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Many Persons Are Crashed tad Burned
in a New York Factory
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DEATH TOLL IS HEAVY i
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Escape, Many Jump from Ninth <
anil Tenth Stories ? Lives Are
Crushed Out on Pavement Before
Horrified Spectators.
One hundred and forty-eight persons?nine-tenths
of them girls from
the East Side?were crushed to death
on the pavements, srhothered by
smoke or shrivelled crisp Saturday
afternoon In the worst flre New York
has known since the steamer General
Slocum was burned off North Brothers
Island, In 1904.
(Nearly all. If not all, of the victims
were employed by the Triangle
Waist Company, on the etghth, ninth
and tenth floors of a ten-story loft
building, at No. 23 Washington.
Place, on the western fringe of the
down-town wholesale clothing, fur
and millinery district.
The partnere of the Arm, Isaac ,
HarriB and Mac Blanek pRcnnnH from
the office on the tenth floor, carrying ,
with them over an adjoining roof
Blanck's two young daughters and a
governess. There was not an outside
flro escape on the "building.
How the Are started will perhaps
never be known. A corner on the
eighth floor was its point of origin
and the three upper floors only were
swept. On the ninth floor, fifty bodies
were found, sixty-three or more
were crushed to death by jumping,
and more than thirty clogged the elevator
shafts. The loss to property
will not exceed $100,000.
Pedestrians going home, through
Washington Place to Washington
Square, at ten minues to five, were
scattered by the whiz of something
rushing through the air before them;
there was a terrible thud on the
pavement and a body flattened on the
flags. Wayfarers on the opposite side
of the street shaded their eyes
against the setting sun and saw the
windows of the three upper floors ot
the building black with girls crowding
to the sills. There were no flrt ,
escapes.
No Other Alternative.
"Don't jump; don't jump!" yelled 1
the crowd, but the girls had no alter- i
native. Th? pressure of the mad- i
dened hundreds behind them and the
urging of their own fears were too (
strong. They began to fall to the
sidewalk, in a terrible rain of flesh i
end blood.
Four alarms were rung within lb
minutes. Before the engines coulo
respond, before the nets could bo i
stretched or the ladderB raised, live
girls had fallen from the eighth ana
ninth floors so heavily that they
hroke through the glass and Iron
roofs of the sub-cellars and crashed
through the very streets into the
vaults below. In an hour the Are
was out; in half an hour It had done
Its worst. Probably the death llsi
was full In 20 minutes.
The building stands on a corner,
with exposure on two sides, but the
only Are escape was In the rear, opening
Into a light and air shaft. In
all. there were seven exits?the single
fire escape, two freight elevators,
at the rear; two passenger elevators
In front, and two stairways. All of
them proved almost useless and practically
all who escaped either
climbed to the roof and scrambled
thence to the roof of the building occupied
by the American Book Company,
or fled in the first rush for
safety before the crush and the
smoke grew too thick.
The buildings etand tonight with
shell intact and barely scarred?rnth?r
only smudged. The tiling between
the floors are sound, and It is impossible
for one, who did not see it,
to imagine how the flames in so short
a time could have caused such havoc.
Seven hundred persons were employed
by the shirt waist company.
They sat in rows at their whirring
machines, the tables before them
piled with flimsy cloth, the floor littered
with lint, the air itself full ot
nying Inflammable dust.
Died in Their Seats.
The first rush of flame was almost <
an explosion. Operators died in their
chairs, their lungs seared by Inhaling
flame. Others were crowded into the
elevator shafts, after the cars had \
made their last trip. Still others wt re !
pushed ofT the inadequate interior <
fire escape. I
In such a horrible stream did the 1
bodies overflow from the windows, '
that the fire nets, stretched by the <
first company to arrive, were soon
gorged beyond capacity. Twelve
bodies dropped into one net, tearing i
it to pieces, then fell to the pave- t
ment. '
When the first breath of flame <
curled over the edge of a pile of 1
shirting, on the eighth floor. Ave I
minutes before quitting time, hiin- a
dreds were In lino before the casn 1
ier's window. I
In the office buildings across f
Washington Place, scores of men, t
detained beyond office hours, worked a
at their desks. One of them eaid a o
girl rushed to a window and threw up b
the sash. Behind her danced a seeth- *
Infc curtain of yellow flame. Sho
climbed to the sill, stood in black
outline against the light, hesitating;
then with a last touch of futile thrltt,
slipped her chatelaine bag over her
wrist and jumped. Her body went
whirling downward, through the woven
wire glass of a canopy, to the
[lagging below. Her sisters who followed,
flamed through the air like
rockets. Their path could be followed,
but their screams hardly
heard.
It was 85 feet from eighth floor
to the ground, about 95 feet from
the ninth floor. 115 feet from the '
cornice of the roof. The upward rush 1
3f the draught and the crackle of
the flames drowned their cries. 1
Six girls fought their way to a
window on the ninth floor, over the i
bodies of fallen fellow workers, ana .
irawled out In single file on an eight- '
Inch stone ledge running the length i
jf the building. More than a hun- <
tired feet above the sidewalk they <
crawled along their perilous path- <
way to an electric-feed wire spanning
Washington place. The leaders
paused for their companions to catch i
up and the six grabbed the wire simultaneously.
It snapped and they
:rashed down to death.
A 17-year-old girl hung for three 1
nlnutes by her finger tips to the sill '
if a tenth floor window. A tongue
if flame licked at her fingers and she
iropped into a life-net, held by firemen.
Two women fell into the net at
almost the same moment. The strings
parted and the three were added to
the death list. One girl threw her
pocketbook, then her hat. then her
furs from the tenth story window. A
moment later her body came hurlinr
after them, to death.
At a ninth floor window a man anf
a woman appeared. The man embraced
the woman and kissed her.
Then he hurled her to the street and
Jumped, floth were killed. Five girls
smashed a pane of glass, dropped in
a struggling tangle and were crushed
into a shapeless mass. A girl on the
eighth floor leaped for a fireman's
ladder, which reached only to sixth
floor. She missed, 6truck the edge of
a life-net and was picked up with her
back broken.
From one window a girl of about '
13 years, a woman, a man and two
women, with their arms about one
another, threw themselves to tne
ground in rapid succession. The
little girl was whirled to the New
Vork Hospital. She screamed as the
driver and a policeman lifted hei
Into the hallway. A surgeon came
out, gave one look at her face and |
touched her wrist.
"She is dead," he said.
One girl jumped into a horse
blanket, held by firemen and policemen.
The blanket ripped like cheesecloth
and her body was mangled al- '
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uiuoi. ucjuiiu ruuoKiiinon. Another
dropped into a tarpaulin, held by
three men. Her weight tore it from
their grasp and she struck the street,
breaking almost every bone in her
body. Almost at the same time a
man somersaulted down upon the
Bhoulder of a policeman holding the
tarpaulin. He glanced off. struck
the sidewalk and was picked up dead.
Effort to ('heck Stampede.
Within the building a man on the
eighth floor stationed himself at the
door of one of the elevators and with
a club kept back the girls, who had
stampeded to the wire cage. Thirtywere
admitted to the car at a time.
They were rushed down as fast as
possible.
The calls for ambulances were followed
by successive appeals for police,
until 100 patrolmen arrived to
cope with a crowd numbering tens of
thousands. A hundred mounted policemen
had to charge the crowd repeatedly
to keep it back.
Led by Fire Chief Croker, a squad
of firemen gained access to the building
at 7 o'clock. Two senrchlights
from buildings opposite lighted the
way of the firemen. Fifty roaBted
bodies were found on the ninth floor.
They lay in every possible position,
some so mangled that recognition
was Impossible.
Women with their hair burned
away, with here and there a limb
burned entirely off and the charred
stump visible, were lifted tenderly
from the debris, wrapped In oilcloth
and lowered by pulleys to the street.
Across the street there rested on
the sidewalk a hundred pine coffins, '
into which were placed the bodies.
As fast as this was done, the coffins
were carried away, in any kind of a '
vehicle that could be pressed into "
service, to the morgue, at Bellevuo i
Hospital, and the Charities Morgue,
opened for the first time since the
General Slocum disaster. <
One hundred and six bodies had
been taken from the building and
twenty injured had been conveyed to
St. Vincent's Hospital, at 10 o'clock, t
Df these three died soon after admittance.
Others were not expected to 1
live through the night. Three of five
women taken to llellevue Hospital 1
lied soon after admitted there.
Many Rescued liy Students. 1
On the tenth floor of the building <
idjolning the burned structure, is
he law department of the New York t
University. Here twenty odd stu- 1
lents were listening t" ?? i?- - '
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-"rank H. Sommer. former sheriff of l
Tjfisex County. Ho saw the smoke '
ind saw the girls trapped on the roof. 1
le led his clase to the roof of the c
Tnlverslty quarters, where they s
ound two ladders. Two hoys bore
hese down two flights of the roof of r
n Intervening building, swarmed 1
ut of the windows and raised them a
o the roof of the burning building. \
"orty girls were brought down to a
KILELD IN WRECK
"DIXIE FLYER" GOES THROUGH ,
TRESTLE INTO RIVER.
More Than a Dozen Also Injured in I
One of Worst Railroad IHsasters
Known in the South.
In one of the worst railroad disasters
known in the South Atlantic I
States, eight persons were killed and (
more than a dozen injured, when I
train No. 97, known as the "Dixie :
Flyer," on the Atlantic Coast Line, 1
and running between Chicago and <
Jacksonville, went through a trestle 1
nvor tha Alanono elwor
vuv ,rc* i i*ri , C1511 ircu 4
miles east of Tlfton, Ga., early Saturday
morning. Saturday night but 1
one body, that of John T. Watson, ?
of Wyoming, remained In the river. ?
Had it not been for the wreck, <
Watson would have been a bride- t
croom Sunday. His sweetheart. Miss 1
Elise Shipper, of Pasadena. Cal., who 1
was on the train with him, and to 1
whom he was to have been married
In Jacksonville Sunday, remained at 1
the wreck throughout the day and 1
night, watching the efforts of the *
rescuing party to recover Watson's '
body.
The revised list of the dead and in- 1
jured is given as follows: Dead: ]
0. F. nonmwart. Henderson, Ky.; I
W. W. Culpepper, Tlfton, Ga.; Mrs. I
W. D. Fletcher. Rowland. 111.; John
T. Watson, Lands, Wyo.; J. P. Wood- 1
ward, express messenger, Waycross,
Ga.; C. J. Parnell, conductor, Savannah;
Lucius Kills, fireman, and Albert
Simmons, porter, both colored,
of Waycross, Ga. !
Injured: J. E. Powell, baggage- 1
master. Jacksonville; J. P. Klein,
wife nnd child, St. I,outs; father and <
mother bruised and ehlld scalded.
Potor Oorinfa 11 nil on#* \* 1 ~v- ?
bruised; NIc Vandermelton. Grand i
Rapids, Mich., bruised about the head
and knees; Mrs. O. F. Ronmhart, <
Henderson, Ky.; W. T. Perkins. Cat- 1
tlettsburg, Ky., bruised; J. E. Greene, *
engineer, Waycross. Ga., bruised.
The cars plunged into the river,
without a moment's warning to the
sleeping pafisengers, when an axle on 1
the engine suddenly snapped when
midway of the trestle. The locomotive
never left the track, but the ten- 1
der was derailed and the tank turn- 1
bled to the bed of the stream. The 1
trestle is about a half mile long, but 1
the river was low and at the point of
the accident was not more than SO yards
across. The express and baggage
care, two day coaches and one j
Pullman were piled in an indescribable
mass in the centre of the stream,
but few of the passengers were carried
beneath the water.
J. P. Woodward, the express messenger.
was killed and Raggagemas- '
ter J. E. Powell was probably fatally 1
hurt, by timbers driven through the '
car.
The flrat-class coach, a new steel 1
car. was driven through the sleeper. 1
In this car Romwart. of Henderson,
Kv., was instantly killed, while his
wife, beside him, escaped with slight *
injuries.
It is not expected to have the 1
tracks cleared and the trestle re
imncu ior iranic Derore Sunday '
night. * '
EXPLOSION NEAR AUGUSTA.
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Two Men Killed and Two Others Are !
Iladly Hurt.
A boiler explosion at 4 o'clock Vriday
morning caused the death of two
negroes and seriA'sly injured two
white men. ]
The Southern railway is placing a '
draw in Its treslle ever the Savarnali \
river here, and while the night force j
was working the boiler exploded be- .
cause of the water being too low in |
It. ,
Harry Trapp, colored, was blowe
into fragments; Press Somers was
also killed but his body has not yet
been recovered, and D. C. Wike, a
white man, and W. A. Vowcil. of 1
Columbia. S. C., superintendent of
construction, also white, were mJured.
The boiler was blown 200 feet from <
the trestle and landed in the middle *
of the river. * '
safety.
Just how many trips were made
by the elevator men will perhaps never
he ascertained. The various re- .
ports of heroism at the elevators dif- ,
fer. I
City officials announced tonight ,
that the usual rigid regulations .
which follows such disasters will be j
instituted at once.
"The calamity is just what T have ,
been predicting," said one. "There t
was no outside fire-escape on the .
building. This large death toll is
iue to neglect."
The police say that today's fire is
the sixth or seventh in the building
within twelve months, all of which, f
hey say, occurred in the shirt waist f
factory. The others were trifling. '
The factory, incidentally, is said to !
>e the first in which operators struck r
luring the widespread shirt waist (
itrlke settled several months ago.
Ry today's fire the total shirt waist r
>perators who have perished in New '
fork is nearly 200. Not many weeks ''
igo 25 girls met death under eoraevhat
similar circumstances in Newirk,
N. J. e
GOES scon FREE
JOHN BLACK CiETS A FULL PARDON
FROM RLEASE.
Before His Recent Commutation,
Black's Sentence Was Five Years
in tho Penitentiary. |
John Black, former chairman of
the State dispensary board of directors,
convicted of conspiracy to de[raud
the State, sentenced to five
rears In the Penitentiary, |his sentence
being later commuted to a fine
>f $2,000, or five years, by Governor
Blease, was late Friday unconditionilly
pardoned by the Chief Executive.
Black had not yet paid his fine,
laving been given until September 1,
ind the proclamation Issued by Governor
Blease Friday afternoon not
inly relieves Black of the payment of
'.he fine, but restores the former dispensary
director to citizenship, and
removes the stigma which commutation
could not reach.
Friday night John Black is In Richmond,
and It is probable that not until
Saturday will he know of his parion.
His local counsel did not know
where to reach him in Richmond. His
wife is also out of the city, having
gone to Denmark, so that it is also
probable she does not tonight know
that her husband is again free from
the sentence of the Court.
The order giving John Black his
freedom is formal, being such a proclamation
as was issued when John
Black's sentence was commutated.
The pardon is as follows:
"Whereas, at a Court of General
Sessions and Common Pleas, begun
and holden in Chester County, at the
November term of court, 1910, before
Judge (Special) Ernest Moore, one
John Black was convicted of conspiracy
to defraud the State and was
sentenced to five years in the State
Penitentiary; now know ye that for
divers good causes and considerations,
me hereunto moving, 1 have
thought fit to pardon and by these
presents do pardon tho said John
Black.
"Given under my hand and seal,
"Cole T>. Blease, GoTornor."
The pardon was signed late Friday
ifternoon, shortly before the Governor
left the executive offices to go to
the Mansion. No reasons are assigned
in the pardon.
\TTAOKEl> BY DRUNKEN NEGRO.
Kndcavored to Force Open Door of a
Lady's Room.
Mrs. Georgia Williams, wife of a
railroad man living near the terminal
station in Atlanta, war kept in a
state of selge in her room Tuesday
night by a drunken young negro, who
ivas trying to force an entrance to tine
room. Mrs. Williams' husband was
nut on his run and she was in the
bouse alone. Early in the evening
he negro gained entrance to the hall
nf the house, but before he could get
:o her Mrs. Williams had barricaded
herself in her bedroom.
She begged and pleaded with the
negro to go away, but he remained
in the hall working at the door unul
1 o'clock Wednesday morning. Finnlly,
in desperation, Mrs. Williams
opened a window, jumped out and
ran in a hysterical condition until
she found a policeman. The officer
went to the house and found the negro
there. He said his name was
Dock Badger, and that he was 18
y*ars of age.
"I used to work for Booker T.
Washington," said the negro. "I believe
in Booker Washington and
would follow him anywhere." It is
believed that the negro had read of
Washington's trouble in New York,
bad tanked up on mean whiskey and
started out or a career of wickedness,
lie will probably get a stout sentence
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IUI urn v??5iuilg B WOrK.
Bixnv rnov'Ks fatal.
(lit by Stone Several Months Ago,
Dies of Effects.
From the effects of being struck in
:ho head with a rock several months
tgo, while gathering hickory nuts,
Samuel Benson, Jr., 14 years of age,
ind son of Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Benton.
died Thursday at his home on
Bleckley street, Anderson, S. C. Sev?ral
young boys were around the tree
gathering the nuts which they would
tnock down with rocks and stocks.
3ne of the rocks hit young Benson,
ile was given treatment and seemed
;o respond to it. A relapse came
i week or so ago, nnd his death folowed.
Young Benson was a bright
ad, and very popular among his playnates.
Of course, no blame is atached
to any one, as the blow was
)urely accidental. *
(liil<l Dips of Unhides.
At Lancaster the six-year-old son
)f Mr. Hutchinson doed Friday night
it the home of his father in the coton
mill village of what physicians
>elieve to have been an attack of hyirophobia.
The boy was ill only
hree days, during which timo he extiblted
the various symptoms of the
Iread disease, lie was bitten on the
ip by a mad dog in Camden on the
;rd of last month.
"Well, I'll be switched," angrily
xclaimed the small boy; and he was.
HOT TINE FOR BLAESE
SO SAVN THOS. B. FKLDKK IN LETTER
T<) "THE STATE."
"Turning; on the Llglit" and Hopes
to <*ive "His Fraudulency" an Entertainment
Worthy of Mention.
To the Editor of The State:
I desire through your columns to
acknowledge receipt of numerous letters,
telegrams, lettergrams and telephone
messages, couched in the most
rftmmnnflntnrv ? 4
J auu inuuiliui) leriUB
anent the Rlease controversy, which
have come to me during the past 2 4
hours from hundreds of citizens
throughout the State of South Carolina.
When these messages began
to come, naturally my first impulse
was to make separate answer to
each, but to do so would require a
large increase in an already expensive
stenographic force, more time
than I have personally to spare from
other duties, besides a large outlay
for postage stamps.
In my pursuit of "his fraudulency"
and his clients, the collossal fee (?)
received by me from the State of
South Carolina has suffered great
diminution, and with the prospect of
having to use more of it in my efforts
to scourge from the "high
places" of your State those who disgrace
them, I must husband my resources
and content myself with tendering
to those citizens of your State
who commend me in my course in
the premises my grateful acknowledgments
through the columns of your
paper. From the deluge of communications
pouring in upon me with
every mail delivery, and through other
channels above mentioned, I am
constrained to think that Illease secured
his election to the governarshlp
through public neglect of a sacred
private duty, to wit: The exercise
of the elective franchises.
Many of those who have been kind
enough to communicate with me are
urging me to use greater activity in
"turning on the light." I beg to
assure them that when I have finished
that the place described in Holy
Writ which has been set apart as the
eternal abiding place for sinners will
be a very summer resort in comparison
with the "warm time" that 1
shall give "his fraudulency" and his
allies. 1 hope to find time to prepare
another set of interrogatories for him
at an early date. When they are
ready, I shall "perfect service" upon
V* i m K *
.....i whuuku me columns or your paper.
Thomas B. Felder.
Atlanta. Ga.p Mch. 24, 1911.
P. S.?1 note that the celebrated
"gun-play artist," the "Mt. Pelee" of
Newberry, is In eruption?that the
seismic shocks are unusually violent
and the lava which he belches forth
threatens destruction of everybody,
except his attorney "of the State at
larRe." I take it that for the present
at least. I will be excused from taking
further notice of his "frothlngs
and foamings." my excuse for doing
so being that 1 can not afford to
abandon my chase of the "big hyena"
to pursue a very small mouse.
I will say. however, that the conduct
at this time of this grini-visaged "fe,
fo, ti, fum, 1 smell the blood of an
Englishman," is in striking contract
with that displayed by him on the occasions
of his numerous visits to me
during the past four years at the Colonia
and Jerome hotels (my apartments
in the city of Columbia) and
my oflice in the city of Atlanta. On
the occasion of each visit I arranged
to have reliable witnesses "hard by"
to hear all that was said, and
enough was said, "to be sure." If
my recollection serves me right the
name of his "general counsel," formerly
of Newberry, now of the State
at large, to whom he honored me
by an introduction at the Caldwell
hotel in Columbia in 1903; (I think
this is the name of the building, situated
just opposite the Columbia hotel
in the city of Columbia) was
mentioned by him on these occasions
more than once. I wonder if ho
and his general counsel remember
this meeting in Columbia and what
was said on that occasion; if so, they
may find in it another "grain of
Band" from their mountain.
T. R. F.
P. S. No. 2.?I think ">Mt. Pelee"
can with safety cease to erupt, as I
feel sure that his "governor-attorney,"
erstwhile "senator-attorney,"
will keep the contract made with him
to pardon his brother-in-law. Wash
Hunter, and himself, if Fraser Lyon
should convict him. His recent performances
no doubt have had the effect
of healing the breach between
him and his "governor-attorney,
which has existed for many months,
and which resulted from information
considered satisfactory by his "covernor-attornev"
that hi. hmi
"telling things1' to the "Atlanta lawyer"
an?l Fraser Lyon" on the "senator-attorney,"
now "governor-attorney"
and the balance of the gang.
T. B. F.
1\ S. No. 3.?I take It for granted
that "his fraudulently" has not approved
the joint resolution passed by
the last general assembly, which he
demanded should be passed.
T. B. F.
The hotbed 1b well enough In Its
place, but few people would care to
eleep In It.
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HOLD UP MAIL
Bandits Loot Passeager Train on the St.
Louis Mountain Road
EXPRESS CAR LOOTED
The Officials of the Railway Say They
Have No Report of the Hold CTp
and Robl>ery?Twenty Thousand
Hollars Sold to Have lleen Carried
Away by the Robbers.
Five men held up St. Louis, Iron
Mountain and Southern railway train
No. 104 between Coffeyville and Lenapah,
Okla., shortly after midnight
Friday, and after looting the maL
and express car escaped. The amount
of the robbery is said to bo $20,000.
For two hours the masked men
held the passenger at a standstill on
the prairie about six miles south of
Coffeyville, while they blew open a
safe In the express car. They escaped
In two automobiles, carrying with
them money and valuables which. It
la believed, will amount to $20,000.
The train left Little Rock at 8:3#
a. m. Friday, bound for Kansas City.
It reached Lenapah, Okla.. south of
CofTeyville at 10:30 Friday night,
half an hour late.
Just after the train left Lenapah
Kngineer Lynch heard a sharp cry:
"Hands up!" Turning he saw a
masked man sitting on the tender,
pointing a revolver at him. "I'm
going to ride a little way with you, *
said the man. "Drive on."
The engineer obeyed. About foui
miles ol : of Lenapah the robber compelled
the engineer to stop the trair*
near a dumb of trees. Five more
masked men came out of the wood,
and, taking positions on either side of
the train.began shooting in the air
and along the sides of the train.
Then while two of the bandits
stood guard to prevent any passengers
from leaving, the four marched
the engineer and fireman to the daycoach
and locked them in.
One man then took a position to
guard the rear of the train and threo
I went into the express car, forced th??
I two exnresn mp???nimro *.......
, ww?. I>nvi u iw J II til |f OUT.
and stand where one of the side
guards could keep them covered.
After nearly an hour'e work the
men had succeeded In Inserting a
charge of nitroglycerine into th*
"through" safe in the express car.
They blew the Bafe to pieces and scattered
its contents over the floor of
the car. They made no haste. They
had chosen a strategic position in
which to stop the train. They were
at least three mlleB from any human
habitation.
After the three men had spent
nearly an hour over the packages
taken from the safe, the lights of
two automobiles were seen drawing
near from the direction of the Oklahoma
line. As they came within
about two hundred yards of the train
on the country road the automobiles
were stopped. Then lights were extinguished
and the bandits and automobiles
disappeared.
Passengers who had remained huddled
in the coaches afraid to look
out of the windows relaxed and the
disorganized train crew got to their
places. When the train reached this
city the sheriff was notified and with
two deputies started on horseback
southward in pursuit of the six bandits.
Train So. 104 on the St. Louie,
Iron Mountain and Southern railroad,
said to have been held up near Coffeyvllle,
Kan., Friday night, reached
Kansas ?ity two hours and forty-five
minutes late. Iron Mountain officials
here denied any knowledge of a holdup.
The train left Little Rock at
8:30 a. m. Friday end was due In
Kansas City at 7:15 Saturday morning.
Superintendent George F. lohnson
of the Pacific Kxpress Company states
that the men who held up and robbed
Iron Mountain train No. 104 in Oklahoma
pot no money from the express
car and that all the booty securea
consisted of a few "sealed packages, *
the value of which is not great. "We
no longer use this route for througu
money shipments, and there was not
anything like $20,000 in the car as is
reported."
Kobhed Mrs. Itryun.
Mrs. William Jennings Bryan was
robbed at the Majectis Theatre New
York of a handsome seal hand bag,
containing $75 and valuable souvenirs
collected by her and her husband
in their recent travels, last Saturday
afternoon. Mrs. Stephen II,
Ayres, wife of the Congressman,
whose guests Mr. and Mrs. Hryan
were in the Bronx, made the fact
public.
Two to llang.
Ctov. Sanders Wednesday named
Friday, April 21, as the date for the
execution of Euge Resanon and Francois
Rodin, convicted of murdering
Kranz Reidi, an aged watchmaker of
New Orleans, several months ago.
Rhot on Crowded Street.
Andrew C. Puro, said to be an Italian
journalist, was shot and killed on
a crowded street in the downtown
district of Denver, Colo., Tuesday
night. Philllpe Dropolia is under arrest
charged with tho murder.