Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-26
EXTRAORDINARILY LINE.

l INTER.CONTINEN LINE.
 What the London Times Thinks oi
 the Proposed Project to Build . Railroad From North to South | Amerfca-A Chance for Hts Realiza. ton Should Blaine Become Presf. dent.
 LONDON, Aug. 25.-The Times to-day | publishes three column article upon the projected inter-continental railroad which, when completed, will link the South and Central American republics with each other and with the United States. In dis cussing these plans the Times expresses the opinion that Mir. James G. Blaine, the United States secretary of state, is 'tman of grandiose ideas, and if, as it seems quite possible, he is the next president, there will be some chance of realizing the scheme" Continuing the Times says that the project aims to join the markets of North and South America, but there is no place for general commercial system, even in the relations between these several republics.
 The railroad, when completed, would have to compete with the great water ways on either side of the continent, from Buenos Ayres to New York and isting means of transit are simpler and cheaper than they could every be made on a rail. l.route. It is obvious that the scheme equally has political as we'll as commercial ends in view. To join the North and Sonth American republics, even though the first outward signs of union will be nothing but an iron rail, with the supreme center of the republican government at Washington is description of captivating magnitude. The Times also asserts that the recent proposals on the light of the United States looking to the establishment of reciprocity with various republics of the continent are generally received by the countries to which overtures are made as specimens of absolutely cynical anglo-Saxon selfshness and that the proposals created a profound distrust in American bargains.
 Touching on the question as to where the capital is to be found for the enormous enterprise the Times expresses the opinion that it cannot be found in the needy southern republics and that it must be raised in the United States. The latter would be obliged to guarantee the interest on the cost of construction, and there is strong conviction that the United States would recupe itself for this guarantee at the expense of the countries further south. Many people of practical opinion, the Times says, believe that the scheme will never be realized. The price demanded by the United States for the guaran- teeing of the bonds of the railroad would be in commercial and political con- sessions which the other republics could not grant. The United States is re- garded as the rival of England, and as the states of the southern half of the conti- nent were developed by English capital, there exists an important party which re- gards any step towards closer commercial and political relations with the United States as step away from an old and trusted friend.
 Killing Frosts fin the Northwest.
 ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 25.-Telegraphic advices received from points in Northwest ern Wisconsin, Minnesota and Northern Dakota detail the damage to crops by the frost Sunday night. The small grains are not damaged to any extent much of the standing wheat being ripe or beyond the period when frost would damage it. After the first scare is over it will probably be found that the damage is not great enough to seriously hurt the size or grade of the berry, save in the fields that were back ward. Corn and small crops have been seriously damaged.
 THE PARK PLACE DISASTER. Large Crowds Gathered Around the
 Ruins - Fifty-two Bodies Taken
 From the Ruins-Cause of the Disas-
 ter Being Investigated.
 NEW YORK, Aug. 25.-It seems that the ifv ct fba ,,,,h1ia aI vance of the work in the ruins. Several hundred people pressed against the fire lines at daybreak this morning and at 8 o'clock the crowd was greater than it was on the day after the disaster at the same hour. At g o'clock it looked as if there was 5000 within few blocks of Park place, College place and Greenwich street. The rush for the fre-lines was as strong as ever and fifty policemen under the com mand of Captains Slevin and Eakins had all they could do to keep back the curiosi- ty seekers.
 The morbid ones expected that the re- moval of the presses would at once disclose a hundred bodies and the more eager among them were anxious to see Park place as it would appear when filled with the dead.
 NEW YORK, Aug. 26, 1:45 a. m.-Fifty- two bodies have been taken from the ruins in Park Place. Thirty-nine have been positively identified and one partially. Thomas J. Brady, superintendent of the bureau of building inspection, had no new light this morning to throw on the causes of the disaster. He sent his second assist ant, Isaac Mackinley, to the scene of the wreck to remain there watching the walls of the still ill-standing portion of the build ing, and of the building adjoining on the other side. If these walls should show any signs of falling, MT. Mackinley was to report the matter to the fire chief superin- tending the removal of the debris, who in turn was to have the walls pulled down if he had the power to do so.
 MT. Brady has completed his personal investigation of the ruins, but has not yet framed his report. He said that would be l the work of several days. His investiga- ton, he declared, had confirmed his original opinion that an explosion was the cause of the calamity. The rapidity witl which the flames shot through all portions | of the mass of fallen masonry showed, ir | his opinion, the presence of some gaseous explosive. He thought this explosive wal l either naphtha or benzine, stored in Louis Rosenfield's paint and bronze store in the
 basement of the collapsed structure. He hat
 learned that sometimes as much as two
 barrels of these explosives were ir
 the store. This quantity of either naph ths
 or benzine, he thought, would be suf6cien
 to cause the destruction of the building He theorized that there was a leak O
 naphtha or benzine, generating gas, whicl
 had permeated the entire storeroom befor
 becoming ignited from overheat or iron
 contact with flame from some source.
 Deputy Fire Marshal Frank said that b
 was still investigating the cause of tn
 fire. To find out what the cause was, h
 continued, was the only thing the fir
 marshal had to do; he had nothing to d.
 with discovering the cause of the collapse
 "I can give you no more informatio
 than that" concluded Deputy Frank.
 THE WAR IN CHILL.
 I NaxUa nf inc Rattle Near VaInaFaIa q