60 Pages fjj Pages 1 to 12 VOL- XXVI. "SO- 19 PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 12, 1907. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ,) DEATH MARS SHRNERS E Train Wrecked in Cali fornia and at Least 25 Are Killed. BURKED, SCALDED, MANGLED Engine Plunges in Sand and the Cars Leap Over It. DEAD ARE EASTERN PEOPLE Reading Members Most Nu merous Among Sufferers. BODIES BADLY DISFIGURED Knglne Leaps Track on a Sandy Beach Near Honda Passengers Are Plied on It and Cooked to Death' by the Steam. LIST OF DEAD. ' SAN LUIS OBISPO, Cal., May 11. Following la a list of the dead la the wrecked train the Shriners. so far a known tonight: J. DOUGLAS HIPPL.E, Beading. S. A. WASSON. Buffalo. MRS. FISHER, Cleveland. MISS YOUNG. Cleveland. CHARLES LOWING. Buffalo. J. W. CUTLER AND WIFE, Bir mingham. Ala. I ALBERT SLESSE, residence un known. HARRY HANDLE, Reading, Pa. OLIVIA KAUFFMAN, Reading-, Pa. HARRY STOLTZ, Reading. HARRY CUTLER, Reading. A. L. flOTH. Lebanon, Pa. AUSTIN", tourist agent In charge of the Buffalo Shriners. V. STOFFE. Reading. GEORGE HAGERMAN. Reading. HARRY MILLER, Reading. HENRY. Canton, O. MRS. MARY 1VENS. Reading. RICHARD EFFICK. Reading. ALONZO P. ROGERS, Pullman . conductor. MR. BROMBAR, Reading. Fatally Injured: Miss Sulx, Reading. Brakeman Blckford, back broken. SANTA BARBARA. Cel., May 11. At least 25 persona have perished in a disas trous wreck on the Coast line on the Southern Pacific this afternoon, when a special train carrying thr delegations of Eastern Shriners, returning from a week of merrymaking at Los Angeles, left the track at Honda, a station 69 miles north of here, and piled up on the sandy beach. Engine, tender, baggage car and diner, with three coaches, were heaped In hopeless confusion, and terror was added by the wreckage taking fire, although the flames were quickly extinguished by the survivors, passengers and trainmen. Many were scalded and burned while buried beneath the shattered cars. Rush to Work of Relief. From north and south aid was rushed It once by special trains. Doctors and nurses from Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo raced to the scene of the wreck. Two carloads of dead and wounded were X RS i MR. AVERAGE CITIZEN, WHO HASN'T REGISTERED, SUDDENLY DISCOVERS THAT HE HAS AN INTEREST, AFTER ALL, IN THE Oh, Dear. Same Old Election Chestnut." hurried Into San Luis Obispo shortly be fore 9 o'clock and, while the bodies of the dead were turned over to a volunteer corps of Masons, who had learned of the disaster to their brethren, the Injured were hurried to hospitals and private houses, where cots and beds were await ing their coming anoV where doctors and nurses were Immediately in attendance. The wrecked train, which constituted a portion of No. 1, the northbound "Coaster," left Santa Barbara at 12:10. While traveling on the schedule of a regu lar train. It was actually a special, and carried, among others, representatives of Rajah Temple, of Reading, Pa., Ismallia Temple, of Buffalo. N. T., and Al Koran Temple, of Cleveland, O. While It is proba ble that delegates from other portions of New York were abroad the train. It Is known that there are no residents of New York City were present and the list of dead shows that a majority of the victims were from Reading. Two Versions of Cause. Two irreconcilable statements have been made as to the cause of the wreck. In one It is said that drifting sand along the track formed an, obstruction with which the engine of the Esmalia special collided. The other report, received Just before midnight from Lompoc, ascribes r : i . V ' :- Chairman Timothy I.. Woodruff, Who Foiled Odell'n Scheme to Give Roonevelt a Slap. In New York Republican State Com-' ml t tee. the disaster to a switch rail, broken or Improperly placed. " According to the Lompoc correspondent, who viewed the wreck and obtained the statements of sur vivors, the engine, traveling at the rate of 60 miles an hour, struck three project ing points of the switch rail, ran along the rail for about 40 feet and then bumped over the ties for over a .dozen yards, finally plunging into the ditch. The ten der was flung over the engine by cars be? hind. The baggagecar and the diner, which was evidently the second car, plunged over the engine, and following these were two heavy Pullman sleepers. Majority Die by Scalding. The greatest loss of life occured in the diner, which seems to have been filled with passengers.. Not a person in this car escaped death. The doomed passengers were carried into ' close contact with the engine, . buried under, the cars that came behind, and for the most part scalded to death. The bodies taken to San Luis Obispo, almost without exception, are horribly disfigured and almost unrecog nizable. ' The crew was made up ,of Engineer Champlain, . Conductor Johns and Brake men Blckford and Fountain. . Most Killed on Diner. The Buffalo .Reading and Cleveland Shriners with their wives and children oc cupied the dining car and two sleepers, the Duenna and Oswego. It was in these three cars that navoc occurred. In the baggage car the baggageman was Instant ly killed. ' In 'the diner It 'is estimated that 12 or 14 passengers, three colored waiters, the Pullman conductor and a brakeman met death, and that several victims were passengers In the sleepers. Two coaches did not leave the track, and apparently none of their passengers was Injured. There were 145 people on the wrecked train. Of this number 72 belong to Is mallia Temple, Buffalo; 48 to Rajah Tem ple, Reading; five to Salaam Temple, New Jersey, and 22 were trainmen, porters, waiters, etc A report from San Luis Obispo, which appears to be well founded, gives as the cause of the wreck the fact that a rail road crew was engaged in repairing the track. The wrecked special approached without warning at a very high rate of speed and the track gave way. ' The special train bearing 21 dead from (Concluded on Page 2.) ODELL'S BOMB IS A BOOMERANG Move to Declare for Hughes Rejected. AIMEB TO WORRY- ROOSEVELT State Committee Adopts Woodruff's Plan. EX-BOSS' . BITTER SPEECH Admits Trying to Climb in Band' wagon 'When Doing Reactionist's AVork The Vote Eliminates Hughes From the Race. NEW YORK, May 1L (Special.) "The Republican party in the State of New York is in a state of complete disorganiza tion and is In sore need of a leader. I be lieve the best way would be to make Gov ernor Hughes the leader of the party by making him th nominee for the Presi dency. , Make htm leader and let him lead." , In this fashion Benjamin B. Odell, Jr., hurled a bombshell into today's meeting of the Republican State Committee and placed it squarely on record as regards its attitude toward Mr. Hughes' candidacy for a Presidential nomination. Thirty-two members voted to table a resolution presented by Mr. Odell, pledg ing the support of the state organization to Mr. Hughes' nomination in 1908. Four voted for it, namely. Mr. Odell, George W. Dunn, member of the State Railroad Com mission; William Halpln, State Tax Com missioner, and William Ten Eyck. Odell Causes Consternation. Boldly asserting that Timothy L. Wood ruff and "his followers were insincere in their assurances to Mr. Hughes and that It was the'r duty as Republicans to give him their full support, the ex-state chair man upset the ptais of the Woodruff fac tion and threw consternation into the committee ranks. .He then forced the committee to approve all of Mr. Hughes' measures, after a resolution had been pre sented commending the Governor. The committee, however, studiously refrained from advocating the passage of any of his bills, except the public utilities measure. Woodruff Glares at Odell. Mr. Odell's motives In championing Mr. Hughes were assailed In sensational fash Ion, and he' laughingly admitted that he was trying to get on the bandwagon with the rest of the Republicans. Mr. Wood ruff took the floor and said, glaring at Mr. Odell: "Owing to the source of this resolu tion and inasmuch as throughout the country the relations between the author and President Roosevelt are well known, I believe this resolution would only tend to injure the Governor. It strikes me that it comes with very poor grace from Mr. Qdell, and furthermore, as we do not know the attitude of Governor Hughes in the matter, I move that we lay the mat ter on the table." Charles H. Bette, of Wayne County, followed Mr. Woodruff, and said: "Before I vote for this resolution I would like to know the attitude of Gov ernor Hughes' real friends." He empha sized the word "real," and Mr. Odell's smile broadened. Trying to Get on Bandwagon, Mr. Odell rose and said: "I know what you're all after. You're all trying to get on the bandwagon, and so am I. I have no hesitation In admitting It. But I sup pose that, while some of you will get good seats, the best I will get will be a spoke, and whether it will be In the hand or on the bead, I don't know. There Is no ulterior motive in this resolution. So long as the people of the state are making the candidates, I have just as much right as any one to express my opinions and state my preference. I am no longer a political boss, but only a party worker. "Mr. Roosevelt has been, going about the country preaching to the old and young that honesty is the best policy; that truthfulness is the greatest of virtues. In the face of his teachings we cannot believe that he is insincere when he says that he will not run again for the presidency." Hughes' Policy Indorsed. He said that it thus became necessary to select someone whose probity, hon esty and faithfulness will appeal with the same force and effect to the people as would Mr. Roosevelt's. - A resolution was adopted indorsing Mr. Hughes' policies, "particularly in the regulation and control of public service corporations, a re-apportionment in conformity with the constitu tion, a recount bill and amendments to the primary and election laws, to the end that just remedies may be provided for existing evils." JOY IX ADMINISTRATION RANKS Elimination of Hughes Clears Track for Taft Boom. WASHINGTON, May 11. (Special.) Important and sensational develop ments in Ohio and New York have en grossed the attention of politicians at the Capital today. In Ohio the sur render to Secretary Taft has stirred the Foraker partisans to a pitch where they demand a portion of the Buckeye indorsement on the Senatorshlp propo sition. New York, however, furnishes the real sensation of the day. The prac tical elimination of Governor Hughes as a Presidential proposition is looked upon as clearing the road for the gal- (Concluded on Page 3.) CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 58 degrees; minimum, 48. TODAY'S Occasional rain; southsVly winds. Miners Federation Case. Ptnkerton says President Mover la Chicago burglar. Page 1. Acting Secretary Kerwin summoned by state. Page 1. Love for girl betrayed Orchard, Page 1, Foreign. Terrible incendiary lire in Paris. Page 3. Gossip of European capitals. Page 35. National. Major Edwards forced to resign Umatilla agency. Page 3. Politics. Odell defeated In attempt to get New York state committee to indorse Hughes for President. Page'l. Roosevelt and Cabinet rejoice at Odell's fail ure. Page 1. Hughes makes speech denying ambition to be President. Page L Burton denies Taft scheme to eliminate Foraker. Pae 2. - . .Domestic ( Shrirera train wrecked in Colorado and at least 23 killed. Page 1. Haskln on train Id-." of the blind. Page 35.. Boom in wheat causes excitement in Chi cago. Page 14. Independent telephone companies to form alliance. Page 11. Levey promoted in Northern, Pacific re organization. Page 8. 1L C. Pierce case In United States court at Et. Louis. Page 10. New York strike situation reaches crisis. Page 2. Sports. Coast League baseball season to open In Portland next Wednesday. Page 10. Bench Show this week of Portland Kennel Club.. Page 40. Harry Stover' to move his racing plant from Petaluma, Cal., to Butte, Mont., Page 41 Seattle High School wins field meet at Pullman. Page 11. Portland loses another game. Page 10. Columbia wins boat race with Harvard. Page 40. Yale defeats Princeton in field meet. Page 11. Pacific Coast. Gillett threatens to call out troops if disorder in San Francisco .continues; more cars run, but assaults continue. Page 2. Chinese Junk Whang-ho set adrift -by breakers off Columbia River bar. Page 4. Portland bankers buy Medford railway; promise extension to Klamath Falls. Page 4. Portland business men highly pleased with trip to Eastern Oregon and Idaho. Page 1. Salem plans cherry fair in June. Page 4. Man kills another in quarrel near Pendle ton. Page 5. Portland and Vicinity. Juvenile Court Judge Frazer refuses to ac cept E. S. J. McAllister as deputy prose cutor .for court. Page 8. Police Chief Grltzmacher appoints five new sergeants; 17 new patrolmen added to force. Page 8. Devlin men thoroughly organised to defeat Mayor Lane. Page 8. Trading In Portland real estate continues active. Page 30. Pardon of James White, kidnaper, cause much comment. Page 39. Rev. Hiram Vrooman addresses Pomona Grange on taxation. Page 15. State Railroad Commission works to relieve congestion in terminal yards. Page 9. Oregon Traction Company stockholders at tempt to block construction work on United Railways by attachment suit. Page 9. BONDSOFINTEREST CEMENTED BT IP In 6-Day Tour Portland Men Learn Much. RETURN HOME THIS MORNING Members of Party Are High in Praise of Excursion. AN OBJECT LESSON TO ALL Benefits Bound to Follow Vote of Appreciation Extended to Rail road Officials Yesterday Was Spent In Sherman County. SHANIKO. Or.. May-. 11. (Special.) After traveling 1372 miles in Oregon and Idaho and visiting 38 towns and cities, the Portland business men left this place shortly before midnight tonight, to. ar rive in Portland Sunday morning at 8:30 o'clock. They had a very satisfying trip, learned many lessons about the regions they traversed and have been astonished by the progress of the Irrigation districts of Umatilla County, Oregon, and South ern Idaho and other evidences of growth in agriculture, horticulture, livestock and mining of other districts. The" visitors were received royally wherever they went and believe from the manifestations of friendship toward Portland that the tour has created closer relations between that city and the places visited, commercially and socially. The weather has been excellent through out the six days of the trip. Today the party visited Condon, a town- of some 1500 inhabitants; Arlington, of about GOO peo ple, and Wasco, Moro, Grass Valley and Shaniko, of about 300 each. At each place tha visitors were oordially received. The satisfactory results of the trip are evi denced by the following opinions from Tom Richardson, manager of the Port land Commercial Club, and planner of the tour; F. B. Beach, T. W, B. London, H. M. Cake and Samuel Connell, who acted as chairman of the party on separate days; United States Senator Fulton and J. K. Gill. Leading members, of the excursion of Portland business men give their opinion Of the effects of the trip as follows: Great Trip That Means Great Good. Tom Richardson Being on time at al most all the 38 stopping places added, much to the pleasure of the trip. The re sults from irrigation at many points produced the most lasting effect upon the Portland business men. There was a wel come ready at each place and all the peo ple are proud of Portland and the vast advertising campaign being carried on to develop the resources of the Interior. It was six busy profitable days. The busi ness men are themselves better acquainted with each other and better advised as to the wants of the trade and the attractions and possibilities of the country. We had an ordinary six weeks' trip crowded Into as many Siya ; we saw great fruit sec tions, a seemingly endless wheat belt, cattle and sheep upon boundless fields, and Irrigation development upon as ex tensive a scale as can be witnessed any where in America. It was a great trip for Portland, and one through which much good will come. - City Can Appreciate Its Obligation. H. M. Cake The interior towns and communities visited will be inspired to greater effort in the upbuilding of their Interests and in the development of their resources. They will have re newed confidence in and a more friend ly feeling for Portland and her peo ple.. Our merchants will have a more comprehensive knowledge of the vast possibilities of that great inland em pire upon which Portland must largely depend for her Industrial and commer cial development; and greater appre ciation of her obligation as the me tropolis of the Northwest to assist In the development of every portion of that country. The realization of the tn :erdependent relations of Portland and ihe surrounding country in the secur ing of their mutual growth and pros perity will result In greater effort on the part of all for the upbuilding of Oregon. Help to Greater Development. F. E. Beach I am of the opinion that great benefit will result from the Portland business men's visit to East ern Oregon and Idaho. Covering, as it has, all towns reached by rail in the eastern part of Oregon and that part of Idaho especially tributary to Portland, I was continually Impressed with the vastness of undeveloped re sources, also with the fact that the citizens of the different towns are moving in the work ' of developing them. The information which ' the members of the party have gathered from the sections visited will be one of the factors In the work: of develop ing these vast Resources. Portlanders Have Learned Much. . T. W. B. London To all of us, this has been an excursion of education. While an inspiration and tribute to the country merchant, the chief result ant is the benefit to Portland business men, whose eyes have been opened as never before to the new wealth now being produced chiefly by Irrigation, but which Is the merest beginning of it; - . ' V ' V1- t . Hfriitei m-ui & nr iff ' Ex-Governor B. B. Odell, of Kerr York, Who Tried to Slas Rooae - velt by Movtns; That New York Indorse Hughn tor President. an era of wealth so vast the mind utterly refuses to grasp It. Hitherto to us of Western Oregon irrigation has seemed a -dry and negligible subject, but for the future It will have our become a .household word. Irrigation deep interest and appreciation, and added to the purely natural resource of the Inland Empire cannot fall to give Portland 1,000,000 ' inhabitants during the lifetime of many of the excursionists. Benefit to All Concerned. Senator C. W. Fulton It will prove of permanent value to Portland and all sections visited as well. It is a mighty good thing for persons whose Interests are mutual to become acquainted. The interior merchant has long .known that Portland is for them the natural and most convenient market In which to both -purchase 'and sell. It was im portant to them to know the men with whom the exchanges must be con ducted. - It was equally important that the Portlanders should know them and know the resources, possibilities and requirement of their respective sec tions. All' these prerequisites to the best possible relations, and . conditions have been accepted. Hence increase of trade and a more united effort all along the line for the upbuilding and devel opment of the Northwest must follow. This week we have bad a lovely trip, seen the best people and the ' finest country on earth, and witnessed the working of a new record for hospital ity. Trip Long to Be Remembered. J. K. Gill The . business men's ex cursion through Oregon and Idaho will manifestly be of great benefit, both to the visitors and their numerous hosts. Commercially Portland men will be brought into closer union with their customers, the resources of their va rious localities will be better known and the basis : for credit - will be strengthened thereby. Generally speak ing, ' the trip has been an object les son to many if not all of the party. The marvelous results of irrigation by which many thousands of acres have been made to blossom as the rose; the products of ' Immense stone quarries transmitted Into substantial and beau tiful buildings, some of which would attract attention If located In any of our larger Eastern cities; the great (Concluded on Page 14. E Idaho Prisoner Is Chi cago Burglar. FACT KNOWN FOR WHOLE YEAR Detective Says Identification Is Absolute. INTENDED TO KEEP SECRET Has Denied Story,, bnt Now Affirms Truth All Who Knew Sloyer ' In the Black Hills' Have Disappeared, CHICAGO, May 11. (Special.) That Charles H. tMoyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners, now awaiting trial for his life at Boise. Idaho, and Charles -Moyer, former Chi cago convict In the Jollet penitentiary, are one and the same man is declared today by William A. Plnkerton, of the Pinkerton detective agency. "For just a year we have known that Moyer of the Western Federation was the same Moyer who served sentence at Jollet,". declared Mr. Pinkerton. "There la no doubt of the identifica tion. I would not make such a posi tive statement unless I were sure. "At times I have had to deny this story, for it was the Intention to keep it absolutely unknown until Moyer himself went on th'e witness stand. Had I told it President Roosevelt would have been the first person to hear it. Chief Wllkle, ' of the Secret Service, was here a few days ago, and I be lieve was looking up the story, "We learned Moyer's record before we arrested him In the West. After his arrest we went carefully over th matter of identification. Even the scar of a bullet wound , in the hand and thumb is there. The identification is absolute. But I am sorry that the mat. ter is generally known." ' Impossible to Believe, Says' Debs. TOPEKA, Kan., May 11. Eugene V. Debs, Socialist leader, said here today that Charles Moyer, on trial at Boise, Idaho, had never served a term in the Jollet penitentiary. "'I have known Mr; Moyer for years," said Mr. Debs, "and it is as impossible to connect him with"burglary as it Is with the crime for which he is being tried, that is. complicity in a plot to assassinate. It is simply a case of an error in the persons whose records have been found in connection with the Jollet term and that of Mr. Moyer." Mr. Debs will go to Boise next week to report the trial of Moyer for some newspapers. MAY. COMPLETE JURY FRIDAY Evidence Against Haywood Opens at That Time. BOISEi ' Idaho. May lt-Bheriff "Shad" Hodgin and seven of his deputies con tinued today to serve the farmers of Ada County with notices to appear In Boise next Monday afternoon at I o'clock to be examined as possible jurors in the case of William D. Haywood, secretary and treasurer of the Western Federation of Miners, who is on trial for complicity in the death of ex-Governor Steunenberg. Altogether 100 men will be in attendance Monday afternoon for jury duty. It is the opinion of both prosecution and de fense that 12 men will surely be qualified from this special panel. Witnesses for the prosecution have been notified to be in court next Friday morn ing. This indicates the belief that the trial panel will have been sworn In by that time. An interesting development of the case today was the service of a subpena by the prosecution upon Acting Secretary Kerwin of the Western Federation of Miners. Mr. Kerwin had been in tha city several days consulting with the prisoners with regard to union affairs and the approaching meeting of the Federa- (Coneluded on Page 2.) ELECTION "Me to the Courthouse to Register.' THESAM MOTER PIIERIOK