New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 26, 1924, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press Girl Thrown Onto Hits Auto, Lives 7 STILL MISSING, 13 KNOWN DEAD N BURSTING OF DAM Rescue Parties Search Wreckage of Saltville, Virginia for Bodies of Victims HOLSTON RIVER VALLEY LAID WASTE BY FLOOD | lonto the pilot of the special, fast Dig Four passenger F\pefl('d to Die—Bodics Recov- | train, after the train had crashed into an automobile in which she was riding and injured three members of her famlly, one fatally, at a crossing of Those Killed Met Death White |17 Y (08 TEE T KOS |old, of thiis city, had a wild 12-mil {ride last night until she fell from {thetrain fnto a ditch near Oaklan- ldon, 1Ind. Although unconscious Richmond, Va. Dee, 26, — Four |when found a short time later by more bodies were found today in the | farmer, was not in- muck from the dam that broke Wed- | jured, suffering only from exposure nesdey night and flooded the lower [from tho sub-zero weather and sections of Saitville, bringing the |slight bruises. . She was brought to | known death list to 13, Seven per-|a local hospital. | sons stlll are missing. Kenneth Clark, 22, her hushand; Clyde Clark, her brother-in-law, and | Mrs. Clyde Clark, were injurcd when Saltville, Va, Dec. 26.—With 13 |the train struck the rear end of the bodles thus far recovercd and six or (automobile, Mrs. Ciyde Clark dici seven persons still missing, the [this morning. A bahy, 20 months soarch for vietims continued today |0ld, was hurled unhurt {rom the au- in the area of the Holston River |tomobile ; valley lald waste by the flood of | Folice investigating the accident, lime muck released by the break- |conducted a search for several miles ing of & dam Wednesday night at|AlODE the track leading out of this | the Mathieson Alkall Works. y While more than a score of m-”‘” fon i niti funl o |sereaming woman be fured lay in an fmprovised hospital |{PTeTIE WEA here, searchers continued to fight |the pilot of the train from the scene of t thelr way through the stretches of [**oit KO0 FHA TS lme-white mud deposited by the | 10 GO O are of the accl torrent which virtually swept away | gune were stopped al Andcrson and | ;he xttlvxn’ settlement of workers be- kveh of the frent Hurt of the LHEBLE, gine made there but the woman had | Several Likely to Die VR e i A before T mh» Four or five of tha Injured are|ing that point. Mrs. Clark told not expected to llve and many are on her way sufferlng from pneumonia resulting ;,, Tialanaplls that sho was anis from thelr immersion in the [hotd on tightly to peeding (i waters and from burns caused by [gine after the crash untll the alkali muck. Many of the res- |came too weak and had to lct go. cuers also have been treated for e burns Feels Very Thankful { several of the hodles recovered | ool 15, had been carried six miles below the | nanieq God a thousand times dam, in tumbling creck. Belief that {1 alive sobbed Mrs. Mark € "k rome of the missing still lay buried | 1o aq she lay on a hospltal cot he: under the avalanche of muck, sta ing walsthigh in places, searchers at their t than 36 hours. Valley Ts Wrecked train running with ¢ Yark 1 crusi ervoir misture Victim Found lnconsuous in Ditch—Babe Unhurt, Woman Is Killed, und Two Others Escape in Crossing Crash in Which | Young Woman So Mi-‘ raculously Escaped. Thrown Knickerbocker Of the Scores Injured, Several Are ered Six Miles Below Dam—Most 1rs Attending Christmas Party—Town | is One of Historical Interest, she serjously Tlood Breaks Dam & '!\lr] on veral blocks accident of the train crew (ambulance driver mk ie; she be- | [ napolis, - |today and described & umqm.q kept the | nizht ride of 12 miles on the loco k after mo pilot of the Knickerbocker fast New York Central from 1napolis to aut | motive The river valley today, deep layer of lime pearance of an brushed over weight of the re antomobiles covered almost to their | teps by it presented a scene of deso- lation. | Ken Most of the vietims w? been re attending a Christmas T the home of nearest the dam, minute" roar as makers were trapp chance to save ti house was engulfed some other houses vl the torrent m: 1 throngh the mud and water t¢ after the crest had passed. pilot 1 an ad [ family and {n Mrs, € a a iring two o ark's moth ark lay Selh i« and o ose hodies ried on the lo- el > party at Harry Prater, the houen With the of dam broke, the mer o1 woman Who was ¢ have g0 fa 0\ were Ken- “Billy" months ol neph cometis neth's fath and Clyde Clark, rowere Hartman, 20 Mrs, Kenneth iniured v only ed unin warning msely Oceupants of ieh withstood to s Has Historieal Record Richmond, Va. ville, the seene of the flood Clung (¢ although world outside its Bin taln has part In history, It was armies of the salt supply v was at a premi couth from th seanty Campbel ; the walls, ommodity & First Salt-Li Tndians, ville is si P nhom, ¢ arty of Vir Geor of the low olutior owned and Wiltiam Car battle of Kir The proy of their tne when ¢ A kett hoiled tle. F W s monnt the fnally have been pr Free Crazed Mother Who Killed Own T\\ in \om New York, Dec M 1 Lurks Behind Barn Door Vorkmen They Strikes Head a Enter, Then Flees. and Vs 1:-, Over S cide ¢} Mrs. tempor Kat arily | nating in a billiard NEW BR]TAIN, Pilot As "'ram After 12 Mi. Ride STl]RY BU|”]|N|] Leners Posted Tuesday Mormng INPROVIDENCE RAZED Loss Is About SIS0,000 in/ Fire in Business ('enter { Fire origl- | parlor at & gutted a f he heart of the ro- rict and was stroying an ent five stri in iron th Providence, Dee 26 o'clock this morning 1 story building tail business d prevented from corif block tures, only by which barred flames across aft, ress of $160,000. which L, C is occupied on the first floor by the| Standard Reflly Hat Shops on the second and third floors by the War. man and Mack billlard parlors, and | on the top floor by Theodore Droz as a dis cutting establishment. pensive and delicate mac 1 on the top floor 0 $50,000, re sounded for firemen being hampered s to check the spread shoe stor ng other Damage ne wrecke brov Two alarme w blaze, the in of o= froze wat hav |elty after a man had reported to the 1‘ * RHINELANDER'S WIFE SEEHS $4,200 ALINONY = !Young Husband's Income $18,000, But Lawyers Say Demand Is Too Much ns, Dec. 26 Jor Khinclander today sought before Supreme Court Jus- tice Tompkins $350 a month tem- porary alimony pending trial of the ) suit brought by Leonard Kip Rhine- lander, to annul their marriage of | .\h« !last. October 14, The annnlment suit is based charges that your er and her pare resented her to be on Rhineland- Yraudutently rep- | of white blood, | art Negro. in property, and 2 heir to some mil- Iy $18,000 a hich he spent $3,000. for R $200 a n inder protest. would be sald, how- ent had “ever thinelande t her all bills present- her creditors or by he paid pr yunsel ed that ample al ever, that lesire to omtortab 1ne their cl give evervthing T During 11 ' cisi 's attorney's dec ander famidy, outs rneys, the lat- an were that in se I in corroboration of nt suit nd, wt n min- HAS INFANTILE PARALYSIS Rurritt Street AfMlicted—Quarantine on High School Athlete Removed. Mystermus /’ssazlant Beats Up Employes Of Polish Orphanage P. 0. FORCE WORKS L)\Th Ir- | flon still prevails, ristmas found t and hundreds of packug delivered, alone im 0 pl letters ([/.:»'v'/(“," 1 ]7Jl;‘f e - ‘iuoy Plo”,‘,f/ (T A wy, w CONNECTICUT, F RII)\\ MAILS CLOGGED BY 0 CHRISTMAS DELUGE Being Delivered Today Postmaster Lrwin Belleves Public Was Tardy Tn Sending Greetings —Extra Clorks Employed To Take Care of Holiday Tnflux. As tar as the New rned, The is conee ar vl( > | posted 1n D and cities as early Erw urpassed th ny previou ug lot ]\ruml‘ r 23, Was gutted 18| pert F. eshall and |that the amount o (He New Pritain o In stat mor hon as the Postn mail he ost ¢ lay ng 1si0f cards y s still other t r morning 1 this n t hand Her ning 1 this year ( r 100,000 Picces of Mail Toesday Mr. Erwin Ex- | tieal y |but ventured to say ieces of mail wlu‘u!lng and p \hrnu,.h the on Tuesday ployed for fleven the add could it a o cou > han Ext the Ch lit leg ot giv mail chages) 1s of the ra h L 8 )‘ln“ er 1",v that oy assed ! Rev. m[ ristmas rus several take mail ed to t ability, th | to be co | manner in whi r,nm about 2 t tu deli or sald, of for the splendi oy cooperated to cient yming and sy mail. ked overtime and packag -|h e be recelved ages mailed ir q today, —Mrs. | vis early. cort mall as this is hough bee ay or Tt were ne for th He as not be emp ed 10 mail He sald that e h a 1o ause lay, ot Postm the post office was i 1 ca oyed New I W cards m.d ritaln on M ny € was pos- | rist pac for delivery fn iver Erw ory erted that the p rds ra 1 to stamp a aj ob W 1 up to noc tated t mafl quires experience and only {he regu- lar men employved for this work do it. He he some (e accustomed to a n malil, are ol said v wh g thern i en the increase of from 40 gremter the the pos that {} at the nd ma amp t CONDITIONS GRAVE Three of Those in St pital After Are Scriously Injured, rALT ViRt Hartfors for \ew Vairt to e, noon or ¥ PROVES FATAL NN LW 1. b ht rw FATHER Francls HAVEN can 1 to men, | amount of Hos- 26—1 brocast noand v saturday w hy warmes 1024, DEAD, ANOTHER LOSES BOTH LEGS IN ACCIDENT I'nnr More Injured, One Probably Fatally, as Auto Hits Train at Nor- | walk. 1k, ¢ Dac. 26 1 late Norw le ( di from Injur- en an automobile w Mitaly, J ash- to & t } et grade erine phine nputa- Lo on ©f both legs gobritto, who suffered W 8 1 condition of m wounds were James Marino, suff fr ring . Four others scalp v 16, 1 on an oce was brought lo a TEMPI]RARY PASTOR AT | TRINITY M. E. CHURCH ' Substitute Until Next April spectal hool, > | causing d BDND [SSUES NEEDED FOR NEW PUBLIG WORKS City Funds Tor Streets and Subways Exhonsted— ' mmference on | Amount Needed Hall of the ation, ¢ Chatrman Bdward F DIES AT AGE OF 76 James Smith Had Been Tmploye of stanley Works For Over 30 Years —Tong Resldent of City SON GETS ESTAT John L. Billard. Meriden Milionaire However, Left Some Public Be- quests, Will Shows TRAFFIC RISTUME N HERALD DECEMBER ‘.ZG, | Mies last night | tnjured. | as belng | i l'Imcrson Ford to| ol Coroner Smit 'lWE\TY l’A(; ANOTHER WOMANIN| PUBLISHERS RAIL AT HASTE IDDLETOWN CASE, 2% TRYING T0 PUT THROUGH INCREASE IN POSTAL RATES | Wile Stain, Accidentally, Hus-1 band Declares NIECE CAUSED ~ TROUBLE ROSEMARY HALL HAS §0,000 FIRE DAMAGE Large Dormitory at Green- wich School Destroyed This Morning © Caspar Schmidt Charged With Man- slaughter As Police Seek To Check Up His Story of Shooting—WIire | Depressed, Medium Asserts, Middleto —Caspar r and 2 arraigned today on , a8 a re- 1 by th a charge of Lighter, t of ti who was charge ¢ | ments of afternoon retaf s C. F counsel, Niece Caused his wife, i in the apart-|a loss of Wednesday was learned ood as the students their homes f has Trouble Corc pollce ¢ 1 | ot the shooting summoned as a \mll 30 ye o0 have been pr me at the t lcame from lago, in the ported er L. A lss Marie ars re- of to cause controy | not received ar autopsy on the 1 The police had shot w e from the near feet from the where it was e tered Mrs. Schr BLWE STRIKERS FOR BLOWING UP DYNAWITE One Ton of High Explosive and 200 Kegs of Powder Explode Near Scranton ith a few momer as On Roof o reported to the heard A h discovered nee raped Death O inally Dies Un Losses Total i In New Rochelle Fires 3 Little ( Found Dead 10 BYLOW ZI RO Week Ending Dec, 20th ... —_— Average Daily Circulation For 11,464 PRICE THREE CE Joint Post Office Com- mittee Presses Ahead With Plans For Boost- ing Second Charges. Report of 3ill Class Will Be Made to Congress Imme- diately Afte mas Recess. i the Christ- from pro- ond in S8.000 i al Count