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ftp Vol. XX.-N0.2 CORVALLIS, OREGON. TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 2,1907. B.V. tit ' : H and Proprleto AH- IH i We Are Now Prepared to Outfit The Man and The Boy Otu reciept of clothing this spriDg are nobby. Big assortment. Prices That Defy Competition Shoes P. B. Kerths" are up to date in style and i the best wearers 4 1 Our Line of Medium" Priced Shoes RAILROAD DISASTER TWENTY-SIX PERSONS KILL ED IN TRAIN WRECK AND MANY MORE WILL DIE. Engine Dasbea at Fall Speed Id Open Switch in California Italians Are Torn and Cat Dismembered "and Impaled on Wreckage. I Are from the bast factories in the country and all are guaranteed shoes. Oar line of hats embrace all the new styles. Oar prices are right and we ask an inspection of the above lines. I I Call X Oorvallis, and See Oregon We Solicit Comparison. Just received a full lirieof Spring and Summer Novelties. The Famous Packard Shoe, Sold by A. K. RUSS Dealer injmens Furnishings. Wouldn't Change Thrones with a King. Fisherman luck means a wonderful catch once in a blue moon. But all moons are alike to the man equipped from our superb Sporting Goods stock the latest in Rods, Reels, Dandy Minnows, Hooks, Bicycles, Sundries, Cultery, Sewing Machines and Sewing Machine Supplies, Edison and Victor Talking Machines, Records and Supplies. The hunter will find himself in a paradise of his own when he lands in this fine Sporting Goods stock. .You ...are welcome to buy, for admire, just as you choose.' Unmatchable prices now. M . M. LO NG'S The Finest and most complete line ever brought to the city. Also a Full line of Base Ball Goods. on HH- 110- Colton, Cal.. March 28. One of tbe most disastrous wrecks in the history of the Southern Pacific rail road occurred one and one-half miles east of this town short. y alter 4. o'clock this afternoon, when west bound train No. 9 from New Or leans for San Francisco ran into an open switch, while going at the rate of 40 miles an hoar, and ten of the 14 coaches were derailed with firightfnlreBults. Twenty-six peo ple are known to have been killed and the final list will total much higher than this number. Tbe in iured number about 100, many cf whom are seriously injured and will die. The wrecked coaches were hurled in every direction. Four of them were smashed into splinters. Most of the dead were Italians from New York and New Orleans, going to San Franciseo. They occupied the emoker and day coach. The dead were terribly maimed and mangled. Eighteen of them were taken to an undertaking es tabllshment et Colton by 8 o'clock and eight additional bodies could be seen underneath one of tbe ov erturned and demolished cars. This ear could not be raised until a der rick was brought from Los Angeles 60 miles away. The injured were carried to this city in vehicles of al sorts and tbe Colton hospital was quickly filled to its capacity. Many were then taken to tbe iTesnyterV an church and to private residences in the vicinity. r Bat two Americans are known to have been killed, although severa of those among the injured will un doubtedly die within the next tew hours. The enginaer and fireman both jumped, but failed to get clear and were caught in tbe wreckage. I bey were both erribly burned and scald ed. Tbe train conductor was in the Pullman section of the . train and escaped injury. Out of about 80 Pullman passen gers, but two sustained serious in jury, ine three rullman coacnes and tbe diner, which were on tbe rear of the train, did not leave the track. The occupants of these cars were practically unharmed. The Florence Roberts theatrical company tccupied one coach, which was hurled from the track and both ends of it crushed in by tbe impact against the others. But two mem bers of Miss RibertB't company out of a total of 22 people were injured. Miss Roberts herself escaped entire ly unscathed. The -escape from death of those on the car was re markable, considering tbe mannsr in which the coach was splintered and torn to pieoes. The men and women were hurled from one end of the coach to the other. There were three tracks where the accident occurred, which is m the open country. The people of Colton were first "to be notified of the catastrophe. Hundreds of people hurried to tbe scene of the wreck. Physicians and nurses were taken from San Ber nardino and Colton and ministered to the injured. The derailment of the train was caused by the crew of a Bwitch en gine leaving a switch open at this point. It is said .that the engine passed through the switch a few moments before the overland ap peared. A switchman named Mor rison was in the yard. After the switch engine had passed on to another track, the engineer asked the fireman if he had rethrown the switch. The fireman recalled that he had neglected to do so, and the engineer whistled frantically for Morrison to close it. The signal was not given in time, as Morrison did net reach the switch before tbe overland had plunged through and been derailed. , At the time of the disaster it was running at a high rate of speed in order to make up time. There wa3 absolutely no warning of the im pending catastrophe. The engineer saw the signal of the open switch when but a few'rods distant from it and had no time to Bound even a whietle of warning, much lees to reverse the throttle or Bet the brakes. He called to his fireman to jump and they both leaped wildly from opposite sides of the engine. Tbe engine left the track, turned over on its side and plowed a great distance along the right of way. The broken . wreckage of the dy coaches and Bmoker, filled with the bodies of the dead and injured, were burled all over it. Helpless passengers, imprisoned in the wreck age, called frantically for help, by a miracle the train was not set on fire. Those of the passengers who had escaped set at once about the work of rescue. Dczens were pulled and lifted from the wreckage aod laid beside tbe track until vehicles ar rived and conveyed them to the hospital. Members of the theatrical com pany aided nobly in the work of - - ... . rescue. Men and women alike cared for the injured, flush seats were taken from the coaches and bedding from the Pullmans and the roadside was converted into a temporary hospital. Many of those taken from the wreckage dying expired before conveyances could be bad to carry them to Colton. It was hall an hour before any medical aid could be secured. Tbe Italians in the day coach and smoker met a horrible fate Wholly without warning the im pact came and three of the care were almost completely telescoped and hurled to one eide. The help' less passengers were terribly torn and cut to pieces. , Death came to a score of them instantly. Many were dismembered and impaled up on pieces of the wreckage. Coroner Van Wie was ; at the scene of the wreck within an hour after it occurred and took charge of tbe dead. The to oaer swore in a number of special officers to pre vent pillage. They patrolled the track and prevented the crowd of several hundred, which quickly as' eembled, from interfering with the work of rescue. - Miss Roberta retained her "com Dosure, and after being assisted from the wrecked coach, gave di rections foe the care of the injured and the recovery of the company's baggsge. One car of theatrical ecenery, valued at $lo,ooo, was completely wrecked. The company was on its way to Bakerefield, from El Paso. Manv of the injured were past en gers in three tourist sleepers, which were almost entirely demolished in the crash. These, with the baggage and express cars, formed an unre cognizable mass of wreckage. All the Italians, who numbered about 100, were in two . old immi grant cars. The cars went to pie cbb when the crash came. One these cars was hurled completely over the engine jacd i was crushed into bits. -" Members of the switching crew who are accused cf leaving the switch cpen and causing the wreck, were tonight taken into custody and held in bail of $l,ooo by Coro ner Van Wie. PEACE PROSPECTS NOT SO BRIGHT. AS FORMERLY. Relations Are Strained Managers Say They Cannot Concede More Than 10 per cent. Wage Increase and Withdraw Offer to Arbitrate. RAILROAD STRIKE of Seattle, March 26. Japan or some other foreign nation none too friendly to this government may be , The confeienc Chicago, March 30. Monday will decide whether or not the en tire west is to be tied up with the greatest railroad strike in history. Prospects fcr peace are not bright tonight. The railroad managers will have to jump hurdles," is the way some of the employes put the case, which means that they will make no concessions. Results of the . initial efforts of President Roosevelt's envoys to Chicago to settle peacefully the dis pute between the railway trainmen and conductors and the 43 Western railroads involved, and to avoid a strike, today indicated that the re lations between managers and men are becoming more and more strain ed, and that the probability of an early strike on the part of the 5o,- 000 men is greater than it has been at any previous stage of the proceedings. Chairman M. A. Koapp, of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and Commissioner of Labor Charles P. Neill received a committee of managers and men in their apart ments at the Auditorium Hotel to day. Representatives of both sides stated their case with set jaws, and announced their intention of not receding from the positions taken. Visions of all that part of the coun try between Chicago and the Paci fic coast and Canada and Mex-.eo in the throes of a great railroad strike arose in the minds of the two Federal officials, and Mr. Neil ad mitted that the situation is so deli cats that be. is not able to discuss it until all negotiations are con eluded. Commissioner Neil ana Knapp received a special committee of rail way general managers at 10 A. M The managers stated briefly a his tory of the controversy from their standpoint, telliDg the com miesioners that the roads had granted practically a ten per cont wage increase and that the men are standing out for a further increase of 2 per cent, and a decrease of the working day by one hour. These concessions, the managers said, they could not grant, and it is said even to have intimated that they might wi'hdraw their offer of arbi tration. At the conclusion of the inter view, the managers left tbe apait ments of the Washington officials and paced forth and back in the corridors of the hotel awaitiegsome word of the progress of tte deliber ations within. At 11 A. M. Grand Chiefs Gar retson and Morissey, representing the conductors and trainmen, en tered into conference with the com missioners. No bint of what they were discoesing could be obtained. lasted for mere than before tbe meeting that they would not recede a point from their posi tion and positively would not sub mit the differences to arbitration. At the conclusion of the sessions Mr. Neil said: . "At this stage of the proceedings, there is nothing that I can make public. It is probable that - there will be nothing to give oat until all of our negotiations here have been conoluded. We are trying to settle tbe controversy by peaceful meth ods and avoid what will be one of the most seilous strikes in our his , tory, if it is allowed to take place The entire quest' on may resolve it self into a discussion of the applica tion of the Erdmann law by which, arbitration may be enforced by the Federal government;" A joint conference, it was said tonight, would be held tomorrow between the opposing interests in the presence of tbe government of ficials and the belief was expressed by men on both tides of the contro versy that a way out of the difficul ty would ba found. New York, March 29. -From the American Art galleries there was issued yesterday a handsomely il lustrated catalogue of the Stanford fin . M. w nue art treasures. These con stitute a superb collection which will be Bold. Many antique musical instru ments are aptly employed in the decoration of this music room. Mr. White's residence was a ver itable treasure house of art. There are 400 numbers in tbe catalogue of art objects. Tbe pictures are 1I2 in number. and range from old masters to living artists, among the latter sev eral Americans. in possession of plans of tbe United States battle ship Nebraska soon to go into commission from the Moran yards. The plans and specifications for this vessel, designed to be one of the crack-fighting pieces of - the American navy, s wer stolen two weeks age, and were returned only today, following a threat of prose cution of the person in who3e pos session they should be found. It was from tbe desk in' the pri vate office of J. H. Fox, superin tendent of construction, that the booklet containing the plans . was taken. Their return was made as mysteriously as they were abstract ed. The Morans have no idea who the thief is. NOTICE. I will pay the highest Mark et price in cash for Poultry, hogs, veal calves etc. at Bolden's grocery Store corner Second & Monroe streets opposite Corvallis Hotel. Your cash is always ready and a square deal guaranteed to all. Thou. Bonlden. - Fine' , Job Printing at Times Office for Hheumatic buffer era. ; The quick relief from pain afforded by ap plying Chamberlain's Pain Balm makes it a favorite with sufferers from rheumatism, sciatica, lame back, lumbago, and deep seated and muscular pains. For sale by Graham & Wortham. two hours. The unkn officials said New York, March 3O. When the public session of the commis sion examining Harry Thaw began Mr. Jerome seemed irritable and was constantly thereafter involved in wordy clashes with membere of the commission. His insistant manner of urging that be had a right to adduce additional testimo ny before the commission rendered its verdict was generally regarded as a concession that" Thaw had made a favorable impression during his long examination Daring the district attorney's cross-examination, it was said, Thaw comported himself creditably and answered Mr. Jerome's sharp, pointed ques tions with calmness and delibera tion. Thaw appeared jubilant when the public was allowed to enter the courtroom. To a reporter who leaned over and congratulated him on the showing he had made, Thaw replied: "Thank you very much, but I thought that was to be kept." Thaw's attorney's expressed them selves as entirely satiefied with the final stages of their client's severe examination. Altogether he was on the stand about six hours, count ing Thursday's session of the com mission. Mr. Jerome's cross-examination, one attorney declared, did not ehake Thaw io the least. Mr. Jerome declined to discuss the hearings. He seemed much disap pointed at tbe rulings which shut out Dr. Hamilton's testimony, the physician having already gone on record as saying that Thaw is a paranoiac with but a slight chance of recovery. ABSOllTElY PURE DISTINCTIVELY A CREAM OF TARTAR j BAKING POWDER It- does not contain an atom of phos phatio acid (which is the product of bones digested In sulphuric acid) or of alum (which Is one-third sulphuric acid), un healthful substances adopted for other ba king powders because of their cheapnessm