The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 24, 1916, Page 1

] AUSTIN E. GRIFFITHS, CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR, CALLS GILL AND ERICKSON “GOLD BRICKS”--LETTER ON PAGE 8 8 ‘The Seattle Star yjisn y LY PAR EDITION Other Pictures of the Slide om Page 4 And personal stories of ex- periences by survivors who went over the mountainside at Corea with the wrecked coaches ‘appear Fy on page 5. THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE “THAT ‘DARES | TO PRINT ‘THE _NEWS TBAINK AND NEWe STANDS, Be VOLUME 18. SEATTLE, WASH, MONDAY x thheat 24. 1916 ONE—CENE—* * * 3 +e - * * ‘ * * sabee he ey sill view of the wrecked day coach which, with dining car, wae snapped off the Great Northern nd swept 300 feet down the mountainside by an fh the upper track to the lower. The picture shows shows how the car carried down the slope. The picture below shows eping car hanging over the brink RESCUERS DYNAMITE SLIDE DEBRIS IN SEARCH FOR DEAD: mountains and crashed down over 7] rails near the scene of the disaster. Workmen started blasting Monday in the pile of ditt and rock that swept the two coaches before it to the bottont of the gulch. They expect to find other bodies. But in some places the tons of snow and earth leavoug no expectation of finding victims until weeks of warm weather oe will have melted the The and ice, train Saturday morning near The track wiipsaws up the mountain at this point. The cara” The dotted line above, with the Victims of the Corea snowslide disaster still lie buried in; have torn loose from the ithe, snow and rock, despite 48 hours of rescue work carried | the lon by more than 300 workers Three persons are known to be missing—and there may 4 } be more There are four known dead victims ff the wrecked Great Northern itals snow hillside swept by the slide Saturday is blanketed by deep, and in no place less | Light {train No. 25 are There have been 21 separate slides between Leavenworth snow » east mouth of the Horseshoe tunnel alone. The track than eight feet P in plac s buried to a depth of 60 feet Up, more than and again, great injured passengers « in Everett hos; in places 40 feet from the little 200 feet, pile of twisted \ and rock| (Continued on page 5.) Rn |. Again A TALK WITH YOU, MR. BUSINESS MAN California city beaten forty ways from Sua- day. Every one knows that. Yet the south- ern railroads are deliberately making a roundtrip from the east which would in- clude the Northwest as expensive as pos- sible, compared to the southern way. They are hogging the tourist business for Califor- nia. They are robbing YOU, Mr. Business Vian, and YOU are complacently standing for it. masses of snow, dirt When occasions like this arose in the past, our fighting men got mad—fighting mad. And once they started in they never quit till the job was done. The time has come to get mad once more. Che Star has interviewed leading business men of the city. Their opinion is unani- mous. The preferential rate is a handicap to Seattle. IT MUST BE KNOCKED OUT. If a man stuck a gun in your face, Mr. Business Man, and took away your watch BUSINESS MAN, The Star wants you to go to the mass meeting to be held Tuesday at 12:30, at the American theatre, Second and Seneca, and help voice a protest against the preferential rates main- tained by southern railroad lines which are keeping tourists away from Seattle and the Northwest. This fight for fair and equal Pacific Coast railroad rates, if it succeeds, will be one of the biggest imaginable factors in influence into the scales by uniting in a city-wide protest to the government at Washington against this discrimination. Let's get hack to the old Seattle s pirit that rebuilt Seattle after the great fire; the spirit that built our own railroad when the Northern Pacific had selected Tacoma as its coast terminus; the spirit which has animated every step of prog- ress which has built Seattle into a gréat city! Go to the Tuesday mass meeting. Chair- bringing business to Seattle. pr spend millions of dollars every year in Los Angeles. The allied southern railroad lines Southern and Union Pacific, and the O-W. R.& N.—are conspiring to cheat Seattle out of the money spent by these coast visitors. Ihe interstate commerce commission has been asked to smash this unfair rate frame- YOU can help if you come to the mass ting Tuesday. YOU can throw YOUR up. mi Behind the Seattle spirit has been the ability of our people to FIGH T—to fight for whatever has been best for the city’s good. Seattle has prospered and thrived because it has had virile and red-blooded fighters. And now the time has come for these men to again gird on their armor of battle. In the railroad rate preferential, Seattle faces a serious menace to her future growth. and your wallet, you'd be likely to get in- dignant, wouldn't you? Yet the railroads with which the O-W. R. & N. ts affiliated, Mr. Business Man, have a gun stuck in your face 24 hours in every day, and 365 days tn every year. They are robbing Seattle and the Northwest of eastern people who ought to be coming here as well as to southern California. Our clim- ate, our scenery, our city, has any southern man Reynolds of the state public service commission will be the chief speaker. He will explain the situation to you from the viewpoint of an expert. Mayor Gill will speak. So will T. D. Rockwell of the hotel men’s association, and other able men. Just go—that’s all. That is the way you can best help in this fight. GO, AND SEE TO IT THAT ALL YOUR FRIENDS GO WITH YOU.