Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 18, 1915, Page 1

OMAHA,, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 18, 1915—-TEN PAGES. On Trains, Notel Wews Btands, oto. So SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. SEA BREAKS IN OVER GALVESTON SWAMPS TOWN City is Now Ready to Begin Repair. ing Heavy Damage Done by the Terrific Hurricane and Rain. COAST IS FLOODED FOR MILES Transport Breaks from Its Moor- ings at Wharf and Drifts Half | Mile Out to Sea. FIRES NOT UNDER CONTROL BULLETIN. WACO, Tex., Aug. 17.—~W. D. Az- belle of Waco, returning home this morning from Galveston, reported that water was running over the causeway when he left at 2 p. m. yes- terday. They waited this morning at Bremond four hours for a train leaving Galveston at 5:30 yesterday atternoon, but this train had not been heard from. BROWNSVILLE, Tex., Aug. 17.— The army wireless station here late this afternoon received a report from Galveston that the storm there was subsiding. No other information was con- tained in the radio dispatch, Buildings Ruined. SAN ANTONIO, Tex,. Aug. 17.— The following wireless telegram was recelved at the Fort Sam Hous- ton wireless station from the army transport Buford in Galveston har- bor this afternoon: “Water in buildings about three feet. All buildings and structures of every nature along water front are ruined. Many boats have been greatly damaged and others destroyed. “The army transport McClellan is high and dry half a mile inland. The number of lives lost is unknown. There has been gteat pecuniary damage.” This message indicates that the water has receded two feet in about three hours, as a message received about 2 o'clock stated that the water stood five feet in many streets and buildings. Funston’s Report. WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.~Under date of 2:30 p. m. today Major eGneral Funston, from Fort Sam Houston, Tex., reported conditions ‘at -Galveston to the War de- as follows: 3 W morning th the transport lellan broke loose from its moorings and drifted a halt mile, It out of commission, the aérials all blown down. All houses on the sea Wwall have been destroyed. Boats are on the main streets taking people from the bulldings. Five feet of water at the depot. No loss of life reported.” GALVESTON, Tex.—(Via Wirelsss to Fort S8am Houston and Telephone to San Antonlo, 10:10 a. m., Aug. 17.—Galveston today had passed through one of the worst storms within the last fifteen years and now Is ready to repair the damage done by last night's hurricane. Five feet of water stands In the city and is slowly draining off. Two fires started today are yet to be placed under control. The transport McClellan late last night broke from its moorings and drifted helf a mile out to sea. The commercial wire- less station at Port Arthur is out of com- cission and the big aerial masts at Fort Crockett are down. Causeway is Damaged. . TEMPLE, Tex., Aug. 17.—It was stated at the office of the Santa Fe railroad here early today that a message had been received from Galveston saying that & large vessel had been blown through the caseway connecting Galveston with the mainland. Two work traifls were ordered to Galveston to assist repair the damage. No Loss of Lite, GALVESTON, Tex. (Via Wireless to San 'Antonlo), Aug. 17.—No loss of life Continued on Page Two, Column One.) The Weather For Omaha, Council Bluffs and Vicinity ~Rain; not much change in temperature. Temperature at Omaba Hours. Y erday. >% ‘ 6 a $a ! i 8 a 67 9 a m. . 67| & m. 12 m .1 1p ] 2p 70 3p 69 4p m. b 5 p. m. & 6 p. m 7 7p m. ] 8 p. m. L8 quu:al: co-pu:s it o wl ing period of the last th | 1916, 1914, 1913, 1912,/ 10 M 3 8 % T u . 8 H a6 0 o .l 'lwn and T’wlplhuon depart- ‘Normal temperature .7 ure and pre- the correapond- reé years: for the day D 4 | o iclenc: linnu h“l %du-i B inch | .08 inches since March e ¥ oor. ‘period. i#id, 4.8 1o ! Reports from Stations at 7 #. M. Station_and State h-Rain- CR e . n 28| s -] T a8 o 25 0 | B by K u\ g 0! 56 o | FREMONT STREETS FILLED WITH WATER Heavy Rains of Monday Night Drive the Rivers from Their Banks Over the State. PART OF THE GALVESTON STORM Morning reports to the railroads indicate rain over practically all Ne- braska Monday night, in most locali- tles continuing Tuesday. A SUMMATY | peyter that Leo M. Frank was lynehed | of the reports show that the heaviest downpour was at Fremont and up the Elkhorn and Platte river valleys a vahnee of twenty miles or so. As a result of the unusually heavy rains the lowlands for miles around Fre- mont are under water to a depth of from one to two feet. At Fremont, according to the report of the agent of the Northwestern there, the rainfall Monday night was 510 luches, with more than 150 inches Mondey after- noon, makng the totall for the day and night close to 6.75 Inches. In the railroad yards in east Fremont it was asserted that the water was more | than two feet and that in the main street from the Union station north it had at- tained a depth of some eighteen inches, flooding basements and first floors. Elkhorn Overflows Banks. North of Fremont for a distance o twenty miles or so, it was reported that the Elkhorn out of its banks and that in some places had overflowed the bottoms, being more than a mile in width. Similar conditions are sald to have maintained up the Platte nearly as far as Scribner. All of the lowlands are flooded, barn buildings rising out of the water like islands in the res. The only washouts reported to the raflroads are along the Union Pacific's branch south of .Beatrice, There, while the rain was not so heavy as over the country to the north, the land being more | rolling, the water came in rapidly from the hille doing more damage. This waush- out was not of grcat extent and was re- paired during the early morning. Down the Missouri valley from Omaha there was an all-night rain and it was still raining at noon, according to a report to the Misesouri Pacific. In Missourl Paclfic territory the rain during the night was around two to three inches. Auburn had a precipitation of 2.76; Fairbury, 1.63; Falrmont, 165, and Ne- braska City and Weeping Water, 3 inches. Galveston Storm. Forecaster Welsh has been trying to get detalls of the storm that is raging at Galveston, but has been unable on aec- count of the havoc wrought to the tele- nect Galveston with the rest of the coun- try. The storm now in progress thera, according to Mr. Welsh, is almost a du- plicate of the hurricane that demolished s preventing any serfous damage. This is the second time since the 1900 disaster that Galveston has been visited by a furfous storm. Mr. Welsh blames the Galveston storm, at least in part, for the weather conditions prevailing here, and has predicted more rain during the next twenty-four hours. Five Stacks of Wheat Burned Near Blair BLAIR, Neb., Aug. 17.—(Special.)—A terrific electrical storm, coming from the northeast, swept down on the bottom and bench lands north of Blair last even- ing about 7 o'clock, during which the lightning struck & wheat stack, standing in a yard of ten staci belonging to Oscar Matthews. Five stacks were com- pletely burned and several others badly scorched. Nelghbors quickly responded to calls for help and assisted in saving the remaining stacks. The Matthews wheat was considered some of the best on the bottom land. He carried insur< ance on the entire wheat crop. Three and one-half inches of ruin fell in about an hour. There are many acres of wheat still standing in this vicinity, which cannot be cut, as the ground Is too soft to take in binders. Grimm Brothers alone have about 150 acres that is standing up In good condition, but cannot get in to cut it. A great deal of the wheat in shock is growing and is so damp as to prevent threshing. The average yield as threshed so far will go about twenty-five hushels. Fulton Writes of Bout with Willard BEATRICE, Neb., Aug. 17.—(Special.)— George Fulton recelved a letter Monday from his brother, Fred Fulton, the| heavywelght pugilist, who, In a way, confirmed the report that he had knocked Jess Willard down at Rochester, Minn, on May 14 He says that he laid Willard flat for the count of five and that the world's champion arose and fin- shed the bout, which was for three rounds. Fulton will fight Arthur Pelkey at Euclaire, Wis., on August 27 and James Coffey at Milwaukee on Labor day. He expects to glve a boxing exhibition in this city in October with his sparring partner, Jack Lester of Kansas City. Fulton expects to cvhallengs Willard before spring, Willard told him at the close of the exhibition at Rochester that he was the best heavywelght he had ever tackled. VICTIMS OF WAHOO AUTO UPSET BETTER PAWNEE CITY, Neb, Aug. 17.-—(Spe- clal.)—Fred Chase, whose home Is near Pawnee City and who was thought te be tatally injured in an automobile ac- cident near Lincoln last week - proving and it is thought he will re. cover .if pneumonia doesn't set in be- cause of broken ribs penetrating his lungs. The daughter-in-law, who was seriously injured at the same time, will be in the hospital ten weeks. Both her legs were broken, ome so badly that s section of the bone had to be removed, and a sliver plece wired Into the bone In its stead. graph wires, there being nome left to con- | the place September 8, 1900, but the huge ! storm | 'SLATON DISCUSSES - HANGING OF FRANK Man Who Commuted Sentence Says He Prefers Lynching by Mob to Illegal Execution. | SHOULD BE LESSON TO GEORGIA SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17.—For- mer Governor John M. Slaton of Georgla declared today that it was by a mob if his legal execution had San Francisco Center of the C fornia Civic league. Mr. Slaton's address, devoted al | taken place in an address before the | BRITISH TROOP VESSEL IS SUNK | BY A SUBMARINE Transport Loyal Edward is De- stroyed in the Agean Sea by ! Torpedo from German { Subsea Craft. | entigely to discussion of the Frank | and the lynching o Frank, was delivered of the California supreme court and other persons of prominence. 1 would prefer Frank to be lynched by |a mob," Mr. Slaton said, “rather than that he be hanged by judicial mistake. “One attacks the civil solution, the other merely reaches the body. Lesson to Georgin, *“This should be a lesson to Georgia that 1 hope it will never occur again In our | civilization “At bottom the horrible outcome of the Frank case was the result of the exalted position of woman in Georgia." Mr. Slaton reviewed the history of the murder of Mary Phagan and Fran trial to show that the people of Georgia rallied to the cause of what they thought was justice. | “There are conditions about the Frank case,” Mr. Slaton sald, “which constitute a tribute to the state of Georgla. “No wonder it is hard to open the ears of the people of Georgia to reason. They forgot the identity of the offender in the magnitude of the offense. Those Disagreeing with Him, “There were many good people, as good as I, who disagreed with me, because they saild, I set aside the verdict of a |dury and Interfered with the functions of ad uly constituted court of law. There are the thousands of these good people who disagreed with me, criticized and condemned me. “But when these good people find out the truth of the Frank case their general condemnation will turn into general ap- | proval and they will say to me ‘as gov ernor of Georgia you saved the state from a stain which never could have been eradicated.’ " People of Atlanta See Frank’s Body ATLANTA, Ga., Aug. 17.—Leo F. Frank's body was brought to At- |lanta this afternoon and secreted in {8 barn until a erowd searching for it threatened serious trouble. It then was taken from the barn to an undertaking establishment, where to- night a steady stream of persons passed to piew it. The temper of the people seemed not so much to wreak vengeance upon the lifeless form, but to personally assure themselves that it really was the body of Fraak. Forty policenen ‘were on guard at the undertaker's establishment, and a crowd that blocked traffic stood for hours in front of the place.’ The body whas ‘shown just as it had been cut down from an oak tree at Marietta, this morning. Because of the insistence of the people to seo the body, it had not been defi- nitely determined tonight whether funeral plans first arranged could be carried out. A member of the undertaking firm stated positively late today that the body had been secretly placed in a private home. {He said he had been charged by friends of the family here to take the body from its firet resting place to the for- mer home of Frank here at an opportune time, From there, he sald, it was to be sent to Brooklyn for interment. No one with- out authority to speak could say tonight Just what would be done. CARRANZA FORCES WIN EAST OF NOGALES | DOUGLAS, Aris, Aug. 17.—Semi-of- ficial advices received here late last night sald that the Carranza forces were vic- torfous in tHe fighting yesterday at Portezuelos, filve miles east of Nogales, Sonora. The Villa forces were driven back into Nogales, according to the report, after in the presenco of most of the members | | LONDON, Aug. 17.~The British | transport Royal Kdward has been |torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine. Announcement to this effect was made officially today. Six| hundred men were saved out of 1,860 troops and 220 other persons on board. The text of the anouncement follows: “The British transport Royal Edward | was sunk by an enemy submarine in the |Aegean sea last Saturday morning. Ac- | cording to Information at present avall- able, the transport had on board thirty- seven military officers and 1,30 troops, in addition to the ship's crew of 2% of- ticers and men. “The troops consisted mainly of rein- forcements for the twenty-ninth division and detafls of the royal army medical corps. “Full information has not yet been re- celved, but it is known that about 600 have been saved.” First Troop Transport Lost. 8o far as has been reported officially, this s the first instance in which & British transport has been attacked suc- cessfully by a submarine. It had beea |a matter of pride with the British gov- ernment that it had trandported hundreds of thousands of troops across many seas without the loss of life. It is probable | that the number of troops sent to ¥rance | and Delglum since the beginning of the | war is considerably in excess of 700,000. In pddition, large numbers of men have been transported to the Dardanelles, Bgypt, South Africa and Serbla. The Britlsh announcement shows that the Royal Edward was engaged in con- veying troops to the Dardanelies front, | having been sunk in the Aegean sea. { { | ‘The Royal Edward was of 11,117 tons gross and 5% feot long. It was owned | by the Canadian Northwest Steamship company of Toronto. It was bullt in Glasgow in 1908, Rate Commission " Reports Upon Rock | Island Rail Muddle | WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.~The Inter- | state Commerce commission's report on Rock Tsland rallroad financial affairs, {made public here late today, says the commission’s investigation has demon- strated the need of legal limitation of railroad security issues and has empha- #ized the need of a law to fix responsibil- ity for dissipation of corporate funds. The report declares that -“‘the property of the rallroad- company will be called upon for many years to make up the drain upon its resources, resulting from transactions outside the proper sphere in which stockholders had a right to sup- pose their moneys were Invested “This record,” it adds, “emphasizes the need of rallway directors who actually direct. There are too many passive di-— rectors who acquiesce in what is being done without knowledge and without in- vestigation.” The report says it appeared to be the idea of those in control of the Rock | Island that it .was no concern of the public what was done because of the cor- porate function so long as rates were reasonable, The aggregate losses found to have been | sustained by the rallway company in connection with the transactions respect- | ing exchanges of stock in connection with | the St. Louls & San Francisco, Chicago | Northern Consolidated Indiana Coal company and Rock Island Improvement company and others were $20,000,000, be- #ldes payments by the rallroad prior to June 30, 1914, to financial institutions in connection with the issuance of bonds, commissions aggregating more than $1,600,000 and -ulrorln! discounts of rhore | Workers of America, sustaining severe casualties. A hundred |than 817,700,000, of the Villa troops and two machine | — Suse wers, captured by Genersi Called | Bush Appolnted Receiver for Two Gould Railroads Calles’ cavalry is reported to be in | | possession of the rafiroad south from No- 4‘ i ST. LOUIS, Mo., Aug. 17.—Benjamin F. Bush, president and chairman of - the gales to Magdalena, a distance of "0 miles. The troops are reported to be | b board of directors of the Missourl Pacific i and of the Bt. Louis Iron-Mountain & spread out In strategic position to meet | 600 Villa reinforcements on their way | [ Southemn raflway, was appointed sole re- cetver of the two Iines by Circuit Jud, from Guaymas to Nogales. Adams at Woodstock, Vt., toda: The rafllway company asked that B. F. Bush, president of the Missouri Pacitic- o st o g Iron Mountain, be appointed recelver, Dardanelles, was sunk by a sub- 'he Commonwealth Steel company, which Aegean sea last fled the receivership suit, joined In this Probable 1,000 men |rodUest. 'Cyclone Devastates j Southern Haiti | PORT AU PRINCE, Halti, Aug. 15— proper. Much war material, in-| (Delayed in Transmission)—A viclent cy- el ng 340 canpon and 4,500 | cione has devastated the entire southern | | | BRITISH TRANSPORT Royal THE GERMANS have won & mnew important success at. Kov wiin reports today, the forts that le betwe rations, the German statement | been numerous victims in the towns along el the coast. ADDITIONAL INROADS were made| The town of Aux Cayes, ninety-two on the defenses of Novogeorglevak, | miles southwest of Port Au Prince and where three forts have Bbeem eap- | with a population of 2,000, suffered pas- tured. At this fortress 2,400 | ticularly. The towns of Grande Ville priso ' cannoun and|and Petite Ville were destroyed. other material were taken, In the finterior heavy floods are re- FURTHER PROGRESS by the ar-|ported. The coffee crop has been in part mies of Prince Leopold of Ba- | destroyed. varia and Fi Marshal vem| All communication by telegraph or kensen, pressing toward Breet. | cable with the devastated country has Litovek, is reported. stopped prisoners were taken in the Kovae | gide of the Haitlen republic. There have ' | | | | LEO M. FRANK, the Georgia prisoner who was forcibly taken from the warden of the state prison farm at Mill- edgeville last night and was lynched today. Frank's sen- tence was recently communted from death to a life term. BARS JUDGE HILYER INSTRIKEHEARINGS Former Attorney of Coal Company Will Not 8it in Trials of the Other Miners. LAWSON IS GRANTED APPEAL DENVER, Colo, Aug. 17.—The supreme court of Colorado today Is- sued a writ of prohibition, barring Judge Granby Hillyer from presiding at future trials resulting from disor- ders In the recent strike of coal miners, The writ was granted on applica- tion of Horace N. Hawkins, and asso- clate counsel for the United Mine who alleged that Hillyer was a former attorney for the coal mining companies and, therefore, prejudiced against former strikers. Lawson Granted Appeal. The state supreme court today granted & supersedeas In the case fo John R. Lawson, labor leader, convicted on a charge fo murder growing out of Colo- rado coal miners’ strike and under sen- tence of life imprisonment. The action allows the Lawson appeal to come before the court on its merit, The court reserved its decision, on the request of Lawson's counsel, that he be released from jall on bond until after briefs are filed in September. (teneralJ, C. Black Dies Suddenly CHICAGO, Aug. 1T.—General John C. Black, c/vil war veteran, former oon-— | gressman and former United States com- | missioner of pensions, died today in his room at & local hotel, General Black was & member of the United States civil ser- .| vice commission and was commander-in- chiet of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1903, (HE-GATE- CITY-OF THE-WES Omaha is about to invest $500,000 in new school buildings. That, among many other public under- takings under way and in prospect, reflects the enter- prings spirit of the ciity. RIVER CONGRESS FRAME A PROTEST Commercial Clubs of Missouri Val- ley Will Discuss Report Against Further Improvement. THINK ENGINEER IS WRONG BULLETIN, X KANBAB CITY, Aug. 17.—Dele- gates from twelve states representing two-thirds of the productive area of the United States, were present today when Chairman W, T. Bland of Kan- sas City called the Missouri River Protest congress to order. The meet- ing was called by the Kansas City Commercial club to declare against | the abandonment of improvement of the stream, as recommended by Ideutenant Colonel Deakyne, a War department engineer. The states represented by the 200 delegates were North and South Da- kota, Minnesota, Illinols, lowa, Ne- Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee. braska, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, | GEORGIA STAINED BY DEEPER GRIME LEO FRANK DIES VICTIM OF MOB; PRISON FORCED Conviet Carried Hundred Miles ia Automobile and Lynched Near the Home of Miss Mary Phagan. GUARD QUICKLY OVERPOWERED Mob Does Its Work Methodically and There is No Chance to Resist It. LYNCHERS ARE FROM MARIETTA MARIETTA, Ga, Aug. 17.—Leo M. Frank, gerving a life term for the murder of Mary Phagan, the Atlanta factory girl, and who was taken from the prison farm at Milledgeville last night, was lynched two miles east of here today by the armed party which took him. He was hanged to a tree. Frank was brought 100 miles from the prison farm to a point almost within sight of the former home of Mary Phagan. No shots were fired. Frank's body, barefooted and clad only in prison trousers and shirt, was found at §:30 o'clock this morning. It is belleved he was lynched about daylight. Lynchers from Marietta. g Several automoblles, weli loaded, lett here In the direction of Milledgeville last night. After the return of some of the machines today, officers started oul on the road which they believed the automo- biles had travelled. They had gone only two miles when they saw the body of Frank, not more than 150 yards from the - roadside. » News that the body had Been found epread rapidly and within a short time hundreds of persons were crowding to the scene. No immediate offort was made to cut the body down, as Sheriff Hicks was not in town and the ooronor took no action, It is believed that the stop at the bridge over Little river, near Hatonton, when the armed party talked loudly and fired shots, was a ruse to delay pursuers. The vicinity of the bridge was thoroughly searched and at the time the search was ' teing made, it 14 probable Frank already - had met death. A ' Bedy 1 Cut Down. The crowd increased rayidly ®s the day on. By 10 o'clock many women and chly were mingling’ with the crowd In thg woods, at the edge of which the body still hung. At that hour no effort had been made to dikpose of the body, although Coroner Booth had beem sum- moned. Frank's body was cut dow® at 10:13 o'clock, but not until one of the crowd had spdken to the crowd advocating miu- tilation of the body. Judge Newtom Morris immediately pleaded with the throng to allow an in- quest to take itw proper course. A vote was suggested and taken. It was over- whelmingly in favor of allowing the | coroner to take charge of the body. It | then was cut down and the two-mile trip | to Marfetta started. The inquest was set | for 11 o'clock. At the suggestion of Newton A, Morris, former superior court judge here, the body was taken from the undertaker's wagon, i which it was placed at the lynching scene, and put into an auto- mobile on the outskirts of the town. The eutomobile started toward Atlanta. FRANK TAKEN FROM PRISON —— Wel) Organiseda Mob kiy Over- powers Officers and Guards. MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga.. Aug I17.~A well organized party of armed men, who jcame in five automoblles, attacked tha |Georgln state penitentiary here last night, {took Leo M. Frank, serving a life term !for the murder of Mary Phagan at At- | i O T M R SO (Continued on Page Two, Column Two.) |} THE WANT-AD WAY l KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 17.—In response to & call issued August 9 by the Kansas City Commercial club lor! & conference concerning & report of Iieutenant Colonel Herbert Deakyne, | War department engineer, on the ad- | visability of improving the Missouri river at government expense, con- gressmen, delegates from the river association and representatives from commercial and civi® organizations from Missourl, Kansas, lowa, Minne- sota and Nebraska met here today. | 1 Colo Denka; Report, | In his report Lseutonunt Colonel Deakyne asserted that “the present and reagonable prospective commerce of the Missourl river petween Kansas City and the mouth wae not sufficient to warrant the continuauce of the present projeet,” He recommended that the present project | be modified 8o as to provide for snagging alone at an estimated cost of $40,000 per year and that all other work be stopped. | The plan for improving the Missouri |river as outlined by & commission of | |army engineers and approved by congress mes some "cafi | was to appropriate $20,000,000 at the rate of g yeslly o «* |$2,00,000 & year for ten years to clear Por the are mot !the river so as to insure & six-foot chan- nel, adequate for navigation purposes from Kansas City to St. Louix Six million dollars have been appropriated for the work since 1410, Marks a Crisls. But most every manns, U | Just use this well method Discussing the report of Lisutenant ’ %m‘fifi va Colonel Deakyne, Congressman W. P. Furniture of sll kinds fi » Borland of Kansas City said: | buyer if you tell nwb o t “A crisls has come for the industries | YOUT offer, throush thé Cla of the Missouri valley. 1f this section of | i of The g B the country, located the farthest of any | Ty! %fl u , (Continted on Fuge Two—Column Four) PUT IT IN THE OMAHA BEE. I { ety