Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 5, 1912, Page 1

LIV—NO. 162 NORWICH, CONN., FRIDAY, JULY 5 A7 The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and lts Total Circulation is the Largest i FAST EXPRESS TELESCOPES A TRAIN| Cabled Pararashs |Fymigg of Gag Forty-One Lives Sacrificed Because Engineer Fail- ed to See Signal Obscured by the Fog TRACK WAS BLOCKED BY A CRIPPLED FREIGHT Passenger Train Loaded With Excursionists Stood on Main Track, When, Express Travelling 65 Miles an Hour, Crashed Into It—Only 24 of the Victims Identified—Be- tween 50 and 60 Injured—Lackawanna’s Worst Wreck. Corning, N. T, July 4—Westbound Lackawanna passenger frain Ne. 9 from New York, due to arrive at Corn- ing at 447 a. m., composed of two en- gines. a bagzage car, three Pullmans and two day coaches, in the order named, was demuilshed at Gibson. three miles east of Corning, at 5.25 o'clock this morning by express train No, 11, due at Corning at 510 a. m, Torty-one persons were killed and be- tween fifty and sixt vinjured. Many of the victims were holiday excursionists bound to Niagara Fualls, who had boarded the train at points along the Lackawanna from Hoboken to Buffalo. Signals Hidden by Fog. The wreck was the worst in the his- tory of the road. Its cause, according to Engineer Schroeder of the express, was his fallure to notice signals set against his train. - The morning was s0 foggy, he said, that he oould not distinguish them. The wrecked train stood on the main track, blocked by crippled extra freight (rain No. 6L There was no flag out. The signals were just around the curve, The flying express plunged past them and crashed into the rear of No. 9, bringing death to nearly two score of its passengers. List of Identified Dead. The number of deaths from the wreck tonight had reached 41, of whom but 24 had been identiffled. The latter are: Armstrong, William M. 1020 Park avenue, Hoboken, N. J. Brundies, Mr. and Mrs. Charles, 13§ Willlam street, New York city (mar- ried yesterday and on wedding trip). Dyak, Herman, Newark, N, J. Erwin, M C. E, Chicago. Heas, M Edith A, Scraaton, Pa. Ivey, Dr. E. W., of Bellevae hospital, New York: home, Suffolk, Va. Jones, Mrs. Anna Hill, Scranton, P. Laird, Goorge, 168 Tenth atreet, Brooklyn. N, Y. Lowers, Evelyn, colored, 104 Oak street, Newark, N. J. Jfi it P 18- ant evemney DAy Pratt, F. C,; 18] avenue, traveling salssman. Patousii, M., immigrant, ticketed to Buffalo. Pravelowaski, Regina, Ruesia. Reynolds, Mre. Lilllan, 211 Spencer street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Settesducati, Mre, Lucy, 123 Baxter street. New York city. Smith, James, oolored, Pullman por- ter, Xewark, M. J. Schaltz, Ernest, Buffain, Zimmer, John, Mr. and Mre, Seran- The Unidentified Dead. The dead remairing unidentified up to mne o'ciock tomight are described as follows: Woman, with gold hairpin marked “F. J. A, 1303," band ring marked e Woman with goid pendant on chain, amethyst setting and three pearl pen- dants. Largs negress, about 45 years of wearing blouse dress, ear rings fi ring on one hand Girl adout 3 years, white dress. Man, of 3 Sor 40 years, black hair, striped sult and diamond stickpin. Woman, blus drees and band ring. Woman, aged 30, wearing diamond ring. goid watch and chain, no jinit- lals: short stature; light, wavy hair. Woman, about M, wearing goid lock- ot on neck; goid pin, “8. J. A, 1909"; gold signet ring. wore ring with two green stomes; heavy biack balr. Woman, 36 years of age, short of stature; brown bhair; no marks on bedy, no jewelry. Man, 20 years, with brown halr, blug and white te; gold finger rings with three red stones. Man, 10 years, with red mustache, brown hair, bank passbook bearing name Marfon Grybreweki: black and white striped suit; evidently Polish. Man, 35 vears, with light brown hair, pajamas with braided front; fnger ring with red stones. Wmn, 20 to 26 years. brown hair: 4 'k chain with pearl pendant; vy goid hait: diamond ring on left hand with clneter of diamonds with two red stomes om right hand. Bow, 10 years, light blus eyes and brown halr: black shose; red necktia; ey worstad suit Man, 30 10 35 vears. dark halr, stock- fiy _boilt, ring with initals “P. 1 Woman. 70 to 25 years, heavy dark red hair. fiva front teeth in upp! Jaw, heavily gold filled: fiva finger wflw on left hand and oms on right Man, 30 years, brown hair, small dark brown mustache: heavy gold ring with inscription badly worn, ‘M. G. te ¥. P, '91." Traveling 65 Miles an Hour, Pngineer Schroeder had taken No, 11 at Elmira fifteen minutes before. It was a few minutes late. The stretch of track from Bimira to Corning is fit- ted for fast running and he was send- ing his train along at the rate of six- ty-five miles an hour, Neo. 9 was sup- posed to be half an hour ahead of him, He had no warning until ha made out the outline of the rear coach of No, 9 through the fog that was crawling up the monntain from ths river far below, Then he saw the lights ahead and threw on the reverse without shutting off steam. Two Day Coaches 8plintered, The jerk threw the traln off the trarck and the incomotive plunged on & fow rods further, 1o wplinter the two da conches fillad wilh earursionis(s unx tear through the last of the Pullmuns, Hchroeder suid (hul (he impact was w0 great el it hrew hitm Irem (he ceb and lunded lim on his sboulder on_the reathed practieslly unhusi, The 100-16y monster cenlinue plunge (areugh the middie of the ain, grinding everyihing in its path. [t seemad as if it would eut threugh ev- ery car, When it was finally bloeked by 4 meuntain of debris it remained on 1he roadbed while theusands rusiied ta ‘he scenc e pry 1he dead and injured from the tangled magy of wreekags, its Excursion Rates Made Traffic Heavy. Taking advantage, this Fourth of July morning, of the excursion rates, 1he Lackawanna had effered from Ho- beken to Buffalo and Niagara Falls, many excursionists had boarded No. 9 at all points from Hoboken, Includ- ing Scranton, Binghamton and Elmira. There were also many passengers for the west, as there was direct connec- tion through to Chicago at Buffalo, There was such a load of travelers by the time the train reached Elmira that a second engine was attached there to take the train over the hill at Grove- Iand, ¢6 miles west. Long before No. 9 left Eiming, extra freight train No, 61, bound for Buffalo from Scranton, had pulled through. When the heavy grade at Gibson was reached a drawhead pulled out and No. 61 was crippled. Signals which she put out stopped No. 9 as the latter came up with her two engines. The first engine was upcoupled and set at work to push the dead end of the freight Into a siding to allow No. 9 and No. 11, which were due in 25 or $0 minutes, to pass. Signals Set Against No. 11. The work was slosy and considerable time elapsed. During the monotonous Wwait many passengers from the day coaches got out and investigated the cauwe of the delay. Meanwhile the signals had been thrown against No, 11, which was tear- ing along at 65 miles an hour toward the stalled tralns. These failed to stop the express and the crash followed. Rescuers were quickly on the scene, In what seemed an incredibly short time, hundreds of automobiles had lined the highway. By 8 o'clock physi- ciang had started all of the wounded on their way to the hospitals or were giving emergency attention to victims on @ scene. The only exceptions were & few persons who had been pin- ned beneath wreckage which was so difficult to penetrate that it was some time before they were released. Bodies Badly Mangled. Thirteen of the injured and ten of the dead were taken {o Elmira on a special train. All the other dead were taken to undertaking rooms in Corning and the remainder of the injured were conveyed to the Corning city hospital. All the physicians in the city have been summoned and many ministers and priests were called to administer last sacraments and receive messages for relatives and friends from the dy- Most of the bodies found were badly mangled. The cars themselves were one heaped-up mass of wreckage, jam- ming Into each other in telescope fash. The last two cars on train No, 11 remained on the track and later Wwere used as hospital coaches, A spe- cial train from Bimira had brought as. sistance from that city, and fi was his train that afterwards aided in re- moving the dead and injured, Baby Ameng Unidentified, At the Corning hospital, which has accommodations for only 40 patients, some of the injured had to lie upon the floors undil the physicians could reach them and give them necessary attention. Those who visited the scene of the wreck before the hospjtal forces had had time to finish the work of removal witnessed many scenes of horror. One man picked up a small white sheet Which Jay upon the ground, only te draw back ashen-faced as his act re- vealed the body of a daby only a few months old. At a late hour the child had not been identified. Priest Performs Last Rites. The Rev. John T. Cassidy, a Catholic priest, was one of the early arrivals At the wreck. He ministered to the injured and performed the last rites of the church for those about to die. Once he halted a long line of auto- mobiles and several wagons bound for the morgue while he performed the rites over the body of a little girl which lay across the highway. The automobilists and the bystanders stood about with bowed heads. The ‘people of Corning have opened their homes to the injured who could not find accommodations at the hospi- tals or whose injuries were oo slight to warrant their crowding other per- =ons from the institution. A Human Skull Picked Up. This afternoon tha workmen at the scene of the wreck picked up a human skull which was entirely devoid of marks which would indicate whether it came from man or woman. A gold bracelet bearing the initials “¥, A. H.” was found in the wreckage this after- noon. Tt had been pulled nearly straight. It iz supposed to have been upon the wriat of Mrs. Edith Hess of Scranton, Pa., who was among those who were killed in the wreck. Although Engineer Schroeder of the express declared there was no flagman to warn him of the presence of the stalled train ahead. Lackawanna offi- clals declare tonight that a flagman had been sent back in the rear of No. 9 when she was held up. THROWS UP SPONGE. John D. Rockefeller Owed Bankrupt Concern 56 Cents. New York, July 4—The Pursell Man- ufacturing company, which operated bakery stores in fashionable districts, threw up the sponge in bankruptey court yesterday, largely because Fifth avenue poclety follk couldn’t find time to pay for their buns and candy, Jobhn D. Reckefellor owned the con- cern b8 cents; Miss Helen M. Gould of 679 Kifth avenue owes 44 conts; Prof, Fellx Adler of 158 West Seventy-sec- ond. ptreel wus in debl B0 cents; q, Amsink of K10 Filth avenus wes rgod with 42 sents: John H. Plag- . the Standard Ol king, had pluaged With his #seseunt il ran up te the sum of §1.87. be, Charles A. Pana of 3 West Fifey-third street had almost a reeord acesunt. It tetaled the prince- ly sum of $8.81. Man of Excuses, The man whe i§ always making ex- cuses wastes a Jet of time that he might use te advantage in making progress,—Detreil Freo Pross, | life the bulk of our soldiery The Fourth at Rome. Rome, July 4—A great number of American citisens called today at the United States embassy on the occasion of the Fourth of July celebsation. Mgr. Thomas F. Kennedy, rector of the American college in Rome, gave & din- ner. Washington Has Next Wireless Con- gress. London, July 4—The last offictal &ct of the International Radio Telegraph congress was the decision to hold the next conference in five years at Wash- ington. The recommendations adopt- ed during the sessions of the confer- ence are to be signed by the delegates on Friday next. Kaiser Goes to Meet Czan Baltie Port, Russia, July 4.—The German emperor; aecompanied the tmperial chaneellor, Dr. Von h- mann-Hollyeg, and his third _son, Prince Adafbert, arrived here on board the imperial yacht Hohenzellern, es- corted by the dreadnought cruiser Moltke, to meet the emperor of Rus- sia, who with the members of his fam- ily, Premier Kokovsoff and Foreign Minister Sasenoff, were already in waiting here, TILSON SEEKS AN IMPROVEMENT IN ARMY Speaks in House on Military Bill and Failure t§ Consider Changes Wanted. (Special to The Bulletin.) ‘Washineton, July ¢—The house hav- ing under consideration the military bill, Mr. Tison spoke in opposition to the measure. He said, in part: “Mr Speaker, the present bill is the same as that which passed the house on February 16 last. That bill went its way to the senate, where it was amended, then through a long confer- ence between the two houses, where it was further amended, and finally to the president, where, on June 17, it met the well deserved fate of a veto. The reasoning of the presidential veto is so conclilsive that no attempt has been magde to.meet it. Instead, we are con- fronted with a new; bill, which Is, in fact, the old bill with the senate and conference amendments eliminated. While some of the objectionable fea- tures referred to in the veto message have been removed, others, Ift out of the house bill by the senate and the conference, have been restored. 2 the former bill was under discussion here, the matter of extend- ing the enlistment period from three to five years was gone into in much detail and, in my opinion, the :lju- ments then made against the extension have not been and cannot be answered. I shall not attempt to repeat the ar- guments made on that occasion and shall refer to only one of them in or- der to enlarge somewhat upon it. The adoption of the five-year emlistment period would Dbe, in my opinion, a va- rious step backward and directly op- posite to the best military thought of the present y¥. The tendency under such @ policy would be towards a pro- fessional army. A professional army s small as ours in a country as large as ours is an absurdity. A war of any consequence must be fought as hos our wars in the past, by men brought into the service at the time for the par- ticular purpose, When all arms were of short range and men could fight in eompact bodies, it was a less difficuit matter to train men for efficient mili- tary service, It was a comparatively simple matter to fill the ranks of skel- elon companies with raw reeraits and trust to the )mpetus of the irained men to egrey the entire mass forward in case of eonfiict, With the sapid de- veignment in fircaFms has eome new and mere difficalt probiems in warfare. The heavy eolump has heen necessarily replaced by the thin skirmish line, In- stead of going ferward with loeked arms in & seiid phalaax, it eften be- comes neeessary to advames ealy a few men at @ time, or even individual soi- diers. TPhis means that each maa must be trained. If skeleton organizations are to be filled up with raw reeruits the trained men will be impeded or de- moralized by the failure of the un-~ trained. Our army, as it exists today, is lit- tie more than a school of training for the national defeuse In case of war. The training required of officers makes it necessary that they be professional soldlers, and they become essentially milltary teachers. With the men in the ranks it is quite different. It is generally agreed that a private soldier can be well trained within ome year, and tbat any time beyond three years i3 wasted, so far as necessary train- ing is concerned. There are two widely differing theor- jies as to how best to maintain our army In time of peace that it may most effectively perform its functions in time of war. The one upon which this provision of the bill seems to be based is that it is better to train only a few men and keep these in the service as long as possible. There would be a foundation for this theory if our army was large enough of itseif to need no assistance in case of war. The other theory—and, as 1 believe, the only sound one—is that inasmuch as it will surely be necessary to draw from civil in case of war, it i8 extremely important that there be as many trained men as pos- sible in civil life. The supply of such trained men will grow less as the peri%d of enlistment is Increased. If the Deriod of enlistment ers only suf- ficlent for thorough training, and no more, the number of such men would rapidly increase. The president, in his veto message well saye, ‘It will tend to make difffieult or impossible the estab- lishment of a proper reserve by which the regular army could in time of em- ergency be brought up to its full strength.” Mr. Tilson referred to the bill in- troduced by himself several yeeks ako which provides for just such a reserve as |8 refefred to by the president. He sald he was trying to get action from the committee on miiitary affairs. He did not go into detail, but sald that the principle invelved in his bill was to conserve the military resources of the country and instead of turning them loose ai the end of their enlistment keep a rzcord of them and knew where they ean he found in case of emre- geney, This he paid eeuld be dene at comparatively small eest, and that he was prepared te show that a resrve could be maintained sufficient te fill every organization of the army up te its maximum war styvength at a eesl not ta excecd the expense Recsssary o maintain twe regimeats of infantey, L R T Bryan 8ays Becsevsit Gam't Win, IChicuge, July 4 Willlam 3, Beyaa, whe siopprd in Chicago oday pR hiy way 1o Nebrusky, deddaved thad o o third paaty w forined, OColonel Roosevell might diive seme reaeton- ary demowtats pver 1o President Pall, but with the democratic ticket and pitform Roosevelt could not expect to win over progressive democrats. - 3 ~ Atany 4 man neglects his pwa chances while fAguring 'eul what he I'weuld de if he had anether's Fatal to Three BRIDGEPORT BUSINESS MAN ONE OF VICTIMS. TO SAVE CARETAKERS Charles B. Read Went to Pump House ~—The# Were Already Dead and He Immediately Succumbed to Fumes. Bridgeport, Conn, July 4.—Charles B. Read, secretary of the D. M. Read company and one of Bridgeport's most prominent citizens, gave his life this evening in a frultlessendeavor to save the lives of Mr. and Mrs. John Ruhl, ers of his estate on Greenfiled Hill, all three being asphyxiated by gas fumes. Details of the accident are lacking, but as far as can be learned Mr. Ruhl went to the pump house, in which is also located the gas plant. Ruhl Attempted to Make Repairs. Something had gone wrong with the supply of gas, and Ruhl in an appar- ent endeavor to make repairs was overcome, His wife, hecoming uneasy over the prolonged ahsence of her husband, went to the pump house, and she, too, was overcome by the fumes. Mr. Read, hearing her cry, went at once to the pump house and tried to save Mrs. Ruhl. He, too, was over- come and fell to the floor. In the meantime Arthur Jennings, a neigh- bor, learning of the trouble, went to the rescue. He was nearly overcome, but managed to spread the alarm, All Dead When Recovered. Several doctors responded and it was with difficulty that they were able to make their way into the house. Finally all three bodies were brought out, but all three were dead. Mr. Read a Leading Citizen. Mr. Read was 54 years old and is survived by a widow and one daugh- ter. While he never held office, he was looked upon as one of the leading citi- zens of the city. He was prominently identified with the Masonic fraternity and held membership in. many clubs, including the New York Yacht club. Mr. Ruhl was 43 years old and his wife 38. THOUSANDS GREET TAFT AT BEVERLY. | Citizens March Behind His Auto to Summer White Houss. Beverly, Mass, July 4—Beverly had a joint celebration in honor of the Fourth and the return of its most dis- tinguished summer residents, the presi- dent and Mrs. Tasft. Thousands of personst stood for more than aa hour at the Beverly station to greét the president when his train pull- ed in from Boston an hour late, crowds lined the streets to watch him pass, and hundreds more marched hehind his automobile to Parramatta, the summer ‘White House. The president and Mrs, Taft both seemed pledsed to get back to the north ‘shore, for both had happy smiles and pleasant words for the cheering crowds. “It's good to get hack to Baverly again,” gald the president to the re- ception committes that met him at the ;mum. Mrs, Taft smilingly nodded or of that sentiment, mnnd Mrs, Taft immediately emerad one of the White House cars brought up frem Washington several days age, and with the Beverly Taft ciub as an eseort were driven slowly to Barrametta, A detachment of blue- jackets from the despateh beat Dol- phin, anghored in the bay, fell in be- hind, and the Deiphin fired the presi- dentiai salute of 21 guns, The eottage had heen prepared for the president’s arrival, and on the steps of its wide portico he stood for a half hour and shook hands with the march. era. The executive offices will not be opened here at present, for Mr. Taft returns to Washington Sunday. ol o in TO APPEAL TO FARMERS AND THE WAGE EARNERS. Colonel Roosevelt to Conduct His Cam- paign Along Novel Lines. Oyster Bay, N. J, July 4—A cam- paign along novel lines was sketched in bare outline by Colonel Rovsevelt todny. As the progressive candidate of the new progressive party for the pres- idency, Colonel Roosevelt intends to make an appeal largely to the farmer and the wage worker, on the ground that neither the democratic ner the re- publiean party {s attempting seriously in this campalgn to deal with the| fupdamental economic and social con- | ditions which confront the country. It | is from the farmer and the wage earn- er, Colonel Roosevelt feels, that he has obtained his strength in the past. It is to them that ha intends to appeal | now. | —— MORE AMERICAN GLORY IN OLYMPICS. Graham of Chicago and Hird of lowa Take Gold Medals, Stockholm. Sweden, July 4.-—The | United States added to her victories in | the Olympics today. J. R. Graham, Chicago A. A., won the gold medal in the individual competition at clay bird with an aggregate score of 96 out of a possible 100. Capt. F. M. Hird of Towa captured the gold medal indi- vidual competition for miniature rifie | shooting. A celebration in honor of the Fourth of July was held aboard the steamer | Finland, the quarters of the American | athletes. More than 3,000 crowded the ship. persons | PAT CROWE IN TROUBLE. The Famous Kidnapper Arrested on Glrls’Complaint. Chicago, July ¢—Pat Crowe, netori- ous as the k! per of Eddite Cud- ahy, and who has been arrested nu- merous times here for disorderly con- duct, is heing sought by officlals of the mutigipal equrt to answer ta & 31600 fine imposed yesterday by Judge Cottrell sa complaint of three small #irls, who told the court that Crewe hed Nanoyed fhem in Lincoln park, Orowe was et in eourt and u sapias wus issued for him, - A New Drink. In an Ausizalian court a withess easually mentioned that a certain thing occurred just after he bad a ‘par- g:lfl'l blush.” Judge and counsel were the moment puzzled by this phrase but the fact .w::kgrwufl ¥ e!lcdl(:‘d that it meant 3 drink com 1 of jeer ,TWO CANNONS EXPLODE, | | forty-foot Cannon Cause, Many Accidents EXPLOSIONS SEND SEVERAL YOUNG MEN TO HOSPITALS. GIRLS HIT BY ROCKETS Two Children Rendered Unconscious at Public Fireworks Display at New Haven—Waterbury Safe and Sane. New Haven, Conn, July -4—Many minor accidents and 22 fire alarms marked New Haven's part of the Fourth of July celebration. In the morning there was a civic parade which was watched by thousands. In the evening there was a display Of fireworks on the green. A rocket which had been improperly placed whizzed over the heads of the crowds and struck two little girls who were watching the display from the steps of the United church. They were Celia and Mary Appell, aged 10 and 4, of No. 189 Davenport avenue. Both were ren- dered unconscious. Their injuries are not serious. Lit Firecrackers in Man's Pocket. Fred Scrowick went into a saloon fof refreshments and while there a friend lit a bunch of firecrackers which were protruding from one of his pockess. He is in a hespital with severe burns. A Stabbing Affray. Salvatore Demnarama and Alphonse Benezento are in a local hospital with stab wounds as the result of a dispute in a tenement house. Their injuries are not serious. TWO ACCIDENTS DUE TO TOY CANNON. One Youth Loses an Eye, Another Badly Mutilated. Greenwich, Conn, July 4—Fred Crawford, aged 25, a brother of Se- lectman Henry T. Crawford, died to- night at a local hospital from terrible njuries received by the explosion of a toy cannon today. He had broken up his own cannon the night before, say- ing that he wanted to take no chances on the Fourth. Today, however, he endeavored to show some friends how to load a cannon. He was holding the cannon between his knees when it ex- ploded. the flying pieces of brass mu- tllating his body badly about the ab- domen. There was another serious accident here today with a toy cannon, George McAvoy losing one eye by a premature explosion. \ Boy to Lose Sight of Eye. Marlborough, Conn., July 4—Frank Austit. aged 13, son of Selectman and Mrs. H. E. Austin, will probably lose the sight of one eye as the result of an_accidental discharge of a toy pistol today In the hands of his brother. He was taken to a Hartford hospital for treatment. DECIDELY SAFE AND SANE AT WATERBURY No Cases Before the Court and No Serious Acoicants. Waterbury, Conn., July 4—Reginnig the day with the remarkabls discovery that there was no business for the city court, for the first time in years, Wa- terbury proceeded to celebrates its Fourth quietly and so sanely that at ten o'clock this evening there was nef one serfous accident reported. ‘Thousande went from here to New Haven and tonight the trolley officlals are pugiled to know how they will get them all heme without running ecars all night, Other thousands went to Lake Quassaqaug, where regattas, con. certs and fireworks were enjoyed. There were two big fireworks displays in the city tonight, which were wi nessed by great crowds, but ne official celebration. | SEVEN IN HOSPITAL One Youth Has Portion of Ear Taken | Off by Flying Pi Meriden, Conn., July +—Two prema- ture cannot explosions wounded seven young men in this city today .and two who were seriously burned were taken | to & hospital. Telece Gussantino, aged | 30, had the clothing burned off one third of his bedy and his arms, face | and right side were fearfully blistered by the cannon flash. He will recover. His brother Andrew was also badly burned by the explosion. In the other cannon explosion Ar- thur Dittman, a young boy, had part of his ear removed by & flylng plece of iron and his hand nearly torn off by the force of the expiosion. He was taken to a local hospital, where it was stated that he would recover. Philip Mendillo, a bystander, ower his life to the leather belt which he wore and which was plerced by a plecs of the metal. A deep wound was inflicted upon his abdomen, hesides twe other minor Injuries. William Ojschefske was badly lacer- ated sbout the face by pieces of iron which struck him. Numerous miner accldents occurred during the day. LAUNCH WAS OVERCROWDED, TWENTY WENT OVERBOARD. Prompt Work Saved Womén and Chil- dren Near Seabreeze Island. Bridgeport Persoms. mos were thrown nn., women into the breeze Island this afternoon from the July 4.—Twenty and ckildren, water off Sea- gasoline launch Francesca, but prompt work by the captains and by oyster boats saved all The launch, which was formerly used at Lighthouse Point, New Haven was carrying a load of passengers to the island, The boat is sald to have been overerowded, As the Jaunch neared the doek, the passengers moved as one to one side of the boat, causing it to eareen and precipitating over a third of the passengers into the water, There was & small panic on board the boat, It is said that evercrowding of the boat will be brought to the attention of the Tederal authorities. The cap- tain pf the Mraneesesw is L. 1. Hath- away of New Haven, Bridgepert Germans Take Third Prize, Philadelphia, July 4.—Fhe Junger Afaennerchor of this city was awarded permanent possession of the Kaiser prize temight at the plemic which brought te a clese the 83d matienal saengertest of the Nertheastesn Saen- gerbund. n the iadividual secie! competition Schwaebischer Maenner- n Connecticut in F1 sortion to the City's Population Condensed Telegrams Two Thousand Persons are homeless from floods at Salamanca, Mexico. The Total Property Loss by the tor- nado at Regina, Sask., was $2,000,000. The International Radio Telegraph conference in lLondon adjourned to meet in Washington. James A. Carroll has been appoint- ed superintendent of the Osage Indian reservation, Oklahoma, to succeed Hugh Pitzer, resigned. Estate of Richard T. Crane, ironmas- ter, has been assessed the largest in- heritance tax ever placed in lilinois, the sum helng $329,131. The Indian Appropriation Bill, amended so as to add about $4,000,000 to the $13,000,000 appropriated by the house, passed the senate. Secretary Wakeman of the American Proteciive Tatiff league says Wilson's election would be a gerious menace to the industries of the country. Rev. Fred W. McConnell of Boston university has been elected adjunct professor of English Bible at Ran- dolph-Macon Woman's college. Assistant Cashier Mark M. Pomeroy of the Citizens' National bank of Port Allegany, Pa., is ted for embez- zling $45,000 of the bank’s funds. Virginia Brooks, Who for Two Years headed a crusade against vice in We; Hammond, 111, succeeded in cl ysing the last place against which she had fought. . The British Board of Trade inquiry nto the Titanic disaster was conclude ed. The attorney general said he had been unable to find an excuse for the inaction of Captain Lord of the Cali- fornian. Prince Ludovic D’Aragon, related to the king of Spain, shot himself in his apartments in a Paris hotel. The prince is reported to have failed-to win the hand of a daughter of Benj Duke of New Yor! On the Schooner James B. Drake, which arrived from Port Tampa with cargo of phospate ro. were four South American Indians and one full- blooded Cherokee Indian. All five left the schooner for v York to get po- sitions on some vessel sailing south. HEAD SPLIT FOR REMARK ABOUT GIRL. Escort Fells 8omerville Youth and is 8ought by Police. Boston, July 4. young woman he was night led a young man to assault seph Fitapatrick of Somervilie avenue, Somerviile, on the Ocean pier at Re- vere Beach, according to the Hevere police, who are now searching that town and Somerville for the siranger, Fitzpatrick wag knocked down, strik- ing on his head, and is helieved to have sustained a fracture of the skull, He was taken to the Krost hospital, where his condition i said to be seri- ous. > Fitzpatrick and a companion, John Gerry, both men of about 23 years of abolit the g last age and residents of Somerville, were standing about midway of the new pier when a young man and woman passed them. The girl's escort took exception to something that Fitzpat- rick had said and without parley of any kind, according to witnesses, turn- ed upon the other, hitting him twice in the head and knocking him down. The affair happened so quickly that those in the immediate vicinity made no attempt to prevent the escape of Fitzpatrick's assafiant, who, with his girl companion. ran back down the pier to the boulevard. Gerry remained to care for his friend, who was knocked unconscious. Many who saw the assault say that both the young man and the girl are Somerville residents, and-several wit- nesses declaye that they know them by sight and can easily identify them. The Revere police have asked the Som- erville officers to assist them in the search for the pair. Fitzpatrick was badly cut and bruised, in addition to the fracture of the skull he is thought to hava sus- tained, and his recovery Is regarded ag doubtful NATIONAL COMMITTEE CALLS ON GOV. WILSON, Will Elect Governor’'s Choice for Chair- man of Committee. July 4—Thirty-five democratic national al train at Ses Girt today from Baltimore on and on the way they talked of the selection of a seasoned manager for chairman to run the governor's campalgn Governor's Choice Can Be Elected. When they left Sea Girt two hours later, after friendly chats with the nomine¢, most of them de ed t anyone whom the governor might name would be pla Wilson Reaches No Decision, Whether William | B. Lynch, Robert Hudspeth or one of half a dozen others ment for the place wiil have the prefe Governor Wilson had not decided night. ected to the M=Combs, Fred 8 any joned SRR YALE ATHLETICS NET $118,147, Football Receipts Led, with $66,186.— Eligibility Rules to Be Enforced. New Haven, July 4—The Yale uni- versity athletic committee has adopted a stringent rule a university team, prov that no stu- dent shall participate wi s rechived directly or indirectly any compen tion whatever for taking pa athletic sports. Captains of ordered to report a picton, especially th playing for hotels sports. The player so Investigated foung guilty will be debarred from the university team The annual report of the Yale finan- cfal union for the past year shows that | the reserve fund amounts to $81,846, a8 compared with $119,960 the previoug year, the decrease being accounted for by purchases for the new Yala field and cost of the boathouse, Recelpts and expenditures in the varfous ma- | Jor sports wer, follows: Track athletics, recelpis ‘$2,8 pendiiures $12,741; | i X sasehull, rocaipts $14,014, expenditures $1472; hoating, receipls 34, expendilures + $21,779 foothall, receipls $86,186. expendiiures $45.751, Total receipis from utlileilcs | for the year were $118,147, and the hal aneg over oxpenses 15,084, The larg st veeolpis were in Ihe baschall games with Princeton $16,347, with Harvurd $14.741, while the fooiball game with Prineeten breught $i5848, and the game with Harvard §33,106. The large pumber of Chinese seen in cher, Bridgeperi, Cesn, teek (hird prize iy {he third class the streets of Paris has become a mats ter of cemment in papers, Says Andrew Had to Resign MaocVEAGH DISCUSSES A8S18T- ANT'S ATTACK. ACTION DUE TO SPITE Failing in His Efforts to Induce Mae- Veagh to Retaln Him He Makes Mis. representations, Bays Secretary, Lancaster, Mass, July 4—Secretary of the Treasury Franklin MacVeagh, In a statement given out here today, de- clared that the resignation of A. Platt Andrew, assistant secretary of the treasury, was not submitted untll it had been repeatedly requested by both Mr. MacVeagh and President Taft. The secretary said that Mr. Andrew pleadad to be retained in the service and brought every influence to bear to have the request for his resignation with- drawn. MacVeagh Kept Busy at Lancaster. Secretary MacVeagh, who I8 a vis- itor at the home of Bayard Thayer in this town, put in a busy day today. In addition to witnessing an historical pageant depicting scenes in Lancas- ter's history, he received a great quantity of telegraph and telephone messages from friends and official ac- quaintances expressing confidence In | tarily, his administration of the department, and he prepared a lengthy statement of his side of the controversy preotpl- tated by Mr. Andrew’s letter of resig- nation. The statement of the secretary fol- lows, in part Andrew Misrepresents. “I regret that it seems ne to refer to the let published by Mr. A.° Piatt Andrew and addressed to the president and to me. The virulenes of the attack has probably limited its ef- fect; but apart from the attack upo me, he strangely misrepresents a num ber of the chief men of the treasw: department to whom I attribute a lnr(.r measure of the success of the depar! ment, and seems to deny that any- thing has been accomplished either by them or anybody else. I am obliged, the!’fnr', to restore Mr. Andrew's res- igndtion to its proper light. Was Forced to Resign. “Mr. Andrew says he resigmed ha< cause of the conditions in the treasurgt 3 his letters. He did not resi un < but was asked to e and asked repeatedly—and he uses effort and influence passible to get the request for his resignation withdrawn, and pleaded to be allowed to continus in his place. Attributes Attack to Spite. “And ity was when he had fafled tn have the roquest for his resignation withdrawn, and becauss of th be made his aitack—and chose to give the impression that his resignation was department of which he d A comparison of his statement with t facts is probably the simplest way the animus and the verad a matter of his own choice and deter- mined upon for public reasons.” SRR THIS BOY GOT SICK OF HIS FIREWORKS Frederick, Md., Youn a Torpedo. Frederick, Md, July 4—Frederick's first accident ag a result of the use of Fourth of July explosives happened yesterday when Charles the three year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Birely, bit upon a torpedo, exploding it. The torpedo was one made by wrapping a percussions cap and some small gravei in a paper and is intended to be ex- ploded by throwing upon a hard sur- face. The boy's mouth was burned and blood was drawn in a number of plas probably by the small bits of gravel. Tha wounds bled profusely. The lad's Injuries were dreased by a physician, after which he announced: “Give my firecrackers away. 1 am through with them.” The accident happened while the boy was at play with a number of other children in the rear of the lad's home. DISASTER DUE TO BROKEN RAIL. Inspector Belnap Calls Attention te Increasinf Rail Defects. Washington, July A broken %0- pound bes rall, primarily defective and seriously seamed and split, found to have been the cause | of an accident on the Great Nortehrn railway near Sharon, N. D,, on Decem- { ber 30 last, which resuited In the kill | e persons and the injury-et. | H. W. Belnap, chief inspector of gafety applian of the interstate commerce commission, in his report to- , after calling attention to the con- | stantly increasing number of rail fail ures on railwa lue generally to structrual defects, sald . “Present specifications and tests, in so far as the detection of longitudinal seams is conserned, appears to be in adequate, It would seem tn bs time | that soma definite action be taken te~ ward eliminating the danger and me- curing structurally sound rails’ WASHINGTON DESERTED. Congress Adjourns Over Fourth and | Officials Leave Capital. July 4. —Washington deserted by public men houses of congress ad- - the Fourth of July, Presi- 't hae gone to Beverly, Mass.; gident Sherman is in New Secretary MecVeagh is in New Fngland, Secretary Stimson at Humt- ington, Y. T, and Attorney Geperal Wickersham at Cedarhurst, L. L See- retary Knox planned several days holi- day at Valiey Forge. Many other offi- clals, senators and representatives have | jotned in the exodus. | Washing FOR A ROYAL UNION. Engagement of Emperor William’s Son and Czars Daughter, Derlln, July A looal soctety jour- nal suys thatt he mesting of | Kulser Wilheltn and Nichola s | probably will result in the snnounce. went of the engagement of Prince Adalbert, the kedser's third son, and (he Grand Ducliess Olga, sldowt duugh- ter of the éxar, Frince Adulbert is 27 yenrs old amd the grand duchess is 16. The Um(:»: Btates pw announees that & lange ush, puffivient te wapply v demand fer mn " many has bean dis- o,