Newspaper Page Text
THIRTY DEAD;
SEVENTY HURT
In Frightful Impact Between Pas
senger ana Freight Trains.
A SCENE OF HORROR
Victims Were Happy Excursionists Taking
a Holiday-Cars Were Splintered
and Occupants Mangled.
Thirty people are dead and more
than seventy injured, several of them
seriously, as the result of a head-on
collision Saturday between Salem,
Mich., and Plymouth, when a Pere
Marquette excursion train, bound from
lona to Detroit, crashed into a west
bound freight in a cut located at a
sharp curve on the Pere Marquette
railroad, about a mile east of Salem.
The passenger train of eleven cars,
carrying the Pere Marquette shop em
ployees of lona and their families to
the Michigan metropolis for their an
nual excursion was running at high
speedy, probably fifty miles an hour
down a steep grade. It struck the
lighter locomotive of the freight train
with such terrific force as to turn
the freight engine completely around.
The wrecked locomotives lay side
toy side, both headed eastward. Only
a few of the freight cars were smash
ed, and it was only a few hours’ work
to remove all traces of them lrum the
scene. But behind the two wrecked lo
motives, six cars of the passenger train
lay piled in a hopeless wreck. Four
of the passenger coaches remained on
the track undamaged and were used
to convey the dead and injured to
Iona; one coach was entirely undam
aged, with only its forward trucks oft
»
the rails. These were the rear rive
cass. The two coaches next ahead of
these were telescoped. The next car
forward stood almost on its end after
the wreck, its forward end resting on
the roadbed and the rear end high in
the air, upon the two telescoped
coaches that had been following it. Two
eoaches were thrown crosswise of the
track and lay suspended from bank
to bank of the cut, five or six feet
above the rails. Of the baggage car
not enough ren.ained to show where
it had been tossed. Portions of bag
gage car and of the locomotoive ten
ders and freight cars were piled in a
tangled mass of debris.
James Boyles, a farmer, was working
in the field near the scene
when the two trains approached from
opposite directions. The freight came
slowly up the heavy grade and had
just reached the curve when the pas
senger train appeared running at high
speed. Boyles saw the passenger engi
neer shut off his steam and apply
the brakes and saw the crews of both
engines junyj before the crash. He ran
to the tracks, where he found tne un
injured passengers from the rear
coaches running forward and joined
with them in pulling ou; the injured
who could be seen on every hand.
There was a panic among the pas
sengers for a few minutes. Then, as
the uninjured people realized that they
had not been hurt, they rushed from
the cars to tlie rescue of tbe.r friends
and relatives who were pinioned
among the wreckage. Families were
scattered. Mothers ran screaming up
and down, searching fer their children,
while many of the young people were
as frantically calling for their par
ents.
The dead were placed in a row
alongside the track and the injured
were made as comfortable as possible
until the arrival of wrecking trains
from Saginaw, Detroit ar.d Grand Rap
ids made it possible to send them to
lona and Detroit.
Responsibility is put squarely upon
the crew of the freight train by offi
cials of the road, who arr.wd at the
scene of the wreck soon after the ac
cident, and who secured from the
crew of the freight train the orders
under which it was running, and
which cleariy showed the position of
the passenger excursion train and
that the freight train had encroached
upon the other train's running time.
The freight crew explained simply
that they had forgotten. The collision
occurred at 9:13 o'clock, and tha
freight train should have reached Sa
lem at 9:10, to be within their or
ders.
The crash of the colliding trains was
heard for a great distance up ai.d down
the tracks r -5
HOST OF HEAT VICTTMS.
Over Two Thousand People Prostrated at
Philadelphia During Great
Parade of Elks.
The parade of the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks in Philadel
phia Thursday was marked during its
progress by the prostration from heat
of an army of persons estimated by the
police and hospital authorities at 2,500.
Never has there been such a whole
sale prostration reported in the Qua
ker City. For six hours the police
ambulance surgeons and the Red Cross
nurses were kept on the run loo’ ' ~
after persons who collapsed under the
scorching rays of the sun, and largely
because of their excellent service but
one case resulted fatally.
James Rowley, aged 44 years, a citi
zen, died in a hospital after being
stricken in the street. The other strick
en persons are said to be in good con
dition with no prospect of fatal re
sults.
The parade ground was on Broad
street for a distance of three miles
north, and the same distance south of
the city hall. The paraders counter
marched the last three miles back to
the city hall, so that they traversed
upwards of nine miles.
Those who succumbed were among
the spectators, jammed all along the
street in a solid mass from one end
of the line to the other, it being esti
mated that five hundred thousand peo
ple witnessed the march. The temper
ature hovered around ninety degrees,
and the humidity was excessive, and
as a consequence people sweltered.
•
WAR STARTS ON COLORED ELKS.
Grand Lodge Objects to Negroes Using
j Emblems of the Order.
During the sessions in Philadelphia
of the grand lodge of Eiks, it was
decided to establish a flag day for
Elks on June 14th. A resolution was
adopted calling for the appointment of
a commission to devise ways and
means to prosecute outsiders who use
the Elks emblems. A subsequent res
olution calls for the appointment of a
commission to confer with congress to
find means to prevent the use of the
embl ft 1.
The Memphis ledge was authorized
to prosecute the negro Elks in that
city. In this connection a resolution
was passed reprianding the Newark,
N. J., for electing a man said to be
a negro. A further measure instructs
passed reprimanding the Newark, N. J.,
lodge for electing a man said to he
cedents and if it is found that he is
of negro extraction to expunge his
name from the rolls.
GOVERNOR COMER RESENTS INSULT.
Refused to Address Press Association Be
cause of Certain Resolutions.
After being invited to address the
Alabama Press Association at Mont
gomery, Thursday night, Governor Co
mer became offended at resolutions of
fered of a nature not complimentary
to him, and after expressing his regret
at the treatment accorded him, left the
hall.
The resolution that while
the governor had done much for the
state, he had also done a great deal
he should not have attempted. The
association refused to adopt the reso
lutions, and there was a lively session.
ALL DEPOSITORS WILL BE PAID
Is Confident Assertion of Receivers of
Macon Exchange Bank.
The temporary receivers of the Ex
change Bank at Macon. Ga., which was
put in their hands July 7, made a pre
liminary report Thursday to Judge
Whipple, presiding in Bibb superior
court. The receivers say that they are
encouraged to believe that by prudent
management the assets should realize a
sufficient sura to pay depositors and
credittrs in full, and leave a dividend
fer stockholders.
COBB RESIGNS THE JUDGESHIP.
Associate Justice of the Georgia Supreme
Tires of H:s Job.
Associate Justice Andrew J. Cobb
of the Georgia supreme court, Monday
morning presented to Governor Hoke
Smith, his resignation to take effect
on October 12, 1907. Justice Cobb de
termined several weeks ago to retire
from the supreme bench, to re-engage
in the practice of law at Athens.
Justice Cob, when he retires in Oc
tober, will have served on the su
preme bench for nearly eleven years.
Georgia Callings
Curtailed Items of Interest
Gathered at Random.
The matter is now in the hands of
Solicitor Lester of the Fayetteville
city court and accusations have been
•worn out by Mr. Haskell against those
working the mules at Shepard's camp,
the camp of Perkins & Powell against
W. F. Neal, G. A. Barbee and Val Dris
coll.
* * *
New Railroad Chartered.
The Gulf Line Railway company has
been granted a charier* by Secretary
of State Philip Cook. This is
really a renewal and extension or tne
charier of the Flint River and Gulf
railroad, now in operation from Haw
kinsville tnrough several of the couu
ties named in the petition.
It is proposed to operate t he Gulf
Line railway through the counties ct
Pulaski, Wilcox, Turner, Worth, Mltcfc
ell, Grady and Decatur to a point c_.
the Florida line in Decatur, thence
through Florida to the Gulf coast. The
length of the line in Georgia will be
about 130 miles, and the capital stock
of the company will be '‘s4oo,ooo.
* * *
After Railroad Contractors.
Vigorous prosecution in the courts of
Fayette county against five contractors
doing grading owrk on the-new line 01
the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlun.ic
railroad will be the result of a trip
just made to several of these construc
tion camps by Agent E. V. D.
Haskell <ji the Atlanta Humane Soci
ety.
In some of these camps Agent Has
kell found mules being worked that
were better fitted, he says, to receive
bullets in their brains to end their suf
fering.
The matter is now in the hands of
Solicitor Lester of the Fayetteville
city court and accusations have been
sworn out by Mr. Haskell against those
working the mules at Shepard’s camp,
the camp of Perkins & Powell, and
against W. F. Neal, G. A. Barbee and
Val Driscoll.
* * *
*
Matkeson Approves Refinery.
Dr. K. G. Mathesou, president of
the Georgia School of Technology, has
been in conference with Mr. Boyd of
Spalding in regard to the latter's bill
now pending before the house appro
priation commitcee seeking to secure
from the state SIO,OOO, to bn added to
a similar sum to be raised through
private subscription with which to in*
stal la cotton seed oil refinery at the
Tech. He has assured Mr. Boyd of his
cordial support in the measure and
declared that he would do all in his
power to aid him in the matter.
‘‘We have a place for the refinery
at the Tech already,” stated Dr. Math
eson in discussing the measure. “It is
the basement of our new chemical
laboratory Just recently erected. This
place could be fitted up very easily,
and would be most accessible to our
very elaborate and complete chemical
laboratory.
“This is one branch of the cotton
business which the Tech has not touch
ed upon. The matter of refining cot
ton seed oil and for that matter ex
tracting the oil is just in its infancy
and we expect great results to fol
low.”
* * *
Prisoner Took Care of Deputy.
One of Ben Hill’s deputy sheriffs
went to Macon a few days ago to
bring back a negro held in the Macon
jail. The prisoner reached Fitzgerald
safely on the train, bringing the depu
ty so drunk he- did not know where
to get off the train.
The negro states that the Macon
official turned him over to the deputy,
who proceeded to take in the town,
and narrowly escaped being arrested
for disorderly conduct. They ueceed
ed in making the train for Fi zgerald,
and when they reached the city the
negro had the deputy, his grip, revolv
er, handcuffs and a quart of whiskey
all in his charge. The deputy was so
drunk he refused to get off the train,
and had to be taken off by force by
the police and was taken to jail.
No one know that the negro was a
prisoner until the police were putting
the deputy in jail, when he touched
one of the* officers on the arm and
said; “Hold on, boss, I goes in there,
too,” and they let him go in.
• • •
May Raise State Tax Rate.
The increasing expenses of the state
and the small receipts with which to
meet necessary expenditures are view
ed with grave consideration by the
committee on appropriation in the
legislature.
While the appropriations for last
year amounted to approximately $4,-
700,000, it s expected tha: these fig
ures will probably reach SG,OC§,OOO for
this year—and maybe more. The state
will not have any additional revenues,
unless the tax rate can be raised from
4.8 mills, the present rate, to 5 mills.
It is understood that this increase
will be recommended by the_ appro
priations committee. This rate is the
maximum as prescribed by law, and
on account of the growing expendi
tures the committee will, so it is said,
base their aprpopriations upon this in
crease. It is understood that this in
crease was recommended last year,
but former Governor Terrell did not
deem it expedient to advance the rate.
The appropriations for pensions this
year will carry with it one of the
largest increases in the apportionment
list, amounting to $950,000, against
$90,000 last year. There was a deficit
of $43,000 last year in the appropri
ation.
Under the siatute appropriations
will have to be made to cover every
pension that is recognized.
* * *
Discrepancies in Valuations.
Here ore two pertinent facts bear
ing upon Governor Hoke Smith’s m 3
sage to the general assembly concern
ing the taxation of railroads;
Major A. G. Adams of the Southern
swears that the tangible value of the
property of his company iu Georgia,
for the purpose of taxation, is $12,052,-
926.
Freight Traffic Manager and Vice
President J. M. Culp of the Southern
swears in the United. Slates court
that the tangible value of the South
ern in Georgia Is $48,150,000
F’irst Vice President A. li. Lawton
of the Central swears tha the tangi
ble value of (he Central’s property In
Georgia for (he purpose of taxat.oll Is
$13,522,077.
Second Vice President W. A. Win
burn swore in the United States court
that the tangible value cf die Central s
property in Georgia is $33,600,999. In
the case of the Southern, there is a
discrepancy of $30,087,074 between the
oaths of Major Andrews and Mr.
Culp,
In the case of the Central, there Is
a discrepancy of $20,144,322 between
the oaths of First President- Lawton
and Second Vice President Winburn.
Governor Smith has called upon the
legislature to help him adjust these
glaring differences.
GUARD PROVED A GOOD SHOT.
Brought Down Two Escapes and Bluffed
Another Into Surrendering.
Armed with r tolvers and firing re
peatedly at die guard who attempted
to prevent their escape, three white
convicts who were serving their s n
tences by working at the manufactur
ing plant cf the Palmer Prick Compa
ny, Atlanta, Tuesday, made a bold dash
for liberty, which was foiled only by
the remarkable shooting of Camp
Guard O. Duncan. The guard shot two
of the convicts, Ben Beasli y and H.
L. Hartman and Beasd y died as a re
suit of his wounds a lev.' hours later.
Luther Gloer, the third convict, was
brought to a halt and surrenderee!.
A feature of the attempted escape,
which puzzled he officials of the camp,
is the fact that each of die desperate
men was argued wiih a loaded re.oivtr.
BRYAN CLEARS THE ATMOSPHERE.
Relegates Question of Government Owner
ship of Roads to the Rear.
William Jennings Bryan does not
favor government ownership as a par
amount issue in (he 11 xt campaign. He
believes first in rigid rtgulation and
urges the states to stand fast for their
rights in curbing of the corporations
and to leave regulation solely in the
hands of the federal government. This,
he says, is the current hnue of iris
paper, The Commoner.
ALL MISRE 4D THE ORDERS.
Strange Admission of Crew of Death-Deal
ing Freight Ttain.
General Sup: rin en lent Trump of
the Pere Marquette ra l:o„d, has made
public the following result of his ex
amination cf Conductor Hamilton of
the local freight tiain, which collded
with the lonia excursion tram, causing
the less cf thirty- wo lives and injuring
over a hundred. The con due or mat d
that he. the engine-r, fireman and
rear brake man. all misread :heir or
ders.
R. O. JACKSON,
Attorney-at- Law,
>li DONOUGH, GA.
Office over Kim Store.
E. M. SniTH, j
Attorney at Law,
Me Donotjgh, Ga.
Office ever Star Store, south sido square.
All work carefully and promptly attended
to. Am pro mured to negotiate loan*
on real estate Terms easy.
HELP IS OFFERED
TO WORTHY YOUNG PEOPLE
We earnestly request all young- persons, no matter
how limited their mean* or education, who wi3h tx»
obtain a thorough business training and £<*nd pool,
tion, to write by first, mail for our great half-rat*
offer. Success, independence and probable fortuat
are guaranteed. Don’t delay. Write today.
The G*.»Al*. Business College. Macon, Ga*
TOBACCO
SS a delicious chew,
made from the best
North Carolina leaf;
a leaf that has a spec
ial texture, a special
flavor ard which
makes RED EYE a
specially fi * >e and satis-1
fy ing chewing tobacco.
Most people prefer it I
to tobacco costing one
dollar pei. pound.
Ask your dealer for it and |
insist on him keeping it. S
MERCHANTS
Write for Special Prices. 1
'Wi . M
. Vyym Mm wi A pfc
WINSTON N C I
JAMESTOWN
Tercentennial Exposition April t
November, 1907.
Exceedingly low rates have berm
authorized by the Southern Railway
to Norfolk, "Va and return, account
Jamestown I* i Centennial Exposl
tion.
Stopovers will be allowed on sea
son, sixty day and fifteen day tickets,
same as granted on summer tourist
tickets. Tickets will be sold dany
commencing April 19th, to and incut
ding No vein hr i 30th, 1907.
The Southern Railway is taking a
very- great interest in this exposition
and doing everything within their
power to promote its welfare for the
reason that it is located on historic
and southern grounds, and has evi
dence of being one of the most import
ant and attractive affairs of this kind
that has ever been held.
Through train service and sleeping
car service to Norfolk during the ex
position has not yet been announced,
but it is expected that most excel
lent schedules will be put in effect
so as to make the trip comfortable
and satisfactory in every way.
Full and complete information will
be. cheerfully furnished upon applica
tion to any ticket agent of the South
ern Railway company. tf
RICHARDSON ON RAMPAGE.
Haywood’s Attorney Denounced Everybody
on Other Side of Case.
Forsaking thr theory of vengeance,
as Orchard's mo.ive for the murder of
former Governor Steunenberg, F. F.
Richardson argued in court at Boise
Tuesday that Orchard was in the em
ploy of hr Pinkerton detective agency
when he silled Steunenberg and mat
the murder wus a part of a conspiracy
to hang Haywood. This sudden depart
ure was followed by a denunciation of
Captain McPharlland and the Pinker
tons and passionate vituperation of
Orchard. Governor Gooding of Idaho,
Senator Borah, Governor Peabody of
Colorado and, in fact, all who have act
ed on he side of the prosecution of
Haywood came in for a share of the
avalanche ol Richard's peroration.
