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The Herald, 1907-10-25, Page 2THE HO ROR AT F ONTANET. Shocks Felt at Terre Haute, Brazil and Elsewhere. Terre Haute, Ind., despatch: Between sixty and eighty persons were killed, more than 500 inj.ureca and the entire Town of Fontanet. twelve miles from this city, destroyed by the explosion of the Dupont Powder Mills to -day. The first view of the former site of the mills was a sickening one. - While men knew that another explosion might occur at any moment, they ventured into the wrecked buildings to rescue their comrades. The screams of the injured attracted large crowds to the scene of the' explo- sion and interfered with the rescue work. Flames soon attacked the buildings and drove the r'eseuer.e away, and theawd se- men were obliged to stand by their fellow -workmen burn slowly to death. At Rosedale, Coal Bluffs and Burnett, small towns within a few miles of Fon- tanet, several houses were wrecked; chimneys knocked down and window Hundreds were maimed, many of lights broken. them women and children and y, num- At Greencastle, Bloomington and. other her will die. Aid to the stricken people is being rushed by special trains from surrounding cities and Governor Hanly has ordered supplies. Owing to the inadequacy of arrangements for car- ing for the injured at Fontanet they are being taken to hospitals in other cities, while fifty physicians are on. the scene giving temporary relief to the suffer era. Fontanet is a mining town of 1500 people, and the Dupont Mills, com- prised of seven buildings, were situat- ed near the edge of the town. These seven structures were blown to atoms, and it is believed that of the 75 or 80 employees none escaped death or injury. Some of the victims' bodies were burned in the wreckage, which caught fire immediately after the first explo- sion. There were four separate explosions, Two bort curs loaded with coffins the first at 9.15 a. m., two more soon have been sent to Fontanet, afterward and the fourth at 10.45. Th ft a t} The first explosion w s in re glaz- points the shock was so plain that peo- ple left their homes for safety, thinking it was an earthquake. No cause of the explosion is known. The millmeu where the first explosion occurred were either killed or badly in- jured. Governor 'Hanley went to Fontanet this afternoon, aecontpenied. by mem- bers of the Indiana National Guard. One hundred tents and an equal num- ber of cots for the injured were ship- ped this afternoon. The Terre Haute Company of the Indiana 'National Guard was ordered by the Governor to go to 1•'ontanet, and lake charge, so as to 'provide relief to the sufferers and prevent looting of homes.Twenty bodies are in the morgues. Many more have not been rreevored. i T EE HATS IN ONE. Eng mill. The other mills nearby were blown up next. The magazine, in which it is estimated many thousand, of kegs of powder were stored, was WONDERFUL CREATION OF NEW the last to go. YORK MILLINER. As soon as the first explosion oc- curred the wreckage caught firs and the flames oommmmicated to a train on a side track near by. At 10.45 the heat of the fire caused the maga- zine to explode. This building was in a hollow, some distance away. Nearly 1,000 peopie were left prac- tically homeless. One farmhouse, three- quarters of a mile away was blown to pieces. None of the residents were killed in their Ironies. When the first explosion eame the people rushed from their homes towards the mills, apparently believing the danger to be over. Among the num- Madame Simply Sheds the Top Layer of Her Headgear and a Second Dainty Hat is the Result—Remove This and There is a Third. New York. Oct. 21.—It has seemed to the ordinary man who has viewed the weird and wonderful millinery concoc- tions adorning the heads of his women - kind that one such piece of headgear is quite enough for one woman to wear --at ber were many women and children. re- least at one thue. latives of the mill employees, and they But he has mueh to ]earn, There is more, much more, to the winter's fashion decree than he ever dreamed of. A new hat has made its appearance, beside which tb' "mushroom" of the summer months and the much-discussed "honey - "moon" hat, that so resembled the head gear:were by a Chinese coolie, pales in - REFUSED TO PTAILISH ORDER. NEWFOUNDLAND PREMIER DEFIED IMPERIAL AUTHORITIES, were near the works when the second explosion came. Dozens of them were hurled to the .ground by the force of the second explosion and piled in a strug- gling mass. Some were terribly bruis- ed ley being hurled against trees, fences. and houses and against each other, and hardly one• in the crowd that started. to the scene escaped injury, • It is u p etasibl" tee get an nee:nate list of• the •dead, but the total ' • be- lieved' to • be between 10 and 80 per- sons. As many more ars fatally injured. Two men died on the relief train as it was coming to this city and many of the injured are known to be fatally hurt. Many bodies were cremated in the fire that followed. Superintendent . ovaban, who was sitting in his office at the time, was instantly killed. His home, containing his wife and two sisters, was blown to atoms. Following the fourth explosion those who were not injured set about the res- cuing of the injured at the mills, but only a small nun,' er were found. Some bodies were bur d beyond recognition, while other bed's:, were terribly mangled. The rescue: • worked faithfully des- pite the exec:• ive heat from the burning buildings v eh might have caused an- other explo,,.•n at any moment. Near the powder grills was a small frame school building, with 53 pupils in attendance. The explosion threw the four walls outward, allowing the roof to settle with a crash upon the teachers and children. Every child was injured, but none seriously. One of the children, whose name is Eng- lish, has not been found, and it as barely possible that his body may be in the wreell. Miss Bishops, the teacher, was caught in the wreck, and suffered a fracture of the skull; whieh will probably result fatally. The new Christian Church is a complete wreck, not a timber stand- ing. Tho four -room school building at Fontanet, taught by Prof. Schaupaugh, was also wrecked, and the teacher and 200 pupils more or less injured. The two -room school building at Coal Bluffs, two miles distant, was also wrecked, and ninety school children were injured, as was the teacher. The M. E. Church building at Fontanet was wreck- ed, as was the large new frame block recently constructed. by William John- son, but still unoccupied. Every business house in the place was shaken to pieces, as was the new Big Four Railway station, and the large storehouse of the Terre Haute Brewing Company. The chief damage was caused by the explosion of the storehouse, with 40,000 cases of powder. The shock was felt very distinctly in this city, where many houses were rocked on their foun- dations. Windows were broken out of a new schoolhouse here, and panics started in all the school buildings in the city. Surrounding the town are a number of coal mines, and men were working these when the explosions occurred. Some of the mines were not affected, ' but in others the partition walla were blown down, and it is feared that many lives have been lost by the caving in of the rooms in whieh the miners were. working. Persons who had visited Fontanet to- day say the scene was terrible. The schools had just been tailed to order., The scene that followed baffled deserip- tion. The children fought with ono M- ather to escape from the falling walls, It Was Finally promulgated—Blue Book Issued Containing Year's Correspond- ence on Newfoundland Fisheries Dis- pute. London, Qct,. 21,—A Blue Book has been issued giving the correspond- ence in the Newfoundland fisher - les dispute from October. 13th. 1900, to September 28th of this year. In his despatches, Sir William l,'.acG•regor, Governor of the Colony, stated that his Ministers regretted that their pro- posals' for- a .compromise had notbeen accepted, and that while they could not consent to override the constitu- tion of the colony or to suspend its laws, they were anxious to aid the Imperial Gover treent, and would grant the fishf eters of the treaty coast the right to sell to Americans provided that the question of the right of the Americans to fish on any part of the enest between Cape Ray and the Quiron a hands were referred to The Hague Tribunal. To this Lord. Elgin assented, pro- vided that the modus vivendi were ac- cepted, and: stated that no arrangement would be agreed to by the United States unless the right to employ colonial fish- ermen were allowed. Finally an order of Council was passed barring ::t penalization of Am- erican fishermen ho should ship colon- ials, and theac„i;•nial. Government was ordered to pubii.t: the order before the arrival of the American fleet. furless the Government had by than time accepted the modus •t-ivendi. On September 22nd. the Government reported that Premier Bond had refused to publish the order, and Lord. Elgin in reply orderc,d its ,iminediate pro- mulgation, adding that the colonial Government would not be supported in any attempt to service of process of American vessels. Finally, on Septem- ber the 24th, the order was published in the Royal Gazette. t ai rrrfXa]1C ,• ! perhaps it should be plural—is called. the "three in one." It is the invention of Madame Kennedy of West Thirty-ninth street, and bids fair to rival any bit of millinery that has made its appearance on New York streets in a long time. The "three in one" is really three sep- arate hats, so worn that when all three are on the head at the same time the ef- fect of onlyone hat is given. 'With the removaof the top layer of hat, an- other, entirely different in style, mater- ials and colors, is revealed, which, in its turn, can be removed from either of its predecessors and meant for wear on dif- ferent occa6ions from either of the others. So it happens, when madame goes out in the early morning wearing a dark velvet bat with staid plumes and what seems to be ehonx of ribbon and a few flowers for a bandeau trimming, sbene:ed not return home to change to a dainty lingerie affair for the reception later in the day. . The top layer can be sent home by messenger. Then, still later, if business or other matters keeps milady downtown she has only to unpin her lingerie hat, lift off the second layer and she is ready for any evening affair. Madame Kennedy's hats were made originally for Miss Helen Hale, who will use them in a little French song in . a Broadway show. Since her invention has proven such a success, however, Madame Kennedy believes that the stype will be- come, if not permanent, at least a decid- ed fad. PLAY' CARDS. PETERBORO CITIZENS OF PROMIN- ENCE ARRESTED. Caught in ,Midst of Merry Game of Poker, fnd Police Court Proceedings 'F "ollow—Proprietor Fined $poo._ ANGLICAN MISSIONS. Church Has Nearly eoo,000 Members in its Fourteen Dioceses. gone down deep enough in my in- vestigation. I now believe that this was sort of a clever advertising that proves attractive and fascinating, the same as a filthy divorce suit jams the courtroom. I didn't see any women who couldn't walk straight or see straight, but I'll bet many of them to -day are suffering from bad head- aches and throublod consciences. "But, instead of finding twenty- seven women drinking in the Pom- peian room as before, I found nearer 270, and instead of 8 per cent. of them drinking there were nearer 98 or 99 per cent. In the College Inn there were from 80 to 85 per cent. drinking. "In the Pomperian room I saw some old ripen who ought to have been home in bed with a hot brick at their feet to keep up a circulation trying to satisfy their jaded palates with a fresh sensation. And I saw some old, old girls with powder, jewelry, and finery trying to conceal the rav- ages of time, but they made a ghastly failure. "There were men with fat, droop- ing eyelids over bloodshot eyes, and there were stubby women with their fat lingers filled with rings. Then there were clerks receiving about $15 a week with everything on belonging to summer except straw hats, and girls with cheap shirtwaists and faded brown skirts who thduglrt they were in the swiin. They were becoming drunk, rough, and rowdy: "They call it the Pompeian room, but I cannot understand it. It is all out of accord, but looks pretty to those who pass away their time there. "The College Inn is nothing but a cellar. You go into the hold down marble stairs. If you want to attract the attention of a woman close by you rap your beer mug down on the table. Women light cigars for the men, and if a man wants to swear he just goes ahead. "It was the strangest preparation I ever made for a sermon. When I jumped into the bath this morning I was reeking with the odor of to- bacco. 'I dropped into the Congress for a little while, but that place won't ruin anyone. No sensible girl or woman would go there. "Women acquire drink habit quick- er than men. A man goes out nights and in the morning he goes back to work. The woman is still feeling bad and merely turns in bed, presses the button, and has the maid bring her more. But omnipotent public opin- ion has been aroused, and the day Will soon pass when the first thing the beautiful debutante learns is to drink whisky and gin. If they are putting booze in candy, cut out the gum drops, sister." pt:ai e Seven prominent citizens, iniong•wnom were two doctors and an insuranee agent, pleaded guilty to frequientir,g a common gaming house in the early morning of Monday, Qct. 7. This hoose, it is said, was the .relational .Hotel, To -day Police Magistrate Duna ble banded down his decision in the pro- secution of J. Regan, manager of the hotel, holding that no such house has been kept. It was shown at the trial of the man- ager for keeping, and of the proprietor, James A. Lawson, for selling liquor during prohibited hours, that the seven men had assembled hi a room of the hotel about midnight on • Sunday, Oct. 6. They had engaged in a. game of poker and had further, for their refresh- ment, 14 bottles of beer. Suddenly the License Inspector, ac- companied` by two policemen, entered. They found the seven players about the table, upon whieh were the cards, ehips and $113 in. cash, also the 14 hot - ties. The property was confiscated and the players arrested. • The latter were bailed out to appear Monday morning, when, at a special session of the Police Court, they pleaded guilty to "frequent. Eng," to avoid. publicity. Bach paid a fine of $60 and the money taken in the raid. was returned. The prosecution of the proprietor and. manager followed.. James Haver son, K. C., of Toronto, defended both cases. He argued that as there had been but one sitting it could not be said that the place was "kept," and it was further shown that no rake-off was taken. 7.'he proprietor was fined $100 for selling during prohibited hours. ct..� Peterbo;re Toronto, Oct. 21..—According to statis- tics prepared by Hon. S. H. Blake, K. C., for the meeting of the Executive Board of the Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada, the number of members of the church in its 14 mission- ary dioceses is, white 175,404, Indians 21;125, Eskomos 760, Chinese 41 and Japanese 10, or in all 197,340. It is Mr. Blake's opinion that tate whole question as between the white and foreign population should be reconsid- ered. The church is responsible for 3,000 Eskimos, and 147r. Blake thinks that two men should be sent to live among them, at a cost of $5,500. POISONED HIS FOOD. Cowardly Attempt to Kill Norman Walker, a Rancher. North Battleford, Oct. 21.. --Norman Walker, a homesteader living near Rad d}axon, is the victim of some desperate enemy, who seeks his life by poisoning. Two attempts have already been made by secreting strychnine in his food dur- ing itis absence from his shack, the poi- son being placed in the tea kettle, in condensed mall, and also in his potatoes, prepared to rearm up. All were unsuc- cessful,. as Walker noticed the peculiar flavor in each case, However, enough ,it is reported that at least forty of the poison was taken into Itis• system to children were injured. carnse his temporary oo1iapse. FOOLISH WOMEN. SHOT A SUSPECT. CANADA'S DEVELOPMENT. DOMINANT NOTE AT CHICAGO PRESS CLUB LUNCHEON. Cy. Warman, the Magazine Writer, Guest_ of Honor—H. R. Charlton, of Grand. Trunk, Presented With Jeweled Pin. Chicago report: This was a distinct- ly Canadian day at the Chicago Press Club. Two hundred members entertain- ed Cy-, Warman at luncheon, and at the same time presented Mr. II. R. Charlton, of the Grand Trunk Raihvay system, with a beautiful jewel -studded pin and a paid membership to the club. Presi- dent Jolrn Flynn presided, with Forest Crissy, of the Saturday Evening Post, as toastmaster. The dominant note in all the s,:aeches was Canada and the new devi :opulent, with which Mr. War- man has been identif: d. All the speakers were agreed that lir. Warman's work in the magazines and newspapers had been a considerable factor in the intro- duction of the twentieth century Cana- da to the reading public of the United States. At the guest table besides Mr. Flynn, Mr. Crissy, the guest of honor, and Mr. Charlton, were Mr. S. E. Kiser (the poet), Herbert Vaudorhoof, Judge John G. Bradwell and Charles Eugene Banks. mo@ A SENSATIONAL TRAGEDY AT WIN- NIPEG YESTERDAY. MINISTER TELLS OF VISIT TO POMPEIAN ROOM. Oscar Gans, Suspected of Stealing Furs, Refuses to Halt at Officer's Order, and is Killed by Detective Smith. Says Crowd Was Tawdry—Details of Midnight Visit to Cafes Recount- ed by Pastor in Sermon. DARK DEEDS. KEEWATIN INDIANS STRANGLE AND BURN SICK FRIENDS. Dreadful Story Told by Police Contr,is- sioner Perry Indians Did Not Pre- tend. That the Victims Were Pos- sessed of Evil Spirits—They Were Just Old and Useless. Winnipeg, Oct. 21.—The arrival of Commissioner A. Bowen Perry, R. N. W. M. P., and his party in Winnipeg last night from Norway house disclosed a. terrible story of wholesale strangling and burning in the region of Keewatin district, just above the northeast corner of the Province of Manitoba. The Commissioner held his court in the Connell chamber of the H. B. Company's fort at Norway. house on Monday, Oct. 7. Two Pesequan chiefs of the, Sucker band of Sabres= Indians were to have been tried, but Chief Jack. strangled and cleverly throttled himself to death a few days before the arrival of the Commissioner at Norway House.. His brother, Joseph Fiddler, was tried,. and participation in several devilish murders was proved against him, par- ticularly that of his kinswoman, Mrs'. Thomas Fiddler, and a man named lienewascum, whom he helped to strangle twenty days after he strangled the little squaw. Two brothers named Eyelids awl Angus Rae gave most sensational evi- deuce, and specifically described five strangulations and burniugs in which they had participated. The bodies in two instances were quietly buried by these Raes, but in the other three they were thrown on a huge fire. In one in- stance the strangulation was not com- plete, and was not intended to be, for the victim was bound with leather thongs and placed on a platform over the fire, and his bonds burst with the heat, and the poor fellow, all in flames„ ran howling through the woods. He was despatched with shotguns by his friends. Joseph. Fiddler was sentenced to be hanged on Jan. 7 next, and the pollee will again make a long trip to Sandy Lake and fetch back the Rae and Meekis families, implicated in these tragedies. Angus Rae has been detained at the fort,. and will likely be arraiemed as soon as the police return from their 800 -mile walk with the other prisoners and wit'- aesses, Eyelids will be sent back to the far north with this detachment to tell the news of what is to happen to stran- glers. Four of the principal culprits have been accounted for—namely, Chief Jack. ,, strangled by his own hand; Joseph Pese- quan, sentenced to death; .David Meekis, ,. strangled and burned by his broth: '•,., and the lues, and Angus Rae, the mur- derer of elenewascum, now at Norway Route, charged with murder also. The supuratition that the victims were possessed of evil spirits was not played ,. up very strongly by the Indians giving , evidence. Their ' priueipal object eonuniteing these eiuuee, it appeals, was to get rid of sick and useless friends. and it is thought that the executioners.. were paid for the job by the interested parties, such, for instance, as the squaw of Menewaselnn, . The practice of this Chicago, Oat. 21.—The Rev. Fred- method of thuggery is apparently con- erick E. Hopkins, pastor of the Pil- fined to the Crane and Sticker bands, re- . grim Congregational Church, in clos�- sident at Little Trout, Sandy and 1Red Eng his series of 'sermons on "booze,' .Deer Lakes in the district of Keewatin. The execution of the sentence on Joseph: as he prefers to name intoxicants, 1'esequan will take place at the Mount - crusade convincethat his d ira haft midnight N5 Northrope, . Toronto, ' p the 'C to ed Police barracks on the NorwayHouse tions were not so bad as had been lar] forgery. T 1 g Island of the Nelson River. The in- , represented to trim. to registered at quest on the body of the suicide chief "When planning my trip to the \\ 7 T til K O 11 was boll by to:muissioner Petry and: Pompeian room of the Auditorium a verdict was returned accordingly on Annex and the College Inn I figured •l� t y q 7 Bank H Oct. S. upon seeing more hilarity and vul- garity than really was there," the preacher said. as expected secs women lying around under the Crown Attorn y y, Old Ludy '(in tears, to doctor) ---til.:• tables in a limp and helpless con- partners nr n. patent a, p j —will you poiso;r my d. tr lit]» lii.t.lr., dation; expected'' then to throw their 1 t t f r t a Pia? He's in eitolt—such agonyI across � room, and expect- ect- "l g 1 Doctor (politely)—With ploasrtro. slippers the x p madam, ed the orgies td go on until sheer the guilty n , 1 Old Lady (i:tiii.:t=r tl�) With exhaustion brought the horny to ata end• Allan, J. P., remanded the lirisone.r till• pleasure, YO. r t et\, r••sfoc}ing man l ' wr• Then urou eha t'+ l; had ktlerl ;told that I had not Tlrursda't Winnipeg; Oct. 21.—A sensational shooting affray occurred on Francis street this morning, when Detective Smith shot and killed a gran named Os- car Gane, whom he was pursuing in an effort to effect his arrest. Gans was be- lieved to be a professional thief whom the police have been watching for sev- eral days. This morning while he was endeavoring to dispose of some furs at a tailor shop Detective Smith arrived, and Gans at once took flight. The detective gave chase, calling upon him to stop, but the hatter continued running, even after the detective had fired several shots. Finally he dived in- to an alley, and as he disappeared into a yard Smith shot hint through the head, killing him almost instantly. Smith was later placed under arrest. The ocurrenee created a great sensation here. BY POLAR BEAR TRAIN. Capt. Amundsen Will Travel to the North in State. New. York, Oct. 21,—Capt. Roald Amundsen, the Arctic explorer, who ar- rived to -day on the Oscar: ll., said he will make au attempt to reach the north pole in 1010. He announced that he is having four big polar bears trained to haul sleds by an expert in Hamburg and intends to use them in the far north. He also said that he and his friends' are going to petition Presiclent Roosevelt and the United States Government to allow the vessel C;jao, in which be navi- gated the northwest passage in 1004, to be the first to pass through the Panama Canal upon its completion. The Gjao formerly was a whaling vessel, 794 tons, and is now undergoing repairs in the Mare Island navy yard at San Fran- cisco. It was •during the northwest pas- sage trip that Captain Amundsen discov- ered the north magnetic pole. A QUEER PARTNERSHIP, Walter Northrope, Toronto, Charged With Forgery. Catharines, Ont. Oct. 21.' --Waltzer Nor rope, oron •o, is 'n se . of on en a charge oforger Ten days ago I i d the Village Inn Grims- by. as � , . = c a,y, Orangeville, and when leaving gave Proprietor Kennedy a Cheque on tie. San . of Ham - Mon; Orangeville, for $40, signing Mr. McKay's name. Northcote claims that he and Mr. McKay, who is the Ctounty Attorney of Defferie Count are apple peeler, and he was detecting, in riegeme tts = ofpat- ent, signing Mr.. 116Kay's aye name, peeetus.e nes would eec.o ;nine lis sig- nature. Reeve Mitchell and William d "I had t d to LOST THE' TOB.