The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 20, 1912, Page 1

of how girl, j became a miisical star over n on page 4. just out ight, is VOL. 14. NO, 68. The Sea ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, MAY 20)/1912, TO NEGLUG WOAN OOF COGS CAUSE OF THE y ao - DIAGRAM Leased Wire) B—All the grew ‘pastor of the fash. Baptist church in pay the penaity. , that he will be at midnight tonight. ‘Pept Soundiy. Tetired at 1 o'clock this dept soundly until s Rev, Mr. Johnson re 1. Mr. Stebbins at that from the death said ARRIV GIRLS; D ment and Newman, Seattle, ls ft Los An. with Dick Turpin and Hien last night. Expect to Seattle tomorrow or / Has The Star phy heed me yet? d irmalee, Cal. Los Parmaiee, Los Angeles, Girls are crazy to fly. Selection out of applicants May 27. ak Newman. Ploresoing meseaxes to and the headliner of the meet and M the exhibition Of May be 29 and 26 explain Wituation as it stands I he expected arrival of Phil me Merle of “birds rs this week, shown the early , Seattle girls have Re signs of collapsing - Who Wants ? 'aGood Man @ ag lati ’s wha ofit.and tise them { Y paid copies daily. HESON MUST DIE AT "| without malice for anyone.” ES TOMORROW ACCIDENT. SLIP WHERE Acc lIPENT OCeVvReslo A SHOWING JUST HOW ACCIDENT OCCURRED =: = TT DNIGHT, SAYS HE’S CALM “Richeson is entirely resigned to! stead of in preson gard. The re his fate . He has made his peace} quest probably will be aranted. | with his Maker, and deep down in After the execution the body firet my heart I feel that he will face the will be sent to the prison morgue | final court penitent and with full and then to the city morgue. There realization of the enormity of his the body will be claimed by Doug Ferime, He ts back fo the fold now | las Richeson, the former pastors brother. Warden Bridges is permitted to) Richeson recovered hie nerve last | select three witnesses to the exe- might when Warden Bridges deci leution besides 12 official witnesses to give him another day of life. Re jand the two ministers, and he bas peatedly he asked the warden, asked three newspaper men to at- “When will it be?” tend the electrocution. It is sot When known whether Attorney Morse, Richesen added: counsel for the condetuned man, to teli me. There will be no scene. will be permitted to attend My ministers have taught me how | Richeson will De maved some to stand it.” | time today by the prison barber. (The tast chapter in Mariin E. | He hae requested that he be elec- Pew's story of the Richeson crime lereswtad in his own clothing im! rinted on page 7 today.) A nn ne se rtm sd ONE LUCKY ESCAPE With one foot on the deck of the Fiyer and the other on the gang- ON’T GET SCARED jfrom their determination of Mying)} with the famous aviator. ' The list grows, Miss Van Arnam, 1732 Victoria ay. W., wants to fly so does Miss Edith Huddleston, 405 Olive st. The young lady declares she has plenty of nerve, and has/way of the boat leading to the jshown her ability in caprgek high | treacherous gangplank, W. P. Odlin, places by climbing some of Abe HIE | of the Lester W. Davis Lumber Co., peaks in the Olympic mountains, |ho4 4 narrow escape from falling MOTHER were unfortunate enough in gaining Mra. Bruder, mother of the little it to reach the steamer “1 had reached the deck of the Flyer,” said Mr. Odlin last night, “when I felt something give. I grabbed hold of a man In front of boy who was drowned, lying this| me to save myself from falling, and morning in the women’s ward of the not until | turned around did 1 city hospital, sald, “Oh, I don't re-|realize what had happened. The member much. My little boy Carl,|shrieks and cries of the women fn he was drowned, he was in myY/the water below were sickening arms, the boards broke and I fell| They appeared to be in their death into the water with him in my arms, I went down and the water come in and out. When I come up my eyes shut and my Carl was gone. I don't know how I was struggle. I heard one shout me! Save me!’ A boat from the saved. I remember no more.” } | | Rosalia rescued the woman before she went down.” tack on page 7 of today’s Star in the WANT ADS. under the classification “Sit- uation wanted—Male,” Se- attle men are advertising for positions of various kinds, Most of these men recite the fact that they can furnish references and are experi- enced in their lifes. Because The Star is the newspaper that goes home, it reaches over 200,000 readers in Seattle and immediate vicinity every week day. It mn is a quantity of quality, and t in Seattle read Star want ads results, eS een Old Gentleman; Young man, did you know if you saved the money you spend on cigars you'd soon own an auto yourself? The Young One: This ie my car, FOUR HURT WHEN AUTOS COLLIDE WALLA WALLA, May 20,—-Four persons today are suffering from injuries received in a@ collision be- tween a taxicay driven by ©. © Hibbard and “an automobile driven by ©. C, Miller, ‘Save | Dep NEWTON JOHNS Bootbiack who saved 10°lives. Who was in ree eect omens npg BOOTBLACK HERO QUIT STAND TO SAVE TEN BY FRED L. BOALT A man was baving his shoes shinéd at Mortimer Lewis’ stand, on the Colman dock, yesterday. They were natty tans, and the wearer was « fusey dresser. Newton Johas shine expert, had laid on the polieh and was preparing to apply the process necessary to a perfect shine which ls known as “elbow grease” when o crash rent the alr, and wan followed by « series of shrill 5 “Hey!” yelled the wearer of the matty tans, “Where're you going’? Come back and finish the job.” But the chunky negro boy paid fo heed. He was flying in the direction of the balcony, the edge of Which wan crowded with excited people. “Let me through!” he shouted, and catapulted against the human He went through it like @ shot. A man was holding a coll of rope and hopping up and down. Johne grabbed one end of the rope. “Hold Ugbt!” he said, and went ever the edge—spilash! He almost landed on top of a woman floundering:in the water, The shock of the sudden immersion in the cly salt water was like a shock of electricity. It numbed him at firet; then set every nerve to tingling cruelly, He opened his eyes under water, and the salt made them smart, But he kept them open, For the woman was beneath him, and sink’: her clearly. Her hair had come undone ai waving like a cloud milky e@a-weed, Head down, Johns swam after her, Now and then he stretched out an arm experimentally, for wader water are deceitful. He could not reach her, His threshing legs drove bim down stil! farther. His lunge were bursting. He releaged the air from them grudgingly and swam farther and farther down, A strand of hair caught in his fingers, He turned, apd rescuer and | reseued rose to the surface like a shot. Johns shook the water from his eyes and \gulped the alr greedily, The woman, too, sucked the air into ber lungs and instantly revived. Then a grim struggie ensued, for the woman was but half-conscious and mad with fright. She shrew her arms about Johns’ neck, and to- MRS. C. BRUDER Jured and who lost still. He could see was spread out and gether they disappeared again beneath the surface. Her grip was vice-| | like; it shackied his arms. With « tremendous effort he broke her hold. | ‘Slack! | walet | “Hoist!” Johns was the first of the reseuers in the water, and the last to leave it. The water was filled with struggling people. Johns swam to a woman who seemed to be tiring. Bomebody from the Flyer threw a |cork ring, and the bootblack caught it. He tried to pass it over the woman's head, and finally sycceeded, though her struggles hindered him. He gave the signal and the woman was drawn to saf A third and a fourth woman he caught as they were sinking, and helped them into lifeboats. | Like the “Lonely little darky al) de way from ‘Alabam’,” of the old song, kept her wits and seemed to know what Johna wanted her to do. He began to tread water, with the girl sitting on his knee. A lfe-belt was thrown from the boat, “Lift your arma,” sald Johns, and the «ir! obeyed, The life-belt was adjusted and the girl was hoisted to the deck of |the steamer. Johns had completed his fifth rescue, | A mass of hair floated on the water, Near it a woman's hat. | caught a rope, raised the woman's head out of the water, so that it rest- ed on his shoulder, and passed the line under her arms. She was un- conscious. | “1 think «! sure.” | The water now was full of rescuérs, Four women Johns helped into lifeboats, He began to realize that be Whs chilled and tiring fast, But he kept on swimming and diving from time fo time to peer beneath the surface He staggered when he left the water, and grinned cheerfully when scores of people grasped his hand, The floor seemed to wave beneath hie feet, and the circle of people about him advanced and receded and jumbled before his eyes. A big, strong hand grasped his owm He was receiving the congratu- lations of Mayor Cotterill. “* © © a oredit to your race and all | humanity.” } “Ah always wuz a good swimmer,” he said. Newton Johns learned to swim in the Delaware about the time he learned to walk, when he was a pickaninny, in Bristol, Pa ike the “Linely littly dary all de way from Alabam’,” of the old song, he left home early to “see de worl.” e's shined shoes in almost every state in the Union and in many parte of Canada. He came to Seattle in 1900, and from then until 1908, off and on, worked for John Willie, y- 's the one that died,” said Johns later, “but | can't be wrested the shoe-shining monopoly from the negroes, Rosanna Freeman, a pioneer, who came to Seattle in '71, and who, for three years, has been bed-ridden with pi lysis, and her daughter, Har- man. They live at 112 20th | BOSTON, May 20.—Striking the «By water with such force that nearly LOUISVILLE, May 20.—The pro-|@very bone ~. his body “ - age , es Barr, 20 years of age, of eh Re E: Se een Tepelt Of 6 foot fall from a bal- Ga., for the 1913 meeting. The !iggn at Nahant. He attempted to southern wing of the church will descend in a parachute which failed also meet there. to open. —=— SS sible euiilieag anita ———D CONVICTED OF CARELESSNESS IN FIRST COLMAN DOCK ACCIDENT. As a result of charges growing out of the wreck of the Colman tower, on April 25, by the Alameda, which caused the sinking of the steamboat Telegraph, Robert Bunton, second assistant engineer of the Alameda, and Guy Yan Winter, third assistant, were Saturday convicted of care- lessness, negligence and inattention of duty by Marine In- spectors Bion B, Whitney and Robt. A. Turner. Bunton was suspended for two months and Van Winter for 30 days. I ONE CENT aE ae shouted to the man on the dock, who was holding the | | other end of the rope, Fighting, he passed the rope about the woman's | Johns) whose stand was famous in Seattle before the Greek boys came and | Since coming to Seattle he has been the sole support of his aunt, Mrs. | tle Star ON THAINS AND NEWS STANDS Ge HOME ict A hgr boy. WICTIMS TEL STORIES OF THE AGGIDENT CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT The Coiman docy slip is raised and lowered by chains which are turned by a cog wheel. Some of the teeth on this whee! we worn off, apparently, and the gear faiied to catch, allowing the wheel to revolve at @ furious rate and causing the chains to fall back. This caused the near. est end of the slip to the boat to hit water, The gang plank from the slip to the boat's deck simul- taneously gave way and the mass of humanity wea plunged into Elliott bay. Men and women who were drop ped into the waters of the bay from the Colman dock yesterday told vivid stories to Star reporters to- day. Here are some of them: A. Suchman, 1909 East Spruc who is at the city hospital, sal “When the gang plank started to drop there was an old lady, Mrs. Michaelson, near me, I grabbed her and held ber up. Then I got a young lady behind me and helped her. 1 got an oar and gave it to her while I held on to Mrs. Michae! son and started for F. Cohen and gave him an oar, While I was try- ing to save the Women a suitcase fell on my head and nearly stunned me, When I had the women and Cohen with oars I tried w get in the launch but a man sald, “Get out; what are you trying to do in here? I was too tired to tell him I was saving the two women, so | tried to pull them in the boat. The |young woman was nearly dead and I yelled for help. Then they pulled us in the boat, I wanted to go back and get some more people out of the | water but my coat was so heavy it pulled me down, I had to save my self. C. Bruder, a sign painter who jlives at 2416 B-Marion, at the city |hospital this morning sald: “I was jabout on the middle of the gang| |plank when it dropped. I fell into the water and went way down. As I went down and caine up I sa lots of people. My eyes were open. I could #ee them struggle in the water. Oh, I had an awful time to get saved; everybody was saved be fore me, When I came up the sec ond time there & woman hold ing on to me. I caught on to a big rope, but it would slip and then the |woman would hold tighter. The men from the boat tried to pull me up but the woman had my right arm and I could not get in the boat I was going down again and yelled, ‘For God's sake save me.’ Then they jumped from the boat and pulled us both in, They grabbed the woman but could hardly get her off me. She looked awful. 1 will never forget her face or the look in her eyes. She had brown eyes. I hope they saved her.” Miss Ruth Buschman, 22, 634 11th av, N.--“I was in the water more than 15 minutes. I grasped hold of some men who were holding on the piling. Then the negro boy fastened a life preserver about me and | was pulled out by a rope.” She was taken home in a taxi ALL INJURED RECOVERING Of the 45 people taken to the city hospital all were removed later to their homes or to the Seattle General or Providence hospitals. Most of the victims suffered from the shock of the plunge in the cold water and from swallowing water and with a few exceptions are about recovered this afternoon. There were a few Injuries sustained from bumping {nto piling and one from hitting a chain. The five remaining in the city hospital will be removed today. Who was injured after saving three Picture of steamer Flyer, in accident yesterd. is on page 8. EDITION SCHUMAN CARL BRUDER B-year-old boy who was drowned, —= == lives. COMPANY CAN NOT EXPLAIN BIG DOCK ACCIDENT Two Drown and Over Two Score Injured When Gang- eet ee See Se eee at Colman ——Company Can’t Explain—Coroner and When a chain which hoists and lowers the gangplank in lone of the slips on Colman dock slipped at 11:10 yesterday | morning, 60 persons, intending passengers on the steamer Flyer, for Tacoma, were shot into the bay, 20 feet below. Mrs. Florence E. Learned, of 741 Belmont place, and Carl Bruder, the three-year-old child of E. C. and Mrs. Bru- der, 2415 East Marion st., were drowned, and two score were |more or less injured. 4 Despite the momentary panic which seized the throngs on the dock and steamer, heroic rescue work was done amid scenes of indescribable confusion. Notable among the res- euers was Newton Johns, a negro bootblack, who abandoned, his stand and saved 10-persons. But 10 minutes elapsed between the time the gangplank sank beneath the feet of the crowd, pouring into the steamer and the moment the last of the victims was dragged from the water. LIKE GIGANTIC CHUTE. ye-witnesses ‘of the accident said the slip was like a gigantic chute when the gangplank fell. Instantly the water between the dock and the vessel Was alive with struggling humanity. The air was rent with screams. ‘ Dozens of men jumped without hesitation from dock and ship, and others threw overboard lifebelts, ropes and planks. |The news spread when the Flyer’s siren blew short, piercing calls for help; the harbor filled with small craft and every am- bulance in the downtown district answered the appeal. ~ ‘ QUICK RESCUE WORK. As fast as the victims were fished out of the water, they were hurried in ambulances and autos to the city hospital, the Seattle General and the Pacific hospitals. In a few minutes every cot at the city hospital was filled, and the corridors weré thronged with weeping and frantic relatives. When the loading device. gave way, Capt. E Coffin of the Flyer ordered all hands to throw overboard everything floatable on deck, and belts, ring corks, planks, the deck gates jand gangways, and even chairs went over the rail. Roy Lillico, with his lauch Skeeter, slipped in between the dock and the Flyer and rescued two women and five men. “There must have been 50 men, women and children in the water when we got there, and many of them were already | exhausted,” said Lillico. “I Had the help of the fire-tug Sno- qualmie and the steamer Rosalie.” Many of the rescued swallowed enough salt water to render them unconscious, and were revived by rolling them on barrels or chairs, NO REASON ,GIVEN Interviewed by The Star today, E. F. Morgan, manager of the Col- man Dock Co,, could give no reason for the accident. “The slips are all standard gauge,” he said, “such as are used on.all modern docks. They are built to bear a weight of 40 tons. We were using the lower slip to load the Flyer, because the tide was out.” Morgan was interviewed by Prosecuting Attorney Murphy and Cor- oner Snyder today, and to them the manager said that the accident, a few weeks ago, when the dock was rammed by the Alameda and the outer end demolished, might have caused a defect in the slip which the inspectors overlooked. REGULAR INSPECTION “I have been operating this dock since it was opened, ten years ago,” said Morgan to The Star, “and this is the first accident of magni- tude we have had. It is our aim and policy to leave no stone unturned to insure the safety of the public.” “Do you have the dock inspected?” “Yes. It was inspected last a few days ago.” Are the inspections regular?” After Murphy and Dr. Snyder had finished their interview with Morgan, the coroner said: “i have no doubt that there was negligence in this particular slip. The coroner has pieces of cogs broken from the hoisting machine. He and.Murphy inspected today al! the cogs in all the slips on the dock -—four on each side. “Some of the cogs dovetailed perfectly, and some didn't,” said Snyder, si B 4 CORONER ANGRY Some time between the time of the accident and this morning, some one removed the cog wheels from the slip ;where the chain slipped, and the cornoner was angry when he made the discovery that they were gone, He has ordered all exhibits to be turned over to him for use at the inquest, which will be held at 10 o'clock tomorrow. * course will depend upon what the coroner lear quest," said Prosecuting Attorney Murphy. “If anybody h of crim Mal negligence, he will be prosecuted. (LIST OF INJURED IS ON PAGE 6.) at the in- been guilty