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Show I3L Ogden, Utah, October 16, HI- - 190S. NO. 249 Trainload of Refugees Fleeing for Their Lives Trapped by Forest Fires and May Have Perished Engineer. Fireman in Their and Brakeman Die at Tneir Posts Trying to Save Those Women and Children Known to be Care-Fou- rteen Parties Driven Back by the Awful in Up From Heat-Mill- ions Cities and Towns Smoke-M- any Exhaustion After Fighting Fire Threatened-M- All Night-- All Dead-Re- lief in Property Goes Fall in Streets en COSTS LIVES Opposing Parties in Portugal Try to Settle With Guns and Northern Michigan Seems to Be Burning. Portugal, Oct. lfi. Twenty-thre- e persons were killed and fmty others were seriously hurt In Asambuja In a riot letween Monarchists and Republicans today In the muni- Tha clpal election primaries. the Republicans outnumbered Monarchists and were the ag- greeaora The Monarchists took refuge in a church. The liepub- llcana battered down 'the doors and aiiiUKhed the a Indown The attempted massacre of the Mon- archists resulted in a pitched battle with knives and guns. Troops Interfered and a number of the lenders were arrested. Martial law lias been ordered to prevent further trouble. LISBON', Awful Suffering and Daath. JIUXERSBURQ, Mich., Oct - Fifteen iwreons were burned to to take them from Meta. They atarted teth on a train endeavoring aeen that th town waa doomned. ' The wfterday when it wan triln of eight wooden car, and one eteel gondola. Into wi, composed were crowded forty person, with their effects. The thta open car there and the train was stalled with banting ties caused the rails to spread ones of hemlock posts on both sides of the track and tha house of John The lire swept the track and burn-i- d Nowlckt near by a mass of flames. The passengers Jumped and tried to escape, but were the train. omeoine. Three mothers and nine children atayed In th, ,tee car, d. the sides of which were soon red hot and all the occupants were Art Lee, the fireman. Jumped inta a tank and waa boiled. The chirred r mains of Nowlcki were found in the ruins of his home. Conductor Klnville snd Engineer Foster crawled along the track to Posen Few got through the flames to safety. William Barrett, ltd escaped. the brakeman, was found dead on tha engine. Among the othera dead are Mrs Georg, Cicero and three chldren; Mrs. John Montceny snd three babies; Mrs. Edward Hordlts and three children and Mrs. John the woods are battling with the flames ln a large tract of timber between Calumet and lake Superior, Fire is also raging near Keweenaw, Fires ar, burning fiercely In the 4 Uplier Peninsula.' Forest City is men- e aced and a special train has been sent there from Escanaba. Th, timber about Mr nominee is flaming. neighborhood asked for help, e saying that otherwise all would be de- W stroyed. Menominee sent engines. Owing to the disorganisation of wlrs and e train service it is impossible to secure 4detals until the relief trains return. e Advices are indefinite and contradic- e tory. They fkii to account for the e large number of refugees In towns. It la feared that complete detaila will add to the fatalities. Brlmley and West Boo are threatened. Smaller places In the neighborhood have been saved by the heroic efforts of the Inhabitants. Bishop Williams, of the Episcopal diocese of Michigan, and 1- I I Ron-villa- - cre-siatf- fr Bowlckl. ALPENA. Mich., Oct. Id The D. A M. children by suffocation. agent at Posen lost his wife and four I I Mich, Oct 1C. A train bearing S00 refugees from Met, fires and bees entrapped by forest probably all are dead. The town of Urti has been completely destroyed. After Hr, had encircled the - town snd all attempta at saving seemed futile, tha inhabitants boarded the train to pi to Mlllersburg, twenty miles away. Word received s Mlllersburg says the train wa ditched three miles from Meti In the heart of the burning for-- st Searching partlea were compelled to retreat by the Intense heat An Alpena dispatch says that Mlllersburg Is threatened snd will probably be destroyed. Two relief trains sent out from Alpena were forced to return. The whole of northwestern Is Michigan burning. The flames have swept four counties. The estimates of the loss mns high Into the millions. The Are las reaqhed Alpena, a city of 20,000 snd ta burning inside the limits. fourteen women snd children are known to have burned to death on the Meti relief train. Among the dead are John Klnville, the engineer, Arthur Lee, the fireman, and William Lee, the brakeman, who atayed trying to get the train back upon the track. Burgeons, nurse, and coffina have been sent on a relief iraln from Alpena, one refugee from Mets says only a few escaped. The total number of the dead can only be conjectured. The wires are down. The town of Bolton has been destroyed. Pulaski is threatened. A shift of the wind to the northwest saved Alplna. The fire in this city is under control. The Several buildings were burned. men who were fighting tha flames all night collapsed ln the morning when the wind shifted and are sleeping where they dropped in the street. DETROIT, ge 8AULTE ST. MARIE, Mich, Oct. it. Forest fires are raging about here this morning. They have appeared within the city llmlta The fire threatened to dynamite the warehouse of the 800 Hardware company. The structure was saved by men fighting ln constant The danger of Instant destruction. smoke is so heavy over Bt. Marie rivet that navigation has been abandoned. CALUMET. Mich, Oct. 1. Buah fires are raging over the copper counSeveral try In northern Michigan. small towns are threatened. People In ENGINE RUNNING Rev Buikeley, w ho confirmed The Michigan towns reported destroyed by lire are Meta, 100 inhabitants; Mlllersburg, 850; the biggest town In Presque Isle county, Posen, A score tf 200 and Pulaski, a hamlet. other cities and towna are menaced. A Mlllersburg dispatch says 17 were burned to death on the Meta train. The train was ditched when a burned culvert collapsed. The train was then t rapjied on all sides by the flamea Women and three children are among the dead. Two bodies have been recovered. Conductor Klnsville escaped and reached Mlllersburg blind with the fire. Engineer Foster who l frightfully burned will die. The train left Mets for Cheboygan. It was surrounded by ths fire and started back. The cars caught fire from the forest. Passengers were burned to death. How many of the 200 aboard escaped Is unknown. An aged couple In 1 house near the track were roasted to death. The fire started from the carelees-nes- s of hunters or from smouldering embers from the September fire. Cheboygan Is menaced. The flamea are so close to the town of Vanderbilt that a large gang of watchmen are on duty day and night. OGHNY Engine No. 178, of the Oregon Short Line railroad, blew out a cylinder head Effect That Harry Travel for Past Week Heavy and at Ogden thi morning and the conse- latest Story ta MacMillan Will Trade With quence la that the locomotive la runlocal Railroaders Anticining with hut one piston. The rod on Nat Goodwin. the left aide was blown completely pate Rush. was the latter and from the cylinder, mor, or less torn on the trip here from Salt Lake City. Thl week1, Harry MacMillan, at present a leadcolonist travel on , The train departed for Cache valley, ' mining operator of the state of ing Pacific system shows minus one cylinder head and If the en well known In might Increase over the past week. glneer .is sufficiently skllfull he can run Nevada, but formerly resided for a numwhere he this city, total of 1,208 colonists, who ara taklrr advantage of the reduced rates allow the piston to atop ln the center of ber of years, has attained considerable the cyl,nd, right side, he wll be notoriety during the past few months the western railroads, passed stalled and the passengers will be because of hie supposed engagement to Ogden, bound for California pel led to wait until matters are Edna Goodrich, the actress. northwest. The list by days is Prcd. Rumor is again busily at work and tt follows: Saturday, 241 colonists; more sensational story, which apa day, 128; Monday, 264; Tuesday, IB: Wednesday, 170; parently had Its incubation in Reno, is Thursday, 208. going the rounds of merry mongers of 'e figures are exclusively for scandaL It is to the effect that a onlst who have taken advantage of trade has been made and that Nat Educed rates. In addition to that will wed Edna Goodrich, and Goodwin ker. about 700 pa seen- that Harry MacMillan, Vise Goodrich's went through Ogden from the former fiance, will wed Maxine Elliott, CHATTANOOGA. Tenn.. Oct 16. Besides this number, many one of Goodwin's former four wlvea enoran addreased in this state, seeking cvallable William H. Taft na or He said there who have been divorced.' Both Goodhere mous today. crowd in the cities occupetlona cither have were three kinds of Democrats those win, the actor, and MacMillan,circles. J country dstrlcts. in Nevada mining been active for Bryan those 11 the rales voting for him; go out of exist-th- voting the Goodwin secured hie divorce from being the last day tickets and those not voting. He thought Maxine Elliott more than a week ago in Democrat southern tern points time had come for iiVUrCh,Wl at This and left immediately for London, which Reno, to support the Republican party re,ult local railroaders m was responsible for their prosperity, where Edna Goodrich is now staying. In the passenger heaviest In the next three the coming wek. Him ,ncrln the wtonlsts will purchase tlrkZ th t few days of the rates tl t the various companies eh.JtWOrk,n ,pdr to make their eMiJ!? tha larger. Then the westward travel win begin. I orm,nu Probably until November tnlonr-Southe- I re-t- gh he first-cla- ss - re-"in- ed Jtor at -- as-traf- depart-w2Lbe- Maly FLYEr HITS THE GROUND. dershn. !nTJr etroyl En,,"d. Oct, 10. The apenp,e testing at Al- - 52. t0r lXed r nd wa th ,nventor wa Brought by Governor of e Oklahoma, e tkt. William R. breaking into my sleeping rooms to serve the summona but he did not adopt tlie sincere method of setting the trial before the election. I a in called to answer on the 6th day of November, ivnx. I reiterate all that I have said of Mr. Haakell and all that lie has proved by hla resignation a national treasurer. I dn not lalleve that this cus, will ever come to trial, and I defy him to bring It to triul long enough liefore election for his true character to be thoroughly exto New Yoik. The siieriff went to posed In the courts." the station and wailed for two hours The complaint alleges that Hep timfor the delayed train. When the train ber 19, 1908, hoeauae of hatred, malice finally arrived snd the officer knocked and ill will against the plaintiff, the st the door of the Hearst state room, defendant maliciously and wantonly Mra Hearst said her husband had spoke at Memphis, Tenn., and Heptern-b- er 20 printed end published in hie gone to the station to send a teleth plaintiff gram. The sheriff said he would break newspaper coneernlng down the door unless he was admitted. a false, defamatory and llbelnua article. There was no response. The officer Under the Nebraska law the officers then used his shoulder as a battering have no right to break doors to serve rain on the door. Mrs. Hearst, par- papers In a civil suit. Govern er Hasattorney is C. J. Srnythe. fortially dressed, ran screaming Into the kell's aisle. The sheriff then started to klek mer attorney general of ths slate and in the door to the toilet room when a close friend of william J. Bryan, Hears! appeared snd accepted service with whom he has been campaigning. of the papers. .The editor said the CHICAGO, III., Oct. IS. WHIIant R. summons was unexpected, and that with his wife and secretary, arHearst, officer refused admittance iit to the rived this afternoon and left at here because he and his wife had retired. for New Tork. In a statement he W. K. Hearst, gave out the follow- 2:45 declares that he welcomes Haskell's ing statement regarding the suit suit, thus enabling him to present the Governor Haskell: brought by whole matter In court. declares "When Mr. Haskell first declared that he did not know whatlie was hapseveral long weeks ago that he was pening last night until he heard the going to bus me, he said that he waa commotion and hla wife screaming. He unable to raise the necessary money. denies evaainn of the summons. He deAt that time I offered to supply any clares that If Taggart, Foraker and deficiency in order that hs might Archbold desires to have similar paspeedily bring the suit. When he pers served he will be glad to receive stated that he could not find me to them. He announced that he would serve me, I stated that I would ac- sp'-ain New Tork soon and make cept suit if the summons were merely public new letters on the Rtandurd Oil Mr. Haskell controversy bringing new men into the nailed to my address. method of controversy. adopted the sensational OMAHA, Neb., 14 Hearst waa served with paicr in a e ItioO.OoO duinage suit brought by Governor Charles N. Haskell while pass4 ing through Omaha at midnight. The door of Mr. Heursts stateroom on V 4 the train was burst njJcn by the sheriff 4 and the papers served upon the New Fork editor. The suit wna filed at 10 oVlntk last night snd immediately withdrawn. It Iteeain known that Hearst would puss through Omaha en route from Beattie Up- on George Carr. Edward Dowling, one of the men Implicated by George Carr in hie accusations as to those who attacked him from the darkness in a mysterious manner Wednesday night, knocking him unconscious with a stone or some other heavy article in the vicinity of Peery Brothers' mill on Twenty-fourt- h street, denies most strenuously that he had any connection with the affair or that he even knew of it until the following day. During a fleeting moment of consciousness after he was struck from behind, Carr waa said to have accused thsee men whom he suspected him. of being unfriendly toward Among the number, Edward Dowling was mentioned. The following signed statement from the latter is Editor the Dally State Journal: In regards to Mr. George Carr being assaulted and my nam being mentioned as one who la suspected, I wish to deny same as I had no grievance whatever against Mr. Carr, and I was at the Democratic rally when he was struck. EDWARD DOWLING." (Signed) k . II D is HEREJOIIIGHT the tramp dog known to oil frequenters of ths Union Depot, came near losing today what remains of his stub tail, for. which peculiarity hs is COACH named. About six months ago this canine was left to the mercies of and others, and without a license of any description. The animal, HERE however, was wiser than most of his species and proceeded to make friends with everybody around the station. The first and best friends he has are the departInteresting New Metal Passenger members of the commissarycanine rement, from which place thc ceives his food. Coach Will Be In Ogden This morning the dogcatcher strolled down to the station and his attention Saturday. was Immediately attracted to th Bob." He ensnared the dog In hie net and was about to lead him What is probably the first of the new away to painless death. The baggage men at the depot were Pullman steri tourist coaches being built for the Harrlman roads, will come made aware of what was taking place, through Ogden tomorrow, destined for and they, being also friends of Bob." Lo Angeles for regular service. The brought forth the necessary amount to several purchase 1 license. The result Is that officiate after Harrlman Bob," so old that hla black hair Is months' experience, have given the orders for building more than two hun turning gray, will still remain at the dred of this variety of can, to he used I station among his generous railroad tfrienda on various lines of the system. The car are completely steel, no wood whatever being utilised. Several lor to old style coaches. Th eteel pasmall care of the same style have been senger coaches nr expected to stop of operating for the last few months, and all possibility oftotelescoping In eventfree be practically have been found in ease of accidents, collisions, and such as fires anf wrecks, to be super- - from fire danger. Bob, STEEL dog-catch- COB " KepeMicamS' Maly Ogden City, HON. JONATHAN P.DOLUVERof Iowa, one of the Greatest PoUtical Orators in the Held, will tell why William H. Taft should be the next President. GOOD MUSIC. Speak Club of salt Lake wffl be out in force. ing at 8 oclock. Young Mens RepubUcan TONIGHT GRAND OPERA HOUSE, . SAVED FROM DEATH ,n r,pt SK" ts Southern Pacific Employe Denies of Attack ' 4 NOT GUILTY All Knowledge Serve Papers in $600,000 Damage Suit ? at HagensviU, yesterday, ar, missing. OGDEN MAN com-tkwu- 4 4 Airs. Hearst and Finally Reaches Editor in Toilet to V IS a claas of Law Smashes Doors, Terrorizes Officer Knives. Senator From Hawkeye State Will Address Crowd at Grand Opera House. Senator J. P. Dolllver of Iowa will be the chief speaker at the first Republican inly to be held in Ogden during the present campaign. Senator Dol-livwill deliver an address at the Grand Opera house, he having been secured by the Weber county central committee. The Iowa statesman arrived at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon and waa met by a committee, and escorted to the Reed lwteL Salt Lake Republicans will be well represented tonight, a special train having been engaged on the Oregon Short Line for their accommodation. Senator Dolllver's ability as a public speaker is well known and It is more than likely that he will be greeted by a large audience this evening. er SNOWFALLS ARE REPORTED. Trains are a little late today on the Southern Pacific railroad on account of high winds, which have been raging out on the Utah division between Carlin and Winnemucca, Nev, for the past twenty-fou- r hours. No. 8 was lata about an hour and a half this morning, and the other trains are surely to bo tardy to some extent Out In the earns district light snow flurries have been reported, and Indications are that heavier enow will fall befor, tonight All trains which came Into ogdn this morning have been covered with enow, some of the freight care having a depth of about an Inch on them. This Is Indication that winter Is on in earnest out In Nevada. There Is little expectation that it will abate before next epring. |