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Fatal Disaster in Factory of Win.
chester Arms Company.

SIX PERSONS WERE KILLED.

'lhe Accident Occurred In the Cartridge
Loading Department, and Its Cause
Has Not Been Ascertained.

The Dead and Injured.

New Haven, July~22.—The worst ex-
plosion since the establishment of the
\‘Vinchester Repeating Arms company
in this city took place‘ at the armory of
that concern today. Six persons were
instantly killed, two were fatally in-
jured and at least a dozen, more or less,
seriously hurt. The list- of dead as
given out by the police and medical ex-
aminer includes William F. Baumer,
Mrs. Mary Baumeister, Miss Josie
Brennan,’Miss Ida Brown, William Hill
and Miss Tracey Conroy.

George Bardoff and Edward Bardoff
were fatally injured.

The explosion occurred in the de-
partment . known as the loading
room. Employed in this room were 150
hands, about 100 of whom were girls
and women. Nearly all of the female
hands are employed on what are
known as the loading machines. These
machines are so constructed as to re-.
quire three operators. The receptacle
holding the powder has a capacity of
one pound of the explosive, and as fast
as the powder is exhausted a. powder
boy replenishes the supply.

It was at about 9:30 when the fearful
explosion occurred. The full comple—
ment Of hands was at. work in the room.
Of a sudden and without warning a
deafening explosion took place.

In an instant the air was filled with
shrieks and agonizing cries. A portion
of the side of the building was blown
out and hurled in pieces many feet.
The air was filled with flying debris
and fragments of human bodies were
scattered in a sickening manner.

. htany Burrowing Scenes.

Every employee in the mammoth

plant as well as residents in that sec-
tion was only too familiar with this
sort of thing, and operations were in-
stantly suspended. Enormous crowds
flocked to the scene. A hurry call was
'sent for all available physicians“ The
fire department, the police and the am—
bulances and hospital corps were speed-
ily summoned, and the work of caring
for the. dead and injured was begun.
Harrowing scenes were enacted as the
vast throng congregated about the
place and the details of the awful dis-
aster became known. The news that
an explosion of unwonted proportions
had taken place at Winchester’s caused
the place to become the Mecca for
thousands. In the crowd terror strick-
en'persons were to be seen flying about,
calling frantically for news of their
_friends. The constant arrivals of the
ominous ambulances, the large detail
of the police, the fire-department and
as many of the city’s physicians as
could be reached added to the confu-
sion.

The police finally Were compelled to
adopt stringent methods to control the
crowd. As soon as the turmoil- was
quicied a systematic investigation was
begun. Not until then was the extent
of the fearful tragedy apparent. The
immediate scene of the explosion pre-
sented a sickening sight. Machinery,
wood, bricks and other debris were
everywhere. and in the midst of it all
were found pieces, large and small,
recognizable and otherwise, of quiver-
ing human flesh. It was a sight which
caused the strongest man to falter and
draw back. As rapidly as possible the
injured were cared for. In two in-
stances the suffering of the wounded
was frightful.

Caring For the “’ounded.

One of the victims who had not been
killed was partially disemboweled. As
rapidly as a victim was seen to be alive
the mutilated being was tenderly cared
for. made as comfortable as possible
and dispatched with all possible speed
to his home, if he could give his ad-
dress or was recognized by friends, and
to a hospital or elsewhere if not.
With the work of caring for the injured
proceeded with so far as opportunity
then allowed. the effort to ascertain the
extent Of the fatalities was inaugu-
rated. At first report had it that four
persons had been killed, but as the in-
vestigation proceeded it was found that
it was worse than that, and slowly the
police, the physicians, the firemen and
the medical examiner gathered the re-
mains of six persons. Two of the bodies
had been decapitated. Others had been
partially torn asunder, and still others
had lost arms, legs and other portions
of their bodies. At length the investi-
gation reached\a point where Medical
Examiner White informed the newspa-
per men that six had been instantly
killed, two fatally injured and several
others more or less hurt, and he gave
out the list of dead, as given above.

Explosion Caused No Fire.

The excitement did not subside. The
fellow woiltmen of the victims were
quivering with excitement. Some of
them were burned by the blinding flash,
some were stunned by flying wreckage,
and all were frightfully wrought up.
Perhaps the saddest scene was enacted
when John Baumeister learned that his
wife was among the dead. He lived in
Hamden and had been but recently
married. At the time of the explosion
he was at work but a few feet from
his wife.

The bodies Of the dead were tempo-
rarily removed to the morgue of Lewis
& Maycock, where Medical Examiner
\Vhite will complete his investigation.

The explosion did not cause a ”fire,
and the fire department confined its ef—
forts to aiding in the work of relief.

The cause of the explosion has not
been determined, and perhaps its cause
may never be known. Some of those at
Work in the room at the time say that
it was due to the fact that a cartridge
in process of loading had been improp-
erly placed in the machine and struck
fire, ”but it is really not even knOWn in
just which machine' the explosion oc-
curred. An explosion in any of the
main departments at the works is
an unusual thing. Extraordinary pre-
cautions are taken, and the company’s
officials are extremely careful in their
effOrts to preclude the possibilities of a
disaster. Usually explosions occur in
the little mound houses where by one

extent

THE GULDENSUPPE CASE.

IIartin Thorn and Mrs. Nack Are Not to
Be Tried In New York.

New York, July 21.—In order to avoid
complications, and possiblya miscar-
riage of justice, District Attorney Ol-
cott of this county and District Attor-
ney Youngs of Queens county have de-
cided that the trial of Mrs. Nack and
Martin Thorn for the alleged murder of
William Guldensuppe shall beheld in
Queens county, where the actual mur-
der is believed to have been done.
prosecution, if the trial should be held
in New York county, would have to
rely upon the alleged conspiracy to
murder, which is said to have been
hatched in this city, for the conviction
of the accused persons.

Good lawyers are of the opinion that
to prove a conspiracy to murder is not

Sufficient to comply with that provision
of the law which says that when a,

crime is committed partly in one county
and partly in another, either county
has jurisdiction over the trial. It is
necessary, they contend, to prove some
avert act in the commission of the ac-
tual deed to make a good case.

District Attorney Olcott has practi-
cally admitted that his construction of
the law is faulty under which an indict-
ment for murder was secured ~in this
county against Mrs. Nack and Martin
I‘horn. He has decided to transfer the
trial of the case to Quee‘g‘s county,
where the murder was actually done.

According to the agreement said to
have been reached by the legal repre-
sentatives of both counties, Mrs. Nack
and Thorn will' be detained in the
l‘ombs until the grand jury of Queens
’zounty'files an indictment against the
two. This in the natural course (of
events would not be until next Sep-
tember, when the regular grand jury
will meet. A suggestion has been made,
however, to District Attorney Youngs
that he urge Governor Black to impanel
an extraordinary grand jury for the
purpose of considering the Guldensuppe
murder at once.

Assistant District Attorney David
Mitchell of this county, who has had
charge of the development of the evi-
dence here, will in all probability assist
District Attorney Youngs of Queens
county in the trial of Mrs. Nack and
Thorn. '

DISASTROUS STORMS.

Several Persons Killed by Lightning In
Ohio—~Damage Elsewhere.

Marion, 0., July 21.—A succession of
terrible electrical storms, with heavy
rainfall, passed over the city and vicin—
ity today. George Stout, while driving
a mower, was killed by lightning.
Charles Seiter and William Sontag, me—
chanics, returning home from work,
were struck down on the street. They
may recover. Four men near Radnor,

‘15 miles from this city, were killed.

M. A. Hanna’s Mines Damaged.

Pittsburg, July 21.——-A cloudburst near
Carnegie, Pa., damaged property to the
of $25,000. At the Panhandle
mines of M. A. Hanna & Co. the powder
storehouse, railroad tracks and cars
were washed away. The water rose so
rapidly that the miners were forced to
flee to the hills for safety;

Snow In Colorado.

Denver, July 21.—-A severe snowstorm
is reported from all the higher portions
in the mountain districts. Three inches
of snow is reported at Cripple Creek,
Aspen and other points and one inch at
Leadville. The weather is uncomforta-
bly cool even in Denver.

Railroad Track Washed Out.
Lodge Pole, Neb., July 21.—-A cloud-
burst, six miles west of this place, wash-
ed out one mile of railroad track. All
trains are tied up. Every dam between
here and Sidney is washed out. This is
the worst flood ever known here.

Postmasters Appointed.
Washington, July 21.——-The fourth
class postmasters appointed today were:
New Jersey—Grand View, William
Doyle.

Pennsylvania—Flemington, H. J.
Brown; Glen Union, R. W. Bruce;
Landingville, Rebecca Drumheller;

Lenape, J. H. Sager; New Vernon, J.
N. McCutcheon; Nipton, C. F. Duncan;
North Hope, Ira Campbell; Register, J.
S. Westover; State Line, M. F. Lesher;
Turtle Point, Frank Wanamaker.

New York—Grenell, Amelia Potter;
Sheldrake, J. C. Blew.

Success of a Punitive Expedition.

Labuan, British Borneo, July 21.—The
British resident, who on the 12th inst.
started in pursuit of the rebel chief,
Matsalley, who had attacked and burn-
ed the government station at Gaya,
looting the town, sacking the treasury
.and carrying off the treasurer and
about £2,000, has returned from the pu-
nitive expedition, having rescued the
treasurer. A number of the rebel vil-
lages were burned by the expedition.

The Deadly Naphtha.

Boston, July 21.—-A naphtha tank ex-
ploded at the Church Naphtha Cleans-
ing company’s works on Kemble street,
Roxbury, today and two employees,
Michael J. Butler and F. W. Turner,
who were near the can when it ex—
ploded, were terribly burned about the
face, hands and body. Turner, it is
thought, cannot recover.

 

IS Not Grace Stevenson.

New York, July 21.—The patientin
the insane pavilion at Bellevue hospital
who declared that she was Grace Ste-
venson, daugIter of the Stevensons of
Boston, is not that person. Mrs. Ste-
venson arrived here from Boston today
and visited the hosplal, where she saw
the girl and denied that she was her
daughter. .

A Hartford Bank to Liquidate.

Hartford, Jaly 21.—The comptroller of
the currency at Washington will at‘once
be notified that the Mercantile National
bank of Hartford will go into voluntary
liquidation Aug. 2, 1897. A resolution
to this effect was passed unanimously
by a meeting of the bank’s stockholders
today. Everybody will be paid in full
promptly. ’ _ I

One Day's Government Receipts.
Washington, July 21.——National bank
notes received for redemption, $347,882;
government receipts from internal rev-
enue, $209,853; customs, $1,679,631; mis-
cellaneous, $26,972. ~

 

Departure of the Queen For Osborne.

London, July 21.——Queen Victoria left
Windsor castle today by the royal train
and started for Osborne House, isle ‘6'!

 

man the powder is prepared for use
No blame will attach to the'company. a,

Wight. ‘ . , . '

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llll BIG coll STRIKE
.. The Movement in Favor bf Arbitra-
tion Progresses Slowly.

_ FINAL SUCCESS IS POSSIBLE.

Another March on Canonsburg Projected.
The Situation In \Vest Virginia.
Ohio Operators Not Opposed
to De Armitt’s Plan.

 

Pittsburg, July 22.—From surface in-
dications, the scheme of arbitration on
the uniformity basis is making but
slow progress in the Pittsburg district.
No attempt has been made for several
‘ days to confer with any of the Pitts-
burg operators, and no signatures have
been secured to the agreement, but Sec-
retary Schmid said today that it was
quite probable there would be interest-
ing developments within the next 24
hours. He expects the commissioners
,all back in Pittsburg shortly, when
i something definite may be accomplish-

ed.

Henry Floersheim, one Of the largest
operators in the district, has placed
himself on record as favorable to the
plan, but said Mr. De Armitt would
never accomplish it by running around
to Philadelphia and New York looking
for signatures. i‘Why doesn’t he call a
meeting of the operators,” said he, “to
be held here in Pittsburg, say in the
council chamber, and have all the oper-
ators attend it, and there affix their
signatures to the agreement? That’s
the only way that it will ever be ac-
complished."

When it was suggested to Mr. Floers—
heim that he call such a meeting, he
pondered a moment and then said that
he would consider it.

Mr. Floersheim’s Claim.

Mr. Floersheim declares that at the
present time he can buy West Virginia
I coal at the mines for 60 cents a ton, and
then asks how the operators in Penn-
sylvania ,‘can be expected to compete
against that and pay 69 cents for min-
ing. Of course the quality is poorer,
but then it is coal and will do nicely in
a pinch. Some small fortunes are being
made during this strike, and one of
them will be by the Monongahela Gas
Coal company. For a year almost all
of their slack has been dumped into
immense banks, and there it has re-
mained, while other operators through-
out the district were selling it at from
15 to 35 cents per ton. Today the mar—
ket price for it is in the neighborhood
of $1.15 per ton, and the company has
an almost exhaustless supply in front
of its mines at Wil‘lock station.

 

Another March on Canonsburg.
Canonsburg. Pa., July 22.-—A message
was received here from Cecil that about
500 or 600 strikers were preparing .to

again. The news created great excite-
ment here and at the mines up the val-
ley. The deputies on guard were re-en-
forced and all preparations made to pro-
tect the miners at work here. The body
of strikers has not yet arrived here, but
is expected. A message was received
here early today from Cecil stating that
a body of strikers had left Toms Run
via Bridgeville for Canonsburg. NO
marchers had left Cecil. The Canons-
burg Coal company’s mines are idle.
The Enterprise men have struck and
the mines have been closed down for an
indefinite period. The mine of Cook &
Sons is being operated with a reduced
force, many miners refusing to work.
!_‘._____.
The West Virginia Status.

Wheeling, July 22.——Today finds the
coal strike situation not materially
changed in Vlest Virginia. The Wat-
son mines, with 1,000 men, hold the key
to the Fairmont region, for Monongah
cannot be kept closed unless Watson’s
men quit work. Debs’ failure to do any-
thing with the'Watson men at Rives-
ville last night was disheartening, but
the organizers have regained their
nerve, and early today a general con-
ference was held to devise new‘ plans.
The Kanawha valley miners’ commit-
tees are presenting their demand for an
advance of 13 cents a ton, to last
throughout the year. This may cause
a strike where sympathy was impotent.
0n the Norfolk and Western the organ-
izers find little encouragement. The
strike in the state as a whole is re-
garded as lost unless local issues can
be made to figure sufficiently to interest
where sympathy is lacking.

Ohio Operators “filling.

Cleveland, July 22.—Secretary Bishop
of the Ohio state board of arbitration
continued his canvass among local op-
erators today. Some of them he found
willing to sign the true uniformity scale
or to agree to almost anythingthat is
not manifestly unfair to the operators.
Others he found less tractable, and sev-

with this class early threatened to pro—
long his stay in Cleveland beyond his
calculations. Mr. Bishop, however, had
tenacity and enthusiasm, and he was
not easily discouraged. He said that he
believed he would leave Cleveland with
the consent of the nine local operators
having mines in the Pittsburg district.
With but one or two exceptions, per-
haps, local Operators have no confidence
that the uniformity scale will ever be
introduced in the Pittsburg district, and
they believe it is only a waste of time
to try to introduce it. They are of the
opinion that the best way to settle the
strike is for the operators to remain
silent and inactive. This absence of
action, they argue, will make the min-
ers uneasy and will discourage them.

 

 

Secretary Sherman Better.

Washington, July 22.—It is said at the
'state department that Secretary Sher-
man has fully recovered from his re-
cent indisposition and that he would
have been at the department today had
there been any matters there requiring
his personal attention. He expects to
be at his desk tomorrow.

 

Riots In Barcelona.

Madrid, July 22.-—A dispatch from
Barcelona says that serious riots are in
progress in that city. The gendarmes
.who attempted to restore order were
stoned by the rioters, and it has been
necessary to send re-enforcements to
their assistance. \

 

Would Reduce Liquor Tax.
Washington. July 22.—-Representatlve
Linney of North Carolina. today intro-
duced a bill to reduce the tax on dis-

tilled spirits to 70 cents per gallon.

 

march on Canonsburg and McGovern-

eral lengthy discussionswhich he had

OF NEW YORK. ~

. RIGHARD A. McG'LTRDY, President;
Statement for ' the Year Elldill! December 3Isl,..|89.

According to the Standard of the Insurance Department of the State of New York.

- , INCOME, * .°

- , $ 39,593,414 20
lO,l08,28I 07

3. 49,702,695 27

 

Received for Premium - - -
From all Other Sources - - .

DISBURSEMENTS,
To Policy-holders for Olaims' by Oeaih ‘ ,
To Policy-holders for Endowments, Dividends, elc. ‘-
For all Other Accounts - - - - - .

ASSETS.

United Slates Bonds and other Securilie - - . - -
Firsl lien Loans on Bond‘and Mortgage - - " -
Loanson Stocks and Bonds ‘ - - - - -_
lleal Eslaie - - - 9 - -
Oash in Banks and Trust companies, - - - - '-
Accued lnleesl, Nel Oefeed Pemiums, etc.

3 Iz,595,n3 39
Iz,ailz,456 u
lO,‘lOl,005 .54

S I I U,|25,082 l4

1|,543,929
ll,09l,52

22,161,666 60
l2.000’.390 no
- 6,535,555, 06

$ 234,744, 48 82
205,0lo.633 12

S 29,133,5l4 10

S 9l8,696,338 45

Reserve forPolicies and other Liabilities ‘ - - .-

Surplus -
Insurance and Annuilies-inforco '- - ~ .-

 

l have carefully examined theforegoing Statement and find the same to be correct
liabilities calculated by the insurance Department ‘ CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor.

 

From the Surplus a dividend will be apportioned as usual

Report of the Examining Committee.

, "Office of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York
Io THE HONORABLE, THE BOARD or TRUSTEES OF
THE MUTUAL LIFE lNSUllANOE OOMPANY OF NEW YORK
The undersigned, a Committee apppoihted by your honorable body on the twentv-
third day of Decerhber, I 896, to examine the Annual Statement of the Company, an d

 

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verify the same, respectfully

REPORT

That, pursuant to the power and authority thereby conferred, the Committee have at various dates betweent » ate of the
said reference and the date of this Report attended at the ofiice of the Company, and have been waited on by the freasurer,
the Comptroller, the Auditor and and the Cashier, together with the the respective assistants 0" such officers, and have care.
fully gone over all the items contained in the said Statement, and have found the same to be correct. They have examined
and counted every certificate of stock, bond and other obligation held by the Company, and compared the price at which the
same are carried in said Statement with the market quotations and find the same not exceeding such quotations—in fact, in
many cases below them. They have examined and counted the bonds and mOItgages on real. property held by the Company,
and find the same to be as stated. They have also verified the valuations of the Company’s holdings of real estate and have
verified the deposits of money in the various banks and trust companies, and have counted the cash on hand held by the

ashier.
C , And the Committee certify that all the books, papers. documents and evidences of title of every description necessary in
such examination have been freely submitted to the Committee by the said oflicers and their assistants, and that the same are
accurate, in good order and well kept. .

And the Committee further certify that the investments of the Company are of a high order, and that the system and
methods adopted by the Company in recording Its transactions and caring for the assets are entitled to commendation

ROBERT OLYPHANT J. HOBART HERRICK
JAMES N. JARVIE CHARLES D DICKEY, JR.
JAMES C. HOLDEN CHARLES R. HENDERSON

All of which is respectfully submitted

NEW YORK. J ANUABY 25, 1897.

 

The company has issued an order whereby women can be insured without the extra
charge heretofore required. More definite information on the subject will be furnished by

the local agent, Mr. AB. Camp. . .
Board. of Trustees

GEORGE G. HAvEN
ADRIAN ISELIN JR:
GEORGE S. BOWDOIN
THEo. A. HAVEMEYEB
WILLIAM C. WHITNEY
WILLIAM BOCREEELLER
JAMES N. JARVIE

CHAS D. DICKEY JR.
ELERIDCE T. CERRT

HENRY H. ROGERS

JNo. W AUCHINCLOSS
THEODORE MORFORD
WILLIAM BARCOCR
STUYVESANT FISH
AUGUSTUS D. J UILLIABD
CHARLES E. MILLER
WALTER R GILLETTE
H. WALTER _WEBB

.FREDERIC CRdmme
JULIEN T. DAVIES
ROBERT SEWELL

S, V. R. CRUGER
CHARLES R. HENDERSON
RUFUS W. PECRHAII

J. HOBART HERRICR
WM P DIXON

ROBERT A. GRANNISS

ROBERT A GRAN N 188 Vice-President.

WALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager.
ISAAC F. LLOYD. 2d Vice-President. HENRY E. DUNCAN, JR,
WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary. ALBERT KLAMROTH, Assistant Secretary. .
‘ ~ ' FREDERIC CROMW ELL, Treasurer. " . .
JOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer. JAMES TIMPSON. 2d Assistant Treasurer.
WILLIAM P, SANDS, Cashier. . EDWARD 'BA'BOLDEN, Assistant Cashier. ,
‘ EMORY MCCLINTOCK, Actuary.’ ' .
. JOHN TATLOCK, JR , Assistant Actuary.
_ CHARLES A, PRELLER, Auditor. WILLIAM W.‘ RICHARDS, Comptroller:
\ (‘. CLIFFORD GRETSIN GER, Aesistant Auditor. HENRY S. BROWN, Assistant Comptrollerj
- JOHN C. ELLIOT, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies. .
EDWARD L‘YMAN SHORT. General Solicitor.
MEDICAL DIRECTORS: '
ELIAS J. MARSH, M. D

SAMUEL D, BARCOCR
RICHARD A. MOCURDY
JAMES C. HOLDEN
HERMANN C. VON POST
LEWIS MAY

OLIVER HARRIMAN
ROBERT OLYPBAN'I
GEORGE F. BAKER
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