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buglrie! not ajfAv JVIr. navmg nslocp. I had noticed a nasty smell in the houso, but'dia not give It much tentlon, I suppose the sulphur fumes lulled me into unconsciousness. I old not, know anything mare until I had 'rom'lJ'o'cfooFuritli daylight tSe "tel phono at Police Headquarters did no have an Idle second, From every ter of the town came complaints abou the smell. People wanted know wha "been dragged out on the porch by H.

CAMILLA THE. (Continued from Flrnt Pace.) Fordham, my partner. He had' come to the house to see If we were all right. "I was In a complete daze. I was Opera Writes" of fist blow in the face.

choking and strangling and my hands must have been hard, for the sound of it particle of feeling In them. They were ap numb as a dead man's, Is like the sound of a My throat 'was swollen and the Veins That la a deadly Insult. Why will not stood out big and hard. The doctor tore the young man avenge It? What? It is my shirt open and applied the usual the rule not to strike a blow when the Thousand in Mad Smith Overcome While at WoVk on Her Bridal Dress: NARROW ESCAPES FROM DEATH Collapsed in a Barber's Shaved Men Ran from Almost Suffocated in Bed. IGIRI CLUBMEN AND PARTIES DISPERSED has a population of thousand of these had jSeadaches and something more yester- liaay.

Hundreds of them turned faint at sight of food, others could not speak had their voices alto. brains of all were befogged. few persons walked In an uncer- ttatn Complaints of numbness, bones and choking sensations purifier! It was the third one and the last through which the gas passes before being pumped Into the "It seems that the oxide caught flre. How I do not know, but probably by spontaneous combustion. It was heavily charged with eulphur, and the heat would oattsa it to Ignite.

"We did hot discover it was afire until noon to-day, we overhauled the whole plant to find out what was the SOME OF THE VICTIMS OF IMPURE GAS Overcome while making her bridal dress. the police were going to do to reliev the cliy. The Sergeant told every one to shu off the gas, open doors and'Windows and if they were afraid to go to slcei again to git up and wait for sunrise Some of the most active complainant demanded that the police send a squat of'men over to the pas company am shut off tne gas. Why this was no dona'v)Il bo told further on. Chief Foley Collnnned.

By 9 o'clock In many places where thi MS was burning there was a greenish blue haze. This was what frightened th, i-eepers more than the terrillo stenck. ut the last places to close was the jarber shop of Adolph Schmidt on South fourth avenue. There were a dozen men Jiere who wanted to be shaved. The barbers could work only very slowly.

One of the waiting men was Chief of Police Jeremiah C. Foley. he collapsed In his chair and frlenda dragged him out on the sidewalk, whero ie revived-in a few minutes. Just be- ore that, a man who.was being shaved lad a violent attack of nausea. He nought he was dying and rushed up he street with one half of his face haved and the other covered with ather.

The saloons also had to olose about he same time. Patrick Bredt's. Jacob lehuermann's and Jacob and Henry JJowe's jewelry store and Mathew Duke's olgar shop, all on Mt. Veron avenue, closed within a Cew minutes one another. Dinner Party Broken tip.

Dr. E. 'D. Costales, wfho lives in South 'hlrd avenue, near Second street, was entertaining the Golden -Rod Council o-f ie Royal Arcanum at his home. There were twenty-five members present nid an elaborate supper had been prepared.

his was'to have been eaten at st o'oiooK. efore that time the smell had become nsufferable. One after the uests excused themselvee and left for heir homes. 'None of them cared to tell ie doctor that they didn't fancy the imell In his, Before 11 o'clock ie doctor had been called to attend six them professionally. Each was euf- treatment.

He said that I showed every symptom of gas asphyxiation and that I would never come so near death again until I actually cross the river. 'Mv wife was also affected, but not BO seriously as myself. H. Bangs, wlio boards In my house, was also Over come. I feel to-day as Jf I were drug- Bred." He looked It, too.

Girl Sicken at Relicarial. The Snow Drops Is an association'of young women of the city's smart sot, and in Mount Vernon's chief delight. one is supposed to know who the members aie, but this ie merely a do- ightful little mystery wWcb is no mya- ery at all. A few months ago the Snow Drops gave a. minstrel show.

They blacked heir faces ana wore very short dresses. Of course they made a'tremendous sen- ation. Friday night they, had a rehearsal''of nother mlnstrelvshow, which 0 give on Thanksgiving night. It took lace In the Catholic Lyceum. Four gas toves heated the hall.

The thirty young ladles got along -fa- tiously early in the evening. Then they egan to grow faint in small squads. 'irst one window was opened and then nother. Finally all the windows were pened, and then the doors were opened, oo. But the stench gained on the fresh Ir.

The interlocutor couldn't talk, and ie responses of; tne. end girls'were very- inch up. At 9 o'clock they all decided to go ome, ana. yesterday every the iris was In the''doctor's hands. Chnrcb Cuke Sale Postponed.

The English Church, In ridge street had'a cake sale about the ame time. Every tentiihlne he congregation had made a cake, and urthermo-re had-lnduced one tor more of- er.men friends to come and buyit. There ere 250 people In the' church when the gas began to make Itself Every WHICH POISONED ALL OF MOUNT VERNON. Chief Foley carried out of a barber shop. go numerous that no one to the'mr -Tto-'day in many of the churches the will refer to a Providence which watched over the community Fd, day night and Saturday morning.

That the city was not blotted out of ''existence can be attributed only to a PoUoned toy M. no hundred and seventy thousand eet of poisonous gas was pumped Into houses and stores between 5 P. M. and 6 M. Saturday.

The gas i'lf was heavily charged with sulphur and ammonia. The fumes of these poisons ywere, Inhaled by 80 percent, of the peo- SSjjle of the A of hundred had escape from deatfc by asphyxi- i i There is but one gas company in Mount Jt is the Bastchester Gas Light kA' Company, and its plant is located on South "Eighth "avenue, between Fourth and Fifth streets. Mount Vernon. In addition to supplytog gas fro Mount Vernon It has mains running to PelhamvUle, where it or fifty houses. Pel.

i rough time of It Friday HJi too; but that was a comparatively 'V," small matter. Less than one-fifth of ttye residences and buildings in Mount non by electricity. 1 the Friday morning" there was an accident to thf engine connected with the 'generator. It repaired and the Manufacture of tne gas continued, the plant Is WO feet. Tho-consumption of gas In the i city 270,000 feet every twenty- ij, lour'hours.

TheseJlgures were given a reporter last "evening by i'- of'the gas company, important, as several hundred 1 may be entered superintendent, the city yesterday- that the accident to the com- in the manufacture came on the that they could aind that" unless were done the 1 be'ieft To avoid gas the mains and distributed city. i tue Story. ot. G.erould said last.nlgiht tha.t this matter last night. We did not examine this particular purifier until tae last, as we supposed the trouble coulo hot be there, because it -was a new machine.

Of course, with the oxide afire, the purifier did not perform Its work and the gas was distributed without being thoroughly refined. We made the necessary repairs at once and to-night are sending out a good quality of gas. "Did not the accident to the generator's engine cause you to run behind?" "Oh; that was a small matter was speedily adjurted." "Iss 1 1 it'possible that the men in charge last nlgnt saw that they couldn't meet the demand and out gas before it had passed through the final process?" "No." The accident happened as I explained It." All a Mutate, Sold Altken. Assistant Superintendent Benjamin Altken of the gas company was reported have said to friend early in the day: "The storage capacity of the jlan't is not great enough. When the broke down we.

had to send out the gas in an Impure state." Mr. Altken was present when The World reporter talked with When asked If he had made the statement just quoted he said: "I don't think so. No, I know-that I did not. I had nothing to do with the manufacturing department, so how could I talk about I was either misunderstood or the man who told you about it lied." much for the causes accident. -Now for the story of what'it did.

-f A Terrible Nlarlit. When the gas jets were first lighted, about 5 P. M. Friday, unusual was noticed. This was explained by the fact ihat there was some good gag In the pipes over from the' previous flay.

There was.JStlso a small quantity in the tanks. ijy o'clpckimost of tbls was consumed. Then In every one of the 2,600 or 3,000 houses-where gas is used a peculiar a'ior 'It was extremely faint at first, and grew stronger very It wad 8 o'clock before any one thought of examining Into, the cause of the'smell. Most people attributed It to some fault In the furnace or stove and took the usual precautions against an Influx of coal of- the Mount Vernonites went to bed. At "9 o'clock' the 'smell had bpcpme overpowering.

In every, the'tdor was that which emanates trom twenty; or of burning-iul- erlng from Incipient 'asphyxiation. Testerday the supper was still In the doctor's house. The Chester Hill Club Is the fash- onable club of Mt. Vernon. Its mem- lers are largely composed of well-to-do few Tcrk business men.

It has a flne louse on Chester Hill, the aristocratic residential section of city. Clnlt Smoker Stopped. Friday night the club gave a smoker, and between forty and fifty members lad gathered to have a good time. Before 8 o'clock the odor was strong. "Smoke up, boys," said the President, it's nothing, and we''ll soon drown it out." But the smell Increased, and the men 'ere soon coughing and sneezing.

"Let's have a drink all around, anov see what that will do," advised thef President, The appearance of the drinks caused half of the smokers to make for the of the piazza. They were victims of general nausea with which two- thirds the residents of the town were suffering. The other half of the smokerg went out on the piazza too. Inside of half an hour the sulphurous fumes had be- com'e so strong that they were driven off the porch on to the lawn. A few of the hardiest finished the smoker there, but most of the members went to their homes, where thev spent the rpsf the night nursing their families (Uifl running for the doctor and to the drug manner of ventilation was resorted to without result, and before 9 o'clock the, cake sale was declared to be postponed Indefinitely.

Mayor Edwin' W. FIske. of the city, had a narrow escape. He-lives on South Ninth avenue, near Second street. He awoke up choking.

He had left one gas HIs wita He threw up jet burning In his room, aroused him. at 12 o'clock. Nnrroirly Encapca Death. the worst sufferers In the Chester Hill'-district was Miss Mamie Carley, city, who wafi visiting the family Maurice Sullivan In Prospect avenue. Miss Carley retired early, leaving' a eaa stove burning in her-bedroom, as the night was chilly.

At 10.30'o'clock Mr. Sullivan decided that he had better wake everyone In the hoyse. Miss Carley was unconscious. Medical aid was summoned It was an hour before the doctor succeeded In reviving her. Then It was rpund that her voice was seriously affected.

She was scarcely able to utter a sound yesterday. The doctor said that 11 the girt toad Inbaled jioleoaous fumes for another half hour she would have been dead. Overcome fVliIIe Making Her Wed. ding: DreNK. One of the pathetic Incidents of the night occurred In the home o-f Dr.

T. F. Goodwin; who lives 'on avenue. Dr. South sisteriln-law, Miss Lily Smith, 1 ves uvu 1 Miss Smith (8 to be married next month.

About 8 o'clock went upstairs to her room, saying that, she wanted to do gome sat'In a-rosker with o'clock became" alarmed nit ran lOSR-SlPo open every 'door and window in house. The children of the family were not seriously affected, as they had' retired early In the evening and no light had been left burning In their room. Other Ex-Judge William H. Bard was overcome In his house Adams street, as were also his wife and children. He extinguished all the gas jets In the house and sat up for the rest of the night.

Miss Lenora Carlisle, a daughter'of Dr: S. B. Carlisle, who lives on South Fifth avenue, was-Just recovering from a severe attack of penumonia. She had been sick a month. She Inhaled a quantity of the poisonous gas, and it Is feared that it may cause a dangerous relapse.

Dr. Archibald T. Fanning, the city's Coroner, said: "I noticed the smell early In the even- Ing. It gave me and my family severe headaches and a feeling of nausea. -I shut off all the gas, sent out for candles and sat up the rest of the night.

I was afraid to go to sleep, as I did not tmost what might happen during the nlght. 1 'No official complaint was made to the gas company yesterday. The city's health officer, Dr. Eugene Smith; said that he did not have flo anything. He made, a friendly, call on Supt.

Gerould, not an official according to'the expressed himself as being well satisfied with the company's statement. Dr. Smith Is the Mavor's brother-in-law. The Common Council has Its next meeting on Nov. 29.

Several 'citizens said, yesterday they would see that the, matter Is called to the attention of that body. Yesterday all the street'lampajln the city were kept burning throughout tyhe day to exhaust of Impure gas. Last night the gas working all right. If in the bull, ring, yes, or in any other place in my country onq man shall strike another in tile the" blow must be -avenged at once. No Rules for Avenging; Inmult.

There Is no nils about that except when you have been hit you shall take out your knife and kill the man who strikes your This game would not do for a Spanish country. The stricken man would go for his revenge, then every one would jump Into the ring, the knives would fly and there would be much damage! The two armies are in line again. 1 cannot see the ball, it flies so fast. There, I see it now. It is too the way they all run and Jump on one man because'he Is going with the ball In his hands.

They have caught him! Down ho falls! Now they are all jumping and rolling on'hlm. He must be very strong not to die of this! The men who have been jumping and rolling do not get up yery quickly. I do not see how they get up at all. Therfe Is a man with blood on his face! suppose somebody has stepped on it While he was In that heap. Never have I seen a 'man bleeding In the bull ring.

Men have been killed there, yes; but never are they thrown. and trampled on by or anl- nials. Two Snorts Compared. Suppose a man should fall while the is after him, the capeador runs' up and draws away. tha' bull', by waving his ca'pe.

Then the man can get up in safety. It the bull Is after me too hard I Jump over the fence. It is all right. There is none of this knocking down and jumpkig on I do not think this can be a good sport for any man. When the run around the ring five or six minutes he Is tired, so tired that they have to wave the capes at him and throw the bandarillas Into him rouse him and make him again, is almost used up.

Yet these young are running as hard as can go and every minute they are being knocked down trampled upon fiercely. I flo not see how they live. They must be half dead. the matador is trying to Mil the bull there are two ca.pea- dors behind him, so that if- he should miss they con save him, by waving ihelr capes and drawing away the Rune to Save' There te no one 'here to save these men. They must all fall and be rolled There, is another crush! 'See, there! Two of the young men cannot get up.

No, not dead; they are rolling in agony. They do that in order to gain time, they tell me, so as to get their breath again. Well, they must have been badly knocked a'round if the breath has been squeezed out of their bodies. Think twelve men, each weighing I an can easily get Ws neck suth a sport''as thla. A-twist how- a brolxen in a.

of 'the head or a carelsas motion ol tne arms or legs before the heap falls on him would cause a man to suffer 'a broken neck or broken bones. i Two "Savage" Plays. Did you see that? There is 'a Tale man jabbing with his heel at a Princeton man's foot. That is savage! Oh, I would not like to see any man try that in a bull-ring! He wouid Be killed at once! How can the Americans call this a "game" in which one man tries to Jab Tils heel Into another man's foot? That The men are suffering much, now that me second hatt of the game has begun. Every time the two armies run together and fall In a heap one or two Princeton men are left lying on the ground when the heap arises.

See! there a Princeton man rolling in fogony. He is unconscious. I saw the knee of a Tale man strike him In the stomach. That is- what hurt out. Now see him double up his legs and squirm aa he begins to regain consciousness IB he not suffering? Are Killed ttnlckly.

Do you know what happens to the bull when the metad-br lias stabbed him with the sword? The bull lies there in agony for onlv one second. The puntil- lero runs up and stabs 'him right back of the head with la puntllla, a small, flat knife. This the spinal coM and '-kills him at There is no wrlthins in aconv. Every time the players rise up from l-he ground some one la left there groaning. I tell you they are In great pam.

Men do not wrllhe like that for nothing. It is Kite a field o-f ba-ttie. The game Is over. I am glad. I do no-t want to see any more of It.

Two of She Princeton men have been out of t'he frame because they were too much hurt Vo play any more. They had to be carried away. At least twenty men were squirming on the ground at various i Never In all my years of bull-fighting have I seen such sights as this. I think the same is cruel b.cause so manv men anl ow i em civ a on one. Otherwise It Is LAMADRID, Toreador.

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(Continued from First Page.) was In easy circumstances aside from his salary. Some of his prosecutors, or persecutors perhaps, -tried to make it appear that politics, to persist in prosecuting most ungrateful investigation solely for the sake of he does not 'even know a member of the Dreyfus there musti have-been strong reasons tor believing and acting. "Chance put him on the.track wnlcn he has A'-doubt arose in his and to dispel it-he searched for-. more'llght. carry on end, and "he systematically set himself to unravel the He now.

unreservedly declares that he-knows 'the truth, the whole truth, and that he will tell it." Jvl. Scheurer-Kestner said to M. Clemenceau: alitil! prove it'(Dreyfuo's till all was cloarT in my eyes. under professed loyalty to France lurked undertake to do It. There are people a real devotion to Germany.

They i accuse, me acting too slowly, pointed to his name and to the fact I he was born in Alsace. It Is true that tfe is a native of Alsace, but when that territory was wrested from Prance by Germany his love of France prompted him to leave his childhood's home forever and take up his residence amone the French. Dreyfus was dragged upon the Champs de Mars Jan. 1896. By order of Gen.

Baussler, military Governor of Paris, no foreign correspondent was 'permitted to witness the'final scene before banishment 'for life. Troops weifc drawft up Jn' '8Jid the condemned, captain was hustled Into-their midst. and wore of his rank, An adjutant-an, officer Inferior In stepped up his cap off and tore from It '-the marks ot 9 year, Princeton Is 'hushed In gloom. i Long before the time for the game' to commence tne townspeople, and the fdw students who remained began to collect around the telegraph office with smiles on tfielr faces, They were confident that the Tigers would bring the championship again to Princeton. "'A'fter news of the first half waa.

received there was ndt-an enthusiastic wnoop ln the only groans of In spite of the' newly established grill-room at Princeton Inn, "Tlgey slu slunk away, io'bia lair. France!" gnouted was from hlni and f' Prahce! fcrlea His 'patriotic coquet under -the 'most trying of all clrcunistan'Ces-to of sensitive honor aroused -profound emotion even' amopg degrad- Dreyfus, bareheaded and cheering for 'France, his unifotm stripped gold lace, andj lAtttoj, 'People ought lo understand that warmest dealye Is to' be relieved of this Moreover, am npt remaln'ntf inactive. -Before bringing the matter' before the public I mean to conform to. what law all who that can, demonstrate a JU'UaUl bliinSui. Have a-little more patiajue.

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