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Show DAILY UTAE STATE JOURNAL VIII. NUMBER VOLUME fFlTOI OGDEN, UTAH 68. MEN KILLED editor IN INDEPENDENCE MINE Broke and the Cage Fell Fifteen dred Feet Bodies of the Victims Steel Cable Were Almost Mangled DIED SUDDENLY ' Organized Forty Ons Companies and All Failed Losses of His Victims Aggregate $100,000,000. H. F. BROWN. WILLIAM COLLINS. J. STEWARD. FRANK COCHRANE. L. JACKSON. HARRY COGANE. CHARLES STATTEN. L. WAGONER. HENRY YEOMAN. EDWARD SMITH. Colo., Jan. 26. JAPAN 10 HOPE OF ANY Cordon of Police Around Shaft of to Restrain Relatives. Cheswick Mine STILL HAS THE WAN FEVER BEING FOUND ALIVE Russia's Reply May Be Excuse for the Commencent of Hostilities. Jan. 26. Of the 185 entombed in the mines at Ches-aic- k but one has been rescued up to I oclock thla morning and it la believed that the others are dead. The report that the members of another rescue party- - in the Cheswick mine were killed Is erroneous. The men nil returned to the surface after t Tain attempt to penetrate the mine. They report the conditions such that it will take days to recover the dead. Not one of the miners Is believed to have survived. The list issued by tbe company anya that 185 lamps were Issued tbua leading to the belief that nearly two hundred were killed. The cause of the explosion will Probably never be known. A majority believe it was caused by the carelessnPITTSBURG, men . LONDON, Jan. 26. Reports from the Far East are again sinister. Dispatches to the Central News state that Japan la actively continuing war prep- arations time ultimatum. RAILWAY8 CRIPPLED; 8EVERE COLD CONTINUE8 ST. LOUIS, Jan. 26. Six below zero 9 o'clock thla morning. Railway service ia badly crippled on account of the snow. LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. 26. Twelve below. The cold wave prevails over at some miner in lighting his pipe. the entire state. Rescue work Is still hampered by TOPEKA, Kan., Jan. 26. Eight belack of Much suffering la reported in low. experienced men. ess of Pittsburg police have been called to eastern Ward the mouth of the shaft el rain relatives and friends. The and that there saving any of the entombed men. They ordered the mine brattlced to keep the air pure. Inspector Bell returned from the lne at noon and said that corpses wer wedged In a mass In the north haft aa solidly aa though rammed In. he rescuers will string out In a long Nne because when the barrier to broken through a big rush of afterdamp h expected. Twenty bodies were found in a heap ktween the bottom of the shaft and th ntry. Unless plans are changed f the bodies will be removed aa the crowd around the entrance is Immense. "BULL" ARMOUR holds NO CLUE TO MURDERER OF MISS 8CHAFFER BEDFORD, Ind., Jan. 26. The murder of Mias Schaffer Is still shrouded in deepest mysterm. The police have not a single clue to work upon. The murdered girl was buried at Elkhart today. Public memorial services were held here. SUPPORT FOR TREATY COMMERCIAL BIRMINGHAM. Eng., Jan. 26. The CHICAGO, Post aJn. 26. Wheat 89ft says that British consuls will be The market for a time thla mom-- 6 appointed to Mukden and other ManWt away from Armour and there churian ports Immediately to demonUnited v,olent break. He bought three strate British support of the H Ion bushels to check the fall, which States commercial treaty with China. e time was aa low as 87. and the foreign mar-th- e PICKED OUT PLACES... FOR THE BIG GUNS bul1" an1 prevented a Wea-conditio- ns NEW YORK. Jan. 26. Lieutenant-ColonShafer, ordinance expert returned from. Colon this morning. Ha Is supposed to have selected sites for the fortifications. el Hanna us an r. THREE CHILDREN WERE BURNED TO DEATH th tog CELINA, Ohio, Jan. wareh hi morning house; loi Will Appoint When Hs Has Been Seen." Officers 26. IROQUOIS VERDICT CONDEMNS MAYOR AND OTHER OFFICIALS Holds Them Over to the Grand Jury Charged With Responsibility for the Theater Horror WILKESBA RRE, Pa., Jan. 26. The floods in this section of Pennsylvania are receding slowly, but the suffering among theh omeless continues. The big Ice gorge In the Susquehanna still BRITISH NOT DANGEROUS r Arrests are Made. FLOOD8 ARE RECEDING AT WILKESBARRE 18 hanna worse but Editor-Mayo- Whitaker (From Billtown Bugle. Wright, who was today found guilty of Again we announce and repeat and London the Globe wrecking corpora- reiterate thHt we are the people, mid tion and sentenced to seven years' must be respected. We were imprisonment, died of heart fuilure at along with the rest of the ticket, but that don't mean 4 o'clock this afternoon. Wright has been on trial twelve a victory for anybody but VS. We pulled the others. Including days and the Jury was out but a short time. The court In passing sentence Judge Howell, through. OUR victory don't mean that any of severely criticised the promoter and the appointees under our administrasentence. gave him the maximum Wright showed no' signs of weakness tion should have any of the glory. That glory belong to us. or illness and when tbe judge had conWe need it, and then we need the cluded said: I am Innocent of any money. Intention to do wrong. The endorsement that WE received He was led away and the first intimation of his illness was when he does ,iot mean that any of the apsuddenly sat down in the anteroom. pointees are entitled to reappointment not until they have "seen us nnd Doctors were sent for at once, but seen us right their efforts proved unavailing and WE to be seen. want he died an hour after sentence was And we need the money. then passed. ' The was endorsed. administration news The of Wright's death caused WE are the administration. Imwas an great excitement and there If the appointees think they have mense sale of newspaper extras on the streets. It was at first rumored that anything to do with it they have a he had committed suiclde,but this was guess coming. Suppose they should guess, "WE proved without foundation. Wright was regarded as the great- need the money'; they would be dead est swindler of the age. His victims right. AYE will see to making the appointlost In excess of one hundred million ments after the candidates for posiIn dollars the collapse of the various ' see US. ortions He which he promoted. companies we Do need the money? e forty-ona with companies ganised Yes, we need the money. total capitalisation of nearly one hunThere Is plenty of time for making dred and twelve millions and all failed. Candidates may come He was a magnificent spendthrift and appointments. to office our and talk to US; and. was a resident of America for many the We need money. years. Kansas HAVING A HARD TIME ENAJ CONDITION Jan. re- inspectors announce aa a result of Inspections this forenoon h no hope wahtever of Results in the Death of Four and Injury of Seven Persons Denver Sleeper Was Smashed IS ENDORSED - Berlin advices say' that Russia's latest reply to Japan goes no further than to admit enough to prolong the negotiations It la not believed that Japan will either declare war or issue s -- LONDON. Fourteen at the top of the shaft, broke the cable and fell 1,500 feet. men were instantly killed thla morning The when the dead bodies Independence mine by were spectacle in Stratton' removed was sickening. It was the falling of a cage. almoat Impossible to identify any of The car became unmanageable and the men aa they were completely disIn its ascent crashed Into the sheaves membered. VICTOR, Collision on the Burlington to Kindling Wood. THE DEAD: JOE OVARY. EDWARD TWIGGEN. 1904. CRASHES INTO EXPRESS BeWAS PROMOTER AND WRECKER ADMINISTRATION 20, ACCOMMODATION TRAIN THE MONEY Whitaker Wright Expired Short- Reason Why the City Appointly After Being Sentenced for ments Have Been His Misdeeds. Delayed. Hun- yond Recognition. w. FARZIER. JOHN SEBACK. JOSEPH SETHERUM. DEEDS OF BOGLE TUESDAY, JANUARY 26. Three chil- dren Henry Frysinger. aged thirten and six. respectively, were teen, burned to death and Frysinger and wife critically burned by a Are at his Of residence this morning. Edward Laughllp, building inspecCHICAGO, Jan. . 26. The rounding up of the officials and theater em- tor under Williams William Sailers, fireman In the theployees nftmed in the verdict of the ater. coroner's jury as being responsible for James F. Cummings, stage carpenthe Iroquois horror began this morn- ter.. ing. William McMullen, who had charge 10 came at down Harrison Mayor o'clock to arrange security for his ap- of the lights that causd the fire. The findings were as follows: He was not placed under pearance. The cause of the fire was drapery actual arrest Will J. Davis, manager of the thea- coming in contact with a flood or arc ter, was arrested at his home by two light. City laws were not complied detectives and brought to the city hall. with relative to building ordinances, James E. Cummings, stage carpen- regulating fire alarm boxes, fire apon and over ter, and William McMullen, flood light paratus, damper or flues the and fly requiring lockgalleries, and stage were arrested also operator, fireproofing of scenery and all wooded up. The Mayor Harrison gave bonds In the work on and about the stage. was which wholly asbestos curtain, sum of $5,000 and Manager Davis, Fire Marshal Musham and Building Com- Inadequate, was entirely destroyed. Williams in the same The building ordinances were violated missioner amount The bonds fbr the others were In that aisles were enclosed on each side of the lower boxes, that fire apfixed at 82,000 each. looked petrubed paratus was absent from the orchestra Mayor Harrison declared the ac- floor, and that there was no fire apHe that and haggard. baltion of the coroner's Jury was unfair paratus in the gallery or the first cony. and the verdict unwarranted. He said that a man with 500 heads could not Will J. Davis was held responsible and handle the details of a city like Chi- on the ground that, as president he was primarily regeneral manager, cago. sponsible for tbe observance of the 26. The coroner's laws and was bound to aee that his CHICAGO, Jan. weeks has been employees were properly Instructed as Jury which for three listening to evidence relating to the to their duties In case of fire. In relation to Mayor Harlson the fire In the Iroquois theater last night returned a verdict by which the fol- verdict reads as folows: "We hold Carter H. Harrison, as lowing persons are held to await the action of the grand Jury: mayor of the city of Chicago, as he Carter H. Harrison, mayor of Chi- has shown a lamentable lack of force and for efforts to escape responsibilcago. William H. Musham, fire marshal. ity. evidenced by the testimony. WU1 J. Davis, proprietor in part, "Building Commissioner Williams and of Fire Marshal Musham, as heads the theater. and manager . George Williams, sioner of the city. building . commis- (Continued on Page 8.) THE DEAD: Gardeene station, forty miles north of St. Louis. W. CONOVER. Denver. J. Engineer Nuno of the accommodaELMER ENGLISH, Macon, Mo. tion train is missing and It Is believed BENJAMIN colored. BENNETT, thut he Is burled under (he debris. orter. St. Louis. Seven intsoiis were Injured though not seriously. MISSING: The engine of the express train was ENGINEER NUNNO. taking water, the rear end of the train standing on the bridge over Gardeene ST. LOUIS, Jan. 26. Three lives creek when the crash came. are known to huve been lost In a reur-en- d The rear cur, which was the Denver collision which occurred early this sleeper, was demolished and the mamorning on the main line of the Bur- jority of the occupants were either lington between an accommodation killed or Injured. The car nhead was truin and the Denver express Ixiuud the Portland sleeper, but all of the for this city. occupants escaped. The wreck occurred In a blinding The accommodation train caught fire snowstorm at the water lank near nnd was destroyed. WANTS EVERYTHING MITCHELL AGAIN BROUGHT TO LIGHT CHOSEN PRESIDENT President Suggests That Cabinet Refuses Raise of Salary Because Members Search for Besolution Did Not Pass Documents. Unanimously. Pana-ma-CoIum- Jan. 26. At the meeting today President Roosevelt asked whether any member still had any document pertulnlng to Panama or Columbia. The members all replied In the negative. The president then suggested thHt a further search be made and said he wished the entire matter to be an open book for the public to read. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 26. John Mitchell was this morning reelected president of the United Mine Workers of America. Lewis and Secretary Wilson were also A letter from Ed Tout to Ed Ensign of this city conveys the gratifying Information that Miss Nannie Tout, Ogdens sweet songstress, still continues to achieve triumphs In London. She hus ull the engagements her teacher will permit her to undertake, not only In the metropollc but in other musical centers in the provinces Arrangements have now been made for her visit to this country. Accompanied by her father and her teacher and his wife, Miss Tout and party will sail in August for New York, where the debutante will commence a tour of the United States, and Ogden will be Included In the Itlneary. Miss Tout will be given an enthusiastic welcome in the city of her birth, where her successes have given the greatest of pleasure to many sincere friends. IS GRAND VIZIER WASHINGTON, cabinet Vice-Preside- nt resolution raising President Mitchell's salary to 85,000 was passed by a more than vote, but Mr. Mitchell from the chair declared OGDEN SINGER'S SUCCESS. the resolution killed. He said he would not accept the increase if it met with the slightest opposition. Nannie Tout Will 8ail in August From The convention will probably adof tho England for Tour United States. journ this evening. A two-thir- OF PERSIA. Passed Through Ogdon on Overland Loot Night. Oriental Potentate All Anghus Khan Ataba Agan, grand vizier to the Shah of Persia, accompanied by his suite, passed through Ogden at 10:30 o'clock last night on the delayed Overland train. The Persian premier landed at Ran Francisco January 22d on the Korea and has been visiting the Philippine islands, Japan and China. He will make a short stay In Washington before Bailing for Europe. The party had retired for the night when the train passed through Ogden. SECOND-HAN- STORE D ON FIRE LAST NIGHT d store on Twenty-fstreet, caught fire about 10:30 Three Austrians Buried From St. Jo- o'clock last bight. The blase was quickly discovered and was soon exsephs Catholic Church tinguished by the fire department. Thio Morning. The damage done to the building was The funeral of Michael Loskovich, slight, but the stock, a part of which whs new goods, was injured to the Daniel Melikovich and Michael was held this morning at amount of 8500 or 8600. 10:20 o'clock from St. Joseph's Catholic church. The services, which were BASEBALL SITUATION REMAINS IN STATU QUO according to the ritual of the church, were read by Rev. Father Cuahnahan Manager BInford said today that and the Interment was at Mountain there ia absolutely no change In the View cemetery. The funeral was an Imposing one. baseball situation. The powers that Three hearses were used and the cor- be know exactly where Ogden stands moment they are willing to tege was long. About 125 fellow coun- and the ' the concessions make asked "for by trymen of the dead men came in from In the of the agitaOgden beginning the railroad camps and attended the forfeit of this city is tion. the money funeral In a body. The expenses of ready. the funeral were met by compatriots of the deceased. HADNT TIME TO RECEIVE AN OVATION ' MANY LABORERS ARE Stein's TRIPLE FUNERAL. second-han- ifth . I KILLED BY LANDSLIDE CHICAGO, Jan. 26. William H. BERLIN. Jan. 26. A landslide at Taft waa met here today by a number Karrowltx, Silesia, today entombed of prominent men. He had time to thirty laborers. Ten corpses have stop but a few moments ond proceeded on to Washington. been recovered. |