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act CORVALLIS, OREGON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 20. 1906. Vol. X1X.-NO. 2 B.F. 1KVJLMB Editor - and Proprietor a : -3 I a -a -. 1 m 1 a I - 11 ' n H J.:Ho Harris iPdr the Early Sprieg Haey Receipts RAILROAD WRECK THITY-FIVE ARB CREMATED AND BURNED TO A8HES. Fault of Sleepy Operator Huge Engines Meet Fall-Speed and . Lock Together Only One Body Is Identified. Other News.. Of the very latest spring wash fabrics rare to be seen, at Oiif store. This spring brings the prettiest and most attractive cotton fabric3 and the loveliest wool and silk dress goods of any previous years. Our store is filling up on these things. Come and get acquainted with what the spring and summer has to offer. Prices are the lowest o o o Corvallis, Oregon Are You Curious? Would you like to see inside a human eye? Call at Pratt the Jeweler & Optical store at any time and he will be pleased to show you the nerves, veins and arteries as seen through the latest and most scientific combined Opthaltnascope and Rstm i-uope. If you have trouble with your eyes call on Pratt The Jeweler 6c Optician. All Things are Now. Ready Having secured the services of J. K. Berry, who has eight years experience in bicycle . and general repair work, I am now prepared to all kinds of repair work on short notice. All Work Guaranteed 1 - ; .... Come and see the Olds work. M. M. LONG'S does not require assistance. This helper was crushed together like so n: ach paper, and the monster ma chines ran through, locking them selves together as if in a death struggle. The baggage car of No. 3 broke in two, and . the three coaches Equeezed together. The bag gage and mail car and coach of No. 16 buckled, bat none of the cars were telescoped, as was first report ed. - - Hardly had the trainmen and passengers reached a realization that all was not right when to their hor ror a sheet of fire ran through the cars on both sides .of the engines, and in a. twinkling the crackling Pueblo. Colo,' March 16. A I sound of breaking timbers startled Wreck accompanied with horrors ex-1 them to action.' ' In the forward ceeded only by the Eden disaster, I coach of the westbound train every which occurred August , iyuf , on (ge&t was occupied by passengers, the line of the same railroad, reeuit- -most of whom were homeseekers on HOME-SEEKERS If you are looking for some real good bargainsin Stock, Grain, Fruit and Poultry Ranches, write for our special list, or come and see us. We take pleasure in giving you all the reliable information you wish, also snowing you over the country. ' . AMBLER 6c WAITERS ... Real Estate, Loan and Insurance Gorvallis and Philomath, Oregon. ed from a head-on collision of two passenger trains on the Denver & Bib Grande railroad four miles east of Florence, Color, at an early hour this mronlng. The trains, were the Utah-California : Express wa , west-bound from Denver, and the Coloradc-Naw Mexico Express No. 1 6. east-boand from Leadvule and4 roasted afive. Grand Junction. They met on a sharp curve and were less than 200 yards apart when the engineers dis covered that a collision was immi nent. " ' - " : ":. It is known that the engineer of the west-bound train put forth eve ry possible effort to bring his train to a standstill, bat his efforts wero fruitless and, although he succeed ed in checking the speed of his train, the -crash that followed was beyond his powf r to prevent end he weni 10 niB uuaia wun nis nana on the throttle, faithful to his charge. This much Is vouched for by his fireman, who, seeing the useless cess of remaining in the face of sure daath, jumped and saved his life. Of the conduct of the engine crew of the east-bound train, it can only be stated that they died at their post, for no one lives to tell the sto ry ot their heroism. The disaster was made more hor rible fcy the manner oi the death of many of the passengers, the num ber estimated at 35. Fire swept over thewreck, ei gulfing the vie tims to a cauldron of name and leaving only charred and blackened bodies to tell the tale of slaughter. - A list of lojured given out by of ficials of the railroad company com prises 22 names." None of the in jured are seriously butt and it is believed all will recover quickly. In a blinding storm which made it almost impossible for the train men to see ahead the two trains collided head-on at a point midway between Portland and Adobe, 25 miles wert 01 rueDio, at z.zu o' clock this morning. - Immediately following the collision several of the wrecked cars burst into flames and wert- consumed," a! number of passengers, being burned :to- death Over 30 others were injured. - The wreck is attributed to the failure of an employe of the road to deliver an order which changed the meeting place of the two trains. The Utah & California Express No. 3, westbound, left Pueblo over an hour and a half late, and was given orders to meet the Colorado & New Mexico Express No. 16, eastbound, at Florence. This order was changed, and . the westbound train was cited to pass the eat t bond train at Beaver, about I2 miles eat t of Florence. The order should have been delivered to the train crew at Swallow, but for some reason still unexplained the operator there se lected to do so. In the meantime the eastbound train had received its orders and expected to meet the westbound train at Beaver. Both trains were running at the usual speed, the deep snow and the high wind making it necessary to exercise exceptional care. Sudden ly both headlights flashed out from the darkness, and it was realized for the first time that something was wrong. According to the sto ry of J. H. Smith, of the westbound train, Engineer Walter Coslett op ened the emergency brakes and thr train was checked for an instant, but the slippery rails and the mo mentum of the heavy train carried it on. From the stories told by several of the tiainmen who survived and were in the forward part of the train, the impact was scarcely no ticable, but the crushing, grinding noise that followed warned them that something had been struck. The helper engine on -No.'- 3 evi dently acted as a sort of cushion, minimizing the force and weight of the heavy mountain engines that haul the (rains where, the grade their way to the ' Northwest.- A number of foreigners were ' among them, and to their terror they gave up life wjifioufc making any attempt to reach afety outside they burning car. Paraly zed with fear and with; prayers Upon their lips the sank to the floor; of the oar and' were There are no better than the best The flour that stands the test, Pure quality; appearance grand, So surely, White Crest brand. Good Bread Delicious Pastrv Fancy Cakes, Etc. So easily, made with White Crest the flour of excellence, so good you always want more, order a sack today; 105 cents per sack. The cooler ones-qi the car seeing their danger, rushed for the . wind ows andadoors and, with the aid of thepaSsehger8 in the rear of . the train and tboee members of the train crew who were unhurt, mac- aged to reach the open air. Many of thena were injured more or less seriously; by the' rough handling they received or from flying glaes and timbers. ' Although many were willing to undertake the risk, efforts to rescue those who remained In the burning cars would' have been - suicidal, as the heat; was unbearable. When the occnnsntB of the two standard FT CHAMPIONS STATEMENT and two tourist sleepers of the west bound train saw that nothing could be done to check the names, they aided the trainmen in poshing back the sleepers and these cars were not damaged in the least. The sleepers on the eastbound train were also after they the HrkAC' fmrYvT RHONE pushed back, and soon were placed out ot tne reacn ot LABORING MEN THEIK NEWSPAPER ORGAN No. 1. leaping' flames. The wrecked cars were soon reduced to a mass of smouldering ruins Communication Was jopened with the Pueblo officers of the railroad from Portland, a mile or so away and a relief train with physicians was dispated to the wreck at once. as quickly as possible the injured were placed in the sleepers and the engine of the relief train started back to Pueblo with them, also the pas sengers of the eastbound train who had been saved. - Another relief train came from fiorence and the engine was coupled to the sleepers of No. 16, and as many of the bodies of the dead as could be removed from the wreck age at that time were placed aboard. This done, the searchers began pick log up bonep, pieces of burned clothing and personal property of the victims of the disaster, until several boxes had been filled. These remains were placed aboard the un damaged sleepers of No. 16 and taken to Portland, and subsequent ly brought to Pueblo. It Is reliably reported that but one body is sufficiently intact to make recognition possible, all the others having been incinerated. In the front end of the ruins of the smoker of No. 3 were foutd the charred hands of a man, crossed and held together by a pair ot hand cuffs. That was all that was left to ebow that a convict who was be ng taken to prison was burned in toe wreck. Near the ghastly bands were found two revolvers, the prop erty of Deputy Sheriff E. E. Baird, of Denver, who was also killed. His prisoner was an actor known, as Archibald Whitney, who had been sentenced to the penitentiary for forgery. In the bones of his fiing- ers was held with the grasp of death the metal piece from the win dow casing. The prisoner had at tempted to climb out of the burn ing car, ana mignt nave escaped a horrible death but for the hand cuffs. The Corruption of the Senate Ex posedThat Body Is the Ene my of the People Who Have no Standingin Its Pro ceedings Other News. 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The Port land Labor Press, official rewgpa per of the Portland workingmeu, says editorially: Organized La Labor, the State Grange, Patrons of Husbandry and kindred organiza tions in Oregon have all passed res olutions to sustain the primary election laws, and especially to give full force and effect to Statement One in Its relation to legislative candidate?. The enforcement of this Statement upon candidates for leg islative botors is designed to make effective the people's choice for ' United States senator, a choice that mutt be determined at the polls in June and cot at the primary elec tion in April.' In the primary the mlmarv makes its. choice, and in June the people, who are the actual sovereign power in the matter, de termine as between the csocidates nominated by the parties. The whole contest which Is prac tically confined to the republican party, by reason 01 its great norm al majority in Oregon, turns npon Statement One of the law. Those interest?, paiticularly in Portland, and Wall street, that would have the senatorehip sold at Salem be cause it is especially valuable to them and is easier, surer and cheap er game as a purchasable commodi ty, than it is a "political victory won at. the polls, are seeking to muddle the law. THE SENATE EXPOSURE. Along with the effort of the bos ses to defeat a direct vote for sena tor,. comes the exposure of methods and influences that control the U nited States senate, as fearlessly made by Lincoln Steffens, editor of McClure's magazine, whose articles are now running in each issue of the , Sunday 6reonian. Among other things in his latest article, Mr. Steffens says: The senate represents business. Es tablished to represent all men of all states and of all vocations and clas ses, it represents those special bus inesses whiob, having corrupted, cities and states, and having bought councils and legislatures for busi ness puryoses, have come into pos session of aeats in the United States senate; and having those seats in, the United States Senate those bus nesses have Eent here their presi dents, their counsel, their agents or their friends to represent their bus iness. Those businesses don't have to practice bribery here; this is on commocouncil. en But th net er- suit is the same. The congress stands, like a common council for business. The congress represents honestly what the state legislatures represent corruptly business. Speaker Cannon is proud of it; Senator Aldrich admits it; nobody denies it. . "What else would you have us represent?" asked Mr. Aldrich. 1 thought of the bought voters of Rhode Island and of the legislature there, which, like the United States senate, doesn't have to be bought. 1 thought of the legislators "retain ed" in IDicois; I thought of the bankers in Cincinnati silenced by deposits of public moneys and of the manufacturers made civic cow ards by "protection" everywhere I thought of able captains of indus try, like H. H. Rogrs, and Thom as F. Ryan and Charles M. Schwab, made Well, what they are? by "prosperity." But what was the ose of talking about character on Capitol Hill? When I was inter viewed by the speaker, I referred to such things, and his "Oh, well, human nature" showed that such men have no sense of the effects of bribery and corruption and artifi cial prosperity on the character of a nation of men and women. So long as busicess is good all must be welL So to Mr. Aldrich I meekly sug gested that he might represent the shippers, the "little shippers" who can't get cars to ship their coal or rates on oil to enable them to com pete with the trusts. And what do you think he answered? He an swered that he was looking out for the little shippers at that very mo ment. It was on account of tte shippers, not of the railroads, that he wanted to have put into the Hep burn rate bill an amendment pro viding for an appeal to the courts on the facts! (A' bit of news, at last for the shipper.) If they represented business gen erally, it wouldn't be quite so bad, but they represent especially, those senators and congressmen, the kinds of business that want license and advantages and that corrupt government from boards of alder- . men up to the United States senate, to get their license and to keep their advantages. The present tar iff laws are preposterous, and both Senator Aldrich and Speaker Can non admitted to me that the sched ules should be revised. I asked them why they dind't revise them them. The speaker gave the usual answer, the danger of re-openlng the whole question and hurting bus iness. Mr. Aldrich was more candid. 'It isn't for us here to do that," he said. "Who, then, is to do it, and where?" When I asked him that, the senator shot me a keen glance and said he meant that public opin ion must first demand it. ."But you call public opinion public clamor here in Washington," I said. "Only when it is excited and un reasonable," he answered. "Are you going to wait on tariff revision as you have on rate regula tion till the people clamor for what continued on page 4