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THE WEATHER.
For Atlanta and Vicinity—Fair
tonight and Wednesday; slightly
warmer.
The Atlanta Georgian
AND NEWS
SPOT COTTON.
Liverpool, steady; 6.60. Atlanta, quiet;
11%. New Orleans, nominal; IIS- New
York, atenily; 11.75. Savannah, steady;
113-16. Augusta, steady; 11%.
VOL. VI. NO. 61.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY,.OCTOBER 15,1907. • 1
*■ AttaaU: TW,. CRNTfl.
Ob Trains: FIVE CUNT*
MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN ARE HURLED TO THEIR DOOM;
VILLAGES LAID IN RUINS BY EXPLOSION OF BIG POWDER MILL
Second Explosion * Killed and
Maimed Many of the Rescuers
Working in Ruins at
Fontanet, Indiana.
RESCUERS KILLED AND MAIMED
BY SECOND BIG EXPLOSION
Terre Haute, Ind„ Oct. 15.—A bulletin reaching here by a Bis Four
train reports a second explosion, which killed and maimed many of the
rescuers. This explosion Is said to have occurred more than an hour after
the first and most terrlflc explosion. The second explosion was In a store
house or magazine near the main mills that did not explode at the tlrno of
the first concussion.
Terre Haute, Ind., Oct. 15.—The large mills and
store houses of the Dupont Powder Company at Fon
tanet, 16 miles from here, blew up at 9:15 a. m., wrecking
the town of Fontanet, killing over half the employees at
the mills and resulting in the death of many men, women
and children in the village.
With forty bodies recovered up to noon and with a
train load of injured brought to the hospitals here, the
work of rescue is still going on.
DEATH LIST MAT REACH 100.
It is feared the death list will grow to nearly 100 per
sons. The shock of the explosion was felt here and for a
distance of 60 miles in a circle about the village.
At Crawfordsville, 35 miles away, the electric light
office was wrecked, the walls cracking and the marble
floor sinking at least one inch.
Employees in the Summerville buildup rushed into
the streets screaming, thinking an earthquake had struck
the town.
At Bloomington, the seat of Indiana University, reci
tations were interrupted when the big buildings moved,
leaving cracked walls.
CAUSE OF BLAST IS NOT KNOWN.
In this city window panes were shattered and chim
neys tottered and fell. More serious damage is reported
in Brazil, Coal Bluff, Burnett and Coaldale, towns in the
immediate vicinity of Fontanet mills.
The mills of the powder company were located two
miles from the village. The cause of the explosion
probably will never be known.
'NO ONE E8CAPEO INJURY.
Ths flret train to return from the eeene of the accident arrived here at
11 o'oloole. bearing fifty-three Injured men. Some of them were employee*
of the powder work* and were picked up many feet from the eeene. They are
badly burned and lacerated.
Great lose of life was flr»t reported from the public achool building,
which collapied while one hundred children were within. Nearly all of the
children are *ald to have been Injured and eome lois of life will result.
No dead bodies had been taken from the collapsed achool building up to
noon. The general store also collapsed, killing at least two persons.
Not a person In Fontanet escaped without Injury or death.
8H0CK WAS FELT MANY MILES AWAY.
First reports were that miners In the vicinity were entombed by cave-
ins. Some of these reports have been verified, but no deaths are known to
have occurred.
The scene of the explosion two miles north of the town attracted the
largest number of rescuers. In the village men were lifted from their feet
and thrown against the side of buildings. The flames shot high Into the
air and were plainly seen In Terre Haute. Automobiles filled with doctors
left here Immediately after the news of the accident was received.
The shock wa^felt as far away as Hamilton, Ohio.
Fifty Instantly Killed.
B. F. Carver, managing editor of The
Terre Haute Tribune, was one of the
frit to reach the scene In an automo-
KING OF THE TANBARK REALM
THE ENQUINE MONARCH REIGNS SUPREME AT PIEDMON.T PARK.
FI FILLED
WITH FINE
LIVE STOCK
Exhibits Draw Far
mers From Far
and Near.
Attracted hy the splendid live stock
exhibit, thoueands of people from far
and near (locked to Piedmont park on.
Tuesday and the etate fair experienced
enother record-breaking attendance.
Tuesday Is "Live Stock’’ day at the
fair and a number of entries, composed
of some of the finest hogs, sheep and
cattle In the state, are on exhibition In
the cattle building. Llvo stock day Is
always an event of more than usual
interest to every former, and many of
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bile. He is authority for the state
ment that fifty persons had been killed.
“From a quick survey of tha situa
tion I believe fully fifty were Instantly
killed and 100 Injured," he said. "Where
•he three powder mills once stood noth-
ing but big black holes filled with burn-
!ng timbers were found remaining. The
whole town of Fontanet Is In ruins, and
the 100 or more residents In panic."
Friction Caused Explosion.'
General Superintendent Monahan of
ths powder company Is said to have
terlshed with his men. Members of
hl» family who lived In Fontanet were
Injured.
Tbs explosion la btllsved to have re-
"uited from friction sparks on a heavy
‘hovel used In the mixing mills. The
, ™t three explosions were within o
•*w momenta <jf one another. A fourth
Incurred almost an hour and a half
*nd caused additional damago
•ad Injury.
_. 8chool Children Killed.
'"•hundred houses were demolished
UJ people are homeless. Three
buildings arc destroyed, one
i,i. .* n n * fifty-nine pupils, another
rt,?S y * nd ‘he third 200. Many of the
mjured 1 Wer * ****** and cver >' one wa *
BABY GIRL ENTERTAINS
BAILIFF WHO CAME WITH
WARRANTFOR HER FA THER
For obvious reason*. Bailiff R. F.
Mauldin, of "kludge Bloodworth’s court,
did not state why he had come when
he was met at the door of a neat sub
urban cottage early Tuesday morning
by a 8-year-old girl, with big brown
eyee and long curls, ths daughter of
the man he had come to orrest. Not
the least of thess reasons was his In
tention not to hurt the child's feelings.
••No, papa’s away. He’ll be back aft
er a while. Won’t you elt down!" she
said with childish frankness.
Mr. Mauldin took a seat on the eteps
and With hie knife began making a
basket out of an acorn. The little girl
drew near and watched him. When he
had hollowed out the kernel and the
basket wa* complete, he presented It to
her. The pleasure she showed wa* so
genuine that the bailiff, forgetting for
the moment the serious side of hi* vis
it. began another.
"I like these baskets'." said the little
girl confidentially. “I wish you would
corns and live with u* and make me a
great long etring of them. I know papa
would be glad."
Mr. Mauldin winced, and the war
rant for the child’* father In 111* pock
et seemed to weigh a ton. For an hour
he made acorn baskets for the little
girl and waited for the chance to arrest
her father. At last he decided he had
better etay no longer, a* there was
othsr work to be done.
"Walt a minute." eald the little girl,
as he started to go. She ran Into the
yard and returned with a small bunch
of queer looking blue flowers "which she
put In the bailirr* button-hole.
"I'm sorry papa didn’t come,” she
said; "ain’t you?"
"No, no, not very," said Mr. Mauldin,
a little uncertainly. He had done his
duty, but he did Dbt regret that It bail
not brought results, Just then.
28 KILLED,
MURED
FIRE IN MARIETTA ST.
THREATENS BIG LOSS;
ONE NARROW ESCAPE
EQUINE KINGS
BEGIN RULE
IN ATLANTA
Horse Show to Open
on Tuesday
Night.
SOCIAL EVENT
OF AUTUMN SEASON
First Night’s Program In-
cludfes Some of Best
Classes of Show.
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London, Halifax,Potts-
ville, Spartenburg and
Erie, Pa.,Contribute.
A grand total of all accidents re
ported Tuesday show 28 people killed
and 13 people Injured. Autos, trains
and trolleys roll up long death and In,
Jured lists all over the world.
London, Oct. 18.—Twenty persona are
dead, more than fifty are Injured, some
of them fatally, and the Scotch Flyer,
one of the finest trains In England, Is a
mass of tangled Iron and broken beam*
at a point about three-quarters of a
mile east of Shrewsbury station. The
accident happened at an early hour and
Is thought to have been caused by the
engineer's disregard of on order limit
ing the speed of trains at that point to
ten mile* on hour.
The point at which the disaster oc
curred U at one of the sharpest curves
on the railroad and the point was con
sidered so dangerous that englnemen
were Instructed to never exceed ten
miles an hour while rounding It. Re
ports from the wreck say that the train
wa* running fully sixty miles an hour.
Every car In the train except the last
one went over the embankment Many
of the bodies ar* pinned in the wreck
which did not catch fire.
Dozens of slightly Injured men and
women were limping painfully around
ths wreck when physicians arrived, do
ing the best they could to relieve the
sufferings of those caught under the
timbers who were still alive.
Seven bodies have been token out
and thirteen more can be seen In the
tangled mass of timbers and Iron.
FOUR ARE KILLED
AT GRADE CROSSING
Pottsvllle, Pa,, Oct. 18.—Four per
sons were killed and one probably fa
tally Injured here last night at a grade
crossing at Kelm street when an auto
mobile containing five persons was run
down and wrecked by a Pottsvllle ex-
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S OPPOSED BY
COMMITTEE
Majority Reports Ad
versely on the
Proposition.
. By ELIZABETH ELLICOTT POE.
Richmond, Va, Oct. 18.—The house
of deputies turned down the pet prov
ince bill of the bishops and Is looking
about i for more upper house bills to
devour. Tha vote showed the lay ele,
ment In the convention unalterably op
posed to any more "degrees of tplsco-
pacy" and the twentieth century church
will not stand for primates, archbish
ops or anything resembling a hierarchy
In the American church. As yester
day, the negro question will today oc
cupy the center of the platform and a
notable speech Is promised for Thomas
Nelson Page, of Washington, on tha
theme.
At the mass meeting yesterday Blah,
op Nelson, of Georgia, defended the
negro work of the church and gave the
following Interesting statistics In sup
port of his arguments:
"To begin right at home where I
know the conditions best,” said Bish
op Nelson, “In thp diocese of Georgia,
the number of negro communicants
have In the last fifteen years increased
over 280 per cent, while among these
same years the number of white com
municants has increased only 80 per
cent.
Increase in Churches.
During the thirty years between
1877 snd 1007 the ehurchej and mis
sions have Increased fro-.n white. 3,22*
:o 7,300. an Increase ,f 130 per cent,
while among the negr«s from 37 to
103. an Increase of 420 per ce.it. Dur
ing the same time the lncre.se of cler
gy has been among thr white from
3.082 to 6.180, or 60 per o.nt and among
the negroes, from 16 Ij lit, or 860 per
cent.
During the ten years from 1008 lo
1000 the Increase In the number of ne
gro communicants In the Southern dio
ceses alone has been from 6.840 to 10,-
600. or 00 per rent, with an appropria
tion of only 178,000 per annum for be
tween seven and eight millions of ne
groes, while in Liberia a confessedly
successful mission of the church where
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O Georgia raised, 8 p. m. O
O (.'Inss 1—Hnrneaa horse*, sin- O
O gle. under 16.2, 8:16 p. m. 0
O (.’la** 22—Ponies In harness un- O
O der 13 hands, 8:30 p. m. 0
O (Mass 10—Saddle horses, three 0
O gaits, under 16.2, 8:48 p. ni. Q
0 Class 7—Harness horses, pairs, 0
O under 16.2, 9 p. m. 0
O Class 6—Ladles' turnout, single, 0
IO 0:16 p. m. 0
IO Class 38—Heavy harness horses. 0
O single, l.ieal, 0:30 p. m. O
O Class 30—Saddle horses, five 0
0 gaits, local. 10:16 P. m. O
0 Class 11—Roadsters, pairs, • 10 O
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0 Class 17—Toung ladles' riding 0
0 class, age 14 to 18, 9:46 p. m. 0
O Class 26—Runabout class, local, O
O 10:10 p. m. 0
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O >t> Overture, "Crown Diamonds" 0
0 — Auber. 0
0 1. Wattses, "Dreams on the 0
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O 4. Selection, “Maritana’’—Wal- O
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0 6. Medley. "X. O. U.”—Johnson. 0
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O 8. March. "Cavalier”—Jones.
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Under most auspicious circumstances
the opening performance of the Atlanta
Horse Show will be given at tha Coli
seum In Piedmont park Tuesday night.
If the number of animals which have
been entered for the show Is any Indi
cation of the Interest felt In the event
the Initial performance will be wit
nessed by the largest and most enthu
elastic gathering of horso lovers that
has ever b<ten seen In the South.
Tha sale of seats, has been marvel
ous and tha mammoth Coliseum, where
the exhibition will be held, will be filled.
Not only are the people of Atlanta and
vicinity Interested In the show, but
throughout Georgia and adjoining
states the Interest Is felt and many
other cltlea will be represented by del
egatlons of citizens.
"We are going to have the biggest
and most successful show that has ever
been held In the South,” said Secretn
ry McCullough Tuesday morning. "The
Interest In the event Is widespread and
the show Is being talked of throughout
"The entries are the finest that could
be gathered together. They are all of
finest breed end In awarding prizes and
ribbons ths Judges will have no easy
task. The fact that the people ore In
terested in the show Is Indicated by
the vast number of entries. We havo
never had more than half this many
before. The exhibition will be a grand
success, and we anticipate that the
Coliseum will be crowded with visitors
Fraziers’ Warehouse
Is in Big
Blaze.
EXPLOSIONCAUSES
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE
Firemen Forced to Confine
Attention to Saving
Other Buildings.
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O earth Tuesday morning. Not a 0
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O done, however, as cotton hqd 0
0 about all developed. Well-posted 0
0 men say that If the good wrathor 0
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0 nesday; slightly warmer." O
0 Tuesday temperatures: 0
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0 8 a/ m 48 degrees 0
0 t a. m 62 degrees 0
0 10 a. m .'.68 degrees 0
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0 12 noon. ..64 degrees 0
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Fire caused by the explosion of a
gasoline torch In the midst of hay.
caused a destructive flro In the ware
house of J. D. Frazier A Co., at Ma
rietta street and the Western and At
lantic railway, shortly before 2 o'clock
Tuesday, and the fire companies had
difficulty in fighting the flames, Ths
loss will be a heavy one.
F. Day, an electrician employed by
the Carter-Glllesple Company, had a
narrow escape from death. He was re
pairing an electric wire In the second
floor of the building when hla gasoline
torch exploded. The flames spread Into
a mass of hay stored near by and shot
up to the celling. Day was forced to
climb through the burning hay and
drop down an elevator Bhaft to escape.
” was not Injured.
t 3 o’clock It appeared that the
flames would be confined to the section
of the building where it originated, as
the store room Is protected by heavy
fire walls.
The building Is owned by R. O. Camp-
hell. of tho Campbell Coal Company.
At 3 o'clock tho managers of the
business declined to make an estimate
the loes. heyonil saying that It
uld be heavy und waa covered hy ln-
surnneo.
• The fire broke out shortly before 2
I'Clock and the alarm brought prac-
1 tloslly every engine and ladder truck
to the scene at once. Home delay was
causeil hy the Incomplete condition of
the Forsyth street bridge, which pre
vented the headquarters truck and en
gine from erosalng.
The offices of Otto Best, superintend
ent of terminals of tho WeHtern and
Atlantic railway. Is In tho building, and
his effects were removed aa soon as the
tiro started, his force of clerks and
stenographers vacating In a hurry.
Within a few moments after the fire
was discovered, flames broke from thu
upper windows of tho two-story struct
ure. These were followed by flames
bursting out of the Foundry street side,
and It was seen that It would be im
possible to extinguish tho fire. The at- .
tentlon of the companies »« centered
on confining It to tho warehouse and
protecting the buildings In Marietta
■treat.
A grain dealer at the fire estimated
the loss at about 26,000, saying that the
damage by smoko would swell this
figure to some extent. Tho smoke I
penetrated several buildings close by 1
Injuring flour and other stocks.
The fire was well under control at
3 o'clock, and It was not behoved that
It would spread further.
An enormous crowd watched ths
fire.
SCHMITZ MAY SOON
LAND IN THE PEN
San Francisco, Oct. 16.—The district
attorney’s ofllce announces that
through an error of his counsel Former
Mayor Schmitz, sentenced to five
years In prison for extortion, has lost
his right to appeal to the supreme
court. If the contention Ih good
Schmitz will be landed In San Quentin
penitentiary In a few days.
NELSON MORRIS’
WILLIS BROKEN
Chicago, Oct. 16.—A 330,000 will con
test that wa* argued and settled out of
court was disclosed when the last tes
tament of Nelson Morris, ths packer,
was filed for probate. The widow and
her four children will divide the prop
erty equally among themselves at once.
Instead of (600,000 and an annuity of
(16,000 during the next twenty years,
each of the five principal heirs will re
ceive at once (6.000,000.
Ever since Nelson Morris died, nearly
two months ago, a strenuous though
friendly debate over his will hi}* been
going on In tho family. On ono side,
seeking to abrogate the trust plan
under which they would not have eome ,
Into their Inheritance for from 15 to 20
years, were ranged tho widow and i
three of the children—Mrs. Maurice L. ;
Rothschild, Mrs. Henry C. Schwab and ,
Ira Nelson Morris. On the other side,
seeking to carry out the provisions of '
the will under which he wguld have j
been In control of the "^ats, stood
Edward Morris, the oldest son and the
present head of tho Morris Packing
corporations. It was simply a case of
divergence of opinion.
Finally, Edward Morris met the views
of the rest of the family and an arnica,
ble agreement, setting aside the trust
plan and providing for an equal di
vision or fhe property, was signed by .
all the heirs. The business, however,
will be continued as at present, with
Edward In control.