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Ml fni PENNSYLVANIA YARDS AT CRESTLINE NEARLY DESTROYED BY AN EXPLOSION A Car Load of Dynamite Blown Up and Scene of Frightful Disaster Ensues. OLD PIONEER PASSES AWAY MRS. KATHERINE BAILEY DIES OF HER INFIRMITIES. Force of Concussion Felt Fifty Miles Away Employes Searching for Possible Dead. CKKHTMNK.

Nov 1 Two car I oat I of dynamite In tlio western end of tho Pennsylvania railroad yards at Creslllno exploded last night as tho result of Jolting Into other cars, blow Ing a holo forty feet deep Into tho ground, twisting tho tracks out of shape for a distance of 500 feet, manning glass for a rnllo, shall or Ing walls, toppling roofs, nicking many persons to seasickness and sotting Are to 200 loaded and oinpty cars. Tho tloa crash oil tlirough roofs, whllo tho brands not flro to strings of cars. Tho exphmtc'ii occurred alxmt two in Pes otitsldo Crestline, and, save Jolts ami bruises, no ono. It In believed, was bc veroly hurt, alt hough search Is being made by the police for possible vlolhns. It will be many hours before the tracks ran be cleared Nearly 500 cars are wrecked and Is not known whether there were auy fatalities.

Tho property toss will amount to many thousands of dollars Tho con en us Ion was felt several miles away and tho report of tho ex plosion reached fifty miles from CroHtllno Church congregations were thrown Into consternation Heveral buildings wero wrecked. Several per sons say that the vibration duo to the explosion caused them to experience nausea and vertigo People rushed from churches and "homes to ascertain the cause of tho shock. Yard master Courtier and Clerk Oelslngnr, who were at work In the yard office, half a mile away, were severely hurt by tho falling debris In tho building In which they wero working Hundreds of Pennsylvania employes are at work searching tho ruins for ioHnrMo dead or Injured. The west yards of tho road aro a complete wreck Many cars were Bhlvored by the blast locomotives a rnllo from the explosion wero thrown from tlio rails In tho downtown portion of Crest lino Micro Is not a building that has not suffered damage. Many persons who we on tho stroots wero cut and otherwlHo hurt by flying glass and hundreds of worn on were frlghtcnod Into hysterics.

All tho physicians wero kept busy during tho night administering sedatives. Tlio streets were filled for several Iioiire hy people who wero afraid to go home Stdowalks and roadways were littered with shattered glass The mayor has sworn In extra policemen to guard exposed property All tho churches wero holding services when tho explosion occur rod. Doors were blown off and windows smashed In many of tho buildings. The flames from tho burning cars produced a spectacle that drew tho attention of many for a kng time. All the switching crows of tho Pennsylvania yard havo been accountod for.

Mansfield hoard tho report of tho explosion and sent fire apparatus by special train shortly after learning of tho flro. The main tracks are pllod ten fort high with dirt, bent rails, car "trucks and other railroad machinery. Was Eighty Four Years of Age and Resided Near Monroevllle Over Sixty Years William Hammey's Demise. Mrs Kathcrlno I la I ley, widow of Na than Id Hal ley, and one of tho Itest nown and most highly resected of the pioneers of Allen tounty, diod Hat unlay afternoon about I o'clock, at her homo near Monroevllle Her death was due to tho Infirmities Incident to ono of her great age Sho was eighty four years old Mrs Hatley was born In Ashland county, Ohio, in 1819, and in 1810, with her husband, she moved to Allen county and settled on tho homestead where she resided for over sixty years and until her dath Mr llalley died several years ago Mrs llalley was the mother of nine children, Tour of whom aro living Tho latter aro Isaac llalley, an cmployo of tho Pennsylvania shops hero, Albert and 1ouIfl, who reside near Decatur, and Mrs. James Tilbury, whoso homo Is at Ash ton, 111 Tho funeral will be held Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock at Clark's chapel and Interment will be In the Clark's Chapel cemetery.

Hammey. William Hammey, an em ploy at Plckard Ilros bardwaro house, died early Sunday morning at his home, 918 University street, of appendicitis Mr Ilammey was thirty six years of ago and leaves a wife and little daughter Ills father, three brothers, and ono sister reside at Ohio He wias a member of tho Ancient Order of United Workmen aad of the Trlbo I Arrangements for the funeral will not be mado until relatives at a dls tance can be communicated with Funeral Announcements. Foley Funeral Horvlces or Timothy Foley will be held this morning at 9 30 from tho residence, 436 Dawuon street, and at 10 o'clock from 81 PatrUk's Catholic church Oragg Funeral services of Robert Valentino Cragg will oo held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock from tho resl denco 504 Wallace street The will havo charge of tho burial PASSENGERS WERE BADLY SHAKEN UP HELP SENT FROM FORT WAYNE. Local Workmen Needed to Rebuild Tracks Detalle Received Here. Whon Iho first news of tho torrible catastrophe reached Port Wajrno the local ofllolals, althoiiRh the sceno of tho disaster waa beyond their Juris itTctloii, mado arrangements to send all tho help asked for ly Mr Whiter, Iho train master at Crosllliio Threo car loads of rails and more filled with ties wero mado up Into a.

train and sent to Crestline. All tho Boctlonmen residing on the oast end went to the damaced yards on the Bret extra to assist In the work ot reliving the do llWl" CaatlaiMd, oa rage Three.) Two 8treet Cars Collided Sunday on qputh Calhoun Street. Street car tfo 128, north bound, ran Into bar No 124 on Calhoun street Holiday morning about 10 o'clock aad tho puswngors on both cars received a Hcvcro shaking up, although no In Juries remitted Tho car ahead. No 121, had stopped Just south of tho Wabash tracks, waiting for tho cross Ing RatoH to bo raised, when the second car, without warning, crashed Into It People lu tho Boats wero thrown forward and several passengers stand Ing on tho platforms lost tholr hats. Tho fender of Lho rear car was badly bent Superintendent of Police flora line was a passonger on onoof tho cars.

Conductor C. C. losswurra and Mo torman Parker wero In charge of car No. 128 and Conductor Karl Rode hcavcr and Motorman Staploton formed tho crew of No. 124.

FRIGHTENED TO DEATH BY HALLOWE'EN REVELERS. (Spnclal to the Joumal Qasette M0NCIK. Ind, Nov. 1 To tho actions of Hallowe'en revolors bent on celebrating before the night for tholr revelries hax) arrived, may be attributed tlio doath, Indlroctly, of Mrs Ellon Smith, widow of the lato Rev. Ilenja mln Smith, who dlod unoxpoctedly at her homo, 302 Wost Adams stroet, this morning Sho was as well as usual until last night when children began making noisos about her home and throwing articles upon tho porch This brought on a nervous attack and convulsions of an eplleptold naturo which resulted In hor death.

CHEMICAL COMPANY WA8 CALLED OUT. A flue slopikHl up caused smoke to pour out Into tho rooms over tho Homo billiard hall yesterday afternoon. It was thought a Ore was In progress and a still alarm was turned In The chemical company responded and the causa was discovered by the Ore ladle. No damage wa dono. Kt? HER WISH IS HER NEED.

The rapid development of the ouUMrte makes later street car service desirable. HOLOCAUST OF New York Fire Cost Twenty five Lives. AWFUL SACRIFICE IN THE BURNING OF THE "HOUSE OF ALL NATIONS" TENEMENT. The Blaze Interrupted Hallowe'en Festivities and the Inmates Were Trapped Dead Bodies Choked the Windows and Penned in tho Living Heroic Work of Firemen. NKJW ORK, Nov 1 Twenty one men, three women and a ba by wero burned to doath or suffocated In a flro this morning that caused $7,000 damage to the "Houao All Nations." a flVo story tenement houao at 42f Eleventh avenue.

Tho pollco believe tlio Are to I of Incendiary origin. The dead aro mostly Italians The fl re" waa extinguished In twenty minutes The only person Injured Is Mary Jane Qulnn, who was burned about the face and hands and severely bruised by leaping from the second floor. In several apartments in tho teiio ment Hallowe'en part lea wero in prog ross and tho guests at thoso added greatly to tho number of persons In tho house and mado tho crush and Jam to escape, more than It ordinarily would havo been Although plentifully provided with lire oscapos, front ami rear, escape was tut off a few mln utes after tho flro started by the bodies of tho dead which Itecamo wedged In tho openings leading to the ladders. Tho flro started In tho baso mont, rushing upward, attacked the et air way leading to tho apart ments. In a "abort space of time the flames enveloped the stairway The houeo, from tho third to the fifth floor, was destroyed.

At tho windows, front and rear, bodies of men and women wore Jam med, showing that a desperato strug glo to scape had rosulted In the choking oJlheso exits to tho flro escapes and had boon tho causo of suf focatlon. When tho firemen roachod the building (here wa inas of flame bursting through tho roof, while the air waa filled with tlio screams of women and tho curses of men Many daring rescues wero mado by the firemen. wto at times had to use violence ''in their attempts to dlsentagle tho mani of writhing human strugKllDg In vain to roach safety from tho crowded flro chcbimw. Ono fireman climbed to a fourth floor, where a win dow was filled with a mass of people. jammed In and flKhtlug to get out He struck the lioads of all the men he could see with his flst and thoy foil back.

He then handed down to tho firemen on ladders below Ihroo women and a baby Another fl reman per formed a simitar foat and rescued two girls from tho fourth floor l.lfo nets plajrod a prominent In the work of rescue The dromon dropped pien and women, dead and alive, from one floor to another, and finally the men standing on ladders oa the first floor let them fall Into tho nets held by policemen and firemen in ttf street. 4 8TRIKE MAY STOP WORLD'S FAIR WORK. BT IXMJI8, Hot. 1 IXssatis faction that has) Won urowlnt; for 4 soino time past between two 4 lalior unions tfqay culmlnato 4 morrow in a ginoral strike that 4 4 will tlo up workj at tho loulslana 4 4' I'urchauo (rrouiulH 4 4 The trouble ex)(a between tho 4 4 numbers' unlonVend the tftuam 4 41 flUors' union, atKl the bono of 4 4 contention Is the) work of pipiiiK 4 4 the cascade. TbarplumberN are 4 4 now engaged oil tills work, and 4 4 the stoamflUer insist that tho 4 plumbers be ordAHM to reaso and 4 4 the steamflttonil lifl permitted to 4 rompleto tbw'arorkx hitter has 4 grown tho coolentlon that the 4 stoamlUler deehjrr that unions 4 4 this transfer of Ijrprl Ing forces Is 4 made bjr to moVfoir noon they will walls eot.

thy sn barked by the llullcllnB Trades count II, which says that the 4 4 stilke of Iho Htcaraflttors will be 4 aiiRinpnted by tho calling out of 4 all lalHir iiniouH employed on the 4 4 grounds 4, 4 MANY PROBLEMS BEFORE CONGRESS MR. ROBINSON TALKS OF THE OUTLOQK, Twelfth District Congressman Will Leave for Washington To morrow Evening Hie Views on Pending and Future Legislation. CHINA APPEALS AGAINST RUSSIA Furore Over Re Occupation of Mukden. THE CZAR'S TROOP8 DROVE OUT THE CHINESE OARRI80N AND BARRED THE GATES. China Striving to Keep Peace, but Foreign Office Admits Its Help leasness Application Made to the Ministers of the Foreign Powers at Pekln.

Congressman and Mrs. Itoh In son will leave to morrow ovenln for Washington, in order to attend tho special session which will begin next week In speaking of tho matters to bo" considered by engross, Mr Hohln son br Id. I am not a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but I havo gotho opinion gleaned along the lino of congressional work and am willing to abldo the evontH of time for their accuracy The first session of tho Fifty eighth congresH will bo signalized by eomo marked foat res, I believe. Joseph Can nun, of Illinois, tho speaker to be, Is a unlquo character, and at once ono of the foremost men In public llfo. Ho ha maintained this position for many terms In congress Years back, with the changos In the political 'cast In the houso, Canndti alternated with Wm H.

Hoi man, "watch dog of the treasury," the chairmanship of the great apro prlatlon committee, He ranks with Hoi man as an economist. Ono incident Is told to show that ho waa not quite as economical an Holman. It was an occasion when they, with other mem btrs of the Indian committeo, took a tour of tho west Can mm suggostcd that hey take a train to a certain point, but Holman wanted to go hy teams, as the lumper. It Is said that Cannon paid tho drlvor to run over all the stones and stumps on the highway Not accredited with a largo amount of book lore, he has an inexhaustible fund of practical knowledge, acquired In his sixteen terms of service In the houso. and In jmrllameutary resource and congressional generalship ho ha but few equals ami no superior In lule years but Tims, it I teed.

Mr, Cannon by hla aturdy character, long experience and the logic of evental easily swept aside all competitors, and long before the last congress ended he dhMimM uHrSsia 't .1 Z. ifv T'Altt fttltetri ft! Tttafaw VfttPaaaa 1 nj a IMOKIN, Nov 1 The Chinese gov ern ment is great ly distiirlted at the reocc upatlon of Mukden, the capital of Manchuria, by Kiislan troops Tho foreign olnco Is apiwallng to friendly foreign legations for help and advleo admitting Its own helpleasnoHg In tho matter. The rtnsHiaiiB returned to Mukden on Thursday of last week According to advices received by the ChlncHO government, 1 500 Russian soldiers took possession of tho official build Irks there, bar leaded tho gates and evicted the Chlneso officers. There, nro between 10 000 and 20000 Ohlnene IroopH In and abiHit Mukden, but lho Chinese commanders In Manchuria havo been given Imperative orders In no we to rtHitd, tho Itiisalau govern ment ami lo hho eve ry effort to averl rollltiioiis Tho ir umstaui oh leaillng to lho reocciipathui of Mukden aro as follows The Hubs Inn a employed a brigand who waa accused of crluioH against the Chinese, as chief of ono of tho irregular bands of ppllco thoy aro organlting In Manchuria '1 ho Chlneso authorities! repeatedly requested thefturrendor of this man and the Russians recently consented to Kivo him up Thereupon, a Chlneso officer decapitated then brigand without giving 111 iu a trial. When thla bo came known the Russians demanded tho execution of this officer within flvo days, giving as an alternative the solzuro of Mukden.

Tho Chinese for elgn office was negotiating with Paul Jjossar, the Itiistdan mln Ih tor, on the mat tor, and offered to banlah tho officer In question, pleading that ho had exceeded Ms Instructions, and to remove the taolai, his superior, from fll e. There was a misunderstanding to the time llmH set for the negotiations ho Chlneso thought It expired yesterday Hcforo tho negotla lions were completed tho news was re cc Ived hero that Russia had fulfilled her threat to reoccupy Mukden. noted many ALEXEFF MOVES. TKKIN, Nov Tho fact that Viceroy AlexIfT lias renHved l.ls hctnd quarters from Port Arthur to Vladlvu Block has catiHxd great aurprlso hi Pekln It Ih generally conjectured that he was unwilling to risk tho passing of tho winter at a port wh'ch thf) Japanese undonbtedly would nWke a strenuous attempt to blockade fn tho event of war, thereby preventing the viceroy from communicating With his oTcrnment. VATICAN BUILDINGS PARTIALLY BURNED AND DAMAGE IS GREAT v.

rtU 11 i ri V.i WOMAN'S PRANK ENDS FATALLY HALLOWE'EN FROLIC IS TURNED INTO TRAGEDY. Police Chief Killed and Race War Threatened because Officer Struck Ogre la in Act of Overturning Lumber. CHICU.O, Nov I 'lho celebration of Hallowe'en whs rortiMiiHlhlj Urr the killing of tho chief police of Morgan Park and a threatened race war early to day It was only after a desperate struggle between tho police and an armed mo4 of enraged whites that a double lynching was prevented A woman's Hallowe'en prank started the trouble, which ended In tlio killing of George A Alrlu, chief of police of Park, hy Mack Wiley, a young negro Mrs James Payne, who is a sister of Wiley, and threo friend staited out for a lark, and while they wero overturning a lumlKr pile, it is said, the woman was struck by Chlof of Police Alrlo The negroes went for nmtnMUm mnA Mftmnt In th. Vatt A can no lives were lost rco.iaoa or frd tlm dHiiiairi ran vet he ohtaJned. Tha TV Ikm biiiu to tho scene In porson aaq i remained until the arrangements tQV A '3 fltfhi' 111., fl imt ait fa iikmi)dkfcdu1 laVfl The fire caused much excitement la vM Home Flro In a building In whlch'O jj are nwny treasures brought out i.umler of anxknis ieople In aplte frfo5, re enforcements, and on tholr return a second meeting with Alrlo resulted in a fight lu which ho was stabbed lithe nock by Wiloy Tho news cd the tragedy spread through tlio suburb, und sunn a crowd of half a hundred an en and boys to tho Morgan lark where four of the negroes had been locked up While Iho plate was sur rounded by a mob clamoring; for ven gcanco, mveral sliotguns being In ovl dence in the crowd, Wiley and his companions wero placed Itotween a mimlxT of policemen who had been su mcMied from Harvey and other tear by soburlm and a dash vma madw for a earrlago that had been ttont f'H Respite tho threats of tho officers that any Interference by tho crowd meant umlaut death, the enraged vll lageTS, who by this time bad secured a rope, rushed ou tho prlttoiiera A fierce fight followed In which the no groes wero sev rely cut and bruJHcd with slicks ahd stones.

Iut tlio officers Anally managed to get tho negroes In tho carriage and drovo off under a shower of bricks, stones and other missiles. Tho prisoners wero taken to Khtglowood jail, where todav Wiloy confessed to having killed Alrlo FUNERAL PARTY STRUCK BY TRAIN Four Killed and Corpae Torn From Coffin. CHARLOTTE, Nov Four persons were killed and a corpse was lorn from Its coffin today by a locomotive of a south iMHind passenger train on the Hcnithern railway near Concord The lnd JOHN KRY IIUNJAMIN I.IPPIT HAJNIKI. WKAVFHt MISS TOWI4SKNIV Tho persons wero killed In a wagon with tho corpse of Mrs Kalo Txtwls and were on their way to a graveyard ENGINEER KILLED WHEN TRAIN LEFT TRACK. OA I'M POMS, Nov.

I A Ka nawha 'Michigan passenger train waa wrecked this morning at Rod House, Va, Tho engineer dls covered a burning trestel, and putting on all steam, got his train safely across, but the boat had caused the rails to spread and tho locomotive, bag go go car and smoker turned over on their sides, together with a chair car ou the roar of tho train Tho en glneer, William Tourney, of Charles ton. was killed and John linker White suffered a broken Ick and threo rllis fractured Nearly every passenger on tho train was bruised Wrecking trains and physic fans were at once sent to tho wreck from (Jul Hindis and Charleston and Iho Injured ones were car mI for and the derailed cars placed on the track CHICAGO FEDERATION FAVORS SYMPATHETIC STRIKE8. CIIICAC.O. Nov I Tho Chicago Federation' of letter lvlay declared In favor of tho sympathetic strike as a basic print I pie of Irade unionism, and the local delegate to tho convention of the American Federation of Iabor In Boston next week waa Instructed to exert every effort to have tha national body adopt a similar reso lution. i Vi 3i Fire Starts in the Hall ol .1 of Inscription and Threat I ened Priceless Ait Gallery.

is (: Pope Pius Remained on the Scene Till Danger Was Over Italian Authorities Under Papal Boot. a 4 i ii 4 IIOMH, Nov 1 Fire tonight at lakel Uiat portion tA tho Vatican con taining lh hal of inscriptions, where i inu imm kivus nis auuionces '411 which is adjacent to the gallery of, JV il tl i iiAd Tit alaiwimai aakiaaadl vuiJ1s ii a ri mi in. iiu uaiutai vaumra atniVM jiff rJU i a heavy rain Tho gendarmaa lrok iitoi; ioiii 1 iiv ftciiuaii uivo viav tj into tho apartment 01 Marie, a ref '1 storor of manuscripts and found hm Vfjfl a iHwvy sleep it la supposed ho retired and forgot to take propeTr VJ precatillona with his kltdlienr flrftfp i'y which probably blazed up and IgnltMy i sortie hangings The entire paiaco awoke to inatant ill vLuyiuti viiirna ins nanii nra. Vjif'M men gendarmes, nlosts and domestlca all rushed hither and thither In Ign6r "lm ant ccmflislou, asking what was matter Pope Piua on the Scene. 1 1 if j.

News nf tlin fire was imraoOlltelr ronvC'yod to (ho popo. who was founds? hiiii'Iiiik in his rnapoi lor rus usuiii cvoninff prayor He Insistod on goln at onco to tho Bccno, notwithstandlnS tho fart Hi at ho was begged to think first of his own safotr. Ho proceeded. to tho llhrary, accompanied by Monslf nor Merry Dol VaUtbe papal secretary of stato, Monsignor Blsletl, the papal matonkiniti. and Mniuilmor Dellaehlaa ami followed by the members ot lie nohlo Riiard attached to Us person, TIia mikmonl Iia nrrlvnil his mjnil l.

KiaKMl tlio gravity of the ''yft nfl 1 nr.lnpnil lliaif tia flvnltlAn 9 1 iiM nun si(j iiiiii 111 mat uiuuivu ra. la Rome bn railed. i Whnn IISa ano lnMi fuaafan Wirlr ftilAA rooms had already been destroyed! jrK tnn names, wnicn were exienuing ho the other apartments. Tho iope wrth drew as soon as ho saw that overy XH thing posulblo was being done to fight', jf thn fire civil Authorities in tha Vatican, inn iiiniiiiii ii iwu wui mwr fc Ian authorities, wlo fiurrlexl to 8W Peter's Thoy wore courteously vited to outer and did so. TherefoVbJ for tho first timo since, tho fall of the.

temMral power of tha Vatican, tho. mayor of Rom, the irefect, police offt ,4 "il elals and even Slgnor Itonchettl. thw nowlr mi lrftlnt cil nitnlfltnr rf timtlvi. i 71 entered tho Vatican In tholr win lies iney gave orders airocv vl inir tho work of romttattlna the flimti i and partli Ipated personally in tav 't A. Tho museum of Inscriptions, tao hm roonui of Father IShrle, part of the II 1 brary and the printing houses uiniuint nil waior, unwrv ariicivi "nu oit'u, imiuuiuR mnuu uitaa, jj.

huu ruiuauit) armiy wnicn were nxxravt' Iv lTMkved to the lllrrarr room frmnt tha "ita IVrgla aivurlment In order to'toake'' rtMm for tho now residence of tha impel secretary of state. Many thragu 'r4 that eacapcMl tho flames were Injured vale library of I'ope Ixt 1 fttM fti ncrunmfxiiurt UAT OBSERVED BY LUTHERANS Reformation day was observed )a" ffi I 1 I kiBii shiia rihACl rtf lha sltw aa terclay with appmprlate services ami a tho sliielng of (he great hymn. "Kin'1 Keste Burg 1st Ifnsor doU," opened; Iha'C iiinmia oi uunurecis ot uovoui, aUmasr Df A1 na ...111. Ik UA Yi nun, nuu iaiiS ii.ii tut) iurirr i Jl'Wll ago i nero wero special services 1 Sn all tho churches of the denomination r. i a.

Mr Magner. a motorman la tha' M'i'J nAtei rnv LV.lf, service of the Fort Wayne Traction Asvmnn avlll 1ai a tfv 6vo, vm vvuu jrpvawvw i ittj i Aid a Oi'l VW5 iifiifc fe2.