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Full Leased Wire Service of the Associated Press. Leads all North Carolina Afternoon Papers in Circulation. LAST EDITION. ALL THE MARKETS. THE RALEIGH EVENING VOLUME 27. RALEIGH, N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1906. PRICE 6c TIMES. THE TOWN OF JELLICO DESTROYED BY AWFUL DYNAMITE EXPLOSION At Least Eleven People Killed and Fifty or More In jured CUR LOADED WITH EX PLOSIVE BLOWN DP The Bodies of the Demi Arc Buried in tlic Ruins, ami the Exact Num ber of Killed Has Not Yet Been Ascertained Every Warehouse in Jellieo Along the Line of the liouisville & Nashville Was Wreck ed and Nearly Every Store in the Town is in Ruins The Entire Third Floor of the Carmathen Inn Was Blown Prom the Building Physicians Hurry by Bail to the Scene. (By the Associated Press.) Knoxvillc, Tenn., Sept. 21. A special from Jellieo, Tenn., says: A terrific dynamite explosion here today caused the loss of at least 11 lives and more or less seriously in jured not less than fifty peoplo. Pronerlv rininairn estimated at S 1 .- 000,000 was done and the town of Jellieo was practically destroyed. At least. &00 people are homeless. The identified dead are: George Atkins, lineman for the East Tennessee Telephone Company. John Cook, car inspector for the Southern Railway. Wa!terRodgcrs, clerk for United Cold Slorago Warehouss. John Gordon, colored. James Sharp, colored. William Novell, aged 12 years. lln ttaimc. aeed 3 years. James Reynolds. Joseph Fellers, engineer of Louis ville & Nashville Railway. .... Cook, son of .1. M. Cook. - One body remains unidentified, making Hie total dead 11. Five other bodies have been found but they are mutilated beyond rec ognition. The most seriously injured ara: F. V. Campbell, engineer, Louis ville & Nashville Railroad. Finley Gibson. Judge Foreman, proprietor of the Carmathan inn. Mrs. Foreman. William Itaird, employe of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad. James Carson, of Corbin, Ky., cut on head, and bruises. Son of T. I. Abbott, probably fa tally. Isaac Ranee, cut on houd one eye blown out. Mark Atkin, grocer. Jay Itaird, bookkeeper for the Ital ian Coal Company. Charles . Baird, cashier of the National Bank of Jellieo. B. I). Baird, president of the Na tional Bank of Jellieo, and mayor of Jellieo, Tenn. George Hudson, injuries may prove fatal. Sherman Wilson, head and breast badly cut, L. A. Holiuan. Mr. and .Mrs. J. M. Jones, badly bruised, their house having fallen in upon, them. William Rose, cut on head. In addition to these many others sustained wounds of a slight na ture, ihf-.-.!!'-..- iT-' Business Houses in Buin. Without exception every business house in the town is either wrecked or badly damaged. The unipn depot of the Southern Railway and the Louisville, & Nashville Railroad, lo cated about ICR) yards from the place of the explosion, was shattered to splinters. It cut off all telegraphic communication and news of the ex plosion was handled by telephone. The explosion occurred upon the Kentucky side of Jellieo and in con sequence every house on that side of the town is wrecked. Not one was spared. A large number of resL' dences located near the railroad on the Kentucky side were without ex ception, demolished. As a result it is estimated that one-seventh of the population of the two Jellicos is homeless. A car loaded with dynamite and consigned to the Rand Powder Com pany, arrived hero this morning. It was iirought In by Ihc Southern Rail way from the direction of Knoxville and was sidetracked in the yards used jointly by the Southern Railway and the Louisville & Nashville. It is believed that the explosion was caused from spontaneous combus tion in the car. However, nothing has yet developed to make this as sertion positive. The spot where the car stood is marked by a crevasse in the earth fully twenty feet deep and about thirty feet in diameter. Officials of tha Southern Railway and the Louisville & Nashville Rail road left Knoxville at 9:30 o'clock this morning expecting to reach Jel lieo by noon. On the train were a number of physicians and a repre sentative of the Associated Press. The line between Tennessee and Kentucky runs through the town of Jellieo. The explosion occurred on the Kentucky side, but owing to the interruption of wire communication the despatches telling of the accident were sent from Jellieo, Tenn. FOLLOW TOWN OF JELLICO. .. SHOT AT MARK ON CAR. This Said to Be Cause of Explosion of Dynamite. (By the Associated Press.) Louisville Ky., Sept. 21. -General Manager fc! vans' of the Louisville & Nashville Railway has been advised by wire that, from the best informa tion obtainable, the explosion at Jel lieo was caused by three men shoot ing at a mark on the car. The car contained 4 00 cases of high explo sive, and was consigned to Clear field. Tenn. The Louisville & Nash ville freight office at Jellieo was wrecked and all of the clerks in jured. SIX ARE KILLED I COLLISIONS (By the Associated Press.) St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 21. A brief report was received at tho headquar ters of the Great Northern Railroad here today of a rear end freight col lision at Cut Bank, Mont., late last night in which two stock men, whose names have not been reported, Road master Dinton and Brakeman Critch ell were killed. The caboose and two freight cars of the first train were wrecked and caught fire. Both the trains were bound east. Pulaski, Wis., Sept. 12. A work train on the new lino of the North western Road ran into a workmen's sleeping car last night, killing two and injuring fourteen other laborers. SIX CHAMPIONSHIP POST SEASON GAMES, (By the Associated Press.) Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 21. All ar rangements for the post, season series of games betewen tho Buffalo team, winners of the Eastern League pennant, and the Columbus team, winners of the American Association pennant, and the Columbus team, winners of the American Association pennant, have been completed. Six games will be played, beginning the 27th instant, three in Buffalo and three in Columbus. An extra one, if needed, will be decided in some city to be agreed upon later. The winners of the series will receive sixty per cent of receipts, while the losers will receive forty per cent. The games will be for the world's championship of class "A" leagues. DYNAMITE CUT OFF FIVE LIVES (By the Associated Press.) Winnipeg, Man., Sept. 21. Word was received In this city today of a dynamite explosion which occurred on the right of way on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway near Fin mark, Ontario, Wednesday afternoon In which five workmen were killed and six others injured, one of whom Is expected to die. Foreman C. H. Hilton's arm was blown off. CAPITAL CLUB'S NEW DECORATION Will be Entirely Completed by Fair Week A SCENE OF SPLENDOR Xo Expense Has Been Spared to Make the Home of the State's Leading Social Organization One of the .Most Magnificent in the 1 South Three Dances Fair Week. Tho work of redecorating the Capital Club after the fire of last January is bearing completion. When finished tho rooms of this the leading social or ganization of the state for years, will be. things of exquisite beauty and per fect harmony of design and color. Xo expense has been spared to make the home of the club one of the most taste fully and artistically adorned ones in the south. It is really impossible to do justice in cold type to the subject; the per fect effect of the blending anil con trasts in the various rooms cannot bo described. It must be seen to be ap preciated, but nevertheless something can be said about the material and concrete things that have been put on the walls and ceilings and Honrs. The reception room is in gold and ivory, something like the famous gold room of the new Hotel Aster in New York. The walls are covered with heavy brocaded silk tapestry of colon ial buff. The wainscoting is, old gold, and the wood work enameled and rub bed down with pumice stone to give an old ivory effect. The ceiling is of gold leaf over aluminum, with a beautiful design done in relief. The shade deepens from the center out ward. The dining room is an exact imita tion of an old Dutch or Flemish din ing room of two or three hundred years back. All the furniture bears the typ ical smoky mark of such rooms. The sideboard is of black wood braced with heavy iron clamps, and with Delft panels set in depicting scenes of the life and landscape of the Netherlands. The table and chairs correspond, and the clock is the end of an old black beer keg. On the sideboard and man tel are all sorts and conditions of genuine Flemish steins. Over the mantel hangs the smoke-black lamp. The ceiling is frescoed in tulips on a buff ground, and at each corner ami along the sides are painted in typical little Dutch scenes. The reading room, which is in green, is unchanged except the ceiling, and this is frescoed in shaded green ami coated witlt wax, giving a splendid finish. The billiard room decorations are notable, on the walls nil around are painted serenes of various sports nod landscapes. Here is a man shooting birds with his dog. there speeds ;m automobile, yonder is a single sculler oarsman pulling against time, ami there a tennis player has just deliv ered a smashing lull. All these paint ings are done in oil. The ball room is perhaps the chef d'oeuvre. The color is Rose du Barry, running from ivory in the center of the magnificently arched ceiling down to a deep pink near the Moor. The de signs on the walls are wreaths of roses in relief done by free hand work with the most delicate shading and enam eled and glazed finish. The ceiling is not glazed, being flat finish. Elec tric lights are studded all around the room and in the ceiling, and all around also are side gas brackets. All the chandeliers and brackets are in rich gold. There is an etire new floor (if maple two inch planks laid over the old floor. The dressing rooms are in the same Lose du Barry shade as the main room. The chairs are all enameled and rubbed with pumice stone with the same ivory finish as the wood work of the reception room. The metal work of the chairs is in gold finish. The windows nre draped with madras cur tains on silver metal poles. All the painting throughout is in oil, no other kind of coloring being used, and all the frescoing Is free hand work, stencil or patterns being cm ployed anywhere. The wood work gets five coats of enamel and two rubbings with pumice stone. Its surface feels like polished marble. The door glasses nre all leaded like in the big cathedrals. The decoration has been done under tho direction of the house committee, Messrs. William Boylan, chairman, John A. Duncan and II. E. Lltchford, who have given it their constant per sonal attentiou. The color schemes for the different rooms were selected by the wives of members of the club. The contract for the work was made with Messrs. Duryea and Potter of New York, and their representative here In active management of the work has been M. R. Stengel, who has clone all the free hand work in fresco and relief and has supervised everything. M. Stengel did the decorating of the lobby and gold room in the Hotel As tor. He says he has used altogether 2.000 pounds of lead In the paint put inside and outside the building. In (Continued on third page.) THE WOMAN'S CLUB SEASON! j Johnsonian Book Club First; to Meet THE WORK MAPPED OUT The Tuesday Afternoon Club, (bo Hook Club, the Social Club, All Getting; Down to Work Business .Meeting of Tuesday Afternoon Club This Afternoon. The woman's club season is open ing in Raleigh, and the first meceting of any of the clubs was last week, when the Johnsonian Look Club, which, by the way is the oldest book club in the city, met with Mrs. F. H. Bnsbee. The club takes up the study of foreign countries this season, and at the initial meeting entertaining talks were made by Mrs. I. McK. Pit tinger on her travels abroad, and Mrs. Mary Iredell, it was a charm ing conversational meeting and a pleasant reunion after the separation I of t he summer., I The Kentness Book Club will nieel Thursday for the first lime this year. Miss May Jones is president and there are eighteen members. The subject for study this season is the School of Italian Painting, divided into the fol lowing topics: Early Italian Fresco Painters, Early Renaissance Painters, Later Renaissance Painters, and the Venetian School of Painters. Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Thornton Rowland entertained the Social Club at her home on Edenton street. There were fifteen members present. Miss Bishop of tho Baptist University for Women is president A guessing con test, The Floral Romance, was won by Mrs. Will Hughes, who received a handsome prize. ' Besides the mem bers the invited guests were Mrs. S. W. Brewer, Mrs. . R. Chamberlain, Mrs. C. H. Beckbfl i, Mrs. A. F. Bow en and Mrs. T. L tjrtggs. The next meeting will be v.i.b. Mr.--. David Ellas on October 3. This afternoon there is a business meeting of the Tuesday Afternoon Club at the home of its president, Mrs. Franklin McNeill. The subject this season will be Woman and the World's Work. The firsi meeting will be with Mrs.- McNeill on the ev ening of October 9, when Mr. R. D. W. Connor will deliver a lecture on the club's tonic for the year. .Mrs. Harry Loch is vice president of this club, and Mrs. J. Y. Joy tier secre tary. There will be a 4 business meeting of The Book Club with Mrs. Sher wood Hlggs on next Monday after noon. THREE ARE GONE; LOST IN FIRE? (By the Assoc ated Press.) Tacoma, Wash., Sept. 21. 1'ir-' which burned with terrific rapidity destroyed property last night valued approximately at $150,000. As a re sult one woman is believed to lave lost her life, while two man are un accounted lor. The property laid waste by the flames, includes the Ta coma Eastern Railroad depot and freight warehouse and four freight cars; the Puyallun avsnuo branch, a large livery stable building, a sa loon, restaurant and three dwelling houses, In the livery stable were over 150 horses, many of them of blooded stock. Less than half a dozen escaped. The woman believed to have lost her life is Mrs. Peterson, wife of the restaurant keeper. JEALOUSLY MADE HIM MURDERER AND SUICIDE (By the Associated Press.) Greensburg, Pa., Sept. 21. David Suttlemyer, who has been a fugitive since Monday night ,when in a fit of jealousy he fatally shot John Wil helm, a 17 year old boy, at the fair grounds, returned to his home at Youngwood today and committed sui cide with the same weapon ho used on young Willi elm. BRYANESQUE IS LAURA'S POLICY She's Running for Cnngress, is Miss Payne SHE'S A LONE STARESS And She Out-Kryaiis Bryan by Advo cating Government Ownership of Packing Houses, But Then She's a Plain Dyed-in-l he-Wool Socialist Running On That Ticket. (By the Associated Press.) Chicago, Sept. 21. A dispatch to the Tribune from Fort Worth, Texas, says: Laura Ti. Payne, of Fort Worth, in accepting yesterday the nomination on the socialist ticket for congress in this district, comes out strongly for government ownership of all packing houses. Miss Payne is the first woman to run for congressman in Texas and says she will push her campaign vig orously. When asked what she would do if elected, she replied: "The first thing I would do would be to accuse the grafters in congress of their wrong-doings and arouse the public of the entire country to oust the rogues from the national legis lature." NO CONTEST OVER THE WILL OF SAGE. (By the Associated Press.) New York, Sept. 21. Senator Bracket! announced this morning that there would be no contest of the Russell Sage will. The senator in timated that a financial set I lenient had been effected. It is understood that under the set tlement the twenty-five nieces and nephews who were left each $25,000 under the will are to receive $50,1)00, while the minor heir, Edson T. Coon rad of Watorvliet, N. Y., will receive $12,500. BRYAN DELAYED BY FREIGHT WRECK. (By the Associated Press.) P.irminghnin. Ala.. Sept. 21. A spe cial from Anniston says a freight ac cident at Iron City delayed the train on which V. J. 111. van was traveling from Atlanta t" Birmingham two hours' and Mr. Bryan made a speech to lie- croud which gathered about his car, lie a'so made o short address a! Anniston where the large crowd which h;td tired of wailing fur him had dwindled down to a few hundred. Mi-. Bryan was so hoarse that he could scarcely be heard. He was met ai Annislop by a special ciii.cus edm niincc from Birmingham who escorted him lo the city. NEAR CASWELL f Special to The Evening Times.) Wilmington, N. C, Sept. 21. The Clyde Line steamer Navahoe collided With the Cape Pear fisheries steamer Atlantic this morning near Fort Cas well and sunk her in twenty-two feet of water. The Navahoe was returning to Wil mington from Georgetown when the collision occurred. A misunderstand ing of signals is given as the cause of the accident. All of the Atlantic's crew were rescued. The Atlantic was built in Balti more in 1902 and is valued at seventy-five thousand dollars. Gold Engaged for Import. (By the Associated Press.) New York, Sept. 21. Goldman. Sachs & Company today engaged $700,000 in gold in Paris for import. THE ROYAL MINT OF DAVARIA IS R06DED (Bv the Associated Press.) Munich, Sept. 21. The royal Ba varian, mint was robbed yesterday evening of a sum equal to $32,500 in newly coined ten mark pieces. The thieves got into the mint by creep ing though a dry underground canal which Had lieen opened for cleaning. STEAMER SUNK OUR GOVERNMENT MAY GRASP REINS IN CUBA NOW AT ANY MOMENT GATHERING UP THE DEAD Many hcavengers Overcome by the Stench Manager .Murray and Stall' of the Dutch Petroleum Company at Hong Kong Instrumental in Sav ing Many I. ires of Natives. (By the Associated Press.) Hong Kong, Sept. 21. Practically all the Bcloochistan troops and fhree hundred of the West Kent regiment are co-operating today in clearing the wreckage of the recent typhoon. Prodigious efforts are -being made in j the recovery of dead bodies, which ! are being carried off in cart loads. ! Many scavengers are being overcome j by the terrible stench arising. Con I stable Munday, who is superintend ing the work, collapsed, and he has been removed to a hospital. The Royal Dutch Petroleum Com pany's lighter, loaded with oil, while being pumped out into tanks was stranded but was subsequently re lloated. The company's pier was damaged to the exi -nt of $30,000. Manager Murray and staff were instrumental in savins the lives of 100 men and women and children, who have been housed, clothed and fed on the com pany's premisas. Shipping has been resumed, but Is hampered by the Inadequate sup ply of sleam launches and lighters. The former demand $lso and the latter $100 for hire per working day. RUSH IN AN AUTO. TO SAVE NEGRI (By the AssoclatcAfpress.) f Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 21. Two com panies of local militia were ordered oil I last night to protect the negro Troy, who is alleged to have assault ed Mrs. Kimball yesterday and was being held at Fort McPherson until the officers could arrive to take c1ulf.;o of him. The sheriff, however, hear ing Of the forming of a mob to lynch the negro', rushed to the scene and taking the negro in an automobile, evaded the mob and landed the ne gro In the jail here before the militia arrived in fori McPherson. Tho mi litia has now disbanded. BI SII or AMEXS TO BECOME CITIZENS. (By the Associated Press.) New YorU, Sept. 21. About 1,000 persons appeared about the natural ization bureau loday to take out cit izenship papers, by far the largest crowd I hai has ever coma to the of fice in one day. About sou of them had lo he turned away as the capac ity of the office provides for the is suance of not more than 200 papers a day. New and more stringent nat uralization laws go into effect Sep tember 27 and today's crowd is re garded as i lie beginning of a rush on the pari of the aliens to become citizens b store the new requirements are in operation. TO DOUBLE LAST YEAR'S CORN YIELD. (By the Associated Press.) Guthrie, t kl., Sept. 21. Secretary of Agriculture McNabbe ' of Oklahoma, estimates an increase in corn acreage of ti'i per cent over last year. The average yield, be says, will be fifty bushels, or a total of 123,000,090 bushels. If this should hold good also through out Indian Territory with tin acreage of two million it will give an even 100.000,1100 bushels. This would be more than double the yield of last year, for the two territories. RAISI LI MAY BE ILL FROM EFFECT OF POISON. (By the Associated Press.) Paris, Sept. 21. A special dis patch from Tangier says that Rai suli, the bandit chief, is seriously ill. He is believed to have been poisoned by an agent of the Magh zen, or foreign board. j a Crisis is Impending Which Will Make Intervention FOUR OF OUR WARSHIPS The Difference Between the Cuban Government and the Revolutionists Seems to be Irreconcilable and the Policy of Reconcentration May be Adopted by United States in Bring ing the slanders to Their Senses. This Policy, However, Will Not lie Marke dby the Cruelties That Char acterized Weyler's Regime. (By the Associated Press.) Washington, Sept. 21. The ad vices from Havana today only con firm the feeling which has been en tertained here that the differences be tween government of Ctiba and the insurgent forces are irreconcilable, and that even if the president's com missioners should succeed In accom plishing any arrangement for the set tlement of the difficulties in Cuba it could only be temporary and that a crisis must necessarily result sooner or later. Intervention therefore by the United States is likely to occur at any moment. Officials of the war, state and navy departments when shown the Havana bulletin telling of the impending crisis would not admit the receipt of any confirmatory advices, but it is known definitely that the government officials here entertain the view as herein stated, ti was said today that In case the intervention, one of the Iftrst acts of the United States Would be tlftf adoption of a -onlicy of recon centration but without the liorfOrs attending a similar policy of General Weylcr. A Crisis Impends. (By the Associated Press.) Havana, Sept. 21. A crisis in the at tempts of the American mediators to settle the Cuban question appears to be approaching. The indications to day seem to be that Secretary Taft wiil not be able to settle tho difficulty without definite and real American in tervention. Secretary Taft was uncommunica tive today, but it is known that.he has been in frequent communication with President Roosevelt and reported con ditions here to be far worse than he had supposed. HAVANA TO OYSTER HAY. Direct Communication Between Taft ami Roosevelt Established. (By the Associated Press.) Washington, Sept. 21 Direct tele graphic communication had been es tablished between Havana and Oyster Bay, New York, in order that Secre tary Taft may be able promptly to report to President Roosevelt tho progress of the negotiations now under way in the Cuban capital for a cessa tion of hostilities and the pacifica tion of the Cuban republic. Arrival of Warships. (By the Associated Press.) Havana, Sept. 21. The United States battleships Louisiana and Vir ginia and the cruisers Cleveland and Tacoma arrived here this morning. The four warships entered the harbor at S o'clock, the Louisiana leading and saluting. The new ar rivals, together at the cruisers Den ver and Des Moines, now occupy the six best anchorages and give an un wonted and strikingly warlike ap pearance to the harbor, where it is rare to see more than two warships at a time. Captain Couden of the Louisiana said the trip of the two battleships from Newport has been uneventful. The cyclone was not encountered. The Cleveland and the Tacoma also had an uneventful trip. Captain Couden,1 who Is now senior officer and commander ef the squadron, received the visits of the other commanders and the Captain of the port on board the Louisiana. He then came ashore and went 1n an automobile to Marianao, where he called upon Secretaries Taft and Ba con and reported the presence of the (Continued on Page 6.)
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