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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,
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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.
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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.
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"Washington, D. C, Jan. 22. Special.
Mr. Springer has called a special meet
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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
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theMcKinley tariff law. Secretary Fos
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information is desired, has been invited to
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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
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signed to change the existing tariff, in
whole or in part. Several of the more
prominent economists of the House who
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dition of the Treasury, have also been in
vited to be present, and it is expected that
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what of the natnre of a cross-examination
in court, and in other respects of a general
debating society.
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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.
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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
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hospital. Wilson was injured more severely I
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The Cable Between Jiassan and Florida as
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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
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the waters of the Sound, the office" being
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Two Important Arrests Blade In the Barrett
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Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 22. Special. Tlie
mystery surrounding the murder of the
venerable JJr. J. H. M. Barrett and his
wife, nee Griffin, several weeks ago, bids
fair to be solved at last To-day Will Nun
ally, a young man of a prominent-family,
the grandson of JJr. and Mrs. Barrett, was
arrested for the murder, and to-night he-was
brought to Atlanta for safe-keeping. Nun
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alone with the old folks. From the first he
has been connected with the crime in the
minds of a number of people, but suspicion
has not heretofore been sufficient against
him to cause his arrest
Nunally has spent but little time in Cres
well, where the murder occurred, since the
burial of his grandfather." He Jias been vis
iting his mother in Griffin most of the time.
Late yesterday Sam Kendall, colored, was,
arrested for complicity in fhe crime. There
was great deal or talk of Jynching the negro
Kenaall, who confessed..
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