Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 27, 1913, Page 1

\ PI NEER. VOLUME 10. NUMBER 281. TEN CENTS PER WEEK, PEOPLE IMPRISONED FACE HORRIBLE FATE GOVERNOR SAYS LOSS OF LIFE WILLNOT | * BEKNOWN UNTIL FLOOD WATERS RECEDE | | { | t Bulletin Issued at Noon Says Flames Are Reaching Wholesale District and Hundreds of Persons May be Killed in Holocaust.—Blizzard is Sweep- ing South From the Great Lakes Adding Death by Exposure ONLY COURIERS ON HORSEBACK BRING.NEWS FROM STRICKEN CITY | | i | Ed. note—Governor Cox is the only person in direct communica- tion with Dayton. United Press dispatches are sent by couriers on horse back fifteen miles out into the country and then telegraphed. March 27-—Governor James M. Cox at noon issued the fol- lowing statement about the flood which is now surging over many por- tions of the state: 4 “The exact extent of the appaling flood in Ohio is as yet unknown. The waters have assumed such unknown heights in many parts of the state that is will be no less than a miracle if entire villages and towns are not wiped out in the southern and south-eastern part of the state. i “The storm is moving south and east. Piteous appeals have come from all the stricken districts. Every human energy has been extended to give relief and yet no signs of relief have heen made. Please give.a great deal of publicity to an appeal for help. RIVER IS FOUR MILES WIDE TODAY “Today the situation is in many respects without parallel in the his- tory of the republic. At this time the river is four miles wide and is sweep- ing the business section of Dayton. Outside points and the residence sec- tions are also under water. North Dayton early reported the loss of 100 lives today but I cannot resist the belief that the loss will not be less than 1.000. ‘Fire broke out in the section bounded by Jefferson, Main, Second and Third streets. It swept north destroying the St. Paul Evangelical church and then shot south through the wholesale district where many people were imprisoned. In the upper stories of the submerged buildings, the: fire is burning briskly. We are not able to get any accurate idea of the loss of life from the various cities until the water recedes. But the loss will be terrible. Fig- ures we dare not contemplate now may be found correct later. FIRE AND BLIZZARD SWEEP OVER CITY. Dayton, March 27--10 a .m.—By staff correspondent of the United Press—-The entire business section of flood drowned Dayton is afire this morning. To add to the horror, a blinding blizzard is sweeping down the valley of the Big Miami. Thousands of half starved men, women, and babies are marooned in buildings above the growling fifteen foot flood to await death by the flames. A holocaust of staggering proportions is im- minent. Frenzied men are rushing up and down the south shore watching things happen. The fire started at Third and St.Clair streets and already two solid | blocks have burned. The loss of life in these blocks cannot be estimated. The conflagration continues to spread north, east, south and west aé the wind changes. The fire fighters cannot reach it. A blizzard sweeping down out of the north from the Great Lakes has Jjoined to the horror of fire, flood and famine. Thousands of men, women and children are in prisoned like rats in a trap making a one to four fight with death. They can die either by drowning, fire, starvation or exposure. They have their choice. . 3.000 are Rescued. Columbus, March ‘lights for fear of explosions. They {then began to loot but were dispersed by University students froni Cincin- nati. The great Miami riv- * Sandusky, Ohio, March 27—Latest: reports from Fremont, Ohio, give the dead as eleven. Water is fifteen feet high in the streets. 27—8 a. m. Flames lit up the other wise darkened city last night. er is swollen to a width heretofore un- known and is running through the enrrents city with the swiftest of The rescue work, managed by Presi- dent John H. the. Na- tional Cash Register company. Patterson, of d pro.| Delaware, March 27—The known !dead here this morning are placed at smoothl. Sevel thirty-five., ceeded and up- to o’clock last night 3,000 people were taken from precarious positions and!" Columbus, March 27—Late reports ! partment and the {will lead to the balcony concert in the city hall this evening The band will be assisted by Miss Vera Backus and C. J. Woodmansee. The. concert will be followed by a dance. BARKER BUILDS BALCONY Is Erecting a Special Floor for Hous- ing Phonographs andRecords. Contractors are busy in the erection of a balcony in the Barker Drug and Jewelry store for the purpose of hous- ing the phonograph and record de- accomodation of Mr. Barker’s private office. A tapering golden oak stair case ¢ from the center of the floor and a new prescrip- tion case will be built under the stair case. Mr. Barker has contemplated. this change for some time and stated that when all improvements were in- {stalled that no store in Northern Min- nesota will be more complete. POGUE SECURES NEW TRIAL Judge McClenahan Grants Order Upon Motion Made By M. A. Spooner. In the case of J. P. Pogue vs. the Great Northern Railway company Judge McClenahan granted a new trial which will probably come up at the next term of court. In his memo- randum he states that he found the testimony in the record unsatisfact- ory and inconclusive from a legal standpoint. M. A. Spooner of Bemidji appeared for the plaintiff and J. D. Sullivan for the deferidant, LOOKING FOR SHEEP Quite an interest has been taken in the sheep proposition these last few days. A. R. Button of Big Falls, was in the city Wednesday and ar- ranged to get a carload of sheep to distribute among the Big Falls people. An order is also in for 425 sheep to be distributed among LaPorte people as follows: Ed Ophem 165, Nels Moberg 10, Henry Kohlsorf 50, M. O. Prentice 25, Geo. D. Jorgenson 50, B. J. Carter of Tenstrike has an order in for 25 sheep. SCRAPER BUSY ON STREETS A. A. Carter, street superintendent, has been doing some good work dur- ing the past three days on the city streets. The road scraper has ben used in cleaning the surplus snow from the eédge of the sidewalks. It has done much both for appearance and con- venience to pedestrians. CARTER BACK FROM ST. PAL. A. A. Carter returned from St. Paul this morning where he was called to converse with his brother with regard to the serious illness of his mother who resides in Everret, Wash. Byron Carter has gone to Washington. Sidney, 50 at Tiffin, and hundreds at Stratford. = Washington, March: 27—The go- vernment is rushing supplies to the stricken districts of Ohio and Indiana as fast as possible. The machinery of the Red Cross has been put in operation. Many states have offered the use of militia tents to house the homeless. Life saving. crews safely housed. ‘last night give death lists of 100 at|tions. A cold rain yesterday which turn-; ed to a blizzard during the night has! SCOO THE CUB added to the misery. The flood came | REPORTER 4 so swiftly that the food supplies were lost in most of the homes as the wa- ters reached the second stories before, the food could be removed from cel- lars and kitchens. Two hundred men are imprisoned in the Y. M. C. A.; and fitty giris are 1n the telephone| building across the alley. The build-| ings stand on the brink of the river| and may crumble at any time: Relief Trains Stopped. Relief trains from neighboring cities have been stopped by washouts. A gang of toughs went through the southern part of the city last night “ordering people to extinguigh their 7\ (> C00P-WEVE GoT T3 H P 4 LEAVE EL PASO To DAY AND CRoSS OVER. THE BRDGE GOT A SeHeME~ EoR GETTING— FREE CONCERT TONIGHT The Bemidji band will give a free F. J. Smith 100, J. B. Lembke 25.| have ! overhead might have been saved: been ordered from the Lake Erie sta- estimates his loss at $2,000 pan]ylty and all claims will be settled by| b isider him better posted. “Hacienda” Is An Awful Mouthful For Scoop You KNow THE BiG- ESTATES) / -A COUPLE OF HACIENDAS WH—SET \WiN AN - WE ARE. N MEXICO ORE CALLED HACIENDAS - WELL oL GO UP YO THE AMERWAN GUaRD A TELL HiM THAT WE TWO SOLID BLOCKS OF DAYTON'S BUSINESS BUILDINGS HAVE BURNED AND FIRE IS STILL RAGING DOWN TOWN NOW, WHAT WOULD YOU DO? COLD EH? LL You | TAKE SOME. QUININE THAT) Wi FIX YOU UP ALRIGHT] | Your wi AW (HEER UPI A LITTLE ROCR, ON RYE AND you'LL FEEL ALRIGHT N THE WHEN YOU GO HOME, RAVE. HOT LEMONADE AnO- IFE MaKEe YOU A «Copyright.) IDRIVEN. 0UT BY FIRE : J. B. Hans(;r; arl‘a:;iy‘l‘orce;'l;o ] Flee Home at 2 a. m. When Awakened by Smoke, BILL COMPROMISED STORE GUTTED BY FLAMES ! . | Committee Refuses to Allow Beltrami County Full Aniount Asked forin | Refund of Dumas Case. When J. B. Hanson, who owns a grocery and meat market at the cor- ner of Sixth and Minesota, about 2 a. m. this morning, he Upon going down investigate, he found the awoke smelled smoke. stairs to Special to The Pioneer. St. Paul, March 27—Beltrami coun- | ty probably secure an approprlanoni of $4,000 from the state as a refund| of expenses in the Dumas trials. The store on fire, presumably caused by an overheated stove. He tried to reach the telephone but could not. Mr. -Hanson rushed up stairs where matter was brought up in committee this morning and reported out with a recommendation that $4,000 be al-| his wife and four children were sleep- +ing. Two children were nearly over- come by smoke but revived as soon as he had carried them to the fresh [1OWed. air. The family went to the Bldcker| , D. P. O’Neill, representative from hotel for lodging for the rest of the!;this district and who introduced the! ? bill in the house, before the night and were refused admittance ithehouse appeared before the| according to Mr. Hanson’s statement, |COmmittee to speak in its favor. When | They were finally lodged at the|Mr- O'Neill found that there was op- | position to allowing Beltrami county | Challenge after Mrs, Smith had given| up her own-apartments. jover §8,000, he tried to compromise on: A passing stranger saw the blaze|five but was forced down to four. He: and not knowing where the fire alarm {says that he believes the bill will now ; was located, ran to Nangle’s store be- go through both houses. | | fore he found a policeman. The fire; The normal school bill is still-in| bell was rung for about five minutes. | the senate committee. It has not been | By the time the men arrived, the en-|reported out because of the opposition | tire lower part of the building.was|of Senator Works, of Mankato. i a mass of flames and they were shoot- % i —————_ - ’ ing out into the street. It was found i that the hydrant at Fifth and Minne- | SPOONER HOUSE ROBBED | esota was frozen. | The Spooner home on Lake Boule-; The fire was extinguished before vard was entered sometime during the| the building collapsed. Mr. Hanson | absence of the family and several ar-i stated this morning that the con-|ticles taken from the premises. The! tents would be a total loss although |total loss has not yet been estimated. | some of the, furniture in the rooms;The Bemidji Insurance agency car- He|ries a burglary policy on the proper-i }covered by insurance. that company. DOCTOR SCHAPER COMING Head of Department of Politics of the University of Minnesota to Lec- ture Here Wednesday. WILL TALK .ON GOVERNMENT Dr. William A. Schaper, head of the department of politics of the Univer- sity of Minnesota will talk to the peo- ple of Bemidji next Wednesday night of the commission plan of govern- ment. Doctor Schaper is considered the foremost authority in the state on this plan of government and one of the best in the country. Since the plan was first advocated, he has| studied it and his collection of char- ters ‘and reports is one of the most complete in the United States. Doctor Schaper is a member of the charter commission of Minneapolis which has just drafted a commission plan charter. He is coming to Be- midji under the auspices of the Be- midji charter commission and will be asked to tell of the benefits to. be| derived by the adoption of the com- mission plan. He will also be asked to tell of the experiences of the Min- neapolis charter commission. Thief River Falls has engaged Doc- tor Schaper for Tuesday night and he will leave Bemidji Wednesday night for Minneapolis. Since the. commission plan has been spreading in Minnesota, he has been in great demand as he is considered an author- ity on the subject. The talk will be given either in the Commercial club rooms or the city hall. At a meeting of the\chflrter com- mission Tuesday, a sub committee of F. S. Arnold, K. K. Roe and G. E. Carson was appointed to investigate the advantages of the commission plan and report next Wednesday night. Doctor Schaper’s talk will be the re- port of the committee as they con- WHO WASH Yo RETURN To THE\R. ADMINIS TRADOS GEE. THATS YouaH A COUPLE. UV - UV~ AH —“0ou SEE WE_ ARE A COUPLE LV- By *HOP* “WAIT & MINUTE TILL T @0 BAGk ano COUNCIL DECIDES T0 CUT SALOONS Number to Be Reduced From Thirty- four to Seventeen, According To a Circular. PROPRIETORS ARE NOTIFIED Told People Demand Change and That Aldermen are Following The Public Opinion. FEE QUESTION IS UP AGAIN {For Fourth Time In As Many Years Effort Will Be Made To Raise License From $500. LOCAL LICENSE LEGISLATION 1910—City council asked city attorney to draft a resolution raising the liquor license from $600 to $1,000. This was done but at the next meeting the council reversed itself and voted the resolution down. 1911—Council passed motion made by John Moberg to raise li- cense from $500 to $1,000 and or- dered city attorney to draft a re- solution to that effect. Two weeks later, the resolution was unani- mously killed. 1912—Alderman Hannah in- troduced on ordinance which called for the raising of the li- cense $50 per month until the amount totaled $1000 Two weeks later the ordinance was voted down with Alderman Hannah’s vote the only one in its favor. 1913—Alderman Murphy in- trdduced an ordinance which provides for the raising of the license {zom $500 to $1,5u.. ‘n a secret session, the council ap- pears to have decided that the number of saloons shall be cut to seventeen when the ordinance- is passed. Mr. Murphy then left on a trip to the twin cities and Duluth. - By the serving of notices yester- day on all saloon keepers that the council intends to reduce the number of saloons in this city to seventeen if the legislature fails to pass the Nel- son bill, the council gave the public the first intimation of what happened in the secret session Monday night. Other developments were the facts that immediately after the secret session Monday night, Alderman Murphy left on a trip to the twin cities ahd Duluth, presumably in the woral support of the Nelson bill. Notice to Saloon Men. The notice served on the saloon proprietors and which was signed by Ray F. Murphy, as president of the council, is as follows: “You will please take notice that after due consideration, owing to the constant complaints and recommenda- tions made to us by our constituents, that the city council of this city has concluded that at least a majority of the residents of the city desire amd demand that the number of saloons herein be reduced to not more than seventeen. “We have therefore unanimously decided that should the present legis- lature fail to pass a law which will bring about the desired reduction, ‘we will proceed to refuse applications for; license until that number shall have Dbeen reached, regardless of whether or not the applications be for renewals ‘or original licemses. This does not mean that all applications for liquor licenses will be denied, but in ‘granting any licenses we will be governed by the character and stand- ing of the applicant and his record for living up to the laws of the state of Minnesota and the ordinances of