THE OENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONT Th PA., JANUARY , 19092, 3 EXPLOSION INU iis Six Killed and Many Injured i New York Rapid Transit Sebway. SEVERAL BUILDINGS WRECKCD Dynamite Stored at Park Avenue Shaft of Tunnel Ing Two Hotels, a Hospital and Tore Great Hole In the Street, New York, Jan. 28 ~The supply of high explosives Park avenue Transit tunnel, construction, noon yesterday, reserve the of the the course of shaft now in blew up shortly The giant blast killed injured a hundred others and seriously damaged all the property d by the flying debris and the vibration of the shock. Those killed : CYRUS ADAMS, Hotel, JAMES ARR, 32 years 1 at the Mu + pix persons, reach at the Murray Hill old, a viter empl Hill el, LAWRI [ Ansonis rray NCE HINE RALPH H. neer., OMAS TUBES h I'¢ Ir Square ray Hill Hotel on hattan Eve and Ear Grand Union Hot the Grand ( on the n explosion, stained the nearly every room in house was wrecked The Manhattan Eve pital, on the east side fared nearly as bad abandoned by the management. The Grand Union Hotel lost all of its win dows and glass partitions, and practi cally every front window in the Grand Central Station was shattered The great clocks on its front towers were blown from their cases. Thousands of windows, some of them seven ocks from the tunnel shaft fell in fragments It was the shower of broken glass and falling debris that injured the greatest number. Tor rents of water from broken mains poured into the tunnel shaft while the wreckage was being cleared from the street railway subway, was feared that the cave in The cause of the and Ear Hos f the avenue and had to be explosion and the quantity of explogive that blew up are not definitely known Several causes have been advanced. One was that a fire started near the powder room and that Master Mechanie Wilk Ham Tubbs lost his life in a despe rate attempt to quench it before It reached the deadly fuel. Another was that It started from a spark produced by a stray current of electricity. A third placed the balme upon a blast in the tunnel. It will probably take an official investigation to reveal the true cause of the catastrophe, District Attorney the scene and made an investigation to gulde him in the official Inquiry and possible criminal prosecution that ‘will follow. Ira A. Shaler, the engi neer In charge of the work at Park avenue; John Bracken, a foreman, and Martin McGrath, an assistant foreman, were placed under arrest, charged with homicide, The damage may exceed $1,000,000, The first estimate on the Murray Hill Hotel placed the loss at $100,000, but later the hotel was abandoned as un- safe. Late last night Investigation of the damage done to the Murray Hill Hotel was complete, and it showed a remarkable condition of affairs, Two thirds of the big hostelry cannot be used until repairs have been made, and the nottheast corner is closed ens tirely. Proprietor Jacques places the Joss In glass alone at $15,000, Every window in the hotel was shattered and the window frames torn from their fastenings and blown Into the rooms. Fortunately the explosion occurred #t the noon hour, Not more than 100 Expolded, Wreck: | stored at | Rapid | after | and It | street might | Jerome visited | DOCTOR SHOOTS WIFE pancaster Man Attempts Murder and Then Commits Suleide. Chicago, Jan, 28.--Dr. Harry J] Ziegler, of 8316 West King street, Lan. easter, Pa., fatally wounled his wife, Anna, and then killed himegelf yester day afternoon at the Wellington Ho tel, A left by the physician de- clared that he and his wife had de 1 elded to die, and that, as he | the nerve Z note Mrs, Z to commit the act The fore being removed to the | Hospital in a dying | clared that the i her husband, The physician and his wife arrived at the Wellington Hotel yesterday morning and were assigned to a room The two were young and ap parently happy. They retired to their room and about 3 o'clock a call came to the clerk's office When the bell boy arrived at the room he found the woman tugging at the door. Blood was flowing from a wound in the back of her head. “Oh, my husband bas shot himself,” cried, for in her fear the own ‘wound The bell hallway, saving might kill her away hastened Riese, the | latter art and the A not newsj read paper the woman, b condition, de ghe for him tonk her out that 1} DoOYy from BIG RAILWAY COMBINE New Company Being Formed to Take Over All In Phil Phils felt ¢ tors o wi Lines adelphia in thi in the terday of J tweeen Il therefore have a nsportat and which Phi ladeiphia has and wil requir The deal involves fin tateren ate worth fully $18 MINE WORKERS ADOPT SCALE Committee's Recommendation Agreed Upon Behind Closed Doors. anapolis, Jan The United Workers closed their doors yes terday afternoon against newspaper men and discussed the report of their gcale commitiee in secret session. The scale as agreed upon by the commit tee was adopted The scale recomme general advance for ing of 10 per cent. on a basis, the different! old figure-—between | and 1 mining: 15 cents a day Increase for in glide drivers and a uniform scale for all outside labor The report of the committee on legislation providing for a general In of salaries of general officers The salary list will be as follows President, $1800; vice president, $1,400; national secretary treasurer, $1,400; Mine Workers’ Journal 1.200; mem- bers of the national executive board, $3.50 per diem Ind Mine F4') nded was for the bituminous min sun of mine’ 7 cents al of 7 the achine Ick Crease was adopted. Troops Coming Home, Washing.vn, Jan. 28.—~The the Philippines will sall from Manila us follows: Twentysecond Infantry, February 1; Twentieth Infantry, Feb ruary 16; Headquarters and First and Becond Battallons of the Seventeenth Infantry, February 28. will sail from Manlia after the arrival there of the Becond Hattalion of the Twentyseventh Infantry, between March 1 and 10, Train Robbers Secured $13. Charleston, 8B. C., Jan, 20.--Accord. ing to the latest advices from Branch. ville developments concerning the Southern Rallway express robbery, so | far as made public, are not important, It is known that after securing the express safe the robbers conveyed it to a point on the Edisto river, six miles away. Falling to open it, they threw the safe into the river, where ft was found yesterday morning. The amount of plunder secured Is sald to lacked iegler had promis sed | Samaritan | shocting was done by | editor of the United i { white war de. i partment has been informed that the | troops which are to return home from | DEBATE ON TARIER BILL! Senators Spovuer wad and Tillman In- dulge in Fierce Argument, THE CHAIR RAPPED FOR ORDER Tillman Apclogized and Sald He Was Taunted Into Anger——The Question Was Brought le, and Led to Argument, Washington, Jan, 29.—~One of the flercest debates of the sesslon occur red in the senate yesterday afternoon between Mr. Spencer (Rep.), of Wis consin, and Mr. Tilman (Dem.), of South Carolina, during the considera. tion of the Philippine tariff bill. The interchange of words became so heat ed that the chair rapped order Mr. Tillman apologized to the chair for not first securing recognition fore he spoke, but explained tha had been taunted into anger Prior to the out on the P! pine que enate « the considerat ] ing a for ureak tion partms we gard the Phill and sho another not allo children?” Mr ruls ch we butcher, and Are s and F into them where we ur wive we the in refers lored Spooner If for the ines as the senator d help the o« ppines.” SAIN the Philips to in the south G man in the Phill Mr. Tiliman God help the Philippines now you have already butchered In three years three times as many as the Spaniards did in three centuries.” Mr. Spooner—"It is one thing to kill men with arms in their hands against a government and against the flag Mr. THliman Mr. Tillman Kansas, sir’ Mr. Spooner—"Wherever it It is an outrageous crime.” Mr. Tillman—"0h, it is a very easy thing for a man who has not come in contact with them in close to arise and say what other ought to do.” Mr. Tillman was admonished by president pro tem. that he interrupt a senator without first ob taining leave, to which he replied that he was “taunted in a way that ne man from South Carolina can submit to." Hurled Fifty Feet By Train. Wilkesbarre, Pa, Jan 20.-Father Aust, pastor of the Polish Catholic church at Hazleton, was probably fa. tally Injured last night. He, with two other men, was riding In a carriage, viored p ple him In “You burned them In is done quarters people the must not {and at the Pine street crossing, Ha The Third | Battalion of the Seventeenth Infantry gleton, the rig was struck by a Le high Valley rallroad train, smashing it to splinters Father Aust was hurled about 50 feet, and was taken to the Hazleton Hospital in a critical condition. One of the other two men was also badly hurt Yukon Embezzier Commits Suicide, Dawson, Jan, 20 Thomas Middle ton, a native of Leeds, England, chief accountant for the Yukon territory, has committed suicide rather than suffer arrest for embezzlement. His books were examined, and a shortage approximating $10,000 was discovered, When confronted with proof of his defaleation he went into another room : and cut his throat from ear to ear, Two Mundred Soldiers Frozen to Death London, Jan, 29.--The Tokio cor respondent of The Dally Express oa bles that over 200 soldiers have been frozen to death in Northern Japan. Dover van Men Drowned. Dover, England, Jan, 20.—The traw: Jor Heron sank during a sale oft hero | Jingo members { mean that | tempt to colonize It is another thing to burn them, | | atone for { eral Miles and ita implied host | and { Hie as possible | Schley will quietly | lies that have been told on EE a SHORT TALKS Brief Comment On Political and Other Matters of Public Interest, ANDREW J, PALM, If Attorney General Knox was not guilty of the offenses with which he was charged by the Anti-Trust League he should do something to disprove them. He was a trust attorney when appointed, and there isn't much doubt Negro | that he is a trust attorney general. It is safe to say that he will not put a straw in the way of the gigantic com- binations which he is sworn to prose- cute under the law, The supreme court has explained what a trust is, end the Sherman anti-trust law lays down the penalty, What i Mr. Knox waiting for? “oe What is the Monroe Doctrine, any- way, taught by the Republican press and so-called Republican states men? In the light of recent experience and the oratory of the of congress It must “an spread-eagle no foreign nation or control ntry on this side of the Ve may go whereve neylvania have beocon y having all a fow self they whine, except th their candil- constity osses that submit wit} ose who are willis for . v sly r themsely be called “Ins their urgents’ think f« . "Hh assert right to Roosevelt seems to think his brutal Schley by calling Schley to his room giving him some taffy In j His attack on Miles was made as pub- rivate Schley was also shown publicly. Now, if he knows any good reason for up- holding Schley, man let him come out like a and tell the public what it is. If submit to all the him, and now the turn in to help save it #0 well deserves, simply because Roosevelt would like to have it that | way, he will disappoint his best friends and please his worst enemies. 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