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FORTY-SIXTH TEAR
PITTSBURG, ' SATURDAY, DEOEKBER 5, 1891-TWEL7VE PAGES.
PICKED UP IN PIECES
The Fate of the Lunatic Who
Threw a Bomb at Rus
sell Sage, Who Is
OULY SLIGHTLY INJUEED.
One Clerk Already Dead and
Recovery of Another Be
lieved to Be Impossible.
the
SEVERAL OTHERS WERE WOUNDED
A Han Enown for 14 Tears to Be Danger
ously Insane Demands $1,200,000
in Cold Cash, and Then
CREATES A IHXIATUEE EARTHQUAKE,
A Larjre Office Building Badly TYrecltd, With Mil.
lions ef Dollars cf Securities Scattered
Aronnd in the Debris.
JAT COULD VISITS HIS FRIES!) A5D TALKS
rFTICIAT, TELFGBAM TO TITE DISrATCTM
J'ewYoek, Dec. 4. "When a madman
fired npon Dr. John Hall last Sunday after
noon it was predicted, with the certainty of
repeated experience, that the crime would
uk luuiaieu snoruy. inis atternoon an
other madman attempted the life of Eussell
Sage at the risk of destroying himself, de
stroying the great office building at 71
Jiussell Sage.
Broadway, and destroying more than 200
persons who were busy within its walls.
John George Both failed to harm any
one. But Hiram D. Wilson, whose weapon
appears to have been a nitro-glycerine
bomb, accomplished his own death and the
death of at least one other, inflicted wounds
more or less grave upon many persons, his
intended victim among them, and partly
wrecked the building. He himself was
blown to pieces.
Dangerous for Fourteen Tears.
The most significant fact in the whole
affair is that news that this Hiram D.Wilson
has been known as a dangerous, unbalanced
person for 14 years. He has been in insane
asylums several times, and has been re
leased each time, straightway to threaten
the life of some one about whom his unset
tled wits were busy.
Mr. Russell Sage, as has been often told
of him and other millionaires, is -onstantlv
getting letters from cranks of all descrip
tions, demanding great or small sums of
money, and the demands are often accom
panied by threats "Within the last month
he has received four letters from one crank
signing himself "J. D. AValsh." These
letters hae set forth that Mr. "Walsh was
on the eve of marriage with the widows of
Alderman Monheimer and General Spinola,
two of the holders of the disputed Standard
Gas stock.
Mr. "Walsh said that in order that this
marriage might be accomplished it was nec
essary that he have 51,200,000. He said
Mr. Sage or Mr. Gould, or both, must
furnish this money or take the conse
quences. Mr. Sage kept these letters as
curiosities, but attached no more importance
to them than did Dr. Hall to George Both's
letter, promising him death.
A Man With a Black Satchel.
Mr. Sage, whose office windows on the
second floor of the Empire building, Broad
way and Hector street, look north across
Eector street into Trinity Church yard, had
an appointment with Mr. Charles E. James,
a broker, for 12 o'clock. Mr. James arrived
on time. He entered the little waiting
room outside the general office of Mr. Sage,
passed through the door in the glass and
wood partition, and was ushered into Mr.
Sage's private office, which opens "into the
general office.
He had paused for a moment in the little
waiting room, and had noticed, in a careless
way, a man sitting in the small seat with a
little black hand satchel on his knees. There
was nothing remarkable in this man's ap
pearance. He wore a silk hat. He had' a
light brown beard. He was respectably
dressed, and his black overcoat was but
toned tight
Mr. James stood in Mr. Sage's private
office looking out into the churchyard. A
young clerk from W. M. Imbrie & Co.'s
came into the little waiting room. This
clerk, whoe name is Frank Robertson, had
in his hand a certified check for 59,000, with
which he proposed to settle a transaction in
C. B. & Q. stock. He announced his busi
ness through one of the three little holes in
the glass upper part of the partition and
then sat down to wait until Colonel John
J. Slocum, Mr. Sage's brother-in-law and
cashier, could attend to him. He, too,
noticed the man with the hand satchel who
was sitting not far away from him.
The Location of the Tragedy.
Mr. Sage was a little late for his appoint,
nient. At about 12:07 he came into the lit
tle -waiting room, tall, lean, white-haired
and a bit i-tooped. He passed at once
through the door in the partition, stopped a
moment or two in the general office to speak
to Colonel Slocum, and then went into his
private office to greet Mr. James. Mr. Sage
had three offices, separated by partitions of
lath and plastering. The general office had
two of the little windows opening through
the glass and wood partitions into the wait
ing room, and the bookkeeper's office had
the third hole.
At 12:15 o'clock there was in Mr. Sage's
private office himself and Mr. James. Jn
his geueral office were Colonel Slocum, Mr.
JJ. -K .Norton, a clerk; Mr. P. J. Menzic,
the stenographer, and W. E. Laidlow, a
clerk for John Bloodgood & Co., bankers.
In the bookkeeper's, room was the book
keeper, Mr. Charles W. Osborne, sitting at
a desk: just under the little window looking
into the waiting room. In the waiting room
were Frank Eobertson and the man with
the hand satchel.
Soon after Mr. Sage had gone into his pri
vate office the man with the hand satchel
arose and walked to the window nearly op
posite the door into the hallwav. Mr.
Mcnzie saw him, got up from the typewrit
ing machine, which w as near the window,
and came over to inqnire his business. .
An Alleged Letter Trom Rockefeller.
"Will you tell Mr. Saie that a gentle
man with a letter from Mr. Rockefeller
wishes to see him?" said the man with the
hand satchel. Mr. Mcnzie walked into the
private office when 3Ir. Sage was just enter
ing upon his business with Mr. James, and
delivered the message.
"Just excuse me a moment," said Mr.
.Sage to Mr. James, who was now sitting be
side his desk. Mr. Sage stepped out into
the general offices, opened the door in the
partition and smiled pleasantly at the man
with the hand satchel. The man, still hold
ing the satchel in his right hand, unbuttoned
his oJrercoat and his undercoat and drew
from an inside pocket a long envelope,
which he handed to Mr. Sage. Mr. Sage
took from the enevelope a type-written
document of some length. It set forth in a
wild and rambling way that unless Mr. Sage
at once gave the bearer of it SI. 200.000 the
whole building would be blown to atoms
with a dynamite bomb.
Mr. Sage looked up from his reading once
...... cn mC queer, gray eye3 ol tha man
fixed upon him. He followed his usual cus
tom of humoring such insane individuals,
and looked the document over carefully.
Then he slowly folded it, and putit back in
the envelope. He extended tifis toward the
man, who took it and put it in his inside
coat pocket again.
Tried to Talk for Time.
Mr. Sage smiled-cordially and said: "It
would take some time for me to collect so
much money as that."
"I must have it at once," said the man,
earnestly, rather than fiercely, advancing a
uii. nearer 10 me open door of the partition
in which Mr. Sage was standing, and he
went on to rehearse the statements set forth
in the document At just this time, when
nobody was paying any attention to Mr.
Sage and the man so earnestly addressing
him, Colonel Slocum was rising from his
desk with 100 shares of Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy stock in his right hand, Mr.
Norton was standing by the window, Mr.
Menzie was at the side of Colonel Slocnm's
desk, and young Eobertson was sitting at
the end of the ante room, farthest from Mr.
.ic .uu mc iuau wun me satchel.
It was 12:19 o'clock. Mr. Sage bowed
and smiled, and, half closing the partition
"""', a mow retreat. .Robertson,
looking at the man with the satchel, saw
nuu take some bright object from the out
side pocket of his overcoat Then he saw
the satchel drop to the floor, just at the feet
ot the man who had been holding it
The Madman's Terrible "Work.
When the satchel touched the floor a
tremendous explosion came. The floor
sank, the ceiling tottered, partitions burst
and fell. Where there had beenthe well
ordered, handsomely furnished offices there
was a wild wreck and chaos, with shrieks of
murder" ringing through it The build
ing shivered, glass crashed, the street out
side trembled, and a deep, dull boom, like
the confined explosion of a hundred cannon
rolled up the island to be heard oer two
miles and a half away.
At the shock and sound of the explosion
the crowds on Broadway stood paralvzed
with astonishment Those nnnr;t. tv;".,....
Churchyard looked toward the north side of
the Empire building and saw glass, plaster
ing, laths and bits of furniture shoot from
the windows of the second-story .offices to
'"', I" ' , ""ro oeiow. jiney saw also the
rolled-up body of a man shopt out with this
mass of debris to crash and unroll at the
edge of the sidewalk. It was the bodv of
Norton, who had been standing by the win
dow as the bomb was. dropped.
Sage Almost Jumps From a Window.
Before anybody could move Mr. Sage ap
peared at one of the windows and Colonel Slo
cum at another. Mr. Sage seemed about to
jump out, but.as people called to him from the
street, lie stepped irom the window sill back
into the wrecked rooms. When Policeman
Hummel tried to make his wav into the
first entrance of the building, he"was halted
and driven back by the stram of frantic
tenants rushing from the building with
ciotning powuered Dy the plaster dust and
faces paled with fright They were shout
ing and screaming as they darted int the
street
and firemen raked into a heap over 51,500,
000 worth of stocks and bonds. In the floor
close to the partition, where the bomb had
struck, a jagged hole about two and a half
feet in diameter was torn, and toward the
edges of this the rest of the floor sloped.
On the ceiling above this hole was a great
spatterine of blood, in the center of which
were stuck two or three bits from the shell
of the bomb. They were pieces of
galvanized iron wire, such as is commonly
ucd by telegraph companies. They were
about three inches long and were bent down
at the ends, whether bv the explosion or
by the borabmaker it was impossible to telL
The ceiling just inside the private office
was spattered with blood, as were the walls
and some parts ot the disrupted partitions.
To the right of this hole in the floor lay
the head and neck of a man, ripped from
the trunk, and' singed and burned and
scarred.
A little further away lay a heap of rid
dled and tattered cloth, mixed with bits of
flesh and shreds of skic. Afterward, in a
far corner, they found a hand rent from the
arm, a part of the trunk, a leg with a torn
black stocking hanging to it Those re
mains were gathered together, and cast into
a fireman's net.
Tho Fate of the Bomb-Thrower.
They were the remnants of the man who
had dropped the bomb. It had fallen i'ust
at his feet and had torn him almost into
shreds. But before this was done the
living persons yet in the. wreck and the
man who had been hurled Jo the Btrect were
looked after The latter, B. F. Norton,
was picked up and put in an ambulance and
taken to the hospital, where he died at 1:30
o'clock.
The next man they came upon was young
Frank Eobertson, crushed against the hall
wall of the office. He was conscious and
had been shouting "murder" until faintness
subdued his voice to groans. He also was
taken to the hospital.
Then thev found W. Tf. T.ninlnw whn ni
just leaving his office. He was also un
conscious, covered with blood, and half
hidden under planking and laths. Mr?
Menzie, the stenographer, had been found
against the partition of the bookkeeper's
office, had got out with Mr. Sage and
Colonel Slocum, and, after having his sctlp
wounds attended to, went home to Brook
lyn, in the bookkeeper s room they found
Mr. Osborne, unconscious, bleeding! with a
fractured skull and with his neck torn bv
the class of his partition, near which he was
sitting. They took him to the hospital,
where he is at the point of death.
Fears That a Woman Ilad Perished.
When all these persons had been ac
counted for thev still searchpil on. TIib
long, black stocking on the part of a leg
found in a far corner suggested to the
searchers that a woman's body lay some
where or other scattered about like the
body of the bomb thrower. But as soon as
they found the thigh of the bomb thrower
with a similar leg and stocking attached tho
idea of a woman beinc there was aban
doned.
The police were soon put on guard in the
dismantled offices to see that no person car
ried away any valuables. Colonel Slocum,
rushing from the drugstore holding the ab
sorbent cotton to his face, helped the police
gather up the manilla envelopes containing
the securities, and then, assisted by Broker
Budges', carried a lot of. them over to the
drugstore and put them in the carriage with
Mr. Sage.
The news of the wreck was almost imme
diately telephoned to Mr. Jay Gould. The
police for a long time labored with the vast
crowd in vain. The streets were blocked,
and even the street cars could not get
through. t But as soon as the ambulances
and carriages had got away with the pa
tients the crowd became a little less press
ing, and when the rain began to fall the
police had no further trouble:
List of the .Killed and" Injured.
The lolfqwiog .persons were killed or In
jured by the explosion:
a black overcoat and was well dressed. He
was alone and had a square satchel."
The storv of the plot on Mr. Sage's life
goes far back. Eussell Sage, Jr., talked
freely about it He said 'that of late Mr.
Sage had received three or four threatening
letters signed by one James Walsh. In one
of them the writer demanded 5 1,200,000.
Why that sum Mr. Sage could not say. ,
lie Wanted to Get Married.
The recent troubles' between President
Andrews, of the New York Steam Heat
ing Company, and the Standard Gaslight
Company, now come into plav in the case.
A large part of the stock in dispute be
longed to the widows Spinola and Man
hcim. These women, W,lsh said in 'his:
letters, he was about to marry. He there
fore demanded money to put him on their
financial level. Mr. Sage paid no attention
to him. Jny Gould was also attacked in the
letters and denounced in abusive terms.
The writer threatened Mr. Sage's life,
but no attention was paid to it, as all who
knew about the letters believed him tabe
"a harmless crank," to quote Eussell Sage,
Jr. 's, own words.
The Record of the Bomb-Thrower.
A dispatch from Albany says: The
dynamite crank is Hiram D. "Wilson, aged .
43, an escaped lunatic and native of Glens
Falls, Warren county. Wilson had escaped
fireviously from Middleton and TJtica Asyl
urns. He was very strong and of light
complexion. The first signs of insanity
we're developed 14 years ago, when t he
kept the Bolton House on Lake
George. Then he led horses into the hotel,
and, mounting a table, delivered an
address to them. He was of late years
talking of making horses go faster than
they have ever gone, and at one time ho J
took the shoes off" a horse s hoofs and put
them on his own feet, and then he led the
horse over some of the mountainous couni
try of the Adirondacks. Wilson, after
short terms in insane asylums, has been dis
charged as cured or escaped. He has gen
erally celebrated his freedom by making
attempts to kill someone who refused to
meet his demands for money.
several years ago he attempted to kill a
man whom he had asked for money to set
him up in business. On another occasion
when W. J. Arkell was in Albany Wilson
made a demand on him. When he refused
his demand V llson threatened to kill him,
and even attempted to assault him in his
office. He has also threatened the life of
Goodwin Brown, one of the State Lunacy
Commissioners. It was the loss of money
which made him crazy. Wilson was ar
rested here about a year ago for threatening
to kill someone.
BONED
BT
BRICKS
A Falling Wall Crushes Many
Workmen Beyond All
Recognition.
A SCOEE OF MEN BUBIED.
Only Two 6f the Victims Taken Out
of the Ruins Can Survive.
WORK OP RESCUE TARDILY BEGUN.
The Contractor and Four Bodies Are Im
mediately Taken Out.
TfllJ PALL CAUSED BY A EECEST FIEE
JAY GOULD TALKS.
HE HAS A CONSULTATION WFrn HIS
WOUNDED FBIEND. ':
niEASI D. WILSON, of Glenns Falls, the
lunatlcwho threw the bomb, a graduate of
two insane asylums and formerly keeper
of the Bolton House, Lake George.
BENJAMIN F. NORTON, Kussell Sage's
private secretary, died in-Chambers Street
Hospital of a fractured skull; was married
and lived at Far Eockaway: blown out of
the window by the explosion.
INJUBED.
KUSSELL SAGE, right handburned;;uts on
richt side of forehead; right side of face
slightly singed: hair on right side i&ther
badly singed: suffers from shock, but will
reenvor shortlv.
SAMUEL G. CALHOTJN,vBrooklyn, clerk for
W. E. Connor & Co., riht ear lacerated; at
tended to at Chambers Street Hospital
CHARLES E. JAMES, broker, living at the
Gilsey House, cut on the right side of the
head.
WILLIAM R. LAIDLAW, Jrt., 33 years old,
clerk for John Bloodgood 4 Co., bankers.
15 Broad street: cut and bruised.
C. W. OSBORNE. 52 years old, Brooklyn,
bookkeeper in Safe's offloe: fractured skull
and lacerated wounds of tho neck; condi
tion serious.
FRANK ROBERTSON, aged M, of Benren
Point, employed by W. 31. Imbrie & Co.;
fractured skull, right eje destroyed and
leTt ej e badly damaged; has a chance of
recovery.
JOSEPH J. SLOCUM, Russell Sage's brother-in-law
and cashier; scalp wounds, which
were dressed in the drug stoic.
SAGE FULL OF SPLINTERS.
HIS FHTSICIAN CONFIDENT OF A
SPEEDY RECOVERY.
BUSINGS-, Men will find THE DIS-PATCII
the best advertising mrdium. ..Ill classes
can lie reached through Its Classified Adver
tisement Columns. If jon TiHiit anything;
jou can 2ct it by tills method.
As soon as the .first paralysis was over
from every direction there came vast
crowds of men, until Broadway was packed
for three blocks in either direction by a
multitude that pushed this way and that
with uncontrollable strength, seeking the
cause of the earthquake and explosion.
Scores of men rushed for the fire boxes, and
an alarm was sent in. The police began to
swarm at the outer edge of the crowd and to
beat their way toward the blockaded en
trance to the Empire building. Meanwhile,
in the wrecked rooms, those who were not
dead or unconscious began to look about
for a way of escape. Colonel Slocum and
Mr. Sage walked into the private office,
where Mr. James, thrown half stunned to
the floor by part of the bursted partition,
had risen to his feet and was looking
dazedly about him.
All Were Eager to Get Out.
"Which way can we get out?" said Mr.
Sage. His clothes hung from him in rib
bons. His hands were burned. His face,
was covered with blood and dust Colonel
Slocum, almost beside himself, was also cov
ered with dust, while blood trickled down
his ears and cheeks, and stained his hands
and cufls as he wiped it away.
umccuve oergeamsMcUIoskey and Crow
lev, who Were walking alnnir tiai,w
when the explosion sounded, rushed into
the building with Policeman Hummel.
They found Mr. Sage standing, covered with
dust and Hood. Hummel helped him down
the stairs, when Lawyer Gardiner came to
his assistance. The two men helped him
across the street to O'Connell's drugstore,
which now began to assume the appearance
of a hospital. Mr. Sage gathered together
his senses and began to tell a little about
the explosion as the physicians and drug
clerks attended to his wounds, which are
not very serious, though they bled pro
fusely. The firemen were soon upon the scene
of death and disaster. In Eussell
Sage's offices the plastering had been torn
from the outer walls, the lath and plaster
partitions had been nlufost disintegrated,
the big safe had toppled with the sagged
floor and the small -safe had been turned
over and burst open.
Millions in Securities Scattered Aronnd.
Its contents were strewn over the wreet
i, of iuniiture, papers and books, aud police
The Wounded Financier Hakes a Statement
tor the Benefit of the Police The Career
of the Lunatic Who Threw the Fatal
Bomb.
New York, Dea 4. Special At 8:30
P. St Dr. Munn said : "Mr. Sage is getting
along finely, and will very soon be over this
trouble and all right again. He has taken
plenty of nourishment and is resting well.
We thought at first that his right wrist was
broken, but I find now that there are no
bones broken whatever and no sprains. The
slivers penetrated his clothing, and he is
full of splinters. His hands were pretty
badlyburned, andhis face somewhat burned,
too. His escape was wonderful, and his
present condition is highly satisfactov. "
.Later the heaepot the bomb thrower was
brought to Mr. Sage's house by the police
nnd at once identified by Mr. Sage, who
made the following statement to Inspector
.uvrnes mis evening, "icame out of mv
office, haying been sent for. I found there
a man with a satchel. He handed me a
card bearing the name of H. D. Wilson.
He said he came from John J. Eockefeller
and at the same time handed me a
typewritten letter in a sealed envelope.
It was addressed to me. I opened it and
found that it was a demand upon me for the
payment of 1,200,000. The letter stated
that if the money was not given up at once
to the beartr of the letter that he would
uiow me, iiimseii anu me entire oince up
with dynamite. I read the letter, and,
placing it in the envelope, handed it back
to him, and turned to go into my private
office when the explosion occurred. "
The Coroner Is Investigating.
Coroner Messemer went to the. Chambers
Street Hospital and took the ante-mortem
statement pf Frank Eobertson, 19 years old,
an employe of W. M. Imbre & Co., Stock
Brokers at 56 Broadway. He said: ''About
12:30 o'clock I went over to Mr. Eussell
Sage's office, No. 71 Broadway, with a. check
to get 100 shares of Burlington1 and Quincy
stock. I, saw a man talking to Mr.
oage very attentively. j.ne latter seemed
to shun him. That man pulled
out what looked like a pistol. It
glittered and he put it in his right hand
overcoat pocket I knew nothing more
until I veiled 'murder.' I heard an explo
sion and everybody yelled 'murder.' The
explosion took place a second after I saw
him putthe glittering object in his pocket
"The man had a high ,silk hat, light brown
side whiskers, was about 38 years old, wore
Great Admiration for the Nerve Displayed
by Sage, Who Is a Charitable Man The.
Financial Wizard Tells of the Great
Number of Threatening Letters Be-
ceived.
New York, Dec. 4. Special Mr. Jay
Gould's beautiful reception room was-
adorned with rare roses this evening. Mr.i
Gould has not looked so well in years, and;
although the first shock of the effort to.kill
Eussell Sage, his closest friend since 1856,
had been keen, he had recovered his com
posure. "I did not go down town this morning,'
said Mr. Gould; "and the first I learned of
Mr. Sage's injuries was by telephone from
the druggist's wljere he was taken. I was
in my library. It was a few minutes after.
the explosion. It would appear, therefore
tnat iis, bage s nrst wea.was to telephone
for-jne to sendDr- Munn to him I im.
TBferiiawI' leTemioneSlo Dr. Munn'shome
and learned that he was at the United States
Insurance1 Company, of which . he is ex
aminer. Dr. Munn answered immediately
that he would hurry to Mr. Sage. This wjfl
explain the quickness with which Dr. Munn
reached Mr. Sage. Just before Dr. Munn
and Mr. Sage took the carriage to come up
town to Mr. Sage's home the doctor tele
phoned me that, although Mr. Sage was
suffering from the shock, he was not seri
ously injured. The explosive burned his
hands, and there are one or two cuts on his
head, but he will be all right in a few days,
I sincerely trust
Gonld Talks of Sage's Nerve.
"I have passed a good part of the after
noon at Mr. Sage's home, and I must say
that he has shown wonderful nerve. He
talks calmly of the affair, andhis hand is as
steady as a boy's."
"Mr. Sage in recent years has at times
been exceedingly nervous, so much so that
his hands have on most occasions trembled
perceptibly. But Mr. Gould savs he took a
glass ot milk this afternoon without the
slightest evidence of this nervous trouble.
Mr. Sage was in bed all the time Mr. Gould
was with him. The clothes he had wom
were shown to Mr. Gould. In describing
them Mr. Gonld said: "The laoels of his
coat and waistcoat were torn off, and great
gashes were all over the garments. His
trousers were in shreds. Mr. Sage told me
about his visitor. Just a little after noon a
man sent in word that he had a letter of in
troduction from Eockefeller. He did not
say whether it was John D. or William.
Mr. Sage and the Eockefellers have always
been, I believe, on the pleasantest terms,
and letters from either of the two gentle
men would command Mr. Sage's immediate
attention. The visitor was admitted to Mr.
Sage s private office. As , soon as he was
fully before Mr. Sage the visitor pulled out
what Mr. Sage evidently thought was the
Eockfeller letter of introduction, and
handed it over.
Not a Letter of Introduction.
"It was, however, a slip of paper on
which was written the threat that unless
Mr. Sage promptly handed over 51,200,000
he and the whole building would be blown
to atoms. Mr. Sage was not at all flustered
by the astonishing demand, possibly because
both he'and myself have received bushels of
just such demands, invariably accompanied
by threats ot some kind. . Mr. Sage says he
merely handed the paperback to his visitor,
risinr at the Kfimp time n tlinnffli n linn.
the stranger out He smiled and shook his
head, he tbincs, while he did this, and the
next instant ne saw me man pull some
thing out and throw it at him.
"His recollection now is that it was a
small package. There was a blinding flash.
The whole room was as if a thunderbolt had
struck. Mr. Sage was blinded by the
debris that was thrown upon him. He told
me: 'Mr. Gould, I stood there thinking
the building was falling, and believed the
safest thing for me was to stand still. I
stood fast .upon the sound ground, and it
came across me that if I attempted to climb
out of the window the falling debris might
kill me. I waited until I saw that the
building was not falling and then forced
my way through the wreck down the stairs
and was led to the drug store over on Broad
way. Escape of the Manhattan Directors.
"I have warmest admiration for Mr.
Sage's nerve in the affair. My son George
was in an office of the Manhattan Elevated
Company at the time of the explosion. Be
tween him and the place where Mr. Sage
biuou were anower omce Deiongmg to Mr.
KfllTf a itif a nn3 4fiA Aimniftvm nA. iL.
St. Paul, Deo, 4. The most horrible
accident that ever occurred in St. Paul took
place shortly after 1 o'clock to-day. The
center wall of the west section of the Shep'
ard building, recently occupied by Farwell,
'Ozmun & Kirk, fell in, burying the work
men beneath the ruins. Twenty men were
supposed to have been beneath the wall at
the time it fell, and the majority of them
were killed or so seriously injured that fhey
will probably die-
All the patrol wagons in the city were at
once summoned, and a rescuing party was
organized to remove the dead and injured.
The men were wild with excitement, how
ever, and it was some time before more
than half a dozen could be induced to go to
work. The others ran to and fro around
the building shouting to each other and ut
tering imprecations against the contract
ors, or stood gazing blankly at the ruins.
The Tardy Work of Rescue Begun.
The group that finally went to work took
out in less than half an hour ten men, five
of whom were killed and five injured, one
eo severely that the physicians said he
would not live until he reached the hos
pital. By this time a larger gang had been
put'to work, and the work of removing the
debris went on rapidly. Contractor Wil
cox was taken out dead and mangled be
yond recognition. His head was reduced to
a pulp.
The wounded were taken to the City Hos
pital in the patrol wagon, and the dead,
with the exception of one man, were laid
out in the Great Northern Eailroad freight
house. Hundreds of people, including
many of the workmen, viewed the remains,
but no one was able at the moment to iden
tify any of them. Finally the name of one
the dead laborers was ascertained to be
Chris Larson.
The cause of the accident, as near as can
be' learned, was that the wall, which was
much weakened by the late fire, became
too top-heavy from the large amount of
debris removed from the bottom, and fell
over from its own weight The wall had
appeared firm, and gave no sign of weaken-
'lag up to the time ofthe fall, "when it earner
down. lntaheap"wi2ioul a sepohds.arnlig,".
jaaniea .cnureiy xeyona x&ecosrnltion.
It was a sight never to be forgotten, as
the dead and" injured were taken out, some
of them; crushed almost to a pulp. One of
them, supposed' to have been a sub-foreman,
was taken out in his fur coat, nothing but
his feet and limbs i being visible. His head
and bSdy appeared to be crushed out of all
shape. There were men with all their limbs
broken, faces bruised and crushed out of all
semblance of humanity. Others were not so
badly mangled, but had evidently been in
stantly killed by the bricks falling in on
their heads.
Of those who were wounded and taken to
the hospital two were able to sit nn in the.
wagon on the way, and these are the only
ones wno win recover. xnere were no
groans or cries from the injured as the poor
fellows were extricated from the ruins by
their fellow workmen. Not one had re
tained consciousness.
The most careful handling possible seemed
to be torture most horrible for the rescuers
were not well drilled to their gruesome
task at the outset and did not work together
as they did later on. With their discon
certed efforts they seemed at times to be
pulling the men almost to pieces. The
faces ot the workmen were almost as ghastly
as if they had been dead themselves.
The Roll of the Dead and Wounded.
The majority of the men were under the
south side of the wall, and here the heaviest
part ot the wall Jell. Unlv two were taken
out from the north side. It is known that
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Mayor Wyman, of Allegheny,
Held in Heayy Bail by
Alderman McMasters.
W DEFENSE IS OFFEEED.
Startling Evidence Brought Out at
the Preliminary Hearing.
COUNTT OFFICERS AS WITNESSES.
Clerk Henry Hunneshagen Asked to Explain
Certain Erasures.
CAPTAIN BELL BECEIYED NO FEES
EARL EUSSELL WINS.
The Fair Countess Emned Her Case
by the Eoberts Imputation.
POPULAR OPINION FAVORS HER?,
Although Her Insinuations Caused a Re
vulsion of Feeling.
SHE COMES OF AN EEEATIC FAMILY
EDWARD S. WILCOX, contractor.
HANS HANSON, Swedish laborer.
CHARLES KATRI.V6KL Polish laborer.
GEORGE SHAPINSKI, laborer.
CHARLES LARSON
JOHN ADAMSKI, 35 years of age.
FRANK MARCO.
The injured are John Warren, Thomas
Somatra, Frank Dlether, Samuel Peters and
an unknown man. These are now lying at
the City Hospital, and at fi:30 were alive.
It is not thought that Somatra, Peters and
the unknown can recover.
SENATORS-ELECT, by Frank-G. Carpen
ter, in THE DISPATCH to-morrow. Some
clevenillustratlons of the new lawmakers.
MARIE BLAINE'S ALIMONY.
SHE ASKS FOR SI.000 AT ONCE AND
ATTORNEYS' FEES.
bagc s suite and the directors' room- of the
Manhattan. The" explosion, I understood,
threw down the partition of the directors'
room, and had there been a meeting to-day,
every director might have been killed.
"While we are discussing this terrible
affair I want to say that people say that
Mr. Sage is not generous. I know differ
ently. I know that he is a most lovable
man. He is also a just man. I know of
many deeds ot ksndness, and charity per
formed by him. The world does not know
pfthem. I do. I know that his charities
Contimted on Seventh Tage.
In Her Motion She States That She Is
Crippled Physically and Financially A
Divorce Also Asked for on the Ground
of Abandonment.
Deadwood, S. D., Dec. 4. Special! A
motion wasfiled here to-day by Mrs. Marie
Nevins Blaine, asking for 51,000 temporary
alimony and ?300 attorneys' fees. Mrs.
Blaine, in her motion states that she is in a
crippled condition, both physically and
financially. The hearing of the motion was
set for December 20.
The complaint and summons in the case
were also filed to-day- The complaint al
leges that James G. Blaine, Jr., wilfully
abandoned the plaintiff without cause, leav
ing in her custody a 3-year-old child, which
she has since taken care of and supported
without help from him.
On these grounds she demands a dissolu
tion of the bonds of matrimony, the sole
custody ol her child, and that he be required
to pay a reasonable sum for expense of the
action for divorce and counsel fees and re
quired to pay a sum for alimony that the
court may decide forthe future support of
herself and child.
Mrs. Blaine is now at Sioux Falls, but is
expected to be in this city next week.
"BEYOND THE CITY," A. Conan Doyle's
latest and best story, is a great feature or
THE DISPATCH to-morrow. One of the1
I literary treats of the year.
London, Dec. 4. The celebrated suit of
Countess Russell against her husband for a
judicial separation ended to-day with a
verdict for the Earl, notwithstanding the
intense popular feeling against him.
Never since Mr. Stead published in the
Pall Mall Gazette on the ".Modern Babylon"
has all grades of society been stirred up as
in the revelations of this sensational case.
There is no denying the fact that Countess
Eussell has the sympathy of" the general
public, and the Earl's admissions on the
witness stand yesterday have not tended to
turn the tide of- popular feeling in his di
Tee.tion. t-
Ls- Teohea;s-wim-iebiheTverdictwaiie-
ceived inside 'and dutslde the court were
due to a partial revulsion of feeling against
the Countess as unjustly trying to brand
Earl Eussell and Prof. Eoberts. A number
of college chums of the Earl crowded
around and congratulated him and Prof.
Eoberts, who, judging from the scene pre
sented by the exchange of cordialities, is
held in high esteem. The Countess left be
fore the jury retired.
Not a Model Life Partner.
There was a general impression during
the trial that the Countess, though of
charming presence, was difficult to get
along with as a wife. Her family history
explains her tendencies to freedom of life
and language.
Her father, Sir Claude Scott, the spend
thrift son of Banker Scott, was a lover of
the wife of Lord Albert Clinton, uncle of
the Duke of Newcastle. Sir Claude willed
all he possessed to Lady Clinton, but Lady
Scott successfully opposed the will. The
next time the family figured in court was
in the notorious case in which Lena, the
eldest daughter, obtained an annullment of
her marriage with Sebright Lena has
since married Dick Eussell, who is no rel
ative of the Earl. Both Lena and Dick
supported the Countess in the suit for sep
aration. The mother was opposed to the
suit on acconnt of the revelations which
would be made in court.
The Dowager Countess Eussell was deep
ly chagrined over the proceedings, and tried
to induce the Countess to make a private
settlement
A House r Liberal Politicians.
The Dowager Countess still possesses her
keen faculties, and observes the memory of
her famous husband by an active support of
the Liberal policy. Her daughter, Lady
Agatha, is an ardent radical and a working
politician. Her son, Hon. Hollo, is a
stanch Gladstonian. All are of a higher
type of the aristocracy than is the present i
.can.
The proceedings in court,to-day were en
livened by a tilt between the counsels in
regard to the Eoberts incident. During
the argument on this subject the presiding
justice said that he intended to get at the
bottom of this matter. He declared it
ought to have been put into definite shape
as a criminal charge. Justice Butt added
that the matter ought not to rest in insinua
tion.
The Earl's redirect examination was re
sumed this morning. Sir Charles, the
Earl's counsel, questioned the Earl as to
the Williams incident The next witness
called was Sneppard, the Earl's footman.
He testified that he had never seen the
Countess crying. The Earl had alwavs
treated her as a gentleman should treat h"is
wife. Both sides announced that the evi
dence was all in. and Sir Charles Eussell
began to sum up the -case for the defense.
A Case Supported by False Evidence.
He said the case should never have been
brought to court, supported as it was bv
ninny cases of grossly untrue evidence. Sir
Edward Clarke's address was character
ized by the great emphasis he laid upon the
telling points and the evidence for the
petitioner. He declared, however, that the
evidence submitted would have no effect
upon the reputation of Prof. Eoberts, The
object of Countess Eussell in raisins the
action was not to obtain money. Her chief
reason was that she wished to relieve her
self of the obligation of living with a nun
whose treatment had led to their separation.
The jury were not long in reaching a ver
dict They not only decided against the
fair plaintiff in the matter of a legal separa
tion, but they condemned her to pav the
costs of the action, which are very heavy.
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their ranks are steadily increasing.
TWENTY IN A WATERY GRAVE.
THOST FATAL OF ALL IN A DAT'
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Ashore Th
Haversteajr- !.. ' pec 4. Twelve
barges loadpeT with bni, including the
Irene, Obtain James Kennedy; Delson,
Captain Pat Cahill; Louise, Captain A.
Bradbury; Lizzie and Louise Christie
Eoy, Captain Brennan; James G. Scott
and Ellen C. McGuire, towed by the
Cornell Towing Company's steamboat
Townsend, coming down the Hudson, when
opposite Croton Point, were upset at about
9 o'clock thi3 evening and about 20 persons
drowned. The names of the otker boats are
the Mary G. Burns, Captain Will DeWitt;
Blackstone and Yellowstone, from Tomkins
Cove, whose captains' names could not be
ascertained.
When at Croton Point the swash of the
river vra so, great that the tag was com
pelled to round to, thus forcing the barges
to ride each other. Beine loaded and the
tide washing high, they immediately upset.
There were 60 men on the 12 barges, and
only about 30 have come ashore.
The accident is attributed by many to the
carelessness of the pilot of the tug, W. C.
Curran. A boathand on the Louise, who
has- just arrived from his swim ashore,
says:
"We were playing the concertina in the-
caDin at tne time oi tne accident, l ran on
deck, only to see one scow run on top of
another. The boats did not sink, but top
pled over. Upon each barge were five men,
making 60 in alL"
Tugs are out all over the river In the
hope of saving any who may have clung to
the bottom of the capsized barges, but little
hope is entertained as to the safety of the
remainder of the crews. Twelve men are
known to be drowned from the different'
boats.
M0BE OF FIELD'S CROOKED W0BX.
nlnfned
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Old
Sugar Trust Stock Found to be Re
hypothecated by Him.
New York, Dec 4. Special No
statement of the way matters stand with
the wrecked firm of Field, Lindley,
Wiechers & Co. has yet been given out by
Assignee Charles M. Gould. Mr. Gould
said to-day that he hoped to have his state
ment ready in another day or two. It is
thought in the street that the publication of
the firm s condition is being delayed until
certain matters can be settled and criminal
proceedings prevented.
Another of young Field's transactions,
which came, out to-day, was the alleged theit
of a large block of Sugar Trust certificates.
It is said that a German capitalist, who held
'a large' block of the old Sugar Trust stock,
placed it" in the hands of the firm to have it
replaced with the . certificates of the new
American Sugar Refineries Company, into
which the trust was organized. It now ap
pears that Field rehypothecated the securi
ties. Five Miners Killed by an Explosion.
City op Mexico, Dec. 4. A terrible
explosion of firedamp occurred to-day in a
mine in the town of Sombrerese, in the
state oi z-acaiecas. .cive oi the miners
were killed.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Page.
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MARK TWAIN describes the Wosner
Festival at Bayreuth for THE DISPATCH
to-mcrrow. X
Honduras Rebels Cntting tho Wires.
City op Mexico. Dea 4. Uisnftches
Dynamite Thrown at Russell Sago
A Falling Wall Kills a Dozen
Earl Russell a Victor In Court
Wyman Held for Court
The War on Warmcastle
Increasing Teachers' Salaries.............. 3
GUlelandln JUanger... ......... S
Youthful McKeesport Thieves..... 3
Classified Advertisements 3
Editorial 4
The Doings of Society 4
Ohio's Senatorial Contest 5
Deaths Here and Elsewhere B
Industrial Intelligence 6
The Hot Speakership Fight 7
Death of Dom Pedro... .... 7
News from, Neighboring Towns 7
A New England Railway Horror 7
Sporting Features and Weather Outlook 8
The Business Outlook 8
Hotel Arrivals and Personals. 8
France Aiding Russia.. 10
Road Construction 10
A Cumberland Valley Cyclone 10
Church Notes 10
Work in the Oil Fields i0
Chess and Checkers 10
Iron Trade Review 11
Financial and Commercial Markets 11J
Troubles of Lawyers. 13
wakeman Describes Cornish Funerals. ...13
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rebels in the country have cut the telegraph j CourtlFrocDedings !!I.."."I!."."!!!l2
Mayor Wyman yesterday waived the
presentation of a defense in the case before
Alderman McMasters and furnised bail for
appearance at tho present term of court.
The hearing was short, but long enough to
bring out some startling revelations with
regard to the manner in which the affairs
at the Mayor's office are conducted. From
the evidence produced it was made apparent
that Mr. Wyman has not only retained un
called for witness fees, but that fees have
been collected for officers, turned over to
the Mayor, but not given to the men for
whom they were alleged to have been
charged.
Attorneys Marshall, Hughey and Bennett
appeared In behalf of the defense. The
Mayor entered the room early, and without
the least mark of excitement listened to the
allegations against his character. Only
once was his voice heard and that was to say
that he could get all the bail necessary.
City Solicitor Elphinstone, Attorney
Langfitt antLAtforney Dickey represented,
the Commonwealth. Mr. Elohinstone ex- -
the four charges to be, first.
embezzlement of fees of police officers; .,
second, the embezzlement of S086 received
from jail and workhouse commitments;
third, the collection of 5800 witness fees not
allowed, and fourth, the extortion of 5115
from Hungarians captured in the celebrated
raid of 49.
How the Warrants Were Cashed.
After Controller Brown was examined
with regard to the manner in which the in
formations were made, I. W. McBrier. of
the Controller's office, was sworn. He ex
plained the way in which warrants were is
sued for Jail and workhouse commit
ments, and said they were made out in
the name of James G. Wyman, Mayor. The
fees to the city, he stated, vary in each cose
according to the crime committed. In dis
orderly conduct cases they are 51, and for
Vagrants 25 cents.
"That's very cheap," interrogated Mr.
Marshall with one of his customary jokes.
The warrants, Mr. McBrier continued,
are delivered tq different members of the
Mayor's joffice sometimes to the Mayor
himself, but generally to the clerk erne of
the detectives. They are then taken t'o the
Treasurer's office, cashed and returneSLlo
the Controller's office. As a part of his e vi-.
dence he offered the warrants issued to the. "
Mayor of AUegheny from April 1, 1890, to
June 1, 1891. They amount, he stated, to
51,233.
Samuel C. Pierce, of the County Treas
urer's office, confirmed the manner in
which warrants are issued and cashed, and
then Controller Brown was called to state
what money had been turned into the City
Treasurer by Mayor Wyman for the period
during which he had received from the
County Treasurer $1,233. The Controller
was evidently prepared for the question,
and answered quickly 5647, leaving a short
age of 5586.
This was the first bomb to be exploded,
and it was done so suddenly that Attorney
Marshall did not know on what line to start
out for cross examination. He called for
the warrants, examined them with the
Mayor, and while everybody was holding
his breath to hear some defense, simply
said: "Call another witness."
Henry Hunneshagen on the Rack.
The Mayor's close friend and clerk, Henry
Hunneshagen, was the man called. He
stated that all money for jail and workhouse
commitments had been turned over to the
Mayor. His attention was then called to
the police docket and its erasures. He was
asked if it really was a docket, and he
answered: "We call it a blotter." Tho
evidence, he stated, was in his own hand
writing and the change in the writing of
the arresting officer. At the hearing of the
persons arrested in the raid on the house,
where 49 Hungarians were arrested, he was
asked how often each witness testified and
answered that thev testified but once. He
then stated that 55 95 costs were charged
up in each case, notwithstanding that they
were all tried together. This money, ha
said, was turned into the hands of tha
Mayor.
Turning to another page of the blotter,
Mr. Langfitt asked the witness if he had
made a certain erasure.
"Can't tell," he replied.
"Isn't that an erasure?" he was asked.
"I don't know."
"Wasn't that name first written Kittia
Hay and afterward changed to Kittie How
ard?" "Who is this Kittie vou are talking:
about?" broke in Mr. Marshall.
"She was arrested for keening a disorder
ly honse, was afterward discharged, and at
the same time two of the inmates, Ida Mark
and Sarah Kelly, were fined 517, 95 each,"
answered Mr. Langfitt
"Well, what of it?" asked Mr. Marshall.
Officers Never Were Paid.
."It shows," said Mr. Langfitt, "that tha
principal was let go while two others wcra
fined. It also appears from the record that
the Howard woman had 560 when she wa3
arrested.' Continuing, he asked Mr. Hun
neshagen if the witness fees in that particu
lar case had been turned into the city.
"No, sir;" replied the witness.
"Have the witness fees in any of these
cases been turned in to the city?""
"No, sir."
"Have the witness fees of officers, patrol
men and detectives been turned in to the
city?"
1 "No, sir."
"What did yon do with money collected
as fees for officers?"
"Turned it over to Mayor Wyman."
"You did not keep a record of names of
witnesses?"
"No, sir. I kept a record of cases and
the number of witnesses, but not the
names."
Auditor Bigger was called and stated that
the books show that from April 1, 1890, to
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sans, bargain hunters, buyers and sellers
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