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"tor r m i rm ri-Tn.'Tirrir.r:ri I- vv I : rrit-rrnrr.T rr OL. XX. SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1IM0. No. 30. TV 4 rawl iblritiMW ipi m XL JLI iO. A. Xi A VI TT IT Ml' I fl I m H ill I M t J W II rati' TWO FACTORIES "EIGHT OTHERS DAMAGED WALLS FALL ON FIREMEN One Fireman Is Killed and Ten Others Caught by Falling Wall Are Bady Hurt, and a Boy Bystander Is Killed Fire Oc curred Near County Jail and a Panic Ensued Among the . Prisoners, Who Were Removed Under Guard as the Jail Was for a Time In Danger. . Ivnmo rasas uura wiaa. Innatl, O., Deo. 11 A fire man and a spectator were killed and 10 firemen severely hurt In a fir to day that did $2,000,000 damage. The killed and Injured were caught under the falling walls of the Krlp-pender-O'Nelll Shoe Company's fac tory. Two engine companies were burlej under tons of debris. ' The dead: ' ; Robert Greer, fireman. " ' - Unidentified hoy, 16 years old. The flr a broke out early today in the Krlppendorf, factory. .The flames spread rapidly. The Krlppendorf bulldtngnd the factory of the Taylor-Poet Leather Company -were com pletely destroyed, and eight ' other I O p e m E vemiogs I Until Remarkable values offered in all departments for the Christmas shopping. We want to make the biggest sales this week in the history of our store, and if low prices and good values does it, we are bound to ; succeed. Useful Christmas Presents Now offered at tempting low price. Ladies' suits, coats, capes, furs, silk waists and silk petticoats all about manufacturers' cost. Kid gloves, silk unbrellas, silk hosiery, silk kimorias, rain coats, sweaters, ostrich plumes, ribbons, ladies fancy neckwear, perfumery, ladies' leather handbags, hosiery and underwear for men, women and children, men's silk ties, silk suspen ders, men's gloves, handkerchiefs of all kinds, dolls, toys and games now selling at special advertised prices. Come here for Fine Silks and Dress Goods. The OH i Greater HAS $2,060,000 FIRE RF-ifliiFn mm mmn a. b mm iiiuhbiw sfc era. iimwiiiw w DESTROYED factories heavily damaged. ' Big crowds gathered to watch the conflagration. They were repeatedly driven back by the polled, and warned of the danger of falling walls, but, despite these warnings, the specta tors crowded as close to the burn ings buildings as they could get. The engines were standing at a corner near the Krlpndorf factory. The firemen were . oarrying a hose past the building, when the walls swayed and crashed outward. The spectators, who saw the first sign of collapse, shouted to the firemen, and endeavored to crowd back out of, the way. One boy, however. Was struck by the falling mass of brick and torn and crushed to death. . CKirisfcmas I On mcago Diore oregon ! .Christmas Olfta Darned. . Chicago, Deo 21. Christmas gifts valued at $250,000 were destroyed today In a wreck on the Pennsylvania railroad when a passenger train and a west bound freight collided in the yards on the West Side here. When the trains met the boiler of the passenger engine explod- ed, setting fire to a car of reg- istered mall. After the fir had been ex- tlngulshed a police guard was r thrown about the debris, while 4 laborers shoveled the ashes of 4 the car into cans. Systematic sifting of the ashes began and 4 diamonds and jewelry were re- covered. ; The debris fell squarely upon the firemen, who could not leap out of danger. It was at first reported that all of them had been killed. - t The other companies working at the fire rushed to the aid of their comrades, and removed them from the wreckage. One man was dead and ten others-were severely Injured. Some of these, it is believed, cannot recover. : ' The buildings that burned were In (Continued on Page 5.) - Salem - . Know Storm In Raging. t Denver, Colo., Dec. 2 1 A vere snow storm, extending from Northern Nebraska to Southern Kansas, and jfrom the middle 4 of Kansas to the Continental dl- vide, is raging, today. The tel- ephone and telegraph companies report considerable wire trouble and trains are delayed. The storm, the first of the season, Is moving eastward. 1 " mm 24 liOURS fftplDEl Warren S. Stone, Grand Chief I of the Brotherhood of Loco rV,LA.w, e.,o Mnut motive Engineers, Says Next 24 HOUrS Will Decide It. MANAGERS CALL IT A BLUFF Advisory ll-ard of the Brotherhood is Huinmrtttcrt nastily to t.l'', w,.,ILUK oia. raLep. , imjoiotuateiy uiM-xom Followlnir Stone'. iwlmntlon . . ,. . Tliat Action Would Be -Taken conrerencM nave ueen new Binoe iHwmiiM' ia, uui j nrre is No Agreement In Sight. ' Idnitbd raiss LUSHO wiaa. Chicago, Dec. 21; Whether thl 35,500. engineers employed on the 61 Western railroads, now confer ring with the general managers here, shall strike will be decldoJ within the next 24 hours, according to Warren 8. Stone, grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En gineers. "We will not strike before night," Stone said today, "but we will not tolerate further delay. There must be short, sharp, decisive action." Charles P. Nelll, commlRslonor of labor, who Is now here endeavoring to arbitrate the questions at Issue, held a long conference with the general managers of the lines af fected this morning. During the afternoon, he was scheduled to con fer with Grand Chief Stone. It Is on the result of this conference thut (Continued from Page 5.) SEATTLE 8THEET CAIIS OPEHAT. ED ItV INJUNCTION, M AND AM. VS, WRITS OF LATITAT, SU PERSEDEAS BONDS, AND DE BONIS NOW GENERAIXY. (oaiTSO rasas isiaao vim Seattle, Wash., Dec 214 Patroos of the Seattle ( Renton A Southern Una will be able to ride ior five cent hereafter anywhere within the city limits, providing they buy commu tation tlckots in lots of 20 for 11. This was decided yesterday by Judge Gilliam after Untuning to ar guments all day on the injunction proceedings Instituted by the com pany to restrain paaueugera from re fusing to leave the cars upon non payment of a second nickel at Or chard Beach, and a third ulckul at Taylor's Mill. The restraining order ia not dis solved, but the court ruld that the BEG BUSINESS BYCOURTS aOOTIIEII TtiiPii 5 irii ii in ia . f Eight Hod lea Reooverpd, I Denver, Colo,, Dec. 21. The bodies of eight of the ten mln- era entombed In the Leyden Coal mine Wednesday have been recovered, and, ih a thorough 4 v soarcn or tne mine cas laiiea to reveal the bodies of Frank and Lois Merrick, rescuers are 4 4' of the opinion today that the 4 two mea may have escaped Into 4 the north work, and possibly 4 are alive. Searc.i of both works, 4 4 which were a mile from the fire, 4 was started today. The three 4 bodies recovered last night were 4 found In the southwestern 4 workings. The air In the north 4 4 works is reported to be gootf. 4 4- 4 444444444444444 ! Cr-wfor(1 interests had no right to lak6 tTom th PP,e Privileges orlg- inMr njoyed Webster, sitting in Seattle, as a visiting judge, decided that the Seattle, Renton A Southern had no right to charge more than a nickel fare within the city limits. The com pany filed.a supersedeas bond, and. pending the dectsloa of the supreme court, it will be allowed to maintain PaI,y went ,teP further and wlth- ; drew from aale all commutation ., .. , . , . tickets, and obtained a restraining order whIch complied the guburban- ties to leave the car promptly upon refusal to pay the fare declared Ille gal by Judge Webster. o KING GKORUB IT IS THOUGHT W1LI DKCID1C AUAINHT T11K IiORDH A UWY AnOLTKIfP.-O, on cnAXGijra mode of cap ital PUNISHMENT, KIGGKST. ED. (cxitbd run uusan wiaa.l London, Dec. 21. A secret con ference today between King George aud Premier Asqulth xave rise to tho belief that the king hns decide! to create a sufficient number of Liberal peers to outvote the Con servatives on legislation to deprive the house of Lord of lt power of veto. There was no concealment of tho fact that the conference was upon the veto question, but no other In formation was given out. It is prob able that there will be no deflnlU announcement of the king' plan un til his majesty addresses Parliament when it convenes. . Already the politicians are die cu using the probable legislation o be enacted by the approaching par liament. That the seml-publlc exe cution of Dr. H. H. Crlppen wl'l have Us influence upon the penal laws was Intimated today by A. C. Benson, son of the lute Bishop of Canterbury, who la preparing a bill abolishing hangings and substitut ing death by lethal means. "If a prisoner in bis cell might be allowed to swallow poison or ha done to death by anaesthetic, d.?ath would at least have some touch of privacy and decorum," said Benson. ''The awful ceremony . and the dis gusting apparatus of violent death seem to me utterly barbarous and medieval. A man at such a crisis of bis fate la not a thing to exult over aud no matter what his crime, tb? whole proct-edlug bus been sU-basIn and dKr;'d ng lu lis cl7f t upon tli public." ENGLISH POLITICS ARE r,llID OLE m DISASTER ivnni r ni Hill I HULL ULilOl I UiUJdUL COLU OF FLAME SNOOTS EIGHTY FEET (WE r.lOUTII OF PIT AFTER THE EXPLOSION When Flames Subsided, Owing to Gas Being Consumed, 20 Bodies, Horribly Burned, Were Found Just Inside cf Entrance-Interior of Mine Is a Hell of Fire, and No Attempt at Rescue Can Be Made Books Show 289 Men Were in . the Mine, and-There Is No-Hope for Them. uxitid rasas laiaao wiaa. Manchester, Eng., Dec. 21. Two hundred and eighty-nine out of 400 miners working In the Little Hulton company's Pretoria mine, near Leigh, are believed to have beet killed in an explosion and Are that has turned the workings Into a veri table blast furnace. Eleven of those below the surface of the eurth whea, the disaster oc curred have ' been rescued. - Tho others were trapped In the mln). Rescuers have brought out tho bodies of 20 charred and mangled Pmn .. Rlni ihe tindlua iL-fiiuc4 close to tne mown ot i-j Tvinuu isn- uuuurcuo v V"'5ii , trance, ft Is believed all -he other crowded around the pit mouth by miners must have TjerUhed. I the time, the Ore began, to subside, : Among the dead are many boys and the efforts of the rescue party who were employed as loaders and to enter the workings were hln helpers. A great number of thejdored. The crowd abou; the sba:t bodies placed In the. temporary was restrained with the greatest dlf morgue near the workings eould not ficulty. be Identified owing to the action of j Wben the, Are In the mini had re the flames. Nearly all were burned ceded far enough o perml of tin beyond recognition. One survivor, ' attempt a email .rescue puffy n badly Injured, who waa taken from tered the shaft. Not far from thl the mine this afternoon, was unable ', entrance the bodies of 20 menwerd to account for the explosion. I discovered. They wore lifted out The explosion was terrific, and It 1 and borne away to an improvise! is believed that Its foroe snd the morgue to await identification, lire which burst out almost Imme-1 The rescuers found the mlna diately afterward have demolished blocked and could penetrate no fur- the Interior workings. ther. They were forced to retreat. Leas than five minute? after the A larger rescue party is biilng or explosion flames were shooting 80 ganlxed and will endetivor'to forci feet above the main entrance. Tho i's way further into the mine be only men who escaped were loavlng fore night. The work is very da ti the mine Just as the accident or,-' gerous, as the fire Ig stilt raging In curred. 'the workings and It is feared thnt The flames apparently spread tp further explosions may occur, all parts of the mine and the he.it The cause of the explosion has thrown out from the main entrance not been determined. Although the was so Intense that those who extent of the fire has not been fully rushed to the rescue when the ox- ascertained. It Is believed that the plosion occurred were forced back. 'whole Interior of the mine la In They fell back Just as a burst of flames. Mine officials hope that tho flumes shot from the entrunce of th men may have escaped to a gallery shaft. " wifch la not burning and have Although every effort was made f walled themselves In. This, it ia be- smother the fire, little could be done lleved. la the only chance that any and it was many mlnutos before tho one In the mine escnped denth. riscuers eould again approach tha . main shaft. After a time the flnmr (Contlaued on Page t. , Bishop's Ready Tailored Clothes fplO.OO to $35.00 juo i our Amas anoppmg j in a Man's Shop ! Your gentlemen friends will appreciate your gifts if J purchased at a store that makes a specialty of Men's Wpnr fiiir Rtnrk Is splfidfid srifidallv for men's needs. No barsanized articles In our entire stock, We are showing .complete lines of Bath Robes, House Coats, Hosiery, Gloves, Neckwear, Suit Cases and all articles of Men's' Wear, Salem Woolen Mills Store LADIES' DETACHABLE UMBRELLAS hot ninnnor I ceased pouring out of Its mouth, aaI the rescuers attempted to enter tba shaft,' only to find that the Inner workings were burning fiercely and, that the terrible beat and th fumes of deadly' gases prevented any re-, cue work. The explosion Jammed' the caei In the shafts and luterfored with the ventilating apparatus. With the first news of the acclr , dont friends and relatives of th men employed In the mine, rushed to the scene. When the flames pyured out of thf main shaft many VtSuMtt- fwlnivd Mid wrre" CnrrTed