The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 8, 1905, Page 1

| ee ALL THE NEWS THAIS RELIA BLE WILL BE FOUND IN THE STAR. The Pioneer One Cent Paper of the Northwest ‘NIGHT EDITION. L ‘The Store Collapses Scores Buried ALBANY DEPARTMENT STORE CAVES IN AND NEARLY 100 ARE At 2 o'clock three bodies were taken out badly mangled. They are PENNED UP IN RUINS—MAN Y RESCUED, BUT OTHER VIC- | not identifi Sixty-aix persons are im the three hospitals, Between 30 Sie oui sre aay and 40 are still In the ruins, some of whom are undoubtedly dead That the death list is not larger is |} due to the noise preliminary to the fell] crash, which caused many to jump ALBANY, N. Y,, Aug. &—A part)side walls and roof, In the imme Of the buliding occupied by the de-jdiate center of the building. partment store of the John G ee floors, constituting a mass Of} from windows and fire escapes or Myers company collapsed at :45| mangled humanity and broken Uim-| make their way to the front of the this morning, burying beneath its|bers Brick and iron is piled in| pbuilding, which remained intact Fuins 50 to 100 persons. }the cellar The panic following the crash wa But a portion has been explored,| The structure is in the center of terrific, men and women rushing Sonsequently the number of victims |the shopping district of th} for entrances, knocking down and fe unknown. Girls and young boys|Peart street. All stores were closed | (rampling the w r Compose the majority jand turned into emergency hospl-| Fortunately fire does not add to The cause is believed to have|tals, Fifty physicians were hurried (he horror, the boilers being in the Deen due party to excavations be-|to the scene. front of the building. img made preparatory to improve-| By noon 75 were rescued from the Tents. Robert Chalmers, one of/ruins by the firemen and police | the firm, is missing, and is believed | Only one body was recovered, but it} ALBANY, N.Y. Aug. §-—Robert to be under the debris. jis feared that many others are in} Cottier ae the” dem The store had opened for business |ihe debris in the cellar, Of the in a nl e whem the catastrophe occurred. The} jured many will die was caught in the ruins b | | buried two hours, being T other place for them to apend thelr | time except In the saloon. aght un } A atthe © debris above his head. He was co maide a of remova mbe er the questh oxes from th with his right leg fractured. ‘Thirty girls escaped a fire “excape | When Fire broke | of ¢ NEW YORK, Aug. & saloons is} out late Monday night among the| brought up in the council the city an adjoining store, Gre " @ocks at Hoboken, destroying the| gravely wagered their hoary ing exercised tn removing the terminals of the Delaware, Lacks and muse among themselves, | beams for fear of bringing down the wanna & Western railroad, a new | we must deliberate on this,| debris on those in the cellar immigration station, Dukes hotel, | yea, there many days,” and that is —_— Public Service Corporation building, | ait that has ever been done toward) Ar many, Aug &—-At 2:30 the two ferry boats and threatening the | entire water front. The fire start-| abating the evil onty identified dead was Miss Ner- ed im one of the ferry boats and| Net onty do immoral women fre-| tn on. At least 7% persone have spread to the main building of the quent these saloons, but they play; not yet been accounted for and Lackawanna, For a time it was|t®® role of procuresses and attempt] some are known be under the thought the loss would be greater |‘ | Innocent young girls into] ruins It now seems certain the list than when the North German Lioyd |!!ves of vice and shame of dead will reach 30. ‘That the police department is for Arce atic te Re piers burned here several years ago | some mysterious reason ‘The damage. roughly estimated, is unable” to Seattle SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, THEY ARE WORRIED | THE LOW RATES FOR CITY LIGHT HAS PUT THE TWO PRI- | VATE LIGHTING CORPORAT! ONS UP IN THE AIR AND THEY | DON'T KNOW JUST WHAT TO DO } | Th efflcers of the Seattle Klectric nest Aintrict, but if they persist in jand Seattle-Tacoma Power com) so dofig/ it will probably mean ruin panies do not feel good! ‘The elty Was asx good or a better | | The announcement of the m | plants than either of the other two 1 was ¢ | paratively low netructed mo: ate struck by he | companion. clty for the sale of its lighting cur | cheagey tnd It is not burden with rent has made {t necessary for them | an @ormous amount of watered | to figure closer an they ever|atock, To ket over the difficuity tt dreamed of dc | {a nat improbable that the consol! outlook from | dation between the electric and gas gloomy. The co j companies, which has been in view knew a week | for aime time, will ta place. rates were | Atiqresent, however, neither com pany Ras a cut In mind for the im mediate future, as the city's distri neti having give members them a tip, but they have not re {covered from the shock y bution system is not far enough ad The attle Electric smpany In| Vanc®d to make it ne r now charging a rate of 12 cents for W. R. Workman, assistant mar the first 60 kilowatt hours and 4pagertof the Seattle-Tacoma Power cents for an amount in excess of | company, was asked Tuesday morn that in the residence district. As| ing # he could make ¢ statement ty a charging only 8 cents for |imeregird to the matter. a al the first 20 kilowatt hours and 6] though he was glad to tell The Star cents for the first 60 kilowatt houra,| man all he knew, he sald he did not it means that the octopus will have | knoW very much to cut rates one-third if it Is to com “Phaven't looked over the city’s pete with the city for that kind of | rate® cleme'y enough so that I can business judgewimnt they are.” he said, “and | The rate charged by the Seattle. I c@@idw't say post y that they | ‘Tacoma Power company is very lit- | aré Bower than ( now in force | tle lower and that company ts con-|heré The manner | fronted with the same discouraging | chatgemadopted by the city is dif-| - | fereit from any ever tried in this} | cltyaun@ for that reason a compart. | jsom¥e @ifficult. If the city’s rates ours, it will be a torn to | | of making} Tee eee ee ee ee ee * “ | CORPORATION TOOLS DE. # | Ore tower ong) oer ya LIVERED THE GOODS. mater fr the board of dir The corporation too's in the #| CO@mawrbether or not our rates ee eee raciee toentie tine # | HMM, Wr reduced to the same fig work while the city light rates # | UPON @ | inree of the women and « “gentle- mittee. Bvery act of the com: * | oe Sepiities in the United States, in-| CLAIM THEY ARE re ajo ge Oy if OF STRIKE dion, every bit of information | ludiaethat enerated by Niagars women were released forthwith | dealing with the basis upon ' dent Lats, of the light “CHA BERMAIDS”’ without bail, and were back plying | which the eity rates were to be fixed, were carried to the Se Seattle Kis t of th Sere eee ete tee eee ee eee § ‘Sag Sate Sarees trode te Se-eaen) LE EES HEELS HOWE OD cule mmc emnenns ty epee | Hedampen. ould ned SWe_ are chamber maids and We} sort time before \% Peetmaster Stewart says: &]# im, the city council ita * EJ. Grarmba, his annistant, was ‘Unéer _ ghee ‘The Star's expose of the dingrace- | “With the exception of the #| er tt sehortty ant i busy k answer- that plea many YOUR] 6.) condition existing in Ballard,|* Oftat Northern limited, which #| weqeemioneste | caer | sea amanes ie anawer- ‘women are spending their time Jolt-/ ., rar as the low saloons are pon arrived nearly four hours late # both ¥, sat 0 Miectrie Ing Gaerpainte from | customers ering im Ballard saloons and picking | ened has created. considerable rind Monday, ali of their trains are @ pany an Gentile Te Eee meee ot ine civ up stray dollars rustiing drinks at) a eatin. } © OF time. * Power CONDARE c pore ada A "alten th the bar and lowering the moral tone a |@& “Northern Pacific traine are #} coived copies of the vari ad clbnedieege cathe trgese. ef the community in general. This| OYSTER BAY. Aug. §—President|® still a little irregular, but are #|® rates to be extablished by oe + ss Aiden erktatsnl excuse is worked to death for the| Roosevelt ix conferring with Ansiat-|® seldom more than half an hour | * ‘ity, before they were submit * to sme sement, maasen ‘that qome of the low Grink-|ant Secretary Loomis and Dr. Jecob|® late. All trains are reported on | ® te4 to the elty council on Mon es nee © were" Be ing resorts are lodging houses, and | Hollender, special commissioner to, # time today.” be day night. : oe ee set ates us the women say that there is no| Santo Domingo, this afternoon. * i Tn fact, solteltors of both the: te! wong leeeeeeeterees be | * lehting corporations boast ; bi that they had the rate sheet in a lw their possession before the Hives until Jacot council meeting on Monday | beedtne pr night He does some of it# pol M The palpable object the cor He w wart t red loose in the Fourth t poration had in view In getting lastimynicipal campa }@ a Hat of the rates beforehand » do what was to give them that much & | 008 be might fc ttle F lw more time to prepare trie company J ‘ | & plans for bucking the muni as running f ed fo allow him to manage his SEER EERE EE EE eee eee eee ee eee ee ipal lighting plant eet eet ete eee eee fi paign and he regretted it ¢ RRR ee a NH ON cooount management and scafpet b | defepted, and it w | reetmed t be on ¢ | prospect. It is possibly | because the city haa the priv using all payin wore its poles by bie rental he ade reporter left menee to cut rates in the residence We Pa Want to talk to you as they have in busl- don't ike you OFFICER SHOOTS WRONG MAN A FUNNY PAGE BY LEW DOCKSTADER, “MINSTREL MAN,” 18 ON THE WAY iT WILL GE HERE SOON, ov i gc The Only Paper in Seattle Ye al F That Dares to Print the News 1905 VOL. 7. NO, 140 a5 CENTS PER MONTH Claims That His Wife Tried to Poison Him M. J. BURKE, A RANCHER FROM PORTLAND, GAYS THAT HI The North Seattle Improvement club wil meet on Tuesday night to YOUNG SPOUSE HAS GROW N WEARY OF HIM AND WANT- protest againat the route proposed for the Seattle EB ED TO GET HIM OUT OF THE WAY—BURKE MAY DIE—THE new var line up ectrie « any's ‘ond avenue, for | WIFE 16 IN JAIL which a franchise is now before the “ | council, The proposed route is only | - sie from Pike street to Denny way. The | North Seat ople want the ne} Battling for hin life, M. J In't taste like the white powder extended north to Mercer or Roy, #0 on a cot ir usually take for my amthma, It that it will do somt good | en pit i very bitter. I grew suspicious The turn-down of the M given him #try |and did not drain the glass. Some man franchine will be const ery for asthma, bis of the powder was in the bottom of Judge John EK. Humphr nie site in a cell in t Jail | the glass and Minnie threw it into @ make a municipal ownership speech,| Burke tn a rancher 4% years old » Jar — living not far from Portland, and he Bhe stood beside the bed for REAR RRR ee eh | tells @ touching story of 1 leged | minute and looked at me curioust 4 | perfidy of hin young wife, who, he| and I ne that her face w * CHESTERFIELD WILL BE #| believes, tried to poison him because | white * MBECILE, & | whe had wn weary of him Wh matter?’ I asked, * The condition of Jack Ches- #| 1 ¢ # paroxysms of con-| ‘Oh, nothing,’ she answered. She * terfield remains practically ® " nm he Ia t #pital cot, | did not retire for some time. ‘Then *® unchanged, although he is * day, he told tar mar I asked her to come back to bed and * slowly gaining @ very little ® of the alleged poisoning, which |I got up to turn out the light, and ag * * | he taime ur shortly fter {1 did » I felt a peculia dizziness * tity of brain matter #| midnight n his|and fell to the ff I remember * ved a e first & | wife's 1 hotel cing my wife gather up her bee * and iclans say # | Firet ' and before she left the * should reeover the #/ Mi f used her of trying to pol- * are that he will be an * 1 yut she indignantly denied ® imbecth * x y f She hurried away, and I * His attorneys will probably * he naid she give t w whether she summoned * make an effort to have him #| ng that would help me 4 physician or not, but one came ® sent to an y m instead of & hite t « * the penitentiary * water and te to drink it| had been summoned RRR | dow 2 drank part of it, but it (Continued on Page Three.) TAFT IN THE PHILIPPINES-- PARTMENT oe sore PORTSMOUTH HONORS Comsieh won not » © occurr Western | ed, the Bullet bru } dropping down [A plltystetan dren Confieh went his ¥ Dewver, wre box for th }fever in d eve p the city that if he knew mn of eve the city he | NEW ©} first day finc LEANS, the July 8 health sit | 5 vation | out Im BO days entirely in the hands of the federal] JACKSON. Mis ae aeecee p Rg = 7 ERAT | board of health and the marine hos- | fever erage —e. $ WS TAGGART SPENDS pital service. | is no caso in the state LUT B AER TLE |, The quarantine regulations have| NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 8 ‘ listresst evere that | Chappel’s physicians are un 1 vgs r - j re ned it neces. | toe | what will be the result of the iw 0 issue a public statement, | archbishap's ilnes e is holdi HERE REERER |that many towns cannot get food, | | * *! jlee or medicines, while communtes-| NEW ORLEAN . er a 5 f a Aug. 8.—Two * BANK CLEARING: *| es | tion by wire and mail is impossible deaths at noon and four c 4 - * August %, 1905 $834.8) *| TTR | The rice crop is going to 6, be-| ure.s ted officially * August 8, 1904 20,048.22 | 0 | cause sacks and twine cannot be es | * _ * oar | brought in | WASHINGTON, Aug A. ¢ for increase over sat ‘ *| Z 3ix cases were reported at Bon n, division civil engineer of year 14,858.99 9 at Patterson and f t mmission, is dead from * * seaport. ‘Tomorrow 1 hea ever in Celubra. Two addi ee ee ee ee ee i © holiday, whe the } ness t ul case @ repor hi PORTSM H, N. HL, Aug. &—} GAY WITH FLAGS, NEW HAMPSHIRE TOWN OPENS ARMS TO ‘ 1b « t } ‘ th PLENIPOTENTIARIES OF WARRING NATIONS—ENVOYS IN . ee GOOD HUMOR F t t - as bring the 6 be he \ s vay, with gress, through the middle of thé : Sas raga" 7 bet street and down State street to the A f nipe could t by A ry|R sham county court house, the anda the Hotet | of te } Jar the envoys were received WwW & coming in sauntron ? 1 t p by | by ernor McLane and staff, the The vessel Sanchor|* " res jcounct! and the New Hampshire ther bout 9 vate, |W tt ! congressional delegations. The re« t h 1} ception was entirely private, only, se Miglooy f A Mead ing admitted. General " ; H f t t e @ speech and the for« t. Tt f hun ended for the day. hae 3 be . then returned to the his [J k At th on of the iB Pag n= Set onl 4 4 he yard obile nd carrta ed | » ales | and t stinguished party proceed vn ma sited the |ea'neross Kittery bridge, Atthe Kite] WEATHER FORECAST Mayf prece-| tery bridge end 11 compar ¢ the] lence ext visit~| 1 Guard, with the Second In- 'j aT) sand and Colonel Tetley, were | Fair Tonight and Wednesday, Con« utes W iis 4 Aft exchange of| tinued Warm Except Near Coasts wer . ra betwee Colonel Tetley| Light to Fresh Westerly Winds, t ere made by the to t i who was i e t Peay a ——_—_——__— h ROV launches w Placed at ve Lis posal, It waa af- ter 11 0 whole party | riages, and anded at the navy yard, Admiral | street Aug. 8.—The Supreme Arcanum, meets on >ut-in-Bay to consider ent of new rates, guardsmen THE PEACE ENVOYS | .