The Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 127, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 20, 1906 Page: 1 of 8
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I
famua
NUMBER 127.
THURSDAY MORNING
SEPTEMBER 20, 1906
UTHRIE, OKLAHOMA,
THURSDAY MORNING;
VOLUME XVIII
TWENTY YET UNACCOUNTED FOR
IN BIG ROCK ISLAND WRECK
TO RELIEVE THE DIXIE
TWO SO FAR KNOWN DEAD WHILE
REPORTS SWELL THE FATAL
I of an ox pi
I taking a s1
•as train as the latter was
\ J
1
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LIST|cIMMARO'N RIVtK
on RAMPAGE
American Commander at Santo
I Domingo Anticipates Trouble
Washington, Sept. 19.-Secretary
Bonaparte hns decided to seadeaii-|
other naval vessel at otft-e to relieve!
the Dixie at Clfenfuegoa. This is In J
answer to Conunander 8c.utherland s
apiteal from Santo Domngo to have
his hoot mailt lined at Its fu41 strength
in view of the grc.wng revolutonary
lirout|M H h (ire.
THAW STILL OBSTINATE
Bodies of Victims May Never '
Be Recovered—Smoker Out of-
Sight in the Swirling Water.
A special to the State Capital late last night from' Kingfisher
Bays that the Commaron River at 'the bridge south of Dover, where
tl.e Rock Island passenger train plunged into the stream Tuesday
morning, had fallen eight feet belqw-the high water mark. Tlie
submerged smoker is still six or ::even feet below the surface. At
the present rate of the river's fall it will be twenty-four hours, be-
fore the party of rescuers can get' to the coach, in which it is be
Jieved there are several bodies.
One man, according to reports, was fished out of the river at a
point eight miles from the bridge yesterday afternoon. He hadj«>>
been in the water nine hours and was nearly dead. None of the "'1'
other missing Victims has been heard from
tlie bridge, where It is still under water.
The stream is about 800 feet 'Wide. _ _
•I„ the ,L> ouch nb,,u. I washes Away One Bridge-Dam
fifty people many being women and i
children. Hud it followed the. smoker I
half of tlie people in this car would have
been drowned. Instead its the moment-
um wax I* <s it. carried mote by the
current and described a semi-circle
sloping near the south bank of the river.
ages Another—Ruins Crops-
Overflows Lowlands—Inestim-
able Damage Done
Fefnses to be Examined by Depu-
tation of Alienists
New York. Kept. 1#.—Harry Tliaw
refused tu undorgo an examination l>y
three iilteniats irjinei-ted with uRuto
Institutions whom Ills eotmwel took to
the Tombs "today for t hiU purpose
THOUSANDS DIE
IN A TYPHOON
Mai
drowned
icople
"The
remah.e
yan
drift wot
and tlie
in the ca
en taken out
nber receive,
lass and bru
Pullmans ,11
i the track '<
irwm
about
n mi leg
the fl<K
C mar*
wn was
Tuesday I
LABOR IS "GIRDING UP"
Cimarron Bridge, via lngflslier, ok.,
iBept. 19^-JContrary to yesterday's reports
jt developed today that twenty persons
•who were known to ha*«j occupied the
smoker §on the north bound Rock Island
train that went Into the Cimarron river
near Dover yesterday morning was un-
accounted for. Kfforta are being made
to locate the smoker which Is at a. point
310 yards below the sRe of the bridge
^ strong eddy l« believed to make the
spot where the smoker sank. The water
has fallen five feet from the high water
tnnrk of yesterday, but neither the en-
gine. baggage nor the smoker ran be
#een.
When rhe train went off the bridge the
tiagagn car. smoker and day coach broke
loose and toppling oft the wrecked bif*lR
pwung down stream. Immediately the
baggage car aank. The amoker half
floated with one end above water, the
couplings between It and the day coat.
>>roke and submerged. Jt was carried
down tho river for a distance trf over lg«
yards. None of the persons who escaped
saw any one leave the smoker except
four persons who stood ©n the roof of
tnat car when it was struck by a por-
tion of the wrecked bridge. They were
knocked Into the water and rescued fin-
plfy several miles down the river, dinn-
ing to debris.
. Two Are Known Dead
An additional death was added to the
list of known vlstims which numbered
one today when tho three-year-old son of
Mrs. ate Sells of Payne, Ohio died of
strangulation, caused by Inhaling sand
person** have been tato
1 in the stream below t
death list Is not expect i
I four unless, as claimed b\
> escaped from the smoker,
^ers are under-estimating t
in that car. People who
the snvjtter have been aceoui
evident ill day wh:,.e the w* te'
ni.'-buki.t state tha the bridge
onst ructsd i tartly of steel, could
wihstand the rush of water and
Ing portions im
found lodged
the "Long bridi
■ long i
idge
the river. Persons with whom he was
talking are missing. Mr. Nicholson es-
caped from the rear door of smoker.
It filled with water as he clambered to
the unturned end and broke a vestibule
floor gla.- to make an exit. ICscape of
persons known to be riding In tlie front
end of '.ho smoker separated from the
rear door by a partition, Is thought to
have been an impossibility
P.o t,iI Clerk Missing .
Postal Clerk Gainel. of Fort Worth.
Texas. Is known to be among the miss-
ing. lie was in the front end of the mail
car which was demolished. Conductor
Thomas, in charge of the wrecked train,
is positive that nine passengers at least
ocupied seats in tho smoker. Conductor
Thomas, who took part in the rescue
work, is of the oplniorf th.it three per-
son msfde their esea| e from he s-noker.
It Is doubtful whether the engine, ten-
dor. baggage car and smoker can be
lifted, even aftor the water recedes to
normal. All are 100 feet or more from
the bank and it will be difficult. If not
Impossible, to build a foundation for
hoisting machinery.
The engine was of the heavy type
Rock Island officials cannot estimate at
this time the value of the property and
money In the baggage ear.
Enid Woman Fatally Hurt
Robinson, of Esld, Oklahoma, one
of the seriously Injured cannot recover
IT. Idttlefleld. the circus advanve agent
oh was killed, is from Pittsburg Pi.
TWO Of WRECK
victims. may dif
Searchers Spread Out Over Big
territory—River Falling Rap-
idly—Bodies Reported to Have
Been Seen in River
and
The destroyed bridge w
girded a.*-" on of t^e m
Tho D. E. and C5. brkls-
aged. Ralls are* torn an
finite a .distance and off
that t.would take a week
pair i if damage and pe
ti t: the bridge. Arraneemen
Ti ade W'heiebv al business
read i- transi'ered across f
It is impossible to estimate
I Gompers Given Power to Spend
Money in Organizing
"Washington. Sept. 1:«.—At todays
mining of the executive coum il of
| the American Federation <• La-nor.
the Corwln! president Gompers was authorled i<>
ggtnst what | appoint organizers to the fullest ex-
Just north twn the funds will permit. He was
<e was not:- also instructed tot urge aillliated na-
scene direct-I tlonal ordeis to the Baltic course of a<-
n-ls In order tion. Mr. Vioinpers said the action
ji be damag- j was taken to strengthen the < niae of
I labor, a rid when asked if It was lu th
i always re- i interest of the present political iwr-
t substantial | tlvlty, replied It is In the general ln-
i badly dam- terest^of the organisation. «
twisted for
TO SEND RELIEF SHIP I v
•
Government Will Aid Stranded
Passengers of Steamer Mongolia •
Washington, Sept. 19. -The plight •'j 1
the five hundred passengers « t th
pai-ittc mail steamship Mongolia, thatj*
recently went aslv.e near Midway
island was made known to govern- '
riM-iit oftVclnhs here today, through , j
cablegram received by the manager ml
thlM .-It, f th. Coinniert iiil e..W- •
.•..inp.'i.y The nec.«sst> ' •
nieJinte sending '• -upplie ■ • I
apparent and the question was rai>c
f It would be in contravention ot Hi
coastw^e navlgatftin laws to ml
relief ship u rider foreign regiate
The matter was brought up to tho it
tentkwi of the d^partroattj "f •n,r
nierx e und laleu. a:ol In tittii
ury department officials were - onsult-l
...1 and the ti. jsioit reach<"l H "
would be no ot tlOij to sending the!
foreign built cahleshlp Resiotct. tio«
at Honlulu,*to Midway at .-t . < art % I
lng needful provisi.-ns, stipnlt.s and!
wren-king apparatus t\< tho relief of
the Mtjngola pusscin;. t># .
There are ordinarily l.-^^han forty
people nil Midway Island ami the iu-j
, fKoow.
inv«j>t th
• uf vess
stwying i
i nning mu
iwtd predicted inoder
notir after the gun t
- « hmated at v
■h. Unrer one thou
jxmks are mtacii
•pt awc.y ;und
it.ary bsrracJin
I Atn>'t'Uaii
I drl\ en
I,linn tlait
Ap
M'Mttt agle, V:tlS.Mi:tn,
Wing fhai, Herman^., t « -
khlng Emnw. Luyken, S.m
I 'ah ttmg, Petra roll.
,011. (Mtaitgsha, Blgnsl
i arts tctdiore. Tha
. Hitchcock waa also
were ntanx of tha
i.. ut elio harbor. Th#
ow, Ban rhewnf,
noon were sunk. IMie
aud Johanna# are
Orlt sh rwt rvo eloop
il! gunboat, the
HU i
hip
cdo
Mo
Hobi'i
nit
l,ed I
t 1
flo
those who
1 oame i'".
Ok .
scene of the Rock Island
Cimarron river the known d<
td two. While a number oi
are still missing It is believed ti
will be heard from during t lie ti
of the sixteen known Injured
•archers with torches wc
i j"dg
ma
T«o j
die, I
ked all i
victims j
bmarged
tidal wave sweep
wjn with frre«Mi
It must have pas?
n the afternoon.
The flood did ^onsldo
telephone material. Wn
poles washed away.
Portions '>f Die wr<v
PRESIDENT OPENS
1 he big pasture
Proclamation Issued Yesterday—
Date For Reception of Sealed
Bids to be Announced Later by
Department
flux < f five hundr
tlcii would mean
Immediate relief
■tl til lltlonal popuiu -
of tho
pany, t
Th# t
non, ha
irt. Lav
i housanus Beliavad Ooad
idared
Oyster
.ige to j toda.s Iss
vu a if I K low it 1
it. 19 -The -premdent
liamatlon opening th«
newt I her
twenty ml
t. 1 p«ar town,
of Travelers
Islnnd
appear
ii will cxper-
for the next
out for
aiti
lid
« n. E. Otln, general manager of the
Rock Island railroad who reached here
last night by special train, Is giving his
personal attention to the acarch for bod
ies. Mr. <?aln said teday that he wa:
confident that, the loss of life was my
than was reported, but h# Is tillable ,l'"
to give an estimate as even at this
hour little definite Information is known
at Dover.
Men have crossed the river In skiffs
this morning and began a thorough plunged
search of the cars In sight. "No report M
has been received here of tho finding
any wher of bodies.
Wrckeage Is Examined.
Piles of wreckage In the Cimarron river
at points one and two miles below tho
Scene of tho wrcok wnro examined by
mm in boats today. An offort was made
to find tho twenty peraona who trie be-
lieved to have been in the amoker and
are still mlslwig. With long prods the
debris consisting of splintered boards,
furniture from coaches, and baggage, was
disturbed but not e body was found.
When the train.took the bridge which
had been undermined the piling and rails
that held It In place, ^snapped and tha
train, as fie pit na two Pahnaaa in tlie
was precipha*«d Into ^ha "twenty-Ave
feet of erater. *
Grewiomo Find Reported.
It was reported here today by telephone
that bodies of five men wrcre taken out
ef the river ten miles aoutheast
*cene of tho wreck early today.
telephone report from down tho river
said a passenger had escaped from the
wreck en the debris was lodged in «th«
middle of itic river and that It had bee,
In pots tble to. rescue him owing to tu
swtft rarrent.
May Never Recover Bodies
Bodies of pasengorg who were burled
In the sinking smoker will protoabh nev
er be rescued. For a short tltue follow
ln§ the wseck a small pottion of ike
smoker was visible It sank slowly
, <jidckaaad. Although th« water had
fallen five feet at noon today, the smoke:
could not bo touchsd with tenefoot poles.
Waves heavy wkh sand lash continually
c ver tho spot where lbs smoker is be
lb ved to contain missing bodies i*
thought to lie. ,
Lunch baskets filed with water soak-
ed lunches, clothing, focarts. and a purse
containing llBfi were taken ^from the
Kingfisher sida of the river today.
AearehinC parties with btwus searched
the bank of the river for bodies to points
pevrral miles below the scene of the
I wreck.
r P. hi. Nicholson one of Itmse thai •
I esp 4 fi«>ni "Jo wnTt.M s.Ti.l •. i.. that
j he knew at least ton perosn- w. r« ml
' lag in the iat' wflcu th« irgin w*ut. lata
On account of the smallness
death list, the plunging of the 1
land passenger train into bwo11<
arron river near Dover yesterc
go down in railroad history as t
freakish wreck in the histoi , of
known that H'\eral of 111■ •>• • "
ed from the wreckage had dri
with current, some o£, them hi
seen as far a? fifteen miles dl
er. From one point, hodle:
ed as Boating by but thl
tiger non-committal,
•o'deel is not sore
depart-
announce tne date for the
I r<w.*pth>n of sealed bids under wb.eli tlie
... lofM if Und uie 'to .l-o. «j •-I"' •• d
i of to homesteaders.
| THE LABEL IMPORTAKT .
I Regulations For Pure Food Law
eta and Re- 1 nu"
a plain Met - j '"'bed.
in board, j shore,
om Hon-
All these vessels arc ogpocted
i<l lu pulling the Mongolia from
reef on which she struck.
and the
latter w
wrecking tackle
cxpet ti d there
the i olioe s
am i otiiided
Konk boatmeh I
i McClellan Professes Satisfaction
Over Results of New York Pn
maries—May Mean Hearst For
Governor
Are Discussed
New York. Sept. 19.—At to
slon of the special commissi^
and regulations for the en
of the pure ftMwJ and drug
mlssloner James 1. Geary rea
tative reglilatlyns prepared
commission' regarding the u
CALLS MUTUAL-BLUFF
Frisco Man Tells Parker Change
Of Administration is Needed J
rt'in Francisco, Sept. 19.—Wheal
James D. Phelan learned today that
the officers of the Mutual Life Insur-
ance company had filed a ticket, us-
ii,g his naiin t one of tin*1 mdldat' |
for trustee the having been previciu>-l\I
u.'tltie.l ..ti behalf <>r Hie lBternatlon.il
noiii vhohlers' committee) he ltnme-1
i.fll l
}w no mu
i in Uvea and property
tatlona in Hong Kong
by Chinese Identifying
fainilie.H of tne ilong
•e night .Mid der-<Ht thw
it sands ot these fiaopla
ke tho disaster calmly
i>lTestations of grief,
t was oapsised had 130
They were all drown-
er False ban drifted '"t t
e BVencfl mall teanior.
e crew climbed aboard
uner and left Captain
of the
Murphy will be
1"" 1 ontrol of
of
which took outs three spans of
was also the means of savin
of over a half hundred pn <■.
sweeping away so rapidly t
finding of sup-
the stream, that they
Agent Jones of the Rock Island at
Ingt'fV . v\!i h is four mile* from tin
ene of the wreck said this morning
at according to the conduetor's check
ily three persons are mlr-lng and one
i son dead , HARMON SBJI^LS, a bab-
'Hie mlsiug are:
W. L. Douglas, negro porte
Worth, yex. •
Mfcll Clerk Oamble.
Hank l.lttlefl«ld, bill porter ,<
pangfi-Sella circus.
The wre<king crew Is at tij
traffic tied up
BY WASH OUTS
label
' The
princiiial I
I'hialiah. w
lube! in
uianufacturi
tion shall «
t)ie packagi
substance.
that
'egulatlons pro\
label shall be printed In | '
with <r without u foreign ho
addition. The * substance.
and
•d. If
id
fore
•dell
id
ake
rrled of ^
Odell In New
tom him the
mmittoe of which
i chairman.
Tammany
FY
designated on the label, i
branding, it was also annoi
the law would no* go Into el
case where the libels arw
hand until July 1. 1 «7
Objections were made tn
Ihe proposed regulations
sentatives oi the drug trade
present.
dispatched
> Alt tin lt„ I'a
Th
ff«
owing in
New > <
k, j
Bishop Among the Misainq
p of VW pr> II-
■ti by
the the tactics sniplo
In 1 l«ife In this matter, as ind
I the disgnu ful oxpoauiws
of I should be sultlicieirt to <
,, I u rholdets of the neeii for j
ere) administration.
"(Signed) James 1)
name ■
I I ho
Mutu
i'ha i
making m.
n^ii
cmpc
still
driving piling, hut
to recover tho eoachea as
wider water. Excepting
ail Clerk flsmblo. Jt Ig
111 be found in t
its 1hnd the day i
re antklpatlng a
,e smoker ft . titer
idi?ig and If It g
tj v Iw entered snd b'l.i - \\ i> ■ safe on
the river, the smoking car will bt exam-
ined today.
erday the eonductfi A. I. Thomas
claimed there wore but nil - persons ki
the soioknr. Sheriff l<ove of Kingfisher
county and Athera In the car w/ui escap-
ed claim tin*re w«?re twtnty-flvr Ten.
who wow in the smoker have already
been scounted for, and it Is firmly bo-
Mved at Kingfisher that \l least fifteen
bodies of persons drowned like ratf In
a trap will be reeovarod with the muok-
er.
Agent Jones gives the firs', clear story
of the wreck as follows
"North bound Rock Island trakl No.
1! frots Texas, reachod the Cimarron
at 8 W a in.. Bnytnser Clnadr lies and
IF'ireman rttinon Bryan, both of I'hlckasba
I. T , seaing three st>aiis of the bridge
were gorte Jumped, after the cnglin •
had turned on 'Im air brakes. T' e en-
gine and tetidtfr dlsap#esri"d and hate
not been sesn since 'Vha momentum of
tb«* train and tlie swlTttw*ss of tbe cur-
rant was auoh that the «ara dSl not pile
np but sl « t off downstream when Uim1
hit t4*e w*t*rw rh??s averting a t -irlbe
disaster. The iiimU and bagged cars
soon budged The smoking oar from
which t«oi peratina miraculously escsped,
made for the middle of tin stream more
giaUuully aud lodged about *ot> ictlnfroiu
Bridges in Western Woods and
Woodward Counties Nearly all
Out—Santa Fc and Rock Island
Suffer Heavily
leader, was i>1
the result of y
d it'll ted the I
j Hearst on the
go\ ern« |-.
not be
bound
yesterday ,
'e bridge
Not Committed
Murphy, Tammany's
<1 today If he thought
terday's primaries In-
in i nation of W. R
democratic ticket for
iv, ' he said, "Tammany
o mm it ted to any candl-
sald lie thought the
Id* prevail at tin Buffalo
i ure still In il
ee Onondaga
rat. but State 1
Ici-iaifs Joroine has •
i . .<4 imv two disti |S| -
Tammany Hall will «•<
Ion of Percivil Nagle
upporter, as democrc
Thirtieth assembly c
LUMBERMEN COMPLAIN ! GOVERNMENT 8 HOUR DAV
Western Shippers Say Railroads law Officially Extended to Con j
Refuse Proper Facilities tracts by President
licit ish orituwr 'iVwribli
.-•. u> uftarnoim anl i
artler up to tlio iiastMir.
atthew NaGhan. governor <
audi the auilus-tttes art
p . Mibla t« u •,
4 o■ fr«jfcti ti:.amor awe
Chkcago, Sept. 19 Varhwi:
nd western railroads, throi
•girf representatives, matle.
bjQ<4ions today before the
ommerce commission to tii■
a4.lon of testimony by th
'oast Lumber ManotatHur^
tation In its ■petition u«nn
- eastern
Igll Uielf
strenuous
Interstate
presen-
P«
weiity-flve
' Xlie iurrtbei
yatar Bay sl-'pt. 19.--President
: today extended the eight boi
apply to ail nuM!s wsitk unci
^t v«afcwi ef any depart*' rt
11 government. Thl* order afl-
n pi.rtlculsrly work on river aud
. I lniprov«*nswits.
t t liarUs P. Neill, eemmlssloner
hoi who at the dlrectkm of the
nopea
i ehow lew
siaps out*
anufi
onupt
the
.. cl>
i tion
MAIL TRAINS COLLIDE
One
Seriously ?'.irt .in
Illinois Wret-n .
This
The west bound train wan seven hours
behind time owing to wreck al Huron,
ladkioa. whore It craalitd luto the cud
leader of th«
l riot.
Mayor McClellan Satisfied
Mayor Mt.'ClnHan, In oommentlng
, dt of tfin primaries soi«l
• I am content pith Ihe resul-
A letter was* read at the demoori
assembly conventions In Buffalo 1
aft emtio n from National Commit t
man. Norman K Mark. In which
'etatfS that Viii tho nomination
Mr. Hearat h\ r,he Independence lea
he cannot with propriety or Justlcr
his position, any longer favor
candidal y f Mr. Haaraf tot govei
by ,n den. •• t •«• .. >«W 'onven'
furnish
i on flat cars for the
s n*ber. , I'hey claim
roads furnish propet faclll-
the shipping of other cetu-
and in not doing likewise
lumbermen, discriminate to-
,a"l ward them, after ihe attorneys uii
Imtli sides of tlie HimbOl AM iMd
I made exhaustive arguments, the com-
relnaloners declare<l that the case
narg-
J mf
.uld bi
Indetli
!>«
Ml.
WANT LAW INTERPRETED
|
Agricultural Secretary in Dark
About Foreign Importations
il
•islon
since list winter of
tfee e4ght hour law.
the eonaludhiu
UNANIMOUS IN PAWNEE
next
eek.
♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ •
♦ I
• fll
4 Washington, ^ept 19—ForeCa t 0
e Oklahoma lod Indian Territory a
a Fsir Thursday and Friday a
, tern, Sept
ic acting atloi
4*y the aecra
ding certain provision** of the
meat Inspection law. und partb
, as to whether or not foreign
products In which meat Is larg
component part, will be *hso-
" prohlbNed from i«riiu; i-
•d States or wheaiiei Dnglaiid,
i in. and I'r.n •• will n. f meet I to
Centured
eiisad at t
LOBS RUNS IN MILLIONS
Buenos Ayres Fire is Estimated
by Paper Dollars
| • i: nos A rea , flept 19 -Cu«toma
[ dock No. 4, lis* beoa deatrojed by firs,
damaae Is a«llB%a*ed at aeveiil m !•'
*,aper ddollars. The ahlpping Is • ■
AfgenU '« pa4 tf duil ir Is* wort it
BANK CASHIER MISSING
Kansas Official Left Safe Looked
and Loss is Uncerain
culture
id
wh4« h
111
THE PATRICK CAHE
s y . Kept. 19 Ooremef
eild to*lay that ho had an ap-
.iic Liaud bUltii aupiujuo luuiU
ttidsy In her home
a ting tjut he b..J
would be seen
In tit" ensbl. r of
nyk of Hvdas. which
O'.'u and J*iaei «
ed U
ntirUt
* The
Luowri
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