The Crockett Courier (Crockett, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 11, 1912 Page: 3 of 8
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NEARLY 50 KILLED
IN RAW WRECK
EXPRESS, RUNNING AT HIGH
&PE2D, CRASHES INTO ANOTH-
ER TRAIN ON SIDING.
OVER HALF A HUNDRED INJURED
Engineer Claims Fog Prevented Him
Fr m Seeing Train—Engine Plows
Through Coaches, Mang-
ling Bodies.
Corning, N. Y.—Westbound Lacka-
wanna train No. 9, composed of two
engines, a baggage car, three Pull-
mans and two day coaches, in the or-
der named, was demolished at Gibson,
three miles east of Corning, early Fri-
day morning by express train No. 11.
Forty-two persons were killed and be-
tween fifty and sixty injured. Many
of the victims were holiday excursion-
ista bound to Niagara Falla.
Pails to See Signals in Fogr
The atmosphere was heavy with fog
•ad to this Engineer Schroeder of the
express attributes the wreck. He
said he failed to see signals set
against his train, whipped around a
curve at sixty-five miles an hour and
crashed into the stationary No. 9,
held up by a crippled freight engine.
The train had not been stopped long
enough for a flagman to get back to
protect the rear. The wreck was the
worst in the history of the Lacka-
wanna.
Partial List of the Dead.
Of the forty-two bodies recovered,
but twenty have been identified. They
are: William M. Armstrong, Hobok-
en; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brandéis,
New York City (married Thursday
and on wedding trip); Herman Dyiak,
Newark; Mrs. C. E. Erwin, Chicago;
Mrs. Edith A. Hess, Scranton, Pa.;
Dr. E. V. Ivey, Bellevue hospital, New
York, home in Suffolk; Mrs. Anna
Hill James, Scranton, Pa.; George O.
Laird, Brooklyn; Evelyn Lowery (ne-
greas), Newark, N. J.; Antonio Novak,
Scranton, Pa.; Anton Nelson, Jersey
City, N. J.; F. C. Pratt, Buffalo, travel-
ing salesman; M. Patouski, immi-
grant; Regina Pravelowski, Russia;
Mrs. Lillian Reynolds. New York;
Mrs. Lucy Setteduoati, New York;
James Smith, negro Pullman porter,
Newark, N. J.; Ernest Schultz, Buf-
falo; John Zlmmer, Scranton, Pa.
Of the forty-two bodies recovered,
twenty-four have been identified.
They are: Mr. and Mrs. John Zim
mer, Scranton, Pa.; Mrs. William R
Laird, Brooklyn; Philip Laird, 2 years
old, Brooklyn; Mabel Laird, 5 years
old, Brooklyn.
Children Unidentified.
Among the unidentified dead are
four children, one a baby. The others
are two girls, both apparently under
5 years, and a boy of about 10 years.
There are also nine women, one a
negreas, whose bodies remained to be
claimed. The other unidentified vic-
tims are men.
Of the injured, four .unidentified
victims died at the Corning Hospital.
Several of the injured -who are -un-
conscious had nothing about their per-
sons which could identify them.
Running at Terrific Spesd.
Schroeder had taken charge of the
engine of No. 11 at Elmira, fifteen
minutes before. It was a few min-
.utes late. The stretch of track from
Elmira to Corning is filled for fast
running and he was sending his train
along at a terrific rate. No. 9 was
supposed to be half an hour ahe£d of
him. He had no warning until he
made oilt the outline of the rear coach
of No. 9 through the fog. Then he
threw on the emergency brakes with-
out shutting off steam.
The jerk threw the train off the
track and ,the locomotive smashed
into the rear of the train and splinter-
ed the two day coaches, filled with ex-
cursionists, and tore through the last
of the sleeping cars. Schroeder said
the impact threw him from the cab
and landed him clear of the traft,
practically unhurt.
MHIM VACATED BY DEE ARMY
Ware Forced to Abandon Capital by
Advance of Federal Army—Guerilla
Warfare From Now On.
Chihuahua.—The rebels who had
occupied Chihuahua for nearly five
months as their capital and base evac-
uated Friday in the face of a rapidly
moving column of federal troops, the
vanguard of General Huerta's army.
General Orozco is now at Sauz,
thirty miles north of Chihuahua,
while the main columns of the rebel
army is camped at Montezuma, only
twelve miles from the American bor-
der. All day long the^rebels retreat-
ed. Chihuahua, with ItB nervous col-
ony of foreigners, was left untouched
by the rebels. Troop trains were sent
through at full speed by General
Orozco to prevent looting and dis-
order.
Preparations were made by the
rebels to isolate Chihuahua. All
bridges were destroyed south during
the day. The work of tearing up the
Mexican Central railroad was detailed
to dynamite crews, which left with
the last of the rebel forces. All rebel
officials left on the last train. The
foreigners remain in their' houses.
The rebels will try to mobilize oppo-
site El Paso, a strategic entrance to
the state of Sonora. General Orozco
admitted that lack of ammunition and
superior federal artillery made It
futile to attempt to hold Bachimba.
He has distributed his forces in sev-
eral directions, but the mobilization
point will be close to the American
border, If there is one.
Rebel officers say it will be guerilla
warfare from now on. There is no
question about the apparent disorder
of the rebels, but it is probable the in-
vasion of Sonora will mean a serious
problem for the government, as the
region is mountainous and impassable
to artillery and troop trains.
Government's Available Cash.
Washington—Closing the fiscal year
1912 with a. surplus o? $36,335,830,
the federal treasury opened the new
year Monday with $99,360,000 in its
steel-ribbed vaults as a working bal-
ance. This is the largest amount of
available cash the government has
possessed for months.
The receipts for the year amounted
to $691,140,000, as compared with
$701,372,000 for the fiscal year of
1011. The total disbursements of the
year just closed reached $654,805,000,
against $654,138,000 the previous year,
when' the surplus was $46,234,000. The
tax on corporations included $28,584,-
000, as compared with $33,517,000 In
1911.
The total amount in the general
fund of the treasury at present is
$166,264,000, against $140,177,000 last
year.
VALUABLE POINTERS T0_ TEXAS FARMERS
Time to Cultivate the Soil and Guard
Against III Effects, Says President
of Industrial Congress.
Dallas, Tex.—The recent rains have
been of incalculable value to the State,
says Henry Exall, president Texas In-
dustrial Congress, but great as this
value is, it can be wonderfully in-
creased if every farmer will get into
his field just as soon \s the top of
the ground is dry enough to pulverize
properly, and by using a sweep or a
very short tooth harrow, that will not
cut more than one inch or an inch
and a half deep, and make a soft
cushion or mulch on top of the soil,
the major part of this moisture can be
conserved for the use of the crop, in-
stead of being pumped out by myriads
of small pores or tubes that operate
actively like so many steam jets, when
the surface of the ground is hard. If
this character of cultivation is repeat-
ed just as often as the condition of
the top soil indicates the necessity of
this work, splendid crops can be made
with the moisture that is already in
the soil, in all section's where there
was anything like a good rainfall. Do
not lay your crops by, but continue
this shallow cultivation that will put
air into the soil, keep the weeds down
and prevent the loss of moisture by
this pumping process.
JACK JOHNSON STILL CHAMPION
WINS FROM THE WHITE HOPE IN
NINTH ROUND
When the Police Stopped Right.
Flynn Outclassed in Nearly
Every Round.
Las Vegas. N. M.—The Jack John-
son-Jim Flynn forty-five-round fight
for the heavyweight championship
waB brought to a close in the ninth
round Thursday by the state police.
Captain Fornoff of the state force,
personal representative at the ring-
side of Governor McDonald, declared
that it was no longer a boxing con-
test, that it was a brutal exhibition,
and that Flynn's foul tactics made
its continuance impossible. He jump-
ed into the ring with his deputies and
drove the fighters and officials who
followed him to the corners.
Referee Ed Smith then announced
that Johnson had won and the fight
was orar.
A GIGANTIC. IRRIGATION PROEI PROPOSED
Plan Is to Irrigate 225,000 Acres of
Land In- La Salle County—Build
Three Big Reservoirs.
San Antonio, Tex.—In line with
other big irrigation enterprises in
the section, the Cotulla Reservoir-and
Irrigation Company has launched a
project which, if carried to comple-
tion, will place under irrigation 225,-
000 acres in La Salle and adjoining
counties. Matt Russell of Cotulla is
president of the company and Noah
Allen, assistant United States attor-
ney at Brownsville, is vice president.
To carry out the plans of the cor-
poration it will be necessary to con-
struct three great dams to create the
storage reservoirs. It is proposed for
the most part to irrigate the land by
gravity flow.
W. H. Sylvester, engineer for the
company, has just completed a pre-
liminary survey. He advises that one
of the proposed reservoirs would
cover 16,000 acres of land. Allowing
for evaporation and seepage, it is cal-
culated one filling a year of this reser-
voir would irrigate 50,000 acres of
land. The second reservoir would
cover 27,000 acres of land and fur-
nish water for 75,000 acres. The third
would cover 27,000 acres of land and
one filling would irrigate 100,000
acres of land. The dam on either
site to meet these estimates would be
only fifty-five feet high and 1,000 to
1,500 feet long.
Gotch Throws Smejkal.
Chicago—Champion Frank Gotch
defeated Joe Smejkal In struteht falls
Thursday The first tall came in
seven minutes and twenty seconds on
the hammcrlock hold, and the second
in four minutes and fifty-five second:
on a crotfth hold.
JIM FLYNN.
Flynn displayed no ability through-
out the fight. He was cut about the
face until blood ran down his breast
in a stream. He was utterly helpless
from the first round on, and by the
sixth was deliberately trying to butt
the champion's chin with his head.
Time after time, as Johnson held him
powerless in the clinches, Flynn jerk-
ed his head upward.
MUTINY OF REBELS AT JUAREZ
MEN REFUSE TO LEAVE CITY.
FOUR KILLED IN FIGHT.
Planned to Send Them to Casas Oran-
des—Or oxeo Making Strenuous
Efforts to Get Cash.
El Paso, Tex.—Mutinous troubles
among the rebel troops in Juarez con-
tinue and four men were killed in a
fight in the streets Sunday.
Serious trouble is feared when an
attempt is made to send about 1,500
of the men to CaBas Grandes and it
Is feared there will be an armed clash
if the plan of compelling them to go
is carried out. These rebels appear
utterly disheartened and the majority
of them seem to have* had all the
military experience they desire.
All preparations were made at mid-
night Sunday to Bend three trains
south over the Mexico Northwestern
from Juarez to Casas Grandes te
carry 1,500 red flaggers. At 2 o'clock
Monday morning red flag officers said
the movement had been abandoned.
Investigation revealed the fact that
the men refused to go on the journey.
A mutiny was reported imminent. It
is reported that the red flag soldiers,
comprising the garrison at Juarez, are
almost in open rebellion against their
officers owing to the fact that they
have not been_ paid for two months
According to reports that reached
El Paso from across the river the
treasury of the red flag provisional
government is practically empty. It
is said that Orozco is making frantic
efforts to pacify those moneyed citi-
zens of Juarez who have in the past
been forced to subscribe handsomely
to the revolutionary cause and to
wheedle further contributions out oí
them, but it is stated that he is hav-
ing little success.
In fear that a riot may be started
on slight provocation the red flag
rebel government of the city has pro-
claimed that any one found with a re-
volver in his possession will be treat-
ed as an enemy of the revolution,
which means that he will be shot.
Soldiers stand at every intersection
of the streets with loaded carbines,
instructed not to hesitate to shoot a/
the first sign of a mutiny.
JACK JOHNSON.
Referee Smith forced Flynn back to-
ward his corner a half dozen times.
"Stop that butting," he would say,
shaking his finger in Flynn's face,
"or I will disqualify you."
"The nigger is holding men,"
Flynn roared, "he's holding me all the
time like this," and he offered to illus-
trate on the referee. Smith evaded
the blood-smeared arms held toward
him and waved the two men together
again.
In the next clinch—it was in the
eighth round—Flynn flung his head
upward again. Smith jumped be-
tween them and warned him once
more. "Next time you do it I'll dis-
qualify you," he shouted, but changed
his mind, for it happened again and
again in that round and repeatedly in
the ninth before the police took a
hand.
The champion opened up only once,
early in the fight when Flynn landed
his only good blows, right and left
hooks, to the jaw, delivered during a
clinch. Johnson appeared nettled at
his own carelessness and smashed a
right uppercut through Flynn's guard
which rocked the white man's head.
Apparently, Johnson did not at-
tempt to hit hard. He contented him-
aelf with a slow, scientific chopping,
It was an exhibition of guarding
and hitting in the clinches as far as
the champion was concerned. Not a
blow of Flynn's reached Johnson with
any force behind it. Flynn's blows
were tossed aside, unless Johnson
chose to allow him to batter away
at his stomach. Johnson smiling the
while over Flynn's shoulder.
When the fight was over there
was not a -mark on Johnson beyond n
cut inside his lower lip, which bled
«lightly for a few minutes.
GENERAL HUERTA ENTERS C1.ÜM
Communication Will Be Opened and
Railway Lines to Torreon Will
Be Restored.
Chihuahua, Mex. — Triumphantly,
General Victorian Huerta, commandei
in chief of the government forces in
Northern Mexico, at 10 o'clock Sun-
day rode into the city of Chihuahua.
Generals Tellez and Rabago, in com-
mand of two brigades of cavalry, en
tered the city a short time before, but
were immediately dispatched north-
ward toward Casas Gandes to head
off the fleeing rebel army.
To the number of foreign flags
raised many days ago by foreign resi-
dents, who feared that a season of loot
would follow the rebel retreat and
evacuation, were added hundreds ol
Mexican banners, giving the city a hol-
iday aspect. The entry of Huerta'e
army reduced the high nervous ten-
sion under which foreign residents
had liver ever since rebel reverses in
this section began. The reaction found
explanation in a general welcome
which was little less than an ovation.
The same people who until a week
ago were loud in their protestations ol
friendship for General Orozco and hia
ragged and undisciplined army, stood
in the streets applauding the victori-
ous General Huerta and his columns
of regulars with shouts of "Viva Ma-
dero."
The coming of Huerta means the
restoration of railroad communication
with Torreon, though it cuts off the
city from Juarez and the American
border. Chihuahua had been mulcted
of supplies and business was at a
standstill. Lines now will be reopen-
ed. Huerta has been engaged just
two months in rebuilding 195 miles of
railway destroyed by the rebels as
they retreated from Torreon.
Steamships in Collision.
New York.—In a heavy fog that
hung over the eastern end of Long
Island Sound and off Newport, R. I.,
early Sunday the steamship Common-
wealth of the Fall River line, with
900 passengers aboard, crashed into
the battleship New Hampshire. At al-
most the same hour the steamships
Bunker Hill and the Massachusetts,
both of the Metropolitan Steamship
Company, came into collision at the
entrance to the sound.
Brazes Cotton Growers Organized.
• Bryan, Tex.—A large number of
farmers have organized a Brazos coun-
ty branch t * the Southern Cotton Mar-
keting Association, which has for its
object the buying of the 1912 cotton
crop at 15 cents per pound.
Whenever You.
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passages scanty
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Do not neglect
any little kidney
111 for the slight
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A TYPICAL CASE-
IN 0. Warner, 1306 M. Garfield Ave., Pooatello,
(dabo, says: "Kidney complaint of wn oonflned
me to bed for «neks. I panned kidney alone*
and the pain waa terrible. Morphine km mjr
only relief until I used Doan's Kidney Pilla.
After taking this remedy tlie atones dlitaolred
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WELCOME AKftlVAL.
Medina Dam Neara Completion.
San Antonio, Tex.—The Modina
dam, which will Impound water suf-
ficient to Irrigate 60,000 acres of land,
is now more than half completed.
Mr. Collier bown—Intelligence has
just reached me.
Mrs. Collier .Down—Thank heavens,
it lias come at last.
Blessed Sympathy.
Sympathy with animals blesses and
humanizes meii and women. To get
into real relations with an animal is
a liberal education. It is something
to be really interested even in a plant
and to observe the working of life in
any sphere not pur own. How much
more when that life is directing a
personality which consciously looks
up to us and will love us if we will
let it!-—Christian Register.
GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP
No Medicine So Beneficial to Brain
and Nerves.
Lying awake nights makesf It hard
to keep awake and do things in day
time. To take "tonics and stimulants"
under such circumstances is like set-
ting the house on fire to see if you
can put it out.
The right kind of food promotes re-
freshing sleep at night and a wide
awake individual during the day.
A lady changed from her old way of
eating Grape-Nuts, and says:
"For about three years I had been
a great sufferer from Indigestion.
After trying several kinds of medicine,
the doctor woulri ask me to drop off
potatoes, then meat, and so on, but In
a few days that craving, gnawing feel-
ing would start up, and I would vomit
everything I ate and drank.
"When I started on Grape-Nuts, vom-
iting stopped, and the bloated feeling
which was so distressing disappeared
entirely.
"My mother waa very much bothered
with diarrhoea before commencing th
Grape-Nuts, because her stomach was
so weak she could not digest her food.
Since using Grape-Nuts food she Is
well, and says she don't think the
could do without It.
"It Is a great brain restorer and
nerve builder, for I can sleep as sound
and undisturbed after a supper of
Grape-Nuts as ip the old days when I
could not realize -*vhat they meant by
a 'bad stomach.'^ There Is no medi-
cine str •beneficial to nerves and brain
as n good night's* sleep, such as'you
can enjoy after eating Grape-Nuts."
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Aiken, W. W. The Crockett Courier (Crockett, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 11, 1912, newspaper, July 11, 1912; Crockett, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth177667/m1/3/: accessed June 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.