The Leader., October 03, 1902, Image 3

BRIEF HISTORY OF THF GREAT BEAUMONT OIL FIELD.
KIOTINU AT MINES.
Disturbances Extend Over 100 Miles in
the Hard Coal District.
DEATH AND RUIN
Philadelphia, Sept. 2b.—Of the 10 An Awful Cyclone Sweeps Aero: i
anthracite coal producing counties of
Island of Sicily.
Pennsylvania, state troops are en­
camped in five. Despite the pretence
of tiie troops in these districts, rioting OVER 400 PERSONS PERISH IN STORM
and general lawlessness continue! in
the tiard coal territory from Forest Left a Path 120 Miles Lung- Destructive
Tidal Wave Resulted - Rails Tom
City, Susquehanna county, on the
from Ties by the Wind.
North, to
Williamstowo, Dauphin
county, on the eouth, a distance of
Fyracuse, 8icily, rnipt. 29.— K severe
more than 100 miles. The section of
the sti ike region in the vicinity of cyclone on the eastern coast of Sicily
Foreet City, which haa been com par has resulted in the death of several
atively quiet ever since the strike be­ hundred [lersoni and immense damage
gan, was greatly wrought up today by to property. For 24 hours before the
crowds of atrikers interfering with aud cyclone burst over the ialand a violent
V IE W IN T H E BEAUM ONT O IL F IE L D — SP IN D LE TOP D ISTR IC T R E C E N TLY S W E P T BY FIRE.
storm raged on the eastern coast of
beating men who had returned to work,
Sicily. The path of the cyclone was
r r p I I E recent disastrous tire in the B uuniont oil field attain attracts public attention to a corner of the United States
and as a result Sheriff Macy, ot Sus­ 120 miles long, snd everything in the
V] P that is now a
familiar locality to all newspaper readers, though it has been known to fame for less than two years.
cS
Oil had
previously been found at Convicaua, but it was not
till Jan. 10, 1001, that A. F. Lucas, boring on quehanna county, tonight asked Gov­ line of the storm was destroyed. The
Spindle Top hill, struck gushing oil at a depth of 1,300 feet. The pressure was such that a stream of oil shot 175 feet into
ernor Stone for troops to assist him sea swept inland for several kilo­
the air. Almost immediately speculators and oil experts gathered from all parts of the country. Land was bought or
and
ether civil authorities to pre­ meters, doing enormous damage, while
leased at a rapidly increasing scale of prices. The Beatty well was the secoud to “ come in.“ On March 29 aud April 3
there were violent submarine agitations
serve
the peace.
the Guffey wells struck oil. The Higgins company found oil on April 0. The Guffey company completed a secoud
between Siciiv aud the
mainland.
well on April 8, and on April 18 the Hey wood well began to How. Eacn new well Increased the excitement, not only in
A t present there are four full regi­ Along the railroud from Catania to
Beaumont, but in all parts of the United States, aud interest in the marvelous wells was soon felt in Europe.
ments, two companies of another snd Palermo the force of the cyclone was
It was several day» before the Lucas well was got under control, aud it was not until the pipe was sunk below the
two troops of cavalry in the field. The such that raila were torn up and
cap rock that It was safe from being clogged with suml. Some of the wells si>outed deadly gas at first and some of them
hurled to a great distance.
It is re­
deluged the hill with oil before they could be controlled. Up to August, 1901, twenty well» were yielding oil. In that
Thirteenth regiment is encamped at
ported from Modica, 32 miles south­
month twenty-five were added aud in September nineteen. During the latter part of 1001 and the first part of this year
Olipbant, six miles north of Scranton; west of Syracuse, that a hundred bodies
scores of other wells began to produce. In the meantime Beaumont has grown into a boom city.
the Ninth is quartered at its armory in have already been found, bat that the
All the wells were found on Spindle Top within a radius of hulf a mile. Hundreds of place* were tried outside of
this limited area,
but without favorable results. Besides hundreds of oil companies, genuine and fake, many manu­
Wilkesbarre; the Eighth regiment and number of dead bodies swept away by
facturing companies have sprung Into existence as a result of the discovery of oil. Pipe line* were built to the railway
The news­
the Second Philadelphia troop are the torrent is unknown.
and to tidew ater at Port Arthur only sixteen miles distant. A lively demand for the oil as fuel soon arose. Manufac­
under canvas on the top of a hill over­ paper Fraitissa expresses the belief
turers used it in furnaces, and steam vessels and locomotive* began to use it instead of coal. Companies were organized
looking Shenandoah; one battalion of that some 400 people have been killed.
to extract the illuminating oil from the petroleum and others devoted their attention to the asphaltum. The price of oil
The torrent destroyed everything ou
the Twelfth and Governor'a troops is in
at the wells was kept ut about 30 cent» a barrel. The output of the wells is more than 1,000,000 barrels a day—more
the Panther creek valley, and on# bat­ the ground floors in houses in the lower
than that of ail the rest of the United States. Already Texas oil is being delivered in tsuk steamers to dties on the
talion of the Twelfth is preserving order portion of Modica. Bridges and roada
Atlantic coast and in Europe.
in the city of Lebanon, w here the iron have disappeared, the damage amount­
and steel workers are situated.
I f the ing to many m illion lire (worth about
“ I promise, Terry—Terry, darling!”
said It would kill him—do you think It
T H E S P IR IT T H A T W INS.
disorder continues, Goveinoi
Stone 20 cents). The survivors of the catas­
H e stooped and kissed with a so-1 will he compelled to call out additional trophe have taken refuge in the hills.
would kill father, Terry?"
"While searching the archives for knowl­
“ Not a doubt about It,” said Terry, lemnlty that awed her—It dhl not seem soldiers.
A relief committee and search parties
edge.
a bit like her old laughing Terry. But
The
thickly.
While there has been no big general have been organized at Modica.
While after the rarest of lore.
"Then I w on't But I had to tell she felt that never had she loved him riot, the disturbances have been of such disaster is supposed to hav been due to
While seeking the richest of jewels
The British
you, Terry. I ’ ve always told you things as she did now.
a serious nature as to cause the autho­ a marine wa'orspout.
In Wisdom’s variant store,
“ My little good angel!” said the rities much apprehension.
since I was quite a little girl, haven’t
Kvery steamer Caperera was wrecked at
Remember this as you rummage
young fellow, with an odd break In his effort is being made by the sheriffs of Catania, after a terrible struggle with
I, Terry?”
[ For a mot of the Sage’s wit.
voice. "Go and play with the others. the several counties affected and the the waves.
‘Always, Dodo.”
The best and rarest of lessons
A large portion of the low -lyiig part
Is: Git up, git up and git!
I ’m going to have another smoke.”
“Terry, can't you do something?”
troops to prevent disturances from
Two
She kissed him and clung to him with growing to such an extent as to cause of Modica has been destroyed.
Terry puts bis hands over his ears to
Ages are filled with the dreaming
Reports are coming In torrents, the St. Francis and the St.
shut out the maddening sound of the a tenderness and trust that moved him bloodshed.
| Of verses the poets have sung,
from every section of nonunion men Marie, which descend through the
deeply.
gay music, and groaned.
Fillet! with the anguish and sorrow.
“There la nothing to trouble you now, and others being either shot or clubbed. town, rose suddenly and brought with
“ Couldn’t you find out the kidnaper,
Tragical muses have wrung
Houses of workmen hare been either them masses of mud snd heavy stouei
and make him stop—couldn’t you, dar­ dear. I will make It all straight”
From the loom of fanciful musing.
She went away obediently and quite burned or dynamited, and attempts and invaded the streets of Modica.
ling r
But the essence of all the wit.
The lesson of all the lessons,
Terry’s face was hidden In his hands contentedly. He watched the slender, have been made to hold up coal trains They carried everything in their course.
Many houses were utterly wrecked and
Is the lesson: Git up and gitl
now. Then he raised his head sudden­ white figure until It vanished; then he or derail them.
Coal is being shipped from many others ware seriously damaged. Num­
turned away with a mist la his eyes.
ly and looked at her.
erous animals perished.
The number
From periods primordial
And he was miles away the next paitsof the coal fields to market, but,
“ Dodo—suppose—suppose,” he said,
of victims is still unknown, but 60
On down to the time we live.
morning when his brief farewell was compared with the normal output, the
hoarsely,
“
that
I
could
put
my
finger
It’s simply a matter of Take, my boy;
corpses have been deposited in a single
taken up to Mrs. Garth. And after- quality is insigificant. The output for church. At Soicli 12 persons were
on the scoundrel—what then?”
If we can’t a question of Give.
this week will be much {less than the
wnrds
she
thanked
God
that
she
had
Vmember this as you rummage
“ O, Terry, you could go to him and
Tagearo
was
destroyed.
average pioduction of one day, which killed.
For a mot of the Sage’s wit,
make him stop. You could tell how been saved at the eleventh hour; for is about 300,000 tons.
The strikers Enormous damage was done at Pallazo,
flie best and rarest of lessons
the
future
held
much
happiness
for
good aud sweet mummy is, and how
assart that very little of the coal is Acreide, Faria and Geratana.
Is: Be just, but git up and git!
we all love her. Perhaps he’s got a her, and the deep, trusting love o( freshly mined, and that it is mostly
—New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Dodo's
father
won
hers,
so
long
with-
j
little girl of his own, and If you tell
FRIGHTFUL TRAIN WREÇK,
coal washed from the culm banks or
that I can't live without mummy he held.—Chicago Tribune.
has been stored at various points since
will be sorry. Perhaps he could take
the strike began.
Special Ran Into Stock Car—W reck Toek
T H E P O P U L A R H ERO .
some one who wouldn’t mind a h it -
Fire—Six Lives Lost.
some one who has no little girl, or fa­ In F ic tio n He la Alwnjra K otina,
PALMA FILES A PROTEST.
Rawlins,
Wyo., Sept. 29.— A fright­
ther, or you. O, Terry, tell him I can’t
D rin k in g or Sm oking.
ful freight wreck occurred in the west­
let mummy go. Aud when I am a
When the hero of the popular short Objects to United States Removing Cuban ern part of the city at midnight last
woman father says I will be rich, ana story Is not eating or drinking be Is j
W ar Recorda.
night, and it is believed that at least
I
will
give
It
all
to
him—I
will
give
W A S N ’ T dreaming, Terry. I
smoking, says Martha Baker Dunn In
Havana, Sept. 26.— One month ago six men are under the wreck. An extra
him
everything—everything.
0,
Terry,
wasn’t, really.
I was Just be­
the Atlantic. Ills chronicler flavors President Palma wrote a letter to fruit and stock special, with Engineer
ginning to get sleepy, and then I tell him th a t”
his pages with tobacco smoke and Washington asking that all the m ili­ Patnoe, came in at midnight. There is
Terry caught the little, sobbing, tor punctuntes them with cocktails.
heard Martha talking to Jane In the lit­
In tary records now in charge of Chief a pretty heavy grade doming into the
tle dressing room, and I got quite wide tured creature In his arms and pressed Joy or In sorrow, In the most romantic j Clerk Steinhart be kept in Cuba for at yards from the west, and the air brakes
awake. I didn't know what she said his face tightly against her fair head. no less than the more eommanplace; least one year, as they were absolutely failed to work. The engineer whistled
at first, and I did not mean to listen, Then he pulled out his handkerchief moments, the hero “ lights another j necesrary to conduct government busi­ for brakes, but it was too late tor the
really, till she said something about and wiped her eyes.
cigarette.” Emotion unucompanled by ness. President Pslma did not receive hand brakes to have any effect on the
mummy.”
nicotine Is something of which he a satisfactory reply to this request, and heavy train, which crashed into a long
last week the war department sent stock train standing on a side track.
evidently has no conception.
"W ell?" said Terry—he was In for It
It Is the same, too, with the up-to- orders to its agents here to send imme­ About 15 cars were piled on top of the
now, and he meant to hear it all.
date young man In real life.
He i diately to Washington the records of engine, snd almost instantly they
"Jane was angry with Martha and
Preparations sre broke into flames. The engineer was
knows. If he has been properly trained, the suditor's office/
said she ought not to say such things
that while a toothpick should he In­ being made to comply with these thrown under the wreck, and it is said
—I don't know what It was—and then
that least four or five others shared a
dulged lu only In that spot to which I orders.
Martha said: 'O, you needn't pretend
Scripture enjoins us to retire when we ! President Palma, however, strongly like fate. Rescuers succeeded in clear­
you don’t believe It—It’s us plain as the
are about to pray, a meerschaum pipe objects to the removal of the documents ing away the wreck sufficiently to talk
nose on your face—lie's going to run
to the engineer, who was still alive hut
Is a perfectly well-bred article for j hi question, and has protested to Wash­
away with the missus, and some one
He says the they were unable to get him oat, and
public wear and one which enables ington iu the matter.
ought to tell the master,’ and then
Cuban government is now paying all he burned to death.
him to fulfill agreeably that law ot [
Jane cried out and said: ‘It would kill
There were at least a dozen men w ho
the ex[>enses ol keeping up the auditor's
Ills
being
which
suggests
that
he
him'—that was father, yon know. Aud
office, and is willing to continue to do were riding on and in the cars, beating
should
always
he
putting
something
In
j
then Martha said something about me,
so, snd that it is a matter of justice to their way over the road. It is not
his mouth.
and Jane came Into the room with a
allow the government to have easy ac­ known how many of them escaped.
At a college hall game not long cess to the recotds.
candle and said: 'A re you asleep, Miss
Not more than four or five have been
since, where, as U usual on such oc­
Dodo?’ And I pretended that I was.
seen, bnt it is believed that more than
casions. clouds of lucenxe were rising
O. Terry. I had to pretend or I should
that number got off when it was
American Soldiers Restore Confidence.
to the heavens fl*oni the mnle portion :
hare screamed right out. And then
found that the engineer had lust control
Colon,
Colombia,
Kept.
2A.—
Three
of the spectators, I amused myself by
Martha came in and looked nt me, and
companies of United States marines, of his train.
observing a young man who sat In a
she said that she hoped that—that
The fire department went to the
who arrived hire on the anxiliary
carriage near me, and who while the
mummy would die If the man took
cruiser Panther, have reached Panama. scene and four streams of water were
game was In progress smoked a pipe
her away. it. was the best tiling. And
Another company, consisting of HO turned on the fire, hut could not make
three times and tilled In all the In­
then—I think they cried, but I kept
men, will he kept in Colon. The men much headway, as the broken cars were
tervals with cigars and dgurettea. 1 ol this latter company will be used to j piled up in splinters, and the wind was
the clothes over my face.”
knew something about him and had guard the daily trains across the isth- blowing. A large number of sheep
A hot word came upon Terry's lips,
frequently heard him referred to as mn«. The confidence of foreigners on were burned to death.
but he smothered it.
“ a first-rate felllow.” hut If anybody the isthmus has been restored in s large
"And when they had gone I ran out
Strikers Hold Up Cars.
hnil asked him If he believed himself , measure by the arrival of American
on the landing—1 was so frightened, 1
capable of a single pure Impulse of men-of-war and the landing of troops
Shenandoah, Pa., Sept. 29.— Sheriff
did want to see mummy, and she was n o VOU T H IN K IT W O U LD K I L L F A T H E R ?
the soul, entirely unnilxed with bodily in that locality, and the guarding of i Knorr, of Columbia county, this after-
Just going Into dinner and you were
sensations, he would have stared In trains by the soldiers.
| noon asked Governor Stone to send
with her; and. Terry. 1 was so glad
“ Dodo, my sweetheart, listen to ms.
amazement
troops to Centralia. The governor re­
Mummy
Is
quite
safe—no
one
Is
going
that you were there that I said my
No Tax on Philippine Cigars.
ferred the matter to General Gobin,
to take her away.
I f—If anyone
prayers all over again.”
A t th e Concert.
Washington, Sept. 2fi.— The commis* and the latter advised the sheriff to
Terry was sitting with one elbow on thought o f—at least—.” He stumbled
“ la that a dead march they’re play- ! sionor of internal revenne, in a circular make a further attempt to preserve
his knee, his head resting on his palm, In bis speech, and then went on boldly. lng?”
letter to collectors of internal revenne, order with the resources at hand.
and his face In the shadow. From the " I know the fellow. Dodo, and he is
"W hy, no; It sounds lively.”
calls attention to the opinion of the at­ Strikers today held np three trolley
big drawing room came the sound of heartily sorry that he ever thought of
“ Well. It will be dead when they get j torney general to tne effort that no In­ cars filled with non-union men and
music and the rippling laughter of the such a thing. Y'ou believe me. when I through murdering I t ” — Philadelphia I ternal revenne tax can be assessed leg­ stoned the workmen.
A workmen
children. He remembered now that tell you that mummy la all right?”
ally on cigars shipped from the Philip­ train was held np and thnee on hoard
Bulletin.
“ Yea. Terry.” She looked up at him
Constance had told him with a look of
pin««. and directs that the
word were warned to quit werk under penal­
In flux o f Japan ese la b o r e r s .
pain that the last few days her little trustfully. She knew that her darling
“ Philippines” he imprinted on the ty of being harshly dealt with.
Terry
would
make
things
right.
It
la
said
that
almost
every
steamer
daughter had been continually hover-
rnstoms import stamp attached to the
“ Dodo, sweetheart, I wartt you trf from the Hawaiian Islands that arrives j boxes containing these cigars.
lug aliout her in the house and watched
Three Days Across Atlantic.
her to leave it. always with extreme promise me this: that you will try and on the Pacific coast brings hundreds of |
New York. Sept. 29 — A patent has
Macedonian
Insurrection
Growing.
reluctance, nearly always eagerly of­ forget all that you have told me. and Japanese laborers.
been secured, says a London dispatch
Forts, Bulgaria, Sept. 26.— Advices to the Tr'bnne, covering a novel engine
fering to accompany her—It was al­ never mention It to anyone, and that
What
has
become
of
the
old
fashion-
j
from
Macedonia
show
that
the
insur­
most ns though she bad understood. you will be very good to mummy, and
for marine propulsion, which John
And be had laughed—laughed. Good love her with every bit of love In your ed hoy who held a bone as high as he rectionary movement there in increas­ W illis, the inventor, asserts will redare
ing.
The
railroad
and
telegraph
lines
warm little heart Promise me thla, could, and made tl\y dog ‘ speak” for j
God!
the crossing of the Alantio at leant to
It?
| are dsmaged in many places.
a three daya’ jonruey.
"And I must not tell father—Jane dear.”
During the Cotillon
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