The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 24, 1915, Page 1

INUMBER DEAD N-E-W-S Spells News | B* GIVING our readers the news : 2 from the four corners of the q garth, The Star is carrying out the | meaning of the worth NEWS—North, Bast, West, South. NG. 127. EY DROWN WITHIN SIGHT OF SHO INOW REAC -TheSeattle Star : The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News : VOLUME 18. SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1915. AST EDITION WEATHER FORECAST—Fair TIDES AT SEATTLE Low. 5:55 a.m, 00 ft 5:0 p.m, 10.1 ft 12:02 4:67 p. ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS, Be ONE CENT f) rr yily REPORTER, Kidnaped Gill Fires CHICAGO EXCURSION AWED BY BO ALT, IS Rancher Hot Shot | NOW CONGRESSMAN By Fred L. Boalt Managing editor is a snob. He likes to buzz around mt people and. seem chummy with them | So,'when he approached my desk yesterday with his linked in that of a tallish, youngish man, | knew that must be somebody. it,” said the managing editor, “shake hands with | | } | IOAHO FALLS After July 24 lynching Idaho. narrowly hands of | ing at uriated cowboys Lon Dean, a sheep herder, alleged bductor of Ernest Empey, a we ; known rancher, who was held pris Oner In a little but on 8h ep moun tain since last Saturday, j the payment of « ransom of $6 was placed in jail here early today Captor Takes Nap | At the time of hi yesterday, Empey was chained to |a@ tree while Dean was taking « | nap. Ridding himself of hin bonda, Empey made hie way down the! | mountain side where he encoun ltered several forest rangers who jescorted him to Montpelier, Empey, is none the worse for his expert-| epee today. ‘ After discovering that Empey had eluded him, Dean abandoned | the mountain hut with the evident intention of making his escape. He had not gone far, however, until he Was surrounded by a posse of cow boys and captured Had Intended to Pay Relieved of the terrible strain un der which they have been for the last week, Empey's relatives were almost hysterical with joy today The abductor had threatened to kill Empey if bis father, E. 8. Empey,| failed to the $6,000 ransom by midnight tonight Relleving that his would pay the forfeit son's life Empey had | arranged to acquiesce to the des| perado’s demands, and the mon was ready to be turned over to hir tonight when news of the young man's escape reached here. | In jail here today Dean denied that he Intended to kill Empey if | he had not received the ransom, but | would probably have held him for|if the burdens at present imposed several weeks Treated Him Well Dean said he had been a sheep! herder all of his life, having worked | Congressman Bill Dill. Congressman Dill, you know.’ ~ Dill and I shook hands “What,” inquired Mr. Dill, “did you say the name was?” oa to have people do that. “Boalt,” I told him, 4 ad “Mm, yes. Boalt.” eyed me shrewdly as we exchanged the usual amen- I Mand then he said: “I've been trying to think where € met before. Your name is unfamiliar, but some- milere—somewhere 1 Lioo, bad the impression that Congressman Dill and I had known Mother at some other place and time. Yet how could this be? has ruled that between congressm nd reporters there must SSfeat guif fixed, 1 am not a snob. Still, it is nice to meet big _It is even pleasant to be able to refer, casually, to “my friend, This-and-that,” or “my friend, Congressman Thus-and-s0.” a hed my mind. Memory galloped back thru the years, scan- “ Morgotten faces. Blue eyes with a twinkle in them, * . % th Mouth, which is nearly always smiling. * * * Parown well back. A freeand-easy manner and carriage ht and thought. And then And then | remembered! OH, LORDY! W¥Es the star reporter on the He could ask more fool questions Press. Lemme see. That | !n 7 minute ' than ro Grey We be x couid answer {n a mon have been eight years ago. If The editor-in-chief, Harry Rickey, ever worked on @ news Hut him on the police run, and he oe know the reporters drib- was given a reporter's badge which ha of an office. They're got him thru fire lines. My, he was is, reporters hee! ‘ proud of that badge meee sabe I've seen is i? He stood in considerable awe bs. Not one in ten , of me, a8 was natural and peal Nine of them lack the proper—tor was not | the star the #, the news instinct. reporter?—didn't J get all the ware 80 young, 8° biz assignments?—didn’t people A finely-shaped one rtalecky and pert! predict for me a brilliant from college they come, future?—but he tried, pretty chock-full of academic) guce, ully, not to show it. which brutal city editors As for me, | never mixed tk ont of them before with cubs. A man in my posi- tion couldn't afford to. That's the “* @ any good at all from college! Now 1 placed Congressman @ come to Cleveland trom an university, a good Metho- tution that he had When I mentioned the Cleveland Press, Congressman Dill laughed and said Did you work on the Prews, too? 1 guess that's where I knew you. I have a pretty. good memory for faces. WERE YOU ON THE EDITORIAL END? Ho did not mean to be lived on a Feat! the pert, nasty little cubs Wr few. thin Dill was the worst fresh and you couldn't! Bim. He was full of pep.! unkind (Continued on Page 2) for Empey at one time, and desiring| to go into business for himself, | knew of no easier way of securing| the necessary funds than by selz ing the young rancher for ransom Empey said today that Dean had treated him fairly well, feeding him on provisions stolen from sheep camps ENGLISH PRESS IS PLEASED AT NOTE LONDON July 24.—Engliish pa. | pers today regard the new Ameri can note to Germany as exceeding ly firm. Commenting upon the of. ficial text, the Star said The note ts couched in plain, un mistakable language, which will t little relished in Berlin The grave tone {is accentuated tn the conclusion, warning Germany that further attacks imperiling Ameri-| cans would be regarded as “delib- | erately unfriendly The News said ‘The note is decidedly firm It will make un |pleasant reading for the kaiser and his henchmen and exponents of frightfulness.” | } STOCKTON BANK | MAN IS SUICIDE STOCKTON, July 24.—Charles J | Haas, one of Stockton's most prom }inent business men and a director of the Stockton Savings & Loan Society bank, sulelded in his Jew lelry store last night by shooting }himself thru the heart. Two years jago he suffered a nervous break months ago lost his fete and six | | seer pitta | HERE’S LUCK, BOYS jon their way to San Francisec urday to participate in the gr | eat eisteddtod, or song festival, ever held in this country. They will compete for 00 In cash prizes against similar bodies of singers | from all parts of the United States - Fifty Seattle Welsh singers are | |at., ended, Escapes atS.E.Co. ef-| at “It in the final wind-up in the fort to gain contro! of the city’s faire. > They are trying to do by | direction what they started to d: last winter at Olympia.” This was the of Mayor Gil ° | smment Saturday the h the filing by Co,, Friday, of a the public service commission, asking for relief fron demands on the part of the city which the company alleges are un Just, and also relief from paying 2 per cent of its gross revenues to the city and from paving along its | tracks. | Would Be Crooked “They are going to assume to take from us the right of demand-| ing the positive obligstions of the | company's franchise.” sald Mayor Gil, “It will be a crooked act on the part of the commission If tt up- holds the company’s contentions A. L. Kempster, manager of the Traction Co., called on the finance committee Friiay afternoon and Seattle Electric petition with ‘informed them of the filing of the petition It resulted in a wordy batfle be-| tween those for and against munic {pal ownership, Counellman Dale | lining up against Erickson, Hes keth and Haas in a heated dispute over the traction company Kempster had come to discuss with the committee payment of a portion of the cost of constructing the viaduct over the Northern Pa cific tracks, at Fremont 8. E. Won't Pay He announced flatly company would not pay and added that the one cent, The Seattle Electric Co. ia up against it, because of the policy pursued by the city. The com pany is going to scrap. We haven't had a square deal from the city on us do not stop, our revenues will be cut off, our equipment will deteriorate, and the community} will suffer.” Erickson objected to “these gen eral and sweeping charges. If city officials are robbing anyb they should be taken to jail,” he said He Means the Jitneys Referring to the viaduct, Kemp ster said he failed to see the just ness “of levying tolls against the company and allowing other pas enger carriers running on rubber wheels to use the streets without paying tolls EXPLOSION; 1 WILL DIE sustained wounds from which, it was believed, this afternoon, he could not recover, when a barrel of chloride of potas sium in the sho drug store, at Jackson st., exploded at noon Saturday, wrecking the store, and also infileting minor injuries to Gosho's nephew, G. Enomoto. Hasegawa's arma were both blown off, a hole was knocked in his head and another in his stom ach. He was rushed in an ambu lance to Providence hospital in an effort to save hia life He has a wife and three children, residing at 919 Washington st The explosion caused a small fire DRINK, CLOUT, STAB; | JAIL AND HOSPITAL A drinking bout, indulged tm Frt4 day afternoon by Louls Thompson and W. Loury, both longshoremen, and Thompson's wife, at the Thomp son shack, at Elliott ave, and Clay when Loury refused to », in Thompson wielding a base ball bat with telling force on Loury's S. Hosegawa head, and in Loury retaliating by stabbing Thompson on the head Hospital for Thompson, jail for Loury |one moonlight excursion from Cleveland it crashed into a breakwater. ! SHIP TIPS OVER; RIVER IS THICK WITH BODIES CHICAGO, July 24.—At least 1,500 perished and indications are that more than 1,800 men, women and children lost their lives when the excursion steamer Eastland, with 2,000 passengers aboard, turned over and sank in the Chicago river early today, according to estimates of the police and coroner at noon. _ The steamer, chartered by the Western Electric company for an excursion of its employes to Michigan ity, suddenly keeled over as hundreds lined the rail waving to friends and relatives lining the Clark st. bridge and the docks. In addition.to the-hundreds. who. were thrown into the water others were trapped in staterooms or on the lower decks. Electric drills were commandeered to rip away the steel plates of the Eastland’s side in an effort to reach the victims. At noon several plates had been cut from the side. Scores, trapped inside, were found dead. A score of men were kept busy carrying out bodies as fast they could enter which rested on its side in the middle of the river in 20 feet of water. Captain Pederson and First Mate Fisher of the Eastland were arrested at 10:30 at the order of Deputy Police Chief Schuetler upon insistent demands for such action from W. Burkhardt, commissioner of public works. CAPTAIN IS NEARLY MOBBED AS HE IS LED TO JAIL and leave the steamer, Ten thousand people were jammed in South Clark st. when Pederson and Fisher, escorted by 20 policemen, were led from the dock. The steamer's officers were recognized and a riot followed. Two men broke thru the police guard and struck Pederson and Fisher in the face. Others, yelling and clamoring to reach the officers, en- deavored to overwhelm the police guard. The police drew their clubs and only by beating back the crowd with these weapons were they able to disperse those trying to reach the captain and first mate. For a block about the docks scores of thousands were jammed in the streets. It was an hour before reserves which were called out were able to restore order. Scores are believed to have been ‘crushed into the muddy bottom of the river by the weight of the boat. Men, women and children off for a holiday, were thrown into the water. Some are believed to have been immediately sucked under the big steamer and borne to the bottom. Hundreds of others struggled for life about the ship while hurry calls were sent to all harbor boats and the police and fire departments for aid. IMPRISONED ALIVE IN STATEROOMS Hours after the Eastland turned over scores were still imprisoned in staterooms and on the lower decks of the boat. Their screams could be heard above the noise of automatic and electric magnet drills, which were being used in cutting into the steel sideplates of the ship in an effort to rescue those trapped inside. Panic Delays Rescue Work boat capsized. While swimming ing the early period of rescue. Terrible scenes were enacted only The wild panic which prevailed |About in search of his family, La- The dead were taken to the a few feet from shore as the hun- retarded the work of rescue. Ev-|lind picked up his little daughter! steamer Theodore Roosevelt near dreds struggled for life. Men en- ery available pulmotor in Chicago|@nd swam ashore within a foot of! by, The steamer was turned into deavored to hold the heads of their where his wife landed a few min |was rushed to the scene, but many a an improvised morgue where the wives above water, only to be died after being taken from the wa bing before, Lalind’s son is miss-| bodies were laid out in rows on the dragged down by other terror- ter and carried to the* dock Fire! ng. dius sd "atbal inieteai | deck. stricken victims. Children were boats and private craft of every | J 7 >’ 2 8 torn from their parents d he Sect toward. the Hastiand| The disaster came as suddenly Various causes for the disaster heir 7 and carried were given down in the swirling undertow cre- encue 4) and with as an appalling effect as Capt, Pederson said he san: Ssomnenee. renweere jrkerbgroa the Troquota. tire tn Chicago. | believed an air chute had broken, ated as the steamer sank. Many protege SL bere fue. Edward| The effect on the city wax much | letting in tons of water, men and women jumped, only to be save as many as possible. Edward | ’ crushed as the side of the boat bore down upon them Six Divers at Work Three huge dredges were set to \the same. Department stores suspended all | deliveries and rushed all their au |tomobiles to ald in caring for the merchant, William Plamonaon, one of the passengers and a nephew of one of the Lusitania victims, blamed those Schaack, a commission witnessed the disaster He commandeered a large row boat and put out toward the steam. | 10" : j responsible for navigation of the work during . orni er, which went down in the middie/dend and dying. | boat. He said water ballast was not effort te stead che ene male. of the river is offered to the neline to afd in the| 2 Have been taken on until thejeng, six divers were also worm __Pulled Out of Port Holes | \iter boat reached the open lake, and ing in the water about the steamer, Schaacht rescued F. W. Willard, pcuai Orahed Basiaiaisine | Wher: passengers crowded about the| in an effort to prevent bodies trom Joined tne niding others. They| The Western Electric Co, had| Fall it listed and then turned on its peing swept down the river, pump- sine in fuurigoned on the low-|Cbartered the Eastland and a feet of DS Stations begun forcing’ water Fe cart notes and rawed | other boats for the Michigan City| The B pclae ales a nage oweoat eRe er decks por water (Continued on Page 2) The five were immedi tely canceled and passengers eter He ch, a musician, clung | ® Peter Herwich, a mus Fl came pouring from them. Many to bis violin when he was thrown ; . ‘k {Were relatives of victims of the| S CLA IFIED LL? overboard, but lost It as he struck) pottiang. ‘The scattering of tho| DO STAR SS ADS PU. bie tes |crowds made {dentification of the READ THIS LETTER | excursion them ashore Afloat on Violin |dead difficult A few minutes later he saw a| — Water Thick With Bodies || Advertising Manager Seattle Star, Seattle woman struggling in the water.| So thick was the water covered Theat Bis. —ASein: we feel Called Apoh (0 express Gur‘surpt She was hanging to his violin, the | with bodies for an hour after the appreciation over the splendid results we a btaining throu our instrument and case aiding her in| accident that rescuers were com-|| *@¥ertising columns. pelled simply to pass by those which floating motionless. Only}| keeping afloat, Herwich swam to REST her and managed to get her ashore, | were VALUES F 10 acres water front ER OFFERED n Caspar Lalind, his wife and two) bodies showing signs of life were balance slashed; family orchard. Will fice t some | terms children, were separated when the! picked up and rushed to shore dur 8. ACRMA IN view! oF SEATTLE | — - Just ac i the bay, at Colby; 4 mile from beach; fine creek; spring maple and cedar bottom; only 11 miles from this. office | shy r month | 10 acres one mile to beach, dock, store, P. O. and | sehool, Only terms. | EN & SEXTON CO. | Ave, Open Evenings | CLEVELAND, July 2 The steamship Eastland, until two years|| - This email : ar, brought } ago, was owned by the Kastiand Navigation Co., and plied between PAPER poe n IN ANY Cleveland, Put-In-Bay and Cedar Point Again expressing remain proceedings were threatened pante oceurred on board before reaching her against the boat at tfull when the Eastland listed || dock, During | Condemnation one time, after a badly and nearly turned over just