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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-27
ELEVATOR FIRE IN CHICAGO
Million aud n Half in Grain and buildings
Yanish hes in smoke.

Chicago. Oct. 26.-Elevator A and
elevator y, of the Pacific Elevator COM
pany, were destroyed by fire today, with
other smaller buildings. The loss Will
approximate s1,500.000.
By n. m. the fire had assumed such
dangerous proportions that general
alarm was turned in. 1t had by this
time spread to several small frame
buildings used as Weighing offices ana
these were soon destroyed. The neat
from the burning elevators was terrlhc
and finally competed the abandonment
IF four lines of hose which had been run
into the boiler room o. elevator A. rive
tiremen of Company g nearly lost their
lives while fighting the flames from the
roof OF the office. small brick building
Ia close proximity to enc OF the eleva-
tors. Notwithstanding the fact that the
roof had caught fire and was burning
beneath them they stuck TO their post
until SUDDENLY the roof fell from be-
meath them. Two OF the men were close
enough TO the edge of the wall TO grab
II, and were left hanging there as the
roof fell in. The other three went down
but held on TO the hose and were res
cued with great difficulty. The Pacific
elevator was composed OF three separate
buildings six stories In height. Eleva-
tor a was the first to go and then ele-
vator B caught fire. Burning timbers
were carried by the high wind and for
q time ii was thought many Of the build
ings in the vicinity were doomed. and
heavy lines of freight cars standing on
the tracks were removed as fast as pos
sible.
The loss in his direction was slight
The mailing house OF the Hale and
Curtis is the nearest building OF any
size to the burning elevator and for a
time was in imminent danger OF de-
struction. Several times II caught fire
but by hard work the building was saw
ed from serious damage.
r G Perry. the superintendent OF
the Pacihc Elevator company. said that
there was over 100000 bushels OF
wheat stored in elevators 4 and b. He
estimated the loss TO be al least s1.5o0.-
boo. Shortly after the fire broke ont the
south wall OF the elevator gave wav and
thousands OF bushels Of wheat fail inro
Inc river. Directly 10 the west Of the
Elevators arr the yards OF the Crane
Hardwood Lumber company and sever
III times small hlazes Were discovered
among the Piles of lumber but as fast
rs they were discovered they were ar-
stnguished- Ths greatest danger axne--
cnced by the firemen was the flying de-
Ills. The buildings were covered with
corrugated iron and large sections OF
ihit metal. heated TO white heat. fell as
iheF We're lon<sued from their fasten-
nss oy the FIVE. II was with the great
st difhcultv that the fire-nen kept dodg-
ing these falling sections OF iron.
The loss on the wheat IN the eleya-
sors is spproximated al 1861 600. ON the
,orn ssle loss Viii be ABOUT $4,000. r,ost
If the grain was the property OF the Pa
ciffc Elevator company. The Insurance
IS said 10 be about s7Sn n0a
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-27
MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY co.

MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY co.
Time Card. Effective June Is. 1885.
Leaye-East Bound.
Train No. 20, Kansas and Ne
braeka Limited" for Fort Scott
Tam ann 80 ~; s 6 Kansas City and st.
Louis Express. ......:..... s:lo p M
Leave for South and West.
Train No. s, for Clearwater Con-
way Springs, Anthony, Kiowa.
Kingman, Norwich. Oxford.
r ns,,e f No a. snd w soT conway 7 4 M
Springs and Anthony. 40 p m.
Leave cor North and West
Train No. 9. KANSAS and Ne
brnska Limited" for Hutchin-
SON. Pueblo. Colorado Springs
r ana 3 De e. ie1cept Sunday p H.
am 7:oo a. m.
Arrive at wichita from the East.
Train No. 9. kansas and Ne
hraska Limited" from Fort
Scott and 81 ,, mDui Kansas CITY l2;'' p m
arrive AZ wichita from South and West.
Train No. 6, from Kiowa- An
thony. conway Springs and D.
N. and A. POINTS,: 5:o5 p. m.
Train No 4ss, from Anthony and
ce ;1s ~ W'chita from North and West.
Train No. 10. from Denver. Col
orado Springs. Pueblo and
Hutchinson ...........-:-:.......l1 :1o a. m.
Train No. 4s4. from Hutchinson
and Mt Hope. ..-..-.-...'.--...- o'oo o. m
For further Information call on or ad:
dress City Ticket office. MO. Fac. KY. Ia
N. Main St. wichita. Kan.
b. 70. BLECKLEY, p. and T. A.
Denot corner Wichita and 2nd st.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-27
COTTON CARGO ON FIRE
British Steamer Puts in at New York Ate
Terrible Experience.

Terrible Experience
New York, Oct. 2s.-The British
steamer Wo1s;ey Hall, with Captain
Hall in command, put into this port this
morning with her cargo on fire. She
was bound from New Orleans for Havre
and left the former port on october 16.
On the morning Of October %, when the
steamer was $50 miles east by south of
Sandy Hook, during a strong sutherly
gale, smoke was found issuing from the
vent;lators under the bridge, and an
examination showed that the cotton
slowed in the forward hold, and which
constituted the major portion of the
cargo was on fire. The steamer at
once put before the wind, in order TO
lessen the draught, and the Itch was
lifted. The smoke was almost over
pcweriEg, but the Cingalese sailors, i'm
PEELED by fear Of the ship being con-
sume1 and encouraged by the example
OF the Officers, set n:anfully to work and
managed to hoist out twenty bales OF
cotton and pile then on deck The ship
was rolling with the heavy cross sea
that was running and soon a huge wave
broke over the side and washed the
bales overheard. AS the work of break
ing out the cargo in the face of the high
sea seemed too hazardous, Captain
Cameron decided to flood the hold. The
matches were battened down, hose was
introduced into the hold and the fire
pumps started. The water coming into
contact with the fire produced steam,
which added to the smoke and sikening
odor of the burning cotton poured into
the cabin and drove all hands on deck.
AS soon as the matches were battened
down the ship was headed for New
York. AS the water poured into the
hold, the ship sank down by the head
and took a decided list to starboard so
as to impede the ships progress con-
siderahley. The decks grew warm with
the fire. 1t was found necessary to bat
ten the cabin doors, as the steam and
smoke were sitting and it was impossi-
BILE TO enter there. When the Worsley
Hall arrived at Quarantine all hands
were worn out with the work and anx-
iety, II may be necessary TO scuttle the
ship to put out the fire.
At the present time the Worsley Hall
is anchored of Clifton, Staten Island.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-27

Elegant free reclining chair cars on all
trains and Pullman Palace sleepers from
Wichita TO Chicago and Kansas City with
out change. Also sleepers on all night
trains to Fort Worth, Houston, San An
tonic and New Orleans. Wichita sleeper
for Kansas City on 1880 p. m. train Will De
open Tor occupancy at p. m, ana sleeping
car passengers arriving at SIS a. m can
remain in sleeper until s a. m. T1ckets
sold and baggage checked to all poihts
north south, east and west. Steamship
tickets sold to all European points al low
est rates. Passenger station corner Doug
las and Meade avenues. Telephone 49,
HAL S. RAY, d. =. A.
JOHN SEBASTIAN,
6. p. 4 T. A. Chicago.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-27
NlrRO-GLYCERINE EXPLOSION
Nearly = Ton of it Goes on In a PennsyI-
vania Factory.

Pittsburg, Pa, Oct. 26.-Two men
were killed ana five persons injured,
three seriously, by an explosion of 1880
pounds of nitro-glycedine this morning,
at the Acme Dynamite company's works
near Hiiton, Pa The dead are:
JAMES LA BREE, chief mixer.
JOS KUSIE, engineer
The injured were:
James Sing, holder.
Robert Sing, holder.
Emma Johnson.
Two unknown boys.
The Injured were ali employees engag-
ed at work in another department, three
hundred feet from the scene of the ex
plosion, which was in the mixing de-
partment. The cause OF the explosion
is not known but it is supposed that La
Bree. and Kusie were thawing glycerine.
The building was completely demolish-
ed and the bodies of the two men man
gled beyond recognition. The loss was
about 5000. Windows We're shattered
and houses shaken for distance OF
more than a mile.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-27
PLAIN TRUTH TOLD
FRISCO RAILWAY OFFICIAL TALKS
ABOUT A COLLISION.

Understood Their Business aud Were
Trusted to More Than Ordinary De-
gree, But They Were Caught Mapping,
just as Other Folks are Liable to Be-
Conductor Was Busy Taking Up the
Tickets of the Excursionists and Forgot
All bout Everything Else.
St Louis, Mo-, Oct. 2s.-H. F. Clark,
the trainmaster Of the road in charge Of
the moving Of all trains between St.
Louis and Springfield. Mo-, has this to
say of the accident which occurred
about 10 O'Clock yesterday morning.
whereby two passenger trains on the st.
Louis and San Francisco railroad, oppo-
Eite Windsor station about thirteen miles
from this city, collided, intantly killing
light persons and injuring many others:
I'VE have nothing to conceal, and
= know it will all come out in the end,
20 I feel safe in saying that the blame
for the accident lies entirely with our
conductor and engineer on the excur-
sion train-George Atwood and Joseph
Dryden.
seen years of service in the railway bus
ness on our road and other systems.
We trusted them as we have trusted no
pther employees. Atwood was beside
himself with grief at the awful re-
suits of his mistake. The road has
nothing to say for itself, and no explain
alton to make further than that mis-
takes will happen on the finest systems
Of railway. We all make mistakes and
this was one of them, fatal in its con-
sequences. When / asked Atwood about
the wreck he said that he was busy
collecting tickets when his train pass
ed through Spring Park, and hence
paid no attention TO it until they We're
past. He must have gone on to the
scene of the collision without knowing
where he was on the track.
You see it was this way, neither
train had orders, nor were orders nee
essary in running as they were. Botn
trains were simply running according
TO the rules or ignoring facts Whlcn
were palpable to the conductor ana en-
gineer of the excursion train was the
cause Of the collision.
A reporter spent all morning trying to
locate Engineer Dryden. His statement
was desired particularly, inasmuch as
he has been held responsible by Train
master Clark. The search, however. was
unavailing.
Together with several others Dryden
was removed Sunday night to the Alex
ian Bros hospital After his wounds
were dressed he went away no one seems
90 know where
At the general Offices OF the railroad
the Official said he had not put in an
appearance today.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-27
LoNG-LoCHREx PENSION CASE
Dismissed by the Supreme Court on the
Ground of Aba cement.

Washington. Oct. 26.-The Long-Loch-
rem pension case was dismissed by the
supreme court OF the United States to-
day on the ground of abatement by
reason OF the retirement OF Judge Loeb
rem from the office Of commissioner Of
pensions. This case was brought by
Judge Long, OF the Michigan supreme
court, TO test veterans rights. Judge
Long drew a pension OF So a month
and the reduction of the rating 10 $50
per month was stubbornly contested in
the courts in the District OF Columbia,
and finally carried 20 the supreme court.
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VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY.

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from the Weekly Eagle than you can
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Weekly get four times as much live
news for soc as they get from the other
weeklies for s1.00 and $150. This is the
time when price and quantity tell. You
get all you can and pay as little as you
can. Therefore the Weekly Eagle IS
alike.
Rates made known on application.
r. P. MURDOCH, Manager
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The
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Medium.
THE WICHITA WEEKLY EAGLE

Established in 1872 and for twenty-four
years has stood at the head Of all Week
lies in the state. There are people in
this county who nave read it from its
first issue and are readers today. Why
do they read it? Simply because they
are after the reliable and latest news
and Can only get 1t through this medium
It has more columns of live reading
than all the Weekiies in the county
Business men are approached daily by
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expression tha. they nave the largest
circulation in the county. Well. we pay
the postage. They do not If they
are the local papers they claim they are
hard to locate. There have been hun
dreds of them In the twenty-four years
that the Eagle has been in the field and
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HARD LUCK IN rHE FAR NORTH
san Francisco Whsicr Makes a Pheaomena.
Record iu That Itne

San Francisco. Oct. eS.-'The whaling
bark John Winthrop has returned after
an absence from this port OF tai-tv-one
months. during portion Of which time
she na@ Sea1 within the Arctic circle
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0oINe NORTH AND EAST.
No Kansas City, st. Louis
spd Chicago limited daily 9l0amj s30a m
No Colorado Springs. Deni
yer RndPacihc coast daily 91ca m Q 80 q n
No Sansas City st. Louis
and Chicagn nj ht expressl
daily except SUNDAY. 10 a p m 10 so m
Noig daily
except sunday ..........-. o 5o m 10 ~ 10
GOING sOUTH ND WEST
No Fort Worth, Dallas,
Houston and Galveston
express, daliy..........t 80 p m 7l5 p IN
No Oklahoma, TT Worth
New Orleans and Pacific
coast, daily So p m ID p N
No Oklahoma, TT Worth
Dallas and New Orleans
express. daily, exceptl
sunday ....................i . m " y m
No Sort Worth, Houston
Galveston aud San Anto-
niC express. daily, except
sunday. ..................i % q M ooa IN
No 81 Accommodation, ex-;
cept sunday. e35 pm 40 p m
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CONNECTIONS.

No. 1ol. Kansas mail-Has reclining
chair cars tseaas free and Pullman
6-ax,ng room sleeper 10 Wichita and
Rurrton. Kan. Connects az Wichita.
Kan. with A. T. & :. F. for points in
Cherokee strip and Oklahoma Con-
raors AZ Burton, Kan. with A. T. &
s. F. for points n Kansas
No. loe. ST Louis Matthias reclining
.-air cars tseats free) 10 81. Louis and
p,Iirnan drawing-room sleeper 70 No
osrt Connects al Pierce City. No. with
N. ses FOR points In Indian Territory via
Eeosho. at None;I With No. :. the Tex
as limited (yesti5uledD which has r.
Ginning chair cars tseats free. Pullman
srs wing room sleepers 10 Galveston va
ps-ss ana Dallas. has dining car Tai
H,-'s "a Dallas; connects al Monet .lth
M wnica CONTESTS at Union Station.
:, Iouis. With 81 lines Tor the east,
north ana southeast
No. los. Colorado and California lin
;ted-Has reclining chair cars seats
.rees to Burton and Anthony, Kan.
Pullman buffet drawing room sleepers
- pnr-tsaa Ken TArou~h pDi;raAn
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-27
STRICTLY NoN-POLIrIcAL
Famers' National Congress Will Convene
at Indianapolis November 1913.

Chicago, Oct. 2S.--The- call for the next
annual meeting or the Farmers Nation
al congress was issued today by Presi-
dent b. F. Clayton Of Indianola, Iowa,
and Secretary John VI. Staehi of Chi
cage. The meeting will be held at In
dianapolls, Ind, Nov. 10 20 IS The
regular delegates from each state are
one from each congressional district and
two at large, appointed by the governor
Of the state The heads OF all the agrl-
cultural colleges and state agricultural
board are members by virtue OF Their
offices For the Indianapolis meeting
the governors OF Indiana. Illinois. Ohio
and Michigan have appointed 500 asso.
ciate delegates. having all the privileges
q the congress except voting. The
coming meeting promises 10 be the Larry
est gathering OF representative agricu,-
turalists ever convened in the United
States. II not in the world The farm
ers congress - rot secret organizs-
ifcla and is strictly non-pclitical.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-27
WICHITA ANp wEsTERN.
1000 a m
200 pm

ARRIVE FROM WEST.
No. Pratt ard Kingman passen-
Ger riaily except Sunday ......... 1000 m
No. Pratt and Kingman accom-
mediation. Tues, Thurs. and Sat-. 27o0 M
DEPAN7 WET.
ger daily except Sunday. .........i $40 p m
mediation. Mon" Weilr,. and Fri. SIS m
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TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money If it
fails TO cure 25c
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-27

Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railway.
Time table effective Sept Is, 1898
TRAINS Arrive Leave
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-27

Fon du Lac. Wis. Oct. S.-Ex-Con-
gresham Charles A. Eldridge died this
morning after a prolonged Illness. He
served six terms.
The evening times., 1896-12-02
THE OLD WAY
OF Treating Dyspepsia and Indiges
tiOn by Dieting a BarbarOus
and Useless One.

We say the old way, but really it is a
very common one at present time and many
dyspeptics and physicians as well consider
the first step to take in attempting to cure
indigestion is to diet, either by selecting
certain foods and rejecting others, or to
greatly dimish the qauntity usually taken,
In other words the starvation plan is by
many supposed to be the first essential
The almost certain failure of the starva-
ton cure for dyspepsia has been proven time
and again, but still, the moment Dyspepsia
makes its appearance course of dieting is
at once advised.
All this is radically wrong. II is foolish
and unscientific to recommend dieting or
starvation to "A man suffering from Dyspep-
sia, because Indigestion itself starves every
organ and every nerve and every fibre in
the body.
What the Dyspeptic wants is abundant
nutrition, which means plenty of good,
wholesome, well cooked food, and some.
thing to assist the weak stomach to digest
it. This is exactly the purpose for which
stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are adapted,
and this is the method by which they cure
the worst cases of Dyspepsia; in other
words, the patient eats plenty of whole
some food. and Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets
digest it for him. In this way the system
is nourished and the overworked stomach
rested, because the tablets will digest the
food whether the stomach works or not,
One of these tablets viii digest 5000 grains
OF meat or eggs.
Your druggist will tell you that stuart's
Dyspepsia Tablets is the purest and safest
trial makes one more friend for this excel
lent preparation. Sold at so cents for fun
sized package at ali drug stores.
no3O- 3teod
The evening times., 1896-12-02
DEATH TRAPS IN THE RIVER
Torpedo Mines Await a Hostile
Fleet Below Fort Washington.
ARE CERTAIN DESTRUCTION
The Exact Location Of q Ship Is
Determined by Instruments Above
and the Man Below Merely
Presses the Button Find
ders of Old and New Pattern.

81 noticed Just one thing about that ar
ticle in The Times this afternoon ON the
Potomac river defenses that was not quite
true' said n naval officer to Tines re-
porter last night
1T was said that the shore batteries
on the crooked river We're the city's only
protection. There is another factor That
seems to have been overlooked-torpedoes.
Yes; / don't suppose anyone ever saw
them being set out in the river, ana there
are no red flags flying To announce their
neighborhood. But they are there, ana Il
hostile fleet would have to reckon with
them before they got near enough either 10
silence The shore batteries or u drop shell
on the Potomac flats.
Il don't pretend To know myself Just
how many torpedues there are in the chan
mel below Fort Washington or where
they are located. But "A hostile fleet
that came up the river would find them,
find them very much as a band of Apaches,
i know Of once found three kegs Of powder
that they We're hunting for in the dark wiki
lighted matches Nobody has ever. seen
them since.
Very few persons outside the fortif-
cation board could tell you just where
the channel torpedpes are located.
''Bu. down at Fort Washington there IS
a little room down in the depths OF the
to its Inhabitants, where there are tables
with maps spread out giving the exact
location uf every torpedo in the river.
GAUGING A SHIPS POSITION.
up on the heights above there is Il care
fully measured base line with bench marks
at each end over which Two powerful tran
sit telescopes would be- set as soOn as
hostile fleet had passed the caPes at the
mouth o! the bay.
These telescopes would cover tie whole
of the torpedo field. and the observers
would be in com nmunication with each other
and with the officer down in the map
room ut the fort. Both the telescopes would
follow the hostile vessels, The known
base line between the telescopes aud the
angles measured on their yernier circles
would keep the Observers posted as Ia the
exact location OF the enemy at every mo
ment Just as though they Were rlinia ture
models moving over IA sheet of glass, with
the torpedo field mapped out underneath IL.
AS soon as the observers sighted YES
sci over Il torpedo, the word would be
flashed To the ma down in the easement
and he would press a little button on the
table corresponding to torpedo marked