Titusville Herald

              THE TITUSVILLE* HERALD.
fORTY-FIRST YEAR.
TITUSVILLE, PA., PEB. 20, 1903.
VOLUME XLI, NO. 28«.
EXPRESS TRAIN COLLIDES WITH
A NEWARKTROLLEY OAR.
Eight School Children Killed and Nearly Thirty
Seriously Injured—A  Most   Appalling
Catastrophe—Detailed Story.
NEWARK, N. J., Feb. 19.—A fast express on the Lackawanna railroad cut
through  a trolley car crowded    with
school children at the Clifton avenue
', crossing today.   Eight of tbe children
jj wer* killed and a score or more In-
•;  jur-<l.      The  motorman   of    the   car
', stuck to his post and will die and the
engineer Ot the express was eo badly
'; hurt: that there is little hope of his
recovery.'
Both the express and the trolley were
on steep grades, going at right angles.
l The express was signalled   and   the
- crossing gates were.lowered while tha
trolley car was half way down the IBU.
The motorman shut off the power and
applied the brakes, bnt almost immediately the car began to slip along the
* icy rails.    It gained tremendous momentum and at the bottom OC tha hill
crashed through the gates directly in
the track of the on-coming train.   The
looomotive ploughed its way through
' the trolley, throwing the children in
every direction.
, The dead:
f VIOLA ILL, 17 years, No. 48 Sterling streeL
i   MISS BAKER, 16 years, No. 662 High
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j     ERNESTINE     P.     MUELLER.     16
( years. No. 144 Fairmont avenue.
}* MABEL E. KARSCHNER, 17 years,
iTiffln. O.
J    ALMA LOBHNBERG. 16 years, No.
' 211 Littleton avenue.
l''    ROSEBUD  KOHN,   No.   40    James
BLLA WERPUPP. 19 years, No. 199
\South Sixth-street.
V  EVAN T. EASTWOOD, JR., 16 years,
/No. 654 Clinton avenue.
I    Tbe Injured number   more   than a
)score and include:
j    Peter Brady, motorman of trolley car,
skull crushed; will die.
Oscar Backtlff, engineer of train,
head crushed; probably fatally.
! The accident happened within three
blocks of the high school building and
in the car at the time were nearly one
htmdred pupils. As many as thirty
others had managed to throw themselves from the car before the crash
came. The troUey was one of the
specials which .every day bring the
Children to school. It had more than
Sts ordinary load today owing to tiie
<k>ld. It contained every child' that
oould squeeze in, and others stood on
tlhe rear platform. Because this car
was so' crowded many who were waiting for lt before the hill Was reached
c cfcmld not get on although some cUmbed
'cm the front platform with the motor-
mfan. A score\or more of children were
compelled to Walk and they followed the
cfar afoot. They say that when the car
Was stiU less than half way down the
riill the railroad gates began to drop.
Peter Brady, the motorman, promptly
abut off the power and applied the
.Brakes. The speed of the car was
checked but It continued to move slowly down the incline. There was no
thought of danger. Then It began to
ubove fastei and faster. The ice-covered
rails afforded no hold for the wheels
end although Brady Jammed his brake
harder and that put on the reverse, the
^momentum of the car grew at every
[yard and lt shot down toward the rail-
jroad. When it was right at the gates
[the express thundered Into view.
'Warned by the cries of those afoot and
Iby their own sense of danger, those on
the platforms began to throw themselves off into the snow and as the car
&ped along the few remaining feet toward the rails, perhaps one-third escaped death or injury In this way, but
there was no time for those within the
gat to do more than crush toward tht
rear door. The gates were swept aside
Mke toothpicks, and before the cracking of the gates died'out the crash
oame. Thes for thirty seconds the air
was filled with frantic cries of those
who saw death dashing down upon
them.
The wreck of the trolley car was
complete. The pilot of the engine
struck it almost immediately amidships and turned it partly around and
then the ponderous engine cut lt ln
two. The upper part of the trolley
wae reduced to fragments under the
drivers of the locomotive. One half of
the car was thrown to one side and
lay on the tracks. The other section
was burled some distance away. In
every direction lay the injured and
dead. The engine was brought to a
standstill and from the train and from
nearby houses men rushed to the rescue. The spectacle was appalling, and
many who started to work had to give
up unnerved.
Over from the high school, where the
crash had been heard, and from the
windows of which some had witnessed
the accident, came pupils and teachers
to aid in succoring their companions.
A lad who had been hurled to safety
in a snow bank thirty feet from the
crossing, arose, brushed the snow out
of his eyes and with a Shriek rushed up
the street to a lire box and turned In
an alarm.
Within five'minutes as mr/#; dead
bodies had been laid side by side ln
the snow alongside the track. One of
the bodies, that of a girl, waa found a
block beyond. It had been carried
there on the pilot of the engine. Load
after load of the injured was Sent away
in -patrol wagons and ambulances.
Within a short time there was not one
injured person near the scene of the
wreck and the dead were on their way
to the morgue.
THREE   KILLED  OUTRIGHT
AND MANY BADLY  INJURED.
Fatal Exploaion In the Naval Storage
Room  at  Fort  Lafayette.
NEW YORK, Feb. 19.—Three men
were killed outright, one man so badly
Injured that he died later, two other
men fatally and at least seven seriously hurt tn an explosion ln the work
room of the naval storage magazine at
Fort Lafayette, ln New Tork bay,
about. 2 o'clock this afternoon. Tbe
dead: .
GEORGE ROTHAM, Brooklyn.
GUSTAVE DOZIER, Bay Ridge.
JOHN MASON, Brooklyn.
UNKNOWN MAN, thought to be
Martin  Thargensen,   Brooklyn.
The injured so far known:
W. H. Vangelp, Brooklyn; Oharles J. j
Muller, Brooklyn;   E. D. Muller, Man-!
hattah;   Frank  Munden,  address  unknown.
All the dead and injured were workmen at the fort. Accounts differ as to '
how the fatal blast was set off. One j
report is that the men were filling a!
13-inch shell while another man was*
removing a powder charge from a shell
and undertook to unwind a fuse con-'
necting the powder chamber with the'
permission cap. This caused suffl-1
clent friction to set off the cap and ex- j
plode the shell.
Major Powell, chief surgeon at Fort
Hamilton, was among the flrst to reach
the scene and with fort troops re-'
moved the dead and injured from the
wrecked magazine. Ambulances and,
surgeons were summoned from Brook-1
lyn.
The work of Identification was diffi-j
cult because of the distorted features
blackened by powder burns.
Fort Lafayette is an old fort in the
Narrows.
A SENSATIONAL CASE.
Kentuckians'the Principals in a Pittsburg  Law Suit.
PITTSBURG, Feb. 19.—Criminal
court was called today, when the trial
of Dr. Bills Duncan of Louisville. Ky.,
who is charged with the felinous
shooting of Bruce Head, formerly of
Louisville, was called. Among the
witnesses present were a number of
prominent Kentuckians, including ex-
Mayor Charles P. Weaver, Edward T.
Til ney of the board of public safety.
General John B. Castleman and Colonel W. H. McClure.
Judge Robert S. Frazer sat on the
bench and District Attorney Haymaker
conducted the case for the commonwealth, while the defense was represented by Attorneys Burleigh and Ep-
penstein. Assistant District Attorney
Robb, who Opened the case for the
commonwealth, said it was proposed to
produce suoh testimony as will warrant a verdict of guilty against the defendant on the charge with which he is
indicted.
Bruce Head, the victim of the shooting, was the first witness. He testified that on the night of Oct $1 last
year Dr. Duncan came to his offlce at
Greentree Camp.
"I asked him how his mother-in-law
and his wife were and bow she enjoyed her visit to Pittsburg, and he
said very well, and added: 'I understand you were out to see her several
times.' ' I said not several times, but
that I had been oat to see her.
"He asked me to shew him the nearest way to the cars and I told him I
certainly would.
"I was walking ahead of aim, when
he placed his left hand on my shoulder
and said, 'Walt a minnte.' As I turned
I saw a revolver in my face. I gripped
Bia hand and tried to shove it up, and
aaid: 'Hold on, there.' Just then he
fired, and I fell, and he walked away.
"We had been talking in the most
friendly manner while, we were walk'
ing toward the cars, and tbere was
nothing said or done which gave me
any suspicion that he was going to
assault me."
The defense opened with character
witnesses from Kentucky, all of whom
said the defendant waa recognized a.
a man of peace and good order.
Dr. Duncan then took the stand. He
told Of his wife's trip to Pittsburg to
visit the family of George H. Anthony,
and how upon her return hpme she
"told him things" which constrained
htm to see Head. In his version of tbe
walk toward the cars from the camp
witness said:
"When we got about half a mile
from the camp I put my hand on
Head's shoulder; he whirled and said:
'Doc, I want to know why you came
here.'
"I said, 'Because I know you have
been too intimate with my wife when
sbe was in Pittshurg.
" 'When my wife reached Pittsburg
you met her at the station. You took
her to a restaurant. You made her so
drunk that when you took her to a certain houae she thought She was at the
Anthony house. You kept her in that
house two nights and two days. Twice
after that you wronged her and me.'
"He attempted to deny it and I said:
'You need not He. I have your letters
and my wife's confession. I have
come here to horsewhip you! With
that he cried out, 'You have come here
to kill me, but I wUl kill you first.'
"He then jumped at me, drawing his
revolver. I tried to get away, but he
was on me, and knowing he meant to
kill me I drew my revolver and fired.
"i came here tc horsewhip him and
for no other purpose. I never expected
to use my revolver until he drew his."
At this point.oourt adjourned until
tomorrow.
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BILL    TO   ENABLE    PHILADEPHIA
TO ACCEPT CARNEGIE'S OFFER.
President Castro's Request.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—President
Castro, through the United States
charge at Caracas, Mr. RusseU, has
presented a request to the Washington
government that the gunboat Marietta
be permitted to convey the officers and
men who are to man the Venezuelan
craft captured by tbe blockading fleet
from La Guaira to Trinidad. The war
prises had been left at the latter port
by the allies. The United states, it is
expected, will tender the Marietta for
this mission.
THE &LO REUMBLE
TH.
Absolutely Pure.
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8PANI8H WAR VETERANS
VISIT THE PRE8IDENT.
Plan to Consolidate the Tyvo Branches
of the Organisation.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—A joint
committee of the Spanish War Veterans
and of the Spanish-American War Veterans which has been in session here
for two days with a view or arranging
the details of the consolidation of the
two associations, called upon President
Roosevelt today to pay its respects.
Following is the personnel of the joint
committee which includes some prominent participants in the Spanish-American war:
Spanish War Veterans—H. F. Urell,
commander in ohief; L. G. Dler, adjutant general; Lee M. Llpscomo, and
Hamilton Ward, Washington, D. C;
Francis G. Ward, Buffalo, N. Y.:
Charles R. Miller, Canton, O.; Champs
S. Andrews, New York city, and W. H.
I. Reariey, Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Spanish-American War Veterans—
Willis j. Hulings, past commander ln
chief, Ofl City, Pa.; James B. Coryell,
past commander in chief, Philadelphia;
F. J. Dimmick, Washington; Henry F.
Alters, Newark, N. J.; Frederick C.
Bryan, Akron, O.: Russell B. Harrison
Indianapolis: Charles E. Davis, Troy,
N. Y., and Ambrose Higgins, Philadelphia. ,
President Roosevelt greeted the
members of the committee moat cordially and expressed his pleasure that
the associations are to be consolidated
into one large, homeogeneus organization.
Mitchell Will Not Lecture.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. Feb. 19—President John MltcheU, of the United
States Mine Workers, today refused
$4,000 by serving notice that be will
not pppear this year oh the Chautauqua
circuit.
During the anthracite strike the
Chautauqua alliance sent a representative to Mr. Mitchell to book him. tfAt
that time Mr. Mitchell held out som"
hope and he was booked for tw°nty
niehts at $300 a night. He received
the flrst place on the proerams of all
the large assemblies including Chau-
tautuia and Winona. It is these en-
pas-ements whtch he has cancelled on
the ground that be does not feel Justified tn making any engagements that
might conflict with his work for the
miners.
DEMOCRATIC BALLOT  REFORM.
Two i Sanitariums   for   Consumptives
Proposed—Governor's     Nomina.
. tions   Not  Acted   On.
HARRISBURG, Feb. 19.—The Greater Pittaburg bill was reported favorably from committee in the senate today. Mr. Scott offered a supplement
to the free library law, authorizing
Philadelphia to enter into contracts
with a donor or donors of funds for
the erection of free libraries. The bill,
if passed, WiU enable Philadelphia to
accept -Mr. Carnegie's offer. Other
bills offered in the senate were as follows.
Appropriating $76,000 to Bast
Stroudsburg Normal sohool.
The Democratic ballot reform bill.
Authorizing cities to permit the use
of portions of public parks for sites
for .technological schools or institutions for the promotion of science.
Exempting historical sites now being
preserved from the power of eminent
dCmaS'n.   '
In the house Mr. Hutt introduced a
bill appropriating $500,000 for the erection, equipment and maintenance ot
two sanitariums for Incipient cases ot
consumption, one to be in the northwestern region of the state and the
other at Monalto, each to have a capaoity of 2,500 patients The bill provides for the appointment of a commission of five by the governor to
select the sites and determine the
manner of arrangement and equipment
of the buildings. They shall receive
no compensation.
Other bills presented were as fellows:
Mr. Ray—Extending the -time of appeal from justices of tbe peace or
aldermen to July 1, 1908.
Mr. Boulton—Requiring guardians
of minor children in cases where the
bond required in tbe orphans' court
Shall exceed $300 to give corporate security, tab cost of which shall be paid
out of the estate.
Mr. Cooper—Appropriating $40,000
to make a topographical and geological aurvey of the state in co-operation
with the United States geological survey.
Mr. Pusey—-Requiring all deeds and
other conveyances of real estate to be
registered in the,offlce of the county
commissioners before being recorded
in the offlce of recorder of deeds. Repealing the revision of the act of 1820,
relative to mortgages; tbat the act
shaU not apply to purchase money
mortgages recorded within six days
after-the execution.
Among the bills passed by the house
on second reading were the following:
For the appointment of special game
and flsh wardens; prohibiting trust
companies and banks from establishing braifcbes; to prevent solicitation of
divorce business;' providing that
watchers at elections must be rest
dents of the district where they act.
The bill to prevent the giving of
trading stamps by dealers in merchandise was called up and several attempts were made to kill it. Motion
to postpone indefinitely was defeated
and tbe bill was passed on second reading.
The senate did not take up the nominations made by Governor Penny-
packer because of the slim attendance of senators. They will not be
considered until next Tuesday. The
house passed the local option repealer
for Brockwayvllle.
The house reconvened at 3 p. m.
The following bills passed finally:
Appropriating $15,000 to SL Christopher's hospital, PhUadelphia; $12,00"
to the Packer hospital, Sunbury^ Philadelphia home for infants, $4,000;
$8,000 to the Washington hospital;
$10,000 to the Lancaster home of
friendless; $8,000 to the Pittsburg
Newsboys' home; $12,000 to the state
game commission for the protection of
game, song and insectiverous birds.
Amending the act of June 4, 1901, so
as to provide for bills and claims of
townships of the first class relative to
sewers and drains.
Providing for the security to be
given or tendered by cities fn tbe appropriation for injury of lands and
property for the public use or purpose
authorized by law.
: Validating acknowledgments, affidavits or other notarial accounts heretofore taken or performed by notaries
public who were also at the same time
justice of the peace.
Prohibiting the importation and sale
of dressed carcasses of lamb and
sheep with viscera In and hoofs on.
Relating to partition of real estate.
Defining the rights, remedies, duties
and liabilities of purchasers of real
estate at judicial sales and of their
grants, heirs and devices and the persons tben in possession thereof.
Mr. Dunn, of Philadelphia, presented
a bill asking $25,000 to the Philadelphia museums for the special distribution of educational collections to the
public schools throughout Pennsylvania.
Mr. Stub, of Philadelphia, presented
a bill appropriating $10,000 -to the
State Rifle Association of Pennsylvania.
The bill to establish a department of
labor and a bill making a ton of 2,240
pounds the basis from which to calculate the earnings of miners or persons
working in coal mines were reported
from committee and will be read the
first time tomorrow.
At 5 p. m. the house adjourned until
9 a. m. Friday. The senate held a
sbort session today and then adjourned until next Monday night at 9
o'clock.
A large number ot bills were favor
I ably reported from committee and all
bills on flrst reading were advanced to
second reading.
THE   SLOAN   OIL   DEVELOPMENT.
Five Strings of Tools Are  Now Running and Considerable Interest
Manifest.   -
Elmer E. Harris, of Buffalo, Is a guest
at the Mansion house and spending a
few days looking after his oil leasee on
tbe Sloan farm, north of the city.
Drilling will soon commence on well
No 6. No. 5 was equally as good as
the four which preceded lt and this
means that it will finally settle down
to about one and one-half barrels per
day.
It has been Mr. Harris' intention that
at least ten wells should now oe pumping ln this field, bot the depth of snow
and the terrific cold have materially impeded operationa However, work will
not be entirely discontinued, even during the present cold snap. When spring
opens there will be plenty of hustling
on these leases and it is the Intention
that by neat fell at least twenty wells
shall  be  pumping.
Much bad luck has been experienced.
Two gas engines were "blown to pieces,
and just when a power house was completed lt caught flre and was burned
to the ground. But these set-backs
have not dampened the enthusiasm of
Mr. Harris who has unbounded faith
in the little fleld. The National Transit company has just completed a pipe
line and is ready to run the 400 or 600
barrels of oil now in tanEs there. The
oil is Of a good grade and Is found at a
depth of about 750 feet. Of course oil In
such a quantity at such a depth is a
very paying proposition, as it costs but
about $900 to drill a well and put it to
pumping. In defense of the field Mr
Harris said last evening to a Herald
reporter that the average of the producing wells th the Pennsylvania fields
ls less than a barrel per day, yet enough
'of them are pumped to produce 92,000
barrels per day.
The success of Mr: Harris ln the
Sloan development has encouraged a
number ot home companies to begin
work in the same locality. Preston &
Co.. who recently drilled In a well on
the Bates farm, near the Weed school
house and fonnd a small showing of oil,
treated lt to 120 quarts of the high explosive fluid the other day and have a
show for a small producer. It will be
tubed and put to pumping. This well
developed a strong gas pressure, unlocked for in that locality. At present
there are .flve strings of tools, running
ln the field and all the land within a
considerable distance has been leased.
With the coming of warmer weather,
a thorough test will be made and the
present indications point to an outlet
tor the pool in the direction of the old
English settlement on tne north.
Mr. Harris' introduction to the oil
business did not begin at Titusville. He
is a part owner and manager of a
lease at Montpeller, Ind., on which are
thirty-three producing wells. His leases
north of the city coyer the four farms
owned by the Sloans and should the
entire property prove as good as that
which has been operated, he will be
busy for several months developing it.
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We olose at 6:30 except   Mondays
Saturdays.
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PRESIDENT SCfiUJtMM
IBCIBSKSIMIM.
A8   IT   EXI8T8 AT   PRESENT   AT
ITHACA.
FILTERATION PLANT CONSIDERED
And  the Offer   of   the University Aocepted by the City—Sessions Will
Open in September.
BUNDLES OF SWEARS
AT PLEASANTVILLE.
The Results of Tuesday's Election Vividly Portrayed.
Pleasantville Personals.
PLEASANTVILLE, Pa., Feb. 19.—
(Special.)—B. A. MitcheU, of Oil City,
is spending a few days at the home ot
his parents here.
Mr. Delos Post, of Van Buren, Ind.,
has been called here to see his wife,
who is suffering from appendicitis.
Found, early Wednesday morning,
on the corner of Main and State streets;
several icy-pearled bundles, which, upon being thawed before the stove in C.
M. Vincent & Co.'s store, proved to he
oaths. These explectfves undoubtedly
belonf» to Republicans and several unsuccessful Democratic candidates for
offlce at the recent election, and because of a certain policy pursued immediately prior to the said election, were
Intended for the managers of the Democratic party. The Republican oaths
presumably froze because of the prevailing zero weather, while it ls supposed tbe Democratic expletives became encase1 in ice because of the
freeze.thn* (i "ty received at the polls.
Owners njay have- same by calling on
the Herald correspondent and proving
property. Immediate action would be
very gratifying, for these bundles
nre very numerous and decidedly
hot. In spite of the ice which encases
tbem.
ITHACA, N. Y., Feb. 19.—President
Sehurman addressed students of Cornell University today upon the present
situation of the typhoid fever epidemic
in this city.   He said:
'The condition of the. three score
students is better today than. tt. haa
been for the last ten daya The present situation haa been so critical tbat
tbe question before the board of trustees has been:
"Shall CorneU University open next
September? Shall tbis faculty be dissolved, not having work to do?
"But these two problems have been
successfully solved. The city council
last night accepted the university's of'
fer to build a $150,000 filtration plant
for the city water supply. By the 1st
of next September we shall have pure
water and an abundance of lt. We offer to pay for all the artesian water
the students may supply themselves
with at their boarding houses rrom
now until June. We shall establish a
student boarding bouse conducted by
the university, capable of accommodating 900 students to Begin with."
Sixteen new cases of typhoid fever
developed here today. None of them,
I however, was among the students of.
| Cornell University. Three fever patients were' discharged from Cornell
infirmary here today and sent to their
homes to convalesce. In Cornell infirmary today there are a number of
very serious cases. The condition mt
Dr. J. Gifford and Professor W. A.
Finch, of the university faculty, remains unchanged.
Although the general exodus of students of a week ago has somewhat
abated, students continue to leave town.
Especially are the colleges of arts and
sciences, and the school of law affected,
less than one-third of the regular law
students remaining here. There is na
Intention on the part of the authorities to dose the university.
ENGINEER OF THE
MONITOR FOUND DEAD.
Escaping Gas Killed the Veteran ami
His Son.
NEW YORK, Feb. 19.—Claude De
Lorraine, who was chief engineer of the
Monitor when that vessel sank the Merrimac during the civU war, and bis
son Edward, aged 24, were found dead
from asphyxiation today at their home-
in Brooklyn. Gas escaped through a
defective tube connecting a gas stove.
Mr. De Lorraine, after tbe war, drear
the government plans for raising, tta
sunken vessels ln Charleston harbor.
He was 65 years of age and was at one .
time chief engineer of the Clyde steamship line.
Appointed a Judge.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—John K.
Richards, at present solicitor general,
has been selected by the President to
be circuit judge of the Sixth judicial
circuit, to succeed William R. Day, wbo
will be appointed to the supreme
court, vice Justice Shiras, resigned.
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