EISsKSBraS Mwcaw wifiiwf4 x.. . thbWpittsbtjeqtdispatc CRIPPLESJNA TRAP. Harrow Stakcases, Tinder "Walls, Bark Passages, All a Mass of Flame DO THEIR DEADLY WOBK. A Score of Inmates of the 'Indianap olis Institute Are Dead. SCENES OF PANIC AND HER0IS1T. Deeds of Strength Which Would Be Impos sible in Ererj-Day Life PEEFOEUED BT THE CUT FIEEMEX liTDiAKAPOLis, Jan. .22. A score of helpless human beings burned to death. That is the record of Thursday night in In dianapolis. At 11:45 that night an alarm was turned in, quickly followedby asecondand a third. Every piece of fire-fighting apparatus in the city was quickly on the run, and -upon the arrival of the firemen flames were leap ing from the roof and fourth floor windows of the National Surgical Institute, on the corner of Illinois and Georgia streets, with nn extension on the latter street About 250 crippled people were in the institute at the time. The building was al most totally enveloped in fire, and when Chief "Webster arrived his first order was, "Let the building burn, but ran up the lad ders and save the people." This was oheved and the work of rescuing the imprisoned patients commenced. Tt hrro the Work of Destruction Bepin. The firei vhen first discovered, was lo cated iu the Georgia street building at tne rear of the office in the advertising room. "Whether it started there or not cannot be said, as the kitchen and dinning room of the institution were in the same section, and further back an alley separates the Georgia street building from the one facing Illinois street. A covered bridge connects them. The fire leaped up through the floors of the building in which it started, reaching a stairway about two feet wide, thus se curing a draught, 'and sped through the sec ond floor from room to room and hallwav to hallwav. Then the third and fourth floors were quickly reached, and across the alley the fiery tongues (lashed, igniting the ad joining building. On the third and fourth floors the horri ble work was done. The buildings were a network of narrow halls, entrances and stairways. The fire could not liave chosen a better place for its work. Th- Anfnl Peril of Helpless CrlppVs. In the small rooms throughout the build ing were from one to four beds, all occupied by patients, maay of whom were perfectly helpless. "When they became aware of their peril their fright was awfnh They became frantic in their efforts to reach places of Bafety. Every effort was made by the fire, police and ambulance forces to rescue the caecd unfortunates, and acts of heroism and daring were performed. "Where the dining room and kitchen were the buildinsr was trutted. Above these two department?, on the third and fourth floors nereih sleeping apart ments of the patients. When the fire was discovered every .means of escape os cut. off, and many perished there. The Surgical Institute was a veritable fin trap. The stairways were narrow, the halls dark, and the whole structure a labyrinth Entering the main building from the alley, a dark storeroom filled with barrel", boxes, tables, milk cans and variois other articles on a concreted floor is reached. A door at the inner end leads to an open court, perhaps 50 feet long and 15 wide, which serves as an airshaft. A winding stairway, not much over two feet wide, leads up to a window of the third floor. A Difticjlt, Dangerous Stairway. This stairway is built of pine boards and boarded to about the height of a man's head. It would be next to imnossible for two T)crons to pas in it Tne room to which this leads was a dormitory. It con tained about a dozen iron beds, .most of which had been occupied. From the open court there is a door leading to the hall ways inside the building. This passage, was dark and a person was obliged to group his Mvtoi better lighted spot. The first floor suffered little from fire, the principal damage having resulted from water. The second floor wasthoronghly soaked, and the ceilings in many rooms had holes burned throuch. Near the Illinois street Tront of the main building was a stair way the firemen weie surprised to see. It made a turn midway between two floors, and at that point there was a landing. From that landing to the top step of the lower section was a distance of at least 2i feet. In speaking of that place, Fireman" James Madden remarked: "How could they expect cripples to get jp or down those stairs?" ' Itoiten "Woodwork Patched TJp. In some parts of the buildinc the stairs were so old and worn that extra boards had been nailed in the steps. Large holes had been burned in the floors. The rooms on the Georgia street side were thoroughly water-soaked, and the furniture had been thrown about in great confusion br the patients who had been so suddenly awak ened to their great danger. The halls and stairs in some places were so much of a puzzl that it was hard for a person to tell which was which. At one point four flights of stairs were in a bunch. Rooms on the third and fourth floors of the main bnilding arid nearest the alley were the scenes of the greatest fatalities. In one room were two women, both of " pniMiru. in anotner mere was a man whose legs were paralvzed. Although unable to walk he dragged himself to a window at the rear of the bnilding' and threw hi mself out. He dropped about eight feet to a roof, then to another, and finally rolled off to the ground, saving himself from death. Itreovorlng tiio Dead Kodies. The entire rear half of the inside of the Georgia street buildintr lell in. The debris filled completely the first itorv, and when the firemen began their search for dead bodies they were obliged to commence work on a level with the iccond floor. It will be several days before they can hope to reach the bottom. The ianies of the killed are: Kale I Strong died at Jo. JSl jraachu-ctt- avenae, home. Salem, Oru.: 3Irs. Laz an, or Chicago. Jumped irom the second story of the rear building; William E'am-t-taclc Milwaukee: 31its hato Burns, Nc vort, ilinn.; Fninlc Hums, Newport, Minn. Jiinnie Arnold, Lancaster, Mo.: Irina Pnvne Dexter, Minn.: niclla !pecs, Macomb," O.: Mit.nic McDonald, Nojaunee, O.; George Ellis, California, Ky.; Mm. Kaib and daughter, Shelby, O.: Fitnnie Breedon, Mem phis, died of her Injuries at 11 o'clock Fri day; Moitie Decko died at 3805 North Missis sippi street; Fred Dockendorf, Stillwater, Minn.; Hannah Brook, Taylorsvillc, 111.; c. IL Gorman, McDonald, Mich.; Arthur Hay less. The 1.1st of the Injnred. Fannio Stem, Dos Moine, In., soles of the feet bsdly burned in running on the floot of the third1 fctcry; Clara Morrih, homo not knou n, back hurt; Mrs. Thomas, JS5 Madison avenue, horribly burned aout Jace and body; Mrs. -I. It'GIltl, MedaryvHle. Ind., hurt internallv by falling from ladder; recovery doubtful: iter son was also hurt bv the fall: Grant Van Hoescn, Athens, X. Y-, hand and car burned; Clarence Mend. Athens, X. Y ley slightly hurt; M. D. Wagner, Troy, O., head and shoulder hurt and internally In Jtired by falling from a window; William H. Albach, Dunkirk, N. T., slightly burned; Nora Snowies, Independence, Ind., back In jured by Jumping oat the third story win dow: Will Mansfield, Otsego, N. Y., foot hurt by Jumping from the roof to the ground; Mrs. John Stokes, Danville, 111., sprained nnfcle; Nellie Mason, Wisconsin, Jumped from a third story window and will die; Mrs. G. J. Simpson and little daughter, home not Riven, badly burned; they were carried out by the firemen; B. Connor, homo unknown, fell from the second to first floor through a holo with a child in his arms: he is probably fatally hurt internallv: Boy Harris, New Or leans, slightly hurt: "Minnie Fargarus, Chi cago, leg broken; Mrs. H. H. Idena and son, home not known, severely injured. A Hospital Well Filled. The iniurerl trere taken to St Vincent's 'Hospital, where, with the exception of tnose latally injured, they were resting fairly well. They were not allowed to talk. The newspapers and particulars of the fire were kept from them. Eire bodies were taken out this morning. They were roasted alive, the skin having peeled off from the bodies. In a few in stances their faces were burned off At Powers & Blackwell's were four un known bodies. They were taken out of the building in their night clothes and there was absolutely nothing by which thev could be identified. One was a woman with black hair and dark complexion. She can easily be identified by friends, as she was sunocated and not burned. Another woman, whose body was cooked beyond recognition, was also at the morgue. Her feet were deformed and are shriveled up from the fire. A man with a deformed limb, also there, can be identified. At Elanner & Buchanan's morgue was a man supposed to have been an attendant He was burned about the face. He was about 25 years old, light hair and mustache and blue eyes. Where the Unknown "Were Found. Three of the bodies were found at the northeast corner of the rear building on the third floor. They bad huddled about the windows and were trying to escape when the flames caught them. Just as the department arrived on the scene a woman appeared at a third story window. She wrung her hands and screamed for help, while the smoke rolled up about her. Chief "Webster shouted, "Hold on, hold on, don't jump; for God's fake, don': jump. "We'll get you in a moment" A savage roar of the flames and a creak ing, crashing sound was the only reply that came hack to him, and scarcely had the words of appeal left his lips when the woman, with a shriek of airony, leaped into space. The body struck the stone flagging but a few feet from where the fire chief stood, and was picked up in the pangs of death and removed across the way. At a window on the upper floor a panic stricken mother was seen straggling to throw open the window. In one arm she clasped her child, a mere infant. She clntched at the window casing and finally succeeded, after frantic efforts, in reaching the air. Choosing Between Two Deaths. Her screams fell upon the ears of thou sands of spectators. No ladders were at hand, and her pitifnl appeals went 'un heeded. Her face was deathly pale. The flames were closing in aronnd her and she looked back into the furnace of death, then down to the pavement below, as if choosing between two moUes of certain death. Ide alizing that death was at hand she clasped the babe to her breast, tossed the precious load out of the window and gave her life to the flames within. It would have been a pleasing thought to her to know before expiring the fortune that befell her offspring. Pipeman O'Brien had watched the scene from below, and as the child left the arms of its mother he planted himself firmly with outstretched arms underneath the window. The baby, wrapped in its night clothes, whirled about in the air and tumbled into O'Brien's arms unhurt a life saved. The heroism of Fireman John Eoucks, of the Chemical Company, will long be re membered. "While the flames were shoot ing from the windows facing on Illinois street he ascended the extension ladder to the upper floor. Hanging to a Ladder by HU Feet. As he reached the window sill he was met bv Fireman AYebber Robinson, who pushed his way through the smothering smoke with a child in his arms. Take this baby, for God's sake, Eoucks, and let me breathe,"- said Robinson, as he pushed his head into the open air. Loucks grasped the living load and started downward. He had descended but a few feet when the brave fellow missed his foot ing and fell head foremost, his leg catching in the rungs of the ladder and doubtless sav ing his life. He clnng to the child pluckily, although his leg was broken. As he hung there the denBe mass of people below turned away from the awful scene, thinking that Jjoucks would perhaps be obliged to loosen his grasp from weakness. Not so. He called lor assistance, and in a twinkling he I us reacueu uv two oiaer nremen, wno car ried the child safely to the ground and tenderly helped Loucks to an ambulance, which conveyed him to his home. Fireman Sim Hoyle, of headquarters, ciiicrcu me uurum uuuning lo neip rescue the inmates. He fonnd two women crying for help. Hoyle seized both and started for a window. A Difacult TnRk Bravely Performed. "When he reached it a ladder was near him, but a few feet to one side. The flames' and smoke were rapidly enveloping the brave fireman and his burdens. Quickly Hoyle pushed one woman out of the win dow, and held her with his teeth by her night clothes. He held the other woman inside the room, hung himself out and drew the ladder to him with his foot, and de scended safely with the women. His act was loudly applauoed. Hoyle was fright lullv burned. oaiu fireman j lmiJiaaaen ot headquar ters: "I will neveA forget those shrieks. My God, it was awful! Those poor, caged people who could not help themselves, t, r iTTfwmsumYWmxm !w5? y v VJKPW 'TJ VfWpQm CONFESSION; REVISED. The Presbyterian Committee Ready With Its Important Beport. 'TWILL NOT BE A UNANIMOUS' ONE. The Presbyteries All Get a Chance to Tote on the Changes. ' A DIFFICULT TASK ACCOMPLISHED rsr-ECIJU. TELEGRAM TO THE DtSPA.TCH.1 New York, Jan. 23. The Committee on Revision appointed by the last General As sembly of the Presbyterian Church to take in hand the difficult task of revising of the old "Westminster Confession of Taith and preparing a new confession that shall be in accord with the sentiment and ideas of Pres byterianism of to-day, and be satisfactory and acceptable to the Presbyterian Chnrch at large has finished its work. The new statement' of doctrine and belief is ready for presentation to the church. The committee met for a final session in the Mission House in Fifth avenue this morning and adjourned at 12:30 p. ar. with out day. The session was mainly taken up in perfecting minor details in regard to the form which the report of the committee to the next General Assembly shall take. There has been considerable discussion and much divergence of opinion in recard to many of the changes made, and some of these changes, as now embodied in the Con fession, have been adopted only by a ma jority vote. Dissenting Minority Beport It was therefore decided that the report should submit the changes made in separate form, each amendment to be separately signed by the committee and the members to have the privilege of expressing their dis sent from any one of the changes. This will practically amount to Uie mak ing of a dissenting minorijy report One of the members said, however, that it was be lieved that no member of the committee would avail himself of this privilege, and tne report would be submitted as un am nions. It will be several weeks before the report is actually ready for signature. It will, of course, not be made public, bnt Dr. Moore, the chairman, said to-day that the reports of the committee's work as printed from daj to day in The Dispatch have con tained really all the important changes that have beeu made, and there will be no news in the report when it is made public In adjourning the committee expressed itself as highly satisfied and pleased with the unanimity that has, as a whole, charac terized its work. This does not, however, by any means dispose of the question of re vision. The new question will have to, be referred back to all the Presbyteries throughout the country for their concur rence in it Kot Satisfactory to everybody. "It cannot reasonably be hoped that the revised confession as now adopted will be satisfactory to the whole church," said a Presbyterian to-day. "Iu fact, it will undoubtedly meet with consider able dissent of a strong char acter. The suggestions offered by the various presbyteries were- very di verse, and it was not possible for the Com mittee on l'evision to rec6ncile them. In regard to some sections certain presbyteries wanted to have them stricken out alto gether. This was particularly the case in regard to the doctrines of pretention, of ef fectual calling, and of some of those refer ring to the Church of Home. It was im possible to reconcile these entirely opposite 'suggestions, and in some points the revision has necessarily been a compromise, and in others there has had to be a choice of two things. "It would seem that the work of revision must go on indefinitely, or that the report of the committee be adopted by the church by a majority vote. In the latter case which many Presbyterians think most prob able of course a great amount of dissatis faction must necessarily remain in the church. But it is a most perplexing prob lem." No further action on revision will be taken until the meeting of the General As sembly at Portland, Ore., next Mav. BRIGGS' CASE DECIDED. VANDERBHiT'S YACHT. Interesting Questions at a Hearing In United States Court The Matter at- Stake a Question of Duty on a Pleasure Boat Under the BlcKtnley BUI. NEW York, Jan. 22. SpeciaL The ar gument in the Conqueror case was laid be fore United States Judge Brown in the District Conrt to-day. United States At torney Mitchell argned forho Collector and Elihn Boot for Mr. Vanderbilt Mr. Mitchell said the bill of sale of the yacht had been indorsed by the American Consul, so that the American flag might be sported, and the bill of sale was also indorsed by Collector Erhardt at this port, bo that the American flag might be flown in American waters. This seemed to show a disposition on the part of Mr. Vanderbilt to import the yacht and thereafter use it for purposes ot pleasure as an American vessel. Mr, Mitchell said that he did not venture to say under what particular clause of the tariff act the Conqueror became dutable. Mr. Eoot, for the libellant, contended that the word "articles" in the McKinlcy bill did not include vessels. "Why," asked Mr. Eoot, "do not the uanara ana White under this law, eludes vessels? Thev come into our waters and sail out again freely and without let or hindrance." Judge Brown asked seyeral questions. "Then your point ii," said the Judge to .Mr. Mitchell, "that if a man wants to fly the American flag he must first pay duties. Until then he may sail around in these waters with impunity." "Yes," returned Mr. Mitchell, "until the owner of a foreign hull yacht brought over here pays duties on it he cannot be entitled to fly the American flag or seek the protection of the United States. The yacht remains a foreign one, though owned by an American citizen, and not until the dntics are paid is the vacht legally American property." Judge Brown reserved his decision. te Star steamship' come if the word 'articles' in- A DIVER'S' ADYENTDEE; Pinned iu the Porthole of a Big Chicago Water Crib, at Least EIGHTY FEET FBOM THE SUEFACE. Two Tnjrs and Sixteen Men Work Lahori onsljr for an Hour TO GET HIM ON DRT LAND ONCE MORE A HEW PLAN FOB ITTHCHINO. Burn Trie Missouri Mob Will Probably Their Man at the Stake. Nevada, Mo., Jan. 22. "When the 7:30 Missouri Pacific train arrived here this evening, a mob of 250 men from Barton county got off, proceeded to the county jail and demanded that the Sheriff turn over to them Hepler, the man who murdered Mrs. Goodly and her little son in that county last Sunday. The Sheriff made some resistance, but the mob proceeded to knock in the door with tools which they had secured by breaking into a blacksmith shop near by. The Sheriff, havine been Drevionslv warned that the mob was coming, had se creted the prisoner in an outhouse, but the mob soon gained admittance and brought Hepler forth. They hurried him down the railroad to Nassau Junction, ex pecting to board the train and take their prisoner back to Barton county, where they intend to burn him at a stake. About half an hour after the mob took the man, Sheriff "White gathered a posse, including Cora nany H., First Itegimeut, M N. G., and started to overhaul fhe mob. In order to shut off communica tion to this place, the mob, in coming to this point, flagged the train between here and Lamars and boarded it The mob made no noise or demonstration while getting the prisoner. Sheriff Garrett, of Barton county, to-dayhad a talk with Hepler in jail, and the prisoner confessed to having murdered the woman and child, but said he did not know what he did it for. BTJGAS PEOPLE ABE SUITED. screamed until - on coi listen any louger." "1 toon a little cliil street window. It was I told the lady to stay for her. When I cot ladder 1 dropped the cht son s arms and started bac but before I readied scarcely stand to nd out of a Georgia ith its mother and I would return it way down the into Gid Thomp- lor tne mother, window sne jumped to the sidewalk.! don't know what became -of her. "In a few minutes I hcaJrd a scream, and. looking up, saw three filces at a fourth story window. They cried for a ladder and we tried to go to the'm, but before we could reach the window all of thfem fell back into the flames and were burned up. Those three people had hopes of escaping even up to the time they perislled, for at every move of the boys they ncted as if they were sure that efforts were being made to rescue them, but it was impossible." WALTEK DAMROSCII writes abont or chestra for THE BISPJATCH to-morrow. A QUESTION Vm&VL THE TABHT. f Chicago's Biggest "W&iolesale Firm "Will Tet the Duiyf on Veilings. Chicago, Jan. 22J Marshall Field & Co., have filed an appeal in the United States Circuit Court, from the decision of the Board of Central Appraisers, assessing duties at CO per cet on a big importa tion of veilings useft on ball dresses and for veils. ft The importers claim the duties shonld be assessed at 50 percent The case will be taken to the Supreme! Court of the United States for final disposition, THE ALLECHENV BRANCH OFFICE or THE lISPATCH AT 107 FEDERAL ST. Is open every day t xcept Sunday until O P. M. Advertisement: i will bs received np to that hour for insertion the next morning at reenter rates. V 4$e$e$-3-$$$ The Conference Committee Refuses to Give . Ont Its TJItimntnra, Thoujrh A. Har monious Solution or the Difficulty Now Hoped Tor General Assembly to Set tle It. Nr.vy York, Jan. 22. SpeciaL The conference between the Board of Directors of Union Theological Seminary and the committee appointed by the Presbyterian General Assembly on the relations between the seminary and the church, as repre sented by the General Assembly, was cont tinned to-day, and what passes for an un derstanding was finally arrived at The General Assembly vetoed as an ap pointment the transfer of Prof. Briggs from the Chair of Hebrew iu the Seminary to the Chair of Biblical TLeology to express it dissatisfaction with his views. The As sembly claimed this veto power under an agreement with the teminary made in 1870, the seminary maintaining that the agree ment did not confer with it the power to veto a transfer, and the directors said that they would retain Dr. Briggs and stand by him at all hazards. fTarm and Yigoron D:scas!on. The conference, with its sub-conferences of directors and committee, has lasted the greater part Of three davs. There has been every indication that tfle discussions were warm and vigorous and that neither side was inclined to yield much. Dr. Patton, President of Princeton Seminary, was chair man of the assembly Committee." It was learned that the Union directors were not at all disponed to recede from the position they had taken. The conference lasted until after 7 o'clock to-night It was then announced' that an agreement or basis of a posaible agreement had been arrived at Anyway, the conference adjourned without day. The parties to the conference were bound not to disclose any part of the proceedings, and Dr. Patton and Dr. Koberts, the President and Secretary of the Assembly Committee, prepared and gave out this 'statement for publication: The Assembly's committee and Board of Directors arrived at a basis of a report to the noxt General Assembly satisfactory to both parties, and giving hope for a har monious solution of the matters at issue. Expressions of Dissatisfaction. Tlie conferees sang the doxology before adjourning, but the hope of a harmonious solution, or the basis lor the hope, did not appear to content any of the members en tirely, and there were many expressions of dissatisfaction as the members filed out Dr. Brown remarked very em phatically that he did not like the principle of the thing a bit One of the assembly committee seemed much worked np, and was patted on the shoulder by a more calm brother who Implored him "not to get mad about the matter." From all that could be learned it ap peared that the basis of an agreement was somewhat unsubstantial. Dr. Hastings, President of the seminary, would not tell what the agreement was! In reply to a question as to whether things at the semi nary would remain as ai present until the meeting of the next General Assembly, he said that, so far as he knew, there would be no change at the teminary in the mean time. Dr. Patton declined to say anything further than that everything was satisfactory to the General Assembly Committee, and that there would be "some reUtions between tho seminary and the General Assembly" when the matter is finally settled. The General Assembly does not meet until May, They Deny There Is Any Truth in Iteports of Combinations. New York, Jan. 22. wi'a'. The re port was revived in "Wall street to-day that the Claus Spreckels establishment in Phila delphia and the Franklin Company had joined hands with the American Sugar Refining Company. The officers of' the latter company declined to speak on the subject "Willett & Gray, authorities on these subjects, said: "There have been no negotiations opened for the purchase of the Franklin refinery, and we believe its pur chase, if practicable, is not contemplated and would 'be undesirable at the valuation tnat wouia ne placed upon it It would simply stimulate new refining enterprises in Philadelphia for competition or sale. ' The case is different with the Spreckels refinery, which has always shown an out-and-out fighting disposition for an outlet for its production, and is likely to remain constantly in the way of its competitors' profits to the extent of its capacity (which has lately been in creased, unless some means can be devised of obtaining the controlling interest, which undoubtedly still remains with Claus Spreckels, although a minority interest of sugar or bonds is generally supposed to have passed into hands friendly to the American Sugar EeSning Company early in 1891, at about the same time as the Cali fornia combination of refiners was ef fected. ' C&BT.13 news a specialty or THE DIS PATCH on Sunday. Every -European capi tal folly covered. lfrr.CI.iti TrLEOBAJt TO Tltlt DISPATClt.l Chicago, Jan. 22. Efforts to keep the great ice floes away from the crib were con tinned all day to-day. Yesterday the divers refused to go down to the portholes at tho crib, claiming it was impossible to live 80 feet undr water. Diver John E. Scully was left at the two-mile crib over night with nine extra men, and this morning he was sent down to clear away any accumula tions of small anchor or sheet ice that might be found at the entrance to the portholes. By some means which only Scully himself can describe, the diver was caught in the porthole, and after futile efforts to disen gage himself he signaled for relief. To their horror those above water found that they conld not pull him up. The City Engineer's office was at once snmmoned, and without an instant's delay the North side pumping works were ordered shut down, It then took two tugs and 10 men over an hour to drag the unconscious diver from the mouth of the great tunnel through which the water is drawn to the city. If the pumps had worked five minutes longer Scully would have been sucked three miles through the bore to the water works. Btory of the Rescued Diver. After he had been resuscitated the diver said: "I went down into the water with com plete divers' armor at abont 9:30 o'clock. I wanted to hack the ios away from one of the outside port holes. I worked away 'from the edges till I removed all the ice, and then started to clear it away from tne opening of the port I moved over them on the broken stone, and had just started to pick the ice away from the hole when my signal line broke. The signal line is the one that I fastened to the life line around the waist, and then passed up through the headpiece of the armor to keep my head up. "Immediately when the signal line parted 1 was snot through the current into the porthole. The current there runs at a ter rific rate. All the pumps of the down-town stations draw their water in through those portholes. A man could not stay in the en trance of one of those ports, even if he was laid down with all the weights of a diver's suit "When my signal line that passes up to the men above was parted I was thrown around broadside against the current and was instantly clapped up against the wall at the top of the porthole. A Terrible Predicament "The 1G men up above felt the jerk that the current had given me, and immediately began to pull with all their strength on my life line. That, of conrse, pinioned my arms down to my sides, and I hadn't the slightest' use of them. I was jammed up against the ceiling until the current caught my head and swung it down. Then all the air that was in my suit rilshed up to my feet, and I was upside down for about 40 minutes. I had the greatest difficulty to get any air, and felt myself growing weaker and weaker every minute. I tried to push myself away from the wall and out of the current, but I could not do anything. "The line around my waist was drawing the life out of me. The blood rushed to my head and made mc terribly sick. I was conscious through all that hour, upside down in the water, my head full of blood , and with barelv enough air to keep me a.live, and all tnose men pulling like horses a the line aronnd my waist The ice musf have cut my signal line." There is still great danger of another ice jam at the crib. "irarw "advertisements. W0BKIHGS OF THE HEW TABIFF To Be Investisated at Once by Mr. Sprinter and HU Committee. "Washington, D. C, Jan. 22. Special. Mr. Springer has called a special meet ing of fhe House Committee on1 "Ways and Means for to-morrow morning to hear Act ing Secretary of the Treasury Spaulding set forfh the condition of the National Treas ury and the state of the Government finances, with particular reference to re ceipts from enstoms in certain lines under theMcKinley tariff law. Secretary Fos ter is still at Fortress Monroe recuperating his shattered health, and therefore Mr. Spanlding, who is perhaps more familiar than his chief with the matters unon which information is desired, has been invited to appear in his stead. He will be accom papied by several Treasury experts, all primed and loaded with facts and figures concerning the amount of apparent surplus cash now in the Treasury vaults,- the alleged juggling of the monthly debt statements issued by the Treasury and the prospects of revenue receipts from customs and internal taxesfor the coming fiscal year. This information, Mr. Springer says, is absolutely necessary before the Committee on AVavs and Means can set to work intelli gently in the preparation of any bills de signed to change the existing tariff, in whole or in part. Several of the more prominent economists of the House who took part in last week's debate on the con dition of the Treasury, have also been in vited to be present, and it is expected that there will be a lively time, partaking some what of the natnre of a cross-examination in court, and in other respects of a general debating society. AT LATIMER'S; CROWDS RESPOND -TO OUR- A TEBBIBLE EXPEBIENCE. The Life-Saving Crew at Kantncket Battle for Hours "With Waves. Naxttjcket.Mass., Jan.22. Special The life-saving crew on this island had a long struggle for life yesterday, being out in the open sea in the lifeboat 23 hours. They saved the crew of the schooner H. P. Kirklmm, loaded with pickled fish, and bound from "Halifax to New York, which struck on Great Bip on Wednesday night The wreck was discovered at daybreak yes terday, and the lite-savers started for it at'8 o'clock. At 11 o'clock they left the schooner, which was fast going to pieces. They had secured the safety of the crew of seven men. Then followed a terrible battle with the waves. All day and all night they tried to reach the shore. They were beaten off until the men were too exhausted to row. At 10 o'clock this morning they managed to beach the boat at Seasconset, ten miles from the station. The members of the life-saving station were completely exhausted, and four of the rescued crew nearly perished. All are now out of danger. The vessel and cargo are a total loss. BARGAIN CALL! SALE CONTINUED. WE HAVE' MANY ODD PIECES OF CARPETS, CURTAINS , SIBT7CK AK OLD BLAST. The Explosion Following Kills Two "Work men and Injures Three. New Yoke, Jan. 22. The premature ex plosion of a blast this afternoon killed two persons and seriously injured three. The killed are James Dooley and James Cox. The injnred are Charlotte F. Wilson, James Kennedy and Tona Rosa. The blast was an old one and was acci dentally struck by the crowbar of one of the men. Kennedy and Bosa were only slightly injured, and were able to go home after'tlieir wounds had been dressed at the hospital. Wilson was injured more severely I and is still in the hospital. AND DRESS GOODS AT THE Oddest Prices You Ever Saw I Dress Goods 3c a Yard. . Lace Curtains, $1.50; Were$4.00. Ingrain Carpets, 50c to 25c a Yard. Body Brussels, 65c; Were $1.40. FtHoquettes, 65c; Were,$!.50. Tapestry Brussels at 30c a Yard. THE ABOVE PRICES WILL ASTONISHHE NATIVES. T. M. LATIMER, 138 and 140 Federal St., 45 and 46 S. Diamond, ALIBGHBXV, EA. Ja234S-TT3 CONNECTED WITH THE BAHAMAS. The Cable Between Jiassan and Florida as "Well as Landed. Jacksonville, Jan. 22. Special A special from Jupiter says: B. F. Dillon, Florida Superintendent of the Western Union, arrived here on Tuesday last m anticipation of the landing here of the first occin cable from the city Nassau, N. P., on Wednesday the 20th. The English steamer Westmeath, under charter to Sir Ambrpse Shea, Governor of the Bahamas, haspeen laying the cable for the past week or more, having left Nassau about January 14. At 11 o'clock this forenoon she was sighted. It is expected that she will come to anchor off the Inlet some time this after noon, but the cable may not be landed until early to-morrow morning. The cable will of course, be landed on the Atlantic side of the narrow strip of land separating St Lucie Sound from the sea. At this point English ownership of the cable ceases. At the landing point the Western Union Company will connect its cable with John . Bull's, carry it across the ''haulovcr" in an under ground trench (to prevent its being struck by lightning), and at the west shore of the land strip submerge it aeain in the waters of the Sound, the office" being located on the mainlaind of Florida, almost directly west of the landing place of the English cable. MTJBDEB MYSTEEY CLEABIHG TJP. 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