The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-05-30
PENNSYLVANIA NEWS.
The Latest Happenings Cleaned From
All Over the State.
DOUBLE WRECK AT LEAMAN PLACE
Passenger Train Running Fifty Miles an Hour
Cut caboose In Two. Scene Of Wild Excite.
ment.-Severai Passengers Hurt. Towards
Swept by storm..Three Creeks in the
Borough Burst Their Bounds.

One OF the most disastrous wrecks in
| years on this division of the Pennsyl-
yania Railroad occurred at Leaman
Place. A rear-cnd freight collision oc-
| CURED first between two west-bound
trains, in which the colliding engine
and three cars and the cabin OF the for
ward train were badly wrecked. The
cabin was thrown over the east track.
The second section OF the Western Ex-
press, due at Io.45, running at the rate
| OF fifty miles an hour, dashed into the
cabin. cutting il in twain. Hall OF the
cabin was thrown against an embank-
| ment and projecting timbers broke ev-
cry window in the two baggage cars,
one day coach and three Pullman sleep
ers OF the express train. The engineer
of the express. who had been signaled
too late. brought his train to sudden
stop. Many passengers we're thrown
from their berths and the widest excite
ment prevailed. The engine and every
car OF the express were badly damaged.
The railroad officials are investigating
the affair and the failure TO stop the ex-
press at safe distance
Exceptions were filed in court at
| Pittsburg to the proposed sale OF St.
| Pauls Roman Catholic Cathedral to H.
c. Frick for $I.3z5,ooo. Z. c. Herman
and James Kelly make the objections,
claiming they are old members OF the
| congregation, but were debarred> from
| participating in the congregational
meeting on the matter. They also al
lege that the Cathedral was built with
contributions from all parts OF the Pitts
burg diocese, extending eastward as far
as Altoona, and that two hundred con-
| gregations in the diocese have an inter
est in the property. The objections
were taken by the court, although the
time fixed for objections has expired.
| Growing crops, fruit trees and build
ings were heavily damaged by a tre-
| mendous hail storm which passed over
Butler county. At Chicora the hail was
so heavy that citizens swept up huge
| pile OF it in the rian street. hoistcd
flag above it and photographed the dis
| play Plate glass windows in the Chi
cora hotels were s,lashed. Oil derricks
were blown down, and at Echo two
acres OF heavy standing timber were
levcled with the ground. A number of
oil well rigs were splintered into kindl-
| ing wood. About a score OF rigs were
destroyed in all.
| Telephone communication was cut off
in most directions and landslides along
the Lehigh Valley Railroad stalled all
trains for several hours. At Bolans
Hotel the water stood three feet on the
lower floors and left deposit Of Shiny
mud six inches deep. The Arcade
Block and six houses built over Mix's
Run were flooded. as was tine State Line
and Sullivan Railroad cos! yards. The
borough will suffer great loss on ell the
hill streets where hundreds OF feet of
| guttering and stone walks were washed
| away.
The total loss from the FIRE at the
Reading Iron Works, located in Dan,
vile, will be between 100000 and
| SIPS. 900. The fire originated in ons OF
| the furnaces, the frame work igniting
| ironl the red-liot cinders. The bar and
skelp mills, the roll shops and the
greaser part OF TIE puddle mill are al
most completely wiped out. The loss
is partly covered by insurance.
| A g-owl from. dog and scuAle
a.,used Miss Margars, Esrcy. daugh-
! te- a. W. H Esrey, 0f Chester, early
the o:he- morning aid, looking out Of
| Ee.- bedroom window. she saw the ami
maj leaping at coloreO burglar. Mr.
| E5ISy vas also awakened and. seizing
4 =
from the dog and asd acrcss the lawn
TIE anan threw up an arm, as if in
pair, and disappeared, followed By the
| dog.
| Charters were issued BY the State De.
pa,tment to the following corporations
| Buffalo and Susquchanna Coal and
| Coke Company, Galeton. pot.tr county
captr,. $4,000 Pttsbrrg Scam Ccal
| Company. Pittsburg, capital, 81 1000
| Conncliivi!lc Manufacturing and Mine
| Supply Cc5,:pa1y. New Haven, Fayet;e
county, capital, $4,000.
The commencement exercises ol
| Martin Academy, the Friends School
were held in .he meeting house at Ken
Meth Square; The gradaatcs were
Lidie 7. Taylor, Ruth F.. Richards.
Helen NJ. Phillips and NJ. Elizaheti,
| Pyle. D.. Jesse Holmes. OF the George
School, delivere.. the address TO the
graduates.
The Central Labor Union OF Potts
Vile adopted resolutions praying the
| Board OF Pardons to release the nine
men convicted and who are now serv-
| ing terms in the county prison Tor riot.
| ine at Oneida colliery during the
miners strike last fall
A terrific electric disturbance. accom-
| panied by a ielugc OF rain and a hail
| storm OF great severity. passed over To
wanda, lasting iorty-fve minutes Mrs
| James Braltigan, an aged woman. was
caught by the rush OF water while at
work in the basement OF her house.
| She was rescued with difficulty, as the
water stood six ice: deep on the floor.
the Wilkes Barre police rescued a
I7-yea--old girl from l'ingrani.on who
| had been cniiocd to Wilkcs-Bar and
| drugged She SAID that she had been
| promised work. When found or the
street She was ia Tic company Of
man. who ran and escaped arrest.
John Lapcrr had his back brokca by
n fall OF coal at No. 4 coliery, Tama-
| qua,
John MATHS, driver for a brewing
company, was instantly killed in run
! away accident at Yatcsyille. a suburb
OF Shenandoah. His team took fright
at a passing Leiligh Valley Railroad
| freight train. 1're wagon wheels
crushed his skull.
While going from Mssimer to York
| Haven, Ralpn Shelly Was kaockod down
with sandbags by tramps and robbed Of
S2s. Shelly was left unconscious by his
asIaiiants.