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DIED Dt TRAP Nn; Persons Are Crashed aid Baratd ia a New Yerk Fsetery DEATH TOlllS HEAVY ? Tliejr Are Caught Without Means of Escape, Many Jump from Ninth y and Tenth Stories? IJves Are f Crushed Out on Pavement Before , Horr tiled Spec tutors. One hundred,and forty-eight persons?nine-tenths of them girla from the East Side?were crushed to death AVI a rv n ?r/vrvs nwv* a# h awda/I Kt/ I v" mo >011101110, OIUUIUOIQU VJ J smoke of shrivelled crisp Saturday afternoon in the worst fire New York has known since the steamer General Slocum was burned off North Brotha ere Island, in 1904. ' Nearly all, If not all, of the vlc\ time were employed by the Triangle Waist Company, on the eighth, ninth and tenth floors of a ten-story loft building, at No. 23 Washington Place, on the western fringe of the down-town wholesale clothing, fur and millinery district. The partners of the firm, Isaac Harris and Mac Blanck, escaped from the office on the tenth floor, carrying with them over an adjoining roof Blanck's two young daughters and a governess. There was not an outside fire escape on the building. How the flre started will perhaps never bo known. A corner on the eighth floor was its point of origin and the three upper floors only were swept. On the ninth floor, fifty bodies were found, sixty-three or more were crushed to death by jumping, and more than thirty clogged the elevator shafts. The loss to property will not exceed $100,000. Pedestrians going home, through Washington Place to Washington Square, at ten mlnues to five, were scattered by the whiz of something rushing through the air before them; th?>re was a terrible thud on the pavement and a body flattened on the flags. Wayfarers on the opposite side of the street shaded their eyes against the setting sun and saw the windows of the three upper floors ot the building black with girls crowd ing to the sills. There were no Art escapes. No Other Alternative. "Don't jump; don't jump!" yelled the crowd, but the girls had no alternative. The pressure of the maddened hundreds behind them and the urging of their own fears were too strong. They began to fall to the sidewalk, in a terrible rain of flesh and blood. Pour alarms were rung within lfi minutes. Before the engines coulo fr'ipond, before the nets could be stretched or the ladders raised, live girls had fallen from the eighth ana nirth floors so heavily that they broke through the glass and iron roofs of the sub-cellars and crashed through the very streets into the vaults below. In an hour the fire was out; in half an hour it had done its worst. Probably the death list wrs full in 20 minutes. The building stands on a corner, with exposure on two sides, but the on'y fire escape was in the rear, opening into a light and air shaft. In all. there were seven exits?the single flre escape, two freight elevators, at the rear; two passenger elevators V in front, and two stairways. All of them proved almost useless and practically all who escaped either climbed to the roof and scrambled thence to the roof of the building occupied by the American Book Company, or fled in the first rush for safety before the crush and the smoke grew too thick. VThe buildings stand tonight with shell intact and barely scarred?rather only smudged. The tiling between the floors are sound, and it Is impossible for one, who did not see it, to imagine how the flames in so short a time could have caused such havoc. Seven hundred persons were employed by the shirt waist company. Th<>y sat in rows at their whirring machines, the tables before thnm piled with flimsy cloth, the floor lit torod with lint, the air itself fun ot flying Inflammable dust. Died in Their Seats. The first rush of flame was almost an explosion. Operators died In their chairs, their lungs seared by Inhaling flame. Others were crowded Into the elevator shafts, after the cars had s? - made their last trip. Still others were pushed off the inadequate Interior fire escape. Jii such a horrible stream did the bodies overflow from the windows, that the fire nets, stretched by the first company to arrive, were soon gorged beyond capacity. Twelve bodies dropped into one net, tearing it to pieces, then fell to the pavement. When the first breath of flame juried over the edge of a pile of ehirting, on the eighth floor, five minutes before quitting time, hundreds were in line before the casnier's window. In the office buildings across Washington Place, scores of men, detained beyond office hours, worked at their desks. One of them eaid o girl rushed to a window and threw up the sash. Behind her danced a seeth ing curtain of yellow flame. She climbed to the sill, stood In black outline against the light, hesitating; then with a last touch of futile thriit, slipped her chatelaine bag over her wrist and jumped. Her body wont whirling downward, through the woven wire" glass of a canopy, to the flagging below. Her sisters who followed, flamed through the air like j rockets. Their path could be fol-1 lowed, but their screams hardly heard. It was 85 feet from eighth floor to the ground, about 95 feet from the ninth floor, 115 feet from the cornice of the roof. The upward rush of the draught and the crackle of the flames drowned their cries. Six girls fought their way to a window on the ninth floor, over the bodies of fallen fellow workers, ana crawled out in single file on an eightinch stone ledge running the length of the building. More than a hundred feet above the sidewalk they crawled along their perilous pathway to an electric-feed wire spanning Washington place. The leaders paused for their companions to catch up and the six grabbed the wire simultaneously. It snapped and they ? - a _ j a crusnea aown 10 at'mn. A 17-year-old girl hung for three minutes by her finger tips to the sill of a tenth floor window. A tongue of flame licked at her fingers and she dropped into a life-net, held by firemen. Two women fell into the net at almost the same moment. The strings parted and the three were added lo the death list. One girl threw her pocketbook, then her hat, then her furs from the tenth story window. A moment later her body came hurling after them, to death. At a ninth floor window a man anf a woman appeared. The man embraced the woman and kissed her. Then he hurled her to the street and jumped. Hoth were killed. Five girls smashed a pane of glass, dropped in a struggling tangle and were crushed into a shapeless mass. A girl on the eighth floor leaped for a fireman's ladder, which reached only to sixth floor. She missed, struck the edge of a life-net and was picked up with her back broken. From one window a girl of about 13 years, a woman, a man and tfco women, with their arms about one another, threw themselves to tne ground in rapid succession. The little girl waB whirled to the New York Hospital. She screamed as the driver and a policeman lifted hei into the hallway. A surgeon came out, gave one look at her face and touched her wrist. "She is dead," he said. One girl jumped into a horse blanket, held by firemen and policemen. The blanket ripped like cheesecloth and her body was mangled almost beyond recognition. Another dropped into a tarpaulin, held by three men. Her weight tore it from their grasp and she struck the street, breaking almoHt every bone in her body. Almost at the same time a man somersaulted down upon the shoulder of a policeman holding the tarpaulin. He glanced off, struck the sidewalk and was picked up dead. Effort to Check Stampede. Within the building a man on the eighth floor stationed himself at the door of one of the elevators and with a club kept back the girls, who had stampeded to the wire cage. Thirty were admitted to the car at a time. They were rushed down as fast as possible. The calls for ambulances were followed by successive appeals for po lice, until 100 patrolmen arrived to cope with a crowd numbering tens of thousands. A hundred mounted policemen had to charge the crowd repeatedly to keep it back. Led by Fire Chief Croker, a squad of firemen gained access to the building at 7 o'clock. Two searchlights from buildings opposite lighted the way of the firemen. Fifty roasted bodies were found on the ninth floor. They lay in every possible position, some so mangled that recognition was impossible. Women with their hair burned away, with here and there a limb burned entirely off and the charred stump visible, were lifted tenderly from the debris, wrapped in oilcloth and lowered by pulleys to the street. Across the street there rested on the sidewalk a hundred pine coffins, Into which wore placed the .bodies. As fast as this was done, the cofhnh were carried away, In any kind of a vehicle that could be pressed into service, to the morgue, at Bollevue Hospital, and the Charities Morgue, opened for the first time since the General Sloeum disaster. on? n una rod ana six noaies nan been taken from the building and twenty injured had been conveyed to St. Vincent's Hospital, at 10 o'clock. Of these three died soon after admittance. Others wore not expected to live through the night. Three of five women taken to Hellevu? Hospital died soon after admitted there. Many Hescwed by Student*. On the tenth floor of the building adjoining the burned structure, is the law department of the New York University. Here twenty, odd students were listening to a lecture by i Frank H. Sommer, former sheriff of ' Essex County. He saw the smoke t and saw the girls trapped on the roof. He led his class to the roof of the University quarters, where they found two ladders. Two boys bore i these down two flights of the roof ol , an intervening building, swarmed 1 out of the windows and raised them i to the roof of the burning building > Forty girls were brought down tc - safety. > Just how many trips were mad< KILELD IN WRECK ? 4tDIXIE PIiYKItM GOES THROUGH , TItKSTLK INTO IlIVKIl. r More Than a Dozen Also Injured In One of WorNt Railroad I>iM8terfl Known In the South. In one of the worst railroad disasters known ' in the <South Atlantic States, eight persons were killed and more than a dozen injured, when train No. 97, known as tho "Dixie Flyer," on the Atlantic Coast Line, and running between Chicago and *- - < 111- A. 11. -V. .. jncKHunvnie, wbiii uuuugu a ucouo over the Alapapa river, eighteen miles east of Tlfton, Ga., early Saturday morning. Saturday night but one body, that of John T. Watson, of Wyoming, remained In the river. Had It not been for the wreck, Watson would have been a bridegroom Sunday. His sweetheart, Miss Rlise Shippey, of Pasadena, Cal., who was on the train with him, and to whom he was to have been married in Jacksonville Sunday, remained at the wreck throughout the day and III ft Li L, naitu iiift tuc uuui to ui tuv rescuing party to recover Watson's body. The revised list of the dead and injured is given as follows: Dead: O. F. Ronmwart, Henderson, Ky.; W. W. Culpepper, Tifton, Ga.; Mrs. W. D. Fletcher, Rowland, 111.; John T. Watson, Landa, Wyo.; J. P. Woodward, express messenger, Waycross, Ga.; C. J. Parnell, conductor, Savannah; Lucius Ellis, fireman, and Albert Simmons, porter, both colored, of Waycross, Ga. Injured: J. E. Powell, baggagemaster, Jacksonville; J. P. Klein, wife and child, St. Louis; father and mother bruised and child scalded; Peter Geriofs, Holland, Mich., bruised; Nic Vandermelton. Grand Rapids, Mich., bruised about the head and knees; Mrs. O. F. Bonmhart, Henderson, Ky.; W. T. Perkins, Cattlettsburg, Ky., bruised; J. E. Greene, engineer, Waycross, Ga., bruised. The cars plunged into the river, without a moment's warning to the sleeping passeneers, when an axle on the engine suddenly snapped when 1.1 ? c i.1 l ? 1 ? rrik? ? iiJiuwuy ui tut? ir^aut4. i nt? lutuuiu- ' tive never left the track, but the tender was derailed and the tank tumbled to the bed of the stream. The trestle Is about a half mile long, but the river was low and at the point of the accident was not more than 50 yards across. The express and baggage care, two day coaches and one Pullman were piled in an indescribable mass in the centre of the stream, but few of the passengers were carried beneath the water. J. P. Woodward, the express messenger, was killed and Raggaeemaster J. E. Powell was probably fatally hurt, by timbers driven through the ear. The first-class coach, a new steel car, was driven through the sleeper. In this car Romwart, of Henderson, Ky., was instantly killed, while his wife, beside him, escaped with slight injuries. It is not expected to have the tracks cleared and the trestle repaired for traffic before Sunday night. * WATERY GRAVES FOR MANY, Passengers and Crew Go Down When Vessel Turns Turtle. The Rritish Columbia Shipping Company's little wooden steamer, 'Sochelt, built, for passenger service on an inland lake, turned turtle in a furious gale off Reeched Head, Vancouver Island, late Saturday and went down with all on board, twenty-two passengers and the crew of four men. Thirteen passengers had landed at w 1111<11ii iieau juai uciuio mc bujhuier went out to destruction. Most of the passengers were railroad laborers, bound for a Canadian northern construction camp, but a few were residents of Sooke. Henry Charles, an Indian, of Rocky Point, was gathering wood on Bee-cher Bay at 5:30 p. m. Saturday and saw the vessel, three miles off Beecher Head, when the gale struck her. She leaned over and swung around as though she intended to run across the strait to Port Crescent, on tho American side. The tiny craft had partly turned broadside to tho wind when she righted, then went over and lay on her side. The Indian watched the steamer ten minutes and at the end of that time the vessel was swallowed up by the sea, leaving not a trace on the 1 surface. Capt. J. B. James com1 manded the vessel. Beecher Head is west of Beecher Bay, in the Strait of Fuga, twenty-five miles from Victoria. i by tho elevator men will perhaps tiev : er o? ascertained. ine various reports of heroism at the elevators differ. City officials announced tonight i that the usual rigid regulations , which follows such disasters will be s instituted at once. ' "The calamity is just what I have i 'been predicting," said one. "There f was no outside fire-escape on the 1 building. This large death toll ib i due to neglect." The police say that today's Are is > the sixth or seventh in the building within twelve months, all of which, i they say, occurred in the shirt waist TIMBER ALL CRABBED RAILROADS OWN ONK-FOURTI1 ? THE FORESTS IN THE WKvST. Such is the Report Made by Herbert ' Knox Smith, Commissioner of Cor ??A ? ni poratioiu?inioresnnk ngurtx*. The statement cantained !n the rtport of Herbert Knox Smith, commis- 1 sioner of corporations, recently made 1 to President Taft on the lumber in- , dustry of the country to the effect 1 that a large percentage of the stand- 1 ing timber of the Pacific coast is now held by three corporations?the Southern Pacific Railway company, the Weyerhaeuser Timber company and the Northern Pacific Railway company?was not, of course, a surprise to the people of the Western states most concerned. But the further statement contained in Mr. Smith's report to the effect that If the holdings of these three companies were sawed into lumber they would load a train about 100,000 miles long, or build an ordinary five or six-room frame house for each of the 16,000,000 families in the United States in 1900, will doubtless give them a better conception of the vastness of the holdings of these concerns than they have ever before possessed. The holdings of the Weyerhaeuser company is found by the report to be the second largest in the country. Its total ownership of timber is placed at 95.7 billion feet, which is only 1 0,000,000,000 feet less than that of the Southern Pacific. Nearly 77,000,000,000 feet of this vast holding is in Washington, about 18,000,000,000 feet stands in Oregon and an insignificant fraction in California. The Northern Pacific holding is described as follows: "The timber holding of the Northern Pacific Railway company, which ranks third in importance, amounts to 3 6.2 billion feet. This, it will be seen, is much less than either the Southern Pacific or the Weyerhaeuser holding. Most of it is owned by the Northern Pacific Railway company directly, but a small part is owned by a subsidiary concern, the Northwestern Improvement company. The bulk of this timber is In the state of Washington." In summarizing these three vast holdings, 'Mr. Smith says that they constitute 23.5 per cent, or nearly one-quarter of all the privately owned timber in the five states of the Pacific Northwest, the most important remaining source of timber supply for the United States. Through freight rates nearly all the forests of the West are controlled. It is here, he says, that the concentration ot ownership is most marked, and although he sees a great menace In the possibilities which this concentration affords for an absolute control of nrires in the future bv these three or four largest holders, he finds still another menace which he considers to be even more alarming than the one just cited, and that is the future ownership of the lauds after the timber is cut. * ATTACKED BY DRUXKEN NEGRO. ? Endeavored to Force Open Door of a Rudy's Room. Mrs. Georgia Williams, wife of a railroad man living near the terminal station in Atlanta, was kepL. in a state of seige in her room Tueeoaj night ,by a drunken young negro, who was trying to force an entrance to the room. Mrs. Williams' husband was out on his run and she was in the house alone. Early in the evening the negro gained entrance to the hal! of the house, but before he could get to her Mrs. Williams had barricaded herself in her bedroom. She begged and pleaded with the negro to go away, but he remained in the hall working at the door until 1 o'clock Wednesday morning. Finally, in desperation, Mrs. Williams opened a window, jumped out and ran in a hysterical condition until she found a policeman. The officer wont to the house and found the negro there. Ho said his name was Dock Badger, and that he was 1S years of age. "I used to work for Booker T. Washington," said the negro. "I oelieve in Booker Washington and would follow him anywhere." It is believed that the negro had read of Washington's trouble in New York, had tanked up on mean whiskey and started out on a career of wickedness, lie will probably get a stout sentence for his evening's work. ? | Two to llang. Gov. Sanders Wednesday named Friday, April 21, as the date for the execution of Euge Besanon and Francois Rodin, convicted of murdering Franz Reidi, an aged watchmaker of no anvnral nirtntha n fr? nv V> w? OV T v-? 1*1 tuv/wvuM ?-n-" factory. The otherR were trifling. The factory, incidentally, 1r said to he the first in which operators struck during the widespread shirt waist strike settled several months ago. Ily today's fire the total shirt waist operators who have perished in New i York is nearly 200. Not many weeks ago 25 girls met death under some, what similar circumstances in Newark, N. J. GOES scon FREE rOHN BI,ACK CJKTS A FULL. PARDOX FltOM BLKA8E. Ilefore His Recent Commutation, Black's Sentence Was Five Years in the Penitentiary. John Black, former chairman of i the State dispensary board of directors, convicted of conspiracy to defraud the State, sentenced to five years In the Penitentiary, |his sentence being later commuted to a fine of $2,000, or five years, by Governor Blease, was late Friday unconditionally pardoned by the Chief Executive. Black had not yet paid his fine, _ t. _ .. _ _i 111 r? i ?. naving Deen given unwi c>t?iJi.eiiiuer 1, and the proclamation issued by Governor Blease Friday afternoon not only relieves Black of the payment of the fine, but restores the former dispensary director to citizenship, and removes the stigma which commutation could not reach. Friday night John Black Is in Richmond, and it is probable that not until Saturday will he know of his pardon. His local counsel did not know where to reach him in Richmond. His wife is also out of the city, having gone to Denmark, so that it is also probable she does not tonight know that her husband is again free from the sentence of the Court. The order giving John Black his freedom is formal, being such a proclamation as was issued when John Black's sentence was commutated. The pardon is as follows: "Whereas, at a Court of General Sessions and Common Pleas, begun and holden in Chester County, at the November term of court, 1910, before Judge (Special) Ernest Moore, one John Black was convicted of coni rlnTpoil^ thn Qfntn fl 11 S W.1I2 1 (IV J I W VIVII (IUVI tuv VV? u "VI ?* * " sentenced to five years in the State Penitentiary; now know ye that for divers good causes and considerations, me hereunto moving, I have thought fit to pardon and by these presents do pardon the said John 11 lack. "Given under my hand and seal, etc. "Cole L. lilease, Governor." The pardon was signed late Friday afternoon, shortly before the Governor left the executive ofllces to go to the Mansion. No reasons are assigned in the pardon. BliKASE CUSSES A LITTLE. - Says (liief Justice Jones Can I>o What He Pleases. "Ira P. Jones can mandamus, or G d us, or do anything he pleases. I am not going to appoint Ernest Moore as special judge for the Union county court. You can take back these papers, for I will not read them." This is the way Governor Blease expressed himself Saturday to U. E. Wylie, of Lancaster, who presented a request for a commission for Ernest Moore as special judge. This statement was made in the presence of Senator Tillman and several other visitors in the ofllce. The statement means that another special judge controversy has commenced between the supreme court and the governor, and that the governor will disregard the recommendations of the judicial department of the government. The Union County Bar Association petitioned Chief Justice Jones to appoint Ernest Moore as special judge for a special term of the civil court to commenco in that county next Monday. The following letter of recommendation was addressed to Governor Ulease by Chief Justice Jones, asking that Ernest Moore be commissioned as special judge: "Pursuant to section 2, 73 4, volume 1, code of laws, I have ordered a special term of common pleas for Union county for the trial of civil cases not requiring a jury, for the week commencing 'March 27th. "There being no circuit judge disengaged so as to hold the court, 1 respectfully recommend that you issue a commission to Hon. Ernest Moore of Lancaster, S. C., learned in the law as special judge to hold the said court." Ernest Moore is one of the best known attorneys in the state and has served as special judge on several occasions. Ho heard the John lllaCK case and sentenced the former dispensary oflicial to five years in the penientiary. Mr. Moore was not named in the list of "eligibles" recently sent to the supreme court by the governor. ? ? Child Dies of Babbies. At Lancaster the six-year-old son of Mr. Hutchinson doed Friday night at the home of his father in the cot ton mill viliago or wnat pnysicians believe to have boon an attack of hydrophobia. The hoy was ill only three days, during which time ho exhibited the various symptoms of the dread disease. Tie was bitten on the lip by a mad dog in Camden on the 3rd of last month. ? ? Shot on Crowded Street. Andrew C. Puro, said to be an Italian journalist, was shot and killed on a crowded street In the downtown district of Denver, Colo., Tuesday night. Phlllipe Dropolia is under arrest charged with the murder. HOLD UP MAIL ? Bandits Ltd Passenger Trail ta Ike Si. Lens Mtaataii Read EXPRESS CAR LOOTED m \ ' ?* '<> J.? I f The Official* of the Railway Say They Have No Report of the Hold Up and Robbery?Twenty Thousand Dollars Said to Have Reen Carried Away by the Robbers. Five men held ud St. Louis. Iron Mountain and Southern railway train No. 104 between Coffeyville and Lenapah, Okla., shortly after midnight Friday, and after looting the mai* and express car escaped. The amount of the robbery is said to be $20.00#. For two hours the masked men held the paseenger at a standstill on the prairie about six miles south { Coffeyville, while they blew open a safe in the express car. They escape# In two automobiles, carrying with them money and valuables which, It Is 'believed, will amount to $20,000. The train left Little Rock at 8; 3# a. m. Friday, bound for Kansas City. It reached Lenapah, Okla., south of Coffeyville at 10:30 Friday night, half an hour late. Just after the train left Lenapah Engineer Lynch heard a sharp cry: "Hands un!" Turning he saw * masked man sitting on the tender, pointing a revolver at him. "I'm going to ride a little way with you, ' said the man. "Drive on." The engineer obeyed. About font miles out of Lenapah the robber compelled the engineer to stop the traia near a dumb of trees. Five more masked men came out of the wood, and, taking positions on either side of the train,began shooting in the air and along the sides of the train. Then while two of the bandit* stood guard to prevent any passengers from leaving, the four marched the engineer and fireman to the day coach and locked them in. One man then took a position t# guard the rear of the train and three went into the express car, forced th* two express messengers to jump out and stand where one of the side guards could keep them covered. After nearly an hour's work the men had succeeded in inserting a charge of nitroglycerine into the "tnrotign sare in tne express cur. They blew the safe to pieces and scattered its contents over the floor of the car. They made no haste. They had chosen a strategic position in which to stop the train. They were at least three miles from any human habitation. After the three men had spent nearly an hour over the packages taken from the safe, the lights of two automobiles were seen drawing near from the direction of the Oklahoma line. As they came within about two hundred yards of the train on the country road the automobiles were stopped. Then lights were extinguished and the bandits and automobiles disappeared. Passengers who had remained huddled in the coaches afraid to look out of the windows relaxed and the disorganized train crew got to their places. When the train reached this city the sheriff was notified and with two deputies started on horseback southward in pursuit of the six bandits. Train No. 104 on the St. Louie, Iron Mountain and Southern railroad, said to have been held up near Coffeyville, Kan., Friday night, reached Kansas City two hours and forty-five minutes late. Iron Mountain officials here denied any knowledge of a holdup. The train left Little Hock at 8:30 a. m. Friday and was due in Kansas City at 7:15 Saturday morning. Superintendent George F. Tohnson, of the Pacific Express Company states that the men who held up and robbed Iron Mountain train No. 104 in Oklahoma got no money from the express oar and that all the booty secured consisted of a few "sealed packages, * the value of which is not great. "We no longer use this route for Ihrougu. money shipments, and there was not anything like $20,000 In the car as is reported." 11 LOW PROVES FATAL. llit by Stone Several Months Ago, Dies of Effects. From the effects of being struck in the head with a rock several months ago, while gathering hickory nuts, Samuel Benson, Jr., 14 years of age, and son of Mr. and Mrs. S. II. Benson. died Thursday at his home on Bleckley street, Anderson, S. C. Several young boys were around the tree gathering the nuts which they would knock down with rocks and stocks. One of the rocks hit young Benson, lie was given treatment and seemed to respond to it. A relapse came a week or so ago, and his death followed. Young Benson was a bright lad, and very popular among his playmates. Of course, no blame Is at* tached to any one, as the blow waa purely accidental. . i