FEARFUL HORROR
WAS THIS WRECK
Thirty-Six People Die In
Crash and Flames.
WILD CARS DO DEADLY WORK
Section of Freight Tr: in Breaks
Loose, Dashes Down Mountain
into Passenger Coaches.
Thirty-six lives were lost and thir
teen persons injured in the wreck on
the Great Northern railway passenger
train No. 3, at Nyaek, 30 miles west
of Kalispell, Mont., Friday night.
The dead are: P. T. Downs, assist
ant general superintendent of the
Great Northern lines west of Minot,
North Dakota; K. T. Downs, his son;
Henry Blair, cook aboard the private
car of Mr. Downs; Thirty-three Scan-'
dinavian laborers, names unknown.
The in u j red: Thirteen Scandina
vian laborers, names unknown.
Latest reports indicate that the
wreck was the worst in the road’s his
tory and one of the most sanguinary
in the annals of American railroading.
Three of the injured will die and
tho others are in a serious condition.
By heroic efforts fifteen of the bodies
were taken from the wrecked ears.
All tho other victims were cremated,
including Superintendent P. L. Downs
and his son, T. K. Downs.
Cause of Disaster.
There is a severe grade near the
scene of the wreck. Two engines had
taken a train of twenty-eight freight
cars up this grade and drawn off to
take water. While doing this all the
twenty-eight cars started down tho
grade. The runaway train dashed
down the grade at frightful speed and
crashed into the roar of a westbound
passenger train, No. 3, near the siding
at Nyaek.
Superintendent Downs’ private car
was attached to the passenger train
and next to it was a day coach filled
with railroad laborers from Duluth. As
tho runaway train sped by the switch
it struck a caboose and day coach on
the siding wrecking them.
Fire immediately started from the
oil lamps in tho caboose. The point
where the wild train crashed into the
passenger was several hundred feet
away, and it was two and a half hours
before the flames reached the main
wreck. cMantime frantic efforts were
made fo take out the dead and injured.
The wreck was piled high and wedged
into almost hopeless confusion, and in
spite of superhuman efforts the flames
burst through the wrecked ears before
the work was completed.
J. H. Blair, colored cook in Mr.
Downs' car, was taken out alive, but
died in a few minutes. It was impos
sible to get at the bodies of Superin
tendent Downs and his son.
The runaway tore down the hill at
lightning speed, rounding the most se
vere curves nt. a speed upward of 70
miles an hour, where regular trains
barely crawled along. With a roar it
hurst around tho curve, jumped a split
switch which would have turned it to
the side track and crashed into the
passenger. There was neither time
nor opportunity for escape. Mr. Downs’
car and that of the laborers were
smashed Into kindling wood, the occu
pants of the private ear meeting in
stant death. The wreckage and the
shingles and lumber of the freight
burned like tinder.
HICKEY ADMITS DEFEAT.
Former Official of Amalgamated Asso
ciation Says Strike Is lost.
Charges that the national officers of
the Amalgamated association had mis
represented the attitude of the United
States Steel Corporation toward or
ganized labor, in order to get the mem
bers of the association out on strike,
w. re made by former Vice President
Hickey at a meeting of the Bay View
lodge at Milwaukee Sunday.
The situation, as summed up by M
Hickey, is that it may take years to
repair the damage to the association
which has already been done, The
strike is practically lost, he said, as
72 per rent of the mills are working
WARNING FROM TILLMAN.
C«»Don Mill Owners Advised Not to
Coerce Vote of Operatives.
A Charleston. S. C., special says:
The statement issued Thursday In
Senator Tillman at Spartangurg. in
which ho again warm*! the cotton rn'll
nresidents cf the trouble which would
follow any attempt to coerce the v-il
operative vote for Senator McLain in
has caused a great deal of feeling
It has been pointed out all along
that the mill vote may be the decid
ing ballot in the election of a United
States senator next year. The mil!
presidents, as a rule, are in sympathy
with the doctrines of McLaurin.
Forty Drowned In 'three Months.
It is estimated that since May 10
no fewer than forty persons have been
drowned in flooded streams in Non t
Carolina, by far the greatest loss of
life being in Mitchell county.
Negroes to Hold state Fair,
It is decided that the next North
Carolina negro state fair shall bo he'd
a: Rsiclgh. October 2S to November X
noth dates Inclusive.
' cotton CROP totals.
Secretary Hester’s Report For
Season Just Ended—Big
Increase Predicted.
A New Orleans special says: The
totals of Secretary Hester’s annual re
port of the cotton crop of the United
States was promulgated Monday. They
show receipts of cotton at all United
States ports for the year of 7,665,452,
against 6,374,364 last year; overland
to northern mills, 1,140,237, against 1,-
161,189; southern consumption taken
direct from interior of the cotton belt
1,576,733, against 1,540,863, making
the crop of the United States for 1900-
1001 amount to 10,283,422 bales,
against, 9,436,416 last year and 11,274
840 the year before.
Mr. Hester has made his usual hi
ve:, tigation into the consumption of
every cotton mill in the south, includ
ing woolen mills that have used cot
ton, and the results show a total of
1,620,331 bales, but of this 44,198 bales
were taken from ports Included in port
receipts. This total shows that the
mills of the south have used up 23,819
bales more than during 1899-1900,
against a consumption by the north of
2,050,000. He makes the actual cotton
crop of Texas, Including Indian Terri
tory, 3,808,568, or say, 1,218,056 bales
more than last year, and states that
the actual production of Indian Terri
tory was 299,330, against 156,064 last
yoar.
Mr. Hester also gives the actual
production of Oklahoma 119,063, and
Missouri 25,794. His report on the cot
ton crop for the different states is giv
en as follows in thousands of bales.
North Carolina, etc 545
South Carolina .... 911
Georgia ........... 1,295
Alabama .......... 1,000
Florida ........... 45
Mississippi........ <x» CJI
Louisiana ......... -3 -J
Arkansas ......... s
Tennessee, etc..... §
Texas, etc........ 3,809
Total crop, bales 10,383
North Carolina above Includes Ken
tucky and Virginia; Tennessee in
eludes Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas
and Utah; Texas includes Indian Ter
ritory.
Mr. Hester’s full report will contain
interesting facts in relation to the con
tinned increase in the spindles of
southern mills and to new mills now
building, some of which will come into
operation during the new commercial
year.
He will also give interesting facts
showing that with an excess in bales
over last year of 947,006 the south ob
tained for the crop an increase of
$130,782,729, the value of this year’s
crop having reached the enormous to
tal of $494,567,549, more in dollars
than lias ever before been obtained for
any crop. He compares the value of
this crop with that of the year before
last—11,274,840 bales, the largest ever
grown—and shows that we have re
ceived this year for 891,418 hales less
$211,794,562 more. Mr. Hester says
when it is considered that the two
past cotton crops have been sold in
the south for $858,352,369, their im
portance will be appreciated as tha
means of bringing prosperity to the
cotton states.
KATOWING DISPENSE!) WITH.
Emperor Hill Will Not. Require the
Chinese to Itiinip Their Heads.
Monday night Prince Chun and his
entourage left Basle, Switzerland, lor
Berlin by the imperial special train,
Before starting a member of the mis
sion said that Emperor William had
decided to waive the ceremony of
katowing and that the only persons to
be received by him in ceremonial au
dience would be Prince Chun and Yin
Chang. The member in question said
also that the mission would remain in
Berlin for a fortnight and had receiv
od and accepted invitations from the
British, Italian, American, Belgian and
Japanese governments.
Nilbstuncial Aid For Strikers.
The San Francisco branch of the
International Iron Molders’ Union has
been given $5,000 by the national body
for the benefit of the members on
strike in that city.
TOTAL OF TWENTY-EIGHT DEAD.
Full List of Boiler Explosion Ylciims
Is Made Known.
A Philadelphia special says: It is
now reasonably certain that at least
twenty-eight persons perished as a re
sult of the explosion of one of the boil
ers of the steamer City of Trenton.
This conclusion Is reached by the po
lice authorities through the fact that
seventeen persons who are reported
by their relatives or friends to have
been on the steamer have not yet been
found. These missing persons, with
eleven bodies already recovered, make
a total of twenty-eight. Ten persons
are still in a serious condition.
First Rale at Huntsville.
The first bale of cotton of the Ten
nessee valley was received in Hunts
ville, Ala., Friday, and sold for 13
cents. Last year’s first bale came in
August 26t.h.
Another Oil Company Organized.
The Moulton Valley Oil Company
was organized at Montgomery, Ala.,
Friday. The company’s property lies
in Lawrence county, in the Tennessee
valley.
Georgia.-.Cullings
Brief Bnt Interesting Snmniary
of Happenings in the State.
It Is authoritatively given out tha*
the Virginia-Carotlna Chemical Com
pany will erect a large fertilier plant,
t0 b( , operated In connection with a
big oil mill at Gainesville. It is un
derstood that a 25-acre tract of land
contiguous to the Southern and Gaines
ville, Jefferson and Southern railways
has been purchased, and upon this site
p i an t will be built,
There is an oil mill already in oper
ation—the Gainesville Cotton Oil Com
pany—but It refused to take the price
offered by the Virginia-Carolina Com
pany. This mill is the only one left
out of the combine in this section.
August Crop Report.
The department of agriculture will
have a full and complete report on the
status of crops in Georgia within the
next few days. About nine hundred
circulars have been sent out to corre
spondents in every county in the state
asking questions as to crop conditions
and replies to these are expected with
in a day or two.
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Receivers For Collector Sanford.
Judge George Harris has been ap
pointed a temporary receiver for V.
T. Sanford, the erstwhile tax collector
of Floyd county, on motion of Attor
noy Denny, for the United States Fi
deiity and Guaranty Company, sure
ties on the tax collector’s bond. The
order was signed by Judge Henry. Re
ceiver Harris will take charge of all
the private property of Sanford and
hold it under an order of the court for
distribution, or until a hearing can be
bad for a permanent receiver.
The bond company alleged that San
ford was due them some $36,000, which
amount they had paid the state as se
curity on his bond, while Tax Collec
tor Sanford’s effects comprise a large
farm worth $25,000 and a number of
horses and improved farm implements
in addition to other realty worth $ 6 .
000 .
Receiver Harris is an ex-judge of
the city court of Floyd county and has
opposed Sanford politically,
Sanford wired his resignation as
tax collector of Floyd county to Gov
ernor Candler a day or two ago. It
was promptly accepted by the gover
nor. Sanford has held office since
1896, succeeding the late John Black,
The grand jury some weeks ago in
dieted him for a shortage in his of
flee, alleging he was due the county
$19,042.13 and the state $16,057.
Since these indictments the comptroi i
ler general wrote the bond company
that Sanford had not paid a special liq
uor tax aggregating $1,500, making
the total of alleged shortage $36,599.42.
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Fees Are Too Much.
Mr. Charles S. Northern one of the
arbitrators in the tax returns of the
Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern Rail
road Company, has filed a minority re
port on the amount of fees the arbi
trators and umpire should receive.
At a recent conference between Mr.
Northen, Chairman Crenshaw, of the
railroad commission, and Mr. T. W.
Glover, of Marietta, who was called in
as umpire, Mr. Crenshaw and iy[ r
Glover decided that $250 was a reason
able amount as compensation for their
work. Mr. Northen objected and said
that he, thought $150 was sufficient.
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Candidate Brown Won’t Talk.
Hon. Pope Brown, gubernatorial can
didate, was at the capitol the past
week to attend a session of the rail
road commission. He was promptly
tackled by the newspaper men.
Further than announcing that he
had nothing to say, Mr. Brown told
them emphatically that he did not
want to talk to them and would not
disruss anythng with them.
When asked whether he would
make an additional announcement giv
ing some planks in his platform, other
than the one Dupont Guerry has at
tacked him upon—the prohibition
question—in explanation of the short
announcement he has made, he said:
“I do not want to talk about any
thing. I do not want to discuss any
thing, and I am not going to discuss
anything in the newspapers. I will
not talk to you newspaper men.”
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Attorney General Renders Decision.
Attorney General J. M. Terrell holds
that interstate freight traffic, after the
work of transportation has been com
pleted and the freight is practically in
the warehouse, is subject to the rules
of the state railroad commission. The
opinion was given to the ralroad com
mission a day or two ago in the case
brought by George M. Brooks against
the Georgia railroad. .
This case is considered one of the
most important, so far as the rules
and regulations of the commission are
concerned, that has come up in some
time. Brooks had a car of oats ship
ped from the west to Macon. At Ma
con the Georgia railroad charged and
collected demurrage on it amounting
to $12 without giving the consignee
notice of its arrival. The ruies of the
commssion require that notice be giv
en before demurrage con be charged.
The road, in this instance, claims that
this being interstate business, it. is
not required to give such notice.
The matter was sub it , d to the
attorney general for a legal opinion,
and, as stated, be decided that tho
rules of the commission do not apply
to interstate business so long as It is
in charge of the railroads en in tran
sit. But when the fr< ight arrives at
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its destination, and to all intents and
purposes is in the warehouse, he holds
that it then becomes subject to the
commission’s rules. Based on this
opinion, in the case in question, no
tice should have been given of the ar
rival of the freight before demurrage
was charged.
Minder Gets New Lease of Life.
A Washington dispatch says: Asso
ciate Justice White, of the supreme
court of the United States, has grant
ed a writ of error to the supreme court
of Georgia in the case of Isador Min
dnr, of Macon. Minder was twice con
victod in Georgia of the murder of
Andrew Mahoney, also of Macon. His
attorney, John R. Cooper, of Macon,
raised the point in the courts that his
client was about to be deprived of his
life without protection equal to that
accorded citizens of other states in
the union. He asked that witnesses
in other states, whom he said could
testify as to the Insanity of his client,
be called or at least give a deposition
to that effect.
Owing to the peculiar fact that on
the statute books of Georgia there is
no law by which a judge is empow
ered to call a ■witness from other
states, cr secure a deposition, his re
quest was refused. Mr. Cooper then
resolved to appeal to the United States
supreme court.
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New Yorker Gets Contract.
The contract for Brunswick’s new
public building has been awarded to
Ambrose B. Stannard, of New York
city, whose bid was $97,878. Stannard
is a well known builder of public
buildings, having just finished a $3,
000,000 job at Buffalo. Miles – Brandt,
of Atlanta, an Augusta firm and W. H.
Bowen, of Brunswick, were also bid*
ders, Bowen’s bid being $100,000. Post
master Brown, custodian, has informa
tion that work is to commence in six
weeks and the building will be com
pleted in twelve months.
AUT0r.Nl' CALLED FOIL
Four Members of One Family Die Un
der suspicious Circumstances.
A special from Catawump, Mass, to
the Boston Herald says:
It is rather unusual for four persons
in one family to meet death within a
period of one month. Yet this occur
red in the case of Mr. and Mrs. Alden
P. Davis and their two daughters, Mrs.
Irving Abbeys and Harvey Golden,
the latter of Chicago, and deaths tak
ing place a few weeks ago.
Some one started a rumor that these
persons, or at least two cl’ them, did
not die from natural causes. Finally
the district attorney ordered an inves
tigation, and Joseph Whitney, of the
stat e police force, was instructed to
conduct an autopsy on the body of
Mrs. Golden and Mrs. Gibbs. An un
dertaker exhumed the body Friday
and an autopsy was held in the pres
ence of Examiner Fauneee, State De
tective Whitney, Profesor Whitney
and Professor Wood, of Harvard col
lege. The professor’s report is await
ed with much interest.
SANFORD RESIGNS JOB.
Tax Collector Complies With Report
ed Demand of Governor Candler.
Tax Collector Sanford, of Floyd
county, Georgia, wired his resignation
to Governor Candler Thursday night,
to take effect at once. The resigna
tion did not state any reason for his
retirement from office.
Mr. Sanford has held this office since
1896 and has been prominent in local
and state politics. The grand jury last
month found two true bills against
him for embezzlement, charging a
shortage of $35,000 due the state and
county. Mr. Sanford quickly made
bond for his appearance before the
superior court. The United States Fi
deiity and Guaranty Company, of Ms
ryland, was on his bond and made
good the shortage to the state and
county,
It is reported that the governor <? 3 -
manded Sanford’s resignation by
Thursday and in the event it were not
forthcoming, said he would remove
him from office.
ABDUL GROWLS PENITENT.
Turk Anxious That German Emperor
Act ns Arbitrator.
According to advices from Cons tan
tinopla, the Ottoman government is
said to be sounding Germany with r,
view cf inducing her to arbitrate upon
the Franco-Turkish controversy.
It is not likely, however, that Ger
many will accede to the proposal, or
- r –oce would accept arbitration.
CHAIN WORKERS STRIKE.
Demanded Increase of Wages Which
Employers Refused.
Over 125 chain makers employed at
the Rankin plant of the Standard
C Gam pany, at Braddock, Pa.,
went oi a strike Saturday as a result
of tk n : null of the company to graqt
•case of 10 per cent pre
viously demanded.
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To My Former Patrons
and Friends.
I thank you most cordialy for your liberal d
ronage since I ha\e been in the Warehouse Busira
in Cordele. I will still be in shape to handle \
:otton the coming season, but at another stand,
have fixed up a warehouse in rear of Julien Per
old stand on 12th avenue. Bring me your cotton
I will see that you get highest market price for
Wagon yards and stables free. Thanking you aa
I am the farmers’ friend,
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