The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 23, 1912, Page 1

ic article by Mary Boyle ily, who investigated the FAMOUS sceress in Paris has been 4 forecasting the world’s news, wars, *j they put up the canned & . 5 al of actos py death of the pope, and all that. We've . got a woman right here in Seattle who You won't want to miss one of Gearing stories er ~ ‘THE ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE me Tee Cee VOL. 14 NO. 230, SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1912. ONE CENT ox cuainys > HOME EDITION S IS WHAT HAPPENED WHEN INTERURBAN CARS C an » “hon eR, _ / i ‘apher, shows vividly how the speeding freight car ¢: d the standing passenger car. The sides of the freight bulged out while the roof lifted up, the f the collision is shown by the way in which the trent end of the passenger car was » shattered by the impact of the car ahead. * HSS PASTOR cuee? IN COLLISION ON INTERURBAN LINE to Dr. Fielshers home at Riverton. MRS. WALTER THOMPSON Riverton, bruised and cut about head and shoulders Taken to Dr. Fleisher's, then 40 miles ar hourghrough the fog, a single car crashed intoow Id€al passenger train stand- ing at the Riverton station the Seattle-Tacoma interurban line at 9:18 this morning, r lting in serious injury. to 12 passengers and a slight injury to over 30 others rhe local train, which had left Tacoma at 8:50, was tak- ing on passengers at Riverton, 10 miles f Seattle, when the freight car, in charge of Motorman Campbell, bore down upon it. Despite the terrific impact of the collision, the pas- senger car was not crushed. This fact alone explains the almost miraculous escape of many passengers from instant death The freight car completely telescoped itself, its sides and top spreading out over the passengers ALL AMBULANCES IN SEATTLE RUSHED TO SCENE OF WRECK. First reports of the collision reaching Seattle stated a score were killed or injured. An emergency call for every ambulance in the city was sent in. Scores of private autos and taxicabs joined im the rush to Riverton. Phe passenger car was badly shattered but the main framework withstood the shock. The most seriously hurt received their injuries from being thrown headlong forward in the car. Others were bruised and cut by flying glass. Few of the 45 passengers in the car escaped entirely. Campbell, who was seriously hurt, said his car ran away. He ad- mitted seeing the passenger train, but says he was very close when it be- came visible thyough the fog, and that he instantly turned off the cur- aeeeeeneeane ase MACK EATS : . Norman EK Mack, former ® ebairman of the democratic # national committee, came to # town at noon today and ate @ two luncheons, one after an @ * * * * * *! * | j other, | He had to deciine an invita. #/ tionste a third Mack i# chairman of the Hime somone << 18 es All his life Rev, Emil A. Seeger {iialiments in the cliy by the police ; charge New Yor ‘ oeger's friends believe the Pacific exposition, which is on S| deanpoticns church, Columbia City, | ake oo <gengp n ht eckind its way to San Franctsco. ® |has been a man of routine and babit. | Jagins, where he is wot known to . When it was known Mack #/ On Thursday morning he depart | have \had any bosiness, two hours , the La a The specific charge against Ja! }# was coming this way, {nvitn & ed from the customary ordering of |afeer he left the car at Fourth and convicted rt cob Furth and bis associates relates | * tions poured in upon him from ® | nis days by taking a car downtown | Washington, ahows hoe must have Of reeeiving deposits.|to a deposit of $2,569.34 by Otto Beattle to see a physloian. been Wandering the #treets in a fit bank vee ‘naolv- | Kalso, of the chief witnesses Mack's secretaryin-chief ac: #) 1: is known that he left the Ren-jof absent mindedness r ver- |for the state Im the Sehricker case cepted an invitation from ® | ton car at Fourth av. and James at A 7 on the firet“ba ot. |Kalso made the deposit with|* President J. D. Lowman, of the ®/ tor the conductor of the car knows} V BE Mime, a: Olympia, | Schricker on Saturday, April 13, It|® Chanrber of Commerce, on be ®/ nim well and remembers vapnae| HAR ARD ATS i V. Ankeny, Se | wax forwarded to the Seattle Na-|* balf of the commission, to take ® line car to let him off at tha eye cut and head bruised. At = with aiding |tional bank, and received Monday, * luncheon at the Rainier club eas YALE EASILY + Providence hospital er In recelv-| April 15, ft ie alleged. On the fol J. CALDWELL, Tacoma, inter ing the coudition |lowing day, April 16, on the same a writ by jday the La Conner bank was) to remove trial sadwcua causavaiaweree home MRS. C. B. YEAST of Foster badly cut on forehead. Ribs probably broken W. L. HOBSON 8. Blectric vere co probable interns Taken to Seattle G A. B. KEISER, Renton, eye cut and several sealp wounds MRS, E. F, DOTY, Tukwila Fa The first assistant secretary Two hours later Rey. Seeger was! accepted for. Mack a similar ®/ eee, in front of the power houne| BF Velted Trews Leased Wire nal injuries and lacerations Invitation from J. M. Haw: / a: james and Broadway, by another) NEW HAY Nov. 23.—Har : General hospital eeeeeeeeeee omish county.| received the money for Kalso's|® County Democratic club, at ( S18 Third av. \ball team this afternoon, winning, | » uperficial injuries super iS ely upon con-|eheck from the Scandinavian Amer-|# the Washington. y re you doing in this part 20 to 6. * MRS, E. T. VANDEVENTER, himself to the |ican bank. j}® The second assistant secre #/ of town?” Stapelfeldt asked | At the @nd of the first period the! Orillia, bruised side and iz Sheriff. releasing} Jacob Furth and R. V. Ankeny|# tary accepted for Mack an tn # Speaks to Friend score stood, Harvard 10, Yale 0. & shoulder The maxiinum » | pleaded not guilty about a month|® vitation from Charles Heit # ‘Oh, 1 am jose taking o walk, Hfrvard scored 10 more in the,» CARNIE VANDEVENTER, W law for his alles jago, and asked for a change of|® ner, former democratic state ®) was the and the erable u ment for 10|venue from Skagit county. Kelle-|# chairman. < clergy mi passed on, smiling of $16,009 |her and Andrews, who have been|# It further appears that all ®| Rey Seeger has disappeared. No * arene rrr rrrrs MING Alforney Lrawiey is|absent in the East, have not been|#® three secretaries said to Mack. ®/one who knows bim has seen him for the prosecution | arraigned. |® before he left New York. */ since he strolled on past the Sie WEATHER FORECAST | Judge Joiner granted the motion|* something about eating in Se ® | honse Tiends and the police have|®, Fair tonight; Sunday rain; EE | for a change of venue and removed | # — an - Paya Sure. : made a careful search of the eity,}® moderate southeasterly winds % case (the case to Whateom county.|/®# Eat with anybody [but have not succeeded in finding) ® Temperature at noon, 50 vl Papes whe he. |Purth then asked the supreme court |® Helfner is credited with en- &/a clew to his whereabouts, omit tT . Gemency. Ali 12\to order the superior court of} # tertaining an ambition to ped- ®/his face if he has met with ace! sere RRR ARR SMald to have voted| Skagit county to remove the case | # die out jobs and patronage in */ dent or foul play \; mt Wile le ® ev. ence eo Bi - fuch recommenda-|'o Snohomish county. This petl)# this state when Wilson Is #) Rey. Seeker has been suffexine ' LOSES THREE “TEETH; 4 tion now has been 4 nied | president, He was *\from heart trouble for about sta, ireceined the jury's ver-| pista. |* have « conference with Mack ®| months. He remarked to his wite| GETS $50 APIECE in bis eyes. He had} # at 10 o'clock * rd when he left for downtown Thurs | Ines §=Simonds u prday . # But the train, due at 9:15, &/day that he might posslbl awarded $60 for tooth } business ini] SANE ANSWERS TO] & was inte, arriving at noon, and Seelan ie chan ae a for %-years. His *| Turkish bath after seeing the doc-| when she tripped er a parking bank in that terr FOOLISH QUESTIONS % Heifner’s chance of & confer # | tor, lwire and fell on a sidewalk. The rent and applied the brakes, but that the car kept going without the l@ ence went glimmering. When Search Turkish Bathe award was made against the city slightest sicn of slowing up. Seeing the collision could not be avoided, Sehricker spent print a complete descrip lw Mack arrived, he said he real He did not visit his physictan,|of Séattie and Rex Thompson, | he Jumped back into the car, thus avoiding being crushed in the vesti- Bell, Shier being taken4 yen of the famous Horseshoe Hend.|* ly couldnt eat three metis. #)A round of the Turkish bath estab-'ownet of the property tule. we visit bis wife © sans enaste vin ap SOE. paranthed: the: &naatiaieiahieed ; Ee | 3 IN CAR ESCAPE MYELLED WARING. BUT TOO LATE” she w stot ye must decline to deser' o' 0. e : ogy pe — of those newtautled dahces # Helfner luncheon There was little variance in the stories told by those who witnessed * * ihe “Se oka | i D icteabanisankhan | WITHOUT INJURY |" accident Can 6 w sh rabbit be m of coma-Seattle train of two cars was standing at Riverton ” onset ch ge ee expert saocapi — The only passengers in the/ station, with the conductor, J. W. Keatley, on the platform between the \°You might try it as expert- See cae ho are believed to! two cars lment. Pew persons would know| AUTO GOES THROUGH A ie stgge sped injury entirely are| Persons standing on the station platform were the first to see the ts | the ditferenee. VIADUCT RAILING Dp oncoming frefeht, and they yelled a warning, But before a single t a6 Claus Swanson, his little daughter | ae eee aii nie brother-in-law, Chas, | Passenger on the standing train could leap, the freigit, traveling at a z) 7 1 © just won a sult for divorce, While hurrying home from the | . of Christopher speed variously estimated at from 40 to 50 miles an hour, hit the rear BY depositors of | anh AY’ {Sayer has been #0 clever| enone of the wreck at Riverton, An pene al rat we were seaied|coach with a crash which brought farmers on the run from a mile away. shoulder bruised and possi ble internal injuries MRS. A.C. SCHLINDER, R. F. D. No, 5, slight cuts and bruises, badly shaken up. MRS. F. E. NETTERFIELD, aged 63, Foster, bruised and shaken up. Providene MRS. HELEN JOHNSON, 5 Riverton, slightly cut and bruised Providence MRS, T. F. CARTER, Foster ‘uised and sh n Providence GEORGE DOTY, Tukwila ly shaken up and bruise Providence. eeeeeeee Seeeeeeeeeee eee ee ee * * * * * * * * * o * * * * * a * * aa * * * * * * |closed up, the Seattle National bauk *® thorne, chairman of the King | friend. John Stapelfeldt, who has | vard Walked all over the Yale foot-|@ W. a. FLACK, Kent, cuts and * * * * * * * * * * * * e * * * * * * * * * * * * KARATE 7 - " , ‘ » fact bank, Seheitt the Se | through alt my trouel ig vsnew my |drew Olson's automobile, driven by| The’ fa iH at the far end of the car from The floor of the freight car, slightly lower than that of the pas- Prosecuting Attor- | ation. n you sugmest some|his chauffeur, “Nat” Goodwin,) which the freight car struck {a|® r, went under it. The walls of the freight were driven outward tires trcotees |o2 priate erticies—K. A M., foF~! olunged through lg ay 44 Lod lresponsible for our escape,” said} and the r ee a Reratieqagne ; 4 involves | merly 4 viaduct near the O.-W. R ‘0. go The tra 5 ) great, was the impact that the standing train was driven ahead her otticiain of the Se|'"'You might give bim a pair of | radvet naar the vrapended 40 feet| y ea si Base Gr tivesinn ip take on 50 Wiitn the dust cleared away, there was revealed the remark . i ttc ee dividers = above the mud fate e which has been in business igthis city for 23 years were and there. were few seats, ig] sbie beat of abs parmecixes ~ mone than two-thirds enveloped in the pong Olson and Goodwin escaped in-| . ; a vacant, We had the little | sPlinte wreckage of the freigh i Be snanirac he| “What ts the beat, kind of, tobacco} jo) | past has something of interest to say to the jgir! sitting with us to save space Men from the front car, which was practically undamaged, car- es on Tent | 10 eee eee esaed, you. beck: ee WS readers. of The Siu#On gugeditoday, It ta the ans rnd were talking as the people| tied the most seriously injured to the home of Dr. Fleisher 30 yards Meare a? that $1 was bank-| - JOHNSON TRIES TO Were elimbhig on the ear. Sudden west of the station, mes - s e Seattle| 1 am very much in love with « nouncement of the Washington Savings and Loan ce ar ypere git at at ide, but piely 950.000, of | youre wiaow Torwnom F have been! = SEE GIRL IN JAIL WF ber of men standing outside. ORDER AN INVESTIGATION OF WRECK had been | paying @ great 4 asd Retin. Saewel ie Association, ne charged, without [three years, I think she likes me, My, Seetted:: Pipi: S.aueed be aloud | terrific crash, and the other peo-| An investigation of the wreck was ion, the fog was sufficient to pre- jbu eye F Soff tele eG ee Oe | ple in the car came falling all about} started at once by officials of the vent Motorman Campbell from see- bankers rding |s Shall I evere, oF do bore ber gon ene ine aun be |us. The front of the car we were) Pugot Sound ric. company ing their train until he was too tho y vin shoule ite else-| friend ot ") J 4 > 7 7 or xd into the car in ac ? a 6 the! close, b oust tee “d b backed Sehr hink T should a wife ine unistronted te amp tocktoré. ail, Are you a user of want ads? They are one of in was raga spe ban’ to be |, Alt. witnesses sutd unl the close, but thought } muld have S year, giving the in|" geey elsewhere. ‘The Indy has| wi che fe held Gs s witness ; Lae At ve ie ta of com, |MOtr car Was running wild, with-|been able to bring the freight al appearance of | 0, She may bel \. ; at the great modern conveniences. And The Star, ust between the two points of Com-/out anyone at the controller, the most to a stop, or to have reduced been decetying yo . y Jack Johnson, negro pugtlist, under & tact. only excuse for the wreck must lie the speed so low that little damage er could con wide a | va . a- Rileatie, forward |7OUNS Dat one's Be wide indictment for violating | the fed in failure of the brakes to work, for would have resulted. H we anti- 5 t, asked with its guaranteed daily circulation of more than \ Beattte ian me row that mtn ta, he. they, pionee | Oren nett ratte "Re, “Ceeveste & REPEAT OPERA AT there was no noticeable decrease in| Great speed was shown by locat indebtednens gt a good substitute for It— 10-98 40,000 copies, can’t be beat for want ads. Just the speed of the car from the time! hospitals in getting their ambu- Reimbursed Le ah ig lar rrr ee ‘ , J POPULAR PRICES |it'was first seen, several hundred | lances to the scene of the acci Of the farme ot | Cream. it aan ‘ phone Main 9400 or Elliott 44 or call at the down- The audience at the Moore the-|feet away, until it erfished into the dent, Less than half an hour after " ofdagd the sea ae Said Ne ae f h th atre last night Hked the p ta- | freight. ’ : ; ; the crash the first ambulance had ware chiekiy | [0 It Pie with ? 4 "ANORLES——A . town want ad office at 229*Union street, with the | tion of Wolf-Furrari’s “Secret of Su-| There had been a dense fog early | arrived. oes When | st at dinner with Bie arm around 8! LOS Peder gag Ries Prats yanne” so well that the perform-|in the morning, but this had risen| Five auto ambulances and twice ie vonec wil ) eter ty eam complete deter Souvenir and Curio Shop. ance will be repeated tomorrow | considerably. jas many touring cars, pressed into nds the Not encouraged tasuaed 5% Satia The cow waa afternoon, when popular prices will] Conductor J. W. Keatley and Mo-| service by the police, arriyed with- |him during the early part of the |jalization of tra prevall. The plot is microscopic,}torman F, E. Coupland of the pas-|in an hour, and were sent cityward tte extent aoe - mee re OOS eee we Tans pened sa but the music fs delightful, enger train said that, in their opin-| with loads of suffering humanity, her for! 6