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BODIES BURNED TO A CRISP. District Attorney Lewis will Conduct Rigid Investigation in the Priceburg Tragedy. A FORELADY'S STATEMENT Terrible and horrify ing in every detail was the catastrophe at Priceburg yesterday morning. Today, as the result of criminal negligence on the part of omi one, six blackened bodies lay In the undertaker's morgue and four young: girls tortured by pain arc Hearing the portal of death. Following are the names: THE DEAD.

Minn Mxzle Drn.v, nice fifteen years, Lincoln rret. Prlix burir. Miss Heckle Lewis, nge fourteen, North Seruntou. Miss Lillian Mnuon, age fifteen, Main street, Priceburg. Miss Laura Matthews, nge eighteen, Lincoln street, Priceburg.

Joseph Cnllalisin, age three yearn. Main street. Theremt f'nlluhnu, mje sis inoutlis, Main street. THOSE IXJl'RED. Miss Mary dilation, forelaily In factory, Lincoln street, Prlceunrg; condition serious.

Oscnr Axer, foreman of xtctory; may recover. Francis (nllnhnn, ngeil three years, lightly burned. Molly Callahan, aged three years, slightly burned. Miss Lillian Honrey, Main street, Prleeburg; condition Kcrloux. Miss CasNie Faulils, Main street, Priceburg) may cover.

Martha Ilibebrnndt, Moir street, rriceburgj condi'iou serioux. Miss Annie Heflrun, Main street, Priceburg; mny recover. On Main street in Priceburg' was situated a larpe double frame building owned by Anthony Peterson and occu pied by him on the first floor as a saloon and butcher shop and by a squib factory owned by Edward Owens. On the second iioor Thomas Callahan, his wife and four children lived. In the squib factory twelve girls were employed in the manufacture of squibs, but fortunately oniy seven were working yesterday.

CAUSE OK EXin.OSIOX. Yesterday morning Bessie Lwis Was caught by Miss Giigailon, the forelady, throwing unsaleable squibs in the stove and she immediately icportcd the matter to Oscar Azer, the foreman, who moved Miss Lewis to another table and threatened her with discharge if she did it again. An hour later Miss Lewis threw a squih in the stove, saying as she did "There. I did it just to show you I dare." Scarcely had she ceased speaking when hot coals were blown from the stove and almost instantly the squibs laying around the room were exploding. Before the girls could reach the door a case of powder went off and the partition inside collapsed, pinning four of the helpless employes to the floor.

Two cases of finished squibs ignited and in a few minutes the rooms occupied by the factory were a seething mass of flames, the screams and cries of agony of the girls imprisoned filling the air and causing people to turn away in horror. SKIX PEELED OFF. Alfred Mountfold, who owns a barber shop across the street from the factory, heard the explosion and instantly saw his windows shattered. Running to the door he saw Miss Gil gallon running across the street, a veritable human torch. Grabbing a coat he rushed to meet nor and in smothering the flames which enveloped her he said "the skin peeled from her hands and arms like pulling off a glove." Miss Howey was lying in the street, where she had been blown, her clothing ablaze.

The driver of a brewery wagon enveloped her in his coat and extinguished the fire. By this time several alarms of fire had been turned In and the J. Dickson fire company, Columbia fire company from Olyphant, II son's from Peckville and Throop Tfiir.Yber'one from Throop were gallant ly assisting tne jsagies. "MAMA TAKE ME." When the explosion occurred Mrs. Callahan and her four children were in the kitchen at their home which was over the factory.

Mrs. Callahan wag playing with the baby and as the supports below were blown away the floor she was standing on sank to the first floor, carrying the baby, Theresa, and Joseph in one direction, while she was precipitated in another with Francis and Molly. As little Joseph wag swallowed up In the fire, far from the mother's reach he said: "Mama take nie wit.t you." Although terribly burned about the face and hands Mrs. Callahan grasped Francis and Molly in her arms and fought her way to safety, falling exhausted in her husband's arms, he reaching his home Just as his wife came out. In agonizing tones Mrs.

Callahan called for some one to save her babe and little boy but they were beyond all human aid, their bodies being burned beyond recognition. As the news of the terrible accident spread a large crowd gathered and the cries and groans of the mothers and Bisters of the imprisoned girls caused strong men to turn away with a sinking heart. What wag left of the Wayne hotel and butcher shop after the explosion In the factory was soon reduced to smouldering debris by the fire and a blacksmith shop adjoining wbh also burned. As soon as the firemen coul 1 enter the burning building they took out the blackened bodies of the six victims and removed them to thi borough building nearby where an undertaker prepared them for burial. Tho force of the explosion wrecked 11 windows for blocks around, but although tliu inaldu partitions of the building were blonn out yet the sides of the bulldln? remained intact.

As the bodies wr carried to the bor ouph building the people watching the proffress of the fire, turned their heads away and although hundreds visited the of the conflagration during the day no one went near the borough building until after the bodies had been removed to the morgue. The telephone wires also burned. INJURED CARED FOR. The girls who were burned were removed to nearby houses, where Drs. Bellheimer and Kennedy attended them.

They were later removed to their homes. Mr. Azer was one of the most seriously burned and may not recover. It was impossible for anyone Ito see him yesterday, as he was in a semi conscious condition. A few minutes after the accident, however, he stated that there was a half a keg of powder in the factory at the time of the explosion and two cases of filled squibs, each case containing about one half keg of powder.

The residents of Priceburg were very indignant yesterday, because of what they termed gross negligence on the part of the owner of the building and the owner of the factory. It is alleged that the man who conducted the factory always claimed that no powder was used by him, the squibs being made but filled elsewhere, and it is further alleged that this statement was repeatedly made to Mrs. Callahan. WILL INVESTIGATE. Mr.

George Hufnagle, a borough councilman, stated to The Republican reporter yesterday afternoon that tho borough council had no knowledge that squibs were being filled with powder at the factory. As far as known there Is no borough ordinance against it, but Coroner Saltry, Dlrtrict Attorney Lewis and County Detective Phillips were on the scene conducting an investigation yesterday afternoon, and they will probe the matter to the bottom and fix the responsibility for the sad affair on the guilty parties. As soon as some of those burned get better an inquest will be held. According to some of the people living nearby large quantities of powder were kept in the factory and if the law has been violated and the responsibility can be fixed those responsible will be compelled to answer for the tradgedy of yesterday. The feeling in Priceburg was particularly bitter against Mr.

Peterson whom some peo ple believe should have prohibited the use of powder in such quantities. A STATEMENT. Miss Gillgallon, the forelady, when seen yesterday afternoon, made ihe following statement: "Bessie Lewis had been at work in the factory for one week making over imperfect squibs and quite often she threw bad ones in the stove. I told the foreman about it and he moved her to another table in a different part of the room and said if she didn't stop she would be discharged. After being moved she walked back to her old table and threw a squib in the stove, caying that she would do it in spite of us.

There were eight kegs ot powder in the factory." County Detective Phillips attempted to interview Steve Tarrish, who runs Peterson's hotel, but Steve was very surly and told the detective that he would say nothing to anybody. He changed his mind a few minutes later, however. Coroner Saltry yesterday viewed tho bodies and from now on in connection with the other county officials will 1 THE SCR ANTON REPUBLICAN. FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1904. LOCAL WEATHER DATA.

Local data for March 31. Highest temperature, lowest temperature, 35. Relative humidity 8 a. 81; p. 93.

Precipitation 24 hours ended p. .24 inch. OVER TWO HUNDRED TONS OF MACHINERY Will be Moved to Scranton by the Closing of the Dickson Plant. In connection with the removal of the Dickson works from Wilkes Barre to Scranton, the Wilkes Barre Times last evening printed the following: Rapid progress is being mnde on the work of removing the machinery nt the Dickson works from this city to Scranton and it is the expectation to have all the tools removed the course of two months. There are over two hundred tons of machinery in the plant, and as all of it has to be taken part it will take some time before it is ready for shipment to Scranton.

Several of the smaller machines have already been taken apart and one of the boring machines was freighted today, r. Since Monday the employes nave been work taking apart the big boring machine. This gigantic appliance weighs fifty tons and is the largest one of its kind in the state, having a swing of twenty feet. For the past fourteen years this apparatus has been operated by Alexander Norris, who is one of the best known mechanics in this city. Work of removing the pair of twenty by thirty six hoisting engines, which was the last piece of machinery1 built at the plant, will begin after the inspector of the company it was built for sees it.

This pair of engines, which were the largest turned out by the works, were manufactured in two months and cost eight thousand dollars. The engines were built for the Western Maryland Tidewater Railroad company of Baltimore. It is over fifty years since this manufacturing industry was started in this city. The institution was first organized by Laning Marshall in 1S53. The first engine made by the company was one eleven by thirty six in size which was built for the Coal Brook mines of the Baltimore Coal company.

In 1S66 the works were purchased by the Dickson company, who operated the plant until three years ago. The first engine the Dickson company manufactured was number forty eight, size ten by twenty four, made for the saw mill of William Mensch in Wright township. Three years ago the Allis Chalmer company secured the plant. Great Value of Naval Power, As in the Civil War a half century later, so in 1S12, the power of the water over the of the land not only was not comprehended by the average official, but was incomprehensible to hiin, writes Captain A. T.

Ma han in the April Scribner's. Armstrong in January and Hull in March had Insisted upon a condition that should have been obvious; but not till Sept. 3, when Hull's disaster had driven home Hull's remonstrance, did Captain Chauncey receive orders "to assume command of the naval force on Lakes Erie and Ontario, and to use every exertion to obtain control of them this fall." AH preparations had still to be made, and were thrown, most wisely, on the man who was to do the work. He was "to use all the means which he might judge essential to accomplish the wishes of the government." It is only just to give these quotations, which indicate how entirely everything to be done was left to the energy and discretion of the officer in charge, who had to plan and build up, almost from the foundation, the naval force on both lakes. A vein as large and values greater than is found in the famous Home stake or Big Indian mines.

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For this reason they contended that the courts would declare it unconstitutional. A resolution was passed directing; the director of public safety to enforce tho ordinance known as the cow ordinance. This appnes chiefly to residents of the West Side and North End, where, it is claimed, cows are allowed to run loose and do much damage to property. The appropriation ordinance passed third and final reading and now goes to the mayor for his approval. Doctor Syntax.

William Combe was born in London in the year 1741, says the London Speaker. His parents were wealthy people, of dubious character (according to one account), who took little Interest in their boy, but sent him, in due course, to be thrashed at Eton, and thence, with some rudiments of Greek and Latin, to the University of Oxford. At college he distinguished himself by his vicious habits, at a time when vice was too common at Oxford to draw much obloquy upon its followers. With wine and cards, and ruslng of the night owl in catches, he seems to have passed some eighteen months at Oxford with satisfaction to 1 himself, though his sudden leaving of the college, in 1761, points at some unrecorded prompting from those in authority. He left England for some years at this juncture, to travel in France and Italy, where he made water color sketches (all brown paint and bitumen to the fashion of the time), and met Laurence Sterne, then upon his Sentimental Journey.

The "Stovepipe Verdict." It was a characteristic of a certain Tennessee colonel that when once his oratory had begun to flow before the jury nothing could stop it until the fount was exhausted. On one occasion he had just finished tearing his opponent's argument to tatters when the court room stovepipe fell with a crash. "There," cried the colonel, as the clouds of soot arose, "there is a simile furnished by Nature herself! Just as that stovepipe has come unjointed and fallen useless to the ground, so my adversary's argument has fallen with a loud crash. One is not more hollow than the other, nor more in need of polish. "And, gentlemen of the jury, what do these clouds of soot and smoke resemble those black masses, smutting all they light upon' what do they resemble more than the malicious libels, the black scandals which my adversary has poured into your ears, and with which he has endeavored to blacken the character of my client?" His case had seemed hopeless, but when he had finished the stovepipe comparison the jury was converted and returned what became famous in Western Tennessee as the "stovepipe Verdict" in favor of the colonel's client.

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MISSISSIPPI RISING. MEMPHIS, March 31. The Mississippi river is rising rapidly now. the gauge this morning reading 31.2, as compared with 30.3 yesterday. This is a rise nine feet in twenty four hours.

Levee men and local forecast officers say the river will not go above thirty six or thirty seven feet," but no chances are being taken with the big stream and gangs of men are pa trolling; the levee, while bags of sand are being sent to low points in levee system. COLD AND INSECT LIFE. The severest cold has no terrors for insect life, says the Hour Glass. It has been shown by experiments that insects may be artifically or naturally frozen, subjected, indeed, to very low temperatures, without killing or even injuring them. Eggs, larvae and pupae, the stages in which most Insects pass the winter, are perfectly immune to cold.

It is a common idea that cocoon? of insects serve as a protection against cold, but this is entirely erroneous. They, Hk'e the summer webs of web worms, are a protection against birds and insect parasites, but not against cold. The cocoons of summer broods are as stout and thick as those of the generations that pass the winter. Moths, butterflies and other insects build stouter and more compact cocoons in tropical and torrid countries than they do in those climates wher they are beselged by winter. There are many insects, allied to the builders of cocoons, that make no such covering, the pupa or the chrysalis being left entirely exposed.

And so little heat Is maintained by the pupae of lnsvts that, no matter how the cocoons, 'they are always too slight to repel frezing cold. London Street Names. A writer in the St, James's Gazette has followed up our note on the confusion in London street nomenclature with an Interesting article on "A Tangle of Street Names," says the London. Daily Chronicle. The marvel is that any stranger ever reaches his destination before he dies in the search among the twelve King streets which the city itself contains or among the twenty Victoria roads, streets, places, squares and avenues of inner London.

There are five Albert streets and five Gloucester streets and five Warwick street. John streets are nine with a John street West to fog the knowing cabman. We may add that there are two Trafalgar squares, one of which is in Chelsea. THE SHOOT THE CHUTES AT LAKE LODORE. They Electrify the Place Excitement Added to the Former Romance and Beauty.

The beauty of the ride over the Moosic mountains, the romance of a ride on the lake itself, the far famed dance pavilion, the athletic field overlooking but well removed from the waters, the varied attractions of the grove these made Lake Lodore a pleasant place always in the good old summer time. But now ihat marvel of amusement, the shoot the chutes makes it an exciting resort, a rollicking resort, a warm, spirit stirring, laughter provoking place that it will do you heaps of good to ko to. Societies get a liberal commission from the chutes and other attractions. You can have a better time and make more money at Lake Lodore than at any other outing place in this region. We can easily demonstrate this to you.

All organizations will have the hearty cooperation of the railroad to make their excursions a decided success. For rates, dates and further particulars call on AV. G. Liddle, D. H.

division passenger agent, Scranton. ON MANCHURIAN FRONTIER. Specially selected for their straight shooting record and superior intelligence, detached bodies of the czar's infantry, scattered along the Man i hurian frontier, make perpetual efforts to secure the earliest information as to movements of the Japanese foe. Incidentally, they may be at any moment confronted with the necessity of exchanging shots with the mikado's men. We WIB Boy A 50c Bottle of Liqtiosone and Give it to You to Try.

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March 21. The Ladles' Aid will meet at the home of Mrs. Charles Zang on Thursday, March 31. Mr. Vincent Myers, of Michigan, called on friends and relatives here last week after an absence of sixteen years.

Mr. William Raushmyer brought his bride home yesterday. Roy Foley is home for a two weeks vacation from the Bloomsburg school. Miss Jennie Foley is visiting her sister, Mrs. Littell, in Newark.

N. J. Mr. Gilbert Ives, of Scranton, was the guest of his parents on Sunday. There will be Easter services at the church on Sunday, when a line programme will be rendered.

Mr. George Noarck, of Scranton, was circulating among friends here on Sunday. Cards are out announcing the coming marriage of Miss Nettle M. Weldy of Jubilee and Mr. David E.

Roberts of Moscow on April 6, 1904. Mr. Wheeler of Klmhurst has moved Into Mr. C. M.

Curtis' tenant house. Rev. D. E. Powell has recovered from his illness.

The M. P. Sunday school was organized Sunday with the following officers: Superintendent, John Zang; assistant superintendent, Mrs. W. ti.

Doud; treasurer, John Zang; librarian, William Zang; secretary, Lewis Waltz; assistant secretary, Lottie Zang; teachers, Mrs. W. G. Doud, Mrs. C.

W. Mack, Viola Swingle, N. A. Swingle. Miss Lena Raushmyer has gone to Berwick for a month's vacation.

The G. A. R. Veterans will visit the Mt. Cobb school on Friday, April 1.

Easter Display. Flowering plants by the thousands at Morel 29 81 1 624 East Market street. Easter Neckwear, Cramer, Wells 130 Wyoming avenue. UJ FOR BttiouG end Hcrvouc BicoFifcrs Sick Headache and Constipation, TAKE They cure Giddiness, Fullness and Swelling after meals. Dizziness and Cold Chills, Flushings of Heat, Loss of Aopetite, Shortness of Breath, Costiveness, Blotches on the Skin, Disturbed Sleep, Frightful Dreams, and all Ncrvousand Trembling Sensations, etc.

The First Dose will give re'ef in twenty minutes. This is no fiction. For a Weak Stomach, Disordered Liver and Impaired Digestion they act like Every sufferer is earnestly invited totry a Bbx of these Pills, and they will be acknowledged to be WITHOUT A RIVAL. BEECHAM'S PILLS taken as directed, will quickly restore females to corapleta health. They promptly remove any obstruction or irregularity of the system.

U. S. A. Depot, 365 Canal New York. In boxes, 10c and 25c ri EASTER and RABBIT TRAYS Useful and appropriate SUITS Juvenile Suits for Easter Wear Something entirely new in children's and very young ladies' wear, being a line of suits in all the newest styles and materials in Miniature of the Ladies' Styles This is by far the cutest innovation ever introduced in ready to wear garments for the younger folks.

Sizes run 12 to 18. Prices from $5.98 up. Also new ideas in coats and reefers. Buster Brown, Peter Thompson And many other pretty things for the little girls. Fashionable Wear lor Ladies in the Spring Styles Is shown on our floors to an extent which rivals in completeness and variety many of the metropolitan establishments from which the elaborate costumes and Easter gowns came.

1 1 40 1 Ail YELLOW STAMPS With a purchase of $1 or over for Rep. today only. The Last Call on IOC A fine TOILET SOAP NOVELTY Two eRgs and one rabbit, in substantial box. Usually sell at 6c each: Friday and Saturday at, complete IOC 40 400 402 Lackawanna ES3XSZEEZ EES Easte Novelties Time's Up If still unprepared you must now make haste in procuring the needed things. Selections can be speedily and satisfactorily made at either of our stores the enormous varieties of temptingly priced novelties here found, make choosing easy.

Here are a Few Special Easter Items from oar Hotfsefarnishings Department: EASTER EGGS and CHICKS with appropriate Inscriptions and decorations. From Sc to IOC FANCY LACE EDGE PLATES LARGE GLASS VA3 ES 16 In. hiph Others 27 in. high at 75c. value 10C EASTER CROSS CANDLE STICKS a srdondld IOC A CUCUMBER SHAPED SOAP NOVELTY composed ot cucumber oil and witch hazel Usually sell at Oc apiece; special price Friday and Satur day, three pieces 10C Also many other novelties that are useful, appropriate and inexpesively priced.

EASTER BOXES. OX M.VI.V FLOOR. EGG SHAPED BOXES Unfilled; from 10c up to $2.50. CROSS SHAPED BOXES Unfilled; from 10o up to 25o. FANCY GIFT BOXES from'25o up to $1.50.

FANCY FLOWER BA6KET8 Unfilled; from $2.00 up to $3.73. BURNT VELVET BOXES Unfilled; $1.00 and $1.25. FILLED BOXES, from 5o up to $5.00. You'll find tne Expert Egg Decorators in the Easter Goods Department on the second floor either store. OPEN EVENINGS.

J. D. Williams Bro. 111, 113, 117 Washington Ave. 312 314 Lackawanna Ave.

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