Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 18, 1915, Page 2

— - Advertising is the pendu- lum that heseps buying and selling in motion. 52 OMAHA,, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 18 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE [ & | 1915—-TEN PAGES. wows Biands. SINGLE Motel oto., Bo 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 afternoon, 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 received 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 great 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 bulldings. Funston's Report. WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.~Under date of 2:30 p. m. today Major eGneral Funston, from Fort Sam Houston, Tex., reported its moorings and drifted a half mile. It i# Row anchorved at the dock badly dam- aged. The commercial radio stations are out of commission, the aérials all blown down. All houses on the sea wall have been destroyed. Boats are on the maln streets taking people from the bulldings. Five feet of water at the depot. No loss of life reported.” GALVESTON, Tex.—(Via Wirelses 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 a large vessel had been blown through the caseway connecting Galveston with the mainland. Two work traifls were ordered to Galveston to assist repair the damasge. No Loss of Life. 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 Omaka Yesterd Hours. 65a m §am L & m. 68 a m o7 9a m 67 ¥ a m 68 1lam 70 2B m . n 1p m I 2p m 70 ipm L3 4p m i fp m 6 p m. Tp m [ §p m . 8 Comparative Loeal Record. Apiaiion Compared with tho comespond. P TR g T Y g ing period of the last three years: BRITISH TROOP VESSEL IS SUNK BY A SUBMARINE Transport Loyal Edward is De- stroyed in the Agean Sea by Torpedo from German FREMONT STREETS [SLATON DISCUSSES FILLED WITH WATER| HANGING OF FRANK ‘Xnn Who Commuted Sentence Says He Prefers Lynching by Mob to Illegal Exeoution. PART OF THE GALVESTON STORM } SHOULD BE LESSON TO GEORGIA Morning reports to the railroads| g\n pRANCISCO, Aug. 17.—For- indicate rain over practically all Ne-| o Governor John M. Slaton of braska Monday night, in most locali- Georgla declared today that it was tles continuing Tuesday. A SUMMATY | patter that Leo M. Frank was lynehed of the reports show that the henvlent,hy a mob If his legal execution had downpour was at Fremont and up the | taken place in an address before the Elkhorn and Platte river valleys a|gan Franclsco Center of the Cg "% Board Are Known to tance of twenty miles or 80. AS|gornia Civic league. Have Been Saved. a result of the unusually heavy rains| Mr. Slaton's address, devoted alriy the lowlands for miles around Fre- | Pn:‘i;vl.v to discussion of the Frank 'omcm ANNOUNCEMENT BRIEF ¢ | and the lynching of Frank, was delivere, :""“ o~ :"":" ‘;:;:r t0 & dopth Of{ s "the prensnce of most 6¢ the MBS | rom one to two . == 2] Heavy Rains of Monday Night Drive the Rivers from Their Banks Over the State. Subsea Craft. of Fifteen Hun- of the California supreme court and other | At Fremont, according to the report of | the agent of the Northwestern there, the rainfall Monday night was 6510 iuches, | with more than 1.50 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 Jthe Blkhorn was 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 Beribner. All of the lowlands are flooded, barn buildings rising out of the water like islands in the sea. | 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 hills doing more damage. This wush- out was not of great extent and was re- | palred during the early morning. Down the Missourl valley from Omaha there was an all-night rain and it was still raining at noon, according to a report to the Missouri Pacific. In Missouri Pacific territory the rain during the night was around two to three inches. Auburn had a precipitation of 2.76; Fairbury, 1.63; Fairmont, 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 ac- count of the havoc wrought to the tele- graph wires, there being nome left to con- | 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 the place September 8, 1900, but that Galveston has been visited by a furious storm. Mr. Welsh blames the Galveston sform, 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 a wheat stack, standing in a yard of ten stacks 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 rain 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 s growing and is so damp as to prevent threshing. The average yleld as threshed so far will go about twenty-five bushels. Fulton Writes of Bout with Willard BEATRICE, Neb.,, Aug. 17.—(Special)— George Fulton recetved a letter Monday from his brother, Fred Fulton, the heavywelght pugilist, who, In & way, confirmed the report that he had knocked Jess Willard down st Rochester, Minn., on May 14. He says that he laid Willard flat for the count of five and that the world’s champlon arose and fin- shed the bout, rounds. Fulton will fight Arthur Pelkey at Euclaire, Wis,, on August 21 and James Coffey at Milwaukee on Labor day. He | expects to give a boxing exhibition in persons of prominence. I would prefer Frank to be lynched by a mob,” Mr. Slaton said, that he be hanged by judiclal mistake. “One attacks the civil solution, the other merely reaches the body. Leason to Georgia, ““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 Frank's 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 sald, I set aside the verdict of a jury and Interfered with the functions of ad uly constituted court of law. There |a matter of pride with the British gov- are the thousands of these good people who disagreed with me, criticized and condemned me. “But when these good people find out [that the number of troops sent to ¥rance 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. “rather than | 17.—Leo LONDON, Aug. 17.—The British | transport Royal Edward has been torpedoed and sunk by a German | submarine. Announcement to this effect was made officially today. Six hundred men were saved out of /1,850 troops and 220 other persons | on board. The text of the anouncement follows: “The British transport Royal Bdward | was sunk by an enemy submarine in the | Aegean sea last Saturday morning. Ao- | cording to Information at present avail- able, the transport had on board thirty- seven military officers and 1,30 troops, in addition to the ship's crew of 2% of- ficers and men. “The troops consisted mainly of rein- torcements for the twenty-ninth division and detafls of the royal army medical corpe. “Full information has not yet been re- celved, but It {s known that about 600 have been saved."” First Troop Transport Lost. So far as has been reported officially, this is the first instance in which a British transport has been attacked suc- cessfully by a submarine. It had been ernment that it had transported hundreds of thousands of troops across many seas without the loss of life. It is probable and Belgium 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, Egypt, South Africa and Serbia. The British announcement shows that '{the Royal Edward was engaged in con- veving troops to the Dardanelles front, having been sunk in the Aegean sca. | The Royal Edward was of 11,117 tons | gross and 526 feet long. It was owned | by the Canadian Northwest Steamship company of Toronto. It was bullt In Glasgow in 1908, the huge | F. Frank's body was brought to At- |lanta this afternoon and secreted in Rate Commigsion ia barn until a crowd searching for which was for three | storm | 3 o il Is preventing any serious damage. This|it threatened serious trouble, It is the second time since the 1900 disaster | then was taken from the barn to an Reports Upon Rock passed to piew it. people seemed not so much to wreak it really was the body of Fraak. Forty policemen ‘were on guard at the undertaker's establishment, and a crowd that blocked traffic stood for hours in front of the plate.’ The body was shown just as it had been cut down from an oak tree at Marietta, this morning. Because of the insistence of the people to see 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 said, 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 said that the Carranza forces were vic- torious in tHe fighting yesterday at Portezuelos, five miles east of Nogales, Sonora. The Villa forces were driven back into Nogales, according to the report, after sustaining severe casualtles. A hundred of the Villa troops and two machine guns were captured by General Calles’ men. Calles' cavalry is reported to be in | possession of the rallroad south from No- {gales to Magdalena, a distance of W0 miles. The troops are reported to be spread out In strategic position to meet 600 Villa reinforcements on thelr way from Guaymas to Nogales. || The Day’s War New. | BRITISH TRANSPORT Royal Ed- 1915, 1914, 1913, 1912, | this city in October with his sparring| Yard, veying treeps. te . the Higheat yesterday ..... Tl 10 94 % partner, Jack Lester of Kansas. City, | Dardanclies, was sunk by a sub. Lowest yesterday % U T - marine iu the Biram A =N { Fulton expects to challengs Willard b2 46 .00 .00 .11l before spring, as Willard told him at| Saturday. Probable 1,000 mem Temperature and Jrecipitation depart-| the close of the exhibition at Rochester were lost. ures from the normal: that he was the best heavywelght he | THE GERMANS have won a mew 7?‘ had ever tackled, a important success at.Kowvmo, 20| S ———————— erlin reports today, B . ufach |VICTIMS OF WAHOO S SR Tk Gt Total raintall since March i1\ % nches| AUTO UPSET BETTER| nert m ficiency for cor. period, 1914. ..J.nm. Sm— proper. war material, gm-q tor cor, period, 1913. 4.64 inches ::“‘.m trom Stations at 7 ¥. M. and State Temp. High-Rain- of 7. Py 3 % 28 T 2FPEIN2TRIBIY o 76 0 K Rl 2 00 .56 0 | PAWNEE CITY, Neb, Aug. 17.—(Spe- clal)—Fred Chase, whose home is near Pawnee City and who was thought to be fatally injured in an automobile ae- cldent near Lincoln last week i im- Ipro\'lnl and it is thought he whi re- cover if pneumonia doesn't set in be- [cause of broken ribs penetrating | lungs. | seriously Injured at the same time, will | be in the hospital ten weeks, legs were broken, one so badly that a section of the bone had to be removed, | aud & sliver plece wired Into the bone In its stead. his The daughter-in-law, who was -+ | Both her cluding 240 canpon a prisoners were take operatio: need. ADDITIONAL INROADS were made on the defenses of Novogeorglevak, where three forts have beon cap- tured. At this fortress 2,400 cannon and 4,800 n the Ko the German sta: t FURTHER PROGRESS by the ar- mies of Prinee Leopold of Ba- varia and Filel Marshal von undertaking establishment, where to- night a steady stream of persons | The temper of the vengeance upon the lifeless form, but to personally assure themselves that Island Rail Muddle WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—~The Inter- state Commerce commission's report on Rock TIsland rallroad financial affairs, | made public here late today, says the | commisslon’s investigation has demon- | strated the need of legal limitation of | raflroad security {ssues and has empha- | sized the need of & law to fix responsibil- | ity for dissipation of corporate funds. The report declares that -“the property of the rallroad company will be calied 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 thelr 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 knowiedge 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 railwey company in connection with the transactions respect- | ing exchanges of stock in connection with | the St. Louis & San Franeisco, Chicago | Northern Consolidated Indlana Coal company and Rock Island Improvement company and others were $20,000,000, be- sides payments by the rallroad prior to June 3, 1914, to financial institutions in |connection with the issuance of bonds, commissions aggregating more than 191,600,000 and suffering discounts of more than 817,700,000, b Bush Appointed ‘ Receiver for Two | ' @Gould Railroads| | BT. LOUIS, Mo., Aug. 17.—Benjamin F. Bush, president and chairman of - the board of directors of the Missourl Pacific | d of the St. Louls Iron-Mountain & Southern rallway, was appointed sole re- | celver of the two lines by Circuit Judge | Adams at Woodstock, Vt., today The rallway company asked that B. ¥ Bush, president of the Missouri Pacific- Iron Mountain, be appointed recelver. The Commonwealth Steel company, which | | request. 'Cyclone Devastates | ‘ Southern Haiti' PORT AU PRINCE, Haltl, Aug. 1.~ | (Delayed in Transmission)—A viclent cy- clone has devastated the entire southern | side of the Haitlen republic. There have | been numerous victims in the towns along | the coast. The town of Aux Cayes, ninety-two| miles southwest of Port Au Prince and| | with a population of 2,00, suffered par- ticularly. The towns of Grande Ville and Petite Ville were destroyed. i In the Interior heavy floods are re- | ported. The coffee crop has been in part | destroyed. | Al communication by telegraph or able with the devastated country has stopped GEORGIA STAINED BY DEEPER GCRIME 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. Will Not 8it in Trials of the Other Miners. LAWSON IS GRANTED APPEAL DENVER, Colo, Aug. 17.—The supreme court of Colorado today ls- 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 Workers of America, 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, comvicted 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. {General J, C, Black Dies Suddenly CHICAGO, Aug. 17.—General John C. Black, c¢/vil war veteran, former con— gressman and former United States com- missioner of pensions, dled today in his o room at & local hotel. General Black was Acgean sem lmet flled the receivership suit, joined in this TR b6 & O s arel SMas e | vice commission and was commander-in- chief of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1908, EHE-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. 'BARS JUDGE HILYER |RIVER CONGRESS INSTRIKEHEARINGS| FRAME A PROTEST ‘Fomer Attorney of Coal Company | Commercial Clubs of Missouri Val- | | | | ley Will Discuss Report Against Further Improvement. THINK ENGINEER IS WRONG BULLETIN, v KANBAS 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 olub to declare against { the abandonment of improvement of the stream, as recommended by Lieutenant Colonel Deakyne, a War| department engineer. | The states represented by the 200 delegates were North and South Da- kota, Minnesota, Illinols, lowa, Ne- braska, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee, | KANBAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 17.—In response to a call issued August 9 by the Kansas City Commercial club for | a conference concerning & report of Ideutenant 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 clvi® organizations from Missourl, Kansas, lowa, Minne- sota and Nebraska met here today. | Colonel Deakayne's R i, In his report tenunt Colone! Deakyne asserted that “the present and reagonable prospective commerce of the Missouri river petween Kansas City and the mouth war not sufficient to warrant the continu of the present project,’ He recommended that the present project i be modified so as to provide for snegging alone at an estimated cost of $40,00 per year and that all other work Le stopped. The plan for improving the Missouri river as outlined by = commission of | army engiueers and approved by congress was to appropriate $20,000,000 at the rate of $2,000000 a year for ten years to clear the river so as to fnsure a six-foot chan- nel, adequate for navigation purposes from Kansas City to St. Louis Six million dollars have been lwrflbl’lll.‘l for the work sipce 1810, | Marke a Crisis. | Discussing the report of uoulenull Colonel Deakyne, Congressman W. P. Borland of Kansas City said: “A crisls has come for the industries of the Missouri valley. If this section of | the country, located the farthest of any (Continued on Fage Two—Column FOUF) LEO FRANK DIES VICTIM OF MOB; PRISON FORGED Conviot 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, serving 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 8:30 o'clock this morning. It is believed he was lynched about daylight. Lynohers from Marietta. Several automobiles, weli loaded, left here in the direction of Milledgeville last night. After the return of some of the machines today, officers started out on the rond which they belleved the automo- biles had travelled. They had gone only two miles when they saw the body of Frank, not more than 130 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 effort was made to cut the body down, as Sheriff Hicks was not in town and the coronor. took no action, It 18 believed that the stop at the' bridge over Little river, near Batonton, 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 ' Leing made, it is probable Frank already - had met death. B were in the woods, at body still hung. At that hour no effort had been made to dispose of the body, although Coroner Booth had beem sum- moned. Frank's body was cut dows® at 10:15 o'clock, but not until one of the crowd had spdken to the crowd advocating mus tilation of the body. Judge Newtom Morris Iimmediately pleaded with the throng to allow an in- quest to take its 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-miie 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, ih which it was placed at ths Iynching scene, and put into an auto- mobile on the outskirts of the town. The automobile started toward Atlanta. FRANK TAKEN FROM PRISON — Wel) Organised M MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga.. Aug. 17.—A well organized party of armed men, who came In five automobiles, attacked tha Georgin state penitentiary here last night, took Leo M. Frank, serving a life term {for the murder of Mary Phagan at At- (Continued on Page Two, Column Two.) LI THE WANT-AD WAY, I e used the 3 Just use this well S e P never « buver 1 you_tell. the. public X T Jour offer, throueh tné 3 g—u of The -y Tyler 1 fl' PUT IT IN THE OMAHA BEE. A *