New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 19, 1915, Page 1

LOCAL il IN HERALD® PRICE THREE CENTS. NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, e v 1915—TWELVE PAGES. EST GERMAN SUBMARINE SINKS WHITE STAR LINER ARABIC GREAT LOSS OF LIFE FEARED Vessel Sent to Bottom This Morning Off Fastnet, Ire- land---Went Down in Eleven Minutes---Sixteen Boat Loads of Survivors Making for Queenstown. | AMERICAN MARINES London, Aug. 19.—The White Star Liner, Arabic which sailed yesterday from Liverpool for New York has been sent td the bottom off Fastnt on the south coast of Ireland, not far from the point at which the Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine. Such reports as were available London searly this morning indicated that the greater part of the 410 per- sons on board had been saved. The first reports were that all of the pas- sengers and crew had been rescued by another steamer. Subsequently, however, it was reported that the, Arabic had gone down in eleven min- | utes, raising the question whether it would have been possible to rescue all on board in that brief time. Making for Quecnstown. A message to the White Star com- pany left this question open. It said that 15 or 16 boat loads were making for Queenstown, and from this the company inferred that the greater part of the passengers and crew was saved. The message follow was sunk t'is morning. sixteen boat loads are making Queenstown.” Sailed Yesterday. The Arabic sailed yesterday from Liverpool for New York. The White Star company announced that the Arabic had on board 170 sec- ond and third class passengers, and | no first class passengers. There were 240 men in the crew, making a total of 410 passengers. She sailed from Liverpool at 3 o’clock yesterday af- ternoon. A in | ) “The Arabic Fifteen or for Hit by To1pedo, The Arabic was sent to the bottom by a torpedo from a German sub- marine. The torpedo struck the Arabic at 9:15 o’clock this morning. Fear Passengers Lost. London, Aug. 19, 5:10 p. m.—The presg association makes the definite announcement that tne Arabic was sunk. The message to the Press Associa- tion says: “Eleven boats got away and it is feared a large number of passengers were lost.” Claims Passengers lescued. London, Aug. 19, 5:30 p, m.—Tele- grams to the Central News and the Cxchange Telegraph companies stated that the Arabic’s passengers have been rescued. The White Star Line 1s still without Gefinite information. Launches Eleven Boats. London, Aug. 19, 6:20 p. m.—The Central News says the crew of the Arabic succeeded in launching eleven lifeboats, which picked up many pas- sengers. It has not yet heen ascer- tained, this agency says, how many re drowned. The Exchange Telegraph company says that a rescuing steamer had 400 persons on board. ‘Weather conditions were favorable. TAKE ST. MARG, HAITI Vittiello Tells How He Es- caped Execution During Uprising ‘Washington ,Aug. 19.—One pany of American marines has land- ed at St. Marc, Haiti, and taken con- trol of the town. An attempt to op- pose the landing failed. com- New York, Aug. 19.—The Dutch steamer Prins Der Nederlanden, the first vessel to sail for New York from Haiti cince the revolt there, arrived here today. Passengers said the sit- uation in Haiti was extremely seri- ous until the American marinez ar- rived and restored general order. Among the arrivals was Antonio Vittiello who had a business in Haiti. He said he was the only one of 169 political prisoners to escape éxecution during the uprising. “I had been arrested five months before for carrying messages to Bobo,” said Vittiello. “The first man to leave my cell compartment was bhe- headed with a machette. I followed an dfell as though I had been shot. Tne men who followed me was shot and killed and fell on top of me. | There were 168 men killed in the prison. I laid among the dead for several hours until a friend chanced to enter the jail. I was then smug- | gled aboard the ship.” MAN’S LIFE SAVED BY WOMAN’S WISDOM‘ Beaver Street Woman Applies Tourni- . quet to Christopher Flood, Whose ‘Wrist Arteries Are Severed. But for the prompt action of a Beaver street woman in applying { tourniquet to his arm, Christopher E. | Flood, a well known milk dealer from Stanley Quarter, would surely have i bled to death this morning following | an injury he received when, in walk- | ing up a flight of stone steps with a ! a bottle of milk he tripped and fell, breaking the bottle and cutting his | wrist. The jagged edge of the broken bot- tle severed all the arteries and veins in the man’s wrist and for more than | ten minutes he lay where the acci- dent occurred, no one having sense | enough to send for a doctor. Mr- Flood’s life blood was rapidly ebbing away when the woman applied thel tourniquet and summoned Dr. D. W. | O'Connell. ) When the surgeon arrived Mr. ling a | Gum, ! cigar lighter | statement to the Heraid today: ’ DID CURTIS BLUNDER IN MAKING PHOTOS? “Document” Only a “Scrap of Paper,” Says Mayor Quigley. According to Mayor Councilman Curtis was hoist by his cwn petard when he aliowed his en- thusiasm to carry him as far as hav- | ‘“resolution” photographed so that he could show the council how the mayor had “tamperea with a pub- lic document.” Councilman Curtis threw his money away when he paid a pnotographer to reproduce the ‘“‘document” as it was but a memorandum of a vote taken in the council and tendered to the mayor by City Clerk Thompson, his honor claims. Like the famous Belgian treaty, it has turned cut to be nothing more than a ‘scrap of paper,” says the mayor. At the June meeting, the council | took action regarding the advisory board and the purchase or an auto- mobile for the public worxs depart- ment. At the July meeting Council- man Dolan moved to rescind action on these votes. City Clerk Thompson | typed what he thought was a copy of Councilman Dolan’s motion and pre- | sented it to the mayor az a_memoran- the following d. The mayor stated that it was incorrect and, ac- cording to his _honor, tie city clerk ! ran his pen through tne sections | which the mayor believed were not ; included in the motion. The ¥!:\l“‘l“ was not a public document and could | have been used, the mayor says, as a or a decoration for the | interior of a waste basket, On the other hand, m: dering by what authority City Clerk Thompson permitted the paper to leave his possession if it was a public ! dccument. As city clerx he is cus- {odian of all documens from the council meetings. If the paper was a valuable document, it is being asked, why did he permit it to be taken from | the building to be photographed? Ana by what right, Mayor Quigley is | wondering, did Counciiman Curtis | tuke the paper away from the office of the city clerk? The councilman and the city clerk are on intimate erms and the former spends many hours in the latter’'s office. Mr. Curtis made the Quigley today, | are won- following “I wish to clear up my position in regard to one of the mayor’s vetoes at | last night's common council meeting. “The charter is explicit in stating that all votes, resolutjons and ordi- dsnces that pass the common coun- cil shall be presented to the mayor for. action. He can approve, decline to act, or veto, but nothing is said about the power to divide or separ- ate any one act of the council, con- : mation from Galveston | 2 small loss of life compared to the | { than FIENISH ATTAGK O MOTHER AND SISTER Charles (“Chuck”) Connor Held Under Bonds for Brutal Assault | BOTH ARE IN THE HOSPITAL{ Condition DEATH TOLL IN FLOODED TEXAS MAY REACH 400 Newspaperman Estimates Casual- ties at That Number—Total Dead Reported About 200 i) [ assault upon his aged mother and his sister, Charles (“Chuck’) Connors of | | 106 Reaver street is being held by I'the local police in bonds of $750 | fixed by Judge James T. Meskill this | | morning. Connors a well known | young man about town and one whose | | name has already been inscribed un} ) e S o D vl ;R:‘qpolu‘e blotter on several occa- | ! Mother Unconscious All Night. The offense with which young Con- | | nors is charged is one of the most | brutal affairs of its kind with which | the police have had to deal, in a long | time, Apparently, without any pro- | vocation, he came home at 1 o'clock | this morning and at once proceeded to administer a terrible beating to his mother, Mrs. Mary Connors, who is | about sixty years of age, and his sis- | ter, Miss Katie Connors. Both were attended by Dr. Joseph Walsh, the I | | | | | | | | Aged Parent in Son— | Fifty-six Persons Drowned When Dredge Sinks in Galveston Bay— Thirty Persons Aboard Steamer Be- lieved to Have Perished When Ves- Drifted Into Gulf, 19.—With infor- and other points on the Texas southeast gulf | coasi slowly sifting through, it seemed | certain early today that the terrific | tropical storm of this week and cost | Dallas, Tex., Aug. storm of 1900 .and that the destruc- | tion of property, In the city of Gal- | eston at least, was considerably less. The total number of lives lost, so far definitely rcported, was about two | police physician, at 3 o'clock this hundred, althouzh a newspaper man 'morning and he ordered their imme- who reached San Antenio from Gal- | diate removal to the New RBritam | he produced a | olution passed by the 'CURTIS ACCUSES QUI ?* i TAMPERING WITH DO AFTER PASSAGE BY CC 'Sensationa! Charges Made by Lead position--Produces Photos to Prove’ tions--Mayor Upheld by Cou | “PRIZE FIGHTING EPISODE,” LANDERS' DESCRIPTION OFPERSONAL DIS your honorable spired by thought thi action in reconsidering the meeting of the June 16, 1915, was il not the case. Your and in accordance witl rules of the common | rules unless otherwise @ honorable body, are © much govern all math fore your body. ‘Article 16 of the ril mon council states that ing on parliamentary ered by these rules shi the presiding officer with Cushings Manhu Member from Third Ward Claims en by Mayor Crossed Out Part of Resolu- After City tion By Prominent It Had Been Passed on Fathers — Gavel Plays Role Proceedings With Mayor As “Joe” Cannon. in Councilman Orson F. Curtis pub- licly accused Mayor Quigley of tam- pering with public documents after they had been passed on by the coun- cil at last night's meeting or wne com- mon council, In substantiation of his allegation photograph of a res- couneil received To His Honor, the Mayor, and the Common City of New Britain: the undersigned be Ieave 1o recommend the sdoption of the Ko. 49, On motion of Counoilman Dolmui VOTED: %o reoind the sotion of the Oommn 15, 1916 m--'n,-u, i Ttem 73, to the n’%' . pen that crossed out p Brutal Rushing into the house the two po- licemen found Katie Connors standing | in the kitchen, her head and fac ered with fresh blood and her gar- | | ments streaked with it. In a bed room nearby they found the mother | | lying in an unconscious condition on | | the bed. Her condition was pitiful. According to apparently reliable in- | Her gray hair was matted with blood. | formation available eariy today, the | Her face was battered almost to a | death estimates were as follows: | pulp. Both her eyes were blackened | Texas City 32 (26 soldiers and six | 4nd one was completely closed and | civilians); Galveston, 14; Virginia | her head was swollen [ Point, 14; Morgans _Point, 7; Hitch- | The son admitted making the as- i veston and Houston today estimated | General hospital and it was not until $3.000,000 with the loss of fourteen |{o show signs of reviving. death | _ ; Ol (I T Connors at his home at | omther and saving the city from e he came home at 1 | oclock In addition to the reports tetalling | at police headquarters, states he was shriek as if coming from a frenzied mont say that the fifth-six pors also is reported that the dredze San | but ail was quiet. Proceeding alonz Port Bolivar lighthouse are 'nnur:h' corner of Main and l.ee streets. at Beaumont from Port Bolivar. broken out and “Chuck” standing in of dead of these vlaces will he vounger man said: “Pop cut his hand erty loss reported was at Houston, | Officers returned to the house at 106 icinity of Galveston and Houston was | | after a thrilling trip. Reports from sl the total at four hundred. ~The dam- | the middle of this morning that the age in Galveston this week, based up- | old mother, who ¥ unconscious on some reports, was placed al . from the time of the assault, began lives. Other estimates placed the | 5 - 3 | Says They Were Drunk. damage at $10,000,000. In 19001 "7 2 e ey eight thousand persans met cers McCue and Storey :I)Tl"el» e loss reached $15,- | U 3 £ A DOU 5001660 | o’'clock this morning and he admit- Reports were that the Galveston | t€d to them that he ;‘;‘d Bewten :fs sea wall was largely responsible for | -sister. DAL ) D a worse fa's‘,reflg’"" that Soth lin & o Eonl 16 S e i and found them bo n a i | drunken condition. gc Went Down. | Officer McCue, in reporting the casc more than one hundred dead in Texus ( on Sexton street at 1:20 o’clock when City, Galveston, Virginia Point and ' he suddenly heard a bloodcurling other communities advices from Beau- | 1 ans | woman. He stopped in his tracks were lost when the dredge Sam Ho and waited for a repetition of the ton went down in Galveston Bay. It | cry in order to follow it to its source Jacinto with a crew of fifty and a tug ! his beat Officer McCue met Of- are missing and believed lost. Thirty | ficer Storey and Paul Helnsky persons who boarded a steame of 96 Beaver street at to have perished when the They too, had heard of the rumpus, broke from its moorings and drift: All proceeded to the Connors home into the gulf, according to refugees |and found the glass in the door There were various reports of m the kitchen washing his ing ‘persons throughout the devast: bleeding hand in a pail of water ed zone and in all probability the list | Asked what the trouble was f{he creased to'a small degree at least. with glass.” Everything elsc seem- $2,000,000 Namage At Houston. ing quiet the pol withdrew Next to Galveston the greatest prop- AnalfFhonraiater fihowey both where the damage was said to total | Beaver street, having been called thero | $2,000,000. | by sounds of further fighting and | An estimate of the deaths in the | Struggling. ! Assault Discovered. | placed at 71 bv a represcntative of | the Associated Press from Galveston, | who last night arrivea at Houston other places, however, told of deaths, | 1eports of which had not reached him. Death Estimates. 7; La Perte, 7: the | father's | | the third | the gavel to call The above is a reproduction of one of Councilman Curtis’ photos produced at last night's meeting of the council. | Curtis claims it was Mayor Quigley's ! olution” after it had bees the council. Another | the cover of the * parts run through by p | ) at the regular meeting on July 21. The photograph showed that parts of the resolution had been crossed out | with pen and ink and Councilman Curtis claimed that it was, Mayor | Quigley’s hand that eutced the pen. | The denouement came like a clap of | thunder. Mayor Quigley and Council- | an Curtis had been discharging vol- | iey after volley of vergal shrapnel at | each other’s entrenchinents when the | iatter fired his broudside which, he | ciaimed, showed the former had tam- rered with a resolution after it had | been acted on by the council. The air was pregnant with ment and a brewing storm while Mayor Quigley and Councilman Cur- tis were engaged in a battie of wits regarding the advisory board matter v.iich had becn a bone or contention cver since the board was created by the council on May 19. The cyclone was furnished by the councilman from ward by the mourishing of the photograph, his trump card. A La “Joc” Caznon. Time and again during Councilman Curtis’ speech, Mayor Quigley banged him 1o order. The councilman was deaf and continued “This is the only auf ized by the rules of the & cil for the guidance of body in its deliberation “Therefore, according ter of the city of New standing rules of the ¢ and Cushings Manual, June 16, 1915, was lej cordance with pariiam: “Second. Parliamen governs the actions of council does not reco to rescind a subsidary could the passage of even though it were all way effect the main g had been disposed of postponment,” Alderman Jester mo mayor’'s vetoes be su recomendations ineluds message on the ice pla Curtis Springs Councilman Curtis s feet and moved that eacl The was accepted, Councilm onstrated that he had meeting primed, by in excite- ed on separately, Stcamer Dunsley Torpedeoed, Flood had scarcely any pulse and it cock, Yore Arthur, 4: | oyt upon the two women and was | to speak In spite of the mayor's de- olution calling for the sequently, as in any state or municipal government, without distinct per- mission he must approve or veto the resolution, bill or whatever it is as a whole proposition. “Next, the common council itself only has the right to pzss upon the correctness or incorrectness of the | report of its proceedings as made up Ly its clerk. This prevails in all bedies, legislative, fraternal, business, religious or corporations. “The clerk of the meceiing or pre- siding officer does not have the right to say what they did aid not do, that must be decided by the body it- celf and changes if desired made by 1t in due form. “The case in point now is that the proceedings of the preceding meet- ing were written up, printed, and put before the council last night. They were adopted as presented without | any changes or corrections. “There was a disp ion made of Lusiness before the council at is pre- Vious meeting. This was presented to the mayor.in typewritten forme< as official, and as it appeared in the printed minutes of that meeting it was adopted at the meeting last night. “This written statement, vote or whatever it may be termed has been changed by crossing off several words and lines and now differs materially from what the council decided was ; done. Tn fact, this matter was divided and part supposed to be nullified, This is undisputed. “I was informed made this change. disapproval on it, required heroic measures to stop the flow of blood and sew the severed veins together. Had Mr. Flood been without medical attention a few min- utes longer he would have bled to death and as it was Dr. O'Connell con- siders it remarkable that he did not die. This afternoon Mr. Flood, althonuh in a very weak conuition, was com- fortable and his recovery is now ex- pected. London, Aug. 19, 6:15 p. m.—The British steamer Magnolia reports by wireless that the steamship Dunsley also was torpedoed but at the time the message was sent was still afloat, and was picking up survivors. Corrected List. London, Aug 19, 6:46 p. m.—The ‘White Star Line, after first announc- ing that there were 410 persons on board, later gave out a corrected statement giving the total number as 423. There were 132 second cabin passengers, 48 in the steerage, and 243 members of the crew. DUTCH FIRE ON ZEPPELIN, | Soldiers Attack Dirigible Flying Over Holland. London, Aug. 19.—The “Handels- blad” of Amsterdam says that Dutch troops opened fire yesterday upon a German Zeppelin which sailed over Dutch territory. This newspaper, as quoted by Reuter’s correspondent at | Amsterdam, says that the Zeppelin ap- peared over the Island of Vlieland, | cruising about for an hour. The | Dutch soldiers fired at her with rifles. The Zeppelin finally sailed away, passing between the islands of Vlie- | land and Terschelling. Bringing 400 Survivors, Queenstown, Aug. 19, 4:20 p. m.— Two steamers are spected here in two hours time, bringing about 400 survivors of the Arabic. It is presumed that afl have been rescued, but so far nothing definite has been ascertained. Fear Great Loss of Life. Queenstown, Aug. 19, 6:45 p. m.— It is now feared there was great loss of life on the Arabic. No Official Information. Washington, Aug. 19,—At 3 o’clock this afternoon neither tne American consul in the vicinity of Fastnet nor the embassy at London had reported | the sinking of the Arabic and the state department had no official infor- mation. As in other cases, officials reserved their comment awaiting de- tails and news whether any Americans AUTO TRAGET FOR BULLETS. Middletown, Aug. 15.—Dr. Regl- Ivala H. Stowe, a dentlsi, reported a narrow pe from dezth last night svhile passing through Guilford on his way to Middletown in ais automobile. He said as he rounded a curve in the road someone shot at him with a 1ifle. The bhullet passeG through the ! rear seat of the car and embedded | reason hesides the yd Mg lom.. ftself in the back of the front seat | of the city clerk Fifteen Boat Toads Rescued. | where Dr. Stowe was seated. There | mavor made the change. New York, Aug. 19.—Fifteen boat | was no one in the rear seat of the | formed today by the loads of the Arabic’s passengers and | inachine, fortunately. Dr. Stowe will | that he is not sure : : report the affair to the Guilford au- thorities. el that the mayor Tt has his written and 1 had every understood word to bLelieve that the T am in- city clerk whether (Continued on Ele\ enth Page.) (Continued on Eleventh Page.) | Houston, 5: | representative, Lynchburg, 3; Sea Brook, Sylvan Beach, 3; Dickinson 1. Estimates from some other sources | rlaced the number at Virginia Point | at 30 and other reports suid 11 were | dead at Morgans Point. Property losses are Known to run into millions of dollars but only rough cstimates were available. $15,000,000 Loss at Galveston, Galveston suffered = -oss 000,000 or more, according to the es- timates. Nearly half a million of the | loss was due to fires, which broke cut in the height of tne storm and | burned unchecked because of the in- | ability of the firemen to fight the | ilames in the terrific gale and becauss | the water system was put out of com- mission. Houston's loss $2,000,000. Other cities where losses had been estimated were: Texas City $400,000: Port Arthus- £200,000; Sea Brook $100,000: Sabine $300,000; Sabine Pass $i00,000; Ka- mas $50,000. Farming Regions Hit. Enormous losses also were sustained | in the farming regions and oil fields | swept by the storm, and only the most | meagre estimates of damage in those ! sections were obtainable, Galveston’s sea wall was not washed out, according to the Associated Pres who left was estimated at | fda Galveston a (Continued on Eleventh Page, ) Hartford and with mode tonight and te temperatuve r Friday. | | | i i the condition of the two women to be | tempts to bring about a | men taken to the police station and locked | mands that up pending a preliminary this morning. His only cause was that | tice to “Joe” he found the two women drunk when | t2e gravel he came home, Dr. Walsh Attended Victims. Police Surgeon Dr. Joseph Walsh | was hurried to the nouse and found | i ched Counci that one g the mee It was the serious anr! that of tne mother to be | | ed gallery critical. Katie Connors’ eyes were |, combat be blackened and one was completely | councilman closed from a blow and her jaw, | was not disa which was greatly enlarged, was found | to have been broken from a punch. Several of her teeth had also knocked out by hlows, condition was even | sued by bot All return of consciousness failed and not until al- most noon did she regain her sense: Mother’s Condition Critical. While the outcome of the older | woman's . injuries are doubtful it expected that she will eventually re- | ErdinE tae cover, but with her advanced years | . the council those attending her state that it would [ 16 SOV not be surprising if she succumbed | . " oavicory | to the terriffic assault to which she < : was subjected. Both policemen who arrested Con- nors state that while he had been drinking he was not drunk. One in- formant told them the assault had ! taken place early in the evening but | this could not have been as Con- | The nors did not return home until 1 | matter o’clock and the bload on the two wo- | V& of fresh when the affuir was | - ursuant investigated. tin me 1 h i action of scindin, worse. s gavelled hmmnz As soon | President Pro | chair anad down to rea garding the introduction | been previot tontion of t The veto was have Conmors Pleads Guhlty. e Young the off before Connors pleaded guilty 188 in court this morning led back to his to and cell e I {{ bt :»n\!numl on Tenth Page.) item 73 which s honorahle My first id a heing hearing | & firmness that would have done jus- in the nationa! | representatives, occasion | ing of the council in vea was on hana Disapproval been | voiced by Councilman Landers. Coun- The mother's .‘ man Poanessa attempted to interfere at- “,‘ support of Councilman Curtis but he ‘AII Mayor { the action of the council | intent of which wag to whic words, relating to body | your action was : he come to order. With fuse to sustain the vote advisory board. He expli did not consider the mayor's action as sound, “It is my belief that before this council shoul according to their merits less of who presents th Councilman Curtis. “You will please talk © tion,” remarked Mayor “They should be acted of whether they are for or against your friend Councilman Curtis ignog or's warning. “At a fo of the council I said our legal when we voted to previous action in creatd ory board. I was =uppo poration Council Coper, vetoed our reconsideratio Lafayette street subway, wrong both are “Veto One, Vel “In our reconsideration Section 49 of the Charter plied with. This section tions must be submitted i there was no written rese sented when we reccnsidel the L te street subwa ation of the Ivisory bod it might create legal o the sale of subwag, d | adhere strictly to lhq' the the | doing husiness. JAy is as follows eferring to the to the anthority vested [ Quigley had vetoed this day disapproved (he § jiem No, 49 of the J “ ur honorable hody in when he disapproved. A’ vote taken June 16, 19 g of the advisorgs an advisory board, { ficle included resefnding ction was taken by your| the purchase of an &ul 2Ly 1018, the board of public wa reazon for disapproving That the action tak- Cannon wien he wielded house of Mayor Quigley squel- Curtis not only on but hereafter dur- Iman ting. most e sensational meet- A crowd- anticipating Quigley and The audience tween May S Curtis, ppointed of the of the methods principals pur- was h and he sat down, right, the o Tem. ngrily g0 ahead ! meeting + opened Parier took the Quigley stepped, | d a special message re- | municipai 1ce nouse and oes, one on the action of at the July meeting in revious action abolishing board and another on in July the prohibit the of business that had not 1sly brought to the at- he council. Boara. ory one ws Advisory the A8 on hoard h w signal for 2 (Continued on Tenth