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Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1906-10-29
OFFICIAL STATEMENT.
The Number of the Dead Limited to
Fifty Seven.

Philadelphia, oct. 2S.-At 1890 to-
night the Pennsylvania railway gave
out a statement showing that accord
ing to information received here that
not more than fifty-seven of the eighty
persons in the train lost their lives in
tEe Atlantic City accident
The statement follows: Electric
train No 165, consisting of three
coaches. which left Camden at 1 p. m,
left Pleasantville on time and run
ming at a speed of about twenty miles
an hour, left the rails at the west send
of the drawbridge over the thorough
fare" near Atlantic City at about 2.25
p. m, and plunged into the water. The
first two cars We're entirely submerged
and the third car partially submerged
with the rear end resting on the crib
bing under the drawbridge. The draw
bridge was found closed properly and
locked The signal shows that there
'was no movement. The track was in
good condition and It is not possible to
find the cause of the accident"
1T was necessary to procure divers
before the train could be raised and
these are now working on the wreck.
Divers not being available in At
lantic City. they had to be procured
from Camden and Philadelphia. Cen
D
of assistants is on the ground and
every effort possible is being made To-
remove the cars from the water and
/ recover the bodies. 1t is hoped with
the removal of the cars that a critical
/ examination of the equipment can he
made so that the cause of the accident
may be determined.
/ "AI possible efforts are being made
! to learn the names of the passengers
/ ON the train. The bodies recovered are
! being placed in charge of undertakers
/ to await identification.
The equipment of the train. is new
/ having been in service but few
| weeks. and is believed to have been
/ perfect in every respect The train
/ had, on leaving Pleasantville. seventy
nine passengers, of whom twenty
three have been accounted for as being
/ safe. and it is believed that several
] more escaped"
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1906-10-29
THE CLOSING WEEK
OF A HOT CAMP PAlGN
Hearst's Effort to Restore Seventy
five of His Candidates of Various
Kinds 70 the Running.

New York. oct. 2S.-In New York
state this week VIM. r. Hearst. the
Independence League and democratic
nominee. and Chas. Z. Hughes. repub-
lican nominee for governor, will make
numerous speeches. Up to the present
time each of the candidates has been
greeted by good sized crowds and all
signs point to a continuance of the
keen interest taken by the public In
this years contest.
Besides his canvass for the guberna-
torial chair. Mr.. Hearst has on his
hands a serious legal contest as to
whether about seventy candidates OF
the Independence League for the SEN
ate and assembly from New York may
have their names printed on the official
ballot at the coming election. This
point will probably be decided def
nitely within the week
Counsel representing the Independ-
ence League viii appear before Chief
Judge Cullen of the court of appeals
in Brooklyn tomorrow morning and
take a formal appeal to him to call a
special session of that court in time
to hear an appeal from the direction OF
the appellate court. which excluded
most of the leagues candidates from
the ballot because they had been nomi-
mated by defective petitions. If Judge
Cullen consents to call a special ses-
sion of the court it may be held on
Tuesday
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1906-10-29
A Horrible Railroad Accident Near Atlantic
City Yesterday Afternoon
An Electric Train Plunged From a Drawbrdge Into
Twenty Feet of Water--Estmates of Dead Range as
High Seventy-Five.

Atlantic City. y. J.. oct. 2S.-By the
wrecking of a three-coach electric
train on the West Jersey and Seashore
at least fifty passengers perished, and
the list may reach the total of seventy
five when all is known.
While crossing a drawbridge span
ming the waterway known as the
''Thoroughfare," which separates At
lantic City from the mainland, the
train left the track, and plunged into
the water. The passengers in the first
two coaches. with one or two eXcep-
tiOns, were drowned. Up to midnight
twenty bodies have been recov-
cred and it is thought that at least
twenty-five and possibly fifty more
bodies are in the submerged coaches.
Although the work of rescue was be-
gun Immediately the recovery of the
dead was retarded by the lack of div
ers and the approach of darkness. Not
until daylight tomorrow will the full
extent of the tragedy become known
and not until then can any real head
way be made in recovering and identi-
flying the dead.
THE UNDETERMINED CAUSE.
1t is believed that at low tide the
Wrec1ing crews and several divers are
at work tonight endeavOring to lift
the submerged cars. In the meantime
the city authorities are doing their ut
most to reassure the hundreds of anx-
iOus relatives and friends who are
pouring into Atlantic City, searching
for missing ones.
Details as to just how the terrible
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1906-10-29

rails with terrific. force was shown by
the battered condition of the rails
This. however. is at variance with the
statement made by the bridge tender.
According to Mr. Atterbury, the
bridge tender told him that the bridge
had just been closed and that he had
gone to either end Of the draw TO re-
move the danger flags which had been
placed there when the bridge was
about to be opened. The bridge man
told Mr.. Atterbury he was positive the
tracks. were perfectly locked. My in
vestigation showed this not to have
been the case. My attention has been
called to the fact that there are no
guard rails of any kind on the bridge.
Had there been they might have pre-
vented the train plunging into the
'Thoroughfare" even after it had
jumped the track. I will find out if
the law requires protection of this
kind. I will not be in a hurry with the
investigation as / want to get all pos
sible information"
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1906-10-29

A 'sual there Is one state ti. ket-
the demOcratic-in South CaroIiul-
Penn sylvan leads this year with th-.
greatest number of state tickets
twelve Parties are numerous. the-.
having tickets in the field being In-
dependence League. Citizens. Com
mOnwealth City. Referendum IrFfer-
son. American. nti-Admiuistrarlon
Republican. Reorganized Repubifcar.
and Lincoln Republican Six OF them
however. are confined To Peunsylvauia-
The socialists have tickets Iu -
states. the prohibitionists in 23. social
ist labor in six. populists OF peoples
in four and the Independence LelEU-
in three. while public ownership has
a ticket in one state
The number or tickets in The differ
ent states is; I. South CaroEu1- p.
Alabama, Florida. North CarolIna.
Tennessee, Washington; 3. Delewarr.
Montana, Nevada. North D1kotl.
Rhode Island, Utah; 4. ConnectIcu-
Colorado. Idaho Michigan. Minues1t..
/ Missouri Nebraska New Hampshire
South Dakota. Wisconsin Wyomlnz
>. Illinois. Iowa. Kansas. New Tor.-
Ohio: G. Indiana. NIassachusetfs. Tex
as; :. California; y. Pennsylvania-
The socialists have tickets Il cali
fCrHia Colorado. Connecticut FieriIl
Idaho, Illinois. Indiana. iowa. Elrsl
/ Massachusetts. Michigan. Aissourf
Montana. Nebraska. Nevada N-u
Hampshire New York. North Dazota
/ Ohio. Pennsylvania. South Daket1
/ Tennessee. Texas. Wisconsin and Wy
/ ominE.
/ The pronihitionists in Califurnil-
Connecticut Delaware. Idaho. Illinois.
Indiana. Iowa. Kansas. AIassaChUScIt7
Michigan. Minnesota. Missouri. Sc
braska. New Hampshire NeV Hors-
Ohio. Pennsylvania. Rhode IslanL
Continues on Page 4
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1906-10-29
SOME OE The DEAD.

Among the dead are: Walter Scott,
of Atlantic City, mOtorman; Frank De
SacezenO, bandman of Royal Artillery
band; J. p. Dempsey and wife, Cam
den; Vincente DOnneIi, member Royal
Artillery band; Pasquelle MazelIe.
Philadelphia; p. Anch Angurosa, band
man; Miss Brodish: Samuel L. Fields:
Mrs. Selma Womifer. Camden; James
Egan. Atlantic City; Chas. AIbertus,
NOrristOwn. Pa: David Fried New
York City: Mrs. Laura Laurence,
Philadelphia
The Pennsylvania railroad furnished
the following list of missing: r. En-
dicott and wife, Camden; J. II. Walsh /;
Mrs. w. H. Stewart and son.
Several unidentified bodies have been
recovered.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1906-10-29

accident occurred are vague. a COM
plete circumstantial story cannot be
obtained from any of the passengers
as yet. Two causes are assigned for
the derailment of the train. one is
that the rails spread and the other that
the rails were not properly locked
when the drawbridge was closed after
a pleasure yacht which had just passed
through.
BRIDGE TENDER INSANE.
The man who may be best able to
tell what caused the accident is Dan
ieI B. Stewart. the bridge tender.
Stewart, however, is in no condition to
talk tonight. He is IS years old. He
was the only person who Witnessed the
plunge of the train with its human
cargo. The scenes which followed
caused him to lose his reason and
when he was found afterward he could
not tell a rational story.
From officials of The railroad com
pany only a meager and disconnected
story of the occurrence could be had
The train, which was made up Of three
| heavy vestibule coaches of the newest
type. all electrically equipped, left
Camden at 1 o'clock this afternoon
Walter Scott was the motorman on the
forward car, John L Curly of Camden
was conductor in charge and Ralph R.
| Wood was brakeman.
When they pulled out of Camden the
coaches We're filed, women and chill
dren being in the majority. They oc-
cupied the two forward cars. FifteeT
! members of the Tocas artillery band
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1906-10-29

POSSIBLE NUMBER Or DEAD.
At Newfeld junction, few miles
from here, about twenty passengers
were taken aboard. making the total
number on the train a few less than a
hundred. The statements do not ap-
pear to agree on the exact number.
The conductor had the tickets in his
possession but he thinks that several
tickets We're lost and it is his opinion
that there were 10 to 130 passengers
on the train. This, however seems too
high an estimate.
on leaving Westville the third rail
electric car was attached and the train
from there on bOwled along at its GUS
tomary speed. Not the slightest Incl
dent occurred to cause the motorman
to slow down. When the drawbridge
which crossed the stream popularity
known as the ''Thoroughfare" was
approached, the motorman saw a clear
track before him. There was nothing
to warn him of danger, nothing to show
that the rail might not have been in
place-in fact, nothing to indicate that
everything was not as it should be.
SO the train bounded along over the
bridge with never a hint to the uTsus-
pecting passengers that death would
come to many so suddenly.
THE DEADLY PLUNGE.
All at once the forward coach lurched
forward, the ponderous wheels Ieaped
the rails and came upon the ties.
Swerving to the left, the first coach
dragged the others after it and plunged
over the edge into the water. The
third coach, however. struck u heavy
abuttment and was left mOmentarily
suspended in midair. Not a single
/ passenger in this car was killed, neither
| did one of them get away uninjured
I however.
As soon as the first coach was pre-
/ cipitated into the water there were
/ screams of men, women and children
/ Caught like so many rats in a trap
/ they We're thrown into heaps and the
/ little chance they might have had tC
/ escape was cut off by the wild scram-
/ BILE which ensued. The two cars which
were hurled from the bridge sanl
| quickly in twenty feet OF water anC
are now completely hidden from view
( 1t is doubtful if more than half Z
/ dozen passengers escaped from these
/ two coaches.
A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.
one instance of a heroic and almos
miraculous escape from the first coacf
! is the case of David s. EnIey of Cam
I den. Enley reached Atlantic Cit
I suffering from bruises about the fac
and body. carrying in his lacerateC
[ arms eight-y -year-OId Helen Gilbert
/ also of Camden. At the first intima
! ton of danger, Enley stepped to th
Z platform, taking the child with him
! AS the coach plunged downward h
sprang into the water and succeede,
/ in swimming ashore with the little one
The cries of the imprisoned passen
/ gers as the coaches plunged. into TIN
water did not last long, and when TIN
( tops of the two cars disappeared no
a sound was heard from those VIII,
were being smOthered by the thrush
/ The living devoted their time to TIN
rescue of those who We're imperile,
I in the last coach. Most of the passen
gers in this coach were able 70 hell
/ themselves and with the arrival of as
sjstance from the city they We're re
| moved TO hospitals.
Perched on the roof of the last ca
the rescuers found Conductor Curt!
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1906-10-29
THE RECOVERY OF BODIES.

Atlantic CIty Oct. 29.--D2:25 q. mD
Nineteen bodies have just been
brought into the improvised morgue
and a diver who has made a thorough
inspection of the submerged cars stat
ed that at least thirty bodies were
still in the wreck. 1t is impossible to
identify any of the bodies. The recov-
cred dead now numbers forty -four.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1906-10-29

What makes the boy love Mary so?''
The giries shout and cry.
"She feeds them on Donofrio's Cac-
tus Candy"
The teacher did reply.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1906-10-29
WEATHER TODAY.

Washington. oct. 2S.-Forecast for
rizona: Fair Monday and Tuesday.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1906-10-29
The conveniences of civilization.
The Joys of living outdoors.
Scottsda1e-On-the-Desert

No a but the
/ youar TO locate
scottsile AsS
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1906-10-29
THE REST RESORT

The pure dry air Of the desert
The delights Of tropical growth.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1906-10-29
POSSIBLE NUMBER OF DEAD.

all Italians, We're among the passen-
gers in the rear coach
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Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1906-10-29

HOUSE FOR RENT-Five-room
modern brick; bath. toilet, electric
lights E. L. Pascoe, 11O North Center
street.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1906-10-29

The ScOttsdale Association viii
be glad to communicate with
persons who desire further in
formation regarding conditions
and to answer questions relative
to cost of accommodations to
fill particular needs. State the
kind of accommodations you are
looking for and you viii receive
an exact statement as to how
near Scottsdale can I'll your de-
sires. Address Secretary Scots
dale Association.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1906-10-29

FOR SALE-Five-rOOm house. close
in; fine shade; north Of Washington
street Price S25OO. L. T. Pascoe. 10
North Center St
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1906-10-29

Come out and see for yourself
The Scottsdale stage leaves
the Phoenix Bakery AT $ o-cIock
each weekday morning and re-
turns in the afternoon A stop
of 2Is hours at Scousdale az
fOrds ample time for investisa-
tion and for dinner n the oasis
Villa. The round trip. iuclud-nE
dinner. costs a dollar and a
quarter.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-06
CARTER FOR JUDGE.

Perhaps there is no more well de-
fined, strongly crystallized public
sentiment on any public question in
this county than that in favor OF
Charles H. Carter of this city, for cir
cult judge for the Umatilla Morrow
county district.
Mr.. Carter enjoys the intimate ac-
quaintance and friendship of all the
attorneys and the people in the dis
trict and is held in the highest conf
dence and esteem by them.
He is peculiarly fitted for the place
by his wide experience before the
courts of the state and is educated
and versed in the law in a high de-
gree.
Pendleton and Umatilla county
present Mr.. Carter to this district as
candidate for the judgeship and
feel confidence that his selection
would highly honor the bench and
give a broad administration of justice
to every interest.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-06
THE PORTLAND

PORTLAND, OREGON.
American plan, 80 per day and upwara
Headquarters for tourists and commercial
travellers. Special rates made to families
and single gentlemen. The management
will be pleased at all tiHles to show room
and give prices. A modern Turkish batt
establishment In the hotel.
q. c. BOWERS, Manager.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-06
RECOGNIZES WOMAN.

Governor Chamberlain has risen
above his age and surroundings by
appointing a woman to fill place
on the board of regents of Oregon
Agricultural college.
Mrs. Clara Waldo, who has just
been appointed to this position, is an
educated, able, aggressive woman.
She has been lecturer for the state
grange for a number of years, and is
one of the leading educational work.
ers in the state, and the appointment
is peculiarly pertinent and fitting.
About one-half the students in the
Oregon Agricultural college are girls.
Domestic science, in which women
alone are directly interested, forms a
part of the course of study. Then
why not more than one woman on
the board of regents?
Why not give woman the ballot at
the coming state election and honor
her as she deserves in this young and
virile state?
Recognition of her worth and capa-
bility as public servant is slowly
coming and Governor Chamberlain is
to be congratulated upon this appoint
ment.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-06
EXCELLENCE OF OREGON.

Thomas Profit, a Baker City cattle
man, has demonstrated once more, the
excellence of Oregon and her re-
sources.
Despairing of marketing 500 head
of fat steers in the markets of Port
land or the sound, he ordered a train
of stock cars and shipped them 1900
miles to Kansas City. 1t required
eight days to make the trip and cost
about 80 cents per 100 pounds to get
his stock to market. but even with
these obstacles, the venture was high
ly profitable.
While his steers were straight al
falfa-fed, yet after eight days of hard
travel across half a continent, they
entered the markets of Kansas City
in good condition, and in competition
with the sleek, we'll rounded, solid
corn-fed cattle of Missouri, Kansas
and Oklahoma, this lot of western
cattle brought $3.50 per 100, the top
of the market for grass cattle that
day, while the corn-fed stuff brought
but $40, or but 20 cents per 100
more than the Baker City cattle.
1t is an amazing advertisement for
alfalfa and western cattle.
This stock had not tasted grain of
any kind. They had been fed nothing
but the straight alfalfa hay, after be-
ing brought from the summer ranges.
Yet on the scales at Kansas City they
tipped the beam at an average of
about 1900 pounds each.
The story of this trainload of west
ern cattle and the price they brought
was told in the lobby of every hotel
in Kansas City for a week following
the sale.
Oregon got boost in this incident
which will bring results.
This is a hint and plea to Port
land. Why should eastern oregon be
forced to ship her fat stock 1000 miles
TO market? Why cannot Portland es-
tablish a packing house to furnish a
market for the products of the vast
ranges Of the interior? This Incl
dent proves the excellence Of the Ore
gon product. Alfalfa-fed stuff brought
within 20 cents per 100 of the cholc-
est corn-fed cattle on the market.
Portland has the idle capital
Eastern Oregon has the resources and
the markets Of the orient and Alaska
are calling for the products Of the
state. Why this delay in establishing
a packing house? Why this refusal
on the part Of Portland to meet the
most urgent demand made upon her
commercial interests?
Do the trusts own her body and
soul? Is trust influence keeping east
ern Oregon in bondage?
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-06

men of 100 years ago were considered
capable of becoming self-supporting
or able to superintend large interests
The spirit of independence, the de-
mand for personal merit, the doctrine
that each tub must stand upon its own
bottom in this land of the free, have
all tended to ripen the faculties and
sharpen the intellect earlier. Speak
ing of this fascinating subject the
Saturday Evening Post says;
The rapid loweSdng of the death
rate everywhere means an enormous
change in mankind in the near future.
\ few centuries ago a mans useful
years were in the average not more
than 15.
As each generation has to be taught
everything over again, is II not aston
ishing that an average of only Is
years of real capacity-from 25 to 40
should have been able to lift us
from savagery?
Now the average, at least among
the most competent classes, is upward
of 25 years-for the death-rate is
heaviest among the ignorant and in
competent.
In fact, taking superior education
into account, we have today race
that has recently doubled its period
for assimilating and applying knowl-
edge and wisdom.
Think what an effect will be pro-
duced when the average man lives in
the prime of his powers half CEN
tury, or 60, or 20 years!
Teach the science of health! En-
courage the youth to leave off folly
for manhood earlier! Encourage the
old to avoid stiffness and sadness and
regretful reminiscence, and to keep
the head and the heart of intelligent.
vigorous youth!
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-06
PASSAGE NOT PASSABLE.

The northwest passage is not deep
enough for vessels carrying CONNER
cial tonnage. This fact was estab-
lished by Captain Amundsen, the Nor
wegian sailor, who recently made the
passage without change of vessel.
Captain Amundsen was compelled to
jettison a part of his cargo, however,
in order to accomplish his feat. in
the measurements of water taken by
Amundsen in the passage the depth of
only nine feet six inches was found at
the place where Gjoa went aground.
As near as could be ascertained by
Captain Amundsen, there is no great
depth of water at any place in the
passage, although it is possible that
waterway may exist where the pas
sage is entirely blocked with ice.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-06

paused near farmers wagon on
Court street. A man came from a
nearby store holding a battered pipe
The woman on the seat said, why
pa, thought you was going to smoke
cigar on the way home" And the
man said, NAV, spent the dime for
candy for Tootsie." And shared in
Tootsie's joy.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-06
FROM BIRTH TO OLD AGE

Life Is constant fight against the dam
gers of disease, and he holds his own the
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-06

He was a commercial traveler-a
travelling man-for he had travelled
all the way from Portland to Pendle-
ton, He knew people could tell it.
He wore his hat at the proper angle.
He smoked a fat cigar and gripped
his sample case like man who had
lot of confidence in himself. He
registered at the Hotel Pendleton.
There were no rooms good enough for
him. At dinner he complained of his
food. The waitress was polite and
pretty. He would impress her.
Women are so easily impressed some
times. He said: 81 am a travelling
man out for Blank & Co." And she
said: "Ohl I knew you were a trav-
cling man; I can always tell them.
And it is your first trip on the road,
too. isn't it?"
What a hollow world this is.
Genie June
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-01-06
COMING EVENTS.

January 12-13-Oregon Press As
sociation and Oregon Development
league, Portland.
January 12-Wheat convention,
Pullman, Wash.
January 1O-Oregon Horticultural
society. Portland.
January 12-Washington State
Horticultural Society, North Yakima
February 5-1O-Walla Walla Poul.
try association. Walla Walla.
April lO-Registration for nominal.
ing primaries closes in Oregon.
April 2O--Primary nominating elec.
tions in Oregon.