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THE FORT MILL TIMES. 16TH YEAR. FORT MILL. S. C.. THURSDAY, AUGUST 1. 1007. >tO. 18. ? | * * DEEP LAID PLOT -s Of Blackmailers to Extort Money or Murder Victims. DEATH WAS RESULT Of Rofuaal to Pay Sum Doinanded By the Hla<-kmaildr<*?'One Kioti Mert-liant Was Killed for ItofiiNintf to Pay?Ho W'bk (hie of thu Ton Mon to lie Killed If Tlioy Hid Not Pay lT|i Prompt ly. Seeking a motive for the murder of -f. 8. Travshnnjlan. the A^-meniaii "UK merchant, of New York, the disrict attorney's office was led to an nvestigatlon of a report that Travhanjian was one of ten wealths Armenians who had been marked for laughter if they failed to give un 10,000 each to a blackmailing band f their countrymen. No color was iven to this theory by Pedros Hamertzoomian, who killed the rug man, 'hen the prisoner wa? arrsined ast week. In court ho maintained a tolid Indifference, waived examinulon, and was remanded to the coronr. Later he made a statement to a epresontativo of the district attorney n this he declared that he had come om Chicago for the express purpose f killing Tavshanjian, but the crime as justified by no one and no other erson or socitey was involved. From other sources carefully promoted by the authorities, came inforlation of a startling character and tid to be accurate. This is to the fleet that a secret society of Armenins originally organized for what te members held to be patriotic, tough revolutionary purposes, had egenerated into an instrument for tackmail.' The organization had dlshnded. while the better elements tfmdrew from all connection with te society. The killing of Tavshanjian and the ohers. It is stated, was planned more tat a year ago. They received lettTs which they Interpreted as meaniig that they must pay or take the onsequences. The threatened men dscussed the matter at a meeting arranged to decide what they should d>. Tavshanjian was n resent. A mm her of the merchants were in fjvor of acceding to the demand. "Better give them money and li e," they said. "No," Bald Tavshanjian. As a matte of principle we should not pay. Y?u can do as you will. They will g?t nothing from me." Mr. Cam here, Tavshanjian's secretary, visited the attorney's office, and there declared that the death of his enployer grew out of attempted blickmail. "There is no government here," cr.ed Cambere excitedly. 1 cannot understand why you have such laws. In Turkey they would have rounded them all up. This man who committed the murder is only the dupe in the hands of a hand of blackmailers." Cambere gave Assistant District Attorney Smythe a list of wealthy Armenians who he said had been forced to pay blackmail to this band. "This Is the work of an Armenian In thia city who is the worst man in the world." said a.prominent Armenian . "He has been responsible for many murders and lesser crimes, and tort cowardly to commit them himself. He gets men of small intollect to do the work Tor him by making thorn believe that they are working for their country." Another well-to-do Armenian said: "A priest who tried to fight the band wa 3 murdered In Odessa. rather Ka Bper Vartarlan, killed In New York wa n another victim." . KlIiLKO IN SKIjF l>KFKN< K. Yoi Jiig White Man Forcwl to Kill a Colored Man. i t h|mm!;?1 dispatch from Springflel ri to The State says Monroe (iantt a y oun? white man of this common Ity, shot to death John Jackson, col ore d Wednesday afternoon at the sav mil I of his brothers. Oantt surrender ed to Judge Corbett. i Vccordlng to reports Cinatt statesthalt some days ago his brothers em Jegro by the name of Sterl ews. It seems that Mat? under contract to work n and left him. Wednesday rick son took his repeating vent down to the mill and . difficulty with Matthews ich he attempted to shool t is claimed, interfered 01 to prevent Jackson from rhen he turned the gun or o grasped the barrel and aped a shot fired by Jack tt then drew his pistol and son as above slated, as a large family who. wlti i, regret the occurrence. L'HKRH ASHAULTKB lers Because Price of Mca Was Kaised. wish quarter in Philadel the scene of wild dlsorde en of the quarter made de ins against all of the Kosh *8 as a protest against th< a the price of beef, gke invaded by angry wo customers drivel and SAYS HE IS INSANE. V Operator on Ship*Asks Police To Meet Him at Pier. I/ooses Mind While on Voyage and Twice Attempts Suicide, Second Time Jumping Overboard. After sending a wireless message telling of his own insanity, John II. Quinn, De Forest wireless operator on the New York and Porto Rican liner Coanio, was met at the pier when the ship arrived at New York by the police and sent to his home at Ravnnno \%? * ? ?-? * * * . j ?w, ..i.vic iic 10 iwtoveruig ills mind. Quinn made two attempts to commit suicide by jumping in the sea, one at Aguadilla, where man eating sharks abounded. His condition was noticed as the ship was leaving San Juan, when he paced the deck and talked to himself, at the same time making the wildest motions with hi., arms. Suddenly he rushed to the rails and laped over. First Officer Bernard Olsen jumped in and, after a fight rescued the crazed man. Quinn made no effort to sink, but swam about still talking to himself. He waB put in irons, and a passenger who knew a little aliout wireless telegraphy. sat at his post. Quinn recovered so far. seemingly, that at Aguadilly Capt. T. J. Dalton took the irons off and confined him in a room. It was only a little while till he crawled through a small hole and once more leaped overboard right among the hungry sharks. Second Officer Coughlin went after him this time and dragged him back. He was again ironed. When the Coamo reached Quarantine Quinn was wild-eyed, but rational in a -way. Capt. Dalton went to him with a singular request. "Quinn," he said, "we're your friends, but you can't take care of yourself. The man at your job can't send a mesage, and I want you to send it. It's about you, too, and you mustn't be angry. I want you to have a policeman meet you. That's a good boy." Quinn never moved a muscle. In a moment, however, he got up and started for the telegraph tower. There, while half a dozen men guarded him, he flashed these words: "Quinn, wireless operator aboard Coamo, off Quarantine, Insane. Conflno In mnm * nnt rounnnclKlo #*** a*\_ tlons. Need police help at Pier No. 35, Brooklyn, on arrival.** The crazed opeiator then faced his guards and said: "I've done my duty, haven't I?" The operator at the De Forest station at No. 4 2 Broadway, was startled. He flashed back this message. "Who's sending this?" And Quinn, with a queer grin on his face, replied: "Quinn, himself." The man was then again locked in his room and guarded. When the boat tied up at her pier, Quinn's brother James, was there with policemen from the Hamilton avenue station. The operator made no resistance and seemed rational. James took him home. He is twentw-two years old, and one of the best wireless men in the business. HERIES OF Ql'EKR FIRKH. Seven Occurred in Two Honrs in a Home of Union. According to the Union Progress i cuiai nanir nri iro ul nr?rn uniiMlrtl mysterious, oven uncanny fires occurred Wednesday night in the sbor space of an hour and a half at the home of Mr. John Wlx of Buffalo. It seems that al>out 7:30 it was discovered that there was a fire in one of the up-stairs rooms. The fire was in a bed and by the time ail the mattresses and lied clothing were gotten to and thrown out, they were practically consumed. After everything had apparently been extinguished much to the emprise of everyone, in al?out fifteen minutes the odor of something burn ing was again noticed. Investigation showed that a bed in the same room, but entirely apart from the one burn ed, was ablaze. This was thrown out and a through search of everything was then made. No traces ol matches or burning material seemed left. Hardly had everything settled down easy when again attention was attracted by smoke, and it was found that, the inside of a dresser in the same room was ablaze, and almost i consumed. i Following this mysterious fire in I a few minutes attention was drawn to annlhnr rnnm ill a which I had been shut up for some time, and which was apparently closed, and In L this the hedclothing and clothes were found to be burning. While this was being put out the bed down stairs was found to be ablaze. Following this In a few mint utes the Are was discovered In one closet and after it was distinguished apparently altogether, another place was discovered In the closet to be " on flre. r This morning at 11:30 when Mr " Wlx was telephoned to to confirm the " locations, time and occurrence of thit B flre. It was found that he was having stilt another and his eighth fire in s ' down stairs room, and that he wat 5 at that moment at home attempting to put it out. fc ^ For a while it was not known the flre wag caused by in combustion on account ^SgSeflKmUnued Uttenso heat, but aj pffifflMMnrsdfty Mr. Wit raye that h? HmHB discovered a few stumps ol BHHgS^^LHO it .ctaera* that these eight HB?H^^K^hUsod by tittle rodents BB|^H|^^ittit>termined to burn hit contents. As it is ll^r LOST AT SEA. An Appalling Marine Disaster North of San Francisco. ONE HUNDRED LOST. A Urn<" r?.HM?ngcr Strainer Hammed by a lairge Lumber Vessel?-People on Iloth Vessels Were Asleep When the Crash Camo?Many Women Perish, Hut Many of the Men I ?f* A dispatch from San Francisco Bays in one of the worst marine disasters in the history of California between one hundred and fifty lives were lost as far as has been learned by a midnight collision between the steamer Columbia and the steam lumber schooner San Pedro in Shelter Cove, twelve miles south of the Medocino-Humboldt County line, between 12 and 1 o'clock Monday. The few details known here brought by the steamer Roanoke and the steam schooner Daisy Mitchell, which arrived in San Francisco Monday forenoon. The Columbia, a 300-foot steel vessel of the San Francisco and Portland Steamship company, while bound from San Francisco for Portland, Ore., with 189 passengers and a crew of sixty, collided with and was rammed by the San Pedro, a 170-foot wooden steamer, south-bound, for San Francisco. The sea was smooth, but the weather was foggy. The San Pedro looming out of a mist a few lengths away, bore down on the Columbia at high-speed, despite frantic efforts to clear. With a grinding crash, the San Pedro sank her stem fully ten feet into the Columbia's port bow. Nearly all of the Columbia's passengers and many of her crew were asleep in their cabins and bunks when the crash came. As the San Pedro backed away the sea poured in through the ragged hole in the Columbia's bow above and below the water line, and in five minutes the Columbia sank to the bottom, the deep waters of the shelter Cove covering over the topB of the Columbia's masts. The story or mat nve minutes is yet to be told and as it is told by some survivors the facts of the tragedy can be but guessed ut. According to J. S. Flynn, a passenger on the Roanoke, Capt. Doran, of the Columbia, succeeded in launching four life boats and two rafts before the Columbia sank. Flynn is quoted as saying that eighty-eight passengers, all men. got away in that manner, and were saved; that Capt. Doran acted with great coolness in the face of death and went down with his ship. P'lynn is further quoted as saying that none of the hundred odd women passengers were caved. Shortly after the collision the steamers Roanoke and George W. Elder and the steam schooner Daisy Mitchell, all south-bound, came on the scene and stood by. The Elder took the San Pedro in tow and the latest reports announce their arrival in Eureka. The stem of the San Pedro was smashed to splinters, one of her masts was snapped off at the deck and she was settling and had a heavy list when taken in tow. Capt. Hansen remained on board. The Daisy Mitchell offered assistance to the Elder, but this was declined. She picked up a life boat *.nd a raft of the Columbia and brought them to San Francisco. Near the scene of the wreck the Roanoke picked up a life raft and found underneath it the dead body of a passenger, supposed to be Edward Butler, of Portsmouth, N. H. ... ,u. Pt. I I1G OmcerH UI IIIU mci^auvuv change in Sun Francisco and of the various newspapers have been beseiged since early morning by relatives and friends of the Columbia's passengers, but the insistent and tearful requests for information of the victims and the rescued remain unsatisfied. Beyond the reported facts that Butler was drowned and that Capt. I)oran went down with his ship 110 details of casualities have been received. Assistant President Frye, of the steamship company, said that the Columbia lies in deep water and fifteen miles ofT shore, and that for the present at least no attempt will be made to raise her. Capt Doran was regarded by the olhcers of the San Franciso and Portland Steamship company as one of the ablest seamen who ever operated a vessel on the coast. His career had been free from accident, and this is the first disaster that has befallen any vessel over which he held command. 1)1 El> OF BROKEN HEART. Wife Insisted on leaving Farm for the City. Arthur Gladden. 58, a prosperous farmer of Dimondale, Mich., is dead of a broken heart. Owing to the am1 bltion of his wife to move to the city, 1 Gladden had sold his farm for $8,000 and purchased a bouse in Lansing. 1 When the time came to give pos| session of the beautiful cottage and > broad acres which had been his home 1 ;x> long, Gladden wandered from Held ' to field, from stable to stable, taking f last looks at all of which he thought so much. Climbing into/he haymow, 1 he covered himself in the fragrant clover, the strings of his heart snfep ped and he died without a word or a 1 cry. V. " : When found his cheeks were still ; wet with the leant f hick bad rq umd | ateadilv down hft cheek^to^in^^ COWARDLY CAPTAIN. Commander Hansen Is Charged With Gross Inhumanity. Many More LItcs Could Have Ileen Saved if He Mad Taken on More of Rescued. A dispatch from San Francisco says after the tales of heroism surrounding the Columbia wreck?the glorious death of Captain Doran, and the self-abnegation of the girl Maybelle Watson? comes the other side of the disaster. A charge of gross inhumanity and the sacrifice of many lives has formally been made against Captain Hansen of the San Pedro, by the uiiiu uuiter, nooert hiiwea or the Columbia. It has been made to Local Inspector Bolles. It is part of the record of the United States. If that charge be true, the women of San Francisco would be justified in meting out to Captain Hansen the fate of Captain Ireson, of Marblehead, celebrated in song: Old Flud Ireson, for his hard beart, Tarred and feathered, and carried in a cart, By the women of Marblehead. Ireson sailed away from a siuking ship. Now comes the accusation in so many words that Captain Hansen was the cause of many men and women, struggling in the water by refusing to take any more of the rescued on the San Pedro?a steamer that could not sink because she carried a cargo of lumber. The fearful charge is calmly made under oath by Third Mate Hawse. He solemnly says to Captain Bolles that he brought a boat load of rescued passengers up to the San Pedro and requested that they be taken care of. He declares that ho was met wth a refusal to receive anymore of the Coitimbla's passengers. "I repeatedly asked them to take the women?one of whom was half naked and delirious," says Hawse Id his sworn statement. Such an appeal would ordinarily melt the heart of bronze, but Hawse declares that the man In command of the San Pedro refused to shelter any more passengers of the sinking Columbia. Then comes the fearful accusation: "If the San Pedro had taken these passengers, I could have snved many more lives." Hawse says his boat was so full he feared to take any more In it, lest it be swamped. He saw many more men and women struggling in the water and all he needed was his empty boat to go to their assistance. That is a dreadful accusation for Captain Hansen to face, particularly when his steamer is safe in the harbor of Eureka and the photographs show fVinf oho nr*u 1H Kuvo tol/on un'uv manv I more men and women aboard without endangering the lives of any. But Third Officer Hawse does not stop with his charge against Captain Hansen. He has a sea dog's contempt for the men whom he rescued In his t>oat and did not show any evidence of chivalry In the hour of heroism. One of the four women he had picked up was out of her head. All the women were scantily attired but three of them were heroines, and Hawse In his sworn statement, says: "I desire to speak in the highest terms of praise in regard to the three noble women and in lowest terms of contempt for the men passengers who would not inconvenience themselves to make the lot of the women more comfortable. And then come a tribute all around to the man who was on his bridge when through a fog and not in bed, as was Captain Hansen. This tribute comes from all sides to Captain Peter Doran who did everything that a man could do to save the people, and then went down with his ship to his death rather than crowd some of his passengers from a life l?oat or a raft. FATAL ACCIDKNT. One Man Killed and Two Others nun in ;iuiu. Dr. J. T. Killebbrew, one of the most prominent of the younger physicians of Mobile Ala., was ground to pieces under the wheels of a moving freight train. Perrin Bestora, a prominent young attorney was seriously, and W. P. Horn, a well known business man, was slightly injured in an automobile accident Thursday afternoon. They were driving in an automobile and when crossing a railroad track the approaching train was seen. Although the automobile crossed the track. Dr. Killebrew jumped and was caught beneath the wheels of the train. Dr. Killebrew was president of the Mobile County Medical society, a lecturer on the diseases of women in the University of Alabama and an assistant in the Ingo-Bonduraut infirmary at Mobile. He was born and reared at Nashville, Tenn. WOMAN HAS LEPR08Y. The Sixth (W Discovered in Boston and Vicinity. The State board of health of Massachusetts has confirmed the report that the young woman who was recently removed to the Massachusetts General hospital after being employed as a domestic for several months In gome of the wealthiest families in Boston is a victim of leprosy. She will be removed to the leprosy colony at Fenlkese Island off the coast near New Bedford. The pahose name is concealed, had iWBI^MMfc^jga^ent during the past WRECK HORRORS As Described by Two People Who Were on the Columbia. DROWNED LIKE RATS. Mrs. Ijcidcll Who Whs On HI Fated Columbia Relates of Drownings and Perils of the Night on Raft? Graphic Description of the Sinking Told by Chief Engineer Jackson? Screams of Doomed Were Awful. i ne racinc coast Steamship company's passenger steamer Pomona arrived in San Francisco from Eureka at 10:30 Thursday, bringing from the latter place one of the surviving passengers or the wrecked steamer Columbia and the thirty two members of the Columbia's crew, who were saved out of her total complement of 59 The passenger is Mrs. O. Leidell, of San Francisco. The crowd was made to stand back and keep a lane open while the Pomon'a passengers came ashore. Each was stopped at the foot of the gang plank and asked excitedly "were you a passenger upon the Columbia?" With one exception the answer was "No." The exception was Mrs. Leidell. Clothed from head to foot in a dark brown ulster and her features hidden by a brown veil tied over her hat and uuder her chin, she came falteringly dowu the gang plank and made her way uncertain through the crowd. She held her hankerchief to her face as she walked and when asked by newspaper men for a recital of her experience, she broke into tears and turned, shaking her head. "I dou't want to say anything, I don't want to talk," she murmured. Later Mrs. Leidell consented to talk and in describing her experience said: "When the crash came I got out of my stateroom. Every one was excited?every one except the captain. He stood on the bridge, his arms extended, begging the passengers to be cool. The crew stood at the boats, cutting away at the lines that held them. There was no chance to lower them. All who could piled into the boats. Ixits of people jumped over the side, trying to climb onto bits of wood which were floating in the water. 1 did not have time to think. I ran to the side. There under the side was a raft. There was nobody on it. I jumped and struck on the raft. Other women got on it also. One crawled from the water, others jumped from the boat. "Then the Columbia went down, bow first. The raft drifted around and water washed over us. Two wo men una a lime cnna were wasnea off and I never saw them again. One woman was left. Her hold was weak. She begged me to help her. I tried to hold her on, but I was too weak. She died before my eyes. Oh! I can't forget that. I'll never forget that. She drowned and i could not help her. Who she was I don't know. Now and then I got a glimpse of another raft or boat. We got some pieces of wood after awhile and used them for oars, and finally?it must have been hours afterward?we climbed on the San Pedro. It was u terrible climb up her side. "Mc-n helped, but I felt so odd and weak I never thought I would get over it. The waves kept striking ever us. We were dripping wet, and it was so cold. On the San Pedro we were sitting on two little narrow pieces of lumber. Suddenly a wave carried away the lumber we were sitting on. "We managed to stay on the ship, however, but there were some who got that far, who got no further, for without any warning, the rear mast of the San Pedro gave away and swept several into the sea. One or I nr/\ itrni?A nr 4 Ito/ilr olitrn ft u t A f the others we saw nothing. And the darkness hanging over everything made It terrible. We did not know if the San Pedro would hold together, although the officers and crew did their best to choer iib up. The day broke. The fog still hung low, and the light only appeared gradually, hut then we could see who was saved, and who was not. That sight f can't tell you about it. Everything about it was so desolate and dismal. And then the Elder came up. They got us ahoad, cared for us, and at Eureka I secured the only remaining berth on the Pomona to come hack here." Chief Engineer J. V. Jackson gave the following account of the wrecked steamer Columbia in an interview to the Evening Post. "I was in my stateroom when the crash occurred, and I scrambled into some clothes and came up on deck. All was confusion and turmoil. The roar of the water as It poured into the hole in the Columbia's side was deafening. Then desperately swimming away I caught a rope thrown from the San Pedro. Prom there I looked lioolr at tho Cnliimltln IlIRt In time to sec her plunge beneath the waves. As she sunk 1 could dimly see many men dash across the deck toward the San Pedro; the next moment the fog had hidden the dreadful scenes. "I am sure that many steerage passengers did not leave their staterooms as the interval was so short between the time she was struck and the time she sank that the men had not time to get to the deck, and those thatidl|^umped overboard and were sucktQBtan^bythe vortex created by the it knee th? screams DIES TRYING TO FLY.J Christian Scientist Plunges Four Stories to Street Wife Clings to Ilk* Ankle An He llanos From the Window Until Site Faints. Eugene Hawe. of New York, was a planter and polisher of hardwood parquet floors, and did well at his trade up to last May. At this time Howe and his wife, Bertha, moved their belongings into the top floor of the four-story and basement brownstone residence of Dr. Gregory Costigan, at 63 West Sixty-eight street. At the Central Park, west of the block on which the Costigan house is situated is ' the Second church of Christ Scientist. Howe dropped in there to see and hear. The husky floor planer became deeply interested in the teaching of Christian Science. He tried to interest his wife in the tracks and books he obtained at the library of the church. Mrs. Howe would have none of the teachings. She says that since her husband begun to read Mary G. Eddy's "Science and Health," he has had little time to attend to his trade. He gave up smoking, changed most of his habits of life, and not long ago decided that eating breakfast was all a mistake. At 10 o'clock Saturday night Howe came home and chatted for ashort time with Dr. Costigan. The physician says the floor polisher was perfectly rational. After talking with Dr. Costigan but a short time Howe went up to his apartments on the top floor. He undressed and got into bed. taking with him a book be had bought. It was "Science and Health." Along after midnight Howe, so his wife says, began to act In a manner queer even for him. He finally made for a front window, climbed out on the sill and announced that he was going to fly out ou the night air. Mrs. Howe ran to the window and managed to grasp him by the ankle just as he leaped. She held his weight with all the strength that was In her arms. Her arms were badly cut and bruised by coming in contact with the sharp edge of the stone window sill. Finally the woman's strength gave way, and. with a shriek that arroused the neighborhood, she fell back into the room in a faint. Howe's skull was fractured and his body and legs were torn and crushed. He died in the hospital without regaining consciousness. When he leaped from the windowHowe had carried with him Mrs Eddy's book. Dr. Costigan is of the opinion that Howe was suddenly seized with an insane notion that he could leap from the window, land on the sidewalk below without injury, and then enter the house and display himself to the physician as a convert ing argument in favor of Christian Science. Mrs. Howe says that, shortly before her husband made for the window he hat'1 told her that I)r. Costigan had been practically, converted to Christian Science and comtemplated giving up his practice. CALHOl'N COI'XTY. Two l'ro|N>s?'d Counties Want to I'sr the Name. A dispatch from Columbia to the Augusta Chronicle says the commission which is seeking to form a new county with St. Matthews as the county seat with Calhoun as the name of the new county met here Wednesday and organized by electing M. D. Keller and J. S. Sal ley permanent chairman and secretary, respectively. The commission secured the maps, plats and petition from the governor's office and will at once get to work on the business of the commission. There is another scheme looking to the formation of a new county to be called Calhoun. This hopes t< make Dillon, in Marion county, s county seat-. The commission which finishes its work first in such a way as to war rant an order from the governor for an election will win out on the nanu if the election carries. 811KKIFF COMMITS Silt 'II HO. Driven to Act By Memory of Man ll? Recently Handed. Because the hanging of a negro it the line of his official duty preyed or his nerves, Sheriff Joseph B. Bennett of Starke, county, Fla., blew out hii brains. The deed was committed a his home In the presence of his wife About two weeks ago the sherif adjusted the noose and sprung th< IM'HI II II H|i IUI II iii'Ki ii mm umi ucn convicted of murder. Although i brave man , Sheriff Bennett coul< never bear the sight, of suffering am he could not rid himself of the mem ory of the man dangling at the rope' end. lie became unable to go to sleei and told friends he would never agaii have peace of mind. After a sleepless night, he arose secured his pistol, and shot himsel through the head while his wife wa still in bed. Mrs. Bennett awok Just as her husband's body fell acros the bed. WOMAN FOUND UFAI). And Her Husband Found Uncor scions in Itear of Flat. I At Chicag^> on Thursday Mri Kmanuel Bloom *ras mysteriousi : stabbed and killed in her apartment! r Her husband was fouj^unsconsciou i on the groiUi^A^M^^krofUic fla' I evident 1 >HHot thel I da! oi^|B ! I SAME OLD STORY Thirty People Killed in a Rail Road 1 _ ! J A Accironi. THE FEARFUL WRECK i Was on l'liw Marquette Excursion Train, Which Crashed Into a Freight Train?At IaniM Thirty Art' Known to 1h' Dead, ami Seventy Others Are More or Less Seriously Hurt. Thirty people arc dead and more thau 70 injured, many of them seriously, as the result of u head-end collision Saturday morning near Plymouth, Mich., when a Pero Marquette excursion train hound from Ionia to Detriot crashed into a westbound freight in a cut located at a sharp curve about a mile east of Salem. The passenger train of It cars, carrying the Here Marquette shop employes of Ionia and their families to the Michigan metropolis for their annual excursion, was running at high speed, probably 50 miles an hour, down a steep grade. It struck e lighter locomotive of the freight train with such terrifllc force as to turn the freight engine completely around. The wrecked locomotives lay side by side, both headed eastward. Only a few of the freight cars were damaged and it was only a few hours' work to remove all traces of them from the scene. Hut behind the two wrecked locomotives six cars of the passenger train lay piled in a hopeless wreck. Four of the passenger coaches remained on the track undamaged and were used to convey the dead and injured to Ionia; one coach was en tirely undamaged with only its forward trucks off the rails. These were the rear live cars. The two coaches next ahead of those were telescoped. The next car forward stood almost on end after the wreck, its forward end resting on the roadbed and the rear end high in the air upon the two telescoped coaches that had been following it. Two coaches were thrown crosswise of the track and lay suspended from hank to bank of the cut live or six feet above the railroad. Of the baggage coach nothing was left to show where it had been tossed. Portions of the lmggage car and of the locomotive tender and freight cars were plied in au indescribable mass of debris. The 28 dead bodies first t aken from the wreck were shipped to Ionia, and the injured were placed on two trains, one of which headed for Detrlot and the other for Ionia. There were about 3.r> injured people on each train. hater in the day the body of Ed Corwan, the head brakeman of the passenger train, was taken out of the wreck. Fireman Knowles died on the relief train enroute to Detrlot, bringing the list of dead to 30. with a possibility that more bodies might, be found in the wreckage and that, several of the injured may die. Responsibility is plaaced squarely up to the crew of the freight train by officers of the road. Officials who arrived at the scene of the wreck soon after the accident, secured from the freight the orders under which it was running and which clearly showed the position of the passenger excursion train, and that the freight had encroached upon the other train's running time. The special train was due at Salem at !?: 1 0 a. in., and at Plymouth at 3:3ft a. in. It passed Salem on time. 1 The time card of the special was telegraphed to the freight crew In the form of a trnin o^der and this order 1 with the signatures of the fretgiit 1 train crew, attached, was recovered ' hy the officials of the road. The 1 freight crew left the scene early, but railroad officials said that they ex' plained simply that they had forgotten. The collision occurred at 9:13 o'clock and the freight train should have reached Salem ait 9:10 to be within their orders. i11/rs Moriii.ic; \vi;i>s tiiHii * Nebraska Man Jimv In Jail on Coin* plaint of Kliler Woman. i because lie eloped to Columbus i with 15-year-old Mirdie Buchanan . and made her his bride there on the a day set for his marriage to the girl's I mother, Mrs. Ida* Buchanan, Herbert C. Stapleman. a wellknown business f man of Central City, has been arrest f*<l and lodged in jail at Central City, 1 Meh. Mrs. Buchanan swore out a * warrant on which Stapleton was arI rested, alleging that in order to wed her daughter he represented that she " was 18 years of age, whereas she is s only 15. P Mrs. Buchanan, a handsome midI die aged widow of high social standing and dignified family connections. ' says she harame engaged to marry f Stapleman. who is about her own H age several months ago. Stapleman e paid assiduous court to her and the 8 wedding was set for Thursady. Several weeks ago, however, Stapleman became enamored of his flnancee's pretty, attractive young daughter and began to pay more attention to her i- than he did to the mother, finally declaring his love for htr, and, on the. day he was to have wedded Mrs. . Buchanan, persuaded her to elope y with him. ? DEATH IN A MINE. ,8 ' < )o r l our Hnndmd Jmm Meet Death II K rm li 'll ItfllMktei H olliety at. JlJM