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‘AtTnntw i-WeeMn So nr wal. VOL. X TOLL OF DEATH NOW REACHES TOTAL OF 39 IS RESUJJOF WRECK Officials of the Railroads Are Still at a Loss to Know Ex actly How the Accident Took Place CARS WERE PACKED WITH HOLIDAY CROWD No Chance for Passengers to Escape—Superintendent of Transportation Is Heart broken Over the Tragedy (By Associated Press.? FORT WAYNE. Ind-. Sept. 22.—Thir ty-nine is the toll of the dead in the Fort Wayne-Bluffton interurban disas ter yesterday. so far as the check made this morn.ng shows. While the offi cials of the company refuse to give out their opinion as to where the responsi bility lies, rumor fixes the blame with the crew of the •special" train which was speeding south from Fort Wayne, empty. It is the report that the crew, knowing the “Ideal" was 18 or more minutes late, took chances on making a siding and failed. There is still •"me confusion as to the names of the dead. There are m the hospital in Fort Wayne six injured. These are: MRS. W. D. BURG AN, Bluffton. MISS MARGARET TRIBOLET, Bluff ton. S A. PARKHURST, Bluffton C. W. BROWN, Warren. Ind. B. F. CORK WELL, motorman •spe cial" train A. ELLENSBERGER. Berne. Ind. WAS HOLIDAY CROWD. Practically all of the dead were per sons living in the vicinity of Bluffton It was a holiday throng bound for Fort Wayne to attend the state fair. The •local" waa filled to the last seat and there were several persons in the aisles or on the platforms. The crash was without warning. Running at its high est speed, the empty ••special” sped out from the woods on a curve and plunged into the local." which also was run ning at high speed. There was no rbance for either motorman to prevent the accident. The "local" was torn apart as one might burst a paper bag. It ex ploded. say witnesses. ' . IT WAS A SLAUGHTER Os all In the car. probably passen gers. scarcely one escaped. It waa a slaughter. That the blame will be placed is made apparent by the action of the In diana state board of railroad commis sioners. Within a very short time of the accident. Commissioner A. A. Shane, who also is the special Investigator of the board, had reached the scene of the wreck and had begun interrogating trac tfen officials and witnesses of the crash. This morning Mr. Shane declined to make known the results of his investiga tion. saying that it would have to be given out by the state board. This morning Superintendent of Trans portation Frank I. Hardy sat, heart broken, in his office In Fort Wayne. "In a very short time we will be able to make a statement,- said Mr. Hardy, “placing, so far as we can determine it. the blame for the terrible wreck. The ex tent of the accident appalls us. yet we are doing everything in our power to care for the dead and the injured and to alleviate, so far as we may, the anguish of relatives of the victims. We have be gun the most careful scrutiny of train orders bearing on the case. and on every bit of evidence which might tend to fix the blame. The public soon shall know where the responsibility liee.” Around the undertaking establishments in Bluffton and Fart Wayne and at the hospitals tn this city this morning was gathered anxious or stricken men and women. For the most part, the bodies have been claimedxbut in some instances, where mutilation made identification dif ficult or the victim was not actually re lated to anyone in the district, there was delay and confusion. Among the victims of the wreck was Miss Pearl Sayler. a daughter of Mrs. Clara Sayler. of Bluffton, and a sister of Banker J. B. Sayler. of Watseka. 111., who was shot and killed by Dr. W. R. Miller a year or so ago. For the crime, which attracted widespread interest. Dr. Miller and Mrs. Sayler now are serving prison sentences. With the death of Frederick C. Jones, of Warren. Ind., in a hospital here this morning, the list of dead in tnteruban disaster yesterday afternoon near Kings land, Ind., waa brought up to 39. Two others. Miss Margaret Trlbolet and F. A. Parkhurst, both of Bluffton, brought here to a hospital, are in a critical con dition and not expected to live. Jones waa 25 years old and the son of C. J. Jones, president of the Warren bank. EIGHT REPORTED DEAD AS RESULT OF WRECK Freight Train on Michigan Central Is Smashed Up—Re ports Are Conflicting SAGINAW, Mich.. Sept 31.—1 tis re ported that eight people were killed In a wreck on the Michigan Central rail road at St. Charlee. TWO MEN HURT. CHESANING. Mich.. Sept 23.—Re porta reaching here from St Charlee are now that a freight train on the Michi gan Central railroad waa wrecked and that two men were fatally injured but none killed. taft’sson leaves Yale TO ENTER harvard NEW HAVEN. Conn., Sept. 22.—Three of the most prominent members of the senior class of the Yale academic depart ment last June have decided to enter Tie Harvard school this fall. Among them is Robert Taft son of the president Furman College Opens GREENVILLE. 8. C.. Sept. 22—With all dormitory space taken, Furman uni versity opened yesterday with an en rollment of more than 350 students. Formal opening exercises were held tn Judson hall at 9 o'clock, with President Poteat presiding and all members of the faculty present. Announcements were made concerning courses and matricu lation and classes were announced to as semble on schedule Thursday. Regular class room work will be taken up Frl <ay. IM MEN IN BUGGIES FIGHT DUEL TD DEATH I BEFOBEJEIB WIVES Charles Tate and John March ant Drops to Ground After Firing Half a Dozen Shots With Fatal Effect I FIGHT WAS RESULT OF AN OLD FEUD Tate Was Bridegroom of Two Months and Married Widow of Brother of Man He Killed in Fight' (By Associated Press.) PELHAM. Ga., Sept. 22.—Stopping their buggies when they met each other in the ■ public road near here yeaterday, Charlea I Tate and John Marchant, both promi nent men of thia county, fought a duel | with pistols, both dropping to the ground dead after half a dozen shots had been I fired. The wives of the men sat in the buggies while the fight waa in progress. | and saw their husbands kill each other. | Tate was a bridegroom of two months and his bride was the widow of Frank I Marchant, a brother of the man whom hej killed and who killed him today. The ' fight grew out of an old grudge which I lat first was between Mrs. Tate’S first ■ husband and her second husband, later it ( lis said, being intensified between Tate and John Marchant, who opposed his sister-in-law's marriage with Tate, and took up the old quarrel. When they met Marchant called Tate to his buggy. The men exchanged hardly a word when the shooting began. Tate • fired three times, every bullet finding its, mark. While the bullets were cutting into his body Marchant fired twice, one bullet striking Tate's hand and the other pass through his heart. The widows called aid and the bodies were removed. It was saifl that Mar chant lived a few minutes after he fell to the ground. Besides his wife he leaves ' two small children. The men lived, four j miles from this place, owned good farms, were of prominent families and well re spected in this section. CHINESE GIRL REFUSED BY 8188 HIGH SCHOOL Institution Declares That All Scholars Must Be of Cau casian Race MACON, Ga.. Sept. 22.—May Ling Soong, young Chinese girl, has been barred from the Gresham High school, at Macon, a county institution, because she is not a Caucasian and because she is not a citizen of this country. She Is a niece of Bing Chun Wan, wnu is con nected wit the Chinese embassy at Washington, D. C. Her sister graduated last June at Wesleyan college, which is located in Macon, and which is a famous Metho dist institution. Miss Boong came to Macon to enter Wesleyan but was found deficient In some of her studies and it was suggested that she enter the Gresham High school to prepare for the next term at Wesleyan. When ap plication was made for admission Su perintendent C. B. Chapman called a meeting of the board of education to de cide the question. The law creating the Bibb county board of education re quires that all students of the Gresham High school must be of the Caucasian race and for that reason Miss Soong was denied admittance. GOVERNOR BROWN STILL HIS MYSTERIOUS LETTER He Says No Mortal Eye Has Ever Seen Document or Knows Its Contents Governor Brown broke silence Thurs day morning concerning the mysterious • letter he sent to Gov. Hoke Smith, dur ing the latter's former administration, and which was returned unopened to the sender. He talked interestingly about the letter, but he would not give the I ieporter any inkling as to its contents. “No mortal eye but mine has ever seen that letter,” he said. "I have it laid ' away securely today, just as it was re . turned to me by Governor Smith, un opened. Concerning the contents of the letter I may say there was not a word, not a syllable In it that might not have been publicly sent to an official in per fect propriety." The governor said the letter would re main concealed, unopened and myste rious, in the safety deposit box of a banking house, and might never be given to the public. “Whether the contents of that letter are ever given to the public will depend upon unforeseen contingencies.” he said. “I know of nothing now calculated to I cause the publication of the letter.” Governor Brown declared that the im pression that he had delivered the letter 1 in person to Governor Smith is incur'; rect. “I did not hand the letter to Governor I Smith,” said he. “I sent it to his office ' by my son. Joe. who delivered it to his ' secretary, Mr. Hoyle.” WILKINSON CROPS ’ ARE 50 PER CENT SHORT, IRWINTON, Ga., Sept. 82.—The farm-' era of this section are rapidly harvest- • I ing their crops. In a few days the harv- | I esting will all be done. Farmers from all sections of the coun- | I ty report a very poor crop. Cotton is i from 50 to 60 per cent of the usual crop, I ‘ and corn from 45 to 60 per cent. Other crops are about the same in compart- : son. 180 Bushels of Com DUBLIN. Ga.. Sept 22—Dr. T. A. Word. I of Doxter, has gathered from a three acre patch of corn 180 bushels of corn. VIEWS OF MONSTER ODD FELLOWS’ PARADE WEDNESDAY | ■ i 7 Er "" BE- . Ilium- IrUlliirii IE || IH k KvrJX Jr 1 WrojKlliff ref * I flae ISShi $Jr r -w I <■■■■. .i ■■■■ - -L - ir - . - ~ L- -c•; 1 ES—- -W \ * Wee T?aS w T **SC 1 IvsWlHwwfelb> tree / X -Wr 1 tMI I A' '' SB*..- .ML,fi IM w I Brv ?/7vivs3 luß. ' ft?®*,, k? I.—General Anderson and staff and Colonel V«n Orsdale and regimental band at head of procsssion. 2—seventeenth inxantry passing under Arch .of Welcome. 3.—Oanton Ko. a, of Atlanta. 4 Rome delegation with their Japanese parasols. s.—Buffalo delegation in their qua-nt costumes. 6.—Shirt-sleeve Texas delegation and automobile containing bevy of pretty Rebekahs. 7.—Float of Piedmont Rebskahs Ito. 18. »• Au m • g of prominent Odd Fellown that ended parade. 9.—Float of the Miriam Rekekah lodge, Columbua, Ga. Fhotos by Brewerton. FUTHER LOSES LIFE JS HE TRIED ID SAVE FAMILY IN IHf E. Prentiss Peabody, of Way cross, Dies of Injuries Re ceived While Taking Child Out of Buggy INJURED WIFE WALKED TWO MILES TO GET HELP Doctors Rushed in Automobile Find Injured Man by Road side But Fail to Finally Stop Death—Children Saved (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) WAYCROSS. Ga., Sept. 21—As the re sult of injuries received Monday, K- Prestiss Peabody died here at an early hour this morning. Death was caused by an accident occurring while he was driv ing out in the country with his wife and two little children Monday, about 4 1-2 miles from the city. The horse became frightened on account of the shafts breaking and commenced kick ing. Mr. Peabody tried to Save his wife and children and while lifting his little girl from the buggy, he was kicked by the animal. Mrs. Peabody was also kick ed by the horse, sustaining severe inju ries, one rib being broken. Leaving her husband and children by the roadside, his wife walked painfully a distance of two miles before she found aid. Telephoning from the house of Mrs. Boatwright, a physician was summoned. Two doctors went at once by automobile and brought the injured man to the city where everything possible was done for him. The injuries were internal and difficult to discover. The deceased was prominent as an Ep worth League worker. He was secretary and then president of the South Georgia Epworth League and at the Asneville conference was appointed a member of the national board. He was active in church work and will be greatly missed In all lines of public activity and re ligious work. He came to Waycross from Florida several years ago and was connected at one time with the Atlantic Coast Line. He later went into insur ance business, being a member of the firm of Lott. Peabody Insurance agency. He married Miss Mary Hitch, a daughter of Col. and Mrs. S. W. Hitch, of this city, and a sister of Rev. James W. Hitch, a missionary of Korea New Highway Surveyed GBEEXVH.LE, S. C., Sept. 22—The new highway from Greenville to Hendersonville has been surveyed, and Engineer Neves Is of the opinion that the road can bo built at a 5 per cent grade. The survey was made under super vMcn of the Greenville-Hendersonville Highway araoc'atlon. racently organised, and it is prob able that active work will be begun before long. ATLANTA. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1910. AS TO THE OWNERSHIP OF THE ATLANTA JOURNAL The following correspondence which is self-explanatory passed Thurs day morning between Governor Elect Hoke Smith ana Mr. James *. Gray, editor of The Atlanta Journal: September fl 2, 1910. Hon. Hoke Smith, City:— Dear Sir: In an address at the Orpheum theater last night, Mr. Thom as E. Watson is reported in the Constitution this morning as having made the following statement: "Hoke Smith owns The Journal and uses it just as Watson uses his shoes." Mr. Watson has m*-e substantially the same statement on numerous occasions, but, up to this time, X have not deemed it worthy of denial. The statement is, as you know, wholly untrue. X am unwilling that Mr. Watson, or anyone else, shall continue to misrepresent the ownership of The Journal without a public denial of his statements. X, therefore, request you to furnish me for publication a sign ed statement covering the following points: First. Have you in any way shaped, controlled or influenced the pol icy of The Atlanta Journal since you sold it on the 10th day of April, 1900. Second. Since the date of the sale have you at any time owned or con trolled any of the stock in this paper? Third. Have you at any time since you sold the paper, had any finan cial interest, direct or remote in The Journal, or have you been connected with it in any other way by which you could influence or control its policy? It is a fact, doubtless known to you, that more than 90 per cent of the stock of The Journal is owned by those who devote their entire time to its production. Furthermore, that the principles of which The Journal is now advocating are the same that it has consistently advocated for many years. X desire to make denial of Mr. Watson’s statement in order that the public may not ba deceived about the ownership of The Journal. Xf the facts, within your knowledge, are as above indicated, X wJI thank yea to give mo a signed statement to that effect. Very truly yours, JAMES K. GHAT. September 29, 1910. Hou. James K- Gray, City. My Dear Sir:—Tour letter of the 23d has been received. During the month of April, 1900, I sold my entire interest in The Atlanta Journal to you and to your associates. Since that time X have never owned or controlled any stock in the paper directly or indirectly, nor have X in any way controlled or Influenced the policy -of the paper. After I sold The Journal X was engaged in the practice of my profes sion and giving but little attention to public affairs. Tou conducted The Journal advocating to a largo extent the same policies which X had ad vocated when I controlled The Journal. Tou were advocating those poli cies before X entered the race for governor in 1905. In many respects we agree upon public questions, but the charge that I control the policy of The Journal is certainly as unjust as the charge would be that The Journal controlled me. Since I sold my stock In The Journal in April, 19CO, to you and to your associates, I have had no connection whatever with the paper by which X could in any way influence or control its policies. X have had no financial interest, direct or remote, in The Journal since X sold to you and your associates, my stock, except that X at one time loaned you 810,- 000, and this loan has been paid back by you to mo with interest. Trusting’ that I have covered fully the information which you de sire, I remain. Very truly yours. HOKE SMITH. URIS IN THE MHOS OF HIS HOME FOLKS IN CINCINNATI. OHIO President Will Visit the Expo sition in Company With Di rectors, the Mayor and Oth er City Officials WILL MAKE AN ADDRESS TO BUSINESS MEN OF CITY After Spending Short Time at the Home of His Brother He Will Dine at Business Men’s Club CINCINNATI. Ohio, Sept. 21.—Refresh ed by a good night’s sleep. President Taft early today began receiving calls from personal friends, with whom he had been Intimate during his residence here. There was no hint of politics in any of these visits. To all requests that he discuss state Or national political matters, or com ment upon the primary results in New York or Minnesota, the chief executive returned the same answer—that he would have nothing to say at the present time. He especially declined to discuss fur ther his meeting with Colonel Roosevelt in New Haven on Monday. Although the president's Visit here has been emphasized as a "home-coming, he will not escape politic* entirely. The Ohio situation, especially, is to be ex plained to him by several party leaders. One of these. United States Senator Bur ton, has an appointment for tomorrow, and It Is likely that Wade H. Ellis, for mer assistant attorney general, and L. H. Laylin, chairman of the Republican cam paign committee in this state, will also talk with the president. Thursday evening president Taft is to dine with Congressman Nicholas Long worth at the latter’s home, and there may be enough men prominent in politics at this function to give it a tinge other than social. President Taft will be it the hands pf the Ohio Valley exposition officials almost all of today. The major part of tfee time will be spent at the exposition grounds. A tour of the grounds will be made, after which the president will de liver a speech in Music hall and later attend the performance of grand opera in the same hall. President Taft will be escorted to the exposition by a committee of exposition directors, who will meet him at the home of Mr. Charles X P. Taft, where he is staying. At the exposition the presi dent will be received by directors, hon orary commissioners. Mayor Schwab and other city officials. Then a tour of the grounds will be made. After the inspec tion of the various exhibits the president will be the guest of honor at a luncheon. In the afternoon the president will ma"* an address in the Music hall be fore the members of the Ohio Valley Improvement association, men of the SOVEREIGN LODGE 00 EACH STATE TO BUILD ITS HOSPITAL? Question of Caring for Those 111 With Tuberculosis Occu pied Session Thursday Morning WILL REACH DECISION AT MEETING THIS AFTERNOON Delegates Are Divided As to Whether It Is Duty of the Sovereign Lodge to Have One Institution A long, hard fight on the question of whether tuberculosis sanitariums for Odd Fellows should be established, sup ported and controlled by the sovereign grand lodge, or whether the grand lodge in each state should oe held responsible for providing facilities for the treatment of this disease, occupied practically the entire Thursday morning session of the sovereign grand lodge of Odd Fellows in the hall of representatives at the itate capitol. On a vote by acclamation the advo cates of letting each state, look out for itself appeared to be in the majority, but an aye and nay vote was called for, and on the question of whether the call was in order the grand sire reserved his ruling until the afternoon session, which convenes at 2 o’clock. This left the question unsettled for the time being. Both sides claim a majority. COMMITTEE REPORT. The question was brought on by the report of a special sanitarium commit tee, which in a general way contem plated the sanitariums being establish ed by the sovereign grand lodge. The fight was made on the adoption of this report. Those in favor of adoption argued that it would be directly in line with the principles of Odd Fellowship .for the sovereign grand lodge to take care of tubercular patients, Instead of leaving it to the states. Also. It was contended | that the last sovereign lodge, held in Seattle in 1909, virtually committed itself to this policy. The opponents of the re port contended, on the other hand, that it is the duty of each state to take care of its brethren afflicted with tubercu losis, and that to this end local sanita riums could best cope with local condi tions. The chairman of the sanitarium com mittee, Grand Representative George Huddleston, of Alabama, was one of the leaders in the fight to adopt the re port. Grand Representative Leedy, of Indiana, strongly supported hi<n- Several speeches were made on this side of the question. Arrayed on the “states right” side were also a number of strong speak ers, led by Grand Representative Hawkes, of Pennsylvania. Aside frotp the sanitarium fight there was little business of importance before the session. The most notable was a re port from one of the standing commit tees recommending certain changes in the qualifications for members of Rebekah lodges. At once strong opposition arose against the report and it was not adopt ed. For perhaps an hour towards the close of the session a delegation of Rebekah sisters were busy in the lobby in the in < terest of a movement that is afoot to i establish a national Rebekah assembly, similar in many respects to the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, which is the national assembly of this branch of the order. What the Rebekahs are after is a hearing, and it la altogether probable they’ll get it at the afternoon session, as they took charge of Deputy Grand Sire Cockrum when he was passing through the hall and presented their case to him in the strongest language possible. GIRL WHO WAS ABDUCTED YEAR CHICAGO, Sept. 22.—Dorothy Barrow, 13 years old, missing from her home in Houston. Tex., for over a year, has been found, poorly cldlhed and penniless in a hotel in Vincennes, Ind., and was restored today to her mother, Mrs. Elorse Barrow. who claims the girl was abducted. Chicago police, to whom she told the story of the child's disappear ance, and recovery are investigating. TAFT’S SPEECH INDORSED BY PRESIDENT J. L. VANCE CINCINNATI. Sept. 22—Indorsement of President Taft’s speech of yesterday by John L. Vance, president of the Ohio River Improvement association marked the opening of the 16th annual session of that body here today. Four hundred delegates, representing the territory be tween the headwaters of the Ohio, and Cairo, 111., were present Regent of Persia Dies TEHERAN, Persia, Sept. 22.—The re gent of Persia, Azad-Ul-Mulk, died in this city today. : Worth $50,000,000, Weds t ; At Age of Ninety-three : ♦ NEW YORK, Sept. 22.—With a -e fortune estimated as high as ♦ $50,000,000. John S. Lyle, who will ♦ ♦ be 93 years old next month, has ♦ ♦ just taken a wife whom he has ♦ established in his beuatiful coun- ♦ ♦ try home. The bride, who was ♦ ♦ Miss Julia Hannon, a trained ♦- ♦ nurse, is 63 years younger than ♦ ♦ her husband, whom she met when ♦ ♦ she was sent from a hospital to ♦ ♦ care for his sister-in-law two ♦ •> years ago. The wife will inherit ♦ -a his entire fortune, as there were ♦ < no children from his first mar- ♦ ♦ riage. ♦ business club of Cincinnati and other distinguished visitors. After President Taft concludes his speech he will return to his brother s home for a short rest. At 6 o’clock in the evening he will be escorted to the Business Men’s club, where he wil be the guest of the exposi tion directors at dinner. Immediately after the dinner he will return to Music hall and witness the production of the opera, "Paoletta.** NO. 2.
