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Rock: Island Daily Argus. VOL. XLI KO. 306 RCCK ISLAND. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 189S. Slngl Copies 5 Oaata Per Week IBM Cents THE LONDON. Our "Iron Clad Combination Suits" for chil dren a genuine cellar-door slider. JACKSON'S HOBROIt Coat, Two Pants, And Cap. All to Match. Age 5 to 11, The Greatest Line in Town. Details of the Crash on Michigan Central. the TWELVE SOULS SENT TO ETERNITY PRICES much less Than any other house. Come and look. Big Store. The London Blue Front. Open evenings. si & i;2 b r II , m m t k m - xr-.v m -m mm . v r r r . . m m ' i Grand Cloak Opening Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Oct. 12, 13 and 14. On the above days a salesman from one of the largest and best manu facturers of Ladies' and Misses' Cloaks will show a complete line in our cloak department. Samples shown will be delivered at once, or special orders can be taken and deliverv made within a week or ten days. We say this will be a golden opportunity to secure the very newest and ex clusive in styles, and it will be believed when the two hundred styles are seen in addition to the immense assortment we now have in stock PRICES -.villbe down where no merchant can aiford to sell cheaper. HIT. W gi arantee a first class fit on all orders. STYLES. Besides making a great many medium priced garments these manuticturers make a line of fine novelties, which for workman ship and originality of designs are hard to surpass. Goods will be gladly shown wheher you intend purchasing or not. You are cordially invited to attend. Plan to be present at least on one of the three days," Thurs Pridav or Sturday. lUs 'O()l)S-200 suits of colorcl ilr, ss unls a larj.'c v;ir:ty of styles ami weave'!-, in all -iiC icaliu;; slides', will jc placed on li today Ql -."ml: y), Oe and closed out at 2 98 each. rcv.-Uiilinir Hinps, trininiiugs, and furnishings. v.-c t!i ni diplayed in our oast window. Kc- raemlier $2.9 buys every tiling that is rrctsary '-t the dresn Uw A YAK We are showing a beautiful p'.ain r ,,th, 11-wool. 36 inehes wide, in a full ran...- , fojshades. AT Ov. ! 19, r $1.25 a yard you can almost have your iii k ofall the choice things in i ur dress 'I- lii'parncnt, with few exceptions, includ- : "-In: nine popular weaves in 40 to 51 inch :.'lh. AT 7 a vaitu-ou would hardlv believe it tmssi- wc t? selling a 50 inch liop-s; eking in ''in-, reen.Jiown and black that is icrtainlv r' lin kable tr durability and beauty. It would "" j i-t the ting to wear at the World s Fair. COMFORTS AND 15LAXKETS We are over strung in this department, prices in either line ranging from 50c to ll'. Notice a few below that will give you some idea of how little it will cost to keep yourself and family warm this winter: For 98c a wool tilled comfortable, size 65x72. large; cover. For $1.35. a satin covered cotton tilled comfort, " size 65x75. For 1.75, a comfort covered with serge cloth an cotton HUM. size G575. IMaukets for $1.8U Size 12-1. color gray with daintv borders and a very soft quality. It would be cheap at ?2.''5. Hlankets, white, for $5. It is our purpose to give our customers the very best 5 blanket in the country, excepting no one. It will greatly be to vour interest to examine this leader. HAIRED, PUKSEL & VOIMAUR, uAVENpenr, ia. Five Others Perhaps Fs tally Hur. and ; Fifteen More Who arc Severe ly Injured. THE REAR END COLLISION AGAIN. "Twenty Minutes for Breakfast, but Only a Moment tn Which to Die" A Disaster That Is Only Explained hy the Lack or Perfection in Human Ingenuity Wom en's Names Make I'p Most of the Death Hull Statement of the General Superin tendent Facts and Incidents. Jackson, Mich., Oct. 14. The second greatest accident in the history of the. Michigan Central railway occurred here within 100 yards of the place whore al most fourteen years ago to a day the Pa cific ex-irebs crashed iuto a freight engine in Oct., 1ST9, and eighteen people were killed. The disaster has so far a record of twelve dead, five probably fatally in jured and fifteen others more or less hurt. At 8:41 o'clock in the morning an excur sion train originating at Owego, X. Y., which had been turned over by the Dela ware, Lackawanna and Western to the Mich.gati Central at Buffalo, was stand ing on the track at Jackson station, when a second special, also laden w ith excur sionists from the east, crashed into it from the rear and telescoped the thru last cars of the Owigo special. SrTerul Hundred Saw the Crash. Many of tlie pas-engers of this latter train had been out to breakfast; some had returned and were in the coaches; others were cu the piatloriu. lheir tram was about ready to puii out when the second special came into the yards and in sight of the station under check. When within a few hundred feet o' the Handing train Engineer William Whelan. of the second special, put om the brake, but found to hisaiaria that ther did not work. The speed of the train did not dim.nish.aud reversing his engine Engineer Whelan and his fireman, Joseph P. Kimblic jumped from the locomotive. The train kept on and in full view of the several hundred peop.e in and about the station dashed iuto the rear coach of the first train, passing nearly to the other end 'oue Kscaped in Three Cars. There were eight cars in the train, all New York Centra; cars except one which was put in at a station on the Canada Southern division to replace one disao.ed The cars are much lighter than those on the Michi Central, ana the seventh at.a sixth cars from the Erst engine were completely telescoped, the one being fitted mto the other snugly. The fifth car was over turned, and throwu across a' side track about fifty feet east of the station. The Michigan Central car was next, and it was badly smashed n !'"th ends, the plat- rormb being carried .iway ami the windows all smashed. The pussetigi-M ou this car were few and :,oue of then: wn-i siiiousiy Injured. I; "a- in ti.e . x r : : . M-veuth and e g'Jti: ca: wi.ere II. e slaughter took place arid not a r.i.-'ie oec.-.!:.ii.t . f either o right nana, me man ft ternoiy crusnea about the bead and face, but the features are discernible. They have not a scrap to identify them, but some of the passen gers say that they believe their names were Buck, and that they were husband and wife. Injured: Mrs. G. W. Graham, New York, and Mrs. J. A. Burlingame, East Spring field, Otsego county, X. Y.. injuries not known; Mrs. Allie Harris, Canton. Pa., in jured internally, recovery ..doubtful; Mrs. Mary Wakefield," Elmira. X. V'., fa'ce cut badly, severely bruised; Miss J. M. Ander son, Marsh Run, Cuyahoga, county, Pa., badly cut about head and face: Miss Blanche Beardslee, Canton, Pa., badly cut. leg huit, and skull fractured; Mrs. Alfred Searles, Elmira, injured internally; Mrs. C . Fay, Elmira, badly bruised an! scratched; Mr. W. K. Hum phtiy, Chenango Lake, N. Y., left arm broken twice and right hand cut; Miss Maud Benedict, Canton, Pa., injured about back and internally, probably fatallv; Miss Kate llealey, Morris Hun. Pa., bruises on body; Johanna Healey, badly, right arm crushed and both legs broken, recovery doubtful; Mrs. T. Donovan, Mor ris Kun, Pa., chest bruised and hip in jured; Mrs. A. Herrington, Elmira, X. Y., 1 leg fractured and otberw ise bruised, ankle I and leg broken and injured internally At tue morgue mm uinpuni mere were awful scenes. A stalwart, bronzed farmer sat beside the body of his young wife. Her head was gone. In his strength be said not a word, but his frame trembled with a depth of grief that was almost insanity. The city hospital was the scene of terri ble Buffering. Here Dr. Gibson and a corps of assistants are ia charge. A aad case was that of Johanna Healey. She lay ou a stretcher ha one of the lower rooms, shrieking in the most agonizing manner. Both legs were broken near the ankle, and her right arm broken above the elbow and she was terribly injured about the body. In spite of all this the physicians worked so efficiently that at a late hour at night all the injured were reported resting easy, with no prospect of death in the cases of any of them. Lateh. The man and woman classed U unknown have been identified as Mr. and Mrs. Giimore, Morris Kun, Pa. Leaders and Promoters of Low Prices. tlioe u; j-ear-. to have efc.'.jied death or ii.jury. Dead, Iiu. and Mangled in the Debris. ilie scene that tidl.iwe.; tnecoli'.sion was horribic in the extreme. In a moment the airwns fi.ied wit h the shi icks of the dying, and dead :id niHiigled bodies could be seen in the debris. The people on the platform and imm the surrounding streets ruBbed in every direction to give what help could be effected. Physicians were on the scene almost instantly, and the work of removing the dead and injured was facili tated by impressing carriages and hearses into immediate service. Jackson being a division stmion oc the line a wrecking train was speedily at hand. The dead were conveyed to the local undertaking rooms and the injured to hotels and to the city hospital, w here the division surgeon r the road, Dr. Gibson, and two priests, Fathers Muil.u:y and Bu:se, took charge of the work of attending to the hurt. I'athetir Incidents of the Honor. Wtiile the bodies were being taken out from under the debris there were heart rending scenes. George Starr, af Elmira, N. Y.; Darwin Z. Gibbs, of Wheeler. X. Y., and Lloyd Woodbury, of Bath, X. Y., had left their wives sitting together in the coach while they stepped out to 6inoke during the stop. The three women were killed. Mr. Woouuurys father, James Woodbury, who had been out on the track, the moment he appreciated teat the in coming train was on the same track as the Owcgo special, jumped op the platform to warn the women to jump. He had uot time to warn them before he was ground up in the debris and killed. In the undertaking rooms lay the body of a 2-year-old baby for hours unidentified. It was finally located as the child of Mrs. Anson Harrington, of Elmira, X. Y., who lay two miles away with injuries from which she may die. There were scores of other cases where traveling companions and relatives were separated and some killed or injured seriously. NAMES OF TEN OF THE DEAD Or MUST HAVE MORE SAIL AREA Sending ' , .1 .. . .i Miss Sarah A. Keeler. HamraondsDort. N. "fe"" ucuiuuuni, " v w v, ..i. ;;. ,f',ra,!.. 1 has "got through the hair" or Mrs. Herbert Garuner, Horseheads, x! ?es,Kue!, ?l fl,tlson. .he , v h..,H,i.Rni,. v.iIi. .rainnn bad made the alkyne s sail pi seriously bruised: William Phillips, of Saginaw, hurt internally; L. B. Ains- worth. of Elmira, X. Y., leg hurt; John Beardslee, of Canton, Pa., crushed about the body; Mrs. C. W. Fay, of Elmira, and Laura Fay, her daughter, cut about the head; Engineer Whalen, of the collidir.g train, one leg broken. The rest of the in jured have comparatively slight wounds. FACTS AND COINCIDENCES. Kcinatkable Features of the Tragedy Superintendent Statement. 'Twenty minutes for breakfast, but only a moment ;n which to die, was the hor ribly significant statement of Lloyd Wood- burv. He stted to the L'nited Press that he stood or. the step of one of the wrecked ' coaches smoking a cigar with a compan ion. He looked back and saw the second section a; pronching. He tupposed, of cour-e, thiit it would turn eff on one of the switches, iut as it neared his section he realiz.-d the terrible situation. Xot less iuipreive are the facts relating to the dis aster showing as they do how terribly true it is that accidents will happen, in spite of human ingenuity and precautions, be cause, after all, it is only "human." The following statement is made to the United Press by General Superintendent Robert Millei. "It is utterly impossible for me to understand how it happened. The more news I get the more mystified I am. Fow, for instance, here is the state ment of the superintendent to the effect that the engineer tried his brakes at Jack sen Junction. That is in accordance with rule 77 of our regulations governing the running of trains. Jackson Junction is only a m:!e from the station, and he there fore must have found his brakes all right only a few minutes before the accideilt. According to this same report, and it is supported to some extent, he found out that his brakes would not hold when within a quarter of a mile of the train lie smashed. "He at once reversed his engine and noti fied the con Juctor by whistle that his air was uot working. The conductor then tried the air on the train, and neither was any grt)(i. I presume the conductor then mailt' an ilTurt. to use the hand brakes, but possibly before anything could be done the crash came. Xow, here is the odd thing. If the air wa.- all right at the Junction I cannot understand what could have happened to the pumps. It is some thing unheard of for the pumps to give cut in this manner; but supposing the air by some manner could have been cut off between the train and engine.then the con ductor's brakes would have worked automatically; but according to the re ports the conductor was as helpless as the engineer. "In the midst of the greatest passenger traffic in the history of the Michigan Cen tral the accident comes. That possibly makes natural your question as to whether or not the men have been overworked. They have not been. We will not permit that. If a man says that he is too tired to work we will uot permit him to go out. We have no need of overworking our men. While the passenger business has been very heavy, the freight traffic has been light and we have had plenty of men Tbey have been busy, but cot worked down. The train dispatcher was not run ningthe sections of the train too close for safety." The heavy passenger traffic incident to the World's fair cauted the railway offi cials to take extra precautions. Recently an order was sent out iorblilding any train from leaving a station until the train re 'eding it had been reported from the uixt station ahead. This terribie wreck a the second one of consequence to occur ou the Michigan Central for a peri od of fourteen years, the anniversary of that awful affair occurring Tuesday last. It is a singular circumstance that these horrible wrecks occurred In the yards in Jackson in the same month and on the same day of the week, Friday. On Oct. 10, lh,, the westbound Pacifio express crashed into a switch engine, killing eighteen people and injuring thirty-five others. 8USINESS WAS PARALYZED. It It no Vae of Englishmen After That America Cup. Xkw York, Oct. 14. The futility of sending a boat after the America cup that carries 1,000 square feet less sail than the one that defends the trophy has been last this fajt the British wishes be an larger. The whole question between the types of yachts depends on whether a cntter of the 100-foot size can be built that will carry as much sail as a sloop of the same class. This looks to have been demonstrated in yesterday's race in which the Vigilant beat the Valkyrie in a 30-mile gale, noing over the home line 2 minutes and 13 seconds ahead of the British boat, though the lat ter started from the ouer mark two min utes behind her, the Valkyrie having beat en the Vigilant in the windward work. But in the run home lfire the wind the Vigilant's extra pread of canva got in its work and the cup stays on this side. The allowance to the Valkyrie reduced the time she was beaten to 40 seconds. FOUR BOYS BURNED TO DEATH, And Not a Trace of Their Itodies Fonnd Alleged Inrendiarisni . Misot, X. D., Oct. 14 The house of George Kosmaski, living six miles east of here, was burned and four sons, aged 15, 32, 10 and 8 were cremated. The boys were sleeping up stairs. Two men were occu pying the same room, both of whom caped. The father endeavored to take of boy out of the window, but frantic wito pain he drew back and perished. The fire is reported as of incendiary origin. No trace of the bodies is to be found. ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS. 5S7, and Two I'nidentified, Apparently Man and Wife The Wounded Victims. The officers of the road give out the fol lowing list of the killed and injured) Kilied Mrs Charles Starr, Elmira, X. ; Miss Maggie McMaster, Penn Yan, X. Y.: Miss Harriet Breeze, Pine City, X. Y.; George Hoffman, Saranac, X. Y; Mrs. J. A. Beardslee, East Canton, Pa.; Mrs. J. H. Keeler, Hammondsport, X. Y.; Mrs. Lloyd Woodbury. Bath, X. ; Mrs. D. J. Gibbs, Wheeler, X. Y'.; infant child of Mrs. Anson Harrison, Elmira X. Y.; Jas. Woodbuty. Bath, X. Y. Two have not yet been identified. Of these one is a uara-sainncu man with a flowing gray beard, about 60 years of age. There are no means of ident ifying bitn. The ether is a woman of 35. with dark pair and sallow complexion, having seme show of beard on her upper lip; wears a wedding riug on t lie fourth finger of the Jacksoon Too Kleited to Wprk Freaehlof that Was Inopportune. The scene in the city and about the sta tion after the wreck was indescribable. Business was at a standstill all day, the leading houses closing, while knots of men and women stood on the street cor ners and talked about the dreadful event. Until noon the streets in the neighbor hood of the station were filled with car riages and ambulances, undertakers' wagons and physicians vehicles, while doctors ran to and fro about the scene with Instrument cases, and priests and ministers were at hand to minister to the suffering and the dying. Amid it all, a group of Salvation Armv girls etood on a pile of debris aud preached and 6aug from the awful text before them of the world to come. Their words fell upon deaf ears. Every one was wild with excitement, and ran about tryirig to get, nearer to the piles of wood aud twisiei' 1 iron that were once passenger coaches. Canadian Roman Catholics will petition the pope to appoint a papal ablegate for the Dominion. William Thode, a wealthy money broker of Baltimore, blew out his brains while crazed with drink. Obituary: At Xewport, X. Y.t Vice Pres ident Andrew C. Bayne, of the JEtna Fire Insurance company, of Hartford; at St. Louis, William J. Barnes. . The American girl who shot herself at Madrid, and was supposed to be a Miss Middieton, of Chicago, has also said her name was Brown and Wilson. There la hope of her recovery. The Michigan Central Railroad company has been assessed $73,bOO by a Detroit jury for the benefit cf William Lucklin, a 7-yoar-old boy who had both legs cut off by a train last April. Daniel Holstlaw, of Saltm, His., recent ly had several hundred dollars stolen from his bouse. His four sons, one of them be ing D. W. Holstlaw, member of the state legislature, suspected Fred Smith, the hired man. They put a rope aroutl Smith's neck and hoisted him to the limb of a tree in an endeavor to secure a confes sion. Smith will sue for damages. John Suisy, another of those scalded In the basement of Marshall Field & Co., a& Chicago, has died, making two victim?. M. V. Gannon, president of the Irish Xational League, has resigned. He tbi&ks the league has outlived its usefulness un der its constitution and in the condition of affairs in Ireland. . Ex Senator Philetus Sawyer made a pay ment cf 133,000 to the 6tate of WiscpfcsUi to apply on the judgment of 131,237 against ex-btate treasurer Richard ( ther for interest on deposits. Ex-' urer McFetridge has paid f!52,( has $3i2,i:-7 yet to pay. Ex-Treasurer Ha ehaw has paid ty7,4o7 and still owes ?85,- 103. The American board cf foreign missions in its annual meeting at Worcester, Mft83. adopted resolutions favoring the appoint ment of the Rev. William H. .XoyeB as missionary, although he holds to the doc trine of probation after death. It is understood that there is now a ship ment of (4,000,000 gold on the way east from San Francisco. A Shawnee lad. who entered the Indian shool in Virginia as Tommy Wild C, re mains under the dignified name of Thomas W. Catt. A large box in Westminster Abbey bear ing the conspicuous label "Bones of.Major Andre," was opened by a curious visitor recently, and found to contain a lot of lamp chimney Smallpox at Chicago. Chicago, Oct. 14. Four new cases of smallpox have been discovered by the health authorities. Joseph Pillon v?as re moved from 10S3 Van Bureu street. The others were removed to the pest house from 923 Van Horn street, where cases had been previously reported. Mary Pysch, one of the patients at the pest house, died. At the World's Fair. Chicago, Oct. 14. The weather frowned on the World's fair yesterday, and the paid attendance took another tumble, the total being 221,607. The attendance for the Week; will however reach over 2,000,000, as with yesterday it already aggregated L911,3i3. There is nothing special for today. Henry Preserved Smith Beaten. Cikcixnati, Oct. 14. The Ohio synod of the Presbyterian church by a vote of 78 to 54 has refused to sustain the appeal of Professor Henry preserved Smith from the decision of the presbytery of Cincin nati which suspended him from the min istry. . . .. v. H 1 ' mi : 6 SEES! IT