The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 11, 1911, Page 1

_ADLIVES ARE LOoT IN WRECK Federal Express, Between New York in Boston Plunges Over Bridge—Probably 20 More Will Die—St. Louis Ball Team Aids in Rescue. (By United Press Leased Wire) BRIDGEPORT, Conn., July 11.— Between 12 and 15 persons were killed and 45 injured in the wreck of the Federal express, eastbound, on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad near here at 4 e'clock this morning. Twelve corpses were counted immediately after the crash. The wrecked express ran onto » siding and tumbled over a bridge into the street at Fairfield av. All the dead so far found were in the forward coach: The St. Louis baseball team, the Cardinals, were in the last two coaches. None of the players was hurt. THE DEAD Louis’ Rising, Warm Springs. Mrs. Louis Rising, Warm Springs. Mrs. J. W. Rasmues, Ellsworth, Wis. Mrs. C. W. Baker, Sheridan, Or, 20 More Will Dit Twenty of those injured in the wreck probably will die. When the ears crashed down Into the street they at once took fire, and only quick and efficient action by the city fire department prevented many from roasting to death. The wrecked train, which consisted of an engine, baggage car, two day) coaches and five sleepers, w more than an hour late and was running 40 miles an hour through | the suburbs. On reaching a viaduct) at State st. and Fuirfield av, West) Bridgeport, the engine swayed and)| its front end struck the coping of the viaduct. The impact threw the locomotive from the rails and it toppled over the-edge of the 30-foot | viaduct, carrying with it all the cars) except the last two Pullmans. she two day coaches were torn to Pieces. Most of the dead were found | there. The heavy Pullmans piled up on the wreckage, making the whole an indescribable mass of twisted and splintered wood and steel. Desperate Rescue Work. The baseball players and the other passengers in the two sleepers | which remained on the tracks, as} soon as the crash came turned out} of their berths and worked desper-| ately among the debris, carrying | out dead bodies and tugging and | ~ hauling at the piled up timbers to) rescue those pinned down in the path of the advancing flames. | T. Arthur of Seatti The Seattle Star ONLY VOL, 13, NO. SEATTLE MAN BURNED, DIES IN OREGON WRECK » 8. T. ARTHUR. jdition he would be unable to ‘get out alone, hurried after and pulle¢ him out just In time to save his life, as he was about to be carried away by the swift current Arthur Is the proprietor of the Buena Vista apartment house on Boylston av. and Olive st. He was lon his way to Bend, Or., where he intended to stay for two weeks RAR BULLETIN. DALLES, Or., July 11.—C. who was ter ribly scalded in yesterday's derail ment of the Madras passenger train near Dyke, died in the hospital this noon. Other dead are: Arthur, a pioneer of Wash. ington and a Seattle hotel man for jthe past five years, was terribly scalded in a train wreck yesterday afternoon on the Oregon Trunk railroad The wreck was caused by | kink in the tracks. struck the kink the track and rolled down a 40-foot em. bankment. A day coach followed and fell on top of the engine. Those eriously injured were in the day coach. They inhaled escaping steam from the engine and were burned and scalded Arthur, badly scalded and suffer ing intense agony from his burns, rushed to the river, 200 feet away. and jumped in.’ Several other pas sengers, seeing bin do this and knowing that in bis weak con THE 8. T. * * * A “sun kink” ts a place in the track whére the sun's rays have beaten down the * steel rails so fiercely that they ® have expanded more than *® their regular allowance, caus- ing the rails to bulge. This ® unusual expansion makes the * car wheels either down ® between the rails or Jump over them. When the rails are laid down there {s an allow ance of about one-fourth of an inch for expansion and con traction caused by weather conditions. a sun When the train engine left the on * * * . * * # RKARAAKHRRKE ED | Hodgdpedindedeula dade datatedatadadaiadade ® i a necessary to chop through the roofs | Turn on the Lig ht Congress ought to put the probe into this |The bare surface facts, as printed by The Star, point to fraud. That scores of the passengers wailed and| “Dear Dick" letter points to deception of the rankest kind, and there | screamed while the rescuers strove|@re indfeations that filing dates have been altered and land office) | to reach them. In most cars it was|records have been falsified py That “Dear Dick” letter itself is suffictent ground for a thorough- and ball|going investigation. Here you have Richard Ryan, a MorganGugge with | heim agent, writing to Richard Ballinger, a cabinet member, as fe Chop Through Roofs. Penned up in the ruins of the day coaches and held down by the mixed up seats and broken fixtures pwe at ale bay land grab. | § to ®ecue the victims players and citizens strove each other in rivairy until the last | lows imed body had been drawn from | He (meaning Taft) sent for me and asked me who it was I rep ie wreck, |tesented. 1 told him, according to our agreement, that I represented | Paitial Death List. | myself, but that didn’t seem to satisfy him. So I sent for Charlie Taft The following list of dead was| and told him to tell his brother, the president, who it was I really rep given out from St. Vincent's hosp!-|resented. The president made no further objection to my claim.” tal this morning: SIGNIFICANCE OF LETTER C. W. Christie, Philadelph Mrs. S. Ryan, the confidential correspondent of Ballinger, and a man| George Rogers and infant son,|who for years has been known in Washington and Seattle as the Mor- Washington; unidentified young | gan-Guggenheim Alaskan fixer, is sent for to come to the White House. woman? unidentified boy about 3/He has some things for the private ear of the president of the United| years old; unidentified woman aged | States. He presents these things. The president asks him what his @bout 60; Engineer A .M. Curtis|packing is. IN PURSUIT OF A PRIVATE UNDERSTANDING BE- and Fireman W. A. Regan, Federal) TwEEN RYAN AND BALLINGER, Ryan tells the president a per- express; negro passenger; uniden-|functgry tale about being “independent”; that he is acting for himself. tified trainman; two unidentified! the president hesitated to enter into the—we shall not say conspiracy children. at this stage—into the project set forth by Ryan, It is necessary that Hundreds Help. he have further assurances as to Ryan's backing. | When the train left the trestle So I sent for Charlie Taft and told him to tell his brother, the and plunged to the street, blinding! president, who it was I really represented. The president m no flashes from the torn trolley wires|further objection to m aim.” through which {t plunged aroused Subsequent velopments all point to the fact that the proposition the whole neighborhood, and hun-|jaid before the president by R. S. Ryan was the plan to grab the shores dreds of people poured out of their/of Controller bay. T Ballinger-Pinchot controversy had made it houses to aid in the rescue. It was) evident that the Cunninghar ims would have to be cancelled at first reported that a number of} he plan proposed by R. 8. Ryan made it perfectly easy for the the dead had been electrocuted, but| president to allow the cancellation of the Cunningham coal claims investigation later ‘oved that! The Ryan plan was more comprehens The control of the while the whole mass of the smash-| water outlet from the coal fielf™ was more Important than a favorable ed cars was bathed in electric fire) gecision on the Cunningham cases, It appears from the record that none of the passengers was more] tne conspiracy to turn over this contro! to Dick Ryan and his back than singed by the electric flames.) or began about the time that Charles P. Taft paid his visit to the OF HEA DAUGHTER werd quietly made in certain of the government October 28, 1910, an executive order was secretly, made by President OROVILLE, Cal., July 11—Mrs. Emma L. Rumball, whose step Taft himscif—an order which was the key to the situation, and un lock the gate for the Morgan-Guggenheim syndicate. It was not until April, 1911, that the matter leaked. Then a mammoth April Fool's day joke on the public, the facts came out. It appeared that the secret presidential order of October 28, followed by daughter, Helen, 13, w: found|the action of certain dummy entrymen manipulated by R. 8S. R with a broken neck tied to the|had created a monopoly of the railway terminal facilities at C rafters in their home at Gridley,|bay for the single railroad—the Morgan-Guggenheim railroad, namely was today held to answer to a\the Controller Bay & Navigation company railroad—into the coal fields. | charge of murder. The preliminary Thg secret order of October 28 signed by President Taft eliminated was completed during the morning,| from the Chugach forest reserve and Jald open to entry, and therefore when the district attorney asked | possible acquisition by dummy entrymen, 12,000 acres, embraging the that she be held. The preliminary hearing of Arthur Lewis, Mrs. Rumball's brother, also arrested in connection with the girl’s death, then began. The evidence was similar to that shore Mne of Controller bay. introduced in Mrs, Rumball’s case. ¥ {th | at fi hy | to | fo | pr P | fo | co de iss the utmost secrecy tain orders departments, On | | Taeneen anes eye :| WIN DUAL MEET For Seattle and vicinity Fair and warmer tonight; a LONDON, July 11.—Hnglish ath- *\letes from Oxford and Cambridge | Wednesday fair, continued warm; light nogheasterly noon *\today won the dual meet hese in *\ competition with the Yal and winds. Tempaature at today, 66. #|Harvaft stars. The American ath FOR IO ITOK IIT I A FH eto had been confident of victory. If ™M. PITTSBURG—in an effort .to divide.a keg ot powder fairly, Venriffg Goolish was blown to atoms, and John Semenich is dying of burns, It eeeeeee een A ment |where they left early “| tors Harry o} | Hamilton arrived at narrow national here today decided in favor of the | Oregon metropolis after @ spirited | py ,| SCHOOL BOY HOPES THAT The New-York boy says Engagin’ with others in highbrow, INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1911. IN SEATTLE \Two Girls in Stokes Caos Held on cs of Attempted Murder WHITE. GIRL “AND NEGRO TO MARRY Get Marriage Licenses, But ustice Refuses to Unite Mixed Couple—Still . Hunt- ing for Some One to Marry Them. Successful in getting a marriage |ticense, C. D. Foster, a full-blooded, |negro, and Clara Miller, a golden [haired Scottish girl of pure white | | blood, have so far been unable to get anyone who will consent to per [form the marriage ceremony for them. The | | | her age m# her moth girl, who give }18, wa ompanied by | dr, Mrs, Hattie Streaks, to the aud |itor's office. Two ttle mulatioes ja ipanied Mrs. Streaks, who ja! ja white woman herself The little | boy answered to the name of Artid Streaks The witness who Mgned for the contracting parties Frank Dupree, also a full-blooded fegr “I hated to issue that marriage license,” said C. F. Gage; the mar ring clerk ater gave 33 the bride 18 Repub o ‘Their appoa was Lilian Graham (on left) and Ethe! Conrad, photographed in court in New York during their trial on a charge of attempting to kili W. E. D. Stokes, muiti-miilionalr (By Vetted Pree Leased Wire.) NEW YORK, July 11—Detlaring | that the story told by Millionatre W. B.D. Stokes of the attempt one as bridegroom the er city directory Both gave 1 ir addr do not and Hean {nar the 5,000 each said he had as, what Stokes a fixed their The magistrate option in the matter, the relation between bail st, as at try EDITION SENSATIONAL CHARGE MADE Catherine D. Roberts Stirtan, Mrs. was handed to ¢ three women make of the grand jury. ween them- room. accord the e Jessie The Star a sensatic again 1en repeat an a ‘ hich occ er il affairs, and , some of the grand Mrs. Rober { active Ml of Dilli of the cot nen, and ning their part in the recall that the grand jury Stirtan the last tir ‘DRAGGED BY BALLOON | PETE ee PEORIA, lil, July 11.—Clif ford Harmon, pilot of the bal loon “New York,” arrived here with his eyes blackened, his face cut and bruised and his clothing torn. He said the bal loon, which was forced down by a thunder storm, dragged along the ground for four miles. He and Augustus Post, his aide, were unable to make @ landing The experience wae the worst he ever had, he said. zht before Ir workers in th uncil it, was conce called Mrs Justice Carroll Refuses. | They asked Gage re leould find an officta them. They were di Justic courte tm th buil The couple the court house tly before noon, and reached the Prefontaine building before Justice ¢ Thad left. But the latter refus perform the cerémony Baffied they left the building and |atood almlensly for several migutes on the corner, wondering where next to go. Then they started up the hill on Yesler way again in the direction of the court house. Early this afternoon they had found no to marry them POLITICS AMONG SCHOOL TEACHERS SAN FRANCISCO, July 11 Despite a half score of committ meetings and trips planned for the entertainment of the thousands of delegates hore in attendance of the annual convention of the National Education Association, the wave of politics, which has deluged the Kates as pronoun today kill him here, which he sai made by Lillian Grabam an Conrad, had been u Magistrate Froschi today held bo the grand of attemptec the girls had been, the 1 by the millionaire He de ‘ the murde nd | K >rour’ 1 story of the | still wh they to marry ed to the Prefontain: ot tw charge GEMS FROM A GAY OLD MAN'S LETTERS TO GAY YOUNG GIRL h young fe be social life d to Marry worth more t slage or a heartless ow whore companionship worthless admiration of a ¢ *Y No matter bow od Keep your head ruin your complexion Get this little check cashed blow iton something Tam too old; so all I can do ts to be come across a divorcee or a monial experience she wants friends Tam over twice of stage life can't biame girl that From early is more nice a girl ts Don't touch wine, beer or oni and when the money comes in, 8¢ I win matrt. good polite widow who has for life, and we © day all the be just h can as old as you and I advige you to drop all ideas there's nothing in it. If you Won't take my advice, I you, for I told Maude Adams when she was a little was sure to make a failure if she went on the stage letters of Millionaire Stokes to girl who shot him fow weeks ag to the appoint EDRESS IS POSSIBLE tee by Mra. Ella Flags acquitted tn of the ciation It was shown faction of the court that he had no tion with the agency | Hut these 100 men have lost time and money tn the meantime. Some of them have undoubtedly felt the ngs of hunger. They have no re unless Fox can p nyway, they would not for their troubles “Thousands of men are duped in similar ways every year,” Attorney Pierce, case yesterday. 1 ts d 4B T enthu Insurgent atic, d of Carr aukee fon comm pUnK, president fartion to the WASHINGTON rilous flight July from 11.—After a Baltimore, today, Vvia-| and Chas. K Seattle was t olum- court Over in duped into going to B bia to k tion 100 Justice to the is men rdon’s Atwood bs rallre ~~ in the middle of the| Jaws of Canada prohibit ‘| portation of contract \abor. When reached the border they were { red back by the Canadian immi gration official | to Seattle on trains | back, not having fare h my ratlroad fare The men } the Waiter office, at Welch had leouple of w Fox. When ox had gon rumin the 1 tors was, arrested UTAY SENATOR INDULGES IN ROAST ON “INSURGENT SOOTHSAYERS” By Onived Leasea Wire.) ent state of incubation. The tend. WASHINGTON, July 11.—Ridi-jency of so-called popular ‘govern Joule of the Initiative, referendum ment is to emasculate and ultf and recall, was the burden of a| mately destroy representativ \speech in the senate today by|government. Legislatures will be Sutherland (Rep., Utah), “During |swallowed up by the initiative and the, lag-few years,” he sald, “the|referendum, courts will be obliter lUntted States has become the|ated by the recall, political parties ground-of operation for an amiable | will be juggled out of existence by lhand of insurgent soothsayers, In-|the direct primary and upon the |dulging utterances respecting the |ruins will the recently organ initiative, referendum and recall,|ized Progr League, which is sundry ingenious devices for realiz. | progressing a woman getting ing the millineum by the simple joff a car her back to the method of voting it out of its pres-| front work on uc The the im !@ morning at the army aerodrome College Park. On account aca they had because of dangerous caused by the heat, the avia it d not to continue thetr|t re until conditions im June. # on ht ey rs dec s urney ‘oved ORTLAND GETS CONVENTION ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., July 11 Portland, Or., today won the fight r the Elks’ convention city. The convention of the order $1.50 « ney, bes had patd ment in discussing the| “Usually we hear nothing of it. And there is but one remedy for the evil. Abolish all employment office privileges. Al low no one to conduct a private bureau for the employment of labor Let, the city conduct a public of fice. If there is no other place to go, employers will come* to this place, and the merciless grafting on poor workingmen will cease.” 1 been shipped Welch employment Washingtén busine to fi i sold his ks th before men The business of Welch, the Yesterday ntesty in which & stant. ttle was a con- lat he NEWS ITEMS FROM THE HICKTOWN BEE || w wit Mining rh ttercat report | that urkey Lafe Watert ela Clear Fla long en water rise easive like with TEACHER CAN'T GET BACK INDUCED BY “FRIEND” PANION “HIKES” CHICAGO, July 11 TO STEAL, COM WITH THE Declaring that he had embezzled from the Pacific Electric railway, for which he nt Pedro, Cal, a man giving the name of Ruymond Duncan, rendered to the police here today Th If-confessed Duncan, agent for the jouthern claimed drink was responstble for jf ® Los Angeles lumberman induced him to steal. Then, Duncan said, his companion stole the y from him whild he was sleep: ing in a hotel here, and, being penniless, he decided to give him self up LOOT $600 at San 4, sur It would tickle me most it took three months to get from) the const. y teacher's ig 'Frisco to the school ‘ma’ams’ convention, WwW. B He s the son of Los Angele his theft, and that+the son of said he Pacific embezzler w t gitsension ‘woudn't fuss me if they tore up the track nd made smarty school ma’am| walk all the way back.” | HOKE FOR SEATOR (By United Press Leased Wire) ATLANTA, Ga, July 11.—Hoke Smith of Georgia was only tw votes short of the necessary num ct him Un d States sena tor at the first separate ballot taken here today in the legislature, ceiving 21 vetes. nator Terrell Smith's n It is be 4 that be elected joint ballot row morning ber to Nev mith on tonto: CARUSO'S COUSIN 15 BITTEN BY HORSE NEW YORK, July 11—-Antonio Caruso, cousin of Enrico Caruso, the tenor, was driving to his home in Montclair, N. J., from Bloom. field yesterday afternoon with bis nephew, John Ricco, when on the outskirts of Bloomfield the horse, affected by the heat, became balky When Caruso attempted to lead the horse it bit him in the side and on the left hand Ricco went to Caruso’s aid and so was bitten in the side The two men sat by the roadside until the horse seemed to become |Then Caruso suggested that |be the animal would go on Follow The Trail of the GOLDE} GIRL? SHRINERS’ HEAD {S GIVEN AUTOMOBILE (By United Press Leased Wire. cool may The sald City> animal did. Caruso and Ricco home of a physician, wounds were cauterized. was much hurt drove to the Where their Neigher BALLOONS SAIL HIGH KEOKUK very high, passed her making gc northeast la. u an unidentified balloon this mornin, It was 1d speed toward the Salling MOLINE, Is, July high to be identified passed here this morn going wards the northeast. Moline is miles from Kansas City 11 three Too balloons SPRINGFIELD, Ils It is repor that a sighted here late last ling an hour toward the northeast. It was about 2,500 feet high. The balloon is thought to be one of those entered in the Nation al flight, which started yesterday from Kansas City PLUMBERS’ CONVENTION Thirty delegates to the seventh annual convention of the Northwest Journeymen Plumb: Steam Fitters and Helpers met at the yesterday, The asso: ciation represents the journeymen in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Mon tana and British Columbia. change in the present wage scale or hours will be proposed. A smoker given by affiliated Seattle unions will b¢ held at the Labor Temple July 11 balloon night, travel was § Fitters Labor Temple | tonight SANTA BARBARA, Cal.—Guards patrolling the beach near the Santa Rosa wreck found the body of a man being dashed about in. the breakers. It not been identi fied Captain Testifies ROCHESTER, N. Yy July 11— With Damascus Tempit of Roches» ter setting a precedent for liberality which will be hard to follow, thé first session of the conclave of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine was jheld here today. Imperial Potentate Hines of Los Angeles was given a $3,500 auto- mobile, trimmed with the Shriners’ colors, and Deputy Imperial Poten- tate Liatoff of Fargo, N. D., was presented with a smaller car. The California delegation of Shriners are entertaining lavishly. ARRESTED AT THE SeENE OF GRIME United Press Leased Wire.) CITY, July 11.—After years of freedom Oliver Me- charged with the murder of d Albert, returned to the scene of his crime, was recognized and j arre: ested. ‘SOME CATCH, THIS Take a stroll to the corner of Fourth and Pike, look through the window of one of the stores there, you'll, see--one of the linest “catches” of the season. It con- sists of 16 black bass, weighing 34 pounds. L. C. Griffiths is the lucky fisherman. He caught 'em last Sunday, using preserved mine nows, ‘and the whole job only took two hours and a half, RAYMOND, July 11—Mrs, James |Skochne and her three children were burned to death at Smith Creek, nine miles from here, when their home was destroyed Mrs. Skochne was separated from her husband and is said to have shown ‘signs of mental Ml derangem« ut He Could Have Clure. = Saved All on the Santa Rosa 3AN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 11 The cause of the wreck of the steamer Santa Rosa and the reason for holding its passengers in Jeo pardy on the vessel until Captain Faria decided that the steamer would be destroyed, is being tn vestigated by Federal Inspectors of Hulls and Boilers Bulger and Bol The officials of the Pacific | Coast Steamship company, whichit alleged wired Capt, Faria of the Santa Rosa, to ascertain what the transfer of the Centralia and the will ‘testify tod seng Argyle, y ‘ Srieson of the ner Centralia, testified that he could have saved eve life on the Santa Rosa, He sald that the latter vessel was doomed for nine hours I ived a nfessage asking the of transfer,” he sald, “and I replied that the comfany would sete tle that. After that no orders came, I could have saved 1,000 people." i to the would stee re