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Show UTAH WEATHER ADVS&THE FORECAST SHSrwSSSs COUNTY ! OU" SUBSCRIP-t.o- . 0N IV NO. BOOARE VOL INDICATIONS THERE J AND TO OGDEN 1 FOUR MILLIONS Pekin, Dec. 2!. When a Crash Comes the Factories Close, the Payroll Ceases and Those Least Responsible Feel the Saddest Effects. CITY, STARVING. Owing to excessive rains sad consequent failure of the crops, the famme In the north of Anhui province, in the eaat uf Honan, and In the whole north of Klangeu la worse than at any time during the last forty years, it Is estimated that four Tens millioa persons aer starving. of thouaandi are utterly destitute aud wandering over the country. The danger la increased by the activity of the secret societies, as the waaderers are gladly joining them in order to About so.und refugees obtain rice. hare reached the vicinity of Manklng in a pitiable condition. The authorities are unable to cope with the situation. $625,-000,0- 0, is national bask depositaries aa compared with $06,000,000 a year ago, an increase of $94,OQO,000 and the total cash in the general fund 1 $366,000,000, an against a year ago. Against this cash then are liabilities at the present time $11,000,000 greater than at the same time last year. The available rash balance has increased during tBb year $!01,0u0,o00. With the general tund ntandlng at $237,000,000, Secretary Shaw remarks that the bonds maturing July 1. 1907, can he paid. If it shall be deemed wise, and still I cave a working balance of more than $120,000,000. Benda Could Bo Raid Now. If the own era would accept the money, he says, the bonds could be paid now, but he doubts whether any considerable number of the holders would accept payment at this time, because they are of the class who care little for leas than1 certainty A security and exemption from taxa$159,-000,90- 0, $242,-000,0- - tion. During the last twelve months, the secretary continue, the money In act. nal circulation, exclusive of Ihe amount In the treasury valuta has Increased more than $200,000,000. Of this Increase $145,000,000 la available bank reserve and $60,000,0010 In In national bank circulation. "This," lie aayc, "seems to be a complete answer to the oft repeated and criticism that the Independent treaIn sury system necessarily result contraction when money la needed." He maintain, therefore, that the worldexisting money stringency, wide In Its extent, Is tracable In no respect and In no degree to the Independent treasury system of the Unlb 8tate. Cause of Shortage. . He say the manifest and admitted shortage has been caused by the unprecedented prosperity In this country and reasonable prosperity everywhere. The people of the United States, he declares, consume per capita more food, more- clothes, more- of everything than any other people in the world, and when prosperous they Import very largely. This, he asserts, naturally encourages Industry everywhere and unusual business activity calls for an unusual amount of actual money and of credits baaed on actual money. Aa to the currency system reform suggested. Secretary Shaw aaya that hit judgment It permits adequate expansion, but that its weakness la 11 failure to produce contraction. The valunie of money, he contends, does nt respond to the volume of our business. The annual Increase, h "dds, may be sufficient, but there la no annual contraction during the dull summer month. Only the unthinking and ill advised, he aaya, charge the admitted atringency solely or largely to stock and bonds In specula-iion- . In Speculation at Tide. Just now speculationHigh In real estate la at high tide, and the opinion la expressed that very likely as much money la tied up In options and s in real estate aa in options and margin on stocks and bonds. la Idle to complain of the he continues. After the spirit of speculation la among us, and, iihe the irl:U habit, those most addicted are frequently the loudest In denunciation. It 111 becomes the mar-Pnr.- 1 real estate speculator to decry every manifest ilon of desire to rich Vil-- k. The epithet black gt bandied ft ween pot and kettle Is ever In-J1" anw now It la eVen entertaining. The effect of the present car ehort-lif- i market la also V. thpJ to. The secretary saa: ar,?er cr,'U cf cotton than usual , .'1 -.t Tleid of cereai. IIV,!,;;t filled !irt,eery other ronzel-te' verflr.wpg every ra'lroai. A few year, a,o j ages T ; r" uf the countrJr vp-day- - but- - ow;n8 to n,i con,mi ermina facilities nJ been well mads they have only to refuse additional accommoiiat.una and await results. If a crash should come from whatsoever cause, factories wilt close their doors, the weekly payroll will cease and the people least responsible. for conditions will be the ones on whom this lesson of will fall with saddest effect" Where Respeneibility Rests. In conclusion," Oeeeetary- - Shaw aaya: la urged against the present policy thut It places too much power and authority in one man. It does not place power or authority with one man. The reaimnaibillty rest with A financial adan administration. ministration. For year the name of a very worthy president, a man with high ideal and lofty patriutiem waa well nigh a reproach because hi administration waa accompanied with widespread financial disaster, if an administration la to be held reappnxi-bl- e for the financial health of the people, the medicine chest and the surgeon kit should not be sunk in the sea. "All authority la subject to abuse. No voice was raised against the rate bill because one man, through an interstate commerce commission, removable at pleasure and appointive in vacation at will, fixes arbitrarily if he subject to as yet undetermined Jurisdiction by the courts, the freight rate of every product of It la nreaumed 80,000,000 people. yea, it Is known that n president responsible not to himself hut to the party that has made him, will so acquit himself if within hi power, n to vindicate the choice of that party and of the people who elected him. Admittedly our present monetary system la defective,bis but the assubstituted sumption that one can that will be perfect la somewhat self-relian- It pli-ase- MINE OPERATORS NOW and the carnival merrily. Aa midnight approached the merrymakers congregated near Trinity church, where as 12 oclock rang out, n mighty shout welcomed 1907. This waa followed by "The Red, White and Blue," "Liberty," "Long, Long Ago," "Suwanee River," "Home, Sweet Home" aud other airs, while the listening thousands waved hats sticks and umbrellas lu Joyful abandonment . Throughout the city other chimes rang out the old and rang in the new. The celebrations In the cafes surpassed all previous carnivals of Jollity in New Yorjt. THREE MILLION GIVEN B1 JrilN LOCKLFELLER Goldfield, Xev., Dec. 31. After a conference lasting nine hours, between the committee of five, representing the miner and operators, the following proposition for a settlement on the part of the owners was drafted, to be submitted to n vote of tbe union miner in mas meeting: "Tbe mines and mllla of the Goldfield district will be opened and operation resumed on tbe old wage $4.00 per day for all scale, ordinary work under dry conditions, and all surface work; $4.50 per day for sinking and raising; 60 cents additional to the above scale for machine work under wet conditions; $5.00 per day for nil skilled labor. The mine and mill operators ngree to pay, voluntarily 60 cents additional per ahlft to the class of labor heretofore receiving 94.00 In the mines and mills; this raise to continue In force until such time as a general store, which la to be established Jointly by tbe operators and miners, shall be able to furnish to the community provisions and domestic supplies at a profit of not more than 10 per cent over nil costa. "Realizing the abnormal condition existing in G'ldfield at the present time, the mine operators hereby further agree to relieve the situation by with the Miners union in tbe establishment of a general etc re and tJ this end have already subscribed $2a.0'JO as evidence of good faith. Tot- - operators, who recognize the of Miners as' the 'Vrt aik organ! rat) un ruling the mim-r- . acceptance of their proposition and in securing relief pledge by the lerlslature from railroad They also propose that the to-wl- -u yei-ircii-- JANUARY MORNING, 1, BE SNOW TUESDAY; PRICE FIVE CENTS 1907 Is and up and down Alain street f tbe swinging signs that mark r roc big gambling hall a ceaseless I FOR COMING YEAR tide of humauit) is flowing. All day and all night they have been wandet-- ' mg front place to place, moved by tbe t ee a vague uiirt-- , ibar alwys stir the public un the eve of say great event, Proposition to fihif$ Taxation to Shoulders of Wealthy. j Around the shaded light that hang allow the gaming tables, dense rings Paris. Dec. 31. The writers who re- of men are packed, shifting and view the event of tbe ear and in- changing always, but always a crowd, dulge in forecasts of the future unite silent, watchful. Intent on the whirl in anticipation that )07 will witness ing of ib- - white ball about the many, wheel, or the rattle and fall in roK-rethe most important i be continuation of tbe green clad cirtle struggle which uf the dli e iu tbe lalik-s-. The spirit of unthe French democracj is waging of the ery where. At tbe tables, a again!! the old regitm. Tbe end of rest i clericalism, with the --epsraiiun of man spends a dollar ur two, but soon church ainl state, accomplished he moves away, while another spectafact aud no longer an Issue, although tor with ebaiice takes bis place. Over iu the big arena tbe light echoes of tills coufiict probably will for a long rime to come, aud have been going ever since uarkneas the eztreme socialists are anxious to fell and here Manager Mike Riley, Ihe man who brought the fight to press the war sgsinat capitalism la-i- l Toncpah, la working harder than any by M. Junes, the alia of the socialist is distinctly the expropriation uf prop, man In bis employ. Coat off and hat Baltimore, Deo. 21. Later In the erty, but no one imagines that there cast aside, Kiley la everywhere, ad- day Superintendent Calloway gave out will be a regime of pun- socialism in vising, directing and generally over- a utatenieut In which he declared (hat seeing while the last rough corners lie wa not France, at least before mauy years. to make a posiur taken off, the last touches put to tive atatemeatprepared In regard to the responBask What Is Attainabla. ' the monster building. sibility. but that bad there been proper a The Clemenceau cabinet draw But there la one plare where there the sharp line at what ia attainable. Prem- Ik no great excitement thoNgh much observanceufof the rules gorerning the manual tdock system, ier Clemenceau has abandoned many interest. In Riley's office in the ('- - i operation w4th which that port to f the road la of the old Ideas for the regeneration shut, the of the whole equipped, the accident would not have of the state on ihe socialistic basis affair, all headquarters sizes and klnda of sport occurred. After reciting the known which he formerly eatertalned. and lovers have gathered. Iu that crowdnow stands firmly for Individualism, ed there are men whose names have facte about the disaster, Mr. Galloway " tempered by every measure possible been flung over the wire In all direc- continued: "The entire metropolitan branch la for the amelioration of the condition tions with the whole sporting world of the workingman. on ihe great events with operated under the absolute block stand committed waiting The cabinet which they faav been connected. B.vtem. Under thle system, when a to supplement tbe weekly real day There are seated men urh aa Jim passenger train hi on the unction of law and the employers' liability act, Jeffries, heavyweight rhamplon of track between two block stations, no passed In 1906, writ h an eight hour la- the world. Jimmy Britt, the pride of other train of any class la the eame bor law, old age peualmia, the gradual San Francisco, Philadelphia Jack direction 1 penal I ted to enter that purchase of railroads by the qtate and O'Brien, and a dozen other great men block under any circumstances until the psaenger has passed beyond the of the heaviest burdens of the the tran-f- er ring. Ia the midst alia Jack of taxation on the rich by the imposi- Welsh, the mat who will referee the block In advance, and the operator tion of Income a ad inheritance taxes, great fight tomorrow. All about Emi has report of such clearance. On thle and aa a result even government are some of the moat noted spurting section of the rood this applied to bond, in which Freneh saving are writers in the world, and on every freight trains, too. This extraordinary precaution was deemed desirable largely invested, are threatened. chair and table a typewriter atanJa, on account of the grade and to insure Taxation of the' Wcolthy. the sign manual of the press. Outside the office the Casino build- the eame safety In the movement of The proposal to shift the taxation freight traina as was mode for passento the shoulders of the wealthy ing Is parked to the doors, aa each ger trains, and ban been followed for in tho member select Inof assemblage with the great classes, coupled several years. At the time of the crease in taxation ueceassry to meet the inner offlre forced bl wsy through the passenger train hod paused the cost of new legislation In the In- to the door of the Holy of Holies, hla Silver Spring station and out of the a to of the nante crowd, as leaped lips terests of the working classes, such block at nest Takonta. and won enrbeera. These by ringing old age pensions, has created much following titled to the block between Takogin pub-li- e men to heroes the are sporting nervousness, and In spite of tbif fact and mnlghi they are second only and University, the next block. The that the French financial situation I train, with engine 21M, paused the principals in tbe coming battle extra exceptionally strong, that the Bank tu Sliver Spring at 6:2k and should have of France la bursting with gold, and in Importance. Since the last walk in the fresh air been held at Takoma until the peathat all Industries at active, rente afternoon the fight era have re- se tiger train had passed out of the this In and there 3 1900, over fell points invisible. Id front of tVe block at Unlveralty. Tbe operator at mained. seekIs n steady migration of capital Takoma .statea that file signal waa In conla vest quurters the crowds have passed and its normal menu There ing foreign In position, properly dteplay-lngth- e the and t r and again again, passed siderable money going quietly Into or "atop' signal, at the red In the of sounded have cheers praise American and ether foreign securltime ih train with engine 2120 passed, who tomorrow. meet ties, and many French families are ring gladiators ' hie block station. The operator's statebreaking Of tomorrow systematically getting rid of ihelr aunWith ihe wiU see the greatest day ment that hie light were burning and Timopgi,, and ..Investing hi , Mgmml properly wHephuted 4 In Income properties In Bwiiaerlaud in her history. TU fight, nas made corroborated by Policeman Kennedy of world of bub tbe the the sporting city and Belgium. the Jay the wire will the District of Columbia, who woe at all and through Abolition ef Death Penalty. be humming with messages outward Takoma station when the train passed, The abolition of ihe death penalty, bound. It la a great time in Nevada, end by the companys flagman nt Hint point. Engineer Hlidebrandt of engine already an accomplished fact in prac- and Nevadans appreciate the fact. 2120 slates that tlirre was no block tice, undoubtedly will be enacted into signal displayed at Takoma, and that law during the coming year, and the FUTURE AMERICAN. while It waa foggy he hod reduced abolition of courts martial, a natural Spring corollary of the Dreyfus case, also ia a Ract Improving and Longevity In-- his speed after passing Silver to each an extent that he was able to part of the government program. ia reAmong Americana, creasing see the signal mast at Takoma and la The foreign position of France a emphatic that no signal of any kind New York, Dec. 31. Various garded as having been greatly of the American Section for was displayed thereupoa. None of the strengthened by the events of the laat to the Advancement of Science were In train arew of engine 2130 had given vain effort Germany' year. shake the alliance of the republic session at Columbia university again any stale men to os to the position of the signal, claiming that on account of and the satisfactory termination of the today. Rni-dathe fog they could not see R. If, aa the leave be conference will the The American future of Algeclras stated by the engineer, no signal was l, and the British ententes aa the keytaller man, stronger, more stone of foreign policy. more humanitarian and will displayed at Takoma, It waa hit duty methods live longer than the American today, to stop and ascertain tbe reason thereGen. Plcquart'a energetic have Injected new life into the army, ia the opinion of Dr. McGee, one of for, but In the nbaence of official inand ihe dominant political element the doctors of the 8t. lamia museum. vestigation 1 am prepared to make a consider to be assured that period of This opinion was expressed by Dr. positive statement In regard to tho reOfficial investigation pewce which they regard aa neleseary McGee In a paper entitled The Am- sponsibility. to for the realization of social reform. erican of Tomorrow,'' which waa read will be promptly nude, properly The only cloud on the hsrizon la A hefore the anthropological section of place tbe responsibility. All parties At tbe present time," connected with the movement of these meeting. possible unfavorable development in Morocco, which may draw France Into ' Ktd jjrm McGee In support of Ida con- - two tralne'and with tho operation of have lung and efficient recan extended campaign In Africa. tentlun, every babe born lives on an the block been regarded by the average of 29 years. Half a century ords, and have management me thoroughly competent ago the average life was 27 years, men. BOXING CONTESF and a hundred years back, the span of life waa 24 to 25 years, thus show- Grave in Magnitude. FRENCH FORECAST ndi-- r 1 THE TRAIN DISASTER s Engineer Hildebrand and Operator Philips Are Held as Prisoners Superintendent Galloway Holds Them Responsible cr-.it- - iu - to-la- nt FtoBch-MtitrA.ld- rd H ace-Ilon- This Gift Relies Hla Contribution te Fourteen Million for Chicago University. n Chicago, Dee. 31 A New Years gift of nearly $3,0(10,000 waa presentid by John D. Roc befell ur to the University of Chicago today. It la the largest contribution of Mr. Rockefeller to the lnatltutiqg and brings bis total benefactions tn the university up Announcement uf the to $14,200,823. latest donation waa contained in a letter from John D. Rockefelle, Jr., to acting President Harry Pratt Jud-aoThe largest portion of the New Year's gift ls to go to the permanent endowment fund of the university and for this purpose securities with a market value of $2,700,000 are provided. The remainder of the gift, $317,000, la to make up the year' deficit, to pro vlJe for an Increase In the salaries of Instructors, and to allow appropriation for various purposes. The $2,700,000 addition to the endowment brings this fund to Air. Rockefeller's provision for an annual increase of $40,000 in tbe salof lnatructors enables tbe trustees to proceed along more liberal lines. This latest gift of Mr. Rockefeller follows the visit made to New York a few weeks ago by acting President Judaon, President Martin A. Rycrson and Treasurer C. I Hutchinson of the board of trustees and Business Manager Wallace Heckman, when they went over the budget with Mr. Rockefeller. PROPOSE COMPROMISE aries Miners Consider the Proposition Scarcely in Accordance With Their Demand. TUESDAY UTAH, I no factory sidings, they now average Washington, Dec. 81. "There anxl-t- y only 25 miles a day. This delayed i Our only alarm. oocnsion for freight is owned by some oae, and need be leat we fall in facilities propand eoineoae's money is thna tied up. erly to (iruer. store, tranaport Let Impossible. market our multiplied bleaatnga. every man be rf good cheer and try Cooperaiiun between the commer- NEW YORK PEOPLE exto be conservative in everything cial banka of the country, the secrecept thankfulness." tary aaya, to be Impossible because a WELCOME NEW YEAR Secretary Shaw thus conelutlee Sherman anti trust law forbid 1L the resume of the years financial record "Instead, he aaya, "we have apwhich ho aav hae been prepared In proximately institutions en2(1,000 In In commercial banking, each n Merrymakers Assembled Near Trinity response to multiplied requests. gaged place the receipts law unto Itself as long as It does not round number he Church and Walt the Ringing Out of the Old Year, for the calendar- year 1I0C at violate statutory requirements with at and the expenditure to Investments sad reserve. respect over exceaa of receipts or an As natural and unavoidable result expenditures of 859,000.000. Aa there no combined effort la made in midNew York, Jan. 1. The passing of laws has been no change In the tariff summer to provide ample reserve for of the law relating to Internal reve- the strain Inevitable on the return the old year and the adveni of the new were observed here in the good, nue, Secretary Shaw says the largo of buxine activity Incident to the old fusil toned way. Increase la receipt la due solely to fall and winter months. Under our were filled, the The playhouse the extraordinary trad activity. The present system the only possible concafes crowded; upand down Broadway 1900, for however, tout expenditure, the the and traction summer, during as compared with 1905, he saya, rhowa only possible provision for the fall, moved a noiav, happy throng, while above the deafening din pealed tho a decrease of only $5,000,000. la effected by the secretary of the chime iroin Trinity and less historic Eanka Shew Surplus. detreasury withdrawing government under which congregations gave spires, these banka at the gov- posits from the when Diacnastng the finances n occasion the significance. ernment for the nix months of .the funds are not. needed and restoring Rain, which religious had fallen steadily present flaral year' Just closed, the them to the channels nf trade ea the throughout the day, let up aa evening secretary says the buoks of the trea- need of business require. By keep- advanced, and the crowds that had sury show a surplus receipts over ing a taut rein wild speculation may made New Year's memorable appearexpenditures of $85,000,000, as com- be prevented and in more instances ed on the streets blowing horns, ringpared with a deficit of $5,000,000 for n resultant crash averted." bells and showering confetti over the corresponding months of the previUnfortunately, the banks are not ing all. The police made a faint show of nor in cash sufferers fiscal The the the principal ous fte year. only the exuberance of the treasury is $190,000,000, as compared fnm contagious' financial diseases restraining but the good nature of the Inwith $171,900,000 a year ago, an Generally they are able to protect before It, crease of $19,000,000. The cash in themselves, for If their loans have crowd carried everything .went on fri. WILL COLDER THAT WEDNESDAY FAIR. Miners' union, aa an organisat.ou or ! 50 ! aa indivldeuls, shall own at per cent uf the proposed mercantile The miner consider establishment. the proposition a scarcely In accord ance with their druaud for $5 daily wage schedule, but admit that i; is the first practical step toward a ed ARE GUGGENHEIM FOR SENATOR. To Succeed Thomas Patterson Election AaourocL His Denver, Colo.. Dec. 31. Simon Guggenheim's selection as United States senator to succeed Thomas Patterson Is assured by the action of the Republican members of the general aasembly ln caucus this afternoon. Mr. Guggenheim candidacy waa endorsed by n vote of 68 to 1. Seventy of the 100 members of tbe legislature are Republicans, and nil but one of them participated In the caucus. Mr. Guggenheim is 39 years of age, and la a ion of the late Meyer Guggenheim of New York. He is a very wealthy man and is a member of the executive committee of the American Smelting and Refining company. In an Interview today Mr. Guggenheim said: 4 "If 1 go to the senate It will not be o represent the smelting company or any other company or any interest. i will go a Simon Guggenheim, plain citizen, to represent the people of Colorado. An honorable ambition Is permitted to every ntan, even to the wea.tblest, anl 11 is m.v ambition to serve my country. "When 1 wa a younger man f had the ambition to make myself independent. I have done that. I wanted Independence that I might go Into politics with free hand. Why shouldn't an independent man serve his country with all his wealth and all hla heart as well as Intell-lectus- AT TONOPAH TODAY f : Herman Enter the Ring With Gana, i.... Ti.i, i 31. New Tcnopah, Nev., Dec. Years day la Just a night away and excitement la running high In Totto-patonight. Everything la in readiness for tbe limit that may shift the much disputed championship of the lightweight class to other ahmt'dera than of Jnaephua Gant. Tbe doughty colored la.l who captured them from last Battling Nelson In Goldfield September after one of the greatest ring fights that sportdom baa ever known. Kid Herman, the man who will enter the ring with the doughty colored lad tomorrow. Is a man made of real fighting stuff. For seven years the II t tie Chicagoan ha struggled toward the time that tomorrow marks in hi history. the great.match of his life; to try for the championship. "Kid Herman, as he is known to the sporting world, or Herman as he was bom. la a great llttln man. Win or lose tomorrow, he will go down In ring history a one of the have pluckiest of the plucky bind whoAmerig a favorite made d in reach, can sport. in experience, and handicapped in every possible way, Her man knows nothing of fear or doubt of the outcome on the morrow. T ntght, ere he retired to rest, he held an informal levy at bis training quar tent and the Kid was the least excllrd man there. Cool, calm and modes!. ia only too eager for the gong sound and tbe battle to start In which It Is hla purpose to show the world that Gan has met hls master. Over at the Gans camp, all I dark and quiet. The champion, too. I tak- Ing hls rest. The veteran of ring battles without number. I not given to His fretting on the eve of a fight.finishes worry Is all done vhen he hla training. It la safe to gamble that Joe Gun does not even divam of the fight that la to come tomorrow. He ha wori.ed as he found It heal to work for a fight. He lisa trained as It has ever been hla custom to (rain, and the rest will he settled tomorrow. The town is throng'd with fight h -- prize-fightin- Over-matche- d Jn Dr McGW- th oplnJoB D., nocaefeili-- r la typical of the Am- erlcan of tomorrow. Heacrilmd Mr Rockefeller as tbe Incarnation of concentrated effort, and declared that from an anthropological point of view he undoubtedly represented the coming American. He considered Air. Rockefeller's great wealth as only Incidental and said that, whatever line of business Mr. Rockefeller bad chosen, he would have taken first rank. Dr. Charles H. Hswe told of the ancient Cretans, and among other things said he found a atone gambling that table In Crete with a "layout' looked not unlike a modem roulette wheel. W. A. Orton of the department of agriculture, before the botanical section, said that department waa about to begin a plant disease survey of the United State. It Is to include talls- ttc, chewing losses by tho prevalence 8 peak,nd. spread, of plant diseases. ing to the botany section, H. 8. Reed also of the department of agriculture, advanced a theory concerning the for-mkm of fairy rings." He said hla experiments showed that In the course of Its growth a plant gives forth an excretion which poison the soil about the plant agalmit the growth of plants of the eame kind. The continued growth of one plant in a place caused these fairy rings, the speaker said. PETR0VEN8KY RELEASED. . 31. Vlacheslar San Francisco, Petrovesky, lieutenant colonel In the Russian army, who was denied a landing here on account of alleged urchiatic tendencies, has been success-t- o fui in hi appeal to the department g 0f commerce and labor. The ration commissioner received from Oscar Rtrau. secretary of commerce mi) labor, a. telegram authorizing the Di-c- imml-sportin- " BaltiWashington, Dec. 31,--Tbe more ft Ohio wreck at Terra Cotta last night grows In magnitude an the hour pss. The most conservative estimate of the dead tonight is 63, with three score of Injured In the hosor at their homes Buffering pital from wounds and fractures sustained collision which In the rear-en-d demolished the two day conches and the smoker atiachrd to the local Fredrick, Md., express No. 66. Several of the most seriously In Jilted are exported tn die during the night, and tbe death list may fel reach sixty or more. Heart-rendinand pitiful were the scene at the city morgue today, where hundreds of persona have flocked to assist the police In (he Identification of the dead. Women, girls and even men with iron nerves shrieked, sobbed and fainted as their relatives or friends were found among corpses strewn about the thirty-twthe floor. Coffins, whicker basket sad winding sheets were fonnd on all aides. Officials of Ihe Baltimore ft Ohio railroad are conducting an Investigation of the wreck In Baltimore for the purpose of placing the responsibility for the terrible disaster. Gen. Snpt. Todd exonerated Milton W. Phillips, the telegraph operator at the Takoma block station, the last signal station that the equipment train passed before crashing into the pasThe Terra Cotta. senger train Superintendent declared that Phillips when be was obeying Instruction went home at 6- 30 o'clock, leaving the double green" signal burning. While making no positive charge. Superintendent Todd intimated that the burden of tbe blame would fall upon the engineer and crew of the extra. The five member of the crew who were i treated shortly after the accident are now 'being held to await the result of the official Investigation. They are Harry Hllderbsnd. engineer; Ira C. McClelland, fireman; Frank F. Hoffmeyer, conductor; Ralph Rutler, brakeman, and Wm, A. Norris, baggage master. Engineer Behind Bara. Gazing vacantly between the iron bars of hla cell at the police station. Engineer Hildebrand la too full uf emotion to make any definite statement. "It will all come out at the investigation," he sold. "I don't be- cbm-pleiel- y g o n lleve there ia anything for me to say, and I could aut toy It If there waa. Before he waa arrested the eagi- - . neer made a atatemeat to the Associated Press lu which he declared that If the danger signal light was. dis- - i played at Tacoma he failed to itee it oa account of the dense fog. Milton W. Phillips, the operator, who ht held a prisoner at the Tenth precinct, said today that the equipment train ran poet hls danger signal at a speed of from fifty to sixty miles aa hour. He eays there woe a heavy fog. but not enough to hide a r red light He dnclaredthat be nrtlflMthe operator at Unlveralty stotlooqhtf tho train had taken the hloak again org. den. Hla statement lajpi by the Unlveralty static when shown the mere San J. T. Kennedy, Tacoma mar the atoPark, will testify that nal light In IU proper place, and that Hildebrand drew peat the elgnaL Fred at Toooma, gatekeeper Ijemkum, niokee a similar statement, C. W. Calloway, general superintend- -' est ef the A AO. railroad, exonerated the company from all blame and pat the responsibility upon the engineer of the equipment train or the operator at Tacoma block. "If the 4 coroner's Jury falls to hold the engineer or tho block operator," ho sold, "we shall art consider the matter settled. We shall go to the bottom of the wreak. This horrible accident should have been avoided. Someone la responsible and we Intend to leave no atone unturned aetll the reapoeslblllty hag . .. been fixed." , Bpeelel Inveatigetleo. i Chairman Knapp of the luteretots comma oe OMnnriestan tonight sail to tha Associated free that (he comml' alow today emlderod tho advtmblHly ! ef making a special JwroeUr-to- n, the ranees of ihe wrack. has been reached aa to wken this - UwbM' veatfigatlon will be mad : J. T. Kelley, trainmaster of the to--. Bal- timore $ Ohio for this division, la la Washington to make further ItratA gailo into the cane ef Che wreck. Hp declared that to locate the roepooettdl- -, lty for the disaster at thle time woe aa ntter Impossibility. ' "The polios have all of the treiimaa locked up," he explained, "aad matll we eon get at thorn, gak questions and compare atari, It will te Impoeeible to determine anything" A e manifestation ef sorrow aad sympathy tor all afflicted by the Bun-da- y night disaster at Terra Cotta, commissioner today ordered ' that flag on all public building In the district he displayed at half most ; until after the funerals of the vtetlms. The Woehlngtaa stock exchange, ,tn view of the terrible calamity," as a mark of respect held no erosion today.'. The funeral of many of the victims who resided la Washington and out- -' urfa will be held tomorrow. Tho bodice of the others will he forwarded to their homes by the B. A O. officials. Tho railroad company la sparing no enpeneo la providing for ail tho injured at the hospital ther-dlalri- GANS AND HERMAN . NOV ENTER THE RING Fw Sporting Men on Ground ef Battle Destined to Lose Money. Pro-mete- Tonopah, Nev.. Dec. 31. Joe Gaaa, llghiwelKh champion of the world, and Herman Langfield, 1 letter known in the ring as Kid Herman of Chicago, meet here tomorrow hefore the Casino Athletic club for the champion-hi- p title. The contest will begin at 3 o'clock. Pacific time, it may be stated positively that both fighter will be at the weight tomorrow. That the promoter of tbe lightweight battle will Incur a financial los Is a foregone conclusion, and advance soles have fallen below All calculations. But few sporting men of national reputation are here, and betting has been almost stagnant Cans la practically a prohibitive favorite. The ruling odds are 10 to 4. with very little Herman money la sight. The fighters will weigh la at 1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, and the articles call for 133 pounds. Straight Marquis of Queeashery roles will govern the contest. This will permit fighting in the clinches as long a one or the other ha one arm free. Jack Welch of Soa Francisco will be the referee. The fight will be for a 920,000 puree, 60 per cent to the winner and 40 per cent to the bout loser. There will be a preliminary between Lew Ptoweli and Adam Ryan of Chicago. tee-rou- oooooooooooooooo MEN BLOWN TO PIECES. EH Paso, Texas., Dec. SI. Three men were blown to and three mortally piece wounded by ihe explosion near Parrel, Chihuahua, Mexico, yesterday of two boxes of Tbe six men were at work in an excavation when the explosion occurred. It la not known what caused It. o o o o o o o o o o o o o OOCOOGOOOOO a |