Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 25, 1915, Page 1

\ 1,500 Persons Perish as Boat Sinks [wiwe | THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE [ s 6, OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, 25, 1915-FIV — = fill("l‘m\\ 'I‘IHRI'\ FOUR PA( SINGLE COPY FIVE C RUSH TO WATCH Unstable Vessel Turns Turtle at Chicago Dock, jHflUflAY ENDS FILM MAN MADE \“‘ estanoupser] Going Down PV" ad of Women and Children 'M [quLATfITlEI?ES { Eye-Witnesses Tell Police Movie 'Western Electrical Company ’s Employees !Partlal LlSt Of the Known Dead Exoursion mup Eastland Rolls Over Operator in Launch Attracts and More Than Thousand Die VOL. XLV—N iy g to Number of 1,500 Drown Without Chance [t fuar o | Wi Tew N tmusd Sand tn | U2 i Oluoqo Biver. - tRIE DETAMBLE, 7 C. B PlE 3 E. W. SCHABRFBR, 19 MRS, 1D. JU" NBON, ALL SWEEP OVER TO SEE HIM 3 g : ;M. O SLIECK 3 MARGARET BWANSON. 18 IE ks CHICAGO, July 24.— Loaded with 2,500 excursionists, employees fiiffi‘i\\;i‘:xg;‘\-‘*" B o “\“\'\'\\,t Ny ':l:::w‘ e 3oy ) i i - . y A NDERSON, 1§ Cleero, T e SRAVALLER, Ok Par “‘“‘:fl‘o‘:’.“’;:::;‘;:‘:";‘m"m 7" |of the Western Electrical comaany and their familes, the steel steamer,| Mifiuisiyies s BAUTIL FORRES B cigea, m, | everal Takea Out Alivy frem Oskify Steamer. Eastland, capsized at its- dock in Chicago river today. Six hours after| i, fLAi ¥t B s Mieg EUIE MR * m"';m, ,',i‘fi;:,f‘“ b tho accident the police had checked 679 bodies as recovered, and best| Fiwaih Area” A SARRY HILL —_ FRANTIC WORK AT THE PUMPS p ’ S _‘F‘n‘.},’::f\lw’\,ffl,,.f“ ™" | Miss MARYE RIED e T BOAT FAULTY IN ITS DESIGN estimates were that 1,500 men, women and children had perished. By Sofasouont | CARRI CHICAGO, July 24.—That a sud- h = % Y ANNA RUDOLPH | JOH BULLETIN den rush of persons on the deck of| SOME the number was placed even higher, but evidence to substantiate| FoNAN stowiNacy. » [ MRS ADRBRT UNDBRIGH, B iy B, DAFBLO. N. i look at h fi {;’l‘,’,',""' JONES, 4 ERS: ALBERT UNDERISH, . OHIOAGO, July 24.— Coroner the Eastland to port sde to look at|gych figures was lacking. Scores who escaped drowni in| T [ HR EAw . : i . ing were hurt in SCHMIDT. HOABAHE, 10) Hoffman at 8 o'clock tonight esti- ) a speeding launch caused the catas p g Ko Sleero, L. g | CArArSoCE Itk 1t mated the number of bodies to be trophe, was the assertibn of Jack the panic that marked the disastel‘. JAMES NOVOTNY, M. taken to the Second Regiment ar- 11T a MISS & 1 » | N [ Elbert, gauge tender of the ste:(mer City, county, state and redanl’ —- .| JOHN “n”-.} everig | :“l»\: ‘\HZ‘.T"(';‘}('.NER“ oty mory at 1,500. Of thesé he sald He sald he 4nd J. M. Eric 3":"offlclalu worked fo learn the cause of |over on ita side. I climbed over on the the United States steam boat regulations MR AN ROSE 4 agrar® | 800 had already reached the armory chiet engineer, escaped drowning by | the disaster to recover bodtés of vic-|&ide of the boat and stayed there until (I have no idea how the accident oc- MRS, MINNIE ROSE, MISS CONA us-rwm*n‘rr n yur-. from morgues and other places wading through water in the hatchiting, trace missing persons and aid |l ¥* taken o!fl by :ra savers. Many of |curred." | RS MboL: FT where they were first taken. and crawling-out of a porthole into|(he jnjured. In this th '@ passengers leaped into the water as | The steamet Fastland was bullt in 1903 | IDA ZOBE ed. In 8 they were as-|(ne boat went over. Scores of others |and owned Dby the Eastland Navigation | FRE M1t ANNA En’ffrffir‘«‘f&" geare | oHICAGO, July 24.—More than ARNOLD MARTIN omulm 3 SN IaD MASE years.| 1,000 persons, possibly 1,800, most ( the river. sisted by every agency that the city |were caustt in the cabin and drowned. |company of Cleveland, 0. It was 3 fest “Tho steamer, Eestland, was ket ooulq summon, hospitals, mercantile | When the small boats began coming out [long, 3 feet wide and had a draft of | ater ballast sys- | l.::.:!? :r,;b;nr:ms:‘:f n‘v:;‘t;rr - uwuw:wl,‘c““"“" physicikns, ' éhWirehes and ::k::‘l worl'(‘:d;r:rlnl:t r::nlrh:u:vl‘\nrs l: 23 feet, with a net tonnage of 1218, Tt AvE ] THOMAS ROSE. of them women and children, were ' H . passe vater an brough Chicago N JULIA BCHNOLL, into the chambers in the ship until it be- | orgatized charities lending their or-|cutting holes in the cabins to remove the |ueed |:“::.:e':eu(r::on bul::nll::‘ ::ndsfl‘-‘.:; Ak ]v:’}r,r GUNDERLOCK, MILLYg SCHNOLL. drowned today within a few feet of . comas steady. This was done before even | ganizations or experience to the|bodles.” Haven, Mich, for several years. Later ;‘DIWHRI TI ?! °R ul:':h";ll-?fl\i. JORNEA, B land by the capsizing of the steel first thi . | o . . LINORE ORNI 88 JUL] . years. ;’;‘::‘;"l;"‘-“:‘o;';‘h:’“::u :ry:‘:l peld~n B TP, Policeman Rescues Fifty. [It was taken to Cleveland, O, and placed | THOMAS ROMINSON. MARTIN “QUWAR, l;g yoors steamer Bastland, as it was about to ek Policeman H In th c ’ JHN SALWASSER . RANES NOVA ; land begen to lean to starboard. Brick- Awtal Panfc on Deck. « |qo ¢ ot l::"";'cs“ e “"evl"’d i Rkt "':’“;":""} L st “h"‘ Thle | RORERT DOLL B MAMIE JUNGWITH, , leavé its whart in the Chicago rives son, the chief crgineer, was in charge of| Panie of the worst kind struck the ue, gave a vivid de- 8pring the boat was remofeled. It was | MIS8 MARGARET CHRISTIANSON, MAMIE JUNGWITH, 11 y ars, Cloero, | with 2,600 relatives and friends of g sed to pump water into the | acription of the accident, “I saw acores |then brought to Chicago &nd put on the | MARTY JUDGE ear i, ] the p‘nrmm ul o pump passengers when the boat began t0|of men and women, many of them hold- |Tun to st Joseph, Mich, 1t | CATHERI 8 mfiyun, 21 years. EMI HIECK employes of the Western Blectric f chambers. turn’ over. Best accounts nf witnessed ing children, plunge intc the water, 1|had n steel hull and was known | Mo Hi.CR! ",‘\','\‘.},',l““ R T by 0 company, for an excursion across | Jump Into Water. sald the steamer rolled slightly twice, | jumped Into a rowboat and pulled out to |88 one of the fastest excursion boats on | .D. MURPHY, UISE THRI Lake Michigan. The ship rolled on { “Heo sald, ‘Boys, steady her up a little,’ | then turned further. and that hundreds|the drowning. I think I got about fifty [the great lakes. It had & speed of twen. | MIES ROSE 'rnrnuw 28-Cloero, T LLIAM FENLION, Morton Park its side i tWentydive 2est of Wl and then we pumped water into the other | Of .screaming, struggling “men, women |ashore. The firebonts and tugs burried |ty-one miles an hour. | 3o xeae . | | | slde until it was up even and all right. |8nd children slid across the sloping |to the scenes and picked up more than \ Stmilar Disnster Averted. | e de i i )} We had just evened it up when a launch | decks, fought for room on the com- 100 people. l The Eastland nearly met with a similar l I S l L ":y,,‘,tl pring tonfght declared that ] came down the river and past the Bast-| Panion ways and clutched at com-| “We grabbed those nearest us first piyradity » At |aceident eight years ago when in com- Jand, and the crowd rushed to port side | panions, deck chairs, or any other ob-|one time 1 had four women in the boat mission between Chicago Rgd South 1,800 petsons were Ikilled, while other 1o look at {t. The weight on one side ap-| ject that came to hand. with me. Others I alded by drageing {",,,,,,. Mich. The boat, crowded with Ds OF lNDIA S NATIONAL DEFENSE estimates ran as high as 2,000, but thess ) parently proved too much, and the Bast-| Women &nd children by the hundreds |them from the water onto the docks. passengers, listed badly In the South did not agree with the statement that i nd began fo st badlv. | wers causht below decks and the SCeptatnl Hatey Pederson. 1 years ol of [ Haven barbor. whin the water ballast | A DOE SNe AN BN SEERMUEIN. e “We worked frantically ai ratched faces, torn clothing and bru + Mich., who was in con- | was being taken aboard. Officers of the | Two Hundred Reds of Zapata Forces | Preside i with Garrison [bosrd the vestsl. During the, day mere to try to bring it back.” bodies of the dead bore mute evidence [mand of the boat, said: ship drove the passengers to the other 2 ,( P d ;tvr;l Con!oeor d; i than 700 bodies were taken from the Eye-witnesses informed the police that | o the desperation with which they had| "I Was on the bridgs and was about | sidu of-the vessel and probably averted Are in Possession of the and Daniels on Comprehensive |river and the hull of the overturned there was & man in the launch operating | fought for a chance for life, - ready to pull out when I noticed the boat | repetition of today's disaster. Oapital. Scheme to Enlarge It. steamer, whose sides were out epen with & moving ploture cumors, d that fl:,!:‘ The whole trage’y occupled less than :’::"‘m“" list. I shouted °::"-d ‘flk oPen |, Joho.Morey, & Western Bleotrjo com- i A , sas flames to admit divers. attractéd the attention o ngers five minutes. Members of! the crew sido doorsneatest the dock and | gy, employe, was one of the rescued. SLI HINT TRA SESSION Taken Out Alive. 4 the Bastland, who rushed to one side of | ypouteq warnings as the stoamer first :’_.‘" ;u"; "“Z"...‘a charice 10 get OUL |y wag on the uppér deck,” said Morey, | ALL BUSINESS HOUSES W e A X "] Sevaral persons wore thken allve from f the boat. tilted and Captain Pedersen ordered| "® 4oty 0 ol and hOrUY | .when the boat began to list. I thought 4 the eabins in the ship after it had laln o Shordy aster 3 p.m. the temporary RO {fower deck ports opened and il pasey SCCVVES the hawbers, broke and 00| i boat was recking at firt, then T kept! MEXICO CITY, July 19, (By Cour-| ' WASHINGTON, July 84.—Wormat| 6 (AL 0 W8 S0 AOCE e houre { T et 1o capacity with bodies, the | NESTS ,ashiors. Thérs was, howeVer. |snueing toward the middls of the rivar. | [UTIGE O one side. I caught hold of fer to Vers Cruz.)—The city is in|Sroouscement was made at the .. ., "s0 other persons sald to be in ] { el thebe Wik oatiuiated: at 00, TThe no chance for such a measure to .“o-‘“'hen 1t went dver T jumped and held on | N®_Fat! and :lwld on us the boat went | the hands of a band of 200 Indians. White House today that President| . nulk are all dead, ¢ at Washington | €¢¢9: to the upper side. 1t all happened in two “Lc. On its side | Wilson on his return to Washington| Under the glare of searchilghts to- Becond Regiment armory ot WAsMNERN | gome seven thousand tickets had béen | minutes. The cause ia a mysters 1o me.| - 100Ke chair swung around and struck | Z8Pata forces, in retreating, have '~ ' o' "o, el o a i | night, scores-of men worked in the. hull anditurgs sL "{":_‘:‘:’]“m";::; Ut | Qistributed for tho excursion and {ive |1 have sailed the lakes for twenty-fiv ™° Ofthe forhead. Something else hit |torn up the rafiroad to Cuernavaca Sante for na-|Of the vessel to remove the bodies. The :r‘:ecmmumuflt:: coliseum on South Wa- [ fteamers chartered by the company.|years and previous o that saled on | '"% 1 don't know what it was, but I man- and Toluca. All business' houses a"d :“: oy ;‘hpm""’l‘d i steamer lay on the bottom of the river, bash avenue would also be used | The Eastland first_to recelve it salt water twelve yoars and this is "‘"‘ux od. to keep my hold on the rall untll | zng pakeshops are closed and even |tonal defense. e presldent has| .. haif of it protruding from the river. - " baby less than 1 year old was taken | 1U0ta and when |t chartered capacity | first merious accifent I ever had, I du| :r-x' helped to land [ the well-todo find ditficulty in buy- written to the heads of the War and| The cause of the capsizing had not been | aifve foom the hull of the boat by res- | Wae Teached. federal inspoctors ordered inot know how it happaned.” iR e S B On SR oA e abilas 1t Navy departments for'reports on the |determined tonight, but federal city and ! e O O o this moming. Specta- | thakno more be taken aboard. The boat| The steamer Theodors Roosevelt wao| Of the boat at the time and many of them | (0§ | b rellet commitlee 8|\ ject, pointing out the mecessity|ftate officers were conducting investige- fors on the Clark street bridge cheered | Was docked on the south. side of thetumned into a temporary morgue. Bodies MUSt have been drowned. unable to help and the lack of food | ¢ i ing | 11ons to determine whether the ship was o the infant was raised from the steam- | TiVer. and when the hundreds hurry-|of Women and chiidren lined the cabin | Scenes similer to those that followsd |ys heing keenly felt. There s no | CF WOKIn& out plans for InCreaslng| g,y eevy *rom fauity designing, was s mold. It was said the child would | N (0 the boat were turned back from | Waiting for identification. It was re.)'he Iroauoln theater disaster cast gloom | o onjearion with the outside|tDe efficlency of the military arms|improperly ballastes, or was poorly it they streamed ncross the Clark street |borted that more than fifty bodies wero|OVer the city along South Water street, ot the government. handled in warping from the wharf. / ’:‘l'l Bodies Above Water Line Out.|Pridse to the steamer Theodore “Roose- |board the Roosovelt at 9:15 o'clock. :l::""'f;”: ‘""‘u""::’““" gl ‘;"':““:‘ w",;':l' °l“°l°ht b{ t“":""' The White House statement follows: Baaity ta Dot el X n 8 practically suspen usiness s is e latest word to come I ¥ o At 2:9 p. . Dr. M. K. Little of the | Veits which was to take the secend load. Bone. Willng " to- Ohpanity {and threw open the doors of thelr, eatab- | out o Mexico City. The president has been considering | Marine achitects asserted that the Bast- The steamer was filled to capacity and | It was o 0 b Red Cross service announced that all the Mok Paute od Bridas, hundreds were furned to other boaty ac- |lishments as temporary morgues and hos- | sent one | every phase of the matter of national|japd was faulty in design, that the top bodies above the water line and Within | Screams of the Eastlano, victims halted | cording to S. G. Hall, one of the Western | Ptals day after Carranza forces G‘M"MBG{"""’""' A antonds tmmediately on 18 | deck had been removed, because of the easy reaching distance had been brought |¢his rush ahd the bridee was jammed | Electrie plcknickers, He estimated that| All the big downtown department stores | the capital to meet an approaching Mt to £ ”M‘“"flw orbtary of the | oMSuCY. ot the ohio fo. Usk(aml. WSl out and that divers were .searching the | with people until police, fearful that the {7,000 tickets had been distributed to the |MUrried truckionds of blankets to cover | Villa colfmn. secretary of war and secretary of the |,ointeq to the possibility that the wiie wreckage and staterooms on the side of | gtructure would collapse, ordered It [employes and that more than 2,100 were | the dead and drenched women and chil- AR s navy, his purpose being to procure In-|y.q pegn unevenly, or insufficlently bal- I the vessel nearest the bottom. cleared. crowded on the Eastland. dren who were huddled in shivering Pl f : formation on which he can formulate & |ioueq. The Bastiand used water ballast, | The Red Cross station, which for &} Every resource of the city was turned | “I got to the dock,” said Hall, “and |Eroups. aces o BuSlneSS SO, SmRacH 40d practical program of | . yna¢ it could pump out some on en- | time was used as an emergency hos-|t; the rescue work. Remembering the | was told to go to the other boats as the| Newspaper men were denied permission . uhtional duf '“"I \ctally | tering shallow lake harbors, and inves- | pital, now has been turned Into & mMOrEUA (Iroquofs theater disaster, mercantile con- | Eastland was already too crowded, |t0 Bo aboard the Roosevelt and police- GIVB Shelter to the Althoukh nothing was stated officlally | o0 iory are working on & theory that { and attempts to revive those brought out | cerns in the vicinity hurried motor trucks | There were fifteen or twenty persons be- | men guarded its gangways. They declined concerning the purposs. of the gov the ballast tanks were not filled and the practically were abandoned. to the scene laden with blankets to warm | hind me and more roming faat. to say how many bodies were aboard the SuerVOI'S of HOITOI' ment, it was hinted officlally that With | .y iny o paseengors on one side of the » The work of rescue wenf on With mo- |the living or cover the dead. Pulmotors | “I was told that 7,00 tickets had been |ship, but rows of corpses coild be seen on the dispatcly of the emphatic mnote tol, ., "o, uging 1t to roll ove notonous precision. Eight divers equipped | by the score were sent to the dock: phy-|distributed among the company’s em-|the decks. Frantic efforts were belng | Germany, the president had decided to | TGO SCLAE (il Ton men, women with underwater suits and helmets | sicians, police, firemen, government Ilhiplaye- and that there were to be six |made to revive victims. A score of pul- | CHICAGO, July 24—Stores and whole- hasten the reports and recommendations | ...~ 1 4ren went to the river wharf searched the holds of the vessel, aided (gavers and nurses were, summond and |boatloads. The only boats I MBard were motors were brougM into use and when | *31® houses in the vieinity temporarily | being prepored by the War gnd ""‘" de-| orly today to fill five large lake steam- by a dozen or more volunteer swimmers, |gl] hospitals and morgues notified to pre- |to be used, however, were the Eastland life was found to be extinct the bodles ,'"’ul-d the survivors and proffered coffee | Partments for the regular '*"| "f" of ‘“;"‘ {ers with holiday mirth in & trip to Mich- who, clad In bathing suits or tripped 10 |pare for patients or corpses. » and the Theodore Roosevelt. | were carried to another part of the ship | | and wandwiches. One big concern turmed | £reas, so that all necessary Information L0 %oy Moy oy gamer Bastiand, brought their underwear, dived, time after time | The stemmer =oated on its side into mid- | “I had scarcely gone ten feet toward |and placed in rows its ralenrooms in Bouth Water street into | might be avallable if ’"""f""“’; "“::' { |to Chicako from Lake Erie, after an un- ) into the murky water. sfream and tugs, motorboats and- other |the Theodore Roosevelt when the Bast-| All avallable employes of the city hall |*P Information bureau and rellef station. | As yet there are no Int '“"'“"' l‘ satisfactory career, was the first to be As quickly as u body was located It {pfver' craft swarmed about it. Firemen |1and began to list. Hundreds ran to the|were sent to the scene by Commissioner | 11T came relatives and friends tearfully | the president has fixed any "“'""‘u'n":Tm-ha. \ was selzed with grappling hooks and |climbed on the hull, forced openings in |rail and many climbed over it sides'as it | of Puplic Works Moorehouse, acting !‘*“"‘ Information. Sal esmen passing | for submitting the """"‘"" s g % | Tain began to fall as the whart super- braught to the surface. “There's one.” |the steel hull and through these seatched (turned over. All were thrown fito the mayor, to assist in the work of checking | *™O¢ the crowd obtained names of | defenso to congress, but his purpose 18 | ..o lireq the gang plank from the \ would be the cry and usually this would |the cabins for possible victims. water." up the names of all persons saved and |t'0%® Misring and their relatives, sald to be to map out cflmpnhtn‘lv.; land, declaring that the government be followed by the call ." | " City fireboats, police launches and life- Boat Starts to Roll. the dead. Tugs in the service of the city | Df J: B: Murphy, Dr. John ¥. golden | plans so that no tme will be loat Should |y of ‘3500 had been reached. White Summer gowns and fisry torn to |hoats from nearby steamers In the river | Mr. Hmmett O'Donnell of Berwyn, IIL, | were sent blocks below the scene to |73 former Health Commisionor Evans, |he decide to call o special seasion. dresses peoped from raincoats along the shreds, scratched faces and clenched |rushed to the rescue. A hole was cut |said: search for bodies which had drifted. Ssomtinent physioians,: R4 oliarge of the shore rails, as those aboard waved good- hands were the rule. The rescuers for |through the side of the lower deck by | “The steamer was getting ready to | Grand jury investisation was forecasted | Medioal rellef station at the “"“’"""?T G t searchm bye to friends on shore waiting to board sevoral hours suffered from the heat of |iifesavers and the bodies of six victims, [leave and was crowded with excursion- (when Walter K. Greenbaum, general |*'a our, . wo ulties g s mlseti o g the hull, caused by the furnaces of the [five of Whom were women, wer soon [sta. The officers of the boat pushed 'magager of the Indiana Transportation |y JL2oA0M gl Gene Tourabene, vt et (he crow back. which waa Around.the | company, which Charred the ssamer | oot 5" SO e, urcle :'.:‘,‘ For a Missing Child| ..., .. %m0 5% w0 oe fast as the bodles were brought out gang-plank in order to pull it in. T think | Eastland for the outing was summoned . 3 _— the hull they wereMaid on stretchers Bovies ‘and Outlas Saesrded. this 1s what caused the boat to lst to |to the state's Attorneys office and ques- | OnC Of that Party was rescued, so far| MASON CITY, Ia, July 24 m;m.l“l!“;w o l:’.‘.:lv‘:,l:..urmfl; o and covered with blankets, A tug moored | L. D. Gadory, employed as & "candy fone side. It never stopped when it started | tioned State's 'Attorney Hoyne. Mr. | “Yorank Hefle, 11 years old, was cryi Telogram.)—A battaljon from the Second |4 tug was hitched to tre Eastiand, ropes between the wreck and the dock formed |butcher” on ‘the steamer. was the first ¢, yo)) and @ few minutes later it was ' Hoyne was at his home when informed of ..lm' f;, 'fo 4 n, : ,'.:"‘ said ”\’ : :‘”“l today jolned in the search for| mwr:. od cast off and the engines & bridge. The stretcher bearers pa¥sed be- | eye-witness to tell 4 detalled story of the oyt in the middle of the river on its side. |the: disaster. He imumediately Notified | tiofle rad boon at name when Informed | mising . Baby . Goldthorpe, lost. stolen |bewsn to mam. . The Eastiand had not twen two priests, one of whom gave ab- |accident s I saw dosens of people drowned around ! nls assistants to make the inquj e e T e o whlah | I T R ars: a5 M,“‘;b:‘::td ol A {Gamitnued on Page Twe, Column Three.| & ¢ Was aboud T:0 o'clock this morning me, put was unable to give aasiatayce. | There were more than 30 doct.™ work- | jiy' father, Frank Hefle, sr., his mother tnoroushly investigated. The parents| Inatead, the heavily laden ship wavered e | &nd the Loat, which had been chartered |py g great effort I was able to climb on |ing over the victims In the Lemporary ema two. sisters, _Josephine, 19, and poia - S50/ 40 that the child was |eide-ways, leaning first towards the river by the employes of the Western Electric |the upper side of the boat and managed nospitals by 10 o'clock. Rev. Father J. K. | Katherine, 16, were passengers. Al four |y e By n”:h - before the dis-|bank. The lurch was so startling that The Weather company for an excursion o Michisan i¢o hold on untll I was taken off by res- |Vlelding and Father John O'Hearn were | ware among the missing Caoni e P8 stopped |many passengers joined the large con- City, Ind., was lylng at the dock near |euers’ |#00n at the scens administering the last e O e s eI Clark street bridge loading with passen- | Lyse Goyatte, 18 South Ayers ave- |rit the child was killed by a'reckless driver| The ship then keeled back. It turned - |gors,” said Gadory. “We were to leave in on oA s ahiiana ' | For Omaha, Council Bluffs and Viein- nue, Chicago, s sirls an were n the state- T W | ttyUnsettiod, _Probably showers; not |tWenty minutes and the upper deck and | ‘Nfy wife and I had just entered the | room having & little party of our .l Orna,do recks and the body carried away, Two cities much chAnke in temoerature cabins were crowded with Dassenkers. (hoat and were in the crowd on the main | when, all of & sudden, we felt the boat B | are joining In the search, sl R o R Temperature at Omaba Yesterday.|Thore were hundreds of women and deck near the gansway. Then 1 heard | golng over’ said Miss Lettie Andersen. | Bufldlngs at Boone| The Day’s War News J‘hl'drn 1 estimgfe that’there were be- !some one shout, ‘Get back,' and we were 'one of the survivors. jtweedl 2,000 and 3000 on the boat at the |pyshed over to one side. A moment later | “We all fell Into a heap. The screams' BOONE, Ia., July 24—(Speclal Tele- Ch]cago MayOI' Now time of the accident. I was standing on [tne boat started to list. We were all and shrieks of the women n other state- a “ gram.)—A tornado passed through Boone FROM ALy, SIDES exoept the east ::(’ 1::"::;:;"::';:’“- l-":vl:::"-‘w"' ipanicatrickgn and could do nothing. 1’ roomd were maddening. I fell into the county tonight, doing thousands of dol 011 Wa,y Ba,ck Home Teutonie armies are continuing g the p aboar enly 1 llifted my wife In my arms and crawled ' water and did not see my sister or any damage. Builldings were unroofed their concerted pressure on Wars noticed the boat list toward the center of |out of an opening on the upper side of | o¢ the elght the river. It rolled slightly at first and the boat as it slowly went over." then séemed to stop. Then it started to | W. K. Greenebafm, manager of the In- others after that" elevata blown over, silos and trees lald | Joe Brozak velated how he was saved low. The roof of the Boone Gas company | sew, the fate of which still hangs in the balamee. Direct assaults BAN FRANCISCO, (‘.l July 24— Will- mayor of Chicago fam Hale Thompson, from death because his caugl boller house was torn off, carried through | fort prot the zal':nm Idbelc-::a“u-:‘-lr:-aAuu -no;ua diana Transportation compapy, Who Was | o noq o1 we .,m: .CI::trt(y ofmh:x: ‘he':lrmnnd dropped on top of the big|®nd his party, about eighty in all, will :“';‘.': "_.."""_h. u_":"‘m ; X e ero 0 P o pparently & |in charge of the excursion, sald d they were all 4 4 sald Brozak &8s holder. Men there sustained'minor | leave on a special train late tonight for the Germans eolaim. They are jority of the passengers were on one | “We had chartered five steamers for Dilther k. Chicago, foregoing the Ohicago day cele- side of the boat and this had overweighted [the excursion of the Western Blestric , o, oo\ CAUENt on & nall and when the injuries. ‘ caped | bration Tuesday at the Panama-Pacifio| Memmeriag espesially herd wpem it and caused it to list. Suddenly the |company’s employe Michigen™ City, | P08t Went over. I was held bove the| Barnum & Bailey's cirous here, ex | exposition, which brought them here Ivangered. oyes P, | doter. " 3¢ It had hot Sos without serlous damage, but big crowds | exposition, oo N CAMPAIGN tn Courland Compafative Local Record. hawsers which held the boat to the dock |Ind., today. We had the steamers East- | “houia Mhot Deen for (e pa. | = N B coen lote’ watl] £y | |emRma tn 1 should now be at the bot | . tttedly progressing favorabl iehon vesesiay .. 5 13 1 13| sgoved nd e ofere paled the enng lan, Petskey! Thaodov Tooseel. Ra- |1 "1 e 38t botiem ot e O B0 0L | ooy ot tibemea tan: - | S ey S Lowest yuler-l‘l); k = B Rl et b wonds | - PIERRE. 8 D., July #.—(Special Tele-| pyyppw 18 HARD FIGHTING slong w_."'lf::”_“ A - &l’ g; Iuspectors Conut Prssenyers. } government inspectors were work- Rehearing Denfed. gram.)—Thd second man In & cutting af-| & mear the Galician border, 000 and .,.«",m"u,, p e Passengers Panic-Stricken. “The Eastland was the first hoat te on the docks_when the Eastlana| PIPRRE, 8 July 24.~(Spectal Tele- | fray here yesterday, Who was captured| motn Austrians and Germans dee ures ;n the ;,.n.all_du (li:zdhl since | “At this time everybody was panic- [load and the docks were ecrowied wit raned over. They were in charge of Sram. The supreme court today denied | last evening and taken to the hospital! oiare the results so far are satis- Maron L and compared with the last | gyrickan. Women screamed and men triad | Passcngers who were 0 be takea cu the pecler T T, MoCurs & motion for rehearing in the -case of | with a bad cut on one of his legs and &| gectory. Petrograd veports fmdis % temporature to quiet them. I attempted to reach an |other boats near by. One I'nited Siates e 4 M the state against the Fullerton I T broken ankle which he recelved when he | ogte a desperate resistance by the f:.'c "'e_";t:ev i«.m&' upper deck, but could not because of the {steamboat inspector and two sslstants by ‘Mdjm_ q :j‘“-f""‘ 0 the | oo mpany, in which the Fullerton and|jumped from the car in which the fight| mussiams. y / Kl , crowd and excitement and ran back to |Watched the Eastiand load. They stood "“'m'm" e :'m-\m‘_‘:d;' thaL | other Jumber companies and thelr agents | ocourred, today Kives his name as Emil|pum NEW AMERICAN NOTE te the port where the gangWwsy had at the gang-plank and counted the pas- | The | wore convicted on charges of violation | johnson and his home in Minneapolie. been. then slowly Qrifted away from [sengers as they went aboard. Their re- | Bhp had taken on al that ft would| ;' anti-disoriminatory law in selling | John Ross of Benson, Minn., who was 3 orntn, into mid- |port shows there were 4500 passengers (bold and the two Inspeotors had tumed y.per cheaper at competitive towns 0"‘ wserlously slashed, ls yet in a orit- .-::“t:o- b mm;m&nmmwumnmwmzmunmh flmnho.?lmmaunwmu ical condition at the hospital. -.u..u:um }