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YOL. X. SO. 17.
thirty-six victims
Wreck co Railroad in Montana
Most Horrible oa Record.
caused by a runaway train
At Lightning Speed Wild Cats Crash
Into Passenger Coaches— Fire
Complete the Work of Death
and Oestruc-ion.
Thirty-six lives were lost ar>d thir
teen persons injured in the v reel: on
tl,e Great Northern railway passenger
tiaia No. 3, at Nyack 30 miles west
of Kalispell.’Mont., kri ay nigl t.
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, eook aboard the private
car of Mr. Downs; Thirty-three Scan
dinavian laborers, natr.es unknown.
The inujred: Thirteen S andina
vian laborers, names unknown.
Latest reports ind cate that the
wreck was the worst in the roid’s his
tory and one of the most sar
in the annals of American railroading.
Three cf the injured will lie and
the others are in a serious c< nditlon
By heroic efforts fifteen of the bodies
were taken from the wrecked cars.
All the other victims were ciemated,
including Superintendent P. L. Downs
and his son, T. K. Downs.
Cause of Disaster.
There is a severe .rade rear the
scene of the wreck. Two engines had
taken a train of twen .y-eight freight
cars up this grade and drawn off to
take water. While doing this all the
twenty-eight cars started dcwn the
grade. The runaway train dashed
down the grade at frightful speed and
crashed into the rear of a westbound
passenger train, No. 3, near the siding
at Nyack.
Superintendent Downs’ private car
was attached.to the passenger train
and next to it was a day coach filled
with railroad laborers from Di !uth. As
the runaway train sped by the switch
it struck a caboose and day coach en
the siding wrecking them.
Fire immediately started from the
oil lamps in the caboose. Tiie point
•where the wild train crashed into the
passenger was several hund-ed feet
away, and it was two and a half hours
before the flames reached the main
wreck. eMantime frantic efforts were
made to take out the dead and injured.
The w'reck vras piled high and wedged
into almost hopeiess confusion, and in
spite of superhuman efforts the flames
burst through the wrecked cars before
the work was completed.
J. H. Blair, colored cook in Mr.
Downs’ car, was taken out a'ive, 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 at a speed upward of 70
miles an hour, where regular trains
barely crawled along. With a roar it
burst around the 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 car meeting in
stant death. The wreckage and the
shingles and lumber of the freight
burned like tinder.
DECLARES FIGHT IS LOST.
Former Vice President Amalgamates
Association Scores Strike Leaders.
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 tire mem
bers of the association out or strike,
"were made by former Vice President
Hickey at a meeting of the Bay View
lodge at Milwaukee Sunday.
The situation, as summed up by Mr.
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 cent of the mills are working.
MOTHER AND BABE MANGLED.
Crushed to Death Linder Wheels of
Rapidly-Moving Trolley Car.
At Birmingham, Ala., Saturday Mrs.
Fannie McGill, carrying a baby in her
arms, was run dowp by a trolley car
and mother and child were mangled
to death, being dragged half a block
under the car.
The accident was witnessed by many
Peop’e. John Smith, the regular mo
torman, and Charles Courson, a learn
er, were immediately arrested and
placed In the county jail without bond.
Smith is charged with murder and
Courson with manslaughter.
STATE OF DADE NEWS.
LABOR INFER SCORES SHAFFEP.
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In Lengthy Editorial Demand Is Made
For His Impeachment—Crisis
Near In Strike Situation.
A Pittsburg, Pa„ special says: While
there is no actual change in the striae
situation, much transpired Friday cal
culated to soon produce results. The
conference between the Bay View com
mittee and the Amalgamated officials,
ihe continued efforts of President
Burns, of the Window Glass Workers’
Association, to bring about arbitration
cr conciliation, the scathing edito ial
in The Labor World calling for im
peachment of President Shaffer; the
march of the strikers from McKees
port to Duquesne, and the decided ef
fect of the injunction proceedings at
Canal Dover, Ohio, all indicate that
the crisis is approaching.
The editorial in the current issue of
The Labor World, the organ of the In
ternational Tin Workers’ Protective
Association and the mouth of the
Pittsburg district of the Mine Work
ers' Union and the Pattern Makers’
Association, is a long and bitter attack
on President Shaffer, and demands nis
impeachment for calling the present
stri;ce. The demand for the impeach
ment is made because it is charged
President Shaffer compelled the steel
workers to violate contracts; because
he expelled the Chicago men and re
voked their charter without constitu
tional hearing, and because the whole
strike is unconstitutional and has
brought ruin and wreck to men who
have made the Amalgamated associa
tion. The editorial, which gives twen
ty-four reasons why President Shaf
fer shouid be impeached, is entitled
“Sacrifice Shaffer; Save the Am&lgq/
mated.”
The most scathing paragraph of the
editorial is as follows:
“Is the Amalgamated Association of
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers to be sent
to a slaughter in a lost fight sacrificed
on the alter of the mad and selfish
of this creature, Shaffer?
This is no time for sentiment. It is a
tim*, for facts and plain speaking. The
fight against the steel trust is lost, but
no order comes from Amalgamated
headquarters where Shaffer cowers to
spare the brave men at the front!
Leaders of organized labor, forbid it
in the name of the cause you hold
dear, but which is menaced as iong as
Shafferism is allowed to live! Forbid
it in the name of labor’s honor and
honesty which Shaffer’s act has im
pugned.”
Then follows an intimation of an
accusation of stock dealing thgf I>fy.
Shaffer has repeatedly denied.
IMMENSE CORN SHORTAGE.
Bradstreets Report a Deficit Aggregat
ing 675,000,000 Bushels.
Bradstreet’s report of Saturday
Eayg; Late advices as to the proba
ble corn crop yi§ld and as to the re
sulting effect upon tue gepergl busi
ness of the country have made for a
rather saner view of the subject
could have been taken some §lx veeks
or two months ago.
A consolidation of the replies from
the seven surplus states of lowa, Kan
sas, Nebraska, Illinois, Mlseouf}, In
diana and Ohio, percentages of in
crease or decrease by states being
based upon the reported yields as in
dicated by the department of agricul
ture, point to a reduction in thp yield
of those states of not far from 650,-
000,000 bushels from a year ago. Small
er decreases are likewise indicated in
the smaller corn producing states like
Texas, Tennessee and Kentucky suffi
cient to *we!l the shortage by perhaps
25,000,000 bushels rnpre,
FOUR FIRE VICTIMS.
Woman ar.d Three Children Lost Life
In Flaming Tenement House.
Four persons were killed and seven
seriously injured in a tenement tire in
Brooklyn, N. Y., Friday night.
The victims were: Mrs. Rosie Roth
giser, 37 years of age, jumped from
fourth story window; Annie Beck. 10
years; Tiilie Beck, 5 years; Frank
Budd, infant.
The explosion of a kerosene oil stove
started the fire. Nets were spread to
catch those who jumped from the win
dows. Mrs. Rothgiser missed the net,
struck on the sidewalk and was in
stantly killed,
TILLMAN GIVES WARNING.
He Advises Cotton Mill Presidents
Against Coercing Employes’ Vote.
A Charleston, S. C., special says:
The statement issued Thursday by
Senator Tillman at Spartangurg. in
which he again warned the cotton mill
presidents of the trouble which would
follow any attempt to coerce the mill
operative vote for Senator McLaurin,
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 mill
presidents, as a rule, are In sympathy
wdth the doctrines of McLaurin.
TRENTON. GA.. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBERS 0901.
HOWISON UNCOVERS
Evasively Denies Interview Dis
paraging Admiral Schley.
HE IS UPHELD BY DEPARTMENT
Personal Letter Is Sent to “Assletmit”
Hackett —Attorneys For Schley
Not Satisfied and Will
Challenge.
A Washinton special says: Rear
Admiral Elowison is to remain a mem
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--ber of the Schley court of inquiry, not
withstanding the alleged interview
with him printed in The Boston Rec
ord.
Though the navy department refused
to comply with Rear Admiral Schley’s
request that Rear Admiral Howison
should be asked whether the inter
view was correct, that officer evidently
thought that the publication of the in
terview made it incumbent upon him
tc write a Inter of explanation to the
navy department. He accordingly
wrote an unofficial letter to Acting
Secretary Hackett.
In effect this letter denies The Bos
ton Record interview, but does so by
inference, rather than explicity. Rear
Admiral Howison admits that he has
discussed with acquaintances the “un
fortunate disputes so widely comment
ed on.”
As is indicated by Acting Secretary
Hackett’s reply to Rear Admiral How
ison, the navy department is entirely
satisfied with his course and consid
ers him qualified to sit as a member
of the court of inquiry.
The correspondence was sent to Ad
miral Schley, who discussed it with
his counsel. Later in the day the fol
lowing announcement was made:
“Admiral Schley’s counsel is entire
ly dissatisfied with the position of Ad
miral Howison, as disclosed in his let
ter to Acting Secretary Hackett.”
Has Forgotten the Interview.
In his communication to the de
partment, Howison says in part:
“I have po recpllectiop of the gen
tleman representing The Boston Rec
ord, and I do not approve ef his pub
lic statement as ming.
"1 cannot fay that I have not dis
cussed with acquaintances matters
published in the newspapers relating
to our navy’s success, as well as the
unfortunate dispute aq widely conn
mented on.
“While I feel highly honored by the
department’s selection of myself for
this duty, it is anything but a pleas
ant task to sit in judgment on broth
er officers.
“However, the honor of the selec
tion nor the unpleasantness pf court
duties dp not enter into thp reasons
for my nqw writing to say tg you, per
sonally, three thipgs ; yi?.;
“First, Tp reassurp ygp that I 1 1111
not rcspppsible tor apd did pot give
out such an interview as is alleged in
the dispatches from Boston and as
stated in the newspapers to have b“ e fi
mentioned by Admiral Scplpy in a re
cent iptter to thp department.
“Spcpnd. If, however, the depart
ment feels that the cause of thp navy
and of justice will be better served
by relieving me frp gn the
court, I pm entirely ready to withdraw
voluntarily, or to have the department
relieve me upon its own initiative.
’’Third. If, on the other hand, the
department, knowing all the circum
stances, desirps that I should pgrf-orm
tfip dfity, I am eptjrely ready to per
form it, and can, upon my conscience
and oath, do my duty as a member of
the court ‘without partiality,’ as the
law requires. Yours sincerely and
respectfully, H. L. HOWISQN,
"Rear Admiral, U. a. N.”
Hackett's Reply to Howison.
Rear Admiral: Your personal let
ter of the 24th deserves an immediate
reply,
“You say substantially that there is
po foundation for the statements at
tributed to you as having been set
forth in an interview afterwards pub
lished ip The Boston Record, and late
ly made the subject of a commnaica
tion fropi Rear Admiral Schley tp thp
department. You evidently have read
the correspondence between the admi
ral and the department as published
last week in the newspapers.
“The department, let me assure you,
has no purpose of relieving you offi
cially of this duty. It has implicit con
fidence in your sense of justice and
fair-mindedness.
“Should the counsel for Rear Admi
ral Schley proceed to offer to the court
objection to you, it will be for the
court itself to decide the question of
your competency to sit as a member.
"What you have said only confirms
me in the belief that the department
has been fortunate in selecting you as
the third member of the court.
"Kindly accept the assurance of my
personal esteem and believe me yours
truly, FRANK W. IIACKETT.”
DEATH LIST SWELLS IiREaTLY.
Further Investigation Shows Horror
of Steamboat Explosion Mor*
Appalling than First Reported.
A Philadelphia special Bays; It
developed Thursday that the result
of the explosion of the boiler on the
steamer City of Trenton, while on the
way up the Delaware river Wednesday
afternoon, was more appalling than
was at first supposed.
Tn additiun to the nine identified
dead there are two charred bodies, be
lieved to be those of femals, in the
morgue. They are beyond recognition
and will be buried in potter’s field.
The list of missing has reached
twenty, and will doubtless add many
to the death roll.
Of the thirty-three persons taken to
the hospital, Mrs. Edna Van Schoick,
Nightstown, N. J., and Miss Fannie
Keen, Philadelphia, will die.
That there are more victims In the
river is the firm belief of the authori
ties, and their failure to find any ad
ditional dead is supposed to be due to
the strong current in the river at the
point where the explosion occurred.
Never in the history of the Delaware
river has there been such keen rivalry
between the Tires cf river steamers
as (luring this season. Between Phil
adelphia and Wilmington the steamer
lines for a time virtually advertised
races between their vessels. For near
ly a week the City of Chester and
Brandywine, on one line, and the Dia
mond State on the other, met and
raced to a finish every day. Public
sentiment, however, caused the pa
tronage to fall off, and a rulo was then
made prohibiting the speed contests.
As to the exact pause of the explo
sion nothing is yet known, but an in
vestigation is to be conducted at once.
Fire Marshal Lattimer, Coroner Dugan,
the Folipe department and thp. United
States boiler inspectors will each carry
on an Independent Investigation, but
little can be known until the survivors
have been examined and a careful in
spection of the wiecked steamer shall
have been made.
Many of the passengers who escaped
injury maintain that the City of Tren
ton, which was late when she left her
wharf, was racing at her topmost
speed and that if this had not beep the
case the accident would not hgV- hap
pened- This is partly borne out by
a statement said to have been made
by Assistant Engineer John Chew.
Chew told his wife that hp expected to
be killed by ap explosion gn the steam
er as the cpmpapy fngde the engineers
kppp up lee high a pressure of steam.
TURNED BACKS ON SPEAKER.
Exciting Episode In Virginia Constitu
tional Convention at Ric^iumncf.
A Richmond, Va., special says: The
remarkable spectacle of a number of
Indies turning their backs on a pub
lic speaker addressing his remarks di
rectly tp them was witn§?§gd ip tt a
constitutional convention Thursday.
T hfi Indent paused quite a sensation-
Thg speaker was Colonel John C,
Fummers, the republican number
from Washington cgupty and the most
hbifihfi the body. Colonel
Summers was speaking in favor of the
submission of the new constitution to
the entire present gleptoratg pf
state and was veyy and bitter
in hig of the democratic
methods in Virginia and of the efforts
being made in the framing of the new
constitution to disfranchise the pegro.
Colonel Summers expressed Ills
for the negro anc| the negroes
thg ¥S*t gallery, to whom he ad
dressed himself directly, to a high
pitch of enthusiasm.
Turning to the east, or white ggh
lery, in which there were many ladies,
who sat with uplifted, ha de
clared that the convention, holding it
self to be sovereign, proposed to dis
franchise the husbands of some of
fairest women in Virginia,
A number of thp ladies turned their
backs to fha Speaker, and ere Colonel
Summers concluded the sentence, Mr.
Willis, a democrat, with face white
with anger, called him down for- sgl*
dressing the galleries instead qf the
convention.
The “Beautiful” In Colorado.
A dispatch from Denver, Col., says:
Snow' fell for an hour In Alpine Pass
Thursday and was followed by % se
vere storm.
TOTAL DEAD TWENTY-EIGHT.
Number of Boiler Explosion Victims
Made Known to g Certainty.
A Philadelphia special says: It Is
aqw 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 Cits' 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.
B. T. HUOI'K, Editor mill Proprititur.
TOILERS CELEBRATE
Bryan Takes Part In Festivities
Of the Day at Kansas City.
SHAFFER IN VAN AT PITTSBURG
In All Sect,one of the Union the Day
Is Celebrated With Parades,
Speech-Making and
Festivities.
Labor day in Kansas City was mark
ed by the largest and most imposing
parade of labor unions ever seen in the
city and by the participation of Wil
liam J. Bryan in the procession and
exercises. Eight thousand men inarch
ed through the streets, grouped in
their unions, and each wearing
a distinguishing uniform. Mr\pryaa,
as orator of the day, occupied a car
riage at the head of the line anti
cheered whenever recognised. The
pavilion at the park was crowded to
suffocation,
Mr, Bryan took for his text the Bi
blq verse, "Muzzle not the ox that
treadeth out the corn.” Among other
things Mr. Bryan said:
“Each decade of our history shows
greater production of wealth and the
men who produce it have less to show
for it. Is this a good condition—a
right condition? of the
problems tha| confront U3 i* in legis
lation, not, legislation for or against
classes, but for equal justice before
law. The strike today is the only
weapon the laborer has, but it is weak
and inefficient.
“If the laboring men were half as
active on election day as they are in
enforcement of their strikes they
would wield a force that would right
the evils which beset them,
“The greatest danger a* foclay is pri
vate monopoly, Not that any one
monopoly Is wor£e than others, but the
principle is bad which tolerates flj*y
private monopoly.
“I have heard that true solution
of the problepi is for the laboring men,
to dividp profits with the tpustg, That
has been given as an argpjwept for the
trusts. Spell p. (thipg would be im
moral impolitic. It would be like
dividißg spoils pf the highwayman.
“j am opposed to government by in
junction, not that it is directed espe
cially against the laboring man, but
that it does away with trial bjf jury.
It Is a menace not only tc* one class,
but to all. It is ijjlthm the power of
the labnrip* man to do away with the
Mr. Bryan condemned the action of
the South Carolina mill men w-ho for
bade their men to ouiobnate Labor day
or to join unions,
Hosts March at Pittsburg.
Pittsburg, Pa., was given over to
the ‘-‘sturdy sons of toil” Monday, who
paraded th# streets many thousand
in celebration of Labor day.
The Interest, owing to the Amalgama
ted strike, was never as great as this
year and in the procession were work
men from gluiesi every trade in that
industrial center. The parade
was started about 11 o’clock and wag
in four divisions. The first division
was made up of the Amalgamated
strikers, with President Shaffer in
command, j* was one of the largest
diYirietia and the striking steel work
ers were greeted with enthusiasm all
along the route. *
The parade was interspersed with
many bands. The best of feeling pre
vailed and there was no disorder.
The Day in Cleveland.
Ten thousand laboring men and wo
men marched through the streets of
Cleveland ip the celebration of Labor
dU, Tjie International Longshore
men *2OO men in line. A num
ber o. ers were carried, five of
which r ,
“We art gfightng a billion dollar
trust!”
“We are not on strike, but are in
the tight!” v *
“Our spirit of loyalty cannot be
bought!”
“In God we trust; we don’t care for
any other trust!”
“Dow® with Schwab arid Morgan;
long live T. J. Shaffer.”
Big Parade In Philadelphia.
Labor day was generally observed
in Philadelphia. Business was prac
tically suspended and the stock ox
change, commercial institutions and
municpal departments were closed.
Celebrated at Chicago.
Organized working men in Chicago"
and vicinity celebrated Labor day
with numerous picnics and a huge pa
rade. It is estimated that 25,000
trades unionists and musicians were in
line. Business was generally sus
pended to allow full observance of the
day.
Atlanta’s Toilers Celebrate.
Labor day in Georgia’s capital city
was royally celebrated by parade,
speaking and other exercises at Grant
park, and a big ball in the evening
concluded the ceremonies.
HESTER’S COTTON CROP TOTALS
An Increase cf Nearly One Hundred
Thousand Bales of the Fleecy
/, Staple Is Predicted.
A New Orleans special says; Th®
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 0,374,364 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-
1901 amount to 10,233,422 bales,
against 9,436,416 last year and 11,274,-
840 tile year before.
Mr. Hester has made his usual in
vestigation 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
1.620,931 bales, but of this 44,198 bales
wore taken from ports included in port
receipts. This total shows that tho
imps of the south have used up 23,819
ba!c> more than during 1899-1300,
against q. consumption by the north of
2,050,000. vie makes the actual cotton
crop of Texas, including Indian Terri
tory, 3.808,568, Qr say, 1,218,056 bales
more than last year, and states that
the actual production 0 f Indian Terri
tory was 299,330, against 156,034 last_
year.
Mr. Hester also gives the actual,
production of Oklahoma 119,063, an*
I.lis-ouri 25,794. His report on the cc
ton crop for the different states is giv
en as follows in thousands of bales.
North Carolina, etc 545
South Carolina 91X
Georgia 1,29?
Alabama I,oo*
Florida 45
Mississippi 350
Louisiana 719
Arkansas 762
Tennessee, etc 350
Texas, etc. .. 3,809
Total crop, bales 10.35S
North Carolina above includes Ken
tucky and Virginia; Tennessee in
cludes Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas
and Utah; Texas includes Indian Ter
ritory.
Mr. Hester’s full report will contain
interesting facts in relation'to the con
tinued 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 facta
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 has ever before been obtained for
any crop. He compares the value of
this crop with that of the year before
1a5t—11,274,840 bales, the largest ever
grown—and shows that we have re
ceived this year for 891,418 bales les
$211,794,562 more. Mr. Hester says
when it Us considered that the two
past cotton crops have fallen sold in
the south for $858,352,369, their im
portance will be appreciated as the
means of bringing prosperity to the
cotton states.
“BUMPING” FEATURE OMITTED.
Kaiser Bill Waives Katowing Cere
mony In Receiving Chinese.
Monday night Prince Chun and his
entourage left Basle, Switzerland, tor
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
ed and accepted invitations from the
British, Italian, American, Belgian and
Japanese governments.
Financial Aid For Strikers.
The San Francisco branch of tha
International Iron Molders’ Union has
been given $5,000 by the national body
for the benefit of the members on
strike in that city.
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OUR CUBAN TRADE SHORT. '
Figures Show That We are Sufferers
By Radical Changes.
Some figures relating to the export
and import trade of Cuba for the first
seven months of this year, as com
pared with a similar period last j ear,
just published by the division of in
sular affairs, war department, indicate
that radical changes are going on in
that trade.
It is known that the United States
and other North American countries
are the sufferers from this turn of
trade.