Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 15, 1923, Page 1

Weather Forecast FINAL | EDITION WYOMING—Partly cloudy tonight | and Thursday; probably showers in east portion. Slightly cooler tonight. Che Casper Daily Trine ——— “OLUME CASPER, WYO., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1923. NUMBER 264. 99 DEAD RE D'VALERA JAILED TODAY CHIEF OF IRISH REPUBLICANS. {5 UT OF HIDING First Appearance Since Fugitive Days Marked By Troop Seizure. ENNIS COUNTY CLARE, IRELAND, Aug. 15.—(By The Associated Press).— Eamon DeValera, the Repub- lican leader, was arrested by Free State troops here today on his appearance to address a re- publican meeting in the election cam- sen. e arrest was mace under sensa- tional circumstance: De Valera was addressing a meeting of electors in the Market Square when Free State troops came on the scene and fired several volleys over the heads of the “Drive right! Walk Right!” Give a thought to the Ife and safety of the other fellow. Stop and reflect a moment before you bear down on the throttle. Pause a mo- ment and look before you pass heedlessly into the busy street. The reckless driving problem has always been a black spot upon the good name of Casper. Perhaps it is the laudable desire to get some where in a hurry, which prompts these bursts of apeed, but more than likely, it is the outgrowth of a na- tural love of speed which is always outstanding in some automobile Grivers. It is a fever, a mania which can end in only one way. Certain people are naturally care- lesz. They must be taught to con- centrate, and to realize that in crossing a downtown street in Cas- CHAUTAUQUA Ia Curb the Speedin per, they are taking a grave chance, providing they fail to look both ways before stepping from the curb. If this precaution is taken, there !s relatively little danger, and the pedestrian is in the clear legally in case of accident, The Tribune in conjunction with the automobile dealers and promi- nent merchants of the city, has un- dertaken to bring about a reform. Drive right week begins August 18 and will continue until August 25. It is hoped that a week of concen- trated effort on the part of every- body, will in « large measure form the safety habit in the future. The Tribune wants the support of the people. When an idea strikes you, jot it down and mail it at once to “Spark Plug” at the Tribune of- tices, so that your fellow Casperites may read and know. Watch the Tribune carefully each evening dur- ing the drive for opinions of promi- nent business men upon the enforce- ment of the law and the importance : PREPARED FORIcono To a AMBASSADOR MEEKER VISITS HISTORIC SPOT ON OLD TRAIL Trip to Woods Crossing Tums Back History Pages for Pioneer. Tm an hour's time yesterday Ezra Meeker, 93-year-old pioneer, was transplanted from the Henning hotel to a point on the old Oregon Trail below Glenrock known in history as the Woods crossing over the Platte river, This same comparatively short distance would probably have required @ full day's travel when Meeker, his wife and six-weeks-old baby, first passed over the route with ox teams in 1852—T71 ago. In y with Charles B. Staf- fordy secretary of Casper's Chamber of Commerce, the venerable champion of western history as based on actual happenings and scenes, started’ on a | BALL SCORES | NATIONAL LEAGUE. At New York: 1st gamo— R.H.E. Cincinnati _. -100 320 000—6 11 1 New York .. -000 100 020-3 9 0 Batteries—Luque and Wingo; Mc- Quillan, Jonnard, Barnes and Snyder. At New York: 2nd game— R. H. E. Cincinnati -___100 002 061—10 18 0 New York -_.._200 000 120— 5 13 2 Batteries—Rixey and Hargrave; Ryan, Jonnard, Barnes, Scott and Gowdy. -000 000 111-3 11 1 Batteries—Alexander and O'Farrell; Marquard, Fillingim and O'Neill, Gib- son. 200 001 000—3 10 1 Batteries—Cooper and Schmidt; Behan and Henlino, eee Rater AMERICAN LEAGUE. At Chicago: 1st game— R.H.E. Wishington _000 000 100 004—5 10 0 Chicago --__000 000 001 000—1 5 1 lige and Gharrity; Schalk. At Detroit— R.H.E. Philadelphia __.__003 020 0**—* * * | Detroit ___.____300 130 o*=—* © © and 36 FOUND ALIVE IN KEMMERER DISASTER ‘Throughout the hours of darkness, as aro lights shed a pallid illumina- tion over a weeping, grief-stricken throng at the portal of the mine, res- cue workers brought forth the blast- cl bodies of the victims, who sufficated and died as they sought sofety from polsonous gases. Thirtysix of approximately 134 miners who were entombed by the blast have emerged from the mine alive. Of these, one lies in a hospital hero, in a serious condition as a result of the inhalation of smoke and gas fumes. He will recover, it is be- Heved.~ ‘The exact cause of the blast was Yh alas a | Sorrow and Desolation Grip Wyoming Coal Camp as Bodies of Victims ‘Are Hoisted to Surface Throughout Long Night; Relatives Crowd Portal KEMMERER, Wyo., Aug. 15.—By The Associated Press).—In the grip of sorrow and desolation, Kemmerer e little coal camp suburb Frontier, one mile away, where approximately 100 miners perished yesterday in an explosion in mine No. 1 of the Kemmerer Coal company, to- day set about the sad task of preparing her dead for burial. rescue workera, who plunged into the smoke-filled passage ways early yes- terday, were hampered but little by debris. At entry 15 it was necessary to clear away a cavein, which had buried six mine cars, and beyond, at entry 11, the workers were forced to re-lay stretches of track torn up by the concussion, Charred timbers and smoke-black- ened cars found by rescuers at first led to the belief that fre was raging in the workings after the explosion but investigation later fs said to have revealed no other traces of con- As news of the explosion spread quickly throughout Kemmerer and Work of Recovering Nine Other Bodies Resumed Today by Rescue Crew badly burned and mediately to the temporary morgue at I, 0, 0, F. hall. KEMMERER, Wyo., Aug. 15.—(By_ The Associated Press).—Eighty-seven bodies had been recovered this morn- ing from the depths of the ill- fated Frontier mine, where 184 miners were entombed by an ex plosion yesterday morning, according to announcement this morning by J. D. Quealy, vice president and general manager of the Kemmerer Coal com- pany, owner of the mine, ‘Work was resumed this morning to recover the bodies of other miners, be- tour of re-discovery. | At Glenrock/| Heved to number eleven, who are thought to be dead in the mine, Thirty-six miners were rescued alive from the mine yesterday, The vice president's announcement was issued today after a check up on the number of men who were working in the mine, The revised figures shewed definitely that 134 men were ‘n the min when the blast occurred, 1. wag announced. It is the concensus of opinion among the rescue workers at the mine that the tragedy was the result of a gas explosion followed by both white and black damp, Some of the rescued miners claim to have seen a tongue of flame shoot from the ex- treme low levels when the blast oc curred, while others were of the con- trary opinion, No official announcement had yet been made as to the cause of the disaster, Vice President Quealy of the coal company, in a talk with newspaper tnen sald that as far as he or other cificlals of the mine could determine, the water pumps and air fans were in erder in spite of the blast, Mine No. 1 has 30 workable levels and one lower level which was only operated recently but was abandoned because of the flooded condition. The mine slopes at a 16 degree angle and went down 6,000 feet. John Paylison, one of the 26 men who saved theraselves on the twenty- ninth level bysbuilding a barricade Against the elements, said at times he had to virtually fight with his fel- low workers to prevent them from at | Batteries—Hasty and Perkins; Cole,| not clear early today, although offi-| Frontier yesterday, a crowd, esti- John Higgins, who himself has been | yotloway, Johnson and Bassler. cials of the Kemmerer Coal company,|™ated to number 1,000 persons, gath- TO THE U. S in that region since 1886, was added in a statement issued late yesterday | ered at the portal of the mine and *|to the expedition an guide. deciared.a blown-out shot waa re-| Maintained a frantic fearful vigil Woods crossing, the objective of the sponsible for the detonation. An-| throughout the day and far into the trip, was made memorable by W. P. other theory is that a careening| night. ‘Wives; mothers sisters, AMSTERDAM, Aug. 15.—{By The| Woods who in June of 1849 made his| Batteries—Fullerton, Ferguson and “trip” car, jumping from the track| daughters, sweethearts and children Associated Press)—Dispatches- from| way. with dozen#“of other westbound} crowd. A stampede occurred and several arrests were made. The troops then surrounded the platform and took the was givens tobititidlie-weldome. Morton, Bed-|on the 1,700 foot level, where the ex-|.0f the entombed men pressed against Program Thursday. dans Wh. rnered ned as successor to Dr, Otto Wiedfeldt,|@4 to the Tribune a short while back| New Yori eee_e © */4 black damp explosion. volunteers as rescue crews emerged volley over the platform and over the|day of next week was keyed to its Rasreten 200 onal se caw.. strvivers ers when it became apparent that no fusion. It was' reported a num-| ferent church committees and are also Ha. ee 2 { with tears as they waited, hoping for feen to fall on the platform and his} The members of committees who 5 the appearance of comrades with g 5 y whom they had worked shoulder to dodging with the sound of the shots| struction company; Fred Firmin, women went about the sorrowful task town in Kemmerer, throngs of weep contained thousands of men, women|H. Gibbs, Midwest Refining compan repub'ican leader into custody. When De Valera appeared on the . tcene there were many thousmnas of| Lent’ Raised at Second Dovarmer} Coveleskio, Then a voice was heard shouting: Berlin today say it is reliably ‘report-|emigrants over the Platte river at a! good and O'Neill, Myatt. plosion occurred, caused a spark|the rope barrier strung around the “The soldieta are coming.” And ed that the name of former Chancel-|point near the mouth of Deer creek. which ignited a cloud of dust or gas.| shaft, and at times overwhelmed the the platform, Interest in the Ellison-White chau-| German ambassador to United States, pd toes Magee ene. Speyer? Fane St. Louis eee © ©/ Disastrous as was the loss of life, tae Bad underground are Hys- The crowd fn all Girec-| tauqua which will be held here start-| Who will resume his direction of the|!ng ppenings ‘@ day when| Batteries—Hoyt and Schang;|the interior of the mine was only| ter! ly, Women wept for a husband, eee eee eon and traggled from the mouth of the pit. heads of the crowd. highest pitch today when the great + ; The great gathering became more] tent that w'll house the entertainment Children's wails mingled with the panic stricken as the shots were fired.| Went up at Eighth and Center streets. ‘Women shrieked:and fainted and some| Season tickets for the chautauqua ROERE face! cchvalaahiattealien thea toa and rescue workers ceased their Ateey5 le-were- wounded. on sale at all the drug stores. A sub- De Velie on buec te edunty gait)| stantial saving can be made by se the task of bringing forth the dead. collapse added to the excitement. He| have charge of t'ckets are the follow: yas unhurt, however, and his)fall| ing: R. 8. Webb, 543 South Center shoulder but who never came. On the streets of the town, grim but the people of the outskirts of the|Oh!o O!l company; L. A. Reed, Mid-, - pr TST oS ES. LEP crowd belleved him to be wounded.| west building; Mrs. A. B. Poling, 416] W DeValera at the outset was surround. eos RAREOIS L. R. Bundy, Standard] Thousands of Acres Laid aste In Fertile Valleys of Northern bi etecateind oF eae home-com! 15 ed on the platform by men and wo-|refinery; Edwin M. Bean, postmaster:| ° ° r . of those they lov men supporters but soon after the|D. F. Gadbury, postoffice; A. J. Haz.| Section and Portions of Two Towns ‘Are Wrecked; STATE SUFFER ing relatives of men who had lost their lives in the blast, passed sluwly along before the long rows of forms, many still unidentified, or stood in people around the platform and he . And Center; First Big immediate'y a large body of military lor Withelm Cuno is being mentionedjA copy of Woods’ diary was present At St. Louls— R.H.E.| General opinion is that the cause was|*mall force of Kemmerer police and tions. The soldiers fired volley after |! tomorrow and lasting until! Tues-| Krupp works. (Continued on Page Fight.) Shocker and Severeid. slightly wrecked by the explosion and/| father, brother or lover as the hours heart-breaking cries of faithful watch: of were seriously injured in the| have been placed in the hands of dif- CAUSES PROPERTY DAMAGE @::2225 At the first volley DeValera was| curing such tickets in advance. ‘ The eyes of strong men were wet was ascribed by those nearby to his} Street; Clarence Coaltrain, Mills Con- visaged men and drawn, sad-faced At the temporary morgue, dovn- first volley the square, which had| litt, Consolidated Royalty building; ..| small groups, assuaging the sorrow and children, waa almost deserted.|C. E. Hoffhine, Mills company; 8. Z| Debris Being Se arched for Dead Additional shots were fired, however,| Bailey, Casper Gas Appliance com-! and the few civilians who still ln-| pany; Mrs, J. T, Richards, 822 North gered were turned away at the point] Jefferson street. of the bayonet. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug. 15.—Ruin and desolation today marked the path of the Tho first day's program includes| floods which swept over thousands of acres of land in the fertile valleys of northern Utah i of those who had been bereft. tempting to gain thelr wi After a lapse of ten minutes} two entertainments by the Patton) Monday night when the flood gates of the W asatch range loosed great torrents upon the The first intimation of the disaster] the surface. Arpah tint Reine "ons a et a | artista: aad the Santee mplshed vocal) numerous farm settlements and communities nestling along the border of the mountains. Pics gipeeiay tk a a Fe ee ote tree ne neue, Of cued after eight hours under ground, the platform and fou to unin-| artists, a: e Junior chautauqua. 7 ¢ rS asper again suffered damage last| smoke which shot from ie fans used | payliso; tc eo < sored ito Sra GE Saute caureastad | Gather Ratton Drctharstarsctucncietis Ten persons were known to have perished and the towns of Farming and Willard were avilson said he and his companton: rj ‘, “ by t " ilate th ine. Th if J by the military and armed plain|artists and thelr performance is one| Partially devastated, the total property dama ge exceeding $1,500,000 according to esti-| "ht from cloudbursts, according to|‘ ventilate the mine. The electric] wore n ‘ alarm system had been destroyed b clothes men. Hundreds of persons|of the most difficult and unusual ever| mates. TAAURY = eansbpecetion) | merigusly (stricken iste! foay, Genlared: tlayibec| 227-8 = :kePor s) Teelveds bere) to- 1 eee ere the, pulipe Near bees who had fied at the firing rushed out| attempted in this line. Search for nearly a score of per-| hampered by washouts, was nearing | Jeved some of the missing persons T ria: he Yell t wrecked and tracks on which the of houses along O'Connell street Their entertainment in the after-| sons reported missing since the flood normal today and communication had | ™8y never be found, expressing the ‘eapot ‘ ize Os: the Yellowstone “trip cars operated had been torn pressed through the ranks of the sol-} noon will be in the way of a prelude| struck was continued today by na- | bellef that some lost their lives and| highway west of Shoshon! was entire- arly exhausted. Paviison asserted that on being brought to the surface in a trip car he could see the bodies of dead miners on several levels. He sa'd he had been completed to most points which | nan! ly dismantled by the storm floods of ‘s counted six fn one group, thelr Nghts f , ordered to duty in probably were burled under the great y " ri Siren edger: ate won with dittioytty Magitians: aese wit, per ¥ivent aL preeciant aid the flood | Were Ssolatey during: the foods. Wire | puke ‘ot debris. Observers. were| last night. Repairs to this road will ates. cat anet thn atention Oe on thelr caps still glowing the troops made thelr way to the| This is included in the junfor chautau.| victims. At Willard Inst night, the ta taba Gane also were be watching the great Salt Lake today| be completed within e day or two. P. J. Quealy, vice-president and gen rie Sorrionn uupsertabsig. estab barracks with their captive, who was|qua. In the evening the Patton| guardsmen started digging into great|‘"& reba’ idly, into which many of the mountafn| A severe downpour in eastern Wyo-| eral manager of the Kemmerer Con! which the be les f th ie atibla wildly cheered enroute. Brothers will give their regular pro-| heaps of debris, belleving that more| Highways between Salt Lake and /streams flow, belleving some bodies|ming took as its toll three brides company, and TC. Russell, superin-| Wren, the bodies of the dead minera grom in @ prologue, six episodes, and| dead might be found buried there. Ogden and Setween Willard and Og-|may be swept into it. between Lost Springs and Shawnee |tendent of the Diamond Coal and brought from the scene of the DE VALERA an epilogue. Tho rescue workers encountered | den were impassable today, hundreds| Rescue workers at Willard were| Wyo. says the state highway depart- Coke company, mine rescue expert Sere one cane, with yale FOR REBELLION. oo muck and mire nearly 30 feet deep,| 0f uprooted trees and huge boulders, spurred on tpday following reports|™ent. East of the Lost Springs sta-|the work of exploring the mine be. r Stake friends seek: ng to establish ‘ Well Known Rotarian Dead while along the wide expanse of farm| rolled along from the mountains in | rom farmers in the vicinity that sev.| tion another bridge was swept away, gan. Russell entered the (mine at| ‘"® ‘dentity of thelr loved ones. DUBLIN, Aug. 15.—(By The Ase) CoUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, Aug. 15.| lands north and south of the little |the mad rush of the waters through | “07 automobiles last seen on moyn-| 2nd all bridges north and south of| once, and as volunteers rushed to the| , ©{f©!a's said today they were check- ciated +Press.)—The publicity depart-) ro iiain Coppock, 54, prominent and| town lay strewn for miles the wreck-|Focky canyons, obstructing the roa |tain highways had been swept away| this connecting stretch of road were| ming from adjoining properties of with difficulty the names and jrent of the Free State government! ationally known Rotarian and bus-|age of hundreds of farm bulldings. Governor Mabey last night ismued|)\ ino torrents, lost. ‘The highway through this dis-|the company and from other mines authentic number of the miners’ in a statement to the press this ev-| a man of Council Bluffs, died last| Huge boulders, some the size of|® prociamation calling on the people eis trict 1s said to be impassable. ae Eeaina ae TAB pallens ae entombed, due partly to the great ning fixes on Eamon DeValera thelnight. Ho had filled the office of| small houses, are littered over north-|of the state to give their ald to the|, One farmers told the story of hear- Tesponsibility for the campaign of the Irish frregulars and publishes all his captured, correspondence in proof of this charge. DUBLIN, Aug. 15.—(By The Assoct- ated Press)—During the Free State eloction meeting today at Kinvarra, district governor of the Rotarians comprising several states, was an in- ternational vice president at the time of his death and was a candidate for national president at the convention held in Los Angeles last year. ern highways. An area two miles wide north of Farmington is covered to a depth of nearly 20 feet with trees and wreckage. In one place 75 tele- graph and telephone poles were piled in a heap. hundreds of homeless in the flooded aren. The chief executive, with Ad- jutant General Williams, went to Wi!- lard yesterday to take charge of the critical situation there, Authorities who had surveyed the |ing the roar of the on-rushing thirty |foot wall of water near Willard and then of seelng an automobile loaded with persons, engulfed in the water and garried swiftly away to what seemed inevitable doom, Three boys who late Monday went Reports that one of the rafilroads lost a bridge and considerable track- age near Lucerne, Wyo., could not be confirmed at division offices here of the Chicago & Northwestern or Bur ington systems, neither of which had heard the report. more men were sent into the more than 100 rescuers were at work. At entry 15, layed until shortly after n task of clearing the passageway Continued on Page the rescuers were de confusion which has prevalled among the townspeople since the explosion. The removal of the dead from the mine began about 9 o'clock last night. The bodies were placed on automobile trucks and carried to the morgues, iripped with sorrow and mourning Kemmerer and Frontier this morning to Farmington canyon from where on the Clare-Galway border, a fight the out-pour of the flood waters was e is reported to have occurred in which revolvers were used and eight persons O a O O W 4 e Oo r d 1 n were wounded and taken to hospitals. ENNIS, County Clalre, Ireland, Aug. 15.—(By The Associated Press. ion De Valera made his prom- pearance this afternoon at a olitical meeting here, ‘The republl- can leader drove up in an open car Undisguised, He was given a wild welcome by a crowd of 1,500 people. were filled with tearful scenes, ° e An Itallan woman, the mother of the greatest had not been Neath frere| two small children, whose husband today. They are believed to have been SO ine T1 e Uu and brother-in-law are among the ‘ined inewe rea the cece, C .d, was among the crowd which wathaninias Wan vane the portal of the mitle in been swept away by the waters at the long vigil of last night surged n ered were mangled, one body being but who would never return, Sud- decapitated. lenly she turned toward them after Near Moab, Utah, where the floods] one had reminded her that she would LOS ANGELES, Aug. 15.—Mary we would be married. I had planned/with the answer that it was impos-| were not #o severe, roada were flood-| recelve compensation ‘f her husband 15.—(By The Associ-| Miles Minter, mtion picture actress,!in my own mind—never with Mr.| sible.” ed and many bridges were washed Seventeen cents a gallon is the filling station price of | was los". and screamed: ated Press.—Eamon De Valera came| was not formally engaged to marry DUBLIN, Au Taylor—that as soon as I had made| In her story, Miss Minter also told|“W8y. In Salt Lake City atreets in| gasoline in Casper today. This reduction of three cents in}... ee haapan ae piss dare ay into the open for the first time since| William Desmond Taylor, film direc-| q|0f differences which h arisen be:| ‘he northern section were flooded to| retail and wholesale prices on motor fuel was initiated bY: Viaw back.” ‘Then ahes@aitind ho has been ‘on the run” when he| tor who was shot to death in his| enough money so that mother and) i on her and her mother, Mra, Char.|% “depth of several feet but today n'y | the Continental company, following a reduction in the whole- |“ >, Jap miner;-who went Addressed a meeting today at Ennis,| apartments here February 1, 1922, sister could be assured of a comfort-|iptte Shelby, over an accounting of ‘h@ loam was left am evidence of the | sip nfice by the Statidacd’ Oil Com Any. of Indiana ca ggaonty arp epo went county Claire. He ts the republican} but hoped some day they might|able income for tho rest of their lives.|the actress’ earnings which, she ax-|%torm. Damage, however, to tele-| Sale price by * pan) ° candidate for the C'atre seat in the| marry, according to a signed story that perhaps we would be married.|serted, ‘must be settled by attorneys| Phone and telegraph wires was esti-| The Texas company immediately met the reduction seg} °#™™ yesterday morning, worked al forthcoming elections ard the people| from her, published in the Los An-| But we were not engaged in the sens?! or the court.” = | mated at nearly: £75,000 |by the Standard here in lopping three NEW YORK, Aug. 15 (By The As. | ‘ ay he atieoeatnottee ee and were speculating as to whether the] geles Times today of wearing a ring, or of telling one's! “7 h5- not see mother again,” she The flood was the greatest in the! cents from its posted prices. The new] ®0ciated Press}—The gasoline pric he aalaiche inteaaea ragien Free Staie government would arrest| “We were n gaged in the sense| friends of an intention to marry or] 9) tie history of 1 according to author! rine of 17 cents includes the Wyo-| cutting war under way for seve nag aon AOR PaeT him that he had asked me to marry him|of telling my mother. Marrying Mr. " tles. ot since 1903, when the local ae scasiina ob SRE days in mid-western and south , Agel a8 Aaa w re ere f In some quarters it is said that it'and 1 had promised,” the story stated.| Taylor was just my dream—a dream| Mra. Shelby is reported convales-| weather bureau started to record pre-|Ming Atate tax cn gasoline of one| states, where retail prices were sania about 24, of (His hgaeate «. Wontinued op Page Hight) “I bad always hoped that some time | which, voiced to him, always met (Continued on Page Eight, | (Continued.on Page Eight) cent a galion, (Continued on Pege Seven) wetin > Ll