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PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY THp? JRA? lAFT Basinger Seems to H??e Piayed Slick Scheme cd lee President. WILL BE LOOKED INTO Alleged that Taft on Advice of His Brother, Ballinger and Ryan Re ? *Lk> Ktkii hie stored Alaskan Lands to Domain .?.??' So Gnggenhelm Interest Slight Grab Them. if* ? ? it Published charges that the presi dent had been induced by three per sons?his brother, the then Secretary of the Interior Ralllnger and Richard S. Ryan of New Yotk, a representa tive of the Guggenheim interests?to restore to the domain lands sur rounding Controller'bay, in-southern Alaska, met with quick action In Con gress. The house committee on expendi tures headed by Representative Gra ham, of Illinois, immediately sum moned Commissioner Dennett, of the general land office, to appear before the committee to explain what he knows about the matter, and Repre sentative Cox, of Indiana, one of the democratic leaders of the house, in troduced a resolution calling on Pres ident Taft for all the information he can furnish on the subject. The Cox resolution requests Pres ident Taft to submit all papers and information in his posession relating to bis executive order of July 28, lfllu, restoring to public domain the lands surrounding Controller Bay. It sets forth published charges in timating that Ryan, through Secre reary Baliinger and Charles P. Taft, induced the president of the United States to sign the order.' ? Tt points out that through this or der the Guggenheim syndicate "has now or will get control of Con troller Bay or harbor," and requests the president to advise the house whether Messrs. Ryan and Ballin ger and C. P. Taft Induced him to sign the order restoring Controller ?ay land to public domain, which previously had been set aside as a national forest reserve whether the president had information that Ryan was working in the interest of the Guggenheim syndicate. "I am going to push this resolu tion," said Representative' 'Coxr "If the rules committee fails to act I will bring it up on the <fk>or of the house. . There is something radical ly wrong about this whole transac tion. ? Balked by tbe refusal of the government to allow the Cunning* ham coal land claims, this gang in Wall street evidently is determined to secure control of this coal land. They filed on the Controller bay land, the only available harbor through ?which the Alaskan coal can be ship ped before the government could ev en have it surveyed after the presi dent's order withdrawing it <from the Chugash reserve. "Failing to secure the land, they have now gone after the only means of transporting coal and with a raft road from the coal lands to Con troller bay they could absolutely dic tate to the owners of the coal land." Representative Graham, chairman of the interior department, expenditures committ-.e, also has-been looking in to the matter. Acording to the be lief here and in Alaska, - Ryan, in his efforts to obtain railroad termi nals at Controller bay, has been working in the interest of an Eng lish syndicate. TWO VERY FOOLISH MEN. Elew Themselves up by Carelessly Handling Powder. In -heir efforts to divide a keg of powder in a fair and square manner, Vendring Goolish was blown to at oms and John Memenich is dying oi'i terrible burns In a Pittsburg, Pa., hospital. The men were friends and worked together as miners near Greenburg, Pa. One day they were dividing a keg of powder. They knew but. one way way to make a fair measurement. Placing the keg on the table the men stood before it. Goolish took out a handful and placed it on the table beside him. Semenich did the same. This tedious process was continued, until one handful remained. At a loss how to divide it, it was finally decided to set it off. Unthinking Goolish touched a match to it. There was a puff and two piles of pow der also exploded. Goolish was sent through the roof and was killed. Semenich was probably fatally burn ed. The Earth Trembled. Two earthquake shocks were felt early Monday morning in the town of Keoskemet. Hungary. A panfc followed, the inhabitants rushing out into the streets and assembling in the squares. Hundreds of chimneys were overturned and the town hall and. other buildings more or less dam aged. Rescured from Tug. The Marblehead, Ohio, life Sav saving Station reported to the de partment service at Washington that the life saving crew had rescued at midnight Sunday eight men from the tug Luther while that vessel was sinking in Lake Erie near Gull Is land reef. WHERE IS THE LETTERS NO TRACE OP TELL TALE NOTE CAN BE DISCOVilRED. I Part of Another Docux.ent Mysteri ously Disappeared Before President ! *VI 3 *l SM i ? I - v i Taft Signed It. The story of a vanishing letter, both addressed and signed "Dick" from Richard S. Ryan, of New York I to Richard A. Ballinger, then sec retary of the interior, purporting to show that Charles P. Taft had in fluenced his brother, President Taft, j to.forward the alleged attempt of Guggenheim interests to acquire Con troller Bay, the only outlet for large coal fields in Southern Alsaka, fig ured in a congressional inquiry be gan Monday. , - The testimony before the house committee on expenditures in the In terior department and statements the White House and from Charles P. Taft's office failed to lift the mys tery enshrouding the alleged letter. Fred Dennett, commissioner of the general land office, testified that he knew nothing of it and that he would not .necessarily know of its existence, and such a'letter "W^s not recalled in~any other quarter. The letter was neu to be found in the files,'though MissM.1 E. Abbott, a newspaper writer; Tho will testify later, says she copied such a docu ment from the ofliciil files. Presi dent Taft has expressed confidence that his brother never" communicat ed/with him on tue subject; either otefly or in writing. V ItNwas stated at the White Rouse that ? careful search of the files in the executive office failed' to reveal any record of a letter to the presi dent from Charles P. Tart concerning Ryan or'bearing in i;ny way upon the Controller Bay affair. The most important development was the testimony of Commissioner Dennett that the claimants represent ed by Richard S. Ryan of New York said to' represent the Guggenheim interests, had beneSted by the omis sion of one provision in the final pa pers. ' , Mr. Dennett said that when the executive order opening the Control ler Bay land to entry reached his office It contained a provision under which entrymen could not file on the land for 60 days a ter the order was issued. In some way or other he did ot know how, he said, this pro vlsloh was iost or eliminated before the final promulgation of the order. Mr. Dennett said that the first draft, which, in accordance with the custom, was prepared at the depart ment of agriculture, contained the fiO days provision, but that it was not in the order as finally isigned by the president. "Who struck it out.'" ' "I do not kno*-." Chairman Graham of the commit tee asked Mr. Dennett to furnlBh copies of all telegrams and corres pondence regarding the Controller p.ay claims and the report dealing with the surveys, made there. ? Mr. Fisher, secretary of the Inter ior department, issued a statement Monday concerning the Interview at tributed to Miss Abbott, in which she referred to a postscript to a let ter from Mr. Ryn to Secretary Bal 1 Inger. "No reference whatever," says Mr. Fisher, "was made in this Interview to what Miss Abbott very properly calls the 'amazing postscript,' which she says she found attached to a letter to Secretary Ballinger from Mr. Ryan, nor was this postscript ever mentioned or referred to in any other interview which I have ever) had with Mise Abbott or any one else prior to its publication in a Phila delphia newfp?oer. "I am told ;ipon my return that the most dilligu-nt search of the rec ords of this ortice has failed to dis close any such document and e.ery one who has searched the record says most emphatically that he has never seen th-.s postscript or any other writing ist this character. This includes Mr. Brown, who was private secretary to S?cretary Ballinger." DIED FAR FROM HOME. Workman from Germany Accidental ly Killed at Great Falls. A special to the Charlotte Obser ver says Dr. W. W. Feunell, of Rock Hill, received a telephone message to come to Gl eat Falls at once, that a party there was seriously hurt. He rushed down in an automobile and found that Lawrance Miller, one of the Germans that the Southern Power company has inisfalling its fertilizer plant at that place, hadj fallen 45 feet into a tank or vat, and his skull was crushed and neck bro-j ken and tha; nothing could be done for him. Lar.er the unfortunate man died. His body will be shipped to his home. A young German of the party that is at Great Falls, who could scarcely speak any English at all, accompa nied the body to Rock Hill, stated that Miller was 34 years of age and had a wife and four children in Ger many and that he carried $.$,000 in surance. Streai:i of Burning Booze. Recently a large whiskey distillery was burned at Glasgow, Scotland. A remarkable spectacle was furnished by a stream of burning whiskey run ning from the flames, which consum ed the budding, into the Cromarty firth. ORANGEB FARMING FIGURES MITCH INTERESTING DATA COM PILED BY WATSON. In the Value of Crops Per Square Mile South Carolina Ranks Second of All the States. Some interesting statistics on the agricultural situation in South Caro lina have been prepared by Commis sioner Watson from the recent feder al census. As has been announced this state jumped from 21 to 13 in the rank of the states in agriculture. The value of the agricultural prod ucts of the .state increased by 28.4 per cent, in one year. The value of the crops in 1910 was $140,000,000 which was an increase over 190'9 of $31,000,000, and increase over 1906 of $63,288,000 and an Increase of $88,685,000 over 1900, aH of which show that the value of the crops has increased over 100 per cent, during the past decade. With reference to the value of the crops per square mile, South Caroli na ranked second of all states, with $4,518. Other states in comparison: Illinois, $5,122; Georgia, $3,743, Texas, $1,369. All other Southern states show the value of crops per square mile to be less than $3,000. The cotton crop of the South, ac cording to the statistics gleaned ror 1910, went on the market for $963, 180,000. The crop of 1909 was worth $812,000,000, and for 1908 $681,230,000. It win be iieen that the cotton crop of 1910 was worth $151,000,000 more than 1909. There are In the South 440,000,000 acres of land available for cotton and only one out Of 12 acres are planted. Of ?the cotton crop 19 per cent, was con sumed in the United "States, 49 per cent, was exported and 35 per cent, remained in this country up to Feb ruary, 1911. Concerning the value per bale of cotton, the following comparative ta ble ,1s given: Value per bale, 1910.$87.15 Value per bale, 1904. 50.37 Value per bale, 1898 .30.22 ' it is pointed out that the sum of $604 was received for twenty bales of cotton in 1898, while the farmer re ceived .$1,743 for the same number in !l910. ! In South Carolina there were in 1910 176,180 farms, or an increase of 13 per cent, over the preceeding decade. The value of the lands and buildings increased ,by 162 per cent.; implements and machinery, 112 per cent.;lands, 169: increase in labor bill, 76 per cent. These statistics show that there were 20,825 farms added. There are 64,227 owners, or ?n increase of 4,810, and of these farms 19,987 are mortgaged. The tenants number 11,097. The in crease in the number of tenants dur ing: the decade was 16,113 and the same preceeding decade 26,000. CHILD SLAIN BY WOMAN. Shot Fired at a Woman Hits and Kills Little Negro. A special dispatch to The State says a horrible and pathetic tragedy was enacted near Blacksburg Sunday morning between the hours of 12 and 1 o'clock. The actors live as ten ants on the farm of Mac Byars, four miles from Blacksburg, on the old Rutherford and Chester highway. Lily Duncan, a mulatto, was on her way from the home of her step father, Ras Franklin, to her own house, near the home of Ira Sar arms, when she was fired upon by ratt, with a two-year-old child in her Francies Sarratt, the wife of Ira Sar ratt, with a shotgu. Only one shot struck the mother, the rest ot the load lodging in the back of the child's head and causing its death Monday morning about 10 o'clock. Frances Sarratt disappear ed and has not been apprehended yet. Jealousy is supposed to have been the cause of he act on the part | of Frances Sarra'1. HEAVY REWARD OFFERED. For the Negro Who Killed the Ashe viUe Policeman. A dispatch from Ashevi?e, N. C, says the death of Patrolman McCon nell, which occurred Friday after noon, the increase of the reward to approximately $1,000 and the em uloyment of expert detectives,, has given impetus to the search for John Huff, the negro who shot McConneli, while the former was under arrest for stealing oattle. Posses are scouring the mountains in every direction, fol lowing up clues, while officers of ad joining counties are lending every ef fort in the search which up to lale Tuesday night had proven of no avail. Nothing, definite has been heard of Huff since he was located and gave officers the slip near Green-, ville Thursday night o last week. From Bite of Crab. Miss Maybelle Scheririshea, age 14, of New Orleans, may lose her left arm because of the bite of a crab. She was "pinched" on the hand by the crab last week and the wound became infected. Physicians are making eeorts to save her arm. Five Churches Struck. In two days five churches, three Protestant and two Catholic, were I struck by lightning last week during I different thunder storms. URG, S. C, THURSDAY, JUL^ GANG RUN DOWN i ' ! Traffic in White Girls Broken Up By lie Government Officials. TALES OF HORROR TOIJ) Three of the Infamous Gang Have Been Tried, Convicted and Sent to a Federal Prison, Whilj Several More of the Gang are Yet to be Tried. The operations of an organized gang of white slave dealers, compos ed of men and women, who have car ried on the traffic all over the North west, are believed now to have finally been brokefl up. J. H. Anderson, a United States marshall of Salt Lake City, Utah, has taken three members of the gang as prisoners to the Fed eral prison at Leavenworth, Kan. They are May Brow, who must serve a term of five and one-half years; Herbert Gould, seven and one half years, and William Siegel, four years. They were sentenced by Judge Page Morris of Duluth,.Minn., siting at Salt Lake City. Two more members of the gang have been con victed and are awaiting sentence. One of these, Roscoe Morrison, took a girl from Salt Lake under promise of marriage and forced her into a life of shame at La Grande, Ore. After two weeks search, in which the girl was moved from place to place by her abductors, the federal officers located her and arrested Morrison. All of the girls Morrison has tak en are young American girls, and for eleven years according: to his own admission, he has not done a day's work, but has lived from the earn igs of the young women and by gamb ling. It is said the women have con tributed as much as $500 a month to him. His part of the combination was to go from town to town collect ing'the money and locating and pro curing young women. The officers say he had sixteen girls located at Los Angeles, San Francis co, Cal., Portland, Ore., Spokane, Se attle, and Walla Walla, Wash., Butte, Mont., Boise and Pocatello, Ind., Re no and Ely, Nev., and Ogden and Salt Lake City, Utah.; The Brown woman was found gurt ty of Inducing at 7 5-year-old girl to leave her home in Salt Lake City and enter into an immoral life. Mrs. Brown was the tool of Herbert Gould, who drifted into the West from Ohio five years ago and since has lived on an income from the traffic. During the trip to the prison Mre. Brown was in great fear of her life, sayinig-, that Gould had threatened to kill her because of the nature of her testimony at their trial. Siegel deserted his wife and child ten days old at Denver to go with a woman to Ogden. There he forced her to live an immoral life and give to him her earnings. , The federal officers on the Pacific coast and In the Rocky mountain States are operating. In a way to break up the slave traffic in that sec tion. SCAMP WAS CAUGHT. Negro Wrote Obscene Letters to La dies and is Trapped. Ned McGehee, a negro, was ar rested several mJles from Nashville, Tenn., this week, on the Murfreey boro turnpike, and is being held be fore being, turnd over to the Federal officers on the charge of sending ob scene matter through the mails. It is charged that McGehee has re cently, on several occasions, sent the most obscene letters imaginable to i two of the; most prominent ladies liv ing on the Murfreesboro road. In these letters the negro is said to have asked the ladies to meet him at' a given ph.ee at a set time. In order to accomplish the arrest of the man, decoy letters were used with good results, these being writ ten by some of the male relatives of the ladies who had been so grossly insulted. In those decoy letters an appointment was made to meet the negro at the place indicated by him. The time for the meeting was this week. The astonishment of the fiend when he went to fill the appointment! can be imagined upon coming face to face with the detectives and a number of prominent citizens of the neighborhood. Oldest Engineer Dead. Benjamin E. Roboisnn, the oldest; locomotive engineer on the Southern Railway, and according to his broth ers, the oldest in point of service of; any locomotive engineer in the Unit-J ed States, died in Charleston after an illness lasting about two weeks. Atj the time of his death Robinson was 72 years of age. He entered the em-j ploy of the old South Carolina Rail-1 road in 1852, and has run on it ev er since. Mr. Robinson was known toj many people between Columbia andj Charleston and Augusta. Man Seriously Cut. At Greenville on Monday morning C. F. McCall, boss spinner at the Brandon cotton mill, was seriously cut with a knife by E. F. Pittman. The trouble took place about 6:30 o'clock when McCall was approached by Pittman in the spinning room of the mill in reference to Mrs. Pitt man's connection with the mill. { 13, 1911. HORRORS OF FAMINE CHINESE MADE LIKE UNTO RAV ENOUS BEASTS. Little Children Are Hold into Slav ery. Against this Darkness,' there Stand Out Instances of Rare Love. The Chinese fami.T? continues un abated, and the sole hope ^f life for tens of thousands of people is that in some unexplained manner tbey may be able to prolong their lives until the scanty harvests in the fam ine stricken districts mature. ? There has been assistance, but it 13 simply a drop in the*' bucket, and anew tells of the LndihYrence of mankind to the sufferings of those who are not of kin, or out of sight. The Chinese governmeu; has ex pended three-quarters of -a million dollars, and the Foreign and Chinese Relief association a quarler of a m'lliou. Hunger and despair have made de mons of thousands. While In the larger towns some pretense is made to decently inter those who die from I hunger, it the rural districts all de cency has been oast aside. The dead are piled high in fields, and hundreds attempt to appease their hunger by devouring parts of the decomposing bodies, in conse quence, frightful diseases of many kinds are rampant. At every approach of a relief train, either on a railroad or on highway, is made occasion for a tremendous, rush, in which many are relentlessly trampled under foot and crushed to death. A horrible indication of the ex tremity of the people is afforded by the large number of little boys and girls who are sold into slavery by their parents, the price being a few ounces of bread or a handful of grains of wheat. But a better side is not wanting In the district of Mengehen, where the famine possibly is at its height, an appealing story of love in face of starvation is going the rounds. An old man, his two sons and their wives were living together, when the famine came upon them. As last their want was such that they scarce had strength to crawl about. . As a last expedient the young wife of one of the sons proposed that she be sold into slavery. A family coun sel was called, the aged and half starved father presiding. "You must sell me," said the girl to the old father, head of the house. But her sister-in-law interfered. "You have three children," she said, "while I have none. It is I who will be the sacdifice. Then when better times come my husband can get himself another wife and live happily." But the old father decided that neither should be sold, and one by one the family died. CROWD MEN ACED FIEND. Ohio Mob Threaten Negro Who Ts Saved By the Police. With cries of "Hang him; lynch the brute," a mob of several hundred persons gathered in the northern part of the city Monday and threat ened to wreak summary vengeance upon Havey Mickes, a negro, who is accused of having attacked a 16-year old white girl. The negro had been captured by a posse that chased him for several miles upon a hand-car. A crown surrounded the jail and made a demonstration of violence, but was quickly repelled by the po lice and deputies. News of the at tempted assault, had gained wide cur rency, and intense excitement pre vailed as the members of the posse with their prisoner in custody arriv ed in the police station. This county and city authorities, anticipating an outbreak has ordered the entire police force to the city prison and supplementing this force with a large number of special depu ties. Later Mickens was spirited to the county jail at Canton for safe keeping. FIVE MEN ARE KILLED. In Accident That Seriously Hurts a Man From Helton. Five men were killed and two ser iously injured when a travelling cnane bearing a 1-1-ton girder col lapsed Monday at a new viaduct be ing constructed by the Western Mary land railroad at Salisbury Junction, Pa. The dead: John Scott, McKees port, Pa.; Joseph Smith .Grove City, j Pa.; J. R. White, Richmond, Va.; C. j H. Kennedy, New River,. Va.; E. L. Sanders, Dullochville, Ga. The injured are: A. E. Kluttz, of Salisbury, X. C, and L. G. Garner j of Belton, S. C, both of whom mayj die. The men were all structural | iron workers and were killed or in jured in the fail. They were in the employ of the McClintic-Marshall Construction Company of Pittsburg, | Pa. The heavy girder was being con- I veyed to the west bank of the Cas- j selman river when the crane toppled and crashed to the ground. Death of Rev. Dr. Shuck. Rev. L. H. Shuck, D. D., pastor of Cheraw Baptist church, died Sunday afternoon. Dr. Sliuck was known throughout the State, he having la bored in the ministry for f>4 years in the Carolinas, Kentucky, Missouri and Virginia. The interment took place at Barnwell. WOULD HANG THEM LYXCRTXG IS AVERTED BY AR : ? . ? i ; ! i ;.ii ij i / i RIVAL OF OFFICERS. Xegro Man and His Wife Saved from Angry Crowd by Intervention of Cooler Heads. A special dispatch to The State from Anderson says the lynching of a negro man and his wife in the Neal's creek of Anderson county was narrowly averted Tuesday by cool heads and the prompt arrival of offi cers on the scene, H. P. McDaniels, a wealthy farmer, reprimanded his negro tenant, T. C. Williams, for cut ting down some pine saplings. The negro resented the reprimand and made an attack on Mr. McDan iels, hitting him between the shoul der blades with a large rock. One of the shoulder blades was fractured and his spinal column was injured. The news of the attack spread rapidly through the county, and wit.iln fl'l hour a large throng had gathered^ at the McDaniels home, many coming from a distance in lutomoblles. A warrant "gainst the negro, charging assault and battery wJw.!j lr tent to kill, was secured from Magis trate Martin, and Deputy Richard Smith, arrested the negro, who offer ed no resistance. Because the ncsro's wife attempted to help him by bringr ing out a shotgun, 3he was also ar rested. Imediately after the arrests were effected Deputy Sheriff Van Mar tin and Constable Tom Davis arriv ed in an automobile, picked up the prisoners and rushed them to the county jail. The mob -had greatly increased in numbers and violence to the negroes was expected. Col. D. A. Geer and others held the crowd back, and prevailed upon them to allow the law to take its course. Mr. McDaniels is a peaceable man and one of the best citizens in An derson county. His condition is ser ious, partial paralysis having set in. He is about 50 years old, and has taken an active work in the school and church in his community. Great Indignation over the brutal attack ?has been expressed by the people. ? ? ? WANTED HIM REMOVED. ?' ' y ? " ? i Congregation Prays That, Death Will Take an Enemy. We have heard of prayers for all sorts of things, "out the "sanctified" negro church at Quitman, Ga., has a new one on us. The "sanctified" negro congregation over there is praying for the. death of Oscar Davis, and the members announce that he will die within three months as the answer to their petitions. Oscar is to be removed from the earthly scene of activity because he has been too active in persecuting the church; the other day he entered a complaint to the police that the sanctified ones were a public nuisance. - * They have been holding a "pro tracted meeting" in a negro school house near Oscar Davis' 'home: for the past three months, and Oscar said they cavorted and shouted so much he could not sleep and was so unfitted for his duties as driver Of a delivery wagon. The leaders of the sect were summoned to appear in mayor's court, and'when the hour for the hearing} arrived the court was packed with ne?roes and there were several hundred in the street in front. A demonstration of "faith" had been planned and the leaders start ed a peculiar humming and sway ing, which was part of the cavorting Oscar Davis complained of. The po lice scattered among them and stop ped the performance. The case v^s dismissed on the plea that the nui sance had been abated, and now the sanctified brethren want Davis to furnish a funeral for the town and they are praying to that end. ATTA Civ YOUNG WOMEN. One Dragged to Railroad Yard and Let in Bad Condition. At Marion, Ohio, as Miss Flora Spicer, aged 20, and her guest Miss. Mary Rogers, aged 22, of West Mans- j field were returning home from' church at 10 o'clock Sunday night, they were accosted on the street by a man who struck both girls over thei head and, picking up Miss Spicer, who was unconscious, carried her away. Miss Rogers quickly summon ed the help of a number of men, who searched the railroad yards, a blor.K distant, where they found Miss Spi cer, with face bruised and clothing torn, crawling along the tracks and unable to speak. Her assailant es caped. Miss Spicer when she regain ed her speech said the man threat ened her with death if she screamed. She is in a serious condition. The entire police force is looking for her assailant. Fatal Boiler Explosion. At Sulina, Roumania, as an at tempt was being made to re-float the stranded river steamer Queensbor ough Monday, the boiler exploded, killing twelve persons and wound ing tour others. Crazed from Pellagra. Crazed by the suffering caused by pellagra, which wa3 contracted two years ago, Mrs. J. W. Cate of Nash ville, Tenn., aged 37, killed herself by drinking carbolic acid Monday. TWO CEIjTS PER COPY. AWFUMflASH Sfaoy Killed and ffonnded as Fast Traia PJmiges Over ViadecT. BAD FIRE BREAKS OUT The Federal Express Running From Washington to Boston Over the New York, New Haven and Hart . ?? ?.? . ? ? , . . i ?: ford Railroad Wrecked at Bridge* port With Great Loss of Life. Many lives, probably twenty, were crushed out in an instant and proba bly three- times as many persons were frightfully hurt Tuesday when the Federal Express running from Wash ington, D. C. to Boston, over the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad was hurled over a con viaduct at Bridgeport, Conn., by an open switch. ? i Fire broke out in the wreckage but the Bridgeport fire department quickly put this out and the men lent assistance to rescue the Injured. Ambulances and dottcrs hastily sum moned did their best to save those who were under the debris. At 6:30 o'clock the bodies of 15 dead had been taken from the wreck and lor* ty other passengers were in* the lo cal hospitals severely injured. The more severely'injured1 are: Unidentified woman,-eye goughed out, face terribly bruised/ leg frac* tured. ? ? ?.!'!.?? Michael Fury, conductor of train, New Rocaelle, N. Y., -fracture d? skull, internal injuries, Will die. David Kissner, New York, brake man, fracture of the left leg, other injuries, will probably' die." Mrs. James B. Joyce, of Maury, a suburb of Washington, fracture of the left wrist, back injured,1 shock1, condition serious. ? ? ? ? ? Sarah Czalobro, 931 South Penn sylvania street, Philadelphia, head badly cut, body braised, shock, con* dition serious/ 1 ' :,v' 1 a Christie and Antony Czalobro, her two children, five and eight year**,' Christie, bruised about head and 'body, internal ' injuries;' Antony, fractured arm,'scalp wounds,1 inter nal, may1 die. > j: ; m. in ?< John F. Von Pfeiffer, McDonald St. Dead vile, Mass., fracture 'of skull; condition critical. - ?? - Frank Von Pfeiffer, cousin of John, 227 East North street, Phlla delphiade-lphia, fracture of ribs, dis location of shoulder; condition seri ous. Miss Lucy Note, 222 Washington* avenue, Washington, internal inju ries, condition critical. George Rogers, Washington, D. C. His young son was killed and an other son, Frank, badly hurt. "Mrs. Rogers is thought to be one of the women who were killed. Charles Frazier, 'Navatree Green, Md. Mrs. Emily Wilson, Philadelphia. Miss Bertha Monroe," CHftondale, Mass. Miss Mary McCann, Philadelphia* The express left Harleu' River about an hour late. It was golrug at high speed when the open switch a niile and a, half west of Bridgeport station was struck. >'' 'a The switch was near the; tower..at the junction of Falrfield avenue and State street.* There was one tremen^ dous crash, an instant of Intense'si lence and then the groans and shrieks of the wounded. ' ' The wreck was almost complete, five cars having gone over, only three cars of the long train being left on the track. The engine, twisted into Junk, was two hundred feet south of Falrfield avenue. Behind were the mail and bagzage cars while the Pullmans and coaches were in a mass at the rear. The day coach was entirely crush ed and in it the deaths were many, five bodies being removed at once. Three Pullmans were almost com pletely crumpled up, but appear ances indicated that the passengers in a measure were protected by the strength of the cars. WL'.h firemen, policemen, and doc tors working as fast as possible tho dead and injured were laid out upon the lawn of a residence in Falrfield avenue. As fast as the ambulances came the injured were sent to the hospitals. In the wreckage of the engine was a body thought to be the engineer who had died at his post. A babe about a year old was found in one car. It was alive and had become separated from its mother, Mrs. W. V. Cleppane, of Cherry Creek, Md., and its aunt, Mrs. Beatrice Cleppane, both of whom escaped with minor in juries, chiefly wounds on the head. In another coach a Mrs. Whaton, of Philadelphia, was taken out alive but her child was dead under her. Mrs. L. W. Page, of 2223 Massachu setts Avenue, Washington, D. C who was with her maid and child escaped with minor hurts. Auto Turned Turtle. At Ann'ston, Ala., J. D. Dill, a bak er, was killed, Mrs. 'Mary Dill, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dill and Charles Dill, Jr., probably fatally injured Monday night, when an automobile in which they were riding turned turtle. The accident occurred when an attempt was made to avoid & collision with another automobile.