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| THE WEATHER TODAY: I ± For tho State, i | Partly Cloudy. ♦ Volume LVI. No. 14. Leads all North Carolina Dailies in Mews antf\m eulation SUFFOCATED, NINE DIE IN THE VAULT Thirty or More Young School Girls Precipitated by Floor’s Breaking into a Death Trap. SHRIEKS REND THE AIR T These Bring Rescuers Quickly on the Scene, but Seveial of the Children Narrowly Eicaped the Horrible Fate That Befalls Their Nine Companions. The Calamity Charged to Official Negligence. (By the Associated Press.) Cincinnati, Sept. 23.—School closed j today at Pleasant llidge, seven miles north of Cincinnati, with the first quarter of the session when nine, pos sibly ten school girls were suffocated in a vault during the forenoon recess, an da score of others narrowly escap ed the same horrible death. During the rest of the day this suburb was wil dwith mingled excitement, sorrow and indignation and tonight those op enl ycharging the calamity to official j negligence are making serious threats, among them being many women. The large building is used for a high school as wel las for al! lower depart ments. All of the victims were from primary grades. On opposite sides of the spacious ground in the rear of the school build- i ing are two outhouses. When recess was given about thirty of the smaller girls were in the outhouse assigned to them, when suddenly the floor gave way, precipitating them into the vault below. This vault is twelve feet deep and walled un with stone like a well. There was in it four feet of water that would have been over the heads of the children falling in it singly, but those falling foremost tilled up the vault par tially. so that the others were not en tirely submerged. The girls fell eight feet from the flooring, f and the struggles of those who weer on top kept at least nine underneath until they were dead. The frame sheds of these vaults were about twenty feet square without windows and only one narrow doorway, so that • the only one girl escaped from the door. She ran into the school building and told the teachers what had hap pened. The principal and other teachers rushed to the rescue. The screams of the girls were faintl yheard while with in the vault, and they were most of them unable to speak when rescued. The teachers were soon reinforced by th*- entire population of the town, the police and fire department rendering most effective service. The firemen drained the vault so as to be sure that the rescue was com plete. Among the first to co'me to the re lief of Principal Simmerman were Itev. I D. Lambert, of the Presby terian Church, and Frank S. Johnson, of the Herald, and Presbyter of Cin cinnati. James Smith .aged fourteen, one of the pupils, climbed to the roof of the school house, untied the Hag and ran to the vault. My means of this im promptu rope several were rescued. AND THEY TELL ME THIS MAN IS AN AMERICAN? The News and Observer. > Marshal Wood had great difficulty in keeping the crow<J back and from in cerfering wit hthe rescuer-*. The im portunities of friends, especially of the weeping mothers, were almost beyond the control of the officers. Drs. U. CL Senour and P. J. Shank, with their as sistants, used the school bui.ding for a hospital and a morgue until after the j dead and the rescued were taken tc ! their homes. Frank S. Johnson said: "I was standing across the stree) talking to Dr. Lambert when a little girl came crying for help. We found Principal Simmerman saving lives. The smaller girls were being forced to thvi I bottom by the movements and terrific j struggles of each other in the vault, i Up the ladder climbed the little ones, drenched, gasping for breath and fainting as soon as taken out into the, fresh air. As fast as they came with - in. reach of the door those who stood at the doorway reached down and, lifted them From the ladder and passed them out to waiting friends. It was not possible to go down into the vault at first for the reason that one would | impede the little ones' who wer.j j climbing out. ‘Finally the last girl that could get !to the ladder got out and then the men went in and rescued those who remained.” William J. Card, of McCullough & Sons, in Cincinnati, had three daugh ters in the place, of whom Charmian and Fausta lost their lives. Rotha, tho twin sister of Fausta, narrowly escaped death. When the crowd of girls rushed, into the place Rotha was knocked out of the door into the yard just before the collapse of the Moor ocurred. Reports about the tloor having given way ist year are denied by the school trus ees. A corrected list of the dead fol | lows: Loretta I'inko. aged 12; daughter of Henry Finke, of the Schroth Packing Company, Cincinnati. Emilia Steinkamp, aged 13; daugh ter of John Steinkamp. Amelia Hesse, aged 9; daughter of Herman D. Hesse, dairyman. Martha Ruhr, aged 8; father dead - , mother, Ella Buhr. Filna Thee, aged 10; daughter o“» i John Thee, blacksmith. Hazel Glover, aged 8; parents dead* ; 1 lived with grandmother, Mrs. Wolf. Fausta Card, aged 11. Charmian Card, aged 9; both daughters of William Card, of the firm i of McCullough & Sons, Cincinnati. : Lilliani William, aged 13; daught . er of \V. A. Witham, a farmer. Cruisers Arrive at Newport News. ’ (By the Associated Press.) Newport News, Va., Sept. 23.—The ; United States cruisers Columbia and . Prairie arrived at Old Point this morn ing from No Man’s Land, where they . participated in target practice. The . North Atlantic training squadron, Ad , miral Wise, is expected to come to Ola Point tomorrow. Admiral Wise will be retired on November 1 and he ex pects to “lift” his flag in Hampton Roads. After a man has been married about so long he begins to understand why love is blind. RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA/SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1904. PREUTEIN WRECK The Archbishop of Cante bury is Considerably Shaken. (By the Associated Press.) East Brookfield, Mass., Sept. 23.—A special train conveying the Arch-, bishop of Canterbury from Bar Har bor, Me., to Washington, was wrecked on the Boston and Albany division of the New York Central Railroad near the station here today. The Arch bishop was not injured, although con siderably shaken up. J. PierponJ Morgan, of New York, who was also on the train, accompanying the Arch.- bishop, was shaken up but not hurt Several trainmuh were slightly in jured. The special, running at the rate of sixty miles an hour, was just passing the station when a detached locomo tive which had been drawing a train on the North Brookfield branch, ran on to the main line. The engineer of the special sighted a danger signal, but owing to the high speed of tho train and the slippery condition of the rails due to the mist of early morning lie found it impossible to do more than slightly reduce the speed of his locomotive. The engineer of the branch engine heard the on-rush of the special, but he had not time to move out q,f the way. The Arch bishop’s train struck the North Brook field engine with a terrific crash and demolished it. The other locomotive was thrown from the rails and landed across the Eastbound track, near the wreck of the North Brookfield engine The cars did not leave the track. Soon after the cars came to a stand still, Mr. Morgan hurried into the East Brookfield station and sent sev eral messages. When asked as to the effect of the collision on those it: the cars, he said: “There was an accident and no one was injured. Get this over the wire? as soon as possible—that no one was injured.” The Archbishop’s special train, with a new engine, resumed its trip tc Washington just before 10 o’clock. KUROKI’S FORCES POSHING FORWARD His Van Moves Toward Fushan and Fu Pass. THE OTHER ARMIES Two Japanese Columns are Reported as Occupying With Their Advance the Villages of Zentai and Sandenu. Trying to Flank Kuropatkin. ( Bythe Assoc' t 1 Press.) St. Petersburg, t. 23. —A dis patch received here from Mukden gives details of the Japanese positions as follows: General Kuroki lias concentrated one army with Bentsiapetze and Ben siliu as its radius and his advance is pushing forward along the road lead ing to Fushun and Fu Pass. The advance forces of two other armies occupy the Tentai mines, the village of Yentai and Sandenu. The front of these three armies is pro tected by an outpost serene, which Chinese are not allowed to pass. A small Japanese detachment is moving along the left bank of the Liao River in order to protect junks. The same dispatch reports that Chinese bandits are openly siding with the Japanese. The weather at Mukden is rainy and windy and cold has prematurely set in. Fear a Battle at the Tombs. (By the Associated Press.) St. Petersburg, Sept. 23. —(6:20 p. m.) —A brief telegram was received to-day from Lieutenant General Sak haroff, announcing the advance of the Japanese from Bentslaputze on the village near Fp Pass, east of Mukden and the site of the imperial tombs, which is likely to revive the fears ex pressed at Pekin that an engagement may be fought at the burial place of the Manchu dynasty. No mention is made of resistance to the advance, but it Is not believed this indicates that the Russians do not intend to further oppose the march of the Japanese on Mukden. It probably signifies that the Japanese force is using the small road to Fu Pass, be tween the highways leading to Mukden and Fushun, with the inten tion of isolating the Russian columns guarding Fushun. The Japanese are still trying to turn General Kuropatkin’s left flank, but there is no indication of their moving west of the Hun River. Simintin is still held by the Cossacks. Cotut Martial Postponed. (By the Associated Press.) Atlanta, Ga.. Sept. 23.—The court martial ordered by Governor Terrell to try Captain R. M. Hitch and the other officers who were at Statesboro, has been postponed from September 2 9 to October 10. ii ise.ii, II IN SUN Roosevelt Buttons Fall Before Glenn. FIRST SPEECH THERE The Candidate Says this is One of the Three Counties in Which He Has Not Spoken Before, Yet Victory Seems His. BY It- li. GIIAY. Bryson City, N. C., Sept. 23. —Bry- son City, under the shadow of the Cold Spring range of mountains, is the county seat of Swain, for some years Republican stronghold. To-day was the first time on this trip that the Democratic candidate has struck into what, is known as enemy’s country. Heretofore he has been holding love feasts, pleading for a confirmation of good work already done, healing the small and transient bitternesses that rise, from the coun try fights within the party. To-day the battle was in his voice, tight in his gestures, defiance in his eye; this at times; at other times he pleaded with the Republicans that he knew were in the court house; he talked to the women and the old veterans in terms of brotherly appeal; he touched upon their pride of race of history. Roosevelt suffered at his hands. He told of Marion Butler, of Russell, of all the rest of the fusion rout: against these men he was scath ing. Os Harris who passed through with him to-day he spoke kindly, de- j ploring the company that he kept, of course. The crowd was a flattering one; it was composed of Democrats; it was of the same character of audience that this western country affords; the same comely women, the same strong featured boys, the same type of old men, tho same p 'valence of bearded faces. If pc.ssJb: . the whiskers of the old men seemed to be a little longer, a little redder or whiter as the case might be, and the faces of the men looked a little mqre like the apples of the orchards than they have else where. but possibly that is imagina tion. I am sure though of two things: That the speech took, and that it made votes. For the first time I saw the yellow Roosevelt button on coat lapels; I saw two of them come off. One was on the coat of one of the old men: he started out solemnly; his face awoke by degrees; finally he brought down a pair of heavy boots with a thunderous stamp and emitted a yell that topped the strident chorus of the crowd, and then he recollected; for a moment his face clouded, his brows contracted into deep furrows, he hesitated; it was desire fighting with habit, except in the case of re forms. the terms pro the same. Desire won as it generally does; the old man tore off his yellow badge and dropped it on the llooY; in a mo ment he crushed it unconsciously with an applauding boot heel. The "other was one of those hard skinned, weather-beaten, erect men from the mountains who cradle them selves into speaking places on horses as young looking as themselves. He, too. had a yellow badge; what went with it I know not. only that, before the speech was half done it was gone. The speech as elsewhere and the jokes aroused the greatest enthusiasm. Old man John Breedlove threw back his head in tho air; when he laughed his tongue, red and prominent, dis closing the paucity of his teeth. That Democratic saint, Jonathan Hill, his mouth sunken in and creviced with wrinkles, his strong nose and bushy white chin whiskers standing up from his face like the 1 peaks that guard the Balsam Gap. rooked and cackled in his Joy. and spoke out in the meeting as the speaker drove home his points. Old man Josh Calhoun had a high seat on -the judge’s stand, his ,red whiskers quivering with excitement and emotion, while W. I. Calhoun yell ed his approbation in a voice that could be heard across the Tuekasee gee Bridge. And then at the end the same dis play of handkerchiefs, the same so norous blowing of noses, the same rip-roaring crash of applause at the final word, the same crowding and nushing and taking up of little round faced, red-shirted boys to shake the Governor’s hand. Glenn stated that Swain was one of the three counties in the State in which he had not spoken before; it looks like he has won it at the first effort. Retiring Chairman S. W. Black has the Democratic strength well or ganized. Mr. A. IT. Hayes will com plete the work with the aid of the start he got to-day towards the re demption of Swain. At tho harmonious county conven tion held to-day, a stronir ticket was unanimously nominated. There is dis satisfaction among Republicans with their ticket. There is a lively fight ahead. To-day’s ticket reads: House, A. M. Frv; clerk, YV. A. Gibson: sheriff, S. S. Collins; register of deeds. J. W. Burnett; treasurer, T. F. Dietz; sur veyor. J. S. Keener; coroner, D. R. Brison. May Build Crate Factory. (Special to News and Observer.) Fayetteville, N. C., Sept. 23.—Thq Messrs. Reynolds from the upper parti of New York State are in this city, looking over the ground with a view to considering the advisability of locat ing a crate factory here. It is un derstood that ihe gentlemen are much Pleased with Fayetteville. GUILFORDAROUSED Ex-Governor Johnson of Alabama and Hon. Frank Spruill Speak. (Special to News and Observer.) Greensboro, N. C., Sept. 23.—A large audience in the court house here to night witnessed the opening of the campaign of the Democratic party in Guilford county. Amid a whirlwind of applause, General Cullen A. Battle, formerly of Alabama, introduced ex- Governor Joseph F. Johnson, of Ala bama, who made a short and forceful speech. He referred to the fact that bis grandfather was one of the mem bers of the Hillsboro convention who refused to sign the Constitution with out guarantees of State sovereignty, and of local self government, and said he was proud to be able to say that ever since that day North Carolina had proven true to the teaching, the faith and the sacrifices of the fathers, and to-day stood by the Constitution, and resented any effort by rough riders, whether on the battlefield or in the executive chair, to destroy it. He challenged North Carolina to match Alabama in November with a majority of 60.000 for Parker and Davis. Mr. Frank S. Spruill. Democratic candidate for elector for the State as large, followed in a magnificent speech of an hour’s length, which greatly pleased his hearers, and evoked con tinued and enthusiastic applause. FOI ST IS ELECTED. Thomas A. Sharpe: Having Resigned as Superintendent of Guilford Public Schools. (Special to News and Observer.) Greensboro, N. C., Sept. 23. Thomas A. Sharpe, superintendent of Guilford county public schools, has resigned to accept a position with the Cone Export and Commission Com pany, and Thomas Foust, superinten dent of Goldsboro graded schools, has been elected to the vacancy and ac cepted the offer. DYNAMITE BLOWS A TRITO PIECES Two People Killed and Nine Injured. DASHED INTO WAGON This Being Loaded With Dynamite Explosion Followed. Engine Strip ped. Cars Torn Up and Rails Broken Like Pipe Stems. (By the Associated Press.) Cumberland; Aid., Sept. 23.—Fast freight Number 94 on the Baltimore and Ohio struck a wagon loaded with 750 pounds of dynamite at the crossing at North Branch, W. Va., four miles east of here this afternoon. Two per sons were killed and nine were In jured. Three of them seriously. The dead are: C. Walter \\ iiiteliair, front brake man, Brunswick. Nelson Pike, Martinsburg, veteran, engineer, scalded all over and inter nally, lived two hours. The injured are: A. B. Sanders, fireman, North Mountain, W. Va., arm broken, scalded on face, body and hands; Charles Hamilton, Baltimore and Onio opera tor and postmaster at North Branch, cuts on face and body; Scott Hamil ton, of Little Orleans, Md., cuts it* face and body at least fifty in num ber; James Ashkettle, Little Orleans, out in face; Mary Twigg, Old Town, cut in face; Raymond Hamilton, cut in face; Afaud Seibert, cut in face; James Laing, agsd 21, who was driv ing the dynamite wogan, cut on leg. and ear drum fractured. The Baltimore and Ohio tower was wrecked, as were also several resi dences nearby. The commissary of Mike Elmore, Wabash sub-contractor, and the Wabash temporary hospital, with other small buildings, were de molished. The windows of the school house and of the residence of G. A. Zimmerly on the mountain, half a mile away, were all broken out. No house escaped damage. James Laing, who drove the wagon, escaped with only trivial injury, as did the two horses, although the latter was blown fifty yards into.a field. Accord ing to aye-witnesses, Laing, hearing the train, became terrified and stopped on the track. The wagon was three feet of clearing it when the engine struck the rear end, carrying it fifty feet before the explosion, Laing deserted the wagon and ran down from the track and into a ditch. He was knocked down and rendered unconscious for a Lime, but the force of the explosion passed over him. The engine was overturned and stripped and seven ears following, loaded with high grade merchandise, were broken, several being demolish ed. The tracks were thrown out of the bed and twisted serpentine, while { rails were snapped like pipestems. The wires were torn down an drelief BOILER FLASHES DEATH FOR FOUR A Rending Explosion in the Gin Department of Erwin Mill No. 2 Wrecks the Engine Room. <, was telegraphed for after going to ! Patterson’s Greek on a hand-car. Seven doctors went from here by special train . Engineer Pike was held under iron scraps on top of the boiler while being slowly cooked to death. It required four men to extricate him. The explosion knocked nearly every person in the neighborhood down, j hurled Hunter Bowen through a roof | but did not hurt him, and threw Barts j off engine two hundred yards. Slack ! telegraph wires were snapped midway I between poles by the contusion. CRUSHED IN A PRESS. A Young Alan Receives Probably Fatal < Injuries at a Gin. ! i 1 (Special to News and Observer.) j ( Dunn, N. C., Sept. 23. —A terrible ac- | cident occurred near here this morn- ; ‘ ing, and the death of a young man , < in the very flower of his youth is ex- i j petted to follow as the immediate re- : , suit. The name of the injured youth is 1 Ellis Wilson, son of a prominent far- i < mer of this section. He was at his . father's gin, w hen approaching the cot- , ton press, he stumbled over some mov- j , able and was caught in the press. His right shoulder, neck and chest were | tearfully crushed before he could be j extricated from Iris position of deadly j, peril, and the injuries are of such a j character that no hope is entertained j cf saving his life. Dr. McLean is in attendance upon the sufferer. Republicans Reject Challenge. (Special to News and Observer.) Durham, N. C., Sept. 23. —At a j meeting of the Democratic county ■ executive committee held a few days I ago the Republicans were challenged ■ for joint canvass of the county. A j reply to this challenge has been re- ( ceived, and it was rejected. In re- ! fusing a joint canvas the Republican j committee say that it will be impos- j sible, because Air. B. L. Duke, the j Republican nominee for the legisla- I ture. will be out of the city most, of j the time from now until election. The Republican committee, how- | ever, is sending out literature in | which they announce speakers for j the campaign and say that they are going to expose incompetency and other things against the Democrats. It is learned that the Democrats will reply in kind and from the outlook now it may be reasonably inferred that there will be more or less dirt in the campaign in this county before the end is reached. A warm time is the outlook now. No man can ever gain a knowledgq of the world by pursuing his studies in a rocking-chair. The knife one girl gives another will j not cut friendship—and the odds are i that it won’t cut melted butter/j either. 1 WHICH SIDE OF THE FENCE? TTTTTTYT fTT ▼ ▼▼ T ♦ ♦ ♦ the weather today* * For the City, J Partly Cloudy. ♦ Price Five Cents. MEN BLOWN TO PIECES Among the Killed is Henry C. Fowler Superintendent of the Mill. A Fifth Man is so Terribly Scalded by the Escaping Steam That He Will Die. Dukes the Scene of the Disaster. (Special to News and Observer.) Dukes, X. C., Sept. 23. —At 7:15 o’clock this morning' the boiler in the g-in department of the mammoth cot ton mill, Er,win No. 2, at Dukes, on thq Cape Fear and Northern Railroad, about twenty-five miles from Raleigh, exploded with terrific violence wreck* ing the engine room, instantly killing three white men. one of whom wan the superintendent of the mill, and one negro. Another negro was scalded so badly that he will die. Sev eral persons were thrown down by the shock of the explosion, but their in juries are not serious. The dead: Henry C. Fowler, of Burlington, gen eral superintendent of the mills. r.eo Ilirish, foreman. 11. G. liras well. Geo. McLean < colored). Fatally scalded: Henry Wall (col). Both the latter were employes oi the mill. From the best information obtain able it seems that the old fireman of the mill having just been discharged, the new man, not thoroughly under standing the engine, had gotten up too much steam. The engine refused to work, and the fireman went after the superintendent. As they entered the engine room together, there wa« a rending roar, and the men wort* blown to pieces. Though horribly mangled the body of Superintendent Fowler was stil>, recognizable, and this afternoon it was i borne to his home in Burlington, ac j companied by his wife and two chil ,dren. The remains of* the other men I will be buried at Dukes. When running *Vt its full capacity the mill there employes 1,000 people, It is not yet fully equipped, and thq present force is about 200. Cotton Receipts. (By. the Associated Press.) New York, Sept. 23.—The following are the total net receipts of cotton at all ports since September Ist: Galves ton 269,516; New Orleans 59,905; Mo bile 16,061; Savannah 188,032;’ Charleston 30.24 3: Wilmington 23,656;' i Norfolk 30.128; Baltimore 463; Bos i ton 240; Philadelphia 77; Brunswick [7.055; Pensacola 51; Port Townsend 1 LOO. Total 626,519 bales,
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