V 1 E INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL :a tf 1 3 Prc-U-rri-s:. w ESTABLISHED 1823. INDIANAPOLIS, SATUHDAY MOUSING, DECEMBER 5, 1891. o r v VTC S OI trains axd O Lr. lOf fcUNDA VS. SCTA CE5' Clear weather, a'.Ljht change ia temperature. TO-DAY, UNTIL 10 You can secure, among our CASSIMERE AKD CHEVIOT SUITS In Men's or Youth's, . regardless of what they have been sell ing for, iit You can get everything that has been going, at $18, $20, $22, $24, $25, $2G and $28. This is the final day of our $1.55 SHORT-PANT SUIT SALE at r imnnrn JLJDUPj BP Wo handle the best made Clothing in Indiana. MURPHY, HIBBEN & 00. IMPOETEES, JOBBEES. DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, WOOLENS, ETC. (WHOLESALE EXCLUSIVELY. 1 fQT7 "CHADWICK'S" we VLUuil Machine Thread, in 10 DESK Regular assortment, Black and White, also special assort ment, including colors. These Cabinets are very handsomely gotten up, with lifting cover, ink-well, etc., and will be found of great utility. The 3?xice 31c per Dozen, net cash. Also, a few 25-dozen two-drawer for immediate delivery. Orders filled in rotation to extent of present stocks. Our special sale of PRINTS, and the drive offered in cleaning-up purchase Jos. Turner & Sons' DRESS GOODS, have been most successful. Will continue till closed. NOVELTIES IN HOLIDAY GOODS. Stocks complete in all departments. Lowest prices always a certainty. MURPHY, HIBBEN" & CO. WE SELL BOSTON IUJBBEU SHOE CO.'S SNAG- : PROOF : BOOTS TIIST AT KLGULAK TKADE DISCOUNT. "A PIT" TP T? (V rr - - - WHOLESALE - - -11L JLYJldl 06 yJ., BOOTS and SHOES INDTAXAPOLIS.- n :?-r0T CHRISTMAS SHOPPING mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Now is the time when everybody is consider ing what to buy. People living in Shelby ville, Muncie, Anderson, Greuncastle, and all the sur rounding towns, are influenced and guided in then purchases by the advertisements in the INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. lucago & il WJ. ROUTE. 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VewlUto-!ay tj9t cen,a UUl BlilJMi CCFA1Y 252 West Washington St k O'CLOCK TO- NG HT 15 ell-known G-cord 100-doz. six-drawer 95 Am, (JU.NE TO 3IEKT HER FAT1ICIL 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 XT