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CORVALLIS, OREGON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 20. 1906.
Vol. X1X.-NO. 2
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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
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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
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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
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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
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pushed back, and soon
were placed out ot tne reacn ot
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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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these diseases develop." 'This remedy con
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Portland, March 16. 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
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