MANY KILLED AND
HUNDREDS HURT
Terrible Explosion of a Train of Naphtha
Cars Near Pittsburg.
WAS STARTED FROM SWITCH LIGHT
Leaking Naphtha Became Ignited and Soon
Tank After Tank Burst, Throwing Flames
Far Up la the Air — Many Fearfully
Burped, Beg Bystanders to Put Them Out |
of Their Misery. |
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic.
were sent out by J. Morgan & Co,
P.
to the members of the
financed the Steel Trust.
Guy Locke, aged 18, and Edward C.
Buffey, 20 years old, were sentenced in
IVES LOST,
murder.
The Pittsburg structural workers ac-
cepted the American Bridge Company's
combine
mills
The new steel castings
control one-fourth of the and be
Pittsburg, (Special) ~The Sheraden |
yards of the Panhandle Railroad Com- |
pany were the scene of one of the most |
disastrous explosions and fires known in
this section for many years.
A score of lives were lost and about
200 pergpns were so badly burned that,
according to the judgment of physicians |
in attendance, 75 per cent. of them will |
die from the effects of their injuries
The cause of the: catastrophe was the
of
which were being switched at the yard
In the switching the rear car telescoped
: g
a car forward,
The leaking naphtha ignited from a
switch bight, causing an explosion which
threw flames 50 feet high. Much of the
escaping naphtha ran through Corks run
to Esplenhoro, 114 miles. Here it caused
another cxplosion, blowing to atoms the
Scymonr Hotel and the Collins House,
on River badly wrecking a
explosion of a train naphtha cars
and 1
frame building near by, in which were
congregated two hundred or more per-
sors from Pitrsburg and vicinity betting
on the races and baseball Few
pants of this huilding escaped
many being badly hurt
The first car of na
about 4.40 o'clock
attracted a large crowd
the hills on both sid
ides of and parallel
the railroad
The
1
road,
OCCu-
ajar,
explo ded
spectacle
SOON
1 streets
second car
0.15 when three
vw tiladed
exploded
«¥
the air to such
third explosi
conscious by the e
ims ran
ing their burning g:
bodies and screa
the earliest possible
tims were receiving
tals are crowded
and the morgue @
TWO YEARS FOR MRS. SOFFEL.
The Wife of the Former Warden Will Now Be
a Penitentiary Pri omer.
Pittsburg, Pa., (Special) —Mrs
erine Soffel,
Cath-
the wife of Warden Peter
Soffel, of the Allegheny count jail, who
entered a plea of } harge of
releasing Edward Biddle. the
burglars and murderers of Grocer Kah-
ney and Detective
sen
it
nd John
Was
the Western Pen
itentiary Soffel received
tence calmly
tion.
Walter Dorman, the member of the
Biddle gang who turned states evidence.
and entered a plea of gui ty to the mur
der of Kahney, was called up
tenced to death
the sen
and w of emo-
and sen-
NEW STEEL COMBINE
Schwab, Gary and Gates in It— The Concerns
That Have Consolidated
The Daily News
printed the announcement of a new com
bination of interests
try which has just been perfected in this
city under the management of Arthur }.
Eddy. The name of the new company
is to be the American Steel Founders’
Company, with a capital of $40,000,000,
equally divided between common and
preferred stock
Concerns comprising the new combi-
nation are: The American Casting Com- |
pany and the Sargent Company, of Chi-
cago; Light & Howard, of St. Louis: the |
Franklin and the Reliance Companies, of
Pennsylvania, and the American Casting |
Company, of Newark, N. J. !
Chicago, (Special) —
in the steel indus
Killed by His Brother.
New York, (Special).—~The end of |
the long existing trouble among the chil-
dren of the late Gordon L. Ford, mil-
lionaire real estate lawyer, of Brooklyn, |
came at 10.20 o'clock A. M. when Mal-
colm Webster Ford, who had been dis-
inherited, shot and killed his brother,
Paul Leicester Ford, the celebrated nov-
elist and historian, and then took his
own life. The shooting took place in
the beautiful new home of the author,
37 East Seventy-seventh street.
Estrada Paima’s Reception.
Havana, (Special).—The shipping in-
terests here arranged a striking reception
for President-elect Estrada Palma, who |
arrived in Havana Monday morning. Al
double line of decorated barges stretched |
from Morro Castle to the wreck of the!
United States battleship Maine. Between |
this double line passed a fleet of vessels |
headed by the Julia, having the presiden-
tial party on board. The wharves and
the whole water front was decorated
with bunting and Cuban flags.
Augusto Severo Killed.
Paris, (By Cable) ~The airship be-
longing to senhor Augusto Severo, the
Brazilian areonaut, made an ascension
here. The airship exploded and the two
aeronauts who were on board were kill
ed,
Earthquake Shocks Felt in Spain
Madrid, (By Cable). —Earth shocks
were felt at Alicante, Murcia and Elche,
on the southwestern coast of Spain. Pan-
ics followed, but there were no fatali-
tics.
comitted
prison,
Blackman Somers
in New Jersey
I'renton,
tate
his brother, Malcolm Ford, were buried
in different parts of the family plot in
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Tarrytown
Walter Pearce, of Norfolk, Va.
the Supreme Council, Royal Arcanum
for the endowment of the death of his
brother, John L. Pearce
The government bill against the Beef
Trust was filed in the United States
Court in Chicago
A general strike of the miners of the
anthracite coal region was ordered by
the executive committee of the three di
tricts upon receiving answers f
sued
from the
various railroad presidents and coal op-
erators, all refusing to agree to the pro
posed method of adjusting differences
J. H. Wade, who gave $100,000 to the
1"
fn
assist its charitable work, has given a
similar sum of money to Lakeside Hos
pital in that city. The gift is in the form
of 400 shares of United States Steel Cor
poration preferred stock and 400 si
American Shipbuilding Company
ferred stock, each bearing 7
mterest
Clara Taylor, who kids
Margaret Taylor, from (
| by the Italian authorities to as
ares
pre
per cent
Inapped her niece,
INCInnas
1 by the United States government
session in
The police chiefs,
. Ky . re-elected
ashington,
ie
presid
pr i
against
Byram, 1
ing her
i he annual
ty
that a special agency had been
among i
husband’
meets
as stated
lished the ored people in
was clected
Foreign.
secretary of
Britsh H
the 3
Gring Rise Of
that
agreement, th
renewed
mons recently
hite Star L
mus the Britsh flag
The chancellor of the British exchequer
¥ strong pressure and announc
ed the withdrawal of the proposed or
penny stamp tax on checks
fF steamers
must continue to fy
welded to
¥
tn
ie collapse of Senh
in Paris
death of himself and tr
dt the leakage of gas
A conference committee
IP. {sa Saves %
rarinament now
loon which
je 10
has
tion.
Archduchess Maria daug!
ter of Archduke Frederick Austria,
and Prince Emanuel Salm-Saln
married in the chapel of the Hofburg in
Vienna.
Portugyese advices from South Africa
peace 1s sure to be the out-
come of the conferences of the Boer
leaders to be held at Vereeniging, Trans
vaal, May 1s.
The dictatorship paragraph is to be
eliminated from the consgtution of Al
sace-Lorraine.
The condition of Queen Wilhelmina
Christine, %
of
were
The United States cruiser Cincinnati
pitals there are filled with men who were
wounded in the last engagements be
tween the revolutionists and the forces
English advices from Borneo state that
the Sea Dyaks have been head hunting
again, and have murdered a number of
the peaceful Land Dyaks, in order to
secure their heads as trophies.
King Edward has expressed
strong disapproval of the shippin
bine on patnotic grounds. The
newspapers continue to dwell distrust-
fully upon it,
The Chinese rebels bombarded Nan
Ning Fu, using modern field guns, From
300 to 400 people were killed.
his
com-
today.
the republic of Hayti, has resigned.
The town of St. Pierre, Island of Mar:
tinique, is reported to have been totally
all the inhabitants killed, and the steamer
Roraima and other vessels wrecked.
Financial
The Norfolk & Western Railroad di-
rectors have declared a dividend of i
per cent, on the common stock,
deny that their company has secured con-
trol of the American Writing Paper
Company.
The former board of directors of the
N. Y. C. & St. Ll. Railway have been
re-elected. The old directors of the Lake
Shore have also been re-elected.
he American Cereal Compan has de-
clared a regular quarterly d vide é of 3
per cent,
-—
Fort de
{ ble). —It i
bout 30,000
France, Martinique, (By Ca
now generally estimated that
abe
their lives at
the o
persons lost
St. Pierre
of the
as result of utbreak
Mount Pelee volcano last
perished
H
10W many mn
towns and on plantations is not
St sul at
United {
loupe, Col. Louis H. Ayme, has
tour of the desc St
with C
i he ates con
made a
Pierre
late site where
stood. From donel
Ay
paper man, formerly of Chic
y
an mterview
me, whe a trained American
the {
news
ago,
lowing tacts are learned
il mormng the
the city awoke to find
hrouding the Mou
3 1 '
day Wednesday
been h
i
Fur
weep over
Nearly all the
COVETIng
had sought
the bodies
burning furiously
had their hands
showing that
relief from suffocation
gases
victims
mouths, they
All
waier i
Every vestige of clothing was burned
from the charred bodies, and in
cases the abdomens had been burst
open by the intense heat. In one place a
group of nine children were found lock
ed in each other's arms, _
Three hours’ exploration
f St. Pierre re
the American ¢«
uited in
y trace of
ul Thomas |
are
arter of the
rumn
of
Mr
Pierre
31 IVIL
HAZINR
TE
in spe
wit bore ca fe} SINR
ie (re r sate-KecpDing
ST. VINCENT QUAKING
Shocks Add te the Terrifying Eruption
From Lofty Sewfricre
Dominica, B.
The Soufriere vo
have
TR
pers ms
iis of
i 1 to
| darkness for
a time. Pebbles and grit
ubsta have fallen there
wded with refugees are ar-
their oc
The
neces
Canoes oe
Taran ad
Dominica, and upants
hospitably received refugees
woman protruded
i he fitter silence and aw ful, Overpow
ering odor from the thousands of dead
were fearful
Careful inspection shows that the fiery
stream which destroyed St. Pierre must
have been composed in part of poison-
ous gases, which instantly
A VALUABLE TESTAMENT.
Priaceton (ets Facsimile of One Presented to
Empress Dowager.
Princeton, N. J, (Special) A Chi-
nese New Testament of considrable value
has been presented to the Theological
Seminary library
The book. which is a fac-simile of the
one recently given to the Empress Dow-
ager of China, is probably the only one
of its kind in America. It was given to
the library by Mrs. John Stranoch, of
Philadelphia. The Testament was pre-
sented to her by the British and Foreign
Bible Society in recognition of the serv-
| ices of her husband, who translated the
| New Testament into Chinese. The book
is bound in full morocco and has solid
gold clasps. It was published at the Uni-
versity of Oxford
Acrobat Fails From Tower.
| Nashville, Tenn, (Special) —While
| Booo persons were watching the feat of
| Achille Phelion, at the Eagles’ Carnival
| here, the equilibrist fell from the cable
at the top of the spiral tower and plunged
| headlong to the platform beneath. It is
feared that his injuries are fatal
Eleven Men Killed.
London (By Cable). Lord Kitchener
reports another accident on May 7 to a
train bound from Pretoria to Pieters-
burg, Northern Transvaal. The cars were
derailed at a curve and an officer and ten
men were killed. Lord Kitchener also re-
ported that 47 additional Boers were
made prisoners May 7 and May 8,
Manila, (By Cable). ~The cholera sta-
tistics to date are as follows: Manila,
B67 cases and deaths ; the provinces,
2.452 cases and 1,805 deaths,
ing
Many empty canoes are inn the channel,
A few ref.
ugees from Martimque have arrived at
Dominica in a sloop
The French cableship Pouyer Quer-
tier is trying to repair the cable. It is
reported that she "
yards of water, where formerly it was
only 300 yards below the surface.
Seven Were Drowned
Toledo, Ohio (Special) Seven young
people, members of a Sunday school class
city as the result of the naphtha lasnch
Frolic, on which they were taking a
pleasure ride, being run down the tug
Arthur Woods, of the Great Lakes Tow-
ing Company's fleet. The launch is
owned by Joseph W. Hepburn, of this
city, who invited eleven young people
to take an evening ride with him.
He Disliked W
Hamilton, Ohio, (Special). ~The will
of John D. Maud, a Butler County farm-
er, who died last week, has been filed
here. During all his life Mr. Maud was
noted for His hatred ‘of weeds. This
characteristic appeared in his will, by
which he left $4,000 to the Mound Ceme-
tery, at Menroe, where he was buried,
“to keep the cemetery free from weeds
and all noxious plants
Killed in a Mige.
Roanoke, Va, (Special) ~George
Bishop, of Roanoke, was run over and
fatally hurt by a mine car in a coal mine
near Bluefield.
TA rr
Wichita, Kan., (Special) —~Major E.
R. Powell, said to be the first American
ship captain to round the Horn for Cal
fornia, was killed here in a runaway.
For years he had been a inent bank.
er, business man and philanthropist of
this city.
Ship Canal Co. Morgan's?
Lives {By Sui The Live
pool “Journal o " asserts
tively that J, E: Mos Bae a,
some arrangem w h Manchester
Ship Canal A
{
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i
LIVE NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS,
Coronation Envoy's Expenses
A lively debate occurred in the Senate
upon an amendment to the Army Appro-
priation Bill offered by Mr. Bailey, of
Texas, providing that no part of the ap-
be used in defraying the expenses of the
special embassy to the coronation of
United States
should not send a special ambassador to
the coronation of England's King, or to
hen
a like courtesy to the United States on
the inauguration of a president. After
discussion the amendment
Subsequently Mr. Bailey offered a res
which will be later,
covering the point made in his amend-
ment. It provides “that it is contrary
to the of the United States to ac
credit fore
considered
policy
te
ambasss do + I
ign
officer or
the United
any hered
also provide
power to
with the
represent
tion of
io}
nation
agen £
it
prince
State
ary or
pre
an
y 1
that the
1
appoint such envoy,
Senate's sanction
The New Republic.
Departipent
The
Won
po
\
method it
Instead of
department wil
nited States amba
abroad that
the United
45 of ti}
1
rama nh
ters
as been «
new government of the
Agricultural Appropriation BL
yo ¢ €rone the
ator < r § 3 ec 1
the aid
This
Shoe Weighs 8 Pounds Empty.
Protest Against “Jim Crow” Cars.
protest agam rac hiscrim
“Tim Crow railway
ai 1
Cars made
Com
Was
nmitiee on
i men
Rev. Walter
on asked
Interstate Commerce
mination on pas-
Fup
Resignation Was Volustary Act
1¢ statements
to
au was
n or prom
President or any
His resignation
luntary act and
Con
Civil Service Eligibles
1 Servi
to the House an answer «
of Representative Gillet
information regarding the eligible
the The statement
that there now 3.584 eligibles
register July 1, 1901,
April 15, 1002, 7072 persons were
pointed to office from this register
eso
{ Mass }
Commission
ire
From to
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“yr
Roosevelt Signs Oles Bill
has signed the QOleo.
margarine bill. This new law provides
for a tax of 10 cents a pound on oleo-
margarine, and further a yearly license
The President
the product, a license fee of $300 to be
paid by makers of removated butter and
makers of process butter,
Sargest Is Contirmed.
The Senate in executive session cons
gent, of Illinois, late grand master of
Stricken In Pleading.
After a dramatic incident in which
Delegate Marcus A. Smith, of Arizona,
collapsed under the strain of pleading
for its passage, the House passed with-
out division the bill granting Statehood
to the Territories of Oklahoma, New
Mexico and Arizona.
Capital News in General
President Roosevelt sent a message to
Congress asking for an appropriation of
$500,000 for the aid of the sufferers by
the disaster in Martinique. Both houses
ssed a hill appropriating $200,000. The
Var and Navy Departments adopted
measures looking to the prompt relief
of the sufferers,
Secretary Frost, of the Holland Sub.
marine Company, explained to Secretary
Moody that the accident to the Fulton
was due, not to any gasoline leakage, but
to lack of ventilation, which can be easily
remedied.
Senator Foraker made a speech in the
Senate defending the Administration's
policy in the Philippines.
The Senate Committee on the Philip
pines decided to call Miss Clemencia Lo-
pez to Ju Oh
The Forti Bill as completed by
the Senate committee carries $7,046,481
{
BI Toaakit os the acess
#
AT MALABANG
Into Affairs in
Island.
Yersonally Looking
Mindanao
CONCENTRATED IN TOWNS,
iccompanied by General Davis snd an
Escort, He Starts for Lake Lagas, iu
the foterior — Armed losurgent Resist
ance Haviog Ceased the Previsce of
Batangas.
has arrived
lanao, where he
Generals
cor,
at once #
records
ase of the
eRe,
warded
x
pines,
records
heir ber & Aavaiiab
®
ise whi
3
i NC
wen heard before
51. 01
Philinpine Commissar
i mim
Mint ontested wae
eg OWnes
HELD UP TRAIN, BUT GOT NOTHING
lobbers Resort to Desperate Measures, But
Did Not Profit By Them.
choot
JANKE wante to
SSENReT ut the others .
the messenger opened
sale Wars wWrecs
Llew
CNRINe TaN
where it stopped on the
vd the
wed and
i the Ono
as wired io
returning
With the
hich
the
Corporations to De United.
Mass * S
nounced that the 1
hy " wl I : -
Boston, PeCIas ~~} £ ane
ny i
Ic riant
and
Fla.
1}
trolley lines
Jacksonville
Webster interests
ready control val-
ilway and light-
electric bight plant
1
city, which al
4
i
of this
olumbus, Ga.,
Houston, Tex.
and
Paso and he new
siderable sum will be expended in devel-
oping the properties,
Spaniards Discuss War.
Madrid (By Cable) For the last two
days the Senate has been discussing the
interpellation of Marshal Primo Rivera
concerning the causes of the war between
Spain and the United States. Senor Mo-
de Cuba on the advice of the Council of
the Admiralty, which had been convoked
it Madnd. Senor Moret was Spanish
Minister of the Colonies at the time of
the war.
West Has 8 May Soow Storm.
Detroit, Mich, (Special). Snow fell
aver the central part of the Lower Pe-
ninsula, and fruitgrowers in Western
Michigan are alarmed. Grand Haven
ind Sparta report a fall of six inches.
Reed City and lonia report light falls.
Fruit trees are in full bloom in the fruit
belt along Lake Michigan, and if the
temperature falls any lower the crop will
be seriously damaged. There were
very heavy flurries of snow in Detroit.
Georgia Cattie-raising Project.
Atlanta, Ga., (Special). —A company
has purchased and fenced in 1,100 acres
of land in Lincoln county, Ga., and will,
it is stated, devote the tract to the rais-
ing of Georgia cattle for the market
The corporation is said to have options
on 10,000 acres in the vicinity. The first
carload of cattle was sent from Atlanta
and the com.
to the new ures. The is.
Tc Tn To Te y
missioner
Rt ye ieuluure assisted in see