St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 15, 1907

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IMO 1% Th! DIT “riner ww =VERYTEING 9 IPAGGUAUAAOAHVOVAAUAT A LO NO SUCH THING {STONE “COME 0 (ca EYPLOSIONS /SXaPs#07 GD BEEN rope aN el RADY GIRL ON PITTSBURG FIRE AS DRAINSTORM, | TERMS: 10 JOIN) HURL MANHOLE | pases sees ROOF LURED 10 | CONQUERED: EAPEAT SWEARS| BROWNS MONDAY’ LIDS FIFTY FEET) (5S eis a JUMP INTO NET} LOSS BY FL i “ , rhe P > ; 4 4 . » - . -* , _-- @o-—— —_ —. . " Pee a 4 id ’ out 4 Ag? a — , ’ , , " 4 “a 7 7 ‘ | Iixplosions Ot IBmhnited gas i: e.ecrtric- ‘wire conduits that gridiron the district : a ve Hea ste ivi Sets { eh eae: ato aap 3 eotha a 3 : 3 ss . Sse Bae a oe BS ge Tae gt IRR Ss ER oe 5 In view of a horror-stricken crowd, } |

(BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.) NEW FORK, March .15.-After Dr. t ey If. FH. NIEMEYER. i between Olive street ; Kirsch, one of the State’s experts in | AUSTIN, Tex., March 15.—George | nue and Nineteenth i went. Aires Re i pt arcutee Seat Ce oe | 3 ae a | Kirsch, one of the atp’s experts. in ee Ceeree | nue and Ning Pei 2 ee ee 3 , if eve sore ee se P d ¢ . AS - » a . . ’

Suffering from Such mental derange- | diately to Austin. We wired Man: ager | SOutn was shown by the suecession of Rapa Sek Rt ide why oe ; ment that he did not know the nature ‘Aleer to that effect this mor ning, reports, first from the nortii. hen 1 b 3 ae CS AS OR % ,*y x eS ps : ‘ Be % 2 ey bed pm ond quality of his act or that the act was and said that everyt} ing } d ] the south and west. x Roos * Se POR BS: Sie Se 3 So cee: “a Os Ie She oR Bee the roof and dropped 75 feet into a net wrong?’ ‘ Si ati eve } AC een ar- I ‘ollowing the gas flam iin shot ur } > : Re RRR Poa” piosk m was! ‘ : ts se by: : ase Ae us ‘ Be. oe: A a: : “ Roa Se as PP SES 3 St@ntial sum at the end of the sea- jp i One Sp eeet above the street. RSS Ss a : FR so ee aR nae Se ER Rae 3 At 9:55 o'clock Friday morning the girl lateral issue. Justice Fitzgerald over-{80n if he was leading the league again | Saiatian wire tor sen Mmnutes s Bis aah ee So oe a cae Rea SONAR RR RR ee Re RN Oe LI went into the cell in the northeast cor- ruled the objection and Dr. Hirsch said !/at that time. | Binge *: ~ hala sed ¢ peco wWiison divid- ogke See a Bios wats cate SE Sa SRI Bis oe RS SR Roses : Bri ee % ner of the women's observation ward. the case cited was no more siikiay to This now completes the Be mo! + hr eh } a Sanss Of : U workmen os $ | Riise sear poe Bes is ous ": SS a3 is Rear Ps ey . Se gee This cell has a large window opening the Thaw affair * ‘than a case of small- : has M I . lé Owns te Ly). eat pee th a ler r it Tv V be Sit a by the Pg ses MON Ne, tite ins es i . . oo ; % “ Be oe DNS a 7 Bo geese xe : os oe . : upon the roof, a nd the window is ge - broken nes spencer is still holding out, but no at- ed into eg oh of flan ne ney descend- | fe abt Ss Disease ait cone ee Re Oe RR ER i Ro ae See Saree cured by a heavy barred shutter, ques ons, ‘dostor. ‘you may step {jy : ve et ' GAUTCs T i. tings OTN) apart In: Sone os RRC te 2 a ROR oth Sal Bb :. - a hg 8 3 , sy 5 e By some oversight, t lis loc was uNn- ainda, ” said Mr ‘Delmas. | ] aah # fold, as he is not needed or ade r “sis inter pt the Progress of the RRR ERE OM SOE PaaS OUR RR SOT vate “ f: apt Aan a. The girl sprang to the grate (BY ASSOCIATED PRES . . wanted. : i t . nomen | * . Delmas it ts eens Meamtuc. “9 Sante 0m ead ee 7 pe ferous work “Photograph by. a Post- ‘Dinpateh P ‘Photographer. and flung it open, and then ora wied aut ¥ PITTSBURG, March i. ima i e¢ er i ‘ ile . heae-eneeatne - --- : . nw Si " e Dr. William B. Pritchard of the New? Foreman. Wilson, kis brother. P. Wilc! — eerie inanimate upon the roof. The ledge at- that place | q, stroyed the plant of the Amer ‘ son, is rrother I Vil- is about four feet wide, and its out- sivas iT Plate Co. at the ee feet from a per- Sheet anc n Tad ® most edge is about six fee ) York Polyclinic Institute followed Dr. 3 son, a 5. s t ‘ { a § » and §S. Saunders were ove reome DY the Laclede companies run. It is -9 Ny coo otee Stand. His responses to FINDS FORTY- 1 Y-POUND TOPAZ. the suffocating vapors. |thought that a spark from Ohe of | at con standing by the window in the cell, /South Fourteenth /street, sli, Fore man VW ilson hated his brother ne many wires sec fire to. this leaked t Doctor's Coaxing Vain damaged the, bolt works of the - Ju the fo} t. ¥ as and that from this smail beginning | , octors sage ae j Other patients immediately called the| Iron and Steel Works, adjoining. | | to the window, and tin plate company * the two hypothetical questions are iden- nurse. She went ‘ ~— loss to. the wun Oo cor Pgs and to the Oliver ¢ tical with those of Dr. Hirsch. Mr P ues uh palta P om » manhole before hi ) aside | ASSAyel Picks _ ‘Up oe ee ce US. Orr Oe | Une alataning events cnn ee | | | betraying no alarm, ve x | | Miss Colfer to come back. om “s sinee $25,000, — . As no heed waa given, Miss arris : ] started ‘through the window after her, The fire originated nigh oa ve Sosy lt as halted by the girl’s threat to] Which was set on fire by } ! ‘City water supply crippled ant water famine threatened. Telephone service suspended, Patrons at the principal note rooned; theaters surrounded by and inaccessible. Mes Electric light and gas plants affe and peonte using lamps atid le, — McKeesport almost wholly water; one-quarter of the jf homeless: city practically onder law; water works inundated less; no gas or electric lights; wires and railroads absolutely a service; all big factories shut Extraordinary flood ions in eastern Ohio, valley. the Miami and leys, West Virginia and. on

—_ oom = ward, where she refused to talk, save result was a terrific lias hat | : SPB art : See: Ps a i aa ee ici aR Sn a ies Baas hae Rae Na the lesser ! SE he a Pecan Sg RR RO a RS tn | : to repeat: “I am an innocent girl.” yesterday, as told exclusively in

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aT tt tt, a I 4% ¥ 1s ‘ | aniline tions of charges of felony and} When the , onductor finally overtook nt barely misse ‘ jc riain ) one of the tric | Dill authorizing tne Circuit Attor.«eys besides the number al- { lecting fare S, ana quit tryin g after aSK-; nurse and jumped additional Assist- [,JN2@ sever: r} had already paid and’ window between the fifth and and one Deouty | Ieeting with freezing contempt. stories to the ground below, breaking | dreds of people to their places el ‘as during’ the 6 o'clock crush, and, poth her legs above the knees. ness, and the utilization of w s ‘th 0) i ot? y YSSIng Pay? ft hy ‘ treet { ea con- TT} . hos ital authoritie s are unable to through which | estimable service yesterday, when he was turned over by District % , : ; 7 in the open alr, they returned §$ te | + Attorney Jerome for cross-examination. orth Nea ly 1000, ' work of severing the lines. U -_ er \\ at hn men murrsed to | poin s evyon where the ire had 0 cross- : eXDe - ie -» = AVES 0—Hdwar eC engine nouse a ashing- 3 he Ae sak oe - , n oss-xamination of the experts ; ton avenue and Twentieth street rush | y the danger Poco Soin being ‘ the highiy inflammable ca- art Dr. Adbert Warren Ferris of the Col-|town from a_ pol aboi : 3 + f f nt abou seve ‘ . 4 ‘ : ’ , jum ) of . . Pt iteidans end Gurreons. the ' , ] Out seven nrfiles tieth but could only stand by helplessly. Age eee , nF ne this time the alarm had been four business houses and re ’ north of here, in what is known as the They did not dare to throw 4 stream of. esi ring of the cables cut off the ' : civen and in nole | dences were burned to the groun@-a@ scp . | siupoplv al F 1Z Twentiett . : ; f the stand but a few moments. He an- | Copper Mountain District, a giant speci- | : : vs cane twentieth Governor May Name Former Conductor § Five-Block Race Lospital staff was in the ward and abe Je ee gene porta ‘we swered he two hypothetical questions as [| men of clear topazp probably | of water and illuminating gas would As the lea] Rags ae Reais Astiatant | Seventng 2 aie ae oe e Ri paz? probably one of the. generate stil] more explosive vapors, ice lip sap beet an sete yl In d nm pockets Jurist if General Sessions Superintendent Kirschner tried to coax River. Two attempts were @# fendort of the State Hos ital at. Mid. largest that has ever been found, as it “We @o not keaew what cause bedi mee. Donte ‘aine ch mall gc ee ca er cb ‘ the girl back by promising to release | stop the flames by dynamitiig etown, t ! 11S ina +} sto > F ns ; | é Cause, hec thy: fum s with which this hole ree ked. > ie Rt irae oe wees Criminal jurisdiction of preliminary ex- | f | eee er piat= below the girl, fearing that she wouldjier reaching the highest s ) ) ; ° 2s ’ > . ir } tal JUEISGICUO? L preinmiticts, a orm, | allv ' ’ , vo . ge 7 perched § ot aa = reup- ;can be cut from the Hauk topaz—fully | pany would amount to be twee finnlly jump, as she did known, 37 feet, the water alo . a exc c a FIs anon, the one thous and at least. ; $1000 Hle was ¢ nfl l nt t | Ae ein ff} : } ‘ A 3 a as connden lat Su misdemeanors, and ihe Senate it: ha towne? as »k had left off ’ Viola Helms, a pfAtient in the same! caused; over ‘100,000 Ae fy ee > on was o 1e same mind > OFBOUt where he had i ON .COt are scane : - a alte ly thrown out of e xy th i a of the same mi as the i 1. 1 SE ERe fe Bern fe not ur | could b. Sacktakad by cient ward, escaned from a doctor nad temporarily th my © P 7" = oe Seeilike that of a six-inch gun. It is al- | those who aiff r tand: . : Sse who suffered as a result of the fourth | eity is crippled; skiff* are carr, Delmas waved Dr. Pritchard = aside their origin. a was then announced from the de- mel to the ss Dispatch, {| When the first explosion occurred fre. | : : y.)/ reacned and cut the cables. This did for. the State. lauk, a young assayer, brought int a5 6 into | to the corner of St. Charles and Twen- || . , Snore ~~ itd ms next expert for the prosecution, was on a few ee ee ae . ot ; : , , water on the blaze for fear the mixture! . 1p fro: n Oliv e to Locust streets J ; : i s0cus Streets, = crowded about the window. { e. ) . i ™ . the others had done. Dr... A. R. Di regular interveis, it was towel Furnished Fun for Rear : her from the hospital, but she refused] buildings, but the wreckage ‘ > ; i as as ois we sae i]t* to a Post-Dispatch reporte a ’ ‘ilson. a companied by his brother ; testify that In his opinion, based on the ; Perfect as could have been done arti- | duits and a spark from a ecabl it ; | ah ak ee Ail Whar A La hain 7 5 a mre eee wer ae ON ee AN 1 JEP PERSON CITY, : March. 16.—The tcc ei 4 > rs 4 9 4 ‘ wv. ; 4 sductor] ‘Sx | 7 os Tv. __e . ae the de puty nov to CVC ed Sis i, i I t forward to , through explain ), ow the window . and sent forth dense smoke. age a ag Ge trek ee 4 ttor? : i ao eee ee lor: unnat sae ony i 6 ease : hap-| continued owing te strenuous so 2 . ; \ oOrncyv be COTTICE rASDOp : e® TO} i’l}> ild f , A man Mies Colfer escaned to the roof ap 4 t ; « for Circuit rur ' van oO} 1 ‘ear platform, p ned to be unlocked. by the nt “tetheo ted y. | Twenty fatalities have occu | |

+ pe of Spal counsel said he sic Be ew quest ons to put to him. — ns an Soomocenaiees — One of the power houses supplying the 1. : : : . : 1? 5 4 “ } wouls wh 2 ted ‘Is it not true,’ ’ he as ked, “that phy- electric light Current is l it ad Ri “Ww n- day ? S 1 >; 7 wy cohy nex Sunda Vv | Louis, bel - vag 2 Bi — ‘ o sO j i : 4 rh ran ° ey ‘f transfsé r we often differ. :as to — from of | : | Meth and Locust streets, but the series Bip publi . Saas can, utara AM canis ee Seteb to urge the passage | an: ity’ ow what ta aa! gee legheny County, directly due to” sanity from which a patient may be h) , D; t h of explosions did not have any ‘feet on eT eee |S SULsseS I CRS eos t ; Bs “ote Gov With ints cs z ’ water. suffe ring?"’ un ay @sI- spa « the oper ation of a? ? Post-Dicn: coe » Hts. €Yne . ? 1S SUPr.«. It is undershov: eaia UV. ¥ ii ; Lith? hey t} ‘onductor s ) A YS o ‘ th ant Pree autions espater wcau st. Or- Tolk w uses ‘iden e judgeshismt the: voice throw . crowded aisle R i’ r Bridges Threateneé. | w District Attorney Jerome inte ‘rpesed were taken to pr je thn fro fram sot. dar from SL 4 | oO him the judgesnhi er | batch " be cl tj 1 } mt ais] 7 S Feu is . a fain a 's ‘ ) tae a hewsdeaier today. Lilk becomes a law. ce gaye See Pt wor BB ee, . FOR FE W DA YS Four massive bridges, the Stage OMe form tt } ri) Lis rror a Ninth and Seventh and Sixth- bjection, yo it was overruled. | ting into the plat it by severing ny aoe anatted De Moon | t SuNdayMagaZine } sx FSO PO ere | Faken lh erat a Questions Objected To. | =ne first explosion oce irred art 7Wwen- - mens pence: ar strugeitia ‘throwsh & ‘cameos | scociatian Adaiec Mae ,, Hartridge said that many things, March 17, 19 7 ag and se Ch aries *. 10:30 a. nail } = | { ii rn ' 7 and the agit: rs letruction owing ae ly tee n evidence were left out el a report, and a great pillar fae—~- — | ‘Oris of the ural passenger to iwhich came down the A ; flame burst through the manhole grat- scents Bre per oat 7 at Face Pg Visit to Be Extended Through which es belleved. they. have ly weakene vr" e not gwept away is conside sh are of | the BE pepemetical question framed by CONTENTS. Page ) (8. high into the air, burning for many ae Nenyail vi aig I Ho : | as ;he had. seen ‘the conductor; : or Longer. or T) . Sunday g ous by river men. the f

he’ t Attorney, and undertook minutes wit] to. suppl some of the details. Mr./( The New Fashionable Night at tea enh hy ra - gol : f who Frightened femimine gee in Jerome o ted to the a 2, ia : CK was the cash | , ' the ‘especially © cg sta seni = 5 St. Louis Theaters (in colors). 1 — ay on Washington avenue rushed : ° |; acta ARE csr kcke ig coe ee eed ae the Dnatkan gang and said New lIreland— Signed Statements te eer, put could only stil af OVE rS OUIS I rush to 1 om ir. T ie rural mena ee oe . coln, Colonial, Annex and A Tson | theer eg net a fact correctly stated by Sf. Louisans Zin ng y ge se Bok care to throw * Ieenger fi d, W | arrived in St. | teis, located in the midst oft né flee cot ee ' es aos ieee Hin’ 2» Stree? trou ment. E WONT —! Louis today, | zone, are maregned. aes are watel mixture . The. conduciac tetinwes an vie ae sie . |[the high water from the nd . ts . ane a Hic! GO HOME says he likes ths four theaters, the Gayety, by Mr. Hartridge which is net con- , 1“ >. tained in one or the other of the two|) The “Nebuchadnezzar” Cure Lat- Mur Gatien a (4uuminating gas would ge: iWay Verwood i : j -irnig j 3 j ' ; . mi OV . . an. citvy and haa de- Belasco and Bijou, are ff ie # Most of the fire engines — thes or nypothetical questions put to the wit- est Craze With Society Women 39) 00" noah Mr. Jereme = clause fn o Mr. Hart-|) A Sextette of Queer Romances... ' yy.» (*s< a . . * ce i “Did vo re he r ‘ 7 ah | ; hare placed nea ae: | pb OoSf - as ‘h, i »8 Cols. en Agr ay aeons au ning into millions of dollars hi Uycle Skating for the Southwest.1, 2?) The wraanee ? a yOung man, smiling swe | Grant’s St. ‘T uis Letter Asking | every rane ee wheut conductor glared. but didn’t an- | ij] dome: many sowse are 2am ' 0 4 1g direction, taking about : a , yt" Fy js off from this city: theseanee 4 for Employment .. fa Teo A Block. “Its progress oad Globe-Democrat, es pert and Col homes, and tt ie expect . f 101 ols. | insanity ~ fie hae aw is explicit to the form of insanity which govt tutes an excuse for crime—that the must be suffering from such a | of reason as not to know the aes re or Com of his act or to know . wrong. The luncheon re- cess was varderea with the matter pinu- ing. Jerome May Re Calicd. Abraham Hummel! wil! be recalled pb a soremne in a further attempt to get pamnoes. affidavit before the jury. ae pro “4g Reng considerable time en up in argument on itty of his testimony. aul of yesterday morning's Was taken up in = discussing or not this evidence should and Mr. Jerome succeeded but one answer from him. ian | possibility that Mrs. W will be recalled to tel! cette at

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indicated by explesions. 7 ‘ ’ homes, and it is ex ted t r latpin a Menace to Men. a ftMe Very freqnent. Groups of fright- Star- Chronicle COMBINED en RT whe “Re dy, the Red- Eved Elephant, e , ened Peaple, who could oOniv LRuess . “hi flocked into . | “Pair " reat ¢ | warmer tonight h service ie shot off. Th story of the affidavit, which a story for children ... , what might happen, “How I Climbed the Be - and watched the progr: ~ and Saturday: | of the as not reac To add te the confuston tional harpes against “age = tent also fantonn ns eer : Pecullar condition. Mountain in the Se!! aa eigeint kee a sani ial iin aie : E n in peculiarity of the x t a wee) Post-Dispatch xcess southwesterly winds; minimum tem. in the imn | burg came the two early : rc ELECTIVE: perature tonight about 4 degrees,” fires. The firemen —

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e — tte a rtand an attempt to :mpeach x eredibility t hye colors) ...,. ee lat no sheck was felt i Vicinity of the first manhole Ut hat Fair weather is pretty general over ee in ReSting t : ‘wv ortage of water in the” . THE FUNN ‘eY SIDE. ' rhe ded. Z i i is ance oOo n vitia ' TO ' oe hu nn] WEVALID TAKES ACID. The Prodigal. Son. “ however, ane for a ec ik pays <4 “Over all of the others on the SA} ME DAY the country and the only indication of sad me _ Brabec Found Dea Dead With Poi- The ria Sele Going in sae i. | Persons who happened t ae toms | and unde r the SAME CON- C iecsncheenintmncmieni anything else is an impertinent storm ucla seersthies.. one tare hocks re: that they DITIONS. ois. ‘| ecurrying along the Canadian line as Telephone Servier € 7 } dresser »% 7" . i's S of two renorted pon Bottle Near. Yens Yensen —Several felt rer reeptible vibrations, Amendment Adopted b Senate though ashamed 6f itself for “butting ‘Talephone conduits were ; J in” on apring’s visit. That disturh. early tn the day and the in Bed at aged 4%, was found Hi ompany attempiea to extinguish | “y ‘his home, 1904 South | P han foe N the Hames by pouring sand into the) ' reet, Thursday afternoon, anhandle Pete-—Not es anole, A wagon load of ft was! A Said to Mean Death ance will not affect the weather this! most of the downtown hauled to the place and dumped into the! ' — : : nto u : of Bill, sein catemaneceniaptiiniasajpaseseniitiiaiiiaiatindbatiminatisita asides down Bas that of ihe a onean “HES On a table was an Bird Escapes says his father haa{} ped Bragg, the Roaster as st Supt. Wil f the Lacled POLICE BILI ail : " 0 ie Lede ' : for ‘six months and several onater pepe: i ("n. on rece é the ecene vi , ' " ye * aa LK FAVORS Ege atened to ond hie tite ‘the |} The Bad Dream That Mage Bill }/ with \a" number "of warkinen. Them = irst in Quantity” pian te i . ae = BILL. | then reader shot the et ere divide into three rtiesa and sen " : ; hd “ + mare i.—The ' - as : First in Quality Senate today adopted an amendment to JEFFERSON CITY, | March Prenaer to an inquest 1 ) & Better Boy .. a widower fis mother, | Sammy's History of the World, | ou Pp, cuttecent. ditections. It was as- the excise bill to make the office of | est police bill. It provides the 9 cal rite ‘Ttalned that gas had escaped r aad aie ee 3 a and Iustrated by Him- he main and seeping through the Jn- : First in Everything coe {State Excise Commissioner elective. The patews system for the St. This | partment and increases ite membersh —

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