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.
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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.)
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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.
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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.