Durango semi-weekly herald., 1903-12-28
THE SALT OF THE EARTH.

Ohio railroad eight miles west OF Con
nellwille last night The wrecked
train was known as No. II. eastbound,
and was composed of an engine. com
bination baggage and smoker. Two
coaches. two Pullmans and diner.
The train was derailed by running
into some switch timbers. or timber
OF about that size. derailing the en-
gine and all the cars.
.CONNEI.LSVILLE. Pa. Dec. "a
Twelve of the injured In the terrible
wreck OF the Baltimore a. Ohio Du-
qnense Limited died after being
brought here from Laurel Run.
Twenty bodies have now been iden-
tilted and the death list. II Is believed.
will run between sixty and seventy.
Many of tho corpses Will never be
identified, being so badly mangled.
The crowds around the morgue at
midnight were 10 dense that the doors
had to locked and the police called in
to preserve order.
Two white men and Two negroes
were arrested this morning charged
with robbing the dead and dying Vic
Tins M the scene of the wreck
Later--An official list has just been
given out by the railroad officials and
shows the number dead to be 60.
Forty.nlne of the victims are identi-
fed, but the other eleven are I'M
known foreigners. None of the vic
tins lived west of Chicago. but the ad-
dresses of the following are unknown
Charles NJ. Sippler, james Fox. Car
men Mitchell, and G. Gesch.
The Duqucnse Limited connects at
Baltimore with European liners and
carried large number of foreigners
who were on their way to spend
Christmas in the old country. They
occupied one special coach and 1t was
In this car that the largest number
of fatalities occurred. The list OF the
injured given ont by the railway car
rles only four names,
The scene at the wreck this morn
ing is simply terrible. The dead are
horribly bruised, and some of the
scalded were in such fearful condi-
tion that they might better be dead.
Four men lost their eyes entirely.
Baggage was scattered all over the
ground and much OF 1t was soaked
with blood. Here and there were
bundles of broken toys, telling the pa
thetic tale of Christmas shopping
with It's sorry ending.
The cars are piled up one on anoth-
er at all sorts of angles. and fully 200
yards from the first break in the
wreck lies the engine on its side com
pletely broken to pieces.
The great train was plnnging
through the darkness at the rate of
sixty miles an hour and dashed around
curve into the pile of timbers and
its great speed made a fearful disas-
ter. The first passenger car was
pushed completely over. the engine
and rolled over on its side. This car
was filled with passengers, and every
one was scalded to death from the ex-
Gaping steam from the engine, with
the exception of six or seven who
were fearfully mangled
The steward on the dining car and
the conductor of the train displayed
great heroism.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 24.-It is an
nounced at the war department this
morning that no provisions will be
made at present for any officer or ofii
GERS, either retired or active, for duty
with the national guard of Colorado.
HAZELTON, Pa, Dec. 24.-Three
hundred girls struck at the silk mills
here today and they made a riotous at
tack on sixteen female strike breakers
when the police interlerred and
charged the mob, but they were pow
erless to cope with the strikers. The
officers did not care to use their clubs
on the girls and the disorder continu
ed until the strkebreakers retired
TOPEKA. Kans., Dec. Ex-Governor
Bailey is confined to the executive
mansion under the care of a physician
being threatened with pneumonia.
BERLIN, Dec. 2i.-An intimatior
has reached the Japanese legation
here that Russia will conceed the
Japanese request. and there is hope
today that war will be averted.
MEXICO. Mo-. Dec. 24.-An east
bound Wabash passenger train ran in
to freight train near here today re
sulting in the Injury of number oi
the passengers. The engineer of tn,
passenger train is under the wreck
age and Is probably dead. while Thorn
as Whiten of Moberly. Mo. G. w Bus
sy of Iowa, C. X. Lamont, of Sandus
ky, Mont, are probably fatally hurt
There were some seventy-fve passeng
ers on the train and the most OF then
were badly shaken up.
NEW YORK, Dec. 24.-The lnterna
tional Mercantile Agency in discussing
the weeks Trade. says the volume oi
holiday trade equaliel or exceeded
that of last year.
Authorities agree that the stopping
place has been reached in iron and
steel. the delayed orders which will
be- placed after the holidays marking
the elimination OF the industrial and
financial depression.
The year closes with brighter out
look and with much improved pros
poets for grains. Snow and rain has
given much needed relief in the win
ter wheat regions.
DETROIT. Mich, Dec 24.-Govern
or Bliss was hanged In efiigy last