Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 29, 1923, Page 1

Weather Forecast WYOMING—Partly cloudy” to- night and Sunday, probably raim in northeast portion tonight. Frost in west portion tonight. Not much change in temperature. CASPER, WYO., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1923. 18 PERISH IN NEBRASKA STORMS {CASUALTY LIST TORNADO AND CLOUDRURST TAKE GREAT TOLL IN LOSS OF LIFE Thirteen Dead and Three Missing at Council Bluffs and Louisville; Half Million in Property Damage Is Reported. CRIAHA, Nebr., t. 29.—(By The Associated Press). *—Toll of the dead in the heavy rain and wind storms that visited of Nebraska and western Iowa yesterday and last night reached eighteen today. The eighteenth death reported was, The heaviest toll was taken at that of Otto J. Dudek, a traveling | Louisville, Nebraska, where a cloud- man of York, Nebraska, who was drowned when he slipped into a ho'e while trying to cross a flooded creek burst swept away three houses, in one of which e'even persons perished. ! All these were trapped in the home} Fair Weather Forecast For ‘Coming Week WASHINGTON, Sept. Weather outlook for the ginning Monday: Rocky Mountain and Plateau re- gions: Generally fair and normal temperatures, Pacific states: Generally fair in California, considerable cloudiness and occasional showers probable in Washington and Oregon; norma! temperature. WALTER WARD RETURNS HOME 29.— week be- WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Sept. 29. KNOWN DEAD: D. E. Schultz, baggage man, Cas- | per. Nicholas Schmetz, Douglas, Wyo. E. J. Klove, brakeman, Casper. W. J. Nource, Gunnison, Colo. Albert Hill, colored, Dodge City, | Kan. MISSING: Ganks, Denver. Watkins, colored porter, Cas- W. Goff, conductor, Casper. J. Spangler, engineer, Casper. ] E. Hendricks, mailman. | Ww. | Ollie Mallon, fireman, | Guy Griswold, Center street, per. Mrs. Minnie Owens, Casper. WY? Martin, Casper. near that city. of Robert McCarver, 30, who was 80, . , Yt Council Biufts, Iowa, the death | bedridden from burns recelved Thurs-|— Walter 8. Ward, acquitted yester-| Hi I. Glethart, Denver. stood at five, and while rumors|day night whi'e trying to rescue/@®¥ On charges of murder of Clan) Stts. tx oy tee interaational be A ere circulated that more than this|h's mother when sho was fatally |0nce ee Hie ous ita Lene palitire Valen, Dave number had lost their lives in the| burned in an oil explosion while try-|2O™® is ay, Oe ry Ae! had te cai ™ ‘ tornado that swept through a nar-| tng to start a fire in a stoye. They | (rem © free man. Barat tor dees | KNOWN SURVIVORS: row section in the southeastern part| were Wm. McCarver, son of Mra.|‘)0t hus hung over hie head for 16| L» Krews, brakeman, Cheyenne. of the city, they apparently were un-| McCarver, his wife and two step Tt 138 TAD Ovet ae ie bled an| sohn Downs, Littleton, Colo. founded, and it was sald by a news:| daughters, aged 6 and 8; Alfred|TOr ear tor yenterday was| J+ M. Shipley, Customs Building, paper correspondent who canvassed | Leard, his wife and three year ola |&2nive ie aiettna ay, Dexeee * the situation, that reports of three| son; Mrs. J. W. Morgan and 4 year | Ware + saikeae nie t *: cr along | W. M. Buckley, Lincotn, Neb. ,other persons being missing seemed | old son. Robert McCarver and Mrs.| ties of events in connection with | Ernest P.. Kipp, 1415° Wazzee to be erroneous. L. Smith, of Morrison, Ilinols, as sige ht op ach ald irae mearege 0 5 ————__—— Mrs. Don Sullivan, Casper. ‘ ASK WORD OF RELATIVE. Genevieve May, Salida, Colo, «OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 29.—Thirteen known dead,+three} yietarives in Stamford, Conn., of | Henry Wyatt, Casper. missing, more than a dozen seriously injured and property |Hugh Newton Arthur, who was ex-| Mrs. Lewis, Denver. damage estimated at more than half a million dollars, waspected to leave Casper the last of Re a. ona spinel ee vhich visi vest- |the week, are seeking news of him.| Dan J. MoGuire, Denver. Bits bial aoe forees fecal: GEC de ites visited west- | ‘Mone knowing of his whereabouts | €. Davis, 2727 West Thirty-Fourth Lite) ta OLAS gent. is asked to communicate with Chas. | street, Denver. At Council Bluffs, Iowa, where a tornado struck ‘7. weianer. _-Mrs. C. A. Mullock, Thermopolis. shortly after 9 o'clock Iast night, | five persons are known to be dead, | ° : three missing and five seriously in: Scientist Took jured and property damage esti-| mated at more than $250,000. | : ight. facteaers were arowoed™at| Poison Dose By Loulsville, Nebraska, when the house ‘here the body of Mrs Mary Craver| 4 k ~ t fay, was washed into Mill Creek! Mista e, Belie which became a raging torrent, hav- ing risen five feet in less than an| hour, following a cloudburst. LOS ANGELES, Calif, Sept. 2 ia Re Rouel eee Sars —An inquest over the body of Dr. RW ear Bes ee AS QOm Aun ee - Sergio Bagnara, metallurgist of in- : os ° ; ae Sieur Decision of “Not Guilty” Returned Late ‘:ationai same ana descendant ot Pr hid erie: eaten Spanish nobility, who died here ree children, Richard 6; George § 2 = 5 2 ’ Wednesday, has revealed that he| and Arthur 4, Friday Night Afier Six Hours ee aca one petra (al woleds The. deadias\ Louisville: are: | § 5 tific experiment and drank by mis- Robert McCarver, his brother Deliberation take a poison which had been placed ‘Will, and the iatter’s wife; Mr. and in a bottle bearing the label of a ba aR rae ere TW: mars ———_- harmless liquid, according to the , al of Louisville, and Mrs. ou ns! 5 7 ibe A E: fi x ‘ Smith of Illinois. | After deliberating aimost six hours a verdict of “not | “Dy. Yienara was born in Eng- , Dr. A. A. Ward, a physician of guilty” was returned by the jury sitting in the case of | 1ana He was believed to have lar; pe had ccreny on his way to Talton Taylor, charged with the murder of Paddy Daly, |estates in that count and in ieitaets SHRRMMaE calnrean hain: nia sheep foreman of the Buffalo Creek ranch, at the ranch | Spain. He came here a year ago | car skidded and turned aver. jin the northern part of the county on the night of July 19,|*T°™ Arizon® Three persons, a railroad employe 1922. ; Qnd Clarence Dalton, a dairy man.| ‘The jury returned the verdict atjon the night of the murder, and was are reported as missing at Council | 11 o'clock last night, having retired| a fugitive from justice for almost a | Bluffs and it ta believed that they|(o consider the case at 4:30 yester-|year. He was captured recently may have been washed into Indian day afternoon. while on a train near Armito. Creek which {ts out of its banks be-| prosecuting Attorney E. H. Foster Fete aio cause of the heavy rains of the past! for the state attempted to establish few days. first degree murder and asked for es » Mrs. Kelster and three children ithe death penalty, contending that LOS ANG Sept. 29 Were killed as they ran from their) paly had been deliberately mur- 08 ANGEL! Beis Sep 38s ‘shome which was in the path of the|area in cold blood after a quarrel Two women, each declaring herself tornado. As they left their front|with the defendant in the Buffalo She wie a canis 0. Colvin, a per t large tree arae uprooted’ Greek ranch bunk house over a rnd! | mining engineer, who died the and they were buried beneath it. die blanket, BERLIN, Sept. 29.—(By The As- | % ab hoepita: kere th: The bodies of the four, huddled to- sociated Press,——It was officially |®*® have come into the superior Tho defense based its case on the contention that Daly was a danger- ous man, and that Taylor had taken a rifle with him as a means of de- |fense when he went into the bunk |house to demand the return of the saddle blanket which he alleged that he had loaned’ Daly and which had not been returned. gether was found by a neighbor about an hour after the tornado had subsided. Roupple was instantly killed as he dashed from an eating house. He ‘was buried beneath flying debris and his body was not recovered until some hours after the tornado had subsided. Roupple had been in| Omaha buying sheep and was on|. Attorney A. E. Stirrett for the de- his way home. fense made a powerful plea in just!- Charles Cooley, who lives in the|fication of the murder, contending heart of the stricken area in Coun.| that Taylor fired only after Daly had ‘ell Bluffs said that he had countea|®Ppproached him in a threatening 12 houses in a row which had been | Manner. leveled by the tornado. The Strand, one of the leading theaters in the Iowa city was almost | demolished when the rear end of) it caved into Indian Creek. No one} ‘was injured when the building gave away. Fire followed the tornado and sev- feral barns, homes and warehouses were destroyed. Persons living near Salt Creek, in the western part of Lincoln were forced to flee to higher ground when that creek, which at this time of the! year is dry, left its banks. Pris- oners at the state penitentiary were used to build dams around the prison power plant in order to prevent it from being inundated and thus crip.) pling service to the governor's man- sion, a hospital and other ate buildings. Reporters were forced to wade in Water up to thelr necks in attempts Nl | i Mills and all points west of the Standard refinery were out off from traffic communication this morning as a result of high water in the Platte and a raging torrent in Casper Creek which is ordinarily dry, The cement bridge across Casper Creek has broken down in the middle and wilt not bear vehicle to get a story of the tragedy. Gor-| traffic even after the approach is don Richmond, attempted to take al repaired which was washed out | (Continued on Page Six.) about 8 o'clock last night, The |announced today that the ordinance in kind on reparations to France Jand Belgium, had been annulled. MAYENCE, Sept. 29—The Franco- Belgian authorities operating the railroads in the Rhineland and the | Ruhr.opened a recruiting office here |today with the object of engaging 30,000 German railroad men for these nes. All the men engaged wil! be obliged to take the oath to obey the ‘Taylor disappeared from the scene allied civil and military authorities. of January 13, suspending deliveries ; court as claimants to his estate of $5,000. Neither woman ever heard of the other until Colvin died although both have lived here for ten years, Each sald he was “a model husband,” al- though frequently absent from home inspecting mines. Mrs, Lueona Colvin sald she mar. ried the engineer in 1888. She has three grown children. Mrs. Rosyetta Colvin married him in 1914. “We were very happy,” she told the court. The case will be resumed Monday sald she | npproach on the south end of the Platte bridge was also washed out this morning, and the Standard Re-| finery placed 200 men to work in repairing both structures, Men have also been placed to work on the Chicago and Nortb- western ral! bridge, fixing it wo that it may be used for auto mobile traffic until the other bridges can be repaired. | Work was being ione t Standard Fights to Save River Bridges at Casper jing on the south bank of the Platte adjoining the pavement next to the refinery. The bank is be- |ing reinforced with rocks so that the high water will not wash over ithe pavement. If the water raises | another foot and a half it will be | well over the paving. | Motorists are being stopped a quarter of a mile wost of the Bur Hngton and warned the spur of M. Morwitz, address not known. George Evenson, Casper. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Beck, Du- hoise, Wyo. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. McGuire, California. D. J. Danker, Brookline, Mass. Mrs. ©. Tweed, Lander, Tod Powell, 2901 Washington street, San Francisco. Mrs. Raleigh Brown and two chil- dren, formerly of Casper en route to Ogden, Utah. J. W. Melatz, 343 Elatti street, Denver. Mrs. Nicholas Schmetz, Douglas, Wyo. Gene Carson, address unknown. H. M. Gallagher, 519 Chamber of Commerce Building, Denver. W. R. Douglas, Prior Hot com- Cas-| pany, Denver. Miss Eva Boyer, Donglas, Wyo. John Spurgin, Carter Gas Plant, Salt Creek, Wyo. Gus G. Phillips, Barber, Okla. John Christie, Parkerton, Wyo. W. A. Robinson, Salida, Colo. J. F. Blodgett, state superintend- ent of Baptist missions, Casper. — Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Bubb, Casper. H. D. Bellrose, Denver. prsasta ths -. Nations League Elects Members * * = r- GENEVA, Sept. 29.—(By The As- sociated Press,.)—Uruguay, Brazil, Belgium, Sweden, Czecho Slovakia and Spain today were elected non- permanent members of the council of the League of Nations. Glenrock or RAIL SERVICE TO BE: ESTABLISHED TODAY \Chicago & Northwestern to Resume Trains East by Night and to Lander by Next Wednesday ;Highwaysin Bad Condition, Says Department The first ray of hope that has shown upon Casper since the pall cast upen it by the unmeasurable ravage of the storm, was found this morning in an announcement from the Chicago and Northwestern railway company to the effect that repairs ar being made on the line between Casper and Chadron and that the office here is wait- ing for the “OK” signal which is expected by noon so that it may send out a train early No great damage w this afternoon. 8 reported, but only such washouts might be quickly repaired. The same railroad expects to have sufficient repairs west of Casper sc that it may have a train to Shoshon! | by Monday and one -to Lander by Wednesday. Considerable Camage has been done in the Powder River canyon. On the Burlington it {s reported that there are three bridges on Cas per Creek that have been washed out. The wires are down t ‘asper and Powder River, so that it has been impossible to obtain a all kndwiedge of voc wreught he Burlington {s concentrating its rt at the present time to getting the wreck across Cole creek out of y before proceeding to further The highway department reports that conditions are very- bad throughout central Wyoming, while the road between Casper and Doug- las is in’ godd condition, Tho bridge 88 the Platte river juat west of Casper is open to traffic after hav- the approach repaired by em- Standard refinery. It was feared for awhile that this bridge was in great danger and would not be ready today. Casper Creek bridge has been closed for traffic, and it will be some time before it can be repaired. Roth approaches of this bridge ave been washed out, and the struc re broken down in the middle so that it is not passable. Two of the plera have settled. Tho water fs stil high in Casper creek, a raging tor- nt having come down this bed all night without subsiding. The creek bed is ordinarily dry, but the water s at least 100 feet wide, The Casper Creok bridge just this side of Lavoye is still in place. The bridge across Salt Creek was com pletely washed away and where there was formerly a 75-foot bridge. there {s now a 300-foot channel of water. Six-Mile gulch which {s located on Yellowstone nighwry about six miles west of Casper has been flood ng ployes of the ed by the sto: Three ht feet of grading have been wa the vicin'ty of Natrona, a A Newspaper for All the Family, Clean, Unbiased, ‘And a Booster for City, County and State: Che Casper Baily Cribune ‘SOLONS LOSE - COURT FIGHT | IN OKLAHOMA | OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Sept. 29.(By The Associated Press.) |The state supreme court today de. nied an application for a writ of mandamus to compel the state elec- tion board to place an initiated question on the ballot for a special election next Tuesday that would permit the legislature to convene it jself to investigate official acts of |state officials. The writ was sought by Campbell Russell, instigator of the petition in itlating the question. One way yet remains by which the question can be submitted to a vote. That is for the court to deny before five p. m. nor J. C. Walton for a re-hearing of his appeal from the decision of the secretary of state who held the pe- tition sufficiens, TULSA, Sept. 29—(By The Asso- |clated Press}—Six persons missing |from Tulsa county following their jappearance before Governor J. C. | Walton's military commission to re- late their experiences at the hands of masked bands are being! sought by troop detachments in four coun- ties today, Captain BE, A. Wallis, per- sonal aide to Adjutant Genera! B.| H. Markham, announced at military headquarters. | a —_ (LATE SPORTS --PELHAM. 29—(By Tho Ai Press.)\— Walter Hagen and Gene Sarazen were all even when they had played 18 holes in their 36 holo final match for the P. G, A. cham- pionship. jsmall station on the Northw A culvert of Powder F has been washed out and a gully | formed 50 feet w:de and 30 feet deep. Three pile bridges are reported |gone near Glenroch. One bridge |connecting Clayton and the Mam |moth Camp was destroyed Thurs- |day night. Reports from Douglas are tot hurst have been cs water The to pay pile d out this east » effect that both the Carey the Fetterman bridges d away by the high and intends be highway department first attention to traffic and piling will » taken ternoon and work will be rushed toward repairing the dam that mmunication may | be established. The Midwest reported this morn ing that they had no wire cor cation between here and Salt Cre Whatever is sent back and \forth ts done by men ip relays. But | meager reports have been obtained 20 © again aunt word by this “pony express" method, but they are suffic'ent to establish the fact of great damage to all parts of the field. been divided camps which to have com other to any | The whole field has jinto different Isolated are practically unable munication with each today a motion of gover-| done from Casper e a} FINAL | EDITION “NUMBER 301. vES UP BODIES FIRST VICTIMS OF DISASTER BROUGHT HERE Rescue Work Rushed by Burlington In | Coaches Buried In Cole Creek as Waters Recede; Three Bodies are | First to Be Brought to Casper One corpse, lying on the bank of Cole creek, rudely swathed in a gray blanket, was the mute testimony of the catastrophe of Thursday night to Burlington train No, 80, las the erie light of daybreak glinted down on the scene jof the disaster this morning. The body was that of E. J. Klove, brakeman, who was taken out of the chair car that was jand haggard men met the wrecking \tipped up on end across tho smoker. |train at the station when it arrived The second body to be r at 8,50 this morning. Anxious rela wan that of G. W. Nourse of Gunni:|tives and friends, who had remained |son. Colo,, clad in overalls, ho hadjawake all night for first news of evidently crawled out of a window |recovered bodies, conatituted the in the smoker on to the top of the|group, and grief was evident on car before the baggage car crashed |every face. |down on top of him. His body was| Strenuous efforts are beng made |the one that abservers thought yes | by the C. B. & Q. officials to release |terday was that of a hobo riding the |as many of the wreck victims’ bodies front truck of the bi: age Oar. today, The work of Albert Hill, colored of Dodge City, | digging the sand out of the chair car Kan., who has been recently visiting |and pullman is going forward rap- at 118 West A street, this city, was|tdly and all the dead in these two the third victim to be unburled. He | cars should be recoyered early this was horribly smashed in the wreck- | afternoon There Bre four bodies age. In the pullman and an unaccounted All, three, hodies wore removed be-| for mumber-in the chatr car. tween 5:30 and 8 o'clock this morn-| ‘The smoker, amashed down under ing. They were put on the wrecking | the express car presents a more dif- train, which returned to Casper for|ricult problem. It will be neces. |additional equipment, and removed] sary to build a track across Cole lto a local undertaking parlor, |Creek bottom, run @ crane out on | A small group of red eyed women |the track and lift the express car jbefore the smoker can be explored. the locomotive is buried completely under sand in the river bottom and vered jas possible it may be two days before this can ccomplished. ‘The wreck presented an even more welrd sight ‘in the early morning ght as the waters of Cole creek re- ceded and more of the smashed up vreckage came in view. The muddy current swirling down the river bed, the cold white peaks of the Muddy range and Casper mountain off to the south appeared fantastical in the yellow sunlight that broke uh the clouds. A bleak wind the west chilled the few spec tators that huddled around a small |fire waiting for the bodies to be |brought out In the group of spectators was one man patiently waiting for news 1a of his father who he believed had are been in the smoker when it went into the river erous tales of herofo work on Nu st on the Northwestern it| th s party haye exter been 1 led wreck. One As announced yesterday, ther the most 4. s an attempt was great damag to pipe lines.|>Y H. M. Woo¢ N. W. brake- Pump station No. 1 wa ed|man. who tried to carry a rope yesterday with five feet of wate s the Stream yesterday before which later rose to st,{the water had gone down. ‘The This pump has a capacity water swept his feet out from under 000 barrels of oil m and he was just about gone aun werrectedsithe rages Jack Neff, of the Casper city the engine bases t © force into the water and |to get it back in sk \ bollermaker, whose name no one A tale of heroism nnected| 8° have ed, jumped off with the work of r f he the baggage car last night in their effort t t 1 r v rrent and grabbed After th ' el cab - he was being swept forced out of his post by the wate eam, Te made hie which was quickly rising, a cable to shore hand over hand. He was stretched between the station! ! out to the car on a rope e she n 300-foot t wh rh t omake an in we le their way| of the chair car. along this 1 ow la " , pped rapidly nent. in ae but | this: mor and a dam was built finally had t arn ¥ niu t the wreck by staring them in tho face water several R. 8. Ellison, vice r of the}! ired bag This divert- Midwest Refining said &@ the channe went and. tate this morning th , t much easier y on the work wrought by the storm la rn d cars the shutting down of all leases and coroner, and his the stopping of all gas rf wa engaged this Fresh water {8 being seq | Mornin of the bodies Creek today ir nt to shore. Each from Casper to Salt rder that the ne there. 1 immediately for >» that anxious rela- accurate news Disaster SAN DIEGO, Calif (By The Associated ¥ ings of the naval court of in investigating the de off Honda, Callf., Se which seven ships and 23 lives lost, probably will be on ton by the end of ne ‘as announced here endations o | Verdict Pending ©. ee ible moment —_— Probe | use: ne. tor of Wilson Western making 3 » to get in ntific de ommunication are iw — - WASHINGTON rement of General Saw n the act hip of the hospital at van’ sch 1 t \ faryland, was an hearings , Hines, who lot sen 4 to devote ‘ r t on of the on. as