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EL PASO HERAU). YEAR. EL PASO, TEXAS, THURSDAY EVENING, DEC. 19, 1901. TEN PAGES.PRICE FIVE CENTS.

BAD WRECK ON SUNSET Three Killed Outright and Scores Injured, Some Fatally. MISTAKEN ORDER Causes No. 9 and No. 10 To Meet At Full Sueed On the Same Track, Near Salinas. SALINAS.

Dec. has just reached here that the north and south bound Southern Pacific overland trains on the coast division met in head end collision at Uplands, five miles south of Sanardo. Many persons are said to have been killed and injured. A special train was made up here to fjonvey doctors and nurses to the scene The fireman of train No. 10 is known to have been killed.

Four doctors were sent south from here and one from San Lucas. It will take the special train about two hours to reach the The following details have just been received. The northbound Sunset express due to arrive at at 12:50 a. m. and the Sunset from San Francisco due to leave Sanardo at the same time, were in collision this morning.

The southbound train left Salinas seven minutes late and through some error met the northbound train, head on, half a mile west of Uplands, between Sanardo and San Luis. Both trains were completely wrecked, the engines being thrown from the track and several of the cars telescoped. Train No. 9 was partly destroyed by fire. The south bound train was crowded with passengers, every seat being taken and some persons being obliged to stand.

Among those on the train were eighty discharged soldiers on their way east, and the All American basebal' team from the east on their way to Los Angeles. Th track is completely blockaded and no trains can pass the wreckage today, the Sunset limited and two freigh trains being held at Bradley. Mistook the Order. stop at Uplands so as to allow the other train to pass. The Killed and Injured.

SAN JOSE, Dec. The latest reports from the train wreck at Up- ands state that three were killed outright, twenty seriously injured, and hirty-two slightly hurt. Sheriff Keef, on the south bound train, was pinned down in the chair car, which burned, and he was barely rescued in time. The following list of killed and wounded was received at the railroad oflice here: Killed: Garland, fireman, Wells Fargo messenger, name unknown; fiire- helper, name unknown. Injured: John Carogana, Mrs.

Wright L. Oston, A. A. Irvine, Ida Soserburg, John Kelshaw, Mrs. Felipe, Mr.

Ran- dadore, Salvador Buena Borso, Christian Jensen, Mr. Saberilo, Joe Rundee, John Jordan, George Meeker, Chris Hendrickson, H. V. Martin, Emmon Beerier, John G. Williams, A.

E. Wakefield, Mr. Holcomb, Chas. Wasson, Mrs. Holbridge, Mrs.

Naughton, Mrs. Geru- do. Mrs. Mary L. Booth.

Mrs. G. E. Fands. None of the passengers are fatally injured, the railroad officials state, as far as known.

SAN LUIS, Obispo, Dec. 19 The train dispatcher at this point said cause of tlie accident was due to the failure of the northbound train to Great Men Wondering Whether the Armours Will Retail. From Santa Fe To Durango Another Railroad Is Planned, Which Will Benefit El Paso. PAID SIX MILLIONS British Syndicate Buys Hogg-Swayne Syndicate Tract. LARGE PROJECT DISASTER AT PITTSBURG Thirteen Killed and As Many More Fear- iully Hurt.

WHITE HOT SLAG Special to The Herald. PARK VIEW, N. Dec. T. D.

Burns, the millionaire merchant and stock owner of Tierra Amarilla, is interesting eastern capitalists, so it is reported, in a railroad project to buildt a railroad from Santa Fe to Tierra Mjnarilla, the county seat of Rio Arriba county, and from there to Durango, Colorado, opening a section rich in timber, coal and agricultural and grazing lands. Through the Rock Island and Santa Fe this would give El Paso an easy entry into southwestern Colorado. PREACHER HAS A FALL From the Steeple of His Church While Engaged in Making pairs. Special to The Herald. LUMBBRTON, Dec.

J. M. Whitlock while making repairs to the tower of his church at Lnmberton fell twoncy-five feet but escaped without fatal Injuries, although terribly bruised. By Which the Purchasers Expect To Transport Oil To Europe Direct At Great Saving. AUSTIN, Dec.

Roche-Stuart syndicate of England has just consummated a deal whereby they acquire the Hogg-Swayne oil land at Beaumont, Texas, for six million dollars. The new owners propose building a pipe line to Port Arthur, from port crude oil will be shipped direct to European points at a great saving over the railroad rates to New York and thence by steamer. The estimated cost is not more than cents per barrel to transport oil from Port Arthur to Europe. Vote for the Queen. r-O -----------The voting contest to determine who will be Carnival Queen opened today with a new candiate who is being supj ported by the railroad men employed by the G.

H. S. A When the votes were counted Miss Margaret Martin, daughter of Superintendent Martin of the G. stood at the head with ninety votes. Miss Kate Crosby comes into the contest today with thirty votes and stands second.

Outsiae of the two leading candiates there are few changes in the standing of the aspirahts. The vote today stood as follows: Margaret Martin 90 Kate Crosby ......................................30 Mrs. A. P. Coles 20 Leila Trumbull ................................20 Julia 17 Irma ti Andrea .5 Lucille Cloman 5 Mrs.

J. B. 2 Mrs. W. S.

NO PARALLEL AFFORDED By History of the Extraordinary Condition to Be Found in the Philippines. WASHINGTON, Dec. commenting upon a number of court findings just sent in. General Chaffee, commander of the department of the Philippines, pa.sses thfs severe stricture upon the natives: affords no parallel of a whole people thus practically turning traitors, and in the genius of no other people were ever found such masterful powers of secrecy and dissimulation. But it is needless to say that no powerful state was ever erected or can be erected on immoral and unenlightened WASHINGTON HAPPENINGS Both Houses Adjourn For the Christmas Holidays.

NICARAWA DITCH Poured Over Workmen By ExolodingOas andiTheir Mangled Bodies Fall A Hundred Feet. PITTSBURG, Dec. an explosion of gas in the furnace of the Jones and Laughlin, near Brady street, this city, at 6 this morning, ten men were burned to death, and probably twenty others were more or less injured. The damage to the plant is 20 000 The explosion occurred in one of the big blast furnaces. The men were at work on the top of the furnace over one hundred and twenty feet from the ground.

They were employed as fillers, and were just getting ready to quit work, being members of the night crew, when the gas which had accumulated in the furnace exploded, and tons of molten metal, cinders, and slag were thrown over the unfortunate men on the top of the structure. When the gas let go a panic ensued on the small platform alx)ut the top. The men made a rush for the elevator but it had gone down and there was no escape. To jump meant death, and to remain on the platform was just as certain doom. The tons of molten metal and ilames fell upon them, and burned ten men to death.

Their bodies dropped to the roof of the mill, eighty five feet below, every bone being broken and the men being unrecognizable masses of human flesh. Fifteen persons are injured and in hospitals; three are at the Mefcy hospital so badly burned that they will die. Five persons employed near the furnace are missing and it is thought they too have perished. STRUCK BY A STONE While at Work in His Mines in Santa Fe County. Special to The Herald.

CERRILLOS. Dec. Andrews, a well known mining man, while at work on his mines near Bonanza, southern Santa Fe county, was struck by a fall of stone and seriously injured. He was taken to Cerrillos for treatment. It is not know nyet whether his was fractured.

Attempt At Suicide Frustrated By the Accidental Awakening Ot His Wife. Lieut. Arezmendes will take the Newcomb of San Antonio, the place of the lieutenant who stab- bed a Juarez policeman several weeks shaking hands with old San An- ago and was courtmartialed. tonio triends. Herald Wants Bring Quick Results.

Georeg and Carl Gaither went to Santa Rosa this morning. DIED ALL ALONE IN MOUNTAINS HE WANDERED FAR LOCAL COMPETITION Would Depend On How the People Looked At It, As Capital and Organization Would Help Armour. TTie opening of the Armour storage plant in this city about the first of next January will in all probability start a war between the retail shops handling meat killed in this vicinty and those buying it from the Kansas City people. Owing to the peculiar condition of affairs in the meat line in tnis city which consumes meat sent from this place to Kansas City which is butchered and returned here in cold storage for the consumer, there has been for years a quiet struggle between local dealers who retail beef killed in this vicinity and those who sell the imported article. At the present time three shops are selling meat killed here and the others are handling the imported beef.

It is contended that there is an unnecessary expense added to the cost of beef from the outside caused by the freight rates from here to Kansas City and return, which the consumer has to stand. Those who are striving to make the meat business a local industry have withdrawn almost entirely from the cold storage firm and are their own beef. TTie extent of the fight will depend largely upon whether the Armour people open up a retail establishment in conenction with their wholesale business. In several other cities they have taken this step and sometimes with disastrous results. In Los Angeles and San Francisco their shops were forced to retire from business on account of the consumers refusing to support them in preference to shops which were handling meat slaughter ed at home.

Should a war between the meat deal ers result it will mean a decided reduction in meat to the buyer until a truce is declared or either side withdraws from the contest. W. L. Gaines, local agent for the Armour company was asked this morning what the company would do in regard to opening a retail shop and replied as follows: am not in a position to speak with authority, but you can readily see that to open a retail shop to compete with the local dealers would be standing J. M.

Me Gorkle Succumbs Under Distressing Circumstances. Word comes to El Paso of the death of J. M. McCorkle, a prominent business man of Capitan, N. last Sunday.

In company with a friend they went hunting in the mountains near that place. While out hunting Mr. McCorkle was attacked a severe case of hemorrhage of the lungs which so weakened him that he could not walk. The man that was with him hurried to town to get a convey- ancve and assistance. While ue was gone it is supposed that the hemorrhage came on again and he gradually bled to death.

When the party arrived to carry him back he could not be found and it was Monday morning before his lifeless body was found and it far removed from the place he had been left. It is thought that when the second attack of hemorrhage came on he began to walk around in an effort to keep from going to sleep, and as the blood slowly left his body, he became less concerned as to the place he went to, and as one in a dream, walked until he could walk no longer. in our own light We expect to sell our meats to these people and if we put it into the field to be sold direct to the consumer they would naturally refuse to patronize us. agent of the company will arrive in the city the first of next week, and being familiar with the policy the company intends to pursue will be in a position to give out just what they are going to do in the local field. By seeing nim you can get a complete statement to lay before the public.

I feel safe in saying that he will state that the company is not going to open a retail shop The following statement is made uy a local butcher, whose name is withheld by request: extent of the fight between the shops in this city using local and outside meat depends on whether the Armour company opens up to do a retail as well as a wholesale business. If they do it will mean trouble for each side. We will have to protect our interests as best we can. As every body well knows a clashing of interests of this kind where there is active competition means a war of prices. We have not got the backing that these people have and if we win it will be because the people stand by us in the fight." A Herald Want costs you 4Cc for thre Insertions.

NOMINATION NOT YET ACTED UPON Senate Adjourns Without Taking Up the Matter, Which Now Goes Over Until January 6. Special to The Herald. WASHINGTON, Dec. senate has not yet confirmed nomination. The senate adjourned today until January 6.

The nomination will be taken up then. Charges against Garrett were filed before the committee on finance, alleging gambling. Garrett replied to Representative Spooner of the committee that he did not know the difference between a straight flush and four of a kind. Other charges were made by the opposition. Senator Hanna is opposed to confirmation.

The nomination will be confirmed almost unquestionably when the revenue ofllces are taken up. The president has nominated Fritz Muller to be receiver of the land office at Santa Fe to succeed Heasart, and has appointed Baker, of Nebraska, to be associate justice of the supreme court of New Mexico. Special to Tre Herald. LAS VEGAS, N. Dec.

reappointment of Governor Otero by President Roosevelt is a source of gratification to the majority of the republicans and the business men of the territory, many of whom during the past few days have been sending telegrams to President Roosevelt urging Governor Otero's reappoinment. The appointment of Judge Baker to a New Mexico judgeship, of course, is not causing any overwhelming joy to the political leaders as they had a candidate of their own. George W. Pritchard of White Oaks. Private advices from Washington state that had the republicans united upon a New Mexico ma nacceptable to the president he could have been appointed.

The appointment of Fred Muller, a rough rider, to be receiver of the land ofilce here at the same time that Gov. Otero was reappointed is another move of President Roosevelt that New Mexico politicians cannot understand for Muller is an active opponent to Gov. Otero, is a Catron man, and has signed serious charges against the governor. It is evident that President Roosevelt has made these appointments a personal matter and has given the appointees to understand that they owe their appointment to no politician and to no party organization and that they therefore can act independent in the discahrge of their duties. TOBACCO GROWING IN THE UNITED STATES.

Rio Grande Farmers Might Find the Business Department to Investigate. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has announced that experts of the agricultural department will hunt all over the United States and its possessions for conditions favorable to the cultivation of filler tobacco such as is now raised in Cuba, so that, if possible, all the filler tobacco used in this country eventually may be raised within the boundaries of the united States, United the secretary says, now paying $8,000.000 for wrapper tobacco. We have succeeded in finding in this country the conditions under which all the wrapper to- bacco we need can be raised hero, and experts of the department of agricul- ture for the first time are seeking soils adaptable to the cultivation of the fine filler product. have parts of Pennsylvania. Ohio and Texas selected for the investigations of our experts, and land for similar purposes will be selected in all oiir new island possessions with a view to ascertaining how and under what conditions the filler product can be built up here." These statements on the part of the seiiretary of agriculture are of peculiar interest to the people of this section of country.

While tobacco culture has never been carried on in the valley very extensively, yet it is known that the product can be and is grown every year. Inasmuch as the government is willing to carry on the experiments it would be well for those interested to take up the matter at Washington and, if possible, secure experiments in the valley. The dryness of the air here Is against the raising of tobacco as it secures most of its nourishment from the air, which is absorbed by the tiny, hairlike covering of the leaf. That is probably the way one would think of it at first, but experiments on the part of the government might disclose the fact that the air here, especially in the valley, (contains enough moisture for the iirowth and curing of the plant. The establishment of a tobacco industry in the valley would mean a irreat deal to the farmers, and they should at least take matter and seo what ran be done.

A man was prevented from committing suicide last night in his rooms at a local hotel, by his wife who had been asleep waking just as he had placed a razor to his throat. W'ith a scream she bounded out of bed and called loudly for help. Guests from other rooms hurried to the room from which the cries were coming, pushed the door open and inquired what was wanted. By this time the woman fainted from sheer fright and had to be taken in hand by the women guests and restored to conscious ness Neither party would make any state- nient either last night or this morning, but it is said that the man has been drinking heavily for several days and had made the statement that life was not worth living and he had about as soon be dead. Going to his room last night it is supposed that he decided to end it all and had placed the razor to his throat to carry out his purpose when his wife awoke and screamed.

It was stated today that once before he had shot himself in the head with sujcidal intent but was saved through the heroic euorts oi the physicians. The man is a mining man with offices in El Paso, and is well and favorably known, but has been subject for years to spells of despondency. ROUNDED DP FOR VACCINATION Scores Of Negroes and Tramps Put Out Of the Way Of Danger. About eighty tramps and negroes were vaccinated last night in the Bellevue. Klondike and Jockey Club saloons.

The work was superintended by Dr. Anderson w'ho had been instruc ted by the board of health to injec the vaccine into the arm of all tha could be found around the disreputable part of town. It took about tw'o hours to do the work. Dr. Anderson was assisted by five police officers.

The physician in spected the arms of the subjects anc if they did not show scars he his assistants to vaccinate the own ers. During the past two weeks a large number of negroes have come into the city from to work in this vicinity. A suspected case of smallpox was found among them and to prevent the disease from spreading was decided to vaccinate the entire number. While this was being done all of the tramps, no matter what col or, were taken care of and their arms scraped along with the rest. The officers had no trouble in in ducing the tramps and negroes to sub mit to the operation.

Several colorec men who reside In this city aided the vaccination. They pointed out strange negroes to the officers. Dr. iinderson began the inspection of arms about 8 in the evening an das soon as he found an individual who needed to be treated turned him over to his assistants who did the work. It took until 12 to dispose of all those who could be fonnd that were not immune.

is no fear of an epidemic of smallpox," said Dr. Anderson this morning. have detected a case in a mild form and take this step to prevent there being any chances of a spread. Now that the carnival is coming on and the city is filling up with outsiders, some of them not careful about the laws of health, he have decided tha tit is best to vaccinate all who do not have it done themselves." Will Be the Most Important Business AttheOpen- Protest. -New Bills.

WASHINGTON, houses of congress about one adjourned, until January 6th. Senator Hanna introduced a bill granting Mrs. McKinley a pension of five thousand dollars a year. Seantor Penrose introduced a bill reviving the grade of vice-admiral and promoting Sampeon, Schley, and Clark to that rank. The president sent to the senate today the nominathion of W.

S. Metcalf to be pension agent at Topeka, also a batch of minor nominations. The chairman of the committee on commerce reported the Nicaragua canal bill to the house this morning, and arrangements were made for action upon it shortly after the reassembling: of congress next month. Admiral Sampson has notified the nevy department that his protest against the findings of Admiral Dew- ew will leave New York tonight, reaching Washington tomorrow. -o- INTERCEPTED DISPATCHES Give the British Hopes That They Have Run Delarey to Earth.

LONDON, Dec. Boer dispatches intercepted by the British indicate that General Delarey his position as extremely critical, antf that he believes he cannot hold out longer than two weeks more. The British are exultant and think they have at last run down one of the most persistent of the Boer leaders. SCHOOL BOARD MEETING. The school board holds a special meeting tonight for the purpose of electing two teachers, to succeed Mr.

Yeiser and Mrs. Patterson. Mr. Yeiser is compelled to give up his place on account of ill health, and Mrs. Patterson is soon to wed.

ASSOCIATION FORMED LAST NIGHT GRIM REMINDERS. Even the negroes of Zululand must have their little joke to jar the feelings of the medico. They have hit on the happy device of decorating the graves of the dear departed w'ith bottles of medicine prescribed bv the doctor. For Mutual Protection Against Bad Good Start. The meeting in the chamber of commerce last night at which local merchants were requested to be present for the purpose of organinzing a mutual! protective association was attended by about sixty prominent business men.

After electing temporary officers the object of the meeting was explained by M. Simon who said that association was to be formed to protect the retail merchants from customers who take advantage of credit to the loss of the deal-- er. In general discussion it was brought out that the organization would not only prove a benefit to the members but to the consumers who pay cash for their goods as well. To illustrate the point attention was called to the fact that wen a dealer lost heavily from bad debts he had to make up the deficit in some manner which generally means an increase in the price of his goods. One of the principles of many business houses in shaping the policy it will pursue is to allow a certain amount for accounts that cannot be collected.

This is added to the selling price as only means of getting it back. By having an association which keeps the merchants posted on the amount of reliability which can be placed in customers they will be in a position to refuse credit where it is unsafe. A committee of five were selecterl who will act as trustees of the organization. On the twenty-seventh of this month they will hold another meeting and act on a constitution and by-laws which are now being prepared by Mr. Simon.

A charter will be taken out under the laws of the state. The trustees after the organization is perfected will call upon all of the merchants of the city and request them to join The organization will be called the Association of El Paso. During the meeting The Herald aj ticle published last Tuasday, calling attention to tlie meeting, praised. It was stated by some of the merchants that the effect produced had already resulted in benefit and stirred them up to the fact that they must get together and protect their interests. the merchants fully realize what the association can do for said M.

Simon this morning, will see where an important source of loss can be avoided. In this city at the pres ent time there is nearly fifty thousand dollars of bad debts on the books of the business houses. If the merchants had known what kind of customers they were giving credit they could have easily avoided the loss..