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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 29, 1903)
THE MOKNIXG OEEGONIAN, THUKSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1903. BLOWN OFF Mountain Torn Up Gigantic Blast. by TWO PERSONS INJURED Caught in Huge Wave Started by the Explosion. ROAD COVERED WITH DECR1S One Hundred Thousand Tons of Rock for Use In Building Columbia Jetties Are Dislodged at the Bugby Quarry. EUGBY CHUTES, Or.. Oct. 23.-(Speclal.) I -By the explosion of CO tons of powder at Bugby quarry today the top of a mountain was blown off, two persons were slightly Injured, a gigantic wave was created in the Columbia River that submerged a small island, and the track of the Astoria & Columbia River Railroad was covered for a distance of several hundred feot. The telegraph wires were torn down and the earth at the foot of the mountain was covered with a chaotic mass of rock, earth and trees. When the explosion was over a mountain that had stood as high as an eight-story building was a wreck. The damage to the railroad is the loss of 1000 feet of trackage slid Into the river, estimated at between $50,000 and 5100.000. The explosion was a gigantic blast fired for the purpose of tearing loose and throw ing down Into the quarry 100,000 tons of rock to bo used at the Columbia River jetties. Tho persons Injured are Xr. Rob ert Smith, of Astoria, and lieutenant Fries, of Portland. They were washed Into the Columbia by the wave and bruised by floating debris.-' Their Injuries are not serious. A Mountain of Rock. The mountain that was blasted rose ab ruptly hack of the quarry, and was but a huge pile of rock covered wltli sufficient soli to produce a ncavy growth of trees. Tunnels were run Into the mountain about half way to the top, and In such a manner that the blasted part would be thrown out towards the river. Sixty tons of powder were tamped into these tunnels. Long fuses were attached and run to a project ing cliff, 40 yards away, where the blast operator was to stand and touch the match. Everything was gotten In read iness for the gigantic blast early In the morning. The 400 men employed at the quarry were sent to the cliffs two miles away, that they might be in no danger. There they posted themselves In places of safety where they could witness the spec tacle. The operator was the only person permitted to be close to the mountain. Hundreds of persons gathered as near as permitted, to witness tho spectacle. Match Touched to Fuse. Just as tho clock sounded the hour of midday the operator touched the match to the fuse. The scene that followed as de-. scribed by those who saw it was this. There was a flash of red, and the whole mountain looked as If it were helchlng forth a hell of fire. Almost before the flash was gone It was hidden in clouds of black smoke that boiled forfh. Then there came a report that rent the air and made the hills re-echo with a reverberating rum ble as of a mighty cannonading. The earth nhook as with tho aguo. Trees, dirt and rock went flying Into the air and fell like rain upon the earth below. The great mass of tho dislodged rock slid down tho mountain, sweeping everything before It and crashing into the Columbia. This caused a glgantlo wave at least 23 feet high. It raced across the river with the speed of an express train, carrying quantities of debris with it and complete ly submerging a low-lying Island near the opporfte bank. The wave continued until . it washed high upon tho Washington shore, four miles distant, and spent Its force upon the bank. Caught by a Huge Wave. Dr. Smith and Lieutenant Fries were standing on the bank of the river a mile from the mountain, thinking themselves safe from danser. The wave caught them before they knew it, and. swept them Into the river. They were forced to battle for their lives to escape. They were struck by floating debris and were bruised, but not seriously Injured. A half dozen of the several hundred per sons who went out to witness the blast were caught by the wave and drenched, but were not Injured. When the clouds of smoke and dust hod cleared away after the explosion, nearly 100,000 tons of rock lay piled in utter con' fusion at the base of the wrecked moun tain. The railroad track was wrecked and covered with the debris for a distance of several hundred feet, and the telegraph wires were down for a distance of several hundred yards. The train service was blocked, but busi ness Is being conducted by transferring around the obstruction. The telegraph wires wejp repaired during the afternoon. The whole force of employes at the quar ries was put to work clearing the tracks of the road, and through trains will bo able to run tomorrow. It is expected. The blast was as successful as could be wished by the company, and enough rock has been made available to supply the jetty work, for which it is to be used, for some time to come. Major Langntt and Assistant Engineer Hegardt were presen to witness the blast. Coast, and still has some valuable prop erty In this section. Including a tract of timber land on Coos Bay and a largo tract of coal land on Bear Creek, Mon tana. "The city looks much improved," said he, as he shook hands w,ith an Oregonian reporter at the Portland Hotel. "One can see the change after an interval of six years. It has the appearance of solidity which characterizes the Eastern cities." "You look well, Mr. Smith," said tho re porter, as he glanced at the ruddy com plexion, the bright, clear, smiling eyes and the erect form of the speaker. His gray hair is the only sign which betrays the approach of old age. "Yes, I may be a little shopworn, but I am not ready to be condemned," ho said, with a smile. "These cities on tho Coast are no long er dependent on Wall street for capital to develop their tributary country, as they were formerly. They have accumulated capital and become financial centers on their own account In fact, the influence of Wall street diminishes the further you get away from It. It is now controlled by very few men, and they can do any thing they wish. The power of Rockefel ler Is enormous, for he and his people are directors of so many companies, and thus have access to tho books: They know where every share of stock Is held, and how much is held for investment, and how much is In the hands of brokers, and, therefore, on the market. It Is, therefore, perfectly easy for them to send any stock up or down 10 or 15 points to suit their purposes. An attempt was made by itockefeller to arrange with Hill and Morgan for a trust of all their railroads, but Morgan would not go into it. But it will come, and we shall ultimately have a railroad trust In the hands of tho, Gov ernment. "I tried to find out who was back of the Coos Bay, Roseburg & Eastern road, which Major Kinney Is building. It was said that Moffatt, of Denver, was backing it, but I asked Moffatt, and he denied it. There was also a report that the Goulds were backing It, but you cannot get any thing out of them. "They are having a great time in Mon tana over the Helnze war with the Amalgamated. Public sympathy seems to be with Heinzer not so much for his own sake as because he is fighting the Stand ard Oil crowd, which controls the Amalgamated." HE KEVTSITS OLD SCENES. Sharp NJ)T HIS LONG LOST SON. Benjamin Faker Deluded Hechtman. Elijah Smith, Who Played Leading Part in Coast Railroad Building. After an absence of six years, Elijah Smith, of Boston, who was Intimately as soclatod with the railroad development of the Pacific Northwest, Is again in Port land. He was the representative of the Oregon Transcontinental Company, which was one of the subsidiary companies or ganizea oy .tienry viuara wnen lie was building the Northern Pacific, and ho aft erwards became president of tho Oregon Improvement Company, which owned tho Pacific Coast steamer line, the coal mines near Seattle and several short lines of railroad on Puget Sound and in Cal ifornia. When that company was sold by the receiver, It was reorganized a.s the Pacific Coast Company, and Mr. Smith's connection with it ceased. But he has al ways a deep Interest in the North Pacific From a long-lost son to an impostor, charged by the old man whom he claimed as father, Is Che transition through which has passed Marcus Hechtman, the namo which the clever fakir usurped from the real lost son of the Hechtmans. The Arabian Nights dream of Benjamin Hechtman, a second-hand dealer of 251 Couch street, and his wife and daughters has ended. In the place of an affectionate son, lost 15 years ago, and brought back to their arms by a whim of fate, Is a shallow impostor, who through his intl mate knowledge of their lost son s lire was able to pass himself off as their miss ing son In very truth. Bogus scars, minute knowledge of the family history, and a remarkable resem blance, have all played ports In tho little romance which has surrounded the Hecht? man family. They live at 210 Hall street. Yesterday afternoon the young man sat in a chair at the police station, answering the question leveled at his swarthy head by the detectives. uutsiae tno. private omce or me uniei walked Benjamin Hechtman, bent and broken by the additional sorrow which Mad fallen upon him. He says when not supplied with all the money he desired the young man threatened to kill his sisters. Last September, when tho young man walked into his dingy little store on Couch street and patiently waited for the eyes of the old man to Identify him as his long- lost son by the scar upon his' face, Hecht man was an old man. When he believed that before him stood the boy who had been spirited away from the home 15 years ago, when but a child of 7 years, tho elderly Jew looked '20 years younger In an hour. But now he realized that he had been defrauded. Instead of a son he had been nursing a fakir In his family. And all the years which Joy had rolled from his coun tenance rolled back again, and in addition were other marks of sorrow, for he knew that his own son was still out in the great world, wandering somewhere but where? No arrest was made, though legal pro ceedings may yet result. How much money the young man has obtained from his supposed father cannot be learned, as tho old man guards the secrets of his money bags closely. That the young man is not his own son Hechtman is positive. Tho scar upon his face by which he was first identified, was there, but tho mark of circumcision was lacking, so the old man knew at once that not only was the impostor not his own child but that he did not belong to tho Hebrew race. "No, he s not my boy; I know ho isn't. said Hechtman yesterday, with a pitiful tono of sorrow in his voice. "He's an Italian and a fakir." At the time when young Hechtman as ho called himself was interviewed by the reporters, he told a peculiar story, and re fused to give many of the details neces sary to any account of himself. He said that he had been kidnaped by a red-haired woman, who, in company with a dark man, hurried him across the continent to Europe, where he was taught the tricks of an acrobat. "I won't tell tho names of the people' I was with, because I expect to catch them some day and take my revenge out of them," the young man said on tho night when the Hechtmans were feasting him as the long-lost son Just returned to their arms. The appearance of the Park School. which he had attended, brought back to his mind his almost-forgotten childhood. but it was through an accident that he wandered into his father's store on Couch street, he said. Apparently tho clever young Italian fakir had met the real missing son of the Hechtmans, who was stolen under exactly the same circumstances. He had learned every Instance of the young man's life and parentage from him. When he reached Portland, out of money, it Is supposed, he determined to avail himself of the knowl edge he had acquired in this way. To aid In this deception he had marked bogus scars upon his face, which the Hecht mans recognized as counterparts of those upon the face of their own son. He was able to baffle the eyes of a wise old father and to deceive a mother, who, without hesitation, received him as the child whom she had so long mourned as dead. ' RECONSTRUCTION "SALE. Here is the place and now Is the time for the best bargains on earth in corsets, warm underwear, . golf gloves, handker chiefs, umbrellas, fine dress goods, silks, high-grade black goods, notions, men's un derwear. Mount Hood shlrt9; kid gloves, 50c C5c, 87c, 95c, and fine tailored suits, jackets, capes, furs, wrappers, children's cloaks, from the closlng-out sale of Claf lln, New York, purchased for 65c on the dollar. We have the proof for all state ments. M' ALLEN & M'DONNELL, The Wrecked Corner. Third and Morrison. "In the Heart ot the Continent." 11,125 MILES Of railway east of Chicago, Peoria, St. Louis and the Mississippi River, with eastern terminals at New York, Boston and Montreal, aro embraced in the NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES For tickets, information, etc. call on W. C. SEACHREST, , "North Pacific Coast Agent. 132 Third Street, Portland, Or. W. B. Jerome. General Agent. 134 Monroe Street. Chicago, Hi. Consumption has cured SUU on the market. Merchandise Purchased on Credit today, tomorrow or Saturday goes on November Account Main Substation U. S. Postoffice KTnfrlnVe- Money orders sold, letters and packages registered, stamps sold in any quantity. Meier Frank Company We're sole Portland agents for the celebrated "Keiser" Neckwear for women "Rub dry" Bath Towels made of long fiber Egyptian cotton i THE GREAT SHOE SALE Values Yon Can't Equal Anywhere The most important shoe sale of the year is in progress here. Judicious selling is absolutely just as necessary as judicious buying That accounts in a great measure for our growing shoe business. The more footwear you buy here the more impressed you become that this store is a "Good place to buy good shoes." These extraordinary values must be of interest to every woman who has children to shoe or needs footwear for herself. $5 Shoes $3.55 400 pairs of J. & T. Cousins' Famous Shoes for women, patent leather, pat ent vici and kid with stock or patent tips, French and Cuban-heel styles, every pair the regular $5.00 values, for this sale only at the low price of, pair $2.50 to $3.00 Slippers $1.58 Twenty-live styles of women's $2.50 to $3.00 Slippers, handsome dress styles in fancy and black leathers, ail sizes, we're eleaning up the entire lot at the exceptionally low price of, to pair 4 400 pairs of Misses' Kid Shoes, sizes 11 to 2, low heel and spring heel, great values at the low price of, dr 5 pair P OJ Children's kid and patent leather Shoes, Blucher style, spring heel, sizes 5 to 8, pair Children's Kid Shoes, lace or button styles, sizres 5 to 8 for, pair Little Gents' Vici Kid Shoes, heel or spring-heel, satin calf and kangarette calf, plain or quilted sole, 11 to 13$, pair Infants' fancy leather Shoes in sizes 2 to SI, regular $1.25 values, o er for this sale, pair OJC Sale continues through the week. 500 pairs of J. & T. Cousins' $3.50 Shoes for women, turned and welt sole, vici kid, stock or patent tip, light or heavy sole, regular LC $3.50 values, pair 600 pairs of ladies' $2.50 and $3.00 Shoes fine kid lace styles in heavy or light soles, all sizes and widths, the regular $2.50 and $3.00 values for 1 AQ this sale only at, pair Misses', Children's Shoes in vici kid and box calf light and heavy soles, $2.00 and $2.50 Shoes... $1.50 $3.00 Shoes reduced to ... $ 1 .75 Misses' and Children's Shoes in sizes 8 to 10j at these reductions: $1.75, $2.00 Styles now. .$1.35 $ 1 .50 Stylcreduced to .... $ 1 . 1 0 Misses' Patent Colt Bluchers Sizes 1 1 to 2, $2.50 styles $ 1.85 Sizes 8i to 11, $2 styles.. $1.60 Infants' Shoes in red, tan and black, sizes 2 to 5, great special values at, per pair Boys' Shoes Boys' Satin Calf Lace Shoes inlain and quilted sole, Sizes 2 1-2 to 5 1-2, reduced to, pr-.$1.52 Sizes 13 1-2 to 2, reduced to, pr $1.22 Sizes 11 to 13, reduced to, pr $1.02 IN KANGAROO CALF Sizes 2 1-2 to 5 1-2, $2.25 value $1.72 Sizes 13 1-2 to 2, $2.00 value $1.52 Sizes 11 to 13, $1.75 value $1.32 French Lingerie 4 Off Choose from our en tire stock of beauti ful hand-made French Lingerie at 1-4 off regular prices. Mag nificent gowns, chem ise, corset covers, Drawers and Skirts, made of the finest In dia cottons, hand made, hand embroi dered, real val. and torchon lace trimmed Immense variety of styles in all lines Every garment our own direct importation and originally marked at unusually low selling prices. One-fourth off is the inducement for this week. Piso's Cure for coughs for 40 Tears. Gowns . Chemise Skirts . , Drawers $3.00 to $35.00 $1.00 to $12.00 $2.50 to $45.00 $1.75 to $12.00 Corset Covers $1.50 to $12.00 John S. Brown Linens "Standard of the world," de manded by large hotels, board ing houses and railroad cor porations for their dining serv ice. Why? Because their wearing qualities are far su perior to any otn,er make. Pat terns are the best, finish is un equaled. Our October Linen Sale offers these values: W-inch nll-llnen half-bleached Table Damask In thn very best pat- COp terns, per yard oot. 72-inch all-linen half-bleached Tabic Damask, largo variety yOp of the best patterns, yard 72 'Inch all-linen bleached SaUc Damask, fine quality! the best fiQp patterns, per yard - Special fine all-linen bleached Satin Damask, 72-Inch. C-i fQ beauUful designs, at, yard P,,uo All-linen bleached Satin Damask Napkins, 22s22-Inch, CO A( unusual value at, dozen 4.tv All-linen "bleached Satin Damask Napkins, best patterns, "IK 24x24 Inches, bis value, doz JJOJJ All-linen Satin Damask Tray Cloths, hemstitched, 20x S Adr 2S-inch. great value, at, each Ms Stationery Bargains Cleaning up all broken lines of stationery at ridiculously low prices. Satin finish box papers, 21 sheets paper. 24 Cn envelopes, box v'- Ruled and unruled satin finish box papers, only ' -J r box 50 boxes blue unruled paper and envelopes, 24 of each, 7 r box Cocobola ruled and unruled papers and envelopes, white, pink and blue, at Cr box Unruled Laurel Hill paper and envelopes, o box .ot- Chlflton fibre paper and envelopes, ruled and unruled, at, Q box v Cnruled bond p'aper and envelopes, great special, 1 3c 23c box bond papers " and envel opes, reduced to, 1 ,1 r box Balboa fibre papers, different col ors. 23c values, Ac box 1 Hurlburt's "Roxboro" blue and lavender papers, unruled, 1 fir box 1 Golf club kid finish, blue and lav? nSer: 14c Imperial china silk, fine thin pa rser, great value, 1 6c Hurlburt's blue and white unruled. 3Gc 'alue, 0 1 box 1 - Hurlburt's bond-ollve gray un ruled Puritan wove and Vene tian bond, all at, 1 Qr box iC Royal Highland papers, box Hurlburt's 40c papers and envelopes, box Kelso bond, 4S sheets paper, 48 envelopes, blue and white, 2()C Hurlburfs Holland blue. 50c value, 0-1 r box 1 C 21c 26c Meier & Frank Co. "Sbepplnc Ceater or the Northwest." Meier & Frank Co. 'Shopping Center of tho Northwest." "Peninsular Stoves, Ranges and Wood Heaters Fifty models Every good size and style Basement. Trunks Traveling Bags, Suit Cases, Telescopes, etc., immense variety, lowest prices Third Floor. Tomorrow, the ?32d Friday Surprise Sale Around the Store Great sale of Laces and Dress Trimmings. Men's Underwear very low priced. Carpet Remnants Great bargains. Great Values in Boys' Clothing. Special Values in Framed Pictures. Black Taffeta Silks greatly reduced. Great Special Ribbon Bargain. J9 r5"Willamette Sewing Machines 7.95 each For the 732d Friday Surprise Sale A startiing offering of high-grade "Wil lamette" swell-front drop - head Sewing Machines, part of the new carload just received from the factory, at the low est price ever re corded for a strictly high-grade machine having all the latest and most modern improvements, ful ly guaranteed for 1 0 years and the equal of any $50 agency machine on the mar ket. We've sold hundreds of "Wil lamette" Sewing Machines during the past two years Sending out on an average of five a week through our mail order department. We have yet to hear of one complaint. Instead we can show you dozens of unsolicited testimonials regarding the splendid satisfaction they are giving. We want to get more "Willamettes" into Portland homes, recognizing the superior advertising advantages obtained from having them in daily use where the neighbors can see the practical workings. That's the only reason for this offering. All are new machines having ar rived only last Suturday. Oak or walnut, piano finish, swell front, five drawers, full ball-bearing, best head, experienced demonstrater to teach you the workings, full set of the newest attachments with every machine Mail orders will be filled at the sale price See Fifth street Window Display A $50.00 agency machine for 17.95 Great Hosiery Bargains Three specials in ladies' and children's Hosiery for today, tomorrow and Saturday, a big saving on each item. 50c Hose, Three Pairs $1 1000 pairs of ladies' fine two-thread Maco Hose, Hermsdorf dye, all sizes, best 50c value on the market, for this sale, Three Pairs $1.00 Ladies' medium weight cotton Hose, Hermsdorf dye, high spliced heel, double sole, all u sizes, great special value at, per pair. . . I w Children's "Pony" and "Athletic" heavy ribbed cotton Hose, fast color, double knee and sole, 25c value at, per pair 18c Ladies' $28.00, $30.00, $32.00 Here's a chance to save 'considerable on this season's best Coats About 40 in the lot secured by the cloak buyer at a great concession All the latest and most stylish effects, military cape and collar, fancy buttons and braid trimmed, zibe lines, meltons, cheviots, beavers and ker seys, black, tan, castor, gray and red, buttons are gun metal, brass or nickel, all sizes, regular $28.00, $30.00, $32.00 values, while they last, your choice at $23.85 Each Second Floor Take Elevator $2.50 UMBRELLAS $1.69 An introductory sale of our Oregon "Rainproof" Umbrellas The best Um brella value we ever offered Excellent union taffeta --covering, tight roller, bulb runner, pearl, princess, bone4 horn and metal handles, plain or trimmed styles in great variety Every one regular $2.50 val ues Choose from this lot of 300 at the low price of $.1.69 Each