The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 30, 1908, Page 1

Three Times More Than Legitimate Number. ast night at 6:04 o'clock there left the corner of Fo: Mt a Green Lake car with a trailer, the motor carry and the rear car 112, The seating capacity of each car rth av. and gill yp wa Py) Thus 223 people were crowded into cars with a seating o# i ‘of 96, that it was vtact ey were crowded into theac ible for those standing to avoid cars fn such a manner the per with every Mach other—men and women swayed back and forth wt of the cars, clothes were disarranged, and women's hate fe knocked about and damaged. ae the night before it was the same, and tonight the same ill be prevent. SPA few nights ago one of the small cars on the Lake t line & seating capacity of 20, carried 82 And con ir boasted of it. E> in @ Madison st. car last night, passengers. leaving Second uv. at 5:30, with a seating capacity of 30 carried 8! passengers. ie Monday night, Wallingford av. car No, 659, outbound, at t at 5 p, m, bad 115 passengers, with a seating capacity every case a large proportion of those standing were women. O is conditions such as these that are rapidly bringing the of Seattie to a realization of the fact that their street car i# absolutely rotten. i long are they going to stand for it? nM ‘s @ remedy, and The Star is going to point it then we will, at le know where some of the N EXPLANATION, AN out blame Ites ; fe TAL Wie Md asa il ii) Wty) Fy of eatin Ban IT's GOING UP TOMORROW WATCH IT! G % SSW MeMix today it would print The Star does not print the picture of A. D. When, two days ago, the Star announced that McMix picture, it meant exactly what it said Yesterday we made our first attempt and were unforeseen necessity of publishing McMix's feet Undaunted and undiscouraged, we did print the feet were. If ever feet Indicated a solid and substantial « MeMix's feet are those held back by and fine ar , Mr. ‘Having overcome the feet, we had little doubt that today the hing of the entire remaining picture of Mr. A, D. MeMix be possible Not for an instant did we think it would be an easy thing to Ot even with the feet out of the w but we thought that to a of high ideals and dauntiess courage it would not be impos So much in explanation. We apologize tor the delay. It is not our fault. We had no idea We would have to cope with the McMix grip. But you can see Jourself the grip is there with his name painted on it Oh, weil, it {* distinctly an achievement to have printed a pic of the McMix grip. After all, are we not going plenty fast “The feet yesterday, the grip today, and every indication that Shall actually achieve the toot ongshom tomorrow D Tomorrow we will (bar more exc baggage or other unfore "teen obstacles) the pictur MeMix iS) I the meantime, if any there be inclined to treat lightly our it effort to print the picture of A. D. MeMix, we will only @ to ask who else has #o mich tried and who else has ad red #o far to have—in two brief 4 printed the feet of them) the ankles, shoes and shins of weMix, and also rip. low citizens, we sincerely hope to be able to at the ple tare of Mc Mix tomorrow, but, quoting the immortal peare il we “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time And all o yesterdays have lighted fool The way to dusty death wit, out, brief candle!” “It is 4 tale told by an Idlot, full of sound and fury, signifying Nothing Macbeth (not McMix), Act se ductors Boast of Carrying APOLOGY AND A GLOAT LAST EDITION VOL. 10, NO. 265 COSGROVE {6 HUME OMING was SEATTLE, WASH., EX TRA| THE SEATTLE STAR WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1908. UGEE THOUGHT HE HAD DIED AND HA D GONE TO HELL... on Ferry Boat Which Went Down With All on | sininiaeisieeeiinn | A } wnat TO BE AT OLYMPIA! CATANIA, Siclly By | ed In @ doorway. Beside her | a U. P< Chemist of aman, evidently her hue | ON INAUGURAL Me ived t after who seemed to have _— eee ms ruck down while trying } DAY. noon w ne of the most remark to rel@ane her. Such sights | able stories yet told of the great were & common that | hardly wt ia {innate noticed them, and | cannot tell 1 was on a ferry boat just out what i wae that Impressed this Is Up and About Lobby of | ii. “Mowsinn the quake! group Sany Ganed brain Gai ame it was the most] “Every Building in the city neem Hotel and Is - that could be Imag-led to hate Been wrecked. | tried | ing Daily. in front of the boat|to get a@ay as quickly ax possible. | | charm, and the|I did sak know or care where | | —_—- wate ynly withdrawn | went, fit crowded into a boat | aseite ta 6 from | a8, the Boat went| bound fff Moesina | PASO ROBLES, Cal, Dec. | down und bottom with | Ait in R es ¢ erncanaieass witew be sue Maree wen shattered In myewn city, Messina, 1 found ed cat fhe hoes oo 1 Gem’ & \destructi@n and death as general | tines to improve at the prem ee: ee as at Reggio, Everywhere was ruin | ent rate he will be in Olympia “The boat was crowded, and | Tho atresia were blocked, and it on January 11 to take the oath believe that | am the only per | would Have been impossible for of eftice as governor of the son that survived. I remember | me io have found my way m) ‘ing nigh bai : little after the boat went to [home epan If it had not been e ph n re ‘ | pieces, except that | was caught | burned. re anya ee Skis able xo | i & great swirl of rushing | hep terognizing tamilt ee ar aces on seen. roaring water. in some way | ng the dead in the street Waet san) hak wore eb ta Ws managed to climb to a piece of mind began to lone ite balan co i fig i Bani wreckage, and at length landed || becams geasick, aud folt that the beth hie ewn end. hie witets’ | oF the Itallen side thawte was’ continutag. — It| mind. The governor is resting Filled With Dead jacomed to me that the whole of : . Sicily « fi oO and ro ith easily today, eating well and te my way to Regalo, where | Sicily wae f sein t dan i fro w sleeping well if the streets literally filled | \¢ movgiment of the sea. | é 1 people Driven by Soldier. } From His Physician Pechagen t foimiod 1 cannot tell >ASE 3, Hot remember being pushed on by a be . a a * a Ce jer, Who placed a bayonet be nes. femarkable tue? tween my shoulders and told me to Yeuterday afternoon he , By heedquarters and report for ed friends in the sun pe du ; eb evantag be Gates wit Crazed Singer Moans. i them walked through the my tee ie b streets, qpaking my way over rains guests in the hotel lobby. His gen 6 I came ups " ndition js better than fc ra Hinker, tont.| WhiGh simetimes seemed to have aa anes ea re ame ¢ bodies of | blocked ghe streets entirely | F. W. SAWYER and men, crooning over & Children’s Bodies. / Director ein which were two lit 1 tesjember climbing upon a | hough the birde were! great gdie of debria and there on RRRERRA AR ARRAR AM! chirping quite gaily, Marinia was top of if eame upon the bodies of i bemoaning the death of all the birds | three Mille children beside which} ed A See * | in Italy a emall brown dog stood on guard. | * Seattle. | All the birds, sweet singers—| The dog had not been Injared in| ® Clearings toda i 480 170.94 ® | they are all dead,’ she sald, looking | the dest-wetion of the city and in & Balances 256,006.46 ®\up at me with a faint, sad smile,|some mitmer had found the chil-| * Tacoma * | as if she recognized me. dren of the family to which it be. | Clearings today...$ 799,040.00 @|" “ghe was hopelessly insane, as|longed. At charged me viciously a Saas 51,486.00 © | was everyone else alive in Reggio. |and caught its fangs in my cloth |* Portiand. *®/ The dead and dying were every.\ing. I was forced to retreat and| | @ Clearings today... $1,032 00 &| whore leech. dapiege thwoagh another | # Balances 187,637.00 3| Dead Everywhere street * It was impoastble to pase along| Fifty Thousand Dead. | \* HERPES NE EME EEE) Sg rects without stepping over! “The | soldiers mt headquarters odies of men and women. In| told methat they bad made an esti / jrome places—oh, how horrible it| mate from observation and reports, | a bodies were so thick that indicating that 50,000 w dead tn 1 could not pars without actually | Messina and that an equal number | stepping upon of the pros | were dead In Reggio. 1b ve that IS DEAD MAN WHOSE FAMILY VANISHES HUNTS IN VAIN AND TALKS SUICIDE I know she's de and if I find }it out for certain, 1 will go the | shake Erick Enge who war ay night for engaging 1 Ra nd Wickham Jental av. and Yesler wa < foregoing statement t tain Alex McDonald this morning 1 know she has made awa with herself and th hildren,” sald Enge Ene orning ie of a ery ldrinking that night perhaps 1 la ted a trifle hastily in striking the |man, 1 ba t ry 3 When Eng pea 1 before P : re ne the 1 ediiadin diana dinate dedi dete aed ind * *% WEATHER FORECAST, * + Fair tonight and The 7 ® Light northeast wind: * * . ee ie Bede ie ee ti ie eee ee ee RUNS INTO GALE } VANCOUVER, B. ©., Dee lity U. Po-Ady from Honolulu |atate that the Austral an lin Mo ana, which left here December 4 for Sydney, experienced terrible | weather on the way down, but ¢ |tnto Honolulu on time on December jeaving the same day for Syd ney. The Moana ran tnto the same |stormy weather which delayed the Empress of Japan and at one time Capt. Morrisby had under eousider Jation the Jettisoning of part of the peargo. trate 8. fo this is not In the least exagge: | nothing any longer but a vague and indefinite terror, Board i in the Straits. | | 15,000. EXTRA, PRICE ONE CENT. SSINA IS A SMOULDERING INFERNO QUEEN FAINTS; KING PRAYS AT DREAD SIGHT IGURES CRY THE SHAME REF TOF SEATTLE STREET CARS FIFTY THOUSAND BODIES PACKED IN STREETS OF ONE DEVASTATED CITY there is no and Numbed to insensibility, pain or sn just the dumb horror which goes with the glazed eye, the deafened ear the unfeeling hand . 30.—Italy today sits with her dead. men, women and children burning under the wreckage} the whole litany of disaster is recited by every lip that comes from the stricken south, until gay, happy Rome, are glutted with calamity and can hear and bear no more. Death and agony mean the details of which are beyond the One hundred thousand dead; babies starving; fire, pillage, ghouls, pestilence, the people of Rome, careless, finite mind. PRIESTS INTERCEDE FOR SOULS OF DEAD. In her thousand cathedrals, churches, chapels and shrines today, Rome's black-robed priests are calling on the Virgin and saints to intercede for the souls of the dead and the bodies of the living. Before a thousand altars the candles burn dim while the heart-breaking chant of the Miserere ascends heavenward. Rome, the capital of the universe, the mistress of the world of beauty, is today the mother and Italy Italy, the land of wine, song and love, wears the black pall of idering soul of her terror-stricken people. NATURE'S MURDEROUS MOODS From the dawn of history nature in her murderous moods has run amuck from Vesuviua to Etna, and the annals of disaster can show no longer or deadlier roll than that written around Scylla and Charybdis. But all these pale in comparison with the heaps of dead that fill the streets of Messina, Reggio and the hundred villages on the island and the mainland. Vesuvius, when the Christian era was yet young, smothered thousands of lives in Pom« peii and Herculaneum, and Etna’s deadly pumice overwhelmed Catania in 1169 A. D., killing In 1693, Messina was shaken like a rat in a terrier’s mouth and those who watched the vultures gloat over the unburied dead placed the number of victims at 60,000. But none of these touched the height of horror that towers over Sicily and “the toe of the boot” today. of sorrows, y, sun y death beneath which shrinks the s HISTORY SHOWS NO COMPARISON. Probably never in the history of recorded times has there been a disaster so appalling as this one. St. Pierre and Martinique, with its thousands upon thousands of corpses, may dis- pute the gruesome honor, but the number of dead was never reliably estimated over 40,000. Lisbon's historical earthquake of 1755 took but 30,000 lives, less than one-third the number in Southern Italy, and other earthquakes of modern times sink into comparative mortuary ins significance. Stricken Sicily and Calabra, the calamity ridden, have for ages been the scenes of the | greatest tragedies en masse of mankind. SWEPT BY DEVOURING SOLDIERS. For a thousand years before Christianity these lands were swept by the devouring soldiery. | of this and that ruler or insurgent; in the days of Rome's greatest power they paid their tribute and suffered as they could bear it; down through the dark ages, strife, bloody, never- ending strife, was the lot of the people until Europe grew stale with blood-letting. Then peace and prosperity reigned for years. The olive grew on the hillsides and the grapes drew sweetness from the brightest sun. A cloud brooded in the sky; darkness came on; | the world rocked in its throes and fair cities became tangled masses of wood, stone and flesh, SUMMARY OF THE DISASTER. Following is a summary made tonight of the main events of the day in the earthquake district: The estimates of the number of dead are placed as high as 200,000. One of the ultra-con- servatives says the total will not be more than 35,000. Accurate estimates are impossible, but jit is believed that between 100,000 and 125,000 are dead. At least 20 cities in Southern Italy and Sicily are in flames. was felt today at Palermo, but did not do much damage. BURNING THE DEAD. Another earthquake shock “The presence of so man: ated. It ie impossible to exagger-| ; ‘ A ee . dead euoies i ea Ok tee There is a Sar to toll of Gel Gen, Foecia de Cassato has begun burning the bodies in the streets of Messina to pre- senses. Those bodies jost any | horror of the disaster, much le8#) vent plague, This has to be done under guard of soldiers to prevent citizens from interfering. personality. They like so exaggerete it.” 2 A a many bags of wheat after a | Gregori cannot tell how he got The volcano on the island of Stromboli, north of Sicily, became active during the day and while. | saw the body of one {tote the ship which brought him) sent up great volumes of smoke. woman with two dead children we. He fainted after telling his in her arma, aban and erush- | story and is in # serious condition.) 1.1 mayo, sicily, Dec, 30.—-By jghats with a hundred bodies erack-jed by a few score of kneeling ne |U. P.—Messina presented a pan-/ling in the flames jJects, who held out thetr han orama of horror today, the like of Climax of History and prayed tg them as if they were which has never before beon spread | 7», calamities ana S#int# coming to their deliverance. | be fore human es. With 50,000 auannes _ 4 have The king took immediate charge dead bodies blackening under the | fommarere Df Ml i State tor rescue work sun, thousands driven mad by fear, |e Cinay of histor Maver wish rs are patrolling the ruing vast heaps of wreckage and a@)i.) a2 Massinn be talas tuane |*? fight away the ghouls who are thousand fires burning in one) \) ae 48 wmggee Fin . looting the dead bodies, but with | : : ho wen ough the horror have. yes. ay “ “ | unconque rable confis there lea of remembrance of what little suctess. Every few moments are no words in any 4 wee gb iy. | the bark of a carbine tells of some ey went through; all the bodily |, cap give an adequate description vitios "Wore wiped out for the |10ter of the dead joining his vio I xrmed and incensed citizens jand declared his Intention of kitl.|of the scenes that greeted the f time; sight, hearing, touch left no| i Det 8° far the chaos has de of Blakeley are today #0 ing the whole family. Se arrivals of rescuers from Re teaiteasion Oh tak terrerinad. Weta fied t. efforts of man-made law the woods of Skagit county for |2moutheold baby, the won and Naples. love and hate were forgotte TH hee hae na oy yas, & poang Wipe ou tre ibe Ga sa. nd ung to drag The ¢ is blinded by the mag ether th tot ke te tye gers a Sela 06 ee Deen ae ant nig not to death the 4-year-| her 4-yearold boy with Nicolas | nitude of the disaster, and the ear | TO Tn on et overvone, ‘The | Sicliy at Messina today sent the old eon Santos, mortally | fired, shooting the boy in the is deadened by the shricks and /iisinct of self-preservation was |2lOWims Wireless message to wounded earold daugh-| killing him instantly. Mrs, Santos|cries that go up in an unending |i. only thing that remained, and) e?™@® ‘er, and without provocation, | got away with her baby, and Nico-|diapason of horror from Very | ay crrorts today Berger ote Be se: General Fecci de Casato is tak hot in ch ce A. Brown, | las then shot the little girl, who is| quarter of the wrecked city and) poi i, Srubenen: 4A eneies a ing the strongest poss meas- an employe of : Blakeley | reported this afternoon to be dying.| from the surrounding hills, upon| iii. of the head, a biank stare |2re® % Prevent the catastrophe mills, who was walking upon the| Santos, coming home from his day's| which 100,000 shuddering human | ¢/"0" caniacal shriek greets him | 0m becoming worse through the street with his wife, Within two| work, heard the shots and ran back| beings cluster close for the sym-|\'.0' Wold have m deacription at | 2aorders and for the present will hours after the shooting posses had|to town for help. pathy and comfort of numbe ne hekd:. “| mo page £ sy te ye gyorg gy ganized and were out on the 1 chief danger now {s from uit, but / light brought no] Nicolas rag eho going to A Hell on Earth. King Offers Prayer | plague, as thousands of bodies He of the fugitive murderer ex-|a corner wear by, where he met| If there was ever a bell on earth As the battieship bearing the|Unburied in the streets and have t his shoes and a hat, which for! Brown and his wife, just coming | Messina is today, Dante in his|king and queen steamed into the |Tecelved no attention since death ne reason he had discarded.|from the boat landing. He asked|Wierdest * fights of terrorizing harbor this morning, the picture |General Casato advocates the cre Frank MeDermott’s bloodhot Brown the time. Hrown told him| fancy never pictured an inferno | that met his majesty's gaze caused | mation of all bodies immediately, were taken out about 10 o'¢ it was 6:16, then walked about fif-|of horrors that could equal the him to sink to his knees on the | but the ple, already beside this morning to join in the hunt. | teen feet. when Nicolas fired a shot | stern reality of death and destruc-|deck of the vessel and cry aloud ~ m —_ siggy Rg Ms a = into his back Wwown was seriously | tion shown here to d for merey on his stricken ney cing to the dead in wi Quarretied Christmas. nuseny bia he en big poche ot As far as the eye can reach over| people. ‘The queen beside him| {sanity and say they will not ab Nicc who is about 23 years! and it ig believed he will recover,| the once prosperous and populous|stood paling for a moment, and | !ow the bodies to be burned d, roomed at Santos’ house until) ie wag brought to attic jast|ctty bangs @ dense pall of smoke, | fell swooning into the arms of her Assassination Feared b vas day, when a big Tent OC | nient for attention, It is thought} lt up within the radius of the jattendants, The king, with head The trouble is greatly exagge: curred in which he was foretbly that Nicolas mistook him for an| flames roaring as they devour the /sunken on bis breast, prayed until! ated owing to the utter loss of evicted. He swore vengeance, but | offices Jdebris and the human bodies pin-|the royal barge was dropped, when | perve by the inhabitants throug y attention was paid to his threats!“ Nicolas in his fight stopped alned beneath. very step he rose to h et, older by years |the stupor that seems to affect Yest y ame to Seattle, Dur | toy named George Rayme, putting|close the body of a man than the man who knelt but a few! everyone chasing a revolver of J. M. Butt), revolver under his nose and de-|or child; here and there moments before The authorities regret the pres nick, 119 Washington st., remark: | manding his name. When Rayme| tempt at order has been made, and| Her majesty begged so sincerely | ence of the king and queen. The ing that some one “had It in for) pepiied, Nicolas ordered him to|the bodies piled like wood, only to|to be allowed to accompany — the | officials say their royal highnesses him” and he was going to be ready} move on, Nicolas then went to|be deserted as the flames and|king ashore that he reluctantly will be unable to help and that for an emergency Pleasant Beach, where he bought|smoke draw near, The sites of agreed, and she sat the stern ‘their presence will only serve to Woman Makes Escape a flask of whiskey In a saloon,/once stately buildings that have|of -the barge with her handker-|tie the hands of other officals bet Going to the Santos home about | starting back thence toward Port| stood a thousand years now | chief over her ¢ unable to look | ter fitted to deal with the situatto: 6 o'clock last night, Nicolas found! Blakeley, ‘This was the last seen| smoldering masses of and |at the ruing she was approaching, | —-~ MR NR RR AG a |Mre. Santos and her children alone of him, mortar, and turned burning The king and queen were greet (Continued on page 7.)