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3 ttnt nywhwby,Mai-.t-teiit A-XiWj L "J L K I N ' l? H t'''M: i 1 l? I (HrP T 1 ! ff Gently-fair tonight, and Wed- v : : VOLSEVENTfiEN, J. , -,, ',.-. " "V WILMMC " . . V . PRICE THREE CENTS ' l CDfln CI CCD Tfl ncntl! HPI1T nniTPirin ' -' -. mn iitiii nnn nrin rini min H Ip lUU II'ryllpD i rp; tjl I fl 1 H II U 1 1 1 " ' I I II 1' H 1 1 1 1 1 1 li I Knt With Over One Hundred hmim I ' u fl! Face Eacn Other t In Twinkling of Eye Express Traih Dropped and Groans and Shrieks of Dying and Wounded Filled the Air Engineer and Firemen Met Instant Death St. Louis Baseball Team Had Narrow Escape From Death. Twelve Bodies Taken From Wreck age Up to. Noon Scores Carried to Hospitals. Bridgeport Conn., July 11. The Federal Express on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, the fastest train carrying passengers with out change from Washington to Bos ton, this morning plunged down a 20 foot embankment, while running sixty miles an hour. Of one hundred pas sengers that went down with the first six cars scarcely one jescaped death; , or injury. Twelve bodies hacl been taken out of the twisted wreckage by noon, including the engineer and fire-j man, who were so mutilated it is evi dent they must have met instant death. Forty four of the injured are in hos pitals. Nearly a score or more receiv ed injuries not severe enough to pre vent them from continuing their jour ney. The dead .are Engineer A. M. Curtis,. Fireman W. A. Ryan Mrs. Gwendolyn F. Rogers, wife of Eletric ian Sergeant, Coast Artillery, U. S. A., Rogers, aged seven - weeks, the daughter of Mrs. Rogers; Mrs. C. W. Christie, 2031 Rittenhouse street, Phil adelphia; Geo. E. Saunders, .Norwich, Conn.; two unidentified men, , one a negro, and. two'. unidentified women, one boy, and Helena B. Walcott, resi- dence' unknown. '. . New "Cross, Over" Responsible.' A new "cross over" installed on the ment oif the western outskirts of the city are indirectly-responsible for the accidenCThe train was late and the engineer "was driving to make up the lost time when ' the heavy vestibuled train of nine cars struck the switch at full speed. The locomotive leaped, rocked and swayed over the ties for nearly 100 yards and finally fell to the street below, dragging the six cars down the bank. The coupling broke between the sixth. and seventh car, leaving three sleepers upright on the embankment; two of them still on the rails. 'The wreck occurred just before dawn when one hundred and fifty pas sengers occupied berths and in a day coach. Just behind the locomotive three cars were piled, one above the other. At the bottom of the heap was the day coach and a majority of the dead were taken from this car. Axes were used in chopping into the over turned cars and in assisting passen gers to safety. .. ' " The Plunge. -The express . left Harlem river an hour late, shortly after 4 o'clock this morning, and it was going at a high rate of speed when the open : switch, a mile and a half west of Bridgeport, was struck. The switch was near a tower. There was aHxemendous crash, an instant of intense silence and then the groans and shrieks of the wound ed. The wreck was almost : complete, five cars having -gone oveV the via duct and only two cars of the long train were left oh the track. The en gine, twisted into junk, was two hun dred feet away. Behind were the mail and baggage cars, while a Pullman and coaches were in a mass, in the rear.' Three Pullmans were almost crumpled up. 2 Passengers in them were' partly protected ' because of the Pullmans' strength. In the wreckage of the engine 'was found a body, thought to be the engineer, who died at his post. A babe, about one year old, was found in one car. It. was aliyeu and had become separated from us mother.- In another coach a wvoman was taken out alive, but her cuild was dead uder her. The members of the St. Louis National baseball team, on their way to -Boston, were in the last Pullman. 4 All escaped. The ball players were thrown from their berths and badly jarred. Recovering their fomnnsnrfi thev assisted m rescues of the dying and injured. A mistake of a switching crew in the'New York yards probably saved the lives of the players. When the team boarded the train out of "Philadelphia they' were in the fourth car , from the engine. When the cars were taken off the ferry, after circling Manhattan Island, the switchmen accidentally put their coach .t the nd of the train. All the team's baggage, including their uni forms, was lost in the wreckage. President Often Used the Train. Washington, July 11. News of , the wreck of the Federal express was re ceived In Washington with more than common interest, not only because of the Washington residents included among, the victims, but because ,, of President Taft'a using this train" many times during the year. On his various trips to Beverly, to New Haven,- and other .' points in the East the : Presi dent's car was generally attached to the Federal express, leaving here at 5:35 p. m. and circling Manhattan Island by ferry. The President has not been in or near an accident dur ing his many trips throughout the country and heretofore it has not been thought necessary that theunqsual precautions should be taken on double track roads of the Eastern and Cen tral West when he travelled.. The wreck of the Federal express,' how ever, caused ,a distinct t shock ' at the White House and it is likely that when the President next goes to Boston or Beverly a pilot engine will pre cede the train, to which his car is attached. Such 'a request wfll undoubt edly be made by White House officials to safeguard the life of the President, where open switches or-defective rails threaten peril. TO ADDRESS Atlantic City, July 11. Nine section al meetings were ' held -here today in conjunction with' the Christian Endeav or convention, the most interesting ii many ways being the esperanto confer ence. Tonight former Vice President Fairbanks addresses the convention on the topic "How. Foreign Missions Pro mote Fellowship." . ' r ) . Stocks Today. -New York, July 11 Wall Street stocks "featured the stock market, to day.' Trading was dull,' but; the 'mar ket was firm. Prices - of stocks ruled somewhat higher during the morning, following yesterday's .publication of the crop report. Traders took a more cheerful view of the crop report than gained from the first impressions of yester day, laying especial stress on the in creased corn acreage. The grain car rying railroads are among the strong est in the list. Some wide fluctua tions in specialties'were due partly to resumption of pool operations. Bonds were generally firm. There was con siderable selling of American Tobacco fours, which dropped one and one half. Business was scanty and purchases at high level, early atternoon prices showing the most of the principal rail road itccks ruling in the neighborhood of a point above yesterday's closing. "Courage of Sorts'.' ' A most wonderful Vitagraph picture at the Grand today. Paris, July 11, The French and Ger man governments are dangerously near an open breach regarding the situation In Morocco. France is ; indignant at Germany's attempt to jsecure territory in the north African country. She claims that' no ' other nations but France and Spain have rights , to roccan territory. President Fallieres of France and Emperor William have authorized diplomatic- representatives to confer with ' Spanish and ' British agents In regard to the disposal" of the disputed territory. - Frequent outbursts aealnst " Germany's tactics are , heard throughout Parfs. PReat Demr 15 Condition the More Favorable Jn the Cotton Growing Sections Weekly ; Weather Bulletin, of Government ' Makes Interesting Showing Nine Mord Deaths in Philadelphia. Washington, D. C, July 11. Continu ed high temperatures, causing hund reds of deaths and much suffering to human and animal life, together with a further general deficiency in precipitation,- marked the weather of the week over most of the districts east of the Rocky Mountains, says the National Weather weekly bulletin of the Weath er Bureau.- In the corn growing States past , of the -Mississippi high tempera ture continued. There was a general lack of sufficient rainfall and the drought continued in many portions of those States. : Over the-Atlantic, Coast States, from Virginia Northward, the week was hot and mostly dry. Vegeta tion is suffering in nearly all., locali ties. In the cotton growing States the weather conditions are more favora ble. The temperatures are moderate. Good rains occurred in many portions. It continues dry, however, over most of North Carolina, and portions of Tex as are still dry. More rain is needed !n Oklahoma and Tennessee. With the Government's forecasters clinging to their oft repeated predic tion, "Cooler tomorrow," the hot weath er continues to prevail throughout the New England and Middle Atlantic States.. ' Local thunder showers over the section east of the Mississippi river were to hav brought the temperature down yesterday and today, according to the' bureaus. The showers came, Jt is said, but. the mercury didn't mind them. Today the bureau insists there will be appreciable moderation tomor row and' the hot wave will be effectu- iBir5iitir'Cl!ooB and other New England points were the hottest places in the United States this morning, at 8 o'clock the thermome ters registering 86 degrees. Atlantic City, and Philadelphia are well up on the list with 84 degrees. Washington and New York began with 82 degrees and promise for a1 rise high into the nineties. Nine More Die in Philadelphia. Philadelphia, July 11. Philadelphia is sweltering again from excessive heat. Up to 10 o'clock nine deaths from prostration were reported. Since the hot wave set in one hundred and forty two deaths have occurred from the heat. The official thermometer re corded ninety degrees. Teaches Girls to Shoot. Trenton, July 11. Girls of the Broad Street Park Methodist Episcopal Church are to be taught the use of fire-" arms. Under the direction of their pastor, the Rev. William Stone, the girls have organized the Girl Rangers Club. They are to be trained in artij lery and will also devote themselves to athletic sports. The object is to get them to exercise in the open air. SHRtNERS FROM ALL PARTS GATHER IN ROCHESTER Rochester, N. Y., July 11. With Shriners present from all parts of the country, Canada, Hawaiian Islands, and the Philippines, the thirty seventh annual session of the Imperial Coun cil, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, assembled here today. Imperial Potentate Fred A. Hinesof Los Angeles, called the con vention to order. GIVE EMPLOYES A DANCE. Stamford, Conn., July 11. Mrs. Frank Danforth, the daughter of the late J. Joseph Alexander, has just re ceived a million and a half dollars from her father's estate, having reach ed her twenty-first year. msteaa pi a pig anair ipr her so ciety friends she gave a barn dance for the employes of her mother's es- iaie. jvir. ana Mrs. uaniortn and a party of house guests, including Miss Cornelia Hoyt, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Willard and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cur tis, of New York, attended. STRONGLY GUARDED T0 PREVENT LYNCHING Elkms, W. Va., July 11. A heavy guard has been placed around the Par sons, W. Va., jail to protect Floyd Hel mick from lynching. Ilelntick, it is alleged, committed a .vicious assault yesterday upon the eleven year old daughter, of his employer, John Corbin, fatally injured her young brother and then escaped. Following a sqnsationai chase.-,- Helmick was captured twenty miles from here. -, Lynching was nar rpwly averted. - a ft? fi.JU..ti Havana, July 11. Work n the wreck of the battleship Maine is progress ing' rapidly, and General Bixby, the, officer in charge 'f the operations for raising her, left for New York, stating that the work will be completed in about three weeks if nothing unforseen takes place. General Bixby is at the same time of the opinion that it will b e impossible evep to determine accu rately whether the original explosion, which was responsible for the sinking of the Maine, came, from the outside or whether it took place in one of the powder magazines in the ship's hull. Meanwhile the engineers are dairy bringing rusted and,corroded fragments to the surface which are being ship ped to the Utifted ,States, where they will find a final resting place in the various cities, either, as relics or as decorations on the graves of sailors and soldiers. The water , in the great caisson inclosing the Maine has been low ared fifteen feet. ! y - Young Women Who Shot Millionaire Stokes Are Held for the Grand Jury Bond Fixed at Five Thousand Dol lars. '. New York, July 11. Ethel Conrad and Lillian Graham, the young wo men who June 6th shot W. E. D. Stokes, the millionaire hotel man, in their apartment, were today held in five thousand dollars bail for the grand jury, on a Charge of felonious assault. LARGE SHIPYARD WAS ' BORNEO UP TODAY Vancouver, B.' C, July 11. Wal lace's shipyard, one of the largest industries in North Vancouver, was today destroyed by fire. The loss is heavy. It is reported that several boats on the .ways were burned. "OLOGIES AND ISMS" Prof. Morgan Discusses 'Live Subject Before Educators. San Francisco, July 11. "Ologies and Isms" in connection with courses in science were condemned at a depart ment meeting of the National Educa tion Association today by Professor W. C. Morgan, University of Califor nia, who said: "The most important contribution which science has to make toward the education of the people should be offered in the first year, the funda mental ideas affecting the life and welfare of mankind, whether they come from one science or from-many. This means a general science course, treating those things which cpme with in the general experience of the class. It should teach things, not ,'ologies' or 'isms.' It should never be a series of 'six weeks courses' in half a dozen different sciences, but rather some thing like the old natural physiology." DEMOCRACY'S HOPE. Washington, July 11. Former Judge Alton B. Parker, of New York, who has been here, in consultation with Samuel Qompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, aboil t the contempt proceedings against the Federation officials, conferred at the Capitol today with many Democratic leaders in both houses of Congress. There" were numerous . exchanges , of views over the political situation. 'A fairly general expression of hope was voiced from the ;. Democratic stand point. ; J W. GATES IN CRITICAL Paris, July 11. The , condition - of John" W." Gates, the , American finan cier, is worse. His physicians said to day the patient is in. a critical state. CONDITION .V.V.W.V,,.. . 'jtuW.MVAV.UV.'.'i'.U f. v .-.: :--'..v.,.v-v.?i-.-.'.vAs .-T-".-:".-.-..-,s'.N".--:-:-::'i.'i-.-.,v.v.." For Passage of the Canadian Reciproc ity Bill in the Senate Simmons and Others Going Home Until Time for ' Final Vote Statehood Question Up . Today. Washington, July 11. The Canadian reciprocity bill and the Arizona-New Mexico Statehood question divided at tention in the Senate today. Senator Sutherland, of Utah, attacked the judi ciary recall provision of the Arizona constitution. Chairman Penrose, of the Finance Committee, in charge ofrthe reciprocity measure, brought the bill before the Senate for discussion. ' Re jection of the Cummins and Simmons amendments to the bill cleared . the way materially for early action on the tariff legislation before Congress. Sim mons I is going home to remain until the final vote and other Senators will follow the same course. Passage of the bill is assured. Fresh from a conferencewith Presi dent Taft, Chairman Smith, of the Sen ate Territories Committee, gave no tice of an amendment to eliminatethe judiciary recall provision in the . Ari zona constitution and said if the reso lution is adopted, as it passed . the House, it would be vetoed. -The House is not in session todays ALLIANCE WITH JAPAN, '; MUST BE REVISED Tokio, July J L. Revision f tho An glo-Japanesealliance is regarded as the inevitable outcome of the Anglo-Amr ican arbitration treaty. Negotiations for revision have been in progress for several weeks. . Much Cotton Destroyed. St. Petersburg, July 11. Fire broke out among cotton bales, in the port section today, with five hundred thou sand dollars damage. Forty firms shar ed the loss. WIN CASE AGIST Washington, July 11. Eight compa nies, operating , tanneries in different parts of the South, won the contest against the Southern RailwrCompa- ny and other North and South carriers, when the Inter-state Commerce Com mission today held that the; recent; ad vance of two dents a hundred Pounds on products of Southern tanneries,-to Northern and Eastern markets was nn reasonable. The defendant lines : wii be required to restore the former rates Leave is" granted the tanneries , to file complaints for reparation upon- the basis of the old. rates, the' broad -inti mation of the opinion; being that such reparation would, be granted.- Subscribe" to The Evening Dispatch -Wit 111 tmtuiilii ill Stf rs and Giants of jthe Athletic Arena Meet in London to Contest for Col jege Honors United States Will Not Be as Well Represented as It Could Have Been The Different Events and tjhe Contestants. ' Vv-':. ' ENGLAND WINS. Queen's Club. Enc.. Julv 11. With America and England tied at four victories each. Phil- lin John Baker of KinVs Rol- 4 .. lege, turned the scales fdr the 4 home team by Winning the one mile run. It was the most ex- . citing international university contest yet witnessed. The staying power of the English- "fr men at lone runnine featured. 4 The only running event capture 4 ed by the Americans was the 4 (half mile won by B. M. Preble, of Harvard. Baker won the de- 4 ciding event by five yards amid great enthusiasm. ,. 4 London, England, July 11. For. the fourth time "since the proposi tion to match the boasted prowess of the American college athlete with that of the English university men was lrst mutually accepted twelve years ago, the merger forces of Harvard and Yale will meet a CambridgeOxford combination todaV in Londan: In the last two of the three Similar contests the Englishmen have been beaten easily by a tetal of 12. points to 6, and . in the first meet,- Iff '189$ they barely won by the margin of one 0?pmtsifwitfts It was the Englishmen who renewed the idea of a meeting this year. Har vard and Yale promptly accepted, and on June 24th last eighteen sprinters, runners, jumpers and weight throw ers the pick of the track -teams of the two universities embarked at New York for another invasion of England, confident that nothing less than-an upset by sea-sickness, climat ic change or accident could .prevent the annexation of another internation al event. Late reports from New Brighton, the seaside resort near Lon don, where the invaders have had ten days' training, have indicated no such ill-luck to blight the assurance of con quest. There has been and is at home, how ever, among close observers of the situation, less confidence in the team; ' If it were not, in fact, true that the challenge from England came a full two weeks before the recent intercol legiate games at Harvard, it might have been a popular suspicion among American observers that the English men had taken note and advantage of the weakness of the Harvard-Yale' forces this year. Yale was a poor sec ond to Cornell in the intercollegiates, and Harvard a bad seventh. It is" plain from this showing that the blend of Crimson and Blue can by no means be regarded as representative of cham pionship collors among American col leges, and the fact is further impress ed by noting that two of the eighteen competitors Who have gone to Eng land won a first place, in the intercol legiates. The two are Chisholm and Holden of Yale, who won the 120 yards high hurdles and the running broad jump, respectively. , Whatever discounting of the chances of Harvard-Yale v success in England may be involved in the lack of cham poinship colors among American col set, however, by the interesting com parison of the records of the American "contestants with their Cambridge and Oxonian opponents. The comparison is decidedly favorable to Yankee success. As in the former contests, nine events are on the program, and in. all but two the Harvard-Yale men boast of better past performances than 'are reported from the Oxford-Cambridge camps this year. ' . Of -first importance is the personnel of the invading team. 4 It is made up of ten. Harvard men and eight Yale athletes, most-of whom are of ' the - senior classes graduated last month. Only one, Damon Howard, of Harvard, -who is entered in the hammer throw, is a freshman. Geo graphically, the men represent seven states, with the . majority claiming Massachusetts as their home. . Captain Reginald C. Foster, of Yale, acompanies his teammates, but he has been -! out of athletic commission for some time past because of a break down. Others in the party are Richard C Flloyd, : the Harvard manager, who is in general charge of the invading forces, 'Lester P. Soul e, the Yale man RErer. and Trainers "Johnnie" Mack and "Pooch" Donovan, of Yale and Harvard, respectively.-. ' ,V J In all three previous contests the Englishmen have "consistently won the running events the - half -mile, , mile (Continued on Third Page.). icers Event Today Spirited Contest Over Three Offices, -But Result Will Not Be Known, Be fore Tonight Portland, Oregon Gets ' " the Next Convention Monster Par ade Takes Place Thursday. Atlantic City,' July 11. Two ses--sions of the Grand Lodge, Benevolent " and Protective Order , of Elks, were f held today. : The' principal business transacted was the election of officers, ; with a spirited contest on for the three principal office, Grand Exalted Ruler, Grand Treasurer and Grand Secretary. The candidates for the first office were Colonel John P. Sullivan, of New Or- . leans; Charles A. Rasbury, of Dallas, Texas; and A." CM or eland, New York, editor of the Elks' Antler, known as the "Blind Elk." i Geo. B. Locke, of Rogers, Ark, was a candidate for Grand Treasurer against Edward Leach, of New York, the present incumbent. David McAaron opposed Fred C. Rob inson, of Dubuque, Iowa, the incum bent, for Grand Secretary. The re sult of . the balloting will ' not be an nounced until tonight. While the delegates to 'the twenty fifth annual meeting of the lodge dis cussed various problems, thousands of their brother Elks bathed in the Ocean or took in the attractions of the re sort. . The parade" is -the order, for Thursday. -It ; is expected that 50,000 Elks will be in line. .The next meeting of the Grand Lodge of Elks will be held at Portland,' Oregon. ' Portland had no opposition.' , ? ' . 0 W : IJACU1IICT0M TQID JUllllllVtUlllll. Baltimore, July 11. Harry N. At wood . and Charles K. Hamilton, the aviators who alighted in an aeroplane here yesterday morning, after a spec tacular air journey from Atlantic City,, resumed the last lap of the record breaking overland journey from Bos ton to Washington shortly after dawn this morning, at 3:45 o'clock. The aeroplane moved at a height of about two hundred feet and arrived at Col lege Park, a few miles outside of Wash ington, at 5:45 o'clock- HOKE SMITH IS ASSURED SENATOR!! P Atlanta, Ga., July ll.--Governor Hoke Smith's election .as United States Senator, to succeed Joseph M. Terrell, was assured by separate ballots taken in the Georgia House and Senate at noon today. He received more than the 115 yptes necessary to elect by joint session, which meets tomorrow. Constantinople, Jly 11.-W. W.. ' Rockhill, the ew'. ambassador to Tur-; key, has begun his official duties and has been well received by the admin-, istration, authorities here. - Mr.- Rock hill has , spent almost thirty years la the diplomatic service and is one of the leading authorities on Chinese affairs. He explored Tibet' ixt 1 SS7.w He was ; seizing as ambassador to Russia when ' appointed.' to the position in Turkey ( ( ' . V I Y f ? 'v "V 1 f wM V4 m-lr 5 si; .- 1 IV, V. & 1,! iv- F; Mi 4 . V. 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