The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 11, 1905, Page 1

THE WORLD IN 80 DAVS.” JULES VERNE, A PAGE OF NEWS 18 WORTH A WONDER WHY THE OTHER PAPERS AREN'T ND ae won Senne 1's PACES.” CRATTRE ST VOLUME OF “GRAPEVINE.” ° SAYING MUCH ABOUT SULLIVAN'S COMING VISIT? ° May It, 1905, MEET AWE UL DEATH FIFTY LIVES LOS N FIERCE TORNADO) IN RAILROAD WRECK bron of Snyder, Oklahoma, Completely Wiped Out~Scores . 976 Passenger Train Runs Into Freight Cars fre Killed and Many More Are Injured-Trainloads of IN 1976 Loaded With Dynamite---Victims Hurl- Doctors and Nurses on Scene ed in All Directions--Harrisburg Hos | pital Overilowing With Injured VOL NO 67. 25 CENTS PER MONTH [Aiea EDITION SEATTLE, WASHINGTON. THURSDAY TREES ESI SSS SS SESS eee) *® undertakers, who were attending the convention of funeral directors here, left at 9 o'clock for Suyder with a carload of caskets. HIT ILLINOIS saeeeee® KNOWN DEAD. Ww. Cox and two sons; K. W. Batley and wife: Pro Be bere and family; J. H. Donovan; K. B. Ralston and Te mrs. Crump: father and mother of Professor Hubbard. ee ee ee SOME OF THE VICTIMS, HARRY SPRITZER, FI sburg, critical GRPORGE ¢ ABBE Pittsburg, badly cut and bruised. CHARLES DE FOREST, Cleveland, Ohio, seriously hurt and t and bruised +eeeeee (Ry Gerippse News Assn) News Ass'n? jot the injured hs frightful! gPREATOR, IN, May 11.—A tor- Okla. 11,—-Stxty | Wounds which will resutt fatally.| nado struck Streator from the “4 Some of the dead had heads and) southwest shortly after 11 o'clock ¢ killed and 100 injured st Bayder, according 8% crushed off. Timbers were | today, unroofing houses and u HM. L. HARMON, Pittsbu CHARLES JOHNSO! ROBERT G, DAUGHE en, cut and bruised. phia, badly cut and burned. Hladelphia, and little non, seri- bas sre ory boo _ of others. rooting — trees. it @id damage | - - ITT, Chicago, « e: “4 burned. €ame from the south- | — py dogg hiv to the amount of thousands of dol a7 aT, iisabeth, wt * dipped, struck the | Awton > ORS a | lara. Several people were slightly J HILLIPS, Pittsburg, will die 1 n - nn jeveling |MOrm Was not confined to Soyder. | ii sured, a PHIL Rome oll ¥ ferrific force, leveling) Othe way to the stricken town | CHARLES DONNELLY, Pittabure, cut peed borving the victims | 444 and injured were passed in CHICAGO, TOO. EBERLY, New York lly injured; may die SLOTHERIMER, Ne A. G, COPE, Pit MH. # WATRBO W. H. VALENTIN tsburg, head cut CHARLES JOHANSEN, Pittsburg, cut and » The engines of an killed ¢ ~ - io. | plain sight of the relief trains. At waren casper Brgy og le Me astcnes — Pigs | Quintan several houses were de CHICAGO, May 11.—The Windy Ta all directions | *tored | City was a storm center last night ‘of terrible havoc was) Pwlly 300 wer jured, according | and today. Houses were struck by fue dead and dying lay |'° the operator Snyder lightning. ba fe yards and ruina {HOM Will die, A cotton press and/ blown down ¢ ties sercivore wore too |#l the hotels were blown open . wp to render much Serer ee ee eee ee ee eee ee ee. ee burg, ¢ ' ed. pansenger tr C, K. THOMAS, of Phil- tright eman, R. R. DICKEY, of Philadelphia, was only slightly destroyed stones broke glass, in all causing Fifty freight cars were reduced to 000 damage. Two and a half j kindling. and the raitroad was torn | inches of rain fell in 12 hours. Fire up for blocks, Much suffering is) engines were busy in the downtown conductor, was injured crews are at work. The SSE EEE EEE EEE EEE EE eK tf the town ia | Teported ng the injured | district pumping water from the Victor I, Crabbe, Pittsburg;J. B. Phillipe, Only eight buildings in| The property loss ts $300,000 basements of big stores. The storm ‘are left standing. The pee ie general throughout lilinois, Much FIR Rn ty mutilated. Many! GUTHRIE, Okla. May 11.—Ten | damage is reported. eee ee ee ed (By Beripps News Ass'n? other’s Dying Wish Fulfilled by Court HARRISBURG, Pa, May 11—An appalling accident occurred in|} South Harrisburg at 1:10 o'clock wn express train | 4 crashed tr 1 with dyr * * * rain No. 19, which was * ked as Westbound and is * wn ae the Cleveland and * Cincinnati express. It left ® Philedetphia at 11:50 Wednes- * * * 7 7 k this morning when on the Pe ht tre jay night, and was due at Harrisburg at 1:30 a. m. and at Pittsburg at $ a. m. were complete by the terrific exploss and the passengers, most of whom | « their berths, were Keetaeeteee ** Peeeeetieerr wenctinae ‘ope, Pittsburg; J. B There were 169 people on the | cago; Mrs, J. A. Staple » tram 1 at least 60|S. P. Brown, St. Louis; M. B. Stere ed and ax many injured. | ret, Chicago; Samuel Stern, Cleve- land; J. W. Bridie, Memphis; H. R. Schmidt, New York; Herman Ericke son, New York; J. D. Berry, Bede ® great care and responsibility al ready upon them. The court will award the guardian and the custody of the litt to Mre ROJESTVENBKY: “WILL TOGO EVER COME?” pier, if she will accept them. Bh Nees P toneed down the embankment, sc Robert C. Daughterty and little son, W RIVALRY OVER POSSESSION “OF THE CHILD OF care, but the court believes thi into the Busquehanna. river, while | Philadelphia; E. B. Ostell, Chicago; others were thrown free of the|J. B. Phillips, Pittsburg: A. @.4 Ic BELLE BURNHEIM SETTLED BY JUDGE FRATER their care these grandparents have Dam dead, Luella, | want;and particularly this court, HAS marry my brother and take | A GREAT DEAL OF SENTIMENT Tears sprang to the eyes of the mpossible to immediately unate pinned in In #ue . é court be-| pretty bride ne lined her ca ype dite ian af Ga aay bay so my boy | 1M Such matters, and the court pretty bride as she in number matier | fon. Dhondt want Bim to'te Youre Hieves that ft i not mistaken when | head in thanks, and Hfted the boy ma followed in quick suc- | Tt Pe : al gig | it belfeves im sentiment sufficiently !to her lap, and a few minutes later as O Pe a ae Among the dead are be to trust this child's guardianship|in the lobby she was holding out a could b dak tha Bink cack tnd RS. ROBERT DAUGHERTY, Philadeiphia at were taken to the Pax: | ,,JACOB F. SILVERMAN, Bridge. : ton. ht. ant * I — — . Many of the dead were burned Bee . ages rho " <9 \ |yond recognition, making identifi- - th a eeiice patrol fier |cation impossible. It is reported s ee ee ere that at least 10 bodies are under wit ded was driven at break-| 1° wreck Many dead Were sy 5 March, $3.50; April, $4. I have @/ neck speed to and from the hos of niive ta steht of ober 7 " ove and two lights, Only | p ed all paasengarg TESTIFY TO WHOLESALE ROBBERY BY WIELDERS OF “MAGIC | "Pal! Kas stove and two lights Olly PR pete alin: company im-|%BO Were powerless to help them, ‘ ‘ oq gua bri y *- | The list of injured may reach 125, JIMMY"—APRIL BILL8 BOOSTED BKYHIGH—CRUSADE ON |morning. The company offers a 25-| mediately made up apecial trains | TBO W8t of injured may reach 226. out | along the tracks, while were the dying words of Burabei im to the “chum” | 824 custody in th hands of the/ friendly hand to the weeping grand and the intimate} close friend of the child's dead/ mother, asking that there be no the iw oe . mother. The court is equally con-|hard feelings between them. The |'« wom Ont r r ma of her oaee cgonen | fident that the child's grandparents| hand was accepted and a promise i el om faced ut the head of a| could and would give it the best of ' given to keep up friendly relations ie the cemetery. A brief} fol mourning followed, and a0 Luella married W er, Brother of the woman fied been laid beneath the |The marriage was con cent rebate, payabit up to the 10th and conveyed the victimes to the |, partial fulfillment of the se a tore Ri i igen ny 18 bodies as recovered. A thousang and in Judge Frater's cdintimndianias iN EARNEST of ~— ee pont pol ro ae — Union station here, where they |ishorers were put to work to cleas Smeeenion the teititl enough not to send out the bill be-| were tak the city hospital and | the wreckage. Bight miles of freight mpleted, for the court| Councilman Mullen scored » city $23,000 for the privilege "a il aay th or 9th r, Blyth ~~ er jtrains are stalled along the main custody of little Mal-| points for the Seatt tric com- Bowen clashed with Moore and waged sal tor the hokts loa ete aged 2 years, to the | pany at the m of the corpora- ;Gilman again on the terms of the SPORRE CARER ERRARE eis nth of Aprit ett! for the badly injure none | John RB, Reyaciin, manager’ of couple, the bride| tious committee Wednesday after. (franchise, holding that the city lero erenee SURSTES od See eee a one aoc ee « able to walk wave up thelt ae Weta, Gs ace tae child’ oon, 01 ! ¢ thought so. He | should have ht to pure ‘ “ was 85 cents more as for | cots to the more seriously wound- neon the child's guardian noon, or at least he thoug He | should have the right to purchase | HELP THE GAS CRUSADE. * |the month of March, but it should|eq. Every physician available in a fren: bie Seth inte Oe Was an unusually inter-) figured that he had fixed things so | in Years the equipment of the |) fvery reader of The Star who is a victim of the gas com- ® | have been several dollars less, for L| ¢y He helped a woman and child and connected with it/that Moore and Gilman could not company without paying for the | ” , t none & ie \ . this city was pressed Into service, | through a window, when the second # pany's high-handed boldup game f# Invited to write or phon have not used half the gas I 4)4) and trained nurses volunteered their pathetic features, for | construct car lines on Westlake or | Value of the franchis Moore and pet ~ ng oer ter a complaint * during the month of March.—Man- |» jon knocked him unconscious, Of the pretty little boy | Fourth avenues Gilman said they could not afford 4 F . pee ng roid tg gaa He recovered consciousness a . ook up you billie for February and March and com- # !ige een City Barber Sho: Shin’ fence i 4 wit an meee over without « legal) Whether or not he will suc: to do it. They claimed they were | £ par thon with $e fr April bill, If yon are getting “sandbagge eee cee ey Bs intives and friends," " |crawled from the acene. He sald: Pe: ep nd | offering suc low fare, lower fa pare them or , ed ixlous relatives a riends, wt " |Femains to be seen. His plan, and | offering such a low fare, lower fares | [yl consumers of gas, tell The Star about it * thang i; aula eeuilad: ue: Yael |“ r want to witness such @ Malcolm was the offspring | that of other me who have are charged in Philadelphia, |) This is a crusade not for cheep gas—nor for better gas ® | ga offices, for one month, not long | |scene again, Women were scream- ns oe pescrmen ~~ sed one the ee eae alberto ys tity Be herend 5 9 It is a determined stand for honemt dealings between & ® Jago, three collectors, all from the| | LATER—Several passengers were | ns, children crying, strong men ie Mepfather. who pi lorce Moore to pay for the regrad ld not afford to se Ney CGUID" | @ great corporation and its customers, ® |sume company, came to collect my | thrown into the river by the force ring about dazed and help- Wes much attached to the | ing damages on Fourth aven nt to the city for its cost value. | 4 If it’s unlawful for some half-starved yagrant to hold a & [gag bill, and the three bills were | Of the collision or explosion. Some |!¢s*. The tracks were strewn in all ag be appointed searé- | return for constructing a line The committee had about decided l% man up for the price of « pight’s lodging, ft surely is a worse # | Nitnin 700 fect of the right amount | Of them managed to reach the bank | ‘irections with half-naked men and and Mrs. C. A. Mar-| Moore feels that he is being to hold { meeting with the “ , mayi-od corporation Ike the Seattle Lighting com- ® |, s er Se . ar,; @nd others were dragged to shore. | “omen, some dead and others seri- of the child's own/up. He would gladly relinquish merge ympany and Moore | Oany to. bes only steal thousands ait Cleneands of geen BE HB temace pa eal |_ Mrs. Hilmira Erickson, of New | ously injured.” : 4 idolized the little boy. | line rather than pay the exort and Gilman ke up the W # of the pockets of th ens of Seattioa: * Our gas bill for March was $6.60,| York, escaped almost naked. She to the court for the| price demanded, but he ne it | lake avenue when Moore |, Help the crusade ® Jana for April, $6.90, We did not use | Was thrown from her berth by the |egeee tebe yy bate feeatiah- custody. | badly as @ means of taking h s- | stated that as long as the o topus |), ke an gan in April as in{xplosion and crawled through a WwW, honor, we lo e the child jsengers to and from the manufac- | was not ranted an exclusive fran Le EER bye, Wmething’s wrong.—Man-| Window, A Miss Gorder, New York, P4 he eather % * Saadmother with rem- | turing district He is now regrad- | chise on the » reet would be ager Helgesen Grocery Co. Sar ae ak ese | * a motherly | ing Fourth avenue at his own ex-| satisfied. He did not object to the nT - SEGA EL IRE EDS ROSS Spotter * own little} pense between Union and Seneca | octopus being able to proceed with . apres | | ie ne a8 man” at The Star offi lent? Our bill for March was $3.60; | " We want him to be with | streets, the ground on each side be- | the lay Pe tracks, but he | The “« me Oe *| ms trie to Burope for a director? April, $4.70. BR B. Bowen, Colman|* “NOX'S DAUGHTER HURT #/ # Py the children «t our home| ing leased by him wanted an opportunity to use them | hae been a very individual all] 4% new house for the manager? Dock Barber Shop. . * Among the possengers were t) ¥# EEE RENEE REE REM t Our daughter, who| Mullen’s other idea was to keep | if ne | aay }: GieaMMens ececcauy hinty caxplali | bt | * POR pars away, is with us», Moore off Westlake boulevard when | That little black box to Sher Star | “pay gas bill fe much higher ttmn|* * This after. Mave her two children it is opened. This he sought to do; 1 Jay's paper inviting at} kel reason lusuad for thie tine of yeat.—Jobn . * noon and Fri- Maleoim up w by compelling Moore to operate cars | from the n Gas company's hold-up! these @hould be awful | Corbett, City Jailer | * day showers touting, and we have a on the thoroughfare within three | ecutive boar game to The Star their troubles | jog—t" in the price of gas? | — iz hour this ® to fresh With @ good home and | months ‘ who w kept the telephone wiring humming ‘Talk about a nigger in the wood Our gas bill was $4 in March and nea * { aNd coWs, so that we can If you are not willing, the Seat-| and Roslyr apola s Rosencrana & Kuen.|* , Mt* Albert J. Barr and two * of them al! \tle Electric company is!” declared |the settlement of th brewery on usade in ont i Pete la evidently a whole Afri-| fod daughters, of the family of the % Was No personal bitterness | Mullen, gleefully And If you do | strikers there, but it in believed t If you don't believe it, just read laa led somewhere March bill. $1.65; April, $2.88.—A, | C@ltor of the Pittsburg Post, # SOntest, and each ntestant | not want to help to pay for the re-| union me + ak naracmuans: will ; rt na . ‘eo Fe age o y ~~ ‘ : : » an ~ bineadd = th avenue, | * Were among those slightly in- % Bighly of the other, t € Vourth avenue, the Seat : vate oe . the backy OF the locnl 'gae com= re were ee i* nd were taken to the ® = fle of Fo venue jeat- | be reache |The Star this morning pene ghant. seni } See, distressed over the ectric company will probably | Secretary Shields, of the | And if your April gas bill makes The court house gas bill for March “4 Barre sags aenee > along after all the work is | Ajtiance, is authority for pre # ones look like the much; WHAT THE VICTIMS SAY. was $148.60; forA pril,$188.80,—Court ph Ba a ed at ly unaware of his done and get a franchise, freezing | ment, however, that the exploited three dimes, call up The pe | House Employe. is Br ages age 6 you out 1 here that settler Star and ask for the “gas ma | My Dill for March was $4.80; for — hfe eee rrere aan Stee Moore said that he did not think | being made in th , rhe t Kable raine the price | April 4 ens gas in| My gas bill for the month of | y atemint * alll it just to ask him to help pay for I have ¢ ted of gas for the month of April ia a! April—F. F 16 Columbia, | March was $2.40; for the month of] & ek ee kkk oa oe oon heed at a the Fourth avenue regrade. He did | t y ow h at I thing of wonder. All through the April it was $2.60, a slight differ ie Sy stowing Impartial affect not think the pr owners | Rostyn.” he eald Thursday after- | winter months, when the days were| My March bill never ran more| ence, but for the month of April I| escaped to a shanty near the wreck TOKIO, May 11.—Two Russias ne “arse » policies, for| themselves would make such a de- | no I find that the owner short and gan was ecensity from | than from $8.50 to $9 April bill| did not use half the gas I did the! with nothing left of her clothi warenips from Viadivostok were re an In favor o i 1. He reminded the committee tt brewery has refused tol4 o' in the afternoon until| wae $14.75, 1 complained at the|month of March, as the days are| but a shred of her nightgown, A. | Ported in the Tsugaru straits Sern 3 to an fentioned in the case, | of how the Seattle Electric company ement which was asked | turning im time, the Seattle Light-| gas office, but they simply laughed. | getting longer.—G. Beninghausen. G. Cope, Pitsburg, says he was |“8Y- Another report 8 the shi ” perarances there was! had come along and asked for a th No agree- | ing company evidently did not feel|—Mra, N. M. Findlay, 217 Seneca. | caught between two seats and held | %"@ ® part of Rojestvensky's squad- ement in th entire| franchise on Westlake boulevard nm the owner | pressed for money, Anyway, the ie nt use gas; It's too exper fast until the second explosion, | '? # Bis the work was paid for. Hoof the Roslyn brewery ne he in| gas bills we where near Refore last January our gas bill/ive! One month when Twas using| which freed him; he escaped| wagHINGTON, D. G, May 11.— cae Freter had heard the pointed out that the company | not in Roslyn at the present time.” | re able fig t i possible | was about $1.50; in January it was|{t my bill for the month was $7. | through indow. He says the | Rural delivery route No. 1 has been M ru @ made an interest-| was working tee same game on Sec-| The union men are prepar- | fe ttle gas charges to be ever | $8.38; March, $4.63 We} This was when we we paying pas ie - his ¢ + were scither ordered © ished on June 15 at ievarse.” Javenue. President Furth prom-|ing for the distribution of the reasonable. . t a ¢ in} $1 per 1,000 feet for the stuff. | killed outright or thrown through | Rochester, ston county. It will Well underst a oe = y tracks on Second ave-'kane beer that is being shipped to| But aa the days « longer and | Decer nd a we |The next month I thought I windows erve 504 people and 112 houses. Mentine scare law, | nue after the property owners had | the city the product was used lesa and less, | never used the g m—|get out of it cheap, as the gas wa Among the injured are Harry pall ato these thi ment, # 1 de-| paid for the work, but he has Much of it will be used in saloons | the bills grew correspondingly | Mra. L, P. Bush av-|then selling at $1 per 1,000 feet; but | Spritz Pittsburg; George Cribbe Bids for repairing the county poor 4 to — and sentimen broken his word and will not even /in Renton and other suburbs, which | jarger Jenue north hen my bill came for $14 I thought | Pitts Charles Deforest, Cl buildings are being heard by, ave little effect a'iay the tracks. Moore is offering !are now controlled by the brewery what's the trout } it about time to quit.—A Reader of | land I Harmon, Pittsburg LLY Commu lae ner Th uaadalay, MVilings, wut some rt acks amd also pay the trwet. “=