SEVENTY-THREE LIVES LOST NEAR. ATLANTIC CTY An Awful Disaster On Pennsy’s Electric Line. PEOPLE DROWN IN THE CARS. Pleasure-Bound Families Wiped Out. Several ALL-NIGHT SEARCH FOR THE DEAD. A Turned-in Rail on the Bridge Over the Two “Thoroughfare Causes the Track the Train to Jump Cars Filled With Passengers Drop the Water at High Tide Third Car Hangs Into and Are Submerged on an Abutment Long Enough for Some of Occupants to Escape. the accident and in boats, at once put out At Work. crew of a wrecking train are at work raising the sub merged cars. The bridge is about 15 feet above the water. Several causes are asigned for the accident, One is that the rails spread; another that the rails were not pro perly locked when the open bridge was closed, after a pleasure yacht which bad just passed through. The accident, however, was proba bly due to a rail “turning in.” It appears that the rail, which was an outside one on the right hand sid« coming down, must have been out plumb about an eighth of an inch The sharp flange of the electric train caught this and twisted it inward Had it spread instead of twisting in ward the never would hay have happened This twist thre: the first car off the and the water. The result that second and third with it. The third c¢ the abutment hung poised a the more got unged Divers Divers and the of accident track was canght on where it ar, however, of the brid; for a frantic rush rear door minute, i'h of the Prob: and fore Was for or as Ovi other Of Rescue. f if wa An Early Morning Injunction Pro- cured to Restrain the Removal of the Prosecuting Official by the Executive — Assistant District At. torney Suspended. After a Attorney who San Francisco (Special). day of excitement, D Langdon, of Francisco, Thursday night office by was apparent] a had gaine a ft officers istriet an was suspended from May victorious acting or Gallagher, posi- and emporary tion, advantage over and wught his removal, had the for politicans who after , Langdon intention seek se ral city offi misdemeanors Almost at ‘daybreak an attorne; appeared at the residence of Superior Judge Zavell and obtained orde temporarily re Abrahan Ruef, the political the acting mayoi succeed Langdon, from with the district attorney's Judge Zawell set the hearing one week from Fi restraining order was ser and the board of ors at an early hour, and Langdon and his assistant, Francis J. Heney, was not disturbed in their official capacity, yunced indictment of and tO Corsa felonies “an straining boss, whom inted to erfering Offi case for 1 ay. The I on Ref supervyi ourt won Ruel as di Worried By | ‘hen the jury } in or strict attornes eputy Sheriff. sane } acting under hi being Ruef's belief Heney was armed The court warned the deputy to cease annoying that Ruef then attempted to address the indge as an er Heney obhiected to such Judge Grah pass on the jase = would not at that t Of court. hut mming declined that LF settle the dis. one as an off He refused to hear the subieet as to ime pute, or recognize any of the court any further Ruef an atiorne) clared that he wi examination ff « cor argument on obtained permi as at the bar hed to proceed with into qualifica grand ymen errupted, saying that the that he intended to pre grand jury the rges an ertain int tions o Heaney shi f11y firs ¥ the upporting misdemeanor this juncture from U. 8. Webb, attorney for the State, who declared that should not permit sguel to he bhafore the jury, which was present, as might disqualify them, and ? averred that there was a possibilits ‘hat they had already been disquali fied Webb then asserted that he intend vl to assume charge of the matters now be fore the court. was evidene of felor Ruef ohlectios 10) ch against another ger the court itatemonts and it Must Please Brussels (By tor of the theater at the Audience, The Namui the Cable) direc- will put upon audiences onus of ac cepting "or the future pe rejecting neweomers on the and 1H aractors the \ will be this the subsequent wo will de- of that theater In actor stage rmAncos gach given a chance different of actress appear in Then a fo tren fnte oof Wi Ey AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL Some Interesting Happenings Briefly Told, Metealf, of ‘ommerce and Francisco a full report on affed ting the Japanese ther Charles W. Btiles, James | N. LL. Btone and virector Nort av named as the tariff ex perts to go to Germany and confer the Labor, Investienat 1) part wil to the gitus erry, 1 boon BOTH NATIONS MAKE DEMANDS Affair With Japan Getting Quite Serious. SEES SECRETARY ROOT. Formally Re- quests That the Subjects of the Mikado in California Be Accord. ed Their Treaty Rights Indignant, MR. AOKI Japanese Ambassador Is Viscount at shington (Special}. Jai ador, Root ambas a anese 4 with Secretary at re government, that Japan were ac the ifornia rights under the d the right pub See with the tariff experts there. the fas A Grievance, $ 05y } aide toot Also | SUES FOR HIS SKIN. Man Charges More Was Taken Than | He Cincinnati largained To Give. OO. (Special Doll, who alle that an wer than from much greater was taken grafti ng {0.00060 contract, for g da 8 Atkins, A and John C. Oliver, the latter two rominent Cincinnati physicians and Irgeons The plaintiff that he at a strip of skin one } uix hould be taken from his leg, but vhi ie was unde: stic akin George SAYS agreed YY inches the Influence of ent from both the extent 42 inches grows out an anto- in which Atkins was was for his benefit of ile accident and it 8 taken niured, he skin % Ww A Collision At Sea. New York (Special) it sea, which resulted ng of William he ship F Francisco, was of that A collision the drown seaman on from San reported by the offi ship on her arrival in port When off Barnegat, on Jersey Coast, last Tuesday, the Sargent was in collision with an un- known schooner during a dense fog The schooner struck the Sargent on the port quarter, carrying away a nortion of her rail. In clearing away the wreckage Scott was knocked overboard and drowned. in Seott, Ora this thao Civil Service League, Haven, Ct. (Special) «~The National Civil Service Reform League vill hold its twenty-sixth annual jetting In this city November 18 nd 20. The president of the league, vhao will make the principal address {f the firat day's sossion, is Daniel olt Gilman, president of the Carne fe Institution. Other addresses will os made by Chas J lonaparte, see. etary of the navy: Henry Groone, of the United Statea Civil Service Commission, and Mayor W. ¥. Hen ney, of Hartford. Now Wr THe NEWS OF THE WEEK. Domestic, The t into the denth of an room in the William 8 who was in returned coroner's jury ingue Stewart found saratoga verdict of Toronto, ( dead in hi Hotel, Ch Of thie ICAEO, iH uleide 1 3 Wwiine arral City Police properly gnaed Court, in the Lond 1d charged i the wag discovered that John nie Vepekd caring for i1 who 210.000 | I has au disbribution of tobacco seed officers the who. | military order, arrested bur and the treasu Germany, and took has been identified as Voight, an ex-convict After recent of the Dominican revo Monte Cristi by the troops of Presi- dent the of the former surrendered par- | doned Fearing trouble on October 30, the | anniverss of the grant of the Rus sian tion. the garrison of St Petersburg will be strengthened by three regiments Takaheshi, the special agent of the Japanese government in | London, savas the present bank in New York and London is so that the Japanese find it less and cheaper to get their wick. all the § William complete defent | lutionists near | iE the Caceres r part were » PY greats and financial | rat high trouble § money ai $ Buelow not approve of the attacks made by the German press upon M. Clemenceau, the new French premier. Ralauli, bandit, has informed the Sultan of Morocco that he has charged his brother to restore order in the Arzilla district. Waldemar Poulsen, the Danish in- ventor, claims to have discovered a method of wireless telegraphy which cannot be “tapped.” The French Cabinet reassembled, but soon adjourned, as the new Premier will not declare his policy for several days. Mailer Drevins has been given an independent command at 8t. Dennis Baron von Tachirschy, the Ger man minister of foreign affairs, and Senor Titton!, the Italian minister if foreign affairs, have agreed renew the triple alliance. A general court-martial has been called to try Capt. FF. W. Cole, of the Quartermaster’s Department, or the charge of complicity in alleged irregularities, Chancellor von does the TRAIN REBOUNDS INTO THE OHIO RIVER a Freight | & DAY FOR THANKSGIVING | President Roosevelt Tssuc His Pro- clamation. shington (f | The Pittsburg Special Jumps Siding and Locomotive Recoils Down River Embankment Turn Over on Sides. Two Coaches Pittsburg. DROPPED FROM WINDOWS, I At vel Fire Four Persons And Many Hurt re broke out on groun from some unknown o'clock cause Soldier At 8 Years Old. Washington (Special) The con- | : was the War gettled in favor Wash boy in Compat Voluntes hy ag to who vil Seattle, irummer urth Jowa 1862. at 3 } months He wae born Oct listed After honorably gOY Office and are fon DApers ations correct Partridges Intoxicated. Plainville, Ct weal hunters while tramping through the woods two miles east f hore aptured five partridges, which were | flopping around the ground in a velplosa condition, Investigation howed that the birds had been feeding on a cluster of copeberries and were hopelessly intoxicated. Killed And Money Missing. Goshen, Ind. (Special). Mrs. Lou Fuller, wife of a farmer and stock- buyer, living north of Goshen hot and killed while in bed. A hun- red and (Wenty-seven dollars belong ing to her is missing. Mrs. Faller’ ushand save he was aroused fror “ig sleep by two shots and ranning the head of the stairs was con ronted by a burglar, who order: “im to return to his room A win tow was found broken onen Joww tairs. Noah Baker and wife, who live across the road from Fuller, say they heard but one shot, {8pecial) Some © wy 0 § PRE : Fike SIDENT CHANGES CABINET Straus’ Appointment Comes As a Surprise. Req Appointment of Straus. the Cabin hang only one, Secre- is news ooome Labor have been re 1nentls entually be authori- wan Washing ian wot fo the moet Representatives tude of the tation of the has made Mr. Meteal tremely embarrassing. deed, belloved that if this present changn the Cabinet bad not in- eluded his transfer from his present nosition the Navy he would have resigned before long ——— favor of interpre {’'s position 6x- and it is, ine in {0 FINANCIAL WORLD. September of earnings $721,677 gross Atchison’s showed a gain and $1R87.340 net The fallure was announced a London broker who traded in Ameri- an stocks C. I. Hudsoa says ‘Roading is still too high 1 think $65 a share 1 good price for it” Since its organization United States Steel has taken §$350,000,0006 from arnings aad spent it in permanent improvements, of
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