Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 28, 1913, Page 1

\ i | f i s g g s '11 TE BEMIDJI SOCHe ' 1 VOLUME 10. - NUMBER 282 WORSE THAN SAN FRANCISCO HORROR TWENTY BODIES TAKEN FROM RUINS IN COLUMBUS BY RESCUERS THIS MORN G Communication With Zanesville Cut Off and Repo.x’cs of 150 Dead and Many Survivors Starving Could Not Be Verified by Governor Cox— Telephone Exchange in Dayton Has Burned RESERVOIR DAM AT LEWISTON HOLDING AT 2 P. M. BUT IS WEAK LR e R R * Columbus, March 28—=2 p. m.—The Lewiston reservoir dam is ¥ % still holding and Dayton is safe from further floods for the time * * being. * KRR KKK KKK KRR KKK KRR KK KKK KK KKK KKK KK KK BY United Press. Columbus, March 28.—At noon—Tens of thousands were missing and hundreds were undoubtedly dead today as the flood waters which swept the Miami river valleys began to subside. The lowest estimate of the property loss is placed at $$100,000,000. With rescue work in Columbus barely started in this city, twenty bodies have been recovered this morning. Fifty other bodies were located by rescuers who actually witnessed the fatalitics. The number of the re- covered bodies is growing hourly. Basing his estimates on personal knowledge of the situation in Colum- bus, Dayton, Delaware, Piqua, Troy. Sidney and other flood stricken cities, Governor Cox declared today that the loss of life and property in the Ohio floods exceeds that of San Francisco by earthquake, Columbus was thronged today by frantic men who had reached the city by way of the Big Four railroad from Cleveland, the only method of entering the city by railroad. They were all striving to get to their families either in Columbus, Dayton or some other flood stricken city. Zanesville was under water today and it was cut off from all com- munication with Columbus. Reports that 150 were dead and many sur- vivors were starving were beyond verification by the governor, GARRISON HAS TROUBLE IN FINDING A PLACE TO CROSS (On board government special train) Clifton, W. Va., March 28 De- layed by washouts and notified of high flood stages in the Orio river val- ley. Secretary of War Garrison, who was in charge of the government special relief party, decided today to abandon his schedule of crossing the Ohio at Kenova, W. Va., and now plans to push on to Columbia, Ohio, near Cincinnati. From that point an attempt will be made to travel eastward to Columbus By boat if necessary. He had originally planned to cross at Chillicothe but railway officials advised against his crossing the now swol- len Ohio so near Cincinnati. THE SITUATION AT PRESS TIME FRIDAY. Waters in Dayton slowly receding and several city blocks which were covered have been bared. Fire situation coming under control. Ohio state militia are taking charge of the doomed districts as fast as the water allows them. 2 A ten day holiday has been declared by Governor Cox in order to protect business obligations now due. Columbus death list and property loss increased over first reports. Flood warnings for the lower Mississippi valley have been sent out from Memphis. Train schedules on the Panhandle, Baltimore and Ohio, Chicago and Eastern Illinois, Monon, Big Four, Nickle Plate, Erie and Chesapeake and Ohio have been abandoned. All communication from Dayton by wire cut off last night when tele- phone plant burned. By United Press. $t. Paul, March 28—9 a. m.—Governor Cox had the only direct wire into Dayton. This means of communication was cut off when fire reached the telephone plant last night. The plant was destroyed and the operator, John A. Bell, fled to death probably by the water route. The United Press got its reports through the governor but has now sent correspondents to Dayton from Cincinnati by horseback. A motor boat has also been chartered and it is expected that the counting of the. dead will begin this morning. . Thrilling Rescues Affected. in which the families lived began to Dayton, O., March 28.—8 a. m.— | totter this morning and they fled:to Thrilling scenes can be viewed here |t1€ roof and cried for help. Boats every minute as the rescued troop in | " ore unable to face the torrent and bearing nothing but tales of suffering | T8SCUers threw a bottle, to which was and adventure. Everyone has a separ- | 2ttached a rope, to William Fornuff. ate story, and here are some of them: | At the end of the rope was a shutter Oiiis of £ Hioat daring rescues in|21d Fornuff lashed his wife to the this city of daring and heroic deeds .““P“"’I’F;“i ‘:fe t“’lflflt- ; {The. Woman occurred-this morning at 118 Pulaski ' then slid into the water and -was street, when two families consistlng"::‘s]:::dtol:a‘:t’;imfi:rm;:::::s :::;: of nine members slid from the snow | covered root of their home lashed to |°heers of the hundreds who looked on. To make the rescue of the two rs and were drawn through the alntte 2 4 families complete, Tony, the pet dog icy water to safety into an adjoining % f the Fornuffs, was induced to swim y feet away. The rescued | ol € blldingfitty 166r avay: S to his new home. families-were William Tobe, his wife s Mrs, Katherine O’Connor, fifty-six and their four children and Annie n de her daughter, Blanche, twenty- and William Fornuff, The building KR KKK KKK KKK KK KK KK * BEMIDJI PEOPLE ANXIOUS * KKK KKK KK KKK KKK KR Mrs. Rosana Hayth and Arthur Hayth, mother and brother of Mrs. William Virts, are living in Dayton. Mrs. Hayth is believed to have been cauguht in the Al'linglan apartments when the ood came, Mr. Hayth is a foreman for the National Cash Register company and is believed to have left the hotel in time to have escaped the flood. Mrs. Virts intended to leave for Dayton at once but hesitates as train service has been abandoned. The names ‘of her mother and brother have been sent to the United Press bureau at St. Paul by the Pioneer and efforts are being made to ascer- tain their safety but no word is ex- pected before .Sunday. The Arling- ton was one and one-half - blocks from the river and half a block nearer’ than the Algonquin hotel where the water reaches the third story. If the Y. M. C. burns, the Algon- quin, which is directly across the tstreet will be in danger also. SCRUTCHIN BUYS : WARFIELD HOUSE Charles Scrutchin purchased the house, now occupied by A. A. War- eld, on Lake Boulevard. It is under- stood that the house will be moved to the vacant lot on Bemidji avenue and Ninth street next to the Scrutch- in residence. BOWSER RESTING EASILY W. N. Bowser, of the O’Leary- Bowser company, was operated on for appendicitis at the St. Anthony hos- this afternoon that he was resting easily. = INDICTED FOR MURDER BY United Press. Plymouth, Mass., March 28.—Mrs. Jennie Harris Eaton was indicted on Thursday by the Plymouth county grand jury on charges of murdering her husband, Rear Admiral Joseph Giles Eaton, U. S. N., retired, by poisoning him. She is held in the Plymouth county jail. ADDITIONAL LOCALS. Rev. Charles Chandler of the Bap- tist church is confined to his home with a bad cold and there will be no services in that chureh Sunday. Mrs. George T. Baker entertained the Narcissus club yestérday after- noon. The color scheme was yellow and was carried out in yellow jon- quils. These flowers also made an attractive centerpiece. The decora- tions were artistic and the favors effective. A dainty four-course luncheon was served. Mrs. Baker was assisted in serving by Mesdames Warner Brandborg, Walter Marcum and D. N. French, of Blackduck. Be- sides the regular members of the club one visitor was present, Mrs. O. Manaugh. three, kissed their husband and fath- er and son and brother good-bye be- fore they were taken from their home at 116 Lincoln street. “Women and children first,”” 0’Con- nor told the rescuers ‘who had come to take himself and his family to safety. “Go next door and get the women there, son and I will take care of our- selves. We will be all right, don’t worry,” O’Connor reassured his wife as he kissed her goodbye. O'Connor and his son are missing. Jerry Conners, sporting editor of ‘the Dayton News, was rescued from his home on Jones street on Thurs- | i pital Thursday afternoon. It was said |* I[m l :ops right]) Y HI0 DISCLOSING HUNDREDS JAGE OF OVER $100, YOU GO’ TO RPISE - ANY SENIOR PLAYS' TONIGHT R oy Amateur High School Thespians to Tread Boards in the Armory in Two Productions. EXTRA SEATS ARE PROVIDED Tonight the members of the senior class will present two plays, “The Elopement of Ellen” and “A Bachel- ors Banquet,” in the Armory. A mati- nee was given yesterday and was attended by about 200 school child- ren. The gate receipts amounted to over $25. There will be few children tonight and plenty of good seats for the older folks are promised. Aléx Cameron, Harold Hayner, Angelina Munt and ‘Anna Hedman will take the leading roles in “A Bachelor’s Banquet.” The play is a one act farce which hinges around the fact that two young men are to give a banquet and are suddenly in- terrupted by visitors. In the “Elopement of Ellen,” the chief characters are Edith Ryan, Flora Todd, Claude MclIver and Lester Achenbach. It is a three-act play and is said to cause a great deal of amusement. E The caste of characters for “A Bachelor’s Banquet” is as follows: Dick Foster........Harold Hayner Marjorie~Pomeroy .Sherrel Case Nat Stillman........Alex Cameron Mrs. Mortimer. Lottie Mattson Della " Mortimer .Anna Hedman Constance Oldfield. . .Angelina Munt McGinnis. . .....Heard but not seen “The Elopement of Ellen.” Richard Ford. . .Leon Bdttles Mollie Ford......Esther Fleishman Dorothy March.........Edith Ryan Max Ten Eyck. . .Claude Melver Rob Shepherd. Lester Achenbach June Haverhill.........Flora Todd John Humes. ++...Don Shannon Extra seats.in the gallery _have itinued on last page). SCOO THE CUB REPORTER IF WE CANGET BY ' H Yie vexican @ niinued op last page). DITCH BUILDERS HERE Conferring with A.-A. Andrews Re- “garding Contract of DitchNe. 1 W. H. Hulbert, president of the Valley Dredging company of Stephen, |Minnesota, and G. T. Hammery, of Gonvick, engineer on ditch building, were in the city Tuesday consulting with A. A. Andrews regarding the letting of the contract on the con- struction of Judicial Ditch No. 1. This ditch will affect Clearwater, Polk, Pennington and Red Lake counties. It is an immense project iand if carried to completion will mean the changing of the course of the Clearwater river. “It will be more of a river than -a ditch,” said Mr. Andrews in speaking of the mat- ter today. “The river commences in eastern Clearwater county and runs through Polk and Red Lake.” KKK K KK KK KK KKK KK KK * COMPLIMENT FOR BOTH. * KKK KKKH KKK KKK KKK KK The Schneider Brothers company has received the following letter from Hart, Schaffner and Marks concern- ing a page add which the Bemidji company ran in the Pioneer March 18: v “We have nothing but praise for your fine page announcement in the Pioneer of the eighteenth. “If a stranger came into your city and read that add, he would say at once ‘There is a high class concern; they do business in the right way.” “You realize that the Pioneer has something to do with the appearance of this add and the impression -ic makes. They have certainly done some excellent setting up. We hope to see more adds like this one.” —~ The add was written by Mr. Charles Cominsky of the Schneider Brothers company and was set up by Mr. Herbert Wood of the Pioneer force. SOCIALIST LECTURE George F. Hibner, a long-time member of the Socialist party, will city hall on “What Is Socialism?” TWO ALLENS ARE DEAD Father and Son- Electrocuted Today For Quintuple Murder in Hills- ville, March 14, 1912, POWER OF THE CLAN IS BROKEN BY United Press. Richmond, Va,, March 28.—Over- (whelmed at last after a century of mountain feudal tyranny, the power of the Allen gang was_forever put to an end today when Floyd and Claude Allen, father and son, died in the electric chair. for the quintuple mur- der in the Hillsville court house, March 14, 1912. Just a year anda fortnight after their desperate effort to avenge the conviction of a kinsman by a mere court ,they entered the death chamber after all avenues of possible reprieve had been barred against them. announced a verdict of guilty against | Victor Allen on a charge of perjury in a moonshining case, the rage of the patriarch of the clan vented itself in a pistol volley, .in which other members of the family joined. Judge ‘Thomas L. Massie, Commonwealth Attorney Thornton L. Foster and Sheriff Lew Webb were carried from [{the courtroom dead or dying. . Juror Fowler and Miss Elizabeth Ayres, stenographer, died later from wounds, When the great needle had swung slowly backward for the last-time to- day and the current was shut off after dealing death to thé “patriarch of the Allen clan” and his son, justice had triumphed after a century of rule by a family whose power dated back for generations and which took unto it- self the dominien-over life and death. Time and again the Allens have defied the law and as their power grew they became more insolent. It was their speak next Sunday at 3 p. m. at theiboast that none’of their breed should - | center of a great dairy country. STILES BELIEVES IN DAIRY FUTURE Says Country Can Grow Feed and Has Pure Water Which are the Two Essentials, FARMERS ARE ENTHUSIASTIC In His Trips Into the Country, New Butter Maker Has Found Proper Spirit. lWAI‘I‘I‘S PEOPLE TO BOOST 1(}r,eamery Can Be Made to Run All | Year if Cows are Kept Working i During the Winter. Everett C. Stiles, new butter mak- jer at the Bemidji creamery, believes that Bemidji is destined to be the The creamery will open for business April 1 and in the meantime Mr. Stiles has been out in the country interviewing the farmers and getting a line on the prospects for the coming season. He is enthusiastic and believes that |it will soon be possible to operate the creamery the year around. In an interview this morning, Mr: Stiles said “that the farmers he has interviewed are all of the opinion that in dairying may be found the future of this country. He says that they all seem enthusiastic over the fact that they have a country so nat- urally adapted to dairying. “There is an abundance of pure sweet water,” he said, “and a soil second to none for producing clover, alfalfa, timothy and corn fodder for winter feed. These two are the main factors in a dairy country. As soon as the native timber is cut off and the land freed from brush an abun- dance of grass can be made to grow among the stumps for summer pas- ture. “The amount of feed that can be raised on five or ten acres is surpris- ing. If the ground is properly hand- led and r!-nted to corn fo.. . ten acres will winter several cows. The feed will be especially valuabie if left to stand until aimost matured and then put in a silo. Cows fed on en- silage do not lessen in milk produc- tion during the winter months when ‘When a jury foreman tremblingly |Prices are highest and the farmer has the least to do. “It would .be well for every farm- er with five or six cows to look well into the proposition of raising feed jenough to fill a small silo and then with the aid of the local bankers, put up a small silo this summer and be prepared for winter milking. There is bound to be a dairy future so why hesitate about starting? The ex- perimental stage of silo building is passed. “If the dairy and creamery busi- ness does not pay, why is it that there are over 1,000 creameries in this state today paying millions of dol- lars to the farmers? The people who do not boost for the local creamery are short sighted for it is only through such an institution that the dairy business can be put on its feet. “Let each one determine to boost the dairy industry. If we live in town we are not out of reach of the butter ring and our boosting in time (Continued on last page). will be effective. By "HOP*