The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 8, 1915, Page 1

IEXPLOSION FIRES BIG LINER! 3 f Matrol a mile east of here. None} Reaches Halifax Friday rane. troopers was hit, | At 10:26 the Ine officials issued supposed the Sopreenped the following statement The “Nere Mexican bandits. Th bas": Weld aelaseed tome esnerc | the sheriff received that the local 5 oad {would NEW YORK, y Abie giant liner Minnehaha is heading for Halifax today | with A wireless received from Capt. F. A. Claret of the finer, announced that the fire aboard the ship was caused “by an explosion. is news from Capt. Claret caused a sensation in shipping circles. It was believed to indicate the state- “snk yesterday, departed ; Capt. Claret’s last message, J “Fire caused by explosion SHOTS FIRED AT essel Bearing 15, 000 Tons of Munitions Afire and Racing for Shore; Suspect Bomb Planted by Man Who Shot Morgan Caused Blaze July 8—The The letter, Holt to Tex follows, which was DALLAS, letter written his wife, in which ing explosives lantic liner, was Kiven jast night by O. F Mra. Holt's father. The letter ts pelleved to have been written while Holt was on his way from Washington, where he had set a fom> in the United States cap ftol, to Glen Cove, L. 1, where be shot J. P. Morgan ny Frank headed “En Route and was he told of plac. without date At here aboard an “Dear Darling: You are the only one | can and must trust and entrust with this news. | know you are strong in your falth in God and love for your fellow-men, and do therefore approve of my action, The fact that it should strike our family instead of John Smith's may seem hard, but can't be helped. out ensabaugh Making Seattle Boosters! WO delegations of visitors arrive tonight Patterson, Indiana, teachers, Shasta Limited, 8:30 p. m. Detroit Real Estate men, 11:30 p. m. Both are to be welcomed and con- verted into Seattle boosters. July 8—Shaken by an explosion in her| a cargo of 15,000 of consigned to menaced by tons a fire. ammunition ment of Frank Holt. capitol bomb planter and assailant of "LP. Morgan, that he had placed dynamite upon a trans-| atlantic liner, was not an idle boast Capt. Claret did not state in his message what had ‘@used the explosion, and declared the fire was under control The Minnehaha pier at 58th st. and North river is near those of the Philadelphia and the Saxonia, aboard one Which craft Holt wrote that he thought he had placed } explosive. The Minnehaha was scheduled to sail on Saturday, the On which Holt said the liner which he expected to be ing to being delayed in loading, however, the Minne- did not get away until Sunday, and then her departure Was shrouded with as much secrecy as possible e. Claret first reported the fire on board He said he was then 750 miles east of for that port. Tt was evident from his last wireless that the fire gained iy after the first message This afternoon's message indicated it holds than No. 3, where "the explosion the fire was first discovered relayed from Cape Race and his ship last Halifax and had attacked other evidently occurred | ived here at 12:45, said Now controlled by suffoca Vion and steam. Much smoke in holds. Deemed expedient | 10 take Halifax. Due off Chebucto head (the entrance to| Malifax harbor) about 9 o'clock Friday morning. Advise ‘agents. CLARET.” The fact that the departure of | | the liner was kept secret would ac | count for Holt's miscalculation. Officials of the Atlantic Trans. port line said they had not been advised as to the cause of the fire. The news of the blaze aboard the Miner weakened the stock market, and every effort was made to ob. tain reports. U.S. SOLDIERS BROWNSVILLE, July 8.— ve shots were fired from am- today at the U. S. cavalry) has brought the situation near as the result of the thr cargo and no munitions All am be (modern freighters at crew numbers 100 and is especially |fitted for fighting fires sea. ‘FALLS 4 STORIES; BREAKS HIS NOSE icscts. As: tris rain sno reach Halifax tomorrow William Aird, 20, a civil engineer, \3,000 SHRINERS TO should at 2:20 a, m., Thursday. He| The poate, Star | { : The Onl VOLUME 18. munition 1s carried in the holds aft. | attacked by the| The Minnehaha ts one of the most | The | The vessel's normal speed ts 16] forbade the "48 rushed to the city hospital, {t was found his only in- Were a broken nose and one knocked out. four stories from a window in| Waldon hotel, Seventh and | MAKE RAINIER TRIP | TACOMA, July 8&-—-Flaborate init | plans of the Afafi Temple of Ta coma for taking part in the Shrin week and the preparations m: of the order who visit Tacoma were announced today and Saturday of next Rainier For Friday week a special trip to Mt Union longshoremen who walked Out on strike at Smith Cove Tues are back on the job Thursday, & conference between Secre Mads of the Longshore § Association with Griffiths & stevedores, ‘Three hundred atitomobiles will carry delegates. More than 3,000 @ expected to take the trip on the two days, has been arranged for the visitors.| has asked the police “One hundred times | sald, like Jonah, ‘Lord, send somebody else,’ but | got only one answer, Nobody else seems to be aval! able. | have prayed and trem. bled and doubted and lain awake at night and thought and thought, but there ie mo way out of it “The slaughter in Europe must be stopped, and America must stop sending ammunition. If it goes on, | cannot live, for | am reaponsible in so far that | do not stop it when | can, So I will NO. 114, Frank Holt, photographed just san. The bandage covers the brui HOLT’S LETTER TO WIFE WHICH GAVE NEWS THAT TERRIFIED ATLANTIC MARINERS | ly Paper i in Seattle That I Dares to Print the News : try rat—R. Pearce, ton, That ls my appeal, it is a arter and may do some good. Let us pray that the people may wake up to the crime they are of Washing committing by allowing the slaughter to go on “Second—The steamer leaving New York for Liverpool! on July 3 should sink, God willing, on the 7th | think it le the Philadelphia or Saxonia, but am not quite sure, as, according to schedule, th SEATTLE, WASH., eu fter he had shot J. Plerpont Mor- made on his head when Morgan's butler hit him with a shovel as he was struggling with Mrs. Morgan | and the maid. THAW CALLED TE | AS WITNESS NEW YORK, July 8.—Harry K | Thaw took the stand as a state's witness in his sanity trial here to day. He was lightly nervous when the prosecution first bei questioning him, but regained his composure and was smiling and at ease Suspects No Conspiracy | One of the first questions of Dep uty Attorney General Cook was “Do you believe Willlam Travers | Jerome 1s in a conspiracy with | several rich men to keep you in| Matteawan?” “My counsel told me so, but I do} not believe there is any such con spiracy now,” Thaw replied.| Neither do 1 think you are in league with any millionaires for the same purpose. Thaw eaid he do ed Jerome's motives because attorney fol lowed him to Canada He said he understood the law state officials pursu ing excaped lunatics beyond the borders of the state, and conse quently Jerome's activities an gered him. Thaw Vieibly Nervous TEACHERS TO. BOOST TOWN Seattie school workers have got one of the biggest booster ideas displayed since the big booster campaign started a week ago, at the Instance of The Star and the Commercial Club. Thursday night a party of 35 he from Patterson, Ind., are due in Seattle. The Star tipped off City Schoo! Superin- tendent Cooper to the fact sev- eral days ago. Today he told The Star what he'd done. What do you suppose? A committee of Seattle school principals and teachers planned to meet the visitors AT TACOMA, and talk Seattle to them all the wa from that city to this! Can you beat It? And They'll Prove It They are going to fill those teach ers plumb full of descriptions of Seattle, statistics on Seattle, inter. | esting facts about Seattle, and what |a fine place Seattle ts to live in, | And then, when they arrive here, the Seattle teachers are going to The witness was visibly nervour| show the visitors that K's nil true as Cook continued this line of | "Tie it grand? questioning. | Bs answers were | INGthar Muineh phe dod an et iiaw intently due| Another consignment of realty! ing this period.of the examination a bd perdi: hel cles the recent national convention at GIRL Is MISSING; les, who will bring with ’ alter C. Pipor, national pres HER WORRIES ident. They will be allowed, to en MOT teP the city In peace and quiet. Ho tel accommodations have been re ‘The mother of Lilly Castile, 17,| Served for them at the New Wash to ald in the ington. They will be allowed to search for her daughter, who dis-| proceed there unmolested appeared at 8:30 Wednesday morn ing. The mother fears may bave been drowned. the girl| pounced upon by a relentless Seat tle delegation of real estate men, before the summer's over, Tint Friday morning they will b left the third.” (On the margin was written, “Tear thie off until after it happens.” hird—I need a powerful as sistant, and have chosen J, Pler- pont Morgan, of Glen Cove, Long Island. By the time you get this it will be all over, | shail either be killed or In prison, with the Morgan family in their residence In Glen Cove, while Morgan will go to all manufacturers of ammu- nition and persuade them to stop sending them. If he does not, he RSDAY, Jey 1915. (c) Theodore Campbell. must forfeit his family, and, of course, my poor wife and babies also their husband and father “My dear, believe me, | have proofs that God is guiding me in this work and that He has an- swered my prayers for guidance 1 should not wonder if some peo: ple will say that | was mistaken, because the results for my family are 80 severe. But what about the hundreds of thousands of fa- thers and husbands who are force ed to do the very thing | am at- ON TRAINS ONE CENT Underwood& Underwood | Frank Holt, the man who shot J. Pierpont Morgan, after being taken into custody at Glen Cove, N. Y. The other man is Deputy Sheriff Lundin’s fight for a reached a climax in | Judge Ronald's court Thursday, when the judge ore red that the bulldings at 714 and 720 Lane st be removed from the premises and destroyed with\n ten days. Judge Ronald imdicated t | of Seattle's illegal red-light district | will be shortly eradicated by the | bonfire method, but added that Lundin must not presume to abate | lany property unless a showing if made that disorderly women have been plying their trade on such |property for more than a singh Prosecutor Jelean city hat all and will be subjected to the busiest day of their lives. The way good people are getting @ (o the booster business fs an in spiration, They are calling up The tar at all hours, telling of visitors oming. Everybody's doing it. We're going to be a famous city | day ORDERS RED-LIGHT BUILDINGS BURNED For the reason was unable to prove immoral prac tices had been condoned in the Pot latch hotel, 675 Weller st., for more than one night, Judge Ronald re- fused to grant an injunction against that hotel. When Deputy Prosecutor Sum |mers began his arguments in open court this morning, several women aml children, including Mrs, Donna B. Snook, prominent club woman, | and her four children, were present Mrs. Snook is seeking a divorce from Attorney Herbert Snook. He leaped to his feet, when Summers started reading the affidavits r garding alleged immorad, practices “L don't want my wife @@d chil-| dren to hear that stuff,” he de. clared T hey may leave the court |room,” commanded Judge Ronald Nearly a dozen abatement cases are to be heard this week. NEWS STANDS, Be Saving my country The path of duty Is hard, but it must be trod, and, to gain life, our life. “If the rich of this country wish tempting? from moral stop it “Thies Is my last letter before the Glen Cove affair. My heart is with you and my babies and all the family in Dallas. | am sorry If a great blow should fall on ail ruin we must offer to get richer by the European hor- of you, but hope God will avert } ror, they must also be ready to it. He knows best. | cannot do ) participate in the horror, They otherwise. ) say if the Germans could buy here “Well, good-by, my sweet dar- and ship safely, they would do so. fing. @ring up our children in ¢ Yes, but that is no excuse for our selling them any munitions, no more than the allies. We must the love of God and man, and be strong and kind. Your affection- ate, FRANK.” AST EDITION Showers tonigh Friday fair TIDES AT SEATTLE High. 4:25 p.m. 12.1 ft. Low. 5i0 aw. m., 2.1 ft. 5108 p. m., 0.0 ft. 6/25 ARE KILLED IN CINCINNATI CINCINNATI, Ouduly 8-Toll taken. by. the. tor- nado which swept thru the Ohio river valley last night and within 10 minutes brought down upon this city the worst disaster in its history, resulted, according to latest figures, in 35 killed and over 100 injured. The police estimated early in the day that at least 25 perished in Cincinnati alone. Twenty-one are known to have been killed. More jbodies are expected to be found as the city proceeds jin gathering the storm's harvest of dead. Three families are believed to have been complete- \ly wiped out. This would account for 11 dead alone, They are the families of Meyer and Israel Tenne- baum and Mrs. Esther Cohen, Four coaches of a Pennsylvania passenger train were blown from the track and rolled down a steep embankment at |Bechmont, a suburb of Cincinnati Three bodies were taken from the coaches, AND which were that the state| jcrushed. ixteen injured who were recovered jto hospitals. |Policemen and Firemen Dig in Ruins } Police and firemen were so busy today digging in the ruins of buildings in Cincinnati and its suburbs for dead land injured that no accurate estimate of the property dam- age was possible It is believed that the damage will amount to $1,000,000, Dozens of buildings were leveled. Windows were broken, houses unroofed, church steeples blown off and the streets littered with debris At 630 West Eighth st. the families of Meyer and Israel Tennebium were entombed in Use ruins of their home when the house sed. The structure was twisted before the storm for over three blocks, where it fell to pieces, burying the family of Mrs. Esther Cohen, sister of the Tennebaums. Twenty Buried When Row of Houses Fall Dick Fulton were rushed co! and | The tow boats Convoy were sunk in |the middle of the Ohio river. Their crews of 13 men are missing. | Nearly 20 persons were buried in the wreck of buildings jat 568, 570, 572 and 574 West Sixth st. A boarding house in the east end was leveled. One dead and one injured have been recovered there so far and the ruins are still being searched by police and firemen. Thruout the city hundreds of Charles alone was estimated at costly plate-glass windows were de-) $360,000. ‘The total damage thra- stroyed. Automobiles were over-|out Missouri will be nearly turned and trees were uprooted. \ $1, 000,000. Streets Piled With Debris |; Near Gilmore, Mo., Today the streets were piled|& Wabash passenger high with debris St. Louis to Kansas The storm is the greatest disas-| blown fram the track. ter that has ever befallen Cincin nati, Yet it all happened in ten | minutes. four cars of train from City were GIRL FOUND DEAD VINC ES, Ind., July 8.—Clata Most of those killed were asleep) Riley, 17, was found dead in the lin their homes and were crushed! ruins of her parents’ home, which /to death when the houses sudden: | collapsed in last night's windstorm, lly collapsed before the rush of | wind ae ie | MANY PERSONS INJURED “For God's sake, save me!” was . ey then ich wrested rescuers |. “AWRENCEVILLE, IIl., July 8.— Several persons are suffering from injuries today from the windstorm last night. ALL WIRES ARE DOWN INDIANAPOLIS, July 8.—All ef- forts to reach Ohio river points |swept by the tornado last night when they climbed over the ruins of the home of Mrs. Esther Cohen The voice wag that of Mrs. Cohen, trapped in the wreckage. For two hours the rescuers work- ed before they reached her. She was removed to a hospital as quick lly aw possible, but died there With her ‘dying breath, Megs, | falled early today. Both the tele- Cohen pronounced in Hebrew: |Phone and telegraph wires to the Hear, oh, Israel, the Lord our God | Stricken region were down is one God - 7 KILLED NEAR ST. Lous SHE GIVES HER ALL | ST. LOUIS, July 8.—Seven per. jsons are reported dead in St./ jst county and elsewhere near | AY LESBU RY, Bug, July &— | Mrs FE. Bateman, 80, has 18 grand- sons and two sons serving with the British army, St. Louis as a result of the cyclone which swept this region late yes- Bt terday, The damage about