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ESTABLISHED IN 18 SCORES KILLED. An Indiana Town Practically De* strayed by Terrific Explosion HUNDREDS INJURED. Powder Plant Blows Up, Scattering Destruction in Every Direction? The Concussion Was Felt Two Handled Miles Away?All Build ings in the Town Were Wrecked and Inhabitants Killed or Injured. The town of Fontanet in Indiana was practically destroyed Tuesday by the explosion of the plant of the Du pont Powder Company. The dead number from twenty-five to fifty. More than six hundred per sons were injured and every building in the town was wholly or partially levelled to the ground. Where stood a thriving and busy town of 1,000 people Tuesday morn ing Tuesday night there is ruin and scattered wreckage. Five hundred inhabitants, all more ?or less seriously injured, have been taken away. . I Five hundred inhabitants, all more ?or less wounded, remain to gather thei.- scattered household goods and sleep under tents and on cots, guard ed by soldiers of the State. Without warning the powder mills, j seven in number, blew up at 9.15 ?o'clock Tuesday morning. They em ployed two hundred men, and of these seventy-fi-e were at work when the first explosion occurred in the press mill. In quick succession the glazing mill, the two coining mills and the powder magazine blew up, followed by the cap mill. In the magazine, situated several hundred yards from the mills, were stored 40,000 kegs of powder. When it blew up the concussion was felt nearly two hundred miles away. Farm houses two miles away and school houses equally distant were torn to pieces and their occupants in jured. A passenger tra*n on the Big Four Railroad, four mi es away, had every car window broker,, and several passengers were injured by flying .glass. The mill went up with three dis tinct explosions, followed ninety min utes later by a fourth, eveu more ser ious than the others, when the mag azine blew up. Immediately following the explo sions the wreckage caught fire and the inhabitants of the town, who rushed to the rescue of the mill em ployes, found themselves powerless to aid those burning in the ruins. They worked frantically, in constant danger from possible succeeding ex plosions, unmindful of their ruined homes. Dead and dying were picked up and collected. Eighteen bodies burn ed and mangled were carted to a pro tected spot to await identification, while the badly injured, numbering upward of fifty, were put on a special train and taken to Terre Haute for hospital accommodations. Nearly every one of the one thous and inhabitants carried blood on hands and face from his or her own wounds or those of people who had required aid. The mills were located one mile south of the towu. With the first explosion the employees ran for saf ty, but most of them were killed or wounded by the quickly following ex plosions in the other mill When the heat from the burning mills exploded the main powder maga zine, later, practically destroying the town by the concussion, many of those engaged in rescue work were badly injured and several were kill ed. Superintendent Monahan. of the plant, was killed while sitting in his office, and his wife and sster-n-law were killed in their home some dis tance away. That the death list is not far great er is due to the fact thai the people in town had left their houses at the first explosion and were not in them when the explosion of the 4 0.000 kegs of powder in the magazine hurled their homes to pieces and scattered their household goods in heaps of debris. Among the buildings totally de stroyed in the town were the Metho dist and Christian churches, the de pot, all business blocks, including a large block just completed, a large ware house and 50U homes. Three school buildings were de stroyed, two at Fontanet and one at Coal Bluff, two miles away. All were filled with school children and ivery one of these were more or less I njured by the collapse of the buil dings. A four-room school building was torn to pieces and not one of the two hundred children escaped unhurt, none was fatally hurt. The school building at Coal B.uff was turned ver and collapsed. The teacher and inety pupils were more or less in ured. Terre Haute and Brazil sent phvsi ians and nurses with supplies in arriages and automobiles across o'cour.try, while special trains were ade up and run over the Big Four ailroad for the care of the injured. Governor Hanly, at Indianapolis, r dered the Terre Haute company of e Indiana National Guard to patrol he ruined district and to protect life 69. BURNED TO DEATH Flaming Gasoline Surrounds Crew of Swamped Launch. [Several Prominent Young Men of New York Meet Horrible Fate While os Pleasure Trip. At New York four young men were drowned and three others, all from good families, were so seriously burn ed in the explosion of a gasoline launch on Raritan Bay early Thurs day that they may die. For three hours after the explosion the three survivors clung to the rail of the launch and fought off the flaming gasoline which surrounded them iu the wacer. The dead: Harry P. Barter, bookkeeper of ;he First National bank of Perth Amboy. Floyd McHose, a draghtsman, Perth Amboy. Edward J. Olsen, bookkeeper, Perth Amboy. Charles Wickburg, clerk in the Perth Amboy Terra Cotta company. The injured: Joseph J. Horsby, bookkeeper Na tional Fire Proofing company; badly burned. Nelson P. Macau, a draughtsman, Perth Amboy, burns. Richard Rubedee, a draughtsman, burns. The seven young men started late at night from Perth Amboy in a large gasoline launch owned by Ma can, for Keyport. When two mlies off Keyport one of them lighted a match to Ignite a cigar. A spark flew into the drip pings of gasoline in the bot tom of the boat and instantly com municated the flames to the 50-gallon tank in the head of the boat. There was a terrific explosion and the seven men were hurled into the water. The boat was set afire and those who survived the first shock?five of them?swam back to the launch. Two had been drowned at the first immer sion. The survivors caught the boat rail or the same side and tried to tip it so as to flood it with water and extinguish the flames. Instead the first tip of the launch sent many gal lons of flaming gasoline on the water about the swimming men, driving them away from the boat. This time only three of the men returned to the boat, two having been so blinded by the burning gasoline that they were drowned. The three survivors, Hornsby, Ma cau and Rubedee, held to the boat for three hours while their hands were burned to a crisp by the flames which were shootisg up and making a bright torch out on the bay. They were almost dead and ready to drop off and drown when the freight steamer St. Michael, plying between New York and Perth Amboy, came >along and, being attracted by the torch of burning gasoline, sent help. TOT KILLED BY TRAIN. The Little One Dies in Sight of Its Mother. One morning last week the Georgia railroad passenger train for Union point, on passing Murrell's station, a few miles from Athens, Ga., knocked a little two year old child of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Anderson from the track, fracturing her skull and causing its death twenty minutes later. The little tot had strayed off.from the house, which stands near the track and had started to follow its father to the field. The accident occurred in sight of the frantic mother, who was power less to save her child. She is pros trated with grief. JUVENILE MANSLAYER. Thirteen Year Old Boy Kills Another Three Years Older. An Aiken dispatch to The State says Wllie Patterson, a 13-year-old negro boy, shot and killed Jesse Hayne, a sixteen year old negro, near Ellenton. on Saturday morning. The killing is said to have been the re sult of a former quarrel. Magistrate Dave Bush held an inquest, and com mtted Patterson to jail. Constable J. O. Moody brough Patterson to Aiken and lodged him in jail Friday morn ing. and property. The governor arrived Tuesday evening about the time the soldiers reached Fontanet. Hebrought with him 700 tents and cots for the use of tlie homeless. The condition of the bodies were frightful. Burned and mangled in every conceivable way, writhing and distorted, the rescued heap of dead and dying presented a ghastly sight and the screams of agony were nerve wrecking. The powder mill, which has suffer ed heavy losses in previous explosions gave employment to 200 men. work ing in til roe shifts. At the time of the exploson about sixty-five men were in the plant. The first explosion destroyed the press mill and the glazing mill, the coining mills and powder magazine and the cap mill followed. The country school near Fontanet, with an attendance of fifty children, had just been called to order when the explosion occurred. The roof collapsed, but none of the children were seriously injured. The teacher. Miss Susan Bishop, of Terre Haute, was struck by a fall ing beam and fatally injured. lake disasieu Twenty-One Men and a Fine Freight Steamer Lost ONLY ONE MAN SAVED. The Fine Steel Freighter Cyprus, Launched August 17, Lost?Foun ders in Lake Superior and the Only Survivor is Washed Ashore Lashed to a Raft, Half Dead and Unable to Tell the Story. Bound down from the head of the lakes on the second trip she had made since being launched at Lorain, Ohio, on.August last, the fine steel freighter Cyprus, 440 feet long and owned by the Lackawanna Transpor tation Company, of Cleveland, Ohio., foundered Saturday night in Lake Superior, off Deer Park, taking down with her twenty-two members of the crew. Second Mate C. J. Pitt, washed ashore, lashed to a rail, is the only person ieft alive of the ship's crew, and his condition is so critical that since he was found on the beach, he has only been able to gasp out the name of the sunken ship and the fact that twenty-two lives were lost. Pitt is suffering from the dreadful exposure in the icy waters of Lake Superior, in addition to the buffeting he received from the breakers. Until he recovers sufficiently to talk the story of the wreck and exact cause of the stout steel ship foundering will not be definitely known. Deer Park is about thirty miles south of Grand Marais, on the shore of Lake Superior. Several bodies from the wreck have washed ashore, and two are known to be those of the first mate and the watchman. Marine men suggest as possible ex planations of the foundering that the engines became disabled; that the plates opened and that the ship sprang a leak and that the hatches may not hav been securely battened, permitting the steamer to fill with water from the waves washing over her decks. USED PIX OX PIMPLE And Will Lose His Ann From Mood Poisoning. I Lawson Lawrence, of Eatonton, Ga., who entered Mercer University at the recent fall opening to study for the ministry, has had to return home on account of a violent case of blood poisoning, necessitating the araputa ! tion of his left arm. Soon after entering Mercer an or idinary pimple which developed into a boil, appeared on the young man's 'arm, and he opened it with a com mon pin. Inflammation set in, and tlie amputation of the arm was a last resort to save the young student's life. KIL1 iE!) BY FALLXG TUER. 'Charles Gadd Meets Death in This Way Xenr Charleston. Charles Gadd, a member of the chain gang ^uard force of the Char leston sanitary and drainage commis sion, was killed Friday in St. An drew's Parish by a falling tree. When Gadd discovered that the tree was falling, he gave notice to the other men about to get away from it, but after warning the others of their dan ger, he then stepped in the wrong direction and he was knocked down and his head crushed as the tree struck the ground. AWAITS A PRETEXT. ! That is What Congressman Hob son Says About Japan. He Says War Between the United State's and the Japs May Be On Very Soon. In the course of a lecture at Green ville on Thursday evening. Congress man Richmond Pearson Hobson, formerly of the United States navy, made the startling declaration that Japan is only awaiting a pretext be fore declaring war against the United States. He said Japan could land 200,000 veteran troops on the Pacific coast before the United States could pre pare effective resistance, and could follow 'them up with 200,000 more before this government could dis patch half as many over our trans continental railroads. Japan was prepared for war today, he said, but the United States could I not get on a war footing in months, perhaps in a year. Captain Hobson said that the dis patch of the battleships to the Pacific may save the situation for the United States, but he feared Japan would strike before the fleet ever reached San Francisco. Japan is now trying to find an ex cuse for a declaration of war, in or der to have some of the force of pub lic opinion in Europe in her favor, j He cited that the San Francsco 1n i cident as an example, and said that 'our backdown was a wise piece of ? statesmanship, because it prevented a declaration of war, though it was humiliating to American pride and \ patriotism. : He pleaded for a greater navy, : which he said would insure the peace ! of the world. SLEW WIFE AND HIMSELF. j Desperate Deed To Prevent Wife Su ing For Divorce. | At Columbus, Ohio, Fred Butt, a I molder. aged 36, went to the home of , his wife early Wednesday and, forc 1 ing his way into the house, asked ? her if she were determined to push . her suit for divorce. I She said yes, and he grabbed her. : and tried to force carbolic acid into ; her mouth, burning the flesh about ! her lips. i Failing in this, he shot her ; and then put a bullet into his own ? body. Faliing to kill himself, he I swallowed an ounce of carbolic acid. FATAL ACCIDENT. ; One Person Was Killed and Several Others Injured. A Pennsylvania fast train ploughed . into a crowd of people at Bourbon i Station Friday night, killing one and injuring several others. At the time of the accident 1.000 persons were standing on the platform. Someone yelled "here she comes." and a mass of humanity surged toward the track, several persons being thrown in front of the locomotive. SHOOTING IN SALI'DA COUNTY .Man Named Hall Wounded Three Times at a Negro Frolic. A Saluda dispatch to The State says a white man named Hall, hailing from Oconee county, and for some time past working at the sawmill of Mr. Giles Chapman, near Chapman, in that county, was shot Thursday night at a negro frolic in that com munity. Three balls took effect but none of them are thought to be fatal. The shooting is said to have been done by a negro named Butler. JTOBER 17, 3907. ?Berry man in Washington Star. LOST OUT WEST. The Disappearance of a Young Man From This State CAUSES UNEASINESS And Enquiries Are Being Made About Him by the Lady He Boarded With at Coventry, Cnl., Where He Was Working for a Concent?Left His ! Affairs In Good Shape?Friends Anxious About Him. The Columbia State says a letter has been handed Rev. P. F. Kllgo, pastor of the Washington Street Methodist church, Columbia, con taining news of the probable disap pearance of a former South Caro linian. From Coventry, Colorado, Mrs. J. H. Jacobs writes to the "min ister of a Methodist church, Colum bia, South Carolina," and it was thus that Mr. Kllgo came into possession of the letter. Mrs. Jacobs writes as follows: "Can you give me any information concerning one in or around Colum bia by name of Stover or Rollings? My reason for writing you concerning this is that a young man, giviug his full name as Evan Rollings Stover of South Carolina, came here April 1 and was given a fine position by the Redlands, company, who placed ample confidence in him. After coming her, Mr. Stover boarded at my home and won a host of friends who are anxious to learn particulars of his sudden dis appearance. , "He was a model young man and claimed to be the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Stover, who died a few years ago, leaving him a plantation in South Carolina. He decided to come West this spring and things were left in charge of an uncle, Lew is Rollings, whose farm adjoined his, five miles in the country. "He claimed to be a member of the Methodist church and said his par ents were buried in a country church yard. On August 27 he left here on business for Montrose. Col., and has not been heard of since. He leaves ?100 here with the company ;ind sev eral valuable belongings, including a railroad ticket bought from Columbia on March 16. 1007. This was why we thought his home was there. "We leel that this young man must be located. If he has people there j they should know of his disappear ance. Everything here is straight on his side, and foul play is suspected. ! "We would be glad if you would investigate this thoroughly in the city and country and let us hear from j you at an early date. ! "Can you give me the address of a ! Dr. Elliott or Mr. Cy. Long, living in I Columbia." ; Dr. Kllgo carried this letter to The j.State, feeling sure that through its circulation, some trace of the young ! man might be discovered. Dr. Kilgo I himself said thai he is acquainted with people of the name of Rollings, who are living or have lived n Lan caster county. He knew a Mr. Evan j Rollings and thinks that this young, ' man may be a relative of his. This story seems to indicate a very j mysterious disappearance and possi bly may be the first intimation the i young man's relatives have had of it. Nineteen Killed. A train made up of passenger coaches bound from Scotland and the North of England to Bristol, left the rails as it was entering the station at Shrewsbury at an early hour Tuesday morning. Nineteen persons, includ ing ten passengers were killed. MAN EATERS. Awfnl Tales of Cannibalism in .Northeastern Canada. Editor of Fort Francis Times Brings Back Terrible Story After Making Trip of Exploration. A specia. dispatch to The Chicago Re.xird Herald from Winnipeg, Mani toba, says: Tales of cannibalism and famine among natives of northeastern Can ada, between the eastern shore of James Bay and Lamrador, are brought back by J. A. Osborne, edi tor of the Fort Francis Times, who ha? just completed a trip of explora tion in that country. While at Moose factory, the ex plorer met a young man who fled thither in terror of his uncle, who he said had killed and eaten eight hum an beings. There, too, he saw a woman who last winter killed and ate her two children, so great was the famine. This lack of food primarily was brough about by the fact that the woods seemed almost entreiy without the usual number of deer and rab bits, upon which the natives ordinar ily subsist. As these occurrences did not seem to cause any stir in that region, Mr. Oborne come to the conclusion that cannibalism is practiced openly on many occasions among the Indians ani half breeds. One village on Main river was wip ed off the map because of the great snow fall last winter. Having no pro visions stored up, and with streams covered solid with ice, the Indians ste.rved to death with the exception of a party of young men and women, who decided to try to make Hudson bay 150 miles down the stream. Af ter a journey marked by great priva tion, they reached the fort more dead that alive. A relief expedition sent back to the village found nothing but 13 corpses in the rude huts which comprised the village. Osborne says the Indans and Es kimo population in the region is diminishing rapdly, due partly to emigration to the coast of Labrador and partly to the prevalence of dis ease and frequent scarcity of food. He says nany of the natives are fall ing prey to tuberculosis. STUCK TO HDI. [The Kind of Sweetheart That Is Worth Having. The marriage of Miss Clara Cecilia ' Leach and John W. Maher, which I was solemnized at St. John's church 'at Worchester, Mass., on Thursday morning was the culmination of a ro mance out of the ordinary. The brirle is one of the wealthiest women of Worcester and prominent socially. Mr. Maher is prominently connected with the club, lodge and business life of the city. I About four years ago he was sent to jail because of ascusations of mis appropriation of funds made against him by the senior member of the firm with which he was connected. He was released under a new state law after he had served three and a I half yaars of his sentence. His sweetheart steadfastly refused to believe in his guilt and imme diately after his release from prison arrangements for their wedding were made. WOMAN YICTLU OF CRIME. Dead Body of a Beautiful- Woman Found in New York. With the discovery of a mysterious [boat in the case, t'.ere remained lit tle doubt that a woman at that time unidentified, whose body was found lying on the New York Central tracks below the West 118th street and Riverside drive, was the victim of a ' gang that may have killed her at one [Of the resorts on the other side of ; thi river from New York. The woman was aoout thirty years [old and of medium height. Her hair j was dark brown and unusually heavy. Her face had apparently been pretty j the mouth regular, and teeth espec ially good. Her hands were white and without the appearance of hav ing done hard work. She was dressed entirely in black with a black shirr waist, black skirt and black shoes and stockings. THREE DROWNED. Boat Loaded With Colored Phosphate Hands Turns Over. A small boat loaded with phos phate hands capsized Wednesday morning in the Ashley river, oppos ite Town Creek, near Charleston, throwing the occupants of the boat into the water, i hree of them, Capt. Mitchell. Dick Spencer and George Wasp, are missing and are thought to be drowned. Paul Williams and Peter Deveaux were rescued while clinging to the bottom of the over turned boat, by Captain Pinckey, of the R. C. Barkley. The men were all of Maryville and colored. WHITE PRISONERS ESCAPE. Life Time Convicts Walk Out of the Penitent iary. Waller Allen and Jim Sudduth, white, both life term prisoners sent up from Greenville, and both trusties, walked away from the State Peniten tiary Tuesday morning before day light and neither of them has been seen since. 0 SI.00 PEE AJTOTUM. USED IRON BAR On His Head But He Refused to Give Up Keys. BEATEN BY ROBBERS. He Was Attacked on the Nineteenth Floor of a Skyscraper When He Was Alone in the Building?Final ly the Robbers Took Pity on What They Thought Was the Old Man's Innocense and Left Him. Two burglars, in an effort to get the keys to offices of many brokers and bankers in the Century building, No. 74 Broadway, New York, Wed nesday night, beat Richard F. Gray, aged watchman, with an iron bar,' and then attempted to chloroform him. The assault occurred on the 19th floor of the building where the cries of the old man could not have been heard in the street, and when the only person in the sky scraper was a cleaner on the first floor. A former employe of one of the banks in the building is suspected. The detectives gay that this man af ter his discharge, became intimate with a professional 3afe breaker. The bank where he is employed is equip ped with burglar alarms, and the only safe way to gain entrance into the bank was to get the keys. The detectives say thatv had the men got into the bank and opened the safe, the robbery would havo eclipsed the robbery of the Old Man hattan bank years ago. One eleva tor in the building is in use all night for the benefit of the watchman. Some time after midnight Gray had got to the 19th floor when sud denly two men sprang at him as he came from an office. One felled him' with an iron bar and the other struck him across the face with a chisel. "Now give up the keys to every office," one of the men commanded. Blood was flowing over the old man's face and so weak was he from pain that he could not rise to his feet. He was game to the core, how ever. There was not a key to an office in the building that was not tucked away in his pocket. "I haven't got a single key," he said. "If yon don't believe me, kill me and search me. I don't mind dying. Only make it quick and don't beat me like this." This speech displeased one of the men and he brought his fist down on the helpless old watchman's head, and the next, instant one thrust the chloroform under his nose. As Gray explained afterward, the chloroform seemed to alleviate hh> pain and give him strength. He struck the vial and knocked it from the man's hand. Then he tried to rise, but a blow from the iron bar sent him to his knees again. "Haven't you got those keys now?" asked the man. "No, and J never have had them. They don't trust the likes of me with keys to the banks," said Gray. The old man's condition seemed to touch one of the robbers with pity. "Say." he said to his companion, "don't beat him any more. He has not got the keys. Give the old guy a handkerchief to tie up his head." ! The man then took his companion's I handkerchief and bound it about old Gray's head. The two men then started for* the elevator. Gray got to his feet and tried to follow them, when one of them sprang at him and knocked him sprawling. ' Now. you try that, and it will he your finish. You stay here and we will find the way out," he said, and then sent the elevator shooting to the ground floor where the two men ran to the street, unlocking the safe ty latch on the front door. INJl'RED IN EXPLOSION. I A Spark From a Pipe Fell Into Pow der Keg. Four persons were badly injured, two of them fatally by a powder ex plosion in the home of James John ston, at Maynard. Ohio. The fat ally injured are. James Johnston, a miner, burned and mangled: Effie Johnson, his ; daughter, aged six years. Seirously injured: j Mrs. James Johnston, burned and bruised: Joe Durdusi, an Italian, bad i |y burned. Johnston and Durdusi were filling their powder cans from a keg in the former's home, while one of them was smoking a pipe. A spark of the burning tobacco fell into the keg, causing the explosion, which com i pletely wrecked the house. BRYAN AT RICHMOND. j Made Speech on "The Average Man'* to Vast Crowd. ! William Jennings Bryan arrived at I Richmond and was escorted to the 'fair grounds by a reception committee of 150 ctizens Friday. He was intro duced to the vast crowd assembled on the grounJs < f ex-Governor Mon tague and spoke for over an hour. His subject was "The average man." He said that the average city papers were all right, but charged that the great metropolitan dailies were con trolled by the trusts and their col umns were open to the highest bid der, a