Titusville Herald

              THE fTITUS VILLE fHERALD.
FORTY-FIRST YEAR.
.TITUSVILLE, PA, OCTOBER »7, 1903
VOLUME XL1. SO   IS
TEN LIVES LOST IN
SUBWAY CAVE-IN.
DEAD    AND    INJURED    CHIEFLY
ITALIAN   WORKMEN.
ItO      FEET      BELOW       SURFACE.
Worst Catastrophe la History af the
New   York   Csnatrtiott—i* ■Haart
rending Details.
- NEW YORK, Oct 86.—Ten lives
were lost by the cave-In ot the roof
and walls of the subway at One Hundred and Ninety-fifth street last night
and four persons were badly Injured.
All of the dead and Injured were workmen, and most of them Italians. Following Is a list of the names:
TIMOTHY SULLIVAN, foreman.
WILLIAM SCHUBTT*"., electrician.
GUIS8EPPPI BARONE.
STANZIONE BRUNE.
LOUIS TIPPIO.
.   FIVE    UNIDENTIFIED     ITALIAN
LABORERS.
The injured:
•  Juno Pasquale.     i
Batasto Velantio.
Alphonse Armatello,
JUNO BASKI.
Tha accident was the most disastrous
that has occurred in the construction
of the sub-way. At the point where the
cave-in occurred a gang of twenty men
were at work in the tunnel, which is
about 110 feet below the surface.
Rufus C. Hunt, general superintendent of the tunnel work, said today that
two converging seams had appeared In
the roof of the tunnel during the day
work Saturday. The presence of these
seams, however, was not believed to
indicate any more dangerous character
of the rocks than had previously been
encountered, although it was thought
necessary to prop the roof with a number of upright timber braces.
The tunnel was Being bored by
opening a perpendicular embrasure in
the face of the bore and blasting the
sides to the right and left ot this' embrasure. Three blasts were arranged
by the drillers, the holes being charged
well toward the roof. The drillers
then withdrew and the three , blasts
were set off in rapid succession by
electricity, loosening the large quantities of earth and rock. The drillers
say tbat about ten minutes elapsed to
allow the smoke to clear away before
Timothy Sullivan, the foreman, and
Electrician Scbuette advanced, the
latter intending to string wires and
hang electric lamps to light the way.
They were followed By sixteen workmen. f.*o4'5teM--jb*-
The van guard of- the guard had
reached' the j broken stone when a
rumbling sound was heard. It grew In
volume with lightning rapidity. Those
in the rear had just time to turn about
and run when, with a deafening crash,
hundreds of tons of rock fall on the
men at the face of the boring. The
drillers and two or three Italians who
were out of reach of the deluge of
rocks, were knocked flat on their faces
by the rush of wind driven through the
tunnel.
When the road had ceased the cries
at Injured workmen echoed through
the tunnel. Two negroes, in charge ot
a tram car which they punning along
the track to be loaded with blasted
rock, rushed to the opening ■ at Two
Hundredth street, and Jo the Speedway
livery stables, a block away, and there
telephoned an alarm* to police headquarters. .Reserves were immediately
ordered to the scene while ambulances
were sent from several hospitals.   Am
A policeman and two ambulance
surgeons were the first to enter, the.
tunnel after the'accident. They ran
along the track, which was still lighted by incandescent lamps, until they
reached the great pile of boulders and
crushed rock. The first victim found,
an Italian laborer, was pinioned on a
shelf of the excavation by one leg, a
boulder ot about ten tons In weight
having fallen on the limb. He was
hanging head down, groaning In semiconsciousness. The rock which held
him waa restrained from falling by a
small piece of stone insecurely wedged
under it. An examination showed
that an effort to move the boulder
would cause the Italian to be completely crushed. The doctors then determined to amputate the pinioned leg,
and this was done In the light of the
ambulance lamp. The man, who was
not Identified, died later at a hospital.
The work of further rescue was delayed for some little time owing to the
threatening position of this boulder.
Meantime the cries and groans of those
under the mass of stone wrought such
excitement among the rescuers that
they were prepared to undertake any
danger to render assistance to the imprisoned injured.
„The cave-In released a natural
spring in the earth above the workmen and in a few moments a stream of
water was gushing in and trickling
about the feet of the workmen and to
some extent Interfering with the work
of rescue. The firemen and policemen cleared away the small pieces of
rock from about the big block of stone
and managed to get near Juno Pasquale
and Bataso Valantio, who were bruised
and crushed in the'back ahd legs. Both
men were taken to the hospital.
As soon as the injured in its immediate vicinity were removed the big stone
was blown up with powder and taken
away piece by piece. Back of this rock
was a fifty-ton block which had dropped from the roof of the tunnel. In a
crevice beneath It the bodies of two
men, one lying across the other, were
found. The upper man had been
crushed to death while the one underneath was alive, though his legs and
body were bruised and crushed. It was
an hour before he was extricated. The
big stone was partially blasted away
while it lay over him and a hydraulic
jack then elevated the remaining portion of it suflieiently to permit the
man's removal. He was Juno Baski.
He had been pinned under the body of
his dead fellow workman for hours,
part of the time conscious.
Four feet beyond the place where
Baski lay the crushed form of Alphonse
Armatello was discovered under a
quantity of small rook and shale. He
was quickly extricated and sent to a
hospital. Then were found the bodies
of several unidentified Italians, some of
them crushed beyond recognition.
Later the body of William Schuette,
the electrician, was found. It lay within ten feet of the face of the tunnel and
he had been killed instantly.
The most pathetic incident In connection with the accident was the finding of the body of Foreman Timothy
Sullivan. It was wedged and jammed
far beneath the stone and was not recovered until long after daylight. From
about 8 o'clock in the morning his 10-
year-old son Samuel had stood close
tb the policemen, who were helping the
laborers and blasters pick away the
debris, and could not be Induced to
leave until the body of his father had
been extricated and taken from the
tunnel.
Many Italian women congregated
about the exit, weeping ard lamenting
and rushing to the tram oar each time
it brought forth a body. The corpses
of Stanzione Brune, Louis Tlppio, Guis-
seppi Barone and three other unidentified Italians were found flattened on
tbe floor of the tunnel near where the
body of' Sullivan was recovered. The
heads of the men, in most cases, were
toward the exit, Indicating that they
had> plunged to the north when the
rush of stone was heard, In aa effort
to escape. Each bod"" was removed
only- on the lifting of tons upon tons
of rook. The laat two bodies found
were taken out at 10 o'clock tbis morning.
Rufus C. Hunt, superintendent, and
Richard Beyers, general foreman for
John B. McDonald, the contractor, who
is building the tunnel, were arrested
as soon as they reached the scene of
the disaster, but being experts in tunnel work and blasting, were permitted
to direct the work of rescue. Later a
magistrate remanded them to the coroner, who held them under $10,000 bail
each.
Coronor Jackson said he believed the
accident was caused by criminal negligence. The seams which appeared Saturday are believed to have been about
the great rock which fell directly in
the cbnter of the excavation. As soon
as this boulder, acting as a keystone,
was released, the stones on both sides,
which had been crushed loose, followed
It. The fall of stone continued some
minutes until all the dislodged pieces
had fallen to the tunnel.
From men who worked In the tunnel
it was learned that props 'had been used
to hold up the roof. The heavy timbers, twelve by twelve Inches, were
crumbled like toothpicks between the
tremendous weight of rocks In the
cave-in.
Situation at Part Dolny.
ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 25.—United
States Commercial Agent M. M. Lang-
home is at present here on his way
back to America from Port Dolny, the
new point on the eastern shore of the
Lioa Tung peninsula, about twenty
miles from Port Arthur. He says that
on the railway trip from Port Dolny he
counted several trains bearing Russian
soldiers going east. Port Dolny is not
progressing, according to the commercial agent, the trade remaining at
New Chwang and Port Arthur. The
latter place is favored by Viceroy
Alexieff.
To Stop Emigration.
LONDON, Oct. 26.—Speaking at Kil-
larney today, John Redmond, the Irish
leader, declared the time had arrived to
start a campaign against emigration.
One cause of emigration that ought to
be removed, he said, was the exaggerated prospects held out to Irish boys
and girls if they went to America. He
criticized Andrew Carnegie's recent
speech at Waterford and said the poorest laborer in Kerry was happier than
the majority of Irish workingmen in
the United States.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
SPEAKS II OPEN Aid.
'INTELLIGENT   8ERVICE   TO   GOD
AND TO THE STATE."
7,000
PEOPLE
LISTENED.
Full Text of the  Address—Eulogistic
Remarks    by Rev.    Nuttall, Arch- 1
bishop of tne West Indies.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—"Intelligent Service to God and to the State'!
was the subject of an address by President Roosevelt to the 7,000 people
who attended the public open air missionary service at Mount Saint Albans
this afternoon on the close of the
cathedral of Saint Peter and Paul.
The President was accompanied by
Mrs. Roosevelt, Admiral Dewey and
Brigadier General John M. Wilson.
After a procession led by the Marina
band in cassocks and coltas of a choir
of 500 voices, the clergy of the diocese
of Washington and the bishops of the
Angelican Communions in America,
the opening prayers were read by
Bishop Doane, of Albany. The President was introduced by Bishop Satterlee. At the close of the President's;
address the Most Rev. Enos Nuttall,
archbishop of the West Indies, asked
permission to say a word on behalf of
the  British  people.
Speaking as he said for them, he
told ot the "reverence and respect"
which all Englishmen feel for the
President of the United States and
for Theodore Roosevelt, "the man and
the Christian." He declared that England welcomed the expansion of the
United States into a world power, and
that if President Roosevelt should
visit England, he would receive the
greatest welcome ever extended a foreign visitor.
President Roosevelt said:
-"Bishop Satterlee, and to your representatives of the church both at
home and abroad, and to all of you,
my friends and fellow citizens:  I
"I extend greeting, and In your
name I especially welcome those who
are In- a:sense the guests of the nation
today. In what I am about to say to
you, I wish to dwell upon certain
thoughts suggested by three different
quotations:
f "in the first place, 'Thou shall serve
the Lord with all thy heart, with aU,
thy soul, and, with all thy mind;' the
next, 'Be ye therefore wise, as serpents and harmless as doves,;' and
finally, »in the collect which , you,
Bishop Doane, just read, that 'We being ready both in body and soul, may
therefore accomplish these thing*
which, thou commandest.'
' "To an audience such as this, I do
not have to say anything as to serving the cause of decency with heart
and with soul. I want to dwell, however, upon the fact that we have the
right to claim from you not merely
that you shall have heart in your
work, not merely that you shall put
your souls into it, b¥t that you shall
give the best that your minds have
got to it also. In the eternal and unending warfare for righteousness and
against evil, the friends of what is
good need to remember that in addition to being decent they must be efficient; that good intentions, high purposes, cannot be effective and a substitute for power to make those purposes, these intentions felt in action.
We must have the purpose and the intention. If our powers are not guided
aright, it is better that we should not
have them at all; but in addition to being guided aright, we must have the
power also; we must cultivate the
power also. In the second quotation
remember that we are told not merely to be harmless as doves, but also
to be wise as serpents. One of those
characteristic humorists whom this
country has developed and who veiled
under jocular phrases much deep wisdom—one of those men remarked that
is was much easier to be a harmless
dove than a wise serpent.
"In closing I want to call your attention to something that is especially
my business for the -time being, and
that is your business all the time, or
else you are unfit to be citizens of this
republic.
"In the seventh hymn, in the last
line, you all joined in singing, God
Save the State.' Do you intend merely to sing that, or to try to do it? If
you intend merely to sing it, your part
in doing It will be but small. The state
will be saved, if the Lord puts It into
the heart of theavrage man to so shape
his life that the state shall be worth
saving, and only on these terms. We
need civic righteousness. The best
constitution that the wit of man has
ever devised, the best institutions that
the noblest statesmen in the world ever
have reduced to practice by law or by
custom, shall* be of no avail if they are
not vivified by the spirit which makes
a state great by making it honored,
just and brave in the first place.
"I do not ask you   as   practical believers in applied Christianity to take
part one way or the other in matters
that are merely political.    There are
plenty of questions about which honest men can do and do   differ   very
greatly and very intensely, about which
the triumph of either    side   may be
compatible with the   welfare   of the
state—a lesser degree of welfare or a
greater degree of   welfare—but   compatible with the welfare of the state.
But there are great principles such as
those   which   Cromwell   would   have
called fundamentals, concerning which
no man haa a right to have but one
opinion.    Such a question is honesty.
If you have not honesty in the average
private citizen or public servant, then
all/else goes for nothing.   The abler a
man is the more dexterous, the shrewder, the bolder, while the more dangerous he is if he has not the root of right
living Ind* right? thinking in him—and
that is*in private life, and even more in
krablic life.   Exactly fis-'in time of war,
although you needed each fighting man
far  more  than - courage,  yet all else
counts for nothing If there ts not that
courage upon which to base it.   So in
our civil life, although we need that the
average man, in private life, that the
average public servant shall have far
more than honesty, yet all other qualities go for nothing, or for worse than
nothing, unless honesty underlies them
—not. only the honesty that keeps its
skirts technically clean, but the honesty, in such according to the spirit as
well as the letter of the law; the honesty that is aggressive,   the   honesty
that merely deplores corruption—it is
easy enough to deplore corruption—but
that which wars against and tramples
it under foot. .
"I ask for that type of honesty. I
ask for militant honesty; for the honesty of the kind that makes those who
have it discontented with themselves
as long as they have failed to do everything that in them lies to stamp out
dishonesty wherever it can be found,
in high places or in low. And let us
not flatter ourselves, we who live In a
country where the people rule, that it
is possible ultimately for the people to
cast upon airy but themselves the responsibilities for the shape that the
government and the social and political life of the community assume. I
ask than that our people feel quickened
within them the burning indignation
against wrong in every shape which
shall take effect tn condemnation—
'^speciality condemnation of that wrong,
whether found in private or in public'
life at the moment. I am asking only
for condemnation ' of wrong In its
crudest form, just, as'I made thecotn-
parison awhile ago when I asked that
a soldier shall have courage, I ask that
>we-have'a'right to demand of every
man who wears the uniform. It is not
so much a credit to him to have it as
11; is a shame unbearable to him if he
lacks it; so when I ask for honesty, I
ask for something which we have a
right to demand, not as entitling the
possessor to praise, bat as warranting
the easiest condemnation possible If he
lacks it.
"Surely in every movement for the
betterment of life,our life socially in the
truest and deepest sense, our life political,- we have a special right to ask
not merely support, but leadership
from those of tbe church. We ask that
you here, to whom much has been
given, will remember, will remember
that from you rightly much will be expected in return. For all ot us here
the lines have been cast in pleasant
places. Each of us has been given one
talent, five, ten, and each of us is in
honor bound to use that talent or those
talents aright and to show that at the
end we are entitled to the praise as
having done well as a faithful servant."
FARM HAND MURDERS
HIS TWO SMALL SONS.
HIS WIFE HAD REFUSED TO LIVE
WITH   HIM.
JUDGE CLANCY WILL'
NOT LEAVE BUTTE.
BAITED CHILDREN  WITH CANDY.
Carried   Them  to   Fence   Corner  and
Shot Them—His Reason for the
Horrible   Deed.   '
DISCUSSING   FAR
EA8TERN  SITUATION,
Conference Bdtween Cabinet Ministers and Japanese Statesman.
YOKOHAMA, Oct. 25.—At the conference held here between cabinet ministers and the elder statesmen of Japan,
when the far eastern crisis was discussed, there were present among
others, Privy Councillor Yamagata,
Marshal Yamma, Count Inouye, Privy
Councillor Count Matsukata, Baron
Komura, the foreign ministers, War
Minister General Terauchl and Baron
Yamamoto, minister of marine, in addition to Premier Katsura and! Marquis
Ito. ^pj
It is officially reported here that
Haghiwara Shulchi, secretary of the
Japanese legation at Seoul Corea, and
his party, have been prevented by the
Russians from landing at Yongampho.
Thereupon the party proceeded and
landed at Wliu.
Japanese reports of a visit to the alleged signal station* at Yongampho are
to the effect that there is a fort there.
British Ambassador to United States
LONDON, Oct 25.—King Edward has
approved the appointment of Sir Henry
Mortimer Durand, the British ambassador at Madrid, as British ambassador
to the United States to succeed the late
Sir Michael Herbert
MARION, Ind., Oct 25.—Jesse Module, a farm hand, murdered his two
sons, aged 5 and 7 years, this afternoon and left their bodies in a fence
corner.
While a mob was forming to catch
and lynch him, McClure drove on a
run to this city and gave himself up.
He has been secreted by the authorities who fear attempts at violence.
McClure lives near Franklin and had
separated from his wife a year ago,
she refusing to live with him and returning with her children to her
lather's home. At noon today McClure
hired a rig at Elmwood and drove
to the Kilgore farm, the owner being
Mrs. McClure's father. He found the
children playing in the front yard and
induced them, with candy, to take a
ride with him. He drove a mile up 'the
road, carried the children to a fence
corner and shot them with a revolver.
The older one was found dead a few
minutes later, and the younger was
dying, a piece of the candy being still
in h{s mouth.
McClure was pursued by a crowd of
young farmers bent on deadly vengeance. The alarm was given and from
all surrounding towns armed bands
formed and started after him, but he
succeeded in reaching the jail in
safety.
To the turnkey af the jail McClure
admitted killing the children but said
it was because his wife had left him.
He said:
"When sbe refused to see me I decided to be revenged and drove down
the road to a little clump of small
trees. My two children were asleep in
the buggy. When I stopped the Jolt
awoke my little boy, Dee. He looked
up to me and said: 'Papa, what lire
you going to dolL^fitt^J^"**^
his eyes and .,tc*o^^JteJm''tfrom*-'iiiiy,:
pocket ^!'J(^'^S^|M^'s^^e*i'
Hilling him insmnfi^^ ^*ne 'shot awoke
little HomsY, "Win* itr5c^'lBliff*'by the
shou*lder ind fired a shot Into his head.
ThW^otft fell to'"the bottom v of the
buggy. I dfOVe ttfe1,horse to the side
of the road and lifted both bodies out
and laid them out on ■ ttel'iwithered
grass. I then drove d1Ire<JtlT'to• Marion
to the jail and am here to give myself
Up. 'IIM.JI
"The neighbors will lynch-me 'when
they find out what I have done. I do
not care what you do with me. I am
ready to die and expect to hang for
this crime. All that I ask is to see
that my dear little ones are burled."
Late this evening it was learned that
a mob was being formed to come to
Marion tonight and lynch McClure.
Deputy Sheriff Williams then spirited
the murderer away from the Jail and
started'with him for Indianapolis.
Most Important Day's Development in
Copper War Conditions.
* BUTTE, Mont., Oct. 25.—The most
Important development in the copper
war conditions today was the statement of Judge William Clancy that he
will not leave the city but will do all
he can to expedite the case from his
jurisdiction to the supreme court. ,
A committee from the miners' union
called on the judge this afternoon and
had a long consultation with him on
the subject of postponing his hunting
trip. The judge had already informed
Mayor Mullens that he had decided to
give up his trip. A large number of
miners" gathered at the depot when it
was learned that the judge intended to
leave. Every corner of the city is being guarded closely ahd a number of
special policemen have been pressed
into service. All Saturday night four
policemen guarded the home of Judge
Clancy and the home of Judge Harney.
Telegrams were sent last night to
Senator W. A. Clark, in this city; Governor Toole, at Helena, and Representative Joseph Dixon, at Washington,
and J. J. Hill, president of the Great
Northern, asking each of them to act
with the other gentlemen named, and
Senator Gibson with a view to arrangements between the two waring
factions, keeping open the smelters, j
Late last night favorable telegrams
were received from Senator Clark and
James J. Hill and Governor Toole.
DOWIE  MADE  A
QUIET DAY OF IT.
Bishop Ridley College Burned.
ST. CATHERINES. Ont., Oct 26.—
The Bishop Ridley college, located
here, was totally destroyed by fire tonight. The students all escaped, but
a number of them lost their personal
effects. Loss on the building, $42,000;
insurance, $25,000.
Master of Trains Killed.
LANCASTER, Ky., Oct. 25.-—A. N.
Bentley, master mechanic of Livingston division of the Louisville and Nashville, today shot and killed B. N. Roller, master of trains. The shooting occurred in front of the court house.
Will Have Something to Say About
New York Reports.
NEW YORK, Oct. 28—Today was the
most quiet day that Dowie and his host
have had since their Invasion of New
York. Three services were held in this
early morning, afternoon and evening,
at the two latter of which the Garden
was fairly well filled. The proceedings
were marked by the absence of any a*j-
tempt at disturbance. The afternoon
sermon presented'fne novel features,
being devoted '-to'Dowie's customary
denunciations of Masonry and Roman
Catholic's ^H
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the* New York ■ reporters that woffilt"
make all his previous utterances appear mlldr .by comparison*
AN ERIE BRAKEMAN WAS
::'■■/ OKILLED IN CORRY YARDS.
Fred   McCooey  of  Meadviile  Stepped
In Front of Gondola Car.
' ' GORKY, Oct. 25.—(Special.)—Frei j
MoOooey, of Meadviile, a brakeman oh
Erie freight trah* No. 38, Kent to Salamanca, was killed in the Erie yards
in this city at 3 o'clock yesterday, afternoon. »*-flKP
McCooey's train was stopped on a
siding and he was making an examination of the air brakes between two cars.
Having completed his work he stepped
out and upon a parallel track. Ah*
other engine was shoving a gondola
car down towards the depot and he
failed to see the danger. He was
knocked down and the car passed over
bis body, severing both legs and one
arm. He lived for fifteen minutes, dying before the arrival of an ambulance,
Mrs. McCooey was notified and came to.
Corry on train 4 Sunday morning.
Later in the day the remains were,
taken to =*3teamburg,.-near Olean, for
burial.
125.00 reward paid by Dr. B. A.
Smith, Erie, Pa., for a case of piles,
ttot cured with his Sure Pile Cure. "A
new discovery." 75 cents, druggists
or mail.    o8-dmon&thur w2taw lyr«,,
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