The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 22, 1916, Page 1

SNOWSLIDE BURIES G. N. TRAIN ‘Diner and Smoker Hurled Over Mountain Near Wellington (steelmaker eed dhiltaterena “Every man in Seattle should be interested enough in his own busitess to make a special -effort to attend the tourist rate mass meeting Tuesday noon at the American theatre. It is not a question of doubt that Seattle will profit if she wins this fight. This is purely a matter of business.”—C. A. REYNOLDS, chairman state public service commission. “Let’s all attend the meeting. These rates are an injustice to us all.”—O. C. GRAVES, manager of Cheasty’s. “I think every business man should go to the meeting. It is a matter of vital importance to us.”,—ROBERT BOYNS, president Seattle Commercial club. ) C. A. Reynolds (== TheSeatlleStar jas (6 SSE Coe eer es wom mee ror me AVALANCHE SN TWO COACHES 0 MANY ARE KI so diligently. See page 8. VOLUME 18. SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1916 ONE CENT °%,,2242%8 Ax? ERICKSON GIVES WARM REPLIES TO GILL’S QUESTIONS HOT SHOTS FIRED BY ERICKSON ] Gill says he voted for reduction of light rates. WHEN? "@ The worst obstacle in the way of our city car line was an agreement brought to me by’ Mayor Gill for the purchase of the Renton line on a ‘basis that would have netted Crawford and his allies about $3,000,000 @ He's peddling flapdoodie about being the , taxpayers’ friend. Taxes went up from 8 to 18 mills while Gill was in the council. ; @ Gill and R. H. Thomson fixed Jocatian of dam before I ever was in the council. @ Why was tuberculosis hospital appropriation. raised above $125,000? Let Dr. Matthews *answer! i Mayor “plays the baby” by ‘blaming ,coungjl, for negli- |) One of the demolished coaches in! 4 ane work of his own subordinates in’ water, pipe linc.;]| Therslide, which swept pert ofa GN. train @ He ridiculed woman suffrage when it needed - friends. But now he is purring around women, mewing about LUNDIN VOTES | 0 @ He.used to eat out of the hands of hquor dealers, or |} , stand on his héad in their: spittoons, but’ now he blos- soms out as the nightingale ‘of, the prohibition move-]) 4 ment. be forgotten. Mouth.” 1 ARR i With The Star asi the Interest, while three million | MERRY WAR NOW IS\ON ° question of taxation about this? | kind, Saturday, the poetic attack of Councilman Erickson to- issue? pe Sheriff Hodge, who opened a severe ’ The mayor slept while the Trac day submits another POP~'-| sie cetapany hud Chamber of Com jeriticism of the prosecutor Friday pery letter, replying to | merce got the Renick law passed,|>Y Penning ® cutting couplet, in| Mayor Gill's letter in The | raising taxes and crippling our city-| which he addressed Landin as “Be-| Ry Long Distance Telephone to The Star LEAVENWORTH, Wash., Jan. 22—Two Great Northe passenger coaches were hurled 300 feet into the bottom of a mountainous gulch, and their human cargo buried .in jand. snow, when a Jand and snow slide broke loose at # Vehirance'of the Horseshoe fuonel st Corea, Wash.,’at 6:45 ig morning ] The number of dead and injured are estimated vari jat from five to 20. | Five dead bodies have been recovered.” Five’ injured‘ |have been rescued. Officials of the’ Great. Northern believe there were 15 persons in both cars, and therefore five persons — w ington slide disaster, March 1, 1910,.in which several score! ‘of. passengers lost their tives, | are still unaccounted *for. 7 ver the mountainside Saturday, occurred six miles fromthe ‘scene of the former disaster. The train was known as the Spokane Owl, No. 25, leaving | Spokane-at 8:15 Friday night. ‘It was due at Seattle at 8 ja. m.\today. ¥ : The scene of the accident is six miles west of Wellii ton, where many lives were lost in a similar accident in I Searching parties were’ more than an-hour locating | smoking car. It was buried at the bottom of the gulch. | was known to have contained 14 persons, according to vices received here |Diner and Smoker Carried Over The dining car was also thrown over the embankment, ley A | No word had been received up to noon as to how many people | were carried over with it. It lies wrecked under debris neaz the bottom of the Cascade mountain. ravine: ‘ Rescue parties are working desperately to save the lives | of those who may still be living in the wreckage. | A sleeping car was bowled off the tracks, but the i Anthony is. totally eclipsed. about yelling “amen” so loud that Henry George will]! of My ‘Autoiatic in the banks. Is there Prosecutor Landin answered in mayoralty candidates, the glory of woman’s suffrage so Joud that Susan B @ When the day comes that single tax, wins, Gill will-go]| Refers to © “Tintinabulations | Open Forum for ~ the | dollars of the city’s money lies Sane | i several | owned utilities jatrice Fairfax!” | | couplings held and it did not go over the brink. a Star, and firing s Says Statement Is Faise 1 am reminded to the words of| ex 8 Be hot shots anew. | ‘The mayor says the buflding of|an unknown rhymater,” said Lundin, The train had been standing still fon almost an hour near In Monday's Star, Aus- | Division A of the city car line was|speaking of Hodge's “outburst, the entrance to the Horseshoe tunnel when the side of the tin Griffiths, candi- | diversion of funds and a crime. | which was occasioned by the prose mountain ripped loose Just ahead of it, workmen were clearing the snow, rock and dirt that had accumulated as a result of a smaller slide ja few hours earlier and blocked traffic. ; THE STATEMENT 18 ABSO- e410) fusal to issue a warrant to 0 or, will also cutor's refusal to Issue a warrant to tod or ices fords |SUTELY AND UNQUALIFIEDLY ‘search the home of a prominent ee ee FALSE. banker for contraband Mquor to deliver. | The ordinance submitting the car | line bond iasue iw No. 26069, and in-| “Sweeter than the murm’ring tittle Be gc Wane, leludes Division A. It was voted breez ee upon and passed by a large major-| Wafted from the balmy South A special rescue train was dispatched from Leavenwort gM omphlle rE rere ig Meet F ity at the election of 1911, and the| Are the tintinabulations shortly after noon ee ate oon me to| money was expended as the voters) — Of my automatic mouth. | ‘The difficulties under which rescuers worked at the time of the former slide. This picture shows Fe icatried about 100 ankm a ee ee ne iene ombant directed. If it had not been, there| How ! love its giddy gurgie, | how bodies of the victims were wr apped up and hauled to places where they could be put aboard trains. carried about e Sones ash very little, but I want | Would have been a hundred injunc- How | love its rhythmic flow, | Corea, the place of the accident, is about 100 miles east answer his questions and ag ng ang Ts these norenes ii as a 0 Sn aes eee lf ORAL har wy > of Seattle and six miles from Tye, formerly called Wellington fact a cords that some 0’ ” a sl | 5 | J ) Me statements aro absolutely false. {on this matter, because his name is} How I love to hear It go.” | Seventeen days more, Includ Tt is'40 miles west of here. and three intlea’ whet eee t ing today! | Also that his assertion that he has|on the ordinance, The difference entrance of the Cascade tunnel q : ‘ “ J The poet, Lundin sald, had aptly That's all. if de kan ree 4 hee: instrumental in reducing | between the mayor and myself in at's all. you do not reg: . a t als s anand . ieee on FAKE AND A PRAUD | regard to our clty car line is that [/expressed the opinion of Hodge en ister by February 10, you will The train carried 60 people, it is stated 4 4 ‘ do not set myself above the people |tertained by the prosecutor have lost your chance to vote Further slides are feared. Telegraph connections were 4 war i Want Hi to Be Definite =| eno voted to build it, but have As to my policy of issuing in the coming city election. | severed shortly after the first details of the accident reached In the P.-I. of December 19, 1915.) worked faithfally to carry it to alrants to search places where liquor Books will be open at the | | hete > he claims to ohave been instru-| .. cessful conclusion. He, on the )!s thought to be,” he said, “I shall Felix Crane, the goat of the Prefontaine building Saturday EL PASO, Jan. 22.—The bullet | bere - mental in reducing light ofr other hand, has constantly vilified i#sue warrants wherever there 1*| mighty,” is under sentence Sat night until 9 p. m. Regi | [shattered corpse of Bert Akers, Near Scene of Former Disaster 18c to Se. In his letter to » senti- reason to believe liquor is being wand avoid the rush later. > the project and voiced the senti v 0 and a half now and a American cattleman—24th victim - “ ° i Set f , Star, he reiterates that rates were | (he Project and tou i traction #014.” eae tinnd oblige: Se eee | | TRUS. far, over 41,000 have een ieee een cua | The scene of the present disaster is six miles from Tye, b reduced when he was in the coun pn ey He said he had talked the matter| to five years a a : : Ne. | | registered, tho there are more Bm : ry i ‘oO wee formerly called Wellington, where the most disastrous snow- ¢ ; awne Ge 8, Kirkpatrick, of the enc reached here today ; 4 Oe ny eee ne nates? a| The mayor feels toward people) over with L. B Kirkpatrick, of the ani prnrn wen. sienie Sy See ee ern vere Os ; re 7 slide in the history of the state occurred early in the morn- the number of the ordinance? who are given car service on our Anti-Saloon league, who had agreed! made by Prosecutor Lundin, | | Seattle, Akers came to his death at the|; | 4f March 1, 1910, when about 60 were killed and 20 can give him the number of three | "D0 tre eevee Traction company \that It was best to first go after per-| who, Crane says, offered to | |hands of several Mexicans, armed | "8 ° : ' : “el ordinances reducing rates during) joe toward ite patrons on the 2ard|sons who are selling the contra-} get him in the street” if he |@ with rifles, while he hunted stolen | imjured ‘ ae ie Ma habcbe of tent, ave. line, where the company wanta|band would divulge the names of cattle It took days before the bodies could be recovered, owi at are saving the ople of Sea Cn a ‘: I am in favor of enforcement of higher-ups, for whom he co With Dougl Lawrence. he > a . m 7 2 2 F -|to leave them without service be a | b iglas Lawrence, another) to the enormous amount of snow which buried the train and # tle half a million dollars a year. He | 0 eae see not pay. By the same|the law,” he said. “But Kirkpatrick | tected money from unfortunate rancher from Ysleta, Texas, he en-| at : should come along with proof of | cau ie victims in it should discontinue |and I concluded that to begin a sys women for police protection, a tered Mexico last night in his ken the’ ¢ Seattle (ematic search of homes would’ Crane has remained silent. OREGON | CITY, Jan. '°22.—Re-j search for the animals the cattle It was weeks before the full number of dead could even water to Went the ordinances reducing rates that | pap wetped to pase Oe witiaraw XM nd Queen Anne hill because in prejudice the public against the pro Grane, who has been called cause of an argument over a hard-|thieves had rustled Thursday be estimated with any degree of certainty claim Sri we districts tt coats us more hibition law ao that it would be im-| the negro boss of the Seattle boiled egg, Ambrome Gesta Is in! ‘The pair reached San Lorenzo, a The Work ‘of recoveritiy the, bodies airaaamenannnnn Teneo Raised by Renick Low | tier” ve get for it poswible to get a fair jury to try any underworld, wee given the | jail Mexican hamlet, the church spire | ,, e 6 eta letely: The mayor procisims in big [Tian chat Renton Line “Ocal” cane minimum penitentiary term He told his wife eggs were too ex-,of which is visible from here on! /elegraph and telephone communications were completely capitals the vgn Bens apt sd be EP Mise pr Ps have been put in| An effort will be made, on Febru-| Friday by Judge Gilliam pensive to put in their daughter's | clear days. broken down by the heavy slides mister antes cueenéing: our {the way of our city car line project, |ary 3, t @ prosecutor stated, to de) wr A & TERGn Os ; re ah ihe ne aaybe, The slide at that time came with terrific force, almost ~ city car line into Ballard, The | but the worst of all wa Lan hapa jbr “Fape “yg 4 i nnn ee eT ponnded at th oval | | without warning, and smashed some of the cars in the Great tax levy for this year, thanks pment prevent s¢ Pag ft, 8 fine | Bier club Weather Forecast TIDks AT sHATTUR for admission | Northern train to splinters. Fourteen of the dead had lived s to the Renick law, has an item | for the pure ° , ; xh ow | Uae Bue on: whe) ‘annette Bate at ene he Novuheraitce A hearing for that purpose will be 12:98 p.m. 7.8 ft. # he did go, ral armed Mex-/in Seattle, and nearly every city in the orthwest claimed a of $30,000 to help pay interest jon a basis that would have netted) i Sa tnetice Brinker's court on) Rain tonight and Sunday. no Heans appeared from different di | antl we e cS on a million dollars’ worth of | fons and shot him (Continued on Paae Two.) \ that date. Warrants bearing five (Continued on page era pret ont wae a a OE OOOO AUSTIN E. GRIFFITHS, CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR, WILL SPEAK FROM THIS PLATFORM MONDAY IN THE STAR'S OPEN FORUM ON “COLD BRICKS!