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THE TEMPLE DAILY TELEGRAM
® FIHST V-ORMING PAPER IN CENTRAL AND WEST TIZXAS—HAS LiRCl ST CIRCULATION or AW I-APtK PC BUSHED BETWEEN DALLVS AND HOI'Srox
Member of the
-Associated Preis-
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IIUCK FIVE CENTS
TEMPLE. TEXAS, TV ESI) \Y MORXIXG. DEC. 17. 191 a
vol. vi. So. Zi
MONEY TRUST
STRUCK SNAG
MANTPCLATOR OP OIL SYNDI- SUPREME COl'RT HOLDS SYSTEM
COAL ROADS
COMBINATION
CATES KM. XD IT TOO HOT
ME FINALLY SULLED
Ir» and Out* of Financing Big Enter-
prts.- on the CtdiMi|t>—Hi« Uio
Hooks Were lialu-d for
Public* UtUs(.
(By Associated
WASHINOToN. Pec. 16—R.fusal
today of Frederick Lew'sohri of the
New York bank firm of Lewlsohn
Bros., to mates a statement as to the
profit made by • syndicate formed to
float the stock of the California Petro-
leum company forced an adjournment
of the public money trust commit-
tee. The committee adjourned until
tomorrow to allow Mr. Lewlsohn to
iouter with nis counsel, Martin Vogel,
ts to arguing the question.
The witness eonferred with his
counsel and hurried conferences were
held with his associates In New York
by telephone. If Mr. Lewlsohn de-
clines to answer the question when
the committee 'meets, the committee
has the power to take the case to the
speaker of the house, who may cer-
tify the record to the district attorney
for the district of Columbia. It wouid
lie his duty lo take the matter before
the grand jury and ask for an indict-
ment for contempt of the house, which
is punishable by imprisonment.
The disputed question tan asked
after Samuel Untermyer, counsel for
the committee, had led Mr Lewlsohn
through a lengthy discussion of the
operations which preceded the listing
of the California Petroleum stock on
the New York Mock exchange Mr.
I-eWlsohn said that hi* firm, Win Sol-
omon and company and Hallgarten *
00 . had fonn«d a syndcate to handle
the $12.600,906 preferred and $16,-
• 00,#00 common stock issued by the
California company. He traced the
stock through two aubseqjent syndi-
cates with which he waa connected, by
the last of which the stock waa open-
ed to investor*,. On Oct, } 4
«as listed on the New York stock ex-
change and Mr. Lewlsohn said he
conducted market operations in the
■tock. which rose during the next
month from Si to 70.
Two of the syndicates. Mr. Lewlsohn
inserted. sold tap millions worth of
the common atock and five million
of the preferred at 40 and >1 re-
spectively. This was out of ten mil-
lion of preferred and the amount of
common which Nr. (.ewlsohn did not
remember, but which Mr. Untermyer
suggested was ten million worth, sold
to the original syndicate
At this point Mr. Untermyer tried to
evolve %hat the remaining IS,000,000
of common went to the syndicate as
profit.
Mr. Lewlsohn said he could not re-
member the figures.
"Will you ftirnlsh the commTUee a
statement of your operations In this
stock market when during October
with 105,77# share* listed 362,270
shares were* traded In and with a
statement of the syndicate's profit on
the sale of the stock?" asked Mr.
Untermyer.
"I will not furnish a statement of
the profit," sal^ Mr. Lewlsohn.
"Do you refune to furnish It?" ask-
ed Mr. Untermyer.
"I do."
Chairman Pujo took a hand in the
proceedings but Mr. Lewisohn de-
clined te answer the question. The
committee than adjourned.
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GOVERNOR OF ARK. .
TURNS 360 LOOSE
TO BE ILLEGAL AND DIS-
SOLVES.
EFFECT ON PRICES
Attorney General Believes Decree
Will Make Hard Coal Much
Cheaper—>'ot all Points
Were Sustained.
(Br Associated Pr>«n
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1«—The *u
preme court of the United States to-
day cancelield as violative of the
Sherman anti trust law the contracts
by which railroad owned coal com-
panies in the Pennsylvania anthra-
cite fields had purchased the output
for all time of "Independent" mines
Attorney General Wtckersham to-
night expressed the belief that the
decision "will so completely destroy
PEACE ENVOYS MEET TODAY
MAILORDER TO CONSIDER
TO SUBMIT TERMS DEMANDED SHIPMENTS SAFETY FIRST
Conference Opened Yesterday In London--Oatline of Demands of Allies
and of Turkey Are Very Far Apart— Mediation Suggested and
United States Only Disinterested and Acceptable Arbitrator.
(Ev Associated Press!
LONDON, Dec. 16.—Preliminaries
of the peace conference were com-
pleted today and apparently tlje great
difficulty regarding the signing of the
armistice has been surmounted. Ev-
erything is leady for actual negotia-
tions to begin tomorrow.
So wide is the divergence between
the respective claims of the Balkan
allies and Turkey that there is little
prospect of an early termination of
the conference
It is reported through Berlin to-
night thai the Servian ministers in
council decided, in deference to Rus-
sian and French advice, to yield the
port of Durazzo on the Adriatic and
that the Servian premier, M Pach-
itch, is coming to London In connec-
tion with this determination
This report has not been confirmed
tlon of Crete to Greece and payment : England, Russia. France and Italy,
by Turkey of war Indemnity and all , Ihe four protective powers in Crete,
expenses incurred by the allies on ae- consent that this is land shall be an-
count of Turkish prisoners. j nexed to Greece.
BILL TO PROHIBIT SHIPPING OK INTERSTATE COMMERCE COM*
I.VroXICAXTS INTO I'ROHI-
BITION STATES.
MISSION SI ItM ITS S«TH AN-
NCAL REPORT.
HAS PASSED HOUSE DISASTERS OF YEAR
The term* formulated by Turkey
have been kept *ecret but It may be ;
averted on o"i authority that they ,
include the renunciation by buth fides I
o( any money transaction under
lorm of indenir ity yr otherwise
These term* would (rive the allien
four-fifths '»f the territory which a
few wet ks a*o was European Turkey,
but notwithstanding what net-ms to be
•Si-ion, a comparison of
the allies with thoee of
the | a great conc <
ex- j the terms nf
cept the taking over by the Balkan i Turkey is sufficient to show the Im-
stat»s of a portion of the Ottoman j vnense gulf ceparatuig them
public debt proportionate to the new Even admitting many concessions
territories th« y to quire. are ma Je on both sides an ultimate
They provide*also that the sultan J understanding appears extremely dif-
Sfiutlc M n*»ilid With the \l«a»ur» for
Brief S|*||—-t ight to be Contin-
ued—-Constitutionality Be-
in«t TliresdMtl Out.
shall have
representative in the , ficult iieca i^e of this, the idea of
. .. [but there are indications of relaxation
the combination which now controls j,n the Austro-Serb difficulty The
the prlc. of anthracite that it must «Xustrlan rrnperor cr,dUl.d wllh re.
result In a distinct measure of relief
to the public."
The court also ordered dissolution
of railroad control af the Temple
Iron company, by which the princi-
pal railroads and their coal com-
panies were found to have strangled
a project to build a competing road
Into the antharcite fields in 1898 and
by which monopolizing schemes could
could be put into operation handily
in the future.
The government failed, the court
held, to show a "general combina-
tion" to apportion the amount of
coal to be put up on the market an-
nually by the various roads The
government's other charges as tq a
general combination were character-
ised as "Indefinite."
Minor combinations were held to
have been improperly included .n
the petition of the government and
tl.e proceeding against them was dis-
missed without prejudice to other
actions by the government Attorney
General Wlckersham was not pre-
pared to say whether he would di-
rect new proceedings against these
alleged combinations.
Tbe •wit waa sent back to the
in which it ori-
ginated, the circuit court for Eastern
marking thut he was hopeful of the
ability of Austria to carry out her
Balkan program in its entirety with-
out resort to force.
The Prochaska affair also appears
to have been greatly misrepresented
and no longer affords grounds for dis-
sension.
The first engagement between the
Greek and Turkish fleets occurred to-
day but so far as Is known without
serious damage to either side.
Preliminary Meeting.
• By Associate* r'Mw
London Doc. 16.—Plenipotentiaries
considering arrangement of peace be-
tween Turkey and the Balkan states
met today in St James' palace. They
adjourned early in the afternoon with-
out having entered into discussion of
the peace plans.
The day's feature was the address
of welcome delivered by Sir Edward
Grey, the British secretary for for-
eign affairs, who was elected hon-
orary president of the conference.
The responses of the heads of the
various delegation's Indicated a desire
to accomplish the purpose of the
conference.
5 All the delegates applauded 81r
Edward Grey's speech which, like his
Pennsylvania, for the enforcement of statement in the house of commons
the decision. The finding of the low- j Wednesday, aimed at impartiality,
er court was upheld, except as to
the contracts with the "Indepen-
territories passing to the allies, where
Otto [pan cour^thall be instituted for
Musulman jybjicts. Adrianople, the
first Turkish .qnpital in Kur«>pe, and
surrounding (fnltory, shall remain to
Turkey
The Turcv-HtP*aria.n frontier south
of Adrianoplejpjall be marked by the
Maritzu river while the territory west
of Marlua a» far a* the Struma river
Would go to Bulgaria, which thus
would have the port of Kavala, to
which she has long aspired.
Furthermore, Turkey will determine
that Salonik! ov^-r the possession of
which It is pointed out serious Greeco-
Bulgarian antagonism has arisen,
shall remain to Turkey and together
with Monastir tvni Scutari and their
respective districts, shull form Otto-
man territory st^frounding Albania
Servta is to tjjave Uskup, Bristloa,
Mltrovlza ani Wirt of the Sanjak of
Novlpaxar, the remaining part going
to Mjnenegra.
To Greece is conceded the islanl
of Thasots, but Turkey claims posses-
sion of other. Islands in the Aegean
mediation has been put forward. All
the delegates, however, declare em-
phatically that they know nothing
about mediation and that it is ex-
traneous to "heir mission here, which
(Bv Ass><-iau<l Prmi
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16—Denun-
ciation of ihe "mail order liquor busi-
ness" at the enemy of slate prohibi-
tion, characterized the opening today
of the fight in the senate for the
passage of the Bheppard-Kenyon I !
Increase In Number of Railroad Acci-
dent* and of Persoue Killed or In-
jured— La»iog the Blaine.
Preventive Me
negotiation of peace
i to prohibit the shipment of
is limited to th
without even the power of concluding
!t For the conclusion of peace
«-ither they or others must receive the
authorization of their respective gov-
ernments.
The delegates did not refuse to dis-
cuss the question unofficially and re-
marked that it would be Impossible
for Kussia or Austria to mediate, as
i both of these powers are too intorest-
1 ed in the settlement; nor could Gcr- j Senators Sanders
liquor
tei ri-
tria, nor could Italy because of the
recent war oetween that country and
Turkey
There only remained England and
France which might t>e acceptable to
both parties, but their selection might
give umbrage lo Germany and Aus-
tria.
It was pointed out that the only
great power absolutely disinterested
sea, including Sainothrace, lmbros, and Impartial Is the U. S. and that
Lemnos and Mitylene, together with ; if it were possible to bring about
those now occupied by Italy because j something of the same intervention
the latter belong to Asiatic Turkey, [which in 1905 led to the conclusion of
But the admlniatration at Constant!- {peace between Kussia and Japan, this
nople pledges itself to obtain from j might lead to actual mediation.
a. ross stale lines Into "dry"
t. ry.
Galleries were thronged with men
and women identified with the na-
tional temperance movement when
the debate b«gan or. the measure long
pending before both branches of con-
gress Consideration of the bill was
devoted to addresses in its support by
of Tennessee and
many, because she is bound to Aua- I McCumber .if North Dakota, both of
United States Is In Position to
Act as Mediator if Requested
dent*."
The rallroada concerned in the case
were the Philadelphia and Reading,
the Lehigh Valley, the Deleware,
Lackawanna and western, the Cen-
tral railroad of New Jersey, the Erie
and the New York. Susquehanna and
Western.
"Th# decision." said Attorney Gen-
CTtv Associated Pr»«wl
WASHINGTON. Dec. 16-
-In re-
eral Wlckersham tonight, "marks the j itary honors will be granted; evacua-
close of a ten year combination con-
trolling the production, shipment and
marketing of anthracite coal. The
bi 1 was filed after an investigation
by the Interstate commerce commis-
sion. Suit was brought in Philadel-
phia ln'june 1907.
"It la believed that this decision
will so completely destroy the combi-
nation which now controls the price
of anthracite coal that it must result
In a distinct measure of relief to the
public.
The first encounter between the Al- l gHr<i t0 reportg from Lon(lon that the
lies and the Turks will come tomor-' . , „ , . , .. .
. ... . . , , .United States is being considered as a
row. A climax will be reached when I
both sides exchange their respective j possible mediator In the negotiations
between the Balkan ■ allies and the
Turkish government to bring about a
settlement of the war, it was said
here tonight that not since actual out-
break of hostilities has this subject
seriously engaged the attention of the
officials in Washington.
The opinion is expressed here that
no move would be made by Secretary
Knox or President Taft to intervene
or mediate at the present stage unless
propositions for the conclusion of
peace.
The i>rlncipal conditions of peace
demanded by Balkan allies comprise
immediate surrender of the Turkish
fortresses of Scutari. Adrianople and
Janina, to garrisons of which full mil
tion of all eastern Europe by Turkey
far as East Tchatalja; cession to
Greece of all Aegean islands; annexa-
all parties to the London negotiations
clearly signified that the good offices
of the United States would be accept-
able.
Under such conditions It is believed
President Taft would feel himself Obli-
gated, under the terms of The Hifgue
convention, to which the United
States is a party, to yield to the de-
sires of the contending parties. In
such case probably the first Step
would be to dispatch to London some
special commissioner of high rank,
who would endeavor to ascertain the
maximum and mlnlmufa demands of
each side and endeavor to bring them
into agreement.
whom had introduced bills similar to
the measure pending.
Legislative rules threw the bill back
to the regular calendar when the
short debate was Interrupted by the
convening of the Archbald court of
impeachment Member* will de-
mand that It again be taken up, how
ever and ■ effort probably will be
made soon to have it brought before
the senate as "unfinished busi-
ness" insuring its daily consideration
until it finally is disposed of.
Interest In the constitutionality of
the proposed law was manifest
throughout the day's debate and
brought numerous senators Into the
discussion. Senator McCumber de-
clared efforts to give state govern-
ment powers to seize liquor ship-
ments as soon as they crossed the
j state lines must fail because the su-
preme court Invariably had held auch
legislation to be u*nconsTftuHonaT."
The federal government has entire
right, he declared, to prohibit the
shipment of liquor into prohibition
states. The measure ponding, which
passed the house as the Sheppard bill,
would prohibit the present mail- order
and express order business in liquor In
•tates where locai prohibition pre-
vails.
railing to Oct Lease System Abol-
ished. He Sets Free Convicts
Nat Within Walls.1
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(By Associated Press)
LITTLE ROCK Dec. 16.—Governor
D^naghey toddy signed pardons for
26# convicts Who will be released to-
morrow as a protest against the con-
vict lease system employed in Arkan-
sas and other Mates.
Gov. Donaghey intimated he might
take such action in a speech before
the recent conference of governors in
Richmond.
The convtata who will be freed are
serving sentences of from one to fif-
teen years In length. Nona of the
desperate aenvicu In the penitentiary
will be sgleastd
Gov. Donaghey has fought the con-
vict lease system since he first as-
sumed office four years ago. He has
repeatedly urged the State legislature
to take a«ttoh'tft the Batter but each
time his effort# were futile.
Some members at the legislature
contended t|< State penitentiary was
not designed for a Sunday school.
Governor Donaghey replied by aa-
terHng If was not designed for a "re-
vVhge/ul hell."
The governor haa prepared a
lengthy statement to be submitted to
the state legislature in January ex-
»]£!e!d* his action.
SCREAMS FOR HELP
INTERRUPT MEETING
Lady Attacked at Rogers and Rush
Was Made by Several People,
Assailant Escaped.
(Special te The rm«grsm>
ROGERS, Texas, Dec. 16.—The
last meeting of the Ham revival was
interrupted and all but broken up
Sunday night by a disturbance in a
residence near the church, when in
the midst of the service a man rushed
into the church and shouted tht Mrs.
Crow, a lady living near by. was being
attacked by a negro, and was scream-
ing for help.
Many people rushed from the
church and some of them arrived at
the Crow residence in time to see
ROCK ISLAND
FATAL WRECK
PASSENGER TRAINS COLLIDE
HEAD-ON, 7 MILES SOUTH
OF CIIICK-VSHA.
SERIOUSLY INJURED
Tramp Killed on "2S"—Several Per-
haps Fatally Hurt and Twenty
in Injured Ust—Lack of
Room on a Siding.
back wrenched; Mrs. C. D. Hunt,
Chicakasha. bruised about body.
The wreck was caused by train
No. 24, north bound, crashing into
passenger train No. 23, southbound,
while the latter was undertaking to
back into a siding for the purpose of
giving No. 24 the main line. When
No. 24 came Into sight around the
curve, the enigneer of No. 23 endeav-
orded to back up sufficiently to pre-
vent a collision, but was prevented by
a local freight on the siding in his
rear.
(By Associated Pmmi
OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec.
Rock Island passenger trains
bers 23 and 24 collided head
16 —
num-
on at
stable Bonds arrived early on the
scene.
Revs. Ham and Ramsey left today
for their homes in Kentucky and
Virginia, respectively.
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TAKING THE PICTURES.
County Site War at Jay Great "Copy"
for "Movies."
someone jump the back fence, but no . ,
_ . . ... ' _ 1 Ninnekah, 7 miles south of Chickasha
capture was effected, although Con-
at 3:15 this afternoon, killing one and
Injuring twenty persons.
The dead man was a "tramp" rid-
ing on the blind baggage of train
number 23.
The seriously Injured are:
A. C. Walters, Royston, Ga., nose
broken; Mrs. Mary Burns, Bailey,
Okla., cut about kands and face;
Leona Novell, Layton. Okla., arm
burned and back sprained; Mrs. Su-
san F. Baker. Duncan, Okla., probab-
ly loss of left eye and head badly
bruised;- Joseph Latimer, -mall clerk
on train No. 34, foot and lei broken
and bad. cuts about head and face;
James Hutson. engineer on train 13,
Internal injuries, head bruised: J. W.
Cunningham, Bowie, Texas, back in-
jured and ankle broken; Representa-
tive-elect T. J. Brown. Tuttle, Okla.,
cut over eyes and fractured skull; F.
S. Hllblsh, Hennessy, Okla., leg brok-
en and Internal Injuries; W. T. Epler,
Kansas City, bruliss about head and
(By Associated r-xesri
Oklahoma City, Dec. 16—Seven mo-
plcture machines are now on the
ground at Old and New Jay, Delaware
county, Oklahoma, to obtain films
representing the warfare carried on
during the past week between factions
of the two towns, according to Major
General Frank M. Canton and Ser-
geant Major H. A RadaH. who ar-
rived In Oklahoma City this after-
noon.
Newspaper Reporters from enter-
prising dallies are beginning to arrive
<m report the situation.
RECORD CROP YIELD
IN ALL THE GRAINS
Government's Final Figures Show
Prosperity From Ocean to
Ocean—Corn Figures.
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Deo. 16.—Record
crops of corn, spring wheat, oats, bar-
ley, potatoes, rye, hay and rice were
harvested this year, according to the
final estimates of the department of
agriculture announced today. They
confirmed preliminary estimates made
several months ago in almost every in-
stance. With a total value of (3,911,-
449,000, the eleven principal crops es-
timated todav exceeded the value of
the sama crops last year by $50,531,-
000.
Corn, the greatest crop of all, went
almost 200,000,000 bushels beyond the
record crop grown In 1906 and sur-
passed the 1911 crop by 593,251,000
bushels. The value of the corn crop,
however, was less by $64,000,000
than last year, the price per bushel
on Dec. 1 being 48,7 cents this year
against 61.8 cents last year.
The total wheat crop waa 109,02J,-
000 bushels greater than last year;
oats 496,039.009 bushels greater; bar-
ley 63,684,00# greater; rye 2,645,090
bushels greater; buckwheat 1,600,000
bushels greater; flax seed 8.798,000
bushels peater: potatoes 127,910,000
bushels greater,; hay 17.776,000 tons
greater; tobacco 67,716,000 pounds
greater: rice 1,120,006 bushels great-
(Bv A«aociat*tf Pfsrt
WASHINGTON Dec. 16—"Safety
first" is the paramount rule of train
• iteration suggested by the interstate
commerce commission in its twenty*
tth annual report submitted todav
t" ''ongress. Discussion of disasttri
n American railroads during the last
y. jr constitutes an Important feature
of ihe report.
It is pointed out that many of the
a-1 id. nts resulting in fatalities might
h ive been averted by the exercise of
. roper precaution or the employment
of suitable de'vlces and good equip*
m> nt Figur >s given show that of the
total of 821.> derailments during the
year 18 77 were caused by defects of
roadway and 3S47 were due to defref*
ive equipment. This Indicates an in-
crease over Ihe previous year of 6X3
in the derailments due to bad r.A|«
way, and 1023 due to bad equiment.
The Investigation by the commission
itself of railroad accidents involving
loss of life, the report sav», "haa pro-
ceeded far enough to indicate the
need of more effective measures than
thus far have been taken to s«cttr»^
safety of railroad travel." Whil^ th«
previous suggestions of the coR|B>tj-'j
slon as to the adoption by the rail-
roads of all-steel, or steel undername
cars are being adopted "as rapidly ns
conditions will permit" and "iha
danger from the use of unsoum
Is gradually disappearing." the
ous dangers of defective roadwaj^ J
the use of unsound rails still re*|»iln,
as a result of which derailments art
likely at any time to occur. Conoern«'
lug Its Investigations, the commia*
sion ssys:
"Of the 31 derailments Investigated
14 were either directly or Indirect®
caused by bad track. In five of these
fourteen cases the derailmenta wouk
have been avoided had existing spee4
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KYLE BANK IS
OUT $17,000
BANK ROBBERS LOOTED STATE
BANK EARLY YESTERDAY
MORNING.
WATCHMAN IN CAR
Band Disposed of Only Bar to Their
Success and Applied Nltro-
G ly cer ine— Hunt! ng
a Trail.
JBy Associated Pmssl
KYLE. Tex., Dec. 16.—The Kyle
Statu bank was , robbed of several
thousand dollars at 3 o'clock this
morning by a band of armed men.
who intercepted Night Watchman R.
Guinn, covered, him with a revolver,
blindfolded him, locked him in a box
car and then returned to the bank,
where they blew |he safe to pieces
with nitroglycerin.
They then made their escape, leav-
ing no trace behind them.
Constable J. T. Hall, with a posse
and bloodhounds is trying to pick up
the trail.
(Philosophical Phellx.)
Via Vuo\N
Ifcvn I'VA.
void'S]
LWC* VKVNfS V_\T \
Robbers Secured $17,000.
(Special to The Tel*::rami
Austin, Dec. 16."—The Kyle State
bank loss was $17,000. according to
information received today by Com-
missioner of Insurance and Banking
Gill. The bank was amply protected
by burglary insurance.
—— ■ il ■ .s^i I H- -
Special Meeting Odd Fellows.
(Spcclal to The Tutorram)
Belton, Tex., Dec. 16.—All Odd Fel-
lows sre urged to be present at the
meeting on tomorrow (Tuesday) night ! Beaumont Cloudy
business of lmportanos Is to be Port Arthur . ...Claar..
tak en up. 1 Shrsveport ...... Clear..
(By Associated Press)
Washington, Dec. 16.—East Texas
—Fair Tuesday; Wednesday colder
in north portion.
West Texas—Fair Tuesday and
Wednesday.
The following report was received
by the Maekay Telegraph companv
yesterday at 6 p. m.:
Wichita Clear *••••
Mulvane Cloudy........ 60
Arkansas City .. .Clear 48
Guthrie Cloudy 64
Oklahoma City ..Clear. 58
Ardmore Clear.... *0
Gainesville Cloudy.' 48
Texarkana Clenr.". 50
Paris ... Cloudy 56
Honey Grove ....Cloudy 46
Bonham ....... .Cloudy 48
Sherman Cloudy........ 59
Greenville ...... Cloudy 58
McKinney ..... .Cloudy 5$
Piano Cloudy '... $2
Ft. Worth , .. .Cloudy. .".
Dallas . .Clear £0
Austin .Cloudy 41
McGregor Cloudy. *>t
Waco It. .Clear
Temple . Cloudy *•
Brenham . *■ Cloudy. ;.' 58
San Antonio ....Cloudy GO
Houston Cloudy -50,
Galveston ..
•S3
Cloudy -68
.... <$
.... 46
restrictions been observed; but In all
the remaining cases no adequate speed
restrictions were In force, and U
three eases the track condltionus wers
so obviously unsafe that derailment!
'were likely to occur even at low speed.
In one serious derailment an examina-
tion of the track In the vicinity of th«
accident disclosed 906 rotten ties with-
in a distance of 147 rail lengths. Un-
der many of the rails there were as
many as 11 bad ties, and undent each
of two rails there were 12 ties so
badly decayed and broken ag to be
totally unfit for service. In many Of
these ties the spikes were so loose
that they were easily removed by
hand, the wood having no longer any
holding power. The track in the vi-
cinity of this accident was poorly bal-
lasted and was unsafe for ths passage
of trains at ordinary speed. This de-
railment occurred on straight track
while the train was running about 8#
miles per hour."
The report says that "the most dis-
quieting and perplexing feature to the
problem of accident prevention M tilt
large proportion of train accl4^(l
caused by dereliction of duty by
employes involved. The com
believes that as a rule there are no
men that have a keener appn
of their responsibilities than
trainmen and enginemen." and yet H
is pointed out that 63 per cent of th*
whole number of accidents inv
ed were caused by mistake* on
part of employes
"There is a disposition tn sonulq
quarters." continues the report, "to
charge these lamentable errors to fail-
ure of discipline and to hold employe#
wholly responsible for such failure.
This is a superficial view which con-
tains no promise of effective remedy.
"A remarkable increase tn
speed and weight of trains within
cent years, and the crowding of
and terminals caused by the movement
of an enormously enlarged volume at
traffic, have greatly Increased the
duties and responsibilities of train
service employes and multiplied the
chances of error on their part. Not-
withstanding these addel duties and
rerwponslbilitles which '.he < onditlons
of modern railroading have Imposed
upon employes, the methoda of /dis-
cipline and regulations calculated to
insure safety In trail1! operation have
remained practically unchanged. ,
"To prevent railroad collisions ad
quste measures must be taken,
to reduce the chances of human «g>»f
ror to a minimum and second to netl-;
traltze the effects of such error wb
It occurs. The recommendatlona pre-
viously made by the commission I
legislation requiring the stand
tion of operating rules and the
the block system were designed .
reduce the probability of mil ' ^
employes, and tho«-> recommen^gjj
are once more presented l«f
eratlon of the consr
and consistency In of
necessary to secure safety, and It I
not probable that a
which will meet the deawliMH
ern ops rating
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Williams, E. K. The Temple Daily Telegram (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 25, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 17, 1912, newspaper, December 17, 1912; Temple, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth474546/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.