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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-18
A BROKEN RAIL.
1t Wrecks Passenger Train and
Causes Serious Disaster.

1t Wrecks a Passenger Train and
Causes Serious Disaster.
CLEVELAND. O., Jan. ia passen-
ger train on the Lake Erie & Western
railroad was wrecked this morning near
Bluffton, o., by broken rail. The 10
connective and baggage car ran over the
break all right, but the smoker and Ia
dies car turned over On their sides and
were dragged nearly half mile before
the train was stopped. Albert Gilbert,
travelling man from FoStOria, o.,
jumped from the front platform of the
smoker and the car tOppled over on
him. crushing him to death. The cars
took fire from the stoves after the
wreck, and it was only by heroic exer-
tions on the part of the train men that
fearful loss of life was prevented.
Frank MayO's "Nordeck" company was
on the train and several of the actors
were hurt. Following is list of the
dead and injured:
KILLED.
ALBERT GILBERT, Fostoria, o.
INJURED.
F;,W. REDDING, of Findlay, O., seriously
G. il. WAYS, of Findlay, badly hurt about
the head.
c. YOUNG, of Findlay. badly cut on legs.
The following members of the Mayo
company were injured:
MISS FRANCES GRAHAM, ankle dislo-
Gated and back sprained.
EDWIN NOLOD. left hand crushed and
afterwards amputated.
NEIL GRAY, cut on the head.
ROBERT NEIL, thrown through window
and badly bruised about head and face.
LAWRENCE JOHNSTON, right arm
broken.
J. C. Harley, head badly cut with glass.
This is the first accident in sixteen
has been killed.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-18
STILL GROWING.
The List Of Dead About .YanktOn
Increasing in Proportions.
Special to the Globe.


Special to the Globe
YANKToN, Dak., Jan. 1.-THE list of
dead who perished in the snow con-
tinues to increase in number. Your
correspondent has carefully Investigated
all reports which have been received
thus far, and has only confined his
work to Dakota counties lying within
twenty-five miles of Yankton, as
many more are missing, the major
ity of whom are probably dead.
NJ rs. Wilson, of Running Water, a
teacher in a school twelve miles from
Tyndall, has been found on the prairie
eight miles from Tyndall with nine of
her school children, all dead. One was
the child of Matthew Weisser, three of
Christian Kafel and five of George Gil
short. A. J. Winters, of La Crosse,
Wis; J.O .Robyson,of Yankton; Joseph
KOcOrk, farmer; Nels HALLIBURTON. farm
er; Mrs. Frank Bambos, a farmers
wife. In Hutchinson county, w. B.
Headley, of Parkston, and two boys of
John TebelinS were frozen to death.
p. II. Sweet and wife and five children,
near Olivet, were out in the storm
fifteen hours and
WE'RE BADLY FROZEN.
Some of them will die. Four deaths
are reported from Douglas county.
Lizzie Dwyer, of Turner county,
was lost in the storm re-
turning from school and her body
found Friday. Near Freeman, in Hutch
insOn county, five school children were
found frozen to death, three belonging
to John Kaufman, one to John Albrecht
John Gums was found on the prairie
frozen to death. Several parties are
missing. Wesley Kocorek, an aged Bo-
hemian farmer living about ten miles
northwest of Tabor, was found
on Friday morning in Creek Valley
frozen to death. His team had not been
found yesterday morning. A man, who
came by the Cooley rancho in Bou
HOmme county yesterday, says that in
COOley'S heavy timber he counted 200
frozen cattle, besides large number of
hogs. On section known among the
Bohemians as Wiborny's land, north of
Tabor, through which small creek
runs, 40 head of cattle frozen stiff were
counted yesterday in the creek valley.
Farmers say that
= DEAD CATTLE AND HOGS
in large numbers may be seen on either
side of the road between Yankton and
Bon Homme. The loss of live stock
seems to be the greatest through that
section. The body of Frantz Weifener,
who was found frozen to death near
Utica, was brought to this city this
morning to await the arrival of rela-
tives of the deceased from st.
Helena, Neb. The corpse is frozen
stiff and when struch gives forth a
metallic sound. Divided into counties
the fatalities, as far as verified, are:
Hutchinson, Z; YanktOn, 8; Bon
A..
all i sections ' of Bon Homme and Hutch
inson counties parties are reported miss
ing, and there is more than probable
ity that they are numbered with the
dead. All persons missing at this date
since the storm may be classed among
the victims of the blizzard. This will
largely increase the death roll.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-18
A Big Mining Case.

CHICAGO, Jan. 17.-Judge Collins to-
day dissolved the injunction issued I'm
the case Edwin B. Palmer against Jo-
seph w. Haskin, Dec. 10, 1856, and dis
missed the case for want of equity. The
case was one of considerable import.
ance and was brought by Palmer ia
compel the defendant to deliver to him
stock in the Atlas Mining company of,
the value of S24O,OOO Haskin and'
others claimed they developed the
mines, which are thirty-two miles
northwest from Tucson, Ariz.. and or
ganized the Atlas Mining company, the
capital stock of which was 5000, 600.
Haskin was the original owner of the
mines and agreed to give half the stock
to the organizers if they were success.
full. The decision is regarded as a com
plete refutatiOn of the charges made
against Mr.. Haskin when the injunc-
tiOn was granted.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-18
JOSIE HOLMES.
She Tells Her Story Regarding
the Fidelity Bank Frauds.

CINCINNATI, Jan. H.-SOmething of a
sensation was created in the Hopkins
trial in the United States court to-day
when Miss Josie Holmes, the exchange
clerk of the late Fidelity bank and Har-
per's confidential secretary, was called
to the witness stand. She delivered her
testimony with no apparent reluctance,
and was Self-pOSSeSsed, clear and busi-
ness-like in all her statements. She ex-
planned how the questionable drafts
used in the wheat deal we're made, by
saying that Hopkins would bring HOyt,
the broker, to her desk and tell her to
make out the exchange and he Hop
kins) would give her his check, which
he told her to take to Harper to have it
made good. She told one after another
of numerous letters of credit, drafts,
ETC., which she wrote or prepared at
Hopkins suggestion, but for which
nothing was ever given except Hopkins
memorandum check. Once when Hop
klns asked her in the directors room to
tlll out the credit ticket for Irwin.
Greene & o.for S2S5, 600, President Swift
came in, and Mr.. Hopkins asked her to
go to her desk to complete the work.
She had frequent conversations with
Hopkins about the wheat deal and
about the price of wheat. He bought
$4,000 bushels for her She supposed it
was present, for she gave nothing for
it. He used to tell her how much she
was making as wheat went up. She
wanted to sell at "a cents, but Hopkins
advised her to hold. Soon after it went
down. Being asked if she had any
memorandum of that purchase, she said:
mo, l destroyed it when the market
broke 20 cents buShel." She went on
to tell how she wrote kilograms at Hop
kins' dictati0n concerning the wheat
deal, and in many other ways connected
him with the transactions. An effort
was made by the defense to show that
Harper bought the $4,000 bushels of
wheat that stood in her name, but she
maintained that Mr.. Hopkins told her
all she knew about it, and that he man
aged the matter. Her cipher letters TO
Harper were produced and she identi-
fed them. One of them was read to the
jury. She told how Mr.. Hopkins son
obtained those letters. He was the mes
senger and betrayed his trust. She
never mentioned his name i'm speaking
of him. but always referred to him as
"Mr. Hopkins son.
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the time for dismissal the blizzard,
which swept across the level prairies of
Nebraska with fury which can hardly
be conceived of by those who have never
experienced it, struck the school house
with such force as to tear the door from
its hinges. Another terrific gust struckthe
building, and in the twenkling of an
eye it carried away the roof, leaving the
frightened little ones exposed to the ele-
ments. The time for prompt action had
arrived, but the plucky teacher was
equal to the emergency. She gathered
her pupils together, and securing a
coil of strong, heavy twine, began with
the largest ones and tied them all to-
gether by the arm three abreast. Taking
the youngest in her arms, she tied the
end of the twine around her own body,
and with all the words of encourage
ment she could muster, started out into
the storm. Selecting her way carefully
the brave girl led her little charges
through the snow drifts and the blind
ing blizzard, and after a wearisome
journey of three-quarters of mile the
little band reached the threshold of a
farm house and were taken in.
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Attempted Wife Murder.

CINCINNATI, Jan. 17.-Otto Sander,
alias William Franklin, brickmaker,
is accused of having made wilful at
tempt to kill his wife, to whom lie was
married only three months ago. They
have been living apart for some time.
To-day he asked his wife to come to
see him at his mothers house. She
came and the two were in his room nearly
an hour, when two pistol shots were
heard and Sander soon afterward left
the house. His mother called the police
and the young wife was found by them
on the floor, bleeding to death from
pistol shot wound in her mouth. She
was taken to the hospital and her case
is said to be hopeless.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-18
KEEPS BODY.
1t Is Exhumed and Identified by
His Alleged Wife.

LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y, Jan. H.
Coroner Robinson, of this city, last
night granted the application of Mrs.
Mary T. Keep to have the body of
Charles d. Keep, the late proprietor of
the Wall Street News, exhumed. and is
sued summons to the authorities Of
Calvary cemetery to open the grave and
take up the casket. This morning the
order was carried out and the casket
taken to a receiving vault, where in the
presence of Mrs. Keep, Coroner Robin
son and a reporter, it was opened.
Though the body was evidently in an.
advanced state of decomposition, the
features were perfect almost as in life,
and Mrs. Keep Immediately recognized
the body as that of her deceased hus-
band. Being satisfied that her theory
that Mr.. Keep was still alive was wrong,
Mrs. Keep requested that the body be
kept in the receiving vault for few
days, until she could see the coroner
and district attorney of Monmouth
county, New Jersey, in relation to the
holding of an investigation to ascertain
whether MIR. Keep was the victim of
foul play or not. Immediately after
wards Mrs. Keep tainted and remained
unconscious for some time. A detect
tive, said to have been sent by Ms.
Keep No. 2,was present, but did nothing
further than watch the proceedings.
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THE BUILDING IN FLAMES,

The basement and first and second
floors of the buildings were wrapped in
flames when the firemen arrived, and
the dense smoke which filled the build
ing and poured from every door and
window made any attempt to enter ut
terly impossible. Many of the en-
plOyes on the upper floors barely es-
capped with their lives by the firemen's
ladders. one of them losing conscious
ness from suffocation. Not a cents
worth of the large stock was saved, but
the papers of the firm and part of the
fixtures of the office, located in the cor
ner fartheSt from where the fire rOrigi-
mated, were gotten out. Three elevator
shafts and stairway huting the build
ing from top to bottom afforded
AN EXCELLENT DRAUGHT.
and in less than quarter of an hour
the flames were drawn up and shot
through the roof. The fire was totally
uncomfortable from the first. Thirteen
streams played upon it, coming from
every direction, but the water seemed
to be evaporated by the intense heat.
The flames burst almost instantaneously
from every side, and the heat drove the
firemen back to the opposite side of the
street. The plate-glass windows in the
stores of the Ryan Drug company and
Foote, SchulZe d Co., across Fourth
street, and in Yanz, Griggs & Hawes,
across WacOuta street, cracked and fell
in. Once the window castings in the
upper floor of the store of YanZ, Griggs
& Hawes caught fire, but the firemen
put it out with chemicals from
the inside. A double fire wall, separat-
ing the burning building from the six,
story clothing store of Burbank Il Co.
adjoining Oh the west side, amply pro-
tected against spread in that direc-
tiOn, and Burbank d Co. escaped with a
slight scorching. The police were on
hand in force and kept the crowd back
at safe distance, averting any catas-
trophe by falling walls. The flames ate
their way through the wooden jOistS
with terrific speed, and floor after floor
fell crashing down with a boom that
sounded for blocks around. The front
ard rear walls stood firm, but the
! on the Wacouta street side
warped out and hung in tOttering
uncertainty, until the top floor gave
way, when it fell outward, filling the
street with a debris of brick and mortar
five feet thick. Several fremen mar
rowly escaped being buried beneath the
falling wall. At $50 o'clock all danger
of spreading cOnf1agration was over,
and the firemen had the burning mass
of ruins well in hand. There is no sal
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-18

Total insurance of stock. ........ S29s, 900
The furniture and fixtures of the store
were insured for $1,000 with the Ameri-
can Insurance company, of New York,
making total insurance of 1908, 600 car
ried by Beaupre, Keogh & Co.
THE BURNED BUILDING.
The building was a five-Story and
basement of red brick, fronting 100 feet
ON Third street and cornerlng ON Wa
cOuta. 1t was built in 1881, and cost
about $92, ZOO. Ferdinand and Gustav
WilliuS, of the German-American bank,
owned the east Seventy-five feet of the
building. Their loss is about $40, 900, and
they are insured for 100000. Robert
s. RantOul owned the remaining twen-
ty-five feet, which was separated from
the Willius part by fire wall, through
which arches were cut. Mr.. RautOul'S
loss is $22, 600, and he is insured for $10,-
600, having allowed $4,000 insurance to
lapse recently. Most of the insurance
on the buildings was placed with COM
panies represented by the agency of
Weed 81 Lawrence.
The damage to the building occupied
by YanZ, Griggs & Howes is about
$4,000: to Foote, Schulze & Co., about
$4,000, and to Burbank 81 Co., about
$1,000; all these firms being fully in
ouiCus lDCCC CSlluldlcS tilC tOtd1
loss by the fire an even S4O0, 900, and the
insurance s37S, 900.
HOW IT STARTED.
No person pretendS to know where
the fire started, but it was somewhere
in the basement of the RantOul build
ing. A gas engine used to propel the
elevators was located in this basement,
and 1t is thought that the gas reservoir
exploded. The fire was not discovered
until the entire basement was in flames.
For some reason the firemen were mn
able to get stream higher than the
fourth story of the building. This was
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-18
Ran His Own Case.

CINcNNATI, Jan. IA special from
Lawrenceburg, Ind. says that Krona,
the eccentric Swede who was last night
arrested by Chicago detective fol
swindling at Peru, Ind. conducted his
own case in the magistrates court and
was discharged, as the statute OF limita-
tlons came to his relief. He showed fa-
miliarity with the court proceedings.
He then compromised his obligations to
the Peru people by giving his notes for
$500. which he said he would redeem
Jan. 25. Finding that his mother-in-law
had been talking to the detective he as
saulted her and drove her screaming
from the house. Later he attempted
suicide, but was prevented by members
of his family.
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due partly to an inadequate water sup
ply. The water mains are only twelver
inch pipe, and with thirteen engines at
cient pressure.
While the ruins were still burning
Mr.. Keogh announced that the firm
had rented stores from the St. Paul
Storage and Forwarding company, Nos.
$50 to 3S9 East Third street, and would
continue business as usual. Gustave
Willius said last night that it was en-
tlrely probable that the ruins would be
cleared away at once and larger and
much more imposing building erected
on the spot.
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dicated that he met death while pray
FOUR PERISHED.

AiA5s
FOUR PERISHED.
Special to the Globe.
/ MILLER, Dak., Jan. 17.-Reports from
the outside limits of the county are
very slow about coming in. We will
probably hear of still more deaths, but
we are now positive that four are vic
tins of the terrible storm, and have
pretty positive evidence that two OF
three others are also. The known dead
are j. M. GOwlee, Alexander ThOmp-
SON, Maggie Dunn and Mr.. HOltz.
AT PIERRE.
Special to the Globe,
PIERRE, Dak., Jan. 17.-NO trains
have reached here since last Tuesday.
The train that has been showed in at
HighmOre for week worked to within
five miles of here last night, when the
engine and plOw went in ditch.
A wrecker started from Huron this
morning, but was showed in at High
more all day. 1t is expected the track
will be cleared at II O'clock tonight
and the first mail for the week will ar
rive. Commissioner Mcclure was on
the snow bound train, and walked i'll
from the wreck last night. No deaths
or cases OF suffering are reported in this
vicinity. The weather is mOderating.
The wind is from the south.
HIGHMORE CASUALTIES.
Special to the Globe.
HIGHMoRE, Dak., Jan. lit is true
that Sister Wilemina was frozen to
death at Stephen mission Thursday
forenoon last. She was returning from
the home of the priest and was over
taken by the blizzard. When found she
was standing up against the fence with
which the quarter section is surrounded.
She was still alive, but died that night.
Two Indian boys who were sent to
look for her became lost but were found
in time to save them. The wife of An
thony Haby, of North Hyde county,
helped her husband do the chores. and
started for the house. She has not been
seen since. 1t is reported that one of
the Squirting brothers, in North Hyde
county, is frozen to death.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-18
A Fatal Collision.

ROCHESTER,, N. Y, Jan. IA col
lisiOn occurred early this morning on
the Erie railroad between Avoca and
Ramona. Train No. 11S from Rochester
dashed into train No. 1O7 coming from
the east. Engineer Maynard, of train
No. 107, one of the oldest engineers on
the line, was killed outright and a fire.
man named Marsh was seriously in
jured. Several passengers are reported
injured, but precise facts are at this
time unODtainable.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-18
Want Higher Wages,

PITTsBURG, Pa, Jan. ia commit
tee representing the Brotherhood of Lo-
cOmOtive Engineers of the Pennsylvania
ia cOmpany's lines, called upon Manager
Baldwin this afternoon and presented
a petition for an advance in wages.
I This, together with the conductors,
in the hands of the officials, for an in
crease in wages, shows that the move
ment is a general one.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-18

Duncan has attracted considerable no
tice here from the fact that she was for
many years resident of this city. She
came to Hudson in the spring of 1851
from Erie, Pa, in company with Ezekiel
Chambers and wife, and resided here
until 1859 or 1860, when she went to
Lake City, Minn. 1t was understood
that she was an aunt of Mrs. Cham
bers-had taken care of her when a
child and assisted in taking care of
household affairs, etc. 1t was during
this time that Mr.. Buchanan was
elected president. Mrs. Chambers be-
came widow, went to California and
again married and now resides in San
Francisco.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-18
Their Troubles Over.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 17.-One of the
first acts of the president this morning
was to attach his signature to the COM
missions of Mr.. Justice Lamar, Secre-
tary Villas and Postmaster General
Dickinson, each of whom called at the
White house during the morning and
received his commission. Messrs. Villas
and Dickinson subsequently took the
oath of Office and were duly installed in
time to attend the cabinet meeting at
noon to-day as full-fedged members.
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Minnesota Patents.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE follow
ing Minnesotans were granted patents
to-day: Frederick b. Barrows, Duluth,
coal scoop; John Cable: cable elevator
and self-loading conveyor; Daniel II.
Denton. Tower, miners grip for tram
cars; Willis NJ. Derby, Minneapolis,
lubricatOr; Harvey NJ. Little. st. Paul,
track scraper for railways; Clarence
Thresher, Winona, feathering paddle
wheel; Henry M. Young, Minneapolis,
apparatus for preventing fires.
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A PLUCKY TEACHER.
How She Saved the Lives of Hel
Little Pupils.

Special to the Globe.
OMAHA, Neb., Jan. III. I'll. Aver,
of Ord, Neb., and one of the secretaries
of the state board of transportation, to-
day told an interesting story Of the
pluck and good judgment exhibited by
young lady school teacher, of Valley
county, during the recent storm. When
last Thursdays blizzard came up, the
teacher, Miss Minnie Freeman, who is
still in her teens, was in the little school
house of Myra valley district with thir-
teen pupils, ranging in age from six to
fifteen years. About an hour before
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from DoA -. at the corner of Third and
WaeOuta streets, at 4::27 o'clock.
The engines of the district
responded, and in five min
utes more a combination second and
third alarm was turned in, and then a
general alarm, bringing the entire de-
partment and every piece of apparatus
in the city to the burning building
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A Train Ditched.

FINDLEY, o., Jan. IA passenger
train was wrecked at Mount Cary, near
here, this morning. All the cars were
ditched. Allen Gilbert was killed, and
twenty-five others were injured, none
fatally
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-18
Forged Contracts.

: Boston, Jan. I7.-Walter F. Gregg,
jeweler at SO Bromfield street, was ar
rested to-day charged with obtaining
$4,000 worth of diamonds, watches, etc.,
from M. Davis and the II. A. Prentice
company by means Of forged contracts.
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Maroa's Heavy LOSS

CHICAGO, Jan. T.-Fire at Maroa,
ILL.,, yesterday destroyed property in
the business portion of the village
amounting to $4,000. The total insur-
ance amounts to only $4,000.
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GROCERIES GONE UP.
Total Destruction by Fire of
Beaupre, Keogh & Co.'s
Wholesale Store,
Involving a Loss on Stock
and Building of
900.
The Flames Supposed to Have
Started in a Gas Engine
Explosion.
Store Rooms Rented and the
Firm Will Begin Bust
ness at Once.

BIG FIRE in
[ h e wholesale
! district, W hic.h
;as been the bug
| ear Of Insurance
men and fire Off
cialS for many
years, loomed up
yesterday with a
vengeance. The
wholesale grocery
house of Beaupre.
keogh x Co. was
entirely gutted,
entailing a total
loss. including
slight damnge to
surrOu n d i II G
buildings of S4O0-
600. An alarm of
fire was turned in
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A Montreal Blaze.

MONTREAL, Jan. 17.-Fire broke out
on st. James street this morning. The
cold weather hampered the firemen, and
two buildings were gutted. Loss, $780,
600; partially insured.