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VXX.1-NO. 275 MCDINff, N-V,, THURSDAY TCMNG* DEGEtlBCR 24> J905, ^3 t%-*%*v%^«%%vt*'MkV'%'%%^%*%*-'M'%^^ i mMmim.mm Sixty Live&Lost and 3Q People Injured. TRAIN RAN INTO* LUMBER PILE, i A Jerry Christmas and a Happy New Tear to allV Philip 1- Brust •%^-^M^v%^-%%^«k^%vm^%^v»^%^^^^%v%^%^^k%^v%^^^* BOSTON NEW. (MM PrTTSBUHG You'll be On Time Th« UKB SHORE & MICHIGAN SCUTWBRN RAILWAY __ To Any F=»olnt East or West ETio roasong for this punctuality are—excellent roadbed, giant engines of tho newest type, and a. sploa&id equipment of rolling stock. Old Doeoirtion Line •\'->~ Delightful Short Trips FOP fcbe Tourist who desires to soo th-e heart of tho ptoMiesque send historical wator- wavsofVlrgfcaia. For Those Who Seek Rest ID tine balmy air of Old Point Com- fort smdVlrg£=aii\Boai<ch. 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Guaranteed So our© Scrofula, Eczema, Goiter, Fevor Sows, Blood Poisoning and all Wood disorders, This Syrup is purely Herbal, and its equal as a Blood Pusafier asd System Tonic- is •tot known. Each, bottle contains a full month's treatment and sells for $1.00, Try It and he convinced. For Sala by Chas, A. Mack, Medina, N. ST. Compounded by The Lawton MEodioine Co., Holley, N. Y. NOW Is Your Time To buy ft you ( want to make a .Christmas pres- ent, E. W. Harlowe carries the finest line of Blankets and Robes in town. Also a Full line of Sleigh \Bells and Harness of all kinds. New arrivals.in Robes —now is ycrar time to select one before they are gone. # Only Harness Shop on Main Street. K W\ Harlpwe's So. Main Street, Brown Block, JHJxdintE, N. Y. J£ you have not paid for your paper i. aow'i'faa acde|itable time, to do so; Oar terms are strictly in advance. •• :ft •¥*- Coches Plunged Over Embankment to -., Edge of Youghiooheny River—Many People Pinioned Beneath Wreckage. Cars Torn to Pieces—Statement of Superintendent Loree. Connellsviilo, Pa., Deo, 34.—With a terrible crash and a grinding noise, the Duquesne limited, the fastest through passenger train from Pittsburg to New York on .the Baltimore and Ohio, plunged into a pile of lumber at Laurel Run, two miles west of Dawson at 7:45 o'clock last evening and It i s es- timated that fully ($3 Uvea were lost and 30 persons were injured. The train left Pittsburg last evening, running a few rnlnutes late, in charge of Engineer William Thornley ot Con- nellsville. When passing Laurel Run, which is a jarticutarly fine piece of road bed, the train was running at a high rato of speed. Suddenly tho passengers •were thrown from their seats by tho lightning like application of the air brakes and a moment later there\ was a terriMo crash. t Tho train was made up of two bag- gago cars, two day coaches, ono sleep- er and ono dining car, and was carry- ing at the tlmo at the lowest estimate 1G0 passengers. The train ploughed along for a considerable diatanco and tho cars wero torn to pieces, passen- gers jumping screaming, falling from tho wreck as It tore along. Plunged Over Embankment. Suddenly tho engine swerved to tho left and the caaohi's plunged down over tho embankment to tho edge ot the Youghiagheny rln-r. Tho minnto the cars stopped rolling there was a wild scon»\ Many per sons were pinioned b»m-ath the wreck ago and tho ccreams and tries thar rent tho air were beyond description Many wero injured in their mad ox citensent and others plunged Into tho river. Othcra, pinioned beneath the-heavy timbers, pleaded in asoniafd tones for release. So terrific was tho force of the wreck that nearly every passenger suffered a moment's unconsciousness and many of the alblo bodied men were unable to assist the injured from the wreck on account of having fainted. Among tho dead aro: Engineer William Thomley, Hasle- wood, Pa. Division Engineer S. O. Heater, Ha- ste-wood, Pa. Fireman Thoma3 Cook, Haslewood, Pa. Herbert Holmes, Emmelton, Pa. Jesse Hlnes, Tarboro. N. C. th» fnion News company agent on the train. Charles Linford. Confluence, Pa. —-— Edwrartls, Pittsburg, wife In Cumberland J. W. ^fartln. Hancock, Md. Richard Puckett, Baltimore, Sid. Edison Goldsmith. Cnnnellsvitle, Pa. The other 53 doad are mostly for- signers ami negroes who were riding in the smoking car. The work of their Identification has not yet begun. The seriously Injured are: J. Allfur ter, Boalton,, \V Va.; Henry Davijs. Rockwood, Pa., will die; C. H. Line ford. East McKeesport, will die; Will- iam Edwards. Cumberland, Md.; Thom- as Tippler, Philadelphia; Harry Dev- lin, Connellsville; W. H, Stoddard, Connellsvllle; W. H. Keifer. Somerset. Pa.; John K. Powers, South Cumber- land, Md.; J. W. Altman, Connellsville; Aaron Verg, East Pittsburg. Bodies Burned to a Crisp, The most of the dead were foreign- ers who were In the smoker, jnst back of the baggage car. They wero literal- ly roasted to death, the baggage and smoker telescoping the engine and Ita mediately catching fire. Many of the bodies were burned to a crisp. All the dead were taken to tho bag- gage room of the Baltimore and Ohio depot to be removed later to the differ- ent undertaking shops in the city. The entire population has turned out en masse to assist in caring\for the living and in disposing of the dead. A pecdllar feature of the accident is the fact that not a woman was serious- ly injured. The wreck was caused by tho break- ing of the castings on a carload of bridge timbers, on a westbound freight train which had passed Laurel Run not more than 15 minutes before the ill-fated passenger train. The wreck occurred on a curve and it was impos- sible for Engineer Thornley to see far enough ahead to detect the obstruction on the tracks. The big. Atlantic type engine plunged Into the timbers at a velocity of 60 Biles an hour. The engine ploughed Into the embankment and the baggage and express car were thrown into the Youghiogheny river. The smoker fol- lowed the eftgihe arid landed squarely on toft of it. Thlg.allowea.the es- ' ' J PC& ONE CENT .eapin£ stosMn; and hot water from the engine to fill the car. The smoker was packed to ita ut- most capacity an,d all ..the passengers were cooked a'ljye. &ot a single pas.* senger in thenar escaped with his life and it Is estimated that at least 40 o) the dead were in.the smoker. ** Heroism of Thomas -4, Baum. ' Baggagehiaster Thomas J, Baum oi Hasslewooft ^ho was on the wreokei! train, proved % hem. With hl,s hea< and body frightfully out he managed to crawl from the. weckage and grop fas \his way along la tho darkness flagged the* westbound passenger train No. 48, Being -without a flag be took off his coat and set Are to It. Ho stopped the train just in time to pre- (rent it from plunging into tho wreck- age and adding further horror to an already indescribable disaster, Baum collapsed -whoa he saw he had succeeded in stopping the train an 1 ) when the engine stopped ho was ly- ing within a few feet of it. •An operator at \VR\ tower on tho Pittsburg and Lake Brio railroad, across tho Youghioshony river, wan the first to send word ot the accident and for relief. He was watching the Duquesno limited across tho river. Ho saw tho cars pile high in tho air and then sink back on tho tracka. The screams of the injured and dying were plainly heard. And In another second he was Beading word to tho odlcea at Dawson and Connellsville. For more than 500 feet, both tho east and westbound tracks .wero torn up Vho engine was completely demolished ana tho big 7.000-gallon tank on the tonder wna thrown a hundred feet ahead of the other wreckage. Baggaoe Car Thrown Into River. Tho bafHjaso car was thrown tnfcj tho river but waa only ellghtly dam- aged. All tho cara wero derailed and tho trucks of all except tho diner wc-ru torn completely from beneath the cara, Tho people in tho Pullman cars and tho diners were not seriously hurt, althottgh few escaped without at least corao injury- Aa soon as tho wreck waa reports in ConnHlsvlllo all tho avallahlo phy sictana were summoned, and a specie! Train In charge of General Suporintt-nd ent S. C. Sims and Superintendent T P. Irwin of tho Pittsburg Oi vision left for the scene. Tho relief train waa run at full speed and tho wreck waa reached about 0 o'clock. The Injured wen. looked after immediately. They we« placed oa tho relief train and taken te tho Cottage state hospital here. The dead wero placed In a long row on the embankment opposite the wreck age and in a slnglo line 33 forms lay Another row on the opposite aide el the wreckage contained 11 and scat tered hero and thera through tho un derbrush wero tho dead bodies of many who bad been obie to crawl from the wreckage but died beforo aid reached them. Under his englno lay Engineer Will, lam Thornley. disembowled and man gled almost beyond recognition. It was impo33lblo at the time to extricate his body and it will be several hours before tho wrecking crew will ho able to remove the engine which pinions his remains. Hardly had tho bodies of tho dead been removed from the coaches until thieves began robbing tho dead of Jew dry and money. Special olHcera wert deputized and with the old of tho Bal tlmore and Ohio police force and Con BellsviUe officers the work of tb<? ghouls was stopped. Several persons are under suspicion and arrests will follow today. It is charged that the foreigners who escaped serious Injury In the wreck immediately \setlflraat robbing their more unfortunate countrymen and the dead aa well as injured were robbed of tbetr money and other val uables. Statement of Superintendent Loree. The official statement of Superin- tendaut W. C. Loree follows: \No. 12 was derailed-by running into some switch timbers or timbers of about that size derailing the engine and all ears. All the oars are badty damaged. Do not think any of the equipment will he able to go away from the accident on their own wheels except possibly the Pullman' cars and the diner. The engine lies across both tracks. \The baggage car is over the bank The first coach is partly over the bank. The balance of the train badly twisted. I judge 35 people were killed. \All the people killed were in the smoker. , Escaping steam from the en- gine went into the first coach, scalding the people. Very few of the other passengers were injured. The Injured hWve been taken from the wreck and arei lying on the bank. Engineer and fireman cannot be found.\ IB'FOB ISTHMUS, Protection of the Isthmus t«k Be Left to That'Corps. TVVQ MORE BATTAUON3 T(5 SAIL. General.Elliott, Commander of *he Ma- rine Corps, Will Go o n the, . Dixie. Cablegram From Secretary Moody to Admiral Glass Asking For Inform- ation—Dixie Sails Monday. ' \Washington Dec 24,—Rear Admiral Walkar, who has just returned, from the isthmus, Informed the. president It would ho expedient to leave to the ma- rln.es the promotion of the republic o{ Panama and that i t was unnecessary to inorease tho force of niarlaes al- ready In Panama or In isthmian, wa- ters. Boar Admiral Walkor Bald tho health of tho marines could scarcoly ba hot- ter. Ho aald that while tho marinos wero welcomed, tho Bonding of regulat troops might cause a feeling of uu- easiness, / De3pito theso peaceful xoports the probability is that two more battaMonB of marlues will sail next week oa tho Dbeio from Philadelphia for Colon. R Is felt at tho navy department that It will be well to have a sufficient force In Isthmian watera to permit of fre- quent reliefs for the shore forces. Tho official announcement Is made that General Elliott, commandant oi the* marine* corps, will go to tho isth- mus, aa tho administration wishes him to mako a thorough inspection of con ditions thiTo, Tho Dlxio will also carry a number of rapid flro guns. Coninian<Hng the two battalions will bo Lieutenant Colonel W. P. lilddlo and lileuttnant Colonel W. T. Waller. Among other ofllcprs selected to go are Captain C> rus 8. Radford as chief quar- ti-rmaster; Captain II. L. Matthews and Captain Ell N. Colo. . General El liott will ba accompanied by his two aidc3, Captain Kraak B. Evans and Captain Horry Leonard. It IB expected that the Dlxlo will sail from Philadelphia on Monday. A long cablegram was prepared for Bear Admiral Gteos under tho pergonal ou pervtslon of Secretary Moody. It was largely ono of Inquiry as to conditions, On Rear Admiral Glass' reply will de- pend to some extent tho departure oi tho two additional battalions. MAIL. FOR PANAMA. Regulation as to Registered Packages to New Republic Washington. Dec. 24.-The repuolic of Panama, through its minister, M. Bunau-Varltia. has fifed-its first protest against tho action of a United States offlcla! \affecting matters pertaining to that republic Th© Panamanian consul at San Francisco has notified M. Bunau-Vaxil- la that tho postal atrthoritles of that city bad refused to accept registered mall or parcel post addressed to the republic of Panama, but Insist on mail being addressed \Republic of Colom- bia.\ -Theconsul refused to comply. Minister Bunau-Varffla laid lite mat- ter beforo Acting Secretary of State Loorals, who at once xiotirted the post- master general, asking liira to tafe such steps as will rectify the action of the San Francisco authorities. The postmaster general instructed the postmaster at Saa STlneiseo to ac- cept registered mall directed to the new republic FIGHT TO A FINISH. Strategic Value of Islands. Ottawa, Ont, Dec. 24.—Lord Dun- donald, who returned from British Col- umbia, says that the statement he saade on the Pacific coast that the Is- lands'of Sitklan and Ramaghmut wero valueless as far as controlling the en- trance to Port Siihpson from a 'mill tary standpoint Is Concerned was per- fectly correct The harbor could be protected by the islands of Pearce and Wales, now owned by Canada. Chicago Undertakers Decided to Do Business on \Open Shop\ Principle. Chicago, Dec 24.—The struggle be- tween the Liverymen and Undertakers* association and the- Livery Drivera\ union, which for the past Bix days has seriously interfered with the burial of Chicago's dead, w|ll be a light to the finish. . - All efforts looking to a settlement by conciliation wore abandoned last night. At a meeting of employers it was decided to begin business today on tho \open shop\ principle and employ union or non-union men. Arrangements were also made to pe- tition for an injunction restraining the strikers from interfering with the bus- iness OX the employers. The conservative element opposed opening; and favored further overtures but was defeated. The union officials predict trouble. In anticipation of opposition by the union the employers called on Chief of Police O'Neil for further poHce pro teotion. Chief O'N'eil agreed to furnish police men to accompany all funerals. Bm ployers say> if the police protectior proves inadequate the governor will b- called upon for militia. Astiburitltam, Ontario, T^sjtflei' to Jtw Good: Qualities of CltamNsr* lain^s Gduah Remedy, * ^ AsHBQB2iBAH, Qaa, April 18, imi i, tl»nk it is only light cliat I ehould tell you wJi'at a. wonderful ©fleet Oliawberlaiiv'B Couch. Bawdy iaa produced. *CJ» day pefori> faster ( i..waBBQ distressed with, a ooldaad cough that I did m. think to, be able to take any duties tho $e*t day, as my voice vm almost oixqked by tuo QQbgk 'JCJie eatne. day 1 re- ceived an, order from you loraboV tie of yo*w couglt lemedyi 1 at once procured' a samjle tytfle, and tooJs about three doses of the medi* cine, v U'o jay great relief tie congb, and cold completely disappeared aud 1 was able to ^treAoJb. tld'tjo tunes on. JKaater day. J. jmow that this, rujput »ud effective wife was due to to your cough, remedy. J, make this teatuaomal without solicitation, be- ing thankful to iiave found BttOb a Uod-sont lemody. j^spoetfttlly years, [B. A. Ummmte, U, L.JIM Keotorof Hi. Jbuke's Olrorciiiji TaUhamberlaia'sAlodieinoCo. 4 • JSXm xomedy is for sola by Ohaa, A. jilaok, * IL _ .ala^BAKER THEATRE. ( An ever poplar stmsationai melo- drama p! Weatoi-a lifo by Lincoln J. Uarter.ontitled'l'he Flnroiug Arrow\ wiiiogaia tie eoea at tho Baker Thea- tre Monday, Tuesday aad Wednes- day, Dec^J, 20, and 30, Bargain mutiueo daily, Tho story relates tho adventures ofo-yotuig ohiof. of the Araaoheo frihe known as \'Whito Eagle\ who, at tho opening of tho play has hat recently returned to hia trival homo in the Far Woat from an Eastern College. ^Tho various okaraoters are all a the hands of oapablo actore. f OP a Short Time Onfy *<»*>*>**r9>m>r**>t>&*>*)'m PROMPT QOOO WORK Umbrellas Fireman and Engineer Kilted. Barrfe, Ont.,\ Dec. 24.—John Glass ford, Grand Trunk engineer, w*.s killee and Fireman James Parton fatally scanled. Their engine With a snow plow attacked was passing over a sid- ing at Gotaell, when one \of the wings e&SSht, Euillnj; .over Dle^r and engine. * --'• ' .»:..... '• *M|, Repaired and Recovered Covers from 50 cents up, Old covers repaired, An assort- ment of hew handled, Brok- '• en ribs replaced with new' - ones. 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