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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-18
THE WRECK AT CLEVES,
Suit for Damages Alleging n Defec-
tive signal System.

The true story of the wreck on the Big
Four at Cleves, on May 10, 1892, will be de-
velcped In the courts in q few days. This
wreck, it will be remembered was a dis
astrous, head-on collision between a freight
and a passenger train, near the line be-
tween Ohio and Indiana, In which a num-
Der of trainmen and passengers were killed
and injured. David Hollywood, who re-
sided on Bates street In this city, was the
conductor of the freight train and was
Instantly killed. Yesterday afternoon his
widow, Alva Highwood, qualified as admin
istratrix of his estate, and this morning,
through her attorney, w. V. Rocker, she
will file suit against the railroad company
for $4,000 damages for causing the death
of her husband. The complaint alleges that
on that portion Of the road where the wreck
occurred the block system of signals was
in use, and that the freight train received
the proper signal TO advance. 1t is alleged
that the passenger train also received the
signal to advance. There sharp
curve at the point where the wreck oc-
CURED, and there was a large amount of
shrubbery and small trees growing along
side of the track which prevented the en-
gineer of each train from seeing the other
were so close upon one another that it was
impossible to stop in time to avoid the
catastrophe.
The plaintiff charges that the wreck was
due to the negligence and carelessness of
the company In the preparation of time
cards. 1t will be remembered that at the
time of the wreck it was given out that q
change had been made in the time card
going into effect the day of the wreck
and it was alleged that confusion in time
caused the wreck. The plaintiff charges
that the change in the time card did not
really go into effect until the day after
running on the new time card.
With the complaint will be filed bill Of
iEterrogatories, which the plaintiff will ask
that the officers of the company be com
PEELED to answer under oath. They will
also ask for a copy of the rules of the
company, and the time card under which
trains were running the day of the
wreck. 1t is charged that every time card
for that date. in the hands of any agent
or employee of the road has been recalled.
and the plaintiff alleges that there was an
error in the time card which was respon-
sible for the wreck. 1t is also alleged that
every time card order and other paper of
the company's was removed from High
woods body before it was sent to his
family in this CITY.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-18

Jennie Carr to BE Removed.
Sheriff Emmett will, this morning, re-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-18
,RAss FOuNDRY ANn FINIsHISG sHoP.
PIONEER BRASS WORKS.

Mfrs. aud Dealers in all kinds OF Brass Goods heavy
and light Castings Car Bearing a speciality. Re-
pair aud Job Work promptly attended 10. ITO To ll6
South Pennsylvania street Telephone els.
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on the seat with the driver, and Herbert
and the World correspondent rolled into
some straw on the bottom OF the wagon.
A rougher ride could not be imagined.
At no place could the horses go faster than
a walk, Tor ruts one and TWO feet deep had
been wrought in the roadway by the
swollen streams. Small bridges had been
swept away, and wading breast high
through creeks that seemed rivers the AMI
mails were forced. while water oozed up
through cracks in the buck -bUard. Several
times the farmer threatened to turn back.
but financial Inducements urged him on
ward, and before the journey was ended
the newspaper men nearly owned the con-
yevaDce.
At $50 o'clock A. NJ the lights of the
little town of Nineveh were sighted, and
Is minutes later the wnrn-out horses were
painting at the door of the telegraph Office /;
eight miles from JOhnstown!
| Connelley, who was a telegraph operator
as we'll as correspondent. jumped up the
stairs two at time, and literally pulled
the operator from his chair and seiZing the
kew called up Pittsburg.
YES" came back the answer. "the
newspapers are keeping OPEN"
So, while Connelley kept the wire busy
| the others hastened around town and
gathered what information they could. A
man was found who had walked in from
JohnstOwn during the night hours. He
was hurried up to the telegraph office. and
as he told the story Connelley flashed it
over the wire without any one botherin q
to write it down. Meanwhile Herbert,
Henry and the World man were inter-
viewing here and there. and then they sat
down and for ar hour their pencils flew.
At o'clock a whistle was heard down
the track and in few minutes the two
newspaper specials" came putting in. 1t
was seen that the one ahead had Orr and
Murray on board. How they had man.
aged to get their train in the lead was not
told. But upon its arrival Connelley yield
ed up the key to the regular operator and
the correspondents filled" all the manu-
script they had written during the hour at
dawn of day.
That is the manner in which the early
morning copy was sent to the newspapers,
and enab abed the morning daiies to get out
extras and the afternoon sheets to contain
column after column of fresh matter
Still not correspondent had reached
J0hnstOwn, eight miles away. But to the
south in the distance could be seen a COL
umn of smoke reaching skyward, and the
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BISSELL'S BIG JOB.
The PostmaSter-General
Is Reducing Expenses.
WHY ECONOMYIS NECESSARY
Postal Revenues Falling Behind-Ef-
feet of the Depression in
Business.

WASHINGTON, D. c.. Nov. 20. - The
most overwOrkeG men in Washington to-
day are President Cleveland's Cabinet
Ministers. Every one of them has his
bands full. Carlisle has been boiling his
brains for months over bonds and bullion.
Gresham is almost distracted by the situa-
tion in the Sandwich Islands. Hoke
Smith is wondering how the soldiers vote
can be gotten back to the Democratic
party by new pension legislation. and Will
son Shannon Bissell is worried to know
how to make the small postal appropria-
tions meet the immense def cit which the
lack of business and the bard times is
creating in our postal revenues.
l have devoted the past week to study
of our new Postmaster-General. He is by no
means an ordinary man. He is not only a
hard worker himself. but he understands
how to get work out of others. His ex-
perience as railroad president and a rail-
road lawyer stands him in good stead in
the Postoffice Department, and he seems
to have grasped its work and its impossi-
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dozen TASKS of whisky. So on bread and
whisky the newspaper men breakfasted.
while the train crept slowly onward, feel
ing its way over track that was covered
with several inches of water. Then they
donped their rubber boots, throwing
shoes out Of the windows, and each man
cut a large hole in the center of his
blanket, then thrust his head through and
wore it as a Mexican does his poncho.
The liquor and the blankets made them
warm for the first time since leaving Pitts
| burg
"Sang Hollowp' called out the brake
man. Four miles from Johnstown! But
there was wreck and ruin on every side
houses lying topsy-turvy on the bank.
| great pieces of machinery twisted around
trunks of trees and buried in the earth.
| 1t was evident the train cOnld go no fur
| ther, for there was no track. 1t was
| gone-swept away. Connelley decided to
remain at Sang Hollow. He had to fur
nish the afternoon report for the Asso-
ciated Press. and ne could see enough
| from the window of the telegraph office 10
tell story from. He kept Orr with him.
and there they sat until 2 o'clock in the
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RACE WITH AN AVALANCHE
A Monster Ice Glide Came Crashing
Down Toward Him.

DOWN OWarQ Tim.
McClure's Magazine.
Let Mr.. Tuckett himself describe that
thrilling race for life.
II remember" he writes, ''being struck
with the idea that 1t seemed as though,
sure of its prey, it wished to play with US
agine that we had gained upon it, and
were getting beyond it's line of fire, and
the next, with mere wantonness of vindic-
tive power, suddenly rolling out on its
right vast volume OF grinding blocks
and whirliDg snow, as though TO show that
it could outfiank US at any moment if il
chose.
Nearer and nearer it came, its front
like mighty wave about to break. Now
it has traversed the whole width of the
glacier above us, taking a somewhat dag
0nal direction; and now-run. oh! run, If
you ever did, Tor here Ii comes, straight al
US, swift, deadly and implacabe! The
next instant we saw no more; wild con-
fusion of whirling snow and fragments of
ice-a frozen cloud-swept over US, en-
tirely concealiDg us from one another.
and still we were untOuched-at least
knew that l was-apd still we ran. An
o. her half second and the mist had passed,
and there lay the body of the monster,
whose head was still careering away at
lightning speed far below us. motiOnless,
rigid and harmless"
The danger was over. and the party ex-
amined the avalanche at their leisure. It
had a length of $500 feet, an average
breadth of 5000 feet and an average depth
of feet. This is to say, its bulk was
Gil 600 cubic yards, and its weight, on q
III mOderate computation, about 100000 tons.
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his instruments inside an old hopper
Meanwhile the correspondents had risged
up table, which consisted of long board
resting upon two barrels, and they secured
kegs for seats. Several lanterns and a
number of tallow candles were also pro.
cured. Supper consisted of more bre d
and whisky. Then they started In for the
nights work. From 6 o'clock In the
evening until O'Clock Sunday morning
Harry Orr and his assistant sat inside th al
hopper and kept the instruments busy,
stopping only to eat mOuthful of bread
and take drop of liquor. Meanwhile the
correspon dents tOiled At their copy.
Silently they would leave the building,
visit the hastily constructed morgue and
other points where information might be
obtained. then return and write their
matter.
The old mill was cold; there was hardly
a whole pane of glass in the windows and
the chilly gusts swept through il, hisking
pieces of copy-paper from the writer's
hands, causing lanterns TO flicker and tai
low candles to sputter and go out. But
through all the night the men struggled,
and daybreak found them still at it. Her
bert, suffering from his lame foot, had
kept on with the others. and half reclining
on a bale of straw in a corner had written
column after column of descriptive matter.
About o'clock in the morning the
World correspondent received a message
1t read 'Be sure and send US a page of
matter tonight. Keep it up. Five men
have been dispatched from here and will
soon relieve you"
1t was signed "Julius Cham bers," then
managing editor of that newspaper.
"Can you do it?" asked Henry as he and
the other man were munching their break
fast of dry bread.
Il suppose l have got to-" was the re.
ply. but l would give all possess for
six hours Sleep"
The others nodded assent, they were too
tired to talk. But they all agreed that
although they had not slept since Friday
morning there was no time to think of il
then. So more whisky was taken and they
kept awake. During the first few days the
newspaper men lived on that fiery liquor.
yet not one of them was intoxicated.
They simply had to drink in order to en-
dure the terrible mental strain.
All that Sunday morning and the carly
afternoon the newsgatherers were busy.
At 3 O'clock Orr said il would be impossi-
bic for him TO handle the page of matter
for the World in addition to the other
specials. so the correspondent for tina,
newspaper was compelled to leave TO,
PittsburR. ae started AZ o'clock. walk.
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box which contained sending and receiv-
ing key.
"It is a railroad wire," he said when he
had climbed down.
Cant we send short message " asked
Murray.
He asked permission of the Pittsburg
office and it was granted.
Don't try TO send news" suggested
Henry; "Connelley will attend to that.
Why not send out an appeal?"
The others agreed, and the first message
to go over the wires from the scene OF the
disaster was:
This city is nearly wiped off the face of
the earth. At least 5000 people have per-
ished. The survivors beg aid, ana that
quickly. of their fellow-creatures."
This was signed bv the cores poBdents
and was bulletned in the windows and
on all the boards of all the newspapers of
the country. Then the wire was kept busy
with railroad messages. for relief train s
were being dispatched from Pittsburg
The three correspondents passed the morn
ing and afternoon gathering material for
their story at night. There was nothing
to eat save the loaves of bread that they
carried in their pockets, and the noon
meal consisted of crusts washed down
with whisky and water. 1t was shared
with some women. whose elegant dresses
spoke OF their having been 1T some enter
tainment when the food came.
At o'clock Connelley and Orr came up
from Sang Hollow. bringing Herbert with
them. He limped badly, but said he felt
somewhat better. A relief train had pulled
into Sang Hollow, and more newspaper
men were on board. Then preparations
were made for the nights work. Near the
bridge was an old miil that had long been
given over to rats and mice. II was
selected as newspaper headquarters, and
Harry Orr. assisted by some linemen who
had come up on the relief train. soon had
two wires run" into the place, and fixed
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He Was Around on Time.
Atlanta ConStitution.

A man in a North Georgia county-an
outlaw, with reward out for his appre-
hension-pursued by the Sheriff and his
deputies, was hidden and sheltered by an
old negro at little cabin in the dense
woods.
With the first glimmer of dawn he stole
from his ''city of refuge" but ere he left
he said to his black deliverer:
III ever you git into trouble I'll try an
be aroun' on time."
Some time after the negro was arrested.
charged with stealing horse.
A few excited men dragged him into the
woods and strung him up to tree.
Then a rapid-rding hOrseman appeared,
dashing toward them, and bullet after
bullet whizzed by the frightened lynchers.
They fled in terror. believing that the
Sheriff with posse was upon them.
Then keen blade cut the rope that held
the wrthng form. and quick hands slipped
the knot from the neck.
The man The old negro had sheltered
was "arOund on time."
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WAITING.

As those, on some lonely mountain height,
Watching through all the weary hours or night
Await the pale rose OF the morning light,
wait for tnee
As one who. waking on . bed OF pain
Ana helpless in his agony is fain
To wait the sweet return of sleep again,
walt for thee.
As he who. In some vast cathedral, dim
With shadows. silent waits, on bended knee
The music OF the eucharistic hymn,
wait Tor thee.
AS deaf N en- crave for song blind for sight,
As weary sons of toll long for the night,
Ana IS the fettered spirit longs for flight,
wait for thee.
ARTHUR T. FRoGGARr.
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why, in spite OF the rain and mud, the
men h0 had come by the second train
we're happy as they started on their trip
over the hills.
Lots were drawn to ascertain who should
ride the horse. TWAS an euviable mode
of locomOtion. for the exercise would keep
one warm. and the wagon bid fare to be a
cold place. Jim Henry pulled the long
straw, and he needed TO win for he was
already shivering in his evening dress in
spite of the horse blanket which he had
bought for dollar. So onto the nag he
climbed, his coat tails falling down, ring
ing wet back of the saddle. Conn elley got
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opened the instrument and touched few
chords.
shut 1t up. jim said Murray. "It
has fiendish sound"
Murray had just stumbled over a dead
body.
The three men continued on their way,
Corpses, debris, melange of everything,
strewn everywhere. People were met.
They walked with downcast faces. "It's
horriole, said Murray; then he burst out
laughing.
Two young women were passing, gianc-
ing at the bodies with which the ground
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man who had walked in from the scene Of
the great disaster said that hundreds of
houses were burning with people in them,
houses that had been piled against the
stone viaduct by the force of the current
While the correspondents were prepar-
ing their copy at Nineveh the farmer who
had brought them there had aroused the
storekeepers. and from a list furnished
him had made number of purchases. He
arrived with the packages just as the train
pulled ont. They contained six pairs of
rubber boots, the same number of coarse
blankets, twelve leaves of bread and half a
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was strewn. One Of them walked up to
Murray and exclaimed:
"How heartless you are. Have you no
res pect for the dead p
"Yes, miss" he replied, touching his
hat. but if l didn't laugh l should go
crazy"
A bend in the roadway and Johnstown
was before them-the funeral pyre near
the bridge the acres of deya astatiOn behind
At exactly o'clock Henry, Murray and
the World correspondent stood beside the
stone bridge, the first newspaper men to
arrive at JohnstOwn.
A iineman was noticed up in tree. He
was bringing down wire that was caught
on branch Under his arm was a small
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afternoon. They did not need to write
anything. They simply sat at the keys
and clicked away, telling what they saw
from the windows; and that Is the way
the story was sent over the wires for the
afternoon newspapers.
Henry. Murray. Herbert and the World
correspondent. representing morning pa
pers. pushed on on foot. 1t was rough
walking that four miles; indeed, 1t was
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scrambling over debris rather than walk
ing A cry from Herbert He had slipped
and sprained his ankle. He was helped to
a railroad town and left there. Two miles
from the scene of the disaster a grand
piano was found on the roadway. 1t was
uninjured; hardly had the woodwork been
scraped. The great wave had dropped 1t
lightly on the spot where it lay. Henry
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A Considerate Wife.
Tammany Times.

Tammany TImeS.
Mr.. Harlem Heights-How is your wife
coming on?
Mr.. Riverside Parke-She Is all that
husband could desire. She is always trv-
ing to make it as pleasant as possible for
me. Why, she even went so far last we elk
as to dream that / was widower.
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Great Britain got two OF her possessions
from pirates-the Leeward Islands near
Borneo and the Sarswah In the northwest
of Borneo.
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In manufacturing occupations the aver
age life OF soapbOilers Is the highest, and
that OF grind-stonewakers the lowest.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-05-20

Travellers may be interested in the
news to the effect that Theodore Bendit,
a New York drummer has recovered a
Judgment of $40 against the Palmer
House of Chicago for a coat and over
coat which were stolen from his ROOM
Mr.. Bendit brought his suit as a test
case for the benefit of commercial tray
elers who have to stay in Chicago.
1t has been well settled principle of
law in most of the states for long time
that hotel keepers We're liable for the loss
or theft of guests wearing apparel,
proyided the guest himself was not at
fault or guilty of negligence which led
TO the loss or theft. Indeed, in New
York state this principle has been so
broad that the legislature has seen fit to
restrict il, presumably on account of the
heavy damages several times recovered
against hotel keepers prior to 1888.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-05-20

where Mr.. Rose will look after some
business affairs.
n +. Peterson X Co, the west end
shoe dealers. have purchased the
Elm street shoe store, formerly con-
Quoted by shank Il Morris. August
Peterson will conduct the Elm street
store.
The Muscatine Journal of last even
ing was accompanied by handsome
supplement showing number of
views of the houses wrecked in that
city by the recent explosions. includ-
ing portraits of the men whose lives
were jeopardized. all executed in eN-
cellent style by the photo engravure
process. The supplement pictures
in graphic manner the destruction
worked by the powder blasts.
Rev c. H. Mallarian. native OF
Armenia. who l. in this country pre-
pairing for mission work in his native
land. an unusually entertaining
speaker. n graduate OF Wheaton col
lere. Will speak in the First Metho-
dist church tomorrow evening on
The Land Of the Sultans, deScIib-
inc the manners and customs of the
Turkish people. An invitation Is en-
tended to all who can to hear him.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-05-20
River Ripiets.

The boats down were the Irene ID
and sam Atlee.
The Verne Swain made her regular
daily appearance.
The,stage of the water at noon was
1870: the temperature -.
The Verne Swain takes an eXcur-
sion up the Hennepin canal tomor-
row.
The Inverness and Irene ID each
came down with eight strings of
logs.
Capt Blair. of the steamer Silver
Crescent. i in possession OF some
papers. which to him are particularly
valuable a relics> and are interest
ING to anyone who cares for anti
quaries They are bills Of lading
found in the old Richey house. which
overlookS the river at Oquawka. and
which has recently been undergoing
repairs. One consignment i made
to the eteamer Adventure and Keel
and i from st. Louis. the goods be
billed to ). Phelps at Oquawka. the
date being Oct. 10.1S
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-05-20
The square Drinking Fountain.

Rock ISLAND. MAY 10. EDITOR AR
cts noticed in your paper few
days ago a reference TO the lack Of
water al the drinking fountain in
Spencer square. have also been in
quired Of by many people why we
have no water to drink. At the open
ing OF the season | requested the
plumbers to turn on the water: for
some reason or other they have been
unable to give IL water with >uf1i-
cient force. although they have made
repeated trials. Whether the pipe *
stopped 10y scales or whether the
change in the we'll at Mitchell X
Lyndc'> block i the cause | don't
know. but I do know the lack of wa
ter j regretted by hundreds OF men.
women and children.
think the city ought to pipe the
water To the fountain through lead
pipe then there VIII not be any dam
ger OF scales. The arte>ian water
does seem to affect iron pipe. but
can assure the people have done all
could to get the water. and earnest
IL hope that the water department OF
the city or some other good citizen
Will come to our relief and give Us
the water again.
WILLIAM JACKSON.
Park Commissioner.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-05-20
Around the World on a Wheel.

Thursday morning Thomas CT. Allen of
Ferguson. No. and WIlliam L. Sachlet-
ben of Alton. his, rolled into ST. Louis on
their bicycles, having completed tour
of the world in three years. Both young
men graduated from Washington uni
versity in 1890 and undertook the trip to
China to improve their education. In
their tour the cyclers crossed the Chinese
empire from east to west, a distance of
$500 miles, and are the only white men
who have accomplished this feat since
Marco Polo IN the thirteenth century.