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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-13
CAUGHT BY CAyE-IN.
For Over Two Hours Thirty.TwO Miners
Were in Dire Peril.
THEY ALL MANAGED TO ESCAPE.
Imprisoned One thousand Feet Below the Sur
face-'coOlness and an Active Brain Were the
Means Which Enabled the Entombed Miners
to Reach the Open Air in Ssiety--The Sur
face Over the Cave-In Dropped Over Yard.

Scranton, Pa. Especially ).-Thirty-two
men employed at the Nayaug colliery
in Dunmore we're entombed by a cave
In. but, thanks to a simple fortunate
circumstance, a terrible disaster was
avoided.
The men were at work about 1000
feet from the bottom of the slope and
400 feet below the surface when two
acres of the roof between them and
the slope came down with a terrible
crash, crushing the pillars beneath 1t
and causing rush of air that almost
blew the men from their feet and hurl-
ed the roof off the fanhouse.
Lamps were extnguished, but, find
ing that the air was still pure, the men
relighted them and began to cast about
for a way Of escape. Some counseled
remaining where they were until help
should reach them from the outside,
but the cracking Of the pillars IN their
vicinity told them that the cave-in was
extending towards them and that they
must soon find a way out or be caught
and killed like rats in a trap.
Foreman John Gibbons, who was
with the men at the time, bade them
keep cool and quiet and he would try
to find way out. Crawling on his
hands and knees over the fallen roof
and sometimes squirming through
crevices that barely admitted his body
he made his way to within 15 feet of
the airway which led to the second
opening, and which, it was presumed,
was not affected by the fall. as 1t is
narrow passage cut through solid rock.
Returning for the men he had them
take their tools and follow him.
Alter a difficult and dangerous jour
ney they reached the point where the
fall blocked their way. This was at
tackled with bars, picks and shovels
and, after an hours work, a passage
was cleared to the airway, which, as
they had counted upon, was open. AS
fast as they could run they made their
way to the second opening and thence
to the surface, where they were greet
ed with wild hurrahs from the thou
sands who had gathered, expecting to
see them brought out crushed and
mangled corpses if they were brought
out at all.
During the two hours and fifteen min
utes intervening between the time of
the cave-in and the time the men
emerged from the second opening in
tense excitement prevailed.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-13
LEAP RESULTS IN DEATH.
Joseph Stark MiscaIcuates His Distance and
Kills Himself

New York Especially Joseph d.
Stark, 20 years of age, met a tragic
death here in the Twenty-second Regi-
ment ArmCry. Stark, with number
of others, was participating in an anna
teur circus, being conducted for the
benefit of the regiment. Stark's act
was to ride a bicycle up an incline 200
feet long and 35 feet high, and then,
dropping the bicycle into @ net, jump
into tank of water, 35 feet away.
The tank was filled with copper in
set, six feet deep, and in which the
water was three feet deep The tank
proper stood nine feet high.
At the opening night OF the circus
the act was performed successfully by
Henry Farrell, Starks partner A
matinee was given In the afternoon
and a large crowd assembled to wit
ness the various feats. Shortly before
o'clock Stark mounted his bicycle
and peddled it rapidly up the incline.
Just before reaching the end of the in
cline, at the proper place he jumped
from the seat and then jumped to-
wards the tank the bicycle, in the
meantime, falling into the net. In
stead of falling directly into the CEN
ter of the tank Stark struck the fur
ther edge of it head-first, and then fell
into the tank, apparently lifeless.
Members of the regiment jumped in
and quickly had Stark out OF the
water, but death had already taken
place. His head had been crushed in.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-13
TRAIN TELESCOPED.
Bad Crash Due TO a Derailed Freight
Car at Gays Ferry.
EIGHTEEN WERE BADLY INJURED.
Peculiar Accident Occurs on the Pennsylvania
Railroad-Medlcal Aid Quickly Summoned
Collision Happened Just Outside Of Philn-
delphis'-Passenger Coach Telescoped- Side
Torn Away of Several Others.

Philadelphia, Pa. Especially .-Eigh-
teen men and women were badly in
tured, two perhaps mortally in a
wreck on the Pennsylvania Railroad
Just south of Gray's Ferry, caused by
a freight car Of one train jumping the
track just as the Washington and New
York fast express train was passing
and badly damaging seven of the Pull
man and passenger coaches
The train struck the derailed freight
cars with considerable force. Hardly
two minutes elapsed after the wreck
had occurred before ambulances and
patrol wagons were dashing through
the streets 10 the scene. The express,
which left Washington at II o'clock
carried baggage car in the lead and
four Pullmans and five passenger cars.
The smoker was the first OF the pas
senger coaches.
The train left Chester at 1.5G p. M,
and was near the tunnel at Graye
Ferry, about a mile and a half from
the city proper, and was running at a
slightly reduced speed, when freight
train going south jumped the track, a
wheel on the rear box car of the
freight having broken. The box car,
diverted from the rails, ran slanting
aOiOco Inc IOduDeu anu SlTuck Llc
right hand side of the smoker of the
passenger train. which was just then
abreast Of the feight.
The rear of the box-car hitting the
side Of the smoker well forward wiped
away the solid timbers as though they
were so much paint. The whole wall
OF the passenger coach was torn off,
leaving only the seats, many of which
were rent and broken. The resistance
afforded by The smoker DETECTED the
end of the destructive box-car, so that
1t merely slid along the side of the sec
ond passenger coach until it reached
the rear end.
The third passenger coach, every
seat of which was occupied. was tele-
scoped. The box-car, by the force of
the collision, was raised high in the
air, and its base plowed along the roof
OF the passenger coach, tearing it into
splinters for a distance of Is or 20 feet.
When this point was reached the gas
tank burst, and a great volume of gas
burst through the passenger coach just
as the trains stopped and the box-car
fell upon the heads of two dozen peo-
pie In the six forward seats. In less
than an hour all the injured had been
cared for and in Is minutes more the
tracks were clear and traffic was re-
sumed. A new train was made up and,
after the injured had received atten-
ton. the express proceeded to it's des-
Hnation.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-13
SECRETARY HAYS VICTORY
Chinese Proposals Settled on the Basis lie
Proposed Are Now
Modified

Washington Especially. - American
diplomacy, 1t is said here, has averted
a world strife over China and insured
the preservation of the Empires in
tegrity If the agreement reached by
the foreign Ministers in Pelin Is car
ried out with scrupulousness in detail,
as Secretary Hay will insist. The au-
thorities have been greatly encouraged
by the exchange of views which has
occurred among the powers, but 1t was
not until Wednesday that they felt JUS
titled in making known the following
important developments which have
taken place.
The powers have agreed that it
would be injudicious to insist upon de-
mands which China would be COM
PEELED to reject and which would
make necessary renewal of military
operations.
Under instructions issued by the
Governments the Ministers at Pekin at
a meeting formulated demands in ac-
cordance with views entertained by the
United States, Russia, France and
Japan and now shared by Great Bri-
tain and Germany, which China will
accept.
Minister Conger has been instructed
to sign the agreement adopted by the
Ministers.
In the opinion of well-informed Off
cials these developments mark the
most important step toward a peace
ful solution of the Chinese question
that has yet been taken.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-13
BIG BLAZE IN BALTIMORE.
s35o,OOO Worth of Property Was Destroyed
Bazed for Many Hours.

Baltimore, Nd. Especially Pouring
forth volumes of dense black smoke
that blinded firemen and hindered them
in their work, one of the largest fires
that has occurred in Baltimore for
years consumed the entire interior of
Nos. 212 and 214 West Baltimore
street, occupied by the Baltimore Bar
gain House 1t is estimated that the
damage will amount to nearly $780,
600, which Is covered almost entirely
by insurance. The heaviest loss will
fall upon the firm of Frank & Adler,
which owned the building, valued at
100000. 1t was insured for only $685.
900. All other losses were fully COW
cred by insurance.
In addition Grotjan, Lobe & Co.,
wholesale auctioneers, who occupy the
adjoining building, 210 West Balti-
more street, suffered a loss of about
$4,000, due principally to smoke and
water in their stock.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-13
TRAIN CRASH IN MEXICO.
Twenty Persons Killed and About Sixty In.
iured on the Central.

San Antonio, Tex. (SpeciaD.- ter
rife wreck, in which a score of per-
sons were killed and about sixty hurt
occurred on the Mexican Central Rail-
way between Tamanacha and Symon,
fifty miles south of Jumilico.
Edward Rische, a citizen of San An
tonic, was at the scene twenty minutes
after the engines crashed together
The place where the wreck occurred is
in a valley at the foot of two immense
hills. At the time both trains were
running thirty miles an hour. One of
the trains had on board a construction
crew numbering $50 men. The other
was a freight train of fifty-fve empty
cars. Three engines and about forty
cars were piled up thirty feet high.
Two American train employees were
forced to flee to avoid being lynched
The names of the killed and injured
are not obtainable This is said to be
the most serious wreck that has ever
occurred in Mexico.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-13
Bows Fight with q Rear.

Chambersburg, Pa. Especially Roy,
the 15-year-old son of J. A. Harkins,
of Dry Run, had a hand-to-hand con-
fiict with a bear in the mountains not
far from his home. While the lad was
chopping wood he was attracted by the
barking of his dog, and following the
sound he saw large black bear des-
cending tree backwards. The dog
angered bruin, who went for the boy,
and the little fellow gave fight with his
axe. He cut the bear several times
and then selling an opening ran for
help to some young men, who were not
far off with guns. With DR.. Shope,
they returned to find the bear gone. A
half-eaten full-grown sheep from VIII
bert SINNERS flock lay near the tree.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-13
STILL CHASING De WET.
The FOxey BOer Leader Keeps the Brit
ish Going Right Along.
ENTIRE FORCE TRYING TO TRAP HIM
General Kitchener Reports That De Wet,
Having Failed In His Attempt Upon
Cape Colony, Has Trekked Northeasterly,
But Is Being Hard pressed''ln Difficult
Position.

London (By Cable) Tho War Office
has received the following dis
patch from General Kitchner, from
Bloemfontein: Have Just received
news from Knox, at Rouxville, that
De Vets force, having failed to force
Commassie Bridge which we held, has
trekked northeast, abandoning 500
horses and many carts. His attempt
on Cape Colony, therefore, has failed.
He is being pressed on all sides"
Aliwal, North Cape Colony (By
Cable.-General De Wet appears to be
in most dangerous position, and to
need all his strategy to eXtricate his
force. With strong British columns
on three sides and two swollen rivers
barring his front, the British COM
manders begin to be hopeful that the
great chase by four columns, which
has been one of the most exciting oper-
ations of the war, will result in the
capture of De Wet. Definite news Of
his whereabouts was first received De-
cember 2.
The next morning General Knox
started in hot pursuit, and Pitchers s
and Herbert's columns were detached
to making a turning movement. After
three hours march General Knox
learned that during the night De Wet
had doubled back past the British
right, necessltating a complete change
of plans. During the night Of Decem-
ber General Knox encamped on the
Carmel farm, the site of the Boer
laager, which had evidently recently
and hurriedly moved.
General Knox started again at day.
light, hoping to corner De Wet while
crossing Karrepoort Drift, but he aV-
rived too late. The British expert
enced very great difficulty in following
De Wet, owing to the rise in the river,
but they succeeded in crossing without
the loss of a man or beast. From
that time on the pursuit of the Beers
was taken up without baggage, the
troops being supplied by foragers, en-
abling them to make more rapid move
ments and keep in touch with the re-
publicans
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-13
REVIEW OF TRADE.
Prices Of Commodities Are Generally Steady,
and Holiday Trade Brisk at
All poinfe

New York Especially r. G.. Dun &
Co. s Weekly Review of Trade says:-
Business is progressing along con-
servative lines. 1t Is without excite
ment and without great speculative ac-
tivity, but with a confident undertone
which Is to be explained largely by the
fact that leading concerns in most Of
the great industries have orders book
ed to employ their machinery at nearly
full capacity during months when cur
tailment Is usual.
mo net reduction in working force
has appeared in the last fortnight, and
q readjustment of wage schedules In
some branches of the steel trade Is
effected without trouble. Prices OF
commodities are generally steady, and
holiday trade is brisk at all points. The
South is particularly cheerful, with
cotton firm and the rice crop coming in
at very full prices.
There Is no cause for alarm in the
small volume of new business at iron
and steel centers. With the first sign
of higher prices there came forward
such flood OF contracts that mills
and furnaces booked orders SUFFICIENT
to keep their full force employed for
months. Hence there has come more
quiet condition, with less bidding for
products
"Other forms OF finished material
are steady, and at most points pig Is
unchanged, although concessions are
made for Bessemer at Plttsburg'
Numerous bridges are being erected by
the railroads, and heavy tonnage OF
structural steel is taken. Other rail-
way supplies are in active demand,
with rolling stock urgently sought.
Aside from a further advance OF
2 1-2 cents in mems kip boots and firm
ness in grain shoes, the market for
footwear has quleted down.
Failures for the week were 2S7 in
the United States, against 221 last year
and twenty-five in Canada against
thirty-three last year."
Bradstreets says:-
Wheat, including -four, shipments
for the week aggregate 3,432,15 bu.
shells, against 2,497,SS0 alst week, and
5,133,331 in the corresponding week OF
1899. Corn, exports for the week ag-
gregate 5,371,377 bushels, against A.
sol, ,o3O last week, and 3,S15,699 iP -his
week a year ago."
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-13
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

The Cars condition continues to
improve.
Mrs. Langtry, the actress, and her
boy husband, Hugo de Battle, have
separated.
The Tiber has overflowed it's banks
at Rome, flooding the Pantheon and
other places.
The revival Of Hoollganism is caus-
ing panic among the residents of
Whitechapel.
Winston Churchill says that twenty
thousand or more British regulars are
needed in South Africa.
Lord Roberts is visiting the various
important battlefelds in South Africa
before returning to England.
1t is reported that the Czarina re-
Gently dismissed Baron Fredericks, the
minister of the court, for disobeying
her.
Seventy deaths have occurred and
over thousand persons are i'll in Liv-
erpool and Manchester. England, from
drinking impure beer.
Italy's financial budget presented TO
Parliament shows a deficit of l9, 900, 900
lire, of which 10000 lire is charged
to the expenses Of the China expedi-
tion.
A German Foreign Office official says
that several of the powers, including
Russia, desire a change in several pro-
visions of the treaty drawn up at
Pekin, and that it is impossible to pre-
dict what form the final agreement
will take.
Protests have been made against tho
removal of the astronomical instru-
ments from the observatory at
Pekin. Many of the instruments have
been boxed and prepared for shipment
to Paris and Berlin.
j. X. Merriam, former treasurer OF
Cape Colony, in an address presented
by him to the leaders of the Afrlkander
Bund, denounced the war in South
Africa as zone of the blackest spots
in British annals" N
The Turkish government has fignet
a contract with the Cramps ShipbuilGi-
ing Company for the construction othh
cruiser to cost S1,700,O00, which ifal-
cludes about $4,000 indemnity to thd
'Taited States. N
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-13
Burned by Gas Ignition.

Wheeling, w. Va. (SpeciaD David
Phillips, engineer, and Frank Kobaugh,
fireman, on the Baltimore and Ohio
Cincinnati express, both of Glonwood,
Pa, were the victims of peculiar ac-
cident at Elm Grove. The big high
pressure natural gas main of the Tri-
state Natural Gas Company had been
broken by slight slip during the
night, and the cloud of escaping gas
found vent between the rails near the
bridge at Elm Grove. The train came
from the escaping gas without warn
ing, and the fire in the locomotive
ignited the column of vapor. Instant
ly the locomotive WIS enveloped in a
cloud of flame that found it's way to
every nook and crevice. The engineer
and fireman were severely, but not
dangerously burned.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-13
70 Miners Killed.

Mexico City (Specia) An explosion
of dynamite at the mines at San
Andres de la Sierra killed or wounded
many miners.
At the latest advices 26 dead bodies
had been recovered.
Fifteen injured persons, some of
whom will die, were taken from the
wreckage, and the ruins are thought
to contain other victims.
1t is not known as yet how the ex-
plosion occurred, but nine cases of
dynamite blew up at the powder house
with an appalling roar, shaking the
country for miles around.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-13
He Had a Harem,

Decatur, Ala. Especial. - The resi-
dence of A. j. Thomas, near Clutts-
vile, in this county, was wrecked by
dynamite. The crime is believed to
have been the work of whitecaps.
Thomas, who is single man, of about
forty, 1t is alleged, had as occupants
of his house seven women. He had
been frequently asked to send the in
mates of his house away and had re-
Gently received warnings from a So
called whitecap committee One of
the women was badly injured in the
eXDlOsiOn
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-13
FIELD OF LABOR.
s. labor temple cost s4OO oOO

Paris labor temple cost 100000.
In Toledo, Ohio, eight hours now
constitute a days work in all depart
ments under the city government.
Union upholsterers in San Francisco
receive SO per day of eight hours.
Every shop in the city is said to be
thoroughly union.
Unions subordinate to the Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Oil Well Work
ers will vote upon the question of
electing the international officers of the
parent body by the referendum sys-
TEN.
The new scale of salaries for the
president, first, secOnd and third vice.
presidents OF the Order of Railway
TelegrapheTs has been fixed at $4,000,
spectively.
Nearly 100000 women in Spain
work in the field as day laborers;
$50, 900 women are registered as day
servants-that is, they work for their
food and lodging. There is no such
class anywhere else.
Owing to a French law compelling
the French mercantile marine to man
only with Frenchmen, the foreign sea-
man cannot be introduced TO displace
and defeat the French shipping unions.
The Sydney Wharf Laborers' Union,
which is 2600 strong, has obtained from
the Associated Shipowners' Associa-
ton a fixed concession of eight hours
and a raise equal to l shilling per day.
The rate for casual hands has been
fixed at Is. 6i per hour and rs. per
hour after p. M. on Saturdays.
In Melbourne case was unearthed
where a government contractor was
paying his men nine shillings a week
and tucker. The contract was quash-
ed. and the money in hand confiscated
and distributed among the men ia
make up 6 shillings a day, their short
age under that amount. The contrac-
! tor went broke.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-13
Increase In Clerical Force.

Washington (Special) Com
mittee on Appropriations Of the House
completed the Legislative, Executive
and Judicial Appropriation Bill. 1t car
ried $24,496,5O8, being $9O3,OO1 less
than the estimates. and $239, 9,496 more
than is carried by the present law.
The whole number of salaries provided
for in the bill is 756 less than the num-
ber estimated for, and an increase of
120 over that carried in the present
law. The bill provides for four addi-
tional employees under the architect Of
the Capitol, four employees In the
House of Representatives, So in the Lii
brary of Congress, six in the Depart
ment Of State, 29 In the Treasury De-
partment, II in the Interior Depart
ment.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-13
Turning Cuba Over to cubans.

Havana (SpeclaD.-Gen. Wood has
issued a decree providing for the union
of the separate organizations of pro-
vincial rural guards under one head
Hereafter they will be known as rural
guards of the island of Cuba, and will
be subject to the orders of the central
government. 1t is intended that this
body shall preserve the future peace of
the island. Hitherto the provincial
organizations have never gone outside
their respective provinces. From this
time the guards can be sent to any part
of the island to meet any emergency.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-13
Promotion for CrippIes.

Washington (SpeciaD The Attor-
ney General in an opinion in the case
of Lieutenant George Madison, U. S.
~, says there is no reason why an
officer, wounded in the service, should
not be promoted as well as his fortu-
nate brother, II there are duties in the
higher grade which he can satisfac-
torily perform" When an ensign in
1885 Madison was struck by a break
ing anchor chain and lost a leg. He
has since been unable to perform sea
duty, but has rendered satisfactory SER
vice ashore.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-13
Kruger to American Friends.

New York Especially D.-The consul
general of the Orange Free State has
received the following reply to a
cablegram of good wishes sent to Paul
Kruger by the American Transvaal
League: II thank the directors of she
American Transvaal League and all
sympathizing Americans for their
greetings. and hope their kind wishes
will be fulfilled. KRUGER"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-13
Three Dead in Triangular Duel.

Alexandria, La Especially News
reached here of a triple killing at
Parkdale, Ark. Two Killian brothers,
merchants of that place, had had a
falling out with Station Agent Phil
lips about railroad business. They
went to the station, smashed every
window, and then went in search OF
Philips, who was at his boarding
house. They called him out, and, after
exchanging a few words with him, all
three drew pistols, and the three men
were dead almost instantly
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-13
Young Churchman In Jail.

Baltimore (SpeciaD Thomas James
Pritchett, young lawyer and promi-
nent in church circles, was arrested
here charged with obtaining money
under false pretenses through his
Commercial Savings Bank" Many
poor people became depositors. Pritch-
EFT, when arraigned, made no defense
and was committed for trial in default
of bail. He taught Sunday School in
Grace Methodist Church.