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THE WEATHER. For Atlanta and Vicinity—Fair tonight and Wednesday; slightly warmer. The Atlanta Georgian AND NEWS SPOT COTTON. Liverpool, steady; 6.60. Atlanta, quiet; 11%. New Orleans, nominal; IIS- New York, atenily; 11.75. Savannah, steady; 113-16. Augusta, steady; 11%. VOL. VI. NO. 61. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY,.OCTOBER 15,1907. • 1 *■ AttaaU: TW,. CRNTfl. Ob Trains: FIVE CUNT* MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN ARE HURLED TO THEIR DOOM; VILLAGES LAID IN RUINS BY EXPLOSION OF BIG POWDER MILL Second Explosion * Killed and Maimed Many of the Rescuers Working in Ruins at Fontanet, Indiana. RESCUERS KILLED AND MAIMED BY SECOND BIG EXPLOSION Terre Haute, Ind„ Oct. 15.—A bulletin reaching here by a Bis Four train reports a second explosion, which killed and maimed many of the rescuers. This explosion Is said to have occurred more than an hour after the first and most terrlflc explosion. The second explosion was In a store house or magazine near the main mills that did not explode at the tlrno of the first concussion. Terre Haute, Ind., Oct. 15.—The large mills and store houses of the Dupont Powder Company at Fon tanet, 16 miles from here, blew up at 9:15 a. m., wrecking the town of Fontanet, killing over half the employees at the mills and resulting in the death of many men, women and children in the village. With forty bodies recovered up to noon and with a train load of injured brought to the hospitals here, the work of rescue is still going on. DEATH LIST MAT REACH 100. It is feared the death list will grow to nearly 100 per sons. The shock of the explosion was felt here and for a distance of 60 miles in a circle about the village. At Crawfordsville, 35 miles away, the electric light office was wrecked, the walls cracking and the marble floor sinking at least one inch. Employees in the Summerville buildup rushed into the streets screaming, thinking an earthquake had struck the town. At Bloomington, the seat of Indiana University, reci tations were interrupted when the big buildings moved, leaving cracked walls. CAUSE OF BLAST IS NOT KNOWN. In this city window panes were shattered and chim neys tottered and fell. More serious damage is reported in Brazil, Coal Bluff, Burnett and Coaldale, towns in the immediate vicinity of Fontanet mills. The mills of the powder company were located two miles from the village. The cause of the explosion probably will never be known. 'NO ONE E8CAPEO INJURY. Ths flret train to return from the eeene of the accident arrived here at 11 o'oloole. bearing fifty-three Injured men. Some of them were employee* of the powder work* and were picked up many feet from the eeene. They are badly burned and lacerated. Great lose of life was flr»t reported from the public achool building, which collapied while one hundred children were within. Nearly all of the children are *ald to have been Injured and eome lois of life will result. No dead bodies had been taken from the collapsed achool building up to noon. The general store also collapsed, killing at least two persons. Not a person In Fontanet escaped without Injury or death. 8H0CK WAS FELT MANY MILES AWAY. First reports were that miners In the vicinity were entombed by cave- ins. Some of these reports have been verified, but no deaths are known to have occurred. The scene of the explosion two miles north of the town attracted the largest number of rescuers. In the village men were lifted from their feet and thrown against the side of buildings. The flames shot high Into the air and were plainly seen In Terre Haute. Automobiles filled with doctors left here Immediately after the news of the accident was received. The shock wa^felt as far away as Hamilton, Ohio. Fifty Instantly Killed. B. F. Carver, managing editor of The Terre Haute Tribune, was one of the frit to reach the scene In an automo- KING OF THE TANBARK REALM THE ENQUINE MONARCH REIGNS SUPREME AT PIEDMON.T PARK. FI FILLED WITH FINE LIVE STOCK Exhibits Draw Far mers From Far and Near. Attracted hy the splendid live stock exhibit, thoueands of people from far and near (locked to Piedmont park on. Tuesday and the etate fair experienced enother record-breaking attendance. Tuesday Is "Live Stock’’ day at the fair and a number of entries, composed of some of the finest hogs, sheep and cattle In the state, are on exhibition In the cattle building. Llvo stock day Is always an event of more than usual interest to every former, and many of Continued on Page Two. • bile. He is authority for the state ment that fifty persons had been killed. “From a quick survey of tha situa tion I believe fully fifty were Instantly killed and 100 Injured," he said. "Where •he three powder mills once stood noth- ing but big black holes filled with burn- !ng timbers were found remaining. The whole town of Fontanet Is In ruins, and the 100 or more residents In panic." Friction Caused Explosion.' General Superintendent Monahan of ths powder company Is said to have terlshed with his men. Members of hl» family who lived In Fontanet were Injured. Tbs explosion la btllsved to have re- "uited from friction sparks on a heavy ‘hovel used In the mixing mills. The , ™t three explosions were within o •*w momenta <jf one another. A fourth Incurred almost an hour and a half *nd caused additional damago •ad Injury. _. 8chool Children Killed. '"•hundred houses were demolished UJ people are homeless. Three buildings arc destroyed, one i,i. .* n n * fifty-nine pupils, another rt,?S y * nd ‘he third 200. Many of the mjured 1 Wer * ****** and cver >' one wa * BABY GIRL ENTERTAINS BAILIFF WHO CAME WITH WARRANTFOR HER FA THER For obvious reason*. Bailiff R. F. Mauldin, of "kludge Bloodworth’s court, did not state why he had come when he was met at the door of a neat sub urban cottage early Tuesday morning by a 8-year-old girl, with big brown eyee and long curls, ths daughter of the man he had come to orrest. Not the least of thess reasons was his In tention not to hurt the child's feelings. ••No, papa’s away. He’ll be back aft er a while. Won’t you elt down!" she said with childish frankness. Mr. Mauldin took a seat on the eteps and With hie knife began making a basket out of an acorn. The little girl drew near and watched him. When he had hollowed out the kernel and the basket wa* complete, he presented It to her. The pleasure she showed wa* so genuine that the bailiff, forgetting for the moment the serious side of hi* vis it. began another. "I like these baskets'." said the little girl confidentially. “I wish you would corns and live with u* and make me a great long etring of them. I know papa would be glad." Mr. Mauldin winced, and the war rant for the child’* father In 111* pock et seemed to weigh a ton. For an hour he made acorn baskets for the little girl and waited for the chance to arrest her father. At last he decided he had better etay no longer, a* there was othsr work to be done. "Walt a minute." eald the little girl, as he started to go. She ran Into the yard and returned with a small bunch of queer looking blue flowers "which she put In the bailirr* button-hole. "I'm sorry papa didn’t come,” she said; "ain’t you?" "No, no, not very," said Mr. Mauldin, a little uncertainly. He had done his duty, but he did Dbt regret that It bail not brought results, Just then. 28 KILLED, MURED FIRE IN MARIETTA ST. THREATENS BIG LOSS; ONE NARROW ESCAPE EQUINE KINGS BEGIN RULE IN ATLANTA Horse Show to Open on Tuesday Night. SOCIAL EVENT OF AUTUMN SEASON First Night’s Program In- cludfes Some of Best Classes of Show. O0OO0OOOO00O000000O0OOOOOO London, Halifax,Potts- ville, Spartenburg and Erie, Pa.,Contribute. A grand total of all accidents re ported Tuesday show 28 people killed and 13 people Injured. Autos, trains and trolleys roll up long death and In, Jured lists all over the world. London, Oct. 18.—Twenty persona are dead, more than fifty are Injured, some of them fatally, and the Scotch Flyer, one of the finest trains In England, Is a mass of tangled Iron and broken beam* at a point about three-quarters of a mile east of Shrewsbury station. The accident happened at an early hour and Is thought to have been caused by the engineer's disregard of on order limit ing the speed of trains at that point to ten mile* on hour. The point at which the disaster oc curred U at one of the sharpest curves on the railroad and the point was con sidered so dangerous that englnemen were Instructed to never exceed ten miles an hour while rounding It. Re ports from the wreck say that the train wa* running fully sixty miles an hour. Every car In the train except the last one went over the embankment Many of the bodies ar* pinned in the wreck which did not catch fire. Dozens of slightly Injured men and women were limping painfully around ths wreck when physicians arrived, do ing the best they could to relieve the sufferings of those caught under the timbers who were still alive. Seven bodies have been token out and thirteen more can be seen In the tangled mass of timbers and Iron. FOUR ARE KILLED AT GRADE CROSSING Pottsvllle, Pa,, Oct. 18.—Four per sons were killed and one probably fa tally Injured here last night at a grade crossing at Kelm street when an auto mobile containing five persons was run down and wrecked by a Pottsvllle ex- Continued on Page Two. S OPPOSED BY COMMITTEE Majority Reports Ad versely on the Proposition. . By ELIZABETH ELLICOTT POE. Richmond, Va, Oct. 18.—The house of deputies turned down the pet prov ince bill of the bishops and Is looking about i for more upper house bills to devour. Tha vote showed the lay ele, ment In the convention unalterably op posed to any more "degrees of tplsco- pacy" and the twentieth century church will not stand for primates, archbish ops or anything resembling a hierarchy In the American church. As yester day, the negro question will today oc cupy the center of the platform and a notable speech Is promised for Thomas Nelson Page, of Washington, on tha theme. At the mass meeting yesterday Blah, op Nelson, of Georgia, defended the negro work of the church and gave the following Interesting statistics In sup port of his arguments: "To begin right at home where I know the conditions best,” said Bish op Nelson, “In thp diocese of Georgia, the number of negro communicants have In the last fifteen years increased over 280 per cent, while among these same years the number of white com municants has increased only 80 per cent. Increase in Churches. During the thirty years between 1877 snd 1007 the ehurchej and mis sions have Increased fro-.n white. 3,22* :o 7,300. an Increase ,f 130 per cent, while among the negr«s from 37 to 103. an Increase of 420 per ce.it. Dur ing the same time the lncre.se of cler gy has been among thr white from 3.082 to 6.180, or 60 per o.nt and among the negroes, from 16 Ij lit, or 860 per cent. During the ten years from 1008 lo 1000 the Increase In the number of ne gro communicants In the Southern dio ceses alone has been from 6.840 to 10,- 600. or 00 per rent, with an appropria tion of only 178,000 per annum for be tween seven and eight millions of ne groes, while in Liberia a confessedly successful mission of the church where O Class 28—Beat harness colt, O O Georgia raised, 8 p. m. O O (.'Inss 1—Hnrneaa horse*, sin- O O gle. under 16.2, 8:16 p. m. 0 O (.’la** 22—Ponies In harness un- O O der 13 hands, 8:30 p. m. 0 O (Mass 10—Saddle horses, three 0 O gaits, under 16.2, 8:48 p. ni. Q 0 Class 7—Harness horses, pairs, 0 O under 16.2, 9 p. m. 0 O Class 6—Ladles' turnout, single, 0 IO 0:16 p. m. 0 IO Class 38—Heavy harness horses. 0 O single, l.ieal, 0:30 p. m. O O Class 30—Saddle horses, five 0 0 gaits, local. 10:16 P. m. O 0 Class 11—Roadsters, pairs, • 10 O O p. m. 0 0 Class 17—Toung ladles' riding 0 0 class, age 14 to 18, 9:46 p. m. 0 O Class 26—Runabout class, local, O O 10:10 p. m. 0 0 Muslo Program. O 0 1. March, "Cantaur"—Grieg. 0 O >t> Overture, "Crown Diamonds" 0 0 — Auber. 0 0 1. Wattses, "Dreams on the 0 0 Ocean"—Gunge. O O 4. Selection, “Maritana’’—Wal- O 0 lace. “ o 0 6. Intermezzo, "Kokomo’’—Weld. 0 0 6. Medley. "X. O. U.”—Johnson. 0 7. Spanish Serenado—Mlssud. O O 8. March. "Cavalier”—Jones. 0 000000000O000O000000000000 Under most auspicious circumstances the opening performance of the Atlanta Horse Show will be given at tha Coli seum In Piedmont park Tuesday night. If the number of animals which have been entered for the show Is any Indi cation of the Interest felt In the event the Initial performance will be wit nessed by the largest and most enthu elastic gathering of horso lovers that has ever b<ten seen In the South. Tha sale of seats, has been marvel ous and tha mammoth Coliseum, where the exhibition will be held, will be filled. Not only are the people of Atlanta and vicinity Interested In the show, but throughout Georgia and adjoining states the Interest Is felt and many other cltlea will be represented by del egatlons of citizens. "We are going to have the biggest and most successful show that has ever been held In the South,” said Secretn ry McCullough Tuesday morning. "The Interest In the event Is widespread and the show Is being talked of throughout "The entries are the finest that could be gathered together. They are all of finest breed end In awarding prizes and ribbons ths Judges will have no easy task. The fact that the people ore In terested in the show Is Indicated by the vast number of entries. We havo never had more than half this many before. The exhibition will be a grand success, and we anticipate that the Coliseum will be crowded with visitors Fraziers’ Warehouse Is in Big Blaze. EXPLOSIONCAUSES DESTRUCTIVE FIRE Firemen Forced to Confine Attention to Saving Other Buildings. Continued on Pag* Two. Continued on Pad* Two. gO000O0000000O0O0O00000000 0 ANOTHER BIG FROST 0 ON TUESDAY MORNING. 0 0 O 0 Another heavy frost covered the O O earth Tuesday morning. Not a 0 O great deal of damage has been O O done, however, as cotton hqd 0 0 about all developed. Well-posted 0 0 men say that If the good wrathor 0 O continues cotton will all bo picked 0 O by November I. Forecast: O 0 "Fair Tuesday night and Wed- 0 0 nesday; slightly warmer." O 0 Tuesday temperatures: 0 0 7 a. 42 degrees o 0 8 a/ m 48 degrees 0 0 t a. m 62 degrees 0 0 10 a. m .'.68 degrees 0 0 II a. 62 degrees 0 0 12 noon. ..64 degrees 0 0 1 p. m. 68 degrees 0 0 2 p. m 68 degrees 0 0 O 00000000000000000000000000 Fire caused by the explosion of a gasoline torch In the midst of hay. caused a destructive flro In the ware house of J. D. Frazier A Co., at Ma rietta street and the Western and At lantic railway, shortly before 2 o'clock Tuesday, and the fire companies had difficulty in fighting the flames, Ths loss will be a heavy one. F. Day, an electrician employed by the Carter-Glllesple Company, had a narrow escape from death. He was re pairing an electric wire In the second floor of the building when hla gasoline torch exploded. The flames spread Into a mass of hay stored near by and shot up to the celling. Day was forced to climb through the burning hay and drop down an elevator Bhaft to escape. ” was not Injured. t 3 o’clock It appeared that the flames would be confined to the section of the building where it originated, as the store room Is protected by heavy fire walls. The building Is owned by R. O. Camp- hell. of tho Campbell Coal Company. At 3 o'clock tho managers of the business declined to make an estimate the loes. heyonil saying that It uld be heavy und waa covered hy ln- surnneo. • The fire broke out shortly before 2 I'Clock and the alarm brought prac- 1 tloslly every engine and ladder truck to the scene at once. Home delay was causeil hy the Incomplete condition of the Forsyth street bridge, which pre vented the headquarters truck and en gine from erosalng. The offices of Otto Best, superintend ent of terminals of tho WeHtern and Atlantic railway. Is In tho building, and his effects were removed aa soon as the tiro started, his force of clerks and stenographers vacating In a hurry. Within a few moments after the fire was discovered, flames broke from thu upper windows of tho two-story struct ure. These were followed by flames bursting out of the Foundry street side, and It was seen that It would be im possible to extinguish tho fire. The at- . tentlon of the companies »« centered on confining It to tho warehouse and protecting the buildings In Marietta ■treat. A grain dealer at the fire estimated the loss at about 26,000, saying that the damage by smoko would swell this figure to some extent. Tho smoke I penetrated several buildings close by 1 Injuring flour and other stocks. The fire was well under control at 3 o'clock, and It was not behoved that It would spread further. An enormous crowd watched ths fire. SCHMITZ MAY SOON LAND IN THE PEN San Francisco, Oct. 16.—The district attorney’s ofllce announces that through an error of his counsel Former Mayor Schmitz, sentenced to five years In prison for extortion, has lost his right to appeal to the supreme court. If the contention Ih good Schmitz will be landed In San Quentin penitentiary In a few days. NELSON MORRIS’ WILLIS BROKEN Chicago, Oct. 16.—A 330,000 will con test that wa* argued and settled out of court was disclosed when the last tes tament of Nelson Morris, ths packer, was filed for probate. The widow and her four children will divide the prop erty equally among themselves at once. Instead of (600,000 and an annuity of (16,000 during the next twenty years, each of the five principal heirs will re ceive at once (6.000,000. Ever since Nelson Morris died, nearly two months ago, a strenuous though friendly debate over his will hi}* been going on In tho family. On ono side, seeking to abrogate the trust plan under which they would not have eome , Into their Inheritance for from 15 to 20 years, were ranged tho widow and i three of the children—Mrs. Maurice L. ; Rothschild, Mrs. Henry C. Schwab and , Ira Nelson Morris. On the other side, seeking to carry out the provisions of ' the will under which he wguld have j been In control of the "^ats, stood Edward Morris, the oldest son and the present head of tho Morris Packing corporations. It was simply a case of divergence of opinion. Finally, Edward Morris met the views of the rest of the family and an arnica, ble agreement, setting aside the trust plan and providing for an equal di vision or fhe property, was signed by . all the heirs. The business, however, will be continued as at present, with Edward In control.