PUBLISHED THREE TT DID IN TRAP Iao7 Persons Are Crashed and Boraed in a New York Factory DEATH tElB HliAVY They An; Caught Without Means of Escape, Many Jump from Ninth . ami Tunth Stories ?-Mres Are Crushei! Out on Paveirieht Before Horrified Spectators. *> .C. : ": One hundred and ^orty-elght .per sons?nire-tentha of them girls from the East Side? rtere crushed to death on the pavements, smothered by smoke or shrivelled crisp Saturday afternoon in the worst fire New York has known since the steamer federal Slocum nas burned off North Broth ers Island, in 1904. Nearly all, if not all, of the vic tims were employed by the Triangle Waist Company, on the eighth, ninth and tenth floors of a ten-story lofi building, at No. 23 Washington Place, on the western fringe of the down-town wholesale clothing, fui and millinery district. The partners of the firm, Isaac Harris and Mac Blanck, escaped from the office on the tenth floor, carrying . with theai over an adjoining roof Blanch's two young daughters and a governess. There was not an outside fire escape on the building. How the fire started will perhaps never be known. A corner on the eighth floor was its point of origin and the three upper floors only were swept. Cn the ninth' floor, fiftv bod ies were found, sixty-three or more were crushed to death by "jumping, and more than thirty clogged the ele vator shafts. The loss to property will not exceed $,100,000. Pedestrians going home, through Washington Place to Washington Square, at ten minues to five, were scattered by the whiz of something rushing tiirough the air before them; there was a terrible thud on the pavement and a body flattened on the flags. Wayfarers on the opposite sldb of the titreet shaded their eyes against the setting sun and saw the windows of the three upper floors oi the building black with girls crowd ing to tht) sills. There were no Art escapes! No Other Alternative. "Don't jump; don't jump!" yelled the crowd, but the girls had no alter native. The pressure of the mad dened hundreds behind them and the urging of their own fears were too strong. They began to fall to the sidewalk, in a terrible rain of flesh and blood. Four alarms were rung within 1!\ minutes. Before the'engines coulu respond, before the nets could b? stretched or the ladders raised, five girls had fallen from the eighth and ^nfnth floors so heavily that they broke through the glhss and hron roofs of the Gub-cellars and crashen through ':he very streets into the vaults below. In an hour the fire vas out; in half an hour it had done its worst. Probably the deat>: list was full in 20 minutes. The building standB on a corner, with exposure on two sides, but the only fire escape was In the rear, op ening Into a light and air shaft. In all, there were seven exits?the sin gle fire escape, two freight elevators, at the rear; two passenger elevators in front, and two stairways. All of them proved almost useless and prac tically s.ll who escaped either climbed to the roof and scrambled thence to the roof of the building oc cupied by the American Book Com pany, or fled in the first rush for safety before the crush and the smoke grew too thick. The buildings stand tonight with shell intac t and barely scarred?rath er only smudged. The tiling between the floors are sound, and it is im possible tor one, who did not see it, to imagine how the flames in so short a time could have caused such havoc. Seven huadred persons were em ployed by the shirt waist company. They sat in rows at their whirring machines, the tables before th^m piled with flimsy cloth, the floor lit tered with lint, the air itself full ot flying inflammable dust. Died in Their Seats. The first rush of flame was almost an explosion. Operators died In their chairs, their lungs seared by inhaling flame. Others were crowded into the elevator shafts, after the cars had made their last trip. Still others were pushed of? the inadequate interior fire escape In such a horrible stream did the bodies overflow from the windows, that the fire nets, stretched by the first company to arrive, were soon gorged beyond capacity. Twelve bodies dropped into one net, tearing it to pieces, then fell to the pave ment. When :he first breath of flame curled over the edge of a pile of 6hirting, on the eighth floor, five minutes before quitting time, hun dreds were in line before the casn ier"s window. In the office buildings across Washington Place, scores of men, detained beyond office hours, worked at their desks. One of them said a girl rushei to a window and threw up the sash, Hehind her danced a seeth ing curtain of yellow flame. Sue climbed to the sill, stood in black outline against the light, hesitating; therrwith a last touch of futile thritt, slipped her chatelaine bag over her &LE S A WEEK, wrist and jumped. Her body went whirling downward, thrcugh the wo ven wire glass of a canopy, to the flagging below. Her sisters who fol ! lowed, flamed through the air like i rockets. Their path could be fol lowed, but their screams hardly heard. It was 85 feet from eighth floor to the ground, about 95 feet from the ninth floor, 115 feet from Lhe cornice of the roof. The upward rush of the draught and tb* crackle of the flames drowned their cries. Six girls fought their way to a window on the ninth floor, over the bodies of fallen fellow f/orkers,. ana crawled out in single file on an eight inch stone ledge running the length of the building. More than a hun dred feet above the sidewalk they crawled along their perilous path way to an electric-feed wire spanning Washington placef The'v leader's I paused for their companions to catch up and the six grabbed t ie wire sim ultaneously. It snapped and they crashed down to death. A 17-year-old girl huirg ^or three minutes by her finger tips to the sill of a tenth floor window. A tongue of flame licked at her finders and she dropped into a life-net, held by fire men. Two women fell into the net at almost the same moment. The strings parted and the three wt-re added toj the death list. One gin threw herj pocketbook, then her hat, then her fan from the tenth story window. A moment later her body came hurlln~ after them, to death. At a ninth floor window a man anS a woman appeared. The man em-1 braced the woman and kissed her. I Then he hurled her to the street and jumped. Both were killed. Five girls j smashed a pane of glass dropped in 8 struggling tangle and were crushed | into a shapeless mass. A girl on tho eighth floor leaped for a fireman's ladder, which reached only to sixth floor. She missed, struck the edge of a life-net and was picked up with her back broken. From one window a girl of about' 13 years, a woman, a man and twoj women, with their arms about one| another, threw themselves to the I ground in rapid succession. The! little girl was whirled to. the New York Hospital. She screamed as the driver and a policeman lifted hei into the hallway. A 6urgeon came out, gave one look at her face and touched her wrist. "She is dead," he said. One girl jumped into a horse blanket, held by firemen and police men. The blanket ripped like cheese cloth and her body was mangled al most beyond recognition. Another dropped into a tarpaulin, held by three men. Her weight tore it from their grasp and she struck the street, | breaking almost every bone in her; body. Almost at the same time a! man somersaulted down upon the shoulder of a policeman holding the tarpaulin. He glanced off, struck the sidewalk and was pick-d up dead. Effort to Check Stampede. Within the building a man on the eighth floor stationed himself at the door of one of the elevator* and with ? club kept back the girls, who had stampeded to the wire cage. Thirty were admitted to the car at a time. They were rushed down ?s fast as possible. The calls for ambulances were fol lowed by successive appeals for po lice, until 100 patrolmen arrived to cope with a crowd numbering tens of thousands. A hundred mounted po licemen had to charg-3 the crowd re peatedly to keep it back. Led by Fire Chief Crokir, a squad I of firemen gained access to the build ! Ing at 7 o'clock. Two searchlights I from buildings opposite lighted the 'way of'the firemen. Fifty roasted j bodies were found on the ninth floor. ' They lay in every possible position, [ some so mangled that recognition j was Impossible. Women with their hair burned away, with here* and there a limbj burned entirely off and the charred! stump visible, were lifted tenderly from the debris, wrapped in oilcloth; and lowered by pulleys to the street. Across the street there rested on j the sidewalk a hundred pine coffins, into which were placed the bodies. As fast as this was done, the coffins were carried away, in any kind of a vehicle that could be pressed into service, to the morgue, at Bellevue! Hospital, and the Charities Morgue,1 opened for the first time since the General Slocum disaster. One hundred and six b odies had j been taken from the building and twenty injured had been conveyed to' St. Vincent's Hospital, at 10 o'clock. Of these three died soon after admit tance. Others were not expected to live through the night. Three of five women taken to Rellevue Hospital died soon after admitted there. Many Rescued by Students. On the tenth floor of the building adjoining the burned structure, is the law department of the New York University. Here twenty odd stu dents were listening to a lecture by Frank H. Sommer, former sheriff of Essex County. He saw the smoke and saw the girls trapped on the roof. He led bis class to the roof of the University quarters, where they found two ladders. Two boys bore these down two flights of the roof of an intervening building, swarmed out of the windows and raised them to the roof of the burning building. Forty girls were brought town to safety. Just how many trips were made by the elevator men will perhaps nev er be ascertained. The various re ports of heroism at the elevators dif fer. . City officials announced tonight that the usual rigid regulations which follows such disasters will be OBANGEBI KILELD IN WRECK "DIXIE FLYER" GOES THROUGH I TRESTLE INTO RIVER. More Than a Dozen Also Injured in One of Worst Railroad Disasters Known in the South. In one of the worst railroad disas ters known in the South Atlantic States, eight persons were killed and more than a dozen injured, when train No. 97, known as the "Dixie Flyer," on the Atlantic Coast Line, and running between Chicago and Jacksonville, went through a trestle over the Alapapa river, eighteen miles east of Tlfton, Ga., early Satur day morning. Saturday night but one body, that of John T. Watson, of Wyoming* remained In the river. Had it not been for the wreck, Watson would have been a bride groom Sunday. His sweetheart, MIbs Elise Shippey, of PaBadena, Cal., who was on the train with him, and to; whom he was to have been married In Jacksonville Sunday, remained at! the wreck throughout the day andi night, watching the efforts of the rescuing party to recover Watson's body. The revised list o'l the dead and in jured is given as follows: Dead: 0. F. Bonmwart, Henderson, Ky.; W.'W. Culpepper, Tifton, O.a.; Mrs. W. D. Fletcher, Rowland, 111.; John T. Watson, Landa, Wyo.; J. P. Wood ward, express messenger, Waycross, Ga.; C. J. Parnell, conductor, Savan nah; Lucius Ellis, fireman, and Al bert Simmons, porter, both colored, of Waycross, Ga. Injured: J. E> Powell, baggage master, Jacksonville; J. P. Klein, wife and child, St. Louis; father and mother bruised and child scalded, Peter Geriofs, Holland, Mich., bruised; Nie Vanderme^on, Grand Rapids, Mich., bruised about the head and knees; Mrs. O. F. Bonmhart, Henderson, Ky.; W. T. Perkins, Cat tlettsburg, Ky., bruised; J. E. Greene, engineer, Waycross, Ga., bruised. > The cars plunged into the river, without a moment's warning to the sleeping passengers, when an axle on the engine suddenly snapped when midway of the trestle. The locomo tive never left ."-e track, but the ten der was derailed and the tank tum bled to the bed of the Btream. The trestle is about a half mile long, but the river was low and at the point of the accident was not more than 50 yards across. The express and bag gage care, two day coaches and one Pullman were piled in an indescrib able mass in the centre of the stream, but few of the passengers were car ried beneath the water. J. P. Woodward, the express mes senger, was killed and Baggaeemas ter J. E. Powell was probably fatally hurt, by timbers driven through the car. The firet-class coach, a new steel car, was driven through the sleeper. In this car Bomwart, of Henderson, Ky., was instantly killed, while his wife, beside him, escaped with slight Injuries. It is not expected to have the tracks cleared and the trestle re paired for traffic before Sunday night. ? WATERY GRAVES FOR MANY. Passengers and Crew Go Down When Vessel Turns Turtle. The British Columbia Shipping Company's little wooden steamer, iSochelt, .built for passenger service on an inland lake, turned turtle in a furious gale off Beeched Head, Van couver Island, late Saturday and went down with all on board, twenty-two passengers and the crew of four men. Thirteen passengers had landed at William Head just before the steam er went out to destruction. Most of the passengers were railroad laborers, bound for a Canadian northern con struction camp, but a few were resi dents of Sooke. Henry Charles, an Indian, of Rocky Point, was gathering wood on Beecher Bay at f>:30 p. m. Saturday and saw the vessel, three miles off Beecher Head, when the gale struck her. She leaned over and swung around as though she intended to run across the strait to Port Crescent, on the American side. The tiny craft had partly turned broadside to the wind when she righted, then went over and lay on her side. The Indian watched the steamer ten minutes and at the end of that time the vessel was swallowed up by the sea, leaving not a trace on the surface. Capt. J. B. James com manded the vessel. Beecher Head is west of Beecher Bay, in the Strait of Fuga, twenty-five miles from Vic toria. instituted at once. "The calamity is just what T have been predicting," said one. "There was no outside fire-escape on the building. This large death toll is due to neglect." The police say that today's fire is the sixth or seventh in the building within twelve months, all of which, they say, occurred in the shirt waist factory. The others were trifling. The factory, incidentally, is said to be the first in which operators struck during the widespread shirt waist strike settled several months ago. By today's fire the total shirt waist operators who have perished in New York is nearly 200. Not many weeks ago 25 girls met death under some what similar circumstances in New ark, N. J. ? JSG, S. C. f TJliSDAY. M. WHO THEY ARE Aiiornsy-Giiieral .Lyon Gives Names oi Those Given Immunity. HIS REASONS FOR SAME In Response to Gov. Blease's Request for Certain Iniformation Attorney General States That Atlanta Law Firm Empowered Only to Offer Im munity. Giving the list of those who were promised immunity, because of hay ing either turned State's evidence or given certain evidence, or giving up certain information, a defence of the granting of Immunity and much other interesting data that the general pub lic had heretofore been unacquainted with, Attorney General J. Frazer Ly on Friday afternoon sent to Governor Cole L. Blease a letter, In reply to the one sent to the Attorney General by Governor Blease on the day the dis pensary commission was dismissed. The lettsr was "released for publi ca'don" by Governor Blease, upon At torney General's- Lyon's statement that the newspaper men would have to get permission of the Governor for the letter to be published. The letter given out by Attorney General Lyon this afternoon is the first public statement he has made since the whole dispensary situation was revived by Governor Blease t> calling for an investigation, except Mr. Lyon's request to the Legislature for an investigation. Upon other mat ters, Mr. Lyon has no statements to make at this time. Attorney General's Letter. The following is the letter In full: "Columbia, S. C, March 23, 1911. "Governor C. L. Blease, Columbia, S. C.?Dear Sir: " Replying to you. letter of the 14th Instant, I will say: "M. A. Goodman was indicted by the grand jury of Richland county. Upon his giving me certain evidence 3howing the guilt of former dispen sary officials, and furnishing me in formation as to how. other evidence of similar nature could be obtained, nol pros was, or will be in due time, en tered upon Indictments against him. "J. T. Early and J. B. Wylie testi fied as witnesses for the State in sev eral cases. Their testimony has large ly appeared In public prints, un ac count of this, I shall not press In dictments agalnBt them and have agreed to institute no further pro ceedings against them In behalf ot the State. . "Henry Samuels testified before the dispensary commission, and in the Criminal Court as a State's witness. I have, therefore, agreed to discon tinue prosecution against him. "I. W. Bernhelm and others were Indicted in Chester and It was agreed that he, as witness, should give bond In the sum of $5,000 or deposit, In lieu thereof $5,000 in cash, and if he shall not duly appear, the cash to be forfeited, otherwise to be turned over to the State dispensary commission. Five thousand dollars has been de posited with the Clerk of Court at Chester. "I. W. Bernheim and B. Bernheim paid the State dispensary commission at one time $530,000, and at another $34,000, for overcharges on liquors sold the dispensary. Taking into consideration all the circumstances, 1 have agreed to nol pros as to I. W, , Bernheim. "Upon indictments against D. Wei skopf nol pros will be entered, upon his testifying the truth, as a witness in behalf of the State, with reference ' to sale of large quantities of labels sold by Nivison Weiskopf to the State j dispensary. "J. S. Farnum was indicted, tried and acquitted. Thereafter, he plead guilty and was fined $5,000. Upor ? other indictments against him no' pros was, or will be, entered. At to Col. Dudley. "C. W. Dudley, in addition to giv ing evidence to the State dispensarj commission, testified in Chester ii the case against John Black and oth , ers, as a State's witness, and I hav< agreed not to prosecute him. "B. M. Wilson has furnished infor , mation concerning certain transac 1 tions between the Richland Disti'lerj Company and the former State dis pensz.ry and has agreed to testify ir regard thereto, and I have agreed that I will not prosecute him for, oi on account of. his connection witt , the transactions about which he tes tified. "G. H. Charles Rave informalioi generally as to dispensary transac tions: testified before the grand jurj in the case against H. H. Evans ant was employed as a detective. On ac count of the above it was not my pur pose to prosecute him, even though i should have been determined that ar action would probably lie agains him. I am informed that Mr. Charle: has recently died. "W. D. Roy testified as a witness for the Siate in the case against Johr Black, et al, and before the granc jury, besides giving assistance it working up the cases. It is mv pur po?e not to prosecute him. "I cannot recall anyone else win has agreed to turn State's evidence or whom I have agreed not to prose cute. But if I find that any name Lai been in any manner overlooked, will advise you upon the ascertain ment thereof. I cannot say definitel: but am of the impression that amonj those whom I have agred not to pros MICK 28, 1911. lecute the following were suggested by j Mr. Felder, as persons who would J give evidence for the State in sucn [actions as might be instituted: W I D. Roy, B. M. Wilson, D. Weiskopff. T. T. Early, C. W. Dudley and M. A. j Goodman. On His Own Responsibility, i "I am unable to make the definite i statement that Mr. Felder suggested j that the persons above should not be I prosecuted, for the reason that I, as j Attorney General, have exercised this power upon my own responsibility, and in accordance with my own judg ment. "Referring to that part of your let ter, which asks what civil actions i were settled or compromised and the terms thereof, will say: That the civil actions instituted were in charge of Messrs. Anderson, Felder, Roun tree and Wilson, Mr. W. F. Steven son and Mr. B. L. Abney, Messrs. Ao ney and Stevenson having active charge and management thereof. Mr. j Stevenson has furnished me the fol i lowing list of civil actions, which I have been compromise The actions were compromised for the payment of money, the amount of which Is stated opposite the names of the de fendants given below: Gallagher & Burton, $11,395.94; Lanahan & Sons, $14,083.46; Grab felder & Co., $15,297.17; Roskam Gerstley Company, $3,066.37; Freid-, man-Keiler Company, $1,585; Meyei Pitts & Co., $3,437.50; Jack Crans ton Company, $802.21; American! Bonding Company, $500. "In several of the above cases the defendants had presented claims against the State, which were disal lowed. Such amounts are in addi tion to the amount of moneys to i which reference is above made. "The Act of 1910 authorized the dispensary commission to make set tlement of such claims. Power to Offer Only. "Answering your inquiry as to that part of the contract entered into be tween the State dispensary commis sion and Anderson, Felder, Rountree and Wilson, wherein it is provideo I that Anderson, Felder, Rountree and Wilson are clothed with full power,1 subject alone to the approval of the Attorney General of the State, to of fer any*of the parties involved im-j munlty from prosecution, will say: The power to offer immunity was given this firm, but the power to grant immunity, that Is, to refuse to prosecute, or, in case of indictment, to nol pros, was left as the law pro vides, in the discretion of the Attor ney General. In view of this power of the Attorney General, this provis ion was inserted in the contract. Whether any person should not he indicted, or if indicted, should have the Indictment against him, remains so far as the contract is concerned, just as the law provides. "The policy of the State to allow Immunity under the circumstances may be fairly Inferred from the Act of 1906, providing for the Investiga tion of the dispensary, wherein it is provided that no testimony given o> witnesses before the committee shall be used against them In a criminal prosecution. This provision of law was perpetuated and became a pan. of the law under which the State dis j pensary commission was createu. 'Acts Df 1 907, page 835.) So it must follow, Independently of the law giv ing such power to the Attorney Gen eral, that such of those whose names are mentioned above, who testified before the Investigating committee, or the State dispenbary commission, practically have Immunity undrv this Act. Attorney General Has Discretion. "But aside from the manifest poli cy of the Legislature, as contained in the above mentioned Act, the Attor ney General has discretion as to when, how and against whom to pro ceed In criminal cases. He has the power to enter a nolle prosequl *y virtue of his office, independently of I the Court. (Ency. of Law, 23, pages 275 and 276. State vs. Howard, 15 Rich Law, 274. State vs. McKee, 1 Bailey, 651). The rule is laid down in the McKee case that the prosecut ing officer may enter a nolle prosequl at any state of the proceedings until the jury are charged; but he cannot ; do so afterwards, not at least in case |of an indictment for a capital offence, land if he is permitted to do so its ef fect is the acquittal of the prisoner. ?jThe above rule is also recognized in !I Archbold's Criminal Practice, vol ; ume 1, page 317. "In Bishop on Criminal Procedure, [second edition, Volume 1, Section ! 1,020, it is said: 'If the prosecutor ?|in the English practice wishes to i: make use of one of the defendants II as a witness, the Court will permit a " verdict of acquittal to be taken at i once in his case, and thus he will be rendered competent. In our own States the ready method in such cir 11 cumstances would ordinarily be for ? the prosecuting officer to enter a nol ' pros as to the defendant whose tes l timony he wished to use.' ? "The following rule is laid down by ? I Bishop, Volume 1, Section 1,076: "In I the United States, where prosecutions i i are instiuted and carried on by a : public prosecutor, who acts directly I for the Government and protects its interests, there is an evident proprl > ety in considering it to be within the II exclusive discretion of this officer to determine whether or not an accom plice should be permitted to turn State's evidence, as it is sometimes expressed with us, and whether, if he does, he ia afterward entitled to be no further prosecuted by reason of what is thus done.' "It is not easy to say what, in act, is the practice on this point in all the States, but it is believed that, in most of them, the prosecuting officer acts in such cases upon his own dis continued on second page.) GOES SCOTT FREE JOHN BLACK GETS A FULL PAR Q DON FROM BLEASE. Before His Recent Commutation, Black's Sentence Wns Five Tears in the Penitentiary. John Black, former chairman of the State dispensary board of direc tors, convicted of conspiracy to de fraud the State, sentenced to five years in the Penitentiary, |his sen tence 'being later commuted to a fine of $2,000, or five years, by Governor Blease, was late Friday uncondition ally pardoned by the Chief Executive. Black had not yet paid .his fine, having been given until September 1, and the proclamation Issued by Gov ernor Blease Friday afternoon not only relieves Black of the payment of the fine, but restores the former qjs pensary director to citizenship, and removes the stigma which commuta tion could not reach. Friday night John Black is in Rich mond, and it is probable that not un til Saturday will he know of his par don. His local counsel did not know where to reach him in Richmond. His wife is also out of the city, having gone to Denmark, so that it is also probable she does not tonight know that her husband is again free from the sentence of the Court. The order giving John Black his freedom Is formal, being such a proc lamation as was issued when John Black's sentence was commutated. The pardon is as follows: "Whereas, at a Court of General Sessions and Common Pleas, begun and holden in Chester County, at the November term of court, 1910, before Judge (Special) Ernest Moore, one John Black was convicted of con spiracy to defraud the State and was "entenced to five years in the State Penitentiary; now know ye that for divers good causes and considera tions, me hereunto moving, I have thought fit to pardon and by these presents do pardon the said John Black. "Given under my hand and seal, etc. "Cole L. Blease, Governor." The pardon was signed late Friday afternoon, shortly before the Gover nor left the executive offices to go to the Mansion. No reasons are as signed In the pardon. * BLEASE CUSSES A LITTLE. Says Chief Justice Jones Can Do What He Pleases. "Ira B. Jones can mandamus, or G-d-us, or do anything he pleases. I am not going to appoint Ernest Moore as special judge for the Union county court. You can take back these papers, for I will not read them." This is the way Governor Blease expressed himself Saturday to R. E. |Wylie, of Lancaster, who presented a request for a commission for Ernest Moore as special judge. This state ment was made in the presence of Senator Tillman and several other visitors in the> office. The statement means that another special judge controversy has com menced between the supreme court and the governor, and that the gov ernor will disregard the recommen dations of the judicial department of the government. j The Union County Bar Association petitioned Chief Justice Jones to ap point Ernest Moore as special judRe , for a special term of the civil court to' commence in that county next i Monday. The following letter of recommen i dation was addressed to Governor ? Blease by Chief Justice Jones, asking \ that Ernest Moore be commissioned \ as special judge: I "Pursuant to section 2, 7"4, vol ; ume 1. code of laws, I have ordered j a special term of common pleas for I Union county for the trial of civil cases not requiring a jury, for the j week commencing March 27th. "There being no circuit judge dis engaged so as to hold the court, I respectfully recommend that you is sue a commission to Hon. Ernest Moore of Lancaster, S. C. learned in the law as spfcial jud:e to hold the said court." Ernest Moore is one of the best known attorneys in the state and hai served as special judge on several oc casions. He heard the John BlacK case and senten -ed the former dis pensary official to five years in the penientiary. .Mr. Moore .was not nam-jd in the list of "eligibles" re cently sent to the supreme court by the governor. Child Dies of Rabbles. At Lancaster the six-year-old son of Mr. Hutchinson doed Friday night at the home of his father in the -cot ton mill village of what physicians believe to have been an attack of hy drophobia. Ths boy was ill only three days, during which time he ex hibited the various symptoms of the dread disease. He was bitten on the lip by a mad doR in Cmden on the 3rd of last month. * Robbed .Mrs. Hryan. Mrs. William Jennings Bryan w_e robbed at the Majectis Theatre New York of a handsome seal hand bag, containing $7f> and valuable souve nirs ' llected by her and her hus band in their recent travels, last Sat urday afternoon. Mrs. Stephen B. Ayres, wife of the Congressman, whose guests Mr. and Mrs. Bryan were in the Bronx, made the fact public. ? WO CENTS PEE COPY HOLD UP MAIL Bandits Loot Passenger Train on the St. Loras Mountain Road EXPRESS CAR LOOTED The Offlci.-Us of the Railway Say They Have No Report of the Hold Vp and Robbery?Twenty Thousand Dollars Said to Have Been Carried Away by the Robbers. Five men held up St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern railway train No. 104 between Coffeyville and Len apah, Okla., shortly after midnight Frida}', and after looting the man and express car escaped. The amount of the robbery Is said to be $20.000. For two hours the mashed men held the passenger at a standstill on the prairie about six miles south of Coffeyville, while they blew open a ??afe in the express car. They escaped in two automobiles, carrying with them money and valuables which, it is believed, will amount to {20,000. The train left Little Rock at 8:30 a. m. Friday, bound for Kansas City. It reached Lenapah, Okla., south of Coffeyville at 10:30 Friday night, half an hour late. Just after the train left Lenapah Engineer Lynch heard a sharp cry: "Hands up!" Turning he saw a masked man sitting on the tender, pointing a revolver at him. "I'm going to ride a little way with you,'' said the man. "Drive on." The engineer obeyed. About foui mile6 out of Lenapah the robber com pelled the engineer to stop the train near a dumb of trees. Five more masked men came out of the wood, and, taking positions on either side of the train,began shooting in the air and along the sides of the train. Then While two of the bandit* stood guard to prevent any passen gers f:oin leaving, the four marched the ei./inoor and fireman to the day coaoh aid locked them in. One man then took a position to j guard the rear of the train and three went into the express car, forced tht* two express messengers to jump out and stand where one of the side guards could keep them covered. After nearly an hour's work the men had succeeded in inserting a, charge of nitroglycerine into the 'through" safe in the express car. They blew the safe to pieces an Kansas City at 7:13 Saturday morn ? ing. Superintendent George F. Tohnson,. of the Pacific Express Company states that the men who held up and robbed lion Mountain train No. 104 in Okla homa got no money from tne express car and that all the booty secured consisted of a few "sealed packages,' the value of which is not great. "We no longer use this route for througu money shipments, and there was not anything like $20,000 in the car as is reported." BLOW PROVES FATAL. Hit by Stone Several Months Ago, Dies of Effects. 1 From the effects of being struck in the head with a rock several months ago, while gathering hickory nuts, Samuel Ilenson, Jr., 14 years of age, and son of Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Den son, died Thursday at his home on FUeckley street, Anderson, S. C. Sev eral young boys were around the tree gathering the nuts which they would knock down with rocks and stOcJCS. One of the rocks hit young Benson. Me was given treatment and seemed to respond to it. A relapse came a week or so ago, and his death fol lowed. Young Benson was a bright lad, and very popular among his play mates. Of course, no blame is at tached to any one, as the blow was purely accidental. . ? Might Alarm Him, However. No. Constant Reader, the orders just Issued from the war department were not sent out for the sole pur pose of reassuring Congressman Hob