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SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1IM0.
No. 30.
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TWO FACTORIES
"EIGHT OTHERS DAMAGED
WALLS FALL ON FIREMEN
One Fireman Is Killed and Ten Others Caught by Falling Wall
Are Bady Hurt, and a Boy Bystander Is Killed Fire Oc
curred Near County Jail and a Panic Ensued Among the
. Prisoners, Who Were Removed Under Guard as the Jail
Was for a Time In Danger. .
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Innatl, O., Deo. 11 A fire
man and a spectator were killed and
10 firemen severely hurt In a fir to
day that did $2,000,000 damage.
The killed and Injured were caught
under the falling walls of the Krlp-pender-O'Nelll
Shoe Company's fac
tory. Two engine companies were
burlej under tons of debris. '
The dead: ' ;
Robert Greer, fireman. "
' - Unidentified hoy, 16 years old.
The flr a broke out early today in
the Krlppendorf, factory. .The flames
spread rapidly. The Krlppendorf
bulldtngnd the factory of the Taylor-Poet
Leather Company -were com
pletely destroyed, and eight ' other
I O p e m E vemiogs
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Remarkable values offered in all departments for the
Christmas shopping. We want to make the biggest
sales this week in the history of our store, and if low
prices and good values does it, we are bound to
; succeed.
Useful Christmas Presents
Now offered at tempting low price. Ladies' suits,
coats, capes, furs, silk waists and silk petticoats all
about manufacturers' cost. Kid gloves, silk unbrellas,
silk hosiery, silk kimorias, rain coats, sweaters, ostrich
plumes, ribbons, ladies fancy neckwear, perfumery,
ladies' leather handbags, hosiery and underwear for
men, women and children, men's silk ties, silk suspen
ders, men's gloves, handkerchiefs of all kinds, dolls,
toys and games now selling at special advertised
prices. Come here for Fine Silks and Dress Goods.
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DESTROYED
factories heavily damaged. '
Big crowds gathered to watch the
conflagration. They were repeatedly
driven back by the polled, and warned
of the danger of falling walls, but,
despite these warnings, the specta
tors crowded as close to the burn
ings buildings as they could get.
The engines were standing at a
corner near the Krlpndorf factory.
The firemen were . oarrying a hose
past the building, when the walls
swayed and crashed outward. The
spectators, who saw the first sign of
collapse, shouted to the firemen, and
endeavored to crowd back out of, the
way. One boy, however. Was struck
by the falling mass of brick and
torn and crushed to death. .
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.Christmas Olfta Darned. .
Chicago, Deo 21. Christmas
gifts valued at $250,000 were
destroyed today In a wreck on
the Pennsylvania railroad when
a passenger train and a west
bound freight collided in the
yards on the West Side here.
When the trains met the boiler
of the passenger engine explod-
ed, setting fire to a car of reg-
istered mall.
After the fir had been ex-
tlngulshed a police guard was
r thrown about the debris, while 4
laborers shoveled the ashes of
4 the car into cans. Systematic
sifting of the ashes began and
4 diamonds and jewelry were re-
covered.
; The debris fell squarely upon the
firemen, who could not leap out of
danger. It was at first reported that
all of them had been killed. - t
The other companies working at
the fire rushed to the aid of their
comrades, and removed them from
the wreckage. One man was dead
and ten others-were severely Injured.
Some of these, it is believed, cannot
recover. : '
The buildings that burned were In
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- Salem
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Know Storm In Raging.
t Denver, Colo., Dec. 2 1 A
vere snow storm, extending from
Northern Nebraska to Southern
Kansas, and jfrom the middle 4
of Kansas to the Continental dl-
vide, is raging, today. The tel-
ephone and telegraph companies
report considerable wire trouble
and trains are delayed. The
storm, the first of the season,
Is moving eastward.
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Warren S. Stone, Grand Chief I
of the Brotherhood of Loco
rV,LA.w, e.,o Mnut
motive Engineers, Says Next
24 HOUrS Will Decide It.
MANAGERS CALL IT A BLUFF
Advisory ll-ard of the Brotherhood
is Huinmrtttcrt nastily to t.l'', w,.,ILUK oia. raLep. , imjoiotuateiy uiM-xom
Followlnir Stone'. iwlmntlon
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Tliat Action Would Be -Taken
conrerencM nave ueen new Binoe
iHwmiiM' ia, uui j nrre is
No
Agreement In Sight.
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Chicago, Dec. 21; Whether thl
35,500. engineers employed on the
61 Western railroads, now confer
ring with the general managers
here, shall strike will be decldoJ
within the next 24 hours, according
to Warren 8. Stone, grand chief of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive En
gineers. "We will not strike before night,"
Stone said today, "but we will not
tolerate further delay. There must
be short, sharp, decisive action."
Charles P. Nelll, commlRslonor of
labor, who Is now here endeavoring
to arbitrate the questions at Issue,
held a long conference with the
general managers of the lines af
fected this morning. During the
afternoon, he was scheduled to con
fer with Grand Chief Stone. It Is
on the result of this conference thut
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SEATTLE 8THEET CAIIS OPEHAT.
ED ItV INJUNCTION, M AND AM.
VS, WRITS OF LATITAT, SU
PERSEDEAS BONDS, AND DE
BONIS NOW GENERAIXY.
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Seattle, Wash., Dec 214 Patroos
of the Seattle ( Renton A Southern
Una will be able to ride ior five cent
hereafter anywhere within the city
limits, providing they buy commu
tation tlckots in lots of 20 for 11.
This was decided yesterday by
Judge Gilliam after Untuning to ar
guments all day on the injunction
proceedings Instituted by the com
pany to restrain paaueugera from re
fusing to leave the cars upon non
payment of a second nickel at Or
chard Beach, and a third ulckul at
Taylor's Mill.
The restraining order ia not dis
solved, but the court ruld that the
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Denver, Colo,, Dec. 21. The
bodies of eight of the ten mln-
era entombed In the Leyden
Coal mine Wednesday have been
recovered, and, ih a thorough 4
v soarcn or tne mine cas laiiea
to reveal the bodies of Frank
and Lois Merrick, rescuers are 4
4' of the opinion today that the 4
two mea may have escaped Into 4
the north work, and possibly 4
are alive. Searc.i of both works, 4
4 which were a mile from the fire, 4
was started today. The three 4
bodies recovered last night were 4
found In the southwestern 4
workings. The air In the north 4
4 works is reported to be gootf. 4
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! Cr-wfor(1 interests had no right to
lak6 tTom th PP,e Privileges orlg-
inMr njoyed
Webster, sitting in Seattle,
as a visiting judge, decided that the
Seattle, Renton A Southern had no
right to charge more than a nickel
fare within the city limits. The com
pany filed.a supersedeas bond, and.
pending the dectsloa of the supreme
court, it will be allowed to maintain
PaI,y went ,teP further and wlth-
; drew from aale all commutation
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tickets, and obtained a restraining
order whIch complied the guburban-
ties to leave the car promptly upon
refusal to pay the fare declared Ille
gal by Judge Webster.
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KING GKORUB IT IS THOUGHT
W1LI DKCID1C AUAINHT T11K
IiORDH A UWY AnOLTKIfP.-O,
on cnAXGijra mode of cap
ital PUNISHMENT, KIGGKST.
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London, Dec. 21. A secret con
ference today between King George
aud Premier Asqulth xave rise to
tho belief that the king hns decide!
to create a sufficient number of
Liberal peers to outvote the Con
servatives on legislation to deprive
the house of Lord of lt power of
veto.
There was no concealment of tho
fact that the conference was upon
the veto question, but no other In
formation was given out. It is prob
able that there will be no deflnlU
announcement of the king' plan un
til his majesty addresses Parliament
when it convenes. .
Already the politicians are die
cu using the probable legislation o
be enacted by the approaching par
liament. That the seml-publlc exe
cution of Dr. H. H. Crlppen wl'l
have Us influence upon the penal
laws was Intimated today by A. C.
Benson, son of the lute Bishop of
Canterbury, who la preparing a bill
abolishing hangings and substitut
ing death by lethal means.
"If a prisoner in bis cell might be
allowed to swallow poison or ha
done to death by anaesthetic, d.?ath
would at least have some touch of
privacy and decorum," said Benson.
''The awful ceremony . and the dis
gusting apparatus of violent death
seem to me utterly barbarous and
medieval. A man at such a crisis of
bis fate la not a thing to exult over
aud no matter what his crime, tb?
whole proct-edlug bus been sU-basIn
and dKr;'d ng lu lis cl7f t upon tli
public."
ENGLISH
POLITICS
ARE r,llID
OLE m DISASTER
ivnni r ni
Hill I HULL ULilOl I UiUJdUL
COLU OF FLAME SNOOTS
EIGHTY FEET (WE r.lOUTII
OF PIT AFTER THE EXPLOSION
When Flames Subsided, Owing to Gas Being Consumed, 20
Bodies, Horribly Burned, Were Found Just Inside cf Entrance-Interior
of Mine Is a Hell of Fire, and No Attempt
at Rescue Can Be Made Books Show 289 Men Were in
. the Mine, and-There Is No-Hope for Them.
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Manchester, Eng., Dec. 21. Two
hundred and eighty-nine out of 400
miners working In the Little Hulton
company's Pretoria mine, near
Leigh, are believed to have beet
killed in an explosion and Are that
has turned the workings Into a veri
table blast furnace.
Eleven of those below the surface
of the eurth whea, the disaster oc
curred have ' been rescued. - Tho
others were trapped In the mln).
Rescuers have brought out tho
bodies of 20 charred and mangled
Pmn .. Rlni ihe tindlua iL-fiiuc4
close to tne mown ot i-j Tvinuu isn- uuuurcuo v V"'5ii ,
trance, ft Is believed all -he other crowded around the pit mouth by
miners must have TjerUhed. I the time, the Ore began, to subside, :
Among the dead are many boys and the efforts of the rescue party
who were employed as loaders and to enter the workings were hln
helpers. A great number of thejdored. The crowd abou; the sba:t
bodies placed In the. temporary was restrained with the greatest dlf
morgue near the workings eould not ficulty.
be Identified owing to the action of j Wben the, Are In the mini had re
the flames. Nearly all were burned ceded far enough o perml of tin
beyond recognition. One survivor, ' attempt a email .rescue puffy n
badly Injured, who waa taken from tered the shaft. Not far from thl
the mine this afternoon, was unable ', entrance the bodies of 20 menwerd
to account for the explosion. I discovered. They wore lifted out
The explosion was terrific, and It 1 and borne away to an improvise!
is believed that Its foroe snd the morgue to await identification,
lire which burst out almost Imme-1 The rescuers found the mlna
diately afterward have demolished blocked and could penetrate no fur-
the Interior workings. ther. They were forced to retreat.
Leas than five minute? after the A larger rescue party is biilng or
explosion flames were shooting 80 ganlxed and will endetivor'to forci
feet above the main entrance. Tho i's way further into the mine be
only men who escaped were loavlng fore night. The work is very da ti
the mine Just as the accident or,-' gerous, as the fire Ig stilt raging In
curred. 'the workings and It is feared thnt
The flames apparently spread tp further explosions may occur,
all parts of the mine and the he.it The cause of the explosion has
thrown out from the main entrance not been determined. Although the
was so Intense that those who extent of the fire has not been fully
rushed to the rescue when the ox- ascertained. It Is believed that the
plosion occurred were forced back. 'whole Interior of the mine la In
They fell back Just as a burst of flames. Mine officials hope that tho
flumes shot from the entrunce of th men may have escaped to a gallery
shaft. " wifch la not burning and have
Although every effort was made f walled themselves In. This, it ia be-
smother the fire, little could be done lleved. la the only chance that any
and it was many mlnutos before tho one In the mine escnped denth.
riscuers eould again approach tha .
main shaft. After a time the flnmr (Contlaued on Page t. ,
Bishop's Ready Tailored Clothes
fplO.OO to $35.00
juo i our Amas anoppmg j
in a Man's Shop !
Your gentlemen friends will appreciate your gifts if J
purchased at a store that makes a specialty of Men's
Wpnr fiiir Rtnrk Is splfidfid srifidallv for men's needs.
No barsanized articles In our entire stock, We are
showing .complete lines of Bath Robes, House Coats,
Hosiery, Gloves, Neckwear, Suit Cases and all articles
of Men's' Wear,
Salem Woolen Mills Store
LADIES' DETACHABLE UMBRELLAS
hot ninnnor
I ceased pouring out of Its mouth, aaI
the rescuers attempted to enter tba
shaft,' only to find that the Inner
workings were burning fiercely and,
that the terrible beat and th fumes
of deadly' gases prevented any re-,
cue work.
The explosion Jammed' the caei
In the shafts and luterfored with the
ventilating apparatus.
With the first news of the acclr ,
dont friends and relatives of th
men employed In the mine, rushed
to the scene. When the flames
pyured out of thf main shaft many
VtSuMtt- fwlnivd Mid wrre" CnrrTed