The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 22, 1912, Page 1

The thing is done now. We may argue, and ex- pets may point out, how the world’s mightiest ocean to wail about those “might have beens.” THIS MAN MADE THE BEST OF CONDITIONS Loew acted instantly. He ordered his boat to the AS THEY WERE. | scene, rescued all the people in the overturned boat, and His name is Loew, and he was fifth officer of the then directed his and the other lifeboats to the work of in lone powerful heave, haul him over the side and to life again. Time and again he did th After that Loew tied several of the boats together ingle column” and towed them away from the , or how, even after tearing her heart out on the ace could have been brought safely to New York parbor, iceberg, hundreds of lives might have been by proper equipment. But there is one man, it appears, who did not stop A headline sa Dead 1.234; Mrs. That's why the socialist party is growing, says F. P. Adams in the New Y Titanic. —— id: “Titanic’s Astor Saved!" ork Mail, “4. SEATTLE, When the Titanic was going down, hundreds of men leaped from the sides of the ship and struggled! into his boat. He would extend his long arms out into Titanic. Remember the name. He deserves deathless desperately for life. At the same time one of the boats, the water, grab a dying man by the shoulder, and with fame. ‘he Seattle Star __ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE picking up drowning men in the water. Personally he dragged every man he could reach WASH., MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1912 scene. Loew, fifth officer of the doomed White Star liner If you want your daughter to grow up to weight 400 pounds, name her Pansy or Fairy. one cent exzzzzax. HOME EDITION DIES OF FIFTY. RECOVERED FROM THE SE —_— red rae (I HORROR franklin. Says He Hear ay Afternoon About of Rescued Passen- but held back report, to 4 Verified — Ismay and Crew of Titanic Washington Probe. q Uatted Press Leased WisinaTon Apri 22 mouths shut. Hold dollars in four figures agreeing. Will meet you at dock.” alleged messacs sent to ali Marcon! by Chie? Operator W. T. ont» received here that be ordered det bs held back, deciar York reporter messages to our basiness fs kT dammed With We Aléen geld continoe Peaches g the committee that sensational Star ar before the i Secretary of # has ordered the ore On cruisers Salem and Me appear before tie comm: the disaster operator on the rescue ship. Qairman Smith annow My that he « feos which any night make Us. Jobs Jac @, Mrs. Henry & of the is underst Astor, J ae = Se “1 5 a é @ se \ ne tes admit Guarding Crew. The crew and su nic are being rivate detectives <i AY OF THE from say that Sammis bas admit Yes, I sent men, but } Spectators. The cuuccs room in the ‘senate r building was jammed when he hearing was resumed today. Smith of Migan declared that the inquiry indefinitely ¢ Toronto, whe evidence Tre ‘Oificers of the Tnanic, vestigators this the United States forts the Carpe Mra. Astor to Tesitfy. comed any sugges-| sarvivors | Harris « viving of TODAY'S WRECK SITUATION Latest news concerning the world’s greatest marine is the finding of SO bodies near the spot where the sea palace Titanic went down by the cable ship Mackay-Bennett. Some bodies were embalmed and the rest reverently put into the waters again, after funeral services. it robable that scores, and perhaps hun- dreds, of other bodies will be found before the search © Several multi-mitiionaires whe lost relatives are planning to send ships to explode dynamite over the scene of the wreck. if the bodies of their lost ones are not found by the cable ship. One seheme is to have aeroplanes cruise over the place, looking for dodies. The senatorial investigation is continuing at Washington, with temay, officers and sailors of the Titanic and some surviving pas present. Most of the first and second class passengers among the sur- vivors have returned to their homes, while a majority of the steer age passengers are being cared for in New York. The relief fund here and 9 England today amounts te over $600,000. Ot d Mon- 20 Boat Before — rezaTives were) | DEAD AS RESULT OF A TORNADO } /Storm, Sweeping Illinois, | Leaves Death in Its Wake— | More May Have Perished. ; or United Press Leaset 1 ST. LOUIS, Apiri 22 one persons are known to be dead | today as a resuit of the violent tor pneee, which swept Illincis Sunday, ' a Wire) —"Keep stories) * Mar to bave wireless stem in New | (357° of the ne beside those whe perianed at Bush, WL, which was reduced to 4 pile of lwreckage. Details from Bush are | expected te add ten of fifteen to ‘the death tol! ‘The known dead } | Murphysboro, seven of and § in the district between Bush and West Frankfort | Ten empt of tain railroad at Bush jto have been fatally are being brought to the ifle Railroad hosp’ ase at Bush 40 care b fied ajured he can Mise ished and A mes night the ¢ jured at wreckage that deneath injured from wre Mine, and will ap- he Navy wireless today Je br ding More Victims. Telephone repair 1 ne stated ed Chester ittee and to get trom the the already need to-! were Kk Park. I ood that | t B, Thas-| DR. F. W. FRAVENTHAL Mra! Dr. Henry tha the | tieguished doctor of New Y¥ with his bride of a few mor rescued from the wreck Dr. Franes Py t a million dol New wires are down DAMAGE $500,000. MOROCCO, Ind. April 2 ne persons are dead here today and 2 njured, one fatally, as a result Sunday's tornado. The damage about $500,000. The tornado wrecked the home Chas. Rice here, killing seven meny bers of the family. Rice is dying a Two women in nearby houses were _ al killed , w The path of the tornado was 300 feet wide and narrowly missed the home of Geo. Ade, the humorist and playwright, at Hazleton. -HILLMAN WILL | DO FARM WORK TACOMA, April 22.—"No 2163, farmer.” In this humble —Ni however. alety when the news reached Mr. Frau enthal that Dr. and Mrs. Frauen thal were among the survivors caretaily| SALEM, Or., April 22.—In the ar ros arejrest here of a strikingly handsome | woman of mysterious identity, A. A Allison, alias J. W. Polley peril the primat self ered, Smith, which? mer convict, and Win police here toda have effected the capture of a gang ,of expert safe crackers. According to the police, they ofund in the session o fone of the trio, Allison, a complete setof safe cracking belie tools fhe guards and q fhe members of th Perently are afra repeated what the reporter had said. 1 asked if the news could not be held until it was confirmed, and the man at the other end of the the Titante|phone replied that It had already rs. for|gone out, I then sent a wireless message to the Olympic’s captain y to get in communication with the @ President 2 admitted | Titanie and order all our peop! thet he knew M the’Car-|to report at the office, telling the p life boats | latter that press dispatches report be didjed the Titanic had struck an fe was not | berg, and was sinking by the head 6:20 p. m.|Then I sent @ second wireless to « sufficiently |again endeavor to communicate ed to war-| with the Titanic and get her pos Titanie’s| tion. Despite my efforts, absolute ly no Information from the Titanic had been received up to 6 o'clock At 1 o'clock Monday afternoon in Haddock of the Olympic wi eased that the Carpathia nian vialpieked wp 20 of the Titanic’s life ation Jater| boats filled with passengers.” to talk. A deck to give his of the mil ‘Mt publish | Monday a Mbitic messre Monday GIRL SURVIVOR OF TITANIC WEDS OREGON RANCHER Miss Marion Wright, a sur- wreck, was married here today to Arthur ncher of Cosgrove, Or. The Oregonian at Buffalo while en route to meet his bride-elect 1 Tuesday to Thursday was almost mad ftom anxiety concerning her W t's homé is at Yeoville, Somersetshire, Eng ril 20, Yivor of the ‘J Wolcott, an 2 heard of the d ter way is C. D. Hillman, million aire real estate man listed to day at McNeils island, where he is to spend two and a half years for fraudulent use of the mails. Hillman urged Deputy United States Marshal Anderson to register him, not as a real ee tate man, but as a farmer. “I was brought up on a farm,” he | ee “And I'd like to be as | signed to an outside job.” | | | | and do the like So Hillman will pick berries plowing, clearing and on the penitentiary | grounds. | Miss Carver on‘Stag | LOS ANGELES, April 22.—Fe lowing he rel charge, Vic girl, who In a jealous rage shot and killed J. Edwin Edge, real estate | dealer, is today considering an o |fer of $1,000 to ar in vaude vill. Miss Carver is a talented ma |gician. Officials are opposed to lher appearance, as it would place her in the role of a heroine worrrrrrrr eee ss) WEATHER FORECAST Showers tonight or Tuesday % light southerly winds. Tem | * perature at noon, 54 | fe te tee te tk te tte tek tet tote | FRESNO, ¢ April Three | men were killed at Sharpsvillé, near here, today, when a car loaded with steel rails, upon which they were ridiig, overturned. There were five men on the car, which was on the tracks of the San oJaquin Eastern railroad, now being built. 22 THe METORIAL NEw Co DIAGRAM SHOWS HOW KEEL AND UNDERGOOY OF TITANIC WERE TORN OFF BY SUBMERGED PORTION OF ice GERG The huge steamer probably struck a submerged, jagged shelf of the iceberg thin shelf, which tore away the bow, bottom plates and one watertight bulkhead after another for half the length of the vessel. ONCE IN A WHILE WE CAN FINISH IN STYLE Every man is a potential hero and @ potential coward. In time of sence of heroism @r cowardice is bound to show it History is full of illustrations. The crew of the Titanic was Sritis® When the boats were low the sailors made an instinctive mevement towards them. Capt on the bridge, saw the danger. Brave men or poltroons— The skipper seized his megaphone and bellowed: je British, men, be British!” instantly the crew fell back, an@ from then on worked and died like men. Neenes of indescribable horror ance at the nogne with crew lifeboats, charac’ which collided with nseenRel ruck and passengers fighting erised the wr of the the Cromartyshbire, off for a ¢ er La Ro foundland : Whe hurri the 6 driven on ane he Barbor of Samoa, one ship after One of thes ewas the Trepton. The m her taoorings. As she rushed by, in mander of a British ship near heard mpest, the strains of “Hail, Columbia, Trenton. The American flag was high at ater she struck and sank was sunk i® collision with the Camperdown tly all handy were mustered on deck and the halt soldier and half sailor—drilling in firet learned to do at Birkenhead, the British Liverpool, Kipling has immortalized the and dailor, Too In this extract the othin shout © stand an’ be stil e thick of @ rush, with firin you've cover to ‘and, an about bad when leave an’ likin to the Birken'ead drill is a damned tough bullet Er Majesty's Jollies—Soldier and Sailor done when it ‘adn't begun, they was younger nor me plain between drownin’ in 'eaps an’ bein’ mashed by | were still to the Birken’ead drill—Soldier and Sailor e most s lars rest rank as can 1 a while we're ‘arf of us thieves, an’ the are as once we can finish im style (which I ‘ope it won't hink better to do the makes you you ma When you. th sinkin’ Vietorier's Jollies—Soldier and Sailor too! {Hotel News Emplayment Agency }Soritla charges that he had to pay TOO MUCH $12.50 on February 16 for a$65 job and $14 on March 18 for a $70 po- FOR A JOB |e This morning the council 1 set-to with A. A }men had a ver Adams, the manager of the agency but th elatter practically challenged the right of the councilmen to inter fere. Hesketh has affidavits from other agencies, showing that Sorili with uncil was |should not have been charged more cook, of} than $3.50 for each of the jobs se Seattle /qured for him —_ MRS. ASTOR SAYS COLONEL WENT TO DEATH UNAFRAID NEW YORK, April 22.—Col. John Jacob Astor, New York mil. lionaire, a victim of the Titanic, went unafraid to his death. This, in substance, was the tribute paid to the bravery of the wealthy New Yorker by his wife, Mre. Madeline Force Astor, who from her sick bed In the Astor mansion here today indignantly de nied that Col, Astor had asked permission to enter the lifeboat in The last vacant seat in the boat, according to Mrs. Astor, was taken by a man, who fayght his way through the crowd ang leaped into the boat as it was being lowered into the sea. This man, she asserted, snatched all blankets from the shoulders of shivering women and childrem and sat huddled and cowering in a corner of the boat while frail women rowed, Although Mrs. Astor is still confined to her bed, the Astor family physicians assert her quick-gecovery is assured. President Rob Hesketh and Coun. Marble are determined to nd to the extortiona laborers by em jes The latest loy agenc com filed Vincent to! | ‘appen gr ©’ you and your friends, an’ the work | # _. | bered YOUR CHANCE OF LIFE IF WRECKED FIRST CLASS SECOND CLASS STEERAGE ° CREW Wa - 207% AVERAGE | First Cabin Second Cabin Steerage .... cee. Officers and Crew ever known an idea how money and sex count In| cers escaped the struggle for life in a well com | were seamen firemen. oft save Of the second lonly 11 per cent were men. Of the steerage per cent were men. Practically ALL of the women of|manded him to stop. Some of the staterooms | 14 ducted shipwreck—where order pre vails. All rules fail in a panic. | Out of 745 persons saved from th Titanic 212 were first class passen-} gers First class passage on an Atlantic | liner costs from $80 up. On the Ti tanic the minimum is much more| n that cost hundreds doliars. even thousands of} -27% peavg u0lp) The momentum of the ship carried her on and on against | ress of the higher and a man’s lower in each! ment for class. The figures relative cers and crew consideration of the fact that e the should be taken Poarg wey FOUND AT THE - OCENE OF THE DISASTER (By United Press Leased Wire) NEW YORK, April 22—The cable ship Mackay-Bennett, which was sent out equipped with coffins to search for the bodies of victims of the Titanic disaster, wirelesstd the White Star company today as follows: : ; “Lat. 41.50, long. 49.21—Heavy lecuthwest squall interfered with | Operations. Fifty bodies recovered. |All net embaimed be buried at sea 8 p.m. with divine services. Can jonly bring embaimed bodies to } | port.” | The message was dated Sunday, and it is believed that a number of bodies of Titanic victims have al- ready been buried from the Mackay- Bennett. NEW YORK, April 22.—-Wireless rification of the report that the ble steamer Mackay-Bennett had covered 50 bodies of Titanic vie- tims was received here today at the offices of the White Star line. Whether or not any of the bodies | had been identified the message dtd not state. It was also reported that a number of bodies recovered were sunk again, their condition making preservation impossible. Vincent Astor, heir of Col. Jobn Jacob Astor and the latter's widow, ; merly was Miss Madeline today are fi wing the prog- rescue ship with sue boping that the millionaire’s may be among those recor | Force | pense. body | ered ANOTHER | TRIAL FOR AXEL NIST Axel Nist, whose conviction of | second-degree murder for the death of Patrolman Judson Davis, was ect aside by the supreme court, was ed on trial fer the second time | this morning. Testimony will not begin till late |this afternoon, as the impaneling of the jury took up all of this morn- ing’s session. The opening state- the state was made at 2 o'clock. Nist and a man named Ford are alleged to have engaged Davis ina running duel when he ade an attempt to arrest them for attempted robbery. Ford and Smith both died. Nist was found in a ditch near the scene of the shooting, seriously injured. He recovered, however, and was con- victed of second-degree murder. Be- supreme court had time to et on that, Nist was convicted of tempted jail breaking. THEY SAY THEY WERE NOT ASKED Those “hand-picked” delegations will have @ lean and hungry look by the time the state conventions are held. Every day finds a few “hand- picked” delegates who decline to stay “hand-picked.” Louis Silvdin and John P. Ireland, in the republic- **peawg 1090 404 saved, 60} an party, and B. Plants and Dr. Geo. 44/R. McLaughlin, in the democratic 17|party, are the latest to tnsurge. 2p |They say they were “hand-picked” <\'| without being consulted, Above are the cold figures of the} boat had to have a crew to row it! "AN Ocean disaster the world /and that 22 of the 208 saved were| CHAUFFEUR IN AN Briefly, they give | woman stewards Only FOUR off-| ATTEMPTED HOLDUP Few of the other®@ §peeding up his machine as he mostly stewards and) was told to halt, R. B. Davies, of Seattle Taxica Co., told the po- this morning that two thugs jattempted to hold him up about 2 passengers| a. m. at the corner of 27th and Hast | Cherry st. 38| Davies declared that the men con- jfronted him with guns and com- Instead he were| went faster, He gave the police a Idescription of the men 3 | the the first cabin passengers} lice 27 per cent were men cabin passengers first and second cabins } Second class passengers saved} ;numbered 125. | Second Class passage on Atlantic] liners costs from $50 up to $75 | $80. Steerage passengers saved num 200. Steerage passage costs from $30 to $40. Fror inadeq as pe these figures, granting ar @ fifeboat equip mitted by the E big Atlantic line out your chance of escape tn lease of the loss of the boat you! |are on | Put down $40 for a steerage} passage and your chance is less than 1 in 5. | Add $20 to that and “you| boost your chance to over 2 in 5 Add $20 more and it goes up to 3 in 5. : That's the average for men and women, A woman's chance is Eggs for Hatching f you're figuring on raising some chickens this spring you want fertile eggs from good stock, Reliable poultry fanciers offer such eggs in Star Want ads.