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The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1904-01-02


were compelled to abandon their
task and give it over to Others
whose nerves had not, AS yet, been
shaken by the awful experience.
As one by one the bodies were
dragged out OF the water soaked
blarkened mass of corpses, the
spectacle became more and more
heartrending.
uEARTRENDING SIGHT PRESENTED.
There were women whose cloth.
ing was torn completely from
their bodies above the waist,
whose bosoms had been trampled
into a pulp and whose faces we're
marred beyond all power of idan-
tiication. Bodies lay In the first
and second balconies In great mum :
bers. In some places they were
piled up in the aisles three and
four deep, whore one had fallen
nnd others tripped over the pros,
trats forms, and all had died
where they lay evidently suffocat,
ed by the gas. Others we're bent
over backs of seats, where they
Lad been thrown by the rush of
people for the doors and killed
with hardly chance to rise from
their seats. One man was found
with his back bent nearly double,
his spinal column having been
fractured as he was thrown back
ward. A women was found cut
nearly in half by the back of the
seat, she having fallen over face
down.
FACES OF DEAD BEAR AGONIZED
EXPRESSIONS.
In the aisles nearest tho doors
the scenes were narrowing IN he
extreme. Bodies lay in every
conceivable attitude, half naked,
the look on their faces revealing
some portion OF agony which
must have preceded their death.
There were scores and scores of
people whose entire faces had been
trampled completely of by the
heels of those who rushed over
them, and in one aisle the body of
ma1 was found with not yes
tige of clothing, flesh or bone re-
naming above his waist line. The
entire upper portion of his body
had been cut into mince- and
carried away by the feet of those
who trampled him. A seal ch was
carefully made with hope of
finding his head, but at a late hour
to-nlght 1T had not been discovers
ed, and all that will tell his friends
who he was is the color and appear
ance of the clothing on the lower
limbs, and this is in such a condi-
ton as to be hardly recognizs-
BILE.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1904-01-02
$50 FIRE VICTIMS.
CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.

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reservoirs of the theatre, causing
them to,,burst. Will j. Davis,
manager Of the theatre, said, after
the catastrophe, that if the people
had.remsined in their seats .and
had not been excited by the cry
of fire, not single life would
nave been lost. This is, howevsr,
contradicted by the statements of
the firsmen, who found numbers
OF people sitting in thsI, faces
directed toward the stage as if the
performance we're still going on.
1t was tho opinion of the fremen
that these people had been suffo-
Gated at once by the flow of gas
which came from behind the as
bestos curtain.
1900 PEOPLE PRESENT.
As near as can be estimated at
the present time, about 1900
people were in the theatre. Three
bundled of these were on the first
floor, the balance being n,the two
upper balconies and in the hall.
ways back of.them. The theatre
is modelled after,the Opera Conf
que, in Paris, and from the rear
Of each balcony there are three
doors leading out to passage ways
toward the front of the theatre.
Two of these doors are at the end
of the balcony and one in the
centre. The audience in it's rush
for the outer air seems to have,
for the greater part, chosen to flee
to tho left entrance, and to attempt
to make it's way down the eastern
stairway leading into the lobby of
the theatre.
DEAD FOUND IN PILES.
Outside of the people burned
and sufocated by gas, it WAS IN
these two doorways on the first
and second balconies that the
greatest loss of life occurred.
When the fireman entered, the
dead were found stretched in
pile reaching from the head of tho
stairway at least eight feet from
the door hack to a point about
Eve feet in the rear of the door.
Thi mass of dead bodies in the
centre of the doorway reached to
within two feet of the top pas
sage way. All of tho corpses at
this point were women and chill
dren.
The fight for life which must
have taken place at these two
points 10 something that is simply
beyond human power adequately
to describe. Only faint idea of
its horror could be derived from
the bodies as they lay. Women
on top of these masses Of dead had
bsen overtaken by death as they
we're crawling on hands and knees
over the bodies of those who had
died before. Others lay with
arms outstretched in the direction
toward which lay life and safety,
holding in their hands the frag-
msnts of garments not their own.
They were evidently torn from
others whom they had endeavored
to pull down and trample under
foot as they madly fought for
their own lives.
SCENE TOO MUCH FOR FIREMEN
AND POLICE.
As the police and fremen re
moved layer after layer of dead
in these doorways, the sight be.
came too much even for them.
hardened as they are to such har.
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Frei git paid o. carloads
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-30
RAINS CONSPIRE TO
KEEP JAPANESE BACK.

st. Petersburg, Aug. 90, 1880 p. M
Gen. Kuropatkin since yesterday morn
ing has been drawing in all his forces
from his eastern and southern fronts
toward Lao Yang. Anping, Esegow,
Liandiansian and Anshanshan, consti-
tuting the main positions of the outer
defense line of Lao Yang, have been
abandoned.
The heaviest fighting occurred on the
extreme left where the japanese ad-
vanced to the assault again and again
with bayonets. The positions at Use
gov and Anping were held by the
Tenth European Corps The attacks
were delivered with fanaticaI bravery
The Russians lost a large proportion
of officers, ten guns and from 1900 to
1000 men, but the Russians had been
generally successful in beating off the
assaults all along the line and the
Russians declare that the order to re-
tire came as surprise, just when they
were expecting orders for a general ad-
vance.
AlC lOtiA CAiSlll rum the east front
was greatly impeded by the conversion
of the Ian river into a mountain tor
rent, and this probably also accounts
for the failure of the japanese to fol-
low up the retiring Russians.
The Japanese column, moving up the
Lao river and threatening Gen. Kuro-
patl1in on the west, was regarded as
extremely dangerous and Gen. Kuro-
ki's extreme right seems also to be
working around Gen. Herschelmann's
position at Anping and to be moving
toward Mukden. The strength of the
cnveloping Japanese armies may be
judged from the fact that Gen. Olxu
alone, who is coming up from the south,
is officially reported to have $4,000 men
The Toxic report that Gen. KuroIxi
had succeeded in cutting the railroa d
south of Mukden is not confirmed by
the telegraph department, where it is
ed of an interruption of communica-
tions. OF course, it is realized here.
that if the railroad north of Lao Yang
is cut the position of the Russian army
would be rendered serious, if not des-
perate, as it would probably compel
Gen. Kuropatkin to accept an engage
ment against his will.
The rain which has again begun fall
ing in Manchuria will probably serve
the Russians much more than the
Japanese, as their retirement as soon
as they reach the railroad will not De
impeded whereas it is likely to almost
completely stop the Japanese forward
movement
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-30
PACKERS AGAIN REFUSE TO
TREAT WITH THE STRIKERS
Strike Leaders Have Trouble in Keeping the
Union Men Out

Chicago. Aug. 29.-Application was
made to the packers by the stock yards
strikers to-day for a conference, the
purpose being to bring about peace III
the industrial conflict. The confer
ence was refused by the packers.
The application came in the form
of communication from the Allied
Trades Council and was signed by
President Matthew Carr of the Allied
Trades. The request was addressed to
j. Ogden Armour and his associates.
Mr.. Armour, upon receipt of the COM
munication, at once called the heads of
the other big packing plants into ses-
sion. When the meeting of the pack
ers ended, a communication was ad-
dressed to President DonneIly, and his
associates declining the conference the
strikers had asked for. The reason
given was that no good could come
from such a conference.
A development of the day was the
walking out of 200 employees at a
plant of the American Can Company,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-30
LAW UPHOLDs FOLDING BED.
Justice Grant Declares Landlady
Has Right to Use II.
From the Chicago Chronicle.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
why, your honor. no landlady
should be permitted to have folding
bed"
Mrs. Jessie Baldwin, 1862 Leavitt
street. was telling her woes to Justice
Grant
That's right. your honor. Folding
beds have caused untold misery
Why" interrupted the daughter, when
she in turn was interrupted by the
mother.
II think that the folding bed has
caused me at least 5000 worth Of dam
age, but | would compromise on $199. q"
The eternal feminine" remarked
the justice to his clerk and then looked
wise.
Mrs. Baldwin was suing her land
lady, Mrs. Mary e. Ingram. The lat
ter occupies the second fiat at 1862
Leavitt street, while the tenant lives
on the floor below.
Your honor, ! have the highest re-
gard for Mrs Ingram. am confident
that she is a perfect lady, but she
should not be permitted to have that
folding bed. Now"
why, your honor" began the
daughter, Miss Mary. IS years of age,
when she was cut short by the parent.
DO be careful, Mary" said the
mother. You know, your honor, Mrs
Migrants folding bed is the cause Of
all my troubles. Her folding bed is
just above our parlor. Why"
yes, and one evening / had the
incest man calling on me and Mrs.
Ingram let down that folding bed My
but II came down with a pump and
II Jared some of the pastering loose
and II fell on my young mans head,
and would you believe II, / haven't
seen him. Why. what's the matter.
mammal" queried pretty Mary.
81 wouldn't talk that way, Mary. and
besides I'm on the stand. You know,
your honor, I sew for living. The
parlor Is the most comfortable room
in the house. Sometimes when I work
late Mrs. Ingram let's down that fold
ing bed and you know the plastering
falls then and almost ruins the very
finest gowns that | make. Why"
And she doesn't let II down at the
same time every evening, either, your
honor. Uusually we could tell by the
bump on the ceiling when II was 10
o'clock. When we heard the plastering
crash we would know that II was 10.
One evening | had a very nice young
man calling and bump came the bed
and plastering. And mamma called 10
me that Il was ten But the Ingrams
had gone to bed early that evening and
IL wasn't but and the young man
was insulted. Isn't that true, mother?"
queried the daughter.
Yes, but you shouldn't tell those stor-
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-30
AGAIN THE JAPANESE
FALL UPON PORT ARTHUR
LuII in the Attack on the Russian
Stronghold Has Passed.

LulA IN the Attack on the Russian
Stronghold Has Passed.
Che Foo, Aug. 90, p. m.-Severe
fighting was resumed at Port Arthur
on Aug. 81, according to Chinese who
left there that evening.
Between Aug. % and Aug. 26. there
was some fighting, but it was less Sc
we're than that of Aug. 81 The Chinese
were arrested and compelled to carry
the dead from the battlefield of Pa
lichuang, which the Japanese attempt
ed to capture on Aug. 26. Thirty carts
were used to carry the dead, number
ing 400, in the trenches and outskirts to
the city A policeman told the Chi
nese that the efficient soldiers in the
garrison at Port Arthur numbered
over 10000
A Chinese, who lived near Rihlung-
shan, declares that he saw the Rus
slams occupying this fort, from which
previous reports stated that they had
been driven. Probably both reports
were correct at the time they were
current, as semi-official advices state
that many positions about the fortress
change hands repeatedly.
The fighting, which began on Aug.
u, soon became general While the
Chinese were at sea Aug. %, the heavy
firing was resumed. Two junks con-
tanning contraband of war were sunk
by Japanese torpedo boat ten miles
off LiaOti promontory.
1t is said that fort No. 5 has chang
ed hands four times and is now unoc-
cupied. The Japanese filled the moat
in front of this fort with sand bags.
The Japanese are using thousands of
Chinese coolies to dig trenches, build
earthworks and drag cannon about.
The report that heavy firing began on
Aug. q confirms a previous rumor
from creditable source that the Jap
| anese had planned to resume the gen
eral attack on that date.
The information received here during
| the past week seems to confirm the be-
| lief that the great Japanese assault
| upon Port Arthur which began Aug.
| Y, was by no means as successful as
anticipated, although the japanese
SuCCOCNGu III pushing In6lT lines Tor
ward, they were unable in any in
stance to occupy the important posi-
| tions from which they drove the Rus
slams. They succeeded only in weak
ening the Russian lines without MAX
| ing important advances in their own.
The report that the Japanese forces
before Port Arthur have received
heavy achievements via Dalny has
been confirmed. This bears out the
statement from Chinese sources that
heavy fighting commenced Aug. q.
| The arrangement of the fortifications
at Port Arthur is described by Rus
sian as very similar to a chess board
open which every fort. with respect tc
| the zone covered by its artillery, has
the moving powers of the queen in the
game of chess. Up to the present the
Japanese have made no attempt to
occupy any one important fort without
being subjected to a resistless fire in
various directions from the other forts.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-30
STOLEN FINERY HER DOWNFALL
Young Woman in Paris Poses aS
Store Dummy for Thirty-Six Hours.

Young Woman in Paris Poses aS
Store Dummy for Thirty-Six Hours.
From the Chicago Chronicle.
Mile. Lille Desire, a young French
woman with acquaintance with the po-
lice, spied gown in a shop window
last Saturday that just suited her
fancy She passed and repassed the
place many times, and the more she
looked at the gown the more she COW
eted it.
About nightfall she entered the shop
while there were still many customers
in the place and lodged behind a big
placard that reached above her head.
No one saw her and soon the clerks
closed the shop and went home.
Once alone in the shop Mile. Desire
slipped the gown off the figure, ran
behind the big placard and put it on.
Then she posed in front of a tall mir
ror and her eyes danced with pleasure
to see that the beautiful gown fitted
perfectly. After admiring herself to
her hearts content she crept back of
her screen, lest some Waterman should
spy her, and dozed fitfully all night
long.
When the hour for opening the shop
came Mile Desire took the position of
the lay figure or dummy in the show
window until the shutters should be
taken down and she could get a chance
to slip through the open door. Minutes,
then hours dragged slowly by as she
stood rigid for the figure" Finally
the sound of church bells struck her
cart was Sunday.
Not being wound up to the task of
playing dummy" for a stretch of
thirty-six hours the situation wore on
her delicate nerves. She lacked cour-
age to give the alarm and fall into the
hands of the police. That meant an
other sentence. SO she waited on and
on in the hope that something might
turn up to let her slip out undecided
in the lnery.
The porters opened the shop the next
morning and found what they thought
was a dummy" fallen on the floor.
They tried to stand it up. but il was
limp Then they discovered that it was
woman in faint dressed in the rich
show gown.
To the police judge Mile. Desire re-
lated all the details of her long i'm
prisonment.
you've suffered nearly enough to
expiate your crime" he remarked, 80
/ shall give you only two weeks in
Jail"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-30
TOXIC IS LOOKING FOR
KUR0PATKIN'S DEFEAT

Toxic, Aug. so, $3.50 a. m.-The Rus
slams are concentrating at Lao Yang,
either with the intention of giving a
general battle or retiring. They were
beaten at Lungtushan and retreated
from Anshanshan and Anping. An
shanshan was the strongest defense
Lao Yang possessed, and it's loss rem
ders defense almost impossible.
It is believed that Gen. Kuropatkin
cannot now avoid a fight and a crush
ing defeat.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-30
STRIKE AT M'CARREN.
Labor Leaders Say That He Must Re-
sign as Chairman.

Labor Leaders Say That He Must Re-
sign as Chairman.
New York, Aug. 29.-Primaries
throughout Greater New York will be
held tomorrow, and the interest CEN
tiers in the borough of Brooklyn. There
the leadership of State Senator McCar-
rem is in the balance and the fight
promises to be a bitter one from the
opening of the polls.
The labor leaders of Brooklyn to-day
served notice on State Chairman Cord
Meyer that Senator McCarren would
have to resign as chairman of the
State Executive Committee. If he is
not promptly dropped from Democratic
councils the labor men say that 100,-
600 Democrats Unidentified with the
building trades will vote against
Parker and Davis. They had pre-
viously written to Chairman Meyer
and to-day they called upon him as a
committee to emphasize their demands.
he gave them no definite reply.
The only district in which the issue
is at all in doubt on the Republican
side is the Twenty
There will not be more than one
Democratic contest of any interest IN
the borough of Mania ttan.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-30
FEMALE WEAKNESS IS DS NET r. CATARRH.
A Grateful Girl Restored to
Health After Years
of Suffering.
Pe-ru-na Cures Catarrh Wherever
Located.

Women all over the United States
recommend Feruna. They praise It
as a remedy particularly adapted to
their peculiar ailments. But they do
not stop there. They recommend 1t as
a family medicine; they give 1t to
their little children. They say they
would not be without it in their
homes.
Not Cure-AH.
What then. is Peruna? Is 1t a cure
all? No such claims are made for It.
Peruna cures catarrh and that is all
1t does cure. But many ailments call
ed by countless different names are
dependent upon catarrh. that is ca
tarrhal Inflammation of the mucous
membrane lining some organ of the
body. Hence Peruna cures catarrh
or the pelvic organs (female weak
ness), with the same surety as it cures
catarrh of the nose or throat, or the
many other catarrhal ailments of
children
Thousands of women suffer from
pelvic catarrh and catarrhal nervous
ness and don't know It. If you feel
tagged out, begin at once taking DR.
Hartman's Peruna. 1t will relieve
your catarrhal aniiction and all your
organs will be restored to health. Buy
a bottle to-day, as it will alleviate
your case.
If one were to ask all the nervous
fretted, jaded, fagged-out women who
work day after day, hardly able to
keep on their feet-if a person were
to ask them what their trouble was
one would say dyspepsia. another
nervous prostration. another female
weakness, and so on.
The fact is. however. that they
nearly all have the same disease, and
that disease is chronic catarrh.
Pe-ru-na Contains No Narcotics.
One reason why Peruna has found
permanent use in so many homes is
that it contains no narcotic of any
kind. Peruna is perfectly harmless
1t can be used any length of time
without acquiring a drug habit. Pc
runa does not produce temporary re-
suits. 1t is permanent in its effect.
1t has no bad effect upon the sys-
tenn. and gradually eliminates ca
tarrh by removing the cause of ca
tarrh. There are a multitude of
homes where Peruna has been used
off and on for twenty years. Such a
thing could not be possible if Peruna
contained any drugs of a narcotic ma
ture
Write to DR.. Hartman, President of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus.
Ohio, for free medical advice. All cor
respondence is held strictly confden-
tial.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-30
FANATlCAL BRAVERY
OF JAPANESE 0LDIERS

Mukden, Aug. 29.-In the fighting of
Aug. 26, the One Hundred and Thir-
ty-ninth Saraisg Regiment. with a
batter, executed a particularly success
full flanking movement on the japanese
extreme right. The Russians. upper
ceived, got in the rear of the Japanese,
whole columns of whom were moved
down before they were able to extri-
cate themselves.
Eye witnesses agree in admiring the
fanatical bravery of the Japanese.
Many of the wounded committed sui
eide rather than fall into the hands of
the Russians.
An additional detachment of 600
Russian wounded was sent northward
Sunday.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-30

they being ordered to quit because the
company was furnishing cans to the
packers. Investigations are making at
the other Chicago factories of the
company, and the leaders say, If the
company is supplying cans to the pack
ers, in violation of their agreement not
to do so during the continuance of
the butchers strike. the employees of
the company all over the country will
be called out.
With the strike relief funds depict
ed and crowds of hungry men vainly
scrambling for food at the commissary
stores, it taxed the labor leaders to find
a way to prevent a stampede from the
union ranks to-day.
wait until tomorrow and we shall
present to the packers a peace proposal
which they cannot decline to accept"
they told the men.
There is nothing left for the men,
but unconditional surrender" said a
packer.
1t is understood that the peace pro-
position, which the strike leaders have
prepared, provides that the men shall
be taken back as union men and that
the wage scale in effect before the
strike be recognized.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-30
MRS. M'vIcKER's FORTUNE
May Cause n Very Sensational Legal
Struggle.

Chicago, Aug. 29.-Col. Joseph H. Strong,
public administrator of Cook county,
was appointed administrator of the
estate of Mrs. J. H. Mcvicker, widow
of the veteran theatrical man, by the
Probate court to-day. The action on
the part of the heirs at law of the
dead woman is the opening move in
what promises to be a SEN
sational legal struggle. The papers
of administration were issued on ap-
plication of Horace McVicker the
step-son of the deceased. The value
of the estate is said not to exceed $685.
000
AS DR.. l.. G. II. f. Zeigler has the re-
mains of Mrs. McVicker and will
bring them to Chicago. there may be
scene when the body reaches here,
since the relatives expect to take
charge of the body and conduct the
funeral, "even" as one Of them said.
'if 1t becomes necessary to call in the
police to enable us to do so.'