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THE CIRCULATION OF THE DAILY LEADER HAS GROWN 163 PER CENT IN EIGHT MONTHS. | j
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VOlI 3. NC> 17S ~ ~~ BLIJEFIKU), WEST VIRGINIA, MONDAY AFTKRNOON, XOV1MM R :u>. ,QOS ' l RICK TWO CENTS
EIGHTY-THREE BODIES
HIVE BEEN DISCOVERED
MAIUAXA MINK EXPLOSION SAT
URDAY ONE OF WORST IX THE
HISTORY OF MIXING—DEATH
HIST WILJ. REACH OXK HUN
DRED AND THIRTY.
Marianna, iPa., Nov. 30-—At 11
a. m. 83 bod oh bad been removed
from the mine which b’ew up Sat
urday. Sev> nty nine have been
Identified while four are headless,
and identification is impossible.
The work cf taking the bodies out
is go ng on rapidly. Thirty more
are in sight and wIV be taken out
by this afternoon. As soon as the
bodies are rescued from the black
depths they were immediately taken
to the morgue where attempts at
Identification are made. President
Jones of the mining company says
this noon tbit ne is certain fie
death list will not go over 130.
Mar anna, the scene of the disas
ter is a new mining town in Wash
ington county. Pa., forty miles
south of Pittsburg. It was la d out
and built up by "•he Plttsburg-Buffa
lo Coal Company, with a view to
making It a model town in overy
respect.
Every modeTTrTlev.ee and. reature
that could ,be found in the mines
of foreign countries to provide for
the safety and comfort of the min
< rs were adopted.
An exccfpjtlon&lly good if ass of
miners was secured for the new
workings, many of them being elth
tr^ Americans or English.
The noise of tho explosion was
an ominous sound to all the people
of tho litte town, and they hurried
to tlTe scene, each seeking a loved
one and most of them learning that
that loved one was down In the
workings and in all probability dead
or dying.
The scenes were pitiful. Many
,of the womgn were hysterical and
' their shrieks and cries wero heart
rending. OtTiers were silent «in their
grief, but in tfieir drawn faces could
be read the awful agony they were
enduring.
The cause of the explosion has
not been determined. Two theo
ries aro entertained. One Is that a
pocket of gas was struck by one t|’
the miners, quickly filling the work
ings, and then Igniting *rom a lamp
The other theory is that gas from a
well on the Fulton farm, under
which, the mine is located penetra
> ted the workings. Tho land In the
vicinity is said to be gaseous, and it
is pt&Slble that gas may have escap
ed through the coal stratum qntil
It accumulated in sufficient volume
to cause the disaster.
STORY OF THE TRAGEDY.
The workings in which Saturday's
catastrophe happened is known ns
tha Rachel and Agnes mines, In re
ality a double mine with under
ground connections. Construction
work was practically finished and
kD,*puty Mine Inspector Loutlt a few
minutes before the explosion had
'completed a two days’ inspection,
wh ch had revealed cause for appre
hension. He and General Manager
Kerr oame to tne surface In the
cage operated in one of the shafts
ft few minutes before eleven o’clock.
Mine Foreman Henry Thompson
I and two miners entered tho cage
Band It was started towards the bot
ojx of the 500 foot shaft. There
was an ominous rumbling, then a
trembling of the ground. round
about the mouth of the shaft as
from an earthquake and an instant
inter there was a terrific report and
1he cage was hurled up the shaft
and through the roof of the house,
Che mine foreman aud the two m*n
stl’l in .1. The bodies of the two
men were nurled through the top
HT tile building and far beyond It.
Thompson was dead when picked up
while the others although mortally
Injured. wPre hurried to a hospital.
EXPLOSION TERRIFIC.
So great was the force of the ex
plos on that shattered portions of
the woodwork about the mouth of
the shaft were blown Into a creek
2,000 feet from the shaft. Resides
the three m‘n in the cage, port’ons
oT at least two other bodies were
blown from the shaft and were
found in the field near by. The v(‘n
t’fating fans were put out of com
mission by the explosion and for
several hours, until repairs could
be made, no a'r could be forced into
the nine. Immediately following
the explosion a dense volumo of
smoke issued from the Bhafts, and
it was feared a fierce fire was rag
ing at tho bottom of the mine.
A short time afterward the smoke
almost entirely censed, but those
on the surface were unable to tell
whether the fire had been smoth
ered out or the shaf:* so filled with
falling debris that the smoke could
not escape.
RESCUE WORK.
Rescue work was Immediately
started, Inspector 1-outt t assuming
chffTge, but ft was impossible to gain
entrance to the mine for a long
time, first becauso th- cage and its
mechanism was wrecked, and sec
ond, because the shaft was so filled
with shattered timber and falling
earth that even had the cage be'm
in condition it could not have de
scended. Tho opening up of the
shaft was the only solution, and for
th’s task there were volunteers in
numbers sufficient to work short re
lays of as many men as could find
room for operations.
As soon as th© news of the explo
sion reached here, officers of th<*
company were started from this city
on a special train, and from Monon
gahela City with relief. The train
from this city carried tho ch of
ficers of the company and mining
experts from the United States lab
oratory and testing station recent
ly established here, who took with
them all the latest devices for res
cue work, Including oxygen, by
ineans of which rescuers go through
or work In the most po sonous gas
known to min ng.
Superintendent A. S. Besoti, Fine
Boss William. Kennedy and Mine
Boss Joseph Kennedy went down
the shaft In a bucket during the af
ternoon, ibut were able to get only
within forty feet of the bottom,
l^ater several experienced miners
descended th© steps inside the shaft
and succeeded -In reaching tho bot
tom. Here they found further pro
gress barred. The lateral heading
from the bottom of the shaft Into
the mine proper wag choked with
muck and debrlg, and thpy gave as
their opinion that it would take
many hours to clear It away. The
farr,’. F.r poselble fort© was a* once
put to work to open th b passage.
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BU IF
ORGANIZER OF WHISKEY TRUST
WILL NOT HEAR 1IIS Clllli
BREN IN STATE WHERE LAW
LESSNESS IS RAMPANT.
Lexington, Ky., Nov. 30.—Chas.
H. Stoll a wealthy distiller, and the
inan who organ'zed *'uo whlakey
trust for which he was paid a mill
ion doL'ars, will shortly leave th's
&ate for Cal 'fora !<a. Ho declares
that he will not roar his children In
a state whore night riding and such
depredat ons as have been preva
lent in this state take place. He has
Just returned from a*trlp sou Hi and
Kayo he met many peopl * who are
ashamed of the'r birth state.
GILBERTS DENIAL
FREIGHT AGENT CH \KGEI> WITH
REBATING CONTRADICTS TES
TIMONY OF GATES.
Richmond, Va., Nov. 301—A. P. I
Gilbert, freight agent for tho C. &
O. Railway, who 1b being tried *'n
the United States circuit court bere
upon a charge of n-bat ng, testified
this morning. Ho declared that tho
statem* nts of Qllle Gates to tiie ef
fect that he knew of the falsifying
of records, was untrue and con
demned Cafes.
IMIS TRAGEDY
SLAYER OF MAGAZINE PlllLlBIf
KR TALKS OF THE KILLING
AND ITS CAUSE.
New York, Nov. 30.—In tho dim
twilight of the cell In the Long Isl
and county Jail today Captain Peter
C. Gains, th<* slayer of William E.
Ann s, talked with a reporter, giv
ing for the first time h s account
of Ahe Hayside Tacht Club tragedy i
when he shot down tho magazine
publisher. With a quivering voice
Gains dcclaf d that Annis had sul
lied t/he snnctMy of his home. He
declared b #» w f.» told him of her
relations with Annis.
CALLED HOME ItY
DEATH OF IIROTHER j
W. IT. Hiiman, the contractor who
on Haturday finished tho brick
work on th» Y. M. C. A. building,
was called to hi* home at Greens-1
boro, N. C., laat iKght, by the death 1
of bis brother, Walter Hiiman.
HIM N DEN III RG TRIAL
New York, Nov. 30. Broughton I
Brandenburg, indicted for grand
larceny in connect on with tl.o sale)
to a New York newspaper of an p.r- I
tide purposing to have be^n writ
ten by Grover Clevo’and, will be
placed on trial today.
SAYS THE IRON
NINE PUNS
MASTER TRUST
CltOZlKH DHTLAKIS WOKI.H
WIHK MaVOPOLY 18 MCHJCMK
Of OAItNBUIK.
• New York. Nov. SO.—<WURi nston
'sbing directness and circumspect
attention to specifications, Alfred u.
Crosier, of \V luiington, Delaware,
whose letter to 1’rcetdenl Roosevelt,
put>!"h*iod exclusively by the United
Pr^ SB, sett'ed the doom of T. Cole
man Dupout, ablef of the Republican
national committee's speakers' bu
reau. has hung out danger signals
along Andrew Car nog e's line of re
treat from his former poeitlou as
an advocate of a proh bitlou tariff
ou steel.
The letter, which >.'s couched in
iho most conservative language, re
counts the giowth of the United
Sta os Steel corporation and points
out with definiteu sb a logical reas
on for the reversal of the steel
n agnate's policy.
1 hat Andrew Carnegie, with char
jucteribitic i re® ghR. baa peif.'ectcj
an iut rna * ouul steel trust, remov
ing all fear of differences from elth
or friendly or malicious tar'ff tink
ering. Mr. Crozier Is certain. The
removal of tariff from steel would
only enable the international organ
ization, which will supplant the
United States corporation, to dom
inate the situation from an -impreg
nable stronghold that The indepen
dent manufacturer may never hop1*
to assail.
Prefacing the principal comnnin -
cation to wereno K. Payne, chair
man of the committee on ways and
means, who is conducting the tariff
hear ngs at Washington, with Ui<‘
statement that he will bo unable to
attend the sessions of the committee
Mr. Crosier r ps the veil off an
amazing situation in the following
words:
TilKUi>i AT THE HEART.
Ah.Trew Carneg'e's declaration In
favor T5T a com pie-o abolit on of
the prot'itive policy so far :ih Iron
and steel is concerned, substi tuting
a mere revenue tariff, is a thrust
at tt.c heart of the entire pro ectlon
Bolimif-. For If his position s true
us to <iron und wtee\ it is true as
to a great many other industries.
It raises the most dangerous and
difficult s tunt'.on in the history of
tariff legislation. It seeniH to put
Mr. Carnegie on the side of the peo
pie and again**, the trusts, while
those who oppose his proportion
may be accused of favoring trusts
at tho expense of the pdoplc. Hut
this is a superfle al view. Whether
so intended by Mr. Carnegie or not,
no more clever plan could be devis
ed to permanently entrench t>ho
steel trust in absolute control of
the iron and steel business of the
United State*. Incidentally, every
one of 'its nearly two hundred thous
and employes and the one million or
more wives and eh Idren dependent
upon them would forever and con
stantly the mercy of t<h.> Wall
street managers of that trust.
“They would lie obl'gcd to submit
to any terms as to wages and hours
imposed by the corporation with no
possible way of escape.
“Trusts are a’l over capitalized.
They must charge high prices to pay
d vldends on sucH excessive cap tal
izatlon. The one menace to trust
supremacy Is establishm'nt of new
competing Industries.
COMPETITION EASY.
“It Is wel known tlhat other things
be ng equal, a corporation with ac
tual capital equal to one-third the
total of the stocks and bonds of
the United States Steel corporation
could <aslly handle the same v 1
ume of business done by that trust.
When the trust maintains high
price* that will yield a profit on Its
enormous total aecurlt e», capital /.*
constantly tempted to slart Inde
pendent plants. Th's can be done
over and over, forcing the trust to
buy them out at high prices, except
when, as with the Tennessee Coal
& Iron Providf,nce or other WaP
street con-*rolled agencies sends a
panic to the ala nt the trusts ‘‘it
their process of benevolent compe
t tion. For It Is wholly Impossible
for the big trust to cut prices on
its entire output to crush an inde
pendent plant with a somparatlvely
sma’1 output.
"Ttoo »tgld enforcement of strin
gent laws against rebates and spe
clal transportation advantages and
corporat ons In restraint of trade
w 11 ultimately settle trust* are so
exclusively capitalized. It 7nay be
necessary, alao. to regulate banks
a« to Insure that small producers
can borrow money at the sanm rate
paid by trusts and to limit the mo
nopoly of raw material.
Ditch pm DU* H of Par!*, who Is
ending a movement acn’nat U rec
to! re gowns.
NATIONAL (X»N’(ilH-HS WILL
OPKX >>L4 lvMUKK Dill AT
WASHINGTON — DISTINGUISH*
Kl) SPEAKERS ON PROGRAM.
Washington, Nov. 30.—Cupt. J.
U. KIllBon, of Cincinnati, Oh*'o, a c
retnry of tho national rivers ami
luirbors congress, has opened head
quarter* at the New Wllllard pre
paratory to tho fifth annua] conven
tion of the eongri hh, ivnlch w.ll bo
held iu this cliy, I) comber 9 to 11.
Report* received from governors
of state*, mayors of o ties, and com
mercial and trade bodies indicate
that there will be upward of 4,000
lolcgatts present during tho ses
sion of tho congress,
Thg southern com mere at con
<rt!S*, which has for Its objoot clos
er trade relations between the north
and the sout.li anti a b«tier under
standing of social conditions tin tho
>ectIon named, will meet in conven
tion on December 7tli, to continue
in *es«l0n unt 1 the day following,
when the delegates to the commer
cial con grew will bo mergiMl -into
the national rivers and harbors con
gress.
Among tho distinguished men
*bo will deliver addressee before
ohe rivers and harbors congress are
Ambassador .Nabueo, of Brazil; Am
oassaJor Bryce, of Great Brlta n;
VfaJ. J. A. Ockerson, of tho Missls
' Pi»i river commission; Gov, W, F.
Freen, of Hawaii; Seeretary of the
Int<Tjori James A Garfield; Horace
IP. McFarland, president of tho Na
tional Civic Federation; Gov. N, B.
Broward, of Florida, and president
of the National Drainage Associa
tion; Admiral C. M. Chester, who
was a delegate to the International
Waterways congr -ss recently held
it 8t. Petersburg, and Samuel Com
pere who will discuss “Labor’s In
terest In waterways development.”
The Southern Commerc al Con
gress will convene h re on Decem
ber 7Ui and last two days, offers a
due opportunity to tho business men
of the Northern cities and tho in
vesting public to secure a compile
understanding of the resources and
posw billtles of the south without
the labor and expense of a long
journey.
There will b gathered and placed
upon the wal's of tho auditorium
at tho New Williard geological maps
charts and diagrams, enabling those
Interested to acquaint themselves
Immediately with all the possessions
and pose bill ties. ,
The speakers and topics upon the
program include; Houthern health
condition, climate and temi.oraturc
Hurgeon Gen'ral Walter Wyman;
“The Influence of tho Panama Ca
nal on the industrial development
of tho nation,” Gen. Luke Wright,
secretary of war; “Ports of south
and foreign trade,” M. J. Sanders,
Now Orleans; “Southern railroads
and their needs’’ John K. Wallace,
New York; “Water powers,” Frank
S. Washburn, Nashville, Tenn.;
’’The commercial meaning of the
Appalachian rarvge,’ ’ Gifford Pln
ciiot, chief forester; “Coal resourc
es,” Prof. L. C. Glen, Nashville,
Tein.; “General mineral wealth,"
C. W. Hayes, chief geologist, Wash
ington, D. C.; "Cotton monopoly
and cotton manufacture,” Rlllson
A. Smythe, Pelzer, 8. C.; “Building
DEATH AND DESTRUCTION
JH WAKE OF FLOOD
materials*. Wiliam J. Oliver. Knox
ville, Tenn.; 'Timber resource* of
the south,” John Lr Kaul, Birming
ham, Ala.; "The agricultural revo
lution,** Clarence H. I‘oe, Raleigh
N. C.
warT
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KXJMOCTKIl TO KLAMK POUTII IN
THK BALKANS—ALLIANCK IM
IVllMKU WITH Tl’KKKY.
Constantinople, Nov. 30._The
poop’e of Turkey bel'ovo that war
w|!h Auntr.a la inevitable and that
It is likely to bo declared at any
hour.
Foreign office sources admit that
nt the conference in V enua Thurs
day between M. Arenthal and Hlk
mot Iley, tho Turkish charge d'af
lalres. he former made tho d< roct
thr.at that war would bo declared
tf Turkey did not I turned lately raise
tho boycott. Hlktnet Boy luformod
Arenthal that there was good rea
sons for the boycott, and that it
will ho continued.
binned ately upon receipt of a
lengthy cipher message from Illk
mau Uoy tho Turk'ah foreign offlco
and war department bf*gan to din
P’ay feverish activity. Troops and
munitions were bn mediately order
ed moved to the frontier, so that
any eventuality may bo met.
There is no longer any doubt that
Sorv a and Turkey have formed an
eflenHivo and defensive alliance
The lattor lias been assured by tho
formwr that i'.ts army la much stron
ger thun has been supposed. Kor
vla promises that it will divide the
Austrian fa-cos by attacks from Ser
via, while Turkey can overrun Bos
nia.
Tho refusal of the French gov
ernment to use its influence at the
request of Austria to have Turkey
withdraw tho boycott ou all things
Austran In believed to be duo to
the Influence of England and Rus
sia, which encourage Turkey. It Is
believed hero that these powers
would refuse to permit Austria to
dismember the Ottoman kingdom
even if tho Turkish fores should
ho defeated.
Belgrade, Sorvla, Nov. 30. Na
zim Boy, the official delegate of tip*
Young Turk committee, stv d here
today that Turkey was fully pre
l>arcd for any hostilities and was
not afraid that Austria wouUl de
clare war. Moreover, ho said, Tur
key had obtained from Hreat Brit
ain an official guarantee aga nst any
external danger resu. ting from the
Balkan upheaval.
TENNIS CONTEST
WON’ BY A1 HTHA l,l.t\S WHO
HAITI HE DAVI8 CLP.
Melbourne, Nov. 30—WrigHit and
bavin, the American contest ants
were defeated tr>day by Australians
lm the tennis contest for the Davln
j Hup.
OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS SUFFER
TWENTY MILLIONS DAMAGE
UY WATER AND MANY ARE
RELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN
browned—five known to
HE DftAD.
P
Gulihr ©, Ok'a., Nov. 30.—K v«
persons aro doad a© tho result of
two days of continuous ram and tho
overflow or tho Oklahoma and North
oiu Texas Rivers and tributaries,
thousands aro hotm'ics© and huu
•Iroda of residence* flooded. Rail
way traffleo Ih practically abandon
ed In Central Oklahoma and a
hrldgo on the Missouri Oklahomit
hull Railroad between Muskox©©
and Waggoner whh washed away a
few minute© after a passenger tra n
had pasaod. Tho total Iobm wMl ox
coon twenty million dollars. Tho
river at Guthrie I© hIx foot higher
than It over wan before and Is ris
ing twelve Inches an hour today.
Hundrods of people who refused to
leave tho r homo©, hcllev'ng tho
flood would soon subside, fir©d ©hots
of dlHtroKH afterwards An army of
roBeuoiw set out In boa's to bring
In nil thoso In danger. It I© believ
ed that hundreds of Inhabitant© who
refused to floo are now In wat rg
Xraves ltf n»elr o«i Aosjcs.
DRUNKEN FRENZY
DRIVES MADDENED MAN TO
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
Pittsburg, I*a., Nor. 3#.—Mad
dened by tho effects of liquor, Ja*.
Hacked* today tried to exterminate
his family. First he tried to kill
<h H seven yonr old son. IPs wife
Jumped bolwu n them and caught
the blow of the hatchet. While ly
ing prostrate on tho floor Racket*
cut her throat with a razor. Ho
then turned upon himself and In
flicted wounds that will prove fatal.
IDLE MILL TOTiT
MILLION DOLLAR I'LANT HAH
KEEN CLOSED FOR A YEAR.
Poston, Mass., Nov. 30.—Eugens
E. Foss announces that work will
ho begun InfThediately In his one
million dollars cotton mill In East
Iloston. This plant haw beou Idle
for over a year.
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