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JEFF CLARK HANGED.
Berkeley County Negro Pays Death
Penalty for Murdering His Father*
Moncks Corner, Jan. 15.?Jeff
Clarke was hanged here in the old
Jail yard at about noon. Within five
seconds after Sheriff Causey had adjusted
the noose about the neck of
the shrouded but erect form of the
patricide, the lever had been pulled
and the dangling body of Clarke was
suspended between heaven and
earth. Clarke's neck was broken by
the jerk upward and there was
scarce a tremor of the athletic body.
Dr. Fishburne declared life to be
extinct in 11 minutes. The body was
buried by the chaingang behind the
jail.
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uonirary 10 upcvutuuuo viaiac
did not confess.
Moncks Comer, Jan. 15.?Jeff
Clarke was a bright mulatto, about
22 years of age. The crime for
which he suffered death was one of
the most horrible ever committed in
this county. Clarke's father was a
white man, who had long since, by
his personal habits, lost the respect
of the community near Eutawville,
where he lived up to the time of his
death. A short time before he was
killed the elder Clarke went to Charleston
for the purpose of negotiating
a mortgage on his land. * The theory
of the State was that Jeff Clarke
knew of this and killed his father in
the hope of getting the money which
he assumed he had raised on the
mortgage. So far as is known, young
Clarke was disappointed in that.
Jeff was a negro of a very low order
of intelligence, and his first effort
to kill hit father was made with
concentrated lye, which he administered
in the old man's coffee. The
father commented on the coffee's
burning him, although it was only
blood warm. Clarke then put his
father in bed, and the old man not
dying soon enough to suit him he
went off after his gun and shot his
parent while the latter was presumably
at the point of death. Jeff then
enlisted the assistance of his 12-yearold
half-brother in loading a cart
with pine straw. Accompanied by
the boy, he went to the house, unlocked
the door with the key which
he took from his pocket and, taking
the body of his father, he drove
with his gruesome load to a brush
lot in the woods nearby, where he
dumped the body.
Two efforts were made to lynch
Clarke prior to his trial and he was
once taken to Elloree and once to
Charleston for safekeeping. His trial
in Moncks Corner in November lasted
only a couple of hours and he
was sentenced by Judge Aldrich to be
~ hanged January 15, 1909.
TAFT LIKES "THE SOUTH.
And the South Likes Taft, According
to Judge Lurton.
Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 17.?"The
President-elect likes the South very
much, and the South returns the feelring
very cordially," said United
States Circuit Judge Lurton to-day,
who has Just returned from Augusta,
where he went from Cincinnati several
days ago on invitation of Judge
rp"#+ T.nrton visited the
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? President-elect at the latter's Augusta
cottage, and accompanied him
on the special train from Augusta to
Atlanta.
"Judge Taft's popularity is, of
* course, national and international?"
said Judge Lurtom "but the people
of Georgia?and for that matter of
the entire South?are his particular
good friends. Delegations of citizens
have been coming a hundred miles to
Augusta, just to pay Mr. Taft their
respects and to shake his hand. One
of the most remarkable visits paid
him was by a number of Confederate
veterans."
Continuing, Judge Lurton said:
"At his place in Augusta, Mr. Taft
has been receiving the most cordial
attentions, and the evidences of the
best friendship. He has not been j
engaged in any political work, but
has been doing all he can to remove
any idea that may exist that the
Washington government is inimical
to the inter sts of the South. He has
been doing much to dispel the idea
that the South is not as important a
part of the United States as any other
section, and his stay in the South
has gone far to remove any such erroneous
impressions as that."
Asked about the report that Judge
Taft would appoint him to the supreme
bench, Judge Lurton would
not be quoted, saying that his visit
to Mr. Taft at Augusta had not been
of any remarkable significance, and
that he had gone there "merely to
talk over matters of mutual interest."
Woman Murdered.
Baltimore, Md., Jan. 16.^?With
gashed forehead and cut and bruised
limbs. Mrs. Sophy Coufal, thirty
years of age, was found dead in the
cellar of her home this morning.
Blood stained axe suggestive of
brutal crime, was lying within 15
feet of the body.
Her daughter, who calls herself Sophy
Bartusek, was arrested a short
time later.
Early this morning Fannie ran to
a neighbor's screaming that her
grandmother had fallen down the
steps and was dying. To the officers
she declared that her half witted
brother John had committed the<
crime.
She said that her mother had fallen
down the steps and that immediately
John had taken an axe and
killed her. John Jouffal said when
he came home his sister began
screaming: "You killed mother."
He denied knowing anything further
of the murder.
In absence of any motive the police
are inclined to think her death may
have been accidental.
COOPERS ARE TO BE TRIED
men accused of killing carmack
to face charges.
Most Eminent Legal Counsel in Tennessee
Engaged in Case?Jury
Hard to Pick.
Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 17.?With
carpenters working overtime to get
the new criminal court room completed,
with deputy sheriffs burv summoning
witnesses and with the attor- i
neys on both sides making their final
preparations, it is very probable that
the Cooper-Carmack murder trial i
will be commenced here Wednesday
morning. True, there have been
vague rumors of an attempt on the ,
part of the defense to secure further
delay. But the missing witness,
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whose absence securecr me last postponement,
is in the city.
The case will be tried before Judge
W. M. Hart. The most eminent legal
counsel in the State have been engag- i
ed upon one side or the other. All
that money and brains and influence
can do will be done on one hand to
convict the defendants and on the
other to free them.
The parties to the case enjoyed national
reputation. Col. Duncan B.
Cooper, his son Robin, a young lawyer,
and Former Sheriff John D.
Sharpe are jointly indicted for the
slaying of Former United States Senator
Edward W. Carmack. - Col.
Cooper has been prominent in State
and national politics for years. He
was a friend of President McKinley,
of President Cleveland and of President
Roosevelt. Years ago he brought
Carmack to Nashville as an editorial
writer on the American, which Cooper
then owned. But those who know
say that the men were never very
friendly, and later Carmack became
connected with a rival publication.
In politics they belonged to rival factions.
Even Cooper's friends admit
that he is a domineering man?a
man who has been wont to command
and who liked but little those who
opposed him. Carmack had ideas of
his own, too, and was not backward
in expressing them.
Cause of Killing.
There was no serious difference between
the men until the recent gubernatorial
campaign, when Carmack
opposed Patterson for the office. The
issue was State-wide prohibition,
with Carmack advocating it and Patterson
opposing it. Carmack realized
that he was beaten, but he was
confident that prohibition would carry.
Then Patterson rallied to defeat I
his plank. Carmack, as editor of the
Tennessean, denounced these efforts
and criticised Col. Cooper editoriallv.
The latter, who managed Patter
[son's campaign, sent word to Carmack
that he would kill the editor if
the attacks continued. Carmack told
his friends that if he complied with
Cooper's demand he would be branded
as a coward all over the State,
consequently he would refuse. The
next editorial that Carmack wrote resulted
in his death.
The Cooper forces swear they will
make out a clear case of self-defense.
The State, on the other hand, claims
that it will prove that the killing was
the result of a conspiracy to assassinate.
The feeling in the State is intense
and sentiment is nearly equally
divided. *
The greatest difficulty will be experienced
in securing a jury. The law
provides that any one who has talked
with a witness or talked with
some one who purports to tell what
the witness saw or heard is disqualified
as a juror. The supreme court
has held that a man who reads what
purports to be verbatim newspaper
reports of the testimony disqualifies
himself. The defense applied for bail,
forced the State to put its witnesses
on the stand and then several newspapers
printed stenographic reports
of the testimony. Whether there are
enough men in the county who did
not read the testimony to make up a
jury remains to be see a.
AIKEN MAN, COMMITS SUICIDE.
Charles Carwell Ends His Life by
Drinking Carbolic Acid.
Aiken, Jan. 13.?Coroner Johnson
returned this afternoon from Warrenville,
where he went to hold an
inquest over the body of Charles Carwell,
who was found dead at his
home last night by his wife and two
other women.
Carwell is a white man. The coroner
held the inquest and the verdict
of the jury was "that he came to his
death from drinking carbolic acid
while in a drunken condition."
A bottle labeled "carbolic acid"
was found by his side on the bed
upon which Carwell was lying when
found. The acid was bought from a
pharmacy of this city.
No motive is ascertained for the
rash act other than he was unaer the
influence of whiskey at the time. The
acid did its deadly work quickly, Carwell
being dead when found by his
w lie;.
He was seen in a normal condition
a few hours previous to being found
dead. He was an operative in the
Warrenville mill, but was not at work
Tuesday.
His wife had been working in the
mill and was returning from the mill
last night when she made the find.
Tillman Anxious for Inquiry.
Washington, Jan. 16.?Based upon
a report which reached Senator Tillman
to-day that the senate does not
intend to accede to his request for an
investigation of the charges made
against him by President Roosevelt,
in connection with the Oregon land
cases, the Senator announced to-day
that if necessary to obtain an inquiry
he would himself introduce a resolution
providing for it.
THORNTON HA1NS FREE MAN. |
Acquitted of Murder by Jury After
22 Hours.
Flushing, N. Y., Jan. 15.?After
reviewing the evidence for 22 hours
and taking 14 ballots before all were
agreed, the jury in the trial of Thornton
Jenkins Hains this afternoon
found the prisoner not guilty as a
principal with his brother, Capt.
Peter C. Hains, Jr., in the killing of
William E. Annis. For the second
time in his life Thornton Hains has
been found not guilty of the charge
of murder, as he was acquitted of
murder in shooting a companion
named Edward A. Hannigan in an
open boat in Hampton Roads 17
years ago.
Thornton Hains had an affecting
greeting with Capt. Hains in the
Long Island jail, whither he hurried
in a motor car after the verdict to
take his brother the news. Old Gen.
Hains and his wife, who had been
anxiously waning to learn tne veraici
in the Hotel Astor in Manhattan
Bince the jury went out at 5 o'clock
last night, had heard the news from
Thornton, who telephoned his parents
as soon as he left the court
room. Mrs. Hains nearly fainted
from joy.
After spending nearly an hour
with Capt. Hains in the jail Thornton
Hains went to the hotel, where he
remained through the evening and
night with his father and mother.
The verdict came unexpectedly and
at a time when Justice Crane, believing
that a disagreement was likely,
had sent for the jurors to learn what
progress had been made towards a
finding. The former defendant
smiled, and tears filled his eyes, and,
hurrying to the jury box after Justice
Crane had discharged the jury, he
seized their hands and thanked them
for their verdict.
Demonstration of Approval.
Rarely in any court of law has
such a demonstration been witnessed
as that which occurred when the
jury made known its verdict. The
packed court room of spectators rose
as one man and cheered and applauded
with such mighty vigor that the
gavel falls of Justice Crane on his
desk could not be heard.
Before proceeding further Justice
Crane ordered the trial chamber
cleared and the spectators sent out
in the street.
After telephoning his mother and
father, Thornton was escorted to a
local hotel, while a throng of townspeople
gave him a continuous greeting
en route.
atatari that the first ballot
u uiv&e -
Btood 8 to 4 for acquittal and early
this morning the ballot showed a
gain of one for acquittal. Jurors
Hecker, Johnson, Richmond and
Boenlg voted for conviction of murder.
Juror Boenig held out until the
final ballot was taken just after Justice
Crane had sent for the Jurors,
and then changed his vote to acquittal,
making the jury unanimous.
Officials of the district attorney's
office in Queens county are quoted
as saying that the verdict in this case
probably means that Capt. Hains
will never be brought to trial and
that he will be surrendered into the
care of his family or the federal government.
"Under this verdict it is perfectly
rate for anv nerson who is ingenious
enough to frame up a defense to go
out and kill. Private vengeance
seems to have taken precedence over
the people's law," was the only comment
that Prosecutor Darrin had to
make on the jury's return.
Water Tank Collapsed.
Columbia, Jan. 16.?Engineer
Charles E. Bailey and Fireman Frank
Erenecke, sustained serious injuries
while their train, Southern freight,
No. 45, southbound, was taking water
at the water tank at Trenton.
The accident seems to have been a
very peculiar one. It seems that as
Fireman Brenecke was engaged in
placing the pipe from the water tank
in the tank on engine preparatory to
filling the engine tank with water,
the bands on the water tank, which
were evidently old and rotten, burst.
This threw the tank on the engine
crushing the cab beneath the great
weight of the 50,000 gallon tank.
Engineer Bailey was sitting in the
cab and his escape from death is considered
remarkable. The extent of
the trainmen's injuries could not be
learned to-day.
The two physicians of Trenton
were neither in town at the time of
the accident and the injured men
were not able to secure medical attention
at once. Engineer Bailey
sustained a broken arm or dislocated
shoulder and may be injured internally.
Fireman Brenecke is badly bruised
and cut by timbers from the cab and
tank. J. W. Morgan, supervisor of
bridges and buildings of the Southern
railway, left yesterday afternoon for
Trenton to investigate the accident.
Dr,tv? tvio ininrprt men live in Colum
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bia.
Railroad Rumor.
Spartanburg, January 18.?From
what may be regarded as a reliable
source, it is said that the construction
of the Carolina, Clinchfield &
Ohio railway from Spartanburg to
Columbia.will likely commence much
earlier than has been heretofore expected.
The building of this link has
been decided upon, it is believed, and
it is not at all unlikely that it may
be under construction or let to contract
in less than 12 months.
The second survey between Spartanburg
and Columbia is now being
finished and a third will likely be
made over a portion of the distance.
The line now being run is on the
west side of Broad river.
Come see our new line of goods at
the 5 and 10 cent store. They are
beautiful.
TENNESSEE VOTES "DRY"
LEGISLATURE PASSES STATEWIDE
PROHIBITION BILL.
Governor Patterson Expected to Veto
Bill, But it Will be Passed
Over His Veto.
Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 13.?The
bill to prohibit the sale of intoxicating
liquor in Tennessee passed the
lower house of the general assembly
this evening at 6:15 o'clock. The
vote was 62 to 36. Fifty votes is a
majority. Twenty-two Republicans
voted for and one against the measure.
The measure passed is the one favorably
acted on yesterday by the
senate and now goes to Gov. Patterson.
He is expected to veto it, but
under the constitution his veto operates
only as a suggestion, not as a
stay, and a Dare majority may yaao
the bill over the executive's unfavorable
action. The governor is allowed
to hold a bill five days. If at the
expiration of this time it has not
been returned to the assembly it becomes
a law without his signature.
The bill provides that prohibition
shall become effective July 1, 1909.
The battle attending the passage
of the prohibition bill was probably
the fiercest ever known in the Tennessee
house of representatives. For
almost five hours it was waged, the
local option; or administration forces,
contesting every inch of the ground.
Amendment after amendment was
presented, and promptly voted down
by about the same majority as that
givn the bill on final passage. A
great outpour of oratory came from
both sides.
Throughout the discussion the galleries
were packed and several times
the speaker, at the request of the local
optionists, asked the sergeant-atarms
to exclude visitors from the
floor of the house. When the final
vote was announced the cheers from
the gallery were deafening, the demonstration
on the floor and in the
galleries lasting several minutes.
To-night the " State-widers" are jubilantly
asserting that the bill will be
passed over the governor's veto by
about the sdme vote as it originally
received in each house.
RUMORS MAY BE GROUNDLESS.
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State Hospital After All.
Columbia, Jan. 16.?A petition has
been placed in the hands of Senator
Christensen, drawn up by Attorney
A. Hunter Gibbes, of the Columbia
bar, for presentation to the legislature,
asking that a commission be appointed
to investigate conditions at
the State hospital for the insane on
the strength of a number of affidavits
accompanying the petition alleging
brutal treatment of male patients,
that insufficient food is furnished
these patients and that the hospital
farm is contributing too many perquisites
to persons not entitled to
!them. There is no charge or intimation
that there has been any irregularities
or mismanagement regarding
the finances of the institution.
The
past few days there has been
a number of wild rumors circulated
among the members of the legislature,
among others that there had
been charges of improper conduct of
keepers toward women patients, but
investigation reveals that there is
nothing whatever on which to base
such charges. The petition makes no
allegations of the kind, according to
those interested in its being drafted.
* * *
In fact awing to the circumstances
surrounding the making of the affidavits
it is seriously doubted on the
part of the members of the legislature
whether there is really any foundation
for any of the charges. The
greatest confidence has always been
felt in the ability and painstaking
care of Superintendent Babcock as
well as in his unselfish devotion to
the interests of the patients, and it is
not believed that there is really anything
serious the matter with the
management of the institution. It is
a fact, however, generally admitted
that the appropriation allowed for
the institution has not for a number
of years been sufficient to properly
provide for the steadily increasing
number of patiepts that have to be
cared for. In this connection it is figured
out that the appropriation that
has been made the past several years
rvnlv ohflllt PPTltfi fL Aa.V
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per patient for the maintenance,
clothing, as well as food. It is a matter
of common knowledge that the
States's convicts are better fed than
its unfortunate wards in the hospital
for the insane.
There is great reluctance on the
part of the major portion of the legislature
to subject those connected
with the management of the institution
to a public investigation unless
there is a strong probability that
some of the charges are true. Naturally
they conclude that this would
cause needless anxiety and pain to
relatives of patients and place the
State in an improper and foolish light
before the world.
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Car Load of Mules.
C. F. Rizer at Olar received a car
load of fine mules Tuesday of this,
week, direct from the West. They
were bought for cash in the largest
market in the world, and he can sell
you very close if you see him quick
before feed bills run up. This load
must be sold out right away, so if
you want an animal to suit you and
at the same time at a reasonable figure,
go to see him. You will find the
prices and terms liberal, and you
know Rizer handles nothing but
high-grade stock.
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GRIM TRAGEDY IN A BATH ROOM
Bodies of a Man and Two Women
Discovered in Seattle.
Seattle, Wash., Jan. 17.?W. L.
Seeley, an atorney and former national
bank examines for Illinois, his
wife, Mrs. Kate Mrseeley, a member
oi the Daughters of the American
devolution, and her daughter, Miss
Irene Seeley, a student at the University
of Washington, were found
dead in a bath room of their home in
the fashionable Capital Hill quarter
to-day.
The victims had ueen dead since
last Thursday. The women, clad in
night robes, had apparently been
murdered with a hammer. There was
no mark of violence on Seeley. He is
believed to have been partly chloroformed
and then drowned in the bath
tub.
That Seeley killed his wife and
daughter while insane over worries
art A iSon nnmmittcd suicide is the
theory cf the police. His night gown,
blood stained from the bodies of the
two wojaen, was found beneath a
clean pillow in the room occupied by
him and his wife. The pillow on
which Mrs. Seeley had been sleeping
was satuated with blood.
Seeley came here less than two
years ago from St. Joseph, Mo. He
moved there from Ottawa, 111. He
was 55 years old, his wife about three
years his junior, and his daughter
22.
The bodies were found by Guy M.
Smelzer, affianced husband of Miss
Seeley, and E. R. Seibbell, a friend of
the family. The family could not be
communicated with after 9 o'clock
Thursday night, when Smelzer talked
over the telephone with Miss Seeley.
Although keeping up the appearance
of prosperity, Seeley had been
forced to borrow money for his last
month's house rent from W. W. Wilshire,
an attorney, from whom he
rented desk room in the New York
building.
Detectives were unable to find any
blood-stained implements in the
house, although, a hammer was
found. No article of jewelry or anything
of value was taken. Every window
and door was securely locked.
THE PRESIDENT'S BARBER.
Carried on Rolls as "Special Accountant"
at Salary of $1,600.
Washington, Jan. 16.?The recommendation
of the auditor for the
navy department that congress provide
more clerks for his office on account
of the great pressure of work
there has raised a question as to the
employment of William B. Dulany.
Nearly a year ago, Dulany, who has
for several years been President
Roosevelt's barber, was appointed as
a "special accountant" in the office
of the auditor for the navy department
at a salary of $1,600, bat he
has never performed any duty in that
office. He is still on duty as the
president's barber at the white house
where before Mr. Roosevelt ordered
his transfer to a $1,600 job in. the
auditor's office lje was carried on
the rolls as a messenger at $900 a
year.
It was said last spring that as soon
as the time arrived for Mr. Roosevelt's
departure for Oyster Bay, Dulany
would take up his duties in the
navy auditor's office. This proved not
to be the case, for Dulany went to
Oyster Bay in June, where he continued
to shave the president during
the summer.
Frauds in Public Lands.
| Washington, Jan. 18.?Information
of a startling character of al
isSaSaaisfc ... . * - - -h&?
leged wholesale and astounding
frauds upon the public lands has
come into the possession of Secretary
of the Interior Garfield through special
agents in the field. The serious
allegation is made that approximately
$110,000,000 worth of land in
States principally west of the Mississippi
has been fraudulently acquired
within the past two years by corporations
and individuals.
With a view of recovering these
lands, Secretary Garfield sent to-day
letters to Chairman Hale and Tawney
of the senate and house appropriations
committees, respectively,
asking for an additional appropriation
of $500,000, which, if granted,
will give the department $1,000,000
for that purpose. It is stated that
there is reasonable prospect of recovering
much of this alleged fraudulently
acquired land if the appropri
ation is promptly maae. 11 aiso is
pointed out that while $1,000,000
may seem large it is not # one-hundredth
the value of the land.
Mr. Garfield also inclosed a report
of H. H. Schwart, chief of field service,
showing over 2,000 distinct
cases of alleged frauds demanding
further investigation. Among such
cases awaiting investigation now
pending are 1,960, divided among
Florida, Alabama and Mississippi.
Tillman Loading His Gnn.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 18.?Senator
Tillman was asked this morning
if he had reconsidered his determination
to make another speech in the
senate attacking the president, regarding
the president's charges connecting
the senator with improper
conduct in the matter of the Oregon
land transactions, or if he still inj
tended to refer to the president in
connection with any other matter in
which the chief executive may have
reflected upon the senator from
South Carolina. He said:
"I have not altered in any way my
determination to show up President
Roosevelt in his right light, according
to the promise I made in the
United States senate. For reasons, I
cannot at this time say just when I
shall make the speech in question.
It may not be for several weeks. I
am very busy obtaining certain data
which I desire to make use of."
AWFUL RAILROAD WRECK |
TWENTY PERSONS KILLED AND
THIRTY INJURED.
West Bound Passenger on Denver A
Rio Grande Collides With East
A
Bound Freight
Glen wood Springs, Colo., Jan. 16. %
?Twenty persons were killed and
thirty injured, many of them serious* M
ly, in a head-on collision between
west-bound passenger train No. & and ^
an east-bound freight train on the
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, be- 44
tween Dotsero and Spruce Creeks
miles from Glenwood Springs, t at yfh
9:36 o'clock last night Following Is .|3fi
a revised list of the dead and descrip*
tions that may assist in the identification
of the unknown dead:
The identified dead:
J. D. Mahon, Princeton, Ind. '
A. A. Hamilton, Polo, 111. V-4 ff
W. C. Kettle, Ashton, Neb. -,
Mrs. Mattie Kettle, Asheton, Neb.
Mrs. Mattie Exell, Williston, N.
G. W. Oleson, St. Louis.
Dr. Arvilla Oleson, either from 4
Voh nr ATtAll. Nfth. ^
The Rev. R. L. Miley, either
Brooklyn, N. Y., or Mechanicsbui^%| ;
Clarence .. Gooding, Washington. J
John Williams, Clark, Neb.
J. C. Davis, of Davis Brigham
Drug Company, Denver.
Henry Dunn, St. Louis.
Twelve-year-old boy.
Eight-year-old girl, ^wearing plain
ring on third finger of left hand. '^CvisSj
Ten-year-old boy, light hair. vg
Six-year-old girl, light hair and^H
Woman, full-faced, brown hair* S
about thirty years of-age, wore blue ;:3j
plaid petticoat and Catholic brooch.
Unidentified woman; no ddaciiiESSHB
tion badly mangled, > :
Woman, black fiair, dark complefc^|3
ion, plain gold ring inscribed ^
"Nancy," shoes stamped Selby Shde vj
Company, Portsmouth, Ohio. .-ejjM
Woman, with red sweater, bljue^j^H
and white striped waist, about 45
years of age, weight about 110 - ~
pounds.
All unidentified are women or
children, and the bodies are badlr
mangled. . .. sfffirafli
While nothing official has been
given out as to the cause of the. \l:$
wreck, it is stated to have been due ./
to a misunderstanding of orders on ~'-?M
the part of the engineer, Gnstaf ;
niann nf the Dassenzer train. Olson,. '-'XM
however, claims that he understood' ; .fag
his instructions perfectly, but that he misread
his watch, thus encroaching i
on the time of the freight traiiw J?
which was being drawn by two loep<J^B
motives, the first of which was ifiJH|
charge of his brother, Sig Olson. O
When news of the catastrophe S
reached Glenwood Springs every ^
available physician and nurse in the
city was pressed into service and
relief train was soon on the scehegx ?aH
The work of rescue was immediately
As the bodies were taken from
ruins they were laid side by side
a bier of snow amid the agonising v?||
shrieks of husband, wife and parent .!^
as they searched among the dead for
their loved ones, many of whom were^^f
mangled beyond all recognition. M
A pathetic feature of the accident
was the killing of a father, leaving -J
two small children, the elder be&c^H
four years old, the younger two. The 'r%
elder boy told a nurse at the sanita- .
rium that his father called him Ben-'^^B
nie, and this is all he will say. Fronr^H
a fellow passenger it was learned that|^H
the family was en route to Grand
Junction to visit relatives. It
is suposed that Mr. and Mrs. .
Kettle, whose names appear among-^H
the dead, were the parents of these two
little ones, who are badly Jn^jggj
Another sad case was the deatraev||S
tion of an entire family with the ex- .
ception of an infant of three montluCVfjja
This helpless child was taken care of ;^|
by a family at Shoshone, who intend
to adopt the sole survivor of a once ifx
happy family.
Another heart-breaking scene was '"Soi,
enacted in the wreck zone, when
kind hands gently lifted a four-year-,
old girl from the death clasp of her 1
mother's arms. Nearby lay the body .f
of her father, decapitate#, and on '
every side were lifeless bodies, vietims
of the disaster.
A train load of thirty wounded and >
bleeding men and women arrived in
Glenwood Springs at 7 o'clock thi#-:|3i
morning. The wounded were taken /'I
to the county hospital and to tho^Pf
sanitarium. and when the cots and~';~3&
wards there had been filled, ro6n?JH
was made in hotels for the maimed.|||3
A woman died from her injuries in. .
the relief train, while on her way to
Glen wood Springs. It is expected;
that at least a dozen others who -were?
brought here will die.
Train No. 5 was made up of an en- jgraaj
gine and tender, a baggage car, a'*J|i
smoking car followed by a chair car,
a tourist sleeper and a full complement
of standard 3leepers and a din- ^
ing car.
The locomotives are up on end and
joined together as one piece of mer^
chanism. Their wheels were rolled. j||9
down into the Grand river and pieces?#^
of machinery are scattered all over
the scene of the wreck. The smok->J|j|
ing car was only partly derailed,l
while the chair car immediately fol- ';'s
lowing was completely telescoped
the tourist sleeper.
None of the standard sleepers left . l^
the track and no one was killed or
injured in these cars, most of
dead and injured being removed from
the ruins of the chair car, which waa
split completely in twain.
The Civic Association will hold a.';l|a
regular meeting this (Thursday) afternoon
at half past three o'clock in ^
the Fitting School chapel. A full at- ^
tendance of the members is expected.