New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 8, 1915, Page 1

" PRICE THREE CENTS. NEW BRITAIN, CC’ 'NECTICUT, THURSDAY, JULY s, .FIFTY PERSONS KILLED AND - SEVERAL SCORE INJURED BY TORNADO IN MIDDLE WEST Property Damage Estimated at Many MI“lOIlS of Dol-| -162 Blocks in St. Charles, Mo., Demohshed lars Telegraph and Telephone Service Cut Off. SEVERAL TOWNS ALMOST WIPED OUT; RAILROAD LINES ARE PARALYZED ITALIAN GRUISER,SONK IN UPPER ADRIATIC | Amalfi Sent to Bottom By ‘ Austnin Submarine — Most of Crew Saved. - m Unroofed and Beavy Dam- ‘ ‘;e qau:ed to Crops—Prisoner On | State Penal Farm at Greencastle, Tadiana Killed by Lightntng While. Walking in Field—Catholio cmn-ch At St. Louis mm} Lo i ‘ According. to n;nm complled early | day more than fifty = persons were killed and several score injured by the and rain ‘storm which® eXtended from: N‘ebmkl ‘o Ohio last night. ' The property damage is estimated Rome, July 7, Via. Paris, Jul 8, &t -even millions of dollars. - Sl dra £:40 'a. m—~—The ' Italian armored cruiser Amalfii was torpedoed and stnk -at dawn this morning by an Austrian submarine while taking part in a reconnaissance in. the upper Adriatic, it was officially announced { tonight by the ministry of marine. ! greatest loss of Tife' octnxrrgd in ve;:'u”fmu and yicinty, where thirty- three persons are known to dead and fitteen missing, ' eighteen of the / dead there being'dock hands who were drowned by the capsizing of the tow- .boat Convoy on the Ohio river, »fixumoclunenomud uqtm Missour1 the storm ‘as- ‘;im- (p ortions of a tornado, 3 Mflnnhlns 162 eaved. The text of the statement tollows: b ‘““Asreconnaissance in force was ac- upper Adriatic. The. 'Amalfi which blocks in St Charles, took part in ‘the reconnaissance was ‘town of about 11,000 people. Austrian submarine and liste 81 Biters. o tousl or 80D dnmaniy | Pt SN el ‘tents, and Gilmore, a village of 100, ' “The commander, : before givin \were almost wiped out by the tornado. | orders to the crew to jump werboardg, Bt Chl!'les xmnihly three pe! - cried: ‘Long live the king! Long live M. Haly!’ The entire crew, drawn 'up along the stern echoed the shout, giv- -ingr a- nmrknble ethibitotn of courage and -disef “The ider, Lo leave, sl owr rd shortly be-, fore the. Amn.m sank. Nearly all the nmaw; and ‘créw wéré nm " — ] i Ama«m, which wu eompluod in .19 tons and was 426 feet o ‘was the last 1o8s of orted QLHQ‘ " sbuthern Iilinojs tha storm was ‘At Mound City the business f the town: wrs flopded | h central ud 80 ™ l‘ndimu. W e a d ulovho:: emoral 1din; e M# ind c;'Q::daqrw and rain, (;mflmmtl 0., July, 8—The most u&mxg storm that has visited the “ several decades descended 230 o'clock last nighty raged an hour, took a toll of lives t as’ ¢close to thirty-five and ught property damage somewhere | veen half a million and & miilion | 0, had a displacement of 9,958 long. 684, Pola, the Austrian navfl strong- hold, is situateq in the uppér Adriatic at the extremity of the Istria Penin- sula about 55 miles southeast of Triest, It is probatle the recon- haissance referred to in the Ttalian statement was in this section of the Adriatic. WILSON IN PERFECT - PHYSICAL CONDITION detinite reports henn to fllter‘ President Bc-('fi.tled by Visit to Cor- day ‘from tae suburbs where tel- nie communication W\li llowlyr nish—Considers German and ablished, the Hi ithe mis- | = - t last reports last mght} o Mexican Situation , - Cornish, N. ‘H.,' July 8.—President ‘Wilson spent this forenoon in the seclusion of his study at!Harlakes- den house, considering the. German and Mexican sitpations. ' A long des- patch from the state department re. |vlewing the. food conditions in Mex~+ ico and containing information con- cernring the political situation in the southern ‘républic was gone over by ‘the presidént. ‘While Mr. Wilson is postponing action on the Mexican question until his return to the capital. hé is ex-; pecting that something tending to clarify the situation may come out of the information brought to Wash- ington by the various Villa leaders. 1t is known here that some of hig | closest admirers on' Mexican affairs have urged that the Villa faction he allowed to name a provisional pres- ident who will be accorded recogni- tion by the United States. The president has gained weight since coming here, and today was in apparently perfect physical condi- tion. The visit to the Cornish Hills has also benefited the members of his family. rtially par. } tion with | Jqor}d was wntmud to ooy ‘f;etqit!x;eetm 6t the city 8w len trees,. signs, 'thouses and other. fireukq:ge en | tossed theére by ' the rOus chureh spires were gnd ll’a‘c street car aerv\ce &M I!de of the Ohio Govln:ton, Fort Mitehell, Kentucky, collapsed houses and e ‘entirely sus- [Sinnafi the bréperty damage appears 'to.be heavy, partictlarly in the resi- G t sections of Cliftén, Avondale and e hill. With one éxception, that of five "Hldnn at Sixth/and\Mound streets, NO ohe locality’ appe: to ‘have suf- féred more than the other. Accord- _ing to reports this uox- ng, however, it been found that there are ot bulldings in the! 3. D., SEVENTY-SIX YEARS OLD. New York, July 8.—John D. Rocke- feller celebrated today . the seventy- sixth anniversary of his birth on his | estate at Pogantico Hills, Tarrytown, N. Y. If the weather permitted, Mr. Rockefeller expected to take a round of golf on his own links, dine with his children nad grandchildren and spend a quiet day wnh his \family and lmn ‘!m friends. ufaot- : ARCHBISHOP VERY LOW, Rochester, N. Y., July 8.—Except for increasing weakness, the condi- tion of Archbishop Quigley. of Chicago was unchanged today, according (o lea! ,. fal- h | the -announcement of the physicians in attendance. The archbishop, who s at the home here of his brother, expected to have another rally. Most of the members of the crew were | complished last night ‘(July .6) in the ' torpedoed at dawn this morning by an | Her | slope of Quéenston campletement in times of pedace Was! night. GERARD CONFERS ON GERMAN REPLY American Ambassador and Under- Secretary ot_l?‘oreign Affairs of Germany Hold Session, Berlin, July 8, Via. London, 4:45 . m.—James W. Gerard, the American’ ambassador in Berlin, conferred at noon today with Dr. Alfred Zimmer- mann, the German under-secretary of foreign affairs on the subject of the German reply to the American note | regarding the Lusitania incident. The conference was for a further discus- sion of the German tentative pro- pcsals from'an American standpoint. | ‘Washington, July ' 8.—President { Wilson has decided there will be no | answer to Ambassador Gerard’s in- ; Quiry for'instructions concerning the tentative draft submitted to him by | the German government of its note on | submarine warfare and that no com- ment will be, made by . the 'United States until Germany’s formal reply is delivered. SEVENTEEN LOSE LIVES IN TRflLLEY WRECK Fifty Others Imured in Sun- day School Excursion Ac- Niagara B‘&l)a, Ont. July 8—Seven- teen persons were killed and fifty in- Jjured, some probably fatally as the result of the trolley wreck on the Heights last Racing to catch a steamer for Toronto, a special car of ‘the In- -ternational Railway loaded with 121 passengers left the rails on a sharp curye and plunged into a’ gully fif- teen feet below. The car’ struck a tree as it toppled - and was nearly | cut in two. Of tae dead nine are in the Toronto morgue and eight are in morgues here. All were residents of Toronto. The dead are: Charles J. Jennings, H. J. Patridge organist and choir. master at Wood Green Methodist church, Mrs. J. M. Hart, Mrs. Henry Sloan, Mrs, Alex- ander Wesney, Albert Little, Mrs. M. Crombie, Frederick Page, manager ‘“Westminister Publishing, company, F. ‘W. ' Drank, advertising = manager, ‘Westminister Publishing. company, Robert Watson, Raymond Young, or- | ganist St. John's Presbyterian church Rita Wiggins, Rosa Wheater, F. G. Grant, Samuel Vogue, Margaret' Tom- lins, Dorothy Keats. . Twenty of the more seriously in- Jjured are in hospitals here. The Ontario Proyincial authorities already havé taken steps to fix re- sponsibility for the wreck. The cor- oner's jury. examined witnesses at Queenston and officérs took . state- ments from the injured in the hospi- tals here. Vice President Dickson of the In- ternational company stated today that he believed the slippery condition of the rails caused the motorman to lose contrel of s car. Motorman John Boyt, who was in charge of the wrecked car, said in a statement today . that. the car got beyond his control just before it reached the curve. When hé left the Brock’s Monument Station there wers trree more cars behind his, the four excurstonists from there to the boat landing at Queenstown. All . were open cars. Rain began to fall and there was a rush for Boyt's car. Conductor C: ell tried to prevent overloading and signalled Boyt to go ahead while the people were still trying to get on board. There were about ninety in the car when it got under way. Boyt stopped once at the switch where the cars turn off the main line to the boat landing spur. Approaching what is known as the lower curve, Boyt applied the brakes. They appeared to work properly, he said, but did not check the speed of the car sufficiently to allow it to take the curve at low speed. Alongside the track directly in the path of the car as it left the rails, was a large maple tree with low - hanging branches. When the car hit it all the uprights supporting the roof were smashed and the upper and lower parts of the car were piled in a tangled mass. of splinters foot decline. ane | twisted iron at the foot of the fifteen | i being inténded to convey the Toronto | intention of locating a fair damsel who | MISS CROWE CHOSEN PHYSICAL TRAINER . Selected From List of Candidates To- day—Harry Wessels and Miss Mil- dred Flower to Be'Appointed. Miss M. Alma Crowe, daughter of. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Crowe. of| Grove Hill, was selected today by the teachers’ committee of the board of ecducation tc instruct TS AT SEA OFF HALIFAX Belief That Holt Bomb Placed on Minnehaha Started Blaze FLAMES REPORTEDMASTERED ‘ Sufficient Ammunition Aboard to Sink : while he lay a . materials, HARRY 'WESSELS," Crowe will " be Tecommendéd: by .the committee to the board of nducudon tomorrow. 1 There were a: number of eandld‘flea for the position of physical instructor to succeed Miss Beth Marcy: and. Miss Crowe’s many friends will Ye -pleased to learn that she waa the:successtul aspirant. Miss Crowe is a ‘graduats of New Britain: High school and of of New Britain High school and ' of Gymnastics. © She has also taken a special course in Teuchers’ college at Columbia university. ¥ . New Britain was also recognized through the engaging of Harry Wes- sels of Winthrop street to teach shop work in the Vocational High schoal. Mr. Wessels is one of New. Britain's best known young' men’ #nd Wwas graduated from Trinity college with a degree of A. B., K While at college || he took an active parv. in track ath- | leties. Miss Mildred Flower, a gradyate | of New Britain High school will be recomvnlxlelnded to teach in Grades VIL and at the Grammar schonl "Miss Flower i ‘and - has taugh Craft Should 'Fire Reach It—No | Passengers. . Aboard 1l-Fated Steamer. New York, “July 8.—Frank Holt's last warning voiced through his widow suicide .:in his cell in the Nassau county Jjail that a steamship would sink at sea July 7 was answered by an explosion aboard the British liner Minnehaha, heavily laden with explosives and inflammable 570 miles southeast of Halifax late yesterday. News of the caplosion and resultant fire was re- ceived here today by wireless from her coptain. The Minnehaha had no passengers ahoard. Her crew of approximately 100 men had brought the flames under subjection this afternoon, tne captain zaid in his despatch, and the vessel was heading for Halifax. She'was due to grrive there tomorrow morning. Captain Claret’'s ‘Message, Gaptain Claret’s message read: as 'ollows: - ‘‘Fire causéd by explosion. Ngiv under control by suffocation and sieam. Much smoke in hold.' Deemed b expedient to make for Halifax. Dué ‘Chebucto Head 9 a.'m. ‘Friday. ‘agents.” “message came by way of Capé 18 Minnehaha's - manifest shows she had aboard 1,000 cases of 2,800 cases of loaded shrap- jlls, 1,400 cases of trinite tuluol, m; cases of ~cartridges wnd 175 'cuges of safety cartridges. Inflammable Materials. Among the inflammable materials | shoprd with 65 packages of petroleum | %,900. barrels of oil, 'and 1,941 barrels of wax. The cheémicals included 83 barrels of formaldehyde and 95 bar- Téls of boracic acid. There were also aboard 230 horses, 223 cases of auto- mobiles' and a large quantity of zinc | &nd eopper plates and products. 1915 —TWELVE PAGES. BRITISH LINER AFIRE | FOUR STORY FALL KILLS YOUNG BOY" Ten Year bu Gustave Roda Was Playing on Scaffolding of New House. Ten year old Gustave Roda, son Of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Roda of 109, Orange street, died at noon today at the New Britain General hospital of a fractured skull and internal injur- ies received last might when he fell | from a %caffolding on a new buflding adjacent to his home, dropping four Stories to the earth where he was | Plcked up unconscious. The boy is ihe oldest of ten children and the parents are grief stricken at his un~ tortunate death. After eating his supper last night the boy went out with his little friends I'and according to their story of' the accident they were playing in the | new house. The Roda boy, seemingly the most daring of the lot, elimbed upward on the ladders and scaffolding until he had reached the fourth floor. Then, without any warning, he ap- parently lost his balance and feil head foremost to the ground. The boy's head was crushed in so ! that it pressed against his brain. Dr. | G, M. Flanagan was called and al- though the parents were unwilling he had the bhdy taken to the hospitay where he was operated on by Dr. Clifton M. Cooley. on Austro-Htal GERMANS NEUMANN & ALLING FIRM IS IlifiSfllVEll Mr. Alling Has Toov Much | “ e Outside Work, It Is Said. Edward B. Alling has severed his connections with E. F. Neumann of the firm of Neumann & Alling, metal pattern makers ‘with office and fae- tory 'at 303 Main street. This state- | ment was huthorized by Mr. Neumann himself, this afternoon. The announcement that Mr. Alling and Mr. Neumann have dissolved their partnership will come as a* complete surprise to tth v ‘The ship had memmm ufl( aboard, by, the line "sink her should the flames u. I but. wkemor the blaze in her hold was é Dga H. Wetherbee of Wit | raham, Mass, was the selection of thé ‘committee to teach ' freehand drawing and design in Grades VII. and VIII. ot the Grammar school, Miss Wetherbee is a graduate of tho Masdgachusetts Normal Art school ana has had four years expeérience teach- ing in . Bridgeton, Maine; Boston, Mass., and Garwood, N. J. v ' Miss' Mary 8. Pingree, who has @ degree of A. B., will be recommend- ed to teach commercial sybjects at the High school. She is a graduate of Bates college and of Brynnt, & Stratton’s Business college in Boutqm She has had one year's qxperitm:o teaching. No action was taken, it was said, regarding the engaging of a male physical instructor for the schooli for which position Director J. G.' Badie of the public playgrounds was bfing mentioned. BAKER’S CREDITO__RS AFTER THEIR MONEY Hope to Get Louis Neuholt m Go Into. Bankruptcy So They Can Collect. A ' Creditors of Louis - Neuholt, - the East St. baker, who suddenly left town | after notice of a lawsuit Had - been served on him by Constable Winkle, are now getting together in an en- deavar to force him into bankruptey. They are afraid that by the time the ¢laim of Charles Lex, who i$ suing to | recover $1,000, is settled there will be nothing left for the. payment of their bills. It is said that the creditors are | preparing to compile a joint list of the bills against Neuholt and ask that he be declared bankrupt. It is also reported now 'that when Neuholt left the city it was: with the had been previously in his employ and of whom he was very fond. 1t is said that Mrs. Neuholt objected’ to her husband's attentions to the girl and | discharged her, whereupon the spousg § went in search of her. PROBERS WILL REPORT, Councilman Angelo M. Paonessa, chairman of the council committee which is Investigating alleged . ex- travagarge in running automobiles in the street department, said today that | the committee would probably make a report at the next regular meeting of the council. Another meeting of | the committee will be held 'before a report is prepared. Notices of the special meeting” of the council to- morrow night were sent out today. i —~———— e WEATHE Hartford, July 8 ford and vicinit; tonight. Friday fair. ——— e (| 'or Hart- Showers | der bemb ‘'which Holt plaged there was & atter . of: conjecture. It was possible that he had done so, an official stated, but one mal guess on that point was as good as another’s, he added. ¥ Ammunition Stored Aft, Captain Claret’'s message said that the fire was in No. 3' hold and was not serious. The ammunition aboard the vessel was stored aft, away from this hold. The cargo in No. 3 hold, it<was, asserted, hature. No passengers wete aboard the Minnéhaha. Her crew numbers ap- proximately one hundred. She was at. Her pier here about a week, taking ¢n cargo, before she salled for Lon- don last Sunday, July 4. Holt would have had ample time, it was pointed cut, to place a bomb aboard the Minnehaha during.the five days pres ceding his attempt on the life of J. ¥. Morgan, while the vessel was tak- /ing ‘on ‘cargo here. . Should Reach Halifax Tomorrow. The Minnehaha should reach Hali- fax, it was said, tomorrow forenoon. “We exercise' all reasonadle precau- 1igns to prevent the placing of bombs aboard our ships,” an officer of the line faid today, “A guard is on duty Gay and night at the dock and our cwn workmern are watched strictly and continuously. Our salpments, howéver, are made up ‘chiefly of large congignments and the chances of load- ing a small package, such as one con- taining a bomb ‘would be, are con- siderably less than on some other trans-Atlantic vessels.” 5 Released by British. The Minnehaha, requisitioned by the British government since the be- ginning of the Européan war, was ré- leased for the genera! treight service about two months ago. Since her re- | leabe 'she has made two tra.hs-Athnuc trips, carrylns each time a large gen- | eral cargo, containing munltlonu for war. The fire aboard the Minnehaha was caused by an explosion, according to 4" wireless message received at 12:40 p. m., today from Captain Claret. At that time the fire was said to have been mastered. Thé Minnehaha sailed from New York July 4 for London by way of Halifax. She carried no passengers. The ship’s crew numbered approxi- mately one hundred. NEW LADDER TOO LONG. Additional Equipment at Central Fire Station Is Not Satisfactory. “The new extension ladder recently purchased by the safety board to sup- plant the broken ladder on the big aerial truck has arrived but is too big and will have to be made over. The plan is to remove the broken ladder, which extends to sixty-five feet and replace it with the new lad- which will give an extension of seventy feet. The new extension, however, was made to wide to fit properly on the the main body of the truck. was of a general! | the past month shows that the back- | turning to normal, [muum last year “t kv . o m ‘chairman of the board of safety ‘and other outside busi; is unable to devots hig bést time owner. Mr, Aling and ltr. Neumann have been business -zinn January 1, 1911, when Mr. Alling resigned his position as assistant foreman of pat- tern-making department at ussell & Erwin’s to enter the partnership. The retiring member of the firm i§ a native of Hamden, Corn., and learned his trade at the J. B. Sargeant com- pany in New Haven but has lived in | this city for about ten years. Mr. | Neumann has conducted his business | on Main street for the past twenty- ! four years, first starting as a metal pattern maker in' 1891, With the ex- ception of about three months when be had another partner, Mr. Neumann has always conductea tine business | himselt until he took Mr. Alling into the company. As to what he wijl do in the future Mr.. Alling has no plans. He states that his arduous duties have sorely taxed his strength and he has become run down in health so that he will take a rest to rTecuperate. What he will do eventually he does not know, but will wait and see what the future brings forth. . He does not intend, ‘ however, to resign as chairman of the his work in that -department, de- | voting ds mych time to it as is peces- rary, . The fdct that he has had to devote so much of ‘his time to the fire and police departments to the sacrifice of his businees.is said to be one of the chief reasons for his withdrawal, Mr, Neumann states that his plans are-to contihue his buginess alone. | G BUSINESS DEPRESSION AFFECTED POST OFFICE Uncle Sam’s Coffers Depleted to the Extent of $10,805.91 During the Past Year. The general depression in business | affected Uncle Sam to' the extent of $10,895.91, according to the report of was completed today. The report for bone of the hard times has been brok- en and gradually conditions are re- The report. by quarters sinoe Bep- tember, 1913, is as follows: . Ending September 30, 1913, $35,237.835; De- cember 31, 1913, $44,661.41; March 31, 1914, $39,670.91; June 30, 1914, $37,201.85; total $156,671.51; Septem- ber 30, 1914, $32,268.58; December 31, $41,044.65; March 31, 1015, $35,- | 400.60; June 30, 1915, $37,072.38, to- tals $14 .61; deficiency, $10,895.91, The report for the past month &hows receipts of $13.204.65. compared with 12,619.91 for the corresponding safety commission, but will carry out | l Official y | e ever, declare i o, being made where the the business of which hé was & part o French arms, 400 prisoners, are severe on tack in Li All Along Extend northern = Poland trenches have where advances checked. Y Russian Po To the west of | the German. ¢ 'ont decisive the French o A wireless says the G ‘An'll the { troops on the France, and: consequently . Fronch Paris, July French war | out a statement lities, . 9%“ the region 4 there were last several infantry able violence. Souchez, to m sible for us to lage, We took of German | ah end to all the def Assistant Postmaster Munson, which | the use of hand After this we ad! trenches. We and captured & Solssons Is “The town of 8o bombarded. ~“In the Mflfl“ and cannonading daybreak, in the Theresa’ the Geris deavor - to nonading, rifie of bombs, but with e ‘ (Continued on