The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 12, 1921, Page 1

"Firat in News—First in Circulation (by 11,727 copies a day)—Call Main 0600 to Order The Star at Your Home--50 Cents a Month—Why Pay More? _ More? STORM BRINGS DEATH AND DISASTER TO CITY Tonight and Tuesday, rain; fresh On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise WEATHER | == The Seattle Sta Tempera ‘ure Last 34 Hours Today noon, 54 Entered as Second Class Matter May 8, 1899, at the Postdffice at Beattie, Wash, under the Act of Congrens March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mail, $5 to $9 ez “VOLUME 3 ow ee _SEATTL Ek, W ‘ASH., MONDAY, DEC EMBE SAVES. (nse one se some = CLOQUDBURST CAUSES 19 _ be CASUALTIES IN SEATTLE! ‘Landslides, Train Wrecks, Flooded Residence Sectionill | and Widespread Property Loss Result From a _ Drenching Waek-End Downpour Here _z mm ==6 (SOME OF FLOOD HAVOC Your dead, four missing, nearly 20 hurt, some fatally, Hundreds of acres inundated in Ballard, Youngstown, Rainier Valley and other low sections. i Half a dozen homes wrecked by landslides, hundreds of families driven out. Railroad, interurban, street car and bus lines crippled. Telegraph lines down. By Hal Armstrong The greatest rainstorm ever recarded in Seattle be-. gan early Saturday evening and continued today. Four persons are dead. Four are missing. score are injured, three probably fatally. Half a dozen homes, crushed by landslides, are either partially or totally destroyed. Great Northern crack mail train No. 27 crashed thru @ bridge and is at the bottom of Miller river, near Skykomish. Landslides occurred in practically every part of the city. Hundreds of acres in Ballard, Youngstown, Rainier Vi |and in towns adjacent to Seattle to the south are inundat | Hundreds of families, driven out by the flood, are tempee rarily homeless. Railroad lines are blocked by slides and washouts. Bus lines and electric interurban trains between Seattle ‘ fand Tacoma are stopped. | Scores of basements are flooded. A’spring gushed be thru the floors of the Lausanne apartments, 214 during the night and deluged the lower part of the R 12, 1921. « @ Heroic Physician! Braves Death to Rescue Family as Hill Topples Three persons—Thomas orustn, | hin Wife and their baby—were saved from certain death when a bill caved | im on their house at 229 Lakeside ave. 8. ‘They are alive today as the result of the heroiam of a Seattle physician, braved death to rescue them the house, but who was so mod- that he refused to make his iden- tity known. The physician was passing along Lakeside ave. late Sunday night when he saw a tree on the hill above the house wavering. Immediately sensing the danger, he rushed into the home, finding the O'Hairas asleep in bed. Without ceremony he snatched the baby out of the cradle and aroused | the parents, who ran out of the/ house with him. The party were barely out of the home when the tree crashed down | thru the roof, and the next moment the whole hillside caved in, burying | the house beneath tons of dirt Detective William Petersen, at. | tracted to the scene by the noise of | the slide, tried to get the rescuer’s| nai but the latter refused to it. ‘m a physician,” he explained, | “and it wouldn't be ethical for me to cet a lot of newrpaper notoriety.” ‘Then, without waiting for the thanks of the family that he had/ saved, he disappeared. ‘The O'Hairas were given tempor ary shelter by neighbors. uicing for ‘ Bodies of 3, | Two More Die Woman, Two Children, |" Two Men Killed in Same Spot in West Seattle |} lave. , building. 7 At Bellevue, across Lake Washington, the flood washed @ |hole in the main street, 50 feet wide and 30 feet deep, and | uncovered an old skid road that had been buried 18 years. iW 7 Pe was roaring thru the old culvert under the logging roa Telegraph lines are badly damaged. The amount of havoc caused by the storm is impossible” | to estimate. The following casualties occurred: DEAD Mrs. Samuel C. Andrews, 37, buried under landslide that wrecked her home at 1910 Fairmount ave., West Seattle. Tommy Andrews, 7, son of Mrs. Andrews. Jack Andrews, 3, Tommy’s brother. Joseph Horan, night watchman in a Seattle kk, crushed to death in wreck of his home by landslid ba: . Mrs. ‘Samuel C. Andrews and her! § two little sons, Jack, aged 3, and j Tommy, 7, were buried under a land gamed we death are slide that crushed their home at 1910 Seattle, at 6:45 Fairmount ave., West O'clock last evening. ‘This morning a dozen firemen and ho * were i | - MISSING i Two unidentified civilians buried under Fairmount . thie ee ee? ie teas a : | ave. oo Bibech Henn a ec Adelie Risking his life, Ernest D. Tyler, Star reporter, stood in the path of the cebond land- AP passes in eae ot ex all ala at ae glide in West Seattle at Alki and Fairmount aves. Monday morning and warned diggers in| yonigh, the wreckage of the previous landslide of impending danger. A moment later Tyler was George Irvin, fireman of G. N. train, Everett. buried in an avalanche of mud. He was rescued by diggers and managed to tell The Star ” is of his experience over the telephone. Fred C, Carter, Star staff photographer, also had a INJURED narrow escape, but he succeeded in taking the above pictures. John Carey, 3049 16th ave., West Seattle, severely Upper picture shows houses after the second landslide. In the middle picture buried men hurt in G. N. wreck, taken to Providence hospital, are being pulled out of the mud, Arrow indicating where rescuers are working. The bot-| Everett. ‘ tom picture wag taken 10 minutes before the second landslide. Tyler is at the lower left. Fireman H. E. Larson, Engine Co. No. 1, buried in Fairmount ave. slide, taken to city hospital, condition (CEATEST FLOOD BULLETINS SE Mey het or. street department ¢ + sluicing the slide for the es when | @ second slide occurred. ying the} members of the rescue party | For some time it was believe 4 sev eral had been killed. Prompt action y the uninjured by civilians the scene, saved the but two persons. “Ws ZRATIONS - IN SL ME ‘These two, both civ standing at the foot watching the sluicing operations, whe the second slide came down. Unable to get away in time, they swallowed up in toms of oozy mud that swept trees houses and 1 ent nes along with it ne} One family had a narrow escape back severely injured. te ho escue parties were The West Seattle carline that runa;they cannot stop the progress of th : “itll bagpeae. Ks y le aS < 2 ; At & late hour repote’t eves bag 3 . casio up” the.. hill /tiood Fe ee eens are Home Wee | Fireman Arthur Hust, 33; Engine Co. No. 36, buried bed nidentified wan washed out by @ slide Fifteen families have been forced gemolishe in Fairmount ave. slide, taken to city hospital, condi- tion critical. athing beach is almost two! jioth sewers are broken across L. Reswick. , 1122 24th ave., street department f j imminent dan Be nies | k jer water Longfellow creek jer Monday of being overwhelmed.| employe, buried in Fairmount ave. slide, taken to city insknnn ‘atoed ot ; : Le. | ren of hou es along the road ater backed up three quarters eu at the Goouante @ Saher hospital, back injured. hin tion are under water of a mile back of Youngstown 404) noved out or are It g for safer ~ P , ei n Pacific brake — r |" phe Jermy al, sewer in the same|the flood Is 1,000 fect wide at the|marre.cut OF are leaving Tor ga Otto Carlson, 55, 3009 W. 60th st., street department at home when the { throw heedbl? ott the bride o'divtrict is broken off at the foot of |mouth ‘The home of Albert Green, accord employe, buried in Fairmount ave. slide, taken to city first slide 4 family | HERO BRAVES “a could stop her. Watn the hill | All of the district south of Oregon jing to A. F. Myers. of the Seattle hospital, leg broken. i REACHED § TLE wn at arty paterty ‘The flat district Just east of the/st, and west of Seventh ave 18 Automobile company, a near neigh Joe Robero, 39, 2110 18th ave. S., street department 3 . . via thing beach, known as Bonair dis. ater nis is he South |por, was crushed by a slide of earth ? i aS ] er nevon senyea, DEATH IN VAIN fie eens voit ltr hein a thing Death ox Bona i |unare wier Thi ts the South tor, wun crushed wy 6 sae otc] employe, buried in Fairmount ave. slide, taken to city ‘ hath’ baa grou. to ame it] Peneiee fal boat, SOE Neuriy 60 acren of this residence| ‘The district east of Wighth S.|hables, in the house at the time,| hospital, head cut. : ' there wag anything she wanted him | ters of the Ur Ay. 9 The boat was swamped and went |district is submerged. between Lucille and G . is! managed to escape without injury Lewis Overman, 38, 9124 Seventh ave. S., blinded by ‘ to bring home for dinner ten minutes | #pite the fact that he | from be-| down, but Watney kept on in. his at he Beach drive, Gouth Alki, & Se A are ane ve eter ene on | Stor.a, struck by street car at Eighth ave. S. and f _< ; voit det! a ee sis h park the road:| houses in this district | curred, ‘The house was moved Southern st., taken to city hospital, several ribs broken, axked him to hurry The womar c Wee ed out the water, which is| 10 (eet Alex Johnson, butcher, 36, driving auto, struck by | Youngetown is 14 feet! ! jscon HU ls houses. that, are tn danger | street car in storm, taken to city hospital, scalp badly ) houses are submerged nder water. | Washington bluff, Some of them cut. . | ¥ In Ballard the area between Ninthlare already partly crushed under | Fred True, 12, 1116 Republican st., struck by auto of this water comes from|ave. N. W. and 15th ave, W., from|trees that have moved against them driven by Paul Otto, Tama hotel, at Fourth ave. and derskirt was black, wit hite di Haller creek W. bist st to the canal, is flooded|with the slipping of the hillside. “7 i a Han ¥ Fee e ee eee aes (iitne culverts in this district are [witn water, which at some places is ‘There is a drop of trom 10 to 60 cect] Stewart st. taken to city hospital, head and legs cute nm to Page 12, Column According to witnesses, the woman! heigh’ — taking all the water possible, but (Turn to Page 12, Column 6) to the beach. (Turn to Page 12, Coiumn 4 A Me 4