Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 22, 1912, Page 1

VOL. LIV.—NO. 98 NORWICH, CONN., MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1912 PRICE TWO CENTS H——V—-———‘———————_—m———_———w The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That oi Any Other Paper, and lts Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the Gity’s Population BODIES OF 64 TITANIG VIGTIMS REGOVER Cable Steamer Mackay-Bennett Begins a Systematic Search in the Vici / Steamshi nity of Last Week’s p Disaster. Bodies Whose Condition Was Such as to Make Preservation Impossible, Were Again Sunk in Sea—Steamers Report Many Floating Bodies—‘Nearer My God to Thee” Sung in Many Churches Yesterday—Managing Director Ismay Denies Many Accusations in Long Statement—Additional | Lifeboats Placed on Olympic—Mourning in London. F., April r Mac! has be n searciiin, -Bennett, whic the vicinity of tI been recovered by the Mr Pitanic cording to & report The children, whos Teoeive: supp smlh t-}; be Lola still at the hom Some Lacked Identification Marks. [<till at the home of ratpe is said a number of hodies which seemn not the least hom were recovered were sunk again, as|"" > they were without identification marks. T'he names of those ides xmfied oould not b Icefields on Southerly Course. 3 he steamer La obtained through the Cape Race t trans-Atlantic lin- eless station. ers to take the new southerly course, o Not Be Pre- |reached New York today, 24 hours laie SR Bonles Saud having run at sl r two day served. The 54 bolies re s identiflable, ac a F‘n‘l‘(ilm making their preserva fon impossible SEARCH FOR BODIES. Calle Ship to Continue Work as Long | special as Remains Can Be Found. April red are regarded through flelds t many i Senge plougl en icebergs, 100 feet ir MOURNING IN LONDON Services in Churches and | “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” Sung. New York 21,—Two wireless | Iondon, April was ob- messages addressed Lo J. Bruce Ismay, | ser ey of e presideni of the International Mercan- \Du. tha kinzdom tile Marine company. were received to- | ship, from the ~at day at the offices of the White Star |y chapel, fine from the cable ship Meckay-Ben- |In each of them “Ne: nett, via Cape Race, one of which re- | Thee” was sunz. I ported thai the steamship Rhein were paid by e to the sighted bodies near the scene of the antic and loss of the Titanic, The first message, |t ter, like which was dated April 20 and a “company of New York, read: | Bodies Sighted by Steamship. Steamer Rhein reports .ckage and bodies 42.1 north; vest; eight miles \\ est of fcebergs. Now I ng for tion. Expect to arrive 19 (Signed) “MACKAY-BENNETT.” Cable Ship on Ground. I'ba second me« e received through the Commercial Cable company read: Received further Bremen (prosumably 4 that pos: steamer Bremen e of the Commercial Cable | g passing three big eight o'clock | information from | which no nanner in the British colonie CHANGE OF PLANS. w ave Double tom and Siles. April New “Gigantic” lular Bo London, It is mad arrive on ground at eight o'clock | that the plans of tne White Star “Gi- p. m. Start on operations tomorrow. |Saatic,” which is now being built at ¥nve been considerabiy delayed on |Beifast, and was to hay en on lyassage by dense fog. Iflmus.md feet in length, will be modi- “MACKAY-B J ! Mr, Ismay’s Statement. It is provable that the n lans | cellular bottom S fs | Mauretania Befora his departure for Washing- v stipulated condi- m Mr. Ismay said, after reading the | tion of receiving the government subsi- iwo 1wezsages from the cable ship g The Olympic been prov | arka)_uemmu: IR orty collapsible boats and v “The cable ship Mackay-Bennett has | sixteen additional lifeboats, ‘been chartered by the Whlite Star line and ordered te proceed to the scene of wthe disaster and te do all she could o recover bodies and glean all infor- gnation poasible. :my Effort te ldentify Bodies. ery effort wiil be made o identi- | STATEMENT BY ISMAY. Positive Denial That He Had Any Part in Navigation of Ship. fy bodies recovered and any news| Now York, A in a will de sent through immediately by |given out tenight, ru wireless. In addition i such messages |Plles {0 various ¥ ed state s these, the Mackay-Bennett wili rding the Titanic aster, partic ke a report of #s activities each |larly these in which his v rning by wireless and such reports | Prominently figur den t will be made public at the offices of|[he had anything t h the navi- the White Star line. gation of the ves gonsu ted with & g |ber captain regarding her condu 3 Search Will Be Persistent. i’““ or made suggestions as to tno “The cable ship has orders to re- main on the scene of the wreck for af least a week, but should a large num- ber of Dodies be recovered before that time, sne will retarn to Halifax with them. The search for bodies will not be abapdoned as long as any hope re- malus for any more recoveries, Will Make no Soundings. { “T'he Mackay-Bennett wiil not make | ¥ soundings, as thdy wouwld not serve a0y useful purpose beeause the depth where the Titanic sank is more then 2,009 fathoms.” E SAW FLOATINQ BODIES. f Two Steamers Report a Great Number ; Wearing Life Proservers. E Halifax, X. 8, April 21 tion of reporis hal a ge number of er Titaniic already afloat in the vi- was received tonight in a wire- espatch from the mship Bedies of victims of the sinking of \‘m' | course or other navigation of the ship. He exercised mo privileges which d not belong to amy passenger, he deckires; he did not sit at the captain’s table, and he was not dlning with him, at the time of the accident, and, indeed, was in bed whe ‘Hle collisi He had no ide | of returning to Frope quickly to avoic aring at the senatorial investi tion, he adds, and only knew that the invest tion v pendin when in- formed of it at pathia’s arrival | " Mr Ismay’s statement f | Welcored the Inquiry. | “When I appeared before th committes Frida the purpose of rtain the cax > with or addit] e ple merning ¥ suppe the inguiry was to a he sinkin to view horrible a dis: *I welcotnexl, su« peared an ing siry and ap voluntarily, w hout subpoena. Bremeyn via Sable Island and Camper- {2nd answered all ons put to me dowa wireless slations. by the members committee Lo The text of ihe message was as fol- | the best of my with complete !10‘\'!? frenkness amd without reserve. Y did le steamer Bremen, bound for | ppose the question of my pe Wew York, and the steamer Rhein |8 ndpet was the subject of the passed on Saturday afternoon in 42.0 altpuzh 1 was ready to teil morth jatitude and 49.20 west longitude hing 1/ did on the night of the fn tha naighborhood of three large ice- { 2olision bergs. Sighted numerous pieces of | Intended to Retura With Titanic | wraesass and a great number of hu-| ' “Ag T hawe b & s | man Dodies with life preservers on |tend before > W [ Sloating in the sea. Sighied and spoke |ington tomorrow, it Sareter Yo | 4he cable sieamor Mackaj-Bennett on the way to recovar the floating bodies. make ne public out. of re- spect fof the commi but 1 did not CAPTAIN PRAGER.” |think thai cc jires me to be Neo direct word has been received up | gilent in the 1 the unirue st {0 a lata hour tonighe from the steamer | menta ‘made in some of the Mackay-banneit in confirmation of the | papers. reporte from St. Johne, N. I, (hat 64 |° “Tyhaa' T went on b pr more bodies had baen recovered |at Southampion on {from the fact that the large number i were meen Iast night and that the | Mackay Bennett s now in the vicinily, 1§t is balieved hera to be probable thaf the searchers have met with success. NOT YET IDENTIFIED. Two Little Boys Saved from Titanic May Bs Hoffman Children. New York, April 21.—No one appear- ed today who could identify the two children saved from the loss of the . Titantic by Miss Margaret Hays, but R. L. Neill, New York agent for the Children’s Aid society, said he was surs the father was a Mr. Hoffman, who lost his lifs in the disaster. On the only pussenger list Mr. Nefll has heen able tc obtain there appears ’ among the second cablu passengers the entry: “Mr. Hoffmen and two chil- } dren” Mr. Neill hiopes that the orlg- ‘nal lst, which will probably be re- eeived here on Tuesday, will give fur- ther information and solve the ques- tion of the identity of the littie ones.- Mr. Nefil recallel the account given ¢ by some of the rescued passengers that a man ran up to one of the fast filling lifeboals and started to lift two chil- dren into 1t. He was warned that thege was ng room for him, and re- intention to intenticin of States at that time. 1 came mer observe the new vess:l, as I had done in the case of other vessels of lines. Saw Captain Smith Only Casually. “During the voyage T was a passen- ger ind exercised no gr privideges than any other passenger ! was not consulted by the commander about the ship, her course, speed, navi- gatlon or her conduct at sea. matiers were under the exclusive con- trol of the captain. “I{ gaw Captain Smith only va-«vml as other passengers did; T v 1 his room; I was never on wrff) after the aceident; T did not sit at his table in the xaloon; viiitel the engine om through the ship, and did g0, or at- tempt to go, to amy part of the ship to which any other first cabin passen- mer did not have acces Never §aid Spesd Would Be Increased in lce Zone. "1! 18 absolutely unqualifiedly false that Y ever said that I wished that the Titamic should make a speed rec- ord or should increase her daily 1 deny absolutely having said to any nor gone person that we would increase our | All these | had mnot | runs. | D —— U SU— speed In order to get out of the ice zone, or any words to that effect. “As 1 have already testified, at nu | time did the Titanic during the voyage | attain her full sps It was not pected that she would reach New Yor before Wednesday morning. If she had X < sh., u).lld mobably have Never ConsUl(ed Captam About Course “The statement that the White Star ifns would receive an additional sum by way of bounty, er otherwise, for at- talning a certain speed i absolutely untrue. The White Star line receives from the 'British government a fixed compensation of 70,000 pounds sterling per aunum for carrying the mails with- out regard to the speed of any or its vessels, anl no additional 3um is pald Jon account of any increase in speed. was never consulted by Captain by | nor any \llu I ever any suggestion what- | soever to any human being about the | course of the ship. The Titanic, as I | am informed, was on the southernmost bound track of trans-Atlantle | ships. The tracks, or lanes, were | designed many years ago by agreement . |of all the important steamship lines, |and all captains of the White Star are requ to navigate their as closely as possible on these ect to the following stand- on, rstand mu .m issue of mes«. Tegu- { lations doe: any I { them from ibility for the |and efficient tion of thelr ctive ve and they are also en- ember that the sk which might by a ssult in an acei t is to be h« mi: ud the Y P ‘mn | and zain in expedi- ion or the voyage to be rigk of acci- E res to main- reputation for such speed is consistent igation. aution which is to be consider | Knew of Only Ons Warning Abou loebergs. ormation I ever re- the tifled te in S Captain Smith Solely Rrswcnsmle. ved had n my mind { Smith me in the saloon. Time cf Collision. Asleep at “Both hes) of tk 1 in the restaur: -tly to and som 1 met i him he said he t H-‘lpefl Women ani Children. Tt my room and put | a st I had Dbeen in | up to th glve ti 1 )hhwl ght When He Got Into Beat our | W proved the e present le- gal requiren proved inade- | quate.” CHIMES TOLL REQUIEM FOR THE TITANIC DEAD “Nearer, My God to Thee” Sung in Afl New York Churchlss. New Yok, April 21.—The chimes of 014 Trinity, of #{, Patriek’s and of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, tolled | n today a requiem for the | Y I dead. Bowed by a | common grief, men and women of every religion and creed assembled in numercus pla of worshlp, where memorial services were conducted, to who died fear- that tha women and children vard the sinking ship might live. M, God, to Thee,” the which was heard by the s as i{he T.tanlc went to-the bottom, was sung in all the churches other person, nor | | courage | Desire to Ascertain if o Cabled Paragraphs Havre, April 2%. — The France, new 27,000 fon Xrench liner, sailed from Havre at 1 o'clock yester- day afternoon on her maiden voyage to Now York. She will travel by the southerly course, Londen, April 21.—Mrs. Ava Willing Astor, the mother of Vincent Astor, has_decidel to proceed to New York to be with her son. She will sail at the earliest possible moment. Berlin, April 31.—The motion in- troduced into the reichstag requesting the imperial chancellor to order an in- vestigation as to whether German steamships are equipped with sufficient life saving appliances for all the pas- sengers and crew, was considered yes- ter Paris, April 21.—Robert Bacon, who recently resigned the post of Ameri- can ambassador to France, and Mrs. Bacon departed yesterday morning from Paris to Havre, where they will embark for the United States on board |the new French liner France en her maiden voyage. 21—The city of Fez, the capital of Morocco, which had practi- eally fallen into the hands of the rioi- | ous ‘citizens »nd mutinous Moorish sol- | diers, nas neen recaptured by the ¥rench troops numbering 2,000 station ed there after a desperate battle in which a large number were killed and wounded. Paris, April 21- Hamburg, Germany, April 21.—The Hamburg-American line has been quick to draw a lesson from the Titanic catastrophe. It has been decided to increase the number of lifeboats on its steamers, although they already carry more than are required by the German and it will also improve all life- saving appliances so that under any circumstances every person on board can be accommodaied. of the city. There were prayers from the pulpits for the survivors and the nds of the dead, while : churches requiem masses were sung for hose the repose of the souls unk \\lux m.’ Titanic. ureh, Rev. Dr. William the rec lOl § d: {of who “At the present time there is sad- ness and sorrow in many homes | throughout the world, but there are | thing: nt which are a comfort We may give thanks , the calmness and the | wwn in that ship in | he last horrible minute He eulogized the devotion of the women passengers who remained with their husbands “even unto death.” In Cathelic ch es and at St. Pa! |rick’s cathedral, announcements were made that Car Farley has direc | ed that memorial services be held in | wll churehes of the archdiecese to- for ousn Cardinal Far- and Right he prayer of Nearer Than Carpathia. hington, Apri he tigation of the sinking of the Ti will be continued here the capitc to nator Wi igan ,is chair: | Mr, Ismay made any protest to_the Mr, Bryce, becaus tanic’s before ‘which Mich- centinue testimeny sub-committee, of m Alden Smith of n. r:en\pd tonight that he tish am- e members w were held as wit- mnl adi that he came to ‘h’\gwu to co-operate with the & commitiea in any way he | I | could, He | Huntington Wilson, the acting secre- lary of the staie, about the question. One feature of the forthcoming hear- | ing will be the inquiry into the wir | less communication as the Titanic was | sinking, An effort will be made to ot positien of the | nifurt, which r 5 al of dis- ged did desired to ascertain if Frankfurt was actually nearer the not effer as rank- | judging from the the electric spark in the nieation. Whether the r wiil be called as arned tomight, inking ship than ator Bride estimated the S |furt to have been, )(/)"[ll of :le; the Carpathi rankfurt's op a witness could MRS. ASTOR STILL ABED, - |No Serious Development Anticipated by Her Physicians. | iy T r 21—Drs. R. B. Kim- and Her Biggs, who were in consultation today over the condition of Mrs. Astor, widow of Col. John Ja- cob Astor, asreed tonight that no se- rions development was neted or ex- pected, Mr: Frankfurt Was | ce lsmay, managing director f {he White Star lin A, 8. Frank- Vi president, anfi 37 mvmuvlfl the lost liner's crew arrived here Astor remained abed, | | ler Memp! federal | tomor- | | H | Sdded he did not talk \um\ | still suffering from the shock of her | experiences in escaping from the sink- ing Titanic and particularly from grief | the loss of her husband. Vincent | Astor, and a few intimate friends, v |ited with her during the day. THE VIRGINIAN BACK. Allan Liner Found lce Closely Packed | Between It and Titanic, New steamer Captain € any light on the me; sent broadcast Yorlk, Vir, April 21 The Allan nipn arrived here today line ages which were \lnxma\ that the @ pogition nf l.:\(-' went down, and there great danger in go- nearer, No beoats, packages or kage were to be seen.” 'he Virginian recelved the first wire- Ih" [ | to the Titanic from Cape Race at 12.4) ‘clock Monday morning. It announced { that the Titanic had struck an iceberg and was in need of immediate assist- ance, Captain Gambell altered his | course, and proceeded 160 miles in the | direetion of the Titanic. At ten o'elock {in the morning he received a wireless from the Carpathia “Turn back. Everything O.K. Have 800 on board. Return to your nerthern track’ The Virginian then proceeded east- ward and sighted a fleld of ice and numerous bergs. Memorial Service for Major Butt, ‘Washington, April 21.—In St, Paul's | Episcopal church, where he was a | worshipper, services in cemmemera- tien of Major Archibald W, Butt and the other vietims of the Titanic disas- ter were held today, President Taft atiended (hese gerviees, which werg nbell was unable to throw | less message concerning the accident | sengers were “all safe” and would probably be landed at Halifax, t | which port that skhip was “proceeding.” Under the Presidential Preference primaries held Friday, Theodore Roesevelt is the choice of the repub- lican voters of Oregon. John E. Henry, one of the leading lumber men in” New Hampshire for many )aari. died at his home at Lin- holn, N, H,, Saturda: aged §1 years. | The Discovery of counterfeit $10 TUnited States gold certificate in New Bedford was an- nounced by federal officials Slturdny a Dangmus The Government Proposes to trans fer the leper colony urt!m Island of | Guam to the Philippines, where the| lepers are interned on Cullon Island. Nels Paulson of Chicago, was told in the Chicago office of the White Star line that his wife and four children, his entire family, had perished on the Titanic, Cardinal Gibbons, who is chancellor of the Catholic university at Washing- ton, is the recipient of a gift of $25,- 000 for the university. The donor is a wealthy Hebrew, Marine Underwriters Say that the | Titanic disaster undoubtedly would ave the effect of advancing insurance rates, though no definite steps to in- crease them had been taken yet. Marconi Wireless _ Telegraph Co. filed with the New Jersey secretary of state Suturday a certificate increas- ing its capital stock from $1,622,500 to $10,000,000. Vincent Astor, son of Col. John Ja- cob Astor, who lost his life in the litanic disaster, sent to Mayor Gaynor a contribution of $10,000 for the des- titute survivors of the ill-starred ship, Nicholas R. Bell, a well known Syra cuse busin man, sixty-four ¥ old, was joking withs a conductor nn‘ a street car about icebergs Saturday morning, when he suddenly fell dead. Two Masked Robbers Took $14,000 in currency from the depot office of the Globe Ex‘press company at Grand Junction, Col, Saturday, and galned | two hours' start on officers and a posse | of armed men. A Romance That Survived the Ti- | tanic disaster culminated Saturday in | the wedding at New York of Miss Ma- rion Wright, a survivor, of England, | to Arthur Woole: coit, a fruit grower of (,4! ge Grove, Ore. The Greatest Field of dce he had | aver seen in his years of experiene | in the Atlantic trade was the report | of Capt. Henry Daniels of the steam- n, which arrived at Boston | Saturday from Liverpool. The Textile Strike in Lowell, Mass., | is ended. on the South Common some 12,000 mill operatives voted unanimously to | return to work this mornins. The House Saturday Passed the | | Henry bill requiring publication before | conventions or primary elections of the | ontrfbuted to the campaigns of | 1dential and vice presidential can- | and the sums expended by | their managers. Wlth thc Consent and Approval ot Pre Taft, the house committee | has been asked by M Meyer, secretary of the navy, to pro- vide for an increase in the enhrlcd‘ force of the navy Dy 4,000 sailors | and 400 marines. Convicted of Manslaughter for kdill- | ing John Davis, his brother, 71 years | old, a year ago, Reuben Davis, 70, a Confederate veteran of Houston, Miss,, has been sentenced to serve six months in prison and to pay a fine of $1,000. ‘ Sterilized Sau-agesv bsu‘lllus-pmo( Dbeefsteak and germless groceries will | be available to Bostonians when the | | plans of the Women's Municipal league | for a sanitary market in the Back ba.y- strict are completed. The Automatic Revolver which ki‘led George E. Marsh of Lynn, Mass., bears the number 88,191. This number is | the same as the one on a revolver pur- | echaged by William A. Dorr of Btock- ton, who 18 now in jail charged with the murder of Marsh. The Body of Mrs. M. A. sald to have been wealthy and from | 8t. Louls, Mo, was found in the ocean at Santa Monlca, Cal, Saturday. She had jumped to her death. Mrs. Schu |ler was much affected by the Titanic | @isaster and it is believed her mind gave Way. | by Schuler, Declarations Representative Saturday at a mass meeting | Sm Series of Devastating Windstorms Sweep Across Sections of Illinois and Indiana. SCORE OF FATALITIES HAVE BEEN REPORTED | Injured Will Aggregate 100, of Whom at Least Eight May Die —Buildings Blown Down and Communication Cut Off— An lllinois Village Wiped Out—Kansas and Oklahoma Suf- fered in a Similar Manner Just 24 Hours Previous. Chicago, April 21-—Seventeen per-outside werld i3 obtatnable only by & sons are believed to have been killed | Circuitious route from tho eastward. in a series of tornadoes which swept VILLAGE WIFED ouT. across parts of Illinols and Indiana ez S just before nightfall today. At Least Three Persons Killed and Twenty Deaths Reported. Heavy Pronmy Damage. Twelvo deaths have been confirmed | (picago April 21—-At least three and eight are reported on authority |persons 1\'ere”kllwr| mlanv wer:dln- icl v pelh jured, a small villags s reported to S S e .| have been wiped out, and many theu- A hundred other persons were in-|gangs of dollars’ @amage was oaused jured, at least eight of them so sc-|5 farm and small town property snd verely they may die. Damages d0ne|ejactric railroad lines by a tornado to property will amount te thousands “\I\u h formed in odd fashion over of dollars. northern Illinois just before suneet Ten Houses Demolished. | teday. The storm swept through the norih- | The Dead. ern part of Murphysboro Neison Hnite, Reddick, IiL, crushed i . George under a house when it was blewn . and Mr. and Mrs down ths \\Ple reported Mrs. Nelson Huise No de there. T were demolighed at | Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hulse. Murphysboro and the Illinois Central, Two Other Children May Die. U Hion o SCanY) ARSIt ) ! Two other children in the Huise family were injured so severely they NINE KILLED OUTRIGHT. may die. Wanponsee, a village near v Coal City, is renorted demolished and | Five Others at Morocco, Ind., Belisved | 1% :ommunication is festhey- to Be Mofla“y Injured. ed, m 2 it impossibie to learn the seriousness of the damage done there. Kentland, Ind, April 21.—Nine pe H sheds and farm buildings sons were killed, five others were 0 |near Coal City were demolished, wind ely injured they are expected 10|mills were blown down and many head die, fifty others were bruised by fiy- | of cattie are reported killed, The Chi- ing debris and thousands of dollars’ | cage, Indiana & Southern railway sta wor of property w 1| tfon in Reddick was blown across the and around Morocco, N 1ty | tracks. when a tornade swept out of the w ~ - this evening. | LIVES LOST IN KANSAS. The Dead. | S The dead are Mrs. Charles; Rice, | Three Killed and Many Injured—@irl rocco, Ind.; four young children of | Killed in Oklahoma, Frank Rice, a son; Mrs s 2 his wife; Mi i City, 21.—Thres p Moroceo; infs s knowr have lost their o four tornadoes that late Those who may die are visited southern and central Smart, Charles: Rice, Riuce Medde Hammel, Miss Conn . Brovles way Kkilled in the wreek were less severely hurt. |of his home near Waldron, Harpe sty Hahet Blavi Soss county, end Prockop Kottal and his - St 4 o Bl & 'our year old randda ter were BE Rt e S 3;;::'&*;“;.;!3: idlled in tho storm at Bison, Rush itations in Newton county twere de- |COURtY. stroyed. As near can he judged 30 Injared, $200,000 Damage. h mn tornado started in Iroquois| A tetal of nearly thirty persons are 1L, and swept eastward. Stock |known to have been injured in Kan mf Rllled whien Favs’ bUIAIIGE et kns Sk e Trios damage will ax (](\\\H At gregate $200,000 Copan o town m Oklahoma, one girl was killed Moroceo ig only five miles north of Hazelton, George Ade's country home. |and twenty-five presons were injurec :.v“h?:t not be-"]':”;:::m‘»nv whether his Train Races with Sterm. g ey & o0 A race between a Missourl Paciii very Doctor Called Out. {train and the storm was won by the Every doctor in Morroco and ad- | train near Nashville, Kingman coun Joining territory was called out and|ty. The twister crossed the track improvised hospitals have been set |only thres telegraph poles behind the up in several localities, | traln. Passengers crowded the rear Electric lines arc wn and com- | platform to gee the tornado at close munication between Kentland and the i range. STATE POLICE MAKE ;THE FLOOD SITUATION RAID AT NEW HAVEN | GROWING MORE SERIOUS With Aid of Locai Po(lce They Make Twenty Arrests. New Haven, April | Fifty Towns and Villages Under from Two to 16 Feet of Water, 21.—Six state po- | New Orleans, April 21.—News from |licemen and ten patrolmen from the |the flooded area of the Mississippi Grand Avenue station conducted a |valley in Arkansas, Mississippl, and raid on a saloon owned by John Nolan | i yesterday to be in Wallace xew! this afte; The Thousands of proprietor r with re compelled to flee to violating the l(w‘ , and 19 who | highe s when the flood invaded were found in tl were also | their homes, have been cared for, but placed under arre number es- | there are still many more who are in caped by ju second story | imperative need of aid windows. Ass . L. Story had It is estimated that fifty towns and charge of the )fld the New Haven | villages ha » far felt e offects of e department furnishing patrel the flood me places are from un- wagon and men, ler two to fifteen f of water with A e little prospects of an early recession. Reports as to 1 Those lkmown ten, all but one loss of life Qiffer. lend the committee sistan & possible as- Rucker of Missouri in the house Sat- | A{ yesterday's sessions Harbld B Condltions in the country overflowed urday that Speaker Clark "will be the | Bride, the assistant wireless operator |by the Beuiah, Miss, break are ex next democratic nominee,” and “is des- | of tho Titanic, was examined. Harold |tremely serious. High places ol - tined to be the next president of the |7 4 he wirzless cperator of the | VEr county, never befors Inundated, United Sta aroused a storm of was re i Herbert |are covered with three to four feet of cheering and applause which the j Mlnmn third offic the Titanic, Water. All women and children in that speaker found it hard te quell With|was sworn, but his examination was |district have been taken to Greenville his gavel. barely begun when adjournment was |and Vieksburg. Much reMef work re- taken. All the witnesses subpoenaed [mains to be dome in that section. Over are ordered to be in Washington to- (a dozen towns have already been ig- the first of similar commemorations | morrow forenoon. undated by reason of the Beulah in churches throughout the city. The appearance of Bride, who was ‘The distribution of suppl to hun- —_ — brought in In aa invalid chair, his feet | dreds of victims marooned on plants- SATURDAY'S SESS!ON. [ No Message Sent from Carpathia That “All Are Safe.” New York, April 21.—The sessions sterday of the investization being at the Waldorf-Astoria by a sub-committee of the scnate commit- tee on commerce into.the sinking of T Ln\ served rather io disclose | ‘ar he German ship fafled U) own position and made ap- Star Senator Smith Introduced the mies- sags seat to Representative Hughes on the Monday following the crash, which asserted that the Titanic's pas- This message was signed “White Star Line,” but insistent guestioning of hoth il:e wireless operators of the Titaric failed to reveal the slizhtest warrant for the message, and its authorship gtill remains to be explained. Preceding the convening of the com- mittee, Senator Smith admitted that the government had evidence of the fact that J. Bruce Ismay had sent three wireless raessages from the Car- pathia insisting that the Cedric be held to await the arrival of that ship in order that he himself and the surviving officers and crew of the Titanic might return immediately to England. These messages are understood to have been picked up by the cruisers which this government sent to meet the Car- pathia, ax Mr. Ismay, pince he was subpoenaed by the Investigating com- miitse, hes relterated his demire “to | liston swathed in band his an been crusned, added a dramatic aving tions and in setticments !n the nelgh- feature borhaod af Talluluh, La, bagan yester- to the session, as did the apy |day, Thera in practioally no chafge ip |of a young woman, 3aid to he a N the levee situation south of Vicksburg, Harding, who sobbingly Reports to the governmgnt engigears Second Officer Lighttoller, in charge of the Ivurth district con- e sought some further tidings of tinue to be favermble, first office rck, who went down with the | 5 . 7 = 0 Bride testi that even ol Fire Damages Norfolk Ian, Norfolk, Conn., April 21—Fire which started from a defective chimnay fine on the third floor damegdl the Nor- had rendered paratus useless both he and his c! ir quartess by the cap- " folik ian to the extent of $4,000 early > 6 morning. There wers twenty - sts n the house at the time, but none wer red wnd thare was ne o contuston. Th ® covered in- : surance. Cottam ascertain posetble, aint th fated steamer. A number of the min- was for Rep |lsters devoted their morning Sermons sencati hier and |to a review of the terrfole marine hoi- her husband were on the 'V' anic ocaust and brought home the thenght a1l passengers wer of thelr absolute certainty of death that the Titanic was proc i and the need of preparation for eter- Halifax. Cottam, who had w nll nity. People were urged to suspend most incessantly from Monday Jjudgment of the White Star line's of- ing to the time his ship docked, ficials until all the facts are known, Thursday evening, was somewhat ha as to what messages he had sent, but was quite positive he had not sent any- thing to warrant this message and th he had sent n> message which was not true. He said. however, ot the Carpathia origi put inte Halifa -, but PRAYERS FOR VICTIMS. The lesson of the disnater was dem- onstrated in the illusiration that many corperafiens and men in whose hands are placed the protaction of humsn life arve duily evading the laws by al- lowing cenditions te prevail in f les, theaters and tenement honses eourt catastrophe, Titanic Sermons at Waterbury. Waterbury, Conn, April 21.—Rew, Robert 1. Brown, pustor of the Bec- ond Congregational ehnych, and Rev, Dr, Charles A, Dinsmore, pastor of the IFivsl church, deliversd sermons on the Titanic disaster from their pulpits were offered Sunday in all today. Pra were offered for the es for the victims of the repose af the souis of the Titanio &ls- aster and praise given for (i | aster vietims in all of the Cathelie and martyrdom of the men and wo- (Churehesr i all masses here yesiar~ men whe Jost (heir lives on the - day that the captain ally intended to 1y ng =1 his mind. t Meriden Cleray Urge Congregations to Suspend Judgment on Officials. Mertden, Conn., April