VOL. IV,
EIGHTY KILLED
BY EXPLOSION
Dupont Powder Works at l on
tanet, Indiana, Blows up
With Many Victims.
EVERY Bill DIMi DESTROYED
Schoolhouse Wrecked With Children
and Coal Mines Caved in l n
tombinq Workers Alive.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
’IVm* Haute, hul.. * >ct. I»* The es
timate *»t dead from the explosion in t h*
I hi pout powder work" yesterday now
tixt" t he i mi her between seventy and
eighty. The injured uumher several
humti«* At !enst l.V»0 persons an
home!*-"" through wreck of their
houses. The work of recovering
corps* " ft «'in th** ruins proceeds slow ly
on accmt::’ of the enormous m:i"ses o:
debris. The militia A in charge.
Explosion Destroys Town
Ten** Haute. Iml.. t >cf. lo \ terri
lie explo >n in tin* Dupont powdei
works at Foutanet this morning killed
at leas* '_ »» ;uh; injured not less than
son mot**. The entire town is destroy
ed, nearly every building hoing leveled
to the ground or badly shattered.
Seventy bodies had been recovered at
noon.
The greatest Io^s of life was in tin*
factory but scores of school children
were buried in be ruins o» a school
house m ar the powder works. Several
coal mines m ar the town caved in amt
many scores of miners are believed to
be entombed alive.
The r* port of the explosion wa
heard sixt.* miles away and its etlect
were felt long distance-'. Many houses
in surrounding town, were shaken
down.
Nothing but a huge hole is left
where the powder factory stood..
The surrounding seem is terribly pa
thetic. Scores of weeping mothers.
are crowded around the schoolhoust
watching the recovery of bodies from
the ruins.
’Plains carrying doctors and nurses
and ail requirements of relief are
rushing to the stricken town from
ot her oil ies.
Vandals To Be Shot on Sight
Font aim*. I ml., < Hit, IT t«ov. Hanley
issued orders today t<> the militia to
Shoot on -gilt vandals caught in the
at* of looting. The city is chiefly oc
cupied in burying the dead who were
killed by the Dupont powder works ex
plosion.
WAR BALLOON
MAKES RECORD
Co\ers Distance of 500 Miles
From St. Louis and Comes
in Safely.
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
St. Louis, Oct. lit—'War balloon num
ber 10 of the United States signal corps
made a record in airship traveling by
completing a trip of 500 miles today.
It traveled at an average rate of twen
ty-two miles an hour.
A. B. CAMP TO HAVE
BIG TIME THIS EVENING
Seward Camp, No. 21, of the Arctic
Brotherhood will start a hot time in
the old town tonight, with a semi-an
nual election and the initiaton of sev
eral officers of the Buffalo into the order.
The trail is pretty slippery from the
recent freeze and it was rough before,
so trouble and serious accidents may
be looked for, and the camp sur
geon is to be there with his tools.
SEATTLE SORE
ON REYNOLDS;
Merchants Appoint Committee
to Investigate Promoter’s
Alaska Affairs.
*ly cable to Tbe Dally Gateway.
'eattie, Oct. If Local merchants
appointed a committee today to invest
igate the atlairs of the Reynolds enter
piises in Alaska. lie is heavily in
debt to supply houses and manufact
urers here. They will give him a
month to make good and if he fails
w id call for an inquiry hy the Courts.
To Send Committee North
Seattle. Oct. 1*> Rusiness men of
this city who hold claims against the
IP v uolds companies will send a com
mittee north to i nvest igate the atlairs
; the various enterprises. Reynolds
succeed in getting in heavily here and
reports received from Valdez do not
promise that much will he saved from
he wreck.
Laborers Leave Valdez
Valdez. Oct. L> Alwut *250 laborers
tbrovvn out of work by tin* collapse of
t ie Reynolds railroad project sailed
n the Saratoga for Katalla or Seattle.
(lov. Hoggatt and city officials posted!
• . itice> toda.\ stating that the city will
i.o longer aid unemployed men and ad
vising all to leave Valdez. I'he n -
mainder will nearly all go on the
Rertha.
Reynolds Coming North
Seattle. < >ct. 19 — if. 1>. Reynolds
an i sev«»»Mi] Seattb ! .i.-’ee. ’ iliai *viii j
Mill for the north on the steamer \ uca-1
tan tomorrow to make an inventory of
in- Reynolds interests in Alaska.
IN COURT FOR
CANYON FIGHT
(icorge liazelet, lid Hasey and
r> *
Duncan Dickson Arraigned
for Shooting.
C ' Ip i<. The Datly Gateway.
Valdez, < >ct. l'» - Tne preliminary!
examination of Ceorge Hazeiet, Kd
H:isey and Duncan Dickson upon the
charge of murder in the second degree J
for the Keystone canyon shooting is
now in progress. Hazeiet is the Gug- !
gonheirn agent here and the other two I
aiv tie men who did the shooting.
—
SULZER THINKS ALASKA
SHOULD GOVERN ITSELF
After returning from a long trip
through Alaska. Congressman Sulzer
a>id in Seattle recently:
“Congress i> too big a body to act
a> a board of aldermen for a country
iike Alaska, and the time has come
when that country should have the priv
ilege of selecting its own governing of
ficers and passing its own local laws.”
“Ninety-nine per cent of the eitizens
of Alaska want home rule and territo
rial government. Their demand is a
just request and based upon patriotism.
1 feel confident that Congress will ac
cede to the request. Alaska is one of
the most valuable assets in Uncle
Sam’s domain, and nothing will bring
about its development so quickly as
local self-government. To refuse
Alaska home rule would be a denial
of citizenship contrary to the spirit of
our institutions, and undemocratic,
unrepublican and un-American.”
Steamer Jeanie Bringing Mail
It is learned today through the cable
office that the steamer Jeanie is bring
ing mail this trip instead of the Port
land. This accounts for the delay of
the Portland in sailing. The Jeanie
left Seattle October 12 and passed
Sitka Thursday night, October 17.
A new strike on the east fork of the
Chandlar is reported.
CARRIES BACK
KATALLA CARGO
Steamer Yucatan Unable to Dis
charge at Guggenheimtown
Coming or Going.
HAS ROUGH TRIP TO SEATTLE
Seas in “Harbor” so High That Ves
sel fails to Leave Any of
900 Tons of freight.
Oy Cable to The Daily Gateway.
Seattle, Oct. 10 Steamer Yucatan
arrived last niyltt from Seward l»riny-i
invr hack with her the entire caryo ol
!HMt tons >he took from Seattle for Ka
I tails. She was unable to discharge in
the roadstead either jfoinjf west or
comiim back because of the roujfh
weather which made it impossible to
transfer freight to lighters.
The stearner waited two days on her
; rip put for an opport unity to discharge
and then went on to Yaldexand Seward.
While waiting oil shore oil her return
the seas became so rou<_rh that she was
! obliged for safety to put out into the
I open ocean and therefore came on to
Seattle. She had a stormy trip down.
TARTAR BUMPS
INTO CHARMER
r •
►lv Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Vancouver, B. < .. Oet. 1st - I lie
Oriental liner 'Tartar, outbound, era sh
ell int-ithe steamer!’banner in a dense
foir late last nijrht in the Gulf of Geor
gia. Both steamers were loaded with
passe Hirers but the captain of the
Charmer, which ret urned here at noon
today, sa\s that as far as he knows i.o
lives were lost. The Charmer’s bow
was carried away. The Tartar anchor
ed out in the jrnlf and waited for the
fo»r to lift.
HOGGATT BEATS
HEID IN JUNEAU
to , able to The T>aOv Gateway.
Juneau, Oct. lf> Gov. Hoirjratt’s fac
tion elected its ticket at the republi
can primaries yesterday over that of
National committeeman John O. lleid
by a majority of .‘>2 in 400 votes cast.
RECORDS BIG
EARTHQUAKE
By Cable to The Dally Gateway.
Washington, I>. C., Oct. 17 — The
seismograph this morning recorded an
earthquake more violent than that at
San Francisco in 11*06. It is supposed
to have occured somewhere in mid
ocean as no report of a land tremor
has come in.
EARTHQUAKE BETWEEN
MEXICO AND HAWAII
Berkeley, Cal., Oct. 18 — State uni
versity scientists announce that the j
violent earthquake shock last Wednes
day occruredin the Pacific ocean some
where between Mexico and Hawaii.
Bring Dust From Yentna
The Carlson brothers, from Poor
Man’s creek in the Yentna district,
went out from the inlet on the Saratoga.
They had about $6000 in gold dust.
Several other miners from the district
came out on the Saratoga or Bertha
with small amounts in dust.
The Nome Nugget says Teller was
almost depopulated recently by a stam
pede to Shellman creek, where rich
strikes had been made.
ANOTHER GREAT
LATOUCHE MINE
_
Regular Shipments Now Going
Out from Girdwood and
Barrack Property.
The Latouche Copper Mining C.mi
pan\ now lias a steady output of cop
per ore, which it is shipping from
I .arrack's dock on Northwestern boats.
The president of the company..lames
Girdwood, passed through Seward to
da\ on the l.erthaon his way to La
touche from Turnagain arm. where lie
went a month ago to close up work
for the season on his hydraulic placer
mine at the head of Crow creek. Prior
to that Mr. Girdwood had spent, most
of the summer at Latouche directing
operations on the copper mine.
Mr. Girdwood says the situation on
his property at Latouche i> eminently!
satisfactory, what was considered two
years ago to he a fair prospect having
assumed the proportions of a mine.
Tunnels and drifts have exposed a hig
deposit of copper ore of good value.
During the summer a double-deck j
dock was constructed with hunkers of
TOO tons capacity and a gravity tram |
runs from the mine to th*- hunkers.
•*A record for quick development
work has been made on this property,”
said Mr. Girdwood. "In less than
eighteen working months the prop
erty lias been placed on a permanent
shipping basis. This work included:
driving 1200 feet of tunnel, drift and
upraise. The company is a close cor-]
poration, never having had any stock
for sale. It is a strictly private en
terprise which promises to yield a
handsome return for the investment.’’
Mr. Girdwood reports that hydraulic
operations on Crow creek gave good
ret unis this year.
TANANA SENDS
GOLD STATUE
Figure of Venus de Milo From
Fairbanks on Exhibition
in Seattle.
.iv Cable to The Daily Gateway.
Seattle. Oct. lti A statue of the
Venus tie Milo, cast in Tanana tfoltl at
Fairbanks, valued at more than $7000
and twelve inches lii^h was received
today and is on e.xhibiton in a front
window of a local bank.
JUDGE WICKERSHAM WINS
IN TANANA PRIMARIES
Supporters of Judge Wickersham
won a pronounced victory in the re
publican primaries in t lie Tanana to
elect delegates to the Juneau territo
rial convention. Wickersham and
anti-Wickershm tickets were in the
field and the Wickersham side won by
a big majority in Fairbanks and on
most of t he creeks.
It was immediately after this popu
lar indorsement that Judge Wicker
sham tendered his resignation from
the bench.
Two Miners Killed at Landlock
Two miners were killed and Jack
Ross, the foreman of Bourke & Steel’s
mine at Landlock bay, narrowly es
caped with his life, by a cave-in of the
tunnel. The men were working in
the tunnel when tons of earth and
rock slid from the top, covering the
men several feet deep. Ross was
struck by a portion of the slide and
knocked down, but his body was only
partly covered by the falling earth and
he. was soon rescued by comrades work
ing in other parts of the mine. The
names of the two dead miners could
not be learned. They were buried at
Ellamar.—Cordova Alaskan.,
The Guggenheims are shutting down
nearly all mining operations in the
Klondike and it is claimed the object
is to drive the laborers to the Katalla
railroad work.
KEINZES LOSE
COPPER CORNER
Failure to Hold up Market Causes
Suspension of Firm on
Stock Exchange.
BUTTE BANK CLOSES DOORS
Montana Magnate Suddenly Resigns
Presidency of Mercantile Na
tional of New York.
a.v Cable to Tbe Daily Gateway.
Now York. Oft. IT Failing in :tn
attempt to corner the copper market
Otto Heinze vV Company were forced
to suspend payment on the 'dock x
clianjfc today. They i-Mie a statement
saying that they will pay dollar for
dollar on all le^itimateoblijrations.
Ai noon today F. Augustus Heinze.
the Montana copper kinjf. resigned
the presidency of the Mercantile Nat
ional bank.
Butte Bank Closes
Butte. Oct. 17 - The State Savings
1 >ank. in which the Heinzes are inter
ested. closed its doors at noon today.
A crowd of depositors are gathered
around the door crying for vengeance.
A notice posted on the door says the
suspension is only temporary and tt at
the bank will soon reopen.
Copper Market 5till Panicky
New York, Oct. Is - Copper stocks
were panicky again today on the ex
change and the Amalgamated clique
started a run on the Guggenheim
crowd to make them drop their hold
ings. It was the Amalgamated which
forced Heinze to the wall yesterday.
Kail road stocks are also shaky today
and the uneasy feeling pervades all
interests on the st reef.
Heinze to Pay All Valid Claims
New York. Oct. lb - F. Augustus
Heinze will he able to pay all just
claims against him.
William l». Bidgelev of Illinois,
comptroller of the currency in the
United States treasury department, to
day accepted the presidency of the
Mercantile National bank of New
York, which Heinze resigned when
his firm failed on the stock exchange.
The bank directors also handed in
their resignations today, which were
accepted.
Examiner Has Hein/.e Bank
Butte, Mont., Get. 1!> State Bank
Examiner Collins i» in charge ot tlte
Hein/.e bank in this city which closed
its doors this week. He refust*-, to
give out any statement concerning the
bank's affairs.
RAILWAY BONDS
BEGGING AT 65
Streetcar Company of San Fran
cisco Financially Crippled
by Strike.
By Cable to The Daily Gateway.
San Francisco, Oct, 17—The bonds of
the United Railways are going begging
at 65 in the open market. The strike
has been extremely costly to the cor
poration and in its great need of money
it has thrown a large block of bonds
on sale at once.
PATRICK CALHOUN OUT
OF UNITED RAILWAYS
San Francisco, Oct. 14—Patrick Cal
houn is out of the presidency of the
United Railways, and is succeeded by
Charles Black, sent here from New
York. Other officials of the company
are slated to go. Calhoun will soon be
tried in the superior court for alleged
bribery of supervisors.