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^ ' . INTO DEATH'S JAWS Rollicking Members of Football Team are Hurled. AN APPALLING DISASTER Passenger and Freight Trains Collide In Indianapolis Suburbs, Scattering Ceath and Destruction. Sixteen Dead; Fifty Hurt. A <sr?n/?ial frr\m InHin!) r?r?1i<s Tn(] says: Fifteen persons were killed and over fifty injured, some fatally, Saturday morning by a collision between a special passenger train on the Big Four railroad" and a freight engine drawing coal cars. The accident happened in the edge of the city. The passenger train of twelve * coaches was carrying 954 persons, nearly all of whom were students of Purdue university, and their friends from Lafayette to Indianapolis, for the annual football game between the Purdue team and the Indiana university squad for the state championship which was to have been fought Saturday afternoon. In the first coach back of the engine were the Purdue football team, substitute players and managers. Thrao T\lo<rortj accicfant pnflfn A Hi V/V Vi O? VUV v trainer and seven substitute players of the university team were killed and every one of the fifty-three other persons in the car were either fatally or seriously injured. From Joy to Gloom. From the twelve passenger coaches j were coming the joyous cries of a j thousand rooters for Purdue, clad in j gala dress with colors streaming, j while in the front coach sat twenty r muscular fellows trained to the hour, on whom the hopes of a brilliant victory on the gridiron were confidently placed. k Around a curve at the Eighteenrh I street cut, Engineer Schumaker found directly in front of him the flight engine and coal cars moving sfowfy m from a switch leading to a gravel pit. He reversed his engine and jumped. The crash hurled the passenger engine and three front coaches against the steel freight cars loaded with coal that plowed their way through and o r-vi 1 A UU11CU UUUCl a. Ul ntvvuugv weighing many tons fully sixty human beings. The first car, in which were the J players, was completely demolished, j the roof being torn away and landing across a car of coal, while the body i of the car was reduced to kindling j wood against the side of the st.eel i freight cars. The second coach, con- ; taining the band of musicians, was , partially telescoped, while the third ! was overturned and hurled down a { 15-foot embankment. The other coaches did not leave ; the track. Immediately after the ) shock the passengers,men and women, j began the work of tearing away the j wreckage and pulling out dead and ! dying classmates and fraternity j brothers. The young women perform ed heroic work. Though the bodies [ * ? i. uAM.:ki? 1 * were in several instances uumuij j mangled?one completely and one par- ! tially beheaded?they took upon their j laps the heads of the dying and in- j S jured and soothed their sufferings as ; best they could until the surgeons j arrived. A general alarm was sounded and j * every assistance the city could afford : was rushed to the wreck, which was i three miles from the business center, j While the dead.and injured were be- ; ing carrid to the morgues and hospit- j als, the work of tearing away the | wreck and rescuing those pinned oe- i neath went on. Big muscular stu- j dents wept aloud as they stood over the bodies of their dead friends and ; fellow workers or gazed helpless on j ' the sufferings of their college mates, j writhing in pain. To add to the hor- : ?- ^ 1 x ?U ? ! ror the wreckage caugnr, nre, oui me i J flames were extinguished by the stu- I dents after a hard fignt. * While the work of rescue was going ; on there arrived in the city the op- ; posing learn and over nine hundred cheering followers of thei red and white of Indiana university at BloomIngton. As the happy and excited students poured Irom the train news of the tragedy to the black and gold of Perdue was received. Instantly all k was sadness and sympathy. The j & throng melted into sorrowing groups J I* that separated to search the morgue j r y* and hospital for friends or took cars j for the scene of the wreck to lend any possible aid. : The Sixteenth Victim. William Bailey, of New Richmond, | I, Ind., sub-player on the Purdue uui- j versity football team, died Sunday afternoon from internal injuries received in the Big Four wreck. This is the i sixteenth death. Fourteen dead bodies were shipped i ' , to their homes during the day. j NATIVES ATTACK PRINCE. * j Governor General of Russian TransCaucasia Stabbed Three Times. 7 News comes from Tjflis, Russian Trans-Caucasia, that Prince Galiizin. governcr general of that province, had t a narrow escape from assassination Wednesday on the outskirts of the 1 town. Three natives stabbed the gov* ernor general thrice. They fled, tut were subsequently shot down by Cossacks. I V - * < "" *. \ TWENTY-FIVE VICTIMS. Twenty-One Men, Three Wcmen 2nd a Babe Lose Life in Tenement Hcuse Holocaust at New York. 1 Twenty-one men. three women and a lQ-months?-olrl babe, nearly all Italians. were burned to death or suffocated in a fire that smarted early Sun- j day morning in the "House of all Xa- | tions," a five-story tenement house at! 1 426 Eleventh avenue, New York, and i which the police and coroner believe j 1- - - J: | iu ut* ul iuiruui-ii\ ungiu. Some of ihe peculiar features of the j disaster, in addition to the startling j loss of life, are that the fire was prae- i tically extinguished in twenty minutes; that the police could learn of but one person being injured, other than those who lost their lives, and that the property loss was only $7,000. ' Were Celebrating Hallowe'en. The only person injured, so far as can be learned, is Larry Janequinn, 47 years old. who was burned about the 1 face and hands by leaping from the second floor fire escape to the ground. In several apartments Hallowe'en parties were in progress and the guests at these added greatly to the number of persons in the house and made the crush and jam to escape more than it ordinarily would have been. Although plentifully provided with fire escapes, front and rear, escape by that means was cut off a few minutes after the fire started by the bodies ot the dead becoming wedged in the openings) leading to the ladders. The fire had been burning for seme minutes before it was discovered. It had started in the basement and. rushing nnward. had attacked the stairway leading to the apartments. In a short space of time the flames had so enveloped the stairway that egress from the building by it was impossible. The house from the third to the fifth floor was entirely destroyed. AH Exits Entirely Blocked. At the windows, front and rear, bodies of men and women were jammed, showing that a desperate struggle to get free had resulted in the 'complete choking of these exits to the fire escapes, and had been the cause of a number of inmates being suffocated. Lying on a bed alongside a window at the rear of the fourth floor, the firemen found the bodies of five men. Each had clutched the one next to him in an endeavor to push him away in order to get to the fire escape outside. The features of the men were distorted, %some with, rage, others with agony, and, in two instancesf'the men had gripped ftach other so^ard that blood "bad been arawn ana naa run over thqfr hands. ^ ?V WENTZ HELD FOR RANSOM. Young Millionaire Now Said to bo Prisoner in Cumberland Mountains. Robert L. Brown, president of a prominent coal company in Wise county, Virginia, is quoted as having said that on Friday afternoon the Wen'z family received tidings of Edward L. Wentz, the missing young Philadelphia millionaire. A shrewd looking young man, it is stated, appeared at the Wentz mansion at Big Stone Gap. Va., and requested a conference with Dr. John S. Wentz, father of tke missing young man. He was admitted, when he told Dr. Wentz that his son was alive and well, and that he had been authorized to say that for $100,000 young Wentz, whn was then in handcuffs in the Cum berland mountains, would be delivered to the family unharmed. Dr. Wentz, it is said, told the stranger that he would have first to bring him a letter from his son as an evidence that he was alive, and that then his proposition would be considered. The stranger agreed to this, and immediately left for the mountains. He was shadowed and was seen to get off the train at the mining village of Esserville, when he disappeared in the direction of the Cumberland mountains. Three Killed; Four Injured. Three men were killed and four injured at Farmington. 111., Saturday by falling slate in the Newsam mine. BRYAN ORDERED TO VACATE. Watchman Refused to Let Him Speat. ' - i l - r>..l.u:._ mom i oieuu rusivuiwc William J. Bryan was ordered off the steps of the Toledo, Ohio postoffice Thursday night by the watchman in charge of ihe buiiding. Colonel Bryan, who was on his way from j the east, slopped over for the night and late in the afternoon a meeting was arranged and he was to speau from the steps of the postoftice. Two thousand peopie had gathered, and he was about to open the meeting when the watchman interfered. The meeting was then held on the street i corner. WAS FOUNDER OF ANNISTON. 1 ! William Noble. Prominent Alabama Citizen, Passes from Earth. William Noble died in Anniston, | Ala., Thursday night. He had been | in failing health for the last three j years. He had only recently returned j from Noble's infirmary in Atlanta, and was thought to be much improved. He was one of the founders of Anniston, and was known all over the south. PICKING HALF OVER ! I I The Curtailed Cotton Cropj Will Soon be Gathered, j FURTHER DETERIORATION i i i i New York Journal of Commerce Issues ! Final Report for the Season?Some Interesting Deductions. i I I j The- Journal of Commerce. New I York, issued its October cotton report j Friday?the final one of the season. The points of inquiry were: 1. Increase or decrease in condition j compared with last month. 2. Increase or decrease in yield compared with last year. 3. The proportion of crop picked. No attempt is made at estimating j the yield; that amusement is left to readers. The remarks of correspondents are so much better than percentage reports that we have refrained from averaging the latter. The concensus of 1,275 reports made by correspondents indicate a decrease of 6 points in condition during the month, a decrease in yield and of 57 per cent on the crop picked, the average date of replies being October 21. These reports antedate the recent frost wave, which seems to have done little damage except, to top crops and consequently affects the above returns but slightly. Reports from the whole cotton belt show weather conditions to be more favorable for picking. Even had the crop not been from two to four weeks late, picking would have been delayed by a scarcity of labor. Last year at this time our reports show the crop to have been about three-quarters picked, compared with 57 per cent now. The remaining 45 per cent has been subjected in many localities to frosts, in numerous instances killing ones. Correspondents' opinions regarding the effects of frost are conflicting, but it is very often regarded as beneficial. What damage fro&t has dona is chiefly confined to the top crop, the prospects for this portion of the yield being universally poor, principally on account of the lateness 01 the season. There is quite a general tendency to market cottsn as fast as ginned. Correspondents' remarks, as distinguished from their percentage reports, are not gloomy if the complaints of top crop prospects are eliminated. Arkansas and the territories j may be excepted, however. There tho | season has been so far backward that r>rnn has hpen verv late in open- I ing, picking having just commenced in some localities,v and the per cent already picked being less than in any other states. Advices from Texas are conflicting to such an extent as to leave a reasonable doubt whether that state will not yield as much as. last year. The average decrease in condition since last month is 6 points and all states, with tthe exception of Missouri. have participated, North Carolina being 7 points lower; South Carolina, 6; Georgia, 8; Florida, 11; Alabama, 6; Mississippi, 3; Louisiana, 9; Texas, 9; Arkansas, 3; Tennessee. 3; Oklahoma, 1; Indian Territory, 1, while Missouri increased 4. The percentage of cotton picked Is 55 in North Carolina; 68 in South Carolina; in Georgia it is 65; Florida 71; Alabama 64; Mississippi 61; Lou- J lsiana do; lexas oz; arnansas uu; Tennessee 47; Missouri 26; Oklahoma 19, and the Indian. Territory 2S. CHATTANOOGA GETS UNIVERSITY Literary Department Now Located at ! Athens, Tenn., to be Removed. President J. H. Race, of Grant university, announces that plans are well under way for moving the literary department of the college, now located at Athens, Tenn., to Chattanooga. Thq > university will receive $12,000 from ! the Freemen's Aid Society, and other ! large gifts are expected. Grant uni- j versity is under the jurisdiction of the ' Methodist Episcopal church. ' i FORTY-FOUR GO DOWN. ' Russian Steamers Collide Off JapanWith Frightful Loss of Life. Dispatches for Yokohama state that a collision occurred in a fog off Hako- | date, Japan, between the Russian Yu- j shen Kaisha Co.'s steamers. Progress l and Tokai Maru. The latter sank. Of the 100 passengers and crew on board the Tokai Maru only fifty-six [ were saved. Scenes of indescribable j horror and confusion followed the < crash of the shipwreck. The closeness i and depseness of the fog which surrounded the ill-fated vessels made j j systematic rescue almost futile. i | I j MORE DEATHS AT SAN ANTONIO, j I Yellow Fever Continues to Claim Vic- j ! time in Texas Town. i j < There were two deaths from yellow ; fever in San Antonio. Texas, Tnurs- j day, one being Mrs. Anthony, from , Austin, and the other M. M. Davis, a druggist. Both had been sick just six , days. A case, that of Ed. Da vies, wa3 dis- j covered during the day and pronounc-! ed yellow fever GORMAN COMES AGAIN. [ Maryland Senator Has More to Say } Regarding President's Policy Anent the Race Issue. i At a democratic mass meeting held ; in Baltimore Friday night at the close ; of the. campaign, speeches were made j by Edwin Warfield, the candidate lor ; governor, and a number of leading 1 democrats, including United States Senator A. P. Gorman. An immense j crowd was present. j Senator Gorman took occasion to | again denounce the policy of President j Roosevelt regarding the race issue, j He said in part: j "The Anglo-Saxon has never, and ! will never, tolerate the social equality j or the political domination of the no- j gro race. The south has passed j through scenes of turbulence and dis- | order and rape and riot. By amend- j ments to state constitutions and by j legislation the whites have secured j control, for time being, of their own local governments, and the colored j race is no longer a political factor in j any state south of the Potomac. "For more than thirty years this j question has aroused sectional feeling j and divided parties. It has threaten- j ed the peace of the states, put in jeop- j ardy homes and paralyzed industrial j efforts. All thoughtful men realize ; that this canker upon the body politic I must be eliminated and the supremacy of the white government assured. "While President McKinley kept his party obligations as fully as any man, j he ceased making partisan war upon I the people of the south. But that j people removed, at least temporarily, the incubus that oppressed them. The j action of the states was sustained bv j the courts and confidence was re- i t stored. The old and young men of the j south took on new life. Developmeift j and progress resulted bcth north and J south, until the stream of prosperity and enterprise was flowing from one end of the land to the other." ~ FOES OF LABOR UNIONS. I New Association formed With D. M. Parry at Its Head. A Chicago dispatch says: With the election of D. M. Parry, of Indianapolis, as its president, the formation of the Citizens' Industrial Association of America was completed Friday night. The organization is national in scope, and includes manufacturers, traders or other employers of labor, local general organizations and citizens' alliances, having among other things as its object the dealing with the labor problem in all its phases. Other officers were elected as follows: J. C. Craig, of Denver, head of the Colorado state and Denver citizens' alliance, first vice president; J. T. Hoile, of the Manufacturers' Association of New York, third vice president; A. S. Rosencranz, of the citizens' alliance, Evansville, Ind., treasurer. A convention of the association will be held in Indianapolis next February. It was decided that all members of the association shall pay an initiation fee of $25 to $100, and all members shall pay dues at 50 cents per annum per employing members; the amount in no case to be less than $10 nor r? thon OTitl n m Hit* A A <p^VV CA4A AA V4 111 Resolutions were then adopted. They refer to strained relations between employer and employee, and their bad effect on business conditions; demand ample protection for all seeking to earn a livelihood and continue in part: 'In carrying on a firm and uncompromising contest with the abuses of unions as now constituted and conducted,at the same time recognizing the free right of workingmen to combine, and admitting that their combination when rightly constituted and conducted, may prove highly useful, we earnestly desire to act, and believe we are acting in the .true interests of the workingmen themselves." ? -- , ? BEST ALL-ROUND TELEGRAPHER. Former Associated Press Man Wins Medal and Championship. William M. Gibson, of New York, formerly of the Associated Press, and now with a broker firm, won the Carnegie medal and the world's- championshin as the "best all around telegraph operator" at the tournament of the American Telegraphers' Association in Philadelphia Friday night. COLOMBIANS ARE DULL. Difficult to Convince Them that Canal Treaty is Defunct. Advices received at the state depart- j ment from unofficial sources indicate j that there again has been a change in i the sentiment of the Colombian sen- j ate respecting the Panama canal. The agents of the state department j have found it difficult to make plain , the fact, even to the Colombians, that j the Hay-Herran canal treaty is abso- ! lutely and finally dead, and that no ac- j tion of the Colombian senate can res- J urrect it. Entirely new negotiations j are necessary, and none such have j 'nr.cn BANK ROBBERS !N VTENNA. j Big Roll of Cash Reported Missing ! and Bloodhounds in Demand. Telegrams were received at police " headquarters, in Macon. Ga., Friday j night from Vienna asking for blood- I hounds. I The hounds were wanted, the mes- j sage said, to trace a band of bank rob- i hers who had just broken into the bank at that place and had gotten away with a big roll of currency. i ; MILLARD LEE HUNG Pays Penalty for the Murder of Miss Suttles. EXECUTION IN ATLANTA Crime Was Committed Eighteen Months Ago and Murderer Respited a Number of Times by the Governor. Millard Lee, who murdered Lilla May Suttles on Sunday, May 25, 1902, ill Wesley chapel, near Ben Hill,. Ga., was hanged Friday morning in the Atlanta jail. Thirteen minutes later he was pronounced dead. With a smile of content on his face and without a tremor in his frame, Lee walked to the gallows, stood on the death trap and prepared for the death he knew must come. "Have you anything to say, Millard?" asked Sheriff J. W. Nelms a minufre before the trap fell. "Only that young men snould read their Bibles and pray. Take warning from me. Oh, God. have mercy on my soul!" were the last words cf the young murderer. Lee was the most composed man in the gallows room. Save for the constant movement of his fingers and the occasional twitching of his lips he displayed no emotion as he marched to the gallows or as he stood while his arms and legs vera being tiea. The execution was very orderly and there was not the slightest hitch from beginning to end. Everything had been so carefully arranged that there was not a second's delay. Lee died a professed Christian, and said ha was going straight to heaven, there to meet the girl for whose murj der he paid the penalty on the gallows. Dr. J. M. Suttles. father of the dead girl, was one of the men present in the gallows- room when Lee plunged j through the trap to death. During the j entire occasion he spoke to no one. j His face was immobile as the slayer j of his daughter went to death. He left the Tower within a few moments after the hanging had been completed. A great crowd gathered around the Tower early, despite the fact that they knew they could not be admitted to the jail. The rain which fell just oer u ~~ '11.1 > >/->I drivo lhA*TI j lore me uangiug uiu ? j away. Story of the Crime. On Sunday morning. May 25th of last year, just as the last notes of the doxology were dying away, and as the hundred worshipers in the little Wesley Chapel, at- Ben Hill, a settlement seven miles from Atlanta, bowed their heads in prayer, Millard Lee, son of a well known planter living in the j neighborhood, shot and instantly kill! ed beautiful Lilla May Suttles, a play! mate from childhood and the object of his devotion in manhood. Unre quited love was the cause of the tragedy. Lee ascaped from the church, but was captured next morning, just at daybreak, at Mabelton, 15 miles Trhm I the place where he shot his sweetheart. He had gone there with the evident intention of boarding a train for Alabama, which was duo to pass within a few moments after he show ed himself to the officers. Almost from infancy Lee had loved Lilla May Suttles, the daughter of Dr J. M. Suttles, a neighbor to the Lees. The two had been playmates in childhood and had been thrown together much in the frolics of the countryside. Lee's queer actions, his evident desire to shun every living man and his brusqueness turned the girl awaj from him and she began to avoid him in every way. This made Lee ever more sullen and morose. | Six times since he committed the | murder he had been respited bv Governor Terrell, awaiting new trials and action on the part of the supreme court. Every court, however, .declared him to be sane and to have committed a murder. The final decision was handed down by the state supreme court Thursday, only one day before the execution.*' JUDGE CLARK ARBITRATOR. i Officials of United Mine Workers and Operators Fafl to Agree. National Organizor Rice, of the United Mine Workers of America, to geiner wun .District uigauiici cruwu, J. T. Hill and Arch McDonald, the last two on behalf of the mine operators and the four composing a board of arbitration to settle the differences between operatives and operators of mines in Kentucky, adjourned at Chattanooga Thursday, after a conference lasting several days. They were unable to agree f/id agreed to leave the question at issue to United States' udge C. D. Clark. FIVE STRIKERS SHOT DOWN. Fierce Rioting Occurs in Bilboa, Spain. Troops Guard the Banks. During the fighting which took place in the streets of Bilboa, Spain, Wednesday afternoon, five strikers were killed and a large number were wounded. The troops are guarding the banks and public buildings and are using strategic positions through the city in order to prevent the massing of strikers. V ws . M ' ' ! r-Tiii i>MiTl^r^r^llv?".r;;.^r-aru> CHINA'S APPEAL FUTILE. *'1 . . ^r|sg Asks Uncle Sam to Interfere in Her Troubles With Russia?Time, However, Not Yet Come. A Washington special says: Sir Chen Tung Liang Cheng, the Chinese minister, called on Secretary Hay Monday and asked that the United ' 3tates check Russia in Manchuria, and in her evident purpose to dismember the Chinese empire. Secretary Hay replied that the United States, while sympathizing with China, could do nothing at present. Immediately after his visit to the > . state department, Sir Liang cabled to Pekin the answer of Secretary Hay to China's. anDeal for assistance in check- % ing Russia in Manchuria. The Pekin authorities are aware by this time that until the ratification of the American-Chinese treaty, which was signed on October 8, pledging .. i to the world the opening of Mukden '% and Antung, it will be impossible lor this government, in view of its tradi- V tional policy of steering clear of for- t-% eign alliances, to protest against Russia's continued occupation of Man- Jg? churia. It has been pointed out to China that, although the sympathy of the United States is hers, the time for American interference has not come. j It ic expected that the commercial treaty, which should arrive at Wash- 'ijjjji ington this week, will be ratified at ' the extra session of congress, whetf ^Kj the United States will be in a position ^^J|| to insist op a strict regard for her treaty rights throughout China. The n Pekin government has been told that infringement by Russia of American . $ | treaty rights in Manchuria will fur- jl nish the Washington government the ^jg opportunity for, at least, a reiteration of its desire for the preservation of ; the integrity of China. Japan, it has been learned, has -i:WL instituted a vigorous, investigation re* garding the extent and character of Russia's occupation of Mukden. Mr., Takahiria, the Japanese minister, when asked as to whether Rusia and Japan contemplated an under- -rM standing, by which tne one would obtain a free hand in Manchuria, and V|| i the other important concessions in Korea, replied by calling attention to a ^ recent official announcement from Tokio, that the negotiations at the Jap- . ^ anese capital between Russia and Jap- .. ^ anese officials were, as far as Japan is concerned, strictly in accord with . the Anglo-Japanese alliance. Mr. Ta- j| 'M kahiria has not been advised of any 1 appeal from Russia to Japan, and said that his conference with Sec1 retary Hay concerned another matter.- fila matter. Conference at Pekin. A cable dispatch from Pekin says:'"^'^! ( A conference of high officials with the - ^ j dowager empress concerning the reoci cupation of Mukden by Russian troops | was held at the summer palace Mon> FOR POSTAL DEPARRTMENT. Pa^ne Asks for Sum cf One Hundred and Sixty-Eight Millions. ; ^ Postmaster General Payne, in his estimates forwarded to the treasury ~ for transmission to congress for ap propria;ions neecal for the fiscal : year up to June 30, 1905, calls for i an aggregate of $168,085,870 for the postal service and $1,511,050 for the % > postoffice department proper at Washi ington, including salaries of clerk3, - ^ i rents of buildings, etc., in the pity. :i||j NEGROES LYNCH MURDERER. Mob, Composed Chiefly of Co!ored\ Men., Act Part of Judge Lynch. . Joseph Craddock, >a ncfctro, was ;-i| lynched by an infuriated mob, composed chiefly of members of his own ' race, at Taylcrtown, in Bossier parish, about seventeen miles from ' Shreveport, La.. Suhday. i Craddock had brutally murderfcd '^1 another negro by cleaving his skull ^ with an ax and afterward mutilating> the body. COFFIN OPENED FOR BROTHER. >| v Two Little Ones Die from Drinking J|1 Water that Ran Off Painted Roof. At Wilmington, N. C., tfcie second child of Charles McMillen, who was | i DOiSOned hv rfirinlrfnc -wntor -orM/*!* ! ran off a freshly-painted roof into the 4 | cistern, died Sunday night after four 4 i days' intense suffering. The little daughter died Saturday, and the year old son lasted a day longer. -:M The newly-made grave was reopened Monday morning, and the baby was 3 placed in the same .casket with his - * 11. ZA sister. ... IJ^^FOLLJW \ rLAU. DAILY. VERY LOW ONE WAY RATE TO California, Washington, - , 1 Oregon, Montana '''wb Anil internioJiate points. 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