The Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 93, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 9, 1904 Page: 1 of 8
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OKLAHOMA. AUGUST 9, 1004.
GUTHRIE
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VOLUME XVL
AMERICA'S GREATEST
RAILROAD DISASTER
100
PASSENGERS DROWN
LIKE RATS IN A TRAP
Rio Grande's World's Fair Flyer Plunges Through Trestle
Near Eden, Colorado, Into Raging Mountain Gorge.
Hundreds Searching for the Dead.
_____ was not known until the locomotive,
SLVENTY-SIX BODIES
ARE NOW RECOVERED
Of This Number Fifty Have
Been Identified-Two Bodies
Found liight Miles From the
Scene of the Disaster
Pueblo, Colo., Aug. 8.—Tho wreck of
the world's fair flyer on tho Denver
and Kio Grande railroad near Eden,
77 miles north of Poebio, proves to
"lave been one of the greatest railroad
fliaasters in the history of this country.
Two crowded passenger cars and a
baggage car were engulfed in ihe tor-
rent that tore out a trestle spanning
Steeles Hollow, otherwise known as
Dry Creek, and, so far as known to-
night.. only three of the occupants
of these cars escaped. Fortunately
t,wo sleeping cars and a diner, complet-
ing tho train, remained on the track,
in tho side of the abyss, and none of
(their occupants were killed or injured.
How many perished will probably
"Sever be definitely ascertained, for the
treacherous sands are drifting over the
•bodies. Searching for the dead was
begun about midnight on an exten-
sive scale and is still in progress to-
night. All corpses found were brought
to Pueblo and placed in four morgues
here. At 8 o'clock this evening seven-
ty-six bodies had been recovered and of
these, fifty have been identified. Dur-
ing the day bodies were recovered all
the way alofig Fountain river from the
*cene of the wreck to this city. At 1
o'clock this afternoon two bodies
were taken from the stream at First
street, Pueblo, more than eight miles
from the point where the disaster oc-
curred and it Is proboble that more
will be recovered even further down
stream. None of the bodies are badly
mutilated and all are in such condi
ion as to be recognizable. Many
identifications have been made by or-
licles found on the bodies, no persons
who viewed them recognizing the
features.
AN OKLAHOMA CITY WOMAN
one of the monsaer type, had nearly
crossed. Fireman Frank Mayfield,
with a large torch that the engineer
and fireman had been using to ascer-
tain the condition of the track, was
in the gangway. When Engineer
Hindman felt the tremor in the great
machine and caught a glimmer of the
water, he shouted his last words:
ENGINEER'S LAST WORDS.
"Put out that torch," evidently
thinking that in the accident he felt
certain was coming, the flames would
serve to spread fire.
But before Mayfield coiuu obey, while
the words were still on the lips of the
doomed man and his hand seeking the
mechanism controlling the air, the
bridge gave way as if it had been
stack of kindling wood and the loco-
motive dropped with the hissing of
steam through thirty feet of Hood to
the bottom of the Arroya, crosswise
to the track.
The baggage car, smoking car and
chair car followed the locomotive Into
the stream and were swept away. All
the occupants of these cars, save three
men, perished, and had not the roof
of the ohair car burst asunder, none
would have escapcd The fireman, as
the locomotive went over, was thrown
out, and managing to grasp a piece of
wreckage from the bridge, floated with
that to a curve made by the caving
bank and crept out of the water. He
ran toward Eden, meeting on the way
Operator F. M. Jones and his wife,
who had already started up the track.
They had seen the headlight of the en
approaching train a minute before and
then had witnessed It disappear with
ominous suddenness.
"Notify Pueblo," came the voice of
the running man. "The train's gone
down and everybody is killed."
CRIES OF VICTIMS CEASE.
Even as he spoke, relates the opera-
tor, there were cries coming from the
distance. The two men ran to where
the bridge had been, to search, but in
vain, for victims of the disaster. When
thpy reached the spot all cries for help
had ceased.
SCENE OF THE DISASTER
Ore of the Saddest Stories of the
Wreck Is Death of Mrs. Gil
bert-Husband Prostrated
1
Pueblo, Colo., Aug. 8.—One of the
saddest stories is that of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Gilbert, of Oklahoma Ciay, who
had been married only two months and
were on their honeymoon trip. Gil-
bert is one of the three men who mar-
velously escaped from the chair car.
His wife, who was sitting beside him,
was lost, and although he is uuscathed,
her death has made him a nervous
wreck. He is now in the Pueblo hos-
pital. He has been wire chief of the
Western Union Telegraph company at
Oklahoma City.
SNUFFS OUT 100 LIVES
TAMMANY'S REAL CHOICE
widely separated points, some of them
i miles from the scene of the accident.
The first corpses recovered were those
of Miss Irene Wright and little Doro-
thy Johnson the sister-in-law and
daughter respectively of Harry John-
I son of Pueblo. An unknown woman
' lay beside them. Engineer Hindman
was found with his watch still run-
ning. a few feet farther down the
stream.
Since the sun rose merrily over the
drenched land, stretchers with sand
covered, dripping burdens have been
carried every few minutes to the
railroad tracks where the death train
awaits them. While it was still dark
axes had been used on the half buried
urs at the junction of the creek with
the Fountain, ami at daylight this
work was resumed on the smoking
car which lay out in the Fountain
where men were compelled to wade
almost to their waists to reach it. A
few moments' search revealed the
wounded head of a young man in his
shirt sleeves. He evidently had re-
moved his coat when the piunge came.
A second party farther down the riv-
found several passengers entangled
in a mass of debris, thought to have
been part of the baggage car, which
was literally torn to pieces, In a short
time a large number of bodies were
dug out o£ the sand here. One woman
was completely buried, saVe one foot
which stuck out of the water.
BODIES ALMOST NAKED.
Many of the bodies were almost
naked, the clothing having been torn
completely off. Most of them were
slightly bruised, probably from the
first shock of the wreck, but there was
little blood visible when they were
removed from the stream. The hands
and faces were blue and translucent.
An almost general thing with the
corpses was that the hands were raised
when they were laid on their backs,
but all appeared in good condition.
Without doubt /he great majority were
caught like rats in a trap when the
cars were plunged, without a moment's
warning, into the whirling water, 35
feet deep, 100 feet wide and with a cur-
rent strong enough to carry thousands
of pounds of weight nearly a mile
before subsiding.
Turkey Wants No Naval
Demonstration
MINISTERJffi HAY
The American Warships Wi 1
Back Up Ultimatum
DEMANDS ARE POINTED
Leishman Says Time Is Up and
Turkey Must Give Answer
at Once-Admiral Jewell
Ordered to Turkish
Waters With Fleet
IDENTIFYING THE DEAD
Work Is Slow as Victims Are
Strangers-Two Thousand
People Arrive
Washington, D. C., Auk. 8.—ChoUtb
Bey. the Turkish minister, called on
Secretary of Foreign Affairs Hay to-
day and had a lengthy intepriew on
the Turkish-Armenian complications.
He did not care to make any state-
ment himself as to the nature of his
intervi<^v with Secretary Hay. There
appeared to be an Impression in tho
mind of the Turkish statesman that
because the president of tho United
States could not make war without the
consent of congress, he thereby was
stopped from indulging in a naval
demonstration to forward his purpose
to secure fair'treatment lor the Ameri-
cans in Turkey.
\vhen Chekib Bey left the state de-
partment he evidently was in a state
of concern over what, l.e had heard.
The minister was unwilling to discuss
the dispatch which he expects to send
to his government.
FOR TURKISH WATERS
Admiral Jewell Ordered to Smyr-
nia With European Fleet.
Mo More Delays
Report That Stoessel Has
Committed Suicide
TEN THOUSAND SICK
Firing of Heavy Guns Dis-
tinctly Heard at Che Foo
RUMOR OF FORTRESS FALL
St. Petersburg Filled With Wild-
est Reports—Shanghai Dis-
patch Says Russians Arc
Negotiating for the
Removal of Sick
London. Ant; 0. According to the enr-
respondmit of the Morning oPst at Bhang-
hal. It I* reported there that there are
10,000 sick and wounded person:. at Port
Arthur and that the Russians are negoti-
ating with the Japanese to send the
hospital ship Mongolia away full of sick.
iliur. I
at I'ti
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that
hur.
id or-In-chief ot
Manchuria, hits
ttaclc
WILL TAKE FOUR WfcEKS
Charles W. Goodyear Is said to be worth $^0,000,000. He is a railroad
owner, a coal mine operator and a small sized lumber king. He is very
popular in Erie county and Grover Cleveland has publicly announced his
pleasure at the announcement of Mr. Goodyoar's randidocy for the gov-
ernorship of New York.
.
Two Carloads of Human Freight
Plunged Through ihe Trestle
Into the Raging Torrent
Pueblo, Colo., Aug. 8.—Two car-
loads of human freight plunged into
the raging torrent that destroyed the
trestle over the usually dry Arroya
known as Steeles Hollow, near Eden,
about 8 o'clock last evening. Two
sleeping cars and the diner stopped at
the brink of the hungry chasm filled
with a boiling, seething current that
quickly snuffed out probably 100 lives.
So quietly had the catastrophe been
enacted that the occupants of the throe
cars remaining on the track did not
know ahat an accident had occurred
unn they alighted from the train and
they were utterly powerless to rend'
any assistance to the victims who had
disappeared in the rushing waters.
On the look out for danger, warned
by the squally clouds and heavy rains
to the north, Engineer Chas. Hind-
mon was running cautiously about 15
miles an hour as he approached the
Arroya. The condition of the bridge
DOCTORS AND WORKMEN RUSHED
TO RELIEF.
Pueblo, Colo., Aug. 8.—Relief trains
with physicians, wreck and pile driv
ing outfits and scores of workmen were
hurried from the city. The first train
from the wreck came in shortly after
midnight with J. M. Killln, of Ihieblo,
whose escape was miraculous, H. S.
Gilbert, Tony Fisher and Fireman
Aiayfleld. These were the four men in
the midst of the wreck who escaped.
THE WONDKR GREW.
When dawn came the wonder grew
that four had been permitted
emerge from the raging torrent with
breath still in their bodies. The end of
the Pullman Ashmere extended four
feet over the brink, while broken tim-
bers and twisted rails hung still fur-
ther over. The Arroya had been wid-
ened to over a hundred feet at the
point where the bridge had been. The
water tore a zig zag course across the
precipice to a depth of 3ft feet, in sev-
eral places. There was but little left
of the baggage car—a lew rods, a truck
or so. dimly seen in the muddy water,
a half buried iron safe.
A SCENE TO HORRIFY.
A quarter of a mile to the oast, over
this gorge of death, debouched into
the Fountain river, lay the chair car.
windows gone, three-fourths filled
with mud and wind. A hundred feet
farther on was the smoker, bottom up
against a sand bar. A hundred and
fifty feet farther in the bad of the
Fountain river, was the coal tender of
the engine, and fro mthat point on,
for four or five miles, vestiges of the
coaohes, the engine and tender stuck
up fr?im the bed of the. stream or
lay along the shore or on the islands.
Red plush seats of the smoker were
strewn all along the stream. Brass
rails from the coaches were found in
the sand half a mile from the site of
the bridge, and pieces of the bridge
stuck out of the river in several places.
Several pieces of clothing, skirts and
women's hats were found in the brush
along the shore and the searchers
scanned the foliage for bodies. Masses
of earth had caved in from the high
sides of the river at many places, and
searchers passed these with the fear
that bodies were burled under them
which they were helpless to reach.
FTRST CORPSES FOUND.
Five hundred men scanned every
inch of the river and its surroundings
a lew hours after daylight. They wad-
ed in the stream and carried out mud-
begrimed bodies which were found at
Peoplo were constantly arriving and
anxiously biQulrlng for lost ones known
to have been on the train. By nine o'clock
this morning the plains were dotted with
vehicles, each with its load of anxious
seekers or the morbidly curious. More
than a thousand people wepe on the scene
two hours before noon and the roads In
every direction were filled with streams
of others coming away.
Bodies recovered were identified very
slowly because many of them were those
of strangers here, who had been to the
fair at St. Loui* and other eastern points.
Major F. H. Whitman of Kansas was
identified by a watch presented to him
by the members <if the Twentieth Kansas
volunteers In which his name wag en-
graved.
ARROYA NOW A TINY STREAM
The Fountain river still rushes with the
impetus of the flood, and the Arroya has
a clear, tiny stream trickling along where
the fatal mass of water rushed a few
hours before. The earth on either side
is swept cl^an by the flood.
Peculiar Pathos attaches to tho death
of Miss Stella McDonald of Pu «blo and
Dr. James R. MctJregor of Ballard. Well-
ington. who were drowned together. /Their
engagement was quietly ann>
ceA lai
.. .iek to tho friends of MIsk McDonald
and the wedding whs planned for the near
future. Miss McDonald had been con-
nected with the Puehlo school for several
years and had been the principal of the
Central high school one year.
"MY GOD, SO TERRIBLE!"
Dazed and Almost Insane, Fire-
man Mayfield Tells of Wreck
and Narrow Escape
Pueblo, Colo., Aug. 8.-=-Flreman May-
field arrived here at an early hour this
morning and is the first person to |)v«
any details of the awful wreck. He Is
dazed and almost Insane because of the
awful ordeal he passed through, yet
each little Incident is fixed so firmly In
his mind that he will remember them
until his dying day.
"It all happened so quickly—and, my
God, It Is so terrible," he said. "It had
been raining all evening and we had a
hard time to keep the steam up in.or-
der to run on schedule time."
"A little while before we reached the
bridge that crossed Dry Creek I turned
to Charley Hinman, the engineer, and
said to him:
"Charley Is there enough steam to
carry us to Pueblo?" Charley said 'no'
and 1 began firing up.
DAZED BY THE SHOCK.
"Just as I was putting in the seeond
shovel full of coal the engine gave a
sudden .lurch upward. I lost my bal-
ance and was thrown from the train on
the bank of the creek. I must have
struck partly on my head, as I was
Washington, D. C., August 8.—The
orders sending the European squad-
ron to Turkish waters were cabled to
Rear Admiral Jewell, commander of
the squadron, at Nice. His ships are
the Olympia, Baltimore and Cleveland,
it is understood that he will proceed
to the eastern Mediterranean some-
where near the Black sea.
The destination of the fleet is Smyr-
na. This place was selected because
it afforded direct cable communications
with Washington, ami is only about
300 miles distant from Constantinople.
The trip probably will be made in three
days, and when he arrives there Ad-
miral Jewell will put himself in com-
munication with Minister Irishman
and also report to Washington.
The order to Rear Admiral Jewell is
in pursuance of the administration's
policy in brooking no further unreas-
onable delay by tho Turkish govern-
ment in granting long-delayed rights
to secure, and that further conference
in that country.
It has been but a short since a
It has been but a short time since a
squadron ot battleships, re-enforcing
the cruisers under Admiral Jewell's
command, was dispatched to Turkish
waters, preliminary to a renewal of
negotations by Minlster*Leishman.
A few days ago the state department
was advised by the minister that he
had been accorded an interview by
the sultan, the first he had been able
to secure, and that further congeronce
had been appointed.
The tone of the i v-legram was re-
garded as so sufficiently reassuring
that it was deemed proper to with-
draw the fleet of warships, and an or-
der to that end was cabled.
Hardly had It been fairly carried In-
to effect when Minister'Leishman ca-
bled that the sultan had failed to keep
his appointment and implied promis-
of compliance with*onr demands, hence
the renewal of naval pressure.
accorded to other powers would be
given August 2.
The giving of the answer was then
postponed to August 4, but up to the
present time no answer has been re-
ceived. The porte recognized the de-
mand in principle, but thus far has
failed to execute the necessary meas-
ures and the American legation has
now sent a communication to the porte
pointedly demanding a speedy and fi-
nal settlement, the issuance of the nec-
essary orders and the official ac-
knowledgment by Turkey of the Amer-
ican demands. There are no momen-
tary claims.
+ WEATHER. «
♦ ♦
O Washington. Aug. 8—Forecast: &
+ Oklahoma and Indian Territory— *
Fair Tuesday and Mcdnesday. 4
<> Kansas—Showers Tuesday and +
* Wednesday. e
«♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦*
which Wits heard last ni
8.80 o'clock this mornlni
left l'ort Arthur Axiku-;
there had been III. Il
rumors
tha
Pr
bos been made nec<
t the meat trust has
iek from the west to
' saghter the
NO MORE ICE
TO BUTCHERS
Strikers' New Order Affects
200 Markets
MEW YORK IS INVOLVED
Four Thousand Men Will Walk
Out This Morning If De-
cision of the Advisory
Board Is Effective
Chicago, Aug. 8.—Orders were Issued
tlday to ^rivers of ice wagons to deliver
no more ice'to butctoors who buy of the'
big packers or to any of the branch'
houses of tlie packing plants where the
men are now on strike.
Pickets win be stationed at tha -■ 0 re-
tall markets that have been placed und'-r
the ban <>f the unions to report at the
.stuck yards station tomorrow morning to
protecting a train
Is
eted to
•rlv<
id to include
ed skilled 1
with ?UC
between
workmen.
TURK IS FRIGHTENED
American Ultimatum and Dis-
patch of Fleet Will Hasten
Settlement
(Continued on page two.)
Constantinople, Aug. 8.—Tho an-
nouncement of the dispatch of the
American European squadron'to Smyr-
na has perturbed the porte and will_
doubtiest hasten the solution of tha'
question at issue between the United
States and Turkey in a manner satis-
factory to the former
The porte promised American Min-
ister Irishman that a reply favorable I niori
to the American demand for the same j •
treatment in the matter of Schools, I
hospitals and charitable institutions is houi
WATCHMAN ASSAULTED
I ILK (il'ARDINO <;iRIi STRIKERS
ATI ACK THEM.
ansas City, SwMt & <*o. to the street
* tonight. Chas. Smith, a watchmn
t assauultfd by a gang of strikers and
lously hurt. The gula bud ni;uie an
Her effort to leave the plant but wret
, en back by union girls.
Returning at S. Joe.
t. Joseph, Aug. 8. -Two hnudred c*v
Nrw York to Join Strike.
°r " Uir" ed M ' H
Worker*' Union •>( North Ani
meeting tonight decided to order
. |„ N. w York and vmeity, be
• mi.) and 4.000 men Wit bo eslb-
llauhtering will stop tomorrow
and twenty-four hours will b
i cleaning up so as to leave tb
.4 it good condition.
ieelsion was reached after a fiv
session of the advlatory board
BETTER THAN
DOELAR WHEAT
September Deliveries Reach
$1.01 1-8 at Chicago
SENSATIONAL ADVANCE
Gain of 13 Cents in Eight Days
Rust Reports 'the Cause-A
A Furious Demand From
Both Bulls and Bears
the reperts l
mother assault In whlcl
i taken by the combined
es. through the Japatx
•ship, Including the prot
M«hi and Itsnkushlma.
slightest confirmation
It 1b believed that
till unable to captn
•ks, much less the fortrr
i its*
Chicago, Aug. 8.—Wheat scored
sensational advance today under a fu- I
rkma demand from bulls and bears
alike. For September delivery, the )
principal trading option, there was a j
bulge of 3 7-8, but this was outstfipped 1
by the figures for other months, De- !
cerarber and May each scoring on ad- I
vance of 4 1-4 on top of an almost un- i
precedented gain of nine cents a hush-
el during the preceding week. On re- i
ports that the spring wbeu-t. crop in
the northwest is being largely de- j
stroyed by black rust, every trader I
seemingly who was short became Iran- |
tie to cover his trades. September 1
started at 97 1-2. touched 101 1-8 and j
closed at only 1-8 under thq top fig-
ures. May opened 98 a 99, sold at 102 !
and closed at 101 7-8.
ARSEINEL BURNS -J
ARSENAL AAIN BURNS
NIXKTKKN (' AS!' A 1, FIB0 RESULT j
t IF FRENCH F1RK. * t
Toulon, France! August Th~ — - '
senal fire broke out afresh this
Firing of Heavy Guns.
F<M . Au* III !>• 111 1
.f |ihi;\ v guns, iit fntervals of one nilntite,
ius been distinctly heard in tho direction
>f Port Arthur sinco 10:80, p. m , the ac-
..mi-uIo conditions of the atmosphere br->
ng unususally favorable.
REVIVAL OF OUTLAWRY
In Manchuria War Is Vaguest
Rumor, Beside Fear of
I.. Blackmailing Chunchuses j
London. Aug. K.-Tlio spcclal Mr-
respondent.'of ili.> Dally Tel«r«[>h Wttk
the Biwulan ton* ), writes from Muk-
den: It has been a matter ol astonish-
ment to find in certain villages, per-
haps not more than ten miles from
Mukden itafclf. that tho\ war waa a
thing of the vaguest rumor, and that
the one terror of tho inhabitants
the hated, blackmailing Chunchuse.
For the in the brigand ^as the great
cloud on I heir horizon, and the cry
that he-was near creat'd, as always,
a veritable panic. Thieves abound.
They all go under the general term of
luses, and, indeed, moro and
riminai coi
ed. The real rept
bandits are, ho
found by the Brc
is borne. The pay me
oils to the bands In parth
secures for junks passing
stream the right to carry
•h gives immunity from i
es of then
ainly t b<
ntry
hi
Of tht
at the h
was serl
•ned to tb
torpedo
li might bf* tbonM
junks, proceeding toj
cort, would l «* able
it that might be
and so they would, v
fear shown by the si
beards." It has been
of late that it is o
the robbers to fire
r once to run ins
' j ly mulcted at le
I dues. One or ti
a j to be quite buffl
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