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. . THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAX, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1909. a - 7 b 111 , . , II HOPE OF FURTHER RESCUE GIVEN OP Fatal Black Damp Fills Second Vein Where Men Might Gather. ONE OF SURVIVORS DIES Rescue Party, Hemmed In by Fire, Is Saved by Prompt Action of Men Above, Who Detect Smoke, Hurry to Aid. CHERRY. HI.. Nov. ;3. Hop that there might still be alive some of the 189 men known to be entombed In the St. Paul mine was practically abandoned to day. An exploration Into the second vein, where it was believed many miners might hare barricaded themselves and managed to exist on oats and corn pro visions for the mules, showed that large portions of the tunnels had collapsed. It Is believed many men were buried under the. debris and 100 bodies may never be dug up. Fire was still raging in these tunnels and the back portions, where im prisoned miners could have found a re treat, were said to be- full of the fatal black damp. Last Hope Is Blasted. "What little hope we had was given up when we penetrated to what is known as the overcast," said w. w. Taylor, general manager of the mine. "In that place pure air would have been found If It could have been found anywhere, and the miners, aware of it. would have re treated there. When we got into that place we found it empty, both of bodies and of live men. We listened in vain to detect a signal or any other sign of life. Cherry continues to be a village of mourning. The death today of one of the survivors brought to the surface last Saturday reduced the total number of those saved out of the 310 lost in the disaster to 19. Almost all the 42 bodies taken out yesterday were Identified. Rescuers met with great obstacles. In one Instance fire broke out in a tunnel, temporarily cutting off the escape of 26 men who had ventured 400 feet from the hoisting shaft. The smell of smoke gave the warning above and the rescuers were reached and brought to safety by another rescue party. Mine Inspector In Charge. Following a telegram sent to Governor Deneen by the executive board of the Miners' Union asking that someone be designated by the state to take charge of the mine. Mine Inspector Hector Mc Allister was placed In charge. Despite the fire and the falling in of the tunnels, the rescue work will be pushed night and day. A dlaary was found today in the clothin? of one of the bodies taken from the mine yesterday. It was begun on the day of the disaster and was written by Samuel T. Howard, 21 years old. It describes the slow death of the men by encroaching black damp, and refers to Samuel's efforts to save his brother. Alfred, 19 years old, who died by his side. The diary follows: "Alive at 10:30 o'clock yet. By Sam P. Howard. Brother Alfred Is with me yet. A good many dead mules and men. I tried to save some, but came almost losing myself. If I am dead give my diamond rirw? to Mamie Robinson. The rlns is coming at the postoffice. Henry can have the ring I have in my good t-liJTnes. The only thing regret is that my brother could not help my mother out after I am dead and gone. Writes to Stop Thinking. "I tried my best to get out, but could not. I saw Jim Jamieson and Steve Timke lynns? along the road and could not stand it any longer. It is five min utes past 11 o'clock and the air Is fine, but sometimes it Is so bad it almost puts a fellow's light out. It Is some thing fierce to see men and mules lying down all over like that. "To keep me from thinking I thought I would write these few lines. There is rock falling all over. We have our buckets full of water, sump water, and we drink it and bathe our heads with It. Ten to 12 o'clock. 7 after 1 o'clock. 3 o'clock, 3 o'clock and poor air and black damp: 4:15 o'clock change of place. One man tried to get out and could not get back; 7:50 o'clock, tired, hungry and sleepy, but 1. could stand quite & bit of this if I could get out of this hole. Hope Given Cp Sunday. "7:i0 o'clock in the morning. This is Sunday. There is no air. We fanned ourselves with the lids of our buckets; 25 after 9 and black damp coming both ways; 25 after 10 we gave up all hopes. We have gone all we could. The fan had better start above soon; 15 after 10 A. M. Sunday, we are still alive. The only hope is the fan. 1 think I won't have strength to write pretty soon. 15 after 12 P. M. Sunday If they cant' give us, air we will make fans ourselves. We take our turn at the fan. We have three of them going. 27 to 3 P. M. and the black damp Is com ing in on us. Only for the fans we would be dead. 11 to 4 P. M. dying for the want of air. We have six fans mov ing. One fan after another, 15 feet apart. 25 after 10 P. M. Sunday evening We all had to come back. We can't move front or backwards. We can stand It with our fans until Monday morning. Gradually Grows Weak. "15 after 2 A. M. Monday morning Am still alive. We are cold, hungry, weak, sick and everything else. Alfred Howard if still alive. 9:15 A. M. Monday mora ine. Still breathing. Something better turn up or we will soon be gone. 11:15 A. M. Still alive at this time. IS to 1 P. M. Monday. The lives are going out. I think this is our last. We are getting weak. Alfred Howard as well as all of us." The diary was scribbled In lead pencil on loose leaves torn from an account book. INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR VIEWS OF COLONEL JOHN JACOB ASTOR'S YACHT HincsissnMnnnEasn k: " - ,S5 si mm 1 1 vjiP'tlf: !- " . ?-w j mmsmmrngt lISRiiWpifil mimmmmnmm "DON'T HANG," PLEA OF PROSECUTION State Asks Conviction, but Not Death of Woman Who Slew Lover. UNWRITTEN LAW FLOUTED Alma Bell's Case to Go to Jury To day Letters Showing Charac- ter of Compact Admitted as Evidence. 1HTY FOKtJOTTEX TO AID Lira Free Knlry t.iicn to Miners' Ilescue Appliances. WASHINGTON. Nov. "3. Timely, be'ause of the fearful mine disaster at t'herry. III., a liberal interpretation has been given by the Treasury Depart ment to paragraph 62S of the new tariff, which provides for the free entry for "miners' rescue appliances." These appliances, in the language of the act, are "Designed for emergency use in mines where artificial breath ing Is necessary in the presence of pniKOnous gases to aid in the saving of human life.'' The department today gave instruc tions to admit free of duty all miners' rescue appliances and parts thereof. AUBURN. Cal.. Nov. 23. By noon to morrow the fate of Alma Bell, the Illi terate young mountain girl on trial for the murder of her lover, Joe Arraes, will be in the hands of the 12 men who have heard the evidence and will decide whether the ycung woman Is guilty of murder, was temporarily Insane at the time, or was Justified according to the unwritten law, invoked by the defense, in shooting and killing Armes when lie, as she alleges, was deaf to her pleadings. rejected her and refused to keep his promise of marriage to. shield her from dishonor. Pale and showing the strain of the trial and the grief of. her incarceration since last May. the young woman sat with downcast eyes and heard herself de nounced in a crowded courtroom as a deoraved woman whose licentious passion turned into Jealousy, not her sullied honor. caused her to kill Armes. She listened to savage attacks upon her character by Prosecuting Attorney .Hamilton, who opened his argument to the Jury with the reauest that the 12 men bring in verdict of murder, but a verdict the penalty of which was not the scaffold. Hanging Xot Asked. "I do not believe in hanging women and I do not want you to bring in such verdict." declared the prosecutor. "A woman has never been hanged in the State of California and I trust that the historv of our state in that respect will never be changed. I would not and could not hang a woman myself and therefore -would not and will not ask you to do so." Hamilton assailed the "unwritten law" justification, and temporary insanity, the plea of the defense, with ridicule and irony, scathingly arraigning the char acter of Alma Bell. He declared that an acoulttal of Alma Bell would virtually amount to an encouragement of immoral ity on the part of young women and would lead many to believe that they were upheld by the law in their low and vicious careers. Hamilton, who was retained in the case as special prosecutor, closed his ad dress with an appeal to the jury for a verdict of guilty, "not to avenge the dead man. but to uphold the law and to establish the rule that a woman is not justified in killing a man where both are equal sinners." Defense's Plea Justification. Counsel for Alma Bell began argument for the defense at a night session tonight and the prosecution Is expected to pre sent its closing address by noon tomor row. The case has attracted unusual atten tion by reason of the defense resting Its case upon the broad ground of justifica tion and the unwritten law and a sec ondary plea of temporary insanity. The entire morning session was devoted to the arguments over the proposition of offering as evidence letters that had been written bv Alma Bell i to Joe Armes. Judge Arnot at first ruled that the let ters should not he introduced, but after an argument by District Attorney Tuttle. showing that the letters proved the al lowed meretricious charater of the bond between Alma and Joe, the court allowed the admission of those letters tliat showed the engagement had been canceled and which were plainly dated. MAYBRAY TRIAL GOES OVER Promoter of Alleged Fake Race to , Be Tried March 8. COUNCIL. BLUFFS. Iowa. Nov. 13. Judge Smith MePherson. of the United States District Court, today Issued an order postponing until March 8 the trial of J. C. Maybray and others, indicted on charges of using the mails to pro mote fake racing schemes and other al leged swindling devices. WASTE OF COAL ENORMOUS Professor Says Railroads Vac Twice as Much Fuel as Xeedcd. WASHINGTON. Nov. ZZ. Ninety mil lion tons of coal, one-fifth of the total production of the country, were con sumed by the 61,000 locomotives in the United States in 1506 in hauling freight S I i and passenger trains. This fuel cost the railroad companies $170,500,000. This enormous consumption of coal by the railroads led the United States Geo logical Survey, through- its technologic branch, to conduct a series of tests on locomotive to determine whether or not there could be & saving to the coun try in the amount of fuel used, and the results have Just been announced in a bulletin of the Survey. Professor W. F. M. Goss. now dean of the University of Illinois, who had charge of the experiments, makes the statement that of the total 90,000,000 tons of coal used, 10.080.000 tons are lost through the heat in the gases that are discharged from the stacks of the locomotives: 8.$4O.O0O tons are lost through cinders and sparks; 5,040.000 tons are lost through radiation, leakage of steam and water; 2.SSO.O0O tons are lost through unconsumed fuel in the ashes; and 720,000 tons are lost through the Incomplete combustion of gases. In addition,- 18,000,000 tons are consumed in starting fires, in moving the locomotive to its train, in backing trains into or out of sidings and in keeping the locomotive hot while standing. "Under ideal conditions of operation." says Professor Goss, "much of the fuel thus used could be saved, and it is rea sonable to expect that the normal process of evolution in railroad practice will tend gradually to bring about some reduction in the consumption thus accounted for." MEMBER OF LORDS CAR AND WAGON COLLIDE Driver Crosses Tracks In Rain, Pas sengers Thrown in Heap. A serious accident was narrowly averted at 6 o'clock last evening when "S" car No. 462 crashed into a single delivery wagon driven by John Gried er, a contractor at Fifteenth' and Glisan streets. In the blinding rain that fell at the time the motorman of the car did not see Grieder attempt to drive across the tracks. The collision that followed between the wagon and the front vestibule of the car smashed ' the vehicl into smithereens and hurled the horse to the curb. The Impact threw the pas sengers in a heap on the floor of the ear. Beyond the complete wreckage of the wagon and the glas front of the car, no serious damage was done. HOFER NOT SEEKING JOB Salem Man Denies Rumors of Re cent Circulation. BALEM, Or., Nov. 2& (Special.) "I am not a candidate for any office, elec tive or appointive," declared Col. E. Hofer tonight. "I have had nothing to do with the publication of the rumors that 1 am a candidate for this office or that, and these reports are very annoying to me," he continued. "It has been said that I am a candidate for Collector of Customs at Portland. Dave Dunn Is a good friend of mine and 1 am not after his Job or anyone else's job." s I IN Rejection of Budget May Start Constitutional Revolu tion, He Fears. PEERS MAY LOSE POWER I-ord Pentland Asserts Political Struggle Would Handicap Nation in Kvent of War fjord Ave- bury Denounces Tax System. LONDON, Nov. 23. That the Liberal Government is done for ever with the present state of things and that the con stitution and character of the House of Ixrds must be modified, was the warn ing to the peers by Lord Pentland, sec retary for Scotland, in the debate on the budget in the upper chamber tonight. The debate generally followed party lines. Lord Pentland gave another indi cation of the government's policy. Commons Greatly Interested. His warning that the House of Com mons could not be expected to find a way out of the difficulty should the budget be rejected created the greatest interest in lobbies of the House of Commons, were it had been supposed the government might give way to the Lords in the mat ter of adopting temporary financial meas ures to meet the situation arising out of the rejection of the bill. Many Liberal members of Parliament had, in fact, expressed their determina tion to oppose any bill authorizing the continuance of existing taxation until after the dissolution of Parliament. Long Struggle Threatened. Lord Pentland also reminded the Lords that a long constitutional strug gle might handicap the country in case of war. and asked the peers to consider whether the penalty might not be dis proportionate to the offense. Earl Russell predicted that the adop tion of the Lansdowtie resolution to re ject the budget would start a revolu tion that would sooner or later bring a readjustment that would leave the House of Lords powerless. Lord Avebury strongly criticised the budget. He declared that It would frighten capital out of the country cripple enterprise and create a feeling of insecurity. G. P. RUMMELIN & SONS 126 Second Street, Bet. Washington and Alder ATTRACTIVE FUR COATS In the most up-to-date styles made in all fashionable furs FUR STOLES AND MUFFS In Black Lynx, Mink, Sable, White Fox, Ermine, Jap Mink, Beaver, Otter, Etc. FUR TURBANS Fur Rugs-Fur Robes-Fur Gloves ill- SEND FOR CATALOGUE Established 1870. Both Phones: Main 481. A 7318. Store Open Saturday Evenings Multnomah and O. A. C. Pennants for the football game tomorrow, special at 29c BIT NOW fKAfttK $1.00 Down. $1.00 Week Cheviot Coats at $ 5.75 l -o iii-j PV'(f - ! " For Wednes day we offer 47 new style long coats, just receiv ed. 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