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ACCOWmEB BRIDGE ACCIDENT IN THIS EDITION COMPLETE - 1 .-. ? 1 "WHERE ROLLS ; T . , THE OREGON" - HO WXATXZB. ' Tonight and Bunday. fair; north- west wlnda 4 . .. ,- vol. n. no.: 124 PORTLAND,. OREGON; SATURDAY EVENING. AUGUST 1; 1903. t 0 L'clock!f I B ACC 0 V A V v.v w TOLD BY EYE- WITNESSES ': Nearly All tf the Slightly-Hurt Have peen nemoved to I heir Homes from the Hospitals by rrlends and nelatives, ; Scenes Around - the Coroner's Office Were Pathetic While Families , Were Looking for Missing Loved Ones, The identification v of Lottie Cameron and Eddie Shank , Results in Heartrending bcenes at the Morgue; ; :.v.-':i tV . Mr r 1 :., . " ' -t v--- Jl NS N HIS SUIT Celebrated Merger, Under the Name of. the Northern Sure ties Company, Is Found Legal by hederal Law, United States Circuit Court Renders Decision that Places Big Deal on a Legitimate Basis. 7 THE DEAD 'tow of tia Aocldnt, liowln Brokaa SaUIbt and Bamafad BoaUiotu, the little' form ao till rn tha Uat. Ion Wl X.OTCT OAXZBOV, ACJUD I aleep and with the aia'ter Ddwed down VOBTX TSm ITIXIT Jnmri twin l19SZI KJL4J oirl inxm under the weight of Borrow, aha waa left alone with the one who had been ao dear igrn i iBJifi' They were afterward tent home J7JrtT2r in a carrlarc ' - ' - - ' . , . ZdaatlfleA Xla BanAter. ! To' the father, Henry Cameron, ,waji lAft Ma Jt.,A a V.n ; were Wanr addlt.on. thla W raln. of llttla LZ iw i?o xne namea 4 or mo.e who . were mw waa t t00 , flaep tteranoaj ' and kiMrt In tha Bnrld.nt et'Mrtrriann trt ... ' .t 7-- . : . : I .oniHn ivw i mi ibub u yfeterday afternoon. The ' only Uvea I the departed he waa ( led - away by th loiit appear, to have been' tboae of little attendants to,-an outer room, -where he Eddie Shank, a lf-year-old , boy, ; and waa; alone with hia, gTief. t And- then the Hias Lottie Cameron, a handsome young " of the other anxloua onea which girl of lr yeara.' Men worked all the had bwn-atopp -for-the moment.com forenoon dragging the river for bodies n,"?ed fre8h .;' through , the room . V.. . . ' i" ; continued a constant. procession of peo- of poealble vlQtlme.-but aa.no reports pU. Though their own were-not. of the of miasing persona were received by the oad, their sympathy for, the unfortu police or by the. Coroner, it la assumed natea waa not the leas keen.' ' ' . that the two young. Uvea mentioned were Hour after hour the crowds continued the only , onea that "mark . the fatalltiee to vialt the morgue and it seemed as If of theMreadful occurrence. i . very person in the city must have gone i Altyiigh the loss of life waa com- to the place. An attendant -waa also paratlriy. small,' there, are a. acor of eonatantly answering -telephone . calls, mangled. They look aa natural as In life, except for the outa mentioned. .,jr Zataert Arraared.' ' ' Ko ' arrangement have ai - yet been made for an inquest, Coroner Tinley stated - today ' that hr was not ' certain jci wncuiw one wouiu ce neia. tie cemmencea -a. tnorouKn . investiiration o the causes leading up to the accident tljls -morning, but. had- not' covered the ound sufficiently, to render even an in brmal opinion. "There waa something dically wrong somewhere, though,' was his. comment ' Neither have the parents definitely de cided upon the funeral services. Their wishes will-probably be mao known im mediately the Coroner's decision is reached reaardln an lnouest. - It neema -pretty certain, though, according to the beat informed . parties, that some aort of an investigation Will be held. ' ( Byewltnessea. One of the first men to' go down- in the crush waa F. .W'Manefleld. With him were W. M. Camelaux and E. : J. people; me. waraa oiui noapnaia ana for zast-a-n .receiver Bvans.- 'Evana was holding ln,hla arms v vn:wu.. wjki.4u. i. , .....-,.., tna 8-year-old child of a friend and Dragging th Xlver. ,( . . waa-talking to, the mother when the .. . . . . .v. ,k l: ne question 01 wnemer my , mora vi.j.. uvvmmu, Duuutmijr iu luppiea ,yu , --- Mbodle yet remain in, the rtver hava not over. . , f v 1 D811 anawered at a lata hour. Hugh I - T never aw anything like it," said "i!!?1"!1?1 W0U d asalaunt. was engaged alace -morning upon tho boathouse and Into the river. in .dragging the water with . grappling I and the-bnitallty of nian never showed l.An. . Kill- . MM n.,n.,lu ... Vim I It. .I 1 In . . .1.1 Hui .i . .l.. f:i'!"r.;.y?ri treat big fellow .Imply .,nvil -rs Mlrowned thB bodle,Jlt,wa evident.Vhad ran over. women and children In-order ucking and a bad fright The rapid-i ..rH,-f. ' ' .ha tA .- ... with which the reacu.er worked and " ' L... ..ni.. of Mmhara . I con However, the workwUl-not be edge of tho platform when I first saw ujBuuukiiiueu uut.ik 41. i0 budwimmh wl- uiui uu iia c4tea . iu,-evoryDOuy 10 get tain that there are no more bodies to be out of hla way. Two boys 'who were recovered. " " ' : , ., in. the river eould not possibly obey his Tha work o'f dragging - the river at order and ha tramded on the hnnri nf nronounced excellenL vetwith all this th- BCene of ' the- accident commenced each, ainking them below the Surface. K3?am2IS evening Immediately the flrt I r shouted to him to save-the women and There has never been any. official pro tsf against the Morrison-atreet bridge' .v.sZu'. u.. , ...-. iT U crew from the boathouse were engaged children were clustered about me. TOaarZMM- In dragging th bottom and with their 1m- uaing almply a little presence of mfnd eiVrwfti taiii aation In tha iratter of in- Provised appliance and methods they I-managed to draw two little girl who 2TIS"?t : ! th-S2 t th urface. The Coroner' office was who aald he lived In South Portland, out notified, and while he waa preparing to take away the dead lad the girl's body waa brought up. Together they were ruah and excitement had worn oft. Dep-r children as we were in no great danxer. uty Coroner Flnley'and Mr.' Brady were but he yelled back to me: To h1 with at the scene shortly after 5 o'clock with them.' I was on the verge of the. river their implements, and in the meantime myaelf at that time, and women and By . whetheV It la safe oi otherwise. "A ! aforgav Agonised parents and friend ' and of the water and they were the moat grateful children you ever saw." W. JaV.Camalaux, Who won the dis tinction of having aaved IS paraona from injury and death, wa holding the 6-year-old child, of a chance friend in hla arm when the collapse occurred. "1 waa looking Into the river and talking at the same time when I heard the first sound of the break," he said. "Suddenly we all went down, and what became of that child "1 do not know. I made an effort to save it. but there were too many others struggling, and X saw the child go down and I fell from the top to the deck to the boathouse. I do not remember the name of the boy, for I had been introduced to his father only a few minute before. After I had been thrown forward to the 'edge of the boathouse and on the verge of the river I lay for a minute partly stunned, but the trampling' of people above me brought me back to my senses, and- realizing that something must be done, I started up to save myself and assist Considered One of Most Strik ing Pieces of Railroad Legis lation Ever Carried Through the Courts. others. As near as I could estimate helped between 15 and 20 women' and children off the boathouse and out of the river." Mr. Clark' Experience. Mr. J. P. Clark, residing at 884 H East Washington street, - was among those who "took an involuntary bath -in the . river by reason of the disaster . at the Morrison-street bridge. She saya: "We were all standing on the south side of the bridge and the first thing I knew I heard a loud crash and the next minute I felt myself slowly, but surely, falling. When I reached the water there was no one on top of me, but there were a large number of men, women and children under the waters screaming. After I atruck the water I waa fortu nate enough to grasp a large rod and by-means of this I pulled myself out of the river and Onto the floating pon toon of the rowing club. A woman and her babe were just being fished out a I reacnea me snore. The womaiH waa not Injured, but the babe had sev eral large bruises and cuts about lta body." i Mrs. Clark did not suffer any injury as (Continued on Page Two.) "(Journal Special Service.) ST. PAUU Minn.. Aug. 1. That the Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Burlington merger cannot be prevented by law la the opinion which waa handed down thla -morning by Judge William . Leohron of t th Halted tHate '.Circuit Court. James J. Hill combined tha interests of the lines In question under the title of the Northern Securities Company, and the decision today holds that he may do thla without Interference from the law. Action against Hill was brought by the State of Minnesota. Hill's victory, is substantial and in the decision filed this morning by Judge William Lechron in the United States Circuit Court the etate loses on every point It made against the merger. The decision is a aweeplng victory for the owners of the securities and of Great Northern and Northern Paciflo stocks. The court holds that the evidence falls to ahow that the Securities Com pany waa formed for the purpose of holding a majority of. Great Northern as well aa- of Northern Pacific etock. The state antl-truet act is practically a copy of the Sherman act and relates only to railroads. The Northern Se curities Company 1 not a railroad, and neither .road waa a party to forming the Securities Company. Lechron says the Securities Company is but an Investing of stockholders in railways without the power to consoli date them or Interfere with their man agement or control. "That la my Judgment," he say, "and It leads me to the conclusion that none of the defendanta have violated the Minnesota anti-trust act. Thla con clusion is apparently contrary to the case of the United States vs. the North ern Securities Company, but the rights of the litigants and my own sense of duty alike require this decision. A de cree is therefore entered dismissing the state'a bill of complaint." HEROIC WORK OF WILLING HELPERS laSS LOTTXB OAXXXOIT Stock Oo Up. 9 . NEW YORK, Aug. 1. Northern Se: curltle Company stock advanced today four points, to 93, and then reacted to 90. Forty thousand sharea changed hands. ft'.-. - if; - , ' f ,-. . v : Y' PRO! Men Who Were at the Scene of the Accident Showed Great Presence of Mind and Saved I Scores. MlaaXottte'Cameron; who' lot her life in the accident -yesterday, wa a native of- Eau ClalreWlC She had 'only been a resident-, of ; Portland? a-;hort time,, anduduring -that period, ha made many friends among i her- young, ac quaintances.- She atarted yesterday afternoon buoyant and happy to wltnesa tne armless man swim the Willamette and within a few hour her father found her a mangled corpae upon a slab at the Morgue. No pen can pioturethe Buffering of tnat rather as he gased upon the life less body of hi child. Arrangements have not yet been made ror the funeral, owing. to the fact that the Coroner has not settled the question, or noiamg an inquest. The Morbid Crowd Was Hard' to Control and Further Disas ter Was Narrowly Averted by Rescuers. People Crushed Toward the Broken Rail and Those in Fitont Were Nearly Shoved Into River, - KING AND QUEEN ROYALLY GREETED Lord Mayor and People of Cork I urned Out to Do Royal ty Honor, (Journal Special Service.) CORK. Aug. 1. An enthusiastic wel come waa given the King and Queen who arrived In the royal yacht thla morning. The city Is profusely deco rated and filled with sightseers. The Lord Mayor and Corporation officers wel corned the royal guests at the landing. Their Majesties . then reviewed the troops. The Catholic Bishop refused to assist in the ceremony of blessing the colors of two Irish regiments because he did not want to associate with the Protestant Chaplain. relative, who feared that their missing removed to the "morgue. . where the re loved one were amonar the dead of the I i m 7 " - J Alto. 1119 tt w ' wa - - av i Morgtaon-fctreet bridge disasterthronged iftter identified. . ' -;: . Il tJroner' rooms until the our d m the meantime the "work of grappling h n'8ht last evening and kept th tele- continued, but without ucces. There non constantly working in their fraii- wer aeveral atorles of a HtU baby hav- r tie ,ffort tn met Information. V.vtrrv I jt i.w..o u . . - jug UUWU H 1U1UUV UBV1UB V U 1,113 l parpnt who had a child away from the v aurface, but If thl waa true the horn .that had not shown up safe in body had drifted considerably, a it did hal,f an hour after the new of the. ac- not come within contact of th search- cldent becama generally known, hur- er8 grapples, and the bottom of. the riedly mad theStrip to tho morgue to rlver jor m dlstance of 100 yard around ee if thy ' recognised the missing in the immediate. ; scene of th i tragedy the hous of-th dead. . wa thoroughly covered. ' '-.V In two caaea these 'fenni were renl. ' W There on th lab lay the form Both Wr Znjund.' of lJ-year-old Eddie Shank of 845 Sc- One strange feature of the two death ond-street, and Lottie E.- Cameron, aged wa that in each cae th victim had IB, of .11 North Tenth street. - , The evidently been stunned before - striking ehildlah hearts hSd' been stilled forever th water. Thera.jpa a deep cut fully when thparnts: : arrived,' and ; the lx inche In length on the head of the crowds tin. that ehsmbr of death, sym- Shank boy. and while lt,had-ttot pen-. pathiaed deeply st ta pathetio sorrow trated through the kull,f thelbIow:lad -of th bereaved parent. In silence and evidently induced, unconsciousness. -i: with tear-dimmed yes th : stranger I thl condition h waa precipitated fro quietly i withdrew' and Wft th dead , to the top of the boathouse float' into the their own for a few 'momenta. water, and being unable to help , him- ; Th bojfs-ftodjr the flrt recov-, el. drowned . before hla predicament red from th river -and the first to be was noticed. . Also, th dead girl.' evidently Identified. ; The 'mother ?an4 daughter wa .truck" by va timber n,her fall reached , tha morgue shortly before th for ther Is a cut under hr chin. V This dinner , hour. The place waa thronged I was sufficient to have' rendered her with people, ; and Immediately the rela- tirely oblivious of what , waa occurring, five turned up. the whit cloth which in the opinion of thjs Coroner.- - Her alp shrouded the feature of the dead their were both crushed and ah also .went worst fear were realised, Th mother I down to a ; watery . grave - without vn half I being 'abl ' to make . an outcry. Other wise th bodies - were not ' distorted; or ,gay,e a. : cry of arjrulsh and fell, half! O V.wlth her arm clasped ground J WOMAN'S STORY OF THE ACCIDENT Mr. VT. H. Calavan, 162 North Grand avenue, the mother of Mr. Ijoulse Gildea, who, with her daughter Blanche, were rescued from the river, tell a graphic Btory of the accident They had a narrow escape from a plunge into the water of the river. "I was standing at the east end. of the break," said Mrs. Calavan. "I felt the board under my right foot give way and saw hundred of people falling Into the river. Fortunately, my left foot wa on an adjoining board, which did- not give way. I had presence of mind to Jump back, and I waa Just in time to save myself. My daughter and grandchild, who stood next to me, went into the river, but , they were both rescued and are not very badly injured. . ; "There waa ah,awfu! scene. The acreamlng of the women and the little children was dreadful to hear. The photograph gallery at. the east end of the bridge waa turned Into a temporary hospital, and Into this place im mediately after the first rescue were made were taken Mrs. Cornelius, Mr. Tribou, her daughter Verlle and Mrs. Raymond. Mrs. Cornelius was almost unconscious from the agonlzng pain which she was suffering. Her lower f limb were fearfully crashed and although she wa given every aid her agony wa fearful to behold. Tender wo- i men. who were swed toy the accident, put who naa an aour.aance oi presence oi mina, renaerea wnai aia - possible until th physician arrived. - The mental anguish of Mr. Raymond wa heartrending. - She wa badly hurt, but she paid no attention to 'her Injuries In her anxiety for her f-year old daughter Mildred. $ , S, "O,' Bhe" dead; 1 know she's dead," moaned the almost prostrate woman. - : . Mrs. Tribou and her daughter were stunned by the accident and after being rescued they scarcely realised what "had' happened. -"Both ; were 'taken from th water, but neither waa badly injured. ' i ... .Mrs. -Webber dropped from th bridge at the water' edge, but saved herself from further ham by climb ing up on a shed. i - . : Goorg .Beede, -whose 'leg- was hurt and face bruised, fell into the water and might have drowned had he not swam to shore. Ira Hart, tito middle-aged colored man, also went into th river, but managed to crawl Upon a .'piece of wreckage. Hi back was badly hurt. - ' Mrs, Hickman was "precipitated Into the water and was struck by falling tmbers. Her knees snd lower limbs wers injured. -' .';..'. -'" " '" ' MI Lucas hurt fcer ide. She thinks this resulted from the falling of other people upon her. Sh fell wlntO th water, but saved jnerself by holding to a board. A PRIME MINISTER , IS ON THE RACK Hungarian Parliament Makes Direct Accusation Against VeYy High Official.. (Journal Special Service.) BUDA PESTH. Aug. 1. In the Hun garian Parliament today Deputy Clay declared In his testimony that he had In ' hla possession direct proof of com- pllcty of the Prime Mnlster in the brib ery case now being investigated. MOORS ATTACK FRENCH (Journal Special Service.) ALGIERS, Aug. 1. Five hundred Moors recently attacked 40 French na tives and sharpshooters guarding the camela at Sidleljady. The Moors lost heavily, but killed 10 of the French troops and fled with the camela. ; TELEPHONE MERGER-'- (Journal Special Service.) ' . BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 1 Samuel 'J. Fenton of the Utah Telephone Company is here organising All telephone compa nie in th : intermountam region into on concern. . Th Stromberg-Carlson Company Is behind th movement.' ' UPTON AT THE' FALLS- -; . --' v . : it ; - v. - i .' (Journal Special Servie.) J-1 A - KEW TORK, Aug. 1. Lipton ook s special train to . Niagara Falls today, conveying a large party of guests. , "8and back r Don't crowd!" "Fof God's wak,o;arthOTlnr thes "peopl : to their death!" . These were the crle uttered by a little handful of stalwart who proved their -courage and self-sacrifice by . turning ther backs upon the yawning ' gulf of destruction and stemming ths onward rush of humanity which was straining forward to almost certain death,, They emphasized their remarka with blows and blood flowed freely as men. women and children were made by phys- ' leal pain to realise that they muat re cede from the verge of the abyea of death. Heroic methods were employed by si few men to prevent the crowding of th curious from precipitating hundred of bystanders Into the chasm of death that ' was opened when the south sidewalk at the east end of the Morrison-street bridge fell yesterday afternoon. It la not often that the manly art of self- defense comes Into play a it did in thl . Instance. But by using voice and mus , cle these few heroes turned back huin dreda who would otherwise have been ' cast into the water or upon the head) of the maimed and injured below. Crowd Barged Torward. ' , "I wa In a position where I could - see it all," said W. C. Johnson, an em- . ploye of the City & Suburban Railway Company. "The crowd wa the dens est I have ever seen, and those in th rear were pushing and struggling to ward the bridge rail to see the swim-, mer. Then came the breaking of ths bridge. "Relieved of the staying pressure of the bridge rail the crowd shot forward - toward the yawning pit that opened be- neath the feet of the unfortunate who . had been In place where they could- -see best. It seemed - that, hundreds would be killed. " "But a dozen men whose name arj ; orthy to be engrossed on th medal of-honor list, arose to the emergency and through their efforts alone many; i Uvea were saved. "Totally unmindful of their own ' safety they turned their backs, to th . gap, floored only by the water and th ,' struggling victim many feet below, and truggled to beat back the crowd. And : their efforts were successful. Banger Was Great. "It looked for a full minute as though these heroes would be carried over th ,. edge Into the river, but gradually they ... made themselves heard above the crle ; of the maimed and the dying for as each man foupht he spoke encouraging words to those In the rear, cautioned them to give back and called upon them to cease their crowding. ? - "But the people were mad with curi osity and terror, and aa oon a they found that something strange had hap pened it wa almost impossible to bold thera. Many in their frenzy of Ineans ' fear tried to rush right up to th break. All of thi thing had to b overcom by brute fore alone, for the excited throng -was incapable of reason.1 U was not , until, by the ue of their brawny arm, th men had forced back th crowd and cleared a space, about th brink of th break that they ' wer able to mak , themselves Understood ' and their v ss sursnces that ther was no danger began to have effect. - ' "Then ' the panto subsided. , But th fact that hundreds wer not killed I entirely du to the efforts of these tvt men. the nam of not One of whim la' , known." . , ' Mr. Johnson. was the one mho tirfil In -th alarm ornr -which r .ut. t -(Continued on e:jn,l Iv, i ) - '