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Vith Leased VJIrc and Full Press BIcpztzZao t!ed :ZrT ?" "t y----'--- r "T ';' ' -.-!-' - -, . - -inrckfif mliKm IMJdj BALJS1GH .EVENING' TIME VOLUME SO. RALEIGH, N. C, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1907. a- 27 LOST THEIR LIVES IN A HORRIBLE WRECK Forty Others So Seriously Hurl That Many bt Them Will Die lEM-M CLASHCAUSED BY MISTAKE OF A FIGURE Collision Between a Freight and Heavily Loaded Excursion Train On the Boston and Maine Rail road7 Near Canaan, New Hamp shire, Attended With Fearful Con sequences Mistake of the Train Dispatcher Discovered Before Ac cident Occurred, but It Was Im possible to Prevent It Frantic Efforts to Stop the Express Over the Wires Bnt it Was Too Late, Too Late! (By Leased Wire to The Times.) West Canaan, N. H., Sept. 16. Twenty-seven persons are dead and more than forty seriously injured, many of whom will dio, as the result of 1 lie head-on crash hetween . the Quebec express, carrying excursion ists from a fair at Sherbrooke, Que bec, and' a ' fast' freight on the Bos ton & Maine Railroad four miles north of Canaan. Most of the vic tims were women. It is declared today that the wreck was caused by a mistake in the train dispatcher's orders. The conductor of thj freight train was given to un derstand he had plenty of time to reach a siding by the operator at Canaan station, receiving, according to the superintendent of the divis ion a copy of a telegraph order from the train dispatcher at Concord, which confused the train numbers : 30 and 34. The wreck occurred just as the train had turned Into a straight stretch of track, but owing to the early morning mist neither engineer saw the others headlight till too late. Graphic Story of the Disaster. . (By leased Wire to The Times.) Concord, N. II., Sept. 16. In the ofllce of the trains dispatcher of the Concord division, men awaited the wroek which they knew was sure to result from n mistake either in the receiving or the sending of the or ders and made preparations for It. Before word was received that the fast passenger moving at 40 miles an hour and the plodding freight train had come together, the opera tors had sent out orders for the wrecking crew to he. ready. "I know where the blame is. Tt is in the Concord depot. I have In my pocket order No. 4 delivered to me at Canaan. They can't put the , blame on the operator at Canaan" statement made to the Hearst News Service by Benjamin J. Lawrence, conductor of the freight train. Those men on duty in the office that runs the Concord division dis covered that a mistake had been made in the transmission of the or ders. They knew that No. 40, mak ing up time, waa speeding at per haps 50 miles an hour toward the heavy freight that makes an average , of 30 miles an hour, neither engi neer having the slightest Idea that his orders were wrong. Fatal Mistake of One Figure. Dispatcher James A. Browlcy, THE HORRIBLEJSEQUEL TO A DISHONEST LIFE (By Leased Wire to The Times.) New York, Sept. 16. Alonxo 3. Whitman, ex-mayor of Duluth and former member of the Minnesota leg islature, who has been on several oc casions in the toils in this city, has been transferred from Auburn state prison to the state hospital for crim inal Insane at Dannemora. He was serving a sentence for forgery on the Fidelity Trust Company of Buffalo. After being graduated from Ham ilton College, where his greatest dis tinction was his record as a poker player, he came here to the Columbia Law School. From here he went to Duluth, practiced law and served twice as state senator. He was prominently mentioned as a possible candidate for the United States senate. At the time Whitman was said to be worth $1,000,000. His first fall was In San Francisco, where In 189t he was sentenced to nine yenrs for forgery. Through a technicality Whitman never served a 1 who was in charge of the, dispatch er's office here when the orders were sent for the two passenger trains and the freight, nas completely col lapsed. His mental condition Is such that, officials of the road fear lie may lose his reason. He has boon with the Boston & Maine for six years and previous to taking that position was a dispatcher on other roads. : The men in the dispatcher's office knew that the freight and the pas senger train with full cars of sleep ing excursionists would meet head on and they were powerless to signal either one. If the railroad men are to be believed the ' discovery was made soon after the second order had been sent to Canaan, giving the freight an hour and ten minutes of the time of one of the passenger trains, that the order gave the freight, the extra time on the Que bec express when it should have been given on the Canadian Pacific. Excitement at the Telegraph Key. In an Instant Browley and the nwn with him in the office realized what was about to .happen.. Frantically one of the men rushed to the key and threw it open. , His nervous fin gers jorked out call after call for Canaan. Operator John Greeley an swered. V "Can you stop 267?" Breathlessly they awaited Gree ley's answer. "Gone. Anything wrong?" They didn't stop to tell him. Other fingers were busy at other wires. Calls for other stations north of Canaan were clicked in sharp, nerv ous Morse. The white-faced men were hoping against hope. They got another station. Every ear in the room was strained to tho sounder that Spelled out the words that struck terror to the heart of every man in the place: "Express passed here," Too Late Too Late! Tiiey could do nothing more. They sat down in that office and, unable to look at oiiJ another, waited for the message to come that would tell of loss of life human beings crush ed to denth as they slept a scene somewhere along the line of the Bos ton & Maine's Concord division of untold agony. '.. It came nnally and they knew that their worst fears had been realize,!. Even wnile the message was click ing over the wires from Canaan they were ordering out wrecking crews and sending for doctors and nurses, That was all they could do. Some body had made a blunder, had writ ten one little figure when he meant to write another. The Crash Conies, The express was speeding along nt GO miles an hour when the engineer, John K. Hallihan, saw the flash of a headlight ahead of his locomotive. He applied tho brakes 'but there was not tue slightest chance to avert a crash. The. freight engineer, B. Shurleleff, also put on the brakes. Then both engine crews leaped and escaped Injury. In an Instant the crash came. The engines, one on the excursion and two on the freight, were tangled to- gether and destroyed. The baggage car was driven backward through the day coach, telescoping It. Not one person In that car escaped death or Injury. - i The next car was a smoker and here many were hurt. In the sleep er which was of more substantial construction no one was wounded One side of the coach was ripped off. Many Killed While They Slept. It was 4:24 in tho morning when the accident happened. The passen- day of his sentence. His first arrest here was In 1897 on a charge of defrauding the Columbia Bank. He was acquitted. In June of the following year he was sentenced to one year in St. Louis for swindling, appealed and forfeited his ball before a decision on the appeal 'had been reached. : Whitman was arrested twice in New Tork In 1899 and 1901 and once in Bos ton In the latter year for swindling but managed to escape punishment. In 1903 he was arrested for defraud ing the Auditorium Hotel In Chicago but made restitution again and the charge was not pressed against him. In the latter part of September, 1904, he was arrested In St. Louis for for- pery committed against the Fidelity Trust Company of Buffalo and escaped Dunkirk while being taken to Buffalo, It was said he jumped from the train while It was running at the rate of f.fty miles an hour. He was re-cap- ttued In January, 1905, and sentenced MANY CASES OTHE DOCKET Rowland Murder Case the Most, Important COURT CONVENES 23D The Rowland Case Will Probably be Called First Monday and Special Venire Ordered, hut Trial Will Begin Second Monday One Other Murder Case. Superior court will convene next Monday and will be In session for two weeks, with Judge Long presiding. In some respects this will be a very important term of court for the trial of Dr. and Mrs. Rowland is to take place and will probably consume all of the second week, as the case Is set for the second Monday. On tho docket are about 12! cases, the majority -of the Indictments being for larceny, al though there are quite' a number. nf as sault with deadly wen poii cases. The greatest Interest, is In tho Kmv- lnnd case and it will he one of the hardest 'fought cases that has been tried in the state in some time past. Pr. Rowland and his wife both have money and hnve employed able coun sel and a most determined fight wi'4 be made to give' thenl their freedom, For four months has Dr. Rowland oc cupied a cell in the Wake county jail, while Mrs. Rowland has been In jail onlv about two months. The cure will probably be called the first thing af ter court convenes and n special venire ordered, .but the trial will not begin until the following week. Dr. Jtowlan.l and his' wife. It will be remembered, endeavored to get out on bond through habeas corpus proceedings, but were not successful. Owing to the fact that Dr. Rowland is a physician, and the peculiar nature of the case, it has at tracted state-wide interest. Dr. and Mrs. Rowland are standing their confinement very well and he still appears to be in good spirits. Another murder case for the ap proaching term is the one In whuh " 1. 1 . .. . L j ..u.- ...wi.u(. - l'V4 is cnargea vwnn - naving iiiuivl-iuu a negro in east Raleigh last fall. Spenc was in jail until a. few days ngn, when he was released under a $500 bond. The bond originally named was $2,500, but the attorneys of the young man succeeded in getting it reduced. Spence, in company with several other men was passing through east Raleigh In a wagon, and It is said thai a negro threw a rork at them, where upon a shot rang out and the negro dropped, expiring in a few minutes. Soon afterwards Spenee was arrested and lodged in jail, where he remain ed, as stated above, until a few days since. . Elvira Powell, the old negrtf woman who was charged with having mur dered the child of Rosa Johnson, was have been tried at this term, but she is violently insane and there is but little probability of her ever being tried upon any charge. Allie Arnold, said to be the father of the child, Is in jail and will be tried for accessory before the fact to the murder of the child. - On the docket Is still to be found quite a number of caseji against Mr. Thomas K. Green, former city ticket agent of the Southern Railway, and also other agents. The understanding was that the cases against Mr. Oreen would be nol prossed. It will hardly bo possible to clear the docket during the two weeks. FIRST ELECTION IN NEW STATE (By Leased Wire to The Times.) ,." Dallas, Texas, Sept. 10. Both repub licans and democrats have closed the campaign in the new state of Okla homa with rousing meetings. For the democrats, C. N. Haskell, candidate for governor, was the principal speaker at Oklahoma City. John Fuller of Ohio, and Attorney General Cromwell, of Oklahoma, up held the republican cause. In -a statement Haskell estimates that his majority will reach 30,000, and that prohibition will carry by 60,000 majority. . The democratic and republican chairmen both clalm tho state for their parties, but give no figures. It Is estimated the total vole tomor row In the new state will reach 250,. OUC. The best opinion Indicates a ma jority of 60,000 or more for adoption of the constitution. One Negro Shoots Another. Concord, Sept.. 10. Howard Wllle ford shot and seriously Injured one Al Colbert Sunday, following a fracus on Silver Hill Saturday night Both I are negroes. ( V N, CARO WOMAN IS Tried at Colombia for ling Husband Kil- SENTENCE POSTPONED Jury Renders Verdict of Manslaugh ter in Case of Mrs, Ethel Blair For Killing Railroad Conductor C. W. lllair Having Been Out on Bond She is Locked Up Pending Ken- tvnee, Which Was Postponed Till This Evening Case .'Attracted Much Attention, (Special to The Evening Times.) Columbia, S.; C, Sept. 10. Mrs. Ethel W. Blair, who was .''-charged with the murder, of her-husband, C. V. Blair, a conductor on I Tin Colum bia, .-'Newberry- &, Laurens Railroad, in January last, stands convicted of manslaughter with . a recommenda tion of 'mercy.'- Sentence was post poned till this evening. The crime for which Mrs,'. Blair has been convicted is punishable by from two to thirty years in the pen itentiary.' . . v . Mrs.. Blair, who is about : years of age, and the mother of two child ren, is an unusually. .handsome' wo man, and stood well In this commun ity. When she-' was brought into the court room today there were no vis ible signs of the ordeal that she has just passed through, but: on hearing the verdict Mrs. Blair fainted and had to he carried from the court room. Within an hour after the verdict Mrs. Blair had recovered sufficiently to he taken to tho county jail. She had been out on bond since the pil ing. ..X,v The case has nttn'cted wide ntten Upa-Jn North .CnroJ&a, as we?(las''ln r i i - (.(inlih, 'life 'Kl,f lu.iftn '.i Knttl win ownv., mi,. &jm,h ... ... ..... cnroltua woman, with relatives and many friends and acquaintances in that state. .;.-.-' Not Yet Sentenced. .' Colnnibai, S. C, Sept. 16. 2 p.m When court adjourned today for the dinner hour sentence had hot been pronounced. ... The qualifying phrase "with reo ommondat ion to mercy" does not re strict the judge in imposing sentence according to the law of South Caro lina, but may be construed as a plea for leniency for the defendant by tho jurors who sat. upon her fate. Conductor Arms, about whom the tragedy had ; its origin, as alleged. was present when the verdict was announced; With the exception of the faintest pallor spreading over his countenance, he appeared unmoved He made no effort to reach Mrs. Blair's side when she fainted. PL DROPPED DEAD (Special to The Evening Times.) High Point, N. C, Sept. 1(1 Eugene Croker, seventeen years old, son Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay Croker, dropped dead here this morning while engaged nt work at a bench in the factory o the Olobe Home Furniture Company. Death was duo to heart trouble from which the young man had suffered In the past. , THE CUNARD LINE'S BIGGEST STEAMSHIP (fly Cable to The Times.) London, Sept. 16. The Cunard Line steamer Mauritania left her builders yard at Wallsend today for her first speed trials off Tyne. After ward sho will return for her final fit tings and furnishings. Sho is 790 feet long, compared with the Lusltanla's 787. She will have have nccommodtttionB for B60 first- class, 500 second-class, and 1,400 third-class passengers. Her crew will number 800, making her total com- plement 3.2G0. Her gross tonnage is i,";i, 200. Her fnaxiraum draught will jbe 37 Mi 'eet. ; , ( CON HIGH MAN PRISON DOORS RAILROAD OFFICIALS (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Galveston, Texas, Sept. 18. The first iclutioits of the anti-pass law recent- y enaeted are charged to the Southern 'aeiflc Railroad, and If the penalties re enforced to the limit the fine will mount to f2"iO.OOO and several railroad men will be sentenced to terms in the penitentiary. The charge is based upon the trans portation of negro strike-breakers from arious points In the state to flalves- on, where the Southern l'aeitle dock workers are on strike. Several car- oads of ..-'imported laborers were hipped across the state. To many of these laborers passes were issued, A NEW PLAN TO IMPROVE RACE Great Scheme of a College President KILL OFF TWO-THIRDS President David - Starr Jordan, of Stanford Vniversily, California, Tells Students Wlint a l'ine F.IVecl periodical Droughts Would Have On the 1 1 iiniiiii Race Through the Survival of the Fittest Thinks Fvery Fifteen Years Would Be About Kijiht. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) San Francisco, Cal., Sept, 1 (!.- "If we could have a great drought, once every 11 tleeit years, killing oil two- thirds of the population, and great, care were taken to see that the best third, mentally, morally and physi cally,, were, preserved, .what a mag nificent race pf people -we would soon have," declared David Starr Jordan', president of Stanford University, in his annual address to the newly ar rived freshiiion. This statement was made in the course or an account he was giving of his impressions of Australia and New Zealand, and tho sheep-raising industry there. "The desert atmosphere extends over t lie sheep-raising country and when there is a drought, many sheep die," he continued, "but those left are the finest In the world, and it so happens that the sheep-raisers get nior-.v: for their stock in a year of drought, than they do in a normal year." . - '' AUTO. FATALLY HURTS CHILD (Special to The Evening Times.) Charlotte, Sept. 16.Littlo Mar garet Bouie, twelve years old, was run over, seriously and possibly fa tally injured by an automobile on the streets here this morning. The machine was in charge of J. A. Williamson. . WALKER DEAD (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Capo Meddlck, Me., Sept. IB. Rear Admiral John Grimes Walker, IT. S. N., retired, died here this morn ing. ; FAMOUS MAP MAKER. , M'AXALLY IS DEAD. (Hy Leased Wire to The Times.) Chicago, Sept. 17 Fred G. Mc Nully, son of the late Andrew Mc Nally, and his successor lis head of the firm of Rand, McN'ally & Co., died at his homo here today. Physical breakdown, duo to overwork was the. indirect tso nt tho Illness which resulted in death. Mr. McNally leaves a widow and two children. Will Make His Home in Clierryville. Mr. D. P. Bellinger and family have moved to Clierryville, his native home, to live. Mr. Delllngor has mude many friends since he has been i a resident of Raleigh, and is a young (lawyer who will make his mark. REAR ADMIRAL YAWN FOR while the others were transported free under ngreementand fed whileen route. Organized labor is behind the pros ecution, and it is alleged that several Sections of the anti-pass law have been violated. The maximum fine is $5,000 for each pass ami the maximum penitentiary term is two years. The company contends the strike breakers are railroad employes but the men make affidavits asserting they had been Wred to. work for the steam ship company, loading vessels on the decks. ' There are 200 separate charges against the several railroad officials. THE POPE ON Papal Encclical Is Given Out This Evening MENACE TO THE CHURCH Deals With the Different Aspects of Modernism In Philosophy, Fuith, Theology, History, Criticism and ltefoi-iii, and (In- Tendency Oi'Hndi calism to Destroy Dogmas, the lliearchy and Doctrine- Hence Modernism is Heresy. ( l!y Cable lo The Times.) .'...; Home, Sept. '..16. The' pope's icing en cyclical on " ..modernism will be pub lished this evening. Meanwhile- the following summary gives Ibe objeaet and the -'principal points of the document: After saying that modernism Is a most serious danger to the church and tha the pope must provide against it. the encyclical examines the . different aspects of modernism in philosophy, faith, theology, history, criticism and reforms, especially radicalism, as tend ing to destroy dogmas,.' the heirarehy and ''doctrine. Hence modernism Is a combination and synthesis of all rsi-eeies and must lead the heresy. It is unlimited ; i-iirinsily, presumption, individualism,'' ignorance and disre spect of real Catholic science and dis cipline that have introduced modern Ism against the clergy and others. The )iope recalls the work of his pre decessor In stamping out these errors and finally orders that scholastic phi losophy and theological be taught in all seminaries and universities In an eminent Catholic spirit. Bishops, the pope-' says, ns delegates of the Holy See, should also district tho clergy and believers .'from the modernist press and effect -the establishment of a college of censors In every diocese, to revise Catholic publications. Pope Leo VIII's prohibition of ecclesiastics from di recting publications .without n permit from their bishops is confirmed .and all collaborations are to be subject to censorship. - - Sacerdotal congresses are prohibited with rare exceptions and when 'mod ernism, presbyterianism and laleism are 'excluded. A council of vigilance is to be estiblished In every diocese against the diffusion of the errors in vogue and bishops are to send reports to the ho)y see, The encyclical con demns modernistic aberration, not modern'studies that are not in oppo sition to the church. Pope Pius X in today's encyclical completes and put into execution the work of defense and restoration his predecessor began. The encyclical also orders the dismissal from seminaries and Catholic universities all teachers who profess modernistic theories. . . MODERN NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN THE TELEGRAPH STRIKE (By Leased Wire to The Times.) (irnnd Kaplds, Mich., Sept. 16. All the operators at the Postal Telegraph, Company walked out nt midnight last night. The, men were not organized and had been at work during thj strike while the company was paying them double salary. Karly last week they were notified bv the officials of the company "that the strike was over" nnd that the "ex tra bonus" would be discontinued. This caused general dissatisfaction, and yesterdny they met and a local union was organized, the men walked out nt midnight. It is believed the Western Union men will follow their example today or tomorrow. Chicago, Ills., Sept. 18. Acting on rumors that the telegraph companies were planning strenuous efforts to stampede the striking operators. In ternational Secretary Wesley Russell yesterday sent out the following no BROTHERHOOD OF TRAMPS Possessor of a Fortune Wbo is Organizing Union TRAVELLING WORKMEN James Fads How Devoting His For tune to the Task of Organizing tho Shiftless Workmen Who Are Pos sessed of an irresistible Mania for fining About from Place to Place; Suys They Are Capable of Doing Much Good. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) New York, Sept. 16. James Eads How, university graduate, heir to a great fortune which he refuses to use personally nnd has turned over to the advancement of his propaganda, is in New York again attending to the lo cal organization of his Welfare Broth ei-hood. Mr. How Is a son of the late Colonel James Howvice president of the Wa bash Railroad and a grandson of tho man who built the great Eads bridga over the Mississippi at St. Louis and the jetties at the mouth of the river. At the meeting at the Manhattan Lyceum, Mr. How said: VI I lias been stated that I am at-', templing to organize the hobos of the country. The word 'hobos' is a mis nomer and usually creates a wrong impression. People generally under stand the word to stand for men who have given up the fight for respecta bility; They are wrong. These men are traveling workmen, "I want to : organize the traveling; workmen just as any other laborers are organized. I feel that the men wbo go about the country to see conditions everywhere, whose ideas are not con fined to local situations, could do an immense amount of good If they were properly directed. The mere fact that they would be able to present new phase to a world-old problem as It exists in every community would make them eagerly welcomed everywhere." Mr. How spoke for half an hour on bis favorite topic and the men who made up his audience (wanderers, most of.' them), listened with respectful at tention. THE UMPIRE WITH THE CRACKED HEAD. St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 16. Umpire Billy Evans, whose skull was slightly fractured by a bottle thrown from the bleachers during the first game between the Browns and Detroit Sunday, was reported as resting easy this morning. Dr. C. W. Thierry said he would not be able to tell just how serious the injury is for two or three days. Hugo Duessenberg, 17 years old, who was arrested, admits throw ing the missile, but says the act was caused by enthusiasm over the Brown's tieing the score. The bottle was broken to bits. Evans was badly cut on the head, but being an athlete of magnificent physi cal st ren gl h , w 11 1 probably pull through. He is 24 years old and the youngest umpire in the American League. Heavier Rails Being Laid. Greensboro, N. C, Sept. lG.Su perintendent A. M. Smith, of the Winston-Salem division of the South ern Railway, between there and this city, states that the Southern has two forces at work now putting down henvier rails on this division. Al ready about six miles have been com pleted between the above-named places. tice::, .' . "All locals and members: I am re liably informed from Inside sources that the Associated Press will make a grand effort to stampede their strik ing telegraphers back to their former positions on Monday, September .18, and that on Tuesday, the 17th, the Western Union and Postal , Telegra phers will make their final effort-to break our ranks. ' "All members are hereby put on their guard. It Is Intended by the companies to send "trusties' Into our ranks with pessimistic, statements and untruthful reports, who," after working for several hours In an effort to create llssallsfactlon and discord, will start for the telegraph offices and try to bring some weak ones with them.: "Our latest reports show a united front the country over and their de termination to win Is now firmer than ever. (Continued From First Page.) . .ff i ft ,-! V ' t
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