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SIX KILLED SIX MAIMED Worktrain Runs Wild Down Steep Grade CARS JUMP TRACK AT CURVE Terrible Accident on Logging Railroad Near Scappoose. SLIPPERY RAILS THE CAUSE Heavy I-oad of Gravel Pushes Lo comotive Back Down Mountain. Injured Are Brought to Portland Hospital. 1 UT Or WRECK VICTIMS. The IMad. THOMAS SMITH. ANDRF7W MATT SON. JOHN LAW SON. MIKE RISOFF. JOHN ERICKSON. F. U LEW IS. The Injured. Tony IWrnun. leg broken. John Petit, arm broken; leg hurt. Andrew Lund, hip, dislocated; right tea broken. Anton Relnwold. shoulder dis located. David Davidson, hurt about chest. Tony DeGrado. badly bruised. Six men killed and six Injured. That was the toll claimed by a sudden shower of rain which wet the tracks on a ateep spur of the Portland A Southwestern Lagging Railway, Just as a construction train was neartng the summit of a hill at a point eight mile north and weat of Scappoose. early yesterday afternoon. Five men. In charge of the train and crew, were on the locomotive. These es caped. Twelve men were on tha ona gravel car which waa being pushed uphill by the locomotive when the runaway oc curred. Not one of theae men got away unhurt. They clung to the car as it swept bark down the hill, and Jumped the track at a sharp curve. Three of them were killed outright, two more died while laying taken to Scappoose. and an other died after being brought to tha Good Samaritan Hospital, at Portland. The train operated by the Chapman Lumber Company was within 100 yards of tha top of the grade when the rain fell, wetting the tracks. The big Shay locomo tlve waa pushing the gravel car and crew of laborers ahead and had been making slow headway on the 14-per cent grade. Tha wheels commenced slipping at the steepest point. Knglneer Charlea Troxell threw on the brakea but the locomotive skidded on the slippery track. Heavy Load Forces Engine Bark. Then the load of gravel became the mo tive power of the train, forcing the loco motive back with steadily Increasing mo mentum. On the locomotive were Troxell. William Bishop, fireman: J. Monahan. woods foreman: John Sparks, gang fore man, and two brakemen whose names are not given. Finding he could not control the train Troxell Jumped and the others followed "Jump! Get off that car!" Monahan shouted to Die hapless II men on the gravel car. They may. pot. have under stood or they may have felt the typical woodsman's disregard of a danger that does not seem too pressing. Leastwise they did not Jump but sat calmly on the gravel as the train went skidding back down the hill. Smokes Till Crash Comes. Aa the speed of the train became terrific, several of the doomed workmen began clinging to the aides. Others sat quietly where they wese on the gravel heaps. One man. Andrew Mattaon. did not even discard hla pipe. He waa smoking se renely as the car hit the fatal curve at the base of the grade. An Instant later his dead body waa lying half buried In debris and gravel alongside the track. None of the unfortunate II had aeemed really to understand their danger until their car had leaped the track and death and destruction were In their midst. The locomotive went around the curve easily. The car followed, but Just as it swung clear the momentum sloughed It aside. The pin which held It to the locomotive snapped and the big erglno continued Its mad flight on the tracka to the bottom of the grade, where it stopped on an up grade stretch- Monahan. Sparks. Btshop and Troxell ran down to the place of the tragedy. The scene was Indescribably horrible. It waa a great heap of gravel, debris, dead, dying and Injured. Bishop waa sent on down to the derelict locomotive to blow an alarm whlatle. The other three took up the work of extricating the dead and Injured from the wreckage. Alarm Signal Brings Aid. Bishop's alarm produced quick results. Five blasts of the locomotive brought men on tha run from all parts of the Chapman Lumber Company's camp, JO yards from the base of the grade on Scappoose Creek. 8. Chapman, head of the company, took personal charge of organizing the relief work. He had an other locomotive and car sent to the fata! carve, where the injured and dead were put aboard and hurried to Scappoose. Here first aid was given by Dr. J. H. Hi STUDENTS BREAK; . BONES IN FIGHT TWENTY IXJTRED AT CHICAGO MEDICAL COLLEGE. Faculty and 5000 Outsiders Witness Battle, While Girl Sophomore Leads Cheering. " CHICAGO. Oct. 1. Special.) 'While a crowd of more than 6000 persons. Includ ing members of the faculty and promi nent physician of Chicago, ' looked on, 160 students of the Physlclane and Sur geons' College, Lincoln and Congress streets, today engaged In a class light that amounted almost to a riot. In the tight one student received a fracture of the arm. S were so badly hurt that they had to be carried from the field and scores of others had their clothes torn from their backs. So great waa the press of the specta tors that streetcar traffic had to be sus pended until the streets could be cleared by the police. The police made no at tempt to Interfere with the lighting stu dents. While the students battled. 60 girl stu dents stood on the steps of the college and cheered lustily for their classmates. Six of the girl sophomores had. In their leisure hours, made a class pennant, and they led their classmates In cheering. THOUGHT LOST; ON STAGE Los Angeles Girl Disappears for Two Years, Becomes Actress. LOS ANGELES. Cal.. Oct. 1. (Spe cial.) After remaining away from her Los Angeles home for more than two years while detectives In every city In the Union searched for her, pretty Dwan Fisher. 17 years old. returned today and cleared up the mystery of her sudden disappearance and long ab sence. The lure of the footlights caused the girl to leave on May 3, 1908. She followed a theatrical com pany to Freano and then to San Fran cisco. From there the company went East, taking Miss Fisher along. In New Tork. Philadelphia and other large cities the girl won recognition by her clever singing and dancing, while officers hunted high and low for her. An attack of masles which af fected her eyesight caused her to leave the stage for a time, and, taking advantage of the enforced vacation, she returned here for a short visit. CANNOT VISIT AUSTRALIA Roosevelt Declines Invitation ' Sent by Premier Deakln. MELBOURNE. Oct. 1. Alfred Deak ln, the Premier of Australia, sent a cablegram to President Roosevelt a fortnight ago thanking him for having made possible the visit of the Ameri can battleship fleet to Australian wa ters and urging him to visit Australia on his way to Africa. The fact that no answer ha yet been received from the President has given rise to considerable speculation In Aus tralia. WASHINGTON. Oct. I. At the White House today It was stated that the message from the Premier of Austra lia did not reach the President until Tuesday last when It waa delivered by Counsellor Esmes Howard of the Em bassy.. The President's secretary states that Mr. Roosevelt received the mess age verbally through the counsellor, thanking the Premier for the Invitation to visit Australia and saying It would be Impossible-for him to accept, al though he would like very much to do so. MORE BEER FOR OREGON Washington Brewery Finds Prohi bition Law a Good Thing. BELLINGHAM, Wash., Oct. 1. (Spe cial.) According to Manager Henry Schupp. of the B. B. Brewery, located In this city, his company is shipping more beer Into Oregon now than be fore the "dry" law of that state went Into force. Schupp also declares that Oregon breweries are running full blast and actual flgurea show there Is more beer sold ther than formerly. The so-called "prohibition Deer- nas worked thla marvel, he says, this bev erage containing a fraction less than I per cent of alcohol, which will allow It to pass before the law. Altl.jugh but a substitute for the S"i per cent article. Mr. Schupp declares the brew eries are doing an Immense business in tha sale of tha short-weight drink: FRANCE WILL BACK RUSSIA Make Bulgaria Give Turkey Disput ed Line of Railroad. PARIS. Oct. 1. The Cabinet has decided to support the proposal made by Russia to submit to the signatories of the Berlin treaty the question of the occupation by Bulgaria of that portion of the Orient Railroad which lies In Roumella. Bui garia's refusal to relinquish control of this line has created a difficulty with Turkey. The Cabinet approved also the new Franco-Spanish note, which sets forth the guarantees to be exacted or iiuiai nana. the new Sultan or Morocco. Oeneral d'Amade, commander of the French military forces In Morocco, has been promoted to the rank of general of division. CROKER WILL COME BACK Ex-Tammany Boss to Visit Jfew Tork After Election. NEW TORK. Oct. L That Richard Croker. the former Tammany leader, will come to New Tork shortly after election Is the announcement made by hla son. Richard. Jr., on his arrival from Europe ! 1 ' PORTEND, OBI ' PK1CF FIVE CENTS WILL BE ELECTED, DECLARES TAFT Candidate Feels People Are With Him. STRONG APPEAL TO UNIONS Says His Decisions as Judge , Are Their Charter. LIMIT ON INJUNCTIONS Should Only Last 4 8 Hours Without Xotlce Rendered Fundamental Decision Against Trusts. Tour Through Xebraska. OMAHA. Neb.. Oct. 1. "T am going to be elected." This statement made tonight by William H. Taft sums up in a word what the can didate thinks of the effect of his speech making tour thus far. The belief is based, Mr. Taft explained, on the manner of his reception in states thus far traversed. In which there were reported to be defec tions In the Republican ranks. As to the National ticket, Mr. Taft now believes that there Is no reason to doubt that the Republican party will hold Ha own and, should this prove the case, Mr. -Taft says there Is no doubt that he will get the elec toral vote of Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Dakotas. Iowa and Nebraska the states In which the disaffection waa supposed to exlst- Feels People Are With Him. "I have been In real touch with the people," continued Mr.. Taft. "They have come to see me and hear me in numbers far beyond my anticipations and, what seems of even more importance, they have responded to what I have had to say In such a way that I could feel their sym pathy. The desire of my audiences to day to get in- personal contact with me has been marked, and shows more than passing Interest." Thirteen speeches were made by the can didate today in a swing around tue southeastern part of Nebraska, terminat ing at Omaha tonight, where two big meetings were held, one for the benefit of the stockyaFZI employes In South Omaha, the other In the Auditorium. Throughout the day the crowds were larger than usual at the short stops. At Crete, Beatrice, Table Rock and Nebraska City the voice of the candidate waa entirely Inadequate to reach the limits of the crowd. At several of the stops Mr. Taft left his car and spoke from a platform. At prac tically every station the local band was In attendance and the cheers which greeted Concluded on Fage 8.) - 1 YOUNG TEDDY TO WEAR OVERALLS PRESIDENT'S SOX WILL BE COME WORKIXGMAX TODAY. Begin Serious Tasks of Life by Un loading Wool at Wages of 9 1 5 to $18 a Week. HARTFORD, Conn., Oct. 1. (Special.) Tomorrow morning Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.. son of .the President, will don over alls and Jumper and assist the operators In the wool department of the Hartford Carpet Corporation at Thompsonville In unloading the raw wool from the' cars and In assorting and washing It. Young Roosevelt appeared at the fac- Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. Who 4 Benin. Life Today. Workinarmaa tory this morning at 8 o'clock and stayed around the office all day. The other op erators at the mill watched his every move as he walked from one depart ment to another and, when he went to the boms of Vice-President Higgins for lunch, a crowd followed and another crowd followed him back to the factory a half hour later. Tomorrow morning at 7 o'clock the President's son will go Into the wool de partment and work the same as though his name was Smith and his father a hodcarrier. It Is thought he will get about J1S or 118 a week. For the present young Roose velt will live with Mr.. Higgins, but late? on-he will move to -a Thompson vine boarding-house, where he will live the same as other boarders. DEATH'S HAND IN POLITICS Independence Candidate in Califor nia Killed by Electricity. OAKLAND, Oct. 1. Edgar B. Pierce, who is a candidate for the Assembly on the Independence ticket, waa electro cuted while performing his duty aa chief electrician of the California Paper Mills at Antioch. He leaves a bride of six months. Pierce served In the United States Navy during the Spanish-American War. WHERE? ....... f : a;; l : - (us :: r. v- f ? LOSES FIRST LID CASE Jury Quickly Acquits C. C. Peterson. FINDS NO LAW WAS VIOLATED Billiard Hall Proprietor Kept Place Open Sunday. PRECEDENT OF 1630 READ Ancient Connecticut Case in Which Defendant Was Acquitted Has Ef fect on Jury Cameron to Go Ahead With Prosecutions. Puritanical laws of Portland were compared with the Puritanical laws of the Pilgrims In Municipal Court yes terday, and following the rulings of the early fathers, the modern Jury held that certain alleged violations of the Suuday.law should be regarded as nec essary and consequently, condoned. Accordingly C. C. Peterson, charged with having kept his billiard hall, 272 Burnslde street, open for business last Sunday, was acquitted and the case dismissed. It was the first of the 50 odd cases that are on the Municipal Court docket as a result of District Attorney Cameron's drag-net policy that was enforced last Sunday against small dealers and shop-keepers. However, those of the dealers whose alleged violations of the Sunday clos ing laws were submitted to the grand Jury, fared worse than the defendant In the Municipal Court, for live indict ments against cigar dealers were re turned yesterday afternoon. A deter mined and carefully prepared light against the Indictments will begin In the Circuit Court this morning. -' Peterson's case was regarded as a test of the validity of the Sunday closing law, which was so rigidly en forced by "the police last Sunday. " De fending him were Attorneys John F. Logan, James Gleason and ex-United States District Attorney W. C. Bristol. They have been retained by the' com bined organization of dealers who have planned an exhaustive light against the enforcement of the law. j. H. Page and Thad W. Vreeland, deputies of District Attorney Cameron, prosecuted the case. Reads Connecticut Blue Laws. A Jury was demanded by the defense and in the course of the trial Mr. Lo gan read portions of the old blue laws of Connecticut, which were In force In 1630. Mr. Logan cited a case that oc- (Coneluded on Page 13.) CAMERON USES STEAMER TO PULL AUTO UP HILL CHAUFFEUR RESORTS TO XOVEL METHOD AT BLUE SIDE. Big Touring-Car Refuses to Ascend Heavy Grade, and River Boat Is Called Into Use. SPOKANE, Wash., Oct 1. (Special.) Employing a steamboat to pull an auto mobile up hill was the novel method used at Blueslde, on the Pend d'Oreille Elver, Washington. The heavy touring car of R. F. Black well, general manager of the Idaho & Washington Northern Railroad, stalled on Blueslde Hill, one of the worst in that region. The steamer Spokane -was lying otT the slide and the chauffeur appealed for help to Captain Stewart, says a Newport spe cial to the Spokesman-Review. A line was attached to the automobile, one end run through a block at the top of the hill, the other fastened to the cap stan, the machinery started and up Blue side incline the steamer snaked the road engine. ' PEARY OFF FOR POLAR SEA Steamer Erik Returns With Latest Xeivs of Explorer. ST. JOHNS, N. F.. Oct. 1. Having safe ly transferred a large supply of stores to tho p,nrv Arctic steamer Roosevelt at Etah, West Greenland, the auxiliary steamer Erik arrived back In this port today. . The Roosevelt left Etah on August 18, bound nprth through Kane 'Basin, Ken nedy Channel and Robeson Strait. It is thA pmlnrcr'n nlan either to enter the Polar Sea or to reach a point from which he can easily get to Cape coiumDis. oy February next. Then he will make a dash across the Ice floe towards the pole. The Roosevelt has on board three Americans beside Commander Peary, the regular crew of the steamer, 25 Eskimos and 350 dogs. The Eskimos, Captain Bartlett said, are eager to assist the explorer. The Erik started on her return voyage to St. Johns on August 20. In Davis Strait the Erik struck an iceberg, which battered her bows above the water line. She made the harbor at Mukowik. Lab rador, where she effected temporary re pairs, then proceeded. The remainder of the Voyage was without incident. DID NOT WANT' SUIT FILED Sensational Statement Regarding Elkins Breach of Promise Case. . ELKINS, W. Va., Oct. 1. State Senator Fred Lue and William E. Baker, attor neys for Blaine Elkins and his father, Senator Stephen B. Elkins. in the breach of promise suit brought against Blaine Elkins by Miss Ada Louise Lonsdale, of New Tork, today authorized a statement saying that the letters from the plaintiff to Judge Dayton and the press show con clusively she did not want the suit brought and that the affidavit, without precedent in such a suit, so widely pub lished, was procured, according to her statement, by misrepresentations. Local attorneys for Miss Lonsdale who claim that she dropped the suit only after a settlement was made, say they will file a claim for an attorney's lien. SIX DEAD; MANY INJURED Freight Train Rams Excursion In Ohio. CLEVELAND, O., Oct. 1. Six lives were lost and a number of persons were Injured tonight when a Toledo & Ohio Central passenger train carrying on ex cursion crowd from the Bowling Green fair into Toledo was run Into from the rear at Sugar Ridge by a freight train. The dead: Richard Radecul, Sugar Ridge, Joe Gasler, Sugar . Ridge. J. F. McCrow, Toledo. Judge Boyd, East Toledo. ' J'JL A. Stonebrldge, Bunbrtdge. One unidentified man. The rear car of the excursion train was telescoped and two other cars were Jammed together. ATTACK BY THREE ROADS Hill and Harrlman Seek Injunction Against Low Lumber Rates. ST. PAUL, Oct. 1. The Interstate Com merce Commission was made defendant In three suits filed in the United States District Court today, one suit each by the Northern Pacific Railroad, the Great Northern and the Union Pacific Railroad Company. The suits are brought for the purpose of securing a restraining order against the Commission In order to stop the enforcement of the rates on forest products from Washington. The cases were up for hearing before the Commission, but It was held that the railroads failed to show that the rates were confiscatory. CIRCUS LION ON WARPATH Escapes, but Is Killed by Jersey Farmer After Killing Cattle. . NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Oct. 1. Negro, a full grown African lion, es caped last night from the Winter quar ters :of a circus located between this city and Boundbrook, and after having been hunted by keepers all night was shot and killed on the county road by Edward Radel, a farmer, early today. Before its end, the Hon killed two cows and a calf. In escaping, the lion had attacked one of .the camels con nected with the show and then forced: the keepers to flee. LET LAW DECIDE, SAYS F 0 RAKER Ohio Senator Again Defends His Action. ONLY EMPLOYED AS ATTORNEY Denies Standard Influenced Him as Legislator. . NO OFFENSE AGAINST LAW Had Right to Work for Standard or Any Other Corporation Could Xot Foresee Prosecution of Monopoly by Government. CINCINNATI, Oct. 1. That the law be Invoked against him If he has done wrong, Is the conclusion of a state ment by United States Senator Foraker, which he gave to the Associated Press here today. Before making this sug gestion he sums up the various charges that have been made and discusses brief ly tho legal ethics as to service for various clients. The statement is as follows: "The questions In this whole matter In which tho public Is concerned are: "1 Whether I was employed, which was never concealed or denied; and "2 The character of that employment whether It had any relation to my du ties as Senator or influenced me In any manner In regard thereto. "On all these points I have answered fully in my former published atate ments. Amount Received Xot at Issue. "I have not until now spoken of the compensation I received, because, if the employment was improper, it would be no defense to show that It was a small sum. but if, on the other hand, the employment was proper, the compensation concerned .only the company and myself nobody else. If my former statements are true, as I know them to be, the employment was entirely proper and legitimate, and therefore the question or compensation i. one I do not feel called upon to discuss with Mr. Hearst. "in view, however, of the important character of the service rendered, the ability of the company to pay, and, if it may be considered, although un foreseen, of the disagreeable expe rience to which I am subjected. I think it would be difficult for Mr. Hearst to show that I was overpaid, but If he should, that would be a matter for the company to complain about and not Mr. Hearst. Prosecution Xot Foreseen. "For the benefit of those who may not have read my former statements, I re- ( Concluded on Page 4.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Wecther. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 60.1 degrees; minimum. 62.8 dejrre.es. TODAY'S Fair and continued cool; northerly winds. National. Fleet arrive, at Manila and gets sreat re ception. Page 8. Politics. Chanler speaks agaln.t President's Inter ference In elections. Pane 8. Taft predicts election and .peaks on labor question at Omaha. Page 1. Hitchcock to answer critics in conference with Roosevelt today. Page Beveridge speaks on tariff revision in North Dakota. Page 4. Bryan again attacks Tatt's policy on cam paign fund publicity. Page 6. Foraker defends action In working for Stan dard Oil and demands hearing In court. Page 1. Ionirtlc. Mrs Howard Oould charged with drunk enness in divorce case. Page 8. Plnchot defended bv cattlemen at Irriga tion Congress. Page 6. Young Teddy Roosevelt begins Ufa as worklngman today. Page 1. Twenty medical students Injured In claas fight at Chicago. Page 1. Railroads renew fight on Willamette Valley lumber rates. Page 17. Bankers convention declares for asset cur rency and against deposit guarantee and postal banks. Page 5. Koch proposes educating children to fight white plague. Page i. Sports. Day's big league games of great importance to club standing. Page 7. roast League Results Oakland 8. Portland 7; lfoj Angeles 2. San Francisco 1. Soccer'Viotball season to open with gams tomorrow. Page -O. Pacific Coast. Medford district fair opens with large at tendance. Page 14 Railroad Commission refuses to dismiss suit agaln.t Wells-Fargo Company for re duced rates. Page 14. Thousand hunter. In field In tins County on opening day for phe-isants. Paga IS Commercial and Marine. California walnut crop heavy. Page 31. Chicago wheat market firm in spite of heavy movement. Page -1- Btock speculators await outcome of elec tion. Pag. 21. Steamship' Buckley chartered to carry lum ber to Australia. Page 10. Portland and Vicinity. . knied and .la tnlured In train wreck on logging railroad near Scappoose. Page 1. Jury acquits C. C. Peterson, accused of violating Sunday closing law. Pag. 1. Henator Beveridge to speak in Portland next Tuesday night: Senator Dolllver in Sal.m about October 17. Pag. 13. Issue raised In Lem Woon case may be far-reaching. Page 12 Committee named to carry on Country Club', campaign. Page 12 Rrand lury refuses to Indict Whitney L. Boise on charge of looting Hawthorn estate. Page 20. Passenger rate from Eaat to Portland by way of California advanced to. Pag. 15. Medical inspection of public schools t h- gla today. Page 12. (Concluded oa Page f J today.