The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-10-15

would direct themselves as a ballot box
guard to defend the purity of the Amer
lean ballot box; TO stand around it as
friends at the CT lie of our heir apparent
of American sovereignty; such guardi-
ans and such defenders will keep tie re-
public pure and keep it free. Young
gentlemen, your visit 10 me is g compli.
ment of the highest sort, and while it
descendants me, as l said little while
ago, it still reaches the hand of youth
out to me, which take with all cordial
ity and earnestness, and tor your tender
support 10 me, which is not for my sake,
but for the sake of the cause of which
am now the representative, / give you
al! the thanks of which my heart is Ca
pablo (Applause.) The house is small,
the farm is small, the township is small,
the county is a small one but all in it
! TO give, of generosity, and hospitality
and welcome, that is in my hands 10
give, is yours while you stay. ZAP
| plause.) bid you welcome TO all there
is of US, gentlemen.
Slain by Steam.
| PTTTsBURa, Oct. 10-After the break
ing up OF the big demonstration in this
city few minutes before IL O'Clock this
morning, frightful accident occurred
ON the Pennsylvania read inside the city
limits. The Walls accommodation train
for the east collided with the Greensburg
special west at Twenty-eighth street,
about east of the Union depot. Even at
the slow speed at which the trains run
at this point the shock was terrific.
Both engines and several cars were bad
ly wrecked. A mistake in the signals
caused the calamity. Up to this hour
eighteen deaths have occurred, and the
doctors have but little hopes of the re-
coVery of some fifteen others, who are in
the list of the dangerously wounded. II
is likely that at least five of this number
will die before midnight. 1t is said by
witnesses that the scene was one of the
most horrible that they had ever wit
messed.
THE sHRIEKs OF THE WOUNDED,
who were unable TO extricate themselves
from the cars were appalling. The real
car, on which all the killed and wound
8 ed were, was telescoped by the engine
' drawing the second train, and after the
, collision the cylinder head blew out, and
the escaping steam poured over the poo
D imprisoned victims until deatl
: stiIled some of their cries
I and until the car could be broker
open and the others released. This cal
contained at least seventy five people no
c more than a dozen of whom escapes
e WItHOuI INJURY AT IcdSI OHc HOu
! elapsed before the last of the victim
were released. Mayor Liddell was sum
q mOned from his Office, where he haC
o Just finished review of the Dem1crati
procession, and hastily collected tore
: of physicians and policemen and II
paired to the scene of the accident
which was only three-quarters of mil
!. from the mayors office. Upon reachin
the grounds everything that was possibl
s. to be done for the injured was done b
= the attending physicians. The acci len
IS occurred just facing the West Pennsyl
vania hospital, and all the wounded an
dead were at once carried to the hospita
IL and all that humanity could do to reiiev
e. their Sufferings was done. Several c
D. those who died today were terribl
scalded, and their sufferings intense.
1t is thought by midnight the dea
p will number twenty-five. The coroner
" jury are trying to discover to whom Ii
% blame is attributable. 1t appears ths
the rear end of the coach was jamme
oi with passengers, unable to find seats il
I'd side, and that the crowd hid the re
ut signal, and the approaching engine di
70 not discover the first train until wit
in few feet of it, TO late to reverse ar
eo prevent collision.