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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-07-15
GORE SHOCKED SENATORS

Thomas Pryor Gore. the blind senator from
ted States senate to sit up and take notice day
so before the adjournment of congress. 1t
takes great deal to cause the staid old senate
to show anything like a panic, but when Senator
Gore intimated that effort had been made to
bribe him to the extent of $4,000 to $4,000 in
connection with legislation affecting 100000 in
attorneys fees for services rendered to the
Choctaw and Chickasaw nations, in land and
township sites. the senator gave immediate at-
tention
Then when the senator involved two former
members of the senate in the alleged plot the
upper branch of congress strained its ears to
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-07-15
HARMON FIRST IN CONTEST

Judson Harmon, governor of Ohio, who has
been renominated by the Democrats of his state
for second term is the first in the field for the
presidential nomination in 1872 OF course
great deal depends upon whether he is elected
this fall. but his friends are sanguine Of sue
cess. Should he be defeated In his race for gov
ernor 1t naturally would put him out of the con-
test for the presidency.
Governor Harmon was born in Hamilton coun-
ty. Ohio in 1916. His father was a clergyman
He was graduated from Denson university in
1866. and from the Cincinnati Law school in
1869. The first public ONCE he held was that of
common pleas Judge from 1876 to 1878. Then he
became Judge of the superior court of Cincinnati,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-07-15

Some day this part of the country
will get mad and clean up with Medi-
cine Hat.
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3d16dH 3o
the practise law 1875
attorney the
the
secretary OF the for
Only exception
with before
President Grand succeeded
obliged to retire before
his falling health cause the thru
bench 's-1ss
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-07-15
JOHN MlTCHELL'S WORK

John Mitchell, former president of the United
Mine Workers of America, continues to work for
the Improvement, advancement and safety of the
man who tolls with his hands.
For q couple Of years now Mr.. Mitchell has
hoon connected with the National Civic Fedora
ton. an organization backed by Andrew Carnegie
and other millionaires His Office has to do with
the welfare of the workingman and results of his
work have shown that no better cnolce could
have been made.
John Mitchell is a self made man. He knows
what it is to toll In a coal mine He has gone
down in the pits not knowing whether he would
come out alive. He has had some narrow es.
capes, and he has seen his companions and
friends die at their work. He Is noted 1or MS
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-07-15
JUSTICE MOODY TO RETIRE

Because Of his continued Illness Associate
Justice William H. Moody Of the United States
supdeme court must resign. Under the law a
member of the court must serve ten years before
he can retire on pay. To aid Justice Moody, Sem
ator Lodge introduced in the senate bill giving
him his pay in future because it was illness and
not desire to enter other business that caused
his inability to give his attention to court duties
Justice Moody was attorney general when
president Roosevelt appointed him to the bench
IN 1906. He has been i'll much of the time since
then, but it was not until about one year ago
that his ailment took such a serious turn that he
was not able to give his attention to his duties
Justice Moody is a native Of Nassachusetts
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-14
DRAGS
AND VICTIM BEES
While StrangIing, Condemned
Man Begs Officers for
Quicker Death.

WALLA WALLA. Wash. May 13.-
Moaning For Gods sake take me UP
and drop me again, boys" Richard
Quinn. wife murderer OF Everett.
Wash dangled at the end of the rope
beneath the scaffod at the prison this
morning and slowly strangled TO death.
il being twenty-five and one-half min
utes from the time the trap was sprung
until he was taken down,
The horror was no fault of the hang
men. The cords In the back OF Quinn's
neck were abnormally large and he held
his head back and tensed the muscles as
the trap was sprung. Attendants were
startled when Quinns legs began to
twitch and then Mortified by his groans
of Boys this is awful and For God s
sake take me UP and drop me again,
boys"
He was able to unbuckle the straps
about his arms and drop them to the
ground After moment his words be-
came more inarticulate and shortly he
ceased to sway and died after twenty
two minutes.
Quinn was the thirteenth man to be
hanged here, and a peculiar coincidence
is that this is Friday the 18th day OF the
month.
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on the Rio Grande tracks 200 feet dis.
tant was not damaged, A steel rail
carried away section of the east wall
of the swimming tank and demolished
big signboard,
Owner of Dynamite Talks.
The two cars of dynamite were the
property of the Western Powder com
pany, of which A. B, Gibson is mana
ger Mr. Gibson said;
CIT is my opinion that the. car caught
fire from sparks from passing locomo'
tive. A large quantity of the powder
burned or otherwise the force OF the
explosion would have been much great.
err The powder was what we call
giant dynamite No. q | was mott
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-14
GOOD ILLUSTRATION
OF GAMBLING PASSION

DAWSON, Yukon Territory, May 13,
The ice on the Yukon river broke up
in front Of Dawson yesterday after,
noon and thousands of dollars wagered
on the time of this event changed
hands. One hundred tons of supplies
were caught on Lake La Barge and as
the ice is too soft to permit the use OF
horses dog teams are being used to
carry them off before all the ice goes
out
The first steamers from the upper
Yukon for Dawson will start Saturday,
The first fotilla of small boats bring
ing the advance guard rushing in for
spring work passed Hootalinqua yes.
terday. The Dawson provision market
is depleted except for potatoes, onions,
eggs, lemons, oranges, little ham, ba'
con and sugar.
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seen at his room in the Lenox hotel.
He said
Outrageous and Criminal
~ think it was not only outrageous
but it was criminal upon the part of
the Saltair Beach management to al
low people to walk over that fiimsy
floor The only wonder to me is that
we were not all killed. ] was in
the war in the Philippines, was shot
twice, but ] never was in as close a
place or had as close a call by death.
True. 1 am a large man, but builders
are supposed to build floors strong
enough to sustain ever so much more
weight than is ever put upon them.
Therefore, [ say that it was criminal
to construct such a himsv floor as this
and then ask people to walk over it.
~ differ absolutely from the state
ment which Manager Langford gives
out as printed in the papers. He natu-
rally would declare that it was not
due 10 poor condition, but [ know bet
ter. The stairway had no support; it
rested upon false floor, built of light
material 1t was a regular death trap,
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fed that the car was burning by the
Oregon Short Line officials, and at once
FASTENED TO tho scene, arriving there a
few minutes before the explosion oc-
Cured. -
Train No. 10 of the Oregon Short
Line was held up for one hour and
twenty-five minutes at Woods Cross
and train No. 81 of the same road was
DELAYED tifty-fve minutes at Salt Lake.
The Salt Lake and Ogden schedule was
also disarranged.
Three years ago, on July 6, similar
explosion occurred at the same place %
Yesterdays disaster The former gx-
explosion was the more serious OF the
two.
Some campers about half mile from
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columns rested, and, he declares, had
nothing to do whatever with the super
vising of any woodwork in the build
ing, except the lumber used in the con-
structIon of the roof, and his services,
he says, were procured only for this
work. Moreover. he says. he had moth
ing to do with the remodehng Of the
matter.
So, whoever drew the plans and who
ever did the work, there remains the
fact that the stairway collapsed, and
both floors collapsed and the crowd
went down in the wreck.
Were Apparently Solid,
II also remains fact that the main
floor has been known TO hold weight
was upon it Thursday night; that the
second floor did likewise, and that the
stairway stood when many more persons
passed over it when the "Fairy Bal
let' and other attractions were on at
the resort
1t is fact, also, that never has the
stairway been called upon to sustain
the force of an enormous impact such
as was the case Thursday night; neither
has either one of the floors been called
upon to withstand the sudden impact
of 500 or more persons.
1t is n selfevident fact that the stair
way was not fastened securely, else il
would not have slipped its moorings
and gone down.
Praise for Doctors
Every one who had occasion TO say
anything about it at all gave the high
est praise to the work of the rescuers
and TO the doctors who attended the
drenched and straugling and choking
men who were hoisted up. Drs. j. s
and Ralph It. Richards and c.. G.. Plum
mer worked valiantly and were NJ
doubt the means of saving life
After the report Of the accident haC
reached the city the telephones in The
| Tribune office were kept busy AL
sorts of exaggerated reports were re
ceived. One woman called The Tribune
office, saying that report had reached
her that more than a thousand persons
bad been precipitated into the lake Hel
husband was among those who went
| TO the boxing match. She wanted tht
names of everybody who fell into thu
lake. She didn t get them
Another woman heard that her bus
band had fallen into the water. Sh,
called up The Tribune Office.
''I know my husband didn't fall in, :
she said. ''for | know he never goes tt
such places as boxing matches. -
IT happened, however, that this hus
I band was one of those who tasted sal
water.
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spectators out of the danger zone.
Following the explosion, lights went
out IN Salt Lake and street car traffic
was interrupted for several hours, Salt
Lake was cut off from Ogden on both
the Postal and Western Union systems
for two hours and the Rocky Mountain
Bell and Independent telephone sys
tens suffered similarly.
Wrecking trains were on the scene
within fifteen minutes after the explo
sion. Two hundred men succeeded in
clearing one of the Oregon Short Line
tracks at 2:06 p. m. and the Salt Lake
and Ogden line was opened a minute
later. The Rio Grande track was not
damaged by the explosion.
A second car of dynamite, standing
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the scene of the explosion ua,-
oughly scared, but escaped inirs
The damage sustained by th,
road. telephone, telegraph and
companies Will aggregate s300o
powder was valued at $250G W
Local Manager A. W. Lone
J.. Mexican, general foreman
struction Of the Western TJn;n,
pany, were early at the scens
trouble with large force NJ Il,
They made excellent propress +
loading reels OF wire on wort
and stretching them in this :,
forty wrecked wires Of the sysfe'
replaced in an amazingly sbort
The only loss of life as = e.
the explosion was that of one a
possibly two. The concussion
explosion blew down the fenre
the hot spring, which comes out
mountain close to the road.
cur jumped into the pool and WA,
to death before he could be resc
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seemed a week long to me. So / don t
know what I shall do afterwards.
j. E. Langford, vice president and
general manager of the Saltair com.
pany, said:
Langford IS Statement.
eve deeply deplore the disaster, and
we are doing all we possibly can for
those who were injured, Our doctors
the company's physiclans-are treating
those who were hurt, and we will pay
their bills.
''Wc do not regard the Saltair COM
pany responsible for the accident, but
we regret it no less on that account.
Three weeks ago we leased the coliseum
20 Mr. Grant The lease runs for six
months. Therefore. we think il was Mr..
Grant s business to see that everything
was III shape before he let the people
go TO the place.
''As q matter of fact, ! cannot, per.
sonally, understand how the accident
occurred, but there is no denying that it
did occur, The stairway which gave
way has borne many times the weight
that was on it Thursday night, and so
far as we knew it was as solid as rock
The stairway was put in when we
opened the theater in the bicycle track,
When we had the attractions there last
summer there were a great many more
people who used the stairway than there
were Thursday night and it never gave
n sign of weakness.
E'The stairway was built of, believe,
2H KID timber. It was about twelve
fcot high and about fourteen feet wide,
] should Judge We always believed =
and had no reason 70 believe otherwise
that the fastenlngs at both the bot
tom and the top of the stairway were
firm But they were evidently not firm
enough to withstand the mass of men
that spraug upon the steps. 1T was r
mass-iust a solid mass. When the
stairs came down they struck the raised
floor which at that point was two feet
above the main floor and went through.
Then the whole mass went through the
main floor as clean as though you would
cut cheese with a knife.
Jammed Into Hopper.
"The flooring that gave way hung
in the shape of V. The people were
damned into this hopper The bottom
did not fall out of the Y but there were
openings on either side, and through
these openings the people went into the
water.
"When we built the original floor 1t
was as solid as any floor could be. In
the putting up of the structural iron,
teams hauled over the floor immense
beams that weighed twenty tons, ]
have seen score of times weights on
that floor five times as great as 1t would
be possible 10 put on it with a collec
tion of human beings, no matter how
densely they were packed together
81 suppose, though, that the weight
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water and disappeared entirely. A
writing bunch Of men and women, all
bent upon saving themselves, fought
with each other, and some of them were
thrown out through the sides of the
opening into the lake ! faced death
and felt it; it seemed that there was
no alternative, but finally the strug
Cling ceased ard enc by one the vic
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-14
NEW SUGAR PLANT 10
COST HALE Ml

WASHINGTON. May 13.-rl
doro Development company Is b'
Honolulu a $780, 900 sugar plant
10 be placed on the San Jose
Mindora. Philippine Islands. 2
meets that estate and the Mind
pany and connects the purcho'
estate and the Mindoro compaD!
This statement was made py
tative Martin (Dem.) OF Colorac
waging the campaign for Ina
about the Philippine government
the San Jose estate on January
the Mindoro company.
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formed by the two broken sheets of
flooring. When we stopped falling, al
most instantly the stairway, loaded
with hundred people. some Of them
women, slid downward, and we saw
crying out, come crashing down upon
us, Gagged rs we were. The stairway
shot in front Of us, down into the
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Tins of what ] believe to be TIM Grim
inal negligence of the Saltalr manage
ment. were rescued. II seems miracu-
lous that some Of those on the stairway
were not drowned. and | consider my
Iy today. and with a certainty in my
own mind chat shall not visit the re-
sort again, -
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that came down with the stairway and
went through the upper floor mad such
momentum that the main floor broke
beneath it. -
Have YOU been served with notices
OF claims9''
''No; number of people have called
here and have called us by telephone,
asking us what we intended to do. We
told them that Mr.. Grant had assured us
that he would take up all claims and
adjust them, and | have no doubt that
he will -
Horse Gone, Locking Stable,
Mr. Laneford told about the things
his company intends TO do for the flu
ture. eve shall tear out the entire
necessary he said. "and bring the
amusement platform down to a level
with the floor of the Saltair platform
We will erect seats up from the plat
form on all sides, and there will be
no stairs to climb The whole place
will be open, practically, so that peo~
pie can 90 in and out without climbing
any stairs, either up or down, and there
viii be none OF what you might call
doors.
"To do this we will employ the best
architect we can get. We have not
selected the man yet, but we will get
the very best one we can.
Management Criticised,
Most persons Friday were inclined
adversely TO criticise the Saltair man
agement for the disaster. This criti-
cism was largely based upon the fact
that the Saltair company does quite
everything in n slIpshod, hazardous
manner, and people had come to look
upon Thursday night S disaster as be-
ing the result of acts of commission
or omission in conformity with and
characteristic of the Saltair policy.
Whether or not Mr.. Langford IS state.
ment that Grant is the responsible per.
son will be accepted by the public gen.
orally remains to be seen. Here is what
Mr.. Grant says;
Statement Of r. A. Grant.
81 do not consider that / am to bIame
for the accident in any way. / leased
the hippodromc, which is the bicycle
track at Saltair, for the season of 1910
TO promote athletic eveuts or any other
amusement attractions / might secure
The building was TUNED over TO me in
its present condition. The floor and the
stairway. which broke loose and dropped
Into the water below were put IN iasi
year. as / understand It, and of course
when | leased the saucer trlcis. whi,n Is
known as the hippodrome. the consfruc-
ton never entered my mind II was
built 10 hold several thousand people
was put in last year. as well as the stair
way, were not given the attention they
should have been. or they would not have
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The above sketch was drawn from a
description by an eye witness of the
disaster of Thursday night; one who
faced death for several minutes, and
realized how slight a chance anyone
had to live if the entire floor should
fall. To use his words:
The false floor gave way and pre-
cipitated us into tho V-shaped chute
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LITTLE SHORT or MIRACULOUS

gone down with 100 people on them.
Under the circumstances. | am not TO
blame in the least I made no changes
i'm the floor or stairway and when
leased the building | took IL for granted
that II was turned over 10 me hrSt-
class shape.
work viii be started Monday. The
false floor VIII be ripped out together
with the bicycle track; and large
amphitheater will be built 4 ring will
he erected In the center for boxing and
wrestling matches, and | VIII see that
the reconstruction win be such as to
mold all the people that may crowd into
the building.
II am sorry that the accident occurred
rs I know everybody else Is, and am
thankful that no one was killed
MIR Langtord says that you arc solely
responsible for the claims that may arise
as a result of the accident, Is that
"Weu, met Langford on the street
today and l told him I would begin Mon
day TO straishtcn things out. You know
there are always n lot of people who try
to take advantage OF situations like this
and put in false claims"
But you assume the responsibility for
the ciaims-the claims proved TO be
yes"
And that lets Mr. Langford's COM
pany out Of all responsibility for those
claims?
YES"
Eldredge Feeling Fine,
J. T. Eldredge, United States as
sayer. one of the injured. said; Right
now / am feeling fine. / swallowed so
much salt water that for a time Thurs
dav evening | could hardly breathe. |
was Just going up the stairs with my
two BOYS. Vernon and Wayne, when
the crash came. In that secthing mass
] was powerless to do anything. When
we fell into the water j was pressed
down by a portion of the stairway. My
rIoht leg was bruised and also my arms
by coming in contact with the broken
stairway. The two little boys showed
great spirit when il came to getting
out of the water. | want TO say some
thing about those people who assisted
in the rescue work, and especially about
DR.. Charles G.. Plummer DR.. Pummer
worked with an energy 10 help the
stranghng men and women, 1t was
through his efforts. ] believe, that j
was not more seriously hurt. DR.. Ralph
T. Richards also did excellent work. |
haven It thouoht anything about suing
the company for damages as yet. -
Larry Kilkenny Of the Kilkenny
Printing company, who weighs 80
pounds. had his right leg caught be-
tween the floor, When the floor gave
way Mr.. Kilkenny went, down with
it, and as those about him slipped into
the water, releasing the weight, the
floor sprang back and his right leg
was caught lust above the knee Then,
as the weight of those behind came
upon the brbken floor, this released his
leg and he managed to pul! himself up.
His leg is severely injured the muscles
and tendous being torn so badly that
he was unable to stand Friday when
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killed is a miracle -
Who Built 1t?
The chief question that agitated the
public mind Friday was: Who built
the Coliseum, and who was the arcli-
tect7
Well, the steel work of the building
was furnished and, set by the Joseph
Silver company, The bicycle track and
the 1oor-the main hoor-wcre de
signed by Captain r. o. Angel who
also built the bicycle track at Ogden.
The carpenter work called for by Cap
tam Angell's plans was done by Con
tractor Britain. When the company
decided to put in a theater. Ware &
Fregarza drew the plans. These plans
called for the raised floors, which, at
IFS highest POM, was two feet above
the main floor and the stairway. The
carpenter work under these plans was
done by L. II. Whcclon, a contractor.
b. O. Mecklenberg was supervising
architect on the steel work, steel roof
and concrete piers upon which the steel
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CITY SHAKEN
BY EXPLOSION
Continued from Page One.
Lights Go Out.

in the vicinity bore numerous evidences
of the upheaval.
Lights Go Out
When Chief Glore reached the scene,
the big hole was rapidly filing with
water and the ground was strewn with
smoking embers. The high tension wire
of the Utah Light & Railway company
was dangling threateningly in the
wind and the chief immediately busted
himself keeping the scant handful of
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Big Plant Threatened.

SARATOGA, n. Y, May 4
which broke out in great pie
wood near the mills OF the Inter
Paper company at Corinth TO-DAY
ened the $2,000.0Oo plant. Thi
hundred cords of wood. valued +,
900, burned,
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Tribune Want Ads.
Bell Main 5200. Indepsnd|
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Who Built 1t?

as ] have said, That we were not all
killed is a miracle -
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seemed week long to me. So | don t
know what I shall do afterwards.
j. E. Langford, vice president and
general manager of the Saltair com.
nnpy al id