New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 16, 1925, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 CHINESE RADICALS DEMAND ONE FOREIGNE R'S LIFE FOR EACH VICTIM IN SHANGHAI British Subject Mur- dered and City Seethes With Unrest —Americans Warned To Leave Danger Zone. ’ U. S. Consul at Canton Ad- | vises Washington Situa- tion Is Desperate—Bap- tist Hospital Stoned by Mobh. | | | | | | | | | Bhanghai, June 16 (A-—One for- eign life for every Chinese life tak- en In the Shanghal riots was the slo- gan adopted by Chinese In' posters | distributed today after the killing of Willlam W. Mackenzie, an Eng- lish subject, yesterday. The city is secthing with ominous unrest. Further reports recelved up to 11 o'clock tonight from Chung-King, Kiuklang and Nanking (ports on the Yangtse river), described the situ- | ation at those points as increasingly grave. Foreigners at Nanking are con- sidered in danger. Chimese employ- | ed there by Japanese and British firms are on strike. The British con- sl and his family are reported to have taken up residence at the American consulate. The principal menace at Nanking, however, lies in the possible cutting off of water and food supplies. Troops On Guard Peking, June 16 (M—Responding to representations from foreign legau- tions, the Peking government today brought detachments of General Feng Yu-Hsiang's troops into the ecity for guard duty and also posted pickets outside the principal offices of foreign firms and forcign dences. The barricades around the lega- tion quarter of Peking were guarded by increased forces on Sunday night and barbed wire entaglements were erected in view of the reports of pos- | ible anti-foreign riots that night. | No trouble occurred, but the same precautions were continued yester- day in view of the nlemor:\rnnons held throughout the city. Last night the entanglements were | removed and the number of guards | reduced. Several companies of General | (hang Tso-Lin's troops also arrived in Peking this afternoon but it is doubtful whether they will be able o @ooperate with General Feng's men. resi- | | Washington Warned Washington, June 16 (A—Ant-! foreign agitation in the Canton vi- cinity is causing uneasiness in that | place and nearby cities, Consul Gen- eral Jenkins informed the state de- partment in a dispatch sent from | Cunton June 14 and received today. Stone Baptist Hospital “During a student :l(‘"lnnrlml\nn; in Wuchow on June 8 a mob yelled ‘Kill foreigners!’ and threw ~stone: at the American Baptist hospital #he dispatch said. Mr. Jenkins declared that in Can-| fon the police depagtment had be- | gun to resume its functions on the | day his message was sent and that “it now ems likely that order will he restored shortly.” He added| that the Canton situation appeared | to be dominated by “the Whampoa | military scheol cadets, to whom the | complete destruction of the \Hmmn“ army is due. Trge Americans to leave | The consul is continuing to urge | Ame ns to leave the Canton re-| glon for Hong Keng and other more safe places \ As to the poitical situation in | | | Canton, e foid that the Contonese leaders, whn arc of the conservative group, would have share In the | new government. There was a| harp division within the circle of leaders of the South China party | when the executive committee of | that party adopted a program last| May declaring for co-operation with the Russian sovlet federation and the conservative Jeaders then broke | away. The which a recent battle Canton in the which | o aligned with the radical wing of | the party, defeated and destroyed the Yunnanese troops as an out- growth of that political rupture. The report from Consul General Jenkins | was construed as meaning that the | victorious radical wing of the party | row is trying to patch up differences | with the conservative wing and re- | unite the South China group | [ at Cantonese forces 2 More Troops Arrive June 16 (M—A contingent of Chang Tso-Lin's troops arrived here from Tientsin and established | headquarters north of Peking. Be- cavee of the order maintained at| Tientsin, where Chang Tso-Lin, the Manchurian war lord, ia in contrsj, the arrival of his troops here given a feeling of reassu re 1o the people. king, has anc (Continued 0n Pege 8.) | | said that |a few weeks and {the driver. | against Willlam C. | day | possivle | fendant BUS DRIVER HELD FORMANSLAUGHTER Tony Vitakunis, 14, Schoolboy, Killed on Stanley Street THIRD FATALITY IN WEEK Charles McKeevers, Chauffcur on Chapman Street Line, Under $2,- 500 Bond While Police Pursuc Further Investigation, Taking a short turn on the left side of the street in front of a Chap- man street jitney while riding a bicycle last evening about 5 o'clock, Frank Vitakunis, 14-year-old son of Tony Vitakunis of 27 Austin setrect, was almost instantly killed, when struck by the jitney. The boy avas a student in the Cen- tral Junior High school and pre-| sumably was on his way home {rom‘ &chool. The accident occurred at the | intersection of Stanley and Pleasant streets. The boy on his wheel was| diately in the rear of a Landers, Frary & Clark truck. The Jitney, | driven by Charles McKeevers, was going north and both vehicles met at the street intersection. The boy, according to all indications, evident- ly made a sharp turn on Pleasant street, crossing the trolley tracks to the left of the center, when struck by the jitney. McKeevers Held for Manslaughter, McKeevers was arraigned before Judge Benjamin W. Alling in police court this morning on a charge of manslaughter and the case was con- tinued for a week at the request of Prosccutor Joseph G. Woods, who| the investigation of the accident had not been completed. McKeevers was released under $2,. 500 bonds. 1 The boy was dragged a short dis- | tance, the front wheels passing over his head. He died almost instantly. It was necessary to jack up front of the jitney in order to re- move the body. Police headquarters was notified | and Desk Sergeant Mathias Rival sent Detective Sergeants Willlam P. McCue and Patrick O'Mara, Patrol Driver Herbert C. Lyon and Patrol- | men Michael Meehan and John Carlson to the scene of the accl- dent. Dr, John Purney, acting med- Ical examiner, examined the body |and said <death was due to a frac- tured skull. | The jitney was one owned by the Mastco company, consisting of Mrs. Helen Muter and Dominick Soccolo. McKeevers has been in the city only was for eight vears a member of the mounted constabulary in Pennsylvania, was McKeevers said he had made out hundreds of accident re- +ports while'a policeman but it was | |Charles H. Norton to Be the first time he had even been in- volved in an accident himseif. He | scemed very affected by the accldent was Mrs. Muter who broke into tears at the scene. Soccolo told a Herald representative that this was the first serlous accldent the line has had in the four and a half years iz has been operating. McKeevers was placed under ar- | |rest on a technical charge of crim- released evening, inal negligence and under $1,600 bail was last ! pending further investigation. No Eye Witnesses Found Although there are four stores on | the corner where the accldent oc- | curred and there were about 25 peo- | ple on the jitney, there seemed to be | no eye witnesses to the accldent last evening. Examination of the brakes on the fitney by Patrol Driver Lyon showed | according to tha police that while ((onnnuul o l‘nq.—« 8) TEAGHER VS, TEACHER IN $5,000 ACCIDENT ACTION Beatrice Koplowitz Sues William C. | Perkins for Injuries Recelved When Auto Hit Her. Beatrice Koplowltz. &N through Nair{ has brought suit for $5,000 | & week overdue, was held up on ac- | to be included In the inventory. It going south on Stanley street imme- | S0Nal the | ‘1931 $12,489; 5 $1,000 bonds Repub- | |cesses have revolutionized |tlon in many industries. | past 25 years his work has been Ithe fied | cessful flight. Perkins of Sims- y as a result of an accident Fri- | evening at the corner of F.fl!l and Hartford avenue, wien the plaintifft and her sister, | Juita, were run down by the defend- | ant's automobile. The plaintift al- Main street | ieges that the accident was due to the negligence of the defendant and | that he falled to keep proper look- | out or sound a warning as he ap- proached the intersection the strects. | Miss Koplowifz claims to have re- celved a scalp ions of | the scalp, abrasior contusions of the skin, foof, ht hip, and | Injury to the Lone of the Mp As the result of her inju llegea she will be prevent amndn'z to fer s, she rom duties as teacher at w ingto; The de- tendant is a teacher, being an instructor at the Westminster.school, Simsbury Deputy Sherift Martin H. has attached property of de- in Simsbury. The writ is re- the superior court & Tuaesday of Beptember. schoo Horwitz turnable in foret | of | Edward Sechrest, SHEENEY ESTATE TOTALS $288386 Main and Fairview Street Prop- ¢rties In Inventory ———— | CROFT'S CLAINS SET oUT Appralsers Aftix Paragraph Explain. ing Executor's Interest in Realty, Which Forms More Than Half of | Holdings Reported to Court Today, { Following itemization of holdings | comprising the estate of the late! John F. Sweeney which, with the| Sweeney block on Main street and the homestead on Falrview street, total $288,386.96, Appralsers James J. Watson, William L. Hatch and P. F. McDonough, have affixed to the inventory the following paragraph: “The above real estate was deeded to Edmund Crofts by John T Sweeney by two deeds, each dated May 14, 1921, the grantor r serving to himself the use of sald premises during the remainder of his natural life, Said deeds were recorded in New Britain land records. March 30, 1925, vol. 184, pages 184-185 respec- tively. The grantee claims said real estate to be his under satd d The inventory, which is mor than count of a dispute as to whether or not the properties referred to were was finally agreed that the be in- cluded for the purpose of taxation.® The appraieal filed today follow: Miscellaneous: furniture and per- effects, $300; four-cylinder 1923 model Oidsmoblle, $400; three | extra tires, $36; deposit in state savings bank of Hartford. $1602,68: | deposit in New Britain Trust com- pany, $9460.97. | Stocks and bonds: 111 shares the North American Co., pfd, $4939.50; | 95 shares "ntrrnallmml Harvester company, pMd., $9547.50; 200 shares Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe, R. R., $18,900; 10 R. Hoe & company first | mortgage $1,000 bonds, due 1934, $4650; 10 American Telephone &/ Telegraph, $1,000 5 per cent gold | debentures due January 1, 1960, $9512.50; 5 Tnternational Silver company, $1,000, 6 per cent deben- | tures, due 1933, $4975; Tdberty| bonds, $1016.56; 5 $1,000 gold con- | vertible debenture bonds of the Philadelphia. company, due 1938, $4900; 10 shares People's Gas Light & Coke company of Chicago, $1152.- 50; 205 shares Baltimore & Ohlo R.! R., pfd, $15.785; 12 $1,000 bonds, | the Cudahy Packing company, due| Ilc of Bolivia, due 1047, $4687.50: 5 $1,000 bonds, Dutch Eabt Indles| due 1962, $5,006.25; 6 $1,000 N. Y. N. H. & H. R. R., due 1948, $5885; 7 $1,000 bonds Stevens & Thompson ]”aper co., due 1942, $6300. Realfy holdings are valued as fol- lows: land and bulldings at the cor- ner of Church and Fairview streets, $7500; Sweeney block on ‘\Xaln‘ street, $160,000. JOHN SCOTT MEDAL FOR PLAINVILLE MAN Rewarded for Contribu- tion to Industry (Spectal to the Herald.) Plainville, June 16.—Charles H. Norton of Plainville will bepresent- ‘ ed with the John Scott medal, certl- | ficate, and premium at the com- |mencement exercises of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania. This award has been made to Mr. Norton for his development of precision grinding as a distinct manufacturing process and for his invention of machinery |to apply his process to manufacture |on a large scale. The Norton pro- produc- notably in manufacturing automobiles. Mr. Norton has been assoclated | with the Norton Grinding Wheel Co. | where for the the development of his inventions. He is now consulting engineer for the Norten company. The John Scott medal. certificate and premium are awarded by the board of directors of city trusts of the eity of Philadelphia, Pa., for outstanding work in the fields of re- search. Anmn[ those who will re- ceive it wi 3 Nortén this vear | will be Wh Wright. pioneer in ofgavjation and invegtor of the plake whidh plade the first suc- of Worcester, Mass Others who have been honored in | |the past with this award Include | Mme. Marie Curie of Paris for her | | discoverles relating to radium; Dr. Frederick Bating of Canada for his work leading to the discovery of in- sulin, a cure for- diabetes. and Thomas Edison for his innumerable | inventions. | Mr. Norton and his daughter, ENz abeth, have left for Philadelphia. | | where this high honor will be be- stowed upon the local man Miss Cadwell to Marry E. Sechrest of Plam\ ille Mr. and Mrs. Geo Cadwell Harrison street an 'N’I the engagement of their daughter, Miss Helen Cadwell of New York city to son of Mrs. Clara Sechrest of ville. Miss Cadwell is a graduate of | Smith college and Mr. Seghrest was He Supp!y No graduated from Rennsalter technic Institute, Troy, N. Y s new with the Elevator company ef New York eit daté has been set for theswedding. 'AUXILIARY ALSO | rade h 'SPANISH WAR VETS 10 CONVENE HERE State Encampment Will Be Held Friday and Saturday | NSO MEETS) Representative John Q. Tilson .\hy May be Present—Memorial Exer- | clses at Soldiers’ Monument and at Court of Honor During Parade, Tinal plans for the 22nd annual state department encampment of the | United 8panish War Veterans, which will be held in N and Saturday, this week., w public today by Theodore Johnson of this city, state department com- mander, Orders for the parade which wlill be the feature of Satur- day's session were also given out. Captain Alfred H, Griswold has been THEODORE JOHNSON Department Commander chosen parade marshal and Jke Hills chief of staff. Business sessions for the state encampment will b> held in Odd Fellows' ha Arch strect, and those for the ention in Vega hall, on the same ates will arrive in New Brit- aln Friday afternoon and will reg- ister between 2 and 4 o'clock and again between 5 and 6. There will| be a luncheon at 6:30. The conven- ton proper will officially get under way, at §, when both bodies, the en- campment and the auxiliary, will gather In their respective meeting halls. Thesc sessions will be talen up | for the most part with the roll call and reading of reports. The encampment will meet for its next session at 9:30 Saturday morn- ing and the auxiliary will assemble at 9. Nomination, election and fng stallation of new officers will be the| this gather-| outstanding feature of CAPT. A, H. GRISWOLD Marshal Of Parade This wil Meoting of Snakes This wi conventi remaining, anakes. Al m Lair Provine tary Order of t erin th over, and ise “one I dare p jungle march forth flefent ot will g tain snakes t 1tion for all who rate h into 1} order will fmprompt rrad Drum Corps, to the ar of the &nak Commander a communication fror | the majority de | ot Representatives the effsct that ( Q. Tileon of N partment N necticut Spanish in Europe at turning to Amer convention dat every effort 1o be pre parade Orders Definite par ordcr by Par; Marshal Alf wold f “Having of th Spanish War Veter nt i would make given i H are War rades B Captain (Continu:d on Page iliary | ALARNIST RUMORS 'EXCITE CONMUNITY Stories of War Spread as ‘Na- tional Guard Is Mobilized —_— SPLENDTD RESPONSE HERE | 166 Out Of 175 Enlisted Men In New | Britain Report At Armory As Tmmhulh Orders Test Throughout Connecticut, That the same spirit which caused the “Minute men of '76" to leave their plows and their farms, grab thelr muskets and hurry to the de- fense of their country s alive today, was proved last evening in Connect- feut, when without a moment's warning Governor John H. Trumbull ordered a complete muster of the national guards within a few hours, Thaf the experiment was a suc- cess 1s shown by a report recelved this morning from the office of Ad- jutant General George M. Cole af Hartford that the 102nd regiment in New Haven and the 169th in Hart- ford and New Britain would show better than 92 or 93 per cent re- sponse while the 192nd artillery at New London would show at least 85 per cent, with the officlal reports still to be heard. In New Britain the last reports showed 166 men present or account- ed for out of 175 enlisted. The call came without a moment’s warning, and military officials had the best opportunity of their lives to determine whether the response would equal that of the early colon- ists who left their forges, their farms and their business to shoulder thefr muskets, The sounding of 12 strokes on the fire alarm, the posting of bullet- ins by the newspapers, the throwing of an announcements on the ns at the moving pictures, the use of r, |automoblles, telephones, messengers \’mrl taxicabs all were called upon to | thelr utmost last evening to help get out the soldier boys. Public Thought of War | Added to the, suddenness of call‘ was the present strained foreign | situation which speedily gave rise to | Gov, ((‘ontlnuod on Page 18.) §7 PER CENT R CENT OF ALL STRENGTH REPORTED, (;mernor and Adjutant General Pleased With Mobilization Tests Hartford, June 16 (P—Governor {"Trumbull and Adjutant General Cole |today expressed their keen pleasure |at the success of the surprise mo- bilization of the Connecticut Nation- al Guard last evening. Reports to | the adjutant geheral'. office, not | |quite complete at 11 o'clock this | morning, indicated that fully 87 per cent of the commissioned and lenlisted strength of the guard had | |been assembled last evening In the | several armories throughout the state in response to the governor's order issued at 4 o'clock yesterday | The reports thus far compiled show the results of the mobilization: Number on rolls Reporting staff corps and | departments | Forty-third headquarters division headquarters comp'y 63 169th infantry 1186 {102nd infantry 1102 118th observation | squadron 26 {118th nm"\r:\r!f\ com- | pany 43rd tank l"Ih)“\n‘ cal Militia State [ [ 54 1naa 1051 Plammarmn Wills Heart | To His Native Village Paris, June 16 (H—Camille Flam marion's heart is left in his will to native village, wish heart breast and offered to my birth- place, Montigny-Le-Rol, where ft heat for the first time,” wrote the famous astronoemr. Hanlto bhequeathed to the vill 00 francs, his bust and his por- i my my taken out of age trait PRESENT FRENCH REPLY Rerlin, June 16 (M —French Anm bassador De Margerle today pre ted Forelgn Minister man the reply of France hany's proposal for a san security pact. T Franeo-Briti to Stress te rapresents a ~ord HIGR TIDE e June 17, 1925) (Standard Time) At New London— 6:30 a. m At New Haven— 6:31 p. m. THE WEATHER Hartford, June 16.—Fore- cast for New Britain and vi- cinity: Fair tonight and Wed- nesday; oooler tomight NOVICE SAVED IN | quiet as they up to a at hand and just | quieted, ana t the nur: A Average Daily Circulation For Week End June 13th " 12,031 | PRICE THREE CENTS 25 KNOWN DEAD AND MANY INJURED WHEN TRAIN IS DERAILED DURING BAD STOBM AT ROCKPORT SAG, N. J. SUICIDE ATTENPT New Haven Fireman Grabs Girl 85 She Starts Death Leap HOLDS CROWD BREATHLESS | Josephine Brezile, 24, Climbs to Roof of Sacred Heart Institute— | Many Witness Spectacular Rescue LITCHFIELD HAS TERRIFIC STORM Great Damage Is Done in Satan’s Kingdom District L0SS REACHES THOUSANDS| Pawtucket Church Destroyed After | Lightning Hits It and Equitable | Building in New York Also lsi —Not Crazy, Doctors Say. New Haven, June 16 (P)——Suff?r-! ing from some form of mental trouble, apparently, Josephine Bre- | alle, 24, & novice at the Sacred | Heart finstitute for children in Greene street, attempted to jump off | the roof of nm buflding this morn- | ing, but finally rescued by a fire- man, James I\luhnr, For nearly an hour the young woman stood poised on a narrow | ledge three storles from the ground, threatening to jump while nuns | from the school, firemen’and police- | men pleaded with her not to do so. | Missed Her Preceptress | It was sald that Miss Brezile had f said that she intended to kill her- | self when about to be separated from her preceptress for whom she | is sald to have had a great fond- ness, The preceptress nan s not | made known, She had been trans- | ferred to Pittsburgh and had left | for her new post today. Miss B le was first seen by a passerby on the sMeet walking along the roof of the institute and |hr‘n‘ out on a cornice. 8he was clad in | black, and was wringing her hands and making motions as if in a be- | wildered state, A call was sent for | a fire company and Chief Spaine re- sponded with a truck and a squad of officers. Plead With Her On the far slde of the roof, nuns| from a convent nearby, and Rev. Leonardo Quaglia, pastor of Bt Michael's Itallan church, were call ing to the woman and pleading with her to do herself no harm. In the | | school yards below several hundred children up at the were looking woman on the eornice. The nuns, who t with coolness, kept gradually marshalled | them Into groups and marched them baek into the school rooms, tors were rapidly filling the street The woman after a while seemed to become undetermined as to her action. e wh the children, the Fire Net Spread Scaling ladders were run up out of sight of Miss Brezile, and just below her was spread a fire net. When preparati were complete, Chief Spaine was about to give signal to have the woman jump. She gave a cry and called out: "I don’t have to jump here. T can jump somewhere else.” She then stepped ledge over which she passed to reach the cornice, Saved by Fireman Hoseman 1es Maher w the woman seems rushed forward skirt end of 1 . FFor wor had s close to totter he caught the as to fall over the ¢ it appeared as if t go through spac was strong and she appeared to | a momer Below t1 vering the Religlons Devotion She told a story of r been a v for and a vear intention of Becoming'a n of pleas of foster pare taken her ng to her story he school d street and we T to the Ttalian climbed a fe door, removed upstalirs, when an infar ormitory ir Attacks Preceptress was hen t police who took her to tt her foster o'clock she was ag seer with her to go awar. She apparent (Continued On Page 8) children | Specta- | 8| Struck By Bolt. Satans Kingdom, June 16 (A—A | storm which had a touch of the cyclone in its make up swept over Indians Hill late last night leaving | wreckage in its wake, and cutting |off wire communication all night. The path of the storm was from the !south over Indian Hill and ending | |at Gilman's railroad crossing, which | {is at the end of the valley. It barely touched other parts of | New Hartford or the adjoining | town of Canton. The wind twisted | off hundreds of trees, largely apple | trees, destroyed acres of cloth spread | over shade-grown tobacco plants which had just been set out, razed the tobacco barn of James Stewart, tore down telephone, telegraph and jelectric light wires, and filled the highway with tree trunks and limbs. Men were out all night opening up the roads for traffic. Roofs of many houses were damaged by t limbs. The monetary losses will run into | thousands of dollars as a large acreage of tobacco planting has been spolled. The tobacco raisers who suffered most were Henry Sachs, | James Stewart, T. Scott, Bidwell and Son, and E. O. Gales, The storm was regarded as the worst in Litch- | field county in years. Hartford Has Death Hartford, Conn., June 16 (#—One | death resulted from excessive heat | that visited the city yesterday. |body of an unidentified man, 50 | vears old, dressed in a blue coat, gray trousers and black shoes was | found by the police yesterday after- noon in the South Meadows at the foot of Wyllys street. Medical Examiner Glover N. Howe said death was caused by heat pros- tration. | Twister in Colchester Colchester, Conn., | windstorm for a few minutes last ht developed into a small “twist- er,” cutting a path a quarter of a mile wide and a mile long through the center of the village, tearing up trees large and small, two houses. Electric light and telephone wires went down Many chimneys were blown down. or truck men and employes of state highway department co- d in clearing the ich had been toppled over. of the Tony rear the t the Mrs, Rutka who was sitting phone when a lightning in over the wire. She out s called in to revive t came Equitable Building Hit June 1§ UP—The 37 bullding in the the largest office in New York was struck by ing early today during an il storm which cooled off polis after another torrid k a coping on the red stone fragments gments were as Streets were roped ition Russell walked in pugh a t apartment x of E or he ard isturbed by and ow is sleep story wind his v 5Sth stree n of ard His 7 Henry R 1, Mass frering ss as mmonea esterday e 16 (P —A ast 1 light- ne of ght's str Alden Ca West- wocks of frag- sidewalks apparent- WAt tain street, severa iting wns and damage (P—A brief but rain storm ac- h wind ast vietnity night rees and pedestrians s lley cars were stalled ere two feet of water nued on Page Five) The | Assistant f June 16 (P—A | and unroofing | highway of | houses unroofed was of her chair and struck | Several of the 52 or More Persons Injured | Will Die, According | to Attending Sur- | geons. Wreck Caused by Light- ning and Washout Twisting Rails — Five Cars and Engine Pile Up in Debris. LOCOMOTIVE BLOWS UP, SCORES SCALDED Hackettstown, N. J., June 16(f)— Twenty-five persons are known to | have lost their lives in the wreck of | a Lackawanna special train at Rock- | port Sag, two miles west of here | early today. Fifty-two injured are in hospitals, 33 at Easton, Pa., 8 at | the Warren General hospital, Phil- lipsburg, three at Morristown Memorial hospital and six at Dover Genera) hospital, Thirteen are dead at Easton, George Taule and Mrs, Augusta Isiman, both of Chicago, died at Dover General hospital. Eight dead here included Jacob Scanlon, trainman of Easton; Fred Loomis, engineer, Secranton, Pa.; | Carl Haehn, fireman, Scranton, Pa.: a young girl, and two unidentified women, The bodies of the engineer and | ireman have not fet been removed | from the wreck, Storm Causes Wreck Twisted by lightning and under- mined by heavy rains the tracks of | the Lackawanna rallroad a mile | west of here gave way beneath a speclal seven car train at 3:30 a. | m., eastern standard time today, and in the crash flve cars anq engine plled up on one another. | Lightning Hits Rail In this report it was said that lightning struck one of the rails, | throwing it out of place, that a | landslide due to the severe storm | had covered the rails and that the | track also had been undermined. Public utility commission en- gineers have been sent to the wreck | to investigate, | Mrs. Duncan Dunn, who lives at the State Game farm, about 500 yards from the scene of the crash | sounded the first alarm. Woman Gives Alarm The report of an explosion riding above the thunder and raging of a heavy storm sent her to the tele- phone in an effort to reach Hack- ettstown physicians, Her calls were delayed because a | fire was raging here {n the Willlams and Hibbler lumber yard. Physi- clans whom she aroused, in turn called hospitals at Dover, Phillips- burg, Easton and Morristown. Hundreds of rescue workers had arrived by daylight and two relief trains began receiving the injured. Sealds and burns caused the most | serfous injuries. Steam was coming from the wreckage three hours after the crash, Bodies Laid Out Bundled in blankets, bodies of the vietims were laid side by side on the grass. The faces of {wo were scald- ed beyond recognition. At 9 o'clock six hours after the ident, the coroner had not vet arrived Passengers in two cars ch did not inj the last wt cap ary Many Will Die Doctors said that at least a dozen mong the injured would die The train was s who had b belt and were me prosperous returning land ac- and grand- for a visit companied by ch dren with Coun- corated the 014 re-routed at Pa r the Lacka na main a cut-off twe tragedy as the Rockport rafls away dip into a at a point Game farm. Trains genera down the grade and take on the momentum Those who reached wreck first 4 see the body of F'red Loomis, still on the o ine that e etnrredlin although on R ond cou the engineer, throttle along with his f ighed-up railroad be- lay the twist- n a night- his hand eman On the neath the locomotive {ed body of a little girl gown, Vill Split Million lf Nte Wins, Says Miss Pope Chicago, TIL.. June 16 (P—)iiss Isabel Pope will divide Billy Me- Clintock's $1,000,000 estate “50.50" with Towa cousins of his mother if the will leaving it to Willlam Darl- ing Shepherd, his foster father s broken, she testified upon cross ege amination in the Shepherd trial