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twm E * [ SIXTY=TWO LIV1 INI CDinHTPI II l lyiun 11 S!" ON SOUTHER : " UNSOLVED MYSTERY r\i . [ ' y I V " Engineer Had Plain Orders as to Meeting Place But k r Rushed on to Disaster. Scenes Appalling and i Heartrending. ; (One of the worst disasters in the history of southern railroading occurred on the Knoxville division of the ' Southern railway Saturday morning. I f < Two trains carrying heavy lists of j passengers came togetner m a irigm- j ful head-end collision near Hodges,' Tenn., sending fifty-four people to I death and Injuring 120, several of j ( whom died on the relief trains and *n < % the Knoxville hospital, swelling the ! list to sixty-two. This appalling loss of life and maiming of the living resulted apparently ; from the disregarding of orders given : to the two trains to meet at a sta- ; tion which has for a long time been their regular meeting point. The claim of failure to see either the station or ; signals could not be set up by the en- ; gineer of the westbound train were ne j alive to enter a plea of defense, as the < accident happened in broad daylight ! and according to the best information < obtainable he had the orders in a lit- . tie frame in front of him as his mon- : ster of iron and steel rushed by Now : \ -Market and soon after came upon an Ieastbound passenger train making for New Market, in compliance with instructions, to meet the westbound train which carried the sleepers from ^ the east for Knoxville, Chattanooga i and other southern cities. The possibility exists that the illfated engineer may have been asleep i or that sudden death had taken the ; sight from his eyes before New Mar- ] ket was reached. But nothing is < iknown, save that the orders were not < Obeyed. The trains were on time and not making over thirty-five miles an i j thour, yet the impact as they rounded 1 curve came suddenly upon each < other was friglltful. Both engines and the major portions of both trainsrwere < demolished, and why the orders Were : disregarded or misinterpreted proba- ] V'i 1>ly will never be known, as the engin- eers of the two trains were crushed, Itheir bodies remaining for hours un tier the wreckage of the monster locof motives. The trains were 'turnip > sharp curve when they met, and the west- -bound train seemed to jump over the* engine of the eastbound train. Two . day coaches were crushed on the east- : bound-train between the baggage car < tod sleepers. In one coach only one ; .person escaped with his life. The collision - occurred about 1 1-2 miles west of Hodges Station, and 18 miles east of Knoxville. v At 9 o'clock Saturday night it was known that fifty-nine lives had been lost and 120 persons injured, according to reports at the Knoxville hospifel, to which institution all the seriously injured were taken. Workers at the < scene of the wreck had at that hour recovered all the bodies except those ,of the enginemen and the passengers rwhose lives were crushed out in the aoetKmind tTV?in QUIUAC' KJL IUC VUdbuuiuu ... The collision occurred between eastbound passenger No. 12 and westbound passenger No. 15, from Bristol. No. 12 was a heavy train, carrying v three Pullmans, two day coaches and PEACE CALL IS SLATED. President to Act on Suggestion of Inter-Parliamentary Union. President Roosevelt announced Sat^ urday afternoon that at an. early date he would ask the Dations of the world to join in a second congress at The Hague for the promotion of arbitration. The occasion of the announcement was the reception by the president of the delegates of the Inter-Parliamentary Union which recently held a ses* sion at St. Louis and adopted a reso" nrpsidont to call iUUUU I cqucoviuj, x--?. _ such a conference. LOUISIANA POPULISTS MEET. Hold Convention in Shreveport and Put Out State Electoral Ticket. The populists cf Louisiana met in convention in Shreveport Saturday, adopted a platform and placed a full electoral ticket in the field. Every congressional district was represented \ when the convention was called to order by Joe A. Parker, of Louisville, Ky., campaign manager for the southern states. - -V - ';?>. HIsT 2s sacrificed; tdaim wprck * ? ? ? -v? ? N RAILWAY. I I | a mail and baggage car. No. 15 is a' light local train. The greatest loss of life occurred in the heavy eastbound train. . The trains were to have passed at New Market, but Engineer Kane ran through that place without stopping and had gone nearly two miles whan the collision occurred. Relief trains were dispatched from Knoxville within an hour. All physicians in the vicinity of the wreck were ding what they could in the mean- j time. Horror Indescribable. John W. Brown, of Rogersville, Penn., a newspaper man, tells a most graphic story of the wreck. He was J in the rear coach of the westbound j train and had no intimation of the j wreck until the terrible crash came, j accompanied by a fearful jolt. All the : seats in the car were torn loose by i the momentum and people and seats j were hurled to the front end of the j car. When he recovered from the j * 1? ortrl j shock ne nearu tut: 5U1 caiuo i groans of the dying and injured com- ! ing from the front of the train. "I left the car," said Mr. Brown, "as soon as I coul^ and walked to the main part of the wreck. It was the ; most horrible sight I ever witnesse-l j la my life. I saw a woman pinioned I by a piece of split timber which had j gone completely through her body. A j little child, quivering in death's agony, | lay beneath the woman. I saw the ! child die, and within a few feet of j her lay a woman's head, while the de- | capitated body was several feet away, j Another little girl, whose head was ! fearfully mashed, was pitifully calling for her mother. I have since learned j that she was Lucile Connor, of Knox- j ville, and that both her parents were killed in the wreck. "I heard one woman, who was terribly mangled, praying earnestly to be spared for her children, but death relieved her suffering in a few minutes. "It was the most horrible, tragic scene I ever witnessed. Both engines and all the coaches of No. 15 were j luor^iiv dpmolished. the smoker and | baggage car completely so. The sleepers remained on the track undamaged. "The scene around the wreck beggars description. Both engines lay to i the north of the track, jammed together * in one of indescribable, ruin. The cars wirfch^wefe demolish-^ Bd w^re piled on the jyj^cked .engines [ saw wobien, whd 'wefc-e ? perfectlyfrantic, trying to find their husbands or children who were buried in the wreck. I saw one woman discover her sister lying in a dying condition, and I never heard such frantic screamssjas she^ave when she ma^e the discovery. Forty-eight bodies were ebunted ^befofe I left for KndxvilJfc." Death List Increased. The death-list had grown Sunday night sixty-two, and it will probably exceed seventy, as, many Qf^the^ injured are in serious condition,- a'hd more deaths will occur at the Knoxville hospital. Sunday there were six deaths at the institution, the last one occurring at 8 o'clock Sunday night, when M. P. Gant, a prominent North Carolinian, residing at Shelby, N. C., passed away Others who died during the day at the hospital were the two colored firemen, two little girls and a colored man, of Johnson City, Tenn. To the corrected - 1* ? ??? * Ka oddo'.i <1 n list of deaa mere UlUOb UC uuuvu ? | unknown infant found at the scene i of the wreck and two other unidentified bodies. Nothing has developed to change the previously stated opinion that the wreck was due to the failure of the westbound engineer to read his orders correctly. SEVEN IN ONE FAMILY KILLED. One Sad Incident of Frightful Wreck Brought to Light. A telegram was received at Gaffney, S. C., Saturday, announcing the death of Mr. Lee Hill at Jellico, Tenn., who was killed in an explosion in a powder mill. The corpse was expected at Gaffney Saturday night, hut instead a telegram was received that the corpse, accompanied by Mr. Scott Hill, his father; Lee Hill's wife and four children and o eintrip sister, was on the ill-fated Southern train which was wrecked and that all the parties were killed. GRAND SIRE WRIGHT INSTALLED. Delegates from the Grand Lodge of1 Odd Fellows Call Upon Sick Chief. Grand Sire-elect Robert Wright, oi the sovereign grand lodge of Odd Fellows, who was prevented by illness from attending the meeting in San Francisco, was installed at his home in Allentoown, Pa., Saturday by Past Grand Sire Campbell, of Ontario, in the presence of a score of officials of the grand lodge of Pennsylvania. ^ LEGISLATOR BADLY.CUT. ! Political Opponent* Engag? In Fight V/hlch May Prove Fatal and Bring on More Trouble. I ! Dr. J. N. Spen-ce, representative ; from Ware county, Ga., was seriously j stabbed by J. R. McDonald, near j Waresboro, Friday afternoon, and it , is stated that his Injuries may provo j fatal, as one of the wounds is almost j through his lungs. Dr. Spence was stabbed four times, once in his left breast, once in the hip and again from the stomach down his leg. The most serious stab is in the back. Dr. Spence is the democratic nominee from Ware county and is opposed by McDonald, as an independent. The latter represented Ware county six years ago and has been a candidate for re-election at every primary since. ! For years there has been bad feeling ; between the men. The report of the j row is that Dr. Spence went to Mc- j Donald's home for the purpose of fore- j ing him to sign an affidavit withdraw- j ing certain charges made against him I by McDonald. It is said that Spence drew a revolv- j er and informed McDonald that ne : would kill him unless the affidavits : were signed. A friend was in the buggy with Dr. i Spence, and when the pistol was I drawn he caught hold of the doctor's j arm. McDonald then sprang ui?on j Spence, and while his friend was hold- I ing him to prev.ent. McDonald from j being shot, the stabbing was done. It j is also claimed that a friend of Mc- j Donald's was present and held a pis- j tol on Spence while McDonald was j stabbing him. Both Spence and McDonald have ! large family connections, and It is be- | lieved that there will be further trouble. RELEASED A MURDERER. Atlanta Police Captain Ignores Arrest Made by a Bailiff1. Owing to the fact that Captain j Thompson, of the Atlanta police force, ! discharged a negro charged with mur- ! der who had been arrested by J. C. j Etheridge, a bailiff in Judge Orr's ' court, and Policeman P. F. Cook, charges will be preferred against the captain, according to Baili-I Etheridge. Etheridge is a bailiff in the court of Justice of the Peace Orr at Atlan- j ta. He acted as chief of police in I "Winder, Ga., for tnree years, ana nas j served in the same capacity in Social ; Circle, Ga., for three years, and *n : Monroe, Ga., for one year. Etheridge states that Thursday night ! he was informed by a negro whom he j knew and trusted that Jim Davis, an- | other negro, wanted for tKe mhrder of a negro, committed in 1900, inJWalton j. countJ\ Georgia, .was in the colore*!.' waiting room at tlie union' station. I 1 H4.fi rat found PdUceman Cook and j told him of the presence of the negro, j for whom a regard of $150 wag -offer- j' ed. He promised to divide the reward ! with. Policeman Cook if he would aid in the capture. The bailiff and the officer went into ! the colored waiting room, and .finding j, Davis there arrested him at once. He j was sent down to the police station in J fhe patrol wagDn and a charge of suspicion was docketed against him. As soon as he was off duty, Police- ' man Cook went down to the police station and informed Captain Thompsooof tire charge against the negro. It fe stated that Captain Thompson did not 1 place ranch reliance in Mr. Etheridge> and finally decided to set the prisoner free. The arrest was made about 9 o'clock, j The negro was released a little after j 12 o'clock. In the meantime Bailiff Etheridge } had telegraphed Sheriff Arnold, or j "Walton county, asking him to come to Atlanta and get Jim Davis. Before the sheriff reached the city Etheridge knew that the alleged murderer had been raleased, but as a matter of form (Sheriff Arnold, on his arrival, went j down to the station and demanded his [ prisoner. MISSISSIPPI OFFERED LOAN. John Skelton Williams Tenders. Cash to Tide Over Temporary Shortage. | ^ Governor Vardaman, of Mississippi, J Friday afternoon received a telegram from John Skelton Williams, president of the Bank of Richmond, Va., m which he offers to loan the state of j Mississippi the sum of $100,000 at 3 | 1-2 per cent to tide over its temporary i treasury embarrassment. Governor Vapdaman sent Mr. Wil* j l!?mo o Afinrfonim ronl v Tffhl'oll ho i iiauio a WUi bwuo X f " Uivu. us/ ; thanked him for his generous tender. It is not probable, however, that the ' state will need to borrow. A DOUBTFUL HONOR. j . I Kaiser Bill Confers Decoration Upon Two American Professors. It is officially announced in Berlin that Emperor William has conferred on President Harper, of Chicago uni- ! versity, the Order of the Red Eagle ' of the second class, and on Vice Pres-1 : ident Judson the Crown Order of the ; second class. ^ i DROWTEDTN FILTH I Most Horrible Fate Befalls! Nine School Children. ~ j PLUNGED INTO CESSPOOL I i While Frolicking in Outhouse on j School Grounds Floor Caved in and Revolting Catasprophe Occurred. ? An appalling horror closed the pub- j lie school at Pleasant Ridge, a village j seven miles north of Cincinnati, Fri- J day, with the first quarter of the ses- j sion, when nine, possibly ten school J girls were suffocated in a vault during i the forenoon recess, and over a score j of others narrowly escaped the same horrible death. j During the rest of the day the lit- ! tie town was wild with mingled ex- i citement, sorrow and indignation, and j those openly charging the calamity to ! official negligence are making serious J " j.- I uireais. On opposite sides of the spacious ' ground in the rear of the school building ar etwo outhouses. When recess was given, about thirty of the smaller girls, all from the primary grades, j were in the outhouse assigned to them, when suddenly the floor gave way, precipitating them into a vault of filth. This vault is twelve feet deep and walled up with stone like a well. There was four feet of water or filth that would have been over the heads of the girls falling in it singly, but those falling foremost!filled up the vault partially, so fhat others were not entirely submerged. The girls fell eight feet from the flooring before striking the filth, and the struggles of those who were on top kept at least nine underneath until they were dead. The frame sheds over these vaults were about twenty feet square, without windows, and only one narrow doorway, so that only one little girl i escaped from the door. She ran into the school building and told the teache.rs what nad happened. mi? 1 ? Ktt xxio ueauiita 3 v/tsic awu iquiuilcu uj the entire population of the town. Those able to climb out on the ladders themselves were rescued by Principal Simmerman, who finally fainted. Then others went into the vault and brought dead bodies from the filth until the vault was cleared. The firemen drained the vault so a3 to be sure that the ( rescue was complete. Those engaged in the rescue work recite the most ghastly experiences. Even those rescued alive presented such an appearance as to make many in the crowd pf. spectators faint, but the sight wftfiin the vault beggared all prescription. The children who were onJ^op ofTthe- wWthinginags were rescued. first While they were getting out of the vault their feet crowded relentlessly down on others who were meeting with a most agonizing death in the filth. It was noticed that the older ones were on top and rescued. The Importunities of friends, especially. of the weeping mothers, were almost beyond the control of the offi- '< cers. i?r. U. G. Senour and P. J. , Shank, with their assistants, used the school building for a hospital and a morgue un?il after the dead and the rescued were taken to their homes. Jbtepons auuui cue uuur uaviug ?,en a^ray last year are denied by the school trustees: They state that the floors were repaired during the summer vacation and nothing was wrong. Janitor Smith states that he had told members of the board that the place was not safe. Coroner Weaver had 1 the wrecked girders preserved. It is 1 claimed that as soon as they were dried out that the timbers were found to be rotten, and it is reported that ene of them was spliced. J ] TRAIN HITS LOAD OF DYNAMITE. ' Crashes Into Wagon on Crossing and Dreadful Explosion Results. Fast freight No. 24, on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, struck a wagon loaded with 750 pounds of dynamite at the crossing at North Brancn, W. Va., four miles east of Cumberland. Md., Friday afternoon. Two peraons were killed and nine were injure!, three of them seriously. James Laing, who drove the wagon, escaped with only trivial in/dry, as did the two horses, although the latter 1 - * ' ? # ? i- _ fl .1 3 were blown nity yards mio a neia. According to eye witnesses, Laing, hearing the train, became terrified, ' and stopped on the track. The engine was overturned and stripped and seven cars followed, loaded with high grade merchandise, were broken, several being demolished. BRYAN STILL AFTER MONEY. | _ * Nebraskan Determined Not to Let Up in Bennett Will Case. j A dispatch from New Haven, Conn., j says: Mr. Bryan now has suit pend- l ing against Mrs. Bennett, in which he j seeks to get possession of $S0,000, ( which he says is held by her in trust for him, and also $30,000, in three al- ( 'eged trusts for educational purposes, j to be distributed by himself aJid wifa. DAVIS OPENS CAMPAIGN. Democratic Vice Presidential Candi. date Fires First Gun in His Own State of West Virginia. The democratic campaign in West j Virginia was opened at Wheeling by j rion.. .tienry u. uavis, uie yivjr dential candidate. Mr. Davis arrived from his home at Elkins Wednesday night, accompanied by Hon. Charles A. Towne, of New York; Hon. George P. McGraw and Hon. William P. Campbell, who are leaders of the West Virginia democracy, and other prominent democrats of the state. There was a general gathering of democrats from all sections of the state Thursday for an informal conference. Mr. Davis announced that it was not his intention to make many speeches while on his tour over the country campaigning. "I am not much of a speaker and rather disliKe the task,'1 said Mr. Davis. "My intention is to get around among the people and meet them with as little public speechmaking as possible. We have with us here Senator Charles A. Towne, wno is one of the most able orators I know of. He will be with me for a short time. He will do the public meeting talking, and it will be my aim to meet as many voters personally as is possible. I make more friends in that . way than by getting up before an audience and making a speech." Following are extracts from Mr. Davis' speech. In comparing the two great parties, he said: "The democratic party always administered the government with prudence and economy. The republican party is a party of extremists and has been wasteful and extravagant in its expenditure of government funds. More money is being collected In the form of taxes than Is necessary for an economical management of the government, both national and state, and if the republican party is continued in power still larger taxes and greater expenses will follow, as their leaders tell us they propose to pursue the same policy in the future they have in the past." After citing the tariff on coal as evidence against a protective tariff, he continued: "That the tariff, as a whole, needs revision is plainly manifest. Combined as it is at present with trusts, it permits of too large a Droflt on many articles of production, stifles individual enterprise, brings on strikes and disturbs generally the business interests of the country. Manuy manufacturers under present conditions seH their goods cheaper abroad than at home." He regretted that the national platform of the republican party raised the race issue, and continued: ' "The southern people, who have to bear the burden of this question, were dealing with it in moderation and fairness; but its unfortunate agitation by republican leaders has made its solution much more difficult and hindered the efforts of those who were honestly striving to aid the colored people in 11 nH ft in o- their rave A larce maioritv. over a million, of the white voters of this eou?fcry are democrats. McKiniey received 864,000 more votes than Bryan and this was the largest majority ever given a presidential candidatet There are, however, as shown by the last census, two million male negroes in the United States of a voting age." HONEST BANKER ANDREWS Begins Paying Depositors Who Lost Through His Failure. Frank C. Andrews, former vice president of the defunct City Savings bank, of Detroit, whose overdrafts caused the failure of the bank, and I who is now located in New York, where he went after his release from Jackson prison on parole by Governor Bliss, has inserted in the Detroit papers an advertisement announcing that he will pay the claims of 250 de- ; positors whose names are given. Andrews says that he will continue | to pay other depositors as fast a3 he I can. TRUST TO APPEAL CASE. Tennessee Court Decision Goes Against Standard Oil Company. At Gallatin, Tenn., the jury in the case of the state against the Standard Oil Company, Agent Holt, of Nashville, and Agent O'Donnell T.tutheford, Oniio+in f/%,. allocor? Tinlatinn rvf the UL uanatiu, uiivavu ,.v.-v.v anti-trust laws, has brought in a verdict acquitting Rutherford and assessing a fine of $5,000 against the tSandard Oil Company and a fine of $3,000 against Holt. The case will be appealed. DIED OF PTOMAINE POISON. Treacher's Family in Bad Way from Eating Spoiled Canned Goods. Mrs. Byron Woodward, wife of rne pastor of the North Augusta, Ga.. Bap;ist church, died Friday night of ptonaine poisoning and her husband is at :he point of death from the same ?ause. The sickness of the Woodwards was jccasioned by eating canned goods foi Dreakfast four days ago that had been eft over the night before. FUED IS RENEWElf Merry War in Kentucky is Again on the Boards. MOB AFTER THE DEPUTIES J Alleged Slayer of Cockrell Arrested ; I by Officers and His Friends Make Mov? t0 Release Him. A Jackson, Ky., special says: Officers from Fayette county have arrest- ?| ed Britton and started for Lexington ' "'5ja with him. Deputy Sheriff Terry and Coroner Bailey, of Fayette county, who were |I given a bench warrant from that coun- ^ ty for Britton, effected the arrest without trouble. Britton was taken completely by surprise at his home. " ^ Mrs. Britton quickly sent word to County Judge Hargis, who is a cousin of Britton, saying that her husband had been arrested and asking that'the ' ^||| judge send men to release him. A posse of Britton's friends left Jackson to meet Deputy Terry, but the latter, hearing of this, started witly jga his prisoner in a buggy for Torrent, ?j| in Wolf county, intending to take the '||| train there for Lexington. pjM The hearing of the feudal troubles has "been transferred from Jackson, Breathitt county, to Lexington by the 1 ISH indictment of William Britton for kill- J ing James Cockrell, a town marshal of Jackson, two years ago. After Cockrell was shot down In 'iJat the street from the court house at^ "*Wk Jackson, he was removed to Lexington, where he died. .? The indictment was secured under the statute providing "that in any case which has its origin in one county, and its culmination in another, | either county shall have jurisdiction thereof." V After Prosecutor Byrd stated that' he had tried in vain to get this case before Breathitt county juries, the ,v| -N grand jury of Fayette county heard i|S the witnesses, and the warrant was Ia? sued for Britton and the posse started - ' J1 in the night, gathering recruits along the way, and especially at Winchester, % where Woodson McChord, sheriff of Park county who arrested Jett and | others, joined the posse. They left the railroad at Torrent, niarching m across the county for Compton, Wolf . || ^ county, where Britton was captured. ^ This feud broke out with the killing of Benjamin Hargis by Thomas Cock- ^M rell, brother of the late town mar- 'ism shal. While "Thomas Cockrell was in jail, Dr. Cox, the guardian of the Cockrell heirs, was killed from janiv bush, and soon afterward James Cock- '-aft; rell was shot, and the fighting contin- \ 3 ued until Attorney James Marcum wag killed in the court house. . Curtis ^?8 < Jett was tried and sentenced to death /:'|s3S In another county for killing James p 'r Cockrell, and that case is now 'pending before the court of appeals. ' *;d|8 It is alleged that Jett and Britton ' acted together In killing CockrelL and Jett and White In killing Marcum. ? The posse with their prisoner arrlv* ed in Lexington late Thursday night, y'faa Curtis Jett, who is serving a life ^|1 sentence for killing J. B. Marcum, id -JS; under sentence to be hanged as the _-? principal in the murder of CoctareiL;r I Britton is a cousin of Judge James V|| Hargis, of Breathitt county. The shot* -? which killed Cockrell came from the "^1 \ top story of the Breathitt court house.. *|m >J Britton says he was on the ground\.|S floor at the time Cockrell was shot. Among the witnesses was Riley Gold* Iron, who swore positively that he sa^iijlR* Britton on the second floor of the\ VifS court house at the time Cockrell wa*vJ|| *: Free Look for Sky Pilots. * The Louisiana Purchase Exposition- ^ Company has adopted a resolution i providing for free admission to the. world's fair for all clergymen present* ing their credentials during Novem* BANK WANTS AN ACCOUNTING. |S Big Suit Filed in Chicago Affecting a ; ::|1 Georgia Enterprise. Asking an accounting from the Illinois and Georgia Improvement Company for a loan of $750,000 made April 1, 1901, and seeking to sebure the payment of the money, the American ;.|g| Trust and Savings bank, at Chicago, as trustee of the collateral security, has filed a bill in the superior court ^ig in which sixty-two prominent Chicago-. 'S|i ans are made defendants as stockholders of the corporation. Fight Expected at Fushun. A dispatch of Thursday from Mukden says: A battle is hourly expected to occur in vicinity of Fushun', * thirty miles east of here. At present all is quiet. The weather is turning ||| Falling Scaffold Kills Three. A fatal accident occurred Thursday' ^19j near Grove, I. T., in which three men " were killed outright, three fatally and . I four seriously injured by the falling of ' scaffold work on a bridge. ^