Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-12-10
PEOPLE POISONED.
Bread Sold from q Bakery with
Arsenic In II.
SANTA Re TRAIN WRECKED IN TEXAS
4 Misplaced Switch Piles Eight Freight
Cars In Heap with Fatal Results
Electric Wires Cause Flre-A
Brakeman Killed.

MILWAUKEE, Dec. What IL thought
10 be an attempt at wholesale poison.
Ing, In large measure successful, was
reported to the health department yes
terdsy, when information was given
OF the sudden and serious illness Of
about 100 families, numbering between
500 and 900 persons, living in the north.
western part of the city. The cause Of
the sickness was traced To bread sold
at q bakery owned by Otto Figlesthaler,
which has very large trade. Last
night an analysis OF the bread showed
II contained arsenic. The sick per.
sons are living, but q large number Of
cases are considered serious, II not
critical. The first intimstion that the
health department had Of the poison
oDine was the notification by DR.. R. F.
Weber that family named Herr berg
had been taken i'll and that the symp-
toms were those Of poisoning From
eight o'clock in the morning until six
o'clock in the evening the telephone
bell in the Office Of the commissioner
OF health was kept ringing, and at the
close Of office hours last night
more than 100 families had been re-
ported as suffering from symptoms Of
acute poisoning. Mrs Figlesthaler
the wife Of the baker, stated that she
thought that some one had deliberately
put poison into the box containing the
flour from which the bread was made.
The police are convinced from the In
vestiQation that arsenic was placed in
the bread with intent 10 cause the
death or serious illness Of Figlestha.
ler's customers, with the object Of ru-
ming his business Arrests will be
made to-day.
SANTA FE TRAIN WRECKED.
SHERMAN, Tex, Dec. a-An inten-
tionally misplaced switch on the Gulf,
Colorado & Santa Fe at Justin gravel
pit at nine o'clock last night caused the
wreck Of Q heavy southbound freight
train, the death OF the fireman and |
head brakeman and the probably fatal
injury Of the engineer The freight
was running Just ahead Of the south
bound passenger. At the gravel pit a
switch, which had evidently been
thrown for the purpose OF wrecking
the passenger, threw the freight from
the track and piled up eight cars in
big heap. J. F. Mitchell, brakeman,
and W. P. Holman, fireman, were In.
stantly killed, and Engineer Mobley
was buried In the debris There Is no
clew to the men who misplaced the
switch, but an attempt is to be made
to run them down with bloodhounds
ELECTRIC WIRES CAUSE a FIRE,
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Dec. 5.--Elec-
trio wires caused a disastrous fire yes
terday morning in the hardware and
reneral household supply store Of 7.
M. Roberts. The stock, valued at $685.
700, was damaged to the extent Of $780,.
700, fully covered by insurance. A
system Of trap doors in the elevator
shafts and stairways confined the
lanes and prevented total loss, most
# the damage suffered being from
water.
A BRAKEMAN KILLED
NORMAN, Ok, Dec. 5.-Walter Har.
'ison, brakeman on the Chicago divi-
lion Of the Santa Fe, was instantly
silled here yesterday. He caught his
DOT in frog and an engine passed
'ver his body. He was IS years old.
His home Is unknown.