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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-05-27
Engines So and 50 on the Work
and Ore Trains Come
Together.
Engineer Geo. Weaver and Fire
man Wallace MouIton Lose
Their Lives.

during the entire day, ridden in
the engine of the work train with
the unfortunate Weaver and Moul-
ton. At Robinson lake, he alight-
ed to give some orders to the sec
ton crew. The train pulled out
and MIR. Shea caught on to the
caboose. To getting off the en-
CINE at Robinson lake, he owes his
life, as he in all probability would
have met the same fate as the I'M
fortunate engineer and fireman.
Head brakeman McKinnon, at the
time of the collision was also in
the engine. He says he heard the
engineer call to the fireman, who
was shoveling coal, when the COM
ing train was first seen and when
only few feet apart, to jump.
The fireman went over to the en-
gineer's side and the two left the
engine. He also, at the same
time left on the opposite side, At
this moment the trains came to-
gether and that is all he remem-
bers, having been knocked insens-
ible by his jump.
Those in the cabooses were
thrown against the sides in a rath-
er forcible manner when the shock
occurred. AS soon as possible they
made their way forward. Nc
Kinnon was pulled from a puddle
of water which had been heated by
the escaping steam and it was
feared he had been scalded. En-
gineer Cotter and Fireman Shea,
of the ore train, who had jumped
from the engine, were buried
among a pile of splinters, etc., of
the box car and demolished cab.
The two extricated themselves,
Engineer Cotter having two bad
cuts on the back and top of his
head while Fireman Shea had sew
eral severe bruises on the back and
hips.
Those who were present say it
was a heartrending sight, and to
add to the wierdness of the occa-
sion, the lever of the whistle had
become shifted and the shrill con-
tinuous blast sounded until the
steam of the engine had escaped.
AS soon as possible after the
collision, Brakeman Blood was
dispatched to Ely, while Road
master Shea made his way to
Tower Junction. Blood arrived
here by means of the hand car and
section crew as already related.
Shea met the passenger train COM
ing this way short distance from
the wreck and tagged the same.
After stating the case the train re-
turned to the junction, arriving
there with the news at about the
same time Blood arrived here.
The wrecking train and crew
were ordered to the scene, arriv-
ing at about 3 o'clock in the morn
ing. The train from this city
waited until ID o'clock for the re-
turn Of the passenger but was
forced by its non-arrival to return
here, bringing with it the injured
brakeman who was promptly
taken to the Shipman hospital
where he is now rapidly recover
ing from the cuts and bruises. The
fears as to his being scalded were
found groundless.
The Robinson lake section crew
and a part of the work train crew
were hard at work at 10 o'clock
removing the heavy rails to recov-
er the bodies of the dead engineer
and fireman. They were taken
out at about 2:45 a. m. Both of
the men carried watches and when
the bodies were recovered one of
the timepieces was running; the
] other having stopped at exactly
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-05-27

Saturday evening at about 1925,
and while the usual large crowd
were assembled at the depot to
watch the incoming passenger
train, hand car having on board
the Robinson lake section crew
and Brakeman Blood of the work
train, came rapidly towards the
station. Blood dismounted and
going into the office informed the
agent that head-end collision
between the work train, which left
Ely after 5, bound for Tower
junction, and wild ore train
bound this way, had occurred at
Eagles Nest lake and that Engin-
eer Geo. Weaver and Fireman
Wallace Moulton were probably
killed and Brakeman McKinnon,
of the same train, dangerously
injured.
Like tightening, word was pas
sed from mouth to mouth and in
less than half an hour the entire
population of the city was talking
obout the collision. AS soon as
an engine could be gotten in readi-
ness a train of two cabooses was
made up in charge of Yardmaster
Mack, to 90 down and transfer
the passengers from the evening
train past the wreck and take DIR.
Shipman to the scene.
Chief of Police Garrison, a
MINER representative and several
railroad boys accompanied the
train. Many others were inclined
to 90 but could not be accomo-
dated as it was expected the cars
would be crowded on the return
trip.
The run down was made in good
time. Upon arrival, a scene we
shall never forget was presented.
By the glare OF the fire burning
the coal in the tender Of one Of the
engines, the outlines of the most
disastrous wreck ever occurring on
the D. &. I. r. could be seen.
Just this side of mile post 100,
at the eastern end of Eagles Nest
lake, there is a cut about 10 feet
deep and 800 feet long, the west
ern end be ginning in curve. In
this cut the two trains came to-
gether with results that cannot be
described, but must be seen to be
impressed upon the mind.
From the appearance OF the
wreck, the trains must have come
together with terrific force. The
two engines were jannmed togeth-
er in a space ordinarily occupied
by one. Directly behind the work
train engine were four flat cars
loaded with steel rails. After the
collision, the four cars were piled
in heap upon the tender Of the
engine, which was completely
crushed into an unrecognizable
mass.
The rails from the cars had slid
through the cab of the engine,
completely demolishing the same,
and had scattered themselves in
all directions over the mass of
debris. About 20 of the rails had
fallen by the side of one of the
wrecked machines and under this
enormous weight of steel, lay the
crushed and mangled remains OF
Engineer George Weaver and
Fireman Wallace Moulton.
Behind the ore train engine q
box car loaded with potatoes was
noticeable, the rear end splintered
to kindling wood and the potatoes
scattered in all directions. Eight
cars of the ore train were off the
trucks, the track, overturned, and
otherwise demolished by the aw-
full shock.
Roadmaster John Shea, had
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-05-27
6:42-the exact time the collision

6:42-the exact time the collision
occurred.
On arrival of the wrecking train
about 70 men were put at work
under General Foreman Headley
and the track cleared by 4:3O the
following day to enable the de-
layed passenger train to run
through. Following the work
train. Superintendent Owens,
Master Mechanic Bryan and sew
eral others came up in a special
train to view the wreck and re-
move the bodies of the victims to
Two Harbors. The dead were
taken to Tower, dressed, and
viewed by Deputy Coroner Shep-
hard and jury consisting of A. G.
Kingston, G. c.. Opel, NJ. T.
Marion; j. D. Murphy, I. HI.
Winchester and A. Philip after
which they were taken to Two
Harbors.
Both of the trains were extras.
On whom the blame rests for the
accident no one can tell although
it is being thoroughly investigated.
Supt. Owens was here last even
ing getting facts and the several
train crews have been examined
as to their knowledge of the oc-
currance, at the general offices.
Both of the men who lost their
lives were we'll and favorably
known along the entire line, es-
pecially so in this city. Engineer
Weaver had been with the road
eight years and Fireman Moulton,
four years. Both were respected
citizens of Two Harbors where
they have resided since their con-
nection with the road. Weaver.
leaves wife and three children,
two grown-up and one about nine
years old.
The remains of the dead engin-
eer were taken to Usage, Iowa,
for interment accompanied by the
family. The pallbearers were six
Iron Range engineers, j. F.. Nc
Graw, P. j. Mcclure, A. w.
Switzer, Jacob Wratten, William
Tracey and D. J. Hayes. The de-
ceased was an Odd Fellow, and a
number of members Of that order
accompanied the body as far as
Duluth.
The remains of Wallace Moul-
ton were taken in charge at Tower
by committee consisting of sew
eral members of the Brotherhood
Of Locomotive Firelnen of which
order he was a respected member.
His funeral occurred Monday at
Two Harbors and was one of the
largest ever held in that city, al
most the entire population attend
ing.
The demolished engines were
sister machines, bearing the num-
bers So and SO. Engineer Cotter
was the engineer who was in the
one other disastrous wreck on the
D. &. /. r. and has figured in
several other bad wrecks. He
seems to have considerable bad
luck mixed with an abundance of
good luck.
The passenger trein ran up as
far as the wreck Sunday morning
and the passengers, mail and bag
gage transferred to a special sent
from here, and returning here at
about 11:30 q. IN.
Communication was established
between the wreck and other
points on the line by an improv-
ised telegraph office in charge of
OperatOr Wolf,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-05-27

G. G.. Miller of the Duluth Paper
company was in the city Friday.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-01-02
GOAL TEN DOLLARS A TON.
= u
Price for 1t.

Price for 1t.
Ten dollars ton is Il high price for
coal, but that is what the unfortunate
poor, who can at one time purchase
only small quantity of the necessi-
ties of life, have to pay for it.
Ten cents pail answered an Ital-
ian dealer in coal, wood and ice, who
occupies a dark basement on the poor
est part of Second avenue, in answer
to my question. l paid ten cents, took
pail of the coal to scale and found
that it weighed 10 pounds. At that rate
the poor who have to buy coal in such
small quantities-and thousands in the
city have to-pay more than ten dol
lars ton. The man of moderate
means who has a coal house convenient
to his apartment pays less than one
half of that amount, while the man of
wealth, with commodious cellar, who
in summer lays in his winter supply,
buys coal at much smaller price.
Then the man of means, for his
kindling wood, pays less than half
what 1T costs the poor, who pay five
cents for three of the diminutive
bundles sold in their neighborhood.
Measurement shows that one of these
bundles contains 243 cubic inches, ON
which basis a cord costs SIG.
The persons who pay these extrava-
giant prices, and who buy potatoes in
small quantities, when they are fortu-
nate enough to have few cents, pay
five cents quart, or SLIGO a bushel,
while the man of means can lay in
supply for less than one-half that
price.
From one of the small dealers | pur-
chased five cents worth of ice, and
found that it was just one-fourth of
the weight of the piece that my dealer
charges ten cents form. Y. Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-01-02
A Royal Picture.

Years ago, when staying in Berlin, |
was conducted over the private rooms
of the royal family in the Berlin
schloss. The old emperor's rooms were
strewn with bibelots SO numerous and
SO charming that young princess
might have cnvied them. On his birth
day gifts of every sort. with punches of
his favorite cornt1ower, were sent to
HIM from all parts of the kingdom.
Blue was the predominant color of the
decorations, and lapis-lazuii vases and
ornaments were there in dozens. What
struck me most of all his possessions
was a picture painted in water coLors
by Empress Frederick, then crown
princess. 1t consisted of a large bunch
of gay flowers, and IN the center OF each
flower peeped forth the head of one of
the emperor's little grandchildren. In
a withered violet was the baby face OF
Prince Sigismund, who, it will be re-
membered, died when he was but two
Years old. Old Gen. Field Marshal
Wrangel was godfather TO the tiny
child, and gave him, remember, SOL
dier's cap to wear. After his death the
crown princess returned it TO the gem
eral, and sewn inside was one of her
darling's fair tiaXen curls.-Ihe Wom-
an at Home.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-01-02
NO MORE GREAT RANCHES.
Instead Syndicate VIII Control Califor-
mia Lands for Small Farmers.

MIA Lands for Small Farmers.
A syndicate has been formed to pur-
chase and place on the market over a
dozen of the largest and most valuable
ranches in northern California. All
arrangements for closing the deal have
been perfected, and within few days
all the papers required to bind the
holders of the vast tracts of land to the
terms of the transfer will be drawn up
and signed. From present indications
the syndicate will close with $4,000
acres, though it is probable that an adj
ditional 10000 of the Cone ranch may
be admitted into the deal. All this prop
erty, which is now owned and cult
waited by few wealthy men, will be cut
up into small ranches of % and 40 acres
and be improved with dwellings and
outhcuses. When the vast acreage of
the syndicate land is taken into con-
has a frontage of "A miles on the west
bank of the Sacramento, besides large
frontage on the east bank, the colossal
extent of the big land deal will be
readily apparent.
Arrangements are not completed as
to the Cone property, as it is not definite
| ly known whether the original offer
OF the Cone estate of 5000 acres will be
supplemented with an additional 10, 900
acres. Arrangements have been COM
pie led Tor the transfer of $4,000 acres.
| The most important holdings in the list
are as follows: On the west side of the
Sacramento river-Boggs, IL, 400 acres;
Glenn, Al 800 acres; Chambers, 10000
acres; Finnell, 10000 acres; Tyler,
1000 acres; Hamstreet, 800 acres;
Hart, 1900 acres; Rawsop, 4,741 acres;
on the east side of the river-Revis
grant, 5000 acres; Bidwell, 1000 acres;
Cone, 5000 acres; Wilson, $500 acres.
These are the principal holdings, and
they are interspersed with smaller hold
ings of 1000 acres and less.
Mr.. Chambers, who has placed 10000
acres in the syndicate, is a prominent
capitalist of st. Louis. His agent and
attorney in fact is John Finnell, who
has put an equal amount ofland into the
pool. TO expedite the work of dividing
| Ule DlS uOlultlSS lhOo Slldll iii pIONCl
ranches, and thus attract settlers to
California, corporation will be formed,
to which all the lands enumerated will
be decided eventually. The sale of the
stock of the corporation will be used to
pay the owners for their property,
though many of the owners have sig
Mined their willingness to take the pur-
chase price of their land, in part, at
least, in stock. Then the plan will be
to subdivide the land into classes.
Lands are TO be offered at prices that
will represent their relative value, and
whatever surplus is derived above the
cost to the corporation will be distrib-
uted to the purchasers of the land when
the first subdivision of 10000 acres is
closed out. The object is to sell the
land at a very low figure, it being the
ultimate and paramount object of all
interested to secure a subdivision and
occupation of the country by actual
settlers.-San Francisco Chronicle.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-01-02

through my heart, and the carEsses
with which she overwhelmed the little
one put me beside myself / was
iealous-of both of them! 1 wa, sore
at having no share in the drama, II not
making a third in the bond. aid re.
solved to take steps to give myelf
claim to it. Alas! l thought drearily
the child was afraid of me; and af for
herself, l had kept her, as it wete by
force, at distance, through 4 long
years.
One day at dinner there was \ pro-
found silence after a skirmish of 'vords
IA painful silence. 1 stared d, yn at
the painted flowers upon the Neissen
plate before me, pucker of angerhpon
my forehead; but all the time ! felt
the great ewes of 1t full upon me-and
hers, too. The rays from thosA four
eyes seemed to burn upon nv foJ head
Suddenly the silence was foken
"Pa-pa!" And again, louder and more
confidently, "Pa-pa!"
started. TWAS sitting there gazing
at me in terror of the storm its word
would call down. She had turned scar
let, and her lips trembled. No one but
herself could have taught hi that
papa" My heart was warn, within
newly did not spring up, ald with
word, a touch, cancel forevei those
dreary six years? The right word at
that moment would have don but
l was under spell. di' I.
There was no doubt that w, oe
curly-head new spirit had taken pos,
session, spirit which made me a
stranger in my own house. The rooms
were illumined even when the sun with
out was hidden by clouds. The faces OF
the servants, even inanimate objects
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-01-02
WELL-KNOWN PEOPLE.

Mrs. Lobert Louis Stevenson has
sailed from San Francisco for he's
home in Samoa.
Two of Mr.. Edison's children are
named Dot" and dash" after the IA
miliar characters of the Morse alphabet.
Col. Bradley, governor-elect of Ken
lucky, is man of gigantic stature, an
able lawyer and an eloquent speaker.
George Vanderbilt intends to make
Biltmore, his splendid place in North
Carolina, Mecca for all those who
are seriously interested in the study of
forestry, scientific farming and horti-
culture
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-01-02
What Was Needed.

The minister had been in the little
Kentucky town but a short time, and
when he was called on to preach a
funeral sermon he thought it best to
pick up few facts about the deceased.
81 trust our brother gone before us
was truly religious man?" he said to
the surviving brother.
You bet he was,' was the earnest
answer. why, brother, he never TUX
out his gun to lay fer one of the Sim
monses without fust prayin' three
hours. "-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-01-02

really little too much. The thought
worried me during two days. On the
third, when she had driven out, muf-
fled woman desired an interview with
me. 1t was the mother of "her child. >
Like shadow she stole through the
door, and pleaded with low, half-stifed
weeping ito see her darling once again
she could not part from him like
this"
l Immediately opened my cash box.
There, my good woman" | said, take
this-you have not been paid enough s.
Then she broke into wailing sobs,
must not condemn her until knew the
extent of her misery. She had another
child, a poor, helpless cripple, and she
herself was i'll and had not long to live.
What would become of this unfortunate
being when she was gone. Well, she
had thought to herself-the sentence
was interrupted by a violent fit of
coughing-she had thought, as made
out the broken words: 81 will sell the
healthy child that the cripple may have
something to live on when IN dead"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-01-02

seemed to reflect it; only was left I'M
| touched.
| | became more and more wretched
in my solitude. My jealousy grew apace
and filled me with mad thoughts.
would oppose the little tyrant-absurd
idea! / would set before her the choice
between him and me-ah, but which
way would her heart have gone? AT
one time | thought of taking steps to
trace the unhappy mother, and to en-,
able her by a gift of money to take
back her child. Yet, behind my wife's
back, that was too mean.
| could not work. looked troubled
and confused, and when peonle 7asled
! Wha1 lied me, e. M.
out, and the spirit of love was stronger
| than |, and drove me forth.
Il must go on a long journey, Martha"
| My voice trembled as | said the words,
and my wife observed it, Something
like tear of pity made her eyes bright.
She held the little one towards me as
| was going. Won't you say good-by
to our child, too?" she asked, in gen.
tie, persuasive tone.
L suppose | took him up too roughly,
for he began to cry, and fought against
my embrace. l put him down and hur-
RED away. 1 wandered hither and
thither about the world, and to nv first
misunderstanding soon
joined himself, who informed me
straight that 1 was fool. l heard it
first as whisper, but the words grew
louder and more mocking; what a fool
L was! At last 1 began to read it in
the newspapers. 1 saw it written on
the blue mountains; it was borne TO me
in the shrek of the engine. Yes, yes, I
quite believed it-enough! But why
did L not turn round at once and go
home? All, the fool had to work out his
folly before all could be set straight.
AT last, full of tumultuous feelings,
l returned home. A solemn stiffness
reigned i'll the house; every sound
seemed subdued and erious. NV
wife came towards me, her eyes red
with weeping. ut is very ill-dying!"
she sobbed. l tried to calm her, but her
fears were only too well founded. ONLY
a short respite of hopeless anxiety!
Through the last night we both sat by
his cot, one on either side, and each of
US held one of the little hands. How
the pulses beat and throbbed! Quick,
sharp, fever beats; and every beat was
an admonition: "Love-love-be good"
Together we felt the measure and UNI
derstood the exhortation. Our eyes
met through tears, and the look was
sacred vow. Words would have been
sacrilege. Then we laid it to rest in
the warm spring earth.
Afterwards, when we sat again at
table for the first time, again there was
silence between us. But it was another
sort of silence to that which the poor
little stranger had interrupted with
his fisping papa" His high elbow
chair still stood against the wall, and
on the board in front of it lay the spoon
scepter.
My wife held out her white hand to
me across the table. did you love it |
4 little, too?" she said, and her voice
shook.
MY wife, my own dear wife!" Twas
1t her feet, held her hands.
And then pointed to the high chair. |
1T came to teach us love" whispered.
"And when 1t had done its work 1t |
vent back to the angels" she said,
.rying.-From the German, in Strand
Magazine.