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* yANY KILLED ' palling Railroad Disaster Biar Washington,JD. C. > $ _ li8i0n h)f trains. yra'Cotti, and Many,PergooaJWaitat the Station to Board the Train Either Killed or jf (injured While *wier appainng disaster ccourrea seven o'oiook Sunday night on iltlmore and Ohio Railroad at -Jctta, about three miles from 'Tton, D. C., In which thirtym, jtons were killed outright and M'fty Injured, many of them so v' lhev "l11 dle- Th? *? train cauaed by the collision of a 2^ n* aue Washington at known11'* from Frederick, Md., a d >ad Frederick Special, with Oiafofid passenger equipment spe wnrft Wears. Ovar200 passengers soon asar(* lbo *H-'ated train- As Washli0 ne'f8 of t?be wreck roaohed with aon &QQbuUnoes available assanitf*1**17 PbysloianB 118 could be Of tr wera 8fnt t0 scene. Fraud n,DJUT0(i seven were taken to States 18 hospital, 15 t0 t?bo United were 1 bers' Homo hospital, and 20 special lnt0 Washington on a nose t;~*ln 10 be carried to various nintrir A^ong the Injured war ton wAUorney Baker of Washing almost dasPltie bis injuries, walked brough miles so uroomana ana Ho was11? ?r8fc new8 ?' the wreck, ter me{MP^ely exhausted and af,1Ly *[ treatment,was sent to th 3D680) tor ?*i)lnK kls experiences Mr. 13afrom t 1,1 ??? ln the seoond home i? en*in? coming from my seats 11 Getmantown. I was four fch In the end of the oar, and Just the or4?ln left Terra 'Jotta station the wJ?*ma were carried iu Q m Stage for some distance. 1 do ^ J how I got out of the wreokaMiBtpJMr' Darby. of Washington, P Bodf1? tlie dru* 8tore*" irank flrinir i2" * newspaper man of Fredin d iJr ' wh,) was slightly inj .red, ,.j^"clng his experience said: amnt.r in the Car Dexfc tO the hiR With a gentleman and ah afr.nJu'0111 PPtrott, Mich. We were Hfi a7^W up, the oar being crowd?? ?,enly we heard an awfui _ B^"r.hen a crash. Women ber A^ng and the next thing 1 embar 1 * mJBe" rolilng do n ma ?* \~ where some one picked h ? k Jc ^ found I was not badly scene I impossible to desoribe the j? omen and children were run? elut crying for their parents, " * ijlera and fathers were rushing rPh. ? Ving to Und their ohildren. -i ? ' J!' wad injured were st ewn mile*' 1 , |5rack lor a distance of a Thp^fc h iSo pad bodies were found lying track for a considerable nVousflf wr00* occurred at 6:39 . r jlense fog was prevailing and tX yl?Ote perceptible but a few +W Y|d. It was Impossible at first ojfi and Inlne the exact extent of the jf wine. The moment the first oil and I vlvors reaohed Brookland a % ' lah was sent out for dootors Jffl Ppilanoes. Dr. R. W. Frls ^ ft Stern and Dr. J. H. Brooks >-v^f yftaud responded and were K*S iple 80ene ln automobiles. g|l pnber of the orew of the patfln, who hobbled into a drug mj JLlf hour after the accident, S | cin't tell how many have X Id. It is awful. I don't even fj? n It how it happened. The 41 ft#ft]glne went through the eneS|IIleand it seems to me as if igtl^ftf/as killed in the last ooaoh In the first." a# Ith0 new8 o( the aooldent aft lough Brookland, may oitlHS<? Itbeir wives hastened to the t J Ive their aid and comfort *o JK Ided. Mrs. H. F. Fisher eg Bonding to the oall of a suffol 1st stumbled over the body 9 war-old child lying near the X awe baby was terribly brule\M I lis still alive. It was said fl I Imother of the Infantk hud #Thrhted train runs only on 1' i the benefit of WashingJ lo either have country plac9 Ine or go to visit relatives. V hon(Irederick at 4 o'clock In the 9 .And is soheduled to reach 9 m at 6;25 o'olook. 0. W. jMv M superintendent of transit! Mt the Baltimore and Ohio, dfl V It was Impossible yet to Mhe cause of the wreck. thafc the dan^er signal tn L'&rK, a snort distance rrom wl Hof the accident, was set rjM wrain of empties passed. J M-as ROing at the rate of (50 9 J9our and EaRineer Hllde9 TV d that on account of the 9 I la oould not see the siRnal, JtL J In Into the Frederick train qAIIwm pulling out of Terra JH9re It had stopped to take ^at the President missed at a wild turkey is not the faot that hie pren HV J|e Item get into print is on four or fire passsngers. Two of tbese were among the killed Both Engineer Hilbebrand and tbe fireman on tbe train of tbe empty oari were pltoed under arrest and brought to Washington in tbe charge of offloera. One of tbe worst features of the oatastropbe was enacted at the station of Terra Cotta. Here a number cf a passengers were waiting to take tbe train Into tbe oity when tbe collision ocourred. Of tbe large number only two escaped; tbe remalner were either killed bv being throwu under tbe train or Injured by flying pieces of wreckage. A 3COLDIHG WIFE And a Wooden Log Gives K'at Lahej Trouble. Patrlok Lahey, of Sands street, Brooklyn, N. Y., has a wooden leg and troubles of bis own. It Isn't tbe leg that worries Labey, it Is tbe use to which his wife puts it when ho unstraps it. The man, who is well along in years, told his woes to the com* plaint clerk in the Adams Street Court one day last week. "I've been sleeping in it for the past four weeks," said he. "If you never slept with a wooden leg, never tried to turn over in b?d or tuok the covers around your feet, you can't understand the troubles of a man try lug to rest with one." "Why don't you take it off?" asked the olerk. "Take It off," replied Lahey, "like It eff! Man, do you think I'm as shy in my head as I am in my legs? If 1 take It off she hides it, and then when 1 want to go out 1 got to stay in. Sometimes I do be hopping around the floor for three hours hunting under the bed, behind the stove, in the washtubs, and iu the top of olosetc for my leg. "Tho last time I took it off. Frances (that's my wife's name), hid it, and when I found It she tried to take it- from me, and threatened if she got it again she'd use it as a olub to beat me. Now there should be some law to prevent a woman making a mac sleep with a false limb or to prevent bis wife beating him with It if he leaves it cff." "Sure," said the clerk. "I'll give you a summons and you hand it tc her." "Hand it to he; V Man. do you think I'm crazy? Send It to her by a policeman, and the biggest one you have." This being promised Lahey stumped out. expressing the hope that the Court will arrange matters bo that he oan Bleep in peace, and not in pieces. Felled and ltobhod. While on his way from Augusta tc Aiken on Tuesday night Mr. Preston Ergle was knocked from his buggy, chocked into unconsciousness and robbed by Qua Glover, a negro of the latter plaoe Mr. Ergle was driving through the country alone and on reaching Robinson's pond, about three miles from Aiken, some one approached from the rear and before he discovered the presence of the highwayman Mr. Ergle was felled to the ground. The negro then robbed hlnc of the money on bis person togethei with his watch, knife and gloves. Tfci highwayman was captured and jailed Suspected or Murder. Fletcher Harris, George Steveni and Albert Adkins, three young whit< men nf nmvUlo AT? >? t>un>iv| ? umv uosu hi* rested *nd placed in the ctty jail at suspeotH la the supposed murder of J M. Thomas, whose dead body wai found io a ravine near that olty oe Tuesday morning. The young mer are said to have been seen with Thorn as late in the evening preceding th< finding of the dead body and althougt all of them deny any knowledge o: the tragedy, oiroumstanoes poinl strongly to them as being conneotec in some way with Thomas' death. Doteotivo Shot. R. D. Blackburn, a detective o: the Louisville and Nashville rallroac and former marshal of Warrior, Ala. was shot at that plaoe at mldnlghi Wednesday night and is dying in i hospital bere< He was on his waj home when he was fired on from am bush and as he was wounded by bott pistol bullets and buokshot from a shot gun it is evident that more that one man prrtlolpated in the assassins tlon. The guilty parties are supposec to have been negroes, who had i grudge against Blackburn, and esoap ed. Fired Into Train. An employee of the Mobile an( Ohio railroad brought word that i southbound freight was fired upoi Thursday morning by six heavy arme( negroes, at Shuqulak, not far froo Soooba, Miss. The lantern was shot out of the conductor's hand. Tt w* still too dark to distinguish tho faoei of the shooters. The train pulled out of the station without any attempt at retaliation on the part of Us crew. Hftngi Herself, At Birmingham, Ala., Mrs. Lot Howard, wife of a real estate agent who Is said to have left her some tlmi ago, committed suicide this morninj by hanging herself to the bed post ii her room with a leather strap. Sh< had been to the state asylum years be fore aud was reputed to be men tall: unbalanced. Her brothor?ln-law, W Halleck, with whom shellv cd, foun< her hanging this morning. This gentle rein oomes at the rlgh time. The water wagon for seyera days will have ether duties to pei form. GOV. GLENN BUT _____ ABOUT A HLANOKR STARTED ABOUT HIM BY i _ 1 " i Congressman Blackburn, John Capers or 8ome Other Republican in 1 Washington. A dlspaton from Ualelgh, N. 0-, savs Gov. Glenn announoed Wednesday that he would leave for Greensboro to appear before the grand jury whioh will be asked to lndlot Congressman Spencer B. Blackburn of the eight district on a charge of criminal libel. "I have not been able to hear from the solloltor of the dlstrlot," said the governor, i This aotton follows charges made 1 In a letter from Blackburn sent out from Washington on Saturday last. in which he ecatod to CongressmanK. N. Hacketfc, the Democrat elected 1 )d the eighth district, his grounds for contesting the election, alleging 1 among other things that there had been a conspiracy in whloh Gov. Glenn used his In licence to secure 1 Haokett's election, and, as a member 1 of the State's text book commission, voted to put books of the American Book company on the State list of ' publio sohool books, In return for which the American Book oompany 1 contributed large sums of money to corrupt the voters of the eighth congressional district, while in return 1 Ilackett was to use his lntluenoe to have Gov, Glenn elcoted United 1 States senator to succeed the present senator from North Carolina, Lee S. 1 Overman. 1 In a oard published today llackett denies Blackburn's obargea. "I shall prosecute Blaokburn to the full extent of the law," Gov. > Glenn said to the Assoolated Press ' ' One of two things must be done. I ' must be lmpeaohed or Blaokburn r must be sent to jail." 1 This afternoon Congressman Black' burn sent the following statement to > Solicitor Brooks: "Che statement la last Sunday > morning's papers concerning a notice > of my contest upon Mc. lUckett and the reflections upon Gov. Glenn is : without my authori/.itlon. My notice ' to him signed by myself will be butli oient for public scrutiny. Thus far - any signature appearing in the papers 1 purporting to be mine is a forgery. 5 In the notice of my contest whtoh 1 1 have issued there will be found no suggestion of corruption on the part } of Gov. Glenn. The notioe will speak for Itself. 1 (Signed) "E. Spencer Blackburn." The Washington correspondent of The Stats says: E. Spencer Biaok burn, the lone Republican represents: tlve from North Carolina, recently i defeated but contesting, ordered ar> rested by Gov. Glenn on the charge of criminal liblal in a statement published in the papers last Sunday, says he a didn't say it. > The statement deolared that Gov. i Glenn had secured the adoption oi ' the books of the American Book com i pany in return for campaign contrlb. utions used for the defeat of Blackburn. Blackburn declares the statement a 1 forgery and says he will sue all papert 3 which published it for libel. Oapt. John G. Capers, federal pi< 1 dispenser for South Carolina is Mr ' Blackburn's attorney in Washington, s Mr. Blackburn'B secretary gave out 1 the statement to the newspaper oor] respondents Saturday night and said it bad been prepared in the offloe oi 3 Capt. Capers and that Mr. Blackburn [ would himself that night mall it tc [ North Carolina. Capt. Capers will not J confirm or doay this. "I will say noth 1 ing whatever about that statement,' he says. A Poor Excuse, J Anthony Koooher, of Pittsburg who Is In a orltlcal condition fron self inflloted wounds on his throat anc i abdomen, made with a razor, said: "J j tried to kill myself because I was tlr . ed of kill myself because I was tire< i of living In this kind of weather.' i Koooher ougbt to have came Soutt i and his oause for suicide would hav< . been removed. ' Good Use of Whiskey. 1 The olty dispensary at Oolllo, Ga. was olosed about the first of last Sep tember and the city uad about $70( worth of whiskey left and the oounoi j ordered it poured out. The chief o i police hauled it out of the olty an( i poured it out on the ground. Tha i was a good way to dispose of thi i whiskey. b Ileoorered Uls Sight. 9 The Rev. James Boulton, of Nor 8 wlch, aged 92, lost his sight five yean u ago. Ha reoently consulted an ami & nent eye specialist, and, after sub mittlng to an operation, recovered bli sight. He is the oldest Prlmltivi Methodist minister in England, an< 1 is now superannuated. He has baei > in the ministry for sixty*five years. ? f Killed by Uas. i The entire family of George Devin s at Wiuooski, Vt., consisting of si: - parsons, the father, mother and fou v children, were killed during Sunda; . night by illuminating gas whloh en i tered the house from a break in th street main through a sewer pipe. t Limberger cheese is said to be i\ cure for tuberouloals. Some person r. however, may prefer to die with coi sumption. A WARM TIME. Atlanta's Mayor Scored by One of the Aldermen. ALL ABOUT WHISKEY. Tbe Alderman Said the Mayor Wat Do* log as Dictated to by a Boss, and the Mayor Replies With Strong Epithet and the Lie Was Passed. The Augusta Chronicle says probably no moie sensational or raw meeting of a municipal body in the atate of Georgia was evor he'd thau that of :he City Couuoll of Atlanta on Tuesday evening of last week, cr.lled for the purposo of Investigating charges made by Mayor Woodward against an unnamed member of the body, on the aiiuganon 01 improperly receiving remuneration from the l'quor interests of the olty la connection with the re* cent weeding oat of whiskey licenses. Both Councilman Key and the Mayor beoame so exceedingly in their scathlnt criticism and so freely bantered the word He, that it finally beoamo so common as to pass unnoticed by fcho other members present. The result of the Investigation was a oomplete vindication of Councilman Key and absolute freedom of Conlcllman Pomeroy from the rumored oonueotlou suggested by oortaln newspaper publications, and a severe scathing of the mayor. Counoll met as a committee of the whole and Immediately took un the charges made by Mayor Woodward. The mayor gained the tloor at the outset and, as he had Indicated in the public print he would do, at once named Counoilman Key as the member to whom he had referred. His talk was rather rambling throughout, and his entire charge and the Incident statements were based on a statement which he said had been made to him by a man by the name of Mln* hlnnett, who was formerly a saloon keeper here, but whose license was not renewed. He was also a member of oounoll at one time. The statement. as alleged, was to the effect that Counoilman Key had been known by Minhinnett to have received fees from applicants for liquor licenses. When called upon to substantiate this Minhinnett denied absolutely that he had ever made suoh a statement to the mayor, henoe his charges against the councilman fell Hat, and the body adopted a resolution vlndli eating Mr. Key entirely. Another resolution wan Inf-.rnfliirtArl severely criticising Mayor Woodward ' and censuring him for making suon public charges on such flimsy foundation and for bringing Buoh matter into counoll, but it was tabled. Immediately after Mayor Woodi ward's statement Mr. Key gained the i floor under a question of personal privilege, and the words he used in i characterizing the mayor were about as rough as ever uttered in such a , body. He termed the mayor a dirty i liar, called him a flunky and said ho was under the direction of a political 1 bosB. Mr. Key said he had received t absolutely no money from the retail i liquor dealers of Atlanta during the > recent investigation and during the b weeding out of obj eotlonable saloons. He frankly admitted that some time ' ago he had reoeived a fee of $150 from their association for drawing their constitution aDd by-laws, but that was long before there was any > kind of liquor agitation, and purely in 1 his capacity as a lawyer, that he bad 1 never received another cent from [ them or other liquor men for any . work in a legal capacity or for any ] tning else. He said the liquor dealers > of the city had come to him during i the investigation and asked that he 3 take their side of the case when the licenses were being gone over and he had emphatically refused to do so, stating that he was a member of ooun oil. He says they asked him to re" commend counsel and he flatly refused 1 t./\ r? r? a Wa a ?. ?? ? ?.?a vu uu du| ca|?iiiiuiuk mi?t All/ BUUU iOb 1 would lead to an Iniluenoe upon his f vote, and he could not have any oon* nectlon with the matter except In the t oapaolty of a councilman He said he ? had tried to be a friend of the mayor, and when he drat went Into oounoll It waa with that Intention; that he waa . the mayor's friend up to a certain pei rlod, but aoon found that a friendship . between them waa impossible. He said . ainoe he had been in ooanoll there 8 waa no aot of hla of which he waa B ashamed, and none whloh he could be 3 justly criticised; that he would defy a the mayor or aay other man to successfully p^Dt to one; and that if the mayor had wanted facts iu this case he could eab ly have gotten them by o going to the lit; \or association. Conx tinuing he said; r " iut that isn't it. he hates me bey cause I nave adv >ated a policy r I against that dlotateu to h-./i by his e boss, and he has shown it in council 'and in the mayor's chair." * Me if a It has come. A scientist says Johi H| D. Rookefeller is the future America Q. type. Get ready to shave your hea and renounoe the oyster. I - f one of the moat willing Hankies the otty of Atlanta had ever had in the may >r's ohalr ?" M*yor Woodward here Interrupted with the remark that the assertion waa "an infamous He." Continuing Alderman Key said: "I do not prcposo to take hla slang any longer; he has to bo called down." Turning to the mayor and speaking directly at him, Mr. Key said: "I'll teM you this, aud I want you to carry the message away with you. Your boss has been trying to assassinate my character; he has tried It repeatedly, but he oan't do It. He has been try* ing lu every way to injure me, but ho oan't suooeed. The only way he will ever suooeed Is to assassinate me personally. Ho might meet me on the street and strike me down. That will do It, but it's its the only way." He then reverted to the charges made by the mayor, and said: (>1 brand It an Internal lie, and 1 brand the man who uttered it as a dirty, vulgar liar. It Is one of the penalties of a public servant that he oomos Into contact with and is forced to associate with some people whom ho would otherwise not be brought In oontaot with; that he has to submit to mudslinging from them.'' Mavor Woodward again gained the tleor and is a strong rejoinder denied that he had auy doss or that he was tolluenced as had boon Indicated by j Mr. Key. lie uaid he had never, with one exception, thrown mud at any-1 oi)ay wno u&a tivst thrown mud at1 him. Tad rosolution absolutely exhoaorating bath Mr. Key and Mr. Pomeroy and declaring %\\t outlre contldenco of oounoil io their Integrity was passed after the statements had been made and several witnesses heard from. The resolution oondemnidg Mayor Woodward was tabled by a vote of 9 to 8. DIKD AT HIS POST, The Horrlhlo Death or llravo Hnglneor Mawvoll iti Wreck, Toere seems to be no end to! the railroad wreoks. The Seaboard| Air Line's fast mall No. 32, northbound from Atlanta to Rlohmond, crashed Into a string of loaded freight oars at Peaohland, a flag station 19 miles east of Monroe, N. C., late Sunday night partially wrecking the passenger train and killing Engln3er S. 10 Maxwell of Raleigh, N. 0. Running 50 miles an hour Engineer Maxwell sighted the freight train as i a - J - ? uu ruuuuen iiue curve near reachland and with concern only for the passengers, whose lives were in his care, he applied the emergenoy brakes in an effort to moderate the Impending crash. The speed was reduoed to 10 miles an hour when the train struok and the flreman jumped without belng hurt. Maxwell stuok to his post, was caught between the engine and tender and slowly roasted to death in view of the rescuers, who strained every nerve to reach him. Helplessly pinned in an upright position with both feet in the iirebox, the brave man livei four hours, fully oonsolo jB, talking oheerfully to the resouers, his last words being a message to his wife and child at Raleigh. No one else was hurt. The heroic engineer was a son of Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Maxwell, of Walhalla, S. 0. He was a young man. Thoy Are Known. It is stated on good authority that the investigation oonduoted by Assistant Attorney General Purdy at Brownsville, has revealed a clew that will lead to the Treat *nrl WW MMM l^&VUCtUin conviction of every negro soldier wbo participated in the taid on Brownsville. Lem Reeves, a negro soldier, revealed the names of the two men missing from his company at the time the sounl for arms was given at Fort Brown Immediately after the outbreak. Died In Fire. At Delhi, N. Y,, three lives were lost in a fire that destroyed the Amerioan hotel at that place Sunday morning. The fire was discovered in partments of Mr. Winter and his wife on the third fioor and by the time the firemen arrived the structure was a mass of flames. O'Connor also oooupied partments on the third fioor. The other guests escaped by leaping from the windows in their night olothing. Shot at Judge. At St, Louis, lnoensed at the recent decision in the partition suit under her father's will, Miss Rosa Well af.fnmrvKo^ J ...vmjnvu ?toaaoaiU(bkD J UUgB fflCDonald, of the olroult court, Wednesday. Her aim was unsteady and the bullet went wild, passing dangerously near the Judge's head. After the woman had been overpowered and removed to the private office of the sheriff, Judge McDonald oalmly re* sumed holding court. Watching Whinlcoy Fight. A letter to the Atlanta Journal says the people of Columbus are tak'ng a great Interest In the whiskey fight in Atlanta. They watch the reports of the progress of the contest very oloeely. Columbus people, at least many of them, feel that It will not be a great while before there will be a I tight on the whlssey quasi/Ion in this i oltv. l ( Carrie Nation nays that hugging li i j ^sponsible tot all the Immorality li d | Washington D C. A kind of clrcli j as It we*, that has no end. 4? ANOTHER WRECK. Head'On Collisif n of Passenger Trains on Rock Island _ IN WHICH MANY DIE. Many of the Victims Were Pinioned in the Wreckage and Their Bodies j Were Cremated in the Fire Which PoIlow? ed the Disaster. Thirty-four persons, all Mexicans but two, were killed and the bodies of 30 Mexicans wore incinerated early Wodacsday In a head-on collision of cwo paasonger trains of the Ghlotgo, Rook Island and l'a rttlo rt.'.1.road near Vollaud, Kansas. The wreak occur* red whll \ both tralos were running on a curxe In a out where the grade was steeD. A.l the killed ware la the southbound train exeepta tramp who wai on tbo baggage car o?i the northbound train. Tali tramp, a negro porter and a workman acaompauylng a gaug of Mexican laborers were tbo only Americans killed so far as known, although a passoager says that a woman and a child wore burned In a tourist oar. There were 112 Mexicans and live Americans, composing a gang of railroad workors, In the smoking oar of tho southbound train. Of tbeso, 30 Mexicans were burned iu the wreokage and two died later. Most of the injuries were due to the setting of the emergency brakes. Most every passenger In the southbound train was thrown to the oar tloor by the qulok setting of tho brakes. The northbound train was running 10 miles an hour up grade. The Mexicans were pinioned under the seats and the doors were lammed ?o they could not get out. In the chair car, also, many passengers were bold down by the uoats. Tbo train caught tire from the gas tanks. Then came the cries for help among the Mexicans In tho smoking car and the people pinioned fait In the chair oar. Every man or woman r?n the train tried to rescue the unfortunates, but the llames soon became coo hob to permit of approaohing the oar. The Injured were removed from the ohair care with less dltllculty and apparently ah were resoued alive from these cars. William Gane, oonduotor of the southbound train, has a broken collar bone and Is much brul ;ed about thb faoe. He said; The train was just pulling clear of the Volland yards and wa9 travelling about 30 miles an hour, I dropped Into the front seat of the smoker and dozed. There were 34 Mezioans sitting two In a seat back of me. also Link, an interpreter, a foreman and dve paid fares. "I was awakened by tne setting of the brakes. I Jumped head first out of tae window and struok on my shoulder. "When I turned and looked at the train I saw dames leaping 50 feet high from the smoker. The foremost tourist sleeplag oar of the southbound train also burned, but all the occupants eeciped serious Injury. John Lynes, 19 years old, telegraph operator at Volland, who let the southbound train get by his station, where It was to pas. the northbound train gave the following statement before being taken to jail: "1 had been awake all night and was sober. At about 4 or 5 o'olock this morning the train dispatcher gave me four orders; one was for the southbound train to meet two trains at Volland instead of at Alta Vista as previously arranged, The southbound train headed Into a switch and let one train pass, backed out of the switch and headed down the main line with* out waiting for the other train. I thought it was going to atop to take water, as trains have been doing, but instead It went by at about 10 miles an hour. The southbound board was at 'danger,' according to the lever In the ottioe, but tha train did not stop, and I ran out wltti my lantern, but with two swings aoross the traok it went out. 1 then ran to the pump house, grabbing the pumper's lantern, waved a few times and It also went out. I went back and told the dispatcher that the southbound train went by and we waited to see if It was going to oome back or hit the north bound train. I toid tbe dispatcher that I ougqIck to Topeka and was trying to net there when arrested." Kilty JtlomoM Koantod. A dozin parson* were Injured, 4C families were m;de homeless. 2,00v persons were driven temporarily from their homes, 50 horse* were roasted to death and property valued at *200,000 was destroyed Tuesday lu the wont early mornm# lire New Yor* ha* soeu in many months. i' The fact that Mr* Rockefeller is too } 1 poor to eat oysters reminds us that { both of these objeots of publlo Inter* jest are notoriously bald. j