The Bismarck Tribune from Bismarck, North Dakota • Page 1

i.l.lA rt. bv THf INTER-STATE r' .1 tV Associated Press to Bismarck p-Washlngton, Jan. causes but not the cure for the car shortage ih the northwest and the consequent coal famine in North Dakota have been determined by the members of the interstate commerce commission participating in the recent hearings ai Chicago and Lane's Report. V. Franklin K.

Lane, who served as chairman of the investigating sion, today filed his report with the full commission and sent it to dent Roosevelt, jle finds: It is a fair inference that the real cause of the coal scarcity in North Dakota was such an abundance of westbouiyl traffic at the head of the lakes that care were not available at that terminal for carrying coal to North Dakota, a comparatively short haul for a low class modity. WHAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE BODY OF ONE VICTIM OF VT J' TERRA COTTA TRAIN WRECK PROVES TO BE MANGLEP PARTS OF SEVERAL FBODIES OF UNKNOWN DEAD CRUSHED INTj. fULPY MASS OF FLESH BONES ill? Bismarck' Tribune. Washington, D. Jan.

vestigation to fix tlhe responsibility the wreck on bhte Baltimore Kdliiaad at Terra Cotfoa, D. Sumday nigbit was begum here before a oomomer's jury today. The principal nesses ifyave been summoned onld tlbe promisee to otapupy 4toe entire yweek. In an endewvor to identify itihe aniangled bodies of the vdefflms of ibhie Terra Ootta wreck Met Sunday ndghit a gruefKxme diiscOTery was made ait tlhe miorguo toda.y. "Wihait was supoaed to be-the smainglieid! body of a men at- in a suit of "peper and salt" proved to be itihe oomiposlte mnadns of'tfeevflral unforbunatee who idled in the Sunday emitog flhe pile of jiumaai and ports wfhilch toad gaitfliered aA the wreck removed tibe "dead room'" In an eftort to establish idembity today.

'Wlhen toe del'ted into it (he found a piece of a baby'o sikull a mam'a foot badly crushed, and. eeoiqased Jn a ahoe the toid of a woman and portions of a human, ifaioe also fimgeins, toes and Other pelts of women and ohiMren's bodies and those of ment, all grouiwl In coal duat amd pieces ggfriaenfta andxed in tbe maas. CLODD BURST "'HOT 8PRING8, HA8 DOWNPOUR OF ff RAIN EVERYTHING AFLOAT. ads ted Press to Bismarck TribunelM: lot Iviest rain recorded here fell in 3St a continuous downpour all last right and today, washing away and bouses. Merchants along jWltral avenue, where the storm ijfjlught tbe greatest damage, lost at $76,000.

Central avenue, which pripcipsl thoroughfare, was for StoMjfW a teething river, carrying of all descriptions. There fetfe been no trains in or out since riy this morning. Mm In his letter to the president missioner Lane says that the report will be followed by special mendations as to what legislation may be deemed advisable. v-V'- Coal Trust. Referring to the report that the coal shortage was due to the presence of a trust or combination between dealers in coal who fixed prices in the northwest, and refused to sell to siders" and "irregulars" the report says: The commission has gained putable proof of an agreement tween coal dealers to maintain prices and'to boycott all who do not so agree but there is no evidence justifying the contention that this combination is chargeable with the coal shortage nor that the railroads were a party to such conspiracy.

The report of the commissioner first deals with the coal famine in North Associated Press to Bispiarck Tribune. Topeka, Jan. white men, a negro train porter and thirty Mexican laborers lost their lives and fifty-five persons were Injured when two passenger trains on the Chicago, Rock Island Pacific railroad collided head-on four miles west of VollanJ, Kansas, this morning. The traius were numbers 29 and 30 running tween Chicago and El Paso. They met on a sharp Fire from lamps in the cars and from the locomotives was communicated to splintered wreckage, consuming five cars, of train No.

29, west bound, and burning several of the passengers. AH but three of those who perished are thought to have been Mexican laborers, who were on their way from Columbus Junction, Ohio, to Mexico. The officials of the company blame John Lynes, nineteen-year-old JEALOUS LOVER 8HOOTS CESSFUL RIVAL BY WAY OF CONGRATULATION ASSAILANT 18 PROMINENT IN ATLANTA SOCIETY ALSO THE VICTIM Associated Press to Bismarck Ttibune. La Grande, Jan. M.

Rddley, of Le Grande, was shot and damgeirously wounded by Harvey Hill of Aitlanta, today. The snooting curred at (fihie wedding of Miss El lie Ridley, cousin of wovawted mail, while ithe. gueste were ftrwiard to extenud coiigratulatioia8. TJhe Shooting hias caused a sensation. Hill was airreated.

Dr. TWdley eays wound is not raeoessairily fatal. (Hiarvey HUlds one of ttie amoet inent young imen in eociesty aasd was formerly president of the young men'e demooraitk organdaatioo of this He about 30 years old lie is bonnectied wttto one of the moist pronritnesnit faarrilies of Gaorgie and 4s a gtanidaon of tormer tTnlted Staiteis Senator Ben Hill. Riidley, the victim of ttie aibback, belongs to a very prottdneot family and has fliaw oJoseirelaWveatnAitlaiita. The oauee tfoe is not known, hut woncme Hill's branedSarte friends km aeM he was deeply in love tor eeverrtil irtth the bride of wJiw-M -r mm- Vj UpSf A.H BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 3, 1907.

Dakota and present congestions found in that state. The proposed remedies are dealt with extensively, particularly those which can be fected by railroads or shippers as well as those which may be considered proper for congressional action, cluding the evils arising from reconsignment privileges. The Remedy Proposed. The remedy which the commission proposes to work out deals with rules and regulations as well as a proposed plan for a car clearing house' or car pool and reciprdcal car demurrage. The financial loss to a large age of the people of the northwest is shown to have been caused by failure of railroads to prepare for the large movement of grain.

Railroads Overwhelmed. Mr. Lane shows that the railroads tapping the grain belt seem to have been overwhelmed by this year's crop. By the light of fiaming wreckage the passengers who were uninjured worked heroically to save those who were pinned beneath the splintered timbers and twisted ironwork. Lack of tools with which to chop away sides of cars was a great hindrance.

An hour and a half after the wreck the first relief train from McFarland, Kansas, bringing surgeons and ers reached the scene. Another relief train from Topeka, and two wrecking trains arrived and the dead and in jured were brought to this city. Two injured Mexicans died on the way. The Negro porter died at St. Ormont hospital shortly after being taken in there.

It was necessary to tear his left leg from his body to tricate him from the wreckage. Five Commissioner Lane Says Railroads Preferred Hauling- High Rate Freight Than Low Paying Dealers Combine to Maintain Clearing House and Reciprocal Demurrage Suggested as Remedies For Car Shortage CARELESS OPERATOR CAUSED WRECK graph operator at Vollaud, who failed to stop train No. 29 after receiving orders to hold it until No. 30 had passed. Lynes was arrested.

IS SHOT AT THE ALTAR FLOYD 00V. OF NEW CAUCUS ADJOURNED REPUBLICANS IN MICHIGAN ISLATURE. FAIL TO SELECT CANDIDATE FOR SENATOR Associated Press to Bismarck Tribune. 'Lansing, Jan. lican senatorial caucus ittonigM toeld a brtef session and for one week without balloting on candidates for United States eenatxw.

Lansing, a fifteen minute' session the republican legislative caucus to nominate a didate for United States senator to succeed Russell A. Alger adjourned tonight fci- one week without ing. The adjournment followed a communication Issued today ty ernor Warner from his home at Fal-mington, where his is confined to his bed by a severe attack of influenza. Gov. Warner declared that the caucus should adjourn without action in order to give time for an investigation of the rumors of improper methods plied in advancing the, fiandldacy Arthur Hill of Saginaw.

There are four avowed candidates for the 'senatorship: WE, C. Millan of Detroit, Congressman William Alden Smith of Grand Baplds, Mr. Hill and Congressman Charles B. Townsend of Jackson. The ers of all font candidates agreed to adjournment.

-V S-5 Although in fact the crop scarcely ceeded that of 1905, nor did it equal that of at least one other preceding year. Terminals' Empty. Of this situation the report refers in detail to the grain in the elevators in the northwest and lying on the ground beside the railroad tracks and says: Terminal elevators at Duluth and Superior and Minneapolis are most empty and at no time during the season have they been more than one-third filled. The Railroad Idea. The situation was explained by President Elliott of the Northern Pacific, who said that in attempting to handle the freight offered they were trying to force a three-inch stream through a one-inch nozzle, and dent Hill of the Great Northern, clared that his railroad, as well as minutes before the trains, operators for hundred of miles on the line knew that the collision was tain, as Lynes had wired that, he had let No.

29 pass. But there was no earthly means to prevent the disaster. At 8 o'clock tonight the company completed a track around the wreck and the line open again. Many Burned to Death. JCV The dead are: JOLIUS BTJtRMEISTEfR, Davenport, Iowa.

WILLIAM T. MILLER, Solidler City, Ramses. ALBERT LINK, Topeka, ored porter. FRANK SAYtEJR, New London, Mo. Mexican laborers numbering posedly between twenty-five and (thirty persons, and an unidentified white man from Mitchell, la.

The fatally injured ore: Holy Alvario, Mexican, left, leg ami GRAIN SHIPPERS CALLED TO MEET AT FARGO UARY 16 TO TRY FOR TER CONDITIONS. Special to the Tribune. Jan. meeting has bee a to be held at Loyal Knighfhs' toall, Fargo, January 16, 1907, at 2 o'clock p. for the purpose of perfecting an organization of tfbe dependent grain Milppere of the state, Including farmens' assooiations and all shippers of grain not connected wdith the "Line Elevator The object of such organization being to complete ments for the handling of grain at minal points to arrange tor such legislative action as may be necessary to assist In preventing car shortage and delays in tjramportatton of grain to terminal points to urge upon our representeitivee in congrees the sage of a federal inspection law, and to transact sudh other busrtness as may come before the meeting in the interests of the grain producers and htdependenit shapipera of he state.

Special rate of one faro far 'tSfafe round trip ou all railroads.v The call is endorsed, by the Gmln Shippers' of North Dakota. the North Dakota Elevator, ttoe North Dakota Bankers' association. ITS REPORT ON AND COAL SHORTAGE others, was endeavoring to bore a oneinch hole with a half-inch auger. Reciprocal Demurrage. In considering the evidence missioner Lane says that a plan for a car clearing house or car pool is with much favor.

The details of such a plan have not been worked out. The most generally advocated remedy for the failure of carriers to furnish cars when demanded is known as "reciprocal car demurrage." This phrase means that carriers shall be penalized upon failure to furnish the cars demanded. Railroads Too Conservative. Commissioner Lane sums up as follows The problem is one that is much deeper and broader than mere lack of cats which is road agement and flnatree of railroad Inability of the shipper to secure 'W '-ST' left arm broken and injured internally. Berlalia Y.

Baiwa, Mexican, (head crushed, left leg right leg orustoed. The seriously finjured: R. A. Hicks, Kansas City, injured internally, knee hurt. William Douglas, Nevada, lar bone broken, right ankle fractured, head bruised.

G. Harrison, baggageman, Kansas City, head cut, hurt internally. F. H. Damdhey, assistant engineer, left ear torn! Tight leg crushed, right ankle dislocated, head bruised.

W. A. Wdllem, Peabody, arms burned, one Tib broken, back sprained. Willi aim T. Miller was ridimg the blind baggage and was crushed to death.

A man who has just re burned from the wreck says that more than thirty persons were burned to death. It is impossible identify the dead Mexicans. BEING SHY 100 VOTES IN EMBER, HAD TO TAKE CHANCES WITH THE LEGISLATURE, WHICH ELECTED HIM OVER SON, DEMOCRAT Associated Press to Bismarck Tribune. Conoord, N. Jan.

M. Floyd of Manchester, republican, was elected governor of New Hampshire by the state legislature at its opening session today and will be formally augurated tomorrow. -The choice of a governor by the legislature was made necessary by the failure of any didate ait the Nbvember election to secure a majority of ithe votes. Floyd, who was the leading oandidaite, lacked about 100 of the number needed. In voting today Mr.

Floyd and the cratic candidate, Nathan C. Jameson, were tbe only candidates eligible der the eonsbittttfioa. 'The vote was: Floyd, 263 Jsuneson, 144. JESditor Packard of the Rolette ty Herald, which he has recently chased and which is republican In says: While Mrs. Packard was a candidate on the democratic ticket last fell we are a republican and shall remain one.

V-? Sfo LW'' The Oil famine was so pronounced at Sherwood candles were used. MpSM 1 PRICE YIVE cars may be but a symptom of deep seated and organized trouble. The real cause of the car shortage may lie In a too conservative ment of tbe road or in unfitness and incompetency of operating officials. It may flow from an sion by the directors of the full duty imposed by law upon a mon carrier. Enactment of a reciprocal demurrage bill will not build railroad tracks, equipment and enlarged terminals nor form incompetent operating officials into first-class railroad men, but it might stimulate, energize and in some cases revolutionize methods of delinquent That of itself it will enable the railroad to provide adequate service Is not demonstrated by experience.

The need for additional legislation giving enlarged powers to interstate commerce commission is urged is con- elusion of the report. INDIANA MAN HAS HIS HORSES SCARED BY HUNTERS AND EVENS UP BY EMPTYING A SHOT GUN AT THEM WITHOUT GREAT DAMAGE Associated Press to Bismarck Tribune. Laporte, Jan. Harry C. Garman, wife of an instructor at Purdue university and daughter of Governor J.

Frank Hanley, was shot at today by William Coe, who it is declared, has recently indicated an unbalanced mind by his strange actions. Fortunately the shot fired by the man only penetrated her sealskin coat without inflicting upon her ous injury. Several shots also struck Prof. Garman but did no harm. Prof, and Mrs.

Garman were being driven to Laporte by relatives aftespending New Year's at the home of Garman's father, Noah Garman, a former member of the legislature. As they passed the residence of William Coe came out iL-to the road and after the bugsry had passe. levelled a shot gun at the party and pulled the trigger. The occupants of the buggy were taken entirely awares. Had they been closer results would bave been more serious.

Prof, and Mrs. Garman continued journey to town and reported the affair to officers before starting for Lafayette. A deputy sheriff and sistants left for Coe's home to bring him to jail. It is said Coe's team was frightened yesterday by Prof. Garasn and his father, who were shooting rabbits, and Coe threatened to get even.

Coe is. forty years of age and has been an inmate of the insane hospital at Logansport but was discharged. AFTERJAIZULI SULTAN OF MOROCCO SENDS TROOPS TO FIGHT THE BANDIT CHIEF Associated Press to Bismarck Tribune. Tastsrier, Jan. of War 9M1 Cabbas has decided to aend uie-n and a of mountain artillery to Arizalla, a town in possession of Rataoll.

Upon ing of thfe, Raiauli sent to Artzilla tbe prisoners at 25enlt and tfaen ordeiretdthegafcee of hecfosed. 1 MM Lincoln, formerly of Grand Is now holding down a paper job at Havre, Mont. Sf'jiSSftSk-V- 4.