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Show OVER ONE HUNDRED DEAD Frightful Disaster on French Underground Electric road Scores Trampled to Death in Wild Struggle to Escape Flames One hundred and two persona are as the result of a disaster in the Metropolitan underground railway at Faria, France, In which three trains were burned. The real horror of the disaster took tylace while the hundreds of passen-ffor- a were fighting each other like maniacs in the dark tunnel while seeking to escape. Women and children Bead towards Lea Couronnes. While the two trains were burning a train approached from Pere la Chaise station. The officials at station warned the driver of the danger and he at once reversed his direction and went back as quickly as possible, thus escaping with all Menll-monta- his passengers. Meanwhile another train, No. 48, Rail- down from the side of the brick wall on to the line. They soon fell on the rails In a state of asphyxiation. Three others perished while endeavoring to escape by the tunnel at the staircase end. Although the accident occurred at 8 o'clock in the evening, the firemen were unable until the next morning to descend into the tunnel, owing to OLD NEW ENGLAND. Examinations of over 2tf of eyas and careful taw, t result. In the Boston show that nearly all chlia V primary schools with J Community, Has in the the higher grade, oXf. Newcaitlc, TVday a Small Fishing: Part m the Lite pupils are myopic, a jJJI Lf,in. an Important Past Played this Increases until froj Nation, Great of This cent of the student. .7. f 4 t fiivea other (Special Correspondence.) somewhat remodeled, has yet In Its If you say to some people that Newasstructure great timbers like a ship, castle, N. JL, 13 a place of historic so It may stand the wear and tear of sociation, that once played an Importmore centuries. ant part in the life of the nation, they two or three built was previous to 1680, though so is it laugh at you because the place when is not known, and In Its Just fishing little That compact small. location It has always community Is ludicrously diminutive picturesque of romantic Interest. with our present standard of national been a center of lovers, many resort favorite a is It the very expansion, but, doubtless, conwhom have been married there, and of which charm and quaintness been much visited by noted poostantly attract visitors from the big it has rushing world is a survival of the past, or better still, we like to think the little town has yet the simple and wholesome life which made it once a stronghold of free government. As a military outpost the tiny town of Newcastle has always played a part in both colonial and national inter-sestDoubtless that Is the source of its name, for not only is the island ? girt about with a rockbound shore and buttressed into the sea as if built by nature as a fortress, but it has nearly tj'is 9 Jr always been surmounted by a walled a fortification of some kind, which is ' r- ? part of Its picturesque features. earthwork There was early built "an Turn of Crooked Lane. with certain great guns," but a reguas was there erected pie. Longfellow is said to have here lar fortification mused oa the ballad of Lady Wentwas stir a There 1688. as great early In Newcastle when, in December, 1774, worth. The big parlor was for a time the Kings colors were hauled down used as a meeting place of the provinfrom this fort, and it Is said that the cial assembly, and the militia was ammunition which supplied the con- drilled there during 1812. A single Lombardy poplar tree Is a tinentals at Bunker Hill was stored landmark In Newcastle, since famous here. The site has been alternately forti- It indicates all that remains of the Walfied and neglected from the earliest ton house of witchcraft days. The times up to the recent Spanish war, delusions of Salem did not propagate town, when the fear of an attack from the extensively In this wind-blowcirbut there was one Spanish fleet frightened all the missile-throwinAt that time the ruins of Fort cumstance of a Constitution were again rehabilitated devil which stirred deeply for a time and the soldiers stationed there made certain pious souls. One deacon had to wear his head things lively for the quaint old town. n well-define- d sea-coa- st This diagram shows the unseen portion of the Paris Metropolitan Underground railway, on which the awful catastrophe occurred. This soction of the tunnel Is at the corner of the Avenue de la Republic and the Boulevard Richard Lenoir, showing the line running under the subterranean canal at St. Martin. The ground structure Is shown with the shafts leading down to the tunnel stations. The accident which resulted in such terrible loss of life occurred only a short distance from the section shown In the diagram. Courceles-Menllmonta- vrere pulled down and trampled under foot by frenzied men who sought safe-Bonly for themselves. A majority of the bodies had arms raised and flats clenched and legs twisted, and some of them were bent y ! doable. Almost all had wounds on the face and hands. Many of the victims held handkerchiefs In their bands. The walls of the tunnel were splashed with blood to a height of six feet. One pool of blood. was so deep that bats and even loaves of bread were floating In it. Tho floor of the sub- smoke-begrime- came np from Belleville behind the burning trains and stopped at LeB Couronnes just as the smoke began to enter the station from the tunnel. Then the catastrophe happened. On seeing the smoke the passengers Jumped on the departure platform for the direction of Menllmontant and tried to make their way to the staircase at the end. They were driven back by the smoke towards the other end of the platform,, where there Is a white brick wall. There they met the fugutlves from the two burning trains crowded together and there later Section of the Railway Running from Vincennes, Past the Louvre, Champs Elyseea, to the MalL way was covered with pieces of clothing torn from the victims, battered bats and twisted umbrellas, showing how desperate was the struggle inning the panlo stricken fugitives In the dense blackness of the tunnel. As showing the brutality attendant npou the struggle of the crowd to escajie, the corpse of one woman waa found with her breast torn away. One survivor says he shouldered his way through the struggling mass to the station, whose locality he knew, and went straight to the staircase. While ascending this .two womon clung to Lis legs and were saved. .A rescued passenger said; "I do not know houf I got out but I could not have gone another twenty yards. The train was much nearer to the Rue dcs Couronnes station than to the Monllmoutant, but many passengers rnshod in the latter direction. Every one was mad with terror, I trod on soveral persons who were lytng on the ground." That part of the underground railway In which the disaster occurred comprises the two intermediate stations of Menllmontant and Lea Coup-ennnTrain No. 43, consisting of eight coaches, coming from Port Dauphin and going towards the Place de 3a Nation, stopped at the Boulovard (Carbos owing to a alight accldont to fthe motor, and the passongera alight-The- n train No. 53 arrlvod. Its also wero debarked. The Kasengera were then coupled together and No. 63 pushed No. 43 along the ine towards the workshops. No stoppages were made at La Lhapelle and tAuborrllleni, Combat and Belleville etatlonr, but at Los Couronnes tho driver slowed down slightly. ' The two trains then proceeded into he tunnel, tho trainmen closing the doors. Suddenly, as the Amt coach was drawing Into Menllmontant station, a violent explosion occurred and blue flamo rose between the coach oontalnlng the motor and the next one. In n few minutes all of tho sixteen coaches were on fire. - The trainmen Jumped on the rails and fled towards the station. They were Just In time, for tho flames already had roach od tie loot and wails of the tunnel. The electric wires were fusing and tho tuuml. t xcopt the flames from the burning conches, was in darkness. Thick ' smoke borntt to enter tbs Menllmontant atatloif and also to roll f-- bodies were found In a seventy-fivheap. Two passengers tried to escape by a little stairway leading e MIMIC WARFARE ENDS IN DEFEAT OF ENEMYS? FLEET war game la over. At b:30 by the superior force and could do o'clock on the morning of Aug. 8, the nothing but run up the white flag. The conditions at this point, had enemy was captured trying to take Winter Harbor. He waa alghted by It not been for the Olympia's wireless the Olympia. telegraph equipment Indicated that Bugle notes sounded on the'Olym-pia- , Rear Admiral Sands might have men rushed to quarters and the reached an anchorage In Winter Haroperator In the .wireless telegraph bor, but the Olympia's note of warnroom was signalling for the ing had been heard. to announce the discovery of About 8 o'clock the defenders, or the fleet to Rear Admiral Burker. The the greater part of them, returned to miles away off port MoBt of the ships headed for flagship, twenty-fivMount Dosert Rock, caught the sound the coaling station, but the Kearsarge, waves and answered. In a few mo- Illinois and Alabama lay outside Bar ments word came by the wireless that Island. the Kearsargo was on her way to aid 'Wo mot the enemy, as Perry the Olympia. said, and they are ours. Meanwhile thnt vessel had found That tells about the whole story," herself in a predicament The fog, remarked Rear Admiral Barker, who which had been of advantage to the commanded tho defending forces durenemy, proved a handicap to the ing the manoeuvres. The admiral had The Hear-sarg- e e . It was nearly aJnquj midnight, group of cabmen standijV1 banqueting hall were night was so warm and fo, i guests at the banquet would 1 to walk home instead ol r length one cabmaa hit on,! Idea. H brought a buck J from the horse trough, well aver tha steps of th,J pavement la front ofH trance, so that It looked u' there had been heavy rain. , took an umbrella and dipped ' water trough, and, u th, threw open the door for the;, guests the ingenious cabts,. in the doorway with his A fearful night! cats and dogs! said om NELLIE St. P- eet, depart veebarg d itr guests. CabB were In suchp ixfs cr part mand that there was not Vh went away without a iaiyrnt 3 ments. WORLDS GREAT J FUR T" ,ndJit Ptruna jntrket L-- Russian Traders Gather And trbit In Siberia Tha great fur market ol is held annually in Irblt li j It lies 1,000 miles east d and the Russian traders hin A Al jlssoi th c t inflan prodo kl I T jiucus. the Ural mountains to Every year the fur merehu adventures enough In trying t Irblt In time to fill a whole . stories If they vk tell them. But It has been nes s all their lives, so tic nothing of it, and they hamj to spin yarns, for as boob bought their furs li it must hasten back to Russii prepare tbem for further ti then they usually hurry to Lti ti- book-sellin- center g .. HOI. Why Kansan Met None of Ne Four Hundred. Editor C. P. Townsley, who'. Ing New York, writes to his ; Kansas as follows: TTs ha 4tt. ure of calling on Mr. Yander&j days ago, but regretted to findl of town, so the distinguished gentleman at the gato informeci thought he was a fresh duke )l rived, hut on asking him bis iu aid It was James Thompson, tl who was In charge of the ... i Puddle Luck. But only the season prior every one had looked upon the place just as a melancholy ruin, and old residents would tell the story of Its ancient building In the time of William and Mary. The names of those sovereigns were then associated with It. but the vicissitudes of its history have each given it a different title. During the revolution It was called Hancock, and when rebuilt in 1808 the name was again changed to Constitution. From Its exposed situation at the mouth of the Piscataqua, Newcastle has always been not only a place of danger from attack by hostile armies, but to mariners at every season Its shoals are to be dreaded. Sailing parties know how easily the squalls come upln this vicinity, and dread the approach. And yet for years the Islands had no lighthouse. At last the Fort Point lighthouse was Installed, an Inner light for Portsmouth harbor. U was during the administration of Gov, John Wentworth that the first one was built. In 1771. Before that a lantern hung foro the flagstaff of the fort was the only beacon for sailors. When the governor, in his most eloquent phrases, appealed to the assembly, there was talk of "squandering bandaged In consequence of a scurrying skillet which this uncanny spirit had set flying through the air. There are said to have been saucepans and pokers launched upon the Innocent, and even at times they rained upon the house, but always this doomed house of Walton was the scene of havoc. Prayer meetings were held regularly In consequence, that evil might be averted, but long ere these sessions had been given over the missiles had ceased to fly, and apparently this particular devil had moved along. Now even the Walton house exists no more and only this solemn tree Is standing in a negative way, with half its branches naked of leaves, a sorry sur-rivof the flourishing group which shaded a once proud doorstep. The oldest house In town is standing as the melancholy background of a lusty cabbage patch. Such have of late acquired much patches dignity and because of the as well' literary as the historic distinction of the old house the laundress occupant never calls round for the washing, but with great hauteur receives the weekburdens ly from the boarders down the lane, and thus It Is the oldest house becomes the motive of a The brave historians of Newcastle ascribe to the fo of this hamlet three distinct periods, twotiny of which are included as the rise and fall. by Its historical association and the third period of present perity comes to it as one of tho prosthrir-n- g summer resorts of tho Now Eng-lancoast. It is a quaint souvenir of ,lpmu1' f Man.1 that III hostelry which has grown P here since colonial times hear the rame of the colonial should governor d rr hai happllJr ,ra taUzedn i8f,t Wentworth, The favorite diversions of a sum- vl8l,or arr sailing fr and at Newcastle deep and there g a great fascinationAsking, n follow- this Ing priHtlmo of the ancient real- m unities at Salem and Marblehead Newcastle still adherrg.to Z7 ened 60 feet ami Inter, In 1879, distat placed by the present iron tower. Mnrtello tower, wist of the fort and ,orI'b It mads them to tbo distant northeast ImumJ lighthouse, s the mom picturesque In Newcastle. Bu.it on a ridee of urn! mackerel, so that hltcn ledge, it h a favorite object for artist i to p.ilx-It is said to haw been const ruui In a sirgb night and outers together, who ware hourly ft .meg an nttH-of th British, but romuntl person1 are njv dopondtvf iitid M Ndy IvNotirrofuL . to weave leg, mis about a,, fine an ol rein. Hardly less antique in Us hKti.t rsxnelatlons than the fortre-- s lf . tl nn,",i"t da, n'he cld Jnffrey hocm. which, thoimi d b n single ( iime. !;r, ''t:1' T oh-Je- 1 -- very little to say. He spoke of ths efficiency of the wliclc telegraph service, and called attention to ths faet that none of hi cotnmun'catlons had been from the shore. Device Guests ef HARD TO FIND AT Edge of Fishing Village, sAhPi'' Ingenious rope. Is also the biggest to: of the world west of Rus's. the peoplo's money," but the governor built the lighthouse and tha assembly afterward paid for It. The wooden Colossus at that time was 90 feet In height, so tnat It became confused with the Whalesbaek, no It was short- Olympia, for when it lifted and Admlr-n- t voxels were swn. they uoio too floe to th queen of Manila bay for her to exenpe. Under the rule of the mamamvies she was overpowered ' i HOW CABBIES Got the great &1PKE& a) F Germany, which, In additions ftZARiDn'&U. KEAR-senm- !. nersirtt!s jvprience ! the blinding clouds of smoke from the burning train. Frequent attempts were made by volunteers, whom it was necessary to rescue half suffocated and send to the hospitals. As the firemen brought out the bodies agonizing cries went up from women and children who recognized their dead husbands and fathers. The clothing of the victims Indicated that they were almost entirely second class passengers. There were several first class coaches on tho trains, and It Is believed that three occupants were also among the victims. The body of one of the women was handsomely dressed, while two among the male victims were evidently pen sons of importance. M. Vlgnos, one of the directors of the Metropolitan company, places the responsibility for the disaster entirely on Driver Georges Chauvin of train No. 43. He said: Chauvin Is one of our oldest and most devoted employes. At ths Barbes station a short circuit occurred In his motor. Instead of obeying printed Instructions and isolating the damaged motor, he merely employed the extinguishers, believing these would suffice to stop the fire." words. creases steadily fr0Bl to the higher grades, and portion to the length of 1 to the eyestrain of ich(y,; ? ,:r J."?.," i . cc r , . Mr. Vanderbilts ebsc; Is almost Impossible to any of the 400 at home at this s They are either at some sunn eort or In Europe. The next' come to New York I shall try tit during find it ter, so as to find people st to Great Bend Tribune. Curloue Little Anlmsk naturalist at Hanover, (to ony, describes many remarks!' L A animals which abound there them is a gecko, called by tt farmers "getje," whose tail oft with a slight touch, an4 iJ u Jumping about on the ground, an eBJ' of attention the Ing the animal itself links awsytti' tually grows a new tall. -- vt Oiftrh tTlm Kj runei tAuroi SlrUoi ABOUT COMPLEXION! 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I bad nT ulted a physician In ree ; T. headaches and tarrlble coop and I only found out tbs them after I commenced tb Poituw which bocame kno ai J i F.1.1 L D We ell through Orape-Nuta- . food Grape-Nut-s and It help we thought lostum must have merit and we conclud 1L We found It so deneleul j continued the use altogether I tever oxperled It to help & "After a few months wf were all gone and my comp!1 -clearei wonderfully then I Bty troubles had been eauM fr and had been cure! off coLm and drank I"-1- , place," Nome given by ltalt,e Creek, Mich. t:v PoMum 111 thsrpe n hsn Kin l. II ,,'ipSr U' ,, k7 coffee drinker and M,f nnd health tako the pine of p kin and disease. T |