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OMAHA. SI NDAV MOKNLMi, Al'KIL !. T.M 1 - SIX SIXTH )Ns -FOKTY IWCiKS.
ANOTHER BATTLE
HAS BEENT0UG11T
llexiean Regulars and Insunectos
Come Together at Velardena, in
the State of Durango.
FIGHTING CONTINUES TWO DAYS
Many Axe Reported Killed and Large
Number Wounded.
FEDERALS REPORTED TRAPPED
Madero Prepares for an Automobile
Daih Into Chihuahua.
HITCH IN PEACE PROCEEDINGS
Large Force of Federal Troopi Itraeh
sonorjl to Take the Field 4a.alnst
the Hrlirli Who trr In thr
Xlclnltr n f rlrpe.
K.I. TASK. .Vpiil H.--The severest buttle
5'i-t fought In the Male of Ihirango was In
progress at Vc inlrna Tuesday, when mall
Hih I' . vmm f hi ni fnni Tun ex. The battle
he lieen in piouip I wo ilavs, federal
Soldhis oot ui, I ii k the town unci 7"0 Insur-
rutin ni nii.iniini: Hie place. Fifteen or I
Slxlcin of the ieb.'s had been Willed fttid I
oiii- n.iu i r whm m.ii.i iii ton and ix mm- j
fomiiamniK mh woninii-il. The nchting
coiitlu in o u'li.e .u ullai mii. miuI die led-
a.H h t. oiiitetl ntiuTid hy h' hand of
tv'" s In vte lilai t.
Th" Aitii.vi) l i te i out linu-rl Ihe r pu p-I -i
i.liiiis loiiM.v to niMke an utomohlle iIhkIi I fherlffa Oeptle .rrlp at Ilia Home
Uit ' I. ill mil,. a ui oiKri;i! with tin; Inxur- I
nl i oil. it) and.'! In i hlcf thu pofl 1I I : I y of j
PLmr. 'the !t:er reiteration In un An- j
ia.nl I'MKf lnterlew. that Ilai! muni 1
I Of is ;i the re:ilnr tlnl not (Impress them.
Taekmrtia were ex hHMKi'it hetween till"
tll ami nrhlniit-'n and l hllmuhua, but
tl.tlr i-ohlent rn- not dlvulgcrt. There la
alv.a. a th' pohsihiitty of aoine hitch wtikh
may ilclnx ilrpnil no, lull It H staled
thAl nolhiiiK hut ao ernmenial opposition
lih li K. li.i ivi.i'it. i an piewnt the In
tuvhw hrtneen Kranrlaco I Mmlero, Jr.,
aiid hia lather.
Iiiaiirreetoa Near hlhaahnn.
' T 1 1 1 1 L' A 1 1 1 A . Ainll 8. -Via Laredo, Tex.
A reiMit'i tilihli lacKa ufflclal confirma
tion la In peralatent idroulation that In
event of 1'realdetit l'ia putting Into effect
the reforms Biiaa.eaied In hla recent mea
Ke to the Mexican conKreaa with peace
Hit! lea. lit. lr. aa.ii(- Uoniei!. the Insur-1
rci.to confidential aftent at Washington,
will ba called to Mexico City to aaaume a
hi ah office.
lih the uulpoata of the Insurrectoa and
the fcdeial troopa anparated by only a faw
mllt'M t'hlhuahiia today continued In a
late of expectancy. A message has been
viit to Madero urging him to permit de
trucllon of the Mexican National railroad
to the aouth, which la now the only meane
of bringing supplies here. Buspenalon of
trains would place t'hlhuahua city under
aiaxe. and the presence of federal troopa
hare, ao far as food Ii Concern td, ' would
work a hardxhip on the noncombatama.
Iteiiuetn to Madero when presented hj
foreigners invariably have been granted,
llo l.aa , permitted provision trains to paaa
through inanrreclo;' territory, to the niinea
noi-thward, where many Americana are em
ployed. '
Shipments of dynamite to the ntlnea have
been allowed by the Inaiirrectos, aometlmea
oil the condition that a portion oC the dyna
inl'e ba surrendered. It la said that air
eral nieflsagea have been exchatvg-nd be
tween this city and Mexico tTty and that
the replies on being received here have
been dispatched to the Interior, presumably
to Madero a camp. It Is eaJd the meeaagea
were aent by private cltl-iens who are anx
: Uus to bring about peace and that they
have no ufflclal character.
Mtileaa Trupi at Cmamaaa.
t'ANANKA, Honors. Mei., April 8. One
thousand Mexloan federal aoldlera, Indud
lug cavalry and infantry regulars, volun
teers and Yanul Indians, arrived In Ronora
last evening by special train from the
scene of the recent fighting In the vicinity
of llermoslllo.
The troopa are commanded by Lieutenant
I'olonei I 'lax. Commandant Barron and
1'rrfert Chiapa. The soidlera occupied four
teen coaches, and their horses, mules, sup
pliea an I auimun tii n filled nine boxcars.
The troops were rushed ulther to take the
field aaaln.it the reoeia who a few day
sun occupied the important loan of Aiizpe,
luar here. Tliev will be aent to Arlzp
iroin Lininn ii once.
i'olonei OJada, who commanded th gov
ernment troops at i.rea, is on his way
overland from Urea to Arltpe with WO men
and will form a juncture with the troops
from t'ananea in tbe vicinity of Arlspe.
The government soldiers are well armed.
and with their experience In the Urn and
Anna I'rleia engagements, are the best
flvhtera the government haa In Sonora
Commandant Barron had been reported
killed at I'm. and hla appearance here
today waa In the nature of a surprise.
Aaaerlraa Diea f Waaaaa.
WASHINGTON, April S. Ueorga W.
Crltchfleld. the American who was abot
from ambush several days ago at hla ranch
Bear Tuxtan. Mexico, died yesterday. Thla
fact waa reported to the State department
today In a telegram from Clarence A.
THE WEATHER
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Normal temperature 47
lef!i lenev for the day 7
Total eife since March I. 11 1 ltd
Normal pro -ipltatlon o Inch
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Total rainfall since March 1 1 Inches
.fn'lenc) since March I clinch
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PAZPAfMTIOir rfrns- TEE PACKAGE SAM
; Local Events as Viewed by The Bee's Artist ( !
SCHULZ MUST GO TO PRISON
Chauffeur Convicted of Manslaughter
Loses in Supreme Court.
ARRESTED ON WAY TO PARTY
rindlna Hint Drcsrd for Social
Pnnrlliia llr Is Now
In Jail.
1 First to be convicted of a killing as
! the result of wreckless driving In Oinalia,
! AI Sclitilx. chauffeur, has lost In his ap
I pesl to the supreme court. He must
serve out his sentence of three years In
prison imposed in the district court here,
j Senilis was arrested on an order from
i the supreme court early last night. The
action of the district county court was
sustained In a ruling handed down at
noon yesterday. The finding was kept
secret until the arrest of Schulx.
Pressed for a party, the convicted man
was taken Into cuatody at his home, 172S
South Twelfth street. The arrest was
made by Ira Flannigan and M. B. Thomp
son, deputy sheriffs. He la held at the
county Jail.
Schulx wax convicted of manslaughter
In district court He waa arrested .tune
26 to answer for the death of William
Krug, who was killed In a crash between
hla machine and that driven by Schulx.
Jury Disagrees as
to Hamiltpn's Guilt
Six to Six the Ballots Stand on Man
slaughter Charge Against
- - Young Driver.
Disagreement, s to A, ended the deli
berations of the Jury which heard the
evidence against Robert Hamlltan, the boy
charged with manslaughter In running
down and killing a bicycle- rider while
driving an automobile last aiMnmer. The
Jury had been out twenty-four hour when
discharged at t o'clock last night.
Tbe accident occurred last Fourth of
July on the boulevard near Twentieth and
Corby streets. Klllot Robinson, a class
mate of Hamilton's at the high school, was
riding a bicycle aouth on the boulevard,
BeHlnf extraa on the Jefferles-Johnaon
fight. Hamilton came up from behind,
running at a high rate of speed, according
to the prosecution. Robinson waa thrown
from his bicycle when struck by the heavy
auto, which passed over his body. He died
on the way to the doctor's office.
The trial of the Hamilton boy, for he
lacks several months of being 18 years old,
has been watched with much Interest.
The testimony of the witnesses put on
the stand by the defense and prosecution
to fix the rate of speed, conflicted sharply.
County Attorney Kngllah had six or seven
witnesses who swore with unanimity of
opinion that Hamilton was going twenty-
five miles an hour. A like number of
witnesses were put on the stand by C. J.
Smyth and Kd P. Smith, the attorneys who
conducted the defense ,to show that the
machine was going st varying rates all
below fifteen miles an hour.
The boy on trial Is the son of It. P.
Hamilton of the Hamilton Bros, contract
ing firm.
Priest Tells Why He
Denounced De Angelis
Ciro Vitozzi, Further Examined by
Court, Says He Acted in Good
Faith in Matter.
V1TF.KBO. April S.-A glorious day has
followed a stormy night and thla led Ciro
Vltoxsl, the priest, when brought Into
court with the other Camorrlat priaoners
today, to remark that the weather corre
sponded with his spirit, which Is calm after
week of passion. The Interrogation to
which he waa subjected had told kverel
on the priest, but he has Improve since
the court commanded him to break his
fat
Speaking of the approaching Faster,
Vltoxxl said lie hoped his ascension to
heaven 'would come soon In the form of
hia liberation.
The proceedings opened with the exam
ination of Oennaro Aserlttote, who is ac
cuatd of having denounced l'e Angelis and
Amadeo aa the murderers of Cuoccolo In
order to save the real assassins. His de
fense was that he acted In good faith, and
ha deacrlbed at length how he became
convinced of l'e Angelis' guilt.
"Two days before the murder." said lie
"De Angelis came to my home and asked
to be given a room for three days. 1-at'r
I understood this to have been a ruse on
his part to aid him In establishing an alibi
after Cuoccolo had been killed. Some time
afterwards he returned to my house dis
guised ss a coaiheavr, and. opening his
coat, exhibited a dagger. 1 allotted him
to sleep in the courtyard
"Later he came to me clean shaven and
explained his fonnrr disguise by alngSlie had raced with death half of the dla-
that he waa at Castellamare Adraitlco j tame to safely. Her parents, Mr. and
when Yltoxxt arrived there, to make In- I Mrs Klmer Mover, were dsnserouslv
qulties In tbe interrsi of Rnrrico Alfano.
who waa tiirn under suspicion. le An
gelis said he feared arrest and fled. He
showed a wound In the leg which, ap
parently, had been caused by a penknife.
HI actions from the first convinced me
that he mas one of the murderers of
Cuoccolo."
American Fighter
Hurls His Forces
Against Mexicans
General Black of Commission Says
Document is Long One and Has
Not Been Gone Over.
MKXICALI. Mexico. April With the
mules stolen yesterday from American
ranches In Iiwer California, laden with
extra rifles, ammunition and auppllrs.
Stanley Williams, the American insurrecto
leader, left Mexicall today, headed straight
for the federal forces of Colonel Mayot.
which are beshging the city. It was ap
parently the Intention of Williams to hurry
his little force of. eighty-five men. all
Americans, against the entire Valk line of
federals under Mayot. The latter, with
charactei IkIIc deliberation, is near Packard
station, five mllca southeast, waiting until
tomorrow" before launching his assault
on Mexiralt
Williams blew up a bridge yesterday at
Packard In order to delay the advance of
the national troops.
It Is expected the fighting will occur at
that point.
It la to do 07 die with Williams, for, un
like others of the rebel army, there Is no
sanctuary for him across the border of the
Cnlted Slates. WTlltsms Is a former quar
termaster sergeant In the United States
army and faces trial toT desertion If he
Is caught on the American side.
Most of Williams' men are mere youths,
but all are heavily armed and have four to
five belts of extra cartridges.
As they marched out of Mexicall their
bearing Indicated that the former Ameri
can army soldier had not been drilling
them in vain during the last few weeks.
They walked erect and In military order.
Civil Service Has
Agent Moss' Report
Federal Leader Delays Action and
General Williams Takes Only
Course Open to Him.
(From a Staff Correspondent. 1
WASHINGTON. D. C, April 8 (Special.
Telegram.) OeneraJ John C. Black, presi
dent of the Civil Service commission, said
today that the report of Special Agent
Moss, who Investigated the charges against
Postmaster B. F. Thomas had been re
ceived by the oonimlsslon and Is now being
eva mined.
"There is nothing regarding ita contents
that I can now make public." said General
Black.
"The report is very voluminous covering
many typewritten pagea and It will take
several daya even to read It. much less to
r.asa Judgment upon Its findings."
P. W. Daugherty of !el! Rapids, assist
ant attorney general of South Dakota, Is In
Washington upon legal business before
the departments.
Senator and Mrs. Hitchcock will be
President and Mrs. Taft's dinner guests
next Saturday evening. President Taft hav
ing Invited a dinner party to ruetet new
United States senators and their wives.
Senator Brown today recommended the
appointment of Burt Krotrer to be post
master at South Sioux City, Neb.
Rev. H. K. Warren, president of Yankton
college, was among Senator Gamble's call
ers today. Dr. Warren Is en route home
from a trip through the New F.ngland
states.
CASE SETTLED OUT OF COURT
Standard Trait, Illinois Central and
Soutbrra Hallrray and Tennessee
Central Get Together.
NKW YORK. April S (Special Te
gram.) Action of the Standard Trust com
pany of New York, the Illinois Central and
the Southern railway against the Ten
nessee Central. Involving claims aggregat
ing upwards of 1.flon.l'K have been with
drawn, and settlement made out of court.
These claims were the subject of bitter
controversy between the roads named and
results In the Tennessee Central being bot
tled up at one time and unable to do any
through huxineps Recourse was had to
the courts for relief, and the Illinois Cen
tral and Southern were compelled to c;fi
cel the methods adopted to force a aet
tlement by refusing to interchange traffic.
Fire Sweeping Cornfield
Burns Little Girl to Death
CAMORA. Neb.. April S. (Special Tele- . about her. She sped across the field as
gram.) Flames wind-driven scross a!fa' " '' could in the rough ground
cornfield overtook and killed Bessie 1
Moyer. I yeara old. this afternoon, after
burned tn an attempt to rescue the child.
Several playmates escaped.
Tbe little girl was at play In tiie corn-
field. She lighted a pile of fodder stalks
and clapped her bands In glee aa they
crackled In the bbieexxe The flames
flared highly and aparka fell ahhout her.
She started to run as the fire spread
Coming and Going in Omaha
END NOT BEFORE MONDAY
Last Long Day Piles Up Work for!
Clerks in Legislature. , j
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MATRAU BELL MAY GET THROUGH
Prince Nonpartisan Meaanre Killed
and Other Providing; for Appoint
ive Body Haa Hern !btl
tated by members.
I From a Staff Correapondent.)
LINCOLN. Nth., April S.-(Speclal ) Any
chance for a final ndjournment of the legis
lature was lost for Saturday night, when
it was announced that the clerical work
in the enrolling rooms was so far behind
that It would not be reported before Sun
day mornlnK and possibly not then. The
long and detailed maintenance and sala
ried bills were not only the occasion of
tiresome fussing between the conference
committee, but were also a long time In
the enrolling romns. After bills are
amended they must be copied In long hand
before they are ready to be signed.
The legislature cannot adjourn until all
bills are thus engrossed and atgned by the
presiding officer of the last house to art
upon them. The house passed all of the
bills up before It In the middle of the
afternoon. The senate has stilt some bills
for consideration. After all bills arejiiassed
and amendments agreed to, the house must
still remain In session until they are en
grossed and signed.
The outlook tonight makes It reasonably
certain final adjournment will not coma
until Monday though all but a handful of
members will leave before that night.
Official Farewells.
" Saturday morning was the occasion for
the official good-byes end gifts of appre
ciation Iri the aenat. I-.leu'tepanr Gover
nor Hopewell was presented witli n pale
of diamond studded cuff links and Ser-geant-at-Arms
Costello , received a jjold-
hesded cane.
In both houses confusion grows ss the
last hour approaches. The younger mem
bers of the house In the brief momenta
of recess that become, frequently neces
sary wander about the halls Intoning in
mournful accents, "how dry they are,"
etc. The senators, being more rtaid and j
a trifle bored, are busy watching their j
pages pack up tneir noons aim pipers, 1
preparatory to trekking back to their tie
lighted constituency.
May I'asa Matron Bill.
After the morning slaughter of board of
control bills, the senate had a reactionary
fit of conscience and reconsidered the post
poned Prince bill, changed It to agree with
the Matrau bill and then passed It. The
house also had Its reaction against Its neg
lect of the platform pledges, shared by
both parties, and Norton of Pulk tried to
get fifty-one votes to resurrect the Selleck
board of control bill. He could only get
forty-seven, however, and had to give up.
The Prince hill came to the senate as
the sole survivor of the half dosen bills
for, a non-partisan board to controll all
state Institutions excepting educational
ones. The board was to be elective by Its
provisions and the senate being opposed to
the elective method of choice as not
really non-partisan, defeated It. The dead
Matrau bill, however, provided for an ap
pointive board and the senate put the
Matrau bill under the enacting clause of
the Prince bill and passed it by a bare
twenty votes. It will now be up to the
house to concur In the amendment. If the
house falls, the party pledge will be en
tirely unfulfilled.
U&1.. W.J, 1 villi !
(iovernor Aldiich will not give his de
cision upon the appropriation of $100,000
for the medical department of the atate to
be spent In Omaha until he has given both
aides a hearing.
Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock he will
hear the doctors and others Interested 'n
a public meeting to be heJd In his office.
Two Conferences Fall.
The two houses seem unable to agree
upon senate file 147. the Volpp bill, for a
four-year term for senatora and a raUe
in salary for all legislators. The house
does not look kindly upon the idea of giv
ing the upper house the privilege of sitting'
through two sessions and three different
conference committees have been appointed
In the effort to reach an agreement.
Fight oa Telephone Bill.
Assertions that the telephone lobby haa
spent large sums of money and has been
H'ontlnued on Srcond Page.)
ana through the tangiea corn stalks..
Twice she stumbled snd fell, aa the fire
' bor, down her The fUmM ,1
upon her as she fell exhausted. Her j
; screams attracted the attention of the
Darenta who ran to tha reacue. I
' The child's clothes were burned from
her body when she was borne from the
biasing field. A physician was called,
but before he could reach the Moyer home
; Bessie waa dead.
Mr. and Mrs. Moyer were badly injuied
tin their desperate struggle to save the
girl. TI.ey will recover.
Georgia Mob Slugs
I
Sheriff and Hangs
TT IT T I
HIS NPPTn rrisnTlflr
-' -
Charles Hale Lynched at Lawrence
ville After Keys of Jail Are
Forcibly Taken.
LAWRKNCKVILLK. Ga . April 8
Shortly after midnight a mob of U00 masked
men stormed the Jail here and secured a
negro, Charles Hale, arrested earlier In
the night for assaulting Mrs. C. C. Wil
liams. The took him to a corner In the
business part of the town, and. after
stringing him up on a tree, riddled his
body with bullets.
While sheriff E. . Garner was psr
leylng with the mob's ringleaders In the
yard of the Jail three others slipped be
hind him and dealt him a heavy blow on
the head, rendering him unconscious.
They then secured his keys snd made away
with the prisoner.
Mrs. Williams' husband, a young farmer,
waa away from home when the negro
slipped Into the house yesterday afternoon
and seized her.
Wlllams, who Is paralzed In the upper
part of his body, found the negro at the
house on his return. Hale, It Is said,
threatened them with death it they re
vealed his crime.
As soon as Hale disappeared Williams
gave the alarm and Sheriff Garner started
a hunt with bloodhounds. Three miles
away the negro was captured. 1
ELLAV1LLK. Ga., April S.-Dawson Jor
dan, Charlie Pickett and Murray Burton,
negroes, were lynched near here early to
day. They. bad been accused of the mur
der of Newton fcaenn, a white man, on
January 2.- T mob oierpowered Jailer
Cliff Hough and took the prisoners to the
outskirts of town. From he positions In
with the negroes' bodies were found ft
appears that Jordan escaped from' the
mob, but was killed before he had ran far.
The two others were hanged and shot.
American Fleet
Will Be Invited
to Visit Kiel
j German Foreign Office Directs that
Preparations for Reception of Men
and Officers Be Made.
BKRLIN. April . There Is no doubt that
an American squadron will be Invited to
visit Kiel during regatta week. June 19-24.
The absence of Bmperor William, who Is
at Corfa, Is delaying formal action In the
matter; but pending a reply from his
majesty, the foreign office today com
municated the purpose of the government
to the admiralty, with the request that
preparations for the reception and en
tertainment of the Americans be made.
A visit from the battleship squadron will
be the more welcome because of the failure
of the United States Atlantic fleet to call
at German ports last fall, coupled as It
waa with Commander Sim's Anglo-American
speech at Guild Hall, London.
WASHINGTON, April 8. While the Intln
erary of the second division of the At
lantic fleet on Its cruise of International
courtesy In the Baltic sea this spring and
summer rsnnot yet be officially announced,
It Is generally believed the vessels will
visit Germany, Norway, Sweden and Den
mark. Kiel Is a German port that will be
visited but the names of the other points of
call are not yet obtainable.
Man Blind in One
Eye Loses the Other
Gary Harris of Postville, Iowa, is the
Victim of a Most Unusual
Accident.
POSTVILLK. la. April S. (Special i-A
peculiar accident befel Gary Harris the
other day. He was engaged In Installing
a telephone In the George Schulti farm j
home. J. It. I-auKhlln waa boring a hole ,
and Harris waa in the other room watching
where It wss to come through. The latter
is blind in one eye and did not see dis
tinctly, and got his face too near the wall.
The point of the bit-came through, with
considerable force behind It. and struck
Harris In the good eye, letting out the
liquid and rendering him totally blind. He
la now at a hospital, and if a cataract
can be successfully removed from the old
eye he may again have partial sight.
Murderer of Ed Jones
Given Lite Sentence
Cornelius P. Kir-win is Convicted of
Murder in First Degree at
Butte, Neb.
Bi'TTK. Neb.. April S.-iSpe.-ial Tele
gram. ) Cornelius P. Kirwln, who kllied
Kd. I Jones at Gross. Neb , November 10.
ltu. was found guilty of murder In tha
first degree last night and the penalty
fixed at life imprisonment. The rsse went
to the jury at 4 o'clock and the verdict
was returned at 11 lX
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SEYENTY BODIES RECOVERED
Disaster in Collierv Much Greater I
. . .. . . I
man at first Estimated
SEVENTY-FOUR ARE KNOWN DEAD
Undertakers Fight for the ltodles and
Police Interfere Worst IHsaatrr
of Kind lnce F.lahteen
Mnety-Slx.
8CH ANTON. Pa.. April S.- A revised list
of dead tonight shows that seventy-four
men and boys met their deaths In the fite
In the Pantoast colliery at Throop. near
here yesterday. A canvess of the victims
families shows forty-five widows and 137
orphans.
It is said that every corner of the
workings, which a fleeing victim might
have reached in his search for pure air,
has been entered and every body has been
removed. ,
The last group of dead, comprising seven
men, were brought up shortly before noon
today. The first body was taken out at
10 o'clock last night. Seventy-three bodies j
have been recovered.
Aa fast as the bodies were Identified.
If relatives did not come to claim them,
they were turned over to undertakers, ac
cording to nationality, to be prepared for
burial. The undertakers fairly fought for
the bodies, believing the company would
stand for a good round charge and scenes
that were disgraceful resulted. Police au
thorities had to Interfere to preserve de
cency. About every house In Throop, a typ
ical mining settlement, had crepe on Its
door and in some houses there are more
than one - corpse. John Stoyak and his
two sons and cousin lie In a row In his i
humble ' home. In on foreigner's house,
seven children are orphans. The eldest is
1 years old. Another forelimer'a body was
taken to a home where one child Is HI of
scarlet fever and another of typhoid. The
funerals probably will be held Monday,
Worst Disaster for Years.
In the number of victims this Is the
worst mine horror that haa ever occurred
in the Lackawanna valley region and the
worst In the whole anthracite coal fields
since the Avondale disaster of September,
1K69, when 110 men lost their lives by suf
focation consequent to the burning of the
breaker.
-lsabcllea?,fagSca.S Tb45-hp?w tenln
The Twin shaft disaster of June 2fi. 18!!,
in Plttston, near here, claimed fifty-one
victims. These men were entrapped by a
cavein which they were working to pre
vent by the rectlon of pillars. Not one of
their bodies was recovered.
Many explanations are offered as to how
the Pancoast victims came totheir death,
but none is accepted. One contributing
cause. It Is said, was the failure of inside
mine bosses to realize the Imminence of
danger in thetunnel until it was too late
for them to be gotten out.
The fire stsrted a little after 9 o'clock.
Mining operations continued until 11
o'clock. It that it was nearly
11 o clock w hen the danger to the men in
tne tunnel was realised.
There was a way, a winding, devious way
to the aecond opening, but this was prob
ably filled with smoke and white damp
before the men could get started. Some
attemtped to come back In the direction of
the fire. Some got a considerable distance
in the other direction.
None got anywhere near safety. They
fell In thler tracks or laid down exhausted,
burying their faces In the wet culm to
avoid the choking amoks and deadly gas.
Some were found huddled up under sheets
of canvas used In the mines In constructing
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115 CONVICTS DIE
IN MINE 1I0HH0R
'Explosion in Banner Colliery. Near
Littleton. Ala.. Entombs Night
Shift Before Leaving.
FIVE BODIES ARE RECOVERED
I Thirty White Men and Eighty Negroes
' Still in Shaft.
RESCUE WORK BADLY HAMPERED
Ventilation Apparatus Must Be Re
paired Before Entering.
SMALL HOPE FOR BURIED MINERS
ItcscnliiS. Parties Watch Men stacrer
tna In Vi.rUlna and Klll on
Ml Sides 1 tie Me to Help
Them.
I 1TT1.KTOV, Ala . April s - At o'clock
this afternoon It considered practically
certnln tliat 11"' no'i had been killed In the
stmrt r.ilne i vploslon lliat occurred thl
1 iiiuruinc Mvo hndlrs liavo horn tnii rrm,
a! .I 11? out ttiirtv while men and elRlitv
- fi-
J n I I I fil'll' 11 B I n f
Tlore
mall hops for the eiitoom"d
men. all but five of whim are convicts
Wot k of tettlnt: out the bodies Is necrs
Miiily slow ii the ven! lint Ion apparatus
must bo rcintrriV
lr. J ,t. llotlrslKe snd the government
mine rescue cur have left Chattanonsn for
Banner. The rescue car apparatus Is
needed to get the bodies from the mine.
Rescuing parties liHve seen men tagrlng
In the mine and dropping on all sides, but
have been unable to reach them.
At noon fifty men bad been taken out of
the mine. A number of them were more
or less seriously injured and two, both
Jefferson county negroes, were rietd.
Rescuers are golr.g down Into the mines
j as rapidly as possible.
The explosion came arier the night crew
had uult work and before the day crew of
free miners had entered the mine, here
were K convicts and shout ten free min
ers In the workings at the time. ,
The greatest damage has been done to a
new shaft known as No. 5. The fan In this
shaft was destroyed, making rescue work
difficult.
COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE
LORIMER MOVES TO CHICAGO
Illinois Senator Confers with
State Leaders, Outlining His
Plans.
Hla
CHICAGO. April 8,-(Speclsl Telegram )
The committee Investigation of the Ixirl
nier election scandal today was brought to
Chicago. While Senator William Lorlmer
said he was preparing to return to Wash
ington, members of the Helm senatorial
committee, who had quietly come from
Springfield, went Into executive session at
th Hotel I .a. Salle. John J. Healy, special
attorney of the committee, was with the
InvcRtlgntor. It was said.
Senator Lorlmer remained closeted at the
I Salle street National bank until long
after the noon hour. It wan said lie was
In conference with his Illinois leaders, out
lining plans for his defense. He Ignored
telegraphic appeals to return Immediately
to Washington, and finally announced he
would go late In the day.
Senator lorlmer, reached hy telephone,
said he would go east on an afternoon
train. He refused to discuss any charge
In connection with his election. "I am rot
disturbed over anything that Is being said,"
said Senator Lorlmer. "I am going back
to Waahlngton. There all may hear my
answer when the time comes."
That the real crisis In rapidly approach
ing for the senator was Indicated by thn
finding of evidence which would have di
rect bearing on the charges of Clarence
S. Funk, the International Harvester com
pany manager, who told the Helm com
mittee of a $100,000 election fund. It was
said that books and records of a bank
would be used In support of the Funk
charges.
Meantime, Scrgeant-at-Arnis Inn of the
Helm committee, and five assistants, wrer
secretly rounding up millionaire packers
and bankers and others who will he ques
tioned by the committee.
DETECTIVE GETS NEW TRIAL
Only Man Convicted In Browne Bri
bery Cases Has Aoolher
Chance.
CHICAGO. April &. Patrick .1. Keefny,
formerly a detertlve In State's Attorney
Waynian's office, who was found guilty
of perjury In his testimony In the aecond
trial of Lee O'Nell Browne, today was
granted, a new trial. The conviction ef
Keeley was the only one gained tn the
numerous trials growing out of chsrges
that the election of William Lorlmer t't
the United States senate was tha result
of bribery.
KSTSSklSHIO 1SBO
Omaha, neb.
March 20, 1911.
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