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DEATH IN FLAME ? ftifftj Firrmeo KiM i* Chicago Stock Yard* Fire hurxlay. WATER SliPPt Y SHORT Pftlltnfc Canopy at Plant of Nelson, Morris A Co., Crushes Out l?lfe of " Marshal and Battalion Head. Bin/? C'uaMHl by Kxplosion Spread Willi real Itapidlty. Fire Marshal James Horan and betweeu 2 5 and 3 0 of his flremra were killed, and 40 others were njured In a Are which at an early licoi had caused $1,500,000 damage iip i at 10 ?. in. Btiil threatened the wnole of Chicago's ereat stock yards. A wooden canopy fell from the beef house of Morris and Oo.npany. gjr' where the fl.'e started, carryin* with tt tons of red hot brick and nebria upon two companies of fireman and the chief, crushing them to death and encasing their bodies In a v<?rliable furnace into which their comrades were unable to dig for several iio irs so that practically all those who were not killed outright when the walls fell were roasted to death hefore help could come to them. Assistant Chief William burroughs and Lieutenant Fitzgerald were with Marshal Horan, under the fatal can py when It fell and went down to ( tkelr death with their chief. Other firemen, witnesses of the disaster which resulted In the death of their chief, for a brief time Je erted the other parts of the Mazing structure, and, rushing to the pyre, sought with their bare hands to drag the l>ody of their chief and companions out of the debris. finding this a vain ecort, they followed the orders of Assistant Marshal Seyr'erlich and redoubled their efforts to shut In the spreading area of destruction. The blaze was discovered about four o'clock by a watchman in the Morris beef house at 4 3rd and l.oomta streets. An ammonia pipe bursting started spontaneous comuustion and the fire sread so qulckl> the watchman barely had turned in the alarm before the flames bo.'iin bursting from the building. Marshal Horan, at his home ou the West flora n. at his home on the West. I Aide, heard the second call for fire apparatus and dashed to the stock yards?and to his death?in Ills automobile. A graphic story of the collapse of the east wall, which carried the men to death beneath the wood covering la told by Lieut. Jos. .Ylackey, who waa leading a company of firemen from the top of the canopy. Mackey said as he looked up the aaw the walls bulge and he Immediately shouted a warning. At the rfame time he jumped from the platform and war Immediately followed V>y 10 or 12 of his men. None of these lost their lives, but their escapes were miraculous. Fire Marshall lioran and Bur#ftvi oho uroro l\on no t Vi m n **? i ? u I /iwiAfS'iv? u? u uviiicaiu iiiu w I' ii least two companies of men," said Mackey, "and I shouted to them that, the walls were coming down. I heard some one below shout h waruflng and I got my own men and rayw.'lf out of the way. "Immediately after I jumped I hoard tho groans of the men who had *>?*cn beneath me nnd I kn?-w they jfuust be caught. Although nearly all of my men and mysel: woro more or iess hurt, It flashed upon us that Horan was among those trapped and we bent every effort to save thorn." Went Out West. I A postal card was received Wednesday from Rev. D. J. M!ll?r, the missing pastor of the Rethcl Methodist church of Ashville, by 0110 of his friends in that city. The card slated that the minister was In Min i neapolis on Monday last and was eu route to tho home of his brother in South Dakota. No reason was assigned for the disappearance. His wife, who is in Asheville, la prostrated. Cutting Off Queues, The dato sot for the removal of tho queues from tho heads of all Chinese was December 1, and when .ho steamship Avmeric loft China a few days before that time the edict was being generally observed As) ?uming that nearly 200,000,000 wiii he cut off, the human hair market will he glutted. Fatal Joy Hide. At New Orleans Ivan Cox and Fred Goodyear were held for trial in the district, criminal court on the charge of murder growing out of a Joy ride which proved fatal to Tessle 8mlth. Thursday morning. Their machine i dashed into the old basin canal and 1 the woman was drowned. Took Drink and Died. At Birmingham, Ala., Immediately After taking a drink of whiskey out ( of a bottle, which one of them had I ordered shipped to him by mall. Guy I P. Coleman and Stephen Strickland 1 dropped dead. Their deaths are ho- J log Investigated by tho coroner. I TWO FATAL FIRES SKVKN LIVK8 LOST ASU MUCH PROPERTY DESTROYED. Om In Cincinnati and One In Philadelphia?Twenty Firemen Buried Under Falling Walls. With a dozen streams still playlug upon the smouldering ruins of tho fire that destroyed a block of Cincinnati's manufacturing district early Wednesday morning, the recapitulation of the loss in life and property shows the disaster to be larger than any of the estimates placed during the progress of the conflagration. The final count taken Wednesday afternoon snows tnat tnree men tost their lives, six were Injured, one perhaps fatally, while the property loss 1b $2,082,000, covered by Insurance to the extent of $1,400,000. The origin of the blaze at both the Krippeudorf-O'Neal Company's plant and the A. J. Nurre warehouse is unknown, but the manner In which the huge buildings burned forces the bollef upo1? the fire department as well as the Insurance men that they wore the result of Incendiarism. It is conceded that the body of Charles Schwengal, ladder man of F're Corapiny No. 15, Is burled uuler the -{' The Phllmlelpnm Fire. Four firemen are known to be dead, twenty are thought to be burled In ihe ruins and twelve others are in hnonlfula am K n roan It rtf n firo IVft'l. uv/opi tain ao t?iw A v-u vi i v w ? ? ** v? T* v^? nesday night In the leather factory of Kreelander & Co., 1,116-20 Inclusive, North Rodlne street, Philadelphia. It was flrst reported that Chief Raxter, of the firo department, was among those atll! In the ruins, but while he was Injured, he escaped being carried down by the falling walls. While the firemen were fighting the fin uer, from adjoining dwellings, the south wall of the big building crashed down upon them. At the time there were at least thirty-five men on these buildings and all were carried down. Four of the unfortunate men were later taken out dead. Twelvo were able to extricate them selves from the mass of bricl\3 and twisted iron girders, but It Is thought that twenty men are still in the ruins. All of these are not dead or seriously injured. Some of them are able to talk with their brother firemen, who are bending every effort to rescue them. The north wall of the burned structure Is still standing, but It may ran at any moineni. ji Burn a calamity should occur before the men are dug out, It iH probable that all would be crushed to death. After an allnight eoareh In the ruins of the leather factory of I). Friedlander, destroyed by Are Wednesday ulght, It la thought the number of flromen killed by falling walls is under twenty. John C. Baxter, chief of the tire department, who had a narrow escape from deuth, said that his reports show that from 11 to 14 llromen lost their lives. He said, however, that his reports ure not complete. Superintendent of police John Taylor believes the number of dead will reach 20. COST HIM HIS 1JFK. Wire He Was Pulling Fell on m Live Klectric Wire. A man In Anderson county lost his life in a queer way a few days ago. Tho report says Keith Taylor, a white man about 4 8 years of age, was instantly k.iled near Iva Wednesday night when he attempted to pull a ground wire loose from a pole on the Greg.? Shoals power line leading to this city. Taylor spied the copper wire as ho and several friends were passing along the road and he decided ho wanted it. He tore it loose from the pipe in the ground and then from the polo. The wire fell across the heavily charged transmission wire and Taylor's body got. the full force of the current. An inquest was not thought necessary. Kobbetl by Women. At Pittsburg, Pa., (ieorgo W. Valsh, a huckster, was held up Tuesday by two negro women, who ribbed h in of S 4 fi tin a vnntMi) I iskeri Walsh for ton cents' car fare md Walsh was about to comi)l> vhen the o'her woman, who had stopped b( bind hlni, threw her hand* >ver his eves. At the same moment lis pocke' hook was snatched from a is hands and the women fled. Most lilvo Apart. Henceforth no white person may move into a block In Baltimore where the majority of the residents of that block arc negroes, nor may a negro move Into a block where the majority of the residents are white. This la th < mandate laid down in the so-called ?1J. H. West race segregation ordinance, which was signed by Mayor Muhool Monday. Took Money nnd Left. Mr. Mack Morgan of Hichfleld, N. Ch, who h*6 been selling guano for the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company, the N'avasea Gnauo Company, \nd possibly other small concerns, is alleged to he short in his accounts to an amount aggregating $15,000. | AWFUL CRIME While Family Wardered by a Fieodisb Negri, Wk# Bint Hns*. THE FiENO IS CAUGHT I . I Before Retting the Hoom on Fire, the Fiendish Scoundrel Assaulted n Young Girl, Then Murdered Her. nod Attempted to Conceal Ht? Crime by Fire. A dispatch from Charlotte, N. C. says a series of the blackest crime# ever committed In the Rtate wer# unearthed Tuesday morning at th* home of J. L. Saunders, In GranvilU county. | Triple murder, supposed criminal assault on a young girl and the de struction of the home by fire at mid night Monday night are the crime* charged against Nathan Montague, ? negro. After a long cross-country race b* the sheriff and posse the negro wa> finally captured and lodged in th* jail in Durham, N. C. Intense ex citemont prevails throughout th* country where the crime was committed, as well as in Durham, ano it is expected that trouble may d* velop at any moment. ' When neighbors, attracted by th* burning house, rushed to the honn of flaunders Monday night a grue some picture met their gaze. On th* ground wore seen the signs of a struggle, parts of a girl's clothing ! and pools of blood. A bucket brigade w&a formed and when the fir* had been partially quenched, in tbv ftm )it\r<i ojftrft frttinri t h ft xharpttH ; bodies of Miss Mary Saunders, he? father, J. L. Saunders, and his two year-old granddaughter. ! With the bodies was found * bloody knife and It was from this that the fire clue to the perpetrator of the dastardly crime was found IA neighbor immediately recognizee i the knife as the property of Monta I gue?a knife he had used only Mon 'day while employed in the neigh 1 horhood killing hogs. ( The sheriff immediately set out ter the man and finally caught him Ho was trembling and bloody a no human hair was found on hif clothes. The sheriff, fearing tha' violence would be offered his prle oner, if he was seen, kept the pro* J enoe of the negro a secret in Granville county and rushed him to ttu Durham Jail. A special dispatch from Wilson N. C., says: "W. B. Saunders of Wilson this morning received a telegrain from Granville county, stating that his father, mother, sietet and two nephews were murdered and burned at their home near 8tem last night. Mr. Saunders left at one# for Stem. No details are at present obtainable. GINNER8 REPORT PAST YEAH. The Crop Will Fall Fixler 11,059,000 1 Hales. ' Memphis, Tcnn., Dec. 16.?According to the National Dinners Association. 4 77,000 baios of cotton were ginned from December I to 13. The crop is 99 per cent picked and 96 per cent ginned, indicating a crop under 1 1,059,000. Reports from ginners show that the ginning will be completed by ! January 1. The report by States j was: I A1 aba01 a . 1,* 1 4.000 ! Arkansas 672,000) Florida 60,000 Georgia 1,696,000 ; Louisiana 2.10,000} Mississippi 1,046,00 0 i North Carolina 658,000 ! Oklahoma 861,000' South Carolina 1.08 9,000 Tennessee 265,000 j Texas 2,862,000 : Various 64,000 ' I Total 1 0.6 I 7,000 ( Came Very Soon. At St. Louis Paul Peaces, an ele- | vator operator in the National Hank , of Commerce building, was crushed j to death by his car Monday night. | That afternoon he was a pallbearer it the funeral of a former employer J "Well, If anything happens to me, j there's $1,000 life insurance for my 1 vife and the kids," he said to n j friend. Two hours later he was I lead. ? .? ? Fatal Plow With I'halr " i At Lebanon, T ml., William 1 loch to) j . as killed by n blow over the heart vith a chair and Karl Swopo was ar estod, accused of strikin? tho blow Hecbtel, according to the police, j ;eked Swope about his name, when j the latter became angry and, pick t>g up a chair, struck tho mm over ho heart. Bechtel fell to the door i ind *iied flv* minutoM latpr 1 Pastor Miasin^. Rev. D. J. Miller, pastor of Bethel j Yfethodist church of Ashevillo, has 1 been missing from his home since last Friday afternoon and, despite the diligent search made by his fam- ( lly and friends, he has so far kept < his whereabouts a secret. He left his wife. LIKES THE STATE FKE8IDEKT FINLBY OP HOUTIIKKN 8FEAKM AT BANQUET. Given by the Chamber oi (bmneroe of Newberry on La*t Tuesday Hv? ?ntii| Fresh from the victory of his road In the celebrated "merger" case lo Columbia, which has been In progress for the last three weeks, President W. W. Finley went to Newberry on a special train Tuesday night and made an address at the Newberry chamber of commerce banquet upon the resources and the ever-brightening future of the South, ' which he concluded by saying that he believed the victory of the Soutern on Tuesday afternoon meant much for 8outh Carolina, as weli a? the Southern. "It baB been my good fortune," he said, "to spend the past three weeks in South Carolina, and to become better acquainted with the splendid people of this State and better informed as to the progress they are making. In this connection, it is particularly pleasing to me to address a South Carolina audience in the court at Columbia has sustained the constitutionality of the legislative act under which important parts of our lines in this State were united to the Southern Railway ayaiem. That verdict, the pustlce of which I believe will be generally recognized, means much to the Southern Railwsy company. It means much to the people of rhi? State. It means that you are to continue to have a through highway under a single management from the South Carolina t a f Vi a Cnoatal roirinn unrl * 1 \ 1 I 11 \ / LI v* VV W" V^*r *WVl?? 1 * ' O 1 v " ? ?**? to the sea at Charleston. It means that our la*-ge Interest In the development and prosperity of South Carolina is not to be circumscribed within relatively a small area, but is to be practically State-wide in its scope. We rejoce in this, Mr. Toastmaster, arid iook forward to a future of ever higher prosperity, in bringing about which we shall hope to boar a part, an ! (n the benefits of which we shall hope to share." WIKFjI) for help. Operator Fooled the Robber Who \\ iw After Cash. Ordered to keep sending messages | while a robber worked In the West Shore railroad station, in Highland, N. Y.t the operator ticked off a graph If: description of the hold-up and asked for help. Scarcely had the Intruder left with $50 In cash and some tickets before railroad detectives were on his trail. "This is Nolan," the brass sounder was ticking when the Weehawken, N. Y., operator prepared to take the message. Nolan Is station agent at Highlands, N. Y. The sounder kept tapping on: "I am being help up. It was slttln? at my desk when a young man came in and pointed a revolver at mo, saving ho wanted money and would kill me if I resisted. "Told me to work at the Instrument nnd keep on sending messages. Please send help." Tho instrument closed momentarl!ly, nnd then resumed the ticking. It ran: "I am Rtill at work. Bo is the highwayman. Has pointed his gun at me, saying: 'Keep sending messages, or I'll pot you.' The robber Is now opening the safe. He takes out money and tickets, and, as he hacks out the door, says: 'If you move in less than five minutes after T leave here, you will be a dead man.' Now he Is gone. Wish 1 had a gun handy. Could get him easily, lie Is walking down the tracks. Hood-by.' \n Old Sinner. Mrs. Hurtuuh Peebe, aged 73 years, charged with tire murder of .lames Sutton, nt Cash mere, Wash., on Aug. 14 last, has been found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to five years in jail. The woman had built a wire fence across the road in front of her home, and when Sutton at tempted to drive through alter cutting tho vires, she shot and killed him. m H m Teacher in Luck. Miss Alma Stanley, an orphan and a teacher In tho public schools ot Atlanta became the possessor of a fortune of $100,000 by the terms of the will of Mrs. Josephine Abbott, her great aunt. Mrs. Abbott, who wag retried as one of the wealthiest women in the State, left an estate worth $750,000. Omglit in ttinnery. Chesly 1). Hunter, one of the most j prominent farmers of lower Newberry county, Is probably dying; as the result of having been caught In the main belt of his cotton gin Monday morning. His arm was badh crushed, his upper teeth knocked out, and ho Buffered internal injuries. He is still unconscious Island Sinks. A special despatch from Port Llmon, Co^ta Kica, says that a small Island off tho const of San Salvador disappeared last Thursday following i series of earth shocks and it is believed that. 17 families, or about !?0 persons lost their lives. MANY ARE DEAD j 1 rhree Huodred Eiflisb Miners Are Killed ia BeilM Cellierj. TERRIFIC EXPLOSION Followed by a Fierce Fire, Seals tlie Fate of the Victims? Itescuers Are Galled Back From Their Dan^r* outf Task?Bishop Conducts Herrloes at Mouth of I*IC- | A cablegram from Bolton, England. eaye more than 300 rnlnerB lost their lives Wednesday In an explosion In the Little Hulton colliery 01 the Hulton Colliery company, which is located a little distance outside that city. The explosion occurred early In the [ morning, soon after the miners had entered the pit to be?ln work. Its force was terrific and later investlga- j tlon showed that the lower passages had been blocked. Heroic efforts j were made by rescue parties, but u fierce fire which followed tbo explosion prevented the rescuers from t penetrating beyond 400 yurds into the workings. At 9:30 Wednesday night all the rescuers were called out of the mine and a conference was held at which government Inspectors and the engi- | neers or the mino were present, inHpector Gerrad issued a report after making a descent Into the pit, In which he stated that It was Impossible that any of the miners are still 1 alive. Ho addod that nothing could bo done except to bring up 20 bodies found lying near the shaft. Thle report was communicated to the anxIouh crowds around the pit mouth, after which the Bishop of Manchester conducted a touching service in the open air and the people lowly dls- | persed. No explanation Is given as to the cause of the explosion which completely wrecked the mine. This Is the second great mine disaster in England this year, an explosion having occurred In the Wellington colliery at White Haven, Cumberland, on May 12 in which 13f> minors wore killed. The explosion today resulted in the temporary dis ablement of the machinery whereby the cages are lowered and drawn to > an o ii.l It xir') a ortncl/lorn hl.% i ui.7 ou i t (iv v; (inn it ?? (io v-v/ iioivivi ? w ' \ timo before the first rescue party reached the bottom of the pit. In all, they brought, out eight men still living but the majority of these were In a serious condition from the noxious gases. Ten bodies also were removed and 20 additional bodies were found partly covered by coal. Late tonight the colliery fans were started again and the air was found to be fairly good. Arrangements were then made for relays of rescuers to go into the mine every three hours throughout the night. Toward midnight two more miners were found alive. They were terribly burned and are In a critical condition. 1 It whh announced that 40 bodies I had been collected at the bottom of [the shaf, And they will be brought | up as Foon as possible. A dicker pf hope etpi animate* the rescuers that more men may he found alive. Doctors, nurses and ambulances aro still on the scene, and relatives, mostly women, aro lingering In the vicinity. Among the Incidents was the death of a rescuer, who, anxious to reach his two sons who were entombed, got In advance of his comrades and forfeited his life from after-damp. The king has sent a touching message of sympathy. , THUKK IH'RNKD TO DKATH. Terrible Fate Overtakes Some hittlc Negroes. Another sad tale, caused by the criminal carelessness of two people, comes from Lynchburg In this State: Robert Peterson, a negro, and his i wife, who live on W. W. Cunningham's place, left homo and locked their three small children In the house. During their absence the house caught fire and the children as well as everything else in the house was destroyed by the flames. The oldest of the children was large enough, it is reported by the neigiibors, to car^v the other children to safety could she have gotten out, but the doors and windows being aocurely fastened, she was consumed with the rest. Women Sat an Jurors. Twelve fair spectators were ca'lcd by Judge Graham In court in Ran Francisco, Cal., to pass upon a modification of a decree of divorce where i)y Airs. Alary A. Mack acquired tho Custody of her minor son from Owen A. Black. Without leaving tho hox i rhey rendered a verdict lu favor of i the woman. ! ltahy Found in Oven. Baked almost beyond recognition, the body of Wm. Folkes, aged 2 8, was discovered In an oven In th# < Tansey brick yard In Philadelphia \ where ho was employed. Ho had been missing since Monday. It Is tup- < posed that he crawled Into the oven ? to sleep and when the Are was lg? ' nlted was roasted to death. c ~ WAS BUFGIAR'S SPY YOUNG WOMAN TELLS BTOKY OF HKlt DOWNFALL. She Woe LhI by the Desire to Drew Well, to Travel and to Live km lies* Ho tela. "I'm sorry now. and Just as toon as 1 get out of this I'U go back to uiy parents and be a good girl. No more burglary for me." said Miss Jean Miller as she was taken from Passaic, N. J., to jail In Patereon. The girl was arrested after her coiopanlon, known as Jamce Hanley, had been shot while attempting to enter the house of Theodore P. Talpey, hi Passaic. The rurs, diamond*, watches and bracelet* she wore, when arrested, were worth hundreds of dollars, and she admits every piece was stolen. Hauley will die as the results of his wounds. Relating the story of her life Miss Miller stated her parents are living in Waro, Mass. "Two years ago when 15 years old," she said, "I went to Boston. I worked in a store where 1 met Hanley. He said he was a salesman an l I knew as such for a long time. 1 was surprised when he told me he was a burglar and wanted to quit his acquaintance, but he persisted. "He offered to take me through the Eaat with him, to dress me well, and all I was to do was to "lay bones," that is stand outside, keep watch and give alarm In case of danger. Now, every girl likes to travel and dress well; bo 1 agreed. We began work in Boston, then went to other cities. We lodged in th? most fashionable part of the towrm we were working; dined at the best hotels; wore fine clothes, and never gave any cause for suspecting that we were 'pals' In crime." Continuing her story Miss Miller told of robberies committed in Charlestown, Cambridge, Providence, Philadelphia, Camden and .Jersey City. Their second visit to Passaie led to the fatal shooting of Hanley and the arrest of Miss Miller. "You might think that with all this plunder. wo would have some cash hut that is not true. There is nothing in the treasury. We lived high," says Miss Miller, "and frequently we were obliged to rob to raise cash to pay our bills before leaving a city." Hanley, who is also known to police as "Kid" Howard and Thomas Wandlea, says that his mother, Mrs. Gustavo Berner, lives in Brooklyn. lie nail not seen ner in ten years, ne said, but he asked that she be notified if he died. i CHICAGO VRKY. HAD. November Crime Wave Results 1b Many Murders. Eighteen murders were committed in Chicago d.uing November. This astonishing report of the prevalence of crime was contained in the monthly review of the police bureau o? records made public this week As far as tho records show no single montji'ft crime record in ChicagS tvW ever so extensive as this. Tho report further showed that 30 persons lost their ll\es jn stre?'*. eajr Tind railroad accidents during November, and nine persons died as *he result of automobile and carriage accidents. Nine persons were killed while engaged in industrial pursuits. Although the number of murders, automobile killings and other crimes aro constantly increasing, it is ditfi cult to secure a conviction or keep an offender in prison because of the parole law. D110S OF SCISKOHS NT AH. HecnH.se She Wonl<l Not Allow Her I^og Hon ml. Because she was too modest to allow the fastening of a tourniquet about her leg, Helen (freshen died at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City on Wednesday. Miss CJ res hen accidentally stabbed herself In hor left log \\lfh a pair of scissors while \t work In a clothing factory. Her fellow employees rushed to her assistance but she refused to permit \ny one to bind the wound. She soon fainted from loss of blood and was hurried to the hospital. It was too late, however, to save her lift*, although the house surgeon said she would have recovered had a tourniquet been applied immediately. lloth Were False. Claiming that both her husband and the engagement ring he gave K ^ ^ * - 1 * . - t - in-1 "Tin mihe, xu uiuTKia Miller, y?od seventeen, has filed suit for divorce against Frank Max Miller at Atlanta. The petition relates that the couple were married on November 18, of this year, and that on December C the husband dlaapbeared and hat* not been heard from since. Killed l idrr Trala, Fleeing from a party of striking miners Tuaaday Deputy Sheriff Charles Davidson sought safety on i moving freight train and, falling mder the wheels, was killed. Davidion had sought to protect a negro ?trIke-breaker from atrikera at thg .strobe and Conncdlavllla aompany'g nina tn Panaay Irani*.