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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Friday, August 4, 1905.
Vol. 5. No. 32.
CANNON BALL CRASHED
INTO SWITCH AT DIAZ
Main Line Train, Running at Full
Speed, Wrecked and Engi
neer and Fireman Killed.
< )ne of the most serious wrecks
•in the history of the Iron Moun
tain railroad, occurred at Diaz,
twelve miles from this place, last
Saturday morning about four
o'clock.
Engineer W. X. Horton, of Lit
tle Rock, anil Fireman Arch Dool
in of Poplar Bluff, were killed,
and eleven injured.
K. L. Kerger, express messen
ger, St Louis, face blistered.
<L. Harper, passenger, leg
t
bruised.
Miss Rosa Chaineky, Dallas,
Tex., ankle broken and face
■'lightly bruised.
Other slightly injured were d.S.
Martin, Hot Springs; F. Fowler,
Chicago: Max Meyer, Hot
springs: \Y. L. McGee, Austin,
\rk.; Mrs. Carl Hoepler, Ger
nan.v; A. B McAllister, Moun
tain View, Ark.
The train was running at a
'peed of about fifty miles an hour
when the accident occurred, and
t is indeed miraculous that a large
number of people were not killed.
The wreck occurred at the north
end of the yards at Diaz, and was
caused by a broken switch rod.
Fhe great force of the heavy train
running at so high a rate of speed
caused the mitered rail to swing
.apart from the main rail, causing
4Rie big engine to leave the track
amrC-^nle over into the ditch.
One of tlx-mail cars, an I. & G.
\, car, was brOhUi in two and one
part of it red tic? ‘o splinters,
while another mail ca. '©d an ex
press car kept to the ma\ line, on
the ties, however, and ran some
distance past the engine where
they came to a standstill in a ca
reening position at ati angle of
about -C> degrees, but did not turn
>ver, and the larger portion of
their contents were saved.
The chair car followed the en
gine into the ditch, and ran up on
top of the engine, which caused
the debris to catch fire and the en
tire train, except the two cars
which ran past the engine on the
mainline, was soon reduced to
ashes and scrap iron. The two
sleeping cars on the rear of the
train did not leave the track, hut
were soon enveloped in the
spreading flames and totally de
stroyed.
A Journal representative visited
the scene of the wreck a short
time after it occurred and was ap
palled at the awful destruction.
■One could not look upon theburn
^nir heaps of wreckage and under
stand how the passengers escaped '
with their lives.
The train was made up of one
baggage and two mail cars, combi
nation smoker and colored car,
•hair and two sleepers making
eight cars, and was pulled by one
of the finest engines on the road.
The loss to the company is some
thing like $75,000.
'"he injured were removed to !
Hwport where they were cared
for, and the remains of the dead
engineer and fireman were ship- i
ped to their respective homes in 1
Little Hock and Poplar Blurt.
The work of clearing away the j
wreckage was commenced immedi- j
atelv after the victims were cared;
for, and shortly after noon a track |
was built around the wreck and \
traffic resumed.
While clearing away the
wreckage Saturday afternoon, en
gine 349 was derailed and turned
over, and Engineer d. d. Brodie !
of Little Rock had his left leg
broken above the ankle. The en
gine, which was a light one, was
coupled to a part of the wreckage, j
the side strain causing the engine
to be pulled off the tracks.
The accident occurred about
4:50 in the afternoon and the in
[(’OXTIM'KI) ON J’AOK b]
BEST LINE IN THE STATE
Freight and Passenger Traffic on the
White River Road Exceed
Company's Expectations.
The Cotter Courier says that the
receipts from freight tonnage and
passenger traffic on the White
River division has exceeded by
more than oO per cent the estimate
made by the company in .January.
Phis fact is the more interesting
when it is remembered that there
are no through trains and that all
this business is purely of a local
nature.
The White River Route has
been a dividend-payer from the
time the first regular train passed
over the line, and when completed
will be the most profitable and im
portant bit of mileage of the en
tire system, as it is the best in
point of construction. That the
company was well aware of the
value of the line is evidenced by
the thorough and careful manner
in which every foot of the road
was built, the excellence and com
pleteness of the roadbed, t he
weight of the steel used, the char
acter of the bridges and tin* quali
ty of the rolling stock. Not only
that, but this division is to be
equipped with new and modern
engines and every appliance for
heavy business and fast time.
ROGERS AT OIL TROUGH.
Oil Trough, July 29. -^t the
Farmers’ Union picnic held here
today the 2,00ii attendants were
treated to quite an unexpected
flow of oratory. Hon. Robert L.
Rogers, attorney general and can
didate for governor, had an ap
pointment to speak at McHue,
near Batesville, today, but on
reaching Newport he was unable
to proceed on account of the
wreck. On hearing that he was!
detained at Newport, 12 miles j
from here, he was invited to ad
dress the picnickers here. lie
made an eloquent speech, but ad
dressed himself to the farmers as
such, avoiding politics altogether.
LOO ROLLING CALLED OPE.
The meeting of the Mississippi
Valley Log Rolling Association,
which was to have been held in
Little llock August 14 and 15, has1
been officially declared off on ac
count of the yellow fever situa
tion. On account of the fact that
the holding of this meeting would
afford an opportunity for a great
many people from the infected
districts to come to Little Rock,
the Board of Health several days
ago notified the officers of the as
sociation that the meeting could
not be held at this time.—Arkan-1
sas Gazette.
Deeds of trust and legal blanks
for sale at The Journal office.
Country sorghum at Little
field’s.
Circuit Clerk Cul. L. Pearce of
Batesville, was visiting In Newark
Saturday.
If you want tire or life insur
ance see K. B. Chesser at the Bank
of Newark.
Alvord Hugg, of Charlotte, who
recently returned from school at
Texarkana, has taken a position as
clerk at the depot.
There is quite a good deal of
sickness throughout the county,
mostly chills and fever caused by
so much wet weather,
Mrs. J. C. Fot/.er and children,
Misses Kdith and Yirgie and Miss
Mabel Coffee, left the first of the
week for their home at Paris, Tex
as, after a pleasant visit here with
friends.
\V. F. Due who has held a posi
tion with The Journal for the past
six months, left yesterday morn
ing for his home at Mountain
Home. Will is an excellent young
man and has the best wishes of the
entire Journal force.
For Sale—One five room one
story house, one five room two
story house and one eight-room
two-story house, a good well,
smoke house, and barn and one
acre of land with each house.
North of school building. Would
sell one or two of them. I also
have other real estate bargains in
Newark property. If you want
to buy do not fail to see me. T.
J. Raney.
NOTES AND COMMENT.
To The Newark Journal:
I am now at (i rubbs, .laekson
county, holding a meeting with
good interest.
1 find farmers have not got their
crops laid by yet, and it is still
rainy, but considering the rain,
crops are very good. 1 was north
of Walnut Ridge last week near
Holmes. That is a tine country:
good land and pleasant homes.
Farmers have very good crops,
but the recent rains have been a
great drawback.
The political pot is beginning
to boil 1 see. .1. M. Rain is talk
ing good to the voters, as he
wants to be railroad commissioner.
He would be a good choice.
Have all the preachers gone to
sleep on the liquor question: 1
was creditably informed that there
has been fewer arrests and fewer
lines in Newark since whisky has
been voted out than there was l>e
fore, by a big majority. Yet
some say the saloon helps business.
1 got this information from a citi
zen of Newark.
1 very often hear of match
games of baseball. Men will get
out in the hot sun and play for
hours, when it would be “too aw
ful hot” to go to ceurch or chop
stove wood. 1 heard of a fellow
leaving his business and going rill
to a game, and coming back five
hundred dollars worse off than
when he went. Hut of courre he
spent it for ice cream and cold
drinks (0 The men are not alone
in this enthusiasm, but the ladies
will squall and give them all the
|encouragement they can. Some!
church-members are as guilty as
others. But they cannot set ready
to attend the church. They will
say “Oh, 1 feel too awful bad!”
1 was told that the donesboro
officers still saturate the streets
with blind tiger whisky occasion
ally.
1 want to repeat what 1 said a
few months ago that good people
can put a stop to such if they will.
The question is. Will they?
J. 1. Maktin.
FARMERS UNION MEETING
Several Matters of Importance Dis
cussed by the Farmers in
State Convention.
Little*Rock, Aug. 2,—The Far
mers' Educational and Co-opera
tive Union of Arkansas opened its
convention at the old state house
in this city Tuesday with over 300
delegates present, representing
practically every county in the
state. Delegates continue to ar
rive on every train.
The convention was called to or
der at 10 o’clock by President d.
T. Hatton of Tuckerman and the
program for the three day’s ses
sion of the convention was announ
ced by Ben L. (iriffin of Nashville,
secretary-treasurer of the state or
ganization. An invocation was
then ofhercd by Dr. J. T. Chris
tian of the Second Baptist church.
Mayor Lenon on behalf of the
city of Little Rock, then welcom
ed the delegates of the convention
to the city.
President J. T. Hatton then ad
dressed the members of the con
vention in a short speech, in wnich
he expressed the grantitude of the
union in the kind advances of the
citizens of Little Rock. He as
sured the businees men of Little
Rock, present, that the farmers of
the state had not come together as
antagonistic to the people of the
city, for the prosperity of the bus
iness men was as necessary to the
prosperity of the farmer as was
the farmer's welfare to that of the
business man.
The question of keeping politics
out os the Union, is a matter which
yesterday afternoon occupied a
promident part in the deliberations
of the convention.
A great amount of discussion
was indulged in by the delegates
this morning, and an effort was
made during the morning to take
up the election of officers for the
ensuing year and adjourn the con
vention tonight, but the effort
failed. The financial condition of
the union was also considered at
length this morning.
The delegates at 4 o’clock this
evening were taken over the city
on a trolley ride at the invitation
of the Board of Trade.
The convention will close tomor
row afternoon.
NEWPORT 0, POPLAR BLUFF 2
Several Newark citizens attend
ed the hall games at Newport yes
i terda.y and the day before. New
j port lost the first game to Poplar
j Blufl' by a score of two to nothing,
! and it is said that some of the
j Newport fans went to the bad on
the game.
For Sale—Five school desks.
Will be sold at a sacrifice. Apply
| to Craig & Henderson.
JOHN HINDMAN ON THE
VIRTUES OF ALCOHOL.
Says Nothing Was Created ;n Vain.
And Alcohol Properly Used is
Beneficial to Mankind.
To The Newark Journal.
Please bear me a little longer irt
my argument on the virtues of al
cohol, and also some of the causes*
of its abuse.
Men, by the insatiableness of
their appetites, or the de-ire for
stimulants; that is, a large num
ber of them, must be endowed
with a powerful self-will to resist
the natural craving that is nearly
i ever present for stimulants of
j some kind. If they do not get it
in alcoholic liquors they take it in
morphine, chloral, etc. And of
these liquor seems to be the favor
ite. People who live well, that is
have plenty of good, strong, nour
ishing food, do not require the
amount of artificial stimulant that
those do who have to subsist on a
low and weak diet, because the
strong and nourishing food gives
off more stimulant of itself than
! the weak food, thereby satiating
the desire for artificial stimulants
to that extent. We think it is a
conceded fact that persons whose
j occupation requires strong mental
labor are about the first to give
way under the strain of mental ex
haustion. Their bodies become
weak and emaciated, because the
mental has taken a large portion
of the stimulant from their bodies.
In occupation revuiring hard men
tal labor certain parts of the brain
or mental stricture, becomes
worked to exhaustion, while other
parts of this structure remain al
most dormant. The exhausted
parts are tired. They want rest,
and must have it, or the physical
and mental selves will go to the
grave together. So it is with the
physical structure doing certain
work. The feet and legs may l>e
entirely exhausted, while the arms
and hands may be almost dormant.
It takes about three meals daily of
good bone and muscle food, to
keep them going.
M C uilim It 1^ fMt'tt.y SCUCl»lI,y
conceded that the quickest anti
most effectual remedy for an over
worked brain, is a good toddy or
: its equivalent. If the mind is af
flicted with prohi ideas, Peruna or
S&rsapharilla will answer. Under
the influence of a moderate stimu
lant, be it wine, whisky, or any
thing of that nature, the brain as
sumes the equilibrium, whiehgive*
; rest to the over-worked faculties,
and they go to sleep, while theses
parts that have not been in the
action come to the fore. We think
that seven-tenths of those people
who use alcoholic liquors to ex
cess are born in a condition that
makes it nearly impossible for
them to resist the temptation.
Now we will say a few words to
mothers, and to those who expect
to become mothers. And what t
am going to tell you is one of na
ture’s inexorable laws, and cannot
be violated with impunity. We
presume that nearly all women,
who have passed the age of gesta
tion, have, (if you don’t know the
meaning of the word look in your
dictionary and 1 will not have to
tell you) at some time in that per
iod felt down-spirited, wornout
and weak, almost to exhaustion—•
felt like they would have to "giv«
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