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Arizona republican., 1903-12-31
Russian Diplomats, Greet
 Jdpdn'S War Moves
CAUTIOUS TAKAHIRA
Man Who Acts First and Talks Afler- ward Makes Others Nervous By His Self-PoSSeSSion- - Tokio and Paris are the Diplomatic BattlefieIdS-

London. Dec. S0.-Great Britain au- pears to be confining her diploaat.e efforts to preserve peace. solely as To kio and Paris. She has not attempted it is asserted here. to bring pressure t5 bear at St Petersburg. leaving thay phase Of the negotiations Co Fraucc- The foreign office here has received DO news that would indicate what ccurse Russia, now the sO-e factor in the sit- uation, intends to take. except through Paris. Keen sympathy and co-opera- ton prevails at Downing street ln M- del Cases efforts. but there is some dOuht that their effect VIII be f-lt un- til the Russian reply is acJuaI,y pre- sented to Jagan.
 At the Russian embassy late tonight it was sIid that the reply of isu 9sll had not yet been presented. nor had any indication Of it's probabif tone been received. The news Of Japan Is purchase Of :he Argentine cruisers building 7J Genoa was received at th- Russian embassy with smile and tt- remark: They are not SO very flE- midable. after alI."
 In German diplomatic circles here thr crisis is regarded almost entirely us t trial of strength between foreign Mn isteI IamsdOrf and Viceroy Aiexieif. the former. with the czar's support tr- ing nOtOriously opposed to war ard th- latter bcing believed to favor it- JTs tn now the vicerOy Is thought iu thls quarter to rave the better of it and t' have committed Russia Co such ar extert that a compromise. In spite of the CzaI's personal feeilngs. is impo-- sible-
Arizona republican., 1903-12-31
AS TO JAPAN's ULTIMATi'''

Berlin. Dec 30.-While tho Eos ...- ment has denied that Japan has Ir- formed the European powers that she has sent an ultimatum Co Russia ar- cordinS to information emanatiug frurl official circles here hate tonight Ger many admits the possibility that mrIl- bers Of the Japanese cabinet. in Inform al conversations with foreiEu dlrir- mats. may have mentioned Juptr measures for mobilization in orctr 'a show hec intentions and ~ o-ular af-- monstratiOn of the etsrmimttiuu vttn which she means to assert her claims Germany refuses to believe that Jlptu has sent an ultimatum. and VIII ruu- tinue so to believe until she has hern informed to the contrary by the Rus sian government.
Arizona republican., 1903-12-31
rAKAHIRA.s GUARDED TALK.

Washington. Dec. 30.-With var star Ing his county in the face. kosOro Tax ahira. the Japanese minister. was aE calm as any official in Washington to- night. as he sat al his desk a1 r Date hour. preparing dispatches for traus- mission to Tokio. Takahira has tho reputation of heinz one of the most cautions members Of the diplomatic corps. He believes that dipiCru.t fs should rot talk. but act He acts first and talks afte-wurt- H1Vius called at the state department and in- foImed the officials of the gravity wifh which the TOlIiO government views Che situation. Takshira said tonight that he with other officials of the Iapar,s' foreign service were awaiting tha nu- Twer cf Russia to JaUan's last untr bf- fore making a second communications tO the .rOwerE
Arizona republican., 1903-12-31
METALS.

changed at E56 1Ts Cd for spot and i56 los for futures. Locally copper was 9 So unchanged with lake quoted at F. 2.37H@12 621k; electrolytic 12.25@12.50: casting 12.121a612.3712.
 Lead advanced Is Sd in London to Il 5s but remained quiet and unchanged here with spot at 43715 for small lots.
 Spelter continues firm at 300 in the local market while in London it ad vanced 2s Cd to f21 los.
Arizona republican., 1903-12-31
A HORRIBLE SIGHT.

Tn the isles nearest the doors the scenes were narrowing in the extreme. Bodies lay in every conceivable atti- tude. half naked look on their faces revealing some portion of the agony which must have preceded their death. There were scores and scores of peo- ple whose faces had been trampled completely off by the heels Of those who rushed over them, and in one ais.e the hoGv of d man was found with not a ~estige of clothing, flesh or bone re- naining above the waist line. The en- tire upper portion of his body had been cut into mincemeat and carried away by the feet of those who had trampled on him. A search was made carefully with the hope of finding his head, but at late hour tonight it had not been discovered and all that will ever tell his friends who he was is the color and appearance of the clothing on the lower limbs. and this is in such a. condition as to he hardly recognizable.
 The theatre had been constructed but a Short time and not all of it's equip nent was yet in place. This included. unfortunately the fire escapes in the rear of the building. The small iron balconies to which the iron ladders were to be attached were up but the ladders had not yet been constructed. When the panic was at it's height a great number of women rushed for these fire escapes, only to find as they emerged from the doorway upon the
Arizona republican., 1903-12-31
Fg's CHRISTMAS PRESENT
Government Donates Ft. Marcy Reser-
 vation to the City.

Washington, Dec. 30. - Secretary Hitchcock, with the consent of the pres ident today agreed to donate to San ta Fe N. NJ, the abandoned ort Marcy military reservation, a tract of seven teen and one-half acres. The tract lies in the heart of Santa Fe and is said to be worth $100,OO0 It will be used as sites for new high school and also a graded school. The proclamation mak- ing the transfer will be signed by the president as soon as it can be prepared.
Arizona republican., 1903-12-31
SUN AND MOON TRIALS.

Georgetown, Colo. Dec. 2s.-The hearing of evidence began today in the trial of fifteen labor union men. charg- ed with complicity in the Sun and Moon dynamiting at Idaho Springs in July 2S, in which Philip Fire, one of the dynamiters was killed.
 All the defendants but one are mem bers of the Idaho Springs miners unicn. One is a member of the execu- tive board of the Western Federation of Miners.
Arizona republican., 1903-12-31
THE SICKENED POLICE.

As the police removed layer after layer of the dead from these doorwayE the sight became too much, even for them and the firemen, hardened as they are to such sights, to endure. The bod ies were in such an inextricable mass and so tightly were they jammed be- tween the sides of the door and tho walls, that 1t was impossible to lift them one by one and carry them out. The only possible thing to do was to seize a limb or some other portion of the body, and pull with main strength. Men worked at the task with tears run ing down their checks. and the sobs of the rescuers could be heard in the hall below which the awful scene was being displayed.
 As one by one the bodies were drag ged out, water soaked, blackened mass of corpses, the cries of the spec tators became more and more heart rending. There was one woman whose clothing was torn completely from her body above the waist. whose bosom had been trampled into a pulp and whose face was Tnarred beyond all hope of Identification. One man was found with his back bent nearly double. his spinal column having been fractured as he was thrown backward.
Arizona republican., 1903-12-31
STOCKS.

Atchison 6Sss; do pfd. 927s: N. J. Cent raj 161: C. X o. 837s; Big Four 79; c. & s 15ls; do pfd. 5S; do End pfd. 231a; Erie 29A; Great Northern pfd. 1S5: Manhattan 143%; Metropolitan l64H; Mo Pacific 95B; N. Y Central 12O1s; Penna. 119: St. L. & S. F. pfd. so: do End pfd. 42; St. Paul 1461s; So. Pacific 49%; Union Pacific SOS; Amal. Copp T 50a4: Sugar 1271a; Anaconda 771a; U. s: Steel 12A; do pfd. 577s w. U. S6H; sam ia F'e Copper 1A.
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JAPAN BUYS SHIPS.

Santiago de Chile, Dec. 30.-The Chil- can government has received offers from the Japanese Government for the purchase of two Chilean warships. the battleship Captain Prett, 5000 tons, and the cruiser Chacabuco, 4j00 tons.
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C. F. & |. BONDS.

New York, Dec. 29.-It is officially announced that a majority of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co.,, debenture bonds has been deposited with the Continental Trust company, under a plan to readjust it's finances. Applica- ton will be made to list the deposit receipts on the New York Stock Ex- change.
Arizona republican., 1903-12-31
JAPAN GOT THE SHIPS.

London, Dec. 29.-Japan today com pleted the purchase of Argentine war ships Rivadivia and Moreno, building at Genoa, Italy, for which Russia also is negotiating
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NOBODY. 10 CARE FOR II THE PANAMA COMPANY
The Stock Market Was Allowed to
 Collapse.

New York. Dec. 30.-There was a pro nounced disposition to take profits in today's stock market, as was rathe. clearly foreshadowed by the acton of the late market yesterday, but there was not lacking the fostering care of the market which held it in check on declines and nursed recoverieS-
Arizona republican., 1903-12-31
KISHlNEF QUIET

St. Petersburg, Dec. 29.-It is off cialiy announced in view Of the reports abroad of renewed attacks cn the Jews that Kishinef was never quieter than at the present time.
Arizona republican., 1903-12-31
MORE REDUCTION OF WAGES.

Youngstown, Dec. 29-Wages of l. 7SS employees at the Ohio plant of the Carnegie Steel company will be re- duced 13 to 26 per cent on January i, the heaviest falling on the tonnage men.
Arizona republican., 1903-12-31
HUMANITY PREVAILED.

Merchants in the vicinity of the theatre came to the emergency in d splendid fashion. Marshall Field X Co.,, Mandel Bros, Schleishinger & Meyer,
 Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co. and other large dry goods stores sent wagon loads of blankets, rolls of linen and packages of cotton to be used in bind ing up the wounds of the injured and to cover the dead. The drug stores furnished their stock to anybody that asked for it in the name of the people hurt in the fire. The doctors and trained nurses were on the ground by the score within a half hour after the extent of the calamity was known and every wounded person, who was car ried from the building received prompt medical aid. number of doctors waited at the entrance to the
 theatre with stethescopes in hand, and as soon as d body which looked as though it might possess life was car ried out, it was at once examined and if dead was placed on the pile lying on the sidewalk. Others were at one" placed in ambulances and whirled away to the hospitals or to offices of physicians in immediate neighborhood.
Arizona republican., 1903-12-31
THE DEADLY ALARM.

As soon as the flames first appeared beyond the curtain a man in the rear of the hall shouted Fire, Fire," and the netire audience rose as one person and made for the doors. It is believed that inc explosion was caused by the flames coming in contact with the gas reser- voirs of the theatre. causing them to burst.
Arizona republican., 1903-12-31
BONDS.

T.. s. Ref. 2-s. reg 1O6; coupon 1O61a; 3-s reg. ex. int. 1O5%; coupoA 1O61s; new As. reg. 133; coupon 133A cd 4-s. reg 107k; coupon 1OS%: 5-s. reg. a d coupon 101A.
Arizona republican., 1903-12-31
STALLED WITH THE DEAD.

One large truck used ordinarily for conveying freight to the depots was so heavily laden with the dead, in front of the theatre, that two large horses attached to it were unable to start and the police were compelled to assist by tugging at the wheels. When the need for trucks to remove the dead was more pressing, a huge electric delivery wagon owned by Montgomery Ward G Company was hauled up by the police. The automobile headed for the scene, but at State street it encountered so great d press of people that it could net get through. The chauffeur clang- ed his gong repeatedly, but the crowd refused to part, and the auto was fin ally turned away.
 While the police and fremeD were carrying out the dead and injured Will ! J. Davis one of the prOprietors of the theatre. was indefatigable in his efforts to alleviate the suffering and to assist in caring for the dead.
 He said:
 There was not need. as far as l know. of d single life being lost. There were over forty exits to the theatre.
 The building is fireproof and if some
 body had not screamed 'fire. I think I sdS
 panic are concerned, could have reach ed the street in safety. And of those
 who were suffocated by gas nearly all would have been taken out by |the i time the explosion occurred if order
 had been preserved in making their
 exits.
 | AS far as we have learned, every body on the first floor except three escaped. although some sustained bruises and other minor injuries. The great loss of life was in the first and second balconies. These combined will
 seat about 900 persons. The sale of
 seats had been good but not up to the
 capacity. and as far as l can estimate the balconies. between them, held be- tween z5O and 500 people. The top balcony where the cheapest seats were llocated. was the most crowded, and 1t
 is here that the crowd found the most | difficulty in struggling toward the exits
 ANOTHER THEORY OF ORIGIN. | It was declared tonight by the man.
Arizona republican., 1903-12-31
WEATHER TODAY.

Washington. Dec. 29.-Forecast: New Mexico. Wyoming, Arizona: FaiI Thureday and Friday
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on the north side of Randolph street. Although every available po- liceman within call of the department was immediately hurried to the spot and the men placed In lines from the ends of the block, allowing nobody to enter Randolph street from either Dearborn or State, it was found for the time almost impossible to hold back the frenZied crowd that pressed forward, many of them having friends or relatives in the theatre and being anxious to learn something of them. The conduct of the poiic.. was beyond all praise. The officers held their ground firmly and gently pushed back all those who sought to gain an en- trance to the theatre, although in some instances frantic men, anxious to look for their loved ones actually beat the officers with their fists in their rage at being prevented. In spite of the efforts Cf the police, a large number If pee pie succeeded in breaking through the lines and entering.
 REMOVAL OF THE DEAD.
 All the lights in the theatre were necessarily out. and the only illImi- nation came through a cloud of smoke that hung between the interior of the theatre and the street. Two men i'm mediately hurried to the floor below and informed Chief Musham of the fire department that the dead bodies were piled high in the balcony and prompt assistance must be rendered if any of them were to be saved. The chief inn mediately called upon all his men in the vicinity to ahanoon work on the fire and come at once to the rescue.
 The building was so dark and the smoke so thick that it was found i'm possible to accomplish anything until the lights had been secured Word was at once sent to Orr & Locllett Hardware company, two doors east oi the theatre and that firm ut once placed it's entire stock of lanterns at the service of the department. So rapidly were the bodies brought down that in an hour there were two streams of men in and out of the door. one carrying bodies, and the other com posed of mon returning to get more. The bodies were carried into the Thompson restaurant which adjoius the theatre on the east where all available space was given by the pro- prietor. The Gead and wounded were placed upon cndlTS, ldDleS anu COuu- ters, one woman even being placed for lack of q better spot, on the top or cigar case. Because of the trc- mcndous throug which surrounded the block in which the theatre building stood It was not possible for the police to carry away the dead and in a short time there was a line of corpses fifty feet long piled two and three high on the sidewalk in front of the theatre. It was found necessary in order to convey the bodies rapidly to the morgue and to the various undertaking esta blishments to press trucks into service. and in these, upon costly blankets furnished by the dry good stores in the vicinity and covered with the same material. the dead were hauled away practically like so mucn cord wood.
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little iron platform that they were from thirty to fifty feet from the ground, with fire behind them and no method of escape in front. They who reached the platform first endeavored to hold their footing and to keep back the crowd that pressed upon them from the rear. The effort was utterly use less and in a few moments the iron ledges were jammed with crowds of women who screaped, fought and tore at each other like maniacs.
 This lasted but a b-ief interval. anI the rush from the interior of the build ing was so violent that many of them were crowded off and fell to the gran ite pavement below.
 Others leaped from the platform, fracturing legs and arms and two were picked up at this point with fractured skulls, having been killed instantly.
 George II. Elliott, secretary of the Ogden Gas company, was in the build ing directly across the alley from the theatre and noticing the smoke went down to ascertain it's cause. When he reached the street women were al- ready dropping into the alley and Ell iott immediately rushed for the ladder in an effort to save as many as pos sible. No ladder was available, and the only method of assistance they were able to devise was to hurriedly lash some blanks together and throw them across to the frightened women on the platforms. with instructions to place the end firmly on the iron work. Before this could be done a fearful loss of time ensued, women were be- ing pushed every instant into the alley and by the time the bridge was con structed few persons remained to take advantage of it. However. about two dozen, it is believed, by Elliott made their way across this narrow cause way. Members of the theatrical com pany. being on the first floor, had com paratively little difficulty in reaching the street, although their situation was for the moment highly critical because of the speed with which the flames swept through the mass of scenery iu the flies and on the stage.
Arizona republican., 1903-12-31
NEXT TO THE GREAT FIRE.

Rarely in the history of Chicago has it's people been so stirred as by the calamity of today. It is next to the Chicago fire. the greatest catastropc that has ever. occurred here, and the speed with which it came and went seemed for a brief period to appal the business section Of the city.
 The news spread with great rapidIty and in a short time hundreds of men, women and children were rushing to- ward the theatre. The building in which the calamity occurred stands midway between State and Dearborn
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WHAT SAVED THE ACTORS.

"The simple fact that the curtain did not descend is what saved the company, although it caused such a horrible catastrophe in the front of the house. After the curtain had refused to descend there came an explosion or the gas tanks and with the curtain down. all the fire and gas would have been confined between the rear wall ot the theatre and the fire proof curtain in front. Under these circumstances It would not have been possible Tor a single member of the company to eS- cape alive unless he or she had been standing immediately in front of the door leading into the alley As it was, the draft carried all the gas and fire out beneath the curtain and the com pany was saved, although their saliva tion was the death of so many poor people in front"
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THE DEAD LAY THIcKEsT.

Outside of the people burned and suf- located by gas, it was in these two doorways on the first and second bal comics that the greatest loss of life oc- cured. When the firemen entered the building the dead were stretched in pile reaching from the head of the stairway at least eight feet from the door back to 2 point about five feet in the rear of the door.
 This mass of dead bodies in the cen CT by the doorway reached within two feet Of the top of the passageway. All oe the coT3ses at this point were women and children. The fight for life which must have taken place at these two points is some thing that is simply he yOnd human power to adequately de- scribe. Only a faint idea of its horror could be derived from the aspect of the bodies as they lay. Women on top of masses of dead, had been overtaken by death as they were crawling on hands and knees over the bodies of those who died before. Others lay with their arms stretched out in the direction toward which lay life and safety. holding in their hand fragments of garments not their own. They were evidently torn from the clothing of others whom they endeavored to pull down and tramplA under foot as they fought for their own lives.
Arizona republican., 1903-12-31
EDDIE FoYs STORY

Eddie Foy, the pricipal comedian in the play, was one of the last to ecape by getting out through a rear door after assisting the women members of the company to safety He went into the Sherman House in his stage cos tune with his face covered with grease and paint. In describing the com mencement Foy said the cause was that the fire proof curtain refused to work properly Because of this, he said the Gaimes readily obtained access to the main part of the theatre and were by the draft, carrying with it the gas as well as the fire, swept up to the two balconies, where the loss Of life was the greatest.
 The fire began in the middle of the second act" said MT. Foy, 'an. electric light wire broke, and was grounded, and from this the flames were started in the rear of the stage. The stage IS unusually wide and there was so great d draft that the flames spread rapidly They attacked all the scenery in the rear of the house. I never believed it possible for fire to spread so quickly. When it started l was at the footlights and to prevent alarming the audi ence I said that there was d slight blaze and that it would be better for all to leave quietly. Then 1 stepped back and called for the asbestos cur tain to he lowered. This curtain, about half way down, refused to go further and thus additional delay was entailed. This swept the flames out into the auditorium and I knew that the theatre was doomed. I hurried back to the stage and aided in getting the women members of the company into the alley. Some of them were in their dressing gowns and were almost over come by the smoke when they got
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Will I. Davis, husband of Jessie Bartlett Davis, the actress, manager of the theatre, said after the catastrophe that if the people had remained in their seats and had not been excited by the cry of fire" not single life would have be- n lost. This. however, is contradicted by tho firemen, who found numbers or people sitting in their seats, their faces directed toward the stage as if the per- fOImance was still going on. It is the opinion of the firemea that these persons had been suffocated bT gas.
 As near as can be estimated at the present time about 1900 people were in the theatre. Three hundred of these were on the first floor, the remainder being in the balconies and the railways back of them. The theatre is modeled after the Opera Comique in Paris. and from the rear of each balcony three doors lead out to the Ssageways to- ward the front of the theatre. Two of these doorways are at the end of the balcony, and on- in the center. The audience. In the rush for the outer ak- seems to have chosen for the greater port, to flee to the left entrance and to attempt to make it's way down the eastern stairway leading into the lobby of the theatre
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Arizona republican., 1903-12-31

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