Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 25, 1909, Page 1

Q VAIN FIGHT AGAINST nmm; 4 THE OMAHA BEE a clean, reliable newspaper that is admitted to each and every home. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE [:& For weather OMAHA, THURSDAY 25 29, MORNING, NOVEMBER 1909 BODIES FOUND IN HUGE HEAPS Cherry Miners Retreated to High Point in Third Vein and Died Together. .,_"'-1 4 OVERCOME BY BIACK D: % Indications that All Succumb Within Two Days, WATER ACCUMULATES IN LEVEL Members of Rescue Party Wade| Through Four Feet of Water. One Dead Hand $t111 Grasps Rude Fau | in an Effort to Get Alr—Mcen | Had Scrawled Messages on Siate CHERRY, Ill, Nov. M.—Bod'es of more than 150 miners were found in the lower leval of the St. Paul mine today. An ac- curate count of the vietims has not been made, but it s now believed all but.a score of the missing men have been accounted for. The bodles were found [0 fect from the main shaft, on an elevated surface where they had retreated before the advancing water and fatal black damp. They had not been able to escape the latter and had died afler u struggle tiat may have continued for two days. Messages scrawled on wood and the natural slate cropping from the walls placed the number of dead at 180 or 168. One message read: ““We are all here to dle together.” This 1s accepted by mine officers as In- dicating, that many men whose escape from the second vein had been cut off by fire had descended to the lowest level and that fewer. than a dozen bodles will be \ found in other seetions of the mine. Bont Used in Rescue, To take out the bodies a skiff has been brought from the Illineis river, seven miles away, and will be lowered 500 feet to the vein in which the bodles were found. It will be rowed across the four feet depth of water in the weln to the spot where the bodies e, wnd they wiil be transported to the main shaft for remq/ll to the sur- face. The exploring party of four, led by Anton Lodiycienl, was In the gallery for more than an hour before the bodles were found. They had waded in water, waist deep, through the circular tunnel, making their way toward the elevation of the shaft or “ridge’” where they had expected to find them, lving or dead. The signals given by the rescuers and the usual cry: “Any- body allve in here?' were not answered. “When we climbed up on the ridge,” sald the miner, “we almost stepped upon the bodies, plled in heaps. Some had their heads resting on folded arms as if slecp- ing. Others were lying across each other and some were sitting if resting inst the wall, “Nalled to the wall were two fans, made of timbering, tied about pick handles, and under them were the biggest heaps of todies. Dead Hand Grasps Fan, “One poor tellow had his hand up h ing the fan. I think he died as he twraing it Another held a bucket. He| was flat on his oack and must have hied | a8 he climbed up on the ridge. The bucket | was half filed with black water that he must have gone some distance to get. | “The black damp killed them long before the water reached them. We had been in the shatt more than an hourl then and though the air was fuirly good, we knew it was (imo for us to get out. ‘We did not stop Lo examine any of the bod! or to try and identify them. Tom Mulligan, one of our party, picked up a plece of natural slate, on which was writ ten: *“We ake here together, 188’ That must have meant the number of men, and 1 think that was about the right number. “On & wooden box, used to hold tools, 1 saw written with & lead pencil: ‘We are here to dle together. Some figures were ecratched under it, and I read it as 160, but T'm not sur No ovidence that the men had attempted to barricade themselves against the black &mp was seen. Many former workers In S8 000100 0 1000 it oo o | o AR b e |g (i TWELVE PAGES. oo g0 10t i CONFER AT - WHITE - HOUSE|Cook’s Records President Consults His Advisers Re- garding Number of Problems. yCHANGES IN COMMERCE LAW Attorney Wickersham Will Draft Bill that Will Embody Views of Executive—Greatly Brond- Gene ens Its Scbpe, WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—Foregoing a contemplated horseback ride, because of a snow storm, President Taft devoted the day to a serles of Important conferences covering the subjects of proposed amend- | ments to the Interstate laws, legis'ation looking to the suppression of the so-called “white s'ave" traffic, the ap- pointment of a successor to the late Judge commerce | Bethea of the United States district court | at Chicago and the appolntment of a new | governor of the territory of New Mexico. The conference with regard to the Inter- state commerce law changes was the most important the president has had on that subject and it was sald that he Is prac- tically reudy at this time to begin this part of his message to congress. At the conference were Attorney General Wickersham, Chalrman Knapp and Com- misstoner Lane of the Interstate Commerce commission. District Attorney E. W, Sims of Chicago, who conducted the govern- ment's prosecution in the famous $29,000, 000 Standard Ol case before Judge Landis, and Representative Mann of Tilinots, chair- man of the house committee on foreign and interstate commerce. “White Slave” Problem. With District Attorney Sims and M. | Mann, the president took up the “white slave” question. Mr. Mann is to introduce a bil on this subject at the coming ses- slon of congress. He ment can prevent this traffic through the exercise of Its power to control interstate the mine protested angrily after they dis- covered the men that they would been safe from the deadly gas had not the | vintllating fan of the mine been reversed shortly after the discovery of fire The announced intention of the mine of- flolals to pump out the water in the lower level before the. arrival of the skiff was balked by the refusal of the machinists Lo ald them. The connections of the pump | have been disconnected pear the second | level and machinists who were called upon | declined to risk their lives In repalring the | machinery. Robert Shaw, & third member of the ex- | ploring party that found the bodies. told | of reading a plece of slate on which one | of the vietims apparently had checked oft the totals of the groups who clambered upon the ridge in their last stand for life. The Writing, a8 remembered by him, was ““Thirty more came in. Twenty-four more. Twenty-four—120 here now.” ! Other figures. which were not totalled on | the written tally, but hastily computed by Shaw, Indlcated that the number exceedcd 150 when the tally ended. | “I think some of the men had barricaded | themselves In pockets in the gallery, but were driven to the ridge by the risiug | ‘ suld Shaw, “If they had not got out of the pockets they would have been @rowned In them.' Shaw also told of an attempt of men to bulld a barricade at the west end of the ridge to hold back the black damp. The wail was only & few feet high, however, the | and forelgn commerce. Mr. Mann be- lleves that the government is the only | authority strong enough to cope with this great evil and the bill which he has drafted and in which the president today expressed his deep interest, provides a heavy penalty for the enticement of a woman or girl from one place to another for immoral purposes and thereby her to g0 as A passenger over any (Continued on Second Page.) cause trans- | beleves the govern- | s S Ready to Send to Copenhagen Original Data Will Go Before the Scientists in Original Form, Says Secretary. N YORK, Nov. 24.—The records which Dr. Frederick A. Cook, the arctic explorer will submit to the University of Copenhagen in proof of his claim that he reached the North pole on April 11908, are today, in completed form. Walter Lonsdale, secretary to Dr. Cook, will sall tomorrow on the steamer United States of the Seandanavain line for Copen- hagen, taking the records with him, Mr. Lonsdale sald today that Dr. Cook's report contained betweeh word “I don't think that the understands the work that doing,” continued Mr. L general public we have been ‘It ha | boen sald that we were ‘preparing the rec- Such a statement is inacurate. original records go to the university as they were made by Dr. Cook in arctic regions."” Mr. Lonsdale sald he expected to reach Copenhagen December 7, and Immediately place the records in the hands of the university authorities. “How long the university will take in examining th and in making known its findings, of course, I cannot tell,” he continued. *I should assume that it would be possible for the university’s announcement to be made by New Year." WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—Commander Robert E. Peary announced today that he would not go on the lecture platform. FRENCH ARE EATING ZEBUS AS BLOW AT BEEF TRUST The Just the Indlan Oxen Shipped to Paris and Sold onm the Market There. PARIS, Nov. 24.—The colonlal authoritie heve inaugurated a serious attempt to in troduce in the French market the Zebu of Madagascar as a substitute for beef The first batch of a dozen carcasses sold |in the Paris stalls brought the prices of Larker ship- here. the highest grade of cattle. ments are now on the way fndian VYout'h Loses His Nose and Jaw, But Lives At the Clarkson Memorial hospital Is an Indlan youth bravely struggling against the effects of a horrible accident. His lower jaw and his nose have been severed from his face by a bullet fired aciedentally trom & revolver that he was cleaning. Although the victim probably will recover from the effects of the wound he will be disfigured | tor 1ite. The Interesting feature in the lads lite is the fact that he is a Christian Indian His name Is David Raymond and his home 1s on the Rosebud Indlan reservation In South Dakota. He has affiliated with the church at Turtle Hill, Miilboro, 8. D., and his falth in the Christian religion is be- lleved to have a marked influenee upon his Iders spparently having abandoned the |desire to live and recover from his unfor- | \ I &-—n or been overcome by gas before it afforded them any protection. tunate catastrophe. Beslde bis bed during many long hours | sits his mother, an Indlan squaw. The In dian mother brought her brave son to Omaha on Northwestern train No. 106 and was accompanied by a trained nurse, Mrs Julla Ramis. He was taken from the traln at Unlon station in a critical condition with his face in & terribly mangled condition. A jagged wound had been furrowed across his f by the bullet from his revolver. He was hurried to the Clarkson hospital, where everything possible Jas been done to case the pain and relieve his suffering. The lad bore a letsr from Aaron B Clark, in charge of the Rosebud ,Indian agency, to Rt, Rev. George A. Beecher, rector of the Trinity cathedral, asking that all possible attention be shown the wounded lad . 5,000 and 30,00 |DOBLINS. ASKING Attorneys Allege Misconduct Attorney General Byers, by NO RIGHT TO APPEAR IN CASE Undue Influence Exerted Upon Jury as Result—Alleged Errors of Court Set Forth in Motion, “That the attorneys for the state were guilty of misconduct in the argument to the jury in that they stated to the jury in substance that it was the duty of the jury to find the defendant gully In defense of the good reputation of the city of Councl Bluffs and the county of Pottawattamie' 1s one of the forty-one reasons alleged by counsel for John R. Dobbins why he iould be granted a new trial in the dis- ltrict court of Pottawattamie county at Council Bluffs. Dobbins was recently con victed on the charge of larceny of $0,000 from T. W. Ballew, a banker and lumber Kking at Princeton, Mo. The motion In arrest of judgment and for a new trial was filed late yesterday afternoon, It is further alleged in the motion that Attorney General H. W. Byers was gullty of misconduct in his argument to the jury in giving his reasons for his appearing for the state In that such reasons were not the reasons fixed by law authorizing him to appear as @ prosecutor, and that said reasons were presented to the jury for the | purpose of infiuencing the jury to believe that there were charges of official cor- ruption in connection with the defendant, jand that it was the duty of the jury to find the defendant guilty In order that there might be a vindication of public of- ficlals, The defense also contends that the court erred In admitting the evidence of the Mikes" George F. Castle, W. H. Bedford, John Hermelbrecht, G. A. Nelson and George Brown as to other alleged swin- dling transactions in which Dobbins was not implicated and with which he had no connection The Instructions of Judge Green [jury are attacked in twer and the indic ent itself is attacked to the n the ground of being insufficient and |that “the charge as made In the indict | ment does not charge the defendant with the crime of larcgny committed in the man ner in which the state claims the same was | commitied.” No date has as yet been set for arguing | the motion of a new trial |LAW BUILDING AT BOULDER | Gift of Guggenbelm to University of Colorade is Dedi- cated. BOULDER, Colo, Nov. 2.—The new law bullding of the University of Colorado, th gift of United States Senator Simon Gug- genhelm, was dedicated with appropriate ceremontes hera today. Addresses were 1ade by Governor Shafroth, Sepator Gug- genhelm, President Baker of the state in- stitution and The law cost $50,000. CABLES ARE_WORKING AGAIN Communication with the West Indian Zone is Established Once More. V YORK, Nov. 24—That part of the Indian zone which has been out of touch with the world since the hurri- others. w | cable | cane of November 7 is again In wire com- | munication with the United States and Europe. The cable companies reported to- day that communication with all West In- dlan stations has been re-established, y-three particu- | butlding | NEW TRIAL{First Real Winter Storm in the East New York Will Have Its Several Years. NEW YORK, No snow tonight, the of the year, giving day would fivst be a | first in many years. | Desptte an alleg povrd, th was habitants of the me rather than feast tomorrow. Packet compiny's Point some snow in the gales prevailed. Five Mi HARRISBURG, | ment Stuart K amount had been stated at was ma vention here today. Pa., ed real winter storm makes it look as if Thanks- indlcation polls intended to fast The markets “white one,” First “White” Thanksgiving Day for 24.—Driving sleet and scarcity of turkeys pand the record prices of % to # cents a no that steamer Virginia interior England from the south early today. the ons for M Nov. that the bequests of the th me in collislon at the latter's wharf off Town The Mobjack’s wheel was smashed. The Virginia's flagstatf was smashed. BOSTON, Nov. 24.—An early winter storm with a cold, sleety rain on the coast and reached New —Announce- late John nnedy of New York to the Pres- byterian Board of Forelgn Missions would to $5,000,000 instead of $1,000,000, of his death at the Laymen's Missionary con- the in- steamer Mobjack and the Baltimore Steam jonly as a matter of practice. The were ] Stifg as | OMAHA BALLOON FLIES WELL Lieutenant Haskell Pilots Dirigible Over Fort. SHIP SOARS TO DIZZY HEIGHT Signal Corps Aeronauts Remain in Alr Bighteen Minutes and Land Safely—Ofticers Elated Over Success. Aerial navigation in the vicinlty of Omaha was glyen market impetus Wednes- day afternoon when an army balloon quartered at Fort Omaha was safely plloted over the grounds by Lieu- tenant Willlam Haskell and Sergeant Smith of the slgnal corps. Soring gracefully over the fort and en- dirigible | WEATHER FORECAST, For Nebraska Cloudy repor Partly cloudy. warmer page THANKSGIVING FOR ALL OMAHA Various Forms of Observance Will Be Followed, but Everyone May Share Blessings. CHURCHES WILL HOLD SERVICES Charitable Societies Will Extend Bounties to the Unfortunate. EVEN PRISONS WILL FEEL CHEER St. Joseph and Omaha High School Footballists Meet. GAME AT VINTON STREET PARK Interstate Shooting Tournament nat Henson Gun Club and Theaters Will Afford Pleasure for Many Folk. i ———— [ PROGRAM OF THE DAY. | Foot ball, Vinton Park—Omaha High school vs, Topeka High school. uA Gentleman from Mississippi,” the Boyd. (“The Girl in the Grandstand,” the Burwood. “The Time, the Flace and the Girl,” the Krug. Vaudeville—The Orpheum. Interstate gun tournament, son Gun olub. Special churoh services. Postoffice gemeral delivory open to 10:30 &, m. and 6.to 7 P. ¥ gular morning carrier deliveris Collections of mail same as BSun- days. Everybody in Omaha will have a Thanks- glving day If he will but take advantago of the opportunities offered. The business houses, offices' and public institutions gen- erally will be closed to allow employes and employers 4o abserve the day. Spectal, se¥ices are to be held in many of the churches. Some of the churches have joined in holding Thanksgiving serv- ices In certain distriots. The Young Men's Christian assoclation wiil give @ dinner to the young men of the ity who are away from’home. The Youns Men's Christian assoclation proposes 19 make those so situated forget thelr inabil- ity to eat Thanksgiving dinner at home so far as possible. Open house will be kept all day at the Young Women's Christlan assoclation. There will be gymnastic events in the morning and at 4 o'clock a basket ball game. A musicale will be given at a o'clock. Thar giving day dinner {s an- nounced for o'clock The poor have not been neglected and the charitable institutions of the city have all my provisions for their charges. The Volunteers of America are distributing bas- | kets filled with provisions for the hollday dinner and the Salvation Army {8 conduet- ing a similar program. The pri s In the jafls will’ have turkey token that though they may be naughty they are not forgotten Americans. Special programs and menus will make | the Inmates of the nospitals as happy as environment and health will permit. The athletic event of the day, abovo others, will be the game between the city and county for dinner as a one ) Omaha and Topeka high schools at Vinton | street park. The Benson Gun club will have on hand the Interstate gun tourna- | ment. reported that they were well sold out of |cireling the park, attaining at some times turkeys, chickens and rabbits—the latter (@ height of &0 feet, the dirigible atiracte being in unusual demand this year. considerable attentlon In the ty of Charitable organizations, undaunted by |Fort Omaha and eclipsed all records for tha hixh have stocked thelr baskots | {IEhts in this vielnity. It is estimated for the poor s abundantly as ever and |th8l the aeronauts traveled ten miles R ATl 30 Hiore Thiokiy through space during the afternoon trials NORFOLK, Va., Nov. 2—A severe north. | Lisutenant Hankell not only demonstratca g el B . e . |his mastery over the dirizible in rising J'\,"l'“‘;“;“‘m‘"" B Dt '€ |10 & lzzy helght, but brought the fiyer to e iontng. rendy. to. sl from eaTth at the starting polnt near the balloon | ] Y . {house. At all times he was in perfect con- Hampton Roi was storm bound there. {0 % S B SR Mory coasting schooners caught In the| ‘g, o0 flighis were made during the af- gale off this coast hurrled into the roads |ternoon. the first one at 4:10 o'clock, On | for shelter. f{the first trlp the aeronauts remained in During the storm the Old Dominion the air eighteen minutes, coming to earth other flights were of ten duration, verything worked splendidly during the trials,”” sald Lieutenant Haskell, when the dirigible was housed for the night, and fiftcen and at no time did the engine balk or go back on us. During several stretchus through the heavens we must have been 5 Ofeetin the alr, but our average height was probably 300 feet. Descent Made Safely. “It was all very simple. We rose easily from the balloon house and flight salled over Miller safely to the forth as easlly as we on our park, returning We came down went up, with the bi (Continued on Second Page.) SEATTLE, Nov ing passcngers of | ger train No. 3, |arrived last night |of the terrible | Cas climbing | bridges Shortly me=sage the rullroad Iviver had gone o | three other Great de mountains rock over th aft, was Tongs, ninety feared damage to |50 great that it | the ln FPORTLAND, ton the rain to a wind storm, siderable financtal due Nov in n The ks and reached the r -A rellef train t Northern p Mond: Seattle passe arrival of the received bridge ut. the loss. here over The cast will “take 24.~The that has prevalled in the Pacific northwest for two days shows no signs of abating In eastern Oregon and eastern is of secondary the al of at weeks here great So far gers havoc of the floods in the Waiking near’y a mil porary f train. | train a stating Skyhomish passenge Northern tr marconed between the Casca miles e tunnel and Northern to open | Washing- importance which has caused con- Floods Te;ciring Out Bridges, Rivers Are Out of Banks toid foot that s of are It is 1s torm we | | stranding of ported, no lives have been lost. No damage to shipping is reported, except the the schooner Mary Winkle- man, near Port Townsend. In northwestern Washington, sack river, after a temporary day, began to rise again. The ranches on the lowlands are flooded and the raliroads have lost 4 number of bridges. Train schedules are demoralized. Along Puget Sound the out of thelr the Sook- fall yester streams are all banks and flooding the low- lands and destroying and rall- road tracks. The Great Northern railroad, which crosses the Cascade, east of Everett, is tied up, several trains being stalled in the mountains. In the Grays Harbor country the greatest loss has been to logs, one raft alone, val ued at §200,000, belng swept out Along the benk of the Columbia river land slides have put the railroads out of business temporarily In the Willamette valley, rivers are tor- bridges minutes’ | We flew through space at a steady galt | first | Just | 1o sea | Play at Parochial School. | The pupils of St Joseph's parochial school, Seventeenth and Center streets, are to repeat their amateur theatricals recently | given, on the afternoon of Thanksgiving | day. “st. Julla” will be given In German, | while “Kathleen” wiii he presented In | The entertainment will legin at At 7 o'clock in the evening & Thanks- giving dinner will be served at the People's church to all who have mnot had the pleasure of the holiday dinner e.sewhere. The Holy Communion will be admin- Istered. at all Saints' church at 10:80 o'clock in the morning, and an address will be made by Rev. T. J. Mackay, rector. The First Christian, the Kountze Memorial and First Baptist churches will unite in giving services at 10:30 o'clock at the First Bap- tist, Twenty-uluth av®ue and Harney street. Rev. J. M. Kersey, pastor the First Christian church will preach. The cholr of the First Baptist chureh will have charge of the musical pro am. ervices 1will be held by the First Christian Sclence hurch at Chambers Danelng academy, Twenty-fifth and F a streets, at 11 o'clock In the morning. Rev. James McGee f Marshalltown, Ta. will preach in the svening at Calvary Baptist church The German Free Evangelical church, will render & 10:80 o'elock & Twelfth and Dorcas streets Thanksgiving program at m., with an address by the Rev. F, H. W, Bruechert Other Churches Unite, The North Presbyterian, Immanuel Bap- First United Presbyterian, North Side stian, Trinity Method!st, United Broth- ren and Piymouth Congregational churches will unite in 11 o'clock sedvice at Ply- mouth churck, Rev, P. H. MecDowell of Immanuel Baptist, will preach the sermon and prayer will be offered for the Old Peoples’ hom The service of the six churches In the Hanscom park district will be held in the Grace Lutheran church, th Twenty- sixth str betw Poppleton and Wool- worth avenues, at 11 a Rev. L. O Beird will preach t} rmon. The offering | will be for the Old4 People's home | Thursday the cl 1 will be closed all |aay. ana the ele rs will be shut down |to allow the operators to get to the first table. The families of about seventy-f ployes of the John Deere Plow e will eat Thanksglving day turkey at the (Continued on Fifth Page)