Show AiT OPERA TROUPE The Andrews Company Meet With a Fearful Accident Mrs Andrews and Lily Wallace Burned to Death In a Sleeper The Balance Barely Escape 1 1th Their Lives MINNEAPOLIS Jan 15A special train carrying the Andrews opera company was derailed near Brainard on the Northern Pacific early this morning The sleeper caught fire and two members of the company com-pany were burned to death The second section of No 9 with the Andrews opera company on board left West Superior at midnight for Grand Forks Near Jonesville the train struck a broken rail the engine and baggage car passing over in safety but the sleeping car was derailed It toppled over breaking loose from the train and went down an embankment five feet high lying on its side Soon the windows were broken to liberate those inside Flames snot out and In very short order the car was enveloped PhA tli 1 to extricate themselves but none were able to save their clothes and the night being the coldest of the season the thermometer ther-mometer reaching 46 below zero the suf feringof the injured was terrible At this time it was discovered Mrs Ed Andrews and Lilie Wallace were missing but no human aid could render them assistance as the car was a mass of flames They were burned to death The injured were placed in a baggage car and brought to Brainard and quartered at the Earlington hotel Florence Joy severely burned on the back and head will probabl die May Douglas Miss Letitia French Mrs L F Barker Miss Marie Roe George An derson Miss Ella Harris J C Taylor H Allen Fred Allen Miss Jo Shearer and L F Barker arc injured more or less seriously seri-ously Miss Douglas when brought from the car was utterly enveloped in flames She will probably recover The women were nearly nude but were wrapped up as they were taken out The bodies of the two women burned to death were charred beyond be-yond all recognition their heads legs and arms being entirely gone Ed Andrews rescued his little baby and supposed his wife was safe He is wild with grief Members of the company lost all they possessed pos-sessed except their stage clothes Conductor Hall says the catastrophe was sudden there being not a shadow of warning warn-ing The train was not running over twentyfive miles an hour None of the injured in-jured will die The accident was unavoidable unavoid-able the rail breaking some five yards from the end the piece breaking in five pieces The Russian Food Resolution WASHINGTON Jan 15The call made by Mr Furness of England today for subscriptions sub-scriptions from British shipowners to defray de-fray the cost of transporting American flour contributions to Russian sufferers may result ia the Senate resolution author izing the lease of a vessel in which to send the American food contributions contri-butions again being called up in the House Long who represent the Minnesota district said today he felt like offering a vote of thanks Furness Other friends of the Senate resolution expressed ex-pressed themselves as ashamed of the circumstances cir-cumstances that made it possible for such a movement to be started by a representative representa-tive of Great Britain Opponents of the resolution are inclined to look upon the movement of Furness as buncombe Representative Alexander today introduced intro-duced in the House a bill relating to gambling gam-bling in agricultural products It excludes from the mails any letters postal cards or S circulars concerning such gambling Also newspapers circulars pamphlets or i publications of any kind con I tinning advertisements telegraphic reports t re-ports or other articles giving quotation and market in relation to gambling in agricultural products A tax of 2 per word is laid on each interstate telegraph or telephone message used for or in aid ofthe gambling referred to In the actMembers Members of the House committee on rivers and harbors say it Is safe to assume the river and harbor bill will be considerably con-siderably less than last Congress and no new improvements will bo recommended unless of unexceptional merit |