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V OL LXX...N 0 23578. [11l KILLS FIVE; GUTS THROUGH AUTO Express Strikes Machine Squar ely Between Wheels and Grinds It to Bits at Cape May. VICTIMS FROM BALTIMORE f W. Frldner and Wife, Daugh ter and Son -in -Law, Fritz Mergenthaler, Son of In ventor. Die Instantly. [By T>l«7rsx* to The Tribune.) Cape May. X. J.. Aur 0. — Five persons wore iristantly killed to-nieht when an cypress train on the Wret Jersey A.- Sea ffcpre Railroad struck an automohile in •p hich they were ridinjr squarely between th«» wheels and hulled the machine and Its occupants clear of the tracks. Th" Bcoident occurred at the Mill Lane cross ing The Bead are Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Feldner; their daughter. Mrs Fritz Mergenthaler. and her husband, and M. C. Joups, the chauffeur. All lived in Bal timore. They had been spending a few days at Atlantic City, and started out this afternoon for a trip to Cape May. Mr. Feldner was until last April presi dent of the Cape Hay R<?al Estate Coin- ■ p&ny. which built the new harbor, filled ; in four square miles of land here and i erected th*- Hotel Cape May. According to the occupants of two i nher automobiles which swerved to one dde to allow Feldner"? car to pass, the ill fated i • me De a»as epeeding along thf -, v state road at a rapid rate, ap- , parently unconcerned as to its prox imity t" the railroad tracks or the ap proach of a train. On th« left hand side ! if -he. neiv road and close to it at the : rresssac is a field of corn so well giwii j that ■■-.- enE-ine^rs and drivers of vehicles — I pee each others approach. Did Net Heed Woman's Siansl. Shortly before fi o'clock Mrs. Thomas MacKelil tvho lives near the crossing:, \ noted the ccmins- cf the express -which • c due from Philadelphia at 5:46. and at | •-.- same time Ebe paw an automobile speedir.£r to certain destruction at th» ■tag leas it? occupants were vamed ■• their danrer. She ran for ward to wrars the party in the Fe!dn c r m - 3fne, but either Oh chauffeur *?id net understand her signal or thought that heh c could m mil the tracks before the ! train reached th crossing, for he osE^ed on. The encinf-fr cf the express. Joseph Wheaton. bbk the automobile pass the edge of the corn field, a Few yards from th* track en which he -was running. Al tlwuall svar* of the fact that an acci dent ti - . inevitable, he tried to shut off ■-c power, but his efforts fere bound to fa and, Bfl ■"■•'-■" i his .'engine' rashed into the automobile and smashed it aajsjarc in tv.'o. g«5 gr&zt was the •-- of th*= collision that both parts of the automobile were smashed to bits. The piston cocks and the *'•• =• •-- leading to the cab of the ■-_. . - c --.-.-_ torn off. The pilot and driving wheels were covered with blood and particles of fleFh when the train roll?'? into the Cap" May station. A!! Killed Instantly. -• i? beloved that all the oemparita of the - njobfle were instantly killed All the bodies were badly mutilated, and pieo** of th**m were scattered alone the rfii'road tracks for a dis-tance of two hundred feet F^ldncr's face was literal ly torn off. The bodies were quickly cohered toeeth^r and physician? sum moned to the ec^ne. It did not take tl«em long to Fc-e that medical aid was of no favail. and Coroner Reeves was Informed of the accident. He took charge of the bodies snd brought them to ... Moreno here to await instruction? from Balii- Baltimore Aug. 9.— "Fred" W. Feld ner, of this city, who, with his wife, son in-law and daughter. Mr. and Mrs. F / M^rsrenthaler. and their chauffeur, were killed nines a train struck their auto mobile near Cape May. N. .r . to-ni~ht, vac a well known lawyer <.f this city, tnd was associated with Frank A. Furst, «!.=" of Baltimore, in a contract whi- h contemplates th*» draining of the Ever gladeß and in oth'-r larg*- enterpriser. Mr M^rc^nthaler. who was also a resi dent of this city, was the son of Ottmar J.'erpenthaler. the Inventor of the ller i*othaler linotype. ALORICH MAY RECONSIDER Reported in Newport That His Friends Urge Renomination. [By '.--rear' hi The Tribune ] IC^wport, R 1.. Aug.*?— Senator N>lson W A!dri<h has been the centre ol much Interest here for th*- laFt two days, and <)•<* r.«=-ij«.f i« that he is b^in? urcd by BOtne of his friends to reconsider his de <:Hon of pomp time •• i: ■ not to be a can didate ■■..■• Senator AJdrk ■ as - b**en here on his :- r 'm O-We-Ra; and it became known to-dsy thai Senator Cran". of Massachu setts, had been a recent visitor on board th» yacht and also that there had been i <..,■. between Senator Aldrioh tr«J Senator G*org«- Pea body Wetniorft, *ho jp h«-r*= at his summer home. Sena tor Wetmo-o called on President Tmtt sit Beverly recently 1' wag a iso reported her^- to-day thai fc&'Uher visitor on board the O P7< ■ i this «.«-}< has b^en the secretary to the President, Mr. Norton. J Pierpont Morgan has been here on Ht yacht «'orsa!r during <he v " '<■ . and Ji* 1 5i!:0 Renator Aldrich are reported to hJ.v* h^ld a conference.': What has wo rinnr-ti ih*-s*» conferences could not be tarnr-d, and Uk Aldrich yacht left port U'-dav. C LOOD SWEEPS VILLAGE. London. Aug. 10.— A St. Petersburg dis f*uh t.i -The Tlm*s" gays that the village cf B^iiphr niuk. In the Caucasus^ was over *&Uned i,y a flood at midnight which L *>l-t sway five hundrtd houses with their i-'-mates SLEEPING SICKNESS SPREADS Bordeaux^ Aup. 9 —The steamer AfriQue. *;-Uh i,as Just arrived her-, reports that l 3t *pinK Bicknene ss* ravaging v.*-* districts ■ ,- . . . u_ _____ "' . "*" "- " . • ! _____ NEW-YORK, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 10, 1910. -FOURTEEN PAGES, • * MAY OPERATE TO-DAY ON MAYOR GAYNOR, SHOT DOWN ON STEAMER AS HE IS ABOUT TO SAIL ; RESTING QUIETLY THIS MORNING GALLAGHER STRUGGLING TO FREE HIMSELF FROM THE GRASP OF COMMISSIONER EDWARDS. (Photograph taken the deck <->f the Kaiser Wilhelm d*r Grosse. immediately aft«r the shooting.* GREAT FIRE IN BOSTON Property Loss of More than $1. 000.000 in Lumber District. FIVE FIREMEN INJURED Elazs Most Extensive Since 1872, and Nearby Cities Send Effective Help. Boston, Auc. 9.— A loss of more than $X.OOO^OOO was caused to-night by a fire in the wholesale lumber district. Start in- from an unknown cause in the lum ber yards of Blacker & Shepard. at Dover and Albany streets, th«» blaze early assumed proportions of Bach mag nitude that a jron^ral alarm— th*» first sounded in this city since 1872- followed within ten minutes of the first alarm. The fire Bone extended alone: both sides of Albany street south from Dover tro^t on the East Bide. wiping out the buildings and ten million feet of lumber piled in the Fort Point channel locks of the lacker & Shepard company, and on the west side extending to the Thsyer tree* public playground. Five brick buildings on the west side of Albany etreet were destroyed. These included , three story tenement block, four woodworking factories and th» Bos un Fire Department repair station, in which several pieces of fire apparatus were lost. _, , „ it was estimated that the Blacker & Bhepard Company's loss would be mor* than 1300.060 The Boston Fire Depart ment's damage on the repair shop and it* contents was estimated by one of the chl efs to be about $I.* The Fire Department headquarters, directly In the rear of th- repair shops, was saved. The lire called out practically all the Boston Fire Department, toother with larp , numbers of men and numerous pieces of apparatus from nearby cities Fiv* Bremen were caught in a shower 1(I bricks and burning embers when the pear wall of th- Paull Building. a wood working establishment on the west side of Albany street, buckled and fell. The inJ ,,red men were Captain John P. M. m.bus of Ladd** 4; Lieutenant Harry ', of Engine 22. and Hosemen Kdvard O'Conne,!. James <;allagher and r - , She* O'Connell was the most X * V ' injured, sustaining . broken - i: ° "he "her men received contusions M a^ions about the head and body. : " • A rf-town fir- companies sue- W ? uy fnu ht a four-alarm lire in.tha Cf f the city's business district while h r r noston department was engaged so th % tw" the big blaze in the lumber '^^n The six story brick bulld >ard *Zs 55-39 High street, occupied lnS t H w rohns-Manville Company. 1 ■•,';*;,. and magnesia producers, was jSile of the s^cg lire. The was about *r.O/wO- _ Mayor Cheerful in Hospital Cracks Joke at Expense of Secretary Adam son as He Is Tc^ken for X-Ray Examination, Mayor Gaynnr's love for his sly foke did not desert him even in St. Mary's Hospital, in Hoboken. yesterday Tt was shortly before 4 o'clock in the afternoon The Mayor had b«=en In the hocpita! six hours and had been fully ronsHous of the seriousness of his situa tion, except for an hour and a half, when be slept. A consultation by Drs. William J. Ar litz, John W. Parrish, George E. Brewer. George D. Stewart and Charles N. Dowd resulted in an X-ray examination being ordered. Dr. E. W. Caldwell, an X-ray specialist, of No. 4£o Park avenue, ar rived. The Mayor was lying on his hospital bed when informed of the decision of the physician? Th^ X-ray examination was tr. take place in an adjoining room, they told him "Do you want m<* to -.valk to the place?" ask^d the Major I am able. ' They told him not to exert himself, that a four-wheeled chair would be a better way. Mrs. Gaynor was present, and Robert Adamson, th<- Mayor' private secretary. formerly a newspaper man. When Mr Adamson started to mt"F the operating r<om Mr Gaynor said "See here, Adamson no newspaper men allowed." Six X-ray negatives were taken In less than as many minutes, and then Dr. Stewart remained with the patient while thp other physicians hastened by automobile to Dr. Caldwell's laboratory to discover at the earliest possible mo ment the location of the bullet The crowds that clung close to the hospital entrance increased as the hours dragged along, as did the ner vonaaess of the chief sister of the in CHOLERA KILLS 57,000 Russian Professor Believes the Empire in Danger. pt. Petersburg. Aug. 9. — Professor Rein. of the medical (acuity of the university, who is an authority on Infectious dis eases, de* ribes the present outbreak of cholera In Russia as an imperial danger. H* osrttnates that the death list for 11)10 already numbers 57,400, as compared with 28,00° in 1908 and 17,000 in lfmS The danger Is Intensified, he says, by the fa<t that the epidemic has spread from tnf> towni to remote rural districts, where ' l is d' m< uJt lfi combat. CHINA'S THANKS TO MR. TAFT. Washington. Aug. » -The Empsror of China hns tent a message " thanks to President Taft for the attention paid to r .,,,',, T.-ai Tar. head of the Chinese army 1 ! , inization board, on his recent visit to dc (United Siatte. ....... :."•; »7< stitution, who sent a policeman into the throng with a polite request please to move at least a little further away. Messenger boys hurried up the steps with messages of sympathy sent from all over the country- and abroad Many friends called, but except in two or three instances only members of Mr. Gaynor*B family were permitted to s<=p the wounded man. Bulletins in the late afternoon and early evening given out by Mr. Adamson were encouraging, as they bore upon the Mayor's lack of fever, desire for food and strong volpe. Mr. Adamson said at 4:30 o'clock that the Mayor was disposed to talk more than was good for him. Mr?. Gaynor. the Mayor's daughter. Mrs. H. K. Vingut. and his sons. Rufus and Norman, were with him Mrs. Gaynor stayed throughout the night. At 8 o'clock the constant statement by Mr Gaynor that he was indeed hungry was rewarded by n dish of ice cream, ■which he seemed thoroughly to enjoy, following it with a glass of water. The long wait for the bulletin from th<» X-ray investigation being made in Dr. Caldwell's laboratory was frying to all. One of the hospital surgeons said there was danger to b° feared from blood getting into the Mayors hings. which might cause Inspirational pneumonia. "Well. I cant see why th*> papers arc making such a fuss over such a trifling Injun.-." said th<= Mayor when he heard how many rppr>rt*rs .were around the hospital At 11: SO o'clock lnst night r>r Ferdi nand C. Wolff, visiting physician at the hospital, said: •'Mayor Gaynor is doing as wHI as can b«> expected. He ha? Blept slept some; he has no temperature or evidence of infection He is perfectly conscious." RESTILLI CAPTURED? Cape Breton Police Think They Have Alleged Quincy Murderer. Quincy, Mass., Auk 9. — Chief of Police Barrel! to-night received a telegram signed "Michael McGrath; Chief of Police." announcing the arrest at North Sydney, C. B. of a. man believed to be I,uigi Resttlll. the alleged Quincy mur derer. Thf telegram read: Have arrester! suspect who answers description of Restilli. Wire full de scription and will make thorough exami nation. Found on him revolver and cartridges. Chief Burrell immediately wired a complete . description of Restilli and is awaiting further news from North Syd ney. • Genuine pebble eyeglasses, the cool kind that never mist. Spencer's. 31 Maiden Lane. MAYOR GAYNOR STAGGERING BACKWARD AFTER BE ING SHOT. JACOB KATZ HOLDING HIM BY THE ARM. (Photograph copyright, l? 10. by the American Pr*»ss Association ) RECALLS INCIDENT IN LIFE OF EPICTETUS. Mayer Gaynor displayed a fondness in the campaign last year for quoting the sayings of the philosopher Epic tetus. If contemolation of the pre cepts of the stoic who taught that the perfect man would not display anger toward a wro»gdß»r has only m?de the practice of those precepts second nature with the Mayor, the fact was illustrated in a painful mo ment yesterday. The story is told that when Epic tetus was a slave in Rome his mas ter. EpapHroditus — one of the guards of Ncro — struck the future teacher heavily on the leg. <! YoLf wit! break my leg." said Epic tetus. Anothi?'- blow fulfilled the prediction, and Enictetus, seemingly caring more for the philosophy to be applied to the situation than for the pain, calm ly remarked: !: Did I rot say you would bresk it ?" Eoictetus taught that philosophy was the practice of virtue and that insensibility to pain was a mark of it. And the Mayor, before losing con sciousness yesterday, said simply: "This is a pity." DEEP REGRET_J_N LONDON Americans Shocked by News of Attack on the Mayor. London, Aug. 1O — The London morn ing newspaper:; print full reports of the attack on Mayor Gaynor, and express deep concern and earnest wishes for his recovery. "The Standard" in an editorial says: "Mayor Gaynor ranks high in the class of men who can ill be spared from the world? work. The 'completion of his career Is a matter of international im portance, and his loss would be a calam ity to hip own country." The attack has called forth many ex pressiona of regret from British public men. Americans who are passing their sum mer holidays in London were greatly Shocked. A stream of inquiries regard ing the Mayor's condition and asking for details of the attempted asrassination has been continuous since the issuance of the firs* bulletin. TEXAS SHERIFFS* SYMPATHY Voiced in Resolution — Open Conven tion with Lord's Prayer. {By I>l<*irrarh to Th* Tribune. 1 El Paso. Tex.. Aug. 9.— Opening their an nual convention by reciting the Lord's Prayer in unison, the Texas Sheriffs' Asso ciation closed the first day? session to-day with resolution denouncing the attack upon Mayor Gaynor and expressing their deepest sympathy with the New York ex ecutive The. resolution was telegraphed to New York this afternoon. it was a departure for the peace officers of the state to open their convention by praying themselves They have heen used to having a minister <lo it for them, but when the president asked them to stand and rerite the prayer not onp m th* 1 a'icil ence failed to respond OVERCROWDED AT IDITAROD Lack of Food and Clothing at New Alaskan Gold Field. *». Seattle. Auk. 9. — The steamship Olym pia arrived to-day from Nome, bringing oewa that the Idltarod gold field is great ly-overcrowded and that. many are with out proper food and clothing. One rowbOSi with two men was picked up on the Yukon shortly before the Olym pla left. The men. who had come from the Idttarod, had had nothing to eat for forty-eight hours- PRICE ONE CENT Mayor's Condition Reassuring This bulletin on Mayor Gaynor'? condition was issued at St. Mary's Hospital. Hoboken. at 1 :30 o'clock this morning: | "The Mayor is awake and is cheerful. He has no pain; be is conversing freely with his nurses and physicians. The indications are that he will have a good night." Talking to those at his bedside, the Mayor said: "I have been forced into strife and responsibility against my will. I have done my best, and this seems to be the result." The following bulletin was given out at 9 o'clock last night : "The radiographic examination of Mayor Gaynor's wound in dicates that the bullet is divided into two fragments, occupying posi tions that do not demand operative interference at present. "The condition of the Mayor is satisfactory. He is resting qUiet } ' "WILLIAM T. ARLITZ. Visiting Physician. "GEORGE E. BREWER. "GEORGE D. STEWART. "CHARLES N. DOWD." It was said by one of the doctors that the impact of the bullet against the jaw bone caused it to split. The chief cause of anxiety was the danger from blood poisoning. This bulletin was given out at 5 :4S p. m. : "The Mayor's condition is unchanged since the last bulletin. \n examination was made by the consulting surgeons with and without the fluoroscope. Six X-ray negatives were taken, which, after development, will be carefully examined, and a further state ment 'issued this evening. E. J. LEDERLE. William J. Gaynor. Mayor of New York, was shot in the neck yesterday .aorntog on the deck of the Kaiser Williel i der Grosse. m he was about to Ml morning on the d«rk of the Kaiser milieu or. her for a vacation of leal than thirty days. He was taken to a Hoboken hospital, where it was said last nisht that his condition was satisfactory. The Mayor, however, could hard* be «M to be out of dancer "Big Bill" Edwards. Street Cleaning: Commissioner, leaped npon the would-be assassin as he fired a second time at the Mayor, and received Ik. bullet in his own arm. He bore the man down, and never let him 50 until he was in the bands of Hoboken policemen. The man who tired on the Mayor i* James J. Gallacher. «l I 111 from the Dock Department recently, who had repeatedly tried to induce Mr. Gaynor to have him reinstated. The bullet was split into two fragments acainst the Mayor's jawbone, in creasing the danger of blood poisoning. No operation was performed last night, after an X-ray examination, but one may be necessary to-day. Mrs Gaynor hastened to her husband's side from St James, Us] Island, all speed restrictions having been put aside for her automobile. City Throtvn Into Veep Gloom Widespread Fear at First That Mayor Was Dead or Dying Owing to Delay in News. Less than half an hour before the ship on which he was to sail for Europe for a four weeks' vacation was to cast off her lines from her pier in Hoboken ye terday morning Mayor Gaynor was shot. That was at 9:40 o'clock. And almost before the brief struggle on the deck of the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse for the capture of the would assassin was over the news was flashed broadcast over the city and the coup try. The first word was that the Mayor was killed, and though this was soon cor rected, so that it was known that al though dangerously wounded the Mayor was not dead, so cautious were the doc tors in their statements that the. city went 10 bed last night still in doubt as to the fate of Its chief magistrate. The first bulletin after the doctors had reached Mr. (Jaynor's side said that the wound was not necessarily dangerous, and beyond meagre bulletins on the pa tient's wonderful courage and his cheer fulness liltk was added to this as the In City of New York. Jemer Ctty »nd Hob«ke». ELSEWHERE TWO CENTS. J. J. Gallagher. Discharged City Employe, Sought Revenge — Shows Nd Regret. WERE THREE SHJTS IN ALL Second Bullet Ploughed Its Way Through Arm cf "Big Bill" Edwards as He Bore the Would-Be Assassin Down. CROWD AROUND THE MAYOR Assailant, Who Had Never Seen Victim. Got Priest to Point Him Out. Walked Up to Him Through the Throng and Fired at Close Range. BULLET OLD AND UNCLEAR Covered with Verdigris and Split Into Two Pieces, It Is Still Embedded in Mayor" s Head — Operation May Be Per formed to Remove It To day. Doctors in Attend ance Fearing Blood Poi soning May Set In. day wore on. It was not until after I half dozen X-ray photographs had been taken late in the day and the. plates de veloped long after nightfall that the bul let was found, and the question of the extent and danger of the operation for its removal remained to be determined, although the physicians in attendance had said earlier In the day that they did not look for a difficult operation. The Mayor was at no time uncon scious, and often during the day talked cheerfully with those at his bedside In St Mary's Hospital. Hoboken. where he was taken from the ship. His throat, which was at first choked with blood, be came clear, and with that relief his breathing was easier. In the afternoon the patient asked for something to eat. As he had been on shipboard when ha was shot, the Mayor was in the hospital, the least disturbed of all those there. The hsjtte: had entered behind the right ear and taken a course forward and downward. The probe 3 hid failed