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4$ JB 11 AUTO Of nil kind urn unpj.licil Tf nn l O thnmeli the ONE CENT A VOltDcolnmnR nPlt' orTHEDIS PATCH. Sitaa "UnR tIon rnf. cured quickly. The "A diets LI CI P arc crowing In popularity. rlClara nUC AH classes ot Advertisers have Wilt an opportunity to utilize the clas sified columns P CUT r ME DIS PATCH. The UtH 1 small "Ads- are well read. They area good A lirnnn and sore Investment. " VfUriUa 1 t . 4. Bi$mtth FORTY-SIXTH TEAR PITTSBURG, ' SATURDAY, DEOEKBER 5, 1891-TWEL7VE PAGES. PICKED UP IN PIECES The Fate of the Lunatic Who Threw a Bomb at Rus sell Sage, Who Is OULY SLIGHTLY INJUEED. One Clerk Already Dead and Recovery of Another Be lieved to Be Impossible. the SEVERAL OTHERS WERE WOUNDED A Han Enown for 14 Tears to Be Danger ously Insane Demands $1,200,000 in Cold Cash, and Then CREATES A IHXIATUEE EARTHQUAKE, A Larjre Office Building Badly TYrecltd, With Mil. lions ef Dollars cf Securities Scattered Aronnd in the Debris. JAT COULD VISITS HIS FRIES!) A5D TALKS rFTICIAT, TELFGBAM TO TITE DISrATCTM J'ewYoek, Dec. 4. "When a madman fired npon Dr. John Hall last Sunday after noon it was predicted, with the certainty of repeated experience, that the crime would uk luuiaieu snoruy. inis atternoon an other madman attempted the life of Eussell Sage at the risk of destroying himself, de stroying the great office building at 71 Jiussell Sage. Broadway, and destroying more than 200 persons who were busy within its walls. John George Both failed to harm any one. But Hiram D. Wilson, whose weapon appears to have been a nitro-glycerine bomb, accomplished his own death and the death of at least one other, inflicted wounds more or less grave upon many persons, his intended victim among them, and partly wrecked the building. He himself was blown to pieces. Dangerous for Fourteen Tears. The most significant fact in the whole affair is that news that this Hiram D.Wilson has been known as a dangerous, unbalanced person for 14 years. He has been in insane asylums several times, and has been re leased each time, straightway to threaten the life of some one about whom his unset tled wits were busy. Mr. Russell Sage, as has been often told of him and other millionaires, is -onstantlv getting letters from cranks of all descrip tions, demanding great or small sums of money, and the demands are often accom panied by threats "Within the last month he has received four letters from one crank signing himself "J. D. AValsh." These letters hae set forth that Mr. "Walsh was on the eve of marriage with the widows of Alderman Monheimer and General Spinola, two of the holders of the disputed Standard Gas stock. Mr. "Walsh said that in order that this marriage might be accomplished it was nec essary that he have 51,200,000. He said Mr. Sage or Mr. Gould, or both, must furnish this money or take the conse quences. Mr. Sage kept these letters as curiosities, but attached no more importance to them than did Dr. Hall to George Both's letter, promising him death. A Man With a Black Satchel. Mr. Sage, whose office windows on the second floor of the Empire building, Broad way and Hector street, look north across Eector street into Trinity Church yard, had an appointment with Mr. Charles E. James, a broker, for 12 o'clock. Mr. James arrived on time. He entered the little waiting room outside the general office of Mr. Sage, passed through the door in the glass and wood partition, and was ushered into Mr. Sage's private office, which opens "into the general office. He had paused for a moment in the little waiting room, and had noticed, in a careless way, a man sitting in the small seat with a little black hand satchel on his knees. There was nothing remarkable in this man's ap pearance. He wore a silk hat. He had' a light brown beard. He was respectably dressed, and his black overcoat was but toned tight Mr. James stood in Mr. Sage's private office looking out into the churchyard. A young clerk from W. M. Imbrie & Co.'s came into the little waiting room. This clerk, whoe name is Frank Robertson, had in his hand a certified check for 59,000, with which he proposed to settle a transaction in C. B. & Q. stock. He announced his busi ness through one of the three little holes in the glass upper part of the partition and then sat down to wait until Colonel John J. Slocum, Mr. Sage's brother-in-law and cashier, could attend to him. He, too, noticed the man with the hand satchel who was sitting not far away from him. The Location of the Tragedy. Mr. Sage was a little late for his appoint, nient. At about 12:07 he came into the lit tle -waiting room, tall, lean, white-haired and a bit i-tooped. He passed at once through the door in the partition, stopped a moment or two in the general office to speak to Colonel Slocum, and then went into his private office to greet Mr. James. Mr. Sage had three offices, separated by partitions of lath and plastering. The general office had two of the little windows opening through the glass and wood partitions into the wait ing room, and the bookkeeper's office had the third hole. At 12:15 o'clock there was in Mr. Sage's private office himself and Mr. James. Jn his geueral office were Colonel Slocum, Mr. JJ. -K .Norton, a clerk; Mr. P. J. Menzic, the stenographer, and W. E. Laidlow, a clerk for John Bloodgood & Co., bankers. In the bookkeeper's, room was the book keeper, Mr. Charles W. Osborne, sitting at a desk: just under the little window looking into the waiting room. In the waiting room were Frank Eobertson and the man with the hand satchel. Soon after Mr. Sage had gone into his pri vate office the man with the hand satchel arose and walked to the window nearly op posite the door into the hallwav. Mr. Mcnzie saw him, got up from the typewrit ing machine, which w as near the window, and came over to inqnire his business. . An Alleged Letter Trom Rockefeller. "Will you tell Mr. Saie that a gentle man with a letter from Mr. Rockefeller wishes to see him?" said the man with the hand satchel. Mr. Mcnzie walked into the private office when 3Ir. Sage was just enter ing upon his business with Mr. James, and delivered the message. "Just excuse me a moment," said Mr. .Sage to Mr. James, who was now sitting be side his desk. Mr. Sage stepped out into the general offices, opened the door in the partition and smiled pleasantly at the man with the hand satchel. The man, still hold ing the satchel in his right hand, unbuttoned his oJrercoat and his undercoat and drew from an inside pocket a long envelope, which he handed to Mr. Sage. Mr. Sage took from the enevelope a type-written document of some length. It set forth in a wild and rambling way that unless Mr. Sage at once gave the bearer of it SI. 200.000 the whole building would be blown to atoms with a dynamite bomb. Mr. Sage looked up from his reading once ...... cn mC queer, gray eye3 ol tha man fixed upon him. He followed his usual cus tom of humoring such insane individuals, and looked the document over carefully. Then he slowly folded it, and putit back in the envelope. He extended tifis toward the man, who took it and put it in his inside coat pocket again. Tried to Talk for Time. Mr. Sage smiled-cordially and said: "It would take some time for me to collect so much money as that." "I must have it at once," said the man, earnestly, rather than fiercely, advancing a uii. nearer 10 me open door of the partition in which Mr. Sage was standing, and he went on to rehearse the statements set forth in the document At just this time, when nobody was paying any attention to Mr. Sage and the man so earnestly addressing him, Colonel Slocum was rising from his desk with 100 shares of Chicago, Burlington and Quincy stock in his right hand, Mr. Norton was standing by the window, Mr. Menzie was at the side of Colonel Slocnm's desk, and young Eobertson was sitting at the end of the ante room, farthest from Mr. .ic .uu mc iuau wun me satchel. It was 12:19 o'clock. Mr. Sage bowed and smiled, and, half closing the partition """', a mow retreat. .Robertson, looking at the man with the satchel, saw nuu take some bright object from the out side pocket of his overcoat Then he saw the satchel drop to the floor, just at the feet ot the man who had been holding it The Madman's Terrible "Work. When the satchel touched the floor a tremendous explosion came. The floor sank, the ceiling tottered, partitions burst and fell. Where there had beenthe well ordered, handsomely furnished offices there was a wild wreck and chaos, with shrieks of murder" ringing through it The build ing shivered, glass crashed, the street out side trembled, and a deep, dull boom, like the confined explosion of a hundred cannon rolled up the island to be heard oer two miles and a half away. At the shock and sound of the explosion the crowds on Broadway stood paralvzed with astonishment Those nnnr;t. tv;".,.... Churchyard looked toward the north side of the Empire building and saw glass, plaster ing, laths and bits of furniture shoot from the windows of the second-story .offices to '"', I" ' , ""ro oeiow. jiney saw also the rolled-up body of a man shopt out with this mass of debris to crash and unroll at the edge of the sidewalk. It was the bodv of Norton, who had been standing by the win dow as the bomb was. dropped. Sage Almost Jumps From a Window. Before anybody could move Mr. Sage ap peared at one of the windows and Colonel Slo cum at another. Mr. Sage seemed about to jump out, but.as people called to him from the street, lie stepped irom the window sill back into the wrecked rooms. When Policeman Hummel tried to make his wav into the first entrance of the building, he"was halted and driven back by the stram of frantic tenants rushing from the building with ciotning powuered Dy the plaster dust and faces paled with fright They were shout ing and screaming as they darted int the street and firemen raked into a heap over 51,500, 000 worth of stocks and bonds. In the floor close to the partition, where the bomb had struck, a jagged hole about two and a half feet in diameter was torn, and toward the edges of this the rest of the floor sloped. On the ceiling above this hole was a great spatterine of blood, in the center of which were stuck two or three bits from the shell of the bomb. They were pieces of galvanized iron wire, such as is commonly ucd by telegraph companies. They were about three inches long and were bent down at the ends, whether bv the explosion or by the borabmaker it was impossible to telL The ceiling just inside the private office was spattered with blood, as were the walls and some parts ot the disrupted partitions. To the right of this hole in the floor lay the head and neck of a man, ripped from the trunk, and' singed and burned and scarred. A little further away lay a heap of rid dled and tattered cloth, mixed with bits of flesh and shreds of skic. Afterward, in a far corner, they found a hand rent from the arm, a part of the trunk, a leg with a torn black stocking hanging to it Those re mains were gathered together, and cast into a fireman's net. Tho Fate of the Bomb-Thrower. They were the remnants of the man who had dropped the bomb. It had fallen i'ust at his feet and had torn him almost into shreds. But before this was done the living persons yet in the. wreck and the man who had been hurled Jo the Btrect were looked after The latter, B. F. Norton, was picked up and put in an ambulance and taken to the hospital, where he died at 1:30 o'clock. The next man they came upon was young Frank Eobertson, crushed against the hall wall of the office. He was conscious and had been shouting "murder" until faintness subdued his voice to groans. He also was taken to the hospital. Then thev found W. Tf. T.ninlnw whn ni just leaving his office. He was also un conscious, covered with blood, and half hidden under planking and laths. Mr? Menzie, the stenographer, had been found against the partition of the bookkeeper's office, had got out with Mr. Sage and Colonel Slocum, and, after having his sctlp wounds attended to, went home to Brook lyn, in the bookkeeper s room they found Mr. Osborne, unconscious, bleeding! with a fractured skull and with his neck torn bv the class of his partition, near which he was sitting. They took him to the hospital, where he is at the point of death. Fears That a Woman Ilad Perished. When all these persons had been ac counted for thev still searchpil on. TIib long, black stocking on the part of a leg found in a far corner suggested to the searchers that a woman's body lay some where or other scattered about like the body of the bomb thrower. But as soon as they found the thigh of the bomb thrower with a similar leg and stocking attached tho idea of a woman beinc there was aban doned. The police were soon put on guard in the dismantled offices to see that no person car ried away any valuables. Colonel Slocum, rushing from the drugstore holding the ab sorbent cotton to his face, helped the police gather up the manilla envelopes containing the securities, and then, assisted by Broker Budges', carried a lot of. them over to the drugstore and put them in the carriage with Mr. Sage. The news of the wreck was almost imme diately telephoned to Mr. Jay Gould. The police for a long time labored with the vast crowd in vain. The streets were blocked, and even the street cars could not get through. t But as soon as the ambulances and carriages had got away with the pa tients the crowd became a little less press ing, and when the rain began to fall the police had no further trouble: List of the .Killed and" Injured. The lolfqwiog .persons were killed or In jured by the explosion: a black overcoat and was well dressed. He was alone and had a square satchel." The storv of the plot on Mr. Sage's life goes far back. Eussell 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. In one of them the writer demanded 5 1,200,000. Why that sum Mr. Sage could not say. , lie Wanted to Get Married. The recent troubles' between President Andrews, of the New York Steam Heat ing Company, and the Standard Gaslight Company, now come into plav in the case. A large part of the stock in dispute be longed to the widows Spinola and Man hcim. These women, W,lsh said in 'his: letters, he was about to marry. He there fore demanded money to put him on their financial level. Mr. Sage paid no attention to him. Jny Gould was also attacked in the letters and denounced in abusive terms. The writer threatened Mr. Sage's life, but no attention was paid to it, as all who knew about the letters believed him tabe "a harmless crank," to quote Eussell Sage, Jr. 's, own words. The Record of the Bomb-Thrower. A dispatch from Albany says: The dynamite crank is Hiram D. "Wilson, aged . 43, an escaped lunatic and native of Glens Falls, Warren county. Wilson had escaped fireviously from Middleton and TJtica Asyl urns. He was very strong and of light complexion. The first signs of insanity we're developed 14 years ago, when t he kept the Bolton House on Lake George. Then he led horses into the hotel, and, mounting a table, delivered an address to them. He was of late years talking of making horses go faster than they have ever gone, and at one time ho J took the shoes off" a horse s hoofs and put them on his own feet, and then he led the horse over some of the mountainous couni try of the Adirondacks. Wilson, after short terms in insane asylums, has been dis charged as cured or escaped. He has gen erally celebrated his freedom by making attempts to kill someone who refused to meet his demands for money. 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. When he refused his demand V llson threatened to kill him, and even attempted to assault him in his office. He has also threatened the life of Goodwin Brown, one of the State Lunacy Commissioners. It was the loss of money which made him crazy. Wilson was ar rested here about a year ago for threatening to kill someone. BONED BT BRICKS A Falling Wall Crushes Many Workmen Beyond All Recognition. A SCOEE OF MEN BUBIED. Only Two 6f the Victims Taken Out of the Ruins Can Survive. WORK OP RESCUE TARDILY BEGUN. The Contractor and Four Bodies Are Im mediately Taken Out. TfllJ PALL CAUSED BY A EECEST FIEE JAY GOULD TALKS. HE HAS A CONSULTATION WFrn HIS WOUNDED FBIEND. ': niEASI D. WILSON, of Glenns Falls, the lunatlcwho threw the bomb, a graduate of two insane asylums and formerly keeper of the Bolton House, Lake George. BENJAMIN F. NORTON, Kussell Sage's private secretary, died in-Chambers Street Hospital of a fractured skull; was married and lived at Far Eockaway: blown out of the window by the explosion. INJUBED. KUSSELL SAGE, right handburned;;uts on richt side of forehead; right side of face slightly singed: hair on right side i&ther badly singed: suffers from shock, but will reenvor shortlv. SAMUEL G. CALHOTJN,vBrooklyn, clerk for W. E. Connor & Co., riht ear lacerated; at tended to at Chambers Street Hospital CHARLES E. JAMES, broker, living at the Gilsey House, cut on the right side of the head. WILLIAM R. LAIDLAW, Jrt., 33 years old, clerk for John Bloodgood 4 Co., bankers. 15 Broad street: cut and bruised. C. W. OSBORNE. 52 years old, Brooklyn, bookkeeper in Safe's offloe: fractured skull and lacerated wounds of tho neck; condi tion serious. FRANK ROBERTSON, aged M, of Benren Point, employed by W. 31. Imbrie & Co.; fractured skull, right eje destroyed and leTt ej e badly damaged; has a chance of recovery. JOSEPH J. SLOCUM, Russell Sage's brother-in-law and cashier; scalp wounds, which were dressed in the drug stoic. SAGE FULL OF SPLINTERS. HIS FHTSICIAN CONFIDENT OF A SPEEDY RECOVERY. BUSINGS-, Men will find THE DIS-PATCII the best advertising mrdium. ..Ill classes can lie reached through Its Classified Adver tisement Columns. If jon TiHiit anything; jou can 2ct it by tills method. As soon as the .first paralysis was over from every direction there came vast crowds of men, until Broadway was packed for three blocks in either direction by a multitude that pushed this way and that with uncontrollable strength, seeking the cause of the earthquake and explosion. Scores of men rushed for the fire boxes, and an alarm was sent in. The police began to swarm at the outer edge of the crowd and to beat their way toward the blockaded en trance to the Empire building. Meanwhile, in the wrecked rooms, those who were not dead or unconscious began to look about for a way of escape. Colonel Slocum and Mr. Sage walked into the private office, where Mr. James, thrown half stunned to the floor by part of the bursted partition, had risen to his feet and was looking dazedly about him. All Were Eager to Get Out. "Which way can we get out?" said Mr. Sage. His clothes hung from him in rib bons. His hands were burned. His face, was covered with blood and dust Colonel Slocum, almost beside himself, was also cov ered with dust, while blood trickled down his ears and cheeks, and stained his hands and cufls as he wiped it away. umccuve oergeamsMcUIoskey and Crow lev, who Were walking alnnir tiai,w when the explosion sounded, rushed into the building with Policeman Hummel. They found Mr. Sage standing, covered with dust and Hood. Hummel helped him down the stairs, when Lawyer Gardiner came to his assistance. The two men helped him across the street to O'Connell's drugstore, which now began to assume the appearance of a hospital. Mr. Sage gathered together his senses and began to tell a little about the explosion as the physicians and drug clerks attended to his wounds, which are not very serious, though they bled pro fusely. The firemen were soon upon the scene of death and disaster. In Eussell Sage's offices the plastering had been torn from the outer walls, the lath and plaster partitions had been nlufost disintegrated, the big safe had toppled with the sagged floor and the small -safe had been turned over and burst open. Millions in Securities Scattered Aronnd. Its contents were strewn over the wreet i, of iuniiture, papers and books, aud police The Wounded Financier Hakes a Statement tor the Benefit of the Police The Career of the Lunatic Who Threw the Fatal Bomb. New York, Dea 4. Special At 8:30 P. St Dr. Munn said : "Mr. Sage is getting along finely, and will very soon be over this trouble and all right again. He has taken plenty of nourishment and is resting well. We thought at first that his right wrist was broken, but I find now that there are no bones broken whatever and no sprains. The slivers penetrated his clothing, and he is full of splinters. His hands were pretty badlyburned, andhis face somewhat burned, too. His escape was wonderful, and his present condition is highly satisfactov. " .Later the heaepot the bomb thrower was brought to Mr. Sage's house by the police nnd at once identified by Mr. Sage, who made the following statement to Inspector .uvrnes mis evening, "icame out of mv office, haying been sent for. I found there a man with a satchel. He handed me a card bearing the name of H. D. Wilson. He said he came from John J. Eockefeller and at the same time handed me a typewritten letter in a sealed envelope. It was addressed to me. I opened it and found that it was a demand upon me for the payment of 1,200,000. The letter stated that if the money was not given up at once to the beartr of the letter that he would uiow me, iiimseii anu me entire oince up with dynamite. I read the letter, and, placing it in the envelope, handed it back to him, and turned to go into my private office when the explosion occurred. " The Coroner Is Investigating. Coroner Messemer went to the. Chambers Street Hospital and took the ante-mortem statement pf Frank Eobertson, 19 years old, an employe of W. M. Imbre & Co., Stock Brokers at 56 Broadway. He said: ''About 12:30 o'clock I went over to Mr. Eussell Sage's office, No. 71 Broadway, with a. check to get 100 shares of Burlington1 and Quincy stock. I, saw a man talking to Mr. oage very attentively. j.ne latter seemed to shun him. That man pulled out what looked like a pistol. It glittered and he put it in his right hand overcoat pocket I knew nothing more until I veiled 'murder.' I heard an explo sion and everybody yelled 'murder.' The explosion took place a second after I saw him putthe glittering object in his pocket "The man had a high ,silk hat, light brown side whiskers, was about 38 years old, wore Great Admiration for the Nerve Displayed by Sage, Who Is a Charitable Man The. Financial Wizard Tells of the Great Number of Threatening Letters Be- ceived. New York, Dec. 4. Special Mr. Jay Gould's beautiful reception room was- adorned with rare roses this evening. Mr.i Gould has not looked so well in years, and; although the first shock of the effort to.kill Eussell Sage, his closest friend since 1856, had been keen, he had recovered his com posure. "I did not go down town this morning,' said Mr. Gould; "and the first I learned of Mr. Sage's injuries was by telephone from the druggist's wljere he was taken. I was in my library. It was a few minutes after. the explosion. It would appear, therefore tnat iis, bage s nrst wea.was to telephone for-jne to sendDr- Munn to him I im. TBferiiawI' leTemioneSlo Dr. Munn'shome and learned that he was at the United States Insurance1 Company, of which . he is ex aminer. Dr. Munn answered immediately that he would hurry to Mr. Sage. This wjfl explain the quickness with which Dr. Munn reached Mr. Sage. Just before Dr. Munn and Mr. Sage took the carriage to come up town to Mr. Sage's home the doctor tele phoned me that, although Mr. Sage was suffering from the shock, he was not seri ously injured. The explosive burned his hands, and there are one or two cuts on his head, but he will be all right in a few days, I sincerely trust Gonld Talks of Sage's Nerve. "I have passed a good part of the after noon at Mr. Sage's home, and I must say that he has shown wonderful nerve. He talks calmly of the affair, andhis hand is as steady as a boy's." "Mr. Sage in recent years has at times been exceedingly nervous, so much so that his hands have on most occasions trembled perceptibly. But Mr. Gould savs he took a glass ot milk this afternoon without the slightest evidence of this nervous trouble. Mr. Sage was in bed all the time Mr. Gould was with him. The clothes he had wom were shown to Mr. Gould. In describing them Mr. Gonld said: "The laoels of his coat and waistcoat were torn off, and great gashes were all over the garments. His trousers were in shreds. Mr. Sage told me about his visitor. Just a little after noon a man sent in word that he had a letter of in troduction from Eockefeller. He did not say whether it was John D. or William. Mr. Sage and the Eockefellers have always been, I believe, on the pleasantest terms, and letters from either of the two gentle men would command Mr. Sage's immediate attention. The visitor was admitted to Mr. Sage s private office. As , soon as he was fully before Mr. Sage the visitor pulled out what Mr. Sage evidently thought was the Eockfeller letter of introduction, and handed it over. Not a Letter of Introduction. "It was, however, a slip of paper on which was written the threat that unless Mr. Sage promptly handed over 51,200,000 he and the whole building would be blown to atoms. Mr. Sage was not at all flustered by the astonishing demand, possibly because both he'and myself have received bushels of just such demands, invariably accompanied by threats ot some kind. . Mr. Sage says he merely handed the paperback to his visitor, risinr at the Kfimp time n tlinnffli n linn. the stranger out He smiled and shook his head, he tbincs, while he did this, and the next instant ne saw me man pull some thing out and throw it at him. "His recollection now is that it was a small package. There was a blinding flash. The whole room was as if a thunderbolt had struck. Mr. Sage was blinded by the debris that was thrown upon him. He told me: 'Mr. Gould, I stood there thinking the building was falling, and believed the safest thing for me was to stand still. I stood fast .upon the sound ground, and it came across me that if I attempted to climb out of the window the falling debris might kill me. I waited until I saw that the building was not falling and then forced my way through the wreck down the stairs and was led to the drug store over on Broad way. Escape of the Manhattan Directors. "I have warmest admiration for Mr. Sage's nerve in the affair. My son George was in an office of the Manhattan Elevated Company at the time of the explosion. Be tween him and the place where Mr. Sage biuou were anower omce Deiongmg to Mr. KfllTf a itif a nn3 4fiA Aimniftvm nA. iL. St. Paul, Deo, 4. The most horrible accident that ever occurred in St. Paul took place shortly after 1 o'clock to-day. The center wall of the west section of the Shep' ard building, recently occupied by Farwell, 'Ozmun & Kirk, fell in, burying the work men beneath the ruins. Twenty men were supposed to have been beneath the wall at the time it fell, and the majority of them were killed or so seriously injured that fhey will probably die- All the patrol wagons in the city were at once summoned, and a rescuing party was organized to remove the dead and injured. The men were wild with excitement, how ever, and it was some time before more than half a dozen could be induced to go to work. The others ran to and fro around the building shouting to each other and ut tering imprecations against the contract ors, or stood gazing blankly at the ruins. The Tardy Work of Rescue Begun. The group that finally went to work took out in less than half an hour ten men, five of whom were killed and five injured, one eo severely that the physicians said he would not live until he reached the hos pital. By this time a larger gang had been put'to work, and the work of removing the debris went on rapidly. Contractor Wil cox was taken out dead and mangled be yond recognition. His head was reduced to a pulp. The wounded were taken to the City Hos pital in the patrol wagon, and the dead, with the exception of one man, were laid out in the Great Northern Eailroad freight house. Hundreds of people, including many of the workmen, viewed the remains, but no one was able at the moment to iden tify any of them. Finally the name of one the dead laborers was ascertained to be Chris Larson. The cause of the accident, as near as can be' learned, was that the wall, which was much weakened by the late fire, became too top-heavy from the large amount of debris removed from the bottom, and fell over from its own weight The wall had appeared firm, and gave no sign of weaken- 'lag up to the time ofthe fall, "when it earner down. lntaheap"wi2ioul a sepohds.arnlig,". jaaniea .cnureiy xeyona x&ecosrnltion. It was a sight never to be forgotten, as the dead and" injured were taken out, some of them; crushed almost to a pulp. One of them, supposed' to have been a sub-foreman, was taken out in his fur coat, nothing but his feet and limbs i being visible. His head and bSdy appeared to be crushed out of all shape. There were men with all their limbs broken, faces bruised and crushed out of all semblance of humanity. Others were not so badly mangled, but had evidently been in stantly killed by the bricks falling in on their heads. Of those who were wounded and taken to the hospital two were able to sit nn in the. wagon on the way, and these are the only ones wno win recover. xnere were no groans or cries from the injured as the poor fellows were extricated from the ruins by their fellow workmen. Not one had re tained consciousness. The most careful handling possible seemed to be torture most horrible for the rescuers were not well drilled to their gruesome task at the outset and did not work together as they did later on. With their discon certed efforts they seemed at times to be pulling the men almost to pieces. The faces ot the workmen were almost as ghastly as if they had been dead themselves. The Roll of the Dead and Wounded. The majority of the men were under the south side of the wall, and here the heaviest part ot the wall Jell. Unlv two were taken out from the north side. It is known that at least eight men were instantly killed. The identified dead are: l . 9-va rifcJl v -MinMmh lj XrwOW W'Lu I VX teW8Gsk Ml MM 'i.7 UAimniB j. 7,, $&ssmB&jBr mmAmwmmim, &&EmvNmru ', mwmijh az wmmswjnm l wmJmwj. 'm &MmMmMMW'f fJM4W??G mSSMzlm li r8& ri VB .AffliTL mm . zMmim - w ,mmmswxmmmfflk m iymn 'w ?mmmmwrm.ft sf xymssw 1 7. j Mmmmmnfi . iczmmmzm r -aW7z .Man wm?" "i 2jmL mmwiussr " r -a- .C I wU -As?f -' """ ca-"" Kv li nau utreet JUuUt-JlMionaires Mad Better Live in Safes. THREE CENTS. IS T GO TO COURT. Mayor Wyman, of Allegheny, Held in Heayy Bail by Alderman McMasters. W DEFENSE IS OFFEEED. Startling Evidence Brought Out at the Preliminary Hearing. COUNTT OFFICERS AS WITNESSES. Clerk Henry Hunneshagen Asked to Explain Certain Erasures. CAPTAIN BELL BECEIYED NO FEES EARL EUSSELL WINS. The Fair Countess Emned Her Case by the Eoberts Imputation. POPULAR OPINION FAVORS HER?, Although Her Insinuations Caused a Re vulsion of Feeling. SHE COMES OF AN EEEATIC FAMILY EDWARD S. WILCOX, contractor. HANS HANSON, Swedish laborer. CHARLES KATRI.V6KL Polish laborer. GEORGE SHAPINSKI, laborer. CHARLES LARSON JOHN ADAMSKI, 35 years of age. FRANK MARCO. The injured are John Warren, Thomas Somatra, Frank Dlether, Samuel Peters and an unknown man. These are now lying at the City Hospital, and at fi:30 were alive. It is not thought that Somatra, Peters and the unknown can recover. SENATORS-ELECT, by Frank-G. Carpen ter, in THE DISPATCH to-morrow. Some clevenillustratlons of the new lawmakers. MARIE BLAINE'S ALIMONY. SHE ASKS FOR SI.000 AT ONCE AND ATTORNEYS' FEES. bagc s suite and the directors' room- of the Manhattan. The" explosion, I understood, threw down the partition of the directors' room, and had there been a meeting to-day, every director might have been killed. "While we are discussing this terrible affair I want to say that people say that Mr. Sage is not generous. I know differ ently. I know that he is a most lovable man. He is also a just man. I know of many deeds ot ksndness, and charity per formed by him. The world does not know pfthem. I do. I know that his charities Contimted on Seventh Tage. In Her Motion She States That She Is Crippled Physically and Financially A Divorce Also Asked for on the Ground of Abandonment. Deadwood, S. D., Dec. 4. Special! A motion wasfiled here to-day by Mrs. Marie Nevins Blaine, asking for 51,000 temporary alimony and ?300 attorneys' fees. Mrs. Blaine, in her motion states that she is in a crippled condition, both physically and financially. The hearing of the motion was set for December 20. The complaint and summons in the case were also filed to-day- The complaint al leges that James G. Blaine, Jr., wilfully abandoned the plaintiff without cause, leav ing in her custody a 3-year-old child, which she has since taken care of and supported without help from him. On these grounds she demands a dissolu tion of the bonds of matrimony, the sole custody ol her child, and that he be required to pay a reasonable sum for expense of the action for divorce and counsel fees and re quired to pay a sum for alimony that the court may decide forthe future support of herself and child. Mrs. Blaine is now at Sioux Falls, but is expected to be in this city next week. "BEYOND THE CITY," A. Conan Doyle's latest and best story, is a great feature or THE DISPATCH to-morrow. One of the1 I literary treats of the year. London, Dec. 4. The celebrated suit of Countess Russell against her husband for a judicial separation ended to-day with a verdict for the Earl, notwithstanding the intense popular feeling against him. Never since Mr. Stead published in the Pall Mall Gazette on the ".Modern Babylon" has all grades of society been stirred up as in the revelations of this sensational case. There is no denying the fact that Countess Eussell has the sympathy of" the general public, and the Earl's admissions on the witness stand yesterday have not tended to turn the tide of- popular feeling in his di Tee.tion. t- Ls- Teohea;s-wim-iebiheTverdictwaiie- ceived inside 'and dutslde the court were due to a partial revulsion of feeling against the Countess as unjustly trying to brand Earl Eussell and Prof. Eoberts. A number of college chums of the Earl crowded around and congratulated him and Prof. Eoberts, who, judging from the scene pre sented by the exchange of cordialities, is held in high esteem. The Countess left be fore the jury retired. Not a Model Life Partner. There was a general impression during the trial that the Countess, though of charming presence, was difficult to get along with as a wife. Her family history explains her tendencies to freedom of life and language. Her father, Sir Claude Scott, the spend thrift son of Banker Scott, was a lover of the wife of Lord Albert Clinton, uncle of the Duke of Newcastle. Sir Claude willed all he possessed to Lady Clinton, but Lady Scott successfully opposed the will. The next time the family figured in court was in the notorious case in which Lena, the eldest daughter, obtained an annullment of her marriage with Sebright Lena has since married Dick Eussell, who is no rel ative of the Earl. Both Lena and Dick supported the Countess in the suit for sep aration. The mother was opposed to the suit on acconnt of the revelations which would be made in court. The Dowager Countess Eussell was deep ly chagrined over the proceedings, and tried to induce the Countess to make a private settlement A House r Liberal Politicians. The Dowager Countess still possesses her keen faculties, and observes the memory of her famous husband by an active support of the Liberal policy. Her daughter, Lady Agatha, is an ardent radical and a working politician. Her son, Hon. Hollo, is a stanch Gladstonian. All are of a higher type of the aristocracy than is the present i .can. The proceedings in court,to-day were en livened by a tilt between the counsels in regard to the Eoberts incident. During the argument on this subject the presiding justice said that he intended to get at the bottom of this matter. He declared it ought to have been put into definite shape as a criminal charge. Justice Butt added that the matter ought not to rest in insinua tion. The Earl's redirect examination was re sumed this morning. Sir Charles, the Earl's counsel, questioned the Earl as to the Williams incident The next witness called was Sneppard, the Earl's footman. He testified that he had never seen the Countess crying. The Earl had alwavs treated her as a gentleman should treat h"is wife. Both sides announced that the evi dence was all in. and Sir Charles Eussell began to sum up the -case for the defense. A Case Supported by False Evidence. He said the case should never have been brought to court, supported as it was bv ninny cases of grossly untrue evidence. Sir Edward Clarke's address was character ized by the great emphasis he laid upon the telling points and the evidence for the petitioner. He declared, however, that the evidence submitted would have no effect upon the reputation of Prof. Eoberts, The object of Countess Eussell in raisins the action was not to obtain money. Her chief reason was that she wished to relieve her self of the obligation of living with a nun whose treatment had led to their separation. The jury were not long in reaching a ver dict They not only decided against the fair plaintiff in the matter of a legal separa tion, but they condemned her to pav the costs of the action, which are very heavy. -i Barges Upset! In the" f. ..- ... ....j mwuiu - ? y r r f 1 lines, and that the claim the accessions to. - their ranks are steadily increasing. TWENTY IN A WATERY GRAVE. THOST FATAL OF ALL IN A DAT' ij- T'o'v. nF ARK DISASTERS. -. Ci .- " " J, Jo nv '--"o, Men, t, Ashore Th Haversteajr- !.. ' pec 4. Twelve barges loadpeT with bni, including the Irene, Obtain James Kennedy; Delson, Captain Pat Cahill; Louise, Captain A. Bradbury; Lizzie and Louise Christie Eoy, Captain Brennan; James G. Scott and Ellen C. McGuire, towed by the Cornell Towing Company's steamboat Townsend, coming down the Hudson, when opposite Croton Point, were upset at about 9 o'clock thi3 evening and about 20 persons drowned. The names of the otker boats are the Mary G. Burns, Captain Will DeWitt; Blackstone and Yellowstone, from Tomkins Cove, whose captains' names could not be ascertained. When at Croton Point the swash of the river vra so, great that the tag was com pelled to round to, thus forcing the barges to ride each other. Beine loaded and the tide washing high, they immediately upset. There were 60 men on the 12 barges, and only about 30 have come ashore. The accident is attributed by many to the carelessness of the pilot of the tug, W. C. Curran. A boathand on the Louise, who has- just arrived from his swim ashore, says: "We were playing the concertina in the- caDin at tne time oi tne accident, l ran on deck, only to see one scow run on top of another. The boats did not sink, but top pled over. Upon each barge were five men, making 60 in alL" Tugs are out all over the river In the hope of saving any who may have clung to the bottom of the capsized barges, but little hope is entertained as to the safety of the remainder of the crews. Twelve men are known to be drowned from the different' boats. M0BE OF FIELD'S CROOKED W0BX. nlnfned .the Old Sugar Trust Stock Found to be Re hypothecated by Him. New York, Dec 4. Special No statement of the way matters stand with the wrecked firm of Field, Lindley, Wiechers & Co. has yet been given out by Assignee Charles M. Gould. Mr. Gould said to-day that he hoped to have his state ment ready in another day or two. It is thought in the street that the publication of the firm s condition is being delayed until certain matters can be settled and criminal proceedings prevented. Another of young Field's transactions, which came, out to-day, was the alleged theit of a large block of Sugar Trust certificates. It is said that a German capitalist, who held 'a large' block of the old Sugar Trust stock, placed it" in the hands of the firm to have it replaced with the . certificates of the new American Sugar Refineries Company, into which the trust was organized. It now ap pears that Field rehypothecated the securi ties. Five Miners Killed by an Explosion. City op Mexico, Dec. 4. A terrible explosion of firedamp occurred to-day in a mine in the town of Sombrerese, in the state oi z-acaiecas. .cive oi the miners were killed. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Page. 1 MARK TWAIN describes the Wosner Festival at Bayreuth for THE DISPATCH to-mcrrow. X Honduras Rebels Cntting tho Wires. City op Mexico. Dea 4. Uisnftches Dynamite Thrown at Russell Sago A Falling Wall Kills a Dozen Earl Russell a Victor In Court Wyman Held for Court The War on Warmcastle Increasing Teachers' Salaries.............. 3 GUlelandln JUanger... ......... S Youthful McKeesport Thieves..... 3 Classified Advertisements 3 Editorial 4 The Doings of Society 4 Ohio's Senatorial Contest 5 Deaths Here and Elsewhere B Industrial Intelligence 6 The Hot Speakership Fight 7 Death of Dom Pedro... .... 7 News from, Neighboring Towns 7 A New England Railway Horror 7 Sporting Features and Weather Outlook 8 The Business Outlook 8 Hotel Arrivals and Personals. 8 France Aiding Russia.. 10 Road Construction 10 A Cumberland Valley Cyclone 10 Church Notes 10 Work in the Oil Fields i0 Chess and Checkers 10 Iron Trade Review 11 Financial and Commercial Markets 11J Troubles of Lawyers. 13 wakeman Describes Cornish Funerals. ...13 , , . . 1 iiuiieu nuuif.il h 4.. J F . TT I ., I ...vecu jiclc lu-uay irom xiunuuras sav tne in,.tv r-n t-m.i rebels in the country have cut the telegraph j CourtlFrocDedings !!I.."."I!."."!!!l2 Mayor Wyman yesterday waived the presentation of a defense in the case before Alderman McMasters and furnised bail for appearance at tho present term of court. The hearing was short, but long enough to bring out some startling revelations with regard to the manner in which the affairs at the Mayor's office are conducted. From the evidence produced it was made apparent that Mr. Wyman has not only retained un called for witness fees, but that fees have been collected for officers, turned over to the Mayor, but not given to the men for whom they were alleged to have been charged. Attorneys Marshall, Hughey and Bennett appeared In behalf of the defense. The Mayor entered the room early, and without the least mark of excitement listened to the allegations against his character. Only once was his voice heard and that was to say that he could get all the bail necessary. City Solicitor Elphinstone, Attorney Langfitt antLAtforney Dickey represented, the Commonwealth. Mr. Elohinstone ex- - the four charges to be, first. embezzlement of fees of police officers; ., second, the embezzlement of S086 received from jail and workhouse commitments; third, the collection of 5800 witness fees not allowed, and fourth, the extortion of 5115 from Hungarians captured in the celebrated raid of 49. How the Warrants Were Cashed. After Controller Brown was examined with regard to the manner in which the in formations were made, I. W. McBrier. of the Controller's office, was sworn. He ex plained the way in which warrants were is sued for Jail and workhouse commit ments, and said they were made out in the name of James G. Wyman, Mayor. The fees to the city, he stated, vary in each cose according to the crime committed. In dis orderly conduct cases they are 51, and for Vagrants 25 cents. "That's very cheap," interrogated Mr. Marshall with one of his customary jokes. The warrants, Mr. McBrier continued, are delivered tq different members of the Mayor's joffice sometimes to the Mayor himself, but generally to the clerk erne of the detectives. They are then taken t'o the Treasurer's office, cashed and returneSLlo the Controller's office. As a part of his e vi-. dence he offered the warrants issued to the. " Mayor of AUegheny from April 1, 1890, to June 1, 1891. They amount, he stated, to 51,233. Samuel C. Pierce, of the County Treas urer's office, confirmed the manner in which warrants are issued and cashed, and then Controller Brown was called to state what money had been turned into the City Treasurer by Mayor Wyman for the period during which he had received from the County Treasurer $1,233. The Controller was evidently prepared for the question, and answered quickly 5647, leaving a short age of 5586. This was the first bomb to be exploded, and it was done so suddenly that Attorney Marshall did not know on what line to start out for cross examination. He called for the warrants, examined them with the Mayor, and while everybody was holding his breath to hear some defense, simply said: "Call another witness." Henry Hunneshagen on the Rack. The Mayor's close friend and clerk, Henry Hunneshagen, was the man called. He stated that all money for jail and workhouse commitments had been turned over to the Mayor. His attention was then called to the police docket and its erasures. He was asked if it really was a docket, and he answered: "We call it a blotter." Tho evidence, he stated, was in his own hand writing and the change in the writing of the arresting officer. At the hearing of the persons arrested in the raid on the house, where 49 Hungarians were arrested, he was asked how often each witness testified and answered that thev testified but once. He then stated that 55 95 costs were charged up in each case, notwithstanding that they were all tried together. This money, ha said, was turned into the hands of tha Mayor. Turning to another page of the blotter, Mr. Langfitt asked the witness if he had made a certain erasure. "Can't tell," he replied. "Isn't that an erasure?" he was asked. "I don't know." "Wasn't that name first written Kittia Hay and afterward changed to Kittie How ard?" "Who is this Kittie vou are talking: about?" broke in Mr. Marshall. "She was arrested for keening a disorder ly honse, was afterward discharged, and at the same time two of the inmates, Ida Mark and Sarah Kelly, were fined 517, 95 each," answered Mr. Langfitt "Well, what of it?" asked Mr. Marshall. Officers Never Were Paid. ."It shows," said Mr. Langfitt, "that tha principal was let go while two others wcra fined. It also appears from the record that the Howard woman had 560 when she wa3 arrested.' Continuing, he asked Mr. Hun neshagen if the witness fees in that particu lar case had been turned into the city. "No, sir;" replied the witness. "Have the witness fees in any of these cases been turned in to the city?"" "No, sir." "Have the witness fees of officers, patrol men and detectives been turned in to the city?" 1 "No, sir." "What did yon do with money collected as fees for officers?" "Turned it over to Mayor Wyman." "You did not keep a record of names of witnesses?" "No, sir. I kept a record of cases and the number of witnesses, but not the names." Auditor Bigger was called and stated that the books show that from April 1, 1890, to WANTS of all kinds are quickly answered through THE DISPATCH. 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