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PrJ' J)id 2Vof Come to
Many of The Entombed
Men For Long lime,
lrhcps For Several
Uais.
Ihcv Had Arranged Ven
tilating Fans Only 20
Bjdfes Not Accounted
For Bi dies Were in
Great Tangled Mass,
Ey A-MX-iated Press.
Cn- HI., Nov. 24. Practically all
U:0
in ic
mo;:
.:' t ':
.'Mies or tne men wno perisneu
e Cherry disaster were found this
;::g on the staircase at the mouth
third, or lower level,
o hundred and sixty-eight bodies
- n T-i ? Iaot-mo- oKnnt o cpnra tr
counted for.
j bodies were in a great tangled
completely blocking the stair-
:.-. loading from the third to the
yoa-iui vein. They were scattered
a !.:::? the vein where they had dropped
U-ffre reaching the stairway.
Black damp was the cause of the
de;i;hf, all means of escape having
le-jn blocked by debris falling, cover
ins the top of the staircase. The men
ui-.l as they tried to push through ob
?:n:ctien cr in waiting vainly for
rescuers.
Death evidently did not come to
many for hours, if not days.
Two rude wooden ventilating fans,
iashioned after the same manner as
those found two days ago in the see
end gallery, were affixed to the shaft
wan and stairway.
They turned these by hand in their
frantic struggle for air and in the
hopeless effort to brush back black
clamp.
The hands of one miner were found
firmly gripped about the fan.
Lived Two Days.
An accurate count of victims. is net
made, but it is believed all but a score
ot missing men have been accounted
Bnlies were found 500 feet from
the main shaft, on an elevated surface
rierc they retreated before the ad
vancing water and fatal, black damp,
"hey died after a struggle that ccn
tisueil ijcssitly two days.
.Messages scrawled on wood and
slate cropping from the walls, placed
the number of dead at 160 or 168. One
ir.ifsase read: "We are all here to die,
tcsether." '
Taking Cut Beak-.?.
This was accepted by officials, indi
rsting many men who escaped from
the ?ccond vein, were cut off - by fire
ani nef-cended to the lowest level. To
take out the bodies a skiff was secur-c-fl
and will be lowered to the vein. It
will i e rowed across four feet of water
in the vein to the spot where the bod-i?.-;
lie. They will be transported to
the main shaft for removal to the sur-
iff T.e pxiMGrms party were sin i
fi'.erv an hour before the bodies L
re found. They waded in water
-L ilcsi) thrcueh the irregular tun-
their way towsra the
;ii cf snarl or "naze. ciima-
un r.n the ridge the seerchers al
st stepped upon the bodies, piled
en ton cf e&ch other in heaps.
-T.'.-f. had their heads rested cn fold
: i.rru : f.s if sleeping. Others were
across each other and some were
sv, i: vesting against the wall.
I'll
to tne wall were two tanb
timbering tied about pick
L'.nf" Under, the fans the largest
' aj -; cf bodies were found. There is
rat evidence that the men attempted
t ;;:-:iaa'ie themselves from the
lilac ; ''amp. Many former workers in
'lie mine protested angrily after they
Vy.nvfre: the bodies that the men
North Carolina
Conference Opens in
Raleigh To-day
Raleigh, Nov. 24. The North Caro
lina Methodist Conference convened
this morning at 9:30 o'clock, Bishop
uf.son presiding.
Sacrament of the Lord's supper was
administered.
Rev. w. L. Cunningham was elect
el sscretarv.
The hours of the conference
fixed at 9:30 to 1 o'clock.
was i
i
Conference committees were named i.
:' the presiding elders. Following j
re the chairmen: Books and Periodi- .
"Is. J. H. Buffalo; Clerical and M.
ii'al layman; Church Property, G. B.
Waning, clerical and J. D. Riddle,
iayman; Conference Relations, N. E.
CoUrain; District Conference Records,
J- M. Culbreth: Temperance, A D.
uilcox; Sabbath Observance, P. D.
Woodall, clerical and J. Z. Judd, lay
man; Memoirs, M. T. Plyer. The re
l'ort of the Greensboro Female Col
iege was read in open conference as
special honor for the great progress
made especially in completing $100,0ui)
endowment and having the college tax-
d to the capacity with both boarding $
and day students.-'"
gas had not the ventilating fan been 0"?t u lA t$$ Mr y "f
reversed after the discovery of the xTV ( 'SL' 1 Ja V-3'
fire. They assert the men retreated to NJH: ti&&feS&SS. r -r-L '3? OL '
the bridge where ordinarily noxious TVI7 S ' " . rl KX A'h'Hfcv
gas would not have reached them. Be- 7 Mr"J J LD !fnl'Wili XAMWK
lievin;
fortified themselves against hunger,
thirst and supposedly lesser, danger of
gas. Fans fashioned by them, they
assert, would have dispelled gas which
would have formed in small quanti
ties, and have given the men enough
fresh air to sustain them for weeks.
With the reversal of the fan, they as
sert, the deadly gas forming in the
second gallery and creeping out of
the escape shaft, went into the lower
level and the men were suffocated be
fore they had opportunity to seek
packets or erect protection against it.
San Diego, Cal., Nov. 21. Mrs.
Katherine Tingley's colony of theoso
phists is all agog in anticipation of
the wedding tomorrow of Lyman J.
Gage, ex-Secretary of the treasury,
and Mrs. P. Ada Eallou, -whose en
gagement recently became known des
pite the efforts of the principals to
keep it secret. Mrs. Ballcu is a re
cent . convert to theosophy, but Mr.
Gage for some years pasts has been
one of Mrs. Tingley's most eminent
disciples. After their marriage the
former Secretary of the Treasury and
his bride will take up their residence
in a palatial home recently completed
for them at Point Loma.
This will be Mr. Gage's third ven
ture into matrimony. His first wife,
to whom he was wedded in 1SG, was
Miss Sarah Etheridge, daughter of a
physician of Hastings, Minn. She died
in 1874, and some ten or twelve years
later Mr. Gage married Mrs. Cornelia
Washburn Gage cf Denver, whose
death a few years ago left Mr. Gage
a widower for the second time: '
Mr. Gage's fiancee, who. is the
daughter of Gecrge M. Ballou, a prom-
inent San Diego merchant, has passed
thrnnai, 1o,i mawmfnioi 0r
through a varied matrimonial career,
Several years ago she was married to
a Pittsburg man w-ho was a winter
visitor here. The courtship was brief
but romantic. She told friends that
he proposed while they were on a sail
boat becalmed in the bay at night. He
died seen after the wedding and the
widow returned here from Pittsburg,
where they had gone to live. She re
sumed her maiden name by which she
has been known since. Three years
ago a Kansas City capitalist named
Moore was here for the summer and
fell before the charms of the widow
Ballcu. He was an elderly man and
soon after their engagement was an
nounced he returned to his home in
Kansas City to prepare for the wed
ding and died there before his bride-
lu - iys cuuiu reacii mm. one uuurenicu
his will, but failed to win a portion of
his large estate.
Important Militia Appointment.
Special to The News.
Raleigh, Nov. 24. A commission
is issued to Dr. S. W. Battle, ot
Asheville, as surgeon general ot
the North N Carolina National Guard,
to succeed Dr. Robert S. Young, ot
Concord, who retires after more than
twenty
years service with the ranK
of brigadier general.
Methodist Thanksgiving Service.
A union Thanksgiving service, partic
ipated" in by the different Methodist
congregations of the city, will be held
in Trvcn Street Methodist church to
1 morrow morning at 11 o'clock, conduct
ed by Rev. Geo; T. Detwiler.
E.
Day's Proceedings.
All reports from Nashville were sent
to Ihe ' committee without reviewing
and under call of uestion 20 Presiding
Elders- John, Gibbs, Hurley, Moore,
Cunniggen, Bumpass, McCullen, Broom
and Hall passed character and report-
I i finf vpar in all the districts of
tjje conference. It was announced that
-Rishnn Wilson would preach the
Thanksgiving sermon tomorrow, and
jnc. r. Nelson spoke elouently
fnr home missions.
Rev. H. G. S tammy was. retroed to
the effective list and the preachers of
Raleigh, Durham, Fayetteville, Rock
ingham and Wilmington districts were
called and reports made, making an
unusually fine start on the work of the
conference.
Seldom has a session of the confer
ence made finer progress than did this
today. Bishop Wilson is himselw and1
is presiding with all the ease and
grace of former years. Dr. W. F.
Titiott nriTTspri the conference at
3:30 o'clock on the Widening Evange
lism of Methodism.
g themselves in no danger they YteSS, .liCJf) w . . V AVJBffli
EX-StGBETARY
KILL 1ED
10-1 I
Much Is
At Stake
bit we Action in Regard
to Auditorium Will De
pend on Result ef lhe
Benefit Entertain
Ment. The committee of seven ' appointed
at the last meeting of -the Greater
Charlotte Club, is watching intently
and awaiting with interest the final
result of the benefit entertainment,
for upon the success of it depends the
launching of the plan they are to work
out which will place the Auditorium
on a new and sound financial basis.
If the necessary money is fortfct
corning from the, receipts -of this en
tertainment, these men will proceed at
once, but if .the people do not respond
f "u lUw mu5 u.
the committee is powerless to act, for
T J 4" Vt n ATlrtTT in - r -P-vw- V --.-n t rir Vi
the interest must be paid before any
thing else can be done.
The building was built for the bene
fit of the people of the city and not
for any individual gain, and each citi
zen should be glad to support with his
mite, this endeavor to save the build
ing to the city. Fill every seat in the
Auditorium on Friday night and save
it. The tickets are within the reach
cf all.
Reserved seats at Jordan's.
N.
C. Makes Good Showing
At Horticultural Exhibit
Special to the News.
Raleigh, Nov. 24. At the National
Horticultural Congress in session at
Council Bluff, Ind., last week, North
Carolina carried off a lion's share of
awards in the horticultural exhibits
made in connection with the congress.
She won, according to a letter jus-t
received from State Horficulturalist
W. M. Hutt, four silver trophies, four
gold medals and the third sweep
stakes prize in addition to money
prizes and merchandise .awards. The
exhibit wras installed by Mr. Hutt.
Child Saved
By Her Dog
t . .
Saluda, Nov. 24. A mad dog pass
ing through this town Sunday morn
ing created quite a commotion. After
he had bitten several dogs he was fol
lowed and killed.
His movements for the 24 hours
previous have been traced and it is
learned that besides biting numbers of
dogs, geese, turiceys, and hogs in the
Ellis section of the. county and between
here .and there, he bit the little 10-year-old
dauhter of Brown Butler. The
child was out in the yard when the dog
ran into some rass near.by. The child
went around the house to see what w as
causing the commotion.The dog at once
jumped on the little one and fastened
his teeth in her lace. It is very prob
able that her face would have been lac
erated much worse had not Butler's
dog run UP and, seizing the rabid dog,
made him loose his hold from the
child.
Butler has gone to the Colum
bia hospital with the child for treat
ment. . :
Books for State Library. "
Scecian- to The News.
Raleisrh. Nov. 24. State Librarian
Mr O. Sherrill has received from Hon.
B. B. Winhorne volumes of his three
books recently published, The His-
tnrv of Hertford County, The
Vaughan Family and The Perry Fam
iiy.
Communication Restored.
By Associated Press.
New York, Nov. 24. That part oi
the West Indian -zone which has been
out of cable touch with the world since
the hurricane of November 7th, is
again in wire communication with the
United States, and Europe.
FTER A TOUGH OLD BIRD !
Severe Storm Sweeps
Carolina Coasts-Snow i
Fall In Vtr'g i n i a
By
Associated Press.
Norfolk, Va., Nov. 24. A severe
40 miles' an hour at the Virginia
at
sweDt Virginia, Carolina, Maryland coasts today.
x Shipping, ready to sail from Hampton Roads is storm bound there.
First Snow of Season.
Washington, D. C, Nov. 24. A driving snow; storm, the first of the sea
son, set in at 9 o'clock this morning.
' The flakes melted rapidly. There was no interruption of traffic.
Snow Falls in Virginia.
Winchester, Va., Nov. 24. Snow fell over the northern part of Virginia
today. '
Indications are for a "White" Thanksgiving. Much of the corn crop
5 ctill in thfl fields. ' '
Train Beyond Control-
Plunged Down Mountain
Engineer Was Killed
Bt,Associated Press.
Pottsville, Pa., Nov. 24. A Philadelphia and. Reading coal train, while
descending a heavy grade on Broad mountain " this mornin, ot beyond
control of the air brakes, and dashed down the mountain at the rate of a
mile a "minute. --. 1
After running four miles the engine jumped the rails, and bounded
over an embankment, followed by a score of steel "battleship" cars,' load
ed withm coal.
Engineer Amnions life was crushed out. I
Several members of the crew were seriously, injured, but escaped'' with
their lives by jumping.
British Columbia lo
Hon at Polls Tomorrow
Victoria. B. C, Nov. 24.--The most
Interesting and exciting political cam
paign in the history of. British Colum
bia closed to-day. To-morrow the
electors of the province will vote ap
proval or disapprove! of the deal made
with the Canadian Northern Railway "
Company by Premier McBride for the
extension of its line to the Pacific
coast. . Members of the legislature are
to be elected in all except two ridings,
Kaslo and Similikameen. In a good
ii i
many seats mere are tnree-cornerea
contests owing to the presence ot So
cialist candidates. In Vancouver,
where five members are elected, thfere
are three full tickets. In Victoria only
three Liberals 'are running for the
four seats. There are forty-two can
didates to be elected in all.
The McBride railway policy is the
chief issue. Premier McBride has
outlined his policy in the following
statement: We have entered into a
contract with the Canadian Northern
Railway for the construction of a road
from the Yellowhead Pass to Kam
loops by way of the North Thompson
River; from Kamloops to Westminster
and Vancouver, and from a point near
Vancouver to English Bluffs to make
a first class connection with Victoria,
both for passengers and freight, and
to built a railway from Victoria to
Barclay Sound. The distance in all
will he about 600 miles and the road
is to be completed and in operation
within four years. To assist theCom
pany in the construction of this road,
CjWhen a man tells
you it does not pay
to Advertise, just
size up his business
and figure how much
his opinion is worth.
northeast storm with wind velocity
capes, 50 miles an hour off Hatteras,
port ant
which Avill cost at least about $50,000
a mile, the government will ask the
legislature to guarantee" interest at
four per cent, upon $33,000 a mile. For
security the province will .hold a first
mortgage on the line of railway in
British Columbia, and will have a cov
enant from the Canadian Northern
Railway Company indemnifying it
against any loss that might possibly
occur."
John Oliver, the opposition leader,
proposes a plan which would insure
the construction of nearly 1,000 miles
of new railways in the province. He
proposes that the provfneial govern
ment should supplement the federal
subsidies to the extent of 50 per cent.
The projected lines subsidized by the
Dominion government are the Koote
nay Central from Elcho to Golden;
Midway and Vernon, from Carmen to
Nicola via Penticton; Vancouver W.
and Y., from Vancouver to Port
George, with 'a bridge across Burrard
Inlet, French Creek to Campbell River,
Vancouver Island and Eastern Camp-
bell River towards Fort George. In. a
general way Mr. Oliver proposes to
'rash in" on the extensive svstem oi.ouierb.
subsidies already guaranteed by the
Dominion government, subsidies which
if supplemented by provincial aid,
would insure the construction of near
ly 1,000 miles of railways throughout!
British Columbia.
Cable Gets Aopointment.
By Associated Press.
Washington, D. C, Nov. 24.After
a conference with the president, Sena
tor Cullom, of Illinois, announced upon
i leaveing the white house this morning,
that Benjamin S. Cable, a umcago at
torney, would be appointed assistant
secretary 'of commerce and labor, to
succeed Ormsby McHarg, whose resig
nation has been pending two months.
Well Known Actress Burned to Death.
Bv Associated Press. .
i Rochester. N. Y.. Nov. 24. Miss Flor
ence Bishop, aged 60, formerly a popu
lar actress, was found burned to death
in her house this morning. It is sus
pected that she committed suicide.
I
IWORY OF
HPT. OF DEW-.
EY'S FLAGSHIP
Annapolis, Md., Nov. 24. Many
prominent representatives of the Uni
ted States navy came to Annapolis to
day to take part in ceremonies at
tending the dedication of a tablet plac
ed in Bancroft Hall of the TJnited
States Naval Academy in memory of
Captain Charles V. Gridley, who com
manded Admiral Dewey's flagship at
the Battle of Manila Bay and to whom
the Admiral gave the famous order:
"When you are ready, Gridley, fire."
The tablet is of golden bronze, 3 1-2
by 2 1-2 feet. A panel ' on the left
contains a medallion portrait of Capt.
Gridley, and on the right, separated
from this by ?. conventional arrange
ment of oak leaves, is the following
inscription:
CHARLES VERNON GRIDLEY,
Captain in the United States Navy.
Born November 24, 1844.
Appointed to the Naval Academy
from Michigan in 1860.
Graduated in 1863. Served with
Farragut 1863-1864.
Commanded the U. S. Flagship
Olympia at the Battle of Manila
Bay, May 1, 1898. .
Died ?t Kobe Japan, June 1,
189S.
Commissioner Graham is
Back From Mississippi
Special to the News.
Raleigh, NoY24.--Commissioner of
Agriculture W." A. Graham and others
j of the officers of the North Carolina
department of agriculture returned
yesterday from attending the annual
convention of the Association of Com
missioners and Workers in Depart
ments of Agriculture for the Southern
states at Jackson,' Mississippi, last
week. Commissioner Graham says he
found that very little cotton remains
in the fields at this time in any cf
the sections through which he passed.
In fact he does not believe that there
remain as much as 200 bales in all
the territory he traversed. He says
the convention proved especially pro
fitable in the matter of helping for
ward better systems in farmer's insti
tute work, in cattle tick and boll wee
vil extermination and in other features
of department work..
Strike Trouble
Is Settled
Spencer, N. C, Nov. 24. An agree
ment was reached last night between
the Southern railway officials and the
180 machinists who went on strike Sat
urday.charging that one of the foremen
of the Spencer shops had dealt brutally
with one of the employes.
The night force returned to work
at once and the dfiy force wen"t to work
as usual this morning.
The employes and officers agree that
the matter shal be taken up with the
Southern officials at Washinton and
settled between them and the officers
of the International Association of Ma
chinists.
Stcarr.erc Collide.
By Associated Press.
Norfolk, Va., Nov. 24. During the
storm, the Old . Dominion steamer
Mobjack and the steamer Virginia col
lided off Town Point. The Mobjack's
wheels were smashed.
Charters Issued.
Special to The News.
Raleigh, Nov. 24. A charter was
'issued . today for the Belgrade Gin
and Mill company, unsiow couul ,
J capital ?3,000, by J. C. Mills and
Nicaragua
Remains
Washinton, D. C, Nov. 24. The Nicarauan situation is unchaned this
mornin. The state department is still awaitin information from Manaua.
The department appreciates that Vice-Consul Caldera is working at a
disadvantage gathering, true facts in connection with the execution of the
Americans. -
Officials are anxious to obtain information about the status of the Amer
icans at the time arrested, and especially whether they were co-operating
with the Revolutionist army. Officials are proceeding with deliberation.
It may be several days before the department is ready to take decisive
action.
Navy department advices announced the departure of the Tacoma from
Cristobal for Port Limon. The Marietta is speeding to the same port from
Guantanamo. - ?44&S1E5Ij3
When Shown New York
Dispatch Telling of Ac
cusations Brought
Against Him, He Said
1 hat is New York'sWav
Interesting Rumors Re
garding Inte r urban
Trolley Lines Frcm An
derson to Greensboro
Via Charlotte.
Special to The News.
Greensboro, N. C, Nov. 24 Borough
president of Brooklyn, Bird S. Coler, ,
arrived here from Charlotte on a late
night train. ' When shown the New
York dispatch that" he had been report-
ed by the commissioner of accounts
to Mayor McClelland for alleged neg
lect of duty, mismanagement, extrava
gence and political favoritism in select
ing subordinates, Mr. Coler simply
smiled and said that things like that
were always happening in New York
political realms, and this was simply
one of the many instances of personal
political routes of the retaliating kind
instigated by spite of disappointed and
disgruntled small men and amounted
to nothing save cheap notoriety.
I wish you would say, he contin- ,
ued, "that when not in New York rcy
whereabouts can always be promptly
known by inquiry at the offices of the
North Carolina Public Service Compa
ny; at Greensboro, N. C. When in the
South I can always be found there or
in touch with that point. After Jan
uary 1st. when my term as president
of the Borough of Brooklyn expires,
I shall take a rest from office con-
flnement and spend most of my time
down South, with Greensboro as head
quarters, assisting in the development
of the fine resources of the community
and section. -
"At present the public utilities of
trolley, electric trolley and gas-development
at Greensboro and High Point
are commanding practically all my at
tention, but as soon as these, plans are
completed the larger plan of the in
terurban trolley and power develop
ment will be actively pushed by my
self and associates, the success of
which must largely depend on the lo
cal sympathy and encouragement of the
communities and cities directly inter-
ested." -
Mr. Coler declined to say that his syn
dicate was identical with the interests
that are projecting a 200-mile interurb
an trolley line from Anderson, S. C,
via Charlotte to Greensboro, which is
backed by the Dukes, but it is well
known that the Greensboro and High
Point electric service, at the head
of which is Mr. Coler, has just com
pleted an expensive sub station here
and the wires of the Southern Power
Company have just been-strung to this
station, and that this company wi:l
use and distribute this power to
Greensboro and High Point.
He also declined to say that he
had just returned from South Caro
lina and was in Charlotte on business
connected with the proposed Anderson
Charlotte-Greensboro trolley line.
Mr. Coler spent yesterday in Char
lotte returning to Greensboro last
night. v
Following is the report sent out from
New York in regard to his disappear
ance and aUeged mismanagement, and
neglect of duty and which only caused.
hini to laugh 'when i twas shown him'
in the morning papers; . .
"Bird S. Coler, president of the bor
ough of Brooklyn, who is at present in
i Charlotte, N
C, is charged with mis-
management and neglect of duty by
the commissioners of accounts in a
report to Mayor McClellan made to
day following investigation of the bor
ough administration. The report con
demned as incompetent many subordi
nate officials and pointed out that fav
roitism to politicians or neglect has
been responsible for large waste of
public funds.
"The mayor will review the finding
and will then decide whether he will
prefer charges against Mr. Coler and
sen dthe report to the governor. As
the borough president's term of of
fice expires with this year it is .re
garded as unlikely, that his removal
will be urged." .
Situation
Unchanged
War Ships en Route