THE -'ONLY REPUBLICAN DAILY " IN LACKAWANNA COUNTY,' TWELVE PAGES 84 COLUMNS. SCK ANTON, PAM SAT URDAY MORNING, AUGUST 1, 189G. TWO CENTS A COPT WE 'CLOSING i Urn v! vll tt That's the burden of the story for today. The whys and the where fores are told below. CLOSING IWve secured something like fifty or sixty pieces of fancy, silks cif marvellous beauty and choice tnnkes. They're light in line with fashion's latest early autumn bul letins, ond therefore the most de Birable silks on the market present buying or near future wear. We bought them low, so can you. 10 Pieces New Idea lrrldisccnt Glace Tnf t'eta Silks in superb dual tone ef fects. Bargain Price 75c 8 Pieces Fancy Mist Wave Brocade Taffetas. Only one piece to a style. Guar anteed value Silo. Bargain Price 62 l-2c 1 0 Pieces Midget Figure Taffeta Silks. V.r. tirely new creation!;. No to pieces alike. Fully worth 6.V. Bargain Price 45c Pieces Rluck India ltioeade Silks. 24 Inches 'wide. Coming season's styles. Very best made. Cheap enough at 8iie. Bargain Price 65c. SPECIAL During the opening days referred to below We will offer 25 Pieces Strictly all-wmd fancy Black Ilio cuiles. Styles a week or two nhcad of the acusun. Quality full Value for 50 cents. Bargain Price 37 J -2c OPENING Rcejnnlitg tomorrow (Thursday), July 3(th, and continuing for one week, we will make u special dis play of EARLY FALL BLACK DRESS GOODS Including every (worthy novelty likely to become popular as the season advances. Among the new whims you'll find Lizard Cloths A real novelty. Come and Fee them. Mohair Stripe Crepons Rich in quiet elegance. Silk Brocade Crepons Fashion's latest worshlppful Ideal. Combination Crepons Fresh ideas with much that is ad mirable in them. THESE Are but a few: still, there's really no limit to our showing. Opening Days are a sort of free promenade time. When shopping favor us with a call. iQ-LQBE BHOUSE THE ATLANTIC CITY RAILROAD HORROR Burdca of Blame for the Accident Is Laid Upon the Dead Engineer. LIST OF THE DEAD NUMBERS 47 I'urtvtwu Here Killed Otitright"The Hod ics of Three Womeu, Two Men mid a Hoy, Are Still Inideulilicd. The Dentil of .Many Other Victim Kxpeettd Hourly. Atlantic City, X. J., July III As a re sult of the terrible collision on the Mea dows last evening between the Read ing railroad express fmm Philadelphia and Die Liridgetou excursion train out of her.. forty-seven people are dead and forty-rour are lying In the hospital here Inure or less seriously hurt. Of the Injured in the hospital, several are expected tn die. tttsldes those serious ly enough hurl to b in the hospital a si-m r more of people were bruised and slial - n up and went to cottages. Tlie fearful shock of the collision is il lustrated in the fact that of the forty- I sewn dead, forty-two were killed out rlglu. of the dead, forty-one have been identified, and the bodies of three women, two men and a boy are lying at the undertakers' shops awaiting cLdiiiants. Tli responsibility for the ncident Is linrd to lihice lit 1 hix limn Imi ,U l.,,. j ili-ii el' it seems to rest upon the dead engineer i.t the Heading train, Kdward I'arr, though an ulticlal Investigation may clear ids name. The list of dead and Injured follows: TI1K HEAD. Charles Aim in, Itridgeton; John tlrenr, Itrlilgeton: Charles Kekley, t'liuile 1J. .Mctltar, ItridKeluii; Itlehurd Trenehard, Hrldifeton; Airs. Hicliard Trenelinrit j lirldgetuii; S. l Alurphy, .Mlllvllle; Joseph i -eiers, un ikcIoii; .1. J). Johnson, Uriile. ion; Charles l. Hiirroiighs, Itriileetoii; lio.ly supposed 10 bet'mirle Hoov, llrldee to:i; II. T. I tell, IJridgetnn; W. V. Lopcr, Hiiilgetou; .Mr. mid Mra. P. 11. Ooldsmith, I'.ildit.'ion; SaintH Tlioin, hassuye mus. tcr. Allaiitie city; l-'itinklln Oulwls, Uecr lieUl; Joshua Rnnest, lirtdgelon; Sirs. Alary Wentssell, Allow ay; .Mrs. Lydla Carl, Hancock's Bridge; l'earl Aluttu, Bridge, ton; Airs. Ellen Way, Palatine; Airs. If. If. Jiell. wife of If. V. BelJ, .Mary Anna Freas, (child), Bridgeton; .Mis . Alary Fivus motlicr of Alarry Anna, .Mrs. J. D. liatc nian, Bridgeton; Kdward Karr, engineer Hearting train. Atlantic City; t'linrles Hip. beit. KridKeton: James 51. ftuteinnn, hus band of Airs. rJateman, A. Peters, son of Joseph PeUrs. Heba 51. Loper. Yorktown: .Miss Tlllie Leeds, Ilrldgeton; Airs. Hattle Loper, Bridgeton; Nannie Cheney, Bridge ton; Alizeal 'Alay, toy, Bridgeton: William ftpuuldlng. iransfer ssent Reading rail road, riiiladeliihia; Henry Hughes, Bridge ton; William Prlrkett, Bridgeton; E. It. Tayior, no address; Joseph Cheny, Bridge ton; Charles May, I'alutine; unknown wo. man, unknown woniun, unknown woman, unknown mon, unknown man, unknown boy. . TUB INJURED. Howard Woodland, Bridgeton, broken arm; Airs. K. A. Abbott, Rhodestown, N. 4., lower limbs and arm broken: Liszle Sinallcy, Bridgeton, and Caroline Smut ley, arms and legs severely injured; C. D. U'rascr and wife, Bridgeton, both badly cut on head; Irwin Dubois. 12 years old, head cut and bodily Injuries; Airs. 51. Ke! Ror. Elmer, X. J., back badly hurt and head cut; Jacob Johneon, Shirley, J., head hurt and child badly hurt; Stanley Wensell, Alloway, N. J., scalp nearly torn on; Airs. S. Johnson, Shirley, N. J., shoul der, head and breast bruised; Alary Shtmp, Freesboro, N. J.. head cut: Charles C. Ttlnnick. Bridgeton, badly cut about head; Violet Alfred, Bridgeton, face and nose fractured; Airs. Laura Pierce, Bridgeton, badly cut, head and body bruised; Will lam Hlmpklns, Salem, head lacerated; Ala. son Worth. No. 8M North Twelfth street, Philadelphia, back Injured; Albert Tra. der, Bridgeton, head cut; William Hough ton, Bridgeton, internal Injuries; Edward Zeeley, Bridgeton, head cut; Chester Bur ger. Ilrldgeton, hip injured; Howard Woodlnwn, Bridgeton, arm broken; ex Judge Hltchmnn, Bridgeton, Internal In juries; Airs. Hitcliman, wife, concussion of brain; Airs. K. A. Abbott, Bridgeton, leg broken; Howard Smith, Bridgeton, buck broken; David Frlese, address un known, neck dislocated; Mrs. Jacob Reger, Elmer, N. J., bruised and hurt about head; Albert Taylor, Bridgeton, three' scalp wounds; Jacob Hilton, Bridgeton, bruised badly about head: Charles Horner. Bridge ton, broken leg end Internal Injuries; Har ry Wuton, Yorktown, N. J., leg broken, head Injured; LlEnle Ruter, Bridgeton, eon. tusclon of back; Charles W. Horner, frac tnred leg and Internal Injuries; Airs. Faunee Fraltnger, Philadelphia, broken leg amputated ; Albert H. Taylor, scalp wounds and arm broken, 213 Pear street, T : i; rvry V.';'-"'. 1 y--r eM legs broken and head injured, Yorktown; K. S. Watson, arm crushed, Yorktown, N. J.: W. Johnson, fractured femur, Bridge ton: .Mrs. Lizzie 51. Aluttu, contusion of Un k, Bridgeton; Hamuel Alutta, scalp and internal injuries, Bioud street, Bridge ton; Samuel Alutta, scalp and Internal in. jurtis, 275 Bioad Btreet, Kridgetou; How ard W'oodlin, aged IS years, broken arm, BrldgciQn; Samuel Wilson and Stanford Wilson, Alloway, N. J.: unknown woman, light hair, dark clothing, fractured skull. PASSED THREE; SIGNALS. Camden, N. J., July 31. Station Mus ter John Hod inc. of th West Jersey, the seashore road, said that he learned thut Engineer Fair, nf the Reading train, passed three signals, nil againstS him. before the train crashed Into the West Jersey excursion train. The Hist xignul was II, Ouo feet away and is known us the distance signal. Then he had to pass a home signal and finally thei block signal at the crossing. Engineer (IrJner, of the excursion train, told Bndlne that lie 'iad stopped before reaching the crossing and blew his whistle to icet the operator to give him the i leur signal, lie got a clear signal and started. He could not see the Heading train, but lie saw a cloud of dust, indicating its approach. Fair had ample time to stop tils train but made no effort. it Is also rumored that there was some one in the cab tulklng to Farr at the time or the accident, but this could imt bo continued. AT SCENE OF Till! WltUCK. Atlantic City was in an uproar. Thousands thronged out to the seeiie of the wreck and collected around the railroad stations and pushed und crowd ed to wulch the trains discharge their loads of dead and injured. As It was gradually learned Hint nearly every one on tiie ItendliiK express had escaped uninjured the crowd gradually thinned our. the anxiety of relatives and friends being relieved !y the oufe arrival of those they feared dead or inuined. The uninjured und those only slightly hurt iimoii the Ilrldgeton excursionists were In a fiensy of itgniiy. The train struck was thP first section of the excursion train nnd those on the second section Hocked to the hospital und morgue as the victims were brought in. Two miles out on the meadows the wrecking crews of the Heading and West Jersey railroads wore toiling by the light of huge lion fires to clear away the wreck and splinters of broken cars By dawn, they had practically cleared the tracks. Hroken and battered out of shape, the huge engine of the express lay on Us side by the truck. Pinned beneath, with his pale, blood stained lace staring into those of the men work ins:, was Fnrr, the engineer. Not until thin morning were the wreckers able to raise the wrecked engine and draw from beneath it fhe crushed body of the en gineer. It was placed in a box and taken to Parr's home. It was reported last night.when Mrs. Farr heard of her husbands death she fell dead. This was not so. She fell into a swoon and to night is lying in a serious condition re ceived from the shock. TEMPORARY MORGUE. The old excursion house at the foot of Mississippi avenue had been turned into a temporary morgue. Hpre, stretched out on the floor in two parallel rows, were the dead in boxes. 'Some attempt had been made to clean the corpses, but some were half nude, their torn and tattered clothing not covering their limbs, and nearly all were horribly mutilated. The body of a woman lacked a head, another an arm, some a hand or a foot. Outside the morgue a great crowd was collected. Many of these were only of that morbid class which is attracted by death and suffering like carrion birds. The pale faces and trembling forms of others in the crowd told at a glance that their errand was far different. They sought their dead. Ropes stretched around the entrance barred out the crowd, and the police let no one In who they did not think had business to take them there. The scenes as the bodies were Identified were sad and pathetic beyond words. The coroner's Jury viewed the bodies this morning and they were all taken away today except those unidenti fied. The Pennsylvania railroad fur nished a special train which took away to Bridgeton the twenty-three bodies. The bodies of the others of the Identi fied dead were taken away on other trains during the day. Coroner William McLaughlin was the busiest man in Atlantic City today. Immediately upon hearing; of the ac cident last night Mr. McLaughlin went to the scene. He went directly into the block tower and questioned Opera tor nnr- p, TTnuwr. Hnttsef told A NOISY TEAM. him thut he thought the excursion train hnd time to cross the tracks of the Reading before the express got there and he set the "clear" signal for the West Jersey train. To properly under stand Houser'a statement some ex plan atlon of the signalling system is neces sary. The system used Is the inter locking block system. There are three poles with semaphores controlled by the tower on the reading tracks and two on the West Jersey., The pole fur thest from the tower on the Heading tracks U distant about two thousand -ards. The other two are much clos er. When the "clear" signal is set on the Pennsylvania track, this automat ically sets the "danger" signal on the Reading tracks and vice versa. The "danger" signal is still set tonight on the Heading; tracks. Before Houser could make a further explanation to the coroner, lie received an order from the railroad officials to say nothing. He obeyed and would make no further ex planation. IPendlng an Investigation, Houser wa put under arrest by the coroner. HOUSER VERY COOL. This evening Mr. McLaughlin re leasod Operator Houser un M) ball to be answerable to the verdict of the coroner's Jury. Houser Is a young man and when brought before the coroner appeared cool and composed. After his release a reporter for the United Press asked him for a statement of how the accident occurred. Houser refused to talk, only saying that his explanation would be made later. The railroad ofliiiuls of botli companies here will nut tulk. and It Is diftlcult to definitely lay the blame for the acci dent. Houser certainly set the danger sig nal fur the Reading train when he gave the excursion the right of way. The question is did he set the signnl In time for Engineer Farr to see it? Or did he become excited when he saw a collision imminent and set it too lute for Farr to stop his train. Farr was an experienced engineer, and It seems Incredible that he would rush past a danger signal down to a crossing that was being approached by a train he could clearly see. HIS LAST RIDE. It developed tonight that last night's ride, which ended In disaster and death, was for Engineer Farr at least to have terminated in a change of circum stances and a happier life. Tt was to have been his lust ride on the engine, and the second man In the cab, who was also killed, and whose identity has not been fully established, was to have nucceeded him in the position, L'arr and his wife had been saving money for several years and managed to accumu late enough to stock a little store on Atlantic avenue with cheap notions. Today had been fixed for the beginning of the new career. But today the store Is closed. HANNA'S HEADQUARTERS. The Chicago Ollice Mill Kcmain as Originally Planned. New York, .July 31. Mark A. Hanna arrived at the Hotel Waldorf at 9.30 a. m. When asked about the report telegraphed from Chicago that it Is proposed to move national headquart ers from that city to Cleveland, Ohio, on account of difference between man agers of the Illinois state campaign and the men in charge of the national headquarters, Mr. Hanna made a posi tive denial of the story. He said that the headquarters will remain at Chicago as originally planned, and will be equal in Import ance with the headquarters in this city. HARRITY WILL RETIRE, Peaaiylvanla Leader of the L'aterri Bed Hat Had Eaough. Philadelphia, July 31. Mr. William J. Harrity this afternoon announced his retirement from active politics. He wilt, he says, continue to take a general Interest In politics, but will ab solutely refruln from any participation whatever In matters that relate to party organization and arrangements. The Treasury Deficit. Washington, July 31. The treasury defi cit for July, as will be shown In the otll- cial statement to be Issued tomorrow, will be In round figures J12.SOO.000. The receipts tor July have been 2,400,000 and tht ex penditures M2.2O0.U00. Watcrbury Watch Factory Closed. Water bury, Conn.. July 31. The Water- bury Watch company, which employs sev eral hundred operatives, closed down all departments of its plant this evening until September. The shut down is the result of dull business SOLDIERS VISIT MAJOR M'KINLEY Four Hundred Veterans and Citizens of Guernsey County Pay Their Respects. A WARM . ADDRESS OF WELCOME The Debt Hue to the Meu M ho M ill ingly Ofterrd Their Lives tor the Preservation of Their Country. Debts Mliich Should He Paid In Sound Money. Canton, O., July 31. A delegation of 400 old soldiers and citizens of I iuernsey county and Cambridge, o., called on Major McKI'ey at noon today. Intro ductory speeches were made by ex Congressman J. A. Taylor and Captain McFarlaiii. The major responded, expressing gratification at meeting old friends and neighbors of Guernsey county. He was glad to meet the representatives of la bor and congratulated them upon the advance thut has been uuide in the tin plate Industry to which Colonel Taylor has referred. "When the war closed," he continued, "there were two great debts resting upon this government; one was the debt due to the men who had loaned the government money with which to carry on Its military opera tions. The other debt was due to the men who hud willingly offered their lives for the preservation of the Ameri can union. (Cheers). The old soldiers waited on their pensions until this great debt of the government was well out nf th way. They wailed patiently until the government of the United tstntes had reduced nearly two-thirds of thut greut money debt. The old sol diers never were, therefore, repudiating that. (Cheers). They wanted every dollur of the debt paid in the best money known to the commercial world. (Ap plause). And every dollar of the debt up to this hour has been paid lu gold or its equivalent, the best recognized money of the world. (Cheers). And every dollar of that debt, my comrades, yet to be paid will be paid in the same unquestioned coin." (Tremendous ap plause). TAMMANY FALLS IN LINE. Executive Committee 1'nanimously Approves of Bryan's Cnndiducy. Lincoln, Neb., July 31. Air. Bryan this evening completed the itinerary of his journey to New York. Pittsburg is the only large city where the night of a week day will be spent, and Mr. Bryan may be prevailed on to address an audience there. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan will leave Lin coln Friday evening, Aug. 7, on the train due in Chicago Saturday after noon. They will remain In Chicago over TOE NEWS THIS MORNING. Weather Indications Today I Fair; Slightly Warner. 1 The Atlantic City Railway Horror. Four Hundred Veterans Visit AteKln- ley, 2 Dun's Weekly Trade Review. Points for Farmers to Consider, Politics at the National Capital. t (Local) Building Permits for July. Code of Rules for Fire Department. 4 Editorial. Comments of the Press. 5 (Local) Trying to Elect an Acting Mayor. Trial Trip on Olyphant Road. Durning Is Free. .'rX 6 Social and Personal. Doings of Our Church Folk. 7 Suburban Happenings. Market and Financial News. 8 (Sporting) Eastern ' and National League Games. Local Base Ball Gossip. Bicycle Riders Beat the Train. 9 Doings of a Week at Chautauqua, Old Fables of Alchemists. 10 (Story) "An American Beauty." Well-Known Noms de Plume. i II Fifty Years of Great Invention. Cymraeg y Cerrlg Calch. M News tTt and Down tht Valley. From tli Washington Timu. Sunday, leaving there Just fcefbre 12 o'clock Sunday night viU the Pennsyl vania road. Monday night will be spent in Pittsburg, and the departure for New York will be made early Tuesday morning, so us to reach there at 6.30 o'clock that evening. The nationul committee will meet in New York at the time of the notification and Important campaign work will be discussed. From New York Mr. and Mrs. Itrynn will go to Bath, Me., to visit Mr. and Mrs. Hewall. The return trip will not be arranged until after the New Yirrk notification meeting. Mr. Bryan is not making any dates for speeches at this time and will not do so until after the national committee has been con sulted. News of his endorsement by the Tam many executive committee was: re ceived by Mr. Bryan this afternoon In a telegram from Congressman Amos J. Cuinmiiigs. Mr. Cummings wired: "The Tammany executive committee hiis just unanimously endorsed your nomination. My personal congratula tions." CONDITIONS IMPROVED. Dun and Company Oive Eocourafiof Reports in Retard to tbe Business Outlook. New York, July 31. R. O. Dun & Co. In their Weekly Review of Trade to morrow will say: Business conditions have clearly Im proved, though business has not. It Is the torpid season, and better prospects huve little effect as yet. Gold exports have been stopped and foreign advices are more promising as'respects an early and large demand for American pro ducts. The operations of foreigners in the stock market have reflected little beyond the troubles of speculators at the London settlements and varying de grees of ignorance about American af fairs. The prospect for largs crops of cotton and corn Is still excellent, and neither movements of wheat nor mar kets give countenance to low estimates. Wheat is going out with more freedom than Is usual for the seams., and At lantic exports have been t.90l, 119 'bush els. Hour Included, for the week, against 900.248 last year, and for four weeks 6,5(14.266 bushels against 3,422,321 last year. Lower rail rates helped corn to make a new low record at 30.12 cents, and prospects are generally favorable. Cotton advanced a quarter on reports of Injury, but there are really few who expect less than a largo yield. A ray of encouragement comes to rail mills, two considerable sales having been made, 20,000 tons to a New England road and 10,000 by the New Premier Steel com pany, of Indianapolis, but otherwise sales are small. Trade In wire nails has been so light that even the trifling allotment of 65,000 kegs for July is sup posed to have exceeded sales, and the association is In session at Boston to consider the matter. The buiet pool has been constantly undersold by middle men and upon hearth steel, and had a session yesterday at which reduction of prices was discussed. Many contracts for structural works are held back, and there Is very little done in that line, and orders for plates and pipe are scarce. It is not strange that pig Is weak, Bes semer being $1150 at Pittsburg, and southern somewhat lower at the east. The volume of domestic trade, judg ing from exchanges, has been small even for midsummer. It Is not surpris ing that failures have been considerable in magnitude, and in twenty-three days of July defaulted liabilities were $12, 069.481, against $8,392,727 in twenty-five days last year. Failures for the week have been 2KI In the United States against 261 last year, and 40 in Canada, against 28 last year. Senator Quay's Outing. Harrlsburg, Pa., July 31. Senator Quay left here for his home at Beaver this afternoon and will start Monday for Flor ida to fish a few weeks. The senator re fused to discuss the United States sena tor ship. He speaks very confidently on the result of McKlnlcy and Hobart campaign. ' Michnel I.ehniaier Dead. New York. July 31. Michael Lchmalcr, who was shot three times by his alleged brother-in-law, Charles A. Johnson, In a boaJing house last Tuesday morning, died today. Lehmaier was trying to break Into his wife's room, when Johnson, w.io was m the room, shot him. Herald's M'eather Forecast. New York, Aug. 1. In the Middle states, fair weather, followed by rising tempera ture. On Sunday, fair to partly cloudy, with slight temperature changes, proba bly followed by rain on Monday. OPEN TODAY HEW STOCK OF INLEY 510 AND 512 LACKAWANNA AVENUE Always Biasy. Cool Shoes for Hot Feet. Our 60c. Outing Shoes sale begins todj) for The Boys and Girls. SJ s A LARGE AND WELL SELECTED 5T0CK OP FINE U2U V V ILJILJII CAN BE SEEN AT 8 SPRUCE STREET. When you pay for Jewelry you might M well get the best. A fine line of Novelties for Ladies and Gentlemen. W. J. WeicheE 408 Spruce St. 'c Falls, 9 9 W mind lESituficHii 9e lDn Ready Mixed Tinted Gloss Paints, Strictly Pure Linseed Oil, Guaranteed. Blade mi ftl nxd Sit UNDER- SIMS
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