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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1892-1-7, Page 6SOMEONE CRIED "FIRE I" And an Awful Beene 'Ensued in tt Orowded Theatre, TEN 2,EBB0118 TRAM,PLHD TO DBATH. A, leenslou °Ole says A theatre in Gates- iea4couuty, near Durham, wee last uight the seexie of a fearful panic, in which, eh - cording to the reporte received here, atleast len persons, including nine children, were outright and many were injured. The etglat of the slight blaze caused by a man ea the audience dropping a lighted Match on the eawchestesovered floor caused isemeone to start the cry of "Fire 1" and a terrible panic at one ensued. There was immediately a wild rush for the doors, which, owing• to the sayage crush and atraggle, quiekly became so looked that Only a few succeeded at once in getting out, There was an especially violent versa eon THE STAIRCASE leading from the gallery. The passage iving access to this staircase became looked almost at once with persons who 'were striving their utmost to escape, while The staircase itself was filled with a etrug- ging mase of humanity from the top lead- ing all the way to the outlet. A checleta,ker 'Was killed in the midst of his heroic efforts to save other lives. In trying to restrain the crowd in its mad behavior he was thrown to the floor a,ncl crushed to death beneath the feet of the panic-stricken people. Wheu the panic had subsided so that an examination of the premises could be made, the bodies of nine children, whose lives had been literally crushed out, were found lying au the staircase or near a doer leading to it. A constable who came to =slab in the work of rescue, on dragging out a boy who was wedged among the strug- gling people, discovered the lad was his own son. The boy, although living when xescued, was terribly injured, and died while on the way to his home. The performance which was so terribly hiterrupted was the second one of Saturday, the attradion being the pantomime " Alad. din." The theatre was literally crammed with people. At 10.30 o'clock THD SHOUT OF "EIRE!" created a fearful scene. The audience rose to their feet en Inasse and there was dire confusion, in the midst of which were beard the shrieks of women, many of whom feinted. The lessee of the house stepped on the stage and shouted to the audience beseeching them to remain seated and isolernnly assuring them there was no real danger if they would do so. At this junc- ture many others of the men present also showed that they retained presence of mind by forciby striving to restrain the mad rush of the crowd for the doors, but their efforts proved of no avail. The occu- pants of the pit, and, indeed, all spectators whose seats were in the better parts of the house, finally succeeded in escaping safely to the streets. It was a sudden bend in the gallery staircase which caused the fearful jam in that exit. People who had fallen and were lying in heaps here scieaming and groaning were trampled upon. At last so -many of the struggling people had fallen that all passage for the exit was effectually blocked by a mass of writhing human beings; and those still remaining on their feet were forced. to seek other rneans of ,eseape. The occasion was made doubly memorable by several acts of heroism. One man who had occupied a gallery seat jumped from the gallery railing to the balcony below, and slid thence to the stage, all the time - HOLDING TO A enren BY HIS TEETH. O ther men rescued several women by simi- lar means. Meanwhile the fire was easily ,quenched. The police sought medical aid and assisted in extricating the victims from the staircase, a matter of the utmost diffi- eulty. One child attar crying out piteously, " Save me, save me," died before it could be reached. The corpses were laid in an adjoining building, and the injured were taken to hospitals and other institutiens. The news of the catastrophe spread rapidly, and soon thousands of frantic people were rushing to the scene of the disaster to ascertain the fate of relatives or friends. Within a few hours all of the dead were identified.&U were between the ages of 13 and 16. The names of the dead are: Casely, Robson (two), Gregg, Carlean, Watson, Bainbridge, Murray, Waddington, Forster. The last named was the cheektaker. The audience numbered 1,200 persons. The company members escaped in their costumes, and when they returned they found that their dressing iroonis had been robbed of their ordinary clothing. The lesseeof the theatreannounces that he will give the proceeds of the per- formance to the bereaved and will close the theatre pending an inquiry. weal, CAUSED THE ALARM. The statement is made that during the performance two youths seated in the bal- cony insisted on smoking. They were warned to desist several. times. They finally desisted, but relit, their pipes soon afterward. The smoke of their pipes was seen issuing from the balcony, and a woman becoming frightened at the sight screamed "Fire." A man sitting near her immediately gagged her with his hand but the mischief was done. The gallery was occupied by 500 spectators, mostly boys. The checktaker Forster, rushed to open the• door, Which' had been 'fastened. The struggle which ensued was awful. Men thrust aside the 'weaker lads who were trampled to death. Two men were badly injured by jumping from win- dows. The lessee of the theatre says that the alarm of fire originated from the ant of a boy in dropping a lighted match into a crevice filled with waste paper and other rubbish, in his search for a lost penny. He also says two pails of water sufficed to quench the fire. The girl Robson died Irons fright in th.e pit, All the others killed were occupants of the gallery. owned by the Crown. Chicago Press: Iii China all the land belongs to the state, and a trilling stun per acme, never altered through long centuries, is paid for it by the occupier as rent. The eoll in China, is so rich that the holdings are generally very snail, and it has been oath mated that e square mile is capable of sup- porting 3,840 perecoas, • ri the wonum who has a brown plush eacque on who eau quickest tell a seal - kin When she sees it oil another woman. Dr. Helen Druskoviteh, the first women in Austria to follow a course of philo- sophical studies, has lot her reason fann overwork, The scene of Gen. Leer Wallace's new norea whinh will be published early in the year, is laid in Coisstantino le. A novel heating apparatus is to be intto- slimed on railway trains in the nortla of Mance, where the Mere Will be heated here- after by Means of boxes of Acetate of soda. —A Windsor street car conductor died this Week and his or was draped in =Mtum. ing nett day as a mark of respeet Nino Posolls J1l1c m' a D11iS1Qfl 011I tho Now York Central, A RAILWAY HORROR. 1EGLIGENCE CAUSED THE WRECK. IsalgY wore NaelliY latareedtast of Dead and Wounded—The Cause of the Disaster— The Cars oft Fire—Scalded to Death—The Work orlieSeue, A Tarrytown, N. Y,, despatch says: Nine persons in all were killed in the col- lision between the fast Si. Louis express ten,d the Niagara express on the New York Central Railroad one mile north of Hastings last night. Thek manes are: Thos. Polley, No, 99 Court street, Boston; George Knight, conductor; Gertrude Moore, Medina'N. Y. Miss D. G. Ford, Medina, N. Y. ;George'Wright, porter of car; Mrs, A. M. Baldwin, New York; an unknown woman ; an unknown man, supposed to be either Lawyer Edward Jones or Lawyer E. C. Wilcox, of the firm of Jones &Wilcox, of New York; an unknown woman about 27 years old. The injured are at the hospitals at Yonkers. They are: In St. John's Hospi- tal, Mite Lillie Baldwin, of 71 East 85th street, New York ; Mrs. It R. Baldwin, Dr. S. E. Best, 244 Lenox avenue, New York ; Gerald E. Bagnall, editor of the Poughkeepsie Evening Star; a woman with the Baldwin party, name unknown. At St. Joseph's Hospital, Mise D. G. Ford, of Medina, N. Y., died at 6.30 a. m. to -day; Geo. Wright, porter of the car Gibraltar, died at 4 a. m. to -day ; Miss Lizzie Ford, D. D. Murphy, of Medina, N. Y. CRUSHED AND SOALDDD. The smash-up was one of the worst that has occurred on the New York Central in the recent history of that road. Nine per- sons in all are dead and nine more are in- jured, some of them fatally. Two of those who were reported among the injured have since died in St. John's Hospital, their deaths being the result of their being terri- bly scalded. They suffered mtense agony until death ended their tor- ture. More of the injured are expected to die to -day, and it is expected that the death list will be swelled to 12 or 13. Of the injured Miss Lillie Baldwin is scalded about the head and body, and badly bruised. Her recovery is doubtful. Mrs. H. R. Baldwin, the sister-in-law of Miss Lillie Baldwin, is also badly scalded and bruised, and her condition is critical. Dr. Best is also scalded and bruised and is in a very dangerous condition. The editor of the Poughkeepsie Evening Star, who is also scalded and bruised, is in an unconscious condition. He has nob spoken a word about the accident. The unknown woman who was with the Baldwin party is suffering from shook. She is unconscious, and has been ever since the accident. Miss Lizzie Ford, of Dileclum, is scalded and bruised about the body, and is in a serious condi- tion. D. D. Murphy, of Medina, is also severely scalded and bruised. He is in a critical condition. All that remains to -day to tell the story of the frightful disaster is the tin roof of the Wagner sleeping car Gibraltar. The other movable wreckage has been removed. ALL BLAME THE SIGNAL1NAN. The man -who is to blame for this whole- sale slaughter is universally declared to be Albert Herrick, a brakesman of the Niagara express. When this train was halted last night at Willow Point, Herrick was sent back with a red light to flag the St. Louis express, which was following immediately after the Niagara express. Instead of going back at once to perform this duty, Herrick stopped at the flagman's shanty to gossip with the flagman. He thought he had plenty of time. The express proved to be much closer to his train than he thought, and when he discovered his fatal mistake it was too late to avert the disaster. The crash came and Herrick, utterly demoral- ized and appalled at the awful con- sequences of his carelessness, dropped his lantern and turned and fled into the darkness. He is being diligently sought. The Niagara express left the Grand. Central station at 7.30 o'clock last night. The St. Louis express followed thirty minutes later. The Niagara express pulled up at Willow Point, which is sixteeti miles this side of Sing Sing. The reason for this stoppage does not seem to be clear. The engineer of the Niagara train has not yet made a statement. When the St. Louis express came along and crashed into the sleeping -car Gibraltar, which was in the rear of the Niagara express, the engine was completely lost in the interior of the sleeper. The heavy wood and iron work of the Gib. raltar was reduced to splinters. There were 18 passengers on the Gibraltar, and all but three of them were killed or injured. The hiss of the escaping steam, and the cries and groans of the wounded and dying passengers could be heard a long distance. Their appeals were heartrending. THE CARS ON FIRE. In a moment the Gibraltar took fire. The hands of both trains quickly recovered from the momentary shock and rushed to the aid of the imprisoned people. The passengers from both trains followed suit, and soon a score of persons had organized themselves into a relief party. One after another the wounded and dying were taken out. Axes were torn from the uninjured cars'and by the light of lamps and torches inen began to chop away the burning woodwork of the Gibraltar. They were urged on by the cries of the injured and dying people within. Some of the injured passengers hurried back to the station at Hastings to summon help and stop any other trains that might be corning. The Buffalo and Niagara Falls train was composed of one combination bag- gage and smoking car, one ordinary coach, and two Wagner sleeping cars, the Bornside and Gibraltar. The St. Louis express was made up of twe express ears, two ordinary coaches, and three sleeping cars. Dottontue'S, isscares. Engineer Donohue was in the cab: It was Engineer Donohue who crashed into the rear of the Croton local at Tarrytown three weeks ago. He was then running the St. Louis express. He nye his train was run- ning very fast at Hastings. There is a curve in the road there, but no ewitchee or. side tracks to fear. lie did not see the red light e on the rear of the Gibraltar nail too late, Then he blew his whistle, reversed his engine and jammed down his brakes in an instant, but he cold tiot avoid the col- lision. He remained at his post, and, strange to relate, wee not hurt. neither was his fireman. Donohue must have ridden through the Gibraltar on the cab of his engine, for he did not jump, Later, when the track was cleared, he took a new engine ana carried his train on to ite destine - tion. Among the passengers in the Gibraltar was Ma J. C, Gould, the travelling engineer of the New York Central Railroed, He Was ono of the three men wlso escaped unhurt, The other two were named Jacobsen, who had been at Atst reported killed, and a man named Mo- Corrnicle. Mr. Glould Mid he had int idea of the danger until he heard the roer et the St. Lois express right bellied. The neXt instant the crash oame. Le less time than it takes te tell it the locometivehad crashed righb into the sleeper, and the emaping steam Was melding the paeMegers to death. For a moment there was almost aboolute silence, and. then most awful thrieks and groans were heard from the paesengers of the car. Mr. Gould does nob know how he get out of the car. The Baldwin party in the Gibraltar con- sisted. of Mrs, Homer It, Baldwin, her mother and sister and Mr. T. W. Powley, the publisher. IVirs, Baldwin and Mr. Pow - ley were instantly killed. At midnight the north bound try" was (geared, and shortly before 1 o'clock the St. Louis express went on its way, using the locomotive from the Niagara express. TIM IMPRESS BESINESS. The Railway Committee Will Waft fo Grand Trunk Action Nestt Month. An Ottawa despatch says: The Railway Committee of the Privy Council has care- fully considered the application of the Ontario Express and Teansportatims Com- pany that the G. T. R. be compelled to grant them the same privileges to conduct an express business over its line as the Canadian Express Company has hitherto enjoyed, The Railway Committee does not, think it advisable to make any order until after January 1st, as it is shown in evidence before the committee that the Grand Trunk Railway Company proposes to take over the express business itself on that date, and to give an order now for such a short period would put both companies to a good deal of expense. If, atter the lst prose, the state- ments made by the G. T. R. are not carried out and the express business is not taken over by that oompany, it will be for the committee to decide what course shall be taken to compel the railway company to give equal privileges to the Ontario Express Company. MAIL CLERK .A.CCESEION, Many Missing letters Lead to an Ent. ployee's Suspension. A Montreal despatch says: Yesterday one of the oldest mail clerks on the postal oars between Montreal and Toronto was suspended on suspicion of being implicated in the disappearance of numerous registered letters, containing sums ranging between $2 and $10. Particulars have been forwarded to the Postmaster -General, and in the mean- time the name of the clerk is kept secret. He has been in the service for nearly nine- teen years. It is said that very many un- registered letters containing money never see their destination. Recently a gentle- man posted two unregistered letters with money, one to Toronto and one to Kingston. It was Sunday, and it was impossible to register. Both letters were stolen. The Chief Inspector admits that this is a griev- ance which the department has long been grappling with. He hopes soon to have someplan which will prevent this tampering with these letters. DEVITT TO IDE SIIPPRESSED. A. Secret Society 'Which. Brands Diesulbers and Runs a Bar. A Boston despatch says : William Lloyd Garrison has published an open letter to the president and faculty of Harvard College in which he says, "The secret society known as the D. K. E. has long been a source of scandal and private Indignation. .Aside from the witless penalties attending the initation of members a cruelty has been superadded. As a culmination of the cere- monies, and as an indication of pluck and endurance, the victim's armeettetheeed tier branding. In the case which has just come under my observation six deep and savage burns from the shoulder to the elbow, were inflicted with p, lighted cigar. In common with other secrets which flourish in your sight, a bar providing intoxicating liquors is here mentioned, contrary to law and decent morals. If you have the power or the influence to abate these evils the re- sponsibility resting upon your shoulders is a heavy one.' RIGHT OF PUBILO TRIAL. it is Meld to Be a Yankee as Well as a Iiritish Citizen's. A Detroit despatchsays : "Buck" Mur- ray, convicted in the Recorder's Court about a. year and a half ago for the murder of Patrolman Edward Shoemaker and who is now doing a life sentence inthe State Prison at Jackson, has been remanded, to the custody of Sheriff Hanley and a new trial ordered for him. The new trial wasgranted on the grounds submitted by his attorney, Mr. Oscar M. Springer, that his conviction was accomplished in violation of his consti- tutional and statutery right to eZ public trial. The new trial was obtained on ac. mutt of affidavits submitted by prominent persons, who declared that they were pre- vented from enterine the room by a police- man stationed at the door, although there wereplenty of unoccupied seats in the room. A. CRASH DT A. MINE. Several Colliers Milled by a Tremendous Fall of Hock. A Shamokin, Pa, despatch says: Slope No. 2 of Luke Fidler colliery is choked with tbousands of tons of rock, which fell with a mighty crash last evening at six o'clock. Anthony Socha is in the chamber and may be dead or concealed in a friendly fissure. Some think that a couple of night shift miners are also buried. The scene of the aseceient is two miles in the bowels of the earth. Salads of men are at work clearing the rock with dynamite. The body of John Socha, who was killed yesterday by a fall of coal at the Luke Fidler colliery, was re- covered to -day. It was at first thought that several miners had been caught by the falling coal, but this was a mistake, as' the men supposed to be imprisoned in the mine had not started to work when the fall oc- curled. Freight car notebere- A Montreal despatoh says: Freight ear robbers are again at work. This time the Grand Trunk suffers. A heavily -laden train left for the west from Point St. Charles yeeterday and remained for an hour on a siding at Point Claire. It was found one of the freight cars had been broken into, the goods being thrown of the train and picked tip afterwards. The goods are valued at $1,000, and were consigned to firms in Toronto and Hamilton. They will have to be made geocl by the company. Conservative conventions have re -nomin- ated Sam Hughes in North Victoria, Mr. A. a Miller in Prince Edward and Mr, Udall Wilson in Lennox. Archdeacorx lOarrare of London °Mire $500 for the proof of any one case, either in the Church or Oub of it, where drunken- ness has been cured without total absti- nence. • "What I want," cried the inmethouts woman, struggling to reach a ribbon counter in a crowded store the other day, "what I Want is free trade." Miss Emcee E. Willard is ill with the grip at her hotline in Evanston, Illinois, Lilian Russell will have to pay J. C. Duff that $2,000 for her reftnial to Wear tights. A I3ARONESS MURDERED. A Mired Ariny Officer Arrested Oharged with the PAM. T HE SERVANT GIRL'S THROAT UT. A Paris cable says; The Christmas day sensatioe in this city is the arrest of Lieu- tenant Apo:esti, a retired officer, on the charge of murdering Baroness Dollard. The evidence is substantially as fellows ; The Baroness was in, her private apartments on the first floor of No. 42 Boulevard de Tem. ple on December 4th, her son being at work at the office of the Minister of War, and the servant girl, Delphine Hombe, absent on a meseage. In the afternoon a young man elegantly dressed, carrying an Avocet's bag, inquired at the Porter's lodge where the apartments ot the Baroness were situ. abed in the building. He passed in, and after about five minutes he returned, saying there was something wroeg in the house, and the porter had better close the door, at the same time stepping out he walked down the street and was quickly lost in the crowd. Almost at the same moment the servant girl reeled into the court -yard with a gaping wound in her throat, and fell senseless at the porter.'s feet. Thoroughly alarmed he rushed into the house, accompanied by the police whom he attracted by his cries. There they found the baroness lying in an inner room with her head almost severed from her body. The room was in the greatest disorder, drav, ems emptied and desks broken open, and their contents mattered on the floor. It is pre. sumed that the murderer selected ,and car- ried off all that was valuable. Under the care of a doctor Delphine soon recovered sufficiently to tell the story of her encounter with the murderer. On returning from her message she proceeded into the kitchen and lighted a lamp, but she had no sooner emerged into the sitting apartment than the lamp was knockeci out of her hand and ex- tinguished. Imirediately after the received a stab in the breast, and as she turned round, the man, whom she could not see distinctly, seized her by the arms, drew his knife across her throat, and rushed out of the house. A description of the man, who was seen by two or three people in the house leaving the apartments of the baroness, was sufficiently accurate to convince the police that Lieut. Anausti was the murderer, and they believe they can obtain evidence which will result in his conviction. AIFTER MANY ATTEMPTS. A Would-be Suicide Ends His life Ender an Engine's 'Wheels. A Hoboken, N. Y., despatch says: Chas. Lemuss has for a score of years been a well. known an dpopular citizen of West Hoboken. He owned considerable property, and hav- ing no occasion to work, spent his time enjoying himself. He was a large man, weighing 225 pounds, and was good- humored and jolly. Mr. Lemma had one failing, and this was a morbid desire to commit suicide. Several years ago he cut open the veins of his left arm with an axe, but he was saved against his will. He has also tiied other ways, but without success, and he lived a disappointed man. On Saturday night he was talking with an old friend, H. Grimm, an undertaker. Taking a roll of bills from his pordset, he counted out $35, and offering it to Mr. Grimm, said: "1 want you to take this and bury me decently if I die before Christmas." Mr. Grimm refused, and laughed at him for his meebidness. Last night Lemuss' son called onlim, and they spent several hours tegether. After his son left Lemuss walked out of the back door of his house and stood on the Erie Railroad track smoking a cigar. It was dark, and the flagman at the crossing near by did not see him until the headlight of an engine with a long line of freight cars flashed on him standing there quietly. It was too late to save the man, and the next moment he was crushed into a shapeless mass, and scattered over the railroad for a distance of three blocks. To -day a force of coroner's men spent two and a half hours collecting the remains. Fifty dollars in bills and change has been picked up along the track where Lemuss was killed. A BRIDEGROOM AlFRISEBED. A Discarded Suitor Wreaks a Terrible Vengence on his Rival. A Meridian Miss., despatch says : News of a most diabolical murder has just reached this city. On Thursday night Willie Wright and Miss Phillips were married twelve miles northwest of Meridian. After the ceremony the bridal party were in the parlor making merry, when a young man named Johnson crept up to the window and fired the contents of a double-barrelled shot- gun into the body of Wright. Wright fell forward with a groan dying immediately The assassin was captured. Johnson and Wright were rival miters for the hand of Miss Philips, and Johnson often threatened that if she wedded Wright he would kill him, but she paid no attention to his threats. GURU SAW WOOD. 'Twat+ Fan for a Crowd. lint They Earned Their Money. A Minden City, Mich., despatch says: Twelve of the most popular young ladies in Minden society engaged to contribute $1 each of money earned by themselves to a fund for buying Christmas presents for the poor. On Tuesday they appeared at the drugstore of Edward Cress and asked for thejob of sawing and splitting five cords of wood that lay at his door. The druggist consented. The spectacle of twelve stylishly -dressed women sawing and split- ting wood collected a crowd in short order, but, despite the crowd, tired muscles and blistered hands, the girls persevered for two days until the job was finished, and the dollar each earned turned in for the poor. He Wag Trained in Canada. The despatches from abroad have been teeming of late with reports of the heroic conduct of Captain Aylmer in blowing up the gates of Fort Nilt, on the Pamir ridge, when this strongly fortified position •was successfully assaulted by, British troops. The captain is said to be a son of Lord Aylmer, of Sherbrooke, hi the Eastern Townships, and a graduate of the Military College, Kingston. Too Previous. It is said that an Atchieon young man recently propoeed to a young woman, was eheepted, and immediately produced the ring frona his pooket, which he had secured in Advance. The girl was so mad to think he had taken her aCceptance for granted to that extent that she refused him, and they ivre no longer on speaking amine. Sir Edwin Arnold Says that Japan is the paradise of °Miami, for in that land a child i from the moment of its birth until its ' maturity never knows what it is to be unhappy In agland more deaths' occur in Dees ember than in any ether month. IltlifttODDEftIUS DAISG11111,1t. A Delano. Dather's Crime and Kis Efforts:to Etienne 11.eteetion, A. Berlin cable says; The inystery our- rouncliug the death of the 10-year-olcl girl Amelia Kroll, whose body was found by workmen on Thurmley morning last hanging to a tree in the Weiseensee suburbs, has been leared up. The story told by the girl's reroute at the time was that they had sent Amelia out begging with her 12 -year. old brother the day before, and, that the boy had returned aloe, saying that he had lost his sister in the crowd and could not find her again. There were indications that the chficl had been subjected to ami outrage- ous assault, and the theory was that she had been enticed to the lonely suburb and foully dealt with, the criminal ending his work by hanging his helpless victim. The police became suspidous of the parents, however, on amount of their contradictory etories in their voluble explanations of the girl's movements. The expressions of grief, too, seemed to have something not quite natural about them. The officers skit. fully . (rose -questioned them, and finally arrested them, The outcome of the investi- gation, was that the parents virtually con- fessed that they were responsible for the girl's death. It seems that Kroll attacked the girl iu a fit of rage, because she returned empty-handed from a begging expedition. His blows were harsher than he intended, and the child died from the effects of the beating. Kroll and his wife slept with the corpse all night, and Mrs. Kroll remained abed all the next; day on account of Mimes. The next night Kroll took the body out, and after imparting to it the appearance of an outrage having been committed, hoping thus to deceive the police and 'avert sus- picion from himself, he hanged the body where it was found. Both Kroll and his wife will be tried for the crime, the woman having rendered herself an accomplice after the fact. The family were wretchedly poor, and when the police visited the house the first time they found the ehildren gnaw- ing at some raw potatoes which the neigh- bors had sent in, but which could not be cooked for lack of fuel. The parents ever lying abed, partly to keep warm and partl because exhausted from lack of food. ON FIRE AT SEA. 7.11;k:T= Story of the loss Of the A.byssiania and escue of the Grew. A London cable says : It is ascertained by an eternization of the log book of the Spree that she took off the Abyssinia's pas- sengers about 120 miles further south and a long distance further west than at first reported. It was four o'clock this morning whenthe first of the Abyssinia's people, comprising 34 passengers and 88 of her crew, reached Waterloo station by rail from Southampton. The party was conducted by Purser Brandt, and they looked depressed. The party was sent immediately to Liverpool. In an interview Purser Brandt said the Abyssinia had a fair passage until one o'clock in the afternoon of December 18th. At that time he was told that the ship was on fire. He looked and saw smoke coming Hem the hold. Parser Brandt added: " We got the hose stretched, and the donkey engines started. We worked as hard as we possibly could to get at the fire, but almost immediately the flames burst through where we were working and drove us off. At the same time the watch re. ported that the Spree was standing up in the offing. We signalled to her, and she bore down to us and sent off boats to our assistance. Before two hours and a half had elapsed the Abyssinia was a seething mass of flames." The purser further mid that when the fire was first discovered great excitement prevailed for a time. This speedily subsided, and the passengers and crew afterwards behaved admirably. When the order was given to abandon the ship, everybody left her as coolly as though they were gohsg aboard the tender at Liverpool. Capt. Murray reported to the owners of the Abyssinia immediately on arriving in Liverpool. His account of the fire adds little to facts already known. The owners desire to deny a statement hat two of the Abyssinia's crew jumped overboard, and that one was drowned. There was no loss of life. VANDERBILT'S BRAIN. A Crauk Wants to Analyze it to learn. Mow to Get Wealth, A. New York despatch says: Last night at 10.30 o'clock, while Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt was entertaining a number of friends at his Fifth avenue residence, good-looking, well-dressed young man, ap- parently a German, rang the street door bell. To the page who ansivered the summons, the visitor said he had called to see Mr. Vanderbilt personally to get his brains, which he proposed to have subjected to an expert analyst in order to determine why he (Vanderbilt) had been able to amass a fortune, while he (the caller) was practically penniless. The page summoned an officer, who took the young man to the station house. In his pockete was found a. card bearing name Jne. J. Lingman, 616 East Eleventh street, also a membership card of the Young Men's Christian Associa- tion The prisoner was taken to the York- ville Police Court this morning,, and com- mitted pending an examination as to his mental condition. He was uncommunicative, and. is doubtless insane. Many Cattle Drowned. A Long Island City despatch says: .An Erie railway transfer float, loaded with 12 cars, carrying 190 head of cattle, while being towed up the East River to the abat- toir at the foot of 44th street to -day, ran on Blackrock. A large hole was stove in the float, which began to fill with water. The tugs pulled the craft over to this side of the river, where it sank oft the 10th street dock. The cars were almost sub- merged, and 143 head of cattle were drowned. The other 47 bead were rescued by cutting holes in the roofs of some of the cars, through which the animals were belated with ropes. The loss is estimated at $10,000. A WORMIL *MAO Shoots. A Peoria, Ill., despatch says: Lasb night, as Prof. N. C. Deughtery, city superinten. denb of Schools and an educator of national reputation was on his way home, Miss Maggie Harrigan walked up behind. hint and fired two shots at him one of which pierced his right ear. She then surrendered herself to the authorities, She was for a number of years a teacher in the public schools, but was discharged a year ago for insubordina- Mr, A. R. Diekey, M. P. for Cumber- land, N. 5., has been unseated on the ground that the railway fare of a voter was paid by one of his agents. Frogs can be frozen mid in ice, kept for five hours, and then theaved out and made to recover. A tablespoonful of ox -gall to a gallon of Water 'will set the colors of almost any goods soaked in it before washing, " Cure a tickling in the throat with a pinch of dry, pulverized bored; placed on the tongue and elowly dissoleed. ANOTHER •GILGIT, BATTLE. Daring .koault Upon and Capture t:Of a Port, HAND TO HAND noaaTING. • A London cable says: A despatch from Calcutta this evening says news has been received at Calcutta from Gilgit, the most northern outpost or &goriest of British India, to the effect that Lieut. Manvers Smith, at the head of a body of Kashmirs in the British service, Ines scaled a prehipice oppo- site Fort Nilt, recently so gallantly taken by Capt. Ayeinser and his command, and after a desperate fight with the Hansea-Nagar rebels drove them from behind the stone breastworke they had ereeted above the precipice, killing 70 of the enemy and wounding many others. The force under the com- mand of Lieut. Manvers Smith was about 100 inen. The young and more agile men he selected as the scaling party and he left the remaining 50 Kashmirs at the foot of the precipice. When the necessary prepare - tions were made, fire was opened upon thee enemy by the supporting body, and under its cover the SOMing party sprang up the sides of the precipice. There was no re- sisting the attack of the Kashmirs. They clambered and scrambled up the sides of the precipice until they reached the vicinity of the stone breastwork. There the lien - tenant gathered his men together and. led the way right up to the rebel fortification, and sprang over it, followed closely by the Kashmirs. Sword,knife and bayonet did the rest in short order. Lieut. Manvers Smith then gave a signal to tho supporting force below the precipice, and this body, with the Main expeditionary force under Capt. Mackenzie, scaled the precipice and the whole party joined in a pursuit of the fleeing rebels. The British force only had four men wounded. A later despatch says that the Khan of Nagar, utterly discouraged by this defeat, has submitted to the British military authorities, and that he Nyill be taken under. escort to Simla. The engagement is the result of instructions sent to Lieut. -Cole Durand shortly after the capture of Fort Nilt. The officer referred to was ordered to teach the chieftains of Huissea and Nagar a lesson they would not soon forget II/NUKED BY THE GUARD. A Sheriff's Posse Hangs Five Prisoners Given Into lts Charge. A Mobile, Ala., despatch says: The Register's staff correspondent has just re- turned to town. He says Sheriff Gavin didi not guarantee the safety of Sims against mob violence, but said he would do ther best he could, and give him and his friendr a picked guard of fifty men. Sims accepted this offer, saying, however, that he did not believe he would reach Butler dead or alive. He surrendered only to save the lives of his wife and daughters. When the guard moved off with Sims and the three - Savage men, for there were three so named, Thomas Savage, and two boys, sons of Con. Savage, there remained behind the greater part of the posse that the sheriff had at- tracted to the scene, and these immediately held a consultation, and after a debate de- cided it would not do to permit the des- peradoes one chance of escape, so they seb out in pursuit. On the way they met Con. Savage, and without any delay he was. sprung up to a tree. Later the guard was overhauled, but made no resistance. Sims, and the other three were taken back to the tree upon which Con. Savage had been hanged, and four ropes were quickly adjusted to the branches thereof. Bob was asked if he had anything to say. He re- plied: "Take my hand and feel my pulse and see if I am a coward." He and one of' the Savage boys were placed in a buggy, the. nooses were adjusted, and the horse attached to the buggy driven forward, leav- ing the men dangling in the air. The other two, the father and son, were likewise speedily hanged. The sheriff comingup saw that the end had come. He sent a messen- ger to Shubuta. A NEW AND DEA.DLY mum. An Addition likely to Lend Terror to the. German. Artillery. • A London cable says: The Munich cor- respondent of the United 'Press telegraphs that he learns from an officer of high rank that the new 'German artillery is possessed of an element of appalling effectiveness in' the new bursting powder. In the war with France the best record made by the shells then in the use was to cover with splinters an erea of forty or fifty paces. There were - seldom more than seven or eight persona wounded by the bursting of one shell. Experiments with the nevv shell have proved that it will burn everything within a large circle of where it falls. Its splinters will cover a circle of nearly nine hundred feet. Some of the fragments will be large enongh to kill a man, others almost invisible and calculated to merely excoriate the skin. In the experiments an enormous target was riddled with tens of thoueands of holes by the bursting of a single shell. Four shells were sufficient to sink an obsolete ironclad used as a target at Kiel. Our informant expressed the belief that one battery, if the range were accurate, could annihilate a whole division. The officer added that the heads of the army, in- spired by hopes of peace, shudder at the idea of war with such ruthless weapons in hand. Nevertheless sentiment plays no part against necessity, and the Reichstag will be asked soon to vote a large amount for the supplying of the entire artillery with the destructive powder. - Me Left ills Address. Good News : Bank teller—Well, sir. Tramp (at thewindow)—Saity,1 picked up. part of a paper called the Bankers' Bugle to -day. Saw a queer thing in it. Th' paper is reliable, eh 1" Teller—Perfectly. Its financial news may always be relied on. Tramp—Jim-Any Ihn glad of that. Say, that paper says money is so easy that the bank will soon be seeking borrowers, and I merely veish to remark that when th' hunt begins you'll find me on seat No. 236. Washington equate. the 4111meatsseen Small Points in Carving. A. fillet of "veal should be sliced from the • top, a loin of veal from the small end. 'Tongue and hens should be cut very thin; the mister slices of tongue are considered Id be placed en comfortably large dishes, as lack of room prevents grace- ful carving, The guests ehoulcl express a preference for rare or wen done, the °Dryer giving sorne of the tenderloin to each. A sirloin of beef should be laid with the tenderloin dowel, cut in thie elices, then tutn and cub the other side. The best parts of Ash lie near the bond. If there is Rey roe put a part on teal plate. Be careful in serving fish not to break it. A. fish knife ox• a knife with a broad blade is, this beet. —BrooklynCiehen.