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VOL. V.
THE DALLES. OREGON. MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1893.
NO. 32.
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General Blackamitbing and Work done
promptly, and all' work
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President.
H. M. BlALL
Cashier.
First Rational Bank.
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OREGON
A General Banking Business transacted
Deposits received, subject to Sight
Draft or Check.
Collections made and proceeds promptly
remitted on day of collection.
Sight and Telegraphic Exchange sold on
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Sight Exchanges Sold on ,
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Louis, San Francisco, Portland Oregon,
Seattle Wash., and various points in Or
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Collections made at all points on fav
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SHOCKING ACCIDENT.
A "Biz Four" Passenger Train Crasnes
. . Into Some Tanl Cars. .
CAUSED BY AM ; OPEM SWITCH.
An Explosion Follows the WieckManj
Killed and Injured.
A KKAVK KNOINBXSI LAST ACT.
The Cereless Switch Teader Who Ceased
The Frlghtfe! Disaster Made Bis
Kseape.
- St. Lobis, Mo., Jan. 21. A wreck,
which in its consequences was one' of
the most appalling and disasters that
has occurred in years, toqk place be
tween Wann and Alton Junction, 111.,
this morning. The Cleveland, Cincin
nati, Columbus & St. Louis southwestern
limited passenger train, consisting of an
engine and four coaches, which left here
this morning for the east, ran into : a
switch a half mile north of Wann and
crashed into a train consisting of seven
tank-cars standing thereon. The re
sult was a fire, and afterward an explo
sion, which has already cost six persons
their lives, ' fatally injured 19 others,
seriously hurt fully 50 more and caused
a great property loss to the company.
The tender of these switches was P.
Gratten, also a barber. Unpn him is
laid the blame by the railway officials
and trainmen for the accident, and the
officers are now searching for him, as be
fled during the excitement following the
dual accident.
The train reached Wann twelve min
utes late. At Alton junction, running
at the rate of forty miles an hour the
engineer being desirous of making up
lost time, the switch, was so turned as
to send the flying train on to one of. the
side tracks. On the track were seven
tank cars filled with refined lubricating
oil. The engineer called to the fireman,
Dick White, to jump for his life. , He
then reversed the engine and applied
the air brake, but he was too late. The
engine . crashed entirely through two
tanks, splitting . them in half, and was
then forced entirely over another. The
oil from the wrecked - tanks at once
caught, and a sea of flames instantly
surrounded the engineer, who jumped
just as the pilot of the engine struck the
the first tank. The brave man strug
gled to the embankment at one side of
the track, but so soon as he reached it
he sank to .the earth, a crisp and black
ened corpse. The fireman escaped with
slight bruises. The engineer's . action
in reversing the engine and applying
the brakes slackened the speed of the
train sufficiently to prevent any serious
injury to the passengers, of wham there
were sixty. In the baggage-car . the
mails, eleven pieces of baggage and a
corpse were all burned in' a few minutes.
The flames spread to the other coaches;
and all were soon in ruins. Three oil
tanks, together with the engine and
tender, were also consumed.'
The passengers and villagers crowded
around the burning wreck, anxious to
assist, if possible, any unfortunates who
might De in neea ot ueip. At tms time
a culmination of the horrible affair oc
curred. Two tank cars left uninjured
by the engine, simultaneously' and with
fearful force exploded, throwing pieces
of iron out into the fields and shower
ing upon the assembled crowd of sight
seers a mass of flaming liquid. For a
second after the noise of the explosion,
there was no sound save - the - whish of
the seething oil as it was forced-through
the air. Then there arose a confusion of
agonizing appeals for help and cries of
terror, it wmcu ou tongue uur pea chbvt
do justice, tor several minutes the
panic was indescribable. Those touched
by the blazing oil groped about wildly,
seeking in vain for relief -from torture.
Almost without exception the injured
were burned about the face and had
their eyesight temporarily, if not per
manently, destroyed, inose wno were
uninjured were so terror-stricken as to
be unable to assist their less foitnnate
companions for some time.,
- Scenes in the hospital rooms-'where
the wounded were removed were most
pathetic. Dirty oil-soaked rags were
cut away from the bodies and laid bare
the horrible work of the burning oil.
Hands and faces were all, scorched and
bleeding! lips and noses swollen and
distorted ; eyes either burned out or
eaten by the flames and incrusted with
blood and - dust. The hands ofr.many
were burned to a crust, fingers missing
and arms broken. Several victims,
when uncovered, were found to be with
out any" entiele, the flames having
cooked and burned it until -it either
clung to the clothing in removal or fell
away of its own accord. Several little
boys were among the victims, and they
were the most distressing of all.'
HATTEB9 IK SALEM.
The Sheriffs' and Clerks' Fees Button.
Holes, 6rsog.ni, Kte.'
Salxm, Jan. 22. Special. Whisper
ings are heard of a move for quadrennial
meetings of the assembly.' . It is expen
sive this biennial experimental gymna
sium of embryo statesmen repealing
one set of laws to set up another for the
exploitation of the next biennial. The
people are becoming weary of paying
for it. ;. ;: :
The county court of Marion : county
has under consideration the matter - Of
returning to the old way of collecting
road taxes.' The members don't like the
Lway the new law operates, and as they
have an option in using whichever law
they may elect,' the court will likely re
turn to the former plan, by which the
road tax can be worked out. The new
law, under which the road taxes are
collected direct the same as amy other
taxes, worked an injustice agains all in-.l
corporated towns, and in Marion re
sulted in several law suits against "the
county. . '
.'Senator Myers' bill providing for eon
tracts to be let on all road work for sums
over $100.00 is meeting with some favor.
The bill provides that the county court
shall each year levy a road tax not to
exceed two mills, and a road poll- tax
not to exeed three dollars on each male
citizen above the age of 21 years and be
low the age of fifty years, to be collected
witb the other taxes- of ' the county.
Money thus collected shall be ' kept by
the county treasurer in separate funds
for each road district, and the money
thus collected shall not be expended in
any road district except theone in which
it is collected, unless so provided by the
county court. Any person against
whom a road poll tax . is levied as pro
vided in this act shall have the right to
work the same out himself if he so de
sires under the direction of the super
visor. .
Democrats from all oyer the state are
here off and on, being frequently seen in
anxious . consultation with democratic
members. The latter having declined to
indorse any of the applicants for federal
places for some time yet. The general
feeling in the caucus was, however, that
eventually the legislators will agree upon
some single applicant for each position
and give him their united support. An
effort was made at another caucus to
pledge the democrats in both . houses to
a support of the governor in case he ve
toes another omnibus wagon road bill
designed to utilize the surplus (95,000 in
the ' treasury. This attempt proved
abortive, however, and the matter was
left free for Individual action.
Senator Miller's school-book bill in
troduced in the legislature, provides for
compilation of a series of school books
consisting of three readers, one speller,
one arithmetic, one grammar, one his
tory of the United States and one geog
raphy. The books are to be published
by the state, and the state, county and
school district authorities are required
by this law to enforce the use of them.
They are to be distributed from the
office of the state treasurers to all deal
ers at cost and shall be. sold at retail at
not more than ten per cent profit $20,-
000 is appropriated to cover expenses of
compiling and editing books, or so much
therefor as may be needed ; also $50,000,
or as mbch as needed, for printing and
distribution of books.' . The expense of
publication will become o fund that will
go right back into the state treasury.
The contract for publishing the books is
to be let to the lowest responsible bid
der, and prices fixed when the bill is
accepted.' This shall be in effect for
four years, and at the end of four years,
to be submitted to a vote of the people
wnetner to -be; continued or not. llie
bill is modelled after the Minnesota
law.
Salem grange held an open meeting
Friday, at which- were discussed many
questions now agitating the' public
mind. -A resolution was adopted . which
was in effect thAt the grange deems it
bad policy for the state at this time to
establish a jute factory at the state peni
tentiary. : - -
If you have not paid your school .tax
for 1892 yon will save costs by paying at
once. Time is up. This means yoc. .
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Choice sauer krout at W.
83 Third street.
A. Kirby's,
Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report.
AESSlIJfEOf PJJEB
FATE OF ED. J. SEATON.
Mden Disappearance From Walla Valla
Accouitei For.
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THE REMAINS FULLY IDENTIPIEIT.
He Wandered. Away la 1801, During a
Temporary Pit of Insanity.
IMAGINED HIMtBtF A CRIMINAL.
Oil
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piees of the Sfasonle Krateraltjr
- Other Hews;
Walla Walla,- Jan. 23. Special.
The fate of Edward J. Seaton. a former
bookkeeper for t he Walla" Walla branch
house of Charles H.'Dodd, who suddenly
disappeared from this city on the night
of June 3d, 1891, and whose whereabouts
could never be ascertained, has been dis
closed by accident. '. Tuesday morn ins:
the Union Journal published an account
of the finding 6f a dead body on the farm
of Marcellus Robinson, fourteen miles
east of the city on Blue' creek.'1 At 9 :30
Tuesday morning 'Cbfoher Y.J Ci: Blalock,
accompanied by County Attorney Miles
Poindexteri Dr. E..E. Sbaw ..and a Union
Journal representative, left, the city.. for
the scene to hold an inauest over the re
mains. Arriving.at, tjie Ko bin son resi-
dence the coroner summoned a jury, and'
held a thorough Investigation ..which
disclosed the fact that Seaton imagined
he had killed a man in Chicago,. His
friends in this city corresponded with the .
Authorities ' in Chicago regarding tha
matter and in reply learned that the
man was not siuea. iney tnen en
deavored to convince Seaton that he had
not committed murder, and he need not
fear arrest. Seaton, however, could not
be made to believe he was mistaken, and
there is no doubt that ' the constant
thought of having committed the crime,
caused him to become insane at times.
Several weeks before his, disappear
ance a branch detective office was es
tablished in, the second story of the Lud
wig building, and by chance the room
occupied by the agency were directly
opposite to the room where' Seaton
slept. This seemed to convince him,
beyond any reasonable doubt,, that the
detectives were after him,' and while
temporarily insane be decided that he
would leave the city. He probably con
cluded. that he would gp'intq the moun
tains and after wandering aboui. several
days without : food, became exhausted
and lying down on the hill side in th(
rear of Mr. Robinson's residence, died
from starvation. It is evident that wild
animals then feasted upon, his flesh.
Mi1. Seaton was a prominent Mason be- ,
ing a member of the commandry and at
the time of his disappearance was Wor
shipful Master or Walla Walla lodge No.
7, F. & A.' M. The remains .were iden
tified by papers still comparatively well
preserved, and the jury decided that the
remains were those of E. J. Seaton.
They were given Christian burial under
auspices of the fraternity.
Very Pretty Incident.
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The little birds that make their habi
tat in and about Albany can teach their
feathered kindred down in the big
metropolis a trick or two in the way of
taking comfort these cold nights, eaya
the Albany democrat. The arc lights
serve for a very nice purpose besides il
luminating the streets.: At the, corner
of First and Ferry streets, up under the
cover to the light, where it is warm and
well protected, every night seven or
eight little birds have been in the habit
of roosting for several months, flying
away when daylight comes. Sometimes
one of them fallsdown into the carbons,
only to be stunned. The electric light
men are posted, and Tuesday night one
was seen to let down the light and again
placA the dazed bird on his perch among
his companions. Something pretty
about the whole matter.
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