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INDIANAPOLIS, SATUHDAY MOUSING, DECEMBER 5, 1891.
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Henrj Gatrell Found After Beinc Lost to His
Family for Fifteen Years.
Special to the Indianapolia Journal
Muncie, Ind., Dec. 4. Misa Nellie Gat
rell, a compositor in the Muncie Times of
fice, went to Cincinnati this morning
to meet and accompany her long lost father
to his home in this city. Sixteen years ago
Henry Gatrell, a printer, left his wife and
three little daughters here and nothing
more was heard of him. It was supposed
hy the family, with the exception of Nellie,
that Mr. Gatrell was dead. The daughters
have grown to womanhood, the oldest hav
ing died, leaving Miss Nellie and her
.younger sister Mea to support the mother.
Miss Nellie has quietly been sending
letters addressed to her father to newspa
pers in all parts of tho country, with a per
severance of hope that only a woman can
entertain. A week since a letter addressed
in care of the Boston I'ost reached the de
sired person, and he at once answered it
and prepared to return to his family. To
morrow the wifo and other daughter wili
greet the long lost husband and father.
FELL L LOVE WITH A NEGRO.
Divorced Wife, Who Va Infatuated with &
Black, Steals Her Two Children.
Special to the Indlanapo.is Journal.
Evaxsville. Ind., Dec. 4. Mrs. Theresa
Martin arrived herefrom Louisville yester
day, and, after hiring a hack and driver,
drove tothoIndependenceschooMiouse. She
waited till the scholars were dismissed and
then kidnaped her two children, a boy and
girl, and drove to Kavensted, eighteen
miles up the Air-line, where she caught the
evening train and went to Louisville. The
father learned of the abduction last night
too late to stop the woman, lie left to-day
for Louisville. Martin and his wifo were
divorced three years ago, because of the
woman's infatuation for a neuro named
Nelson, with whom she is now living.
Martin is connected with a big saw-mill
here and is well thought of. Mrs. Martin
w as noted for her beauty.
r.uru, the Famous Knee-Horse, Iend.
Philadelphia. Dec. 4. At A. J. Cassat's
Chesterbrook farm, yesterday afternoon,
tho once well-known race-horse Kurus died.
He was eight years old. having been foaled
in and was by Eolus. out of Majestic.
Kurns wna a sterling good horse, and re
mained on the turf until six years old.
borne idea of the amount of work be ac
complished may be gathered from the fact
that be took part in thirty.four races dur
ing his live-vear-old career. Among his
victories in Iba were the University handi
cap at Coney island. Fourth of July;
Hhrowaburj and K a her ay handicaps, at
Monmouth Park, beating Firenzi iu the
hhrewsbury. In the New York handicap
at Coney island, he defeated Exile and
Terra Cotta,
WHEN
CAJBIjNETS
TERRIBLE DEED OF A MADMAN
Attempt to Kill Russell Sago Because
He Refused a Lunatic 81,250,000.
Dynamite Bomb Exploded in the Office of the
ilillionaire Broker and the Entire Sec
ond Floor of the Building Wrecked.
Only the Dead and Portions of tho Limbs
Left to Identify the Crank's Body.
Benjamin F. Morton, & Clerk, Blown Through
a Window and Injured So Severely that
He Died Sooii After at a Hospital.
Another Clerk and the Cashier Mangled
So that Recovery Is Improbable.
Three Other Persons Less Seriously Injured hy
the Fljing Glass and Tieces of Furniture
That Filled the Air After the Explosion.
Marvelous Escapo of Russell Sage with
Only a Few Cuts and Bruises.
Leg of a Woman Found, hut No Owner The
Perpetrator Sur posed to Be Hiram D. Wilson,
Lately an Inmate of an Insane Asylum.
AWFUL DEED OF A CRANK.
Uurlod a lloinb at Millionaire Russell Sage
Decanse lie Was Refused 81,250,000.
New York, Dee. 4. Russell Sage, the
millionoiro broker, had a marvolons escape
from death to-day, his ofiice and the en
tire Empire building, in which it was, be
ing shaken to its very foundation by the
explosion of a dynamite bomb, hurled by a
crank who made a demand upon Mr. Sage
for the immediate payment of $1,250,000, the
ultimatum being in caso of refusal the
death of the millionaire, the crank him
self and those employed in the ofllce.
Never in the history of the metropolis is it
probable that an event has occurred that
for the time' caused more excitement in
Wall street and lower Broadway. Fully
fifty thousand people were drawn to the
scene of the explosion, and for an hour the
police were powerless to bring order out ot
the chaos.
The offices of Russell Sage were on the
second lloorpf the building. Nos. C9, 71 and
1Z Ilroadway, situated oa.ktho southwest
corner of Rector street overlooking the
Trinity church-yard and a stone's throw
from Wall street. It was just twenty-two
minutes past 12 o'clock when the explosion
came with a force that was absolutely
startling, completely wrecking the second
floor of the building, throwing pedestrians
on the street to the ground and startling
people for blocks around. Those who were
close at hand saw a man blown throngh
one of the windows of Mr. Sage's office into
Rector street. A few minutes later Mr.
Sage himself, with blood streaming from
his faco and hands, was helped out into tho
street and taken to O'Connell's drug store,
just below Wall street on Broadway.
There also was carried the man blown
from the window. Within ten minutes
after tho explosion Dr. W. P. Munn, the
physician of Jay Gould, was at tho side of
Mr. Sage and personally attended to his
injuries, which proved to bo Lot of a serious
nature. Tho bair and eye-brows of tho
millionairo were burnt, and his face and
hands cut by 6mall particles of glass and
plaster, the result of the explosion.
MR. SACK'S STATEMENT.
Mr. Sage, though suffering from shock,
made the following statement while his
wounds were being dressed: "A man who
gave his name as II. D. Wilson came to my
ofiice just now. I had never seen him be
fore. He had a carpotbag in his hand, and
said: 'If you will not givo me 1,20,000 I
will blow you all to pieces.'
"I know nothing further, except hearing
a great explosion, falling on tho floor, and
regaining consciousness hero. The man
lying on the floor of the drug store is, I be
lieve, the same one who asked me for the
monej'." When Mr. Sage's wounds were
dressed, ho was tikeu in a cab to his home.
Outside on the street everything was con.
fusion, men lost their heads, and rumors of
the wildest kind filled the air. Twenty
were said to have been killed and injured,
and from the building firemen led or car
ried the dead and injured. Ambulances
were summoned from three hospitals, and
soon the streets around were solidly rilled
with a struggling nmsa of persons, all
cagar to get to tho scene of the disaster.
When the police arrived in force the
building was quickly cleared of all per
sons, and a search made in the wrecked
offices. Just inside of the door of the gen
eral otli co was found tho trunk of a mau iu
a state that rendered recognition nearly
impossible, the bead having been severed
from the body. Tho head had a pointed,
reddish beard, and the appearance was that
of an educated man, which was enhanced
by the brown curls of the hair and the
heavy moustache that adorned the upper
lip of the dead one. When the body was
taken up it was found to havo boentorn into
shreds by the explosion.
The interior of the offices plainly showed
that the force of tho explosion was some
thing terifio. All the partition walls were
blown down, and the sashes and window
frames forced outward. The ceiling had
been blown down, and tho floor forced
downward, rendering it unsafe to walk
upon. Desks and chairs were overturned
and hurled into an indescribable mass, and
every piece of glass in the big air-shaft
that ran to tte root was shivered into thou
sands of particles. A search quickly
showed that tbo body of the man with tho
pointed beard was the culy one among the
debris.
THE DEAL AND INJURED,
In the meantime the crowds in he street
grew larger, tho elevated trains from up
town bringing thousands to the scene, all
Impelled by curiosity. For an hour con
fusion reigned. Then tho police found
their beads and something like a correct
list of the killed anil injured was had. But
one person had been killed outright, the
man with the pointed beard. He is sup
posed to bo II. D. Wilson, the man that
made the demand for money from Mr.
Sage, and the one who threw the bomb.
The other fatality was:
BENJAMIN F. MOTtTOX, who was blown
through the window, l clerk In the ollice of Mr.
Sage; was removed to Chambers-street Hospital,
where he died at 1 p. m., whilo under operation
for fracture of the skull.
The deceased was a resident of Far Rock
away, L. I.
The following injured were taken to the
hospital:
FRANK ROBERTSON, tweny years old, living
at Bergen l'oiut, and employed as a 'clerk for
Imhre fc Co., brokers.. He vaa in face's ollico at
the time of the explosion. His skull was fract
ured and he will proinMr die.
ClIAltLl-: W. u-IJ0itNi;, Russell Saco's cash
ier. No. lMtJ HerKley place, Brooklyn; fractured
ekulJ; w ill probably die.
SAMUEL J. CALIsOUX, clerk, of No. 1C3
Deane street, Brooklyn; lacerated wounds on
head. -
WILLIAM IL LAIDLOW, who was in tho
building at tho time, received a fractuwof the
vg. lie was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital.
COL. J. J. e LOCUM, a brother-in-law of Mr.
Baue, and his chief clerk; badly cut about tile
Lead and face.
, When Colonel Slocum'a wounds were
dressed he returned to the scene, declaring
he had left the doo? of the safe open and
was fearful that tbe securities in it had
been blown out and lost Quickly gather
ing together what ho found ho placed them
in a small safe and had it removed to the
office of tho Manhattan Railway Company,
in the same building.
Lato in the afternoon the firemen found
among the debris a jleg which was thought
to be that of a w Jinan. Whether it is or
not has not been discovered. Mr. if ace
never employed a woman type-writer, and
as this fact is well established the suppo
sition is that if tho leg is that of a woman
it is all that is left of one of his "put and
calls'' customers, who was in the ollico at
the time. i
REMNANTS CF THE MADMAN.
The coroner made an examination of the
mangled remains of tho man found in Mr.
Sage's office, and from the mangled mass of
flesh and clothing took a seven-chamber
"bull-dog" revolver. This was all that
could be found by which an identification
could bo made. , What was loft by the ex
plosion of the madman's body, at least it
was so labeled and accepted by police and
corcner, was laid out iu undertaker Dnfl's
oftice at No. 62 Greenwich street. It was
not much. The head was there, blackened,
but neither cut nor disligured m any way.
It was Cut oft at the top of tho neck, and
looked for all the world liko the
mask of a man thirty-live or forty
years old, with a lull heard, that
might have been long, but was now
bnrued close to chiu and cheek. Then
there was a legthe right the left foot,
one hand, and that w.is all. The body
proper was gone; of neither chest nor ab
domen was a trace fonnd. The leg that
was there was broken and twisted. uch
shreds of clothing as were found showed
the man had worn trousers of a blue-black
plaid, a black oT7icoat and long, black
stockings. That might have started the
story that a woman's leg was found, lie
had been careful to rid himself of every
thing that might disclose bis identity. His
name had been written in the corner of his
black hat. but he had cut it out with a
knife. There was a holein the lining where
it had been. Crowds came and went, look
ing at the face, but no one knew it. When
darkness fell the undertaker, tired of tho
sight, threw a cloth over it and shut his
door.
Russell Sago saw the head of H. D. Wil
eou and identified it as belonging to tho
man who had como to his ofiice and de
manded tho money. Inspector Byrnes took
the ghastly, gory head in a basket to Mr.
Safe's house, and together with Dr. Munn,
carried it to Mr. Cage's bedroom on the
second floor. The instant the magnate,
who was lving In bed, saw the countenance
be said: "That's the head of the mas."
The identitication was complete. In
spector Byrnes sent tho head to the morgue.
"There is something peculiar," said In
spector Byrnes, "in relation to the dead
man's eyes. Dr. Munn, in order to keep, as
much as possible, the horrible sight of the
ragged, bloody neck of the head from Mr.
Safe's sight, wrapped a piece of cloth
about the ghastly part. This took
the place of a collar, and made the
unpleasant interview with Mr. ISage less
sickening. Now these eyes were just as
perfect in appearance as if tho man were
actuallv alive and kicking. His head was
covered with thick, busby hair, dark
brown, and looked as if the owner had
been in the habit of combing it up
in a pompadour. Tho head, strange to
say. was not defaced in the least.
It looks as if something had caught the
man just below the chin and nipped his
body oil' tLe bead. The latter was lay
ing on tbo threshold of the hall
leading to Mr. Sage's privato ottice,
in which were a number of cases
full of pigeon-holes. When I got to the
scene some men were scooping up the rem
nants of the maniac's body in dust-pans.
It was a nausealing, repulsive sight. The
bead was then turned over to tho coroner.
Not far from where tbo body was discov
ered was found the revolver and the handle
of another. The lirst was not damaged."
WHAT EYE-WITNESSES SAY.
A Railroad Man Rlown to the Celling
Statements of Mr. Sage and a Clerk.
Mr. Charles James, a railroad man and a
resident of Chattanooga, Tenn., had an ap
pointment with Mr. Sage at 12 o'clock and
had an experience that he will not soon for
get. He says: "I called at Mr. Sage's of
iice at 12 o'clock and found him out. A
seat was offered me in the main ollice near
a desk. I took it and waited Mr. Sage's
return. Sitting on a bench near tho wall,
I noticed a man perhaps five feet eight
inches in height. He wore a plug hat and
had a pointed beard and heavy brown
mustache. At about fifteen minutes past
12 o'clock Mr. Sage came in and. greeting
me, asked me into his private office. Mr.
Sago had just removed his hat and asked
me to be seated when one of his clerks en
tered and said something to him that 1 did
not bear. Turning to me bo said: 'Excuse
me for a moment,' and passed through tho
door into tho main otfice. The door closed
behind him and I, pushing my chair over
to the wall, sat facing the door through
which Mr. Sage bad gone.
"It ruuht havo been two or three min
utes when the explosion came. I was blown
up nearly to tbo ceiling and the chair on
which I sat smashed into pieces. I came
down all in a heap. Dust and small parti
cles of plaster and smoke filled the room.
I was completely dazed, and did not know
what to do. 1 remember making my way
through the passage from which the explo
sion bad blown the doer, into the main of
tice. There I met Mr. Sage, blood trickling
down bis face and hands, his clothes torn
and rent, and covered with dirt and dust.
When he saw me he said: 'How shall we
get out!' N
" Wait,' I replied, 'until this dust settles,
and I think we will be all right, as the
worst must be over.' Then I recovered my
senses, and. takingfcitn by the arm. led him
down the stairway iuto the street"
Among the debris in the wrecked ofllce
was found the remains ot a ellk hat, evi-
dently worn by the man who gave his name
as Wilson, and in one corner of Mr. Sage's
private ollice, where Mr. James was sitting
alone at the time of the explosion, a man's
hand.
Mr. Washington E. Conner was in his
ofiice, on the Broadway froat of the build
ing, and on the same floor with Mr. Sage,
when the explosion came. Mr. Conner was
out of the building among the first, and
assisted Mr. Sage to the drug store. Within
half an hour afterward he had opened a
i new ollice. just across Broadway, and was
transacting business all day. As Mr. Sage
was being led through the lower hall of the
building, into the street, he said: "It is a
dynamite explosion, and they meant it for
ns this time."'
MR. SAOE'S SECOND STATEMENT.
Rnssell Sago made the following state
ment to Inspector Byrnes this evening:
"I came out of my ofiice, having been sent
for. I found there was a man with a
satchel. He handed me a card bearing the
name of If. P. Wilson. He said he came
from John D. Rockefeller, and at tho same
time handed mo a typewritten letter in a
scaled envelope. It was addressed to me.
I opened it and found that it was a demand
upou me for tho payment of a million and a
quarter dollars. Tho letter 6tated that if
the money was not given up at once to the
presenter of tho letter that he would blow
me, himself and the entire ollice up with
dynamite. 1 read the letter, and, placing
it in the envelope, handed it back to him,
and turned to go into my private ollico
when the explosion occurred."
Coroner Messemer weut to ttoe Chambers
street Hospital and took the ante-mortem
statement of Frank Robertson, nineteen
years old, an employe of W. M. Imbre fc
Co., stock-brokers, at No. 5f Broadway. Ho
said: "About 12:30 o'clock I went over to
Mr. Rnssell Sage's otbee. No. 71 Broadway,
with a check to get one hundred shares of
Burlington Xs Quiucy stock. 1 saw a man
talking very attentively to Mr. Sage. The
latter seemed to shun him. The man pulled
out what looked like a pistol. It all glit
tered, and ho put it in his right-hand over
coat pocket. I knew nothing more until I
called murder. 1 heard an explosion, and
everybody yelled murder. The explosion
took place a second after I saw him put
the glittering object in his pocket. The
man had a high silk hat, light brown side
whiskers, was about thirty-eight years old.
wore a black overcoat, and was well
dressed. He was alone, and had a 6quaro
satchel."
The story of tho plot on Mr. Sage's life
goes far back. Russell Sage, jr., talked
freely about it. He said that of late Mr.
Sage had received three or four threatening
letters, signed by one James Walsh. Iuoneof
them the writer demanded Sl.OO.GOO. Why
that sum Mr. Sage could not say. There
cent troubles between President Andrews,
of the New York Steam Heating Company,
and the Standard Gas-light Company now
came into play in the case. A large part of
the stock in dispute belonged to tho widows
Sninola and Manheiui. These women,
W alsh said in his letters, he was about to
marry. lie therefore demanded money to
put him on their financial level. Mr. Sage
paid no attention to him. Mr. Jay Gould
was also attacked in tho letters and de
nounced in abnsive terms. The writer
threatened Mr. Sage's life, but no attention
was paid to it, as all who knew about the
letters believed hira to be a 'harmless
crank," to quote Rnssell Sage, jr.'a own
words.. The result is known, and Mr. Sago
has been made an object of the dynamite
fiend.
WHO THE CRANK IS.
Supposed to He Hiram D. Wilson, an Es
caped Lunatic Not His First OlTense.
Albany. N. Y.,Dcc. 4. The dynamite
crank is thought to be Hiram D. Wilson,
aged forty-rive, an escaped lunatic, and
native of Glens Falls, Warren county.
Wilson had previously escaped from the
Middletowu and Utica asylums. Ho was
a very strong man and of light complexion.
The lirst signs of insanity were developed
about fourteen years ago, when he kept
the Bolton House, on Lake George. Then
ho led horses into the hotel, and, mounting
a table, delivered an address to them. Of
late years ho has talked of making horses
go faster than any have gone and of patent
rights. At one time he took the shoes off a
horse's feet and put them on his own feet,
and then he led the horse over the mount
ainous country of the Adirondacks.
Wilson, after short terms in insane asy
lums, has been discharged as cured or has
escaped. He has generally celebrated his
freedom by threatening to kill someone
who refused to meet his demands tor mon
ey. Several years ago he attempted to kill
a man whom he had asked for money to set
him up in business. On another occasion,
when W. J. Arkell was in Albany, Wilson
made a demand on him. Upon being re
fused Wilson threatened to kill Mr. Arkell,
and even attempted to assault him in his
ollice. He has also threatened the life of
Goodwin Brown, one of the State lunacy
commissioners, it was the loss of money
that made Wilson crazy. He was arrested
hero about a year ago for threatening to
kill some one.
GIFTED T0CSG SCULPTOR.
Miss Alice Ridout, Still in Her "Teens," De
feats All Competitors for World's fair Work.
Chicago, Dec. 4. Miss Alice Ridont, of
San Francisco, was to-day awarded first
prizo in the competition of woman sculpt
ors for the finest designs of groups for the
attic, cornico and pediments for the
women's world's fair building. The re
ward carries with it the contract for the
execution of full-sized models of the
groups at a price from $1,500 to $2,500 for
each of the two smaller designs, and from
82,000 to $3,200 for the great forty-foot
panel. The finish of the models, as dic
tated by the chief burnam, will determine
the total cost of the work.
The successful competitor is not yet out
of her "teens." and is described as a petite
blonde, serious, dignified and quite pretty.
She has mado modeling and sculpture a
study from childhood, and has executed a
number of designs that gave promise of
more than ordinary ability. One of the
most successful of these was a bust of
President Harrison for the Union League
Club of San Francisco. Miss Ridout's
last success is the more remarkable in that
a number of older and moro-experienccd
sculptors were among her competitors, but
her designs were so far in advance of all
others, both in conception and treatment,
that tho committee which made the award
was unanimous in its decision. Tho three
groups represent, respectively, 'W'oman's
Virtues," "W'oman as tho Spirit of the
Civilization" and "Woman's Place in
History." The figures are live feet at the
base and the central ligures are ton feet
high.
CH1USTIAX Y0CXG WOMEN.
Rev. Dr. Bnchtel Delivers an Address Before
the Annual Convention of the Y. W. C. A.
Special to tho Indianapolis Journal.
Lafaykitk, Ind., Dec. 4. The seventh
annual convention of the Young Women's
Christian Association of Indiana convened
in the First Presbyterian Church chapel,
this city, this afternoon. There were pres
ent lifty-live young women, reoreseuting
fourteen Indiana colleges. The after
noon was largely devoted to devo
tional exercises and forming ac
quaintances. An address of welcome
was delivered by Prof. Stanley Coulter, of
Purdue University, the responso on behalf
of tho delegates being made by Mrs. E. E.
Stacey, of Indianapolis. Officers were
chosen as follows: President, Mrs. Flora
L. Laughlin, of Grecncastle; vice-president,
Mrs. Laura Arnold, of Chicago, and secre
tary. Miss Miriam Harrison, of Richmond.
Miss Elizabeth Wilson, the international
secretary, delivered an address on "The
Association Bible Classes." The appoint
ment of committees on resolutions and
exercises took up the remainder of the
afternoon. In the evening an address was
delivered by Rev, Henry Buchtel, D. D of
Indianapolis. He spoke on the subject of
greater activity among Christians and the
need of more organizations similar to that
of the Women's Christian Association.
The speaker said what was wanted was
not so much more Christians, but a better
brand of Christians. The numbers would
come afterward. The tide of population
was steadily from the country to the cities,
and, therefore, the great need of the forma
tion of Christian associations in every one
of the thirty-seven cities in Indiana of over
four thousand inhabitants. The sessions
will close Sunday night.
BROUGHT QUICKLY TO TIME.
Terre naute Street-Car Men Quit the Second
Time and Get 14 Cents an Hour.
Special to ths Indianapolis Journal.
Tf.rre Haute, Ind., Dec. 4. The street
car disputo was settled to-night by the
board of arbitration agreeing on 14 cents an
hour for both xnotormen and conductors.
Heretofore the motormen received 121
cents and the conductors 11 cents. The
company and the men each selected two
members of the board and the four agreed
to disagree, both as to wages and tho
choice of a fifth member. Thereupon the
employes, who had gono back to work pend
ing action by the board, again left the cars
this evening. Two hours later, when
Eugene Debs, who was then chosen as the
fifth member, voted with the two repre
sentatives of the employes for 14 cents, the
cars were put in motion. Debs is secretary
of the International Brotherhood of Fire
men. MAY BE ANOTHER LYNCHING
Evidenco That May Lead to the Discov
erjof theMnrdererofMrs.Neideirer,
Doctors Remove Two Bullets from the Body of
the Woman Mysteriously Shot Last March
Brotber-in-Law Under Suspicion.
Special to the Imlisna'polis JonrnaL
Mitchell, Ind., Deo. 4. The sheriff of
Lawrence county, Robert Day, was here
yesterday to see J. C. Pearson and Dr. J. L.
W. Yost, and have them, with others, go
to Bono, about nine miles east of
here, to make a post-mortem examina
tion of the body of Mrs. Solomon
Neideffer, who was foully and mysteriously
murdered on the 25th of last March, m her
bouse, a few miles from Bono. The matter
was kept quiet, so that no large crowd
would assemble at the placo where Mrs.
Neidefler was buried, but when the body
was taken from the grave to-day
quite a number of neighbors were
on tho grounds, deeply interested In the
result of the examination. The principal
purpose of this was to ascertain tho size of
the bullets which killed Mrs. NeidetTer.
One bullet was taken from the head
and one from the pericardium of
the heart, both of which were
thirty calibre. At the time of
the coroner's inquiry, last March, it was
thought that only one ball "had struck the
head, but it was found that, instead of the
ball going through the head, two had en
tered the skull.
About the middle of last October, Joseph
Fiuley. a brother-in-law of Mr. Neideffer,
was suspected as being the murderer,
and several things of recent occurrence
seemed lo substantiate the suspicion.
Fin ley lias a oO-cahbre revolver, which
is the only one known anywhere in the
vicinity, it is reported that he has been
eelling ofl his property with the intention
of moving away.
While the body of Mrs. Neideffer
was being examined at the gravo
a number of citizens were gathered in
groups, and when the result of the exami
nation was made known the earnest man
ner in which they conversed indicated that
there was a strong feeling of excitement,
which tmight easily result in a
mob in case tho evidenco should
point sufficiently certain to Fiuley
as the man who committed the deed.
Mrs. Neidetler was found dead at dusk on
March 25, by her husband. Solomon Neidef
fer, who had been away from home all day.
The murder has remained a deep mystery
ever since, though every effort was
made at the time to find the guilty
man. Although detectives have been
working on the case since that time, at tho
the court of inquiry held April 1 every man
of the country round about was examined
and compelled to give an ac
count of himself. However, no proof
could be obtained sufficient to convict.
All concerned are in good circumstances,
and have been considered good citizens.
No one can tell to-day what the result
will be. At a late hour this afternoon mob
violence was feared.
EXPLOSION AND FIRE.
Escaping Gas Starts a Blare in the Pennsyl
vania Railway Station at Jersey City. .
Jersey City, N. J., Dee. 4. An explo
sion of gas caused a disastrous tire at the
Jersey City terminus of the Pennsylvania
railroad this morning. The company re
cently completed the magnificent train
shed on the grade with the steel elevated
road constructed from the river to Bergen
hill, and wcro constructing new waiting
rooms and ferry-houses to correspond. The
old wooden office building that General
Superintendent F. W. Jackson occupied in
the forry-houso was turned into a tempo
rary exit for east-bound passengers when
the officials moved their desks into tho
live-story brick building fronting on Ex
change place. It was in this exit that tho
explosion occurred. The tearing down of
tho structure and the constant jarring
caused by the ferry-boats entering the
slips, about one hundred feet away, uro
supposed to bavo broken or disconnected a
gas pipe close to the main distributing
meter.
The explosion occurred at 3 o'clbck and
the surrounding wood-work was instantly
ablaze. On the interior portion of the depot
building the flames spread rapidly. The
flames from the old ollice building mounted
upward until the woodcnceilingand sidesof
the unlinished waiting room were ablaze.
The tire was then carried along a huge yel
low pine pipe casing to the new otlico
structure. This consisted of a solidly built
building of brick, 150x43 feet, and Ave
stories high. The second floor of the east
erly building was used as a baggage-room,
the others being merely bare walls. Night
baggage-master Regan and his assistants
succeeded in saving all the trunks. The
four floors above the baggage room and the
two buildings on the west were gutted.
From the office buildings the fire spread to
the train-sheds iu the rear and attacked
the .wooden interior ceiling. About one
hundred feet of the ceiling was destroyed.
A dozen lines of hose were brought into
play and at 5:30 o'clock tho liro was out.
The loss on the ollice building is estimated
at 15,000 and on the train shed and ferry
honse at $u,000. This is more than covered
bv insurance by the Pennsylvania Com
pany's floating policies. By 7 o'clock all
trains were arriving and departing as us
ual. Other Fires.
Aroyi.e. Minn.. Dee. 4. The principal
business block in Argyle was destroyed by
fire at 2:0 o'clock this morning. Tho less
was Sioo.ouo. insurance nnt.
Bi.aik, Neb., Dec 4. Eitrbt buildings
were destroyed by fire at 3 o'clock this
morning, causing a loss of $100,(00.
Running Race Winners.
At Gnttenberg. N. J. Stratagem. Tam
many Hall, Smuggler, Badge, Perlid and
Kingdom.
At Chica-o Ed Esbelby, Critic. Pilgrim,
Highland, Nantio and King Richard.
FOUR TRAINS COME TOGETHER
Extraordinary Series of Railway Collis
ions at Hast Thompsonf Conn.
Two Fassn?er Trains and Two Freights Pilcl
in a Heap, and Three Persons Killed
and Several Injure!
Terrible Accident at St. Paul, Where a
AYall Fell on Fifteen Workmen.
Nearly All Taken Oat Dead or So Mangled
that Their Injuries Will Prove Fatal
Several Crushed to Palp.,
Twelve Itaree3 Upset in tho lladsoa
River and Thirty People Drowned.
ixty at One Time in the Water, but Half Be
lieved to Have Been SavedMany
Buildins Wrecked Ij Storms.
IIEMAIIKAIILE ACCIDENT.
Four Trains Coma Together, Killing Three
Persons and Injuring fceveral More.
PliOVIDENCE, R. I., Dec. 4. A most ex
traordinary accident occurred at Eastt
Thompson, Conn., a station on the New
York & New England & Maine line, just
before 7 o'clock; this morning. Four trams,
two freights and two passengers, wero
piled up in indescribable confusion within
less than five minutes, and three lives lost,
whilo several persons were seriously in
jured, one of whom may die.
The passenger trains were the Norwich
boat train and the Long Island & Eastern
States express. The freight trains were the)
local Southbridge and the through east
bound Boston. Both the engineer and tiro
man of the Long Island express wero killed,
the engineer being decapitated. The other'
fatality was that of an unknown passen
ger, who was burned to death in one of the
Pullman cars.
East Thompson is merely a junction sta
tion for the Southbridge branch of the New
York & New England road. Thereis no vil
lage near, and but a few scattered houses
are iu Bight from the little station that
eerves as a waiting-room for Southbridge)
passengers, ticket and telegraph office. Tho
local Southbridge freight makes np hera
just before 7 o'clock every morning.
This morning it hauled out on tho
west-bound track about C:45. Just below
tho station there is a curve. This point,
on account of grade, is considered the fast
est stretch on tho road, and engineers
usually let out here in order to assist them
in climbing up the steep grade just be
yond. There was a heavy fog lying close
to tho ground. Tho local freight haa
como to a 6Uftlstill on the west
bound track, when there was a shriek
from a locomotive, and in another
instant there was a. crash and two engines
were mixed together, while a longpiloof
freight cars blocked both the west-bound
and the east-bouudr tracks. It was a special
freight, cast-bound for Boston, on the west
bound track, that had struck the local
freight.
The damage done thus far was compara
tively slight, but the men had scarcely
reached their feet, theu there was another
locomotive whistle and In an instant
another crash. This time it was the over
due Long Island express. The enairifc
otruck the wreckage on the track, bounded
in the air and fell over on its
side. A smoker, a passenger coach
and two Pullmans, besides the baggage
car, remained on the track. The engineer,
Harry Tabor, had evidently seen tho
wreck, but too lato. He had reversed tho
lever.bnt that was bis last act. for his head
less body was found beside the ruins of
his engine, and -that of his fireman, Jerry
Fitzgerald, lay near by.
STILL ANOTHER CRASH.
The boat train ordinarily gets ahead of4
the express, being due in Boston ten min
utes earlier. On account of both trains be
ing late, however, and as the express goes
through without a stop, the boat train
was held at Putnam several minutes to per
mit it to go by. There was no delay after
the express had. gone. When
tho express struck the wreck,
some one of the train hands snatched
a flag and ran up the track. The engineer
of the boat tram did not see the man until
within one hundred feet of the wreck.
(Juick aft thought he reversed his engine,
put on the air-brakes, and with the tirnoan
jumped for his life. The engine of the boat
tram went a quarter way through tho
Pullman, whilo tho, tender telescoped
the baggago car behind. There
were but lew passengers on either '
train, twelve on the express and about
twenty-live on the boat train. All of these
escaped except one. The Pullman Mid
land was the last car of the express. It
had four passengers. Three of them got out
uuickly after the shock, one escaping
through a window in his shirt
and drawers. The fourth man, it
is understood, started to go out.
bnt for some reason tcrned back. That
was the last seen of him. for a few sec
onds later the engine of the boat tram
crashed through the car. A piece of skull,
an arm hone and a gold watch was all that
was found in tho debris of the car.
Immediately after the collision flames
broko out from tho Midland, which was
about the center of the wreck of the four
trains. The Midland was entirely de
stroyed, as were several box cars with
their contents. The killed arc:
II AUKY TABOR, engineer of tho Long Uland
express.
Ji:i:itY FIT7 r.r.K A LI. Tabor's fireman.
AN UNKNOWN MAN who was in the sleeper
of tho train at the time of the accident At last
nccouuts tho body had not been taken out of tho
wreck.
The injured are: Engineer Wild of th .
iucht freight, 212, east bound; fireman
Boyce, also of the niuht freight both of
the latter are seriously injured; engineer
Hurley and lireman Louden, ot
the boat train: a man namea
Chandler, of Chestnut Hill. Boston; ex
press messenger Marshall, of the boat ex
press, shoulder injured; bacgagemaster
Chase, of the boat train. The four engines
are totally destroyed. Two of them were in
the center of the flames.
cursiini) UN I) Kit A WALL.
Fifteen Workmen Killed or Dangerously
Ifrurt by railing Itrtrka at St, I'aoL.
St. Paul, Minn.. Dec 4. Tho most hor
ri ble accident that ever occurred in St Paul
took place shortly after 1 o'clock'tbis after
noon, when the center wall of the Shepard
building, recently occupied by Harwell,
OsmuniV Kirk, and which was gutted by
liro a short time ago. fell in, burying the
workmen beneath tho ruins. There were
supposed to have been fifteen men beueath
the wall at the time it fell, and the ma
jority of theoi wero killed or received in
juries which will probably prove fataL
The majority of tho laen wero under tbt
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