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EdTILL. l’rasident. I
fatal crashonacurve
, COLLISION THE RBBCLT OP
IB erroneous orders.
. Lives Sacrificed and Fifteen or
Other Persons Injured
-80-*i Trains Running Fast When
Death and Disaster Came-'I he
Scene of the Accident Near Fetro
mtoUCM.W. Va., Aug. 23. A terri
blJcjUisi"-1 occurred ab mt 11 o’clock this
® ~ cnn the Baltimore a*d Ohio rail
ed between Petroleum and Silver Hun
tunnel, about twenty-three miles east of
Pirhe., in which three men were in-
L-.tlv killed and many were wounded.
The accommodation train coming west, due
Parkersburg at Id o’clock, crashed into a
special train occupied by railroad magnates
oa a tour of inspection.
CONFLICTING TELEGRAMS.
The cause of the wreck is said to have
been conflicting telegrams. The one re
ceived by Conductor Fiannagau and the
engineer’ of the accommodation ordered
them to pa*s the special at Petroleum,
while the special train, engineered by ,Lapt.
CeD hus Rowland is said to have had tele
erauhio orders to pass the accommodation
at Silver Run. The result of these instruc
tions was to burl into eternity four men at
least, and to wound fifteen or twenty
Others.
COLLIDED ON A CURVE.
The trains came together with a crash at
a curve east of Petroleum, and between
that point and Silver Run. Both trains
were running at rapid speed, and when
tnev collided the sp cial train and the
engine and tender, and the baggage car o£
the accommodation went over the cliff.
James Laylan, engineer of the accom
modati m train, aid one of the oldest engi
neers i;i the employ of the Baltimore and
Ohi ■ railroad, was cruahed to death.
Alexander Bailey, fireman for Engi
neer Laylan on the accommodation train
was also crushed.
Joseph Rowland, also one of the old
engineers, was caught under the wreck and
had one leg br ken and received internal
injuries from which he cannot recover.
John Fletcher, fireman on th > special,
was al-o killed. Fireniau Fletcher st uck to
his e:,pi e and, with his helpmate, preferred
death to desertion of his post, and went
ever the bank in the wreck. He was cut
and crushed to death.
THE SPECIAL CAR SMASHED.
The special car occupied by the officials
on the inspection tour was smashed. Road
master J. A. Hunter was badly injured.
In the ace mimodation train were many
passengers, all of whom received a terrible
.•h iking up, and fifteen or twenty of whom
were more or loss injured.
R. J. Malley, track master of Parkors
burg and a member of the city council, was
badly injured.
Jefferson Rose, baggage master of the
Bccommoiiatio . was also seriously hurt.
A large number of passengers were more
or less injured, but they were hurried off
on tram sgoing east or west, and in the con
fusion following the disaster it was im
possible to get their names.
DISPOSITION OF THE BODIES.
'the bodies of E gineer Laylan and Fire
men Buily and Fletcher wore taken to
Parkersburg on the evening trai l, where
t:;e bod es will be inc.sed in coffins and
-> "i' to their homes.
i. gh.eor Lsylan was sent to his home on
" "'t. Engineer Rowland was taken
V oral ton. V> hen the train bearing
b'htjs arrived in Parkersburg, it
*ti- surrounded by thousands of people,
many of whom were friends of the dead,
’’ Lai ■ ners had friends wnom they believed
• iav i been oa the wrecked trains. As it
"i, impossible to hear from their friends,
• ' : i --M's of the accident had grown
- - |L C'iO. al dimensions, tue anxiotv in
i 1. until the crowd at the depot nnm
nerea thousands.
OTHERS WHO ARE INJURED.
‘V ‘ detuhu of Grafton is injured,
i ahu ila.nnagan, the conductor, is
an;o. g those hurt.
opt: ael Getuam, conductor of the spe
c, u tr an, had his collar bone and threeh-ihs
or ken. *
K (j \ Heffliv, superintendent of
t * lo aco nock.
r \ li * Douglass, chief engineer,
•'a.N cu on the head and face, and badlv
ou* nea.
JT'% 1 "f St. Louis, was badly
cut u the b :ek and side.
: -E uv slewing had a leg broken.
Tr ’ h ABBM *- s ‘ ;urt in the back.
f rom -k"'- 0 . :ut occurred a long distance
‘ n 3,0 ■> - wa or telegraphio facilities.
A CIRCU3 TRAIN WRBCSBD.
• wenty-Four Hor3ea and Two Cam
els Killed.
N. Y., Aug. as.-The sec
w f 11 ” 11 ’ Bir nim & Bade v show was
recked late last night about 2-j miles east
, r ; ,tSua,i! ’ wh - i9 en route on the Rome,
.cr wu and Ogdensburg railway from
the (au *- Ur t 0 ‘'‘‘■ on ’ rea *- A broken axle was
tvv exty-four horses killed.
ri ' s horses i including one
8A,,. 1 teilB 1 ami two tamais
ware derailed and
was cru 'hJf ei ’Ti° tl,at everything in them
vevj rr'.", ,‘.l, 1 were three trains eon-
the show The first train, which
Fused tmo *F Q tht , ir , belongings,
s*tr ’r? f,, n .' ftnada safely. but the
with‘ t i 28 a'vfiM >n^® yiag all the anim als met
one of ennfnil dlSMler ’ The ene was
track wer l t'°u' , At either side of the
deafihorUj t t h b h ted the , bodies of the
beast ■ Tll , ch t ?„a here and ther e a PO°T
rendered lai received injuries that
the v -IT?*' , Tptiier wl to the fences at
sacred i'ow Wtsre oae camel,
inals wb oh it Br3 and various other ani
cars ‘ re resc ued from the derailed
•j-v completely wrecked.
il; s--r;s a 'i-\ h 'l!f 9 cru ? ijeii aod twisted into
in ,ri„ u oß ' ! V l<i upo!1 the track
ekphar.rs 1 L,!i, ope ess entaQ l? l< -m™t. The
„ h worß ,u the first car that
tflksn f ‘ 7 8r0 n °t hurt, and after being
angrilv if ™ f ar swayed their bodies
* T ng contoem * sple ™ eil * their unusually
J. A. n ai .® mUI - Mr. Barnums nartner
di! hc; ; 'L r ;l. a ® t: , e sce ne. He s’avs it is
it wiu 1,;,., . m,lta thß 1 ss at present, but
1 the neighborhood of *40,000.
~ Boiler Shops Burned.
hoi ; p r ’ V \, f ? AV ' E '’\ Conn., Aug. 23.—The
m anufacturers° f f w le i Billelow Company,
■r ,n. w d ? 9 U ‘^X b ? llß "’ ™es and plate
tins -ve n 7 n „ ota i ? destroyed by tire early
al *> caught" i he K atlgl,,e an,i civet shops
hoxir^X* 1 tb l workm -*n, after
t)0 t of these ttle main por
-18 party 5 ’ 000 ’
G Woraan Suffrage.
®°nious debater s —After an scri
bes eearly Am t lr o K Whlcb ®e,n
by the convent \i loW u’ lt waa de<nd*i
*" fra 'iuestion to tha woman
Hljc iHofning fftetojS.
SAVED FROM THE NICKSLSDEON. j
The Captain at Death’s Door When
the Rescuers Came.
Gloucester, Mass., Aug. 23.— The
schooner Martha A. Bradley arrived here
to-day from the Grand Bank, having on
board Capt. Charles T. Rogers, of the boat
Nickelodeon, who was picked up on the
we tern edge of the Grand Bank Aug. 10 in
a helpless condition. Rogers sailed from
Boston for Paris in his 18-foot Nickel
odeon July 3. He enjoyed favorable weather
until the Bth, when he took a gale from the
northeast lasting 72 hours. When it
abated he found nimself on George’s islands.
OnJulv 23 he spoke the bark Finland in
latitude 43°.'longitude 62* 3b , and on July
24 he spoke the steamer Oi'oau iu latitude
42“ 49', longitude 62" 20', which showed that
ha had progressed only fifteen miles m 24
hours.
THE ONLY VESSELS SPOKEN IN 38 DAYS.
These were the only vessels spoken dur
ing thirty-eight, days'. By July 28 Rogers
bad become so blind from th • sun’s glare on
the water that he could not see his compass
and steered by the sun for three days. For
the last fourteen days his boat drifted
around at the "mercy of the
wind and sea, the mariner being
nearly exhausted as well ns almost
sightless, and spent of his time
lying in the bottom of his boat. Ho kept a
drag anchor out and manged to have a light
burning at night. W hen found his con
dition was suen that he could have lived but
a short time had he not been rescued. He
could neither stand nor feed himself.
SHARKS AS GOOD OMENS.
His spirits were buoyed up by what he
considered favorable omens. At one time
four small sharks came near his boat. Ho
regarded this as an indication that he
would be picked up in four days by the
foueth boat he saw, which omen was
verified. For four days prior to
his rescue he saw a vessel each day
but they were so far away that his signal
was apparently not seen until the last day
of the four, when the schooner Bradley
came to his rescue. Since then his heal ill
has improved, but be is still very weak.
His eyesight has boon partially restored.
SEALS AND FISHaiS.
An International commission One of
the Eventualities.
Ottawa, Ont., Aug. 23. —It is uow ad
mitted in political circles here that Lord
Stanley has made urgent representations
regarding the recent seizures in Behring
soa. A leading official of the fisheries de
partment says he feels certain that an inter
national commission will be appointed after
the expiration of the Alaska Commercial
Company’s contract to settle tho Atlantic
and Behring sea question. He feels confi
dent that compensation for the late seizures
will be paid the Canadian vessel owners.
A LACK OF SERIOUSNESS.
London, Aug. 24, 3 a. m.— The Times
says: There is a cui ious want of seriousness
about the Behring se t seizure. It appears
to be intended to frightnn away Victorian
sealers by sham formalities of capture,
and not exact the usual penalties. Amer
ica appea;s to think this course
will appease the Alaska company,
please the Irish electors, and pot
not provoke British reprisals. But she has
no right to play a gams of “bource” with
the weapons of illegal capture and search.
Unless England takes some active step
America will be perfectly content
with an interchange of views tili
doomsday. Americans will not find
us unreasonable on the score
of preserving the seals from extinction, but
if they persist in refusing to discuss nr.y
.-ettlement, our only course is to take vigor
ous steps to insure that our rights are
respected.’’
MOONSHINE OUILAW3.
Their Position So Strong That Their
Arrest is Almost Impossible.
Nashville, Tens., Aug. 23.—A special
to the American from South Pittsburg,
Tenn., says: "News reached this city from
Whiteville to-day that John Hobbs, who
shot Deputy United States Marshal Sam
Hughes on the mountain near that place),
Wednesday, while resisting arrest, was still
there and” had not ceased selling his
wild cat liquors. The Whitevilie people
sav there are some sixteen or twenty en
gaged in league with the moonshine busi
ness, and that they a r e well armed with
Winchester rifles and shotguns. Ho bs
says he will not be taken alive, and that all
of his gang will tight for him.
hidden in the rocks.
The law-breakers are hidden ia the rocks
and it is dangerous for an officer to go near
the place where they tell whisky.
They have several barrels, and tbey
will sell it before returning
to Grundy and Warren counties, whence
taey came. Five hundred dollars reward
is offered for Hobbs, but no one will under
take hia arrest. A regular regiment could
not take him from hia gang
stationed as they are. it is
reported that the revenue officers will at
tempt to break up the gang, and when they
do the people of that vicinity say there wiii
be blood-hed. Hobbs, it is said, was among
the moonshiners who killed Capt. Davis
some years ago.”
GEN. LEACH'S LIFE IN DANGER.
A Fall While Jumping from a Train
Results in a Broken Leg.
Dttrham, N. C., Aug. 23.— Intelligence
has reached The Globe, from Charlottes
ville, Va., to the effect that Gem James
Madison Loach, ex-member of congress
from North Carolina, had a leg broken a
day or two ago. He was on his way to
Washington, and on the arrival of the
train at Charlottesville, got off while the
train was moving, falling with the above
result. Gen. Leach is over 75 years of age,
and the accident may prove fatal.
TWO FLOCR MILLS BURNED.
The Total Loss About 200,000 With
Only $65,000 Insurance.
St. Catherine, Ont., Aug. 22.—The
Empire and Phoenix flouring mills, both
owned by Sylvester Neeian, were totally
destroyed by fire this morning. The Empire
mill was one of the finest and largest mills
in the country, and was erected only a few
years ago at a cost of nearly *IOO,OOO.
The Are burned so rabidly and fiercely
that nothing could be saved The Empire
mill was Ailed with the most improved
machinery, all of whica was destroyed.
The total loss is now estimated at about
$200,000. The insurance is *65,000.
Land for Negro Immigrants.
City of Mexico, Aug. 23.—Messrs. Ellis
and Ferguson, the commissioners of negro
immigration, have bad an offer of a targe
tract of land for the negro colonists.
A Toronto Distillery Sold
Toronto, Ont., Aug. 23.—1 tis au
thoritatively stated that Goodbam & Wert*
have sold their distillery in this city to an
English syndicate for #6,000,000.
SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1889.
FLAT CREEK'S BIG WRECK
TEE CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT AS
MUCH A MYSTERY AS KVEB.
The Coroner's Jury Exonerates the
Railroad from Any Blame Whatever
Knoxville In a Fever of Unrest and
Business Suspended—A Full Liat of
the Injured.
Knoxville, Tenn., Aug. 23.—'The coro
ner’s inquest to-day returned a verdict com
pletely exonerating the Knoxville, Cumber
laud Gap and Louisville railroad from all
responsibility for yesterday’s accident at
Big Flat creek. The cause of the accident
remains unknown, as the experts are totally
unable to explain it. The roadbed was ex
amined and found to be in perfect condi
tion. The wheels wore tested before the
train started, and the cars were just out of
the shop. A small stone found lietween tho
plank crossing and the rail wav have lifted
the flange from the track, but this is consid
ered improvable. Knoxville has a fever of
unrest to-day, and busiuess, except
at the newspaper offices, is practically sus
pended. Large crowds are on the streets
quietly, but earnestly, discussing the uc
cident. Scarcely a man Injured but was a
prominent and popular citizen. All the
public associations mot to-day to take ac
tion and fittingly commemorate the ead oc
casion. There have been no additional
deaths, but the chairman of public works,
Mr. Young, is now dying, and Alderman
Barry cannot live. County Judge Maloney’s
condition has tak n a turn for the worse,and
his friends are very anxious.
FULL LIST OF THE INJURRD.
The following is a complete list of the
wounded and extent of their injuries:
Alf.x A. Arthur, slight internal in
juries—bruised, not considered dangerous.
Isham Young, chairman of the board of
public works, internal injuries; will die.
John T. Hearn, editor of the Sentinel,
very painfully, but not seriously injured
internally.
Edward Barker, compound fracture of
the right log, and hurt in tho groins;
amputation necessary.
A. J. Albers, simple fracture of the hip
bone, two ribs brokeu and right arm frac-
tured.
W. W, Woodruff, simple fracture of
the left leg and left arm.
Rev. R. J. Cooke, dean of the theological
school, Grant university, Athens, two ribs
of the left side fractured.
Alexander W. Wilson, assistant chief
engineer of the Knoxville, Cunberland Gap
an 1 Louisville railroad, compound fracture
of the right leg above the knee, and frac
ture of the right hip-bone and bruised about
th ' head and shoulders.
Gen. H. Schubert, simple fracture of
the left leg below tae knee aud fracture of
the right thigh bone.
J. F. Kinzel, left shoulder dislocated and
injured internally, not serious.
Peter Kern, a member of tho board of
public works, lbft shoulder, head aud face
bmisrd.
John 11. Hall, Middlesboro, Ky., cut
and bruised about the head and face.
Judge George Maloney, one rib broken
and thigh bone probably fractured; very
dangerously injured.
H. McKeldin of Athens, rib brokon, in
jured internally.
P. H. Taylor, two ribs broken, cut and
bruised about the head and face, and ankle
sprained.
* Dr. A. W. West, city physician, in
jured internally, probably a fracture of the
ribs.
E. W. Adkins, bruised on tho leg and
cut in the neck.
J. E. Barry, cut in the side by glass;
wounds considered necessarily fatal, as the
cavity of the abdomen is filled with pow
dered g!a-s.
J udoe H. H. Ingersoll, right leg cut
and bruised.
H. B. Wetzell, head and body injured.
not dangerously.
W. B. .-Samuel, fractured left arm near
the wrist, cut and bruised in the face.
Philip Samuel, aged ten years, severe
scalp wound.
R. Schmidt, left shoulder and two ribs
fractured.
W. A. Park, state inspector of mine3,
right leg and spine slightly injured.
C. A. Ebb, sligiitly bruised.
Alderman W. C. Perry, bruised about
the loins and head, severe cuts.
W. C. Perry, flagman, internally in
jured.
SIX OR SEVEN MORE WILL DIE.
During the afternoon and evening symp
toms of a grave nature have developed in
several cases, although up to midnight
no deaths have occurred. Chairman Young
cannot live through to-nmht; Alderman
Hockings is bavingjhcmo. rb.ages from the
lungs, and is considered fatally hurt;
Alderman Barry has symptoms of peritoni
tis; Edward Barker and Charles Seymour
are now considered fatally injured, and
Judge Maiouey is spitting blood, and the
doctors are " fearful. Mr. Fianaagan,
it is thought, will die, as he is
having hemorrago--. Col. Powers was
buried this afternoon. All stores were
closed aud bus.ness was suspended. Gay
street was lined wirli sorrowing
people. Judge Andrews will bo
buried to-morrow and Mr. Reeder
on Sunday. Commissioner Kern has
taken a backward turn, and nearly ail the
injured are beginning to feel the effects of
the exposure to the driving rain. It is now
tho general feeling that the deaths will
number at lea t six or seven.
A NEGRO CANDIDATE.
Ex-Auditor McCabe Wants a Position
in the House.
Washington, Aug. 23.—1 t is said that
ex-State Auditor McCabe of Kansas
(colored) will contest before the republican
House caucus for one of the four chief
places in the organization. He has no; de
cided what position he will apply for, but
it is not believed that he wid seek either
the clerkship or the doorkeepership. That
would leave tne position of sergeant-at-arms
or that of postmaster. McCabe is a very
active, intelligent and respectable mula to
who has figured around Washington since
March 4, not appreciated by the Preside it,
so he now turns to congress for recognition.
The negroes will generally support McCabe
unless some southern negro should appear
for a place. Tbey seem determined to moot
the question of recognitiori this year.
WORRIED OUT OF OFFICE.
The Leisure Hour Work of Gov. Goff
and 3teve Elkins.
Washington, Aug. 23.—Ex-Gov. Alex
ander R Botelerof West Virginia, has re
signed his place as pardon clerk in the de
oartment of justice, the resignation to take
effect Sept. 1. He is believed to be the victim
of Gov. Goff and Steve Elkins, who spend
their leisure hours bunting down West
Virgiuians in office not agreeing politically
with themselves.
Purchases of Bonds.
Washington, Aug. 23.-The Secretary
of the Treasury to-lay accepted #167,200
4>js at 106%, and #250,000 4a at 128.
TANNER INCOMPETENT.
He la Working Like a Steamer with
Her Screw Out of Water.
Washington, Aug. 23. —“Corporal Tan
ner has not busiuess a ility en rngb to or
ganize his office correspondence," said a
prominent eastern republican congressman,
who is also a member of the G. A. R., to
day. “He does not know enough to tell his
olerks what letters to bring to him. Tho
trouble is be is not only not a lawyer, as
every commissioner of pensions ought to lie,
hut he is not a business man, as every com
missioner of pensions must be, and his work
is all in confusion, as I know personally to
my sorrow. They tell ine lie wm-ks at his
desk nights ns well as days, and I suppose
ho does it to try to catch tip.
WORKING IN THE AIR.
“But he is working iu the air like a steam
boat with her wheels out of tho water. I
am saying nothing, now, mind, übout his re
ratings and his ‘special’ orders. Ho was
undoubtedly misled by the local pension
agents hero, but 1 am talking about Ins or
dinary routine business and from my t>er
sonal knowledge. Tanner was a good
soldier and ho is a good stump speaker, but
he is a fa lure as commissioner of pensions;
and what is worse the President was
warned that he would te, and ap
pointed him in spite of this warning.
Why,” the speaker wound up, “after
making n muddle of a matier a constituent
of mine was interested in, all Cor;>oral Tan
ner could say to me by way of explanation
was, ‘Good God, general 1 l dou’t know
how I could have done that!’ ’’
A UUlLla OF PHiACY.
The Abandonment on Aransas Key
Looks Like Marooning.
Washington, Ang. 23.—The navy de
partment has received a report from Com
modore Kellogg, commanding tho United
States steamship Ossipee, describing the
rescue of two sailors from Aransas Key,
who were abandoned together with tile
mate, who died before he could bo rescued.
Ac ing Secretary WAlker, after reading
the report, referred it to the jti Ige advocate
general of tho navy with instructions to
look at tho legnl aspect of the case.
LEGAL ACTION RECOMMENDED.
It is undoubtedly a fact that (Juiumodoro
Kellogg recommends legal action against
tho master of tho soiiooner Anna, who
abandoned tho men. Tho report will be
sent ovor to the department of justice to
morrow, presumably with a request to
prosecute. There has beau considerable in
dignation expressed by naval officers over
this case, and one says that tie
has recelloction that a number of sailoj”
wore abaudoued from the seme schooner
savernl yours ago. In that case it is lit:sly
to go hard with her master for this act of
abandonment, which in piraUsal days
was known as “marooning,’’ is Wgardedas
one of the worst acts iu tho category of
naval siu.
NEW DKY DOCKS.
Ons of tho Pumps at Norfolk Good
for 47,000 Gallons Por Minute.
Washington, Aug. 23.—Mr. Himpson,
the contractor building the now govern
ment dry docks at Norfolk and New York,
has notified tho navy department that the
Norfolk dock will be in readiness to receive
vessels on Sept. 19. The coffer dam was
taken away to-day. The gate wnich closes
the dock is said to be a flue piece of work,
being perfectly water tight. Machinery of
new and powerful design has been supplied
at this dock.
A POWERFUL PUMP.
One of tho puni|w has a capacity of 47,-
000 gallons per minute, which is far in ex
cess of the pumps at the Newport News
dock although thoy were regarded as ex
ceedingly powerful. There are two of these
pumps at the Norfolk dock, capable of
emptying it in an hour and twenty minutes.
This is 10-s than the time in which a largo
vessel can be handled and placed in the
blocks in tho dock, but the rapidity of dis
charge will be the most important element
in re-d(Xiking vessels or in emptying the
dock after discharging one vessel for the
reception of another.
TWO WIND MONBTBR3.
A Meeting of a Hurricane and a
Cyclone Not Improbable.
Washington, Aug. 23.—The hydro
grapher of tho navy department gives
notice that tdegraphic reports from Santo
Domingo, Porto Plata and Havana indicate
that there is a hurricane central over the
Bahama islands, and acymonio disturbance
of increasing energy ii tho Gulf of Mexico.
Tho present position of the Bahama hurri
cane is uncmain, as there is not telegraphic
communication with any of the Baha mas
or with Bermuda. It is probable,
however, that it is central to-day about.
Crooked isiand passage, and that it will
curve in toward tne coast of Florida and
follow the Gulf stream toward Hatteras
an l the Grand Banks, j lined, possibly, by
the gulf cyclone. Information may be re
ceived at any moment that will allow of a
more definite forecast, but masters of ves
sels are warned to take suitable fuecautions.
Late news may be obtained at any branch
hydrographic office.
THE WEATHER AT HAVANA.
Havana, Aug. 23.—The barometer here
continues to fall and rainy weather prevails.
A cablegram from Ban Domingo reports
southeasterly winds and heavy goa.
OUR PO3TOFFICE BITE.
There ia No Possibility of a Change
in the Location.
Washington, Aug. 23.— Supervising
Architect Windrim, of the treasury
department, was very much surprised at
Superintendent Peck's proposition that
he should entertain an offer to sell the
site procured for the g ivornment build
ing at Savannah and buy another. He
thought 3'ipt. Peck would navok town that
congress must direct such an exchange to
be made before he could make it, or even
consider it. As the law stands, all that he
can do is to go ahead with the building.
SENATOR HAWLEY’S PLANS.
Ha Would Not Accept tha Russian
Mission if Offered It.
Y/ashington, Aug. 23.— Senator Hawley
will not accept the mission to Russia if it
should be offered to him. He proposes to
stay in the Senate until his term expiree
in 1893. He will then be in his 67th
year, and may be willing to retire
from public life. He has abandoned all
hope of the presidency.
Surgeon Porter’* Resignation.
Washington, Aug. 23.—The acting Sec
retary of War has received the resignation
of Hurgeon Porter, who is said to have re
signed becaused he did not care to obey the
order to leave Jacksonville, Fla., for Jack
son barracks, Louisiana. The acting secre
tary, however, has declined to accept the
resignation, and wdl in a day or two decide
whether the objectionable order cannot be
modified or reacinded.
HANGING MEN IN PAIRS.
THE QUADRUPLE EXECUTION IN
THE TOOMBS.
A Death of Torture Inflicted on the
Becond Pair Strung Up, Owing to
the Gibbet’s Failure to Work Prop
erly—The First Two Mon Sent Off
with Neatness and Dispatch.
New York, Aug. 23—Four murderers
of women—Patrick Packenham, Jackson
Lewis (colored), James Nolan ami Ferdi
nand Carrolan were hanged in Hie 1 ar.l
of the Tombs pris >n this morning. There
were two scaffolds and two men wore
hanged on each. Packenham nnJ Nolau
were the first, executed on a scaffold which
had been erected on tho Franklin street
side of tho prison. Tho drop fell
at 6:55 o’clock. Eight minutes later
Lewis and Carrolan woro hanging from a
scaffold on tho L tmrd street side. Sheriff
Flack and Under Sheriff Sexton entered
the prison from tho Franklin street side at
0:35 o'clock. They were followed by twenty
deputy sheriffs, all in black clothes and
wearing silk lmls. Eaoh official woro his
badge of office and carried a stiff. They
itinrclie 1 through the oorrilor into the
courtyard. Ten of thorn went to the Leon
ard street side and the others took their
places at the Franklin street side.
juries of newspaper men.
At 6:40 o’clock tho first jury of twelve
men, all newspaper representatives, wore
given the signal to enter the prison yard,
and two minutes later the second set ot'
jurors filed out and marched to tnelr | law
Simultaneously with tho marching out of
tho second jury Packenham and Nolan
were taken into a 0“ll in the new prison.
At 6:50 o’clock 'Carrolan and Lewis were
rein wed to tho boys' jail on the Jxvinard
street side.
The last tho church wore then
administered, the ceremonies occupying
eight minutes. At 6:45 o'clock two of the
condemned men, Packenham and Nolau,
emerged from tho jail, accompanied by
priests. Father Prendergast, supp nto 1
Packenham and Father lMinns walked
alongside of Nolnn. Thoprnoesshm brought,
up with Father Van Rensselaer. The firms
of the condemned men were pinioned, and
ovor the shoulder of each hung a black oa)),
with ics long streaming ribbon llafqiing iu
the wind.
APPEARANCE OF THE CONDEMNED.
Packenham’s face was of ghastly nailer,
hut his step was firm and lie looked tin
llinehingly into tho faros around him.
Nolan hardly appeared to roallze liis posi
tion. There was a half defiant look on liis
countenance, and he cast, his eyes up at the
cross beams from which tho two ropes
dangled with something akin to curiosity.
Tho rope around his neck, witli the knot,
pressing against, his left, oar, seemed to
chafe him, for he moved his head uneasily
once or twice in his brief walk to death
From tho prison door to the place of
execution it is just forty-two paces, ami
it took thirty seconds for tho condemned
men to re cli the spot where they were to
die. Nolan took his place under the rope
hanging nearest, the Franklin street wall,
Packenham was 4 fet away fr tn hisoom
panion and the next, prisoner. Both men
turned and grasped the priests by tho hands,
wringing ten fervently. Then Hangman
Atkinson stooped down and tied a white
cord about the legs of Nolan just above
the ankles. His assistant did like service
for Old Packenham.
AT THE ROPE’S END.
In a twinkling the blank caps were ad
justed anil Hangman Atkinson rapped
three times in rapid succession on the side
of a box, wherein a third assistant stood
with a hatchet. The third rapi i knock
had hardly been given when the b >ilies of
the murderers Were jerked into the air. At
theeipiration of four minutes there was a
mighty throe almost together in the sus
pended murderers, I’ackenham’s pulse had
gone up to SIS and then sank rapidly to 50
teats a minute. Nolan’s pulse at the fourth
minute was bounding at 70, but it too be
came weaker and weaker, and at the ex
piration of five mi antes was no longer per
ceptible. At 7:10 o’clock both men wore
pronounced dead, but were permitted to
hang for fifteen minutes longer.
VV uile this scene was lining enacted prop
arations were being made for wnat proved
to tie the most shocking spectacle that has
ever taken place within the waljs of the
Tombs prison. The hanging of < arrolan and
Lewis in several aspects is probably unpar
aleled. The two murderers at 0:45 o’clock
recoivod the last spiritual consolation.
DEATH MARCH OF THE SECOND PAIR.
At 7:03 o’clock Carrolan and liewis, with
their priests, came through the door, Lewis
walked unste.dily the first and zon paces, but
quiokiy recovered himself. He was -milmg,
and os he caught sight of a deputy who
had been specially kind to him he walks 1
over and seize 1 his hands. Then he stio k
hands with two more. Father Gclinas
gently urged him toward the rope that was
to strangle him. He smiled and looked
fearlessly around him.
DIED LIKE A DEMON.
Carrolan hart tbn butt of a cigar between
his iips and was puffing vig rously, bio wing
great clouds of smoke into the faces of the
attending priests. HL face was es pale as
the face of a dead man, a id the scowl upon
it was almost demonic,tl. Hegl red at the
priest as he turned around, and felt the
rope touch his shoulder. Spitting
the cigar stump from his month he
broke out into blasphemy that ho>rfled the
spectators Ha gman Atkinson had
just pinioned his legs when bespoke. Took
ing sullenly at the priests, he suddenly ex
clai ned: ‘‘l die an innocent man.—
it, I didn’t; do this thing.’’
Lewis, who had then been pinioned, half
turned his head, and, addressing his com
panion, said: “What’s the matter with you.
anyway? Why don’t you die like a man*”
“I will die like a man!” shrieked Clsrrolan,
his face turning perfectly livid ; “f will die
like a man—an innocent man.” The words
were scarcely out of his mouth before
Hangman Atkinson had clapped the black
cap over ris face. The assistant hangman
covered Lewis’ face.
HORRIBLE STRUGGLING.
At the same moment Hangman Atkinson
gave the signal and the weigut fell. Instead
of .bounding up os Fa ken ha n and Nolan
hail done, the miserable wretches went into
the air with so little force that
there was scarcely any rebound
at all. Lewis immediately l>egan
to struggle in a most sickening mau
ner. He threw his legs about so violently
as to kick off his slippers. Then he began
to gurgle and choke. The rasping, whoez
ing sound came from under tbe horrible
black cap for fully ten seconds. His
body turned and swayed, and the contor
ti .ns were so painfol that naif a dozen men
turned away their hea<U. Tne poor crea
ture was slowly strangled. Carrolan’s body
was violently contorted also, but he uttered
no sound. The weight fell at 7:03 o’clock,
and at 7:10 o’clock Doth men were dead.
The four bodies hung for half an hour and
were then cut down and placed in plain
coffins. All four ware strangled.
CABROLAN’B SANITY DOUBTFUL.
Charles Ferdinand Carrolan is not be
lieved to have been of sooud mind,
although experts on his trial declared him
sane. There seemed to be a screw loose
some where and every prisvn keeper or
deputy sheriff said so. lie murdered a
woman named H idget Quinn, who pass'd
as his wife, in a small back room in a tene
uiput house at No. 47, Staut u street, ■ n
the afternoon .if March 16, 1888. He
butchered her with a hatchet.
LEWIS’ CRIME.
John Lewis alias, Black .Tack, shot and
killed Alice Jacks in in the kitchen of the
house No. st, West Third street, where she
was getting breakfast oil the morning of
July 17, 1888. lie came from the south,
NOLAN'S COWARDLY DEEP.
The crime for which James Nolan dlej
was a in. st cowardly one. He was a wild
young fellow and at a .lance in the Bowery
one night had the acquaintance of
a handsome young woman named
Emma Buck. Hiio was a married
woman and had lived happily four years
with her husband, who loved and provided
for her. She was true to him until she met
N lan, for whom she ooneeiVed an unholy
passion, lie induced her to leave home and
husband and cast her lot with his own. He
took to drink, and quarrels with the woman
who had forsaken all for him resulted. Nov.
36, 1888, he came home much the worse for
liquor, called her out in the hall and shot
her.
THE PATRIARCH OF TIIK QUARTETTE.
Patrick Paekeuham was the patriarch of
the quartette of murderers who were
hanged this morning, and yet no one of
them perhaps more richly deserved his fate,
lie was an intelligent, well educated man
whose besotting siu was drink. Throng i
its influence lie lost many good situations.
He was ..nee a member of toe New Orleans
police force. He had a good wife, a woman
who took the best of care of her home a id
children, yet lie butchered her brutally.
He osught her by the hair
an.l pulled her head over back
ward, Hobart sprang at his father in an
•■lloit to save his mother, but. it was no use.
The keen-edged Idado wns used with dead y
ITect, severing the jugular vein. The
woman was released, and, crawling out in
the hall, died there, l’ackenhain wasolean
ing his razor and washing the blood fr m
himself wlieu tlio p dice came ii and ar
lested him. While in jail ho expressed re
grot at his crime.
A HAN.UNO IN TEXAS.
Bt. Louis, Mo., Aug. 53.4.—-A special from
Han Antonio, To*., to the Post- Ditpulrh
says: “Jim Mot lay, a noted desperado of
Bmthwestern Texas, was hanged here to
day for the murder of Sheriff McKinney
Dec. 36, 18SH.”
LIFK IN IftlHH PRISONS.
Balfour Announces That Oonybear In
Cured.
London, Aug. 23, —In the debate on the
prison vote in Hie House of Commons this
evening an attack was made upon the treat
ment of Irish political prisoners. The case
of (Jouybear having been referred to Mr.
Balfour announced that. Cony bear was
now cured, and the only question remaining
was as to the origin of tun di ease.
McFadden, he said, was tue previous
occupant of the cell, A thorough examina
tion revealed no trace of disease in the
prison or among the prisoners. At the con
clusion of the examination lie consented to
the transfer of Conybear to another jail.
LOUSY LONDONDERRY.
Mr. Blane followed with an account of
his experience in the Londonderry jail. He
declared that the sick prisoners were never
sent to the hospital until theyjwere nearly
dying. Ho had sn prisoners arrive
suffering from lice. The closet, were in a
filthy condition. Ho and other prisoners
had boon exhibited from tno balcony to
Indy friends of the officials. He had never
complained of his treatment because
he knew it was useless to do so.
Mr. Hexton violently attacked Mr. Bal
f -ur's (illusion to McFadden.
Mr. Balfour interposing said he Intended
no insinuation.
A PEST HOUSE.
Mr. Sexton, continuing, described the
Londonderry jail e* a post house, where
the prisoners can traded fever and were
thrust out to die. He dotailed one case of
fever amid groans from the Paruellites,
e ho, crying, “Another murder,” “There’s
the assassin” invited Mr. Balfour to smile.
Mr. Balfour said that long familiarity
wiin such attacks induced contempt. After
ao’lueing statistic* to show that there was
a lower rate of mortality in the Irish than
in the English prisons, he said that the
hnmaneisni of tin Parnellites was only
awakened when their friends were im
prisoned.
T. W. Kussell (unionist), member for
Tyrone, urged that in order to satisfy the
public a sanitn y engineer b appointed to
inspect the prisons
PRISONERS HALF STARVED.
Mr. Parnell, in the course of a speech,
contended that oakum picking was ill-paid
work, and that an endeavor was made to
compensate even for this outlay by reducing
the food supply. The result was the per
manenf enfoeblement of the prisoners. For
himself, he was convinced that the Irish
prisoners were half starved. Trmyougntt >
be provided with plantv of remunerative
work, and should be better fed.
All the other prisons are in had
unitary condition. He had him-elf seen
in the older part of the Kilmainha n jail,
liquid sewage leaking through the
foundation of the walla and bursting into
the very yard. He was convinced that the
Berry prison required to be entirely re
built. Otherwise its objectionable condi
tion is Irremediable. Medical officers tried
to nidc the existence of fever under the
medical name of tutierculosis.
CULPABLE NEGLECT.
Mr. Balfour had l>een guilty of culpable
nezloct. He was glad that Mr. Conybear
had been removed. * tit he urged the House
not to forget that other victims of Mr. Bal
four vere liable to be stricken at any
moment, while Mr. Balfonr disported
bimseif with eluraotaristic nonchal
ance. He hoped Mr. Balfour would give
some assurance that an engineer would
be appointed t > lay the truth before
che country. Mr. Balfour would find that
his proc< dure would onlv strengthen Irish
men in their determination not to yield.
Mr. B ilfour did not compel his pet Belfast
forgers to clean the prison <iesspools as he
did Fitzgibbons. The Parneliltes would
force this question until justice was ob
tained.
The prisons vote was adopted by a vote
of 113 to 69, and all the other votes were
agreed to.
PARNELL NOT COMING HERE.
London, Aug. 34, 4 a. m.— The Standard
says Mr. Parnell has no intention of visit
ing America as reported.
A New Complication in Crete.
Athens, Aug. 33.—The sultan has de
clined to accede to the demands made by
the Cretan commission, and the situation is
again complicated. Turkish troops are
occupying advantageous positions in view
of the emergency.
The porte has decided to dismiss tbe
Christian gead’armerfe employed in Crete.
A Big Chinese Loan.
Berlin, Aug. 24, 3a. jl— The Diseonto
Geseilschaft, iu conjunction with an influ
ential Hamburg bauk will issue Chinese
loans to the amount of 1-100,000,000.
i DAILY, 110 A YEAR 1
4 5 CENTH A OOPY, l
I WEEKLY. li.kt A YEAR f
NEGROES CltY FOR BLOOD
A CRAZY CRTTHADH FOLLOWS AM
ACCIDENTAL KILLING.
A White Boy Clerk In * Store Neap
Charleston Unintentionally Dis
chargee a Gun and Cause* the Death
of a Negress-Troops from Charles
ton Bent to Prevent a BloodF Up
rising.
Charleston, R. C, Aug. SA— To-day
has lieen .me of intense excitement In Char
leston. At 11 o’clock this morning a tele
phone message was received from Mb
Ploasant asking for assistance. Mi
1 leasaut Is a suburb of the city, across the
river In Berkeley county, and near the
scene of the Caiuhoy massacre In 1876.
The negroes outnumber the whites in the
proportion of about thirty to one. The
message came from the sheriff. About 9
o’clock this morning a negro woman named
Moilia Holmes entered a grocery store in
the village and made some purchases. Tha
clerk, t red BcL er, a boy about IT years
of age, had been cleaning a gun which is
invariably kept in such stores.
ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.
The woman passed In front of ft while
tn boy wan hamliinyr it, uni the gun \Teufc
off and mortally wounded her. /Vs soon
as the news got abroa I, the negro women,
as is their custom, started out ou a oraav
crusade. They arouse 1 the men and lit *
uunnont the whole population waa In a
ferment. I’lie boy ran to the sheriff, and
gave himself up and was locked up iu jail.
gathering arks.
The women surrounded the jail and da.
mended his blood. The men sent out to
the surrounding plantations for arms and
ammunition an t threatened to take tha
prlsioner, sheriff and jailer and hang all
of them unless the boy was given up. The
sheriff hail half a dor.en deputies swortx
In and stood the siege, in tha
menu time sending to Charleslou for
help. By order of the governor two oome
pnides of white milnia, the German
Fusiliers and Humter Guards, were dis
patched to the sconce of tiie disturbance.
I’h. y left the city at I o'clock this after
noon, ami forty-live minutes later were at
the jail. The women died ah >ut 3 o’clock
this afternoon, having made an ante
mortem statement to the effect that tha
shooting was accidental.
FAILED TO CALM Tim MOR.
This, however, did not appease the in
fnriated neg'o men aid women. The pris
oner wns sent under guard to this city a*
7 o’clock to-night, but in the meantime tha
reinforcements from Calnhoy and the sur
rounding country had come in and tha
crowd threatened to burn the town. Tin*
Charleston trootis thereupon were ordered
to encamp on the scene and will stay there
all night.
CHARLESTON NEGROES EXCITED.
The negroes in this city ure very much
excited, mid the lovrtr classes aro talking
bo dly of embarking in small Iwat* for Mt.
Pleasant to Jgo to the ail of the rioters.
Seven of the ringleaders in the demonttras
tiou were arrest-<1 about S o’clock this af
ternoon arid lodge lln jail. It was clearly
a ca.e of accidental killing, and the blood
thirsty feeling of the negr -os is difficult t<
understand.
MRI. MAYBHIOK’H EBCJAPB.
The New* of Her Commutation Fi
nally Delivered to Her.
Liverpool, Aug. 23.—Thu official mes
senger hearing tlm announcement of the
commutation of Mrs. Maybrb'k’s sentence
did not reach the jail until 2 o’clock this
morning. The news was at once communi
cated to the prisoner, who betrayed some
emotion, but not to the extent that was an
ticipated. The chaplain visited liar at
breakfast time, lhe revulsion of feeling
had then prostrated her and she seemed
weaker than at any time since her arre-t.
ft is feared that sh • will not live long,
Brierly, her all -gad param mr, sailed for
Boston on the steamer Scythia, whioh lefS
Liverpool yesterday.
NOT YET SATISFIED.
London, Aug. 23.—The Mavhriek com
mittee has resolved to agitato pardon cn the
ground that the decision of the home sec
retary shows that there is reasonable doubt
whether Maybriok was poisoned.
LONDON'S 810 STRIKS.
Other Unskilled Laborers Join th®
Dock Hands.
London, Aug. 33.—The members of other
trade* are joining the striking dock men.
The oar men of Piekford & Go., general
carriers and agents of the London and
Northwestern and other railroad companies,
have already gone out, and tbe railway
car me i are joining thorn. The laborers at
SprattN bis uit factory have struck, caus
ing an entire stoppage of w.-rk. All clam--*
of unskilled labor in London threaten to
join in the strike, and trouble is feared.
The police are making preparations for an
emergency.
Thousands of vessels lie idle in London
docks and the Indian mail steamers ar ■ de
tained in port. Four thon-and lightermen
have s ruck. Mounted police patrol tlja
street, and the situation is becoming crlfc
ical.
RULES OF THE OCEAN.
England’s Delegates to the Coining
Maritime Conference.
London, Aug. 23. —ln the House of Com
mons this af ernoon, Sir Michael Hicks-
Beaeh, president of the board of trade, said
England had accepted an invitation to send
delegates to the maritime conference to be
held in Washington, but the British dele
gate would not be empowered to make any
engagements binding upon England.
Tne delegates are Charles Hall, member
of parliament for Cambridgeshire; T.nomas
Gray, secretary of the board of trade; Copt,
Wyatc of the Peninsular and Oriental
Steamship Company; Capt. Kendall of the
Dublin Navigation Company; Admiral*
Molineaux, Smith and Naree.
Miss Huntington’s betrothal.
London, Aug. 23.--The report is eons
firmed t iat Miss Huntington, daughter of
t e California millionaire, is betrothed to
Prmee Hatzfeldt, nephew of the Germar
ambassador to this country.
A Dinner In the Shah’s Honor.
Vienna, Aug. 23. —This evening Emparoi
Francis Joseph gave a dinner in honor of
the shah. Ex-King Miiau of Servia, and
other royalties, were among the guests.
Boulanger Suspended.
Paris, Aug. 23.—The council oi the
Legion of Honor has suspended Gen. Bot#
lunger.
Slain from Ambush.
Yazoo City, Miss., Aug 33. Capt. Saw
Whiteworth win killed this evening withhf
half a mile of Rising Sun, La Flore comity
He was shot, dowu from the bush while
riding along the road.
