A RAILROAD HORROR.
A Fast Freight on the Chicago and
Atlantic Railroad Crashes into a
Passenger Train--Thoe Wreck
Burned to the Trucks.
Thirty Persons Said to
bo Kinled and Many
fojured
CHICAGO, October 11.
Passenger train No.12, which left
here at 7.45 last night, stopped just this
side of Bouts at 0.45 to Wass some re-
pairs, The freight train, No, 48, which
should follow on instructions, received
a clear bill at Boone Groove, six miles
west of Kouts, and had got up a good
speed when it crashed into the rear of
the halted passenger train, which was
unprotected with hghts or fog torpedoes
on the track. The night was dark, and
the scene during the next half hour was
dreadful. The rear coaches of the pas-
sepger train were smashed and tele-
scoped 80 that three occupied less space
than one. The live coals from the
freight engine ignited the debris under
which the wounded and dead were lying.
Before substantial assistance could be
rendered thirty people had died. Some
were mercifully killed by the first
shock, but many were slowly roasted
to death. No one in the Yullman
sleeper was hurt. The conductor tel-
pgraphed to his company hera that all
sscaped before the fire reached the car,
and none were injured in the collision.
No means existed for checking the tire,
and only atter it bad burned itself out
was it possible to do anything for the
few still alive imprisoned in the debris,
Forty per s wers wounded or burr ed, |
yr both. All were on the train when |
it left Chicago. but no names
known up to 2 30 o'clock.
General r Broughton, wi
all the clerks and others who coud
yf any use at the scene, left 2s soon us
he heard of the accldent this morning.
I'he way train, due here at 11.300 clock |
from Kouts was delayed several hours |
by the block on the track.
W. A. Duncan, of Syracuse, N. Y.,
arrived on this rain, He saw the
wreck. KE glteen or twenty the
pumber at which he places those known |
to have been killed. A number
these were burned vefore his eyes.
little Botemian boy was hemmed
but not reached by the fire, and saw
his father, mother and two sisters
slowly roas ing before his eyes. He
was dying as Mr. Duncan left, There
was a doctor on the train, Mr. Duncan
sald, who lost his wife and daughters
in the buruing wreck. He could
absolutely nothing, and saw Lbhem en
circled by seething tongues of fire and
cremated
The train was not
track on which the wreck
but switched the remains of
the train being still too hot to move,
A PASSENGER'S STORY,
Several passengers, who were on the
ill-fated train, arrived in Chicago this
afternoon. One of them, a gentleman
from Taunton, Mass, who was on his
way home, was sitting in the first car
asleep. “The first I knew,” sald he,
“I heard a frightful crash, and the car
seemed shattered, and the pieces were
flying past me. The next I knew I
I found myself almost buried in the
ruins and thev seemed to keep p
were |
Man ge
i8
4
Oh
A
in
iil
do
taken over the
servi rel
occured,
around
around,
puing
up. 1 tried to extricate myself and
found 1 was pear a window. It was
all dark and all around me were yells
and groans, and the blackness made ii
fearful. 1 didu’t seem to be hurt be-
yond being shaken up, 50 I calied for
help out of window, Some man,
don’t K who, helped me out
ned In i
the
Ri
wen 1
others out.
y AD
OW
tur
and helped to get
after 1
148] OuUL,
. whole
fire we were
working on it bit by bit and let
ble erie
ne plas
'
At one |
wolnen appar
ok
ve up
burn, wi of 1
Cars.
Lares
held insids JUL
there were two 01
ently all together, and we tried to ge
them out, They were shrieking ali
time in a manner to freeze one's blood,
for the fire was coming nearer Lo them
all the time, We w
we could, but could not gel them out,
and the fire came ali around them and
finally silenced their screams. To hear
their desperate the fire cawe
nearer and nearer and foally reached
them, was simply appalling. The
wreck burned to the trucks, no facili-
ties being on hand to extinguish the
fire. A ecarload of the injured was
taken eastward from the wreck thia
forenocn. They were maimed, bruised
und burned, some quite badly.’
LACK nF FACILITH |
Frank Cramer, the General West i
Agent of the Gulon Lime of steamers
was on board the wreck train, but es-
caped uninjured. “The first we who
were in the sleeping car knew of the
accident,” said Mr. Cramer,
coach was run into from the rear, The
forward coaches, it seems, were tele
scoped by the shock, There were only
geven passengers, I think, in
sleeper, and nove of them were killed or
injured, 1 was asleep when the shock
occurred. 1 dressed myself and, when
I got off the wreck, 1 saw that the
whole train was ablaze. Many who
were killed or seriously wounded must
have been burnt up, as the fire broke
out as soon as the accident occurred.
The trainmen did what they could to
relieve the wounded, but facilities
were lacking, and many people doubt-
less perished in the flames because no
help could reach them.”
Dr. MeKee stated that only nine
bodies had been recovered, and they
were so badly charred as to be almost
beyond recognition, the most left of
any of them being a blackened trunk,
and mm some cases little beyond a few
handfuls of ashes, The nine were as
follows: The Miller family of Dundee,
father, mother, two brothers and a girl,
(their 14.year-old boy Herman will
probably die also); Dr, Perry, of North
Judson, Indiana; Dr. Perry’s wife, Dr,
Perry’s daughter, aged 11; a young
Irish lady.
The killed and wounded were taken
from the scene of the wreck to Hunt
ington early this afternoon accompa-
nied by the Coroner,
THE KILLED,
, CHieaoo, Oct. 11.—The Daily News
special from Kouts, Ind, says: Twenty
orked as long as
Clies as
es .
oul
the
LAER TTT ECA
only two or three of whom are injured.
When daylight came the remains of
ten people were found, and this, the
railroad officials claim, is the extent of
the fatalities,
No one knows how many passengers
were on the ill-fated train, Superin-
tendent Parson claims that the nnmber
was very small, but survivors claim
that there were fully fifty passengers
in the two coaches. How many occu-
pied the sleeper is unknown. The vice
tims, 80 far as Known, are:
Dr. William Perry, of North Jud-
son, Ind.
Mrs, William Perry.
Grace Perry, aged 10.
Charles Miller, aged 50,
Mrs, Lena Miller, aged 485.
Minnie Miller, aged 7.
Fred. Miller, aged 20.
William Miller, aged 17.
Two unknown persons complete the
list of the dead as certainly estab-
lished,
It 18 impossible to obtain a list of the
wounded on the train, as only two are
left behind. They are: Herman Mil-
ler, aged 14, skull fractured and right
leg shattered; recovery impossible,
Joseph McCool, aged 24, of Boston,
injured about back and limbs.
WEEK.
NEWSOF THE
—A few days ago a wealthy coal op-
of Pittsburg received a letter
from New York inviting
tion in a scheme to defraud
ernment of $100,000, The letter
signed C. H. Bedell, but gave no de
tails, The coal operator
police, and then made an apj
for the 1lth, but
appear. The police of New
i
the GGov-
ointment
4
he i
York
i
a
not
ers of the Department
Ottawa,
y quantity of rubber
a di.
rivh nt
merchant
Ontario,
clothing imported by
New DBrunswick,
—In Monroe county, Georgia, on U
A. J. Goin Willlam Han
ad betel
mel edc
and
for several years,
other on the public road. After som
words they tired at each other, Han
was killed and Go'n mortally wounded
—An express train New
Y ork, Pennsylvania and Ohlo Raliroad
collided with a freight train on a side
track, owing to a misplaced switch, at
Warren, Olio, on t 11th, joth en-
gines and moore than a dozen Cars were
demolished. Engh
Fireman Adsit
passengers
on the
ae
eer
badly
ly hur
escaped with a severe
were
the
shaking up.
—A from Drownsville,
Texas, says reports of another hurri.
cane in the Gulf moving westward
create great uneasiness there, Seve
inches of rain the evening of ti
18 highs
despatch
fel on
jth, and dio
than ever before, The whole countr)
along the river is undated. In Mata-
moras the flood has spread greatly, The
mer Aranzas has been two days off
the bar unable communicate
the town account of
weallier,
—At Bethlehen
a monument el
to the
rho died in the
the Grande
sled
ww
on
the 11th
of $4000
Penua., on
lL a Cost
sailors of 1
war for the Un
Arge assemb-
and malitary
(rand Arms
soldiers and
unveiled in of a
age, lhe a Civic
which inc
towns
presence
Te Was
parade ded
Dara . G80
>
Posts from all
x
Valley and fi J
,
NOW Jersey.
ties and
Tampa,
1 reneral
Hose remaining
ibume the urine,
acteristic icter
the 10th. It 1s all over the an
the city authorities are doing nothing.’
Three new cases and e death were
reported on the 11th. The fat [
marked by the characteris
vomit,
Wi
- A deposi
nin
i ik wi
hue, One
poland é@
OF
: black
t of gold yleidi
covered
(Quebec,
in Buckingham
~It is reported from Drownsville,
Texas, that the ranchercs ln pursuit of
the of Senator DBerrera,
v and ‘executed’ five of them in
Berrera, it may be re-
was recently captured by
bandits and held eight days until $1500
was paid by the family for his release,
Before beng Killed the bandits
fessed a plot to capture and hold for ran.
som a promiuent capitalist named
abluctors
i
noon of the 10th, because she refused
to live with him any longer. While she
was drowning her brother appeared
and shot his sister's murderer, who
sank with the body of his victim to
the bottom of the Amite river.
-=The dead body of a young woman,
supposed to be Anna Zofinsk:, aged 19
three weeks ago, was found on the
afternoon of the 12th on a mountain
side near Plymouth, Penna. She had
apparently been murdered,
~For the past four days forest
fires have been raging in Sonoma,
Alameda, San Mateo and danta Cruz
eounties, California, all in the vicinity
of the Bay of California. Several
fine farms have been completely
burned over and the ground is cov.
ered with carcases of all kinds of
dead apizals,. Many families have
been rendered homeless, Fire broke
out on the 12th in the cargo of the
British steamship Hugh Lenden, load-
ing at Savannab, Georgia, for Liver-
pool, and at last accounts was burn
ing flercely. The vessel has four
thousand bales of cotton on board,
The fire was extinguished after peven.
teen hundred bales of cotton were
damaged by smoke and water,
~Snow fell in Utica, New York,
on the morning of «the 12th. It was
passengers are known to have escaped,
the first of the season. ‘The first snow
i
i
i
i
i
The tops of the Adirondacks are
white. Frost was reported as far
south as Gibson, Mississiypi, on the
evening of the 11th.
— RR. 8. Hicks, cashier of the Staf-
ford Springs National Bank, in BStaf-
ford Springs, Connecticut, was arrested
on the 12th, on the charge of misappro-
priating the funds of the bank. It 1s
said the defaleation will exceed $100,-
000, but the exact amount will not be
known until returns are made from
various New York and Boston banks,
It was Hicks’ method to falsify the
books 80 as to show excessive amounts
due from those banks, He
to having taken $73 000. The capital |
stock of the bank 18 $200,000 and the
surplus $24,000, while the undivided
profits amount to over $3000, Hicks
gave bail In $40,000,
—A telegram was received in Ot-
tawa, Ontario, on the 12th, saying that
five men and a span of horses on Mc-
Kay and Doherty's Limits have been
missing since the 10th, and it is be-
lieved they were drowned in Kippewa |
lake while crossing on a frail ferry |
contessed |
—The Coroner at Huntingdon, In-
diana. on the 12th, begun an investiga- |
tion of the facts attending the collision |
on the Chicago and Atlantic Railroad, |
eighteen passen- |
gers were taken out and nine killed and
burned. All the trainmen examined |
that the night was foggy, and
that Caneer signals could not seen
they were right upon them,
be
until
—*“The best counterfeit f{ive-dollar
Yih}
the 12Lh,
build
veel al the Govern-
rece]
}
ng. in
, In HCRGO, Lhe
wus
front
FO
‘ +
‘i
had consumed much grain and several
farm houses,
— A despatch from Havana says a
cyclone swept over the southwest por-
tion of the eity on the 13th, moved In
a westerly direction. It was raining
heavily throughout the island.
~The money taken from the Pacific
Express Company by Messsenger John
Owen has all been recovered It
was found on the 12th concealed in a
barrel of ashes in the rear of Owen’s
residence ip St. Lous. The amount
ound was $33 000, Owen told the
detectives wheres he had hidden the
A burglar entered a dwelling
Lac, Wis.
William
on the
Upon being dis
covered he attacked the five wotoen
a club, seriously injuring all of
them, and then made his escape, He
secured but $3 as booty, A reward Las
been offered for his arrest,
A telegram from Nogales, Arizo-
na, says that all attempts to get news
of the storin on the southern coast have
fulled, It is believed, however, that
the cities of Mazatlan and San Blas
“have been wholly If not partially de-
occupied by Mrs.
~The deficit In the sccount of th
National Bank of Stafford Springs
according Lo amr estimate
by the bank examiner on tne 15h,
reached $84,000, ‘Aside from the
above. tb debts amounted to
$7 in addition to what is recor-
the books in the way of notes,
ig an aggregate of over $150,000
ler of the Cuarrency
that he did no
6 bad
FIRM)
oinped in
Deen ar-
Texas, on Lhe
highwayman
Newsome
Coleman,
charge of being the lone hig
t ~
1: rrr} .
Danger aug Oal
—]t i8
from
residen
reported
( Pr
Kil
ired Ly the
the IZ. Oue mi
ill Was
iS were in)
—A 4
southern coast of Mexico, on the Tih
and Sth mst, Quelit a city of more
than S000 people, tally destroyed, |
No
ained, as the wires are down,
hes state that she supposition |
were a number of wrecks In |
f
astrous storm occurred on the
0.
was U
Aan:
1 ¥
obt
Lives ost, particulars
Despatc
but U i
It Is
i
i
Orange crot
ia igt I IY
: or11lf . eo! ¥ # TE
ae guil, £ CLS Cannot De ascer-
alned, reported that the entire
oa is de- |
wyed.
Michael Rogers, driver, was thrown
yn a chemical engine while going to
in Syracuse, New York, on the
th, The wheels passed over his
est and he died in a short time,
In the Chicago |
Ocean, Dr. T. G. McLure, of
ye Grove, who was active in alding
he sufferers at the wreek at Kouts, on |
icago and Atlantic Railroad,
‘Those remains which were re-
©
an Interview in
}
foam 8
L$ ii
01 the seats near the windows, and fell
0 itwards when the charred frame-work |
tell to pleces, but those who were 8it- |
1 whose remains fell on
red to i
of them, except
would
{ween Lhes
ing inside, an
rails,
a vestige
thie were bu
t perl
of bone be
Was
y dest roy ex
wWoniv!
he rear
$n
stated
rain i
session of the con
au nineleen passen
gers were missing. hime
Minnie Demor, 17
ted daughter
of Manistee,
she
years old, the |
James Hepder-
Michigan, has con-
smothered the baby
: q ’
a lop OL
son,
# »
£5]
no want
poisoned the cows ¢
have Lo milk them,
Henderson's house five
Perca killed a man
New Mexico, some months |
He was tried and condemped,
was gran‘ed a new tnal, and
the interval was released on ball,
I se i
she |
and set
times,
in Los]
it. She 0
Carlos
ago,
in |
He |
Ysleta, when
2th by two officers,
riding to El Paso,
tally stabbed Officer T'ruj
ws
arrested
while in
Perea fa-
ilo, and then
(raskey, but
ter was too quick and shot
dead, Aleade Pino, a Mexi- |
Wright, a cowboy, |
al on |
al
the ial
Perca
at Grant, New Mexico, on the
Pino shot and killed Wright,
named Bell,
who was working for Wright, shot and
killed Yino,
~ An accommodation train on the
tallroad was run into
at a station near Independence, Mis-
souri, on the morning of the 13th, by
an express train, A woman standing
on ths platform of the station was
killed by flying debris, and three per-
sons on the train were severely injured.
Many others suffered slight injuries by
trying to break through the windows.
The collision was caused by the failure
of the despatcher to notify the express
conductor that the accommodation had
preceded him.
~One more body, making seven in
all, bas been found in the ruins of the
chapel and laundry connected with the
Northern Ohio Insane Asylum, near
Cleveland, which were burned on the
night of the 12th, It is thought all the
injured Inmates will recover. Three
escaped patients were captured on the
1h, and only two are now unaccount-
for.
eA prairie fire was started by a
threshing machine, near Lake Benton,
Minnesota,on the 18th. At last we.
counts It was spreading rapidly, and
at §oread
tigate the epidemic
Guileras {
delinite
v
HE
0
Associated
patches report a high wind
th aftert y f 141}
on Lhe a 000 of the 1480,
180 18 given.
Magnolia, or
Press despatches
a large fire raging atl
its suburbs, United
report tha earthquake sl
in Charleston at 1d
that Was slightly in Augusta,
but the Associated 1688 Lelegrains say
that ‘‘no earthquake symploms have
developed at Augusta or Savanah,
1 are the nearest points tof
with which communicatic
Later the
communication
t wk
midn
hid
i Bile
, AI
f ’
Af
IAT 88
Mm is
tela.
ton
in morning
was opened
miles from
jegraphers there
ffer for the
Charles.
ALMOs.
2 A
nterrup-
by a fire
graphic
with Summ
Charleston, *
have no explanation to o
4 ws
suGaen iii
Wires,
erraption the
They
‘
or terrestrial
report no
disturbance,
telegram says the
have caused
r
s large phospbale ia
been
Ti Hig snip +
pi iS engine
his recklessness in running a!
hy
ough 4
=e
.
i
a rate of speed t the fi
-— n Centre.
led
three men
engine
I'he boiler in a saw mill
on the
h, kKililng
completely wrecking
aud mill,
The
the 14th
Marine Hospital Bureau on
received a telegram from Dr,
Porter, President of the Key West
Board of Health, announcing his ar-
rival in Tampa, Florida, on the morn
ing of the 13th, and saying: “Have
cases indiscriminately. I'he
18 undoubtedly yellow fever,
presenting the characteristic tests,”
There were three deaths from the fever
of the 13th, aud several
14th. The
case of yellow fever reported In Pa-
we 13th, did not originate
The victim was a refugee from
I'he bause where he died was
there.
Tampa.
fects were purned,
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HOUT STRAW:
Or, Perseverance Must Conquer.
Minna was getting discouraged.
Evervihing seemed to be going wrong,
from the time the coffee come up cold
and the toast had been burnt at break.
fast, which had given Ferdinand an
opportunity to stick up Lis nose Fer-
dinand was her cousin, and considered
himself a great swell, so she did not
like to give him an opportunity to find
fault with her housekeeping. Sue was
voudering how all the money was
be found to pay for the luxuries her
mother had ordered to tempt his arls-
tocratic palate, for she only al-
lowed so much to set the table and pay
expenses with,
“It's like trying to make bricks with-
out straw,’ she said to herself as she paid
the cook and found that she had only
$4 left to finish the week on. *‘'1 do
¢
to
was
keeper.” Then she sat down and had
a good cry. She was glad to see her
eousin Cuthbert Craig drop in an hour
later when she had composed her
nerves somewhat,
Cuthburt looked about him with
comprehensive glance, which falled ne
to include Minna’s tear-swollen ¢
lids,
“How
home?"
“Mamma has been perfectly well
the Winter, She has me to Kate
this n i i ¢ § tl
miki
he i
a
is cousin Harriet? Is she at
Aires 1%
wy hs materi
. Minna.
There
despondentd
}
fully
wh
*
There
I'here never would be a
» never was a fight.”
ALSWEr.
no
ot
eves
ublesome tears,
the way, Min
resent y.''w ill youg
HE,
with me Lhis evel
having
», seemed inn
3 $
el
he CA ntin :
what cause
“The old
to make br
“Perhaps you |
bricks Minna?"
“The house
know.’
“What represents straw
ent instance?’
“Oh, many
strength and
AN] ee
“And a little more courage and
severance,” added Cuthbert
smile,
“I'hat is easy for you to
bert. You are so strong It
“Am I, indeed? 1 was thinking of
borrowing straw from you
you can effect a profitable exchange of
commodities, Think it over, will you?
3
all tl
ks without straw.,”’
ry to make
Oo INany
must be built you
’
in the pres-
Jie
Hie
more
re
mor
Lime
A
tie
things.
a 1it
ik
fn
Goodby.
Dr. Craig came lor his cousin thal
evening in the cosiest of coupes. He
lillies-of-the-valley. Minna fastened a
handful in her dress, and through the
evening their heavenly odor linked
itself with every tender strain that
rose,
When they reached home the fire
was out and the room cold, yet Cuth-
bert lingered,
“Minna.” he sad abruptly, ‘‘did
you know that I bad got that place in
the life Insurance?’
Her voice, in reply, was quite low:
“The place of examining physician?
Was not that the one you wanted?”
“Yes,” said Cathbert, with a sud-
den fervor. *'1 did want it, and I
worked hard for it with one purpose,
with one end in view. He bent over
ber chair. **You know what that was
--my one love.” She spoke not. He
went on, passionately:
“fave I been trying to make my
bricks without straw? Ilave 1 been
work ng and hoping in vain?"
“No Cuathbert,”” she answered,
softly, placing her hand in his, “not in
vain,”
~50ft wood compressed by hydraulic
machinery is reported to be a useful
substitute for box-wood for the manu-
facture of loom shuttles.
RSH
Gazing Into Shop Windows.
One young man wis walking reflect-
ively along, and the clans of articles
that seemed to interest him were very
peculiar indeed, He stopped in front
of a large display of laces and read
with great satisfaction the sign, * Prices
completely wrecked, Only five centa a
yard,” “Cheap enough’ he mut
tured, and passed on by window after
window of smokers’ articles, beautiful
paintings, gentiemen’s capes and hats,
titl he came a display of Jad bos
gloves, Here hs tarried a long Lime,
A while after he was standing in front
of a display of wall paper. What was
thinking about and why was he
alone? Was he on the verge of some
mental Bubleon, the crossing of which
was connected in some way with the
| prices of laces, gloves and wall paper?
Perhaps the most interesting obser-
vation of human nature that can be
ng a walk by the shop win-
10
he
taken during
dows, and ope requiring no very keen
powers of perception, 18 afforded by
stepping up in front of any deserted
window. It 1s not necessary that there
be anything on exhibition, Let there
be nothing inside but a bare shelf,
Stand there a moment gazing within
and soon somebody else will step up
side you, then another, and within a
there will be several
t can be repeated again
1 uniform success
—-——
Drinking Buk.
- oa
ie Rise of the Rose
he small rose of China that
marked advance Lo-
standard. The tea
f blooming, not an-
all in Europe be-
n. but contin
bly crops. This bab-
was taken ad-
ally hybr
s
ry ROTL8—
r is
Gousy
YEE
|
“adel
of the va
ligree, and
} adnction
irom every
hems
-
Heredity in Handwrting
lieve in ber
I) } you be
writing? A friend 1
to ee with much show of reason. His
life has been a long and he says
ng the signatures of
fri his, he f
quently startled by the close relation-
ip of their penmanship to that of
nts. Inquiry does not demon-
t the children have mtention
x1 the handwriting of their
without intent have come
same pen pecularities. in
some instances the difference between
| two could scarcely distinguis!
The studen { heredity and Ms many
whims | new fleld of lalx
| that might prove interesting in the
developme
in hand
the thwory
edily
advocales
one,
that x 3
that now, inl
children of 8 ie
ids of
sl
Ler pare
strate th
ally cop
sires, but
the
} A
1%
into
in
be ed
¥
1¢
bas here a
nt.
How Carrier Pigeons are Trained
The training of carrier pigeons ix
gins as soon as they are strong enough
The yound birds are taken In a
covered basket to a place about hall
a mile from their home and set free.
Those which do not go home are con-
sidered worthless; those which do so at
once are tried again, the distance be-
ing increased each time, until it is
found that they will go back, no mal.
ter how far away they may be carried.
The messages conveysd by these birds
are usually written or photograped on
very thin paper, and tied around the
leg of one of the tall feathers in such a
manner that they do not impede the
flight of the binds,
1
to 1s
“
Spain ia to have the luxury of dining
cars on her railways, under lhe man-
agement of a special company, which
has obtained a concession of the
right of running them for 20 years.
According to Dr. Van Der Ven's re-
searches phosphor-bronze in telephone
lines has aboul 30 per cent. of the con-
ducting power of copper, silicon-brense
about 70 per cent, while the steel as
used in wires has only about 10.5 per
cent. :
Wing vetting, two-inch mesh, is said
pow w be Sheapes than Joa for fenc-
ng poultry, more y arranged
with less labor