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GOOD EVENING Journal Circulation - THE -WEATHER. '. i Rain this afternoon, tonight and Friday; aoutherly winds. Yesterday VOL. IV. NO. 237;, ) . . PORTLAND, OREGON. THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7. 1905. SIXTEEN PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. J5FUFfil 23,412 FEARFUL WRECK Offl THE miOMPMlFIC J ,,,. ' , . 1 .111 1 pip 1 . 1 1 .... 1 .. - 1 1 11 . 1 - . . iii -" ,'.' v'-s , ... , ,; . .-I '.. .;.v-....r--- rr - - f Inn n win n n nnm , h- East-bound Overland limited -Crashed lUne tie Killed, One (Special Dispatch V Tbs Joeraal.) Cheyenne, Wyo., Dec. '7. The worst wreck in the history, of Wyoming v occurred, v at, 2:30 o'clock this morning when the east-bound Union Pacific Over land Limited, running more than , a mile a vminute, crashed into, a west-bound fast freight head-on at Wilkins, Wyoming, four miles east of Green River. Nine were instantly killed, four of the vic . tims were incinerated, one is missing. Eight passengers and 10 employes were injured. Among the deadi are the engineers and firemen of both trains, the con ductor and head brakeman of the freight; four; postal clerks and the entire dining. car" crew of the, flyer. The track was torn up in a terrible manner, cars of both trains demolished and burned. Number 2 ea'st-bovnd flyer was late and was running at the rate of 70, miles an ; hour, while the freight was making 40 miles an hour to reach the! next siding be fore the flyerl , The cause of the accident has notuJbeen. made Jsnown, brit "evidently u the em ployes .Overlooked their orders" arid both were demolished'ln , the dynamo and . dining cars of the passenger were, smashed td kin dling wood.. Several cars " of freight were piled together in a heap and the fire .which imme diately broke out added its horror to the scene, consuming all the wrecked cars of both trains and 12 cars of the freight.' ... ' Assistance was at once sent for from Green River and a train load of doctors, nurses and vol unteers went to the scene of the disaster Where those who es caped were busy attending the wounded and crippled and rescu ing the. victims from the flames, which lighted up the scene with a lurid glare. . " This morning in . the burning debris were found the charred bodies of two mail clerks who were burnt up and also two MITCHELL OUT OF ALL COMMITTEES Oregon Senator Requests to Be Relieved From. All Assign- ments Thia Session . . (Journal 8peclat SrrlrO . Waahlnvton, D. C. Inc. 1. It la an nounced . that Senator Mltchell'a ro queat to Vlce-Prealdent Fairbanks to be relieved from : eervtce aa chnirman of the tnteroceanlo canala - committee . goes farther, and aake that ho be re- lleved from all committee, aaalrnmenta, pendlnR flnnl action of the courta In bla caee. If hla wlahea are compiled with- ! there' will be a aplrtted content for hla pluce on the judiciary committee, thla . being- one of the moat highly nought ' committee In the eenate, Mitchell will be aucreqded on the In teroceanlo canala committee by Millard ' of Nebraaka, who cornea next .In rank on the committee to Senator Piatt, who doe a not wlah the chairmanship. . Sen ator Fulton undoubtedly will be given the chalrmanahlp of the clalma commit tee, but la more anxloua to land a place on the commerce committee'' than thla chairmanship, aa the place on the com merce committee would enable him to do. much for Oregon river and harbor Improvementa. ' v . .. . '. MARSHAL OYAMA IS WELCOMED TO T0KI0 tJnenwl Pp-lnl Ur1r ) " ' Tnkfo. Dec. 7 KleId Murahal Oyaraa, eommander-in-rbiaf of - the ' Japaneee army, and ataff, entered .thla clt. this . morning from hla. vlrtorloue campaign rn Manchuria. A great crowd warmly ' welcomed him' deapH the Inclement wmthcr. A central hIMty' hna been ; leriared. t )yama wag " driven directly I to ttii palace. J. Bugbee, first 000k f dining-., John Ltvltii, fourth oooft. Omaha. 2d Bossnbeum, iwoi4 ok. Oakland. - stlgers. dynamo aa eleotrioian. - Kelps to electrician, nam not known. , Xdward Bzink, engine of tko freight train. - 9. .; Smith, " head srakemaa . , of freight train. V. A. Peterson, maO etark, Cheyenne. J. T. Phillips, mall stark, Cheyenne. .V v' V. .v: atwsuio. v' . J. A. vnmnu, mail clerk, Cheyenne. ' ' vaaaairosjui nroMD. ; ' ; . Carlson, residence' nnknown J. T. Hooker, Bait Xxe. , ' ,'M. O. MoCoy, Kansas City. Dannie MoArtbur, ". Anekland, Vow a land. . 1 - '--- - : . Mia Bdna Mlaklk, Ian Fraaotooo. Mrs. Hand BUay, San rranolaoo. w V at. T. Bullitt, Ban rranoiaoo. -; kn. eortmdo Cook. Ban rranoiaoo. ' BBTPMTBS XBJTBBD. Andrew jordon, janflnoor of paa- sna '" - ' 4 ' .. Alan William a, pmUman nortor. ' . W. O. Borlqno, .third oook. Oaoar Botoraon, flraman'of tnlfhi. ' O. A. Bhaffor mail olark, Choyoana. B. A. Wkolorr dutliia;-ear eondaoter. 7. I. Bmltk, waiter. 's- - -j X' WitehaU, waiter. -v- , K .- W. 9. Barker, waiter. , . Bd Bart, waiter.-'. '.;v , - 9. Alfors, ftremam paaaenaer ... corpses that were being trans ported east for buriat i l tprnfir sppprt at whirh tvth trains were traveling left no time for escape' by efther engine crew, as an instant after the gleaming headlights faced each.' other the terrible shock occurred. : The first car behind the tender was the combination baggage and ' electrical car, one end ; of which contained 1 baggage ' and the other the dynamos and other appliances by which light for the entire .tram-was furnished. V The. electrician in .charge with an 'assistant occupied the latter end of the can . The impact of the two engines was so great that the huge steel tender of the,heavy passenger engine cut through the baggage car attached to it with the speed of a bullet, crashing the huge pile . of heavy trunks and boxes into -the apartment occu pied by the two electricians. ' Senator . J. H. , Millard, Who May - Take Mitchell's Place on the In- teroceanlc Canal t. Committee. . KILLS HIMSELF BECAUSE HE GOT A WHIPPING ' ("aeelal IMapatca The Jaaraal.) Aberdeen. Wash.,' Dec, T,Aa th a T- ult of a row. In which' he waa whlppedJ Andrew C Thompson, II yeare old, mate on the local steamer Harbor Belle,' com mitted aufclde laat night about ! o'clock by drinking carboTlo acid.'. He will prob ably be burled by vrx Tbxmr, af which lodge ha waa a member, ; . ' ' Ohannoey Wont Bealra. ' IJnenul Special Berrtee.f " t New Tork. Dec T.-Senator Chauneey M. Depew arrived In thla city 'this morn ing. He said there was no trulti In the report that he would resign from Ue senate. " , - - - J . ( O "a ' 'I The force of the impact piled the demolished baggage car into the mail and express car' and these into the dining car follow ing, heaping the whole in" one in extricable mass of tangled debris. Twelve heavily loaded freight cars piled up at the front of this mass and in the space of a few moments .amid "the hissing of es caping steam bright tongues of fire shot skyward swiftly fanned by a cold wind that, swept down from the snow covered 'foothills. In half an hour after the collis ion the entire mass of wreckage was in flames and uninjured pas sengers were hurriedly taking wounded and dead from the tangled pile of wood and steei. ' The trainmen, postal clerks and dining car crew who were killed, evidently died instantly. ; J Shrieks". pf pain and cries for help from the mjured soon ceased as the rescuers "dragged them from the danger of a death bjf cremation and in an . hour after the shock a special train bearing doctors and nurses had. arrived and ,thci;wj3Jrk. f caring for the unfortunate was beerun. ' V - 'The rescue train was followed by a wrecking outfit and force of workmen, out nttie couia De ac complished until the flames had burned themselves out, when the work of removing the debsia-that remained was begun. The work of laying a" track around the wreck was at ontfc started and all trains will pass around the torn up track until the latter can be repaired within the next day or two. ' ' '. v ';, , . Passengers in the sleeping, and chair cars were thrown clear of their bunks, and although badly shaken up in numerous instances, no one so far is thought to be fatally injured in these cars. The force of the crash with whichthe two trains came to gether can be better understood when a survey is taken of the scraps to which the huge dining (Continued on Pare Tbrae.) FUND FOR CANAL IS CUT DOWN Amendment to Hepburn Bill ' Reduces Arjpropriationtp-;i. Eleven Million. , (Jearaal Special aVrrlee.) Washington, D. C Dec. 7. The Hepburn bill appropriating tK.400.000 for canal work waa debated at length In the house today. : The bill waa amended and placed on Ita final passage. , An amendment waa offered by Will iams requiring an Itemlied statement of expendlturea from the canal commls mlslon and cutting down the appropria tion to IMS8.S3I. Long debate ensued. Prince moved to make It f 10.000,000. Finally a com prom lie waa reached and by a vote of 110 to 111 the house reduced the amount called for In the canal bill to 11.000,000.V Hepburn agreed, to ac cept tlTB reduction. i sTonhaneoai YrouiotedV The-prceldent today nominated Cap tain Charles 1L McKlnstry of the corps of engineers to be a member of the California debrla commission. ' Tbomaa B. Neuhausen waa promoted from In apector In the Oregon land office to a special Inspector In the Interior depart ment aa a reward for eenrlcea In the Mitchell trial. Tillman raised a rumpus In the oenate thla. morning' by demanding action on the campaign contribution resolution which he offered yesterday, and de clared that ha wanted "the debauching of the electorate atopped. and dtd not want money paid on hla policy to be oaej to support the McCurdy family." - The resolution waa agreeeT to without opposition, after Tlllman'a war speech. It , asks' the secretary of the treasury whether the reports of the bank exam Inera contain any reference to the na- Contlnued on Page. Three.) "What Are They "Oh, He's Trying rThat Crank Will saaeagaaaaaaaaia IS THE JOURNAL THE LEADER? JUST READ THIS AND THEN ANSWER Half of Veniremen Who Read Newspaper. Stories of Rets Murder Cot Their First Information' From Thet Journal One ; ' , Read the Qregonian, Another May Have, Of 11 veniremen, from whose number It were chosen to serve aa a jury in the Rels murder case at The Dalles, IT were aaked .in what newspaper they had read the report of the caae. One had not read any newspaper. Of the remaining It. eight had read the news In The Journal, four In The . Dalles Chronicle, two In the Dufur Dispatch, one In the Spokesman-Review, one in the Oregonlan and one thought he had read It In the Oregonlan or Telegram, but he wasn't aure, aa he took neither. Henry Mayhew, Klngaley; C. 8. afa gee, Dufur; 8. A. Klatner, Wamlc; L. H. McCartney, J. W. Moo re a. Hood River; W. It Sharp. The Dalles; Oscar Angell. Hood River, and A. H. .Olllla. Wamlc, read the newa In The Journal. O. W, Otey said that - he might have ten It In the Oregonlan. J. B. Haverly might have read it In the Telegram or Oregonlan, but did not take them. W. 11. H. Dufur of Dufur thought he had read It In the Oregonlan. V ' Five of the IS men chosen to serve on the Jury had read the first news of the caae In The Journal. Here la the ' official court atenoe rapher's' record of the questions aaked as to newspapers In the drawing of the Rela Jury: - Henry Mayhew, Klngsley Q. What paper did you read the account InT A. I believe It waa In The Oegon Journal. - C 8. Magee, Dufur Q. Whit did you read account tnf A. I read It In The Oregon Journal. Q. Did you read it in the Dufur DIspatchT A. It waa mostly copied from The Journal. ' 8. A. Klatner. Wamlc . Have yoa ever read any statement of the facta In thla caaeT A. Like the-rest of them, I eaw It In the paper. Q. What paper did you read It InT A. The Portland Journal. Q. The Portland Journal seems to be a popular paper out there? A. We all take IC.gQ. Have you ever read It In any other paperT A. No, sir. Q. The Dalles Chronicle T - A. No. air. Q. Dufur DIspatchT A. Nat sir. LkL, McCartney, The Dalles Q. Have you ever . read any statement . of ths facta In this case? A. Tea. sir. Q. Where did you read It T A. 'I think I read It In The Journal and The Dalles Chronicle, both. . Q. Do yow read The Journal, toof A. Tea, sir. - Oeorge W. Otey, Dufur Q. Have you read any account of the facta In thla caaef - A. Tea, air I believe It waa In the Dufur -Dlapatch. -1- couldn't Bay probably the Oregonlan.- I might havs saw It In the Oregonlan, 1 couldn't say for aure. - J. Haverly, Dufur Q. Have you read any account of what was said about the facta In- the caeeT A, I remember when the thing happened; I read It, 1 OUR ANTEDILUVIAN ANCESTORS The Assessor In Antediluvian Chaaing Stonehammer for?" - to Get Up a Scheme' to Make Everybody Pay Taxea." Get Lynched the First Thing He Knows." . - , ' ' ,alisasewaaii,aaa.asaa believe. In the .Chronicle. I might have read it in .the Telegram or Oregonlan, but do not take them. ' . Oscar Angell. The Dalles Q. Have you read any account in the papers, or what were claimed to be the facta, in this transaction along... about the time It is said to have occurred T A. Tea, air. J. What did you read it InT A. J read It In The Journal. A. H. Olllls, Wamlc Q. Have' you read any account of what is claimed to have been a atatement of the facta In the caaef A. I think I read a piece in The Oregon Journal. ' W. H. H. Dufur. Dufur q. Now about the time of the transaction, do yon re member rending any account of ' It In the newapapera and what waa aald about the facta In fhjf caae? A. Tea, I think I read It In' the Oregonlan and I think I read In the Chronicle and Dufur Dla patch something of an account.- ' . J. W. Moore, Hood River q. Have you read what purported to be a atate mentln the caaef A. I have read what there waa In the Hood River Glacier and The Journal. , W. H. Sharp, The Dalles q. Have you ever read anything about the facta In thla caaeT A. I read an account In The Dalles Chronicle and The. Journal. PACKERS' BLACKMAILERS GO TO JAIL FOR MONTH - ' 1 (Joernel oXl an-rlae.l Chicago, Deo. I. William Mc8wain and Wilbur - Cole, former employee, pleaded guilty to the charge of black mailing the Armour Packing company and were sentenced . to 10 daya In Jail each thla morning. The . men stole papers from the packers which they tried to sell back, threatening to give the Information to the government, MURDERER CAPTURED - AFTER A LONG CHASE (Joarmal CpfeUl gerrlre.t . Butte, Mont. Dec T William Giles, who stabbed Jatnea Rosa to death dur ing a row oxer cards at Havre, waa rap tured today after a stremlOuChM or 14 hours. In which a detachment of sol. dlers, a poea of civilian and a number of doga participated. . , BU-Vaf Baeere.' . :" ' ' (Jnornal Bpeclnl ' - New Torn, Dee. 1. Ten teams ar at 111 in the sis-day raoe with Bedsit brot!iT In the lead. Days , . ';v:0 V i Dili I IIIWCOTIPATi: WILL llliLOIIUMIL Transportation Committee of Chamber of Commerce to" --' Consider Question. NORTHLAND ATTRACTIVE - FIELD FOR MERCHANTS Great Developments Under War In Coal, Oil and Copper Districts and Immense Influx of 1 People Next Spring Assured.', " . After having accomplished a vast amount of work that la regarded aa of the ' highest importance Yn - promoting tranaportatlon matters in Oregon, the transportation committee of the Port land chamber of commerce haa taken up the aubject of a ateamahlp line between Portland and weatern Alaska. At a meeting to be held tomorrow: afternoon In the office of W. A. Wears' the ques tion will be considered. The coast country of Alaska, Including Kyak, Valdea, Seward pentnaula and Nome, presents an exceedingly attractive field for Portland merchants, and la rapidly growing In commercial Impor tance. It la known that great develop ments are now under way In the coal, oil" and copper, dlatrlcta, and that there will be an immense Influx of people to that country neat aeaaon and the follow ing year.' The singular aspect of the largest and most Influential wholesale market la the Pacific northweat being without' direct ateamahlp connection with Alaska haa attracted th attention of the committee and aroused an inter est that will. It la believed, lead to the starting of a ateamahlp line, with the cooperation of the Harrlman railroad lines at thla port. - . . ' . Alaska Ukes ForUaad. ' The conditions her favor luch a proj ect - in, a . remarkably strong degree, Alaakamerrhanta continually com here to do business regardless of -the fact that they have to paaa through Seattle and Tacoma to reach thla city. Kvery one of them haa declared -emphatically that Portland la th largest and best wholesale market on th coast. It Is said - that Alaska merchants prefer to trade with rortland. and would throw the,, bulk. oOhelr .business to this mar ket If there were direct meana of trans portation, - Prom Htinrllallv-HAureea -It has been learned that from t2S.ei. t4 $50,009,000 of eastern money la to he Invested rent year in the development of . raiiroml - and -mining proi-l alone tlie wevtei A !! cot. The Poind- ALASKA Continued Co. Page ll BRAND GAPOO TRAITOR Robespierres of the Revolution ary ' ' Tribunal' . Pronounce) Death Sentence Against ' Their Leader. DRUNKEN4 EUTCHERY ABB0AD AT KIEFh More Than a Thousand Jews Re ported to Hava Fallen Before the , Onslaught of the Terrorists Mu tinies Among Troops Continue St Petersburg Cavalry Disaffected. iv-.. -.-' '.:..'-:-:'-y---.- : 8t Petersburg, Deo. T. (Bulletin.)-. An enormous alump In Russian fours haa taken place, closing at 7i. Many of tho ditya banks ar in a precarious condi tion and a . grea financial crlala -14 Imminent, '-j , : . ' joaraal ipeeJal Bervlce.r St. Peteraburg, iec 7. The revolu-. tloniats have Information . that a reign of terror exists at Kief f. Drunken mobs are massacre In a; Jews, students and middle-class reformera. Troops are making no- effort to suppress the disorders. It 1 reported that 1.600 have been killed, more than 1.000 of them Jews. The mutiny, among the troops this ' morning reached 8L. Peteraburg when three aquadrona of cavalry refused to reply to the saluta-Q-f-tlielr commander. The officers fled, fearing aaaaaaination. Three battalions of infantry are reported to have mutinied at Moscow, where th strike baa become universal. The mutinies at Kief f and Dorenes have not yet been auppreased, although many soldiers are reported slaughtered at Kleff. . Outbreaks ar hourly occur ring among th Polish regiments. Let- tees from Manchuila say that the sol- " dlers are practically starving, have pil laged Harbin and the army Is seamed with sedition. .- In a, skirmish between Cossacks and strikers here this, morning mors than . 100 were killed and wounded. t Oapoa Proscribed. . . The revolutionary committee has con demned Father Qapon, who waa - th leader of the popular demonstration oa Bloody Sunday, 'to death on th grounds ' that he IS a traitor to the cause of th people. Gapon la declared to be tn -fluenced by the government. Gapon was summoned to appear and anawer to th charges,, but did Sot do so. The trial was held before a tribunal of seven specially selected and resulted In a unanimous verdict for death of th former priest Th verdict of death has been approved by th central commit tee. ' Th . cause of the revolutionists ac tion against Gapon la due to the former priest' preaching . among workmen agalnat a revolution, saying that the strike tactics are sure to Jeopardla th 1 freedom purchased , already by blood. Qapon baa fled the country. i akharoff Assassinated.,. It la reported that Lieutenaat-Generat Sakharoff. ex-minister of war, waa.aa saaslnated Tuesdsy while at Saratoff at th house of the governor, where he . had gone to quell the agrarian riots. A woman called at ths house and asked to see Sakharoff. As soon as she was ushered Into his presence ah Bred at him three times with a revolver, kill ing him on the spot. The woman la said to have been the wife of one of the pea mints killed by rder of Sakha roff, who he waa pacifying hy harrow lng cruelties and brutal whippings. . SHO OTS IV1FE, KILLS HI LI S ELF, WHILE CRAZED VIIHOiO Woman's, Aged Mother Strug gles Desperately WithFren zied Man to Prevent Deed. (j.mrnal flpeeUl Berries.) -St Loula, tec. T. Crartd by drlnie, Charles Be Bosae, a collector, shot his wife and killed himself yesterday In th presence of Mrs. rUtsubeth R. Wubecke. his wife's aged mother,, dur ing a quarrel about a 117.000 Inheri tance. ' Mrs. Boaae's Injurlea sre be lieved to be fatal.' the bullet passing through her neck. Boase (lied Instantly, Aged Mrs. Wubecke battled with the frensled man to prevent him ahovtlng hla wife, attempting . to wreet the weapon from him when th shots wr fired Boss was dead When the rhl clans reached th houa a few minute after the tragedy. ' - While Mrs. lloeee has regained " sclousness her condition Is pronouncrd serious and physicians eirord" her re moval to the City hopltl In an aml.n lanoe. . '. . . ' . VAUDEVILLE ACTC.l FATALLY C'TC V.''"- Butte. Iec 7 - t ' ' ' ' Vail'I'Vllle O tr. . I ' tlni'.H nr.-1 f. M ,1urlr. H .Imi..... ,i ! I t i ' w,.n;, w..l .- . ' ' ' 1 ' ' 1 ,
