Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-03

an. Ine president repIled very Driedy
tev. DR.. Canter of the Mount Vernon
hurch, Washington, made the intro
uctions.
The president has made all necessary
arrangements to remove to Woodley.
fonday, If the weather Is favorable.
is his purpose to make frequent Wis
IS to the White House, coming to town
yhenever the state Of public affairs
eQuires It,
Monseignor Satolli has been annoyed
+ late by reports from various parts
Il the country as to an alleged monk
Who goes about representing himself
Is close confidante of the ablegate.
This has been sufficient to secure the
mpoSitor extended hospitality as the
;uest of prelates throughout the coun-
ry. The last field of operation of the
slleged monk was at Parkersburg. w
"a. The name given by the man is
hat OF an eminent member of mon
site order, who, upon investigation
as been found to have been in his
monastery constantly.
Another attempt was made today to
ire Catholic church in this city. Fire
vas discovered near the back stairs of
he vestibule of st. Mary's German
Catholic church in Fifth street, near
he pension office, but it was extin-
Suished with but little damage. No
lrrests have been made. 1t was only o
'hort time ago that attempts were
made to burn two Catholic churches
lere. Mary Delaney has been under
arrest charged w;-h arson.
SEIZED BY A PANIC.
Occupants of Runaway Trolley Car Killed
by Jumping or.
Evansville, Pa, March S0-Three
persons were instantly killed. two ia
ally injured and ten others slightly
hurt on the Lehigh Traction COM
pany's road by jumping from run
away trolley car on the mountain near
Iere. The dead are:
MRS. WATK1N WILLIAMS of Haz-
elton.
MRS. JOHN E. FARLEY of Beaver
Medow and her eight year old son.
The fatally injured are:
MRS. JAMES EVANS of Colerain.
MRS. JOHN WEIR of Beaver Mea-
dow.
kin L. Williams, husband of the woman
who was killed; Maggie Herrity of
Beaver Meadow; thre children of Mrs.
Evans; Hannah Somers of Beaver
Meadow; Morris Hughes of Wilkes
Darle.
All the other persons who sustained
injuries were able to walk home.
The accident was the worst in the
history of the trolley roads in this
vicinity and was due in part to a panic
among the passengers who crowded
closely about the conductor and
gripman of the unmanageable car.
The disaster occurred on car No. 20.
AS it passed on to the grade leading
down the mountain, Gripman Seitz ap-
piled the brake, but the chain snapped.
He then threw the safety lever. This
refused to work and the terrified motor
man sprang to the reverse brake, hop
ing to control the car by the current
action 10
of the car had by this time alarmed the
passengers. Failing to control TIE car.
Seitz shouted to Conductor Socks to
apply the rear brake.
His shouts caused a panic and the
passengers made a rush for the plat
form. The car was going down the
mountain at a mile a minute. Con-
ductor Socks appealed to the passen-
gers to go back SO he might apply the
brake, but was not needed. Davis
Packman of HaZletOn, and two other
men endeavored to keep the women
from throwing themselves from the car
onto the rocks, but were Unable to do
so. Mrs. Williams was the first o
jump. Her body struck a post, break
ing her back and causing instant death
Mrs. Early next flung herself off and
was dashed to death. She tried to save
her boy but he shared the same fate
The remaining passengers with one
exception then jumped. Mrs. Evans
was tie only person to remain in the
car with the exception of the motorman
and conducto~.
The car kept the track until the
crossing at the foot of the incline was
reached There it jumped the track
and crashed into a telegraph pole The
front of tie car was stove in and a
piece of board penetrated Mrs. Evans
side.
The screams of the frantic passengers
as the car rushed down the mountain
could be heard half a mile. The resi-
dents of this place hastened to the
scene of the accident and did all they
could to relieve the suffering. Had the
passengers remained in the car the acci-
dent could have been averted as the
rear brake would have held the car
and prevented the runaway. There
are in all some six attachments
on each car provided for such an
emergency, but the conductor was
wedged SO tightly against the dasher
by the panic stricken women that he
was unable to move his arms until the
car had gotten beyond control. The
mOtorman and conductor were but
slightly injr~~'