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Show THE 6 Music & Art Instructors EXAMINER: MORNING OGDEN, IPOfl. 30, ed the direction of that company's railroad eiiierprisc. From that time, until the moment of hi tragic death today be remained one of the commanding figure in the railroad world. il.s-t-jr- TWENTY-POU- R NOVEMBER MORNING, recover, with the exception of an aged wuiuan. A aoon a me ties of tilt wreck were taken received here. train and to the scene on a m one uf the fire engine" uf the Lynchburg department was loaded on a flat car and hurried to ex-- ie wreck tinguish the flan:c3 auiuug the wreck- KILLED EXPLOSION FRIDAY UTAH, SAMUEL SPENCER. Was at th Head of a Number f Rail-road- a age. PERSONS i;-- FORCE OF THE EXPLOSION TEN MILES AWAY. FELT - J Bodies of the Killed Were Terribly Mutilated Disaster Supposed to Have Been Planned. Uurtmund. far tu can Nov. 29. Orniany, So uareria.neJ tills momma, 24 ponton uvrc killed. HI were ilauarrouoly injured and were slightly Injured as a result iic- buu-tire- oi Ibe last uifihl uf tbs Hvburli tactory uear Annen. At the time of the six hundred boxes, each conrininug 60 puiiuds uf Koburu, aerr aloieil in the factory. The (real fuio- of the explosion was fell as lar a IVnmoad. ten miles from the scene of the disaster, wbeie a large uuiuber of win duws were broken. On the main road to AxiUeli all the luiuses were raxed tu the ground. I tie li 'dies of the killed being terribly Mutilated. - Surviving parents dragged their sleeping rhildreu from tlieir beds, their portable poaseaaions and tied from the collapsing bouses. A second exploalon occurred at 6 o'clock ibis morning. Aiuoug the killed were the burgoniaater au,) police inspector of the mwn of Witten, in tin- vicinity of the Ruburit facmj. The manager of the factory was wounded, but was sble to direct the work of rescue which ws only poasitde at lung range as two hundredweight of dynamite was stored In the powder rooms. An eye witness of the disaster says that fire broke out in the Koburit factory at 7:311 o'clock last ulght. and that when the Kruppa Are brigade from the neighboring town of Annen .I arrived at the scene at h p. m., the flreuten had to retire as other explosions threatened to fnlkiw the one whtrh occurred shortly after flames broke out. The neighboring Krupp works were slightly damaged by the first explosion. Experts declare that, considering the great precautions with which the explosives were stored, the liaaster Could only have resulted fioni some outrage. Bmparur William has directed General Vnu School t:i visit Annen and Wit'.en and has subscribed 16,256 for the vcllef of the sufferers. PROMINENT MEN KILLED AND THEIR BODIES BURNED. Prssident Spancar and Can. Schulyar Victims of Wreck. Lynchburg, Vs., Nov. 29. President Samuel Spencer, of the Southern Hallway system, who was en mute to ihe South, waa killed this morning in a rear-encollision yal lawyers, ten utiles Sbuth of Lynchburg. The private car in which he was riding was struck and split open by the colliding If Immediately locomotive. caught fire and the body of 31 r. Spencer waa burned almost beyond In the car with him were Philip Schuyler, of New York City; Mr. Spencers private secretary, Merrill, and his private dispatcher, U. W, Davis of Alexandria, Ya. Operator Davis waa crushed and died in fifteen minutes. Mr. Schuyler was instantly killed, but his body was not badly burned before it waa rescued by passenger. Engineer C. Perry, who wna on the rear i rain, was killed. Private Secretary Merrill waa Injured, but the nature of hla injuries has not. been learned, lie will be brought to Ibis city about d Twelve or thirteen passengers, itoun. most of them negroes, were wounded, inly one of whom la thought to be fatally hurt. Eight negroes arc In the city hospital here, haring arrived at 11 The collision was between No. .IS, .he Jacksonville express, and train No. 37. the Washington and e vesiiliuled limited. The train slopped on the lop of a ery heavy grade, a mile north of the awyers depot, to repair a alight and before, it is said, a iHgmati could pet back to protect In: train, the Atlanta train daabed into Bouth-vester- n Jark-I'uirlll- reak-dow- it. The heavy engine of the train plow- 'd Into the private car of President Spencer, in which he and his guests ire supposed to have been sleeping, mmediately ihe private ear esught Ire. Every piece of wned work mi he engine was burned, mid I lie machine stand there lorn, twist'd and uftelc. Ii was under ihe unotive lliat the burned body of lesMeni Spencer was found. It i Idem that Mr Spencer wa Instantly illed and that be did not suffer the mure of be ug burned. Dispatcher Davis wa alive when i In it from miller ibe wreckage. H rushed about the lower portion 'a if ilia body i, nd was conscious mud ie end. lie asked that word be sent The death of 0 M. wife and child. !r. h irmchiug. lie sta'ed bis rescuer that he knew that be .a uii'-.ar.d knew tbit tin end 'Mild not be fir off. Place voiii fingers on niy Tps the) e so g vid and r'lol." ho F ilii. e p'raded w.th the gentleman who a also a passeeger on the train, a in leave h'ni and for ten mines :l'i mini s aved with biin mi: ii he tw th nmhinc eouM be done for -- 1 IU .01 Tile cars wee rausarke.i for plund-K- of Jamestown. New i.ecco porfer go ihrough irk. hjw limys sr:i. He saw Min ihrew v.n sut'li tliinc.s a were i.f tie value bull ami appioprime the tilings that warned .Yr. furfl der'ared that c won.d cciiuiiii) have killed ibe hu'.l bad somciulug wjili 'ci if iic'i to do so. Vet a few passenger giged in flip, glioc.lisli business and iru, n.m.iicr of valuables mid uim h Hcat'.eio-u on, wh.ih wa ut wot Ie i rain wa taken. Mr i'u hi wliu wa on way t Hiv it ! 'int. N. on a bnsinc-- s i lit liero of 'he hour It , :t d by sonic of hi - ligili.it to his work and genitiie erodit of the i- ,.p. belong ie of a do, n peruiis. seriousl) wounded were on: from fbc two Csis Mil were in,! and six negro passenger ie lakei, tr.im ihe rn:lim.t;i .di of :!.e Inward Iran. They .i:,". ci: iiioBt of them balr.g I oh- n rg- - ,ij;.i jie or two with tioe-u:; will 1, 1 utiiv'i-- Lx. :. t. - Ogden City Dentists i , FEL3HAWS DENTAL PARLORS, Ovr Spatgo'i Book Store 2465 Wash. Av Phone 7k, BeiL j . Curl, one 1. t The engine and firemen could not New York. Nov. 29. Sarnued Spenbe spared from early morning fire Main stree:. hence they did cer, president of the Southern RailLin.il 8:30 o'clock. way company, was a resident of Washnot go to Lawyer On account of the train with the in- ington. but hia bualiu heauquartrr jured passengers i.av.ug the track were in this city. Ho was out- of the be ween Hauguon nr i ihe scene of the most prominent railroad men of tfc-accident, it waa aiirr ten o'clock be United States and fur nearly twenty fore the meatner reached Lawyer. years had been at the head of one or The cause of the wreck cannot be more great railroad enterprises. At learned now, but li i understood that the time of hia death, ia addition to the operator in craige of the block the Southern, he waa president and dioffice at Rangoon, t mr miles north uf rector in the Alabama Great Southern the scene, allowed the Atlanta train Railway, the Cincinnati. New Orleans to enter the block before he had been A Pacific Railway of Georgia, the Chigiven a clear iraik from the next cago. Milwaukee A 8t. Paul Railroad block station at Lawyer depot, five company and other corporation. Mr. Spencer a as president of the miles heiow. Why the operator allowed the train to pass his block la not Baltimore A Ohio railroad company in knnwa and will hardly be known by 1887 and 1888 and later waa appointed the railway company before an ofll-ci- receiver fur the Richmond A Danville Railroad company and for the East investigation can be had. Number 33. the Jacksonville train, Tennessee. Virginia A Georgia ratlway came to a slop at the crest of one of cumpany. He wa a member of the the heaviest grades on the road be- Rapid Transit Com mlsat on of this tween Lynchburg and Danville, if city from 1891 to 1894. Mr. Spencer waa born in Columbus, the Dales had come together a mile in the further south it is believed that hard- Ga., in 1847,of and waa educated Georgia and the Univerly a person on either tralu would have University come out of the wreck alive, lloth sity of Virginia. In 1872 he married train were running late. On ac- Louisa Vivian Benning at Columbus, count of the heavy equipment of the Ga. rear train it wa not making great TWO MEN MISSING. speed, some of the passenger thinkcould ing that the speed sot have Washington. Nov. 29. Two men are been more than thirty or forty mile wrack at Lawan hour. Ten minutes later the misting in the southern D. Fisher of 0111 A Charles yerspeed would have been upwards of merchants of Fisher, commissioner sixty mile an hour. Train No. 13. v hlch waa struck, waa Baltimore, and A. M. Redmond, also of Baltimore. composed of a mail car, combination The car next ahead uf Mr. Bpcitcer t baggage and passenger coach, two Pullmans and President Spencer's car. private car. a Pullman sleeper, was The rear sleeper, to which the pri- destroyed by fire, but all the passenvate coach was attached was wrecked ger escaped. wa destination Mr. Spencers but It was not burned. The regular Friendship, N. C.. where he was going day coach and the forward Pullman on a hunting trip. were practically uninjured, but the The seriously Injured are: combination coitch, second from the Samuel Cox negro porter in Mr. engine, waa crushed. It wee here that all the negroes among the wounded Speurer's car. William Pollard, negro porter in Mr. were hurt. They were unable to extricate themselves from the baggage Spencer's car. Gllland Thomas, negro of train crew. hurled upon them and many would All of the above were in Mr. Spenhave died but for the rescue work led-bcers car. Mr. Curtis. Four negro paaxengers in the forAn effort waa made shortly after noon to learn the name of the opera- ward end of the train were seriously tor in charge of the block station at injured. Rangoon, but he had been relieved OFFICIAL CONFIRMATION. and no oue baa been found who knows the name uf the man who lives, it ia Knoxville, Tenn., Nov. 29. An offisaid, in the immediate vicinity of the cial report given out by General Sulittle block office. perintendent Richey, of the Southern The seriously injured include: of PresiWillis J. Winston, New York; lug Roll way, confirms the report dent Spencer's death in a Southern badly broken. J. W. Shaw, Spencer, N. C.; badly Railway accident this morning. The report say a: crushed and both leg broken. President Samuel Spencer, of the Gttrland Thomas, Greensboro, N. C.; Southern Railway. Philip Schuyler of broken bruised. and badly leg directP, R. Vauls, Weluaburo, Vw.; badly Baltimore, a Southern Railway or, and Operator Davla of Washington broken up and bruised. eleven Cura Logan, Shelby, N. C.; both lega were killed in an accident miles from Lynchburg this morning. broken. B. Fisher and a Mr. Redmond Pollock, New York OHy; badly Charles are mlaulng. Car No. Baltimore of arms both scalded, leg broken, broken; 100, which was President Spencer's condition. hopeless Bam Coi, Washington, D. C.; leg private coach, a sleeper on No. 33 and a dub car on No. 37 were destroyed. broken. Mr. Merrill, private secretary to PresiAll of these are negroes: Mr. Curtis, the Jamentown. N. Y., dent Spencer, was slightly injured. was caused by passenger man, who led the rescue work, in talk- The accident , train No. 83, stopping ti ing to the representative of the repair a knuckle. The operator north Press, said: It appeared to me that the passen- gave first No. 37 a clear block and it 38. of ger who were uninjured were daied ran into the rear No. and they did not appear to realise that PROMINENT IN BALTIMORE. something must lie done. I talked to them and they began to work. Yon D. Nor. 29. Charles Baltimi'i'e, never saw men work harder in your Fisher, reported missing in the Southlife. "In the rear of the Pullman which ern Railway wreck at Lawyers, Vs., is wa smashed there wa mother with one of the foremost citizens of Baltia six months old babe. They were in more. lie was one of the founders of Fish a drawing room which had been the grain exporting firm of Gill A Intersmashed, but strange tu say they were er and had extensive bnnluess nut hurt in the slightest. They were ns ts in the South. He was one of party. gotten out and taken to safety. I President Spencer's The Mr. Redmond referred to in the think there were at ledrt five bodies, being missincluding Mr. Scantier' that were cre- Knoxville despsteh, also mated. A far as I know, the traiu ing. probably is Frank T. Redwood, of attaches did not aid In the first relief the brokerage firm of Lowone A Redbecause they had gone both way to wood. He left here on the wrecked protect the two trains from other and train last night for North Carolina on a hunting expedition. more aerlmiK trouble. Mr. Curtis has in hia possession a CHINESE STUDENTS. valuable case of jewel which was handed to him by a lady. He doe not know to whom It belongs and why Why They Are Required to Take LongIt wa handed him. It evidently 1 er Courses. the property of someone of means as it contains a heavy set diamond ring Washington, Nov. 29. Sir Chen and oilier Jewels of value. Tung I.iang Cheng, the Chinese minisFront the reports. It appears that ter, says there is much misunderstandtho passenger killed outright were ing about the action of China in limmen a woman-t- he and ids iting the number of young Chinese latter believed to lie a negro. Those student who are tn go into Japan to killed were President Spencer. D. W. complete their education. There are DavK Philip Schuyler of New York, about 12.000 Chinese student in and of those perhaps 8.000 are Engineer Teny and F. T. Redwood and C. D. Fisher, of Baltimore. Chinese young men who have been r the wounded Sinee the arrival highly educated in their home and are negro pahM'iigers in the ouy, lucrelia In Japan to study for a few month Allen f Danville died on ihe operatpreparatory to becoming teacher In China. Tiie miniter say this system ing tulile i. the city hospital. V- Ltavl ha uf having young men take such a brief County Coroner J. of course In Japan ha not been satisgone lo the wreck for the piirpoc holding on Impiest. factory eft hi r to the Chinese or Japanese. The universities In Japan 1I1 not rare to hare men take brief GENERAL SCHUYLER'S RECORD. and then pose as haring been prepare, I He Was On of the Moat Prominent eaporiaily for some line of work of which ihe institution made a special-tv- . Men in the Railroad World. Neither did this sort of prep ration prove satisfactory to the Chinese. New Yoik, Nov. 29 Philip Schuyler was a iru'm'ier of one of the oldea Consequent the Chinese government au.l best known New York fHluflie. has decided to forbid provinces sendof General Sehtivler ing young men for surh short course being a grun-hioand 'will trust, that three or four fame and w of re.volutlonai graduated from Cue Harvard Scientific vear courses lie taken by student g, and the i nlverrity ,.f Berlin ing to the Japanese schools. The Chinese minister atiarhes no ant errved with illMlnciion with the ai:i! of the Ittomac daring the Civil importance whatever to reports from the Orient ilial China is abunl to loy-eoWar. He lived nt Ardaley on the and was a director of the New Japan se goods and expressed ihe York Life Insurance A Trust compnny oplnUm that this rumor miv have risen out of the mlnundrestanillng of ihe of tlii eii.v. Mr. Spencer's railroad career had a Chinese government's action concernhumble begin nine. When he left ing its students going to Japan. it. the I'nlverelty of Virginia In ISM. after takit'g a nu'.rse in civil engineerMOLINEUX IN PRISON. ing. he eniered the employ of the Sa-a:r. ill ft Memphis railroad and wax There for a Few Minutes Just to Say to woik as a rodman with a Hallo. In the succeeding crew. lie tu worked three New York, Xuv. 29. Roland P. giaduaily up :. the position "f principal assistant enFiirpried the officer at the 187 In of he the rood. heranc; Tomb hv dropping in ;esterday for a gineer c'l-rof the little visit. He had nd been there in is th" superintendent New Southern railway and a inirre than ten yenis. and it was Ills secyear later r.qie assistant supervisor ond virit to the prison after being acof Mains for the tlrsl division of il:i quitted for the murder cf Mrs. Adam. Baltimore ft Ohio railioa.l. In 1H.'7 Just dropped in to see Dr. Sandern iiM'rintenden: of he lxrHU-.son. ihe prif.in chanialn. he saM, "a Mid lain U: the Virginia fra ml f mine. railroad n.l a year later was made He sIhmiU hi.uJ.t with Warden Flynn railam! sevem'. of the keepers, with a'l of superintende:.) of ihe l.ng Island of anetlier tear founi whom he hs-- been o favorite during road The him sesi'aT n the presiden- of tire Ms long Inca -- rerat Ion in the prio;i. & Ohio. n(.V year later lie Hal'inur.-wa Hril'.r general luanagor of the asre roa tud in tiie n'Xt six years O o . hecan.e s -- e!vpl.v third vice O FOOTBALL SCORES. O seiirtv iiee president anil fvst O o :' He wa elected pres- O vice score: O Uhihididphia Final re O Cornell, ident of :he en ire ay stem in n. O ii; Uennsvlvani XI taiiiina tV.s piMtlen foe ene year. V O Toledo Toledo High- - O Tew inut-this retirement form O scl.ml. r.ii; Central High O .i'c p!.r i 'e: uf the B.ilD'.nerr' ft 0,..i. 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