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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. ** ■ 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 * /,r --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. 1 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.