A RAILROAD COLLISION.
A FAST FREIGHT CRASHES INTO THE
REAR OF A PASSENGER TRAIN
DURING A FOG AND DEMOL~
ISIES A PRIVATE CAR.
CHICAGO, April 10.—~One of the sad-
dest of the mmnumerable railroad disas-
ters which have occurred near Chicago
took place early this morning at Lo-
renzo, lll. The victims are eight in
gpumber, including a bride that was to
be and her betrothed husband. Lo-
renzo, the scene of tiie horror, is a
little hamlet, 57 miles out on the Chi-
cago, Santa Fe and California Railroad.
During a fog an extra freight traln ran
into the rear of the regular No. 2
California passenger train, east bound,
at 4.23 A. M,, smashing to bitsa private
coach, letting not a single one of the
occupants escape, Four people were
killed and four others seriously in-
jured. The killed are:
Henry Robert Hartt, the 15-year-old
son of J. L, Hartt, of Boston, Massa-
chusetts,
Miss Alice Winslow, of Brookline,
Mass. nieces of J. L. Hartt and the
fBancee of Henry W. Lamb, who was
seriously injured,
Harry Herring (colored),
resident of Los Angeles, Cal,
Thomas Smith, colored, cook, a resi-
dent of Los Angeles,
The seriously injured are:
J. L. Hartt, of Boston, Director of
porter,
badly burned about the feet, legs, arms
and head.
Mrs. J. L. Hartt, the former’s wife,
whose injuries are similar,
Henry W. Lamb, of
Massachusetts, seriously scalded about
the arms and head.
P. L. Palmer, brakeman
freight train, seriously scalded,
Henry W. Faulkner, of Detroit,
who was a passenger on the wrecked
of the
at hearing of the death of his be-
trothed: *I was in the sleeper ‘Santa
Anna,’” said Mr. Faulkner, “when 1
was awakened, doubled up In my
berth, and I feel now hike 1 had been
broken in two, J could hear a prodl-
gious uproar outside and the sound of
escaping steam, I dressed as fast as 1
could and got outside. Some of the
in the wreck and pulled out a young
man,
was Lamb. He was groaning pitifully,
I got a mattress from the sleeper
and we lifted him to it as genlly
as we could, “Oh! where is Allie?”
gaid he, rising up suddenly. Just then
two men passed by with the body of a
woman. Lamb canght sight of ber
face by the light of a lantern. ‘Oh,
God, it is Alite,’ he screamed, and then
he dropped back on the mattress la a
faint. I was Ino the car with the
wounded on our way to the cily, and
avery once
Lamb, poor fellow, moaning the name
of Allie, Allie.” The train bearing the
injured came into the Dearborn Station,
Chicago, at 9.20. The officials of the
railroad bad prepared everything for
the reception. An ambulance and three
police patrol wagons were at the depot
and as tenderly as possible bore
the four imured persons who were
on the train to the Mercy Hospital,
The police with difficulty repressed a
crowd of 300 or 400 people who jostled
and pushed each other to see the sor-
rowful sight of human beings scalded.
The diagnosis at the hospital showed
that Mr, Hartt’s legs, right arm and
face were grievously scalded. Mrs,
Hartt’s injuries are almost identical,
although she has, in addition, a large
burn on the abdomen. Mr, Lamb's
legs, face and hands are very badly
burned. The injuries of brakemau
Palmer are very similar, The other in-
ured trainmen were cared for at Loren-
0. Dr. Winfield Hall, of the hospital
staff, says the injuries of Mr, and Mrs,
Hartt are dangerous, There is
he fears that pneumonia, no uncommon
sequence of severe scalds, may set in.
The cases of Lamb and Palmer are by
no means serious, Dr. J.J. Ransom,
the Chief of the Medical Department
of the Santa Fe Railroad, takes a more
hopeful view. He made a thorough
examination of Mr. and Mrs, Hartt,
and thinks the recovery of both assured
unless there be unusual developments
pot indicated by present condition. The
victims are all under the influence of
morphine, and visitors are strictly ex-
cluded.
Mr. Hartt, when brought to the
bospital, was but vaguely aware of the
death of his son, not being sufficiently
conscious to realize what had happened.
He talked incoherently of his boy, and
at intervals called bis name, Mrs,
Hartt does not know that her son Is
dead. Mr, John F. Hartt is a heavy
capitalist, and one of the test known
directors of the Chicago, Kansas and
Western. Mrs, Hartt is a sister of
Albert W. Nickerson, the wealthy
railroad man of Boston, and director
of the Santa Fe, Mr, and Mss, Hartt
Started on their Western trip about
two months ago.
In their party were their son Robert,
Mr. Henry W. Lamb, ayoung business
of the passenger train
car of the @licers
Qentral Railroad, No 98, and was
occupied by Mr, Hartt and party. All
were soundly sleeping when the fatal
crash came. The passenger had stopped
only a moment at Lorenzo and was
pulling out when the freight rushed
down upon it, The engine of the
freight telescoped the private car and
crushed into the rear platform of the
Pullman car Santa Anna, just ahead,
and wrecked the engine. The engineer
and fireman of the treight escaped by
jumping from the cab, DBrakeman
Palmer, who was riding on the cab, fell
beneath it and was badly scalded by
escaping steam before he could extri-
cate himself through the cab window,
Miss Winslow, Robert Hartt, the
porter and the cook were Killed out.
right. The other three occupants of
the sleeping car were thrown from their
berths by the collision, but no limbs
were broken, as they were fortunate
enough to be in the front end of the
car, Before they could be extricated,
however, they were almost parboiled
by the escaping steam of the disabled
engine. The wreck of the private car
was left at Lorenzo, and the dead
and the injured were placed In
the sleeper Santa Anna. No medical
assistance was attainable at the
little station where the accident
occurred, and as soon as possible
the passenger train hurried on to Joliet,
15 miles distant, with its burden of
dead and suffering. The Injuries of
the wounded were dressed at Jollet,
and opiates administered, which made
the terrible pain bearable. The four
dead bodies were taken off the train
for the Coroner at Jolliet, Dr. Curtis,
PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE.
SENATE,
In the Senale on the Oth, the Em-
second reading, Mr. Hines, its author,
offered an amendment, evlarging tie
scope of its provisions, it having been
The
but finally
Hines, giving a
workman the nght of aclion *‘and
Houss
passed
i
u
The
wis
Border
an
P'resi-
not an employe,
resolution
ie
dent pro tem. of the Senate, instead of
to present the resolution, and
the claims of Pennsylvania at
Adiourned.
In the Senate on the 10th the House
in relation to travelling clothing
dealers was reported with amendments
providing that the license fee shall be
regulated by ordinance, and shall not
$25, nor more than $100,
$205,
urge
visors and Street Commissioners and
regulating escheats were reported
favorably, The House bill for semi-
fragments of wages, the
Mechanics’ Lien bill and the
Theatre Exit bill were re-
negatively, Bills were passed
Hines
Roberts
ported
tion companies chartered under the
laws of olher States to hold real estate
in this State; authorizing the Courts to
districts, and Senator Hine's Empioy-
ers’ Personal Liability lull. A bill was
introduced by Mr. Grady permitting
the adoption of any aduil persons as
heirs, Adjourned,
In the Senate on the 11 the Revenue
biil was reported with amendments,
Favorable reports were made on the
bills placing bicycle riders on the same
footing as carriages; lo provide for the
recording of exemplifications of wills
relating to real estate. The House
Leads of departments and members of
to.
the
Bills were passed finally creasing
maximum amount allowed the
providing for the election of Prothono-
Clerks of Court, Registers of
Deeds in coun-
gation Companies the right to hoid and
coroners, Adjourned.
BOUSE,
In the House, on the Sth, after lis
tening to an address by Andrew Car-
pegie upon the ‘‘Industries of Penn-
sylvania,”” the members proceeded to
business. The Senate bill allowing
shipbuilding corporations to extend
their capital to $5,000,000 was made a
special order for second reading on
Wednesday and third reading on
Thursday, Mr. Wherry succeeded in
getting a special order for his Anti-
discrimination bill for second reading
on Tuesday and third reading on Wed-
nesday, the vote on his motion being
88 to 41. Adjourned.
In the House on the 10th the Wherry
bilis, in relation to the Sinking Fund,
were reported favorably. Mr. Har-
wick introduced a bill to protect child-
ren providing severe penalties for any
one leading any child under 10 years
astray, or taking them for immoral
purposes, or marryiog such children
without the consent of their parents, or
thelr employment In any dance ball, or
similar resort. The bill to regulate
the practice of pharmacy was passed
finally. The bill to regulate the revo
cation of liquor licenses was passed to
third reading, with an amendment by
Mr, Quigley, providing that a bill of
particulars shall be served upon the
licenses of names of witnesses, dates
and particulars of charges. Adjourned,
In the House on the 11th, the Senate
fixing 2240 pounds as the legal
THE SINKING OF THE PENSACOLA.
OF THE WINDS AND WAVES
ALONG THE COAST,
WasHINGTON, D. O,, April 8,~The
following telegram was received at the
Navy Department to-day from Com-
mandant Brawn, of the Norfolk Nuvy
Yard:
The heavy northeast gale set in about
midnight Saturday, The river rose
suddenly and was higher than ever
known, being about a foot above the
coping of the dry dock,
The Pensacola was lifted from the
blocks, filled with water through the
old and new Kingston valve openings,
and settled diagonally across the
blocks. The water 18 over the gun-
deck combings. The diver reports that
there was no Injury to the bottom.
Have plugged the holes and expect to
pump the ship dry, readjust blocks and
dock again. The gale continues and
the Simpson dock is flooded.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
—Miss Ella White, a music teacher,
was arrested in Susquebanna, Pa., on
the Sth, on the charge of defrauding
various people in Elmira, New York,
out of sums aggregating $15,000 on
fictitious mining and silk mill stocks
and other “pretences. She confessed
that she lost the money in an Elmira
“bucket shop.” Harry D. Darby, a
registry clerk in the post office
FURY
Pennsylvania Hatl-
gerously and Charles Erickesen
juries,
railroad, was arrested,
—~Willlam Kenny, well-known
New York,
dead at the foot of the
his house, on the OLh.
had been taken with a fit while ascend-
ing +
ward, broke his neck.
— James Clemmo, employed in caulk-
Bath House
in Port Huron, Michigan, was over-
come by gas on the moroing of the Oth,
stephen Porter, a colored attlendant,
a
come. Dr. Stephenson, the proprietor,
ascended a ladder and looked in the
vat. He became unconscious almost
instantly, but fell outward sustaining
painful though not serious injuries
Clemmo and Porter died after
being taken out.
—Mrs, Mary Kline was committed
to jail in Bordentown, New Jersey, on
S000
placed poison in her husband's coflee,
William P. Fox, shot and killed a
colored man, named Walls, in Paris,
Kentucky, on the Oth, Walls was
ciub,
on the morning of the 9th,
managed to draw his revolver, and
fired a shot which struck one of the
The officer’s wound is not
Lewis Conklin,
wound,
sland, on the 9th, by
They bad quarrelled, and
Mrs. Conkiin hit her husband with an
~The house of Robert McBane, an
aged farmer, near East Liverpool,
on the morning of the Oth, They al-
the inmates,
They then
almost
senseless and locked them in a small
Mra, McBane was locked in a
closet, and Mr. McBane was knocked
senseless with a fire shovel,
silver. A neighbor,
found the mother and
almost suffocated in their
dead from the loss of blood.
a wealthy farmer living
There was nobody in the house
80 years old. The robbers burned Mr,
Patterson's feet and face in an unsue-
cessful effort to make him tell where
his money was hidden. Toney then
searched the house, and departed
after securing $43 in money and Mr.
Patterson's gold watch. Two strang-
ers visited Daniel Keller, an old farmer,
at Shamokin, Penna., on the Oth, and
after proposing to buy his farm, en-
gaged him in a game of cards, Keller
became so interested that be procured
$4700 and put it up as stakes. The
strangers seized the money and covered
Keller with a revolver while they got
off with the cash, One of the fellows
represented himself to be the son of J.
1. Packer, of Sunbury, an old friend
of Keller. A despatch from Sault
Ste, Marle, Michigan, says that Wil.
liam Kintella, a capitalist, was on the
evening of the 8th by foot pads
and left for dead, after having been
robbed of $600, There were five men
in the gang and they all have been
arrested,
~Two passenger trains on the At-
lantic and Pacific Railroad collided on
7th, gens Peach Springs, Arizona. They
ran into each other at a sharp curve on
a high embankment. Both
and threo cars fell down the bank into
a stream below. The engineer was
ured and a laborer stealing a
—A telegram from Winona, Minne-
sota, says that farmers in that vicinity
have almost universally completed the
seeding of small grain, The ground is
in excellent condition, but there is
some complaint that seed is germinat-
ing slowly on account of cool weather,
Preparations are being generally made
to plant an unusually large acreage of
corn.
~THe Signal Service telegraph cable
crossing Bregon Inlet, North Carolina,
was swept away during the recent
storm. Telegraphic communication
with Cape Hatteras Is thus cut off
until a new cable is laid.
~Henry Kurtz, a young telegraph
operator, of Baltimore, died on the
morning of the 10th from an overdose
of laudanum, Whether it was taken
with suicidal intent or not is unknown.
Mrs. Catherine Kinney, who owned
property valued at about $60,000, was
found dead in the hallway of her resl.
dence in Paterson, New Jersey, on the
morning of the 10th, Foul play is
suspected, although the woman was an
hablitual drinker, and was under the
influence of liquor on Tuesday night.
—Theodore and Jacob Heubler,
brothers, were badly cut with knives
in Chicago, on the evening of the 9th,
while attempting to capture three
bakery. The thieves escaped.
| German shoemaker, named Laurer,
Morning View, Kentucky, on the even-
| ing of the 9th.
| —A telegram from Hagerstown,
| Maryland, says that three large moun-
tain fires are now raging on the Soath
Mountain, pear Edgemont,
i locomotive.
| already been destroyed.
— Henry Bachman was crushed be-
and the heavy cross bar through which
| lishment of Smith, Jameson & Keyser,
{in Baltimore, on the 10th.
| stop it in Uwe,
| ~The people of Tyler county, West
| Virginia, especially along the railroad,
dozens of mad dogs, On the 5th a
large dog owned by Captain Hender-
son, of Tong Deach, went mad and
| attacked und bit every animal within
its reach. A general bunt Is in pro-
gress and every animal thought to have
been bitten wiil be killed,
~For a month past obstructions
| have been placed on the track of the
| Chicago, Sante Fe and California Bail-
road, near the Illinois River.
| a track walker was put upon this por-
the Sth he was found lying unconscious
upon the track with a terrible wound
in the back of the bead. He was for-
tunately seen by the engineer of the
train io time to stop. He had been
assaulted, as supposed, by the gang of
villains who have been obstructing the
track,
~The house of W. P. Ward, In
| Robin county, Georgia, was burned on
| the evening of the 10th, and his wife
| The house Was a small one, with the
| chimney and door at one end.
| dam, a farmer,
| wild parsnip from furrows iu a plowed
children died in great agony, the other
| is expected tO recover. While pour-
| ing a 4000-pound casting in the foundry
lof William Tod & Co., in Youngs
| town, Ohio, on the evening of the 11th,
| it exploded, hurling the molten metal
lin every direction. George Iryant,
[ Frank Lee, John Anderson, Nick
| Carroll and William Kurz were badly
| burned. Mra, J. F. Hart, of Brook-
line, Massachusetts, who was 80 badly
scalded in the accident on the Chicago,
Santa Fe and California Rallroad, near
| Joliet, Illinois, died in the hopital in
| Chicago, on the 11th, Toe other
| wounded are recovering.
~The four men who robbed a train
| on the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad at
Canon Diablo, Anzoua, on March 21st,
have been captured after a long chase.
‘I'hey are all undar 30 years of age and
are well educated. Train robbery Is a
capital offence in Arizona.
entered the residence of Thomas
Lowrey, in Minpeapolis, Minnesota, on
the evening of the 10th and took jew-
elry valued at $1000 from a room in
which Mrs. Lowrey was asleep. Mr.
Lowrey was in the parlor, chatting
with a friend, and the house was
brilliantly lighted. A. C. Dunbrack’s
jewelry store, in Keyser, West Vir-
glula, was robbed of jewelry valued at
$3000 on the evening of the 10th. The
brigantine Addie Benson, from Port
Medway, bound for Clenfuegos, is now
more than 70 days out, and It is feared
that she has been lost,
— Russell Harrison was arrested in
New York, on the afternoon of the
11th, on the charge of having pub-
lished in the Montana Live Stock Jour
nal an article taken from a Buffalo
paper accusing ex-Governor John
Schuyler Crosby, of Montana, with
having stolen jewels from a Washing.
A LIFE OF SPECULATION.
Nerves Shaitered by Gaining $1000
One Hour and Losing It the Next,
The following question was recently
submitted to the Hon. Stephen Van
Cullen White, whose reputation as a
financier and Wall street millionaire is
of national fame.
“What effect in your opinion and
has a life of speculation on the mind,
body of a man? By speculation
or gram upon the floor of the excliange
or on the street, or both,”
tremely generic,
a volume in reply and then
haust the subject.
who has stock
bad a
lef that I may know something to in-
terest your readers, I will
All
use and for the use of his family is
speculation, and there is an element of
{danger of fallure In any
| where a man buys more than Le has
| ready cash tc pay for. Every mer-
chant engaged in general merchandise
| business, wholesale or retail, is a
speculator, and one who buys
credit 18 always in more or less dan.
ger of failure in business, Whoever
| has a business risk bas anxiety till the
prospective outcome has made itself
| elear. Then, if prospectively the ven-
ture 1s to become successful, what was
atl
success, and if a loss
actual or prospective, the anxiely and
care are increased. All mental anxiely
tells on the nervous system, If it is
great enough to cause sleeplessness it
fast. But if the sufferer has
digestion, strong and
circulation and avoids excess of
drinking, he can for a long
anxiety, whether It
Now, the only dif-
stock speculaticn on
is developed,
Wears
good equable
“atl-
ing and
time defy
chronic or acule,
ference belween
the exchange and a country store upon
invoice of general merchandise 1s that
the amount bought or gold in stocks is
generally larger in proportion to capital
| employed, and, more important still
the stock exchange prices furnish a
constant barometer by which that
| speculator can constantly measure his
| josses or his profits, while constant
fluctuations, of which
keep him a constant pendulum between
smile and a tear, If a merchant
goes into busjocess on $10,000 he can
| buy from $15,000 to $25,000 worth of
if a speculator goes in with
$10,000 he can buy £100,000 worth of
stocks, The merchant wants two to
four months before he can estimate his
profit or loss. The stock speculator
Onds that in an hour he has a profit of
| say $10,000 which be may take; the
next hour the profit 1s all gone, the
| next he sees a loss of $1,600, and at
[night he quits the market full of
| anxiety with probably a loss of $500 to
{ commence the next day's walch of
| fluctuations. But added to these daily
land normal fluctuations there 1s the
| effect of panies, which usually occur
lat the end of a protracted season of
| prosperity. and the profits of weeks are
| hopelessly swept away in an hour,
Now I think If I were a medical man
| 1 enould not be afraid to express the
| belief that quick transition from a
Panama sun bath to a Dakota blizzard
| would have a tendency to produce
| colds and if the victim had weak lungs
| it might naturally end in phthisis pul-
| monalis, unless death vecurred (rom
| the shock and gave a more speedy exit.
all he notices,
a
goods,
would always guess that a nervous
man would come out of a series of
panics with shatlered nerves, This
reasoning
whom 1 have known within the last
twenty-five years. Among the 80
called success’ul men probably the
wealth which others covet may have
been bought at too dear a cost, even if
corroding care can ever be paid for by
money. _-—
Dyeing of Garments.
Pure colors upon garments can be
obtained only when the material is first
perfectly cleaned. For this purpose
brush the stains with a lukewarm strong
solution of soda, then work for hall an
hout in a solution of mediuta concen:
tration, rinse well, and lay down for
several hours, preferably over night, in
warm water. For bright colors, such
as red, bordeaux, ete., boil the goods in
water, in order to remove any trace of
alkali from them, which Is necessary
for a good dye. To neutralize any re
maining lye by scids is an erroneous
notion, because it dulls the colors
shows the fades after dyeing. The
acid is used mn dyeing, the better are
the fades covered.
AAI SAA
Life is a long course of mutual edu-
eation which ends but with the grave,
|
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FOOD FGE THOUGHT,
es ———
Envy shooteth at others and wounde
himself,
The prayers of youth are the blessings
of old age.
There is « woman at the beginning
of all things,
Sin may be clasped so close we can
not ses its face,
A blow from a {rying pan smuts if i
does not hurt.
Children’s virtues bring new wealth
to the parents,
Jetter three hotlrs too soon than one
minute Loo late,
Nothing upsets superstition as mucl
Love sleeps on thistles for the sake
of the flower.
Let your tongue tarry until
prepares Lhe way.
Nothing overcomes passion
reason
more
When there 18 room in the heart
there is room in the house.
A man who 18 always tapering of
geldom comes Lo the point.
Excitements may wear, but wearing
| is far better than rusting.
Let no man value at a little price a
virtuous woman’s counsel,
Obedience and prosperity are linked
together in God's plan,
The consciousness of duty performed
| gives us music at midnight.
| Kpavery is the worst archery, it
shoots at its own reputation.
The day of judgment will be to
saints the great coronation day.
A skeptic 1s a man with faith in
nothing who believes in himself.
the
The Master's work may make Weary
i feet, but it leaves the spirit glad,
A vicious tongue, like a worm in an
apple, devours all its surroundings.
Pride and drunkenness are the only
two vices which will never agree,
{nowledge is the destruction of i
fool, and the sword of a wise man,
All the salve of the devil can
heal the wounds of your conscience,
Common sense in an uncomm
gree is what the world calls wisd(
Stick to your purpose {ort 1i1
Jost with will and ¢iil to build over
again,
A miser cares not for the (ears of the
poor, and be thal sprinkies iron shal
reap rust,
It Is impossible
pair who remembers Lh
omnipotent.
Our grand business is not to see whal
jies dimiy at a distance, but to do what
lies clearly at hand.
Activity under excitement, on the
solitary condition that it be lawful, i
wholesome,
in doing good to others there is ap
enjoyment of which the sordid, selfish
man knows nothing.
Take heed lest you be flattered; flat-
terers generally pat an ass on the back
before they take a ride.
“he best alarm clock is a frightful
dream, it gives one the CONSCIOUSNESS
of the coming day.
The best way to keep oul vicious
thoughts is to have a good dourkeeper
a good conscience.
Young heads must be put in the fur
nace of experience before they can be
wrought upon by old age,
To endeavor to work upon the vulga
with fine sense is like altempling u
hew blocks with a razor.
The world may owe a man a living,
but it 1s always best for him 10 go anc
collect it by a little hard work.
When the forenoons of life are wast-
ed, there is pot much hope of a peace-
ful and fruitful evening.
Solomon said of laughing: “It ie
| pad.” But if a man laughs at his owr
folly 1t certainly must be sincere.
Drive not nails into rotten timber,
neither put your secrets into the mouth
of him that cannot contain himself.
God endures us when we offend Him
jet us endure Him when He tries us;
| endurance is one of the names of love,
Never fear to bring the sublimest
motive into the smallest duty, and the
most infinite comfort to the smaliest
| trouble.
1 was surprised when I heard of an
| ass eating thistles; perbaps it was a
| man trying to live on the opinions of
i the people.
Vital force must be disposed of just
| as food must be digested, otherwise, it
| is consuming to the organs in which 1
| glows.
if we had lost our own chief good,
other people’s good would remain, and
that is worth trying for, Some can hx
happy.
It is a great mistake to suppose thal
any kind of vital force is conserved by
holding back, as you would dam uj
waters in a mill pond.
Brevity is in writing what charity is
to all the other virtues, Righieousnes:
is worth nothing without the ope, nor
authorship without the other.
Every question may be looked al
from two directions. When a ©ap
hesitates at a call which 1s put to him
as a duty, his first question ought tc
be, not “Can 1 see my way clear i
accept IP” but “Can 1 see my way
clear to refuse it?’ He will sometime:
find the latter way blocked, when he
would have imagived that be saw he
former way open.
For an evil doer we ought to have
pity. For evil itsell wa ought to have
bliiorrence. One's evil doing is almo.t
sorrow and suffering tc
no sad result from
not
a
for that man to des
at Lis helper is
hil
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