Durango semi-weekly herald., 1903-08-13

CHlCAHO. Ill. Aug. ll.-NO drinks
are served today in the fashionabl,
clubs of the Union League. the Iro
quois, the Lincoln and the Chicago
! Athletic. The police demanded thai
| these organizations take out licenses
anu the clubs mentioned declined to
accede and are becoming dry" asso
Citations in consequence
SPOKANE. Wash, Aug. IL
Agents OF Rockefeller are putting
| through deal here to form the Fed
eral Mining and Smelling company
with capital of $50 ZOO 900. the pur-
| pose being to control the lead output
Of the Coeur d'Alene Mining company
NEVADA, Mo, Aug 1.-THE north.
bound Katy" flyer was derailed sew.
| enteen miles north OF Nevada at
midnight by spreading rails Two
cars We're splintered OF twenty-one
passengers injured. three We're badly
hurt. The injured have been brought
10 the company's hospital here
Among the injured are:
II Brown. OF Lockhart, Texas; left
arm broken.
Mr. and Mrs Alexander. of Dallas.
Texas, both injured about the head
Mrs. Allen OF Granger, Texas, back
injured.
The Injured are at the company S
rospital at Sedalia
PARIS, Aug. ll.-Eighty-tour corp
ses have been taken from the Metro
poIitans underground tunnel SO far,
but the fremcn are still unable to
penetrate tar, as the fumes from the
wreckage of the burned train are
5till dense.
On the stairs of the Melinmontant
station, seven suffocated victims were
found
At the next station, Les Couronnes.
corpses were strewu ON every step.
People left the burning train to try to
set 10 the open air. bur fell suffocated
races oil the victims were swollen and
III many cases the skin peeled off.
Victims are equally divided between
men, women and children.
Most OF the dead people We're in
poor circumstances, but many OF the
corpses are apparently people OF
standing.
The engineer of the train which
broke down and was being pushed to
the repair station. says that an iron
bar fell on the track, forming cross.
circuit which ignited the wood work.
The terrible mortality was caused
by the fact that no outlet was provid-
ed for the fumes.
Thirteen bodies are unidentified,
t,rb
ognition. Hundreds of persons swarm
about the approaches TO the stations,
searching lor relatives who have not
been seen since the disaster occurred.
The catastrophe was caused by one
train breaking down in the Menilmon-
tant station. which is in a poor and
populous section of the city This
train was promptly emptied and the
train which followed was ordered TO
push it 10 the repairing sheds.
On the way these TWO trains caught
fire, but the employees succeeded in es-
Gaping. Meanwhile crowded train
reached Les Harrones, the preceding
station. and the officials seeing the
smoke pouring out OF the tunnel gave
the alarm.
Panic ensued, the passengers strug-
Cling to escape. Amid the increasing
smoke many attempted to return
along the line toward Bellevillc, and
We're suifocated.
Officials seem to have lost their
heads and are unable to say how many
passengers went out. Firemen for
several hours We're unable to enter the
station or tunnel. owing TO dense
smoke which poured out in black
clouds.
Station Master Didier says that
when train So pushed disabled train
~, he noticed flames under the cars.
and called the engineers to stop. The
trains proceeded and near Melinmon-
tame station a violent explosion oc-
Cured and eight cars became mass
of flames. The flames melted the
wires, eXtnguishing all electric lights.
frain rs then arrived and stopped
near the conhagration. The panic
stricken passengers from trains As
ana 53 made a rush for the station en-
frances. but the fumes overlook them.
Train AZ was empty.
GEORGETOWN. Ky, Aug. IL
Henry Youtzy, who is serving life
sentence Tor Goebers assassination,
arrived in charge of an officer this
morning. lie will be a witness to-
morrow At the trial of Caleb Powers.
TOPEKA. Kan. Aug. 12.-The Sun
flower state is to be much in evidence
at the coming national encampment of
the Grand Army. This is made evil
dent by the large and rep
resentatlve delegation of vete-
rams that left Topeka for San Francis
co this afternoon by special train.
The party includes the department
commander and STAFF, with several
hundred other veterans, their wives
and families. En- route to the coast
the party will stop at Manitou, Glen
wood Springs, Salt Lake City and a
number of other points of interest
CHICAGO, H., Aug. l2.-"Many
hundred persons have been seriously
injured by the unskillful application
of the X-ray in Chicago. About 500
X-ray machines are in use in the city.
OF the practitioners using the X-ray
! not more than ten are competent to
apply it to patients without danger"
81.