car Quick ! Captured. Wednesday morning1 at 9 o'clocl Yardmaster Nick Larson , of Lexing ton reported to Chief of Police Mai eolm that the Syrian car , used as ; boarding house for the Syrian railroa. ? mployes , had been forced open am three trunks had been broken into clothing and razors being found miss ing. Chief Malcolm departed at enc < ivith one of his bloodhounds , "Pride. " ivho trailed the burglar to a car in th < ivest end of the yards , where he wa sleeping. He was taken into custody iml signed a confession statilg that hi , vas the guilty party , and named hi ! iccomplice. Malcolm & Cole are thi nvners of this dog , which is one of j ine collection owned by them. School Children hi Parade. Two thousand school children o ; Tastings marched in the Grand Armj > arade there AYcdnesday morning vhich was headed by Dcpartmenl Commander Thomas Creigh and the ither oflicers of the patriotic organiza- ation. The exercises of the morning oncluded with the presentation of 11 lag to the children by the Women's lelief Corp and of a picture of Presi- ient Lincoln by the Ladies of the Jrand Army of the Ileupblic. Heavy Kain at Plnttsmouth. Plattsmouth was visited by another oed Wednesday evening , the rain iilling in torrents from C to 7 o'clock , 'he water ran down Main and Sixth treets ir/torrents , cove.tng the streets nd sidewalks on either side , and in ome places entering the basements , 'he ' buildings in the P.urlington shop ards contained from three to four feet f water and mud , and some loose imber was washed away. Fales AA'ins in Court. Franklin Fales , of Dixon county , hursday afternoon won out in the su- reme court in the suit brought gainst hi i for damages for alleged bel. T. J. Sheibly was the plaintiff nd the article was published during ie McCarthy congressional cam- lign in 1902. Fales charged that : ieibly was incensed against McCar- ly because the latter prosecuted an * tion against him. Found Doail in IJt'd. Matt Huffy was found dead at the : > me of hos niece , Mrs. George Up- > n , at Danham , by a member of the mily who went to call him for eakfast Wednesday morning. Death as supposed to have been due to jart trouble. He was 70 years of age id an old resident of that section. Sons of Herman Convene. The Sons of Herman , a German fra- rnal organization , met in annua" ! ssion in Grand Island Thursday itli 100 delegates present. Corn for Omaha Show. The National Corn commission lich is planning for a large repre- ntation of Nebraska corn at the show be held at Omaha , Dec. 10 to 19 , at recently to complete arrange- iiits for the growing and exhibition corn. Farmer Killed by Fall. Edward Schrank , a prominent rmer and owner of the old Chritud- g farm south of Wisner. was instant- kille'l at about G o'clock Wednes- Hun-lie ! to Sir-v Ci'y to Save } ) i.ii 'itcr. Ie5eving that his 13-year daughter , tioldie Prie t. had elo with Will Knuiison , 27 years of ; Frank Priest , of Homer , made a rec drive from Homer. Neb. , to Sioux < Sunday in pursuit of the pair , fore the father arrived both the and the man had been taken into c tody by the police. The frantic father early in the notified the police by telephone t his daughter was in Sioux City , i that she probably would be joined s by Knudson. An officer located ? irl at the hotel and kept her un L-lose surveillance for nearly hours before Knudsen put in an pearance. The man walked by sitting room and motioned to the ; to come outside. Before they had tie : o exchange a greeting they were t jn into custody. The girl at first seemed s possessed , but wept bitterly upon irrival of her father. Knudson. v : ame to the city Saturday morni aid he had no intention of runn i way with the girl , but that she i lissatisfied with her home and ca lere of her own accord. He had , ; aid , volunteered to assist in secur i situation for her. The girl left ho vithout the knowledge of her parei 5he told her father that she was g ie came for her and that she ne igain would leave home. IJADDKK TJIAX 311 IS. GUXXES A'ail of Guileless Farmer AVho Sej Money toVid < m" AVIio Needs It "She are a badder woman than .M llnness of Lopoure. Indiany , " wri > aul H. Adams , of Le Seiier , Minn. . he postmaster at Omaha , in referei o a Mrs. J. C. ITullyday , of Oma : -ho has beguiled Paul Adams out 12."t of hard earned cash. "I seen 1 dvortisin in the Farmers' Tribim-- > , cioucx city loway , " writes Mr. A nis. "She sa3'in she war a wide nd war lonsum and had about 2S ollars an a farm. She wantin a co lanyonn. I write to her 'and she si end her 200 , but a had only 125 am en her that. She said to meat h r ante pawul but she dent come. ; ish you show this letter to cheef olis at Omaha and see if he ca ound her. She are a badder worn , tjan Mrs. Ginness og Lopourte , I iany. I work for my money ve ard. She is a frawd. Please have t heef of polis found her. She lives mawhaw. She are a serpent in t rass. Paul H. Adams , Le Seui [ inn. " MISSIXG BRIDE IS FOUXD. frs. Adam Learler Loft Spouse Tlir Days After Weddimr. Mrs. Adam Legler , formerly Evel ; [ cClintock , of Waterloo , Neb. , wi isappeared at Grand Island a fc ays ago , was found in Fremo hursday night by Sheriff Bauman ie homo of Al Cain. She is a brii ' . three days and was going hon Hastings with her wealthy spou hen she dropped out of sight. Mi ugler says she never liked Legl id decided to leave him. Jack Tr y , of Grand Island , gave her $5 ai ie bought a ticket to Fremont. Legler arrived in Fremont ai tent the afternoon at the county jr ying to persuade his young bride i home with him. Both deny thi ok any of Legler's money when si ft. Sixty-Four Cars in Train. Sixty-four loaded freight cars bi nd a giant mogul made up the fir ; gular train which went over the ne me cut-off Sunday , after which tl gular through passenger an rough freight trains were sent ovc e road. The new stations on the lin d their distances from Union sU m , Omaha , are Summit Junctioi > 0 miles : Seymour Sidine , 6.0 rpy Siding , 10.78 miles and Lan < .91 miles. The title of the new roa the South Omaha and Western rail id. and an arrangement has bee ule whereby the Union Pacific wi erate the trains over the line unt : is turned over the company. Grand Inland Ollicor Shoots. Harry Gibson , a colored xvaiter o ; L'nion Pacific dining car , giving hi me as Jersey City , lies at the SI ancis hospital. Grand Island , witl bullet wound in the left thigh , th iult of disregarding Police Office ? k Searles' first warning and at npting to escape when , upon Gib I's second offense , he was about ti ice him under arrest. " Horse Stolen at Herman. Someone entered the barnyard o ns Anderson , of Herman. Saturday ; ht and stole the best horse he had c horse was a large bay draft ani- 1 and worth about $200. 'MUhcrland Gets Ministerial Meet. fhe next annual meeting of th ( st Nebraska District Ministeria ociation of the Methodist church 1 be held at Sutherland next year Kcnison Sentenced to Pen. Earnest S. Kenison , who killed Sara Cox at Minatare. was sentenced nday to twenty-three years in the litentiary by Judge Grimes. Accidental Cat is Fatal. > eter Hanrahan.'aged 77 years , is d at his home in Plattsmouth. In ting a dead limb from a plum tree his yai'd Monday evening the ax ped and cut a deep gash in his It leg just above the ankle , which sed his death in less than one T. Perkias May Die of AVciind. iarl Parkins.vho was shot in the d by his bH th r , Wright Perkins , Tuesday ov. mrg it Paeifc June- is still in a crit'iui condition. 12S1 London Fishmongers * company- founded. loV-S Spanish Armada sailed frn ruO- T ifrtis for ICiigland. HVi,0r-loyalists victorious at battle o Stratton. 170 : : Commencement of liotilities Tttt Queen Anne's war , that of the Span ish succession. 170 , ' ? Fort Sandusky , Ohio , taken by In dians. 17G."j Onp-fourth of the city of Montreal ) destroyed by fire. 1774 Charter of Massachusetts annulled ) and people declared rebels by Par liament. 1775 Declaration of Tndepemlfiiee adopt ed at Mecklenburg. X. C. 1797 An extra so < wion of Congress con vened to consider the strained rela tions between the United States ancJi France. 1S02 Xapoloon I. instituted the Legion- , of Honor. 1SO.'I Enplane ! declared war against Bonaparte. ISO ! Xnpolton I. proclaimed Euiperor ofcf the French. ISOO Enjrlaiul took possession of tha Island of Anholt. Denmark. iS2. > liev. Antoinette Brown Blackwoll . first woman ordained as a ministeiv. Lorn near Itochfistcr. X. Y. IS20 ? < vend cotton factory in South * Carolina established at l' 'iulleton. &J2 Election riots in Montreal. Sil Twenty-five lives lost by a fall off rock from Cape Diamond. Quebec. S-lu TUie Free church of Scotland es tablished. 847 Daniel O'Connell , the Liberator- , die : ! in Genoa. Italy. Born in Coua ty Kerry. Ireland , Aug. ( J. 177. . S-l ! ) Smith O'Brien expelled from tia- British House of Commons. S-3 Capture of the I'eiho forts. So'J French and Sardinians defeate&J the Auetrians at Montebello. SJ2 ( Fast day in Richmond. Va. & > 4 Fir- express trains run Letweei ? ' . Xew York and Buffalo. 8 Jefferson Davis imprisoned irti Fortress Monroe. S71 Vemlome Column , erected by Xa-- poleon I. , to commemorate his vic tories , pulled down by the Commun ists in Paris. 37 ? ) Donald A. Macdonald entered * office of lieutenant governor of On tario. 370 St. Patrick's cathedral , Xew York ; City , dedicated. $82 The British expedition arrived aSy Alexandria , Eijypt. > So Surrender of Louis Kiel , leader ofr "Kiel's Kcbellion. " > SC British evacuation of Suakim com pleted. > SO Great loss of property by fire in. * Quebec. iO , ' { United States Supreme Court sus tained the Chinese Exclusion act. i04 Tie Manchester ship canal opened. . KX ) British force under Gen. P.utler- occupied Dundee , South Africa. 'Ol ' Pool rooms in Xew York City shuto : off from telegraphic service. OG Four towns in northern Michigaca destroyed by forest fires.N HPTY KILLED IN A WEECK. illision Results in. Belgium's AVorstr Hallway Eorror. The worst railroad catastrophe ever- rorded in Belgium occurred near- intich , six miles southeast of Ant ? rp , when the Antwerp express , strik- l a Displaced switch while runningr ty miles an hour , crashed into & - lin loaded with pilgrims on a sid f Every car of the pilgrim train , ex iting the foremost one. was tele- } ped. The coaches were literally- Dimd to pieces and nearly all the- ssengers were killed or severely in- red. About fifty dead were removed ! ' > m the wreckage and more than 100" re injured. Surgeons and niirses--- . ived early from Antwerp. The stan - - n at Contieh was converted into a. nporary morgue and hospital and ; , eel with the dead and wounded. [ t appears that the locomotive of the- iress train left the track and plunged ? o the last three passenger coaches- the train on the siding. This train , s carrying an excursion of pilgrims ? a local shrine. HABD LUCK TALES. A'hile trying to save their brother. Ben- lin and Joseph Ilenness of O'Fallont re drowned in a plough of the Quivro- er near St. Charles. Mo. . Rurveyinj cwir n nr Brniaen ! . Alina. nd the decomposed body of aa un- m-a man in a swamp. lie had evident- been dead about a jrir. < . iTcn residents of Kero < , 'm. Wi * . . have- PH the Pasteur trejrti , in < T'CIZC aus * a plojful In7'i i . . v hlr i i ' pf < i ; m dniin ? numQrf s ro. , < , v. is , afuir-
