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The Newark journal., 1904-02-05
County Judges Confer.

The annual meeting of the Coun- E Judges Association was held in Little Rock on the 21st. Hon. J. II. Hinemon, state superintendent of public instruction, addressed the association on the free school system of Arkansas. He spoke in favor of maintaining and developing rural life. but said 1t could not be done without good rural schools. People were leaving the country and talk ing their children to the cities to be educated. This would not be 90 if the rural schools were what they ought 10 be. The question of road building was discussed at length. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, R. L.. Montgomery LafeKette county :; vice-president, +. NJ. Griffin, Lon oke county; secretary, Eugene Cy- pert, White county.
The Newark journal., 1904-02-05
Suicide or Murder, Which?

John Calhoun, stenographer 24 years of age, jumped or was thrown from the free bridge at Lit tie Rock and was drowned. On the night of the tragedy parties cross ing the bridge heard cries for help, and going 10 the middle span, found a mans overcoat and hat, which were later identified as be- longing to Calhoun. He had just left the employ of the Iron Noun tain, and 1t is known that he had quite a sum of money and some diamonds, and his friends fear that he met with foul play, although there is no evidence to support this theory. The police are of opinion Calhoun, breeding over the loss of his position, took too many drinks and that he wandered cut on the bridge to be in the open air. He probably took a seat on the bridge rail and. losing his balance, plung- cd into the water about 100 feet below.
The Newark journal., 1904-02-05
Collision at Malvern.

The Iron Mountain northbound cannon ball tram was wrecked at Malvern by dashing into a string of hozears on siding No one was seriously injured, but several =boa cars were demolished and the pas senger engine was badly damaged. The collision was due to misplaced switch. It seems that some one had opened the switch after the arrival of the Fl Dorado train. There Was no light on the switch stand, and the engineer did not know of tac misplaced switch until after his en- zine had turned from the main line into q siding. Seeing that a collision with the string of bozcars was unavoidable the engineer and fireman jumped and escaped without injury.
The Newark journal., 1904-02-05

Il "AdAld Ao LtiC 0tiibtu 9JdlCe.
 Fire at Springfield, H., which originated in q lumber yard, de- stroyed business property valued at $15,000.
 A movement has been started at Atlanta, Ga., for the erection of a monument to the late Gen. John B. Gordon.
 Many members of the theatrical profession have been forced to seek other means of earning a living by the closing of Chicago theaters.
 A bill has been introduced in the lower house.o of congress giving a pen sion of SIP per month to every sur viving union soldier of the civil war.
 Fire at San Antonio, Texas. de- stroyed the mammoth department store of L. Wolfson. The building and stock were valued at half mil lion dollars.
 The Japanese legation at Wash ington has received numerous ap- plications from yenturesome Amer jeans for commissions in the Mi kado's army.
 All railroads eentering in Chi cago, have decided to forbid pas sengers to ride on freight trains, whieh.wiIE be a hard blow to com mercial travellers.
 The Japanese have landed over 14,0o0 troops at a strategetic point and threatens to seize Korea at the first demonstration of actual war on the part of Russia.
 The coroner's jury, after an in- vestigation lasting several weeks, las placed the blame for the Iro- quois theater disaster at Chicago on the managers and builders.
 The Produce Exchange bank at Cleveland, Ohio, has suspended, and c. A. Rose, the cashier, has been in- dicted .0n tue e-ebaree= of- guaranteeing $t50,000 of the banks funds.
 The little town of MoundsyiIle, Ala, was almost completely wiped out by a cyclone. Five white people and thirty-two negroes were killed and over 100 injured. The town is located on the Alabama Great South ern railroad. The storm struck about midnight, and a heavy rain follow ing prevented the rescue work for some time.
 Fire in the Masonic Temple in Chicago caused a panic among the 1000 occupants of the building, and damaged the stock and fixtures of tenants to the extent of $20.000. All occupants of the building escaped without serious injury through the bravery of their elevator men, who remained at their posts, operating their ears while dense clouds of smoke filled the building.
 The urgent deficiency appropria- tion bill reported to the house car ries total of 11.251, sos, based on estimates of the various departments aggregating $12,488,209. Some of the larger items in the bill are: $2,000,000 for armament and armor for new ships; $20o,000 for the na- val station at Guantanamo, Cuba; $100,000 for Alaskan boundary sur vey; $510,000 for construction of a new office building for the house of representatives; $115,000 for mile- age for members and senators $300,- GOO for rural free delivery, and $2,- 100000 for collecting the customs revenues.
 The Mississippi legislature has reelected United States Senators Money and McLaurin,
 The republican state central com- mittce of Tennessee has indorsod President Rooseyelt's candidacy.
 The United Mine Workers have
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-06-23

L. = Lander. Louis; Ludwig, Geo;
Lam, Amelia; Lutzens, Mrs. Kate;
Ludemann. Mrs. Hannah; Loeffier,
child; Loebinger. Henry.
NJ. = McGrann. Michael: Mueller.
Martha; Miller. Elizabeth. infant; Man
heur, Mamie; May, Charlotte: Mehlein.
Mrs. Minnie; Meyer, Elizabeth; Meyer,
Mrs. Louise: Mullock. Anna; Mueller.
Helena; Mueller, Helena, child; Muel-
Ter. Mrs. valesca; Motzer. Mrs. Anna /;
Michel, -, child; Marseilles, Ma
tilda.
N. = Necke. Daisy, child; Nunner,
Lillian.
o. = Ochs Tor Knox, child; Olfeth,
Annie.
p. - Pullman, William II.
r. = Roth, Helen; Rheinger. Meta (:
Roth, Lena; Roth, Mrs. Josephine;
Rothman. Mrs. Emily; Reuling. Emma.
s. Schnid. Katherine: Schnitzler,
Mrs. Tina; Schwartz, Mrs. Louisa
Sierichs. Letta; Smith. Mrs Mary; So
bel. Catherine; Stoehr, Susie: Strinz,
Mrs. August; Schmide, A. t.: Schultz,
Martha; Schultz, Emma, child; Schu-
le-, -; Smith, Mildred; Seeman, Me-
tn.
U.-Uhlendorf. Selma; Unger, Kate;
Ullman. Mrs. Lena.
V.--Volkenberg, Mary; vollmen,
Mary.
W.-Walter. Elizabeth: Wiedman,
Caroline; Weis, Mrs. Tilly; Weis, En-
lily. child: Weis. Louis.
Z.-Zietler. Emily
A list of the wounded at hospitals,
corrected, gives 1913 as the number, the
majority of them suffering from burns,
submersion and shock. Many Of the
wounded went to their homes unas-
sisted.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-06-23
SCENE THAT HAUNTS HIM

Brandow Stood at the Thre tile to the Last
-ConkiiD's Escape.
TRY as l can it is impossible to
erase that scene from memory When
l close my eyes at night can see the
struggling crowd, the dead upturned
faces and floating bodies; 1 can yet
hear those agoniZing and piercing
screams and can feel the scorching
flames. We had eight life
boats and two RATS aboard, but it
was an utter impossibility to get near
them, for the crowd was so dense
about them that it would have taken
a hundred men to push the frenZied
persons aside and launch the boats.
1T has been said that the life pre-
servers were old and rotten. We car
ried full complement of preservers.
They were such as are required by
law, and if they were not sound and
in the condition they should have
been. then it is up to the inspectors,
for the boat had been inspected only
q short time before the fire, and every
thing was pronounced all right. Just
before the Slocum was beached the
engine room was in flames, and the
uanueS all aUOur him."
When the boat grounded Conklin
said he and BrandOw made their way
out, and tug came up and he and
Brandow were carried over the side liz
the rush. When he reached the shore
he saw Captain Van Schaich and Pilot
Van Wart standing in the wafer TAX
ing out bodies which were floating all
long as he could. ConlSlin says that
he and BrandOw were the last Of the
crew to leave the boat
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-06-23

the flames cut OF escape from the
hurricane deck, where q great many
of the women and children were
crowded together, and soon burned
away the light wooden uprights, and
the deck fell with a crash on those be-
low. 1t is thought that most of those
on the hurricane deck were burned
AS the fire increased the struggle to
gain a point of vantage at the stern
became frightful. Women and chill
dren crowded against the after rail
until it gave way and hundreds were
pushed off into the river. After this
there was a steady stream of persons
who jumped or were thrown into the
water.
By this time the shrieking whistle
of the Slocum had attracted the at
tention of river craft for a considera-
bic distance around and tugs and 9TH
er small boats were rushing to the as
sistance of the burning steamer
These small boats rescued all those in
the water whom they could reach. In
the wake of the Slocum as she hurried
up stream was a line of black spots,
marking the heads and bodies of those
who had sought to escape the roaring
furnace on the ship by throwing them
selves overheard.
Few of those saved by the small
boats had on life preservers. At no
time during the progress of the fire
was there any opportunity to either
lower the life boats or get the life
preservers out from underneath the
seats. This. perhaps. gives an idea of
the rapidity with which the flames
swept the decks. Through all the
wild panic. during all that inferno
with fire and smoke surrounding them
the officers and men of the doomed
boat remained at their posts. but they
were powerless TO avert the catas-
trOphe
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-06-23
FIXING THE RESPONSIBILITY


Life Preservers, Inspected This Year and
Approved, Are Worthless.
Information has been received at
the district attorneys Office that En-
gineer Conkling, who was said to have
persisted in the disaster, is alive ard
in hiding. County detectives under
the direction of Assistant District At
torney Garvanare now looking for him.
1t was thought that he had gone to
his home in Catskill. A body taken
out of the wreck of the Slocurh, that
of woman, had around its neck what
LOCKED like life preserver covering.
Coroner O'Gorman says that he found
quantity of pulverized cork inside
the woman's blouse. He thinks she
tried to save her life by donning the
preserver and that it went to pieces.
When Coroner O'Gorman discovered
the cork, he said: may use this in
fixing the blame for the death of this
woman when her body is identified.
She had been cool enough to put on
the life preseryer and had it been in
good condition she might have had a
chance for life
Captain William Ii. Van Schaik, of
the Slocum, who is in Lebanon hos
pital, told something Of the disaster
to Samuel Marx, one of the inspectors
the life preservers had been regularly
inspected by the proper authorities in
the spring of the present year, AMI
only one had been condemned as bad.
Van Schaik said that III the people
had waited, as did Van Schaik and his
pilots. hundreds that had lost their
lives by jumping into the river could
have been saved reaching the Leach.
Van Schaik and Pilots Van Wart and
Weaver landed in three feet of water.
The Iron Steamboat company's
three-deck excursion boat Sirius went
up the sound yesterday with all of its
bunting flying and the general hub
bub of a large. excursion party. As
many of the 1000 women and chill
dren ON board as could crowded to the
rail and viewed the wreck of the Gen.
eral SlOcum, but with barred and bowed
heads. The steamboat Cygnus passed
few minutes later with an excur-
sion, the same, scene being enacted,
and the band on board playing a
hymn.
In q number of instances brooklyn
families were almost entirely wiped
out These included the family of Will
lam Oellrich. which consisted of ia
Their, mother, two sons and three
daughters. Oellrich had intended go
ing on the excursion. but was obliged
to serve as juror. Only one son was
saved.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-06-23
MANY SCORES ARE YET MISSING
Number, However, Decreasing by the
Lost Reporting Themselves
Death and Havoc in
Cuban Storm.

New York, June 17.-With unceas-
ing effort search is going on for the
bodies of those who persisted Wednes-
day on the General Slocum. What the
list of victims will total scarce one
dare venture guess, but whatever
the number may be there is hardly
parallel in the history of disasters
where death came to SO many in so
brief period of time. Police and
health department officials have placed
the number at figure as high as l.
coo and more, but it would seem that
the maximum fatality will not largely
exceed 100 1t would seem that the
estimates were based on the number
of bodies recovered-JO4 at noon yes
terday-added to the number missing.
estimated at 400. But of the bodies
recovered only 116 had been identified,
and it Is pretty certain that many
of the missing are among the unidenti-
fed.
Bereaved Ones Watching for the Dead.
All day long. from sunrise until
darkness shut off even the melancholy
satisfaction of watching for the dead.
anxious searchers kept up their eternal
vigilance. and at dusk there had been
recovered $50 bodies. for the great
part women and children. Mothers
who weeks ago had planned that fatal
outing for their children: little ones
who had longed for the coming of the
happy day. Up to dusk 400 bodies had
passed through the morgue. and of
these nearly 400 have been identified.
The east side has its human SYM
pathies aroused to the fullest extent.
and down by the river where the
boats unloaded their dead, thousands
gathered throughout the day Streets
leading to the morgue were blocked.
Wreck Is Clear of Bodies.
Up the sound, where the hulk of
the General Slocum lies submerged,
showing only paddle box. scores of
small craft aided the tugs in grap-
ping for the victims. Divers went
down time and time again, and when
their work ended for the day they de-
clared there were no more bodies in
the wreck. A score of times a diver
reappeared after his plunge with the
body of a woman or a child. Two of
them coming to the surface together
on one occasion had in their arms two
little girls = sisters = clasped in each
other embrace, and their mother, it
was thought, whose dead hand tightly
clenched the skirt of one of them.
Hope for Some of the Missing.
There is q number of places where
the living may have landed, and it is
believed that many that ale now re-
ported missing are safe, and eventually
will be heard from by the officials
who have the rescue work in hand.
A surprising number of persons, in
fact, has reported to these officials
alive, thus cutting the list of missing
down considerably as well as the prob
able mortality list.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-06-23
TERRIBLE STORM IN CUBA


tion of Property.
Santiago de Cuba, June IL. = The
worst storm of a decade began last
Friday and eliminated Monday night
in fourteen inches of rain which fell
III five hours, accompanied by hur-
ricane The lower village of Ell Cobre
has been destroyed. Forty-five per-
sons are known to be dead, and scores
are missing. Bodies are floating in the
CObre river Twenty bodies have been
recovered by boats patrolling the bay.
All the bridges on the CObre railway
are out and many bridges have been
lost on the Cuba railway.
A train which left Havana Satur-
day is held between washouts forty
miles inland. A relief train bringing
mail and passengers was wrecked at
Moron. The fireman and mail agent
were killed, and two of the employees
were injured. The passengers are safe.
The mines at Daiquiri are crippled
and six of the employees have been
drowned. The pier has been damaged.
Santiago de Cuba's property loss is
enormous. The streets and many build
ings have been badly damaged, and
there have been immense losses in the
country districts.
Guantanamo, Cuba, June. II. = The
most severe storm on record has swept
over Guantanamo. There were show
ers all Monday and at night a steady
downpour of rain began, lasting till
noon Tuesday. AT a. m. the Guaso,
Bano and Jaibo rivers were all out of
their banks and sweeping the country,
causing loss of life and property. Ten
bodies have been recovered thus far,
but much greater loss of life is sup
posed to have occurred in the low
districts beyond the rivers. There are
large numbers of dead cattle along the
banks
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-06-23
Probably 600, Mostly Wo-
men and Children,
His Victims.
STEAMER IN FLAMES ALL OVER
Rushing for Shore ir a Vain At
tempt to Save Her Human
Freight.
Decks Come Down on the Frantic
Passengers, Who Leap to Death
in the Waters-Struggle
for Life Is Terrible.

New York, June 16 = The three
decked excursion steamer General
Slocum, of the Knickerbocker Steam
boat company, burned to the waters
edge off North Brother island, East
river, OF the entrance to Long Island
sound, resulting in the death through
burning or drowning of at least GOO
persons, mostly women and children.
Bodies recovered UP to this writing
number 4S5, and divers are still at
work. The remains of many persons
who leaped into the river have not
yet been found, and it will be some
where near complete. Scores of those
on board were babes in arms, not
counted at the booking office.
Sunday School Excursion on Board.
The General Slocum, one of the
largest excursion steamers in these
waters, left Third street, East river,
at $50 a. m. yesterday, having on
board the annual Sunday school ex-
cursion of ST. Marks German Luther
an church, located in Sixth street. Her
destination was Locust Grove, one of
the many resorts on Long Island
sound. The excursion was in charge
of Rev. George T.. Haas, pastor OF
the church. The vessel was command
ed by Captain William Van Schaik.
one of the best-known excursion boat
captains in New York harbor
Fire Breaks Out Forward.
According TO an official statement
issued by the knickerbocker Steam
boat company, owners of the Slocum.
the number of passengers on board
was S73 that being one-third of the
vessels licensed capacity. The Slocum
had reached a point near the Sunken
Meadows off One Hundred and Thirty
fifth street, Manhattan, when fire
broke out in lunch room on the for
ward deck. The blaze was caused by
the overturning Of a pot of grease
The Roadway of the vessel and q high
wind almost instantly famed the in
significant fame into fury. Efforts
were at once directed to subduing the
fire, but they were futile.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-06-23

is assured By perfect digestion. In :
digestion swells the stomach aud puffs
it up against the heart. This causes
shortness of breath, palpitation of the
heart and general weakness. Kodol Dy-
spepsia Cure cures indigestion, relieves
the stomach, takea the strain of the
heart and restores IL to sfull perform
ance OF ias function naturally. Kodoi
increases 1.-THE strength b. enabling the
stomach and digestive organs to digest.
assimiIate and appropriate to the blood
and tissues al Of the food nutriment.
Tones the stomach and digestive or
& ans. Sold b. J. w. Rinard.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-06-23
ROW OF coRPsEs ON THE BEACH
Scenes on the Island Are Pitifui-Many
Charred Bodies.

Charred bodies
The Slocum got within fifty feet of
the northwest point of North Prother
island, and there stopped in the shall
low water. The scene on North Broth
er island as described by the rescuers
was pitiful one. Body after body
was washed ashore or brought in by
boats and added to the long row OIL
the beach. Fifty-three persons died
there while the doctors were attending
them. As the bodies of the living and
the dead were taken out of the wat
er those alive We're taken to the hos
pitfalls on the island or sent across the
river to hospitals in Manhattan.
For hours the bodies of the burned
and the drowned drifted ashore OH the
island and between One Hundrded and
Thirty-irst and One Hundred and
Thirty-eighth streets in Manhattan.
Some came ashore still alive. Many
of these died. The scenes OH the
beach of North Brother island were
pitiable in the extreme as the living
and the dead We're brought in. The
row of bodies stretched along the
beach, and hysterical women and fran
tic men went along looking at one aft
er another, searching for children and
friends. Women with disfgured faces,
their clothing partially stripped from
them, were carried to the improvised
emergency hospital, crying for chill
dren who had been torn from them
in the mad rush when the boat took
fire.
Meanwhile the Slocum burned to the
waters edge. AT 1925 p. H., two hours
and twenty-five minutes after the fire
was first discovered, she sank. 1t is
estimated that there were then nearly
100 charred bodies on her decks. Just
after the steamer sank the water near
by was black with bodies. The tug
Fidelity succeeded i'm picking up eight
eight charred c0rpses in Hunts Cove.
off Riker's island. None of these bodies.
it is thought, can ever be identified.
Heads, legs and arms are burned off
and not a shred of clothing is left on
any of them.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-06-23
MILL WORK

Having purchased the Planning Mill
and business heretofore conducted by
c. w. Suit, will continue the same
at the old place and will be prepared
to do all kinds of Planning Mill Work
promptly and in satisfactory man.
ner. Give me trial.
also do general carpentering and
building contracting. Estimates gladly
furnished for anything you may want
in this line.
Office and mill on South Street,
south of Pennsylvania R. R. tracks
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-06-23

Second Mate Accuses the Engineer Fur
ther Morsue Figures.

Second Mate Accuses the Engineer-Fur-
ther Morsue Figures.
Among the witnesses examined by
the coroner was James COrcoran. sec
ond mate Of the Slocum. In the course
of his testimony COrcoran said: The
first engineer IConklinl was not at his
post at the time of the fire. He was
one of the very first to leave the boat
COnklin did not get the soles of his
shoes wet, for he boarded the first
tug that came alongside or anywhere
near"
AT 100 a. IN. the officials at the
Bellevue morgue gave out these figures
On the Slocum disaster: Dead recoy-
cred. $50; dead identified 521; dead un-
large mirrors in it fell with CRASH.
I looked for Brandow and he was still
standing near the throttle, with
identified and unrecognizable, so: dead
to be identified, 8. Together with the
announcement from the mOrgue that
the number of recovered dead was
$50 came the statement that about Al
persons are still unaccounted TO-.
There can be no doubt that very
many of these are dead. because for
forty eight hours and more relatives
have been searching for tncrl.
These figures relative to the missing
are not official, because it has been
found impossible by the bureau es-
tablished at the church to i-eep Il
check on the names of those who in
the first excitement had been reported
to them by relatives as LOST Scores
of missing" have been found to be
alive, but each day other names have
been added TO the roll.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-06-23
For a Hundred Years.

For a hundred years or more Witch
Hazel has been recognized as a
superior remedy. but il remained for E.
G. Dewitt & Co. of Chicago: o, to die
cover how to combine the virtues OF
Witch Hazel with other antisepctics, in
the form of a salve. DeWitt's Witch
Hazel Salve is the best salve in the FOL
sores, cuts. buIns, bruises and piles,
The high standing of thie salve has given
rise to counterfeits and the public is adj
vised to look for the name Dewitt on
the package. and accept no other. Sold
by j. w. Riuard.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-06-23

side territory which the vast MAORI
" of those that persisted were ac-
customed to call home.
The coroner's investigation to fix
the responsibility of the disaster will
begin on Monday next. The federal
authorities. as well as the district at
torney, will hold an investigation. and
the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children. through its coun-
sci, has signified its intention to push
the inquiry to the utmost