A Plausible Explanation of How the
Terrible Accident at Seneca,
Mich., Happened.
ENGINEER MISINTERPRETED ORDERS.
The I,not of the Bodies of the I’nin
cinernted Bead Believed to Be
Mrs. Ann I pton, From Sherman,
Tex.—Coroner llnniilton lid* Be
gun un Inqneot.
Detroit, Mich., Nor. 30.—Conductor
C. J. Martin, of Wabash train No. 4,
which collided with train No. 13 near
Bcueca, Wednesday night, causing the
loss of about SO lives, said Friday, that
the orders given him at Montpelier
were to pass No. 13 at Seneca, “My
orders,” said he, “which I took to En
gineer Strong and read over to him,
and which agreed with his orders,
read: ‘No. 4, engine 609, will meet
No. 13, engines S8 and 151 at Seneca
and No. 3, engine 623, at Sand Creek.’
After receiving these orders I remem
ber asking the agent at Montpelier
whether the new siding at Seneca
would contain my train.
“I wras toward the niear of the chair
ear fixing up a passenger’s ticket,
when I saw the station lights of Sen
eca flash by and immediately felt the
air brake applied. I felt no alarm,
supposing the engineer was slowing
down for the east switch, in order to
see the numbers of 13's engines,
which I supposed had cleared.
“Just then the brakeman, who had
been on the lookout, came hurrying
into the chair car and pulled the cord
%wice.
“mat is it, Tony?’ I called.
“■‘■'We’re going through Seneca,' he
answered, and an instant later the
crash came.”
This bears out Supt. Burns’ state
ment that Engneer Stronge, of Xo. 4,
either misunderstood or forgot his or
ders and ran by Seneca, where he was
ordered to pass No. 13.
When Conductor Martin’s statement
•was repeated to Engineer Strong later
the engineer said:
“I have not denied at any time that
we received such an order. I only
say that if we did get such an order,
3 misread and misunderstood it, and
that I should have been set right by
the conductor. My fireman will tell
you that he. tco, understood that we
were to meet both trains at Sand
Creek instead of at Seneca.
“If I made ar. error I was not alone
to blame. The other three members
of the crew must have understood as
3 did or else they would have correct
ed me.”
Engineer Strong attaches responsi
sibility to the conductor and brake
man for the simple fact, he says, that
5f he had understood he was to meet
Xo. 13 at Seneca he would have
blown one long and one short blast
immediately after whistling for the
Seneca station when his train was a
half-mile from that point, Xot hav
ing done so, he claims that either Vhe
conductor or the brakemen, if they
understood the meeting order to meet
at Seneca, should have whistled hint
down by pulling the cord twice.
LAST BODY fDEXTIFIED.
Ijui( of tlio Inoinernted Dend in
Old I.ady From Tosas.
Adrain, Mich., Hov. 30.—It is be
lieved now that the last of the bodies
recovered from the Wabash wreck
near Seneca Wednesday night and
brought here, has been identified.
Mayor Reynolds received a telegram
dated Sherman, Tex., saying:
“Can you advise if Ann Upton, an
<*ld lady, with a ticket sold here- to
Chatham. Ont., was injured?
[Signedj “WM. UPTON.”
Mayor Reynolds wired back a de
scription of the old lady to Mr. Up
ton, and it is believed that the re
mains will be ordered shipped to Tex
as before the day is over. At noon,
Friday, only the bodies of Porter
Janies Brown and that of the old lady
remained in the morgue here. The.
porter’s body will be shipped to Engle
wood, where his wife and children
Jue. All the burned and blackened
fragments of what were once human
beings have been placed in caskets
■and will be buried in Oak Grove ceme
tery. There are four caskets tilled
with these pieces.
Coroner Hamilton has begun an in
quest into the disaster in the court
house building.
Porto Rica's Xew Treasurer.
San Juan, P. R., Nov. 30.—William
Tranklin Willoughby, the newly-ap
pointed treasurer of the island of
Porto Rico, succeeding Jacob Hol
lander, resigned, arrived here yes
terday. He will take his oath of of
fice to-day. The executive council of
Porto Rico, at a special session,
raised the bond of the treasurer of
the island from $100,000 to $150,000.
This action was taken because of the
increased funds handled by the treas
urer .
HAS FAITH IN HIS AGENTS
In Guaranteeing; Impartiality, Sec
retary Hoot In«l«t» tliat it Htuft
Ahvcys Ilcen Shown.
Washington, Nov. 20.—Secretary
Root yesterday addressed a communi
cation to Eligio Uonanchea, president
of the convention at Havana, Cuba,
that nominated Gen. Botolomo Maso
for president, relative to complaints
that United States authorities were
interfering in the Cuban elections. A
press dispatch from Havana slated
that Maso complained that the in
fluence of United States officers was
being exerted in favor of Estrada
Palma, and a dispatch from Bonacheu
to the secretary implied the same
thing. Following is the secretary’s
communication to Senor ltonachea:
“Washington, D. C., Nov. 29, 1901.
“Sir—I have the honor to acknowl
edge the receipt of your dispatch of
November 26, saying: ‘The national
convention of Havana which has pro
claimed Gen. Maso candidate for the
presidency of the future republic of
Cuba respectfully asks you to recom
mend to the representatives of the in
tervening government the strictest
impartiality in the electoral contest
which is now taking place.’
“The representatives of the inter
vening government in Cuba are al
ready aware that their duty requires
them not merely to be strictly impar
tial in the electoral contest in Cuba,
but to refrain from interfering in any
manner whatever with the free ex
pression of the wishes of the Cuban
people at the polls. They have not
violated this rule in the past, and will
not in the future. They will have
nothing to do with the electoral con
test except to enforce the electoral
law. prescribed by the constitutional
convention and promulgated by the
military governor on the 14th of Oc
tober last. This will be done im
partially and effectively.
“It is quite unnecessary to assume
that the officers of this government
will be less faithful to their duty
hereafter than they have been in
the past, or to recommend or direct
that they shall perform a duty which
they are already performing.
“Very respectfully,
“ELIHU ROOT,
“Secretary of War.”
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
i ircuinr oi i nuiiou ui .11
anil Employes of the Depart
ment of Justice.
Kansas City,Mo.,Nov.30.—The United
States marshal and district attorney
yesterday received copies of a circu
lar from Attorney-General Knox with
orders to post it in their office and
call it to the attention of all em
ployes. The circular says:
“To all officers and employes of the
department of justice:
“Your attention is directed to a cir
cular of this department issued Au
gust 20, 1900, in which section 2 of
the civil service act of January 10,
1883, forbidding’ any executive officer
or employe, among others, to solicit
or receive political contributions
from any officers or employes of the
United States, was quoted, and all
persons serving under this depart
ment were required to observe strict
ly the prohibitions of this law, and
were recommended to refrain from
service on political committees
charged with the collection and dis
bursement of campaign funds. I now
repeat the injunctions of that circu
lar, and add the following further
directions on this subject:
“Rule No. 2 of the civil service rules
provides that no person in the execu
tive civil service shall use his official
authority or official influence for the
purpose of interfering with an elec
tion or controlling the result there
of. The spirit of the civil service
laws and rules renders it highly unde
sirable for federal officers and em
ployes to take an active part in po
litical conventions or in the direc
tion of other parts of political ma
chinery. Persons in the government
service under this department should
not act. as chairmen of political or
ganizations, nor make themselves un
duly prominent in local political mat
ters. It is expected and required that
all officers and employes of this de
partment shall act in entire conform
ity with the views herein set forth.”
MRS. SAGE’S INDIANS.
Invites tlie f'nrislc Foollmll Temn to
Her Fifth Avenue Mansion—
Hnsseil Snrjjrised.
New York, N'ov. 30.—Mrs. Russell
Sage, who is interested in the subject
of Indian education, invited the
entire Carlisle Indian football team
to her home on Fifth avenue yester
day, and they went up in a body from
the Fifth Avenue hotel. The arrival
of the “tribe." many of whom bore
traces of Thursday's struggle, with
Columbia, was a complete surprise to
Mr. Sage, but he received the Indians
cordially.
When the boys trooped into the
house they were made to feel at
home at once, and before they left
Mrs. Sage gave each of them a pres
ent.
MADE A NOTEWORTHY SPEECH
Significant Utterances of Senor Genero
Raigosa, President of the Pan
American C'onferein cw
Mexico City, Nov. 30.—At the ban
quet given by the United States dele
gation to the Pan-American confer
ence, made a noteworthy speech, lie
Genero Kaigosa, of Mexico, president
of the International American confer
ence, made a nothwortliy speech. He
said in part:
“The Spanish-American nations
when they emancipated themselves
from European domination had not,
like the United States, the good for
tune of being bornto an autonomous
like organization adapted to the ex
ercise of self-government by long
previous training in the practice of
political and social institutions, based
on immemorial customs and homogen
ous character of their inhabitants,
but, one the contrary, sprang into the
immediate enjoyment of absolute sov
ereignty from the depths of most
complete submissiveness and isola
tion, and afflicted, moreover, by a
grave organic malady, which, during
long years of severe internal suffering,
incapacitated them from adjusting
themselves with the vigor of their
youthful energies to the new' en
vironment involved in political insti
tutions of the highest type, as are
those which consider the people as
the only source of authority in self
government. This profound initial
difference is in a large measure the
cause of the inequality in the devel
opment in the Spanish-American na
tions as compared with the great
northern republic, seeing that they
were under the necessity of begin
ning by adjusting internal organic
equilibrium before they could think
of devoting themselves to their own
development. Therefore it would nev
er be rational or true to attribute to
democratic institutions the condi
tion of the turbulence which arose
from deeper and more noxious
causes.”
Speaking of the independence of
the conference, Mr. Raigosa. said that
the eyes of Europe and the world are
fixed on the conference, and that the
moment has arrived when its mem
bers must either record in the book
of human evolution a new victory
in the cause of right, or press anoth
er crown of thorns on the brows of
justice.
Addressing himself especially to the
American delegates,Mr. Raigosa said:
“I take pleasure in stating here
in the name of every man of enlight
enment in my country, that if in
former times war plowed “a chasm”
between the two countries and en
gendered bitterness and rancor; on
the other hand, in more recent times,
the noble, generous and disinterested
assistance—none the less efficient and
efficacious because only moral, af
forded by the people and government
of the United States towards the
achievement of our second indepen
dence, in 18Gfi. by obligng the French
Caesar to withdraw his hosts from
our terrtory, has effaced every re
sentment,hashealed every wound and
has transformed the sentiments of
the Mexican people towards the peo
ple of the United States into those
of cordial and sincere friendship.”
BETWEEN SEATTLE AND NOME
The Time of Winter Mail Transit
Between Seattle anil Nome Ile
ilueeil to Twenty-Four Days.
Washington, Nov, 30.—The time oi
transit of winter mails between Seat
tle, Wash., and Nome, Alaska, is cut
from 00 and 05 days each way to 24
days, with corresponding expedition
for intermediate points, by a con
tract which has just been made by
Assistant Postmaster-General Shallen
bcrger. This service will be performed
by a new western route avoiding the
usual winter route via the upper
Yukon region. In summer, however,
there is amide opportunity for com
paratively quick dispatch of mails to
the Nome region. The new service is
via Valdez, Alaska. Iliamna bay, on
Cook's inlet, St. Michaels and
Golovin, to Nome, 2,567 miles in all,
with two round trips a month during
this winter. Steamers will sail from
Seattle about 7th and 25th of each
month, beginning with December.
SUNKEN TRANSPORT WRIGHT.
She I* Lying With Fifteen Feet of
AYxlter in Her Hold—Large 1’n.rt
of Cargo Will be Saved.
Washington, Nov. 30.—The war de
partment received the following ca
blegram from Gen. Chaffee, at Manila,
dated Thursday:
“Transport Wright struck on un
charted rock near south end Daram is
land, near entrance to San Juanico,
Badly injured; resting quietly on port
side, 15 feet water in hold which rises
and falls with tide. Smith thinks she
may be raised with wrecking vessel,
but I fear sufficient power can not. be
obtained in these waters. Large part
of the cargo will be saved in damaged
condition. No lives lost.”
CASHED HER TRUCK PATCH.
Widow Snlllvnn’a Good Fortune In
the PoNNenxion of a Piece
of Oil Land.
In the early clays of Beaumont's
history as an oil city columns of
stories were sent out in which this
person or that one had come into pos
session of a fortune in a day or night.
Some of these stories were without
foundation, but, on the other hand,
many of them were true, for this was
a boom in which the home people and
the original owners of the land
profited immensely, says a Beaumont
(Tex.) correspondent of the St.
Louis Republic. In some cases it was
a poor colored family owning a little
patch of ground within two or three
miles of the magic Spindletop
Heights that sold out to some pros
pector who had come to “get in on
the ground floor,” or a white family
trying to wrest a precarious living
from the ground by means of a “truck
patch” suddenly become the owner of
a comfortable bank account through
the sale of its garden as “oil land.”
Of all those who profited by the oil
strike, the "Widow” Sullivan, as she
is commonly known, was one of the
most fortunate.
For several years residents of Beau
mont have been familiar with the
pathetic figure of a woman, poorly
clad and seemingly half fed. who
drove a wagon drawn by a scrawny
team through the streets, going
from house to house, in the wagon
she had three or four barrels, and
into these barrels she poured the
slops gathered from the various
kitchens she visited. When she had
thus accumulated a load she would
drive her rickety vehicle to her little
farm, about three miles south of the
city, where she would feed the con
tents of her barrels to a number of
hogs that she kept, in this way, toil
ing- through sun and rain, through
heat and cold, “Widow” Sullivan has
managed for several years to earn
enough to satisfy her few wants,
though hers was a life of the hardest
and meanest kind of labor, with no
vacations or cessation from toil. Her
story was a sad one, but no one ever
heard her complain. Her husband
died several years ago. She donned
a black calico dress, and the next day
after the funeral she had taken up
the task which she has since pursued
so faithfully.
“Widow” Sullivan’s little piece of
land was nearly two miles from the
gusher, but people thought that oil
was to be found all around the big
gusher, and the widow soon had an
offer for her land that would have
turned the head of most women in
her circumstances. But she refused
all offers until the wild rush after
land had reached its height. She
parted with her little “truck patch,”
and the same day she walked into one
of the banks and deposited $35,000 to
her credit.
The next day the “Widow” Sullivan
was seen seated on her rickety wag
on, making her old round of the
kitchens and carting her barrels off
to her hog pen. and, though she sold
her land five months ago, she is still
guiding her scrawny team back and
forth between her humble house and
the kitchens of Beaumont. She still
makes her home on the land she sold,
for the man who bought it has not
even erected a derrick on it.
While many of the stories 'about
the sudden acquisition of wealth in
this field have been overdrawn, the
story of “Widow” Sullivan's good for
tune is true, as her bank book will
attest.
Pera’d History,
The shortest history on record,
probably, has been written by Senor
Carlos Escribans, a Peruvian. It is
only 100 words in length. Following is
the English translation: “The Asiatic
origin of the primitive Peruvians ad
mitted, their rudimentary civilization
ended with the appearance of Maneo
Capac, founder of the Inea empire.
His 13 successors, continuing his policy,
constituted that vast theocratic and
communistic monarchy which aston
ished the world. Conquered by
Pizarro (1838), it became a Spanish
colony, whose 14 viceroys kept it in
medieval darkness, and whose heavy
yoke provoked the independence pro
claimed by San Martin (1821), cement
ed by Bolivar and Sucre at Junin and
Ayacucho. The republic established,
anarchy supervened, presidents rapid
ly succeeded, until the disastrous war
with Chili, which, chastening minds,
has prepared the future.”—Detroit
Free Press.
Gnml Tiling; for Poor Ilriiles.
A curious custom exists in the
Prussian family of selecting every
July a half dozen young couples too
poor to marry and having them wed
ded in the garrisoh church at Pots
dam on the anniversary of the death
of ljueen Louise of Prussia. After
the ceremony each bride receives a
gift of a sum equivalent to about
$125 and a handsome family Bible.—
Chicago Chronicle.
Domestic* Triftln.
Mrs. Swagger—That horrid Mrs. Puf
fins, next door, has bought a new rag
lan coat just like mine.
Her Husband—That’s the way it
goes. Now I suppose Puffins will have
>t in for me.— Boston Post.
A Wonderful flock
A cloek was recently made, which in ad
dition to striking the hours, halves and
quarters, shows tlie phases of the moon and
tells the time in any other city, but as the
dock is too expensive to purchase, the best
way to obtain this information is from Hos
tetter’s Almanac for 1902. It also contain?
many amusing anecdotes, statistics and
much general information that will interest
you. It can be detained from any druggist
free of charge.
Keeiiiiig the Secret.
Old Bachelor Uncle—Well, Charlie, what
do you want now?
Charlie—Oh, I want to be rich.
“Rich! Why so?”
‘‘Because I want to be petted. Ma says
you are an old fool, but must be petted,
because you are rich. But it’s a great se
cret, and i mustn’t tell it!”—Stray Stories.
Thrown from III h Cab and
Killed.
The following is a most interesting and, in
one respect, pathetic tale: —
Mr. J. I'ope, 42 Ferrar Road, Strcatham,
said:
"Yes, poor chap, he is gone, dead—horse
bolted, thrown off his seat on his cab he was
driving and killed—poor chap, and a good
sort, too, mate. It was him, you see, who
gave me the half-bottle of St. Jacobs Oil
that made a new man of me. ’Twas like
this: me and Bowman were great friends.
Some gentleman had given him a bottle of
St. Jacobs Oil which had done him a lot
of good; he only used half the bottle, and
remembering that I had been a martyr to
rheumatism and sciatica for years, that i
had literally tried everything, had doc
tors, and ali without benefit, I became dis
couraged, and looked upon it that there was
no help for me. Well,” s*id Pope. “You
may not believe me, for it is a miracle, but
before I had used the contents of the half
bottle of St. Jacobs Oil which poor Bow
man gave me, I was a well man. There it is,
you see, after years of pain, after using rem
edies, oils, embrocations, horse liniments,
and spent money on doctors without get
ting any better. T was completely cured in
a few days. I bought another bottle, think
ing the pain might come back, but it did
not, so I gave the bottle away to a friend
who had a lame back. I can’t speak too
highly of this wonderful pain-killer.”
HnrilMliipn or i ity i.ne.
“Pa, what’s a metropolis?"
“A metropolis, Jimmy, is a place In which
it costs you about 25 cents street car fare
to get out where you can pick clover.”—
Chicago Record-Herald.
Public Protected.
Hon. Judge W ing of the Federal Court
of Cleveland has issued a permanent injunc
tion with costs and damages enjoining a
lawyer named Gorey from the manufacture
and sale of an imitation of Cascarets. Gorey
imitated the boxes, the shape of the tablet
and used a similar sounding name. Any
dealer who will offer a substitute or say
that something “is just as good” when Cas
carets are called for, does it for the purpose
of making a few cents extra profit, which
must always be at the expense of the cus
tomer’s health.
Cascarets have been advertised freely in
our columns and ns the result of making
them known. Cascarets to-day have the
largest sule of any bowel medicine in the
world. They are always packed in metal
boxes with the long tail “C” on the cover
and each tablet stamped C. C. C. They are
never sold in bulk or from jars. Readers
are warned against imitations or substitutes
of this meritorious medicine, and if at any
time they have been offered a substitute
Dr an offer to sell something “just as good”
when Cascarets have been asked for, write
direct to the Sterling Remedy Company.
New York or Chicago.
Accounting for It.
Blanche—It isn't easy to find anything
new in wedding presents.
May—No. So many people have been
married.—Puck.
To Cure a Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c.
Every man thinks nis writing is plainer
than that of anyone he ever knew.—Atchi
son Globe.
PUTNAM FADELESS DYES are as
easy to use as soap. No muss or failures.
ftomc men can always see gieal profit in
other people's business. Then they go in,
and lose money.—Atchison Globe.
Corn
removes from the soil
large quantities of
Potash.
The fertilizer ap
plied, must furnish
enough Potash, or the
land will lose its pro
ducing power.
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