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Two Car Loads of 1 stant Loom in nninnr nnt i inoro UHllM LULLAr^ti Fast Fiver Plunges into an %/ o Immense Chasm of Roaring Waters Wreaking Most Appalling Loss of Life. A special from Pueblo, Colorado, says: One of the most terrible catastrophes of the Arkansas Valley hap/ pened at an early hour Sunday night when train No. 11 of the Missouri Pacific, known as the "World's Fair Flyer," which runs over the Denver and Rio Grande tracks between Pueblo and Denver, crashed through a bridge over an arroyo or dry creek, near Eden, about eight miles from; Pueblo. It is estimated that of the 125 pas-; sengers on board the ill-fated train, j between SO and 100 lost their lives, either under the waters of the raging j torrent, or beneath the wreckage. Upon the news reaching Pueblo, a I special train beanng all the available j surgeons and the Rio Grande and Missouri Pacific officials left for the scene. \ Horror Indescribable. The wreck proves to have been one of the greatest railroad disasters in i the history of the country. Two! crowded passenger cars and a bag-! gage car were engulfed in the torrent,! and so far as known only three of the j occupants of these cars escaped Cath. Fortunately two sleeping cars and a! diner, completing the train, remain-1 ed on the track at the edge of the ; abyss, and none of their occupants j were killed or injured. The exact number of victims proba- J bly never will be definitely ascertain-1 ed, for the treacherous sands are drifting over the \odies. Searching for the dead was begun about midnight on an extensive scale. All corpses found were removed to Pueblo and j placed in four morgues. At eight o'clock Monday night seventy-six bodies had been recovered, and of these fifty had been identified. During the day bodies were recovered all the way along Fountain river (into which the waters of Dtv Creek entered) from the scene of the wreck to Pueblo, more than eight miles from the point where the disaster occurred. I and it is probable that some may be recovered even further down stream.: How Disaster Occurred. Two carloads of human freight i plunged into the raging torrent that j * destroyed the trestle over the usually dry arroyo. known as Steels Hollow.; Two sleeping cars and the dining car stopped at the brink oi the hungry chasm filled with a boiling, seething current that quickly snuffed out probably 100 lives. So quietly had the catastrophe been enacted that the occu-. pants of the three cars remaining on the track did not realize that an accident had occurred until they alighted ( from the rraip. Then they were utterly powerless to render assistance to the victims; who l^d disappeared in the rushing! waters. On the lookout for danger.: warned by the squally clouds and heavy rains to the north. JTngineer Charles Hindman was running, cautiously about 15 miles an hour as he approached the arrovo, which was; spanned by a bridge ninety-six feet in J length. The condition cf the bridge; was not known until the locomotive,' 1 t one of the monster passenger type, had nearly crossed. Fireman Frank j , Mayfield. with a torch that the engin-: eer and fireman had Turning to ascer-1 I tain the condition of the track, was: in the gangway. ROOSEVELT DOOMS RAPIST. % % Declines to Interfere in Cas^ of Convicted Negro in Washington. President Roosevelt has declined to interfere in the case of John W. Burley, a negro confined in the jail of the i * District of Columbu, under sentence of death for the crime of criminal ass Mult tho victim havinz been a little girl four years old. . * An application was made to the president to commute the sentence of | Burley to imprisonment for life, it be-; lng alleged that the prisoner was of mind so weak as to be irresponsible f for his crime. CHEKIB BEY ENLIGHTENED. Turkish Minister at Washington is "Put Next" to the Situation. Secretary Hay bluntly told Chekib j Bey. the Turkish minister at Wash-i ington, that the patience of the Ameri- i can government is well nigh exhaust-! ed. The charge is expected to com-; municate this information to his | home government speedily. Chekib Bey had no instructions from \ the parte when he called at the state department Monday. ? ' * I X I HORROR o 3eople Dashed to InT? o m n rv T rirt*a n "f -A-VCXi^ 1U^ J. UilV.ni. Wlien Engineer Hindman felt the tremor in the great machinery and caught a glimmer on the water, he shouted hjs last words, "Put out that torch," evidently thinking that in the accident he felt certain was coming the tlarne3 would serve to spread fire. But before Mayfield could obey, while the words were still on the lips of jthe doomed man, and his hand seeking the mechanism controlling | the air brakes, the bridge gave way as thought it had been a stack of kindling wood and the locomotive ! dropped with the hissing of steam 3D feet fo the bottom cf the arroyo, crosswise to the track. The baggage car, smoking car and chair car followed the locomotive into the stream and were swept away. All the occupants of these cars except three men perished, and had not the roof of the car burst asunder none would have escaped. The fireman, as i ! the locomotive went over, was thrown j 1 out and, managing to grasp a piece ot i wreckage from the bridge, hoateci wiui i that to a curve made by the caving ! bank and crept out of the water. He j ran toward Eden, meeting cn the way i j Operator F. M. Jones and his wife, j I who had heard the screams of victims and had already started up the track. J "Notify Pueblo," came the voice of i running man, "the train's gone down and everybody is killed." Relief trains with physicians and wreck and pile driving outfits and i scores of workmen were hurried from ! Pueblo. The first train from the J wreck came in shortly .after midnight ! with J. M. Killen, of Pueblo; H. S j Gilbert, Tony Fisher and Fireman j Mayfield. These were four men in the midst of the wreck who escaped. ; When dawn came the wonder grew j that four had been permitted to j emerge from the raging torrent with j breath still in their bodies. The end of the Pullman car Wyuta extended four feet over ffce brink, while broken timbers and twisted rails hung still further over. The gorge had been widened to more than a hundred feet at the point where the bridge had been. The water tore a zigzag course j across the prairie to a depth, of thirty j feet in several places. There was lie- j * 1 ! tie lert 01 me oaggage cm, ? ic? nv,* rods, a truck or so, dimly seen in the muddy water, and a half buried iron safe. The great locomotive, the boiler free of the trucks, the cab and tank gone, lies where it fell. A quarter of a mile to the east, where the gorge of death debouched into Fountain creek, lay the chair car, windows gone, three-fcurts filled with i mud and sand. A hundred feet far- | ther on was the smoker, bottom up, j against a sand bar. A hundred and i fifty feet farther on, in the bed of j the Fountain was the coil tender of ! the engine and from that point on for : four or five miles.vestiges of the voach- : es. the engine and tender stuck up j from the bed of the-stream or lay j along the shore or cn the islands. Red ! plush seats of the smoker were strewn j all along the stream. Brass rails from 1 the coaches were found in the sand a j half mile from the bridge, and pieces j cf the baggage car stuck out cf the j water in several places. Bits of cloth- ; ins. coats, skirts and women's hats f were found in the brush along the J ? V ~ cconnol tVlf* I s/iore, auu tut; acaitjuc.o ovauu^u ..uxs . foliage for bodies. Masses of earth j had caved in from the high sides of the river at many places md searchers passed these with fear that bodies were buried under tnem which they were helpless to reach. . Five hundred men scanned every inch of the river and its surroundings a few hours ' after daylight. They waded in the stream and carried out mud-begrimed bodies which were found at widely separated points, some of them miles from the scene of the accident. REYES IS INSTALLED. New President of Colombia Assumes Duties?Personnel of Cabinet. General Rafael Reyes assumed ofiice at Bogota as president of Colombia, succeeding Senor Marroquin. The cabinet is as follows: Secretary of State?Bonifacicf*Valez. Secretary of War?Diego Castro. Secretary Finance?Jorge Helguin. Secretary Treasury?Lucas Cabellero. Secretary Public Instruction Carlos Cureyo. Secretary Foreign Affairs?Enrique Wi LSOO. THIS FROM SHANGHAI. Sensational Reports Anent Conditions at Beleaguered Port Arthur. According to the correspondent of The London Morning Post at Shanghai. it is reported that there are 10,000 sick and wounded persons at Port Arthur, and that the Russians are negotiating with the Japanese to send a hospital ship away full of sick. It is also reported that General Stoessel has committed suicide, and panic prevails at Port Arthur. TO MENAGE TURK ? Uncle Sam Sends European Squadron to Smyrna. PATIENCE IS EXHAUSTED The Demand That American Citizens in Sultan's Domain Be Accorded Just Treatment Is Ignored. A Washington dispatch says: The European squadron has been ordered to Turkish waters. The orders were cabled to Rear Admiral Jewell, commander of the squadron at Nice. His ships are the OlymI pia, Baltimore and Cleveland. It is j understood that he will proceed to the I eastern Mediterranean somewhere j near the Black Sea. | The destination of the fleet is Smyrj na. This place was selected because | it afforded direct cable communication | with Washington and is only about I 300 miles distant from. Constantinople. | The trip probably will be made in ! three days, and when he arrives there Admiral Jewell will put himself in j communication with Minister Leishman and also report to Washington. Sultan Too Dilatory. Turkey has been dilly-dallying for about two years with the United States. At intervals during that time Mr. Leisnman h.is requested tne suitan to grant to American citizens in Turkey the same rights and privileges that citizens of other nations possess, to abolish discriminations against American educational reiigicus institutions in Turkey and to pay to naturalized American citizens indemnity for outrages suffered in the Ottoman empire. Time after time Mr. Leishman asked for a direct audience with the sultan but was put off. Finally the sultan agreed to see him, and on July 29th granted him an audience. From file tone of the minister's cablegram it was inferred that he had been assured that his demands would meet with favorable consideration. Accordingly the North American squadron, under Rear Admiral Barker. which had been at Trieste, was ordered home. It is now at Gibraltar. Of course, the news that the Atlantic sqaudron has been ordered to return to the United States was sent from here to Constantinople, and the shifty diplomats of the Turkish government concluded that this government had left itself unprotected. But the Turkish government overlooked the European squadron, also in the Mediterranean, and its appearance off the Turkish coast is likely to cause consternation. The navy department announced that the European squadron is considered sufficiently strong to enforce a reply to our demands on Turkey and that the Atlantic squadron, after assembling at Gibraltar, will proceed across the ocean under the original instructions, arriving off this coast about September 1. In the Olyrapia, which was Admiral Dewey's flagship at Manila, the Cleveland and Baltimore, it is considered that the United States, has a force immeasurably superior to anything that Turkey can muster. FUNDS DENIED TO CASTRO. Purse of Venezuelan President Tied ' Up by Foreign Banks. A New York dispatch says: In consequence of the aggressive policy displayed by President Castro, of Venezuela. against France, M. Delcasse, the French minister of foreign affairs, has taken steps to prevent the unification of the Venezuelan debt, which had been arranged with the Bank of Paris. Germany and Great Britain are in accord with the French view 6f the question and have refused any financial assistance. The situation is critical. MINISTER DISGRACES CALLING. Baptist Parson Cuts Wide Swath ol Crookedness in Coiiunerce, Ga. Rev. J. D. Woodward, a Baptist min ister of Commerce, Ga., is aecused ol some ugly charges. It is said that sev eral years ago he married at Kings bury, N. C.; that he became involved in debt and skipped, leaving his creditors and his wife and child behind. He turned up in Commerces and married Miss Patten. Being an accredited minister, he bought freely from several merchants and mortgagee the same property to different parties It is said that he owes some $500 tc the local merchants. PEACE IS PATCHED UP. Lion and Bear Will Not Wrangle Over Knight Commander Affair. The controversy of the sinking of the British steamer Knight Commander is not expected, either in British governmental or nussian diplomatic | circles, to reach an acute stage, both governments having adopted a conciliatory attitude. r ' " r . - ; . ^ ' STOPS-FLOW OF"MONEY.Ti ! K Cloomy Outlook Caused by Strike o* Miners In Alabama?War to the Death Against Unions. J p The strike situation in the Binning j j ham, Ala., district is becoming painful- i j ly monotonous, and an interview* with _ i one of the most observant merchants ^ f in Birmingham, who nas oeen tnrougu > four strikes in the district, gives a j gloomy outlook to the situation. Bus- ! iness is beginning to feel the effects of j it, notwithstanding the roseate views j expressed by many that the strike i woud soon be over. This merchant is j not so hopeful, and expressed the be- j e lief that the end of it would not be I E seen before the end of the year. : ti Eight thousand men in the district j C are out of employment who have been r earning from $2 to $3 per day, and j spending it in the city, he contends, | 5 is bound to bring hard times to the ' c merchants of the district. There areI D now employed by the commercial coal j v men about 4,000 miners, whose output j is used for commercial purposes only, j b riot a pound of which can be used by j h the furnace men, under the agreement. J t! Only two-thirds of the United Mine ; r , Workers have employment, besides a ( large number of helpers in and about j fc the mines, who are not members of a the union. Birmingham is largely de- a per.dent cn this trade of the miners. j; There is very little agricultural trade in ihp immp/iiatp spftion. and the good ? crops of the country cannot be looked p to to fill up the vacancy In trade caused h by the strike. t That both sfdes to the trouble are determined to fight to a finish there is g no doubt, and the question at issue is ^ whether unionism will be rc^'nized j, or disrupted. Both sides to the contro- t versy keep in good humor, apparently, and no disturbance is expected. g y A BOOMERANG LANDED. h s Atlanta Policeman Fired" for Making ], Untruthful Charges Against Superior. 5 Captain Z. B. Moon, of the Atlanta c police force, was found guilty by the c city police board Thursday night on two charges and was sentenced to i r thirty days' suspension and a repri- f mend by the mayor. Bicycle Policeman Samuel T. Tibbs 1 was found guilty of one charge and t fired from the force. * Moon was found guilty of ordering ^ his men not to make an arrest called J c for on the books, and not allowing an J officer to enter a case against a man a for carrying a concealed pistol. s Tibbs was found guilty of making an t aifidavit about Mcon which was found I to be untrue. The affidavit in question d | was to the effect that Moon cursed t j in the station house and said he had c | four commissioners on his side and 1 | he would do as he pleased. A number of other charges against ii both officers were dismissed. Off and a on the trial has lasted for several t weeks. c SOUTHERNERS VISIT PARKER. I E Delegation of Prominent Democratic f Leaders at Esopus. * I Almost all of Judge Parker's visitors t g at Esopus, N. Y., Thursday, were from j south of Mason and Dixon's line. UniI Ofo*Q, Conner Tncor?Vi \V Railpv. I - ICU uwuuvv/i v^WV^M ?? - ???- ~ * r j of Texas, was one of the first to arrive. He wa3 accompanied by Mrs ^ Bailey and their son, and left Rosemount with expressions of the most cordial admiration for Judge Parker, and of hopefulness as to the outcome c of the campaign. Governor A. J. Montague, of Virginia, came down from Lake George, ^ where for several days he has been j visiting George Foster Peabody, the newly appointed treasurer of the na- ^ tional committee. National Commit- . teeman H. D. Clayton, Colonel E. L. Russell, with his daughter, and H. ^ Hatcher, of Alabama, constituted the remainder of the southern delegation. P n To Notify Watson in Gotham. The populist national committee has ^ decided to have the formal notification ^ of their party candidates for presi- J dent and vice president at Cooper Union, New York, August 18. i s NO GOOD TO HAWAII. ! Annexation of Islands Has Not Paid, E Says Governor Carter. In an interview at Sacramento, Cal., Thursday, Governor G. C. Carter, of It the Hawaiian islands, said: F "The annexation of the islands to n the United States has hot been a r>om- s< mercial success, so far as the islands ^ are concerned. Since we have been X | P laKen into unuea oiaies territory we i have not made great progress. One ^ reason for this is because the laws by which we are governed are not . suited to the country." 11 o tl COLLIERIES ARE SHUT DOWN. Aggregate of Sixty Thousand Mirers Idle in the Schuylkill Region, A special from Pottstville, Pa., says: The shut-down at the collieries in the Schuylkill region Monday was complete with the exception of the I.e ^ high Coal and Navigation company, c which continued to opeiate its collier h ies in the Panther Creek valley. 0 It is conservatively estimated that . there are about 60,000 idle men :n the county. r. ;. " .- ?' - -v. ^ < *>::.-- - . - - :-A 4\* -' ;-> v._* - :'-T\ *. /* iEVEN CIR LS DROWN fleet Tragic Death While Bathing in River. UM ACCIDENT MOST SAD 'ictims Ranged in Age From Eight to Fourteen Years?Father of On? Also Went to Watery Grave. While Lathing in the Zvlississippi riyr at Alton, 111., Friday night, Michael Liley, his daughter and six of the later's little girl friends were drowned. )ne child, who was in the party, was escued. Riley lived near the river in the outhern part of the city and was acustomed to bathe on the beach in ront of his home after his return from r'ork. On this occasion his little daughter egged to go with him and Riley took er and seven of her little friends to he beach with him. The children anged in age from 8 to 14 years. Y/hen they entered the water Riley iade the children join hands and they II waded into the water and walked long the sandbar, which stretches out ato the stream at that point. They had gone some distance from he shore when suddenly the whole arty disappeared beneath the water, i aving in the darkness stepped from j he sandbar into the deep channel. Riley, who is said to have betm a ;ood swimmer, is thought to have >een made helpless by the girls cling' ng to him and hampering his efforts o save them. The only one in the party to rerain the sandbar was Mary Timiny, 8 ears old. The child is unable to tell row she saved herself beyond the tatement that "I snatched my hand cose from the grasp of the little girl ext to me, and scon found that I etons nn nnrt that the water uuiu O tuuu VI^/ ?? inly came to my knees." The beach where the accident occured is practically deserted after night- j all, and the screams of the little Timny girl failed to attract any one to he scene. The child ran from the >each and reached her home screamng. It was some time after b afore ler parents could gather an account if what had occurred. Immediately Mr. Timiny organized , rescue party. Eoats were hastily ecured and in a short time four of he bodies had been recovered. According to the account of the ncci!ent given by the little Timiny girl he drowning was caused by the exitment incident to the passage of a arge river steamer. Before entering the water Riley had QStructei the little ones to maintain . tight grasp on eat?h others hands, he j aking a place in the center. The wash from the steamer created onsiderable confusion among the ;irls. Mary explains, and in the darkless they lost their bearings and beore they were aware of their danger, wo or three of them had stepped off he sand bar, into the channel, dragling the others with them. Mary was at the end of the line nd when her companions dragged her rom the sand bar she was nearest to hoal water, and to that fact she owes ier escape. RUN ON CHICAGO BANK. strikers, Frightened Over False Rumor, Draw Out Their Little Funds. The strike in the packing houses at Chicago was practically lost sight of Tiday in the excitement attending a un on the Drover's Trust and Savings iank, one of the stock yard's instituions. The rush of the depositors to the ank started early in the day, because f an unfounded rumor that one of the i ' - 3 J L! iacKers representatives naa arawn uis aor.ey from the institution. The officials of the" bank, determined o meet the emergency, called in exra tellers, and the plac? was kept pen until every depositor who preented himself at the window had been atisfied. YORK OF "BLACK HAND" DAGO. lomb Thrown Into Crowd cf Italians in New York Plays Havoc. A bomb thrown into a crowd of alians in East One Hundred and Ifty-first street, New York. Saturday ight injured a score or more of perons and led to the arrest Sunday of 'incenzo Eonetto, who the police beeve is a member of the "Black land" Society, which for some time as terrorized residents of the Italian istricts. Donetto was himself mere severely ijured by the bomb than any of the thers. one leg being badly torn from be hip to the ankle. CONVICT FOR CONGRESS. ormer Mayor of Minneapolis An nounces as Republican Candidate. Dr. A. A. Ames, former mayor of linneapolis, and convicted in district ourt of accepting a brioe, tne case aving been sent back for a new trial n appeal, filed notice Thursday of is intention to run for congress on be republican ticket. n BISHOP POTTER'S BREAK/' |1 New Departure of New York Preacher in Dedicating a Saloon Raises * Storm 0f Protest. The Kansas City branch of the American loung .People's christian Temperance Union strongly disap-. proves of the ideas of Bishop Potter, of New York, with regard to uplifting the normal tone of the saloon. At a meeting of the union the matter was discussed and a letter was addressed * to the bishop which will be sent to' him. A copy of the letter follows: "May God have mercy upon your , isja benighted idea of striking 'the keynote of attack upon the liquor situation.' You are rather indorsing a key jd? that open^ wide the doors to hell for ^ar.'; the army of 100,000 souls who annually leave the King's highway and stum- ;*J|H ble into drunkards' graves. :'i "The present situation across the --jBVi water of fifty-five bishops in the '.'qMk Church of England as stockholders In 1-'|h breweries and distilleries, with this 'M shameful farce of a bishop in the great Episcopal church in our own v land, taking a leading part in the opening eercises of a saloon, closing the samp hv slnsine' the doxoloev. should make every professed Christian fol- . lower in this great Episcopal church JBi hang his head in very shame." . The following dispatch -from New York explains the casus belli: 77 The Rt. Rev. Henry C. Potter, D. D? LL.D., bishop of the Protestant Epis- 'Jig copal diocese of New York, opened --.3 vl the "Subway Tavern" with prayer and at the conclusion of the openehig exer- - ,j^a| cises the doxology was sung. _ ^ The Subway Tavern is a saloon, fashioned and conducted after a new idea, at the corner of Mulberry and Bleecker streets, not far from the vj|?:3j Bowery. The bishop made a speech >^M -i in the barroom, standing on a beer case, praised the new saloon and. declared that it represented more prog? ress toward temperance than the ef- 'jijjM forts of temperance leaders for fifty The Subway Tavern has been fin-' vijl anced by certain members of the City || Club, who believe that, in addition to the predicted 5 per cent dividends, the saloon will work a reform amongr^^^H drinkers. Any man or woman can buy v anything from a glass of soda water to .IjjwM a rye highball in the place so long as . he or she does not "treat." >': ROBBER USES ELECTRICITY. ^||H Victim Is Made Unconscious by 8hock' |H|| and Relieved of His Cash. r ;|j Abraham Schlossbach, of Asbury Park, N. J., has reported to the police that a boarder in his house hasev^B made him unconscious by an electric 7^ p shock and while he was helpless robbed him in his own room, of ovec^J&H The stranger represented himself as Jl i-V/. Jlcnnvoro. of a T10TX7 olppWp HrfV cess to cure rheumatism 4>'nd offered Schlossbach the treatment gratis.^He ViaH attached his apparatus to Schloss- . .jjWl bach's waists and the victim knew -'Jjg no more for five hours. SCHEME TO WRECK BANK. : Jl Run on Chicago Institution is Traced to Conspirators. :| Inspector Hunt, at Chicago, has evi- .fr dence placed in his hands pointing to ?||M a conspiracy to wreck the Drovers'. '/Ja Trust and Savings bank by creating a * run on the institution. The police are -....tag working on the case with prospects .|||b that criminal prosecution will follow. When the doors of the bank at the/'JH stock yards opened Saturday, about 150 persons were in line to withdraw deposits, continuing the run begun on -~i the bank Friday. - # GAVE LIFE TO SAVE SISTER ^ Heroic Self-Sacrifice of Aiken Young' j. Lady at Sullivan's Island. .. ^^8 Miss Emma Laird, eldest daughter ;|j| of John Laird, a well known contractor of Aiken, S. C., was drowned to .>|8[ the surf at Sullivan's Island Sunday ; ?? afternoon while attempting to save rJS: her younger sister. The younger sister was unconscious 2*8 when brought ashore, but was resusdtated after two hours' work. LEAVE REPUBLICAN RANKS. \ Disaffection in West Virginia Brings ^8 Recruits to Parker. A dispatch from Parkersburg, W. ^ OgjM Va., says: Asbury Carsons, of Ripley, republican nominee for judge of the ~.||| circuit court of the Fifth district, has |.-.Jm declared for Parker and Davis, ami :|| John S. Farr, of Huntington, republlcan nominee for presidential elector, has withdrawn from the ticket. He gives as his reason that he cannot con- -.?S scientiously vote for the persons on the republican ticket this year, and gjfB that he does not agree with the prin- ; ciples and platform of the party in West Virginia. . jsljl RUSSIANS FORGET DRUBBINGS. Holiday Gaily Observed, Notwithstand*. ing Tragic Events of the War. Thursday being the saint day of the dowager empress, a general holiday was observed throughout Russia.. -v St. Petersburg was gaily decorated. /|p The streets were filled with holiday crowds intent upon pleasure, and the .'^32 tragic events reported from the seat '.jf| of war seemed temporarily to be for.... J