THE -'ONLY REPUBLICAN DAILY " IN LACKAWANNA COUNTY,'
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'CLOSING
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A LARGE AND WELL
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CAN BE SEEN AT
8 SPRUCE STREET.
When you pay for Jewelry you might M
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A fine line of Novelties for Ladies and
Gentlemen.
W. J. WeicheE
408 Spruce St.
'c Falls,
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