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1 DR. FRANK M. RIDLEY, JR., IS SHOT AT LA GRANGE,* TWICE WOUNDED BY HARVEY HILL, OF ATLANTA Prominent Young Men Precipitate Tragedy at a Wedding Cere mony—Fight at Home of C. B. Ridley After a Few Hot Words—Ridley Was Getting Best of Fist Encounter, When Hill Drew Pistol and Fired Two Shots. DIRECT CAUSE OF DIFFICULTY IS NOT YET ACCOUNTED LaGrange, Ga., Jan. 2.—Dr. Frank M. Ridley, Jr., of LaGrange, was shot and dangerously wounded by Harvey Hill, of Atlanta, at 12:30 o’clock today. The shooting occured at the home of C. B. Ridley, where the wedding of Mr. Hen G. Swanson and Miss Ellie Ridley, a cousin of the wounded man, had just taken place and while the guests were crowding for ward to congratulate the liappv pair. The trouble arose in the kitchen and the two came to blows. Two shots were fired, the first inflicting a flesh wound in the face and a powder burn, and the sec ond taking effect in the abdomen, which wound may prove fatal. The woiuided man was quickly cared for while the assailant was arrested and lodged in jail. He refuses to talk furthcr than to say thaHt was a personal mat ter. Frank M. Ridley, Jr., who is a-eon of Dr. F. M.- Ridley, waB for two years, 1901 and 1902, captain of the football team of the University of Georgia. Mr. Hill, who is in jail, has several bruises on the face, where he was struck, supposedly hy Mr. Ridley, The shooting created'a jm»h* among the guests and immediately the house was closed and nothing of the trouble was given out for the time. One report is that just after the ceremony Rid- “NO. 29 IS GONE AND SO AM 1,” - SAYS DISPATCHER; 35 KILLED BODIES OF VICTIMS ATTACKED BY FLAMES Topeka, Kuna., Jan, t.—Futaengtr tralna No. It, westbound, and No. 30, eaatbnund, on the Rock Iiland, col lided between Volland and Atta Vleta station! this morning, and, accordlns to O. W. Rnurke. superintendent of the Kansai division. In his report to head quarters here, thirty persons were killed and forty Injured. Ten bodlea have been recovered from the smoker of No. 23, nine of whom are Mexi can*. The amoker-whljh-waa loaded, with Mexican laborers, suffered most. The bamraxc car raised the smoker root and lodged on the occupants, crushing them. The baggage car. two chair cart, and one tourist sleeper of No. 31 were burned. The fescue work Is now being carried on. Roth trains are known as the Cal oppoelte directions. No. 33 left cago yesterday morning en route to El Paso. No. 2t) was due In Chicago to- ’be care went Into the ditch and several of them caught fire. Many of the bodlea of the vlatlma were con sumed by the flames. The Injured-are being brought to early reporta stated that the collision was caused by the careless. ne*s of the agent at Volland. OPERATOR IS BLAMED FOR WRECK IN KANSAS Chicago, Jan. 2.—The blunder of a telegraph operator who failed to give the conductor of the weal-bound train a dispatch ordering him to wait fortho arrival of the east-bound train was the cause of the Rock Islend disaster near Volland, Kans., early today, according I In Chicago. •tracked at Volland until the east-bound train passed. The order was not given, the _ Thii pioiuee showy at Aim gepJUJ. CwaMt, la to. gssaldaRr- Pennaylvanla railroad, and below, at the . right, James McCrs ley called Hill to one side, saving he wished to* speak i, where with him, and tlie two walked into the kitchen, the trouble began. Both were here as at tendants at the wedding. Mr. Ridley is a cousin to the bride, at whose wed ding the trouble occurred. He was recently married to Miss Hood, of Baltimore. HARVEY HILL ONLY SON OF SOLICITOR C. D. HILL; DR. RIDLEY WELL KNOWN News of the shooting of Or. Frank Ridley, Jr., by Harvey Illll In I.ti ll range Wednesday nfternoon created the most Intense excitement here. The prominence of both young men and tlietr families lends tragic .Interest to It. First news came tn n long ills •*n.ce message from LaHdingc, ami quickly spread over the city. Many Inquiries came to The Georgian office from all parts of the city for par ticulars of the shooting. Harvey Hill. Harvey Hill, who shot Dr. Ridley, Is one of Atlanta's best-known young , attorneys. He Is the son of lton. C. D. Hill, solicitor general, who Is In Mt. Airy, on a shooting expedition. The new* of the shooting reached Mrs. Hill, his mother, through long distance telephone from LaGrange, end she has gone there to be with her son. Harvey Hill Is connected with the law flrnt of Arnold & Arnold He Is not only well known In. the legal pro fession. but It a prominent member of several prominent clubs of the city and la a leader In aoclal circles. Solicitor Hill will probably Join Mrs. Hill In LaGrange. Dr. Frank Ridley. Young Ridley ta the only non nf Dr. Frank M. Ridley, of LaGrange. G.i. • hif!f Burgeon oftbe "Atlanta timr WesT 1’olttt railroad. He Is.alao the nephew of R. B. Ridley, of Atlanta, a member "f the Arm of Everott-Rldley-Rugiin Company. He Is 23 years of age. Dr. Ridley la well known In Atlantn among the younger aoclet/ set and has • large circle of friends and acquaint ances In this city. He Is held In high esteem by all who know him anil when he left this city to return to IaHlrange his departure caused keen regret to all with whom he was associated. Young Ridley Is an hnhor graduate of the Atlanta College of Physicians and Burgeons and begin his practice as a physician last spring.' He was nlso captain of the football teams of tsi)2 and 1303 -of the State University >f Athene, end wee e factor In Southern amateur athletics for sums time. the —.... .... . ....... ...—. ...-Cree, vice president of the eompsny, who on Wednesday morning was ohosan presi dent of the system. At the left is 8amuel Res, third vice president, who iperator blundered—that was the cause jfthetr Assistant to President Winchell of the Rock lalaod ayatetn. "How the operator could hove made such a blunder la Inconceivable. Vol land ta a regular stop for all west bound trains. Tbere la a water tank near the etatlon and that train must have atopped for water. Even if It was not a regular stop the operator's board should have been turned ae as to show there were ordera for the west-bound train. “The east-bound train was behind Its schedule and was running fast to make up time. Of course the east-bound train did not rscslve any orders In tbs circumstances, and the engineer could not have dreamed that the arrange ments to give him A clear track had miscarried. roe i in New York city. IAMES MCREA ELECTED HEAD E OF PEI ROAD I IIS COURT Succeeds A. J. Cassatt; Unsteady Aim All as President of That Saved Him ‘MOUSE' IN MARITAL TOILS; MISS LOVETT IS MARRIED TO JOHN S. ROBERTSON 40 PERSONS Bodies Cremated . in; Debris of Demolish ed Cars. OPERATOR FAILS TO HOLD TRAIN AT HIS station; Twenty-Two Mexican La borers Meet Death in . Collision on Road ,. in Kansas. . T- System. Philadelphia, Pa, Jan 2—At n ape. 1 St. Louis, Mu, Jnn. 2.—Incensed clnl meeting of the board of dlmdors 1 ;*?»*«"" '■> “ port I lion sun , ,, .... , in Hu* entitle «*f iit*r father, Augusta of the I ennsylvanla Railroad < nmpuny \V«.||, Miss Rosit Well attempted to held today, James Mct’rea, vice prcsl- aasasslnate Judge Jes.e A. McDonald, lent of tho Pennsylvania Railroad In the clmilt court, today. Ml*» WuU's •ompany, In charge of the lines mi iunsteady, and the bullet HARVEY HILL. OF ATLANTA. Who shot Dr. Frank M. Ridlty, Jr„ et LeQrenge Wednetdey. ID ARE KILLED IN FEUD BATTLE IN OLD KENTUCKY L©xlngt«>n, Ky., Jan. 2.—Harrison Rloan© nn«l Walter Hunk* were. killed At Pine Top yeetenlay as the result <>Panother outbreak tn tbe feud be tween their famine*. succeed the late A. J. Can watt. Hi* showed wonrefut componure, ,m»l Prealdent McCrea authorized lhe fol. I after the excited woman had l»* • n " tft,rrn ** nt: • i <»\erp«»\vered and the revolver torn fn>m •’The policy of the Pennsylvania road I her hands. ordered her taken to the doon not depend upon any one man. It private ofYlce of the nhorlff. J urine Me- continue* unchanged from year to year, hi nnltl then renttmeri firming • <urt •mote, a* j nudlon*. vlll he bent I can, the camo pr<>Rrevive de velopment which was conducted *.> ably under Prealdent Cassatt and I the presidents who preceded him.".. her I -UKlit to * heal'd to Clara, \ i court ive got him." Mir.* Well xclalm an *he and Her to had bean sitting r.* ar were taken fr**:u the M’CREA IN NEW YORK TO TALK WITH FRICK. New York, Jnn. 2.-vJnmes MeCren. the newly-elected president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, who In to nucreed the late A. J. Cassatt an president. In In New York for a «*•»«>- ferenee with Henry Frlek. The pfdlcy of extonnion lnauKurnte<j hv Mr Cannatt will. In the main, be rjosrly followed hy Mr. McCrea. It In In the matter of the relation of the railroad with Itr customer* and nuhnhllnrv r«un- panlea that a radical departure will he made. Whether or not the present bond j rhcme_ot_the-Pennsylvania, lnv**»v- i *v«-«inl to Tin ...i «... OF Miss Josephine Lnvatt and John 8. Rohertson, both of "The Lton snil the Mouse" Company, which played at the Grand Mondny and Tuesday, were married by Rev. Rush R. Bhlppen. l-iator nf tho Unitarian church, shortly after 11 o'clock Tuesday night at the residence of the minister, 63 West Ra ker street. The announcement of the wedding came n* a surprise even to the mem bers of "The Lion and the Mouse" i ’ompany. Two of the Intimate friends of the couple were present to witness the -ceremony.—The- members of .the entire company tenderd Mr. anil Mrs Robertson n wedding dinner at the Piedmont after the ceremony. The company left on an early morning train Wednesday for Columbus, Ga. In the performance of 'The Lion and the Mouse" Miss Lovett Is Shirley Rossmore. "the mouse," and her delinea tion of-this character won unstinted tlnn of hundreds of Atlanta theater goers who gathered At the Orand Mon day night and Tuesday matinee and night. Miss Lovett wrs at her best in her scathing denunciation and re buke of John Burkett Ryder, "the lion," the climax at the end of the third act. The groom. John 8. Robertson, ap peared In the same production as lion Ftttroy Uaglry, an Kngllthman nnd secretary to Mr. Ryder. Mr. and Mrs. Robertson have been together In sev eral other theatrical organisations. He Is an Englishman and a native of Aus tralia. Roth have appeared In troupes In Australia and New Zeland. In the play "the mouse" become* the wife of young Ryder, the son of "the lion," nnd, who, at the same time Is engaged to a senator’s daughter, who, In turn, I* really In love with the Eng. Ilsh secretary. The secretary and the senator’s daughter, however, elope; "the linn’s" wishes are disregarded, but hi* consent Is Anally gained by the sheer audacity nf "the mouse,” which com- applause and -commanded the adtnlru-manda his admiration. TO FIX BLAME FI Ing French loan*, In to bo cnrrh «Y tui* not brm gone intrrit* yet tnit re main* a mutter which will hlng* (treat extent on u conference t.« h In a few day* which will *oek to a*, certain the view * of J. I*. Morgan ami other prominent flmtnclrr* Interested in the Pennsylvania. Home Cleaning Planned. Not only will Mr. MrCrva *ucceed the Incumbent'* office* with hi* per sonal *t«fr. It I* asserted. but the hou*o cleanlUK will reach Into all the execu tive department* which wen* ti nned in la*t June’* invcMtlKtiflon. or which will need readJu*tInK becau*e of an** future under*t*ndlnK arrived *t with Mr. Frick ami other* of the director*. —> Mr. Mefreu will be the Pennayl- Vania’* *lxth prenldent. He hu» an at tractive personality. In per*cn he |* a stalwart man. hut not quite WunhlnKton, Jnn. 2 — Coroner Nevltt today began an Inqueet at the munici pal morgue to nxccrtaln the responsL blllty for the disastrous wreck on the llnltltnore and Ohio railroad Kumlay m Terra Cotta, In which 4.'» per*on* I out their live* ami nearly twice a* nmn> wen* injured. Many wltnesiie* wen* culled and the taking "f testl* tinmy continued throughout the day. District Attorney Raker, one of I those Injured In the wreck, was unn- I hie to be present at the Inquest, hut an J assistant from hi* office aided the coroner in conducting the examination, j The member* «»f the *deud head" xtra -miL that plowed through the Ittrfnlnghnm, Ain. Jun Mystery j .«,»nmm«HluUon trntn from "Hw rear, irrouhil* CTie ~TinUhg T.T Ttrifnitpy p , wrrr hnatiHrt--from the Tenth Precinct 1h» held Hlackhurn. a former d«*|>m\ HherlfT at Warrior, late hint night He wa* shot from umbunh. but »tuhb*\inly main tained a Silence about th» whole thing until death came at 1 «»vi *. k torin> It w n* said he knew' three .-f four men who waylaid hltn, Just outMde of a sa loon at the mining rnmp noth of h©r*\ A whluvf anil four children survive him. • I and mu*- j bright tnche. like to call them, ar© of the fa*hlon af fected by jAtne* J, Illll nhd Andrew Carnegie. He I* a man of quiet hut determined »*peot. quick on hi* feet . and w ith * habit of shaking hand* . - tall a* warmly, and the trait of meeting man, Mr. CuMgtt w us. He bus ruddy,cheek* woman or child cya to eya. station, where they •have been held n* prisoner* since the wreck. operator Phillips, of the Tnkomo rftitttnn. who I* out oh ball* atuled Hull tie had bean on duty 12 hour* when the accident happened. .< ••At 91.31,” he said. "I heard the ex tra train whirling for a signal. I set the red light nnd there was m» answer. Ing signal. There ought always to Ik*. I then sent a message to t’ntvendty station saying: * '2P»4 Ita* gone by iny red light hi* frit>B<is I Rkv h—.’ ”1 <h> n.'t tH'lkvi* that Englnr*r Hit- •Irbraml saw the signal. I have bi-en tn the service *>f the cttmitnny for 31 yenrs mut Hint night was the foggiest nntl worst for trainmen 1 have seen In my career. EIGHT ROADS ARE MENACED Peoria, III., Jan. 2—"Arbitrate or settle the Southern Pacific strike or Htiffer a walk-out of firemen on all your line*," I*, ftn brief, an ultimatum sent K. H. Ilarrlman* Tuesday night by Orand Master John. J. Hanrthan, of the Urotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineer*. Fnles* an Immediate reply la rv colved from Mr. Hnrrlninn. the fire men on the following lines will he called out; Illinois Central, Union Pacific, Chi cago and Alton, Ilaltlmore and Ohio, Oregon Short Line, Kansas City South, ern and all lines of the Southern Pa nic not now affec ted. The 'brotherhood Is preparing Itself or a tong struggle and Is feeling the pulsr of men on the other Hnmtnan lines. would not say anything to Incriminate him." The Interstate commerce commls* slon's Investigation of the wreck will begin on Friday morning and will be of the most searching ever under* taken by that body. The most Important feature of the Investigation was the development of the fact that the llnltltnore and Ohio officials have as yet started no Investi gation Into the wreck nnd Its causes. Questioned hy Cnhrner Nevltt. Su perintendent Hobbs said: I attribute the wreck to an Infrac tion of the rules." Asked what particular rules, he stmt- Htlderbrand has always ©<t that he had not as yet had time to h*«n ah excellent engineer and 1 develop thia. Cottnoil Grove, Kan., Jan. 2.— Thirty-five persons were killed ^ und it is estimated forty were in jured in a head-on collision be tween two Chicago, Rock Itdand and Pacific trains near Volland. ^ at 4:50 this morning. Five cars were burned. Among the dead are 22 Mexi can laborers, who were riding in- the smoking car. Many of the in jured are alw> Mexicans. The op erator at VollRnd was responsi* \ ble for the wreck. Train No. 29, west bound, was traveling in two sections. The dispatcher at Topeka notified Op erator Lynda at Volland to hold the second section and let No. 30, cant hound, from El Paso, pass it there. Instead, the operator let the-first section of No. 29 pass, ^ and probably forgot about the aeeoml section entirely. Operator Is Blamed. At any event, the second seo- t ion passed the station where it < should have been held and rushed into a head-on collision. The operator realized after the second section of No. 29 had passed what would happen, and before the wreck had occurred,' sent the following message to the dispatcher at Topeka: "No 29 is gone and so am I.” All e(Torts to raise him since that time hnvc been unavailing.' It is reported in Volland that tho operator has fled. Hit at Full Speed. A list of the dead and of the in-, jured is not obtainable at this time. The trains met at full apeed on a curve four miles east of Alta Vista. Till 1 west hound train was carrying extra ears for the heavy honteseeker excursion .traffic and consisted of ten coaches. This train is known to have got the full force of the shock. DEAD MAY NUMBER SO. The baxaaae ears, mall car, amoket un<l chair car were entirely demolished. Fiu*cntcnt la each of ihetra oars were more or less Injured. The can were Ailed with Mexican laborers. . One paaaenser, who walked fretn hi! ear a tew minute, baton tha craah, aalj R eeemed to Mm there wen flv, pa,-' •enter* In thla car tor ovary double *e«t. Report* hav% It that not mote than 30 escaped from the car. If thl* I* true, the death llat will total nearly 60. Both enalne* were Ink u* many a, 30 bodies were burled In the coachea. Fifteen bodies hav, been recovered, aom* unrecogntaabM by reaaon nf their burn*. ENGINEER FATALLY HURT. , Tha enfinemen of both train* aa. raped by Jumptnr except the enctaM Continued On Ratta Threw,