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'VV-' -'.'.- ;v V .V. V I" 't ,,,-t- V: -' . :v:' !"-"'.-- fv'i (W P)' ' If' 'IT' Chief Vol. LXVIII. No. l5L iThe Weather FAIR. RALEIGH, N. 0., .SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1910 LAST EDITION. PRICE FIVE CE1IT3 Double the Number of Paid 'Subscribers iir'the City of Raleigh of An vQther Newspaper C Zny Christmas to all, and F,1av You be Abundan J FATAL WRECK ofPEisr PASSENGERS Six Killed and Many Injured In Head-on Collision In Ohio WRECKAGE. ON FIRE Freight Wreck IInl Blocked One Line,' Necessitating Fse of Single Tracks and '.Train Had Stopped nt Small Stntion Tor Orders, ami the Other, Going -nt Full Speed, Crashed Into It First Pnllnwn of One Train TelescopedWreckage Caught Fire Form House Turned Into Temporary Hospital. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Upper Sandusky, O., Dec. 24 -Six were killed and one fatally hurt in a head-on collision between passen ger train No. 25 and eastbound ex press No. 48, eight miles east of here on the Pennsylvania1 Railroad early this morning. . More than 40 persons were injured. Both engines were completely demolished. The first Ptilman of the westbound train was completely telescoped between the engine and' the other steel Pull . mans behind it. It was filled with passengers. Engineers C. L. Miller and C. C. Greggs, both of Fort Wayne, lud., were instantly killed, as was also the baggagemaster of the passenger train. . . - . A freight wreck near Bucyrus earl ier in the night had completely blocked the westbound track, neces sitating the running of the west bound passenger over the : south tracks, on which the express was coming. - When a tower a mile and a half east of Nevada was reached the west bound train stopped for orders. There was a flash of light from the headlight of the express train as it rounded a curve only a few hundred feet away. The express was travel ing at the rate of over a mile a min ute. Before its speed could be checked ft crashed into the passen ger train, There was a roar that could be heard for miles in the still morning air as both engines exploded. The force of the impact was such ' as to drive the steel Pullmans in the rear of the long passenger train through the shell of a wooden Pull man and a baggage car next to the engine. Nearly every passenger In tha Prst Pullman was more or less seriously I Injured, although the heavy express train, aside from the engine, was not badly damaged. , . Physicians and nurses from this city were rushed to the scene in au tomobiles, arong with newspaper men and supplies. , The wreckage caught fire and in the darkness shed a red glow over ; the entire countryside, which, coupled With the detonation of the explosion,, aroused farmers from their beds. These hurried to the scene of the wreck through the snow and started PUD 580 FEET TO DEATH BELOW (By Leased Wire to The Times) Bockley, W. Va'.. Dec. 24-Four men were plunged 500 feet to death today when a bucket in which they were descending the shaft of the New River colliery company at Eck els was overturned. ' The dead: Nick rtokula, Michael Danto, John Sosko, and John Anti-nick-. - . '. i The b' vl1 s were horribly mangled by bein, ' shed against the bottom of the shaft' and the' men were only Identified by the numbered tags which they wore, r. They were Instantly killed, almost every bone In their bodies being broken. : Their' brains were dashed out and spattered against the walls fit the shaft. , l V I Miss liily O. Waters, of New York, Pt Mayer, Hie sculptor. Their marriage is the culmination of a three year romance, jiiss Waters was introduced to Mr. ..Mayor while visiting (lie Metropolitan Museum of Art about (lrtp years av.o. Soon afterward she became his pupil. Kiitluislnstie in Ii-f hope of becoming a noted ai t 1st, she soon found her interest in her work was acconmanied fcy a slow ing interest In her tutor. He showed her the notable figures lie was milk ing for the Museum of Natural History, and lie soon discovered that her admiration was the best thing- lie won told her parents that Mr. Mayer had had said she would, there was swift prevailed upon her to go to Europe from the influence of parents, love terg came home about a year and ten planned. Finally the lovers arranged informed the parents the day previous ried, and. ater eccived the parental to work digging the' imprisoned men and women from the wreckage?" .,.," Farm houses were turned into temporary hospitals, where the sur geons and nurses set to work In "ad ministering relief to those who had suffered the worst injuries. The six dead, two unidentified, as soon as their bodies were taken out of the mass of burning wood and twisted steel and iron, were placed at one side of the track and the work ers returned to the work of rescuing the living. Train No. 25 is known as the Chi cago special. It left New Yoric at 8:04 a. m. yesterday, and was due to arrive in Chicago at 8:00 o'clock this morning. It was made up of three day coaches, three mail cars, one sleeper, one parlor car and on com bination baggage and storage car. Another report says the wreck was caused by a switch being clogged with frozen sleet and snow. The dead were taken to the Wise morgue at Bucyrus. HELD FOR MURDER. Colored Women Held for Concealing and Possibly Murdering Infant. (Special to The Times.) Asheville, N. C, Dec. .24. At a coroner's inquest yesterday,, Bessie Russell.a young negro woman and her mother were : held for the con cealing of the birth and possibly murdering a recently born Infant, supposed to belong to Bessie Rus sell. The body was fully developed and the coroner found by performing an autopsy that it had breathed. The body was found under the floor of one one of the Bingham school build ings and an attempt had been made to bury it after wrapping it in rags. Some young men were hunting rabbits when they chased one under this house. In trying to get the rab bit out they found the bundle of rags with the body In them. BURLINGTON DEATH. J. C. Brudsher, Merchant, Dies and : Four-yearold Child Burns. - (Special to The Times.) Burlington, N. C, Dec. 24 J. C ("Johnnie") Bradsher, the: midget fill it merchant, died at his1 home of pneumonia yesterday afternoon after two days' illness. . Mr. Bradsiier was thirty-five years of age Snd about three feet in height. . The four-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. B. H, Payne, and Its mother, also, were badly burned yesterday. The child was standing with its back to the fire in an open grate when its clothing became Ignited. Most of the clothing and the hair of the child were burned before the mother sue-' ceeded In extinguishing the . flames, while Mrs. Payne's hands were burn ed to a crlsn. i iv! so lias become li:c hinie o1 ('as- by his work. When Miss Water caked hi".' to be his wife and that she and vehement objections. Her father iind try to forget. She went. Free had the Held to himself, and Miss Wa months sooner 'ban her father hacj to have the wedding take place and to the ceremony. They 'were mar blessing. r T fire Followed Wreck of Passenger Passenger Train Filled With Christ inas Travellers Collided witli Two Ijocoinotives Forty-seven Were Injured. : (By Cable to The Times.) Newcastle-on-Tyne, Eng., Dec. 24 Eight passengers were burned to death today in a fire 'which' followed the head-on collision of a passenger train and two locomotives on the northeastern railroad near Kirby stephen. As the engines crashed together the fire in the locomotives set the wreckage afire'. and it blazed up,' in cinerating the bodies of the impris oned passengers. Among the victims v is a child of tender years whose screams were heard for nearly half an hour before life became extinct. Forty-seven were injured, many of them being severely scalded by escap ing steam. The wrecked train was the Scotch Express, one of the fastest trains on the Northeastern. .The train was running at a high rate of speed when the disaster took place. The front cars of the train crumbled up and the wooden cars were smashed to kindling wood. The crash was heard for a mile and the boilers of the locomotives exploded with a roar which shook the earth. Upon the train were many passen gers hurrying to their homes for the Christmas holidays. The rescuers worked with savage energy to extract the imprisoned men and 'women but the flames gain ed such headway that' the wreckage was a seething pyre before all had been taken out. An hour after the accident rail road officials declared that all the bodies were out of the wreck al though the belief prevailed that there were others under the blazing debris. The weather was very cold and the water which was poured unoh the mass of twisted ' iron and timbers froze. ' Houses along the way were turned Into hospitals where the wounded were cared for. Graft in Commissary Department. (By Cable to The Times.) Colon, Panama, Dec. 24 Follow ing an Investigation of charges of graft in the government commissary department two men have been ar rested; It is reported that the gov ernment has been robbed of hun dreds of thousands of dollars worth o supplies. '-,.:" NO TRACE OF GRACE Missing Avaitor Probably Lost In Sea Is Generally I!clievcd 'I h.ii it Anitor Descended on Watci of oi(h Sea Sal'eiy That .He Could Not Have Survived (lie Gale P en Missing I'Nirly-clght Honrs. ( lly Cable to Tire I iiiic ) Dover, Eng, Dev. J I UihoiUM the searc:) for Cecil Giato, t ie miss ing aviator, went on today, hope that lit; would be saved' wai abandoned. With n. gale raging upon the NoUi Sra it; was generally admitted mat. even if Gracp liad descended safely and had for a time been nhlc to neen afloat wnh his-cork iaclet. I .ie storm would svami nun beneath lho waves. i f. Chiudc-Grahanie Wlule, : llie fn mo'.fs liver who won ilie international avlnl ion cup nl e York, was. luiont; die -first In lullnil llie ln;;s nt' Iim lellow aviait.r. " i.i.i a. gale -ragm - Mile i liancns lor .-finning Grace or Ins niiielniie .nive boon lessened to l!io minimum.." de clared Grnhairie-Whiie. At 1 1, o'clock this morning Grace had been missm;; for nearly forty-eight hours and nothing had been . seen or . heard' either Of him or his aeroplane:-'-. The general belief prevailed tliat the mvs- tery. would be solved bv tae finding of Grace's body on tlie shore m tne North. Sea. - The gale which ' swept the North Sea today blew up in a souLioi lv di rection and t:ie water was lushed bv a wind that caused huge billows to roll landward. . Ships at se were noi ifie.l bv wire less, to keep an extra keen walch and all of the wireless stations along the coast were notified to keep in communication-with' coastwise packets so that instant word would be received if Grace were picked up either dead Or alive. The powereful searchlights of -the British warships which are ongnged in the search and those of the coast wise lighthouse were kepi turned on the water during the nigat but no vestige of the aeroplane or its oper ator was found. The admiralty kept a small fleet, of naval vessels patrolling" the east ern and northeastern coasts of Eng land. Motor boats darted about the coast visiting the remote sections and . small islands to ascertain whether the aviator had descended upon any of them. The fact that Grace s petrol supply would not have lasted him longer than five hours, even if his motors were in perfect working order, made it certain today that he had been down for many hours. The weather was still hazy this morning, but despite tins dangerous condition of the atmosphere, some of the aviators gather here for to com pete for the De Forest prize of $l'0. 000 for the longest sustained flight including a trip over the channel, wanted to take the air and see if they could get a glimpse of Grace from above. Automobiles were again pressed into service along the seaboard and every part of the coast visited, j Two Fatally Wounded. Lexington. Ky.. Dec. H In a duel between Chief of Police Edward Samson at Island, Ky., and Max Fuel, who mSnmson had tried to arrest for disorderly conduc t, both were fa ta l ly wounded early today. NO NEW TRIAL FOR . (By Leased Wire to The Times) "Louisville,- Ky., Dec. 24. Judge Gregory, in the criminal court, today overruled the motion for a new trial for Joseph Wendling, sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Alma Kellner. Wreck off Hatteras. Norfolk, Va., Dec. 24. The Nor wegian bark Spero was wrecked off Cape Hatteras in a dense fog today. Wireless reports state that all the crew were saved. The captain of the vessel lost his course in the" fog and crashed on ft reef. High sens were running at the time and at the fsrst it was feared that the crew of sixteen, would be lost. . mm J i' ! 13 n 4& I Mine. AliK-Ici Iini-lc. C'uronii-ile gian poet and i.liiKisnpf icr. vl:o has : is alliiciliei::ii c.vti-.inidimn v hoiiiiiii I mi with a HMMerul . sympathetic manner, was hoi-ii in N'orm-iiKly, but t cneli.-iii l)lu(l in her veins, and is an iic'oiiiplisleI sjngcr- l one (imu she ivjis the liMdiii!! smr i llie l ulls Ojiera Coiiiioiic. She is a brilliant ncdos, and lias ccep(uninl literiicv nmlttr. lint she is jiIjovc all an ideal wile. It is cxd-eiii'-ly diilicult to gc( Mine. Maeterlinck to say unvtliiiig about bccscli, lii( s!ie will (aik aliout her hiislnind v (lie hour- "I feel (b;n he is so much more 'interesting' than I." she said. "It seems to me (Iia( when ir lias the happiness to i;. the oimiiauion and friend of a man ol (lie. worth ol Maeterlinck, of mi cure a, genius, one has in a wense the (ask it a gnnrdutn; .one- is in dully contact with a priceless treasure. ' Love ami passion pass; my feeling n;r Mnef eiliuck is a secret and a sacred (lung. I am proi:d to think i hat lie has written nil his most benu til ul (lungs since -our iiitiiiiage. (illi HAS Supreme Conrt Adjourned Yes terday Iki! February l wo Opinions Were Handed Down Justice James !. .Manning Retires When wirt Convenes- in I'.ai'iv l-eliruary Juds Allen Will be a .Member. The North Carolina supreme court completed its; work. yesterdnj and a.l jounied until in earlv l-eljniarv. The adjournment marked t lie retire ment from the bench of Justice Jas. S. Manning, who will be succeeded by Judge William Reynolds Allen. . . . '. During his. short, service on' the -supreme conrl. beiic.ii Justice Manning has discharged .the duties of his 'high position. wltlv.iiniiBii.il "ability-. There is no question but tnaf Mr. Jranniii is one of the stale's ablest meii and lawyers and his retirement, to. private lite will be a public loss. The next court will consist of Walter-Clark; chief justice; Piatt P. Walker.. George J. Brown. William A. l-Ioi;e and William R. .Mien, as sociate justices. Judge Allen, the new member, is a lawver of great learning and will fill the important position which he was recently elect ed wlta credit to liiinselt and stale. Before adjourning yesterday opin- ions were handed, down in. the cases of Moore vs. Meroney and in re I m- ner Hollev. I lie court ntllrnied the judgment of : the lower court In the flrst case. In the Tinner Hollev case, the defendant was denied the apnn cation for a -writ -of habeas corpus. 1 his is the case waere tao detimdant. claimed that lie had been sentenced to serve a term by the statute. longer than allowed DK.ll) Xl'MUKKS TWEXTV-nint. Last- of (lie lioilie.s Ilecovered Ironi llie Chicago Horror. (By Leased W ire to Thu limes) . Chicago .Dec; 2-1 With the last of twenty-four bodies recovered from the funeral pyre at the ruins ol the Morris packing plant, Chicago today gave itself up to mourning its dead the flower of the fire department and providing for the living who are dependent upon the heroes who lost their lives. The city poured out its offerings with lavish hands. Thirty-seven injured men ..will spend Christmas in hospitals. Captain Alexander Lannon of en gine company No. DO, died at St. Ber nard's-Hospital. At the beginning of the day more than 125,000 bad been pledged for the 'relict fund and tnose in charge of the collections for; the widows and i 4,iU ' l.i-fdaiic"). (lie win' of (lie great Hcl ir. veil in London. Mine. Maeterlinck .she is of medium hcighl, sdiinesque lias i'Uiiis Vk'clnred that the fund w-ould swelled to more than $."00,000. -The fliMt of -.-the funerals of fire vic- tiins took; jilace ioday, a sad harhin go r of Christmas. On Sunday there will bo oilier, funerals and on Mon day the woole cifv will turn out to pay trilmle to Lire Marshal Horan. llie city .'administration will attend the limeral. A hundred fire chiefs 'from other cities, members of the National Association, "will, be there to escort the hero chief to his grave. Aieantiine t -.ie fire is practically out iit the jilant of Nelson Morris & ( .'oniiiiinv. which covered a whole block between Loomis and Bisaop nf.vei't: and .4 3 rd and. 44th streets. Only a few firemen are on duty there, to se that the smouldering ruins do not break Into flames again, . : . . coroner lioitnian pui.htU the in vestigation ... today with , renewed vigor.-;. Hp declared that, tiie disaster was due to. tiie carelessness of some body an.l be intended to iind out. who was to blame. The citv electrician started an -examination of the electric wirinc svsioin employed at the plant in t he belief jint -. crossed wires caused the blaze.. The wiring was "I'assed" bv.the citv department: I ho Tire w ill result in a new nigh wnter pressure system in the . stock yards district and many changes in the equipment of the fire department. This practically has been decided on n v tne city council at informal gath erings. - -' . . John Campion, former fire mar shal, likely will succeed C hiet Horan. He is the choice, of the department, it is said, and has been urged for the 'place bv the board of insurance nn derwriters 1' iro Marshal Horan s 'funeral will he held at Si o'clock Monday. Tiie hixlv will be escorted bv the first regiment. National Guard, and Mayor liusse will ii cad the procession. .Many Itriilgcs linrneil. . (By LcMscil YVii'P to The Times.) 151 Paso. Tex.. Dec. 24. Many bridges on the Mexican Northwestern railroad have been burned south of Lena -station bv the devolutiomsts. and long stretches of track nave been dynamited. It ridges and trestles are in llames over a stretch ol many miles. I Ins was ascertained today when a passenger train ruuning without orders, made a dash as far as Casas Grandes and was forced to turn back at Lena. The entire road south of Lena is out of commission, the train crew reports, and it will require months to rebuild it. President .Sends Congratulations, (By Leased Wire to The Times.) Washington, Dec. 24 President Taft lias- telegraphed a message of congratulation to Ramon Barros Luco, who was installed president o Chile yesterday, v: ji THE SHIES FINANCIAL C0IIDIII0I1 The Total Debt Interest zd Non-interest Bearing Is $7,239,550 TREASURER REPORT Deficit of $:iS7,367.05 Reported Is lterause the Appropriations Were Made Without Due Cognizance of the Estimates Made in 100J In crensed A )jiropriations Asked tor the Soldiers' Home, Deaf and Dumb School of Morganton and (he Hospital at RalelKh $.V50,000 of Short Term Bonds Due January 1, 101.1, Will Have to lie Provided lor by the Next Legislature, The following extracts are taken from the biennial report made to the governor by Treasurer Lacy: v "My report shows that there is no balance to the credit of the general fund or the state. In fact, I have been forced to draw upon the acV vancn payments on account of-1911 to the amount of $12,118.87, and in addition to this is to be added outstanding obligations of the state amounting to $337,267.95, making a 1 total deficit of $349,345.82, as shown in the detailed statements that fol low. ..- The receipts for the two years, not including balance brought forward from 190S, were $9,440,002.13.. The disbursements for the same period were $1.0. 800,141. HI, making the actual disbursements in excess of re ceipts $569,139.21. r Estimated Receipts for the Fiscal Vcars 1911 and 1912. Atlantic and North Carolina Rail way, $75,996.00; bank stock, $105, 000.00; building and loan association stock, $10,800.00; corporations, $190,000.00; express companies, $11,000.00; tees from departments. $20,000.00; inheritance tax, $15, 000.00; insurance companies, $535, 000.00; license tax paid treasurer, $12,500.00; North Carolina Railroad dividends, $420,028.00; oil inspec tion fund, $25,000.00: railroads, $465,000.00; street railways, light and water companies, $12,000.00; telegraph and telephone companies, $16,500.00; taxes r from counties, $2,275,000.00: receipts from other sources. $25,000.00. Total, $4,693. 824.00. . These estimates are based upon the income for the past two years, with the estimated Increase that may be expected for the incoming two years, and are derived from the sources as provided by the revenue and machinery act. 'The estimate for expenses for the fiscal years 1911 and 1912 are esti mates based solely upon appropria tions and expenses under : existing laws, and no estimate Is made for permanent improvements other than the perpetual building appropriation to the three colored normal schools (Continued on Page Five.) MILLS HAVE FAILED (Ry Leased Wire to The Times.) New York. Dec. 24 The Randlemen Manufacturing Company .'and the Naomi Falls Manufacturing Company, both of Handleman, it. C., have failed -' and receivers have been appointed for : Dot n concerns, according: to DrivatA ; uispatcnes received' here from, Randle- man today. .. .- The failures are attributed to the de- ' pression In the cotton milling' business. , The -total indebtnesa of the concerns is' pjaced at at $800,000. Train Wrecked In Tunnel. (By Leased Wire to The Times) ' ' Middlesboro, Ky.. Dec. 2i-A ' rock slide in a tunnel wrecked a train on the Louisville Nashville Rail-: road here today: i Two members of the train crew were badl; Juut, i 1 4, i ( 5 J
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