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- , - - ... - . w.u.- v ' ; - , . - -1 - I I lis i 1 1 11 it lui h mil. m it n w iii in (la h n u twin i w ila t ' - . . ; : . Vol. XVII.-No. 27. CORVALUS, ORISON, SEPTEMBER 28. 1901. BLF. IRVINB Editor, and Proprietor . IF You are ieyited TO CALX, AIVD INSPECT OTJfti : GREAT LINE Ladies Jackets, , Misses Jackets, , . Children's Jackets. From one of the leading Cloak Houses in the United States.. fso Ie?iu?d ' A Wg spipment of Gents Suits, Overcoats and Shoes. See the goods, get the prices and it wili pay you. . ; I. H, HARMS.' '. m "A Free Bus. ' Fine Light Sample Rooms. S. i ... LeadiDg Hotel in Gorvallis. Recently opened.' New: BAck building. Newly furnished, with modern con-' veniences. Furnace Heat, Electric Lights, Fire Es-i capes. Hot and cold wateron every floor. Fine single ; rooms. Elegant suites. Leading house in the Willam-: ette Valley. ' Kates: $1 .00, $1.25 and. $2.00 per day. ' Hotel J. IJammel, Prop. "An ounce of preven tion is worth a pound of cure." Prevent any abnormal condition of the eyes by properly fitted glasses and you'll prevent at the same time years of mis ery and pain. eweier and Optician. n Store... a Ham am E gMiai Sing Cackle, is. . VTRAS 1 FIFTY-FOUR KILLED AND ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY INJUR ED ON PAS SENGER TRAINS IN COLLISION. Scenea About the Wreck . Are Most Horrible All the Passengers -in One of the Coaches " Save Two, Are Killed Accident in. Ten- , nessee Other . : , News.-' : Run- Knoxville, Ten., Sept. 24 cing on a roadbed in a supposedly high condition of maintenance, and having about them every safeguard known to a modern railroad, two trains on the Southern railway car rying heavy lists of passengers met head-on near Hodges, lenD., today, sending fifty-four people to death and injuring 130, several .of whom will probablv die. borne of the bodies have not yet been recovered, and many remain unidentified. This appalling loss of life and maiming of the living resulted ap parently from the disregarding of orders given to the two trains -to meet at a station which has for a long time been their regular meet ing point. -This action on the part of the engineer of the west-bound train is made more inexplicable by the fact that the accident happened in broad daylight, and according to the best information obtainable he had the order in a little frame in front of him as bis engine rushed by the station, and a mile and a half further on came upon an east bound passenger train. The possi bility exist3 toat the engineer may have been asleep. , Tbe trains were on time, and were not makingover 35 miles an hour, yet the impact as they rounded a curve and came suddenly upon each other was frightful. - -Both engines and the major portions of both trains were demolished, and why the orders were disregarded or mis interpreted will probably never be known, as the engineers of tbe two trains were ciushed, their bodies remaining for hours under the wreckage of their locomotives. The collision was between east bound passenger No. 12, and west bound passenger No. 15, from Bris tol. No. 12 WaB a heavy train, car rying three rullman s, two day coaches and mail and baggage car. No. lo was a light local train. The greatest loss of life occurred on the eastbound train, while on the west bound train only the engineer and fireman were killed. Relief trains were dispatched from Knoxville within . an hour, and all the physicians in the vicin ity of the wreck We're doing all they could wben the local corps arrived. The first train arrived here from the Bcene of the wreck at 4:20 o' clock, brit ging about 7o of tbe in jured. Six of the injured aboard had died while en route to the city, and after their bodies were taken off, the train proceeded to a point near the general hospital, where a large force of physicians were ready to receive the wounded. The next train from the wreck arrived short ly after 8 o'clock. It brought the bodies of 43 dead. The six others who died en route bring the list up to 43; and there at least six more at the Ecene of the wreck, none of the bodies of the trainmen Laving yet been recovered-. - John W. Brown, of Rogersville., Tenn.y-a newspaper man, was in the westbound train. When the' fearful jolt cam?, he said,, all the seats ia the car were torn loose and people and seatswere hurled to the front end of the car. 'When he re covered from the shock he heard the screams and groans of the in jured and dying in. every direction. "I left the' car," said Mr, Brown, "as soon as I could and walked to the main part of the wreck. It was the most horrible sight I ever witnessed. I saw a woman pinion ed by a. piece of split timber which had gone completely through her body. A little child, quivering in death's agony, lay beneath the wo man. I saw the child die, and within a fewfeet of her lay a woman's head, the decapitated body being several feet away. Another little girl whose body was fearfully mangled was piteously calling for her mother. I have since learned that she was Lu cille Connor, of Knoxville, and that both -of her parents were killed. I heard one woman, terribly mangled praying earnestly to be spared for her children, but death enBuea in a. few minutes.'- Both engines and all of the . coaqhes of No. 15 were demolished, the smoker and bag gage car completely so. The sleep ers remained on the track undam aged. Both engines lay to the north of the track, Jammed together into iae mass of ruins, the cars which were demolished were piled on tbe wrecked engine." Congressman H. R. Gibson, from the second congressional district of Tennessee, teas a passenger in a day coach o$ the eastbound train. He and another man, whose name is not known, were the only per sons to escape alive from the demol ished car. f Congressman Gibson was en rout3 to Rassellville, Tenn., to deliver a political address. Uneioo, bept. lib. Without in terruption the Japanese are contin oing their savage onslaught upon Port Arthur and after fighting for hours amid a rain of shell, they have succeeded in capturing six im portant forts. The assaults upon these strongholds were made with an- utter disregard of life and so soon as . one company had been wiped out another was moved for ward and thrown into the breech. The storming of these forts was begun Monday last and Tuesday night the attacked positions were in the hands of the Japanese. The assaults upon, the forts were made simultaneously, the Japanese bat teries in the rear and the warships concentrating their fire upon the six positions and the infantry rushing up the hills with fixed bayonets. Tuesday evening a supplementa ry fort fell after a desperate strug gle. At Fort Esteshan the furore of both attack and defense beggars description. Tbe Japanese attack ed the fori from all sides, swarm ing up the bill over the dead and wounded and meeting the defend ers on the wail, mere a combat, such as history has very few to tell of, developed. . Rifles and swords were thrown away, as the men were too near each other to use any but short weapons effectively and hand-to- hand lighting began, lasting tar in to the night. Tbe number of dead and wounded ia this attack alone exceeded several thousand, many officers being killed on both sides. Both inside and outside the walls lay heaps of dead. The fighting did not cease until nearly all of the garrison were killed or 'placed out of the fighting by being wounded. The massacre of Russians in Fort Esteshan isjsaid to be the worst of the war. There was a let-up in the firing on Friday, but on Saturday the as sault was resumed. Information, believed here to be thoroughly authentic, is to the ef fect that the Japanese commanders have firmly determined to make this the final attack upon the for tress and not to cease the bombard ment and infantry attack until Port Arthur has fallen or surrender ed. Butte, Mont., Sept. 24, A Bil lings (Mont.) special says: Ten prisoners, among them some of the most deeperate criminals ever con fined in the Yellowstone county prison, made their escape from the jail last night, and are still at large. Among the prisoners who escaped were Edward Grady and Orton Mo sier, who held up the Owl saloon here some time ago and killed Offi cer Hannah, who had attempted to capture them. ' The iailbreakers worked , with such great skill and so quietly that none of tbe prisoners except those who escaped knew of what was go ing on. The brehk would probably have cot been discovered until morning had not the escaping men eecured guns and held up J. W Caughan, a business man who was returning home. , Caughan report ed the matter to Sheriff Hubbard's office, and then the officers discov ered that ten of their prisoners had got away. There were 28 inmates in the jail at the time of the escape. ' A posse was immediately organ ized and started in pursuit. Sheriff Potter, of Carbon county, who has caught so many desperate men,' was in town and immediatelyjoined the posse. ' Tokio, Sept. 23. An official tel egram states that a detachment of Japanese aetacked a force of Rue. aians near Heinluchuang on Sept. zu, ana mat tbe tiuseians were driven off, leaving 19 dead. The Japanese losses are repor ing slight. JAPS CONTROL WATER PORT ARTHUR FORT GUARD ING SUPPLY TAKEN, Second Fortress Captured Assaults CoJ.000 Men Russian Troops Refuse to" Surrender, and . . Nearly the Entire Force Is Killed or Wounded. Chefoo, Sept. 25. As a result of the battle before Port Arthur, which began .on September I9, the Japan ese succeeded in capturing several important pcsitions, and today the Kussian tenure of tbe big torts guarding the north,' northeast and northwest sides of the town is seri ously threatened. :J ' Chinese information' places the Japanese losses under 3,000 for the three days' fighting, and this com. paratively small casualty list is due to the successive care used by the Japanese in making their prepara tions for the advance. Russian sources, however, are said to have information that the Japanese lo ses were unusually" severe, amount. ing to fully three times the number mentioned above. Possibly the most important cap ture during the three days' fighting was that of Fort Kuropatkm, which, while of minor value with regard to preventing tbe entrance into the town of the Japanese, has been con structed for tbe purpose of protect ing the source of the garrison's wa ter supply. The control of this water supply is now in the ban Is of tbe Japanese. As was announced in these dis patches September 20, the battle began before daybreak on Septem ber 19. At this hour the citizene and the garrison of Port Arthur, af ter the enjoyment of weeks of com parative security, ' awoke to tbe thunderous reports of artillery along the Hoe extending from the west of Iiz Mountains to Rihlung and Ki- wan mountains, rma - was out a preface to the assault which was destined to result in the capture of three new and important Russian positions, together with six' small but annoying forts lying between Shushiyen and Rivung Mountain. During the day and night of the 19th and until noon of the 20th the bombardment continued without cessation, and many shells falling from quarters which previously bad been silent made it obvious that tbe Japanese had at least succeeded either in mountain many heavy guns in new positions or in strength ening their old positions. The fight ing during this period was compar atively trivial. At noon of September 2O the Jap anese right and center, the former being to the west and the latter to the east of tbe railroad, commenced to advance. The troops made use of the trenches and infrequent nat DR. ARTHUR J. DAYTOll Neurologist and Ophthalmologist Specialist on neroe Strain and ye Defects parts .of the body, thus causing - Headache, Indigestion, Gonstipation, Neuralgia, Epilep- sy, Piles and all Ills Peculiar to .Women. The only remedy for these troubles when due to this cause is a Cor rect Diet and Proper Glasses to stop the leak of Nerve Force so that nature can build up tbe Nerve Supply. . Troubles like Granulated Lids, Sties, watery Eyes, Blood Shot Eyes, Tired Eyes, etc. are all caused by Hyperopia. j The human eye is a delicate organ and is understood but by few. Our methods are far in advance of those of the occulist or optician. If you are in doubt regarding your eyes call and have them, examined FREE OF CHARGE OJU1 be in gorvallis Sept 26272829 at tbe HOTEL GORVALLIS Suite Rooms 2 adjoining Parlor Office Hours: 9 to 12 oral cover that lay in their way. - The email forts to the south resist- - ed this advance but briefly, their , garri8ons"0t being strong numeri- '. 11 . n 1 1 ; C bombardment the artillery fire from . Fort Kuropatkla had been growing steadily weaker, and it having be come apparent that it had been . practically silenced, the : Japanese ; assaulted the fort. , ' Fort Knropatkin . is situated to -the south of Palichuang and to the northeast of the parade ground, on a low hill. It derives its name : from the time when General Kuro-, patkin inspected it, pointed out the weakness of the position, and ord- ered that it be strengthened as far ? as possible because of the necessity of protecting the water supply. WViiln sitnfttpH In the chain nf ; main forts, Fort Kuropatkin never has been as strong as them, and af- , ter severe fighting it fell into the hands of the Japanese. This cap ture lessens further tbe strength of . the fort, on Rihlung Mountain, which is now threatein d from a new quarter as well as fro n Pelk-h ang. At 5 o'clockjon the afiti noun of the 20th the Japanese captured a sup plementary fort, which, from the lower ground, threatens the fort on Itz mountain. This ended the heavy fighting for the day, although the Japanese later were compelled ' to resist Eeveral sorties. i ', - 1 During the night the heavy bom bard men t of the Russian positions continued, the Japanese fire being directed with particular vigor a gainst another supplementary fort, 3,000 yards to the west of the fort, on'Itz Mountain, and regarded as highly important because of its bearing on the Itz and Anshu Mountain forts. The next day, after having pounded the position unmercifully and until its fire had slackened vis ibly, the Japanese delivered their assault. They met with a stubborn resistance. They were expoeed to the fire of machine guns and rifles, arid they made heroic' effoits to reach the crest of the slope. . They leaped over trenches and embankment and tore down the entanglements, in their path until at length they entered the fort. The Rdssian troops there refused to de sert their position, even in the face of superior numbers which confront ed them and desperate hand-to-hand fighting occurred inside the fort. Eventually almost the entire Russian garrison was either killed or wounded. The foregoing information has been obtained from a Chinese of iUi(oauuauig tiuavwui vuiuo As the Chinese from whom the correspondent of the Associated Press obtained his information left Pott Arthur the night of September 21, he is unable to say whether the battle was renewed on the 22d or not, although . junks which have come in here bring reports of alight bombardment on that day. ( J represent a system of analy sis of the cause of human ills and how to abolish them- with out the use of drugs or opera tions. Eighty-five per cent of all human ills originate from defective eyes. The many nerves that con trol the eyes- have direct con nections with tne most' vital parts of the human system and a continual strain on the eyes, in time, is reflected to other a. m., and 1:30 to 5 d. m.