Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 25, 1913, Page 1

LV.—NO. 308 EIGHTY 'KILLED IN A NEEDLESS PANIC Cry of “Fire” by Drunken |n7t-ruder Turns Joyous Christmas Festival Into Scene of Tragedy THREE-FOURTHS OF VICTIMS ARE CHILDREN Were Marching Up to Receive Gifts When Alarm Was Raised —Carried Along by Rush Toward Doors and Suffocated —Bodies Piled Up to Ceiling at Foot of Stairway—No Fire in Building—A Sad Christmas For Calumet, Mich. Calunie ore more jumped from windows and ¢ Mich. Dee. 24.—Four score | ostly childr killed | vScaped without inju: S T Rl R ot shont Ay 2 AT?‘IilA‘nn‘l}\)i{ | Years ago and was well provided for caused by | emergencies, it was thought. The en- e s ¢ caused by | trance has a hallway about ten feet false alarm .« 9 dhaliy bout ten 20 While several hundred mimers and |60 A ¥ \apout; elent foek their wives looked om, the childrea | F0C9 ‘PO in tenitad R e oo N ThaL l'rhe main door of the hail opened on ST & mese bt bis ocd ¢ e | this landing. There js a small cloak OB W Beb ana velled: - nClroom about ten feet re to one - S ; *” lside of the main door. The loss ot General Rush for the Doors. lite was the small door o PR 2 se in | BRiS Toom. T apparent 'ne e SRRED (Up Thy, Puons ol Sy i or of s room Everyone siarted for the doors. The |and cru b weaker were thrown to the floor and | 400TW T 3 these behind tried to cltmb over them. | The largest number of dead in any The stairwar and other ave £ | g e hotao eszress were blocked so effectuail t who ‘]Au o e ase inside could get out and | oxldently il thase without could not get in to ai? b s @ oy s Boa il T4 the stairway was filled to the The alarm | ceili Most Deaths Due to Suffocation. sided. efore L he building by spread ourside who, near the door, had | That death owd soon assemi- due o suffoc clearing the hall | of “those 1 by the with Dead Bodies. | bore S s 1% | orumpled ¢ sut the was a narow | were not cut or braiced. It had be . 3 +: | certaine that there was filled it e the 8 tri ¥- been ! taken by avoid dan- | A search tonight for the 1 a Some of AR WO they had { g, some < 5 from hol- few r - % during s denied n m the removal o B s Haspatala. i b s and *d and . | bereaved. Man Who Caused Panic Probabiy ! Drunk, | | It was said by those ne he door that the mar s from saloon and blown 2 £ rth with 1l smelled A few others were assisted to their |siyrongly of homes, | It was asserted by some of those _Kor many &avs the children of- the Ipre\(;'\L that the manh may have been Sopher. At s had waited ex- |in a maudlin coundiiion —and shouted pectanily for' the Christnas free ex- jthe word without thought as to ercises, witich hadl been arvranged by |what he was doin the woman's anxiliary of ihe Western Many men in Federation of Mimers. The efitertain- | hall after ihe oz crowd about the e w =et for the early evening and | geance if the ma be nall, which is en the second floor, | jx faared th 3 - | @ition of mind unde are labering s ster renew open hostility be- armome and the | tween me of the miners’ union 4 1'“‘dl“t”‘j‘f Santa {and the citizens’ alliance. : piled arouna .| Calumet's Christmes Blighted. erge illuminated tree. The coroner tonight began to Im- % : 3 | panel a jury to m thorough in- Aisles Filled with Children, vestization: of. the Meeti children instructed te |will be held Chr a to the tree, so |whether to held a s could be handed to |a procession composed of nearly every es were filled with the |resident of C; when a large bearded | Floliday fesiiv in many head in at the door | homes were saddened by the d y and shouted “Fire!” |in Italian hall. M who was near the door { had rushed out e man by the shoulders and | tragedy radturne: mes and omnteract the effect of his family useless. The man wrest- | pect for from her grasp and ran | DELAVAN'S COMET MAY BE VISIBLE TO NAKED EVE. cry “Fire! was Ttepeated timoughout the reom. The word was shouted in several languages as par- mts rose and rushed forward to get New Arrival in Sky is Drawing Nearer their children. The Hv were crush- ed out in almest a twinkling, Then | to the Earth. i dbility of further | <y persons Vashingto: Dec. 24— Delavan’s to their realizéd too | comet, th st stranger in the late that there was no fire, but most | come with the range of the tele- of fhose in the hall could not get oul | scopes, may be visible soon to the nak- | of the jam N ed eye. The faintly illumined, be-tail- Police and Firemen Enter by Windows. f\c.l. w.»w-;‘ flfi‘f,.f:‘“fr:" “\; 47(!‘ g;rlxg"}:g;-trei Policemen and firemen hurried to the | to be sesan by a less powerful building to find the hall congested. | S g b foder of the Several officess ciimbed the fire es- | S ik L ke capes and entered by the windows. In | % 2 short time the uninjured and the | 'O 1oTe faint bad been pulled from the tangle | by Prof Asson: T of human beings and placed in the | ¥ ST SSabh T front (badl. Other men began'| .4 " phervations were take o the bodies of the dead and night and last night. Rey Reljiess from - the. stairway a been received of observations iy them in a row -eside the b S e gty Amateur astronomers with small oF Slie among the ses may seek the comef, Professor eres core | Tall said, by using the star Zeta B ac it | @ani feor a starting point ey per- e Sy The s were lined with | POSTAL TELEGRAPH bodies and other corpses had to be n the kitchen of the hall and SaaHsE DisaIcsED. ed i enealh Hall Converted Into Morgue. the stage, { | { | Commission Finds‘Claim of Discrim- ination Unsustained. Inside an hour everybody In Cal- | Bl was near the scene as il was | Beston, Dec. 24— Charges of discrim- to get. The police formed |ination on the part of New England bout fhe place and kept back | Telephone and Telegraph company Afier r.m:l‘!vx effort a lane | against the Postal Telegraph company opencd through the crowd and |were dismissed today by the public the bodies of the children were car- | service commission. The Postal com- Had d Jacket villaze hall which | pany complained that telephone calls MOTrg It was | intended for its offices have been di- 1/l the bodies were | verted to the Western Union Telegraph company. i3 In dismissing the petition the com- mission said . “The evidence would seem to show ~that the teiephone company has in ap- | parent good faith for more than a year | endeavored not to permit any | discrimination as between the two tele- graph companies.” were wrongly identified and taken away, only to | er by the parents who | sir own offspring safe parents ran about for e time ungeriain whether their dren were dead or alive. Many motbers fainted., while fathers cursed | those who interfered with thel: i % . . he gz & St Mrs. Wilson’s Gift to President. search. . ! New York, Dec. 24.—A painting which Three-fourths of Assemblage Children (7, "0 00 o o on has long it t had In founs other c Frantic women ran the streets for | zdmired will be one of his most prized hours calling for their little ones. Ef- | Christmas gifts, it was learned here to- forts were made to calm them and | night. The art work is a landscape, many were taken into the homes that | “he Woodchopper,” by H. Hobart had not been bereaved so that they | Nichols, widely known as a landscape might have proper attention, In this | artist, 'formerly of Washington. and way. often hands Pnd eives Were | whosé studio is now at Brownville, N. R e thas e toan, m the 'Y, ‘Mra | Wilson, herself an ‘artiat of fast growing repute, is the donor. without their parents. These fathers and mothers, rushing to the scene, add- ed to the confusion, hindering the res- cuers by insisting on information as to what had occurred. children, many of them having gonei i Steeplejack Has Bad Fall. San Francisco, Dec. 24 nowski, known throughout the country as “the human fly,” was found dving There was a fire escape at the rear |today on the first floor landing of the of the building, but only those who | St. Francis hotel annex, now in pro- Wwere very near it could make any |cess of construction. His skull was use of il until after the fatal rush was ! fractured and nearly every bone in his over. Probably not more ‘than‘a - hun- | hody was broken. .Apparently he had dred persons escaped the first rush [a terrible fall, but where he fell from By way of this iire escape. About a 'or when no person knew, Cabled Paragraphs Death of Albert James. London, Dec. 24—Albert James, one of the original actors in the Gilbert and $uilivan comic operas, died here today. He made a tour of the United States many years ago in company with Agnes Huntington, Paris Slaughterers’ Strike Settled. Paris, Dec. 24—The strike of the slaughterers has been settled, the men and the emplovers having compromised their differences. Work will be re- sumed Friday in time to replenish the stocks which have heen exhausted by the Christmas demands. Statue Hidden Five Centuries. Florence, Dec. 24.—Donatello’s fam- ous statue of St. John the Baptist, which was executed for his friend and patron, Martelli, and purchased by the Italian government for $80,000, was placed today in Donatello’'s hall in the National Museum, after having remain- ed hidden for five centuries in the old Martello pala: S O Porter Charlfon’s Christmas. mas season braeught little of cheer to Porter Charlton, the young American Como, Italy, Dec. 24.—The Christ-} To Make Attack Near the Border LARGE REBEL FORCE STARTEP FOR OJINAGA HAS SENT FROM CHIHUAHUA Are Uhder Orders from Villa to Exter- minate Federals or Drive Them Into | United States—Villa Remains Behind { Chihuahua, Mexico, Dec. 24—Forty- | two hundred rebel cavalrymen, with | ten cannon and six machine guns, have | left Chihuahua to begin the long de- | layed attack on the federals at Ojin- aga, opposite Presidio, Texas. The rebels, commanded by General Or- ! tega, have been ordered to exlerminate i fi A The Christmas Spirit Just a little bit For ’tis not alone Carries blessin Soon forgetten, that you spend, But the hand shake that goss wii Putting the true Christmas spirit Into everything you do, You will find it will be Christmas In your heart the whole year through. of Christmas For the neighbor at your side Who upon the wave of fortune With yourself seems not to ride. Do not be a miser hoarding Health and strength and power to bless Share them with the lone one near you Who these charms may not possess. the dollar, gs to the end. HELEN M. RICHARDSON PLEADS FOR DEATH TO JOIN COUCH. Miss Brance on Verge of Physical and Mental Ceollapse. Monticello, N, ¥ Dec. 24.—Miss Adelaide M. Brance, partner in tha | Goubie life led by Maelville L. Couch, who died last Sunday of heart failure, i ill 2 voluntary prisoner her who mined her today [ ehe is on the. verge of ntal and phy sicel collapse. A trained nurse has charee of her. In her ravings the woman calls con- tinually for Couch and pleads for death in order that she may join him. brother of Miss Brance, living at N..Y., called on Sheriff today and announced -that he woman home, next Fr Kinne would take the day. ¥le hag beleved his siste: desd until events of last £ | Acquainted with her brother” 5 | Miss Brance said that she would glad- 1y leave Monticello. She insists, ever, that her departur 3 T and after sla had an opportunity to see the grave of the dead lawver. i | ROLE OF SANTA CLAUS | COST HIM HIS LIFE Philanthropist Braved the Elements to Brighten Poor Home. —Little son of Dec. Col 7 old. (= & oot through deep snow in the impoverisi- r preser ! ed section of the city. He carried a | sled, train of cars, clothes, rubbers, | candy and many oth s for the i destitute Harris fami Steamship Arrivals. Palermo, Dec. 18.—Steamer Patris, New York for Piraeus. Leghorn, Dec. 19.—Steamer Perugia, New York. Marseilles, Dec, 21.—Steamer Germa- | nia, New York. 3 | Patras, Dec, 24.—Steamer Carpathia, New York. Havre, Dec, 23-—Steamer France, | New York. & Naples, Dec. 23—Steamer Cretic, | Boston. £ | Trieste, Dec. 23.—Steamer Ruthenia, J Montreal. Avonmouth, Dec. 24.—Steamer Royal George, St. John, N, Sable Island, N. 8., Dec. 24.—Steam- | er Belgium, Hamburg for ton and | Baltimore, signalled 550 miles from | Boston at noo ! Palestinian Pottery for Yale. | New Haven, Conn.. Dec. 24—An- nouncement was made tonight that | Mrs. Francis Wayland of this city, | whose husband was for many years | dean of the Yale Law school, has pre- sented to Yale university a valuable collection of Palestinian pottery. The collection js said to be the most valu- iable in this country. It consists of o2} Olaf Czar-| 950 pieces, some of them dating back | to 1000 B, C. Municipal Tree at Lexington. Lexington, Ky., Dec. 24—Every church choir and a vast crowd of peo- { ble took part in the municipal Christ- t mas . tree celebration here tonight, it be the first municipal affair of its kind in the history of the citj who is awaiting trial for the mrder| of his wife. Je compiained today es- ] iis_cold which was | dismal by ling | ssibly will prove more cheerful. ton will be allowed extra dis rom the Tes- | taurar he purchases his meals, | and longer walk in the narrow courts | yard where he exercises i to be! Wilhur | 1 have hi but W. H, B who came to Denver from | because he was dyin and who made { he salvation of the Chri i for little Wilk is dead. | deatb terday because he | norved h ‘s order to remd jin bed, several bloc hem across the to be to remain : of the campa witl dition de dence ‘edera the border or broken up | pands. { More Rehel Victorics. | The bottling up of fede the city of Torreon, 200 miles of 1 the occupetion by the iof ere, and the rebel !ture of Lerdo and G important adjoining tow firmed in reports received tods eral Monclovio Herrera, howev not wounded. Rebel espatches Tera now had T trolled, with i | he wouid await further reinforcemen before attempti a rout of the fed- { erals unde; 3 Refuglo Valesco. Torreon h ften captured by Iis impor 1 lies in its being a railroad cente: H Viila Hampering Refu | Desp Villa' t0 romer he and dren country, it 1at he has denied them we. ent thai TORREON UNDER SIEGE, | Rebels Trying to Recapture City Re- cently Occupied by Federals. i d, | General Velasco some time re- | cove th with- out Since them the war offic nnouneced that he was vreparing in the surrounding country the in- dications were that man | of rebels were hemming him ALIENIST TESTIFIES Tells of Statement Alleged to Been Made by Schmidt. ! New York, Dec. 24.—Dr. Carlos F. i MacDeonald was called by the state to- day to refute the testimony given by § s FOR THE PROSECUTION.! Have ! the alienists of the defense in the trial | | of Hans Schmidt, accused of the mur- { der of Anna Aumuller. He examined | the former priest on September 24 and | quoted Schmidt as saying that after ! the murder “he felt the relief of a per- i son who had accomplished a required act or command.” Dr. MacDonald was not able te com- plete the recital of his examination of the man, owing, to adjournment of the court until Friday. | ZELAYA LEAVING OF i HIS OWN VOLITION | Ex-President of Nicaragua *Public, Statement. Issues a New York, Dec. 24—Jose Santos Ze- laya, former president of Nicaragua, before his departure for Barcelona, i Spain, today, issued a statement ex- iglaining the nature and purpose of l Is stay in the United States. “I was under no agreement what- soeyer to leave the United States,” he said.” “This assertion can be' readily confirmed hy the department of state. T am leaving the couniry now because !T have completed my private busi- ness,” Py Condensed Roses Are Blooming in T: N. | The Bethlehem Steel Company laid off 6,000 employ: The “Oid Grist Mill,” built nearly a century ago, was burned at Burling- ton, Vt. Captain Colwyn E. Hampton, U. S. A., retired, died at San Antonio, Texas, aged 42 years. “Community Christmas Trees,” were illuminated last night in most of the cities of New Hampshire. John Plrroy Mitchel, elected mayor of New York last month on the fusion ticket, took the oath of office yester- day. Cincinnati Passed an ordinance re- quiring all vehicles to carry head- lights. This also affects baby car- riages. The Home of the Friendless of Cin cincinnati, furnished babies to families, to provide a happy Christmas for the foundlings. Senator Stone of Missouri, stricken with the grippe a few days ago, was reported yesterday by his physicians out of danger. The Puklic Service Commission or- dered the surface car companies of New York to equip their carwheels with non-squeaking devices. Mr. Laforge of Fair Oaks, N. Y, 72 years old, and his wife, 46 years old, are mourning the loss their 224 child, which wus born Sunda of on Brand New Five Dellar gold pieces been presented to each of the house pages as Christmas s/ Representative Farr of Penn- Medical Examiner Hurlburt yvester- day g: a verdict of death due to alcoholism, in the ca of Alfred Smith a hostiler, und dead in a Winsted stable. More Than $5000,000 Worth. of new gold and silver pieces of has been distributed by su this month to the banks throughout the country. James R. Coleman, a wealthy farm- Melitota, Md., w. dered near hig home, supposedly hwaymen, as his pockethook to have contained about $30 w missing. the Prince of Wales for King Queen Mary and prepared pr for full POTErs in the of the £ the Garter. ion in court at he had. set fire to within two days, Her- i9 vear old b was held for the ¥ vesterday. e of the Corps of chap- > navy to not iess than one d men is proposed i in the house by entative Farr of Pennsylvania. Repr: ThelEstablishment of & eounty In- stitution for the ¢ treatment of prisoners arre intoxicatioen i commended the grand jury h made its repert at Indianapolis terday. After Twenty-Five Years’. contin- rritory. Andrew 8. Hard, driver for Mrs. Bel k, of Bridgeport, whose down ed K ¥ ack, aged 14 yester( on the order of Ju » Coughlin of the court for manslaughter, Secretaries Daniels and Garrison found on their des 51 Christ- mas gifts fr A recently p izing the ironmaster’s remembrance. t of Not Guilty was returned William E. ~ of West Ha- 1 who h een on trial at Rutland, for th eged- m Gordon, a trapper of Whitehall, N. Y. Robert E. Davie, known as “the Boy Broke Lo was serving a prison of five yeurs funds entrusted vpent. was pardoned governor and council. ir Alleged faiiure e d to pended. A General Strile of the union car- penters, fathers, plumbers, iron work- ers and mbering almost 100 men, ws red X on the nine buildings ‘that are being erected at the Sta ane at Grafton, colony for the In- ass, Mrs. Louise H. Sage, w D 1d hor idely known emen for her 4 nd owner 4 modern. half mile race track npon which s 1 expended more than .000 in the t two died at her home at H ord y day. Schneider Not Guilty of Murder. “hicago, Dec. 24+ J. H. Logue. The principal evidence LT e SRR et WS I iR B LRI B e r-at Circie- ! has given up the increased | caused by the | re- 3 when 5 office ruied that could not take s baggage into 1l peace | ler of Charles | . —Hareld Schneider ! was found not guilty of the murder of | against Schneider was given by John | I“_aith, who detailed an alleged cenfes- gion to him by Schneider. Frank John- i ston, assistant state’s attorney, in his | closing argument said and Faith together had committed the murder. Logue, a diamond merchant, was shot and stabbed and burned with acid in his office. Wise Men—-and Shepher;s-shnwn. Springfield, Mass., Dec. 24.—Elabor- ate Christinas tree exercises this even- ing attracted an immense crowd to Court Square, and thesroad terrace of the municipal group. Between .10,600 and 20,000 persons gazed upon the bril-’ liantly illuminated tree, standing on the Square. Christmas trumpeters, an angle, the wise men and the shepherds and a surpliced boy choir singing car- ols made an efféct that was striking and picturesque. Cincinnatl, O., Dec. 24—Ringing of chimes all over the city, a fanfare of trumpets, carols by a selected choir of boys and a brilliant illumination of the municipal Christmas tree tonight ush- ered Inthe first publi¢c celebration of this kind this city has kno £y that Schneider ! MARINE BAND AND CHORUS OF 1000 PARTICIPATE TABLEAUX PRESENTED Community Quite Throughout Country—Poor Trees General People and Even Dumb Beasts Remembered. Washington, Dec. 24—“Peace on earth, good will to men.” This sen- tence, blazing from a brilliantly-lighted electric placard, reached almost to the dome of the capitol, retlected the pre- dominant sentiment of the thousands Wwho assembled on the capitol plaza to- night to celebrate Washington’s first community Christmas, Tableaux of the Nativity. A giant Norway spruce, illuminated with glittering red, waite and blue elec- tr buibs, the marine band, a huge electric star of the east, and a chorus ot 1,000 singers, with the capitol itself as the background against the dark curtain of the sky, made a secene of impressive beauty. Tableaux repre- senting the story of the mnativity were presented in the improvised amphithe- atre. Nation’s Officials Missing. Official Washington s conspicuous tonight by its absen Most of the members of congress had gone to thege homes, the president and nearly all the cabinet officers are away and, with the sole exception of the postoffice de- partment, Washington was oificially dead. MANY COMMUNITY TREES IN THIS STATE. Choir of 400 Sang Carols on New Haven's Historic Green. New IHaven, Conn., Dec. 24 —Many cities and towns in Connecticut held iicipal Christmas celebrations te- nd the mild spring-like weather pted large crowds to turn out. In Haven more than 10,000 persons, ated, crowded the historia Green, heard a choir of 400 volces sing ols to the accompaniment of church and i brilliant il- port a big tree wag placed top of Golden Hill, the highest n in the city, and the illumina- tion could be seen for miles. ioor celebrations were alse held in Hartfor ‘Waterbury, Torrington, Bristol, Norwich, Ansonia, and in smaller towns. CHILDREN PARADEy March Behind Bands from Schosls te Community Tree, Philadelphia, Dee. 24 —Elaborate cel- ebraiions in connecétion with communi- ty Christimas trees were held for tha first time in many cities throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey and la- ware. in Philadelphia the celebration, which will continue for a week, was officiail} un this efternoon, when Mayor and R Blankenburg touched electric light buttons and illuminated the com- munity tree in Independenrs Square, Thousands of children and many grown-ups hailed the lighting up of tha spruce with shouts of delight. KEarlier in the afternoon bands had marched past schoolhouses throughout the ecity and aded long lines of children te the scene. DOLLARS FOR NEWSBOYS. Novel Christmas Gift of Los Angeler Merchant. Dec. 24 —Christ- mas bring 600 new accounts te the banks of Los Angeles, every one of them to the credit of a newsboy. They will be for one dollar each, and if the recipients show a disposition to Los Angeles, Cal, save their pennies and deposit them to their various accounts during the coming vear a second dollar will be Christmas. rge the saving hablt among ewsboys a local merchant devised “heme. added next To encou the 1 A 75-FOOT TREE. Grand Opera Stars Sing at Chicagoe's Christmas Festival. ago's first as celebration was J tonight, when thon- itizens general- Christmas tree, stars of grand opera who rough megaphones, to f the Chicago Grand and to speeches by ison and ethers, > domesgtic relatiens mas tree in hiz e of the coust. mnnicip held in Grant pe nds of children and c ved the T75-foot r El FRISCO'S GLOCMY CHRISTMAS. Problem of F’rming for Unemployed Occupies Attention. Francisco, Dec. Franci tention to anothes feeding of ti to- for provided provided begin- ed Wo 1ing Monday. permitied to wo ¥ days a we single men two day at § 3per d: Present plans are for the employment of from 200 to 300 men per day. It was estimated that from 1,000 to 2,000 men were fed tonight. A movement was started today to open churches as sleeping pl men will he COMMUNITY TREES. Many Ohio Cities Had Festival Similar to Norwich. Celumbus, Ohin, Dec. 24.—The thou- sands of residents in many Ohio citles tonight celebrated their first muncipal Christmas eve with community Christ- mas trees and completed preparations for serving thousands of unforiunates with Christmas _dinners . tomorrow. Church ehimes, boys’ ' cheirs, large chortises and brass bands furnished muysic for the municipal celebrations. Scores of newspapers throughout the state | conducted “big brother” and “good fellow” campaigns for furnishing worthy people with practieal At the Ohio penitentiary Emma ntini, opera singer, will appear on a vaude- ville programme arranged for the ben- efit of the prisoners. All theatrieal companies playing here will send Shetr stars fer tbe perfermance.