The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 23, 1909, Page 1

WAITS WHILE RL LIES IN MORGUE SERRE EERE ee Tell Mrs. Por- Her Daughter THE JOY RIDERS. in the Auto A twisted auto on a dead man’s chest Ye ho! and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done their best Ye ho! and a bottle of rum! The roadhouse bar and the lady friend Ye ho! and a bottle of rum! «| And at 80 miles they took the bend Ye ho! and a bottle of rum! A swerve that mocked thelr drunken wills. A crash and a shriek through the darkness thrills riding the pace kills Ye ho! and a bottle of rim! and J »y the house * * * * . 7 * * * + * * * * * + * . * * that * * * Feed sseeaaeennesesesesens POPEESESER ER ER HEY VICTIMS OF TIDAL WAVE. INCREASING It Is Now Estimated That Between Three and Four Hundred Perished Along the Gulf States. (By Catted Press) NEW ORLEANS (Via Hatties barg, Mixa.), Sept. 23.—Appalling information today shows that the tous of life in the tidal waye and storm along the gulf coast ia be tween 300 and 40¢. Two bundred lives were lost in Terrebonne parish. Forty have al ready been identified At least 100 are dead along the coast outaide the parish, and 21 are known to be dead in the fn tertor. Famine and pestilence threaten the stricken territory, and the situation is worse than was feared by the most conservattve. to tell the | Ber watch Bowuspecting ‘wecident which ehil4 to death gat when a leading her the trudge house to an : et the Tealized the Ir. SE eseral hos. Mrs. Porter the un bp dadedadadada dade oe ot WEATHER FORECAST. * Increased cloudiness, follow. & wed by rain tonight; Friday # |® rain; increasing east winds, «| * probably becoming high. *) sees See ene pif thth dint ie Aberdeen, Wash.—The open shop will prevail among the shingle manufacturers in the Grays harbor district Re trial of Jean of rage shot Michael at was com the actual @ the jury For he intended ner was in brother and | iter that j fo the stand When the court |Flames Started Late Last| * MISS WINNIE FRAZER ® Yenterday ® Total * of the automobiles were j Pulned Their seats and framework | $1,500. PTET CTC TCT TST Cree * AoV oP. ATTENDANCE ho; eo * * * *) ndhdindndindndindndindndntndindndndndndind le ade. ics did ad tain ahaa NINETEEN AUTOMOBILES BURN IN GARAGE FIRE pe WAZ HOME EDITION SEATTLE, WASH., Tee ee ONE VICTIM'S VERBION., Events teading up to the fatal accident, ar told today by Mise Christine Anderson: “1 remember that Miser, the driver, amused himeeit and thought he was amusing us by seeing how near he could run to phone poles end fences without striking them. We warned him, but he only laughed.” “Was Hiser drunk when the 9° 9 otourred?!” she wae ask “well, he took as many drinks as we did-—maybe more.” “Were you intoxicated?” “We were all feeling pretty good. We rode from road house to roadhouse, drinking every time we stopped. None of ue started to drink until the ride to Georgetown began. Boon after we started on the return trip to S@attie | fell asleep. | was still sleeping when the machine crashed through the bridge railing.” * * * * * * * * * * * . * * i * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * i. Seeee eee eee eect eee eee eee eee eee eee Arrow, Chamberlain, Night by Striking df a| Were consumed and their engines) T. R. Yoakum, Pope-Hartford, js badly damaged that they cannot | 92 200. j 1 Match Destroyed Cars) be repaired Dr. J. ©. Lynch, of North Yakima, g ON | Worth $36,455. Some Cars Insured. Stoddard-Dayton, Model 9 C, $2,400 PE ak es apd ne - ' il pid Olympia Brewing Co., Mitchell, ise | either fully or partially insure 1,875, } FRU The striking of « mateh to Meht |. Yoakum was one of the owners! . Joseph Frank, Mitchell, $1,260. | # pipe late last night started # fire| who carried absolutely no insur-| 1 7"°?! say itr aa | in the garage ot WH Heingerling, ance. Lafferty, the mecbanic, dis sant Jamieson, Great Smith, | 1420 Broadway, that almost com- : > naan 1 4 / pierarban road | pletely ruined’ pinateen privately 3 eg po ‘nm Wer bins ean be Barber Asphalt Paving Co., te pt owned automobiles, representing an found Wayne, $2,000. | Blectric com. | *8eresate value of $36,455, and) “parterty was sent here by Mre| Charles Daley, Great Smith,| 00d fares wil oaeatent Goal “74 interior of the | Raker to repair a gasoline tank on | $1,750. | Stwo cents a mile) Oniy three of - twenty-two ma-| (Me, Of the ‘sightseeing’ cars oper Samuel Rosenberg, Pierce Arrow ai inter-|nlnes inthe garage tncapea to [nd Mah” geld Mr. Helnser| gq 00 een Seats ic - he gs |Hing, who has been proprietor o tlesindss: “Os kimeacieeaale P Park devia” At | taxing flames. They were the ones | the garage only a few days 8. Rutledge, Cadilinc, $1 “ ile to Tacoma | tne tre wt Pr eh. When| “He had no right to be here at| George Meyer, Dragon, $1,260 the fire started these machines /tnat late hour. I expect to find| Dr. McCullough, Stanley Steamer, aa were in a front corner of the build-| iim so we can got the true story | $1,000 B. Newcomb, | 28 partitioned off from the main | or what occurred. All we know| {ndependent Produce Co,, Buick F Marts Kyalshaug. | Siner “ian ey - lnow {# that he borrowed a match | Roadster, $800 brutal murder ot ” ® —- jfrom Lundstrom, the washer, who Laundry Co, Little Caail-| Bisband, was places | “*t*" was in the other end of the gar rms ltains — | “Newoomb pleads Match Struck by Mechanic. [ter and anne ped ps ee Helnzerling, Mitchell, ling’ car moment later Lun 75 Ren Renabout, 6600 | Fred Lafferty, a mechanic, Is the| strom was startled by a flash of BP irsiny Necuetne n3 en Sones man who strack | the mateh to West teen cider te’ he ca the Z his pipe while he was repairing one | disastrous fire followed.” ] { the “sightseeing” cars operated | ; | »y George Baker. At that moment Will Resume Business. | | t es ignited the gasoline tank| Helnzerling, who recently ac: ri r ne machine. Within a re-|quired ownership of the garage th so The Stor BW narkably short time the fire ewept rows Fred A. Bennett, had just tn-| Ws corte, Bh over the gasoline soaked floor to} stalled office fixtures valued at| pay $1.00 » date ther cars, and before the firemen | They were partly dam ¥ each for Bt arrived the interior of the garage |aged. Hetnzerling said today that as @ roaring fur e }he would resume business within Rev. W. A. Bass, of the Inde lied page in to Lafterty and Peter Lundstrom,|a few days at bis old stand, as the| pendent Presbyterian church | al ibm me 8 night washer, battled with the|damage to the building ‘can be| Fremont, is to be tried by the Se-| ow this B tiames tor a few seconds in the hope|easily repaired. The structure is | attle Presbytery, on the charge of results. re pe) Below at tt on © to savelowned by an Eastern capitalist| organizing a church in a com you a ney would be abl sa c a” even ome of the machines. This they |) named Hasher munity already occupied, This je three unable to. do because they| Following are the owners, value|was the decision reached at the unable to do t were soon driven trom the burning|}and make of the damaged ma-| meeting of the committee at the buflding by the inteffse heat, The | chines | Bethany church yesterday morn i, isa neteen machines were completely| Homer Hillman, Cadillac, $500. | ing thre: ae simply oped in fire when the firemen| George Moran, Model F Mitchell,| My church is the only real @ copies of reached the scene and flames were | $1,500. cbureh in the community, and my ad ail th shooting through the front and rear Fred A. Bennett, three rapid! people are the only real Presby P. wey windows. The fire was put under | sightseeing cars, $2,900 each |terlans, and J am sure that I can " ontrol, however, before it did any §. Ross Parker, Cadillac, $600. prove myself innocent,” ia the ver} damage to adjoining property, Many! R. Venables, Reo Roadster, $400,| he sizes It up THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, ni P. RAILROAD BUYS THE 1909. } } THOMAS FINCH i AXEL ANDERSON. AUTO ACCIDENT HISTORY Today—Pope-Toledo driven by Henry Heiser, plunged through treatie on Fourth av. 8. Gasoline tank exploded and car burned Two dead and two probably fatally injured out of eight occu pants. August 20, 1909-—Winton car with seven through trestle into the water at Fourth av and Andover st Pive drowned and two rescued, Dead were: Mrs. M. Grothe, Mrs. J. Colvin, Miss Agnes Cowan, Miss Margaret Paul and Ira Parry, The rescued: Miss May Pau! and Miss Catherine Hiscox Jéne 29, 1909-—-Winton Six with seven occupants, collided with string of Northern Pacific freight cars at Van Asselt. Carl Schott, chauffeur, killed. Two seriously injured and four slightly in Jured. . May 30, 1909—Roy Rossman dangercusly injured when wheels of ear traveling 50 miles an hour at Meadows races, skidded May 27, 1909—Automobile with six occupants struck a rut on Thorndyke st., Interbay, overturning and killing Mrs. Amanda Ot tolengul. Car driven by BE. 1, Moses. May 14, 1909—Machine driven by C. M. Mattice and occupied by three university students plunged through railing at Sixth av 8, and Charles st., dropping 25 feet to tide flats. No serious in furies. March 22, 1909-—Automobile stopped on Argo Train was approaching and car refused to w deserted it and the machine was demolished by train duly 7, 1908-——Big touring car trestle at Fourth av. 8. and H May 30, 1908—Wheel turned, when J at Meadows track, turned to look back driver burt May 30, 1908—A. E, Welte bruised about head cat at Meadows struck fence oMay 6, 1908—Machine driven by Edward C trestle at Fourth av. 8. and Andover st juries. Three other occupants injured April 15, 1908—Motor car av. bridge. Four men and ly injured, All hurt March 13, 1908—Three injured, none driven by Frank Baker went through trestle Holgate. occupants 8 plunged st. crossing rk. Occupants Northern Pacific with ate four Water P Car passengers through saved lives Keena, driver in race struck fence and when racing Bennett jumped Bennett died of his in ashed into the bay four women in machine from Spokane Two serious. seriously, when at Fourth ay, 8 car and will take over the property, using the present buildings for warehouses. HG BREWERY HERE ;+++s+0+++ss+eee, * ge BANK CLEARINGS * The Union Pacific railroad, |* Seattle * tie, | * Clearings today ..$2,149,058.52 * Mhrough. its. agent . ae * Balance 454,161.85 % has purchased tne plant of the | Op Seattle Brewing & Malting |* Tacoma : + company at Georgetown, for |* Clearings today $978,511 &] the sum of $2,000,000. | * Balances 74,774 The Brewing company will Portland, *| oceupy the bulldings until oth- It Clearings today $1,220,278 & er. quarters are erected, at |* Balances 112,671 which time the Union Pacific |x 4x xx HMMM MMMM KH j with broken bones and battered bodies, | when a big Pope-Tole | wrecked car SEATTLE SrA r ONE CEN) UNAEN JOY RIDE ENDS IN TWO DEATHS THE WRECKED AUTOMOBILE TWO GIRLS BURNED AND CRUSHED BEYOND HUMAN RESEMBLANCE Gay Party Comes to Awful Close When Auto Leaps From High Bridge + THE DEAD. MISS GOLDIE PORTER, 21 161414 Terry av. MISS MABEL JOHNSON, 19 years waitress, recently of Sedro Woolley, Wash. THE INJURED. AXEL ANDERSON, 23 years old, waiter, 1513 Second av.; both legg burned; right arm broken; right side of face badly burned; taken to Seattle General hospital; may die. FRED E. LINDSAY, 18, chauffeur, 410 Fed- eral st.; internally injured; face bruised and hands cut; taken to City hospital; condition serious. MISS WINNIE FRAZER, or Mrs. Walter Lowe, waitress; burned and bruised; taken to Seattle General hospital. CHRISTINE ANDERSON, 19, domestic, 1513 Second av.; sister of Axel Anderson; right wrist broken; taken to City hospital. THOMAS FINCH, 23, chauffeur, 1418 19th right leg fractured; badly bruised; taken to Seattle General hospital. years old, old, Two dead, others was the toll exacted jo automobile crashed through the bridge railing at Fourth av. § shortly before 6 o'clock one perhaps fatally injured and four and Lane st this morning. As the heavy car hurtled through space and crashed to the tideflats below—a distance of 30 feet—it turned turtle, pinning its occupants beneath, . While of the writhed in pain, screaming for help, the auxiliary tank of gaso- took fire, some victims lay unconscious and some line in a trap, and the imprisoned victims, at the caught like rats mercy of the flames ARE ALMOST ROASTED ALIVE, were The helpless joy-riders struggled to escape the sharp, red their frenzied tongues screams piercing the air, but their efforts were futile Henry Hiser, who was at the wheel when the big auto took the Winnie Miss Frazer was badly crushed, and she was rushed away managed to extricate himself and Miss 1 ad fatal plung Frazer, who t occupied the front seat with him. to the Seattle General hospital Hiser, thrown into panic by the horror of it all, scurried |from the scene and was later placed under arrest. He is being jheld at the city jail, pending an investigation of the fatal joy ride Attracted by the pitiable screams of the trapped victims, fire wagon responded promptly and a stream to the funeral while others notified A he of water was quickly pl yassersby ran »yre, i J headquarters Se ayed upon the burning auto, with its trapped load of suffering humanity THE FIRE FINALLY EXTINGUISHED. i When the fire was extinguished, willing hands raised the and gently bore the burned and bleeding victims to a place of safety The body of Miss parlors of Butterworth & Sons, where it rs) Goldie Porter was taken to the under- lay for several hours, before identification was established. It was first iden- tified as that of Winnie Frazier, but later Goldie Porter's nother claimed the body as that of her daughter Frederick E, Lindsay, of 410 Federal av., a private chauf- |feur, was dragged from the wreckage, suffering from internal Jinjuries and bleeding from the mouth, His left eye was | blackened Christine Anderson, a domestic, who rooms at the Barring: |ton hotel, 1513 Second av., sustained bruises about the face and |her right wrist was broken. ANDERSON WAS HORRIBLY BURNED, Axel Anderson, a brother of the injured girl, who is a | waiter, sustained injuries which may result #n his death. From “(Continued on Page Nine.)