Newspaper Page Text
I OVF.K FIFTY KILLED. Two Section! of u Loaded Excursion Tram Collide on the Way Home. WilkesbarTe, Pa., Oct. 11. The latest figures from the Lehigh val ley accident gives the killed at fifty five and forty injured. The train which was wrecked was a special on the Lehigh Valley road which was returning from Hazeton with the Wilkesbarre delegation to do the Father Matthew celebration. The excursion trains from Luzerne and Lackawanna counties were in seven sections. The fourth section, on the return home, was standing on the track at Mud Eun, near Penn house, when the following section swept around a curve and crashed into it. The road at that point runs near the Lehigh river, and several of the broken cars rolled down the embankment and lie close to the wa ter's dge. Cincinnati, Oct. 14. A Post spe cial from Wilkesbarre, Penn., says: "The Father Matthew celebration at Hazelton yesterday ended in a most frightful disaster, the like of which Las never been seen before on the Lehigh Valley railroad, or indeed in this country. The wreck occurred at Mud Run, about midway between "White Haven and Penn Haven Junc tion. The first section, while stand ing still, was run into by the second section. The last three cars of the first section, filled to overflowing, were totally wrecked and all the passengers in the rear car were kill ed. The last two cars were tele scoped and the passengers were eith er crushed to death or pressed against the boiler and burned to death. The scene was heart rend ing and beggars description. It was nearly six hours afterwards be fore the first section was able to reach "Wilkesbarre, the wounded be ing conveyed in ambulances from Mill creek to the city hospital. Pas sengers on several sections of the train tell tales too horrible for be lief under any other circumstances. They relate that the third section of the excursion train stood on the track a few hundred yards from Mud Run waiting for the sec tions ahead to get out of the way. A brakeman, so they said, had been sent back with a lantern to guard the train in the rear. Suddenly they aw the train approaching from the rear at a high rate of speed. Sev eral who were on the rear platform jumped off and escaped. One young woman sprang but seeing two little boys who were in her charge yet on the platform, she climbed back to rescue them and lost her life by her daring. In one instant the flash of the headlight illuminated the interi or of the ill-fated car, there was a frightful crash and the engine plunged its full length into the crowded mass of humanity. The shock drove the rear car through the next one for two-thirds of its length and the Becond into the third. It is tiot likely that a single person es- aped in the rear car. The second "was crowded with maimed and bleed ing bodies and the third car. had but few passengers who escaped. The passengers throughout both trains t. were terribly shaken up and bruised. They soon swarmed upon the track and the full horror of the accident dawned upon them. Throngs from the two trains gathered beside the telescoped engine and car and there witnessed the most fearfnl sight of their lives. The shattered engine was pouring forth steam and streams of water which partly hid from hu man eye many horrible sights. The hissing steam deadened the groans of those involved in the ruin. Ghast ly white faces peered into windows to be gretted by faces more ghastly, already dead. Gripped in broken timbers some sat erect as life.starin pen-eyed as if aware of the horri ble surroundings. Here a youth, stone dead, held in his arms his lit tie brother, whose feet were pinion ed. A father who was crushed and 'tyyrangled, lay at full length .upon 1 t?je prostrate form of his son badly e)eed. "When the steam and smoke I! iifViwaT iroia the rear car its 'rear. aniiv,.J?Jits Wtre better revealed. '00 hi SSli"'"" " 1 and wrenched into all sort3 of shapes, while m ev I f-rx rtart huncr mancled bodies and J x o limb.. It was a slaughter pen blood ier than a butchers shambles. A Narrow Escape From Lynching. Birmingham, Ala., October 10. Conductor Brantley, Engineer Brown and a freight train crew of four men, on the Birmingham Miner al Railroad, narrowly escaped lynch ing this afternoon. A freight train, jn charge of Conductor Brantley and his crew, ran over and killed a colored woman named Clara Dickson at Smith's mines, eight miles from this city. The woman was drunk and lying across the track. The en gineer blew his whistle but did not slacken the speed of his train. The train passed over the woman, and her body was ground to fragments. The train was stopped and some of the crew took a shovel and threw the fragments of the body from the track. About 200 negro miners had witnessed the accident, and when the crew handle the woman's body in such a manner they beeame in dignant. Many of them were drink ing, and nearly all armed. They surrouaded the train with their pis tols drawn, and swore thev would 1 t lynch the entire crew. The crew of the train got on the engine, and a brakeman stealthily uncoupled it from the train. Then Engineer Lawson pulled the throttle, and the engine Btarted toward the city at a lively rate. A number of shots were fired at the engine as they dashed away, but no damage was done be yond breaking the cab windows. The Superintendent of the road no tified the crew that the first man who gave the story to the newspa pers would lose his job, but some of the crew had already decided they wanted a fob on another road. Rheumatism and Neuralgia cured in I to 3 days lor T5 cents by Detchon's "Mystic Cure." Do not suffer and waste money on other remedies. This abso lutely never fails. Sold by W. J. ians down, Druggist, Butler, Mo. S-6m. J mice (Jantt in the Political ('iiinpuiii. Judge James B. Gantt, who has received a multitude of invitations to speak this campaign, has thus far been able to fill but very few ap pointments made for him, on ac count of sickness in his family. Though invited also by the state committee to take part in the state campaign, he was unable to accept. However, he informed the committee that he would do what he could in the manner of local work, and ex pected to make a number of speeches in this section before campaign was over. He also promised a number of his friends in the adjoining and neighboring counties, at their re peated solicitations, that he would try to speak for them during the campaign.' Early in the season his wife took sick, and he has been compelled to disappoint some whom he had par tially promised to speak to. In Cass county. his friends were preparing for him to speak at Gun City, East Lynn and a number of other places. He has also been earnestly sought to speak at Jerico, Stockton, El Do rado and other points in Cedar; at Cole Camp, Lincoln and other places in Benton; and at some plaee in Dade county. Besides these, Bates and Henry county have claims to hear one of their most honored ex- circuit judges. All of these places, and in addition Colhoun, LsDue, Lewis, "Windsor, this county, he desires very much to opak at, WUI UiO uuuook ior EUS De- A 1 L XI-- i.1 1 r 1 . . ing able do so is quite gloomy. Judge Gantt was seen by a Dem ocrat reporter to-day, to whom he stated that he had hoped to be able to take an active part in this cam' paign, and was much disappointed thus far in not being able to do so He hopes however, that sickness may leave his home, and he may yet be able to respond to the call of his numerous friends. Clinton also would like to haTe an address from him. Clinton Democrat. Piles! Piles! Itching Piles. symptoms Moisture; intense :tchin and stinging; most at night: worse bv scraicning. it auowea to continue tu mors lorm, which orten bleed and ulcer ate, becoming very sore. Swayxes Uixtmext stops the itching and bleed ing, heals ulceration, and in most cases removes tne tumors. At druggists, or by mail, for50 cents. Dr. St Philadelphia. vne & Son, 32 1 jr 1 BIG ELECTION BETS. J jjs. I j an. j Odds Offered on Cleveland by oonri Man. Philadelphia Times: The nouncement of a big bet on the re sult of the national political contest or the serious offer of a responsible man to make one creates more com ment here and is received as posses sins more insignificance than the oracular utterance of leading states men of either party. This evening in the St. James hotel, among a throng of political wranglers, it was mentioned that the night before, in Brown's famous chop house, a son of Phil Armour, the Chicago million aire, had offered to bet $5,000 even that Harrison would bo elected. In stantly Joseph K. Rickey, of Fulton, Bio., pulled from his pocket a certi fied check for $8,000 on the Madi son Square bank, of this city, and exclaimed: "I will give $50 to any man who will bring young Armour here and induce him to repeat the wager.'' Several young men made a run to wards the Brunswick hotel, where young Armour is staying, but they did not return. After waiting awhile Rickey authorized his friends to an nounce that he would bet $8,000 to $7,000 that Cleveland would be eleeted. Coming from the man it does this bet possesses a greater significance than attaches to the ordinary wager. Rickey, although a director of a bank in the town in which he lives, is th; best known non-professional sporting man in America. With him bettii g is not a sentiment. He haz ards his money on the face of a coin on the speed of a horse, on the pop ularity of a candidate, with a cool ness born of judgment. Four years ago Cleveland's election. He wager ed altogether $30,000 on the result of that canvass and won $26,000. WHY HE IS WILLING TO BET. "When asked upon what he based his prophecy of Cleveland's election he said: "My reasons are many. In the first place, Samuel J. Tilden had an axiom that a party in power is twenty-five per cent better off than the party not in power. If Clove laud could win four years ago with an administration against him how can he loose now? That is the prac tical way to look at the matter. Now everything is in his favor. Four years ago the democrats of New York City were disunited and Grant, the candidate for sheriff, received more than 30,000 more votes than Cleveland. Now that condition of affairs is changed. I will make re peated bets of $300 to $1,000 that Cleveland will cany New York, In diana, New Jersey and Connecticut. I believe, and not from idle .rumor, that there will be a political revolu tion in the northwest: and I consid er Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Michi gan and Wisconsin are all debatable states. 8 years agolo., gave Garfield 40,000 majority, and four years ago I bet $1,000 it would not give Blaine 20,000 majority, and it didn't. This may seem wild talk, but my money talks exactly as I do." EnglishSpavin Liniment removes all hard, sofj or calloused lumps and blem ishes from horses. Dlood spavin, curb, splints, sweeney, stifles, spiains, roreand swollen throat," coughs, etc. Save fifty dollars b use of one bottle. Warranted. Sold bv W. T. Lansdown. Druseist, But- er, Mo. n-i yr President Cleveland. It is only just to say of President Cleveland that in the self-command, the independence, and the executive ability which he has displayed he has exceeded the expectation of his political friends and disappointed his political enemies. Until he was nominated for governor of New York in 1882 he was little known even to the people of his own state; outside of it he was scarcely known by anybody. His acquaintance with public men was more limited than Mr. Arthur's; his educational advan tages were not of a liberal character, and yet it must be admitted by his opponents that he has filled the of fice with dignity that he has per formed his high duties with intelli gence, that he has been straightfor ward in his actions, and that he has not sought popularity by swim- liung wiiii me current, Jt ew men m , his position would have vetoed as he did pension bills which aiust have f been hastily passed or passed for party purposes. He knew that he should make no friend?, aud would probably make many enemies, by his vetoes of many of them, but up on careful examination he discovered that they were not meritorious, and he therefore withheld from them his signature. He may desire, and doubtless does desire, a renomina tion. (Mr. Hayes was the only pres ident who was content with a single term.) but I have been unable to see any indication of it in his official acts or unofficial conduct. What ever else may be said against him, he can never be charged with being a demagogue. By stal wart republicans he is charged with not being governed by the civil ser vice act; with making removals and appointments contrary to its letter and spirit. On the other hand, he is severely criticised by many demo crats for not making a general sweep. He has undoubtedly made mistakes in the exercise of his appointing and removing power, but the wonder should be (all things consider ed that he has not made more. To disregard entirely the claims of party in the distribu tion of patronage demands an inde pendence of party fealty and a disre gard of party obligations which no President has ever felt, or ought to feel. How far to go in yielding to the claims of his party, without dis regarding the higher claims of the nation, is an exceedingly difficult question for a President to decide, and if Mr. Cleveland, under the pressure to which he has been sub jected, has yielded more to his party than should have been yielded, he ought not to be regarded as being greatly at fault by the advocates of civil service reform. That democrats, educated in the old school of politics, should charge him with lukewarmuess to his party, because he has not removed more republican officeholders, is natural; censure on this ground was rather to be coveted than avoided by him. No man should bo nominated for the presidency whose qualifications are not unquestionable, nor one who has not rendered important service to the country in civil or military life. It certainly could not be said of Mr. Cleveland, when he was nom inated, that his qualifications were beyond question, or that he had ren dered very valuable service to his country, but it cannot be denied that he has discharged his manifold du ties with singular independence and marked abililty." The republic has received no detriment by the elec tion to the presidency. Hon. Hugh McCullough's Book. Eczema, Itchy, Scaly, Skin Tortures. The simple application ot "Swayxe's Ointment," without any internal medi cine, will cure any case of Tetter, Jsalt Rheum. Ringworm, Piles, Itch, Sores, Pimples, Eczema all Scaly, Itchy Skin Eruptions, no matter how obstinate or long standing. It is potent, effective, and costs but a trifle. X2 iyr The Much Villified Vampire. Eight live vampires were recently received from Alfeld, Germany, by Herman Eeiche, of Park Row. Their appearance is far less objec tionable than their name, and Mr. Eeiche says they are quite harm less. They belong to the bat fami ly, are about the size of a muskrat, with a growth of hair on their bod ies similar to that of the animal men tioned, and have thin, almost trans parent wings of skin like a bat's. spanning about three feet, which carry them very swiftly through the air. They live upon fruit and small animals, and rarely attack human beings when they can obtain their natural food. They are seen abroad only in the night time, when they have been known to pierce with their sharp teeth the exposed limbs of natives and suck their blood. They were imported for natural his tory collections. N. Y. Times. A Log Caeix does not look very handsome from the outside, with the coon skin nailed on the door, but health and contentment the hardy pioneers of American civilization found in them. Their health was J maintained bv simple remedies of roots and herbs, now reproduced in Warners L02 Cabin Remedies. Warners Lo raade by Warner cf Safe Cure fame ERREIUS TDNIO Is prepared solrty ftrth core of complalntt wfciicii Bulict all woaianktnd. It rives tune and itrcngtb to the uterine onam. and corrects danjremng dtenlacetcents and frreulari tles. ittsofereatiraluelii chncjof iife. Theneol MCBBELL'N FKniLE TO'IC Jnrtnipreg. ttney creatlT reUeTaathepaiusofinotherhtMxland promotes t iee-ty recoTerv. It alft nature (o ssftiy n:ke tlie critical change from girlhood to ifc ofT:!inhtl. t iajtleartant to the taste an'! mv h tikta ata:i time with perfect safetr. Price, SI. r"R ttBY all imrctiiw. M' FAXtLAND BROS. Keep the Largest Stock., At the Lowest Prices in. Harness and Saddlem, Spooner Patent Collar! j j -PREVENTS CM NOT OHOK! MORSE Adjusts itself to any Horse's Neck, has place better tnan Prevents braking at nil in nil. i from tearing out. USED ON ALL OF SOUTH SIDE SQUARE BUTLER M0. wmnr BUY Br Gooi BOOTS AND SHOES n Fiiiii eoo: Where you can get them as represented. A large stock to select from. Good quality, low prices, a call will convince you of the fact. (RESPECTFULLY , CHAFING two rows ot stitching, will hold Hames Id any otner coiiar. end of clip, and loops" OUR HARNESS. not YOUR J. M. McKIBBEN. FAN Sole age 1 Wat AL EI i - F A! aed deli. 7 V .