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VOLUME LX NO. 287
TEREIBLE
HEROISM OF
Mother Pinioned By Wreckage Holds Her Babe
Alofliin One Arm in Vain Effort to Shield
it From Advancing Flames.
CONVICT, CHAINED TO
TWENTY-TWO DEAD AND TWENTY-TWO INJURED BEST ESTIMATE OF
CASUALTIES SUSTAINED COR ONER'S JURY TO INVESTI
GATE ACCIDENT MONDAY RAILROAD TO CONDUCT
EXAMINATION ON OWN ACCOUNT.
rmil.O. March 17.- Twrnt (wo dead
ii4 twenty two injured i. ihi- veiy vft
tinutti of In- rimuiilU'ti In the wreck
on the I-n-r ami Itio Crundc yi(fr
liny, Hiily iH'ii can In- iileiilil'u d an. I
nl one c-uii- i. turn .iillii ii-iil outline
id li-iitiiir. tn In readily ifiiigniml.
1 In- i in .i i ru l r aii" known by iiiikoii of
thrir chaired Imlicii In iny found where
imtumllv tiny would have been when
tlip rolliiii tonic plar. Two telegraph
i'iii;i(nrii are held in t lie public mitil
i rtuponiiihtn for the awful ilUimlrr,
although no formal indictment Im gone
ml a.t itil them, lintli hnw Ix-i-n or
dered dichiirgc. from (In- erice nf I In
railroad. The I'liriiiu-r'n juiy will be
fin iitvi'xt iul inn ''u'' of llif aeei
ili-iil on Monday. In addition llii- mil
rHli Will conduct mi .1 111 i llll I i' HI nf it't
trniniiK'ii and opi-intom who will In
Hiked In loll what lhc know nf llii'
dcptuiuhl ufTair. It iim-iiii- that R.
(' Whitncv who was ln-iiiy escorted In
flu- penitentiary by I .ttl Sheriff
I'.uiril had been chained In tin' "I'll I and
CANS WINS.
Easily Defeat) Mike Sullivan in Tenth
Round.
I.MS ANGELES, Mureh 17. doe Cam.
dcci-ively defeat. d Mike iTuilil Sulli
an (ouight in leu rounds. While Sul
livan wan not eoimleil out In- wan on the
s flour and priielienlly helplesi when die
police iiMtrueled the refene (o end Hie
litiht. liaiH made u perfect llghl, wear
ing Sullivan down with Hlr.iiglil left
to the body a punch which never failed
to land. Barring oni blow in I lie third
SillliMtil failed to reach ( iilll- effeetivelv.
ASSESS JOSS FURNISHINGS.
i;U VMKK. March 17. The 1'nited
Stale eu-ttiiiiH aulhoritii'H liuve been
iinct-ligating the importation of Chinese
Jim llidise fm nil lire ami hcn al'lef such
iirlicliM will he a-iH-ed at koiui' l" or
111 per cent mien. It m-ciiis lliul the
Young Wo Society and l.ung Wong
(iolig Societv, both of San l'VanciHco
im
iiporte a variety of liltings tor jos-1
mine", aking free entry under the J
linns,
Dingley law provision for " Itegalin fur
a religious iiiHtittil ion."
RUSSIAN ELECTIONS ARE
CONTROLLED BY POLICE
ST. PETERS1IUIH!, March 17. -Charges
of interference by the local
police to prevent, the free expression of
their will in the preliminary elections to
the county convent ions nre increasing.
The Nitshu Shisn says it has inve-tigal--d
the rural elections in the St, Prices
burg province, and alleges the authori
ties everywhere forbade public Hidings
called bv the Liberal, but ilid not in
AteOOIATIO PRItS RIPOPlT
WOMAN IS
SEAT DIES MISERABLY
when lire broke mil In- had no chance
whutcver to ewapc, Jty the hand of
full- liii Kimril perished with him. The
law. of Colorado miike it a crimw to
fiil'ii priwini-is to car neat".
A hui trending tory of a mottur'H
hue 1 1 tulil by Pullman Conductor
Kreger. "Tim mother with her little
babe in hfr anon realizing it was al
most impossible to lie saved herself gave
her only thought to her babe. One hand
wa pinioned In the dcbri, but her
lieml and other hand were free. She
win trying to keep her head from the
flame mill with her tree hand win hold
ing her infant an high in the air an nhc
eoitlil. Jut a wo were about to reach
her hc gae a gn-p and fell back into
the lliinn-n with her Imlie."
Late this afternoon a head und the
iiiiei' pm linn of a liiiiniin body were
found miller the tinder of one engine.
I loth lie engineer and firemen of thin
engine wete killed and enough of their
lHi I ti-M to idntify them wii found,
.lu-t who I lie vie! im i is ii mystcn.
Colorado ureen Mountain ivn
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Destroyed by Big Slide.
Reports From All Parts of Colorado
State Weather is Vefy Severe
One Man is Killed by Snow
slide at Silverton.
DKNYKR, Maivh 17. -Telegrams to
the Republican tonight indicate severe
weather in the mountains of the stale.
At Silverton a snoW-liile demolished the
Ofceu Mountain mill cau-ing a loss of
$:if)ii,tHH. An unverified report from
Opliiiis, -tales a Colorado and Southern
train has been buried by the slide. At
Alpine Pass the snow is forty feet deep
and it is still snowing. The snow is
claying trains in various pints of the
Stale. One man was carried nway by
the slide a( Silverton. His body was
.not found.
terfere with the meetings culled by the
priests and other react ionaries. in
inn ii v places the peasants were afraid
Jo vote on account of the police at the
jiolls. Hundreds of representatives of
the Liberal party were arrested and in
fiome cases, even by military demonstra
tions. The government, agents openly
threatened repressions if certain persons
were elected.
SEVERE
SHIM
ASTORIA. OKKCON. SUNDAY. MARCH 18 190
S
CENES WITHE
A
TOLD
EAT EGGS.
Cambridge Eijcht Diet on Egg ni NKW VMI:K, March 17. Tiii- i
Makc Record. r'Un-i-ii Irehmd'-i Mwu Day." All over
I.M.MMlN', March 17. A n-conl time ( the couiitry there an- inin-en and -r-tow
made by the Cimbridge t'nivemily' mon-t, parade and i'cicw, linner and
crew in piactice trial for the Oxford line -pe-che. in memory uf Ireland'
ainbi idge boat race )hih tai-eil u curioiii grat one-.
iliHciu.ion, The ('uiiibiidge crew wanj In New York ,'o.iMI Irishmen and
uppo-ed to be ii mther inferior one Ii'IhIi AtiiericaiiH parade under the an
until the lecoid wai made. It appear ' ipietH of the Ancient Order of Ilibern
tluit the crew ut Ih-i-ii largely dieted on ian of New Y ork County. In the even
egg", which the Oxford oarnien art) in-! iug then- will be nuiucioii dinneis and
dined to taboo, and hence a hot din- j ballx.
eiiion ia ariM-n an to the value of '
egg- in athletic training. i DESTRUCTIVE LANDSLIDE.
FORMOSA EARTHQUAKE.
i
TMKIO. March ! 7. -Tin-re wat an j
earlhiiiake at rvugi in KormoHn today.:
Hundred of buildirig were destroyed. It '
i uid hundred-t of people perl-bed. j
Sidewheelcr Goes Ashore on
Chilean Coast.
LEFT ASTORIA JAMUARY 20
Old Side Wheel Steamer Olympian on
Her Way to Long Island Sound
Goes Ashore, March 10th,
in Possession Bay.
JUNTA AliKNAS, Chile, March 17.
New- reached here today that the
American steamer Olympian, from
Portland, Ore., and San Francisco, for
Ho-t which passed here March 10th,
carried away her anchor chains and
went ashore in Possession Pay, March
l.'llli, and is now embedded three feet
in the gravel beach. The Olympian is
an old side-wheel steamer, of 1083 ton,
She left Astoria, Ore., in tow of a tug.
and was taken in tow at San Francisco
by the American steamer Zealundia,
ii lul was destined for use as an exeur
sion boat miming out of Ronton.
The Olympian was well known in
Astoria for many years before she start
ed on her long voyage for the east
coast. She was built at Wilmington in
1 SS.'t. and was brought out by II. S.
Aekley, who was her first captain. Ar
riving on this coast, she was placed in
the Victoria and Tneoum trade.
lu lNSft she was brought, to the Co
lumbia and placed on the Astoria and
'Jlwaeo run, giving the fust through ser
vice from Portland to the sea. She made
the run from Port hind to Astoria in
four hours and 47 minutes. In 1SS7 she
went, into the Alaska trade.
The Olympian was laid up at the O.
R. & X. boneynrds in I8!H and lay there j
for fifteen year-. Sim was regarded as
of an obsolete type with her givat
lirmid hull and lier overhead walking
beam.
The Olympian is 2(10 feel long, () feet
hciini and 12.."i feel deep. She has a steel
key bottom and 40-foot paddle-wheels.
lu .RIO,") the Olympian was pureha-ed
'rom the O. R. & N. Company by C. L.
Dinion, who intended placing her ill ser
vice on Long Island Sound. She left,
this city January 20, under tow of the
tug Dauntless to San Francisco. At
that port she was picked tip by the
steamer Zealandia. which has been pur
chased by the same parties, The two
vessels were reported several davs ago
us having passed through the Straits of'
Magellan safety with all well.
OLYMPIAN WRECKED CANNON entertains
RYAN RESOLUTION
IS
CELEBRATE ST. PATRICK'S DAY.
I!IM .lANHIliM, March 17. Land-lide,
n ii-1 llooil" lieiv- rrniay Killed una in-
jored twenty (.cihoii and landnli'len ut
1'etiupoli, the cjipitul of Itio Janeiro
province, killed fifty and injured a
many more.
Gives Dinner to Famous Gridiron
Club.
MANY GUESTS ARE INVITED
President Roosevelt, Vice-President Fair-
banks, With Members of the Cabi
net Are in Attendance Minia
ture Gridiron Given Cannon.
WASHINGTON. March 17. Speaker
Cannon tonight gave a dinner to the
j gridiron club, the famous organization
J 0f Washington correspondents, whose
j jUrSt he has been on many occasions
during the past twenty-two years. A
distinguished company was invited to
meet the club, among whom were the
President and Viee-rre-ident; Secre-
j taries Root, Shaw, Taft and Wilson;
Sir Mortimer Unrated, Baron Rosen,
' Justice Harlan, Cardinal Gibbons and K.
I If. lrarriman. It was not a cridiron din
ner although some of the Gridiron meth
ods were introduced. The club present
ed the speaker with a large gridiron, ap- ;
propriately decorated and informed him,
that while no one could be made an
honorary member of the club, the
Gridiron which he
was it's best friend
rived meant he j
BILLIARD TOURNAMENT.
Eastern Will Win Coveted Champion
ship This Year.
CHICAGO. March 17. -With but two
regularly scheduled games yet to be
played in the National Amateur billiard
tournament being played by the Chicago
Athletic Association it is assured the
title, which has been held the pa-t year
),v
Charles K. Conklin of Chicago, will
go to an I'.as'teincr. K. W, Gardner, the
only one of the six contestants who has
not lost n gain;' has J. F. Poggenburg j
Jif New York as an opponent for the :
linnl gnine, and should the latter win j
irhis match, he and Gardner will be tied !
for first place.
1
KIDNAP YOUNG LADY.
TCCSON. Ariz., March 17. -A special
to the Sentinel from Moreiici states that
last night at a ball given by a promi
nent social organiaztion three masked
men entered the ball room, kidnapped a
young lady und "shot up" the dance
hall. When pursued by a posse, the
desperados dropped the young lady and
escaped to the hills.
COVERS THE MORNING FIILD
ELIMINATED
Authoritative Statement Issued Ryan Resolution
Will not Be Considered by Mine Workers-District
Allowed to Make Own Agreement.
THE OPERATORS CAN NOW DEAL BY DISTRICTS
THE NEW POSITION OF THE MINE WORKERS WILL ENABLE THE
OPERATORS AND MINERS TO DEAL BY DISTRICTS IF THERE
IS A FAILURE TO MAKE AN AGREEMENT FOR THE
ENTIRE BITUMINIOUS FIELD.
INDIANAPOLIS, March 17. It can be
authoritatively stated that the official
mine worker have decided to allow the
Ryan resolution to be eliminated from
consideration and act upon the assump
tion that the adoption of the report of
the scale committee has virtually re
pealed the resolution which prevented
one district signing an agreement with
the operators until all the districts
come to an agreement. All of the reso
lutions which were endeavored to affect
SCULLERS BARRED.
NEW YORK, March 1". John F. Mul
cahey and W. F. Varley who repre-ented
the Atlanta Boat Club of this city in
the double sculls race at the Ilambunr
regatta last July were barred from fur -
ther competition under the National
Association auspices by the executive
committee today because of their gen
eral unsportsmanlike conduct and also
for cabling home that they won the race
after having been disqualified.
Australian Banana Plantations
Destroyed By Hurricane.
Steamer Miowera From Australia Brings
News of Recent Storm in Southern
Pacific Much Damage is
Done to Property,
VICTORIA. March 17,-The steamer
Miowera from Australia brings news of
the recent hurricane. The hurricane
was severely felt in Northern Queens
land, 80 per cent of the banana planta
tions being destroyed.
I he steamer Scot, trom Japan to
Ocean Island and Australia, is supposed!
to have foundered during a typhoon.
The volcanic erupt ion at Tofua, on
the Friendly Islands, is assuming greater
miiort ions than the Savaii eruption in
Samoa, but a- this is located in a basin j
1S00 feet deep no damage is caused.
STORM DOES DAMAGE
AMERICA DOES NOT FAVOR
AUSTRIAN PROPOSITION
WASHINGTON, March 17. -Advices
from Algeciras contained criticism of the
German insistence upon the adoption
without modification of the Austrian
proposal for policing Morocco. Although
not voting on any question affecting
Europeant politics this government is ad
verse to a complicated system for polic
ing the Moroccan territory and provid
ed the simplicity of the scheme can be
ON THI LOWEFf COLUMBIA
PRICE FIVE CENTS
action on the scale or the Ryan resolu
tion were quietly sent to the resolutions
committee with comment. This posi
tion will enable the operators and the
miners to deal by districts if there is
a failure to make an agreement for the
entire bituminous field. The opeators,
who favor signing by districts; even if
the advance in wages is given, are great
ly pleased over the position taken by
the miners of the United Mine Workers'
Union.
FREIGHT HITS WAGON.
Train at Winlock Kills Man and Horse
and Smashes Wagon.
WINLOCK, March 17 (Special) This
afternoon freight train No. 53, which
: wa9 preceding the regular Portland-
Seattle local No. 7, as it was entering
this place, struck the horse and wagon
of Carl Hansen, killing Hansen who
was driving, and his horse, and also
completely demolishing the wagon. The
track at the point where the accident
occurred, is down grade, and just above
w here the wagon road crosses the track,
there is a sharp curve in the right of
way and because of this fact, Hansen
did not hear or see the approaching
freight, until it was upon hiin. Han
sen is a rancher living near here.
JEALOUS HUSBAND'S ACT.
WHEELING, W. Va., March 17. In a
jealous rage after waiting from night
fall until midnight for his wife's return
Davis Paxton, a teamster shot his wife
and believing her dead, tried to kill the
baby, his father-in-law and two police
officers. Then he turned the weapon on
himself inflicting a fatal wound.
ONE MAN KILLED.
PUIJ'.LO. March 17.-A special to the
Chieftain from Telluride ays there was
a monster snowslide at Bar Creek to
night. One man was killed.
WILL PAY BACK.
NEW YORK, March 17. The World
tomorrow will say: At a conference
yesterday it was agreed by the trustees
of the New York Life that they should
reimburse the company to the extent of
$148,000.
pjreserved is content to trust the mission
i to a force of French and Spanish officers
responsible to the diplomatic corps at
Tangier for effective service in caring
for the interests of all nations. There
Ms authoritative information that Ger
many having assured herself of the in
ternationality of the police system will
assent to modifications of the Austrian.
;, proposal.
SSED