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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 2, 1905)
f" in UBLItHtt FULL AttOOIATID PAItt RIPORT XOVBRt THC MOANINO FIILO ON THI LOW IN COLUMBIA VOLUME LX NO. 131 ASTORIA, OREGON, MONDAY OCTOBER 2 1905 PRICE FIVE CENTS ml 7 HHi 'I FATAL TRAIN WRECK mi DEAD, MANY HURT Fast Stock Train Strikes "Soo" Passenger at Crossing. PULLMAN CARS WRECKED Only Reason That Wrtck Wn Not Mort Serious Wu That Most of Passengers Had Disembarked Others Expected 'to Dlo of Injuries. St. Taut, Oct. I. A Chicago Great Western stock train running 20 mile an Imiir a it was going through tlio 8t. 1'itil railway yard at 0:30 o'clock thi morning struck t tie middle of a Soo" liiia passenger train which wa Just 1.1 a i tearing I lie i won siauon ami mirtru C two Pullinao slwper over Ilia nail to 1 ilia bottom of a mill 20 feet below. - - tme aWpfr landed bottom aid up and th other fell on it side. Both cars wero laavdty wrecked. On woman waa ao badly Injured that abo t died at St Joseph's hoital shortly af ter bring taken there, and pine other re seriously injured, while a score or outre were more or less seriously hurt. Iliat no more were hilled or injured i una to the fart that the train wat nearly empty,, having discharged tile greater number of it passengers at the I'nlon station here. Of the injured there are nix men and two women at the hospital Of these It la feared two or three may die. Ilia direct cause of the accident aa tlie failure of the air brake on the A eNick train to work. The "Soo" line pas- (nger train had just left the depot -Of, MinneaHli and wa crossing to f-ne Chicago i Great Western track aixiul lour Mocks eat of the elation. The track 'at thia Mint run along a high embankment. The fat Great Western tock train which was coming along at good ced, struck the pas senger train in the middle. The Pull man roacbea were hurled over the em bankment, landing upside down in a wrecked heap 23 feet below. The wreckage caught Are but wa ex tinguished promptly, A squad of po lice and all the liopltnl ambulance along with a large eorp of eurgcon Were on the spot in a abort time and the Injured were quickly taken from the wreck to thin city. ' BASEBALL SCORES. Sjmkane, Oct. I. Oakland, 7, Tacoma, 3. " - ' Oakland, 2; Tacoma, 2. Second gam called In the aeventh Inning on account f darkne. San Francixco, Oct. 1. Lo Angle, 4; Ban FranciHco, 5. Lot Angeles, 0j San FrancUco, fl. FREIGHT TRAINS COLLIDE IN PORTLAND'S CITY LIAITS ti Portland, Oct. 1. The econd of two '-xtra freight train on the 0. R. N. tilroad crashed into the. rear end of th first train Just outlsde Fjt Tortland etation in this city early tmlay. Eight car of the first train, Including the caboose, were proraieeomly distri buted on both vide of the track and DOWIE HOT PARALYZED. Kl Pao, October. 1-Alexandcr Howie and hla Chicago party arrived here thi uiomlng ennmte to the pro loed ZionUt cohrny at Tamullpa, Mexico. The tnembera of hi party de nied that Howie was stricken with imraly.U, but admit that ha i HI lie ha been locked in bia private ear all day and all inquirer were denied ad miion. Shortly before retiring tonight Powie walked fmm one ear to another and hi secretary railed attention to thia a proof that be la not auffering from paralysis. I)wie aeemed weak but not In any way disabled. DEGENERATE COMMITS MURDER. Boy of ij Brutally Murder. Agtd War Veteran. Tort land, Oct. 1. A special to the Oregonian atatea that Sheriff L'onnell and hia deputy raptured Byndry Rrugger the murderer of W. W, Booth, the aged veteran, who waa found dead In the trevt of IlilUboro yesterday. The llrugger boy, l only 13 year old, and in 14 confession be slated that he beard money jingling in Booth's pocket Mid Mt upon hi in for the purNMe of robliery. Bruggvr i aid to be a de generate. Striking Contrast to Reception Given General StoeueL Body of General Kondratenko, Who Waa Killed During Step of Port Arthur and Who Ii Russia's Poremoat Hero of tbt War, Received With Great Honor (Xlea, (Vt. 1. The Ixidy of lieneral Kondratenko, tlf' eominarwlf r of the Seventh Mt Siberian rifle, who wa killed !at IVcemlier during the aeige of Port Arthur and who la honored throughout Ruwtia a the foremoot hero of the war, arrived here today on a teenier from Port Arthur. The IhxIj waa receiveu with great civ ic and military demonstration, in utrik ing rontrt to the indilTcrence diplay el on the arrival of general Stcel. A ftHH'ial train tomorrow will convey the body to St. Petersburg, where in the preence of Kmcriir Nichola it will be interred in the Alexander N'evky monastery. a) I STEAMER SUNK BY I lliee Foo, Oct. 1. The roast ing steamer INiche, plying between Shanlml ami Tien Tsln, . struck and wa totally destroyed by a mine, DO miea south of Shan Tung promontory, Saturday morning. Fifteen person on board the veacl were drowned. The foreign paengcra and a portion of the crew were rescued by paHing ateamera. the track waa torn up for about 200 feet,.Tle passenger train were delayed for aeveral hour. No one wa injured. According to the officials of the company the accident w a caused by the di obedience of the crew of the aeeond train in not reducing their apeed to aix miles an hour when entering the yard limit. , DEAD HERO HONORED Iiim rMnnrn: Mi VMM LOOMISj LETTERS PUBLISHED Bowcn Bitterly Condemned By Late Secretary of State. DISAGREED WITH PRESIDENT President Publishes Corretpondenc St fading Bowsn-Loomis Caae Secretary Hay Objected to Taft'i Report for Not Vindicating Loomls. Washington, Oct. 1. In the correa. pondence lietween President Roosevelt and Secretary LoomU, w hich wa made public here tonight President Roosevelt say that Secretary llay disagreed with him on even s "mild enure" of Loomi in the Taft report oft the investigation of charge brought by Mr. Dowen, form erly United State minister to Venezu ela, and add that Secetary Hay very strongly condemned Dowen' course. The president quote Hay aa declaring that most of the charge were really againnt himself (Hay) "and not agaiast Loomi at all" and that Uowen knew that. The correspondence open with a long letter to the president from Loom ia, hi which he asserts that newspaper article declare that Hay condemned Loomia and upheld llowen, but when he aaw that the president wa set upon aup porting Loomis, Hay did not press the matter with Aha president. The letter conclude by asking the president whether it was not true that Loomi and Secretary Hay were alway on the best of term and whether it ia not true that Loomi had the sympathy of Secretary Hay. Loomi add that the secretary had expressed regret on more than one occasion at Loomi' intention of leaving the department of state and expressed hla disapproval of Uowen'a course and that he (Hay) considered that Ilowen had liecn treacherous not only to him (Hay) but also to the entire country. The president replied that article ad verted to were wholly without foudation and in fact directly contrary to the truth. Adding tnat Loomi had been appointed on Hay'a recommendation. The president also atatea that Hay had the greatest respect for LoomU and spoke in strong term of hia disapprov al of llowen. The letter conclude i "Moreover Secretary Ifay used about Ilowen stronger language of condemna tion than I have ever heard him use about any other man who nerved under him. But thi is not all. liar did what he ery rarely did. ne expressed strong d ent from the action I had taken in endorsing the Taft report aa regard a-n;j mimire of you which It contained. (1 vg' that he disagreed with both T, and mscft. on .thi point and felt you were no way what ever, cen , bla and ( 'v action that had been. Jelled for s fl'the dismissal of Bow en and the announcement of your entire vimlicatoin. TtLLUW rfcYtK el it Alii ssj lass. 4 t New Orleans, Oct I. Yellow fever report up to 6 p. m.t New case, 23, total, 3023; deaths, S; total 391 1 new foci, 4; cases un- der treatment, 227 discharged, 22403. SWEDISH STEAMER SUNK. -lliwingfor, Oct. 1. As a result of a collision between the Swedish ateam era Knjord and Robert, the Robert wa sunk, ami the Nnjord badly damaged. Twenty people went down with the, IWiert. . The collision occurred near Hveen if land in the Helsingfor aound. FIERCE AUSTRIAN SI0T. Bruenn, Austria, Oct. 1. A collision took place today between rival meeting of German and Czech resulting from tue agitation by the former against the proposed establishment of the Czech uni versity here. Troop were compelled to Intervene, but before order could be restored 160 peron were injured. MAKE FINAL EFFORT. Albany, X. V, Oct. l.-The final ef fort to aavo Albert T. Patrick, who i condemned to oVath for the murder of Wm. Marsh Rice, will be made before the tate court of appeal tomorrow. Senator David R. Hill will addres the court in Patrick' behalf In an effort to obtain a reargument, of the appeal recently decided against him by the court ,by a vole of four to three. OIL PLANT BURNS. Loaaea Aggregating 1 1 5000 Occur at Highland town, Md. Baltimore, Oct. I. A destructive fire occurred today at Highlandtown, a su burb, the plant of the Red "C." Oil com pany being entirely consumed, a was the plant tif Sherwood Bros, manufac turer of oil and grease, a street rail way car bam and several small dwell ing and business structure. The ! i estimated at $130,000. ASBD0WN ADVOCATES FREE SHIPPING PORTS Canadian Official Would Relievo TeaaeU of Port Duet a Designated Harbors. Victoria, Oct. 1. Comraisaioneer James Ashdown, of the Canadian transport tion commission, now anting in British Columbia, is advancing a scheme for the formation of a chain ot "free porta" in Canada, to include Victoria and Van couver on the Paciflc and Halifax and St. John, on the Atlantic. Hi idea is to relieve shipping of all port dues. He proposes that the gov ern ment take over the harbor and the expense of them, relieving the shipping using the harbors from bearing the ex pense a at present. FIRST ARREST MADE Police Capture Mane Accused of Heinous Crime in Boston. Boston, Oct.' 1. The first arrest in connection with the finding In the Har bor Winthrop, of a suit case containing trie torso of a woman tn wtiom a medi cal examiner atatea an illegal operation had been performed, occurred today wlien the police took into custody Wm. A. Haines. The arrest is said to have been made on the statements of Samuel A. Wingfleld, who told the police that he had a. friend, who had cut up the body. Unities waa examined af length by the police and while he denied the acusation ami claimed hia friend con fused it with bis being on the corOner'a jury, he wa locked up. Haines , is a clerk in the shipping office. Wingfleld waa also held a, a witness, . PREMIER PROHIBITS " PROCESSION AT BUDA PEST Both Socialist udi Coalition Party Have Postponed Their Demonstrations Budapest, Oct. 1. Perfect has issued an order prohibiting the torch light pro cession which the coalition party and socialists respectively announced ' yes terday would take place on October 3. Both parties have postponed the' pro posed demonstrations to October 10. the aniversary of the execution of Count LoiiU Batthyany I. who was premier of Hungary In 1948 and who was arrested and executed by Austrian the following yesr, The coalition parties intend to make a demonstration at the grave of ButUivany I. There ha been no change in the political crisis. FRENCH REVO HORRIBLE TREATMENT Panama Laborer's Leave Ship ai Bayonet's Point CONDITIONS MISREPRESENTED Were Shipped Under Contract to Work on Canal by French Immigration Agent at Martinique and on Their Ar rival are Forced Ashore Colon, Oct. 1. The 650 laborers from Martinique, who were brought here Fri day on the French steamer Versailles under contract to work on 'the canal re fused to disembark or submit to vacci nation, which is imperative under the American sanitary regulations. They clamored to be taken back to Martin ique asserting that they had been misin formed a to conditions before they em barked. Yesterday morning however, 500 of them were with difficulty persuaded to land. One hundred and fifty more re mained on board and declined to leave the ship under any consideration. These were forcibly ejected from the vessel thi afternoon by the Panam and Canal Zone policemen, but not until nearly every one of the had been clubbed and several were bleding from nasty wounds. Early this mornig the French consul at Colon, M. Bonhenry appealed to the men to listen to reason and explaining to them that they left Martinique under a contract with the canal zone emigra tion agent. The men, however, were not answerable to reasoning. The cap tain of the Versailles told the men be was ready to take back to Martinique, all those who were atle to pay their passage, but the men argued that the French government would be wiling to reimburse the steamship company and tint they t!iemelve were penniless. Before noon at the instance of M. Ra ver , the agent of the company, the French consul went on board the ves sel and told the men tnat force would be umhI if they persisted In their re fusal to disembark. On seeing the po lice armed with bayonets and guns, the men again bared the.r breasts and said they preferred death rather than be taken ashore. At 2 o'clock the' laborers were informed that they were given two hours to reconsider and at 4 o'clock three of them consented to disembark, the other still holding out. Then the Pan ama police, armed with clubs approached the hi borers, and on their refusal to quit the ship, began to belabor them right and left. Seeing that all resist ance was useless, the men came ashore. TODAY'S WEATHER. Portland, Oct. 1. Mondays rain, strong soutlterly gale along the coast OCEANIC LINER MAY GO San Francisco, Oct. 1. The Oceanic Steamship company'a steamer Alameda hich fent on the rocks near Fort Point yesterday Is still hard and fat on the rocks. She now has about 24 feet of water In her hold and ft is feared it will SENATOR PLATT TALKS Give Opinion on Chances of Probable Candidates for Party Honors. Xew York, Oct 1-Senator Piatt, who arrived from Washington today said to night in the course of an interview, "I am against Governor Higgin for another term." He declined to aay who his fa vorite for the position was. Senator Piatt said the selection of ticket had not been decided upon. "Who is your candidate fot. United State district at torney f the senator was asked. "Robt ert C. Morris, first hut and all the time." he replied. The senator wa then asked if he had beard of the meeting between Odell and Woodruff, where Woodruff waa said to have been promised the re publican nomination for governor next year, if he, would make the run for mayor thia year. To this the senator replied that he had not and added, "It is a question a nether Odell could guarantee that and even if he could, it would be a question aa to whether be would keep his guarantee.- . BAND STAND COLLAPSES. Lawrence, Oct. 1. Three members of the Band Roma, of Boston were ser iously hurt while nearly every member of the band waa cut aad bruised by the collapse of the band stand tonight GREAT LOSS BY FIRE Japantsc Army Storehouses Com pletely Destroyed' Fir waa of Incendiary Origin -Com pletely Destroys Great Army Store houses at Hiioahimi, Causing Loss Estimated from ta,ooo,ooo to $5,000,000 Tokio, Oct 1. A fire which broke out in the army storehouse at Hiroshimi at 1 o'clock this morning and continued for several hours before it could be checked, Owing to high winds, the fire spread rapidly the embers being driven by the gale from one building to another until within a short time 20 buildings contain ing immense quantities of clothing and provisions were destroyed beside a num ber of others which were filled with fod der and feed stuff. - Xo doubt exists as to the fire being of incendiary origin. The loss is esti mated at from $2,000,000 to $5,000,000, as no accurate figures can be obtained at this time. STUDENT FATALLY WOUNDED Arthur E. Sargent Former U. of 0. Stu dent Shot While Resisting Arrest Oakland, Oct 1. Arthur E. Sargent waa shot and probably fatally wounded today by Policeman MeCre:$ly while, trying to escape from the patrolman who had halted him as a suspicious character. Sargent escaped last night at San Jose, from Constable Grider of Palo Alto, who had taken the young man in custody from San Francisco, where he was arrested Friday for the alleged theft of a bicycle. From papers and letters found on the wounded man it was disclosed that he was formerly a student of the University of Oregon. ALAMEDA TO THE BOTTOM be impossible with the facilities at hand to float her. She lie in an easy position, but in a location extremely serious in case of a heavy sea. Her cargo is be-, ing unloaded on lighters. The scene of the wreck attracted many thousands of people today.