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Show I IMF If RESULT OF SNOWSTORM BTO THE RIFE Storm of Snow Prevented Engineer From Seeing Signal, Twenty People Being Killed in Collision. Blinding Train Wreck in Missouri ae Result of Engine Leaving the Track While Rounding a Curve. Engineer and Fireman Killed, While Thirty-siPassengers Are Injured, Having Marvelous Escape x From Death. nutto. Mont. In the worst wreck In the history of the Northern Pa tlflc railroad, twenty persons were eleven seriously Injured, killed, several fatally, and about thirty more or less injured in a collision betwem an eastbouncj passenger train and a westbound freight train at a siding known as Youngs Point, about thirty miles west of Hillings, on Friday morning.' The fast traveling passen per train crashed Into the freight Just entering on the siding during o blinding snowstorm, the engineer of the passenger falling to see the signal flag of the brakeman of the freight train In time to avert the Carthage, Mo. A Ft. Louis & San Francisco passenger train wap derailed Thursday morning at a curve dose to Spring Creek, about a mile and a half west of Carthage. The engine and the baggage car went into the river and all of the other ears left Iew the track and turned over. crash. Blood, the engineer, and Harry Oer The freight train, which was an rouse, the fireman, were pinned under the wrecked engine in the stream and exceptionally heavy one, left Park City with but six minutes' time to Instantly killed. make the siding. It pulled partly on one were Injured. Only Thirty-sito the siding when tire passenger of these. It Is believed, will die. The was heard coming, and, seeing that hurts of the others consist of cuts and bruises. Something went wrong with he could not get the heavy freight tho engine when a sharp curve was train clear of the main lino, the enreached and the engine darted ofT the gineer sent the flagman ahead and track, carrying tho baggage car with backed out upon the main line. The em- flagman got perhaps twice the length it Into the river down a fifty-focars left the of the passenger train up the track, bankment. All the other on the roadway. but owing to the heavy fog and fallrails, but remained twice before ing snow, the signal was not seen over The engine turned If made Its plunge into the stream. He threw a fuse through the cab The smoker and the day coach also flew by him, the hut train window, turned a couple of somersaults before and even this signal was evidently they landed fifteen feet from the not noticed. tracks and became stationary. The The passenger train, which was sleeper turned over on Its side. Uninjured men from the chair car running about fifty miles an hour, broke open the side door of the bag- crashed into the freight, wrecking gage car and dragged out the bag- both locomotives and telescoping the Effort That Is Being Made to Render More Certain the Rescue of Imprisoned Miners. Ever and anon tin attention of the public H riveted by the announeement of a mine explosion, more or less destructive, and aften entailing the loss of many lives. , com! net Tesls of ed In expetimcntal galleries where tho rescue-apparatus- x ot gageman, II. E. Miller of Monett. He had been crushed by trunks. When the rescuers made a search of the day coach and chair car they found those most seriously injured In a heap at one end of each car. Those in the chair car "were jammed together, a stove and other furniture holding them fast. . TYPHOON IN PHILIPPINES. Causes Great Loss of Property and Many People Are Killed. Manila. A typhoon of terrific velocity swept through the central portion of the Philippine group, sweeping part of the island of Samar, northern Leyte, southeastern Luzon, northern Panay, Masbate and part of Romblon. The typhoon disappeared in the China sea, moving in a direction west by northwest. Wires are prostrated and available details of the damage done are meagre. It is evident, however, that serious disaster followed in the wake A telegram of the sudden storm. town a in Masbate from reports that in the place was razed, every building with the single exception of the postal building. A dispatch received from Romblon says that the typhoon caused a great loss of property and that undoubtedly many killed. Warns persons Fleet Against have been Exposure to Cholera in Philippines. Secretary Metcalf on sent the following dispatch Thursday to the naval station at Cavite, to he Washington. delivered to Admiral Sperry when the battleship fleet reaches that place: Cholera reported in the Philippine islands. If you find approaching epidemic or danger of getting it aboard ship, restrict visiting the shore on ficial business or prohibit altogether the officers and men, and permit no visitors aboard while at Manila or Cavite until return from Yokohama.' Cavite is six miles across t lie bay from Manila and no danger is apprehended from a stay there of several days of the vessels for coaling. THE FLEUSS APPARATUS. The Fieuss apparatus for use in mines consists of a breathing-ba- g and cylinders of compressed ' oxygen carried by 6houlderstraps. In the center of the group here shown is Dr. Leonard Hill, F. R. S., whose scientific investigations led to its invention. life-savin- g conditions resemble those obtaining in a mine after an explosion, have proved of great value in elucidating the serviceable qualities or otherwise of lifefor use undersaving appliances A of this chardemonstration ground. acter took place in the autumn of last year at Felling Colliery, England, vhcre an experimental gallery 170 feet long had been erected by Mr. C. 13. Palmer. From a special descripretion of the trials communicated to of InstiNorth the cently England tute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, we learn that one side of this gallery was of wire netting, so that the movements of the vrearers of the various types of apparatus were in full view of the committee of inquiry witnessing the demonstration. The arrangements Tor the latter were so planned that narrow and obstructed roadways had to be contended with, piles of debris surmounted, passages cleared through falls of stone, and other obstacles faced. Also a chamber filled, firstly, with carbonic acid, and, secondly, with sulphur-dioxid- e fumes, had been constructed, into smoker and the baggage car. The smoker was reduced to kindling Wood, and only three persons riding therein are known to have got out of the wrecked car alive. The engineer and fireman of the freight saved their lives by jumping. Engineer Biesinger of the passenger engine saw the freight train when virtually upon it. He threw on the emergency brake and made .a leap for his life. lie was practically uninjured. Fireman Babcock jumped through the cab window, but his bead struck the rail and his skull ' was crushed. He died in a few moments. Some of the bodies of tho killed were terribly mangled, some of them being ground to bits so that it was necessary to pick them up in a blanket. When the relief train reached the wreck the scene was one of a most heartrending nature. Many volunteers were englged In talcing the bleeding forms from underneath the wrecked cars. The groans of the inTHE GROSS INJUSTICE. jured and dying were most terrible. the Many were pinned beneath The politician was in a bad humor. of killed and those many wreckage This isnt right, he said. The had been literally crushed to death. national committee has only sent us $10,000 to handle the election in this VISIT IS POSTPONED. town and we havent enough. Last Fleet Will Not Visit Manila Until Its national election we had $20,000 and had a hard time making it go around. Return from Japan. In the first place we have to hire Manila. Following the receipt of four carriages at $5 a day. Thats $20. advices from Washington to the effect Then we have to pay rent on our that the visit of the Ameiican battle- headquarters for two months, which ships must be made under restricted amounts to $40. Then theres the inciconditions should the city continue to dental expenses of the chairman, be infected with cholera to a danger- which mn up to $140. Now, how ous extent, it has now been proposed much have we left? Just $9,800. to. postpone the reception planned in There are five precinct chairmen, honor of the officers and men until who receive $100 each to handle their the warships return from Japan. Gov- precincts on election day. This is a ernor General Smith is expected to measly sum for their work, too. That call a conference of his associates in leaves about $9,300 for myself and my the territorial government, represen- friends. I tell you, this isnt fair. It tatives of the business Interests and isnt the proper spirit. We simply members of the reception to formally cannot get out the voters on such a small sum from the national commitdiscuss the advisability of a tee. If they are going to cut down, . cumpctltoiH were to enter, therein ten minutes, during which time they were required each Inin saw two pit props. Other tests cluded the lemoval from the gallery of a dummy figure and the lifting of a f.C jMMind weight eipht feet Irish 29 limes. One of the appliances tested consisted of a breathing bag. and cylinders of ho ricompressed oxygen, carried by wsr-er der straps, and so hung that the cubbbi Is fire to do work, in the ing bag ate sticks of pure caustic soda. which absorb the carbonic acid gas breathed out by the man. Tito s oxygen is conveyed to the bag by calcutube, and the amount of gas is lated to last two hours, a pressure gauge fitted In front a most Important consideration enabling tho wearer to see what quantity of oxygen remains In ills cylinders. The equip ment comprises an electric lamp with alarm clock, and the alarm will ring every few minutes to remind tbe man to look at Ids gauge. Tbe weight of the a p) r.i atus. fully charged, is pounds. In less than one minute from the order to Get ready! the wearer can be completely dressed for a sLort. The use of liquid air in rescue apparatus is engaging the attention ofmining engineers, some of whom, indeed, predict an imiortant application of such a supply in the near future. The Acrolith, a typo of apparatus designed by Mr. Otto Simonis, adopts this principle, and has formed the subject of interesting demonstrations. Experiments have shown that SVx pint of liquid kir enabled the wearer of the w APPLIANCES FOR USE IN UNDERGROUND CHAMBERS. hi !i RESCUING A VICTIM. The method of attachment of the Fieuss apparatus to the shoulders enables the rescuers to work easily, and to have their arms free for carrying to safety those who have been overcome by foul air or other mishap. Its total weight is 30 pounds. rescue appliance to work under conditions for 60 to 70 minwhile nine pints were sufficient utes, for three hours work. the-requisit- they ought to do it somewhere else. While I dont intend to be a quitter and desert the party at the last moment, I want to make a strong protest against this kind of false economy. It isnt just to the workers at the polls. I guess Ill just send a telegram and demand more money5. Theyll have to give it to us, too, or reduce the majority in this town one half. John H. McNeely in Puck. One Good Turn, Etc. Dying Millionaire I have been much in litigation, always successful, too, and I feel that I owe everything to the lawyers. I want them to b.ai?e all my property. Attorney Ah! You wish me to make a will, then bequeathing Dying Millionaire Cutting off all my relations, and bequeathing the money to charitable institutions. New York Weekly. Let naught be set down In |