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MANY ARE DEAD Death Claims Heavy Toil io a Terrible Railroad Wreck in Iowa. TENDER JUMPED TRACK ^ Been cm of Indescribable Horror PresvnU'd by Wreck of Hock Island Train.?Without Warning, Passengers Hurled Into Eternity.? Forty Five Head, Forty Injured. The wreck at s:io a. m. mommy at Green Mountain of Trains Nos. 19 and 21 of the Hock Island, running over the Great Western from Marshalltown to Waterloo, has proven the most disastrous in the history of the Iowa raildoad catastrophes. Forty-two are known to be dead, twenty-six of whom have been identified. Forty were injured, some of them fatally. The unidentified dead are in the undertaking shops at Marshalltown, many so horribly mangled that identification may be impossible. Practically all of the dead and injured were from Iowa and South Dakota. A little freight wreck on the Rock Island Sunday night, at Shelbury, in which Rrakeman Reynolds of Cedar Rapids, was killed and Fireman, also of Cedar Rapids, was possibly fatally scalded, was the indirect cause of the Green Mountain tragedy. The Rock Island track from Cedar Rapids north, the St. Paul line, had not been cleared Monday morning, it luw'i mo nnpookn r v in riptnnr over the Great Western. Trains Nos. 19 ami 21 were sent from Cedar Rapids to Marshalltown, while train 419, for Sioux Falls, followed shortly after, escaping the wreck. At Marshalltown Trains 19 and 21 were coupled together as they came in. lly this arrangement both engines were in front running backwards. The ill-fated train consisted of 13 cars. "Ihe Pullman Colonial," at the rear of Train No. 21, from St. Louis, was leading the train next to Engine No. 1,008. Then came a auioker, and following that a daycoach, in which there were many women and children. The train left Marshalltown shortly after 8 o'clock. It was going at a speed estimated to be between 25 and 3 0 miles an hour. About four and a half miles beyond Green Mountain, at the top of a hill is a cut about twelve feet deep. It was in that the tender on the leading engine suddenly jumped the track. This threw the head locomotive inu> the side of the cut. The clay of the sides was soft and the engine went into it and stopped instantly. The sudden stoppage ditohed the second locomotive and the heavy train crushed the day coach and smoker upon the Pullman. The Pullman and day coach were instantly telescoped and hardly an occupant of either car escaped death or injury. In the twinkling of an eye all was in indescribable confusion. While the final ten cars of the train remained on the track, the shock was sufficient to send, the passengers sprawling from their seats. Conductor William Worst, on the St. Paul train, was the first to grasp the situation, lie dispatched trainmen hack to flag train* 4 19, while trainmen were hurried to Gladbrook and Green Mountain. The uninjured passengers recovered sufficiently to begin the work of removing the dead and injured. The dead were taken to an adjoining pasture and laid out on the ground. The relief train from Marshalltown, carrying surgeons and Coroner E. W. Jay, was two hours in arriving and by that time the victims were laid in gruesome rows. The sight that met the eyes of the surgeons . was beyond description. The dead were crushed and mutilated in many cases beyond recognition. Heads were severed from bodies, arms and legs were cut off. Here lay a bleeding trunk. There a head with a ghastly agony of death still Ilium thrk pnnntona iuu? r\ tl?A tunate victim. Coroner E. \V. Jay, himself a surgeon, ^vas hastening in a Red Cross ambulance to the hospital, when he was thrown to the pavement as the ambulance rounded a corn r and was rendered unconscious. It is believed that his back is broken, and that he cannot live. C. \V. Moier, of Walla Walla, Wash., was in a lower berth in one of the Pullman coaches nearest the rear of the train. "I did not realize it was a wreck," said he. "It sounded as though a man had thrown a brick on the floor. The car I was in was well back. In front of it were the mail and baggage cars. Ahead of tht?e t the smoker and a Pullman. I looked out and saw the engine overturn before I realized it. It did not feel like a wreck. I Baw some terrible things. One man had his head completely cut off above the eyes. "Another man had been driven, head first, into a window. The glass was broken and was cutting him where his head rested on the sill and under all that awful weight I POURS OUT WRATH CANNON EXCAR1ATED FOR SENILE UTTERANCES. < Norris, the leader in the Fiftht. Explains His Action in Wanting Clemency to Helpless Czar. "Speaker Cannon's speech before mti Illinois iti'pu oucan association last Tuesday night, in which he called the insurgents, who voted against the Ilurleson resolution, a lot of 'cowardly members,' was but the vaporlngs of an old man's mind," emphatically declared Representative Norris of Nebraska Monday. "It represented." he said "the statements of a senile old man who was filled with venom and vengeance because of a crushing defeat which he had suffered as a result of his tryanny.'" "I voted against the Rurleaon resolution to declare the speaker's chair vacant." said Mr. Norris, "because it was fight for principle and not one of personality. I did not wish to see the house precipitated into a situation of chaos and disorder from which it would probably not emerge for weeks, to the detriment of important pending legislation. "Our victory already had been won when we deprived the speaker of his most powerful weapon?the appointment of the rules committee. I had only a moment to think it over, and I decided it was better to place party welfare above personal revenge. "I voted for Cannon for speaker at the beginning of the present congress, but not because 1 was for him. He had insulted and humiliated me and he had taken me from all important committee. We had not o|iuiv<rii iur iwu years. nut 1 voted for him regardless of these facts because I did not want him to have the opportunity in the future to discriminate against me and declare he did so because I was a 'Bolter.' "1 still think 1 did right Saturday when I voted to retain Cannon in the chair and eveuts, I believe, will justify me." It was suggested to Mr. Norris that if the Republican caucus should name six men dominated by Speaker Cannon, the new rules committee scarcely would differ from the old one, and the "insurgent" victory on the rules question would practically be vitiated. "The victory may not show so much in the present congress," answered Mr. Norris, "but in the years to come it will be in evidence. We have taken the speaker himself from this rules committee and took the naming of other members out of his hands. The members of that committee hereafter will not be under the slightest obligation to the speaker but to the house alone for their appointment. "Also the house can change the rules committee if it does not obey the wishes of the house." Mr. Norris vigorously denounced the attitude assumed by the speaker toward the "Insurgents" since the vote of Saturday. "It all depends on how the Republican majority conducts itself to- | warns the 'Iwsurpents' in the future, as to what our own actions will be," he continued. "When the speaker denounces us as 'cowards' he is but widening the split in the party and making our insurg ncy more intense. We are not cowards, but were honest, conscientious men, when we voted last Saturday not to dethrone tlie Republican speaker of the house." Opposed to Progress. The men who say "let things alone, they're good enough for us," stand in the way of progr ss in the town in which they live. They want things to continue in the same old way that sufficed fifty years ago. We knew a man who was opposed to the electric lighting or any other system of lighting the streets of the town in which he lived, because, so he said, he could take a stable lantern with him when he wanted to go down town. That man did not live in this city, but we have some here who would pass for his twin brother. above. Ho screamed and rri?><i tnr some one to kill him. I found /a stick and broke the glass under his cheek, where it lay on the sill, and the man's lower jaw, with the bone about pleading for us to rescue his son. He was badly hurt himself, but he pleaded and wept for aid to bring his son out of the debris. 1, saw the son later, when he was brought out. He was cut entirely in two. JVe had the mangled remains kept away from the father and let and five or six teeth in it fell on the ground at my feet. "There was an old man running the old man believe his son was still In the wreck." Miss Mae Hoffman of Waterloo, accounted to be the most beautiful woman In Waterloo, was in the! wreck. She was one of a party of three couples who were starting out on a pleasure trip. Sh? was horribly crushed and mangled. Several month ago she took third prize in a national beauty contest, and recently won a prize as a stenographer in competition. / VERY SMALL CLEW LEI) TO THE CAPTURE OF TW< TRAIN ROBBERS. They Wore Traced by an Old Ha Which They Had Stolen From i Ciar Years Before. The two bandits who recently helt up and robbed a fast mail train on the Missouri Pacific road, neai Eureka, Mo? have been captured anc are now in jail at St. Louis, eaet held in default of $20,000 bail, and it is probable that each will get s prison sentence extending over th? rn?t of hi? nnlnrnl llf - Hill T and C? orge Eberling are the twc men who participated in the hold-up and it is the story of their carelessness in leaving an old slouch hat laying around that finaJly led to tht capture. The train robbers, under over ol revolvers, compelled the engineer anc firemen of the train to detach tht two mail cars and run them up tht track for a mik? and then get out of the engine cab and walk bach to the rest of the crew. Ther the robbers ran the train about five miles further up the track, whert they colly looted the two cabs. Tht post office authorities detailed Inspector Perkins on the job. and, after looking over the ground and tht clews, he decided that an old, gray felt hat, left near the soene of tht robbery, was the best one to follow. Tn tracing the hat's owner, he discovered that it had been stolen with a lot of other loot from a freight car robbed In St. Louis some month? before. The next move was to get a line on the suspects at the time the hat was Stolen, and who might have stolen It front the freight car. In looking up those worthies the inspector was impressed by the rather dubious antecedents of one Jim Lowe, who had been employed by the Missouri, Kansas and Texas road at the time of the robbery. The inspector was still further impressed with the fact that Jim had a brother Pill, who some 11 years before had been connected with the younger Jesse James In the hold-up of a train. Inquiry respecting Rill Lowe showed him as being for the moment engaged In the sale of mining stock, with an office in the Granite building, in St. Louis, and as ostensibly reformed and conducting an honest and legitimate business. However, the inspector says, a sort of feeling crept into his xruind that as Hill had the nerve to hold up a train 11 years before, he might be tempted to try the old trick over again. At any rate, the inspector found that Bill was in St. Ixniis and handy for the job about the time of the robbery. Furthermore Hill had been an engine driver and in a pinch could have done just as one of the robbers did in running five miles up the track with the mail cars at Eureka. And then if in the latter job might ht not have worn the old hat found al the scene of the holdup, and further more might not his brother Jim ha^t given it to him, after all? Then | the developments came quick and surprising, indicating the inspectors 1 in. of logic to have been well founded. | A quiet search of Jim Lowe's home resulted ip the finding of tin goods stolen at the same time th< old fcray hat was taken from tlu freight car. Then Jim was asked lc explain and nnnn lmtn? .1. hat after awhile hesitatingly admit ted that it was "one that had beer given to him by a friend" al>out a year ago, and which he later gave to his brother Bill. Then, the inspector says, all was plain sailing in the matter of running down th>robbers. yriTS KANSAS CITY. I.illis of llecent Notoriety Kxile* Himself. Jere F. Lillis, president of the Western Kxchange bank of Kansas City, who was arraeked by John I*. Cudahy three weeks ago in Cudahy's hfouse, left Wednesday on an indefinite vacation, but his designation is not known by the public. Ordered by his physician to take a long rest. Lillis may go abroad before returning to Kansas City. He has nol resigned as president of the hank. A friend of Lillis was asked if the hanker did not expect to meet Cudahy in the South, hut this friend denied this was the purpose of Mr Lillis' trip. Cudahy recently was ir apnci 11 IT", i\ . L'. . Simmons (iuilty Again. At Ahdorson Webb Simmons, r young mill operative, was found or Wednesday guilty of the murder o United States Deputy McAdams anr was recommended to the mercy o the court. Simmons killed McAdami in February, 1908, and was senten ced to hang last July. A new tria was granted on the ground that i member of tho grand jury had ex pressed his opinion on the killing. A popular melody for the begin ning of the gardening season, "La; down the shovel and the hoe." AIKEN MAN GONE t> WITH WIFE'S SISTER TO PARTS UNKNOWN. 1 Evidence Indicates that the Young 1 Lady Was Afraid of the Man and Was Forced to Go. 1 A dispatch from Aiken to The 1 Augusta Chronicle savs Gvoernor 1 r Ansel has offered a reward of $100 * ' for the arrest and conviction of Au- 1 J gust us Weeks, wanted In that conn- e 1 ty for the desertion of his wife and v 1 ehiilden, and eloping with the sister ' i of his wife. On Saturday, March 5th, Weeks ( ' disappeared from his home, and on 1 the same day, the youug lady, who started to the home of her brother 1 " at Trenton disappeared, and neither s have been heard from since. The family of the young lady have also r offered a reward of $2 00. The rel- ' ' atlves of the lady maintain that she was drugged, and forced away with 5 Weeks. ^ On the afternoon mentioned, the ( : lady's brother, Mr. John Wright s 1 brought her to the city to go to the home of another brother at Trenton. i to visit for a few days. Weeks went 5 to Aiken with them, and was to re- J main there, while she and her brother went to Graniteville to catch the ! train, the brother intending to re turn and carry Weeks back home. When he returned from Graniteville 1 y Weeks was nowhere to be found and presuming that he had gone on home, Mr. Wright returned without him. 1 only to find that he had not gone ' home. 1 Mr. Wright became uneasy, and remembered that his sister had all 1 most insisted on his accompanying her to Trenton, the reason for wnich * request he did not know, but now believes that she feared that Weeks would intercept her. He communicated with his brother at Trenton and found that she had not reached there, though he had put her on the 1' train. Later he ascertain that Weeks had secured a horse and gone to Vaucluse. where he boarded the same train his sister was on. g This was the last to be heard from him. Mr. Wright and his brothers a have hunted the country for a trace j, n.f their sister, but knothing has t, been heard from them. All nearby ? cities have been notified to arrest p Weeks if found. 8( It is stated that WeekB attempted h to get a certain prescription filled e recently at Dr. Burnett's at Graniteville. Dr. Burnett refused to fill t! the prescription. Weeks it believed p to have desired this prescription for a the purpose of "doping" the young w lady. The girl is only about 18 p years of age, and is a charrping young ^ ( lady. Weeks was married to her p elder sister and has two children. r Weeks is a member of a very t prominent family?one of the best v In the county, as Is also Weeks' wife s and the girl he is believed to have run away with. Her brothers are all 5 prominent farmers, and are nuT.i- f hered among the best people of the e county. Weeks' wife is quoted as v saying that she believes that he once r attempted to poison her. It appears v 1 that Weeks had prepared to leave the section. Some weeks ago he a sold his plantation and mortgaged f practically all of his property. Some j days ago ho drew all the money he r had in the hank. a ? * a si,.\i\ ix isolated house. v , * The Body of a Handler Found Horribly Mutilated. I 1 The finding of the body of David ; Wilmot Dwyer, son of a wealthy family, in ah isolated ranch house in > the mountains, gave the sheriff of Los Angeles, Cal., a mystery to solve. a The body was terribly mutilated and a though relatives of Dwyer say they c were convinced it was a ease of ' suicide, detectives are seeking fc, f , murder clues. v A charge of shot had taken out a v portion of the man's left side. The I1 throat was slashed three times and huge gashes were found all over the t 1 body. On the arms and legs great a crosses were carved and some sharp a ! instrument had left fantastic designs S in the fhsh above the breast. t i Dwyer, who was 3 7 years old and h married, owned the ranch and i.vt i p ; there. The room in which tlu body h lay showed no evidence of a strng- w L gle. Dwyer had been dead ab?. ut 1M P l hours. Relatives of the dead man P said that he and his father n.>d . e- fl come estranged sometime ago. a 1 ? Itlao 1 >- u .... r, . ...... ... ?.*. 11 1 At Pellam, C.a., the wife of R. W. a Jones died from the effects of car- 1 hoiic acid, taken with suicidal In- 0 tent. The cause attributed is ill a t health. Mr. Jones is a large and 8 , wealthy planter of Grady county, and I1 ( is the brother of A. T. Jones, a mem1 her of the Legislature. Mrs. Jones r f leaves husband and three children. s Made Sick Hull Drunk. 1 Wishing to cure his prize hull of ' i pneumonia, Philip Jones, of Green x - Castle, Ind., gave half a pint of ' whiskey. The stuff must have been s of the fighting kind for taurns went - on n rampage and came near killing f y his owner and .butting his own brains ' out before he got off his "spree." TILLMAN IN ATLANTA THERE FOR NERVE TREATMENT AND REST. riic Senator Undertook Too Much Work on His Rot urn to Trenton I'lantntion and Had to Quit. The Columbia Record says Dr. tabcock accompanied Senator Ti 11nan from Trenton to Augusta Sunlay and saw him on the train for Vtlanta. He savs that ho found thr. Senator's condition very much im>roved. He talks very well and valks with little help, and his coalition appeared to be altogether enouraging. Senator Tillman left Washington ather against the advice of his phyicians and family, but the call to he farm was too much for him. ie returned to Trenton and underook the management of all the pety details of plantation life, and afer a couple of days was himself he first to recognize that lie was vertaxing both his nervous and phyical forces. The Senator therefore decided to :o to a private sanitarium in Atanta, where lie could secure rest, >ot were left nearby. That the pot reatment and' diet, which former ixperiences have shown to be beneIcial to him. At times the senator s a little depressed about his coalition, but on the whole is taking ather a cheerful view of the ouiook. It appears to be decided that h< rill not return to congress at best luring the present session, nor is the rogram for his future decided after e leaves the Atlanta sanitarium. It 3 barely possible that in order to cure absolute quiet, he may spend he summer in one of the suburbs f London. HI Kli:i> TKFASIKK FOUND. 'ot of Ciohl Said to Have Been Dug up Near I<exington. A dispatch from Lexington to The tate says the report that a pot conlining $4,000 in gold was dug up night or two ago 011 the old Fort lace in the heart of town is at actlng considerable interest. For lany years narties havo b.*r?n assing on this piece of property in parch of money, and it is said the iddcn treasure has been at last unarthed. Hundreds of people have visited tie scene where the pot is alleged a have been found and with one ccord they all assert that something ras secured. A great hole was dug nto the earth and parts of the rusty ad been in the ground is borne out y the evidence of its having been ernoved. Evidently the parties left he scene in a hurry, for no effort ras made'to shield the broken vesel. A large rock, weighing possibly I 00 pounds, had to be removed beore the hunters could get to the xact spot. The place in question ras right at the end of an old house, lear the chimney and the ground vas exceedingly hard. Who the 'lucky* persons were has not been ascertained, but if anything was ound at all, it was certainly a large irnount. It is said that "money ods," as they are called generally, ire becoming plentiful in Lexington, md it is likely that this instrument vas used in this particular instance. ION KKSCIKS KEKI'EIt. tig Itenst Vpsets His Cage and l'ins llyena to the Ground. Attacked from behind by a foroious hyena that had escaped from temporary cage, Cupt. Snider, an nimal trainer for Wheeler's circus, ame within an ace of losing his ife at Oxford, Pa. He was savd rom sure death by a vicious lion, ,-hich had killed two trainers, ounded two others and was supposed to be untamable. Tlie hyena was a new arrival in he menagerie and was still in its hipping box. It worked loose the mall door and got out while Capt. aider was eating breakfast. As the rainer went down under the atack he had presence of mind to he erfectly still, knowing that at the fast movement the frenzied hyena, hich was standing over him, w juld ounce upon him and tear him to ieces. lie lay this way for auout ive minutes, when help came from iimisl unexpected quarter. The big lion had seen the attack y the hyena and immediately made strenuous effort to break his cage, "liis was impossible. Crouching in no corner he made a terrific leap nd the impact when he struck the ido of his cage overturned it and linned the hyena to the tloor. Capt. Inider was saved and the hyena is low in substantial quarters. Old Man's Sad Death. The train for which he was waHng to take him hack to his children, Vhom he expected to bring back to lay St. Louis, Miss., with him aftei long seperation, struck and lnstanty killed Martin Bernard there Tueslay. Bernard, who was 68 years old, ecently came to Bay St. Louis from 'Jeaumont, Texas. \ / # AETNA ACTIVE Rivers of Red Hot Lava Rushing Madly Down the Mountain Side. ASHES BURIES HOUSES Of Feasants, Who Congregated nt Nicholls to Watch the Scene of the Kruption.?They Are Terror Stricken and Implore Mercy. Desolation and liuin Faces Them. Mount Aetna, near Catania, Sicily, whose eruptions in the past have wrought great destruction, is again in a violent state of activity. A. pronounced movement within tho crater beginning early Wednesday evening, increasing in volume, and TU 1 ? ? ?t ' ? i iiursuuy nigni tne gravest fears aro entertained as to the results if tho eruption continues in its present violent form. Prom Catania correspondents motored in the direction of the mountain. Passing the village of Mascalucta* twelve miles in a direct line from the crater, a thick curtain of smoke was encountered, which entirely concealed Aetna. At Nicolosi, ten miles from the crater, the entire population had gathered in the square to wateh the volcano, which, appeared a as black phantom above. Now and then it was illuminated with flashes of light, appearing almost red. Higher up the rain of | cinders became thicker and extended like a veil across the mountain. A deep roaring was heard and detonations like the sound of artillery folfowing one another in quick succession, while the earth shook under foot. One of the guides cried: "An earthquake," and could hardly be induced to continue. The hot cinders covered the ground like a thick carpet, rendering walking difficult. A peasaut was encountered coming down. He said. "The lire is rushing down, burning everything. The lava is ike a red hot river." Proceeding a little further, four collossal columns of black smoke could be observed. Occasionally they were cut by flashes of fire, presenting an awe-inspiring spectacle. Then the wind opened the clouds for a moment, and a wide strip of fire could be seen in the distance, advancing with monstrous contortions. It fell like a torrent from Mount Capriolo, spreading out in the vailey 1WK/W. The l.iva flow had already reached ed the vineyards above San Leo and Kinazzo seven miles from the crater, | and had buried a large number of I peasants houses. It came in several streams and united in one great mass about twenty feet in height and 1,500 feet a minute, varying according to the condition of the ground. This mighty wall of lava was dot more than five miles from liolosasso and Nicolosi The meteorological station, on the muntain side, has been destroyed, and the village of Itorrello is iu> serious danger. The populace, terror stricken, are flying from their homes. The earth shocks have reached about fifty in numb* r. but there is a continuous vibration and trembling from many miles around. Everywhere the villagers are carrying images in procession and imploring mercy. Twelve new craters have bt en opened up. Help for the people of the tlevas-' tated region is being organized. A detatchment of soldiers and a large number of engine- rs and doctors have gone forward. The prt feet of ( atania, returning from the scene Thursdav evening -iU "I have witnessed a spectacle of desolation and ruin which only those who saw the eruption of Vcsiivious in lOOtl can imagine. The present eruption can be compared to no other." ,The authorities have issued orders that no one shall be permitted to go beyond Pelpasso and soldiers have been stationed at various points to see that these orders are obeyed. The village of Hoi*oli is surrounded by the lava and the inhabitants have tied to Melpasso. 1'rof. Rieco. director of the Mount Aetna Observatory, said: "The eruption is very grave, and I think It will become much more serious. The lava has covered five miles in sixteen hour: and if my calculations are right the eruption of the volcano will I not he short." m m m j Founds Coker Oollege. j. u. Coker lias giver Cokor College. a girls school founded by him some two years ago at Iiartsvlllo, $ 1 f,0,000, the Interest, on which is available at once. This benefactor had already given about $r>0,000 to this school before this. This insures for the institution a successful career henceforth. "Suicides." According to the verdict of the coroner of Marion, Ind., Hob Austin and Charley Richardson, negroes, lynched there last week, "came to I their death by suicide."