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r.. " i:'. i - cJ ^ 4 ' X >, ? ! T. "X/ iw? * " 1 -*1 * " '? ? ? ' .? 'i^TT"' i ? ? i. - - *0* >i\ I vvEkKLY. L a N C A S I K ii S. O. s K 1? T E M 11 E K 2-1 , 1902 hrTaKLmhiki. . > Fatal Stampede In Shiloh Church 110 Negroes Killed; Many Injured ' ho Big Gathering of Colored Baptists at Birmingham lias a Tragic Termination. Birmingham, Ala , Sept. 19.? Seventy o:ght known to lie dead and eighty injured, the majority perhaps fatally is the result of a panic which occnred in the Shiloh negro Baptist church here tonight during the evening sossit n of the uegro national Baptist coovontion. ? The disaster occnred at 9 o'clock just as Booker T. Washington had concluded his address to the national convention of Baptists, and for three hours the scenes around the church wero indescribable. Dead bodies were strewn in every direction and the ambulance service of the city was utterly incapacitated to move them until after 1 o'clock a. m. The church is the largest house f worship for negroes in Birmingham and the pastor says there were at least 2,000 persbns in the edifice when the stampede began. Instructions had been issued to allow no one else to enter after the building had been tilled, but the negroes forced their way in?u~ -i -u 1 ? otwc luci uuuicu auu weru sianuiDg m overy aisle, the entrance was literally packed. Just as Booker Washington concluded his address Judge Hillou, a negro lawyer from Baltimore engaged in altercation with the choir leader concerning an unoccupied seat and it is said a blow wttff^iclr ^ Some- *ofie in tbechoir, cried 4 They're fighting.' Mistaking the word "fighting" for "are," the congregation rose en masse ar.d started for the door. Cne of the ministers quickly mounted the rostrum aud admonished the people to keep quiet. He repeated the word "quiet," several times and mo* tioued to his hearers to ba seated. WORSE AND WORSE. Again the excited congrega tioo mistook the word 44quiet" for a second alarm of fire and rushed for the door. Men and women crawled over benches, fought their way into the aisles and those who bad fallen were trampled upon like cattle. The ministers tried again to slop ido stampede, but no power smcom Like the running brook, the red blood that flows through the veins has to come from somewhere. The springs of red blood are found in the soft core of the bones called the marrow and some say red blood also comes from the spleen. Healthy bone marrow and healthy spleen are full of fat. 'Scott's Emulsion makes new blood ?by feeding the bone marrow and the spleen with the richest of all fats, the pure cod liver oil. -~1 1 ? ? * a ot ptue &C11001 gins ana invalids and for all whose blood is thin and pale, Scott's Emulsion is a pleasant and rich blood food. It not only feeds the blood-making organs but gives them strength to do their proper work. Send for free sample. SCOTT & IIOWNU, Chemist*. 409-415 Penrl Street. New York. 50c. a:i i#r 00, nit '1 moists. * on earth con hi stay the strug filing, fighting mass of humanity. The screams of women ami children added to the horror of thetscene and from mere fright tuauy persons fainted and as they fell to the floor were crushed to death. The level of the floor is about 100 feet from the ground and long steps lead to the side walk to the lobby just outside the main auditorium. Brick walls extend on euoh side of these steps for six or seven feet and this proved. A VERITABLE DEATH TRAP. Negroes who bad reached the top of the steps were pushed violently forward and many fell. Before they eon Id move others fell upon them and in a few moments persons were piled upon each other to a height of ten feet. This wall of struggling humanity blocked the entrance and the weight of 1,500 persons were pushed against it. More than 20 persons lying on 1 ' ... - tuu steps underneath tbe heap of | bodies died from suffocation. SICKENING SIGHT. The deid bodies were quickly! moved and the crowd inside, finding an outlet came pouring out. Scores of them lost their footing and rolled down the long steps to the pavement, sustaining broken linbs and and internal injuries. In an hour the church bad been practically cleared and the sight which greated tbosejwho bad come to aid tlio injured was sickening. Down the aisles and along the outside of the pews the dead bodies of men and women were strewed and the cries of the maimed and crippled wu9 hearttn a Tew"minutes the work of removing the bodies was begun and the wails of the relatives of tbe dead who had waited on the outsidt? could be heard fcr several blocks. ATTENDING THE INJURED. As many of tbe suffering negro s as could be moved by the ambulances were taken to hospitals and the rest were laid out 011 the ground and there tbe physicians attended them. At least 15 of those brought out injured died before they could be moved from the ground. WASHINGTON A WITNESS. During the stampede Booker T. Washington au 1 several other prornintmt negro leaders were on the stage and were unwilling witnesses to the frightful catastrophe. None of those in tbe choir or in pulpit were injured theloast. For a few uiiu ites they attempted to restore order, but seeing their efforts were futile waited 'until the struggling crowd had advanced ( far enough for them to pick up the dead and lnjuied. CRUSHED OR SUFFOCATED. , Most of the dead are women 1 and the physicians s?y in many . cases they fainted and died from suffocation. A remarkable feat- < 1 ire of the calamity is that no ! blood was scon on any of the vie* . time. Tbey were either crushed ' or died from suffocation. Til E CAUSE. ? Tho Rev. Dr. T. W. Walker, pastor of Shiloh church, said tonight: "Shiloh church is a modern | brick structure and has been completed at a cost of $75,000. There are four entrances to the building and tho main one is 10 feet wide. The deaths wero caused by everybody trying to win nave uur Annual FALL PINING In Millinery, Dress G eoils, Etc; Miss Evans has returned from ' the North alter spending- weeks ! posting- herself. She has every-' c thing in the latest Styles and f Shapes. In our Dress Goods and No-' tion Department, we have the1 nicest and most complete line we \ have ever shown. I We invite all the Ladies to; come and see our different lines. 1 Old ladies, young ladies, little < girls, big girls, bachelor girls, old \ maids and all. If you can't come ! yourself send your "old man," , so that he can tell you all about it. i Don't forsret the date. TTTTCK-! DAY and TUESDAYNIGHT,! SEPT. 30th. 5 -Luette Irani frj i < I ON TUESDAY - AND * j TUESDAY NIGHT I i 1 - train m - f ??-? , k we k' l Will II., ... A.?. ?rau<i lodge of negro Alisons of tl Louisiana. " He was in charge of ii i train of delegates from Louisia- b iu and Texas and is well known al hroughout tho United States, ci I'lieo lost his life in an effort *c o save several women who were pi icing crushed to death beneath cl he panic stricken crowd in the H kurch. Three times ho fought Y lis way into tho building aud h< nought out three women. Tho T ourth time ho was caught in tho hj rush and before ho could extri- tb ate himself was borne to tho loor of tho church and died of A u (location. Sarah l'ritou of New Orleans, chose name also appears in tho 1st of dead, was well known as tl m active missionary worker. o< The citizens of Birmingham m lave started a relief fund to care A !or the dead and injured and sov- ir iral hundred dollars has already p jeen subscribed. ft N EO I<" LAWYER JAII.EI). Judged. II. Ballew, tho negro ? awyor who is said to have pre- ? npitated tho panic by engaging ^ n an altercation with Micks, tie ^ he choir leader, has been an est ^ ? t id and is in juil charged with dis- 11 urbing public worship. Hicks * not been located. Hallow is 1 v i resident of Baltimore. \ V AKRON'S NOBLK ACT c "I want all the world to know," * vrites llev. C. J. Budlong, of 1 Vthaway, S. I., 14what a thorough- t y goo<l and reliable medicine I M onnd in Electric Bitters. They iurcd mo of jaundice and liver | roubles that had caused mo great differing for many years. For a e genuine, all-around euro they ex;cl an\ thing I ever saw." Elecric Bitters are the surprise of nll|S( !or their wonderful work in Liver, (j Kidney and Stomach troubles. Don't fail to try them. Only 50 V ds Satisfaction is guaranteed by ^ Crawford Bros' and .1. K. Mack* li jy ?Sc Co's* drug store. 1 n Brigham Young's imndson Accused v.f Committing Murder?The Death of Mrs. l'ulitzer Huh Been Traced To Flint. New York, Sept. 10.--The pore todu) nro seeking clues to the e 11 -utionul murder of Mrs. Anna hilitzer, wife of .Joseph Pulitzer, tailor at 1(50 West borty-sixth treet, found mutilated and weighted with twenty pounds of hains in Mm-ria' r>nnoi ?? VMUW1 VUV Ckl itMirny, New Jersey, yesterday ftcrnoon. Her skull was fracured iu two places and there was six-inch knife gash in the right ide of tho abdomen. She was bout to become a mother. She iad left her home in this city ruesday night to buy fruit for ier husband. Her husband is lold on suspicion. The police beiere that the woman was killed lore and taken to the canal in a vagon hired in Newark by a man Jiving a false address who is myseriously missing. The murderer iiade tho fatal blunder of throwng the body in tide water. New York, Sept. 20.?Evidence n the hands of tho police today ?oint to Wilson Hooper Y'ouug, ho grandson of the famous Brigiam Young, as tho murderer of Irs. .Joseph Pulitzer, whose muilated body was found in Morris anal cut, at Kearney, N. J., 'hursday afternoon. The crime ras traced through the strap and 'oight on tho body, and it is beeved to have been committed in lie apartment of Young's father j this city, where Young haa een stopping while his father is broad. Young has not been lught, but tho police know ho snt a trunk to Chicago. They exact to bavo him soon. The first no to the mystery came from a obokon liveryman from whom ouug rented a buggy in which jcarried the body to the canal, ho bloody bedroom in Young's lartments strengthened the bolief lat he is tho guilty person. Littlo Child Smothered to Death. ?News reaches us by 'phone lis morning of a most distressing ccurrcnce near Ansonville, Anin county, yesterday afternoon. l number of children were playig "bury the dead" in a large ile of seed cotton. The little illows scooped out a grave in the utton pile aud a little boy 7 years Id, named Tyson, played the part f corpse. He was put into the o!e and cotton was packed on 1111 by his little play-fellows. Yliet; tho time came to change lie gamo the children found to boir horror that they could not ,uko llio little boy who had been iiiried. Thoy pulled him out of lie hole and found that he was old and could not move and then hey ran in their childish terror to l?e older people and told of their rouble. The little boy was dead /hen the grown up people rcach~ d him, haying been smothered in lio cotton pile. ? Monroe Enquire ?Lieut. Peary, who has beenearching for the North pole, hut id not get there, has arrived dthin the bounds of civilization. Vhibt ho failed in accomplishing us purpose, ho claims to have nude many important discoveries. rush out of the main entrance at the tame lime. Inside the church not a bench was overturned and ^ all of those who wore killed died in or about the entrance. The people near the front of the church wero not injured in the least. rilK TOT A I. Nl'MHEK oy I)KAD18 1 1<>. , ! 1 Birmingham, Ala., Sept. 20.? js l'ho negro population of Binning- ! j nam is in mourning and a gloom u nas boon oast over the entire city K is the people begin to realize the v immensity of last night's appali- v lug disaster at Shiloh Baptist i church. I'p to 10 o'clock to- u night the number of dead had \ reached 110, and 00 of these have :l been identified A largo mujori- s ty of the victims of the stampede ? wero res' lents of Birmingham |, nnd as fast as the undertaker can j nrenare their hrwlipu . 1 . .... ...-J.vv, - tl tion they are being identified. I, Among the dead are: 1 Kev. L. li. Price, New Or- [ leans. N Rev. 1*. H. .Johnson, Weir <_ City, Kas. [ Rev. Ford, Pratt City, Ala. t .John Houston, Pittsburg, lvas. [ Rev. Wm. Stone, Greenville, Tenn. Rev. James Kelley, Binning- j aani, Ala. y A. L. Hill, Birmingham. t Of the identified dead 65 were j, Birmingham people, most of whom were women. t SOME OF THE VICTIMS. C The Rev. L. R. Pi ice of New I Jrleans, whose name appears in w ho list of the dead, was most worshipful grand master of the li