The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 4, 1923, Page 1

Ex | WEATHER — ht and Friday, rain; mod erate to fresh hwe erly Temperature Maximum, 50. Today noon, 43 The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its nearest competitor The Seattle Star | i orrin Batered as & 4 Class Matter May 8, 1899, at the Postoffice ai Seattle, W aan. under the Act of Congress March 8, 187%, Per Year, by Mati, 96 to NUARY 4, a8 __YOLU ME 24. NO. ¢ Disaster C omes s Upon Southwest Washington Town Pius Bridge Colla Qs i} ore Many Missing, Bodies Are Swept Toward Sea by Rushing River girls refuse to obey the order. The Declaracion of Independence was not writt n vain! . . Movie note: All of the actors in Hollywood are not hopheads, Look at Jackie Coogan. } eee Seattle had the biggest building Doom of ite history im 1922, but we atti think it was due to the erection of so many gasoline stations. eee j One way to keep warm these days is to think about your Christmas bills, You will immediately break ‘nto a sweat SATTLE, WASH,, THU RSDAY, ; * (eaenaatasnmaneriasmasesenaisitin 18 AUTOS AND 150 PEOPLE ARE THROWN INTO S | * The full extent of Wednesday’s disaster at Kelso, when a suspension brid collapsed and threw 150 persons into the Cowlitz river, could only be gues Plans for Baby Shower Win Mayor’s Approval RIENDS of Tom Duff and family, who oceupy A man’s strip on The Star comic page every day, are taking to that idea of holding a shower for the new baby that’s coming to the Duff home. One of the first to welcome the idea is Olivia, sister of Mrs. Duff. And Olivia, being partial and preju- diced, is trying to defeat Aiton Tom by wishing that it’s a girl. Olivia, however, thinks that the | HOPE ") Duff family won't really need a TODAY'S MAIL Homer: ‘Hope to Recover aia. | : Weleup New vearsmorn | Bodies of Kelso With a Doe Brown | Tieti 7} $ ! lot of new baby clothes because Yourn, cana Victims at Exit haath Abuen can pl “ots of clothes at Thursday. | eS | of the Cowlitz if he wants to. So she indorsed 3° So great was the confusion which attended the tragedy—the greatest thi Sarah Bernhardt is stronger, says a newspaper dispatch, but those who remember her recent operation will continue to believe that she has one foot in the grave. oe turned over by Cynthia Grey to the needy babies of Seattle. Mayor Brown grinned and said it was a good plan, too. 4 “Tell the folks I am strong for o] \the stunt,” said he. “It’s a fine the little Southwestern Washington town has ever experienced—that only ii complete details could be picked up here and there by The Star’s correspon ents on the scene. For the present, the entire town is working withonly oneaim—the recov KELSO, bin hed huge net Was stretched today across the mouth of the Cowlitz river, Just = where it empties into the Colum bia, to catch the bodies of vie- ‘What is eo rare as a week when! tims of yesterday's wreck disas- @ Russian genera! doesn't come to ter who are being swept down PrTTI II ri Beattie in the steerage? Pe rd thi by the idea. reo : jt ~ eee | Saeae e \/] ‘That's as far as the plans have $/of the victims’ bodies. After that task is A SOLSHIVICTIM This was resorted to as the ‘one, folks. We are going to hold . . General Ivanctt mltary com, | oly manne ‘of recovering tha _ Ene eower. But. wer havent 3/completed an attempt will be made to esti- ’ Feaates for the cont, has arrived | bodice of dosens of viuwake, |& fixed the date, We'll do that soon. Then everybody ¢|Mmate the death toll with some degree of beck steppes of Kussia, as it * bern when it crashed who wants to will be invited to bring in a gift that'll accuracy. ‘were, ae * } po digo parcel tiade talk to eines oa a family with a kicking youngster. ! However, this much can be said definitely: Beanett wars he te thru with Rus jin the recovery aft the bation, 06 If you simply can’t wait, send it in now to Cynthia s| At least 18 automobiles are still resting on Here’s Auto Wreck That Saved t been carried into the Columbia be-/$ Grey, the bottom of the river, and these cars must) Li ee fore: tha nat oweat be stnstehed ; k; ives of 13 Persons Suton erento title here Bean ete grape fr | eoccscconece, eoos ibe contained at least 50 or 60 persons—of'| A post's sentiment. sear i re firs yong ara “ Steanwhile the work 0 ot recovering | ovaries ‘Dea t h Ss cene D escri ib é d eucaped ee —a ELSO Jan. 4.—An automobile Tees eee bodies at the bridge <pidapcais re ; 3 13 lives yesterday when the bri few, York woman wae robbed of EON. a. im ain thruout| ie tee seems certain that at least 40—pos-!] the Cowlitz os pa here. ‘worth of jewelry taser “4 si : . 4 = Seer enews cam| by Survivors at Kelso sy $0 or more—persons perished in the dis-| _. V. Litde ad Just started tn drive 8 . | Under approximate! foe o . . ‘oe . | - TH nose wie aaa tt,‘ Injured Men in Hospital T Tell of Horror aa} The monetary 7 was F con bianag 3 = ne ae Ig ei ee eee “Judge Lindsey says mar- on the steering wheel. So strong Near, ‘ comparison wi e loss 0. uman life. nstantly sensing the situation threw ies tallure. Medbe, but | was las abe Humans Are Swept Into Bridge Wreck 3 A 4 He hth mnisimony who | iyo sae fe "an thay wer th damn |hundred thousand dollars will probably cover | ca” into reverse and backed off the brig we ve us, “3 . ob! bandon their task to pro- | "7 ” 7 dear, you've had enough"? |tesatonal vers th ths morning. Lg wee ta io ihe sions at bere wan a eur porto Pagiigennc | lev erything, the loss of the bridge included. into cee easeaih artis 2 : Puget Sound Poultry association ta] ra broken arm, telis a graphic story Of | bac, oor seemed to sink beneath ba ying rae a mee | In backing off he struck three other auto holding his fight for life in the Cowlitz river fts annual show at Seventh | ‘LARSON FIGHTS inte yesterday afternoon, when the the weels of my machine. I wna too ° biles that were behind and wrecked them all uate ss most — chicken falling Kelso bridge hurled him and | horrified to move for a moment. Be- Divers Start Search || but swept them to safety with him. % of other victims into the fore I realized wnat had happened, | sone caer tern were te) TMIPRISONMENT (rs em won cone oe me Sen oo for Bodies in Wreck!) tiv saved with sight bruises == Long-Bell Lumber Co,, was on is tion, H+ way from work and was on the long “] was imprisoned in my auto- on a Ie owning stock in Standard Oil. * | enker Asks | Rehearing by | £Pan of the bride, when. without | mobile, with the side curtains up. ‘Supporting Cable of Kelso Bridge Breaks| Screams for help reached the horror-stricken wits any noticeable warning eee By the time 1 had torn them | Supreme Court structure toppled into the river. td .) | the river banks, who, powerless to aid, shouted d The department itn te nt i Jumped fi the lo . 1,800, sie apneee of prunes inicarioad | | “I was on the long span,” Os ees ae falling, and ry and I lunges Victims Into Cowlitz River | the crews of the steamers Pomona and Cowlitz, which R next Instant I was in the water ——- 7 " loughing against the current to reach the struggling and saw the bridge deck rising | KELSO, Wash., Jan. 4.—With scores of persons missing e 7 crack, Suddenly the whole span up sideways, and then it tumbled /and at least one known dead, feverish efforts were being er be saved JEny ‘persons (who, va lots. Don’t let your Iandiady #90) 4 petition tor a rehearing witt be| Walt told the United Press thls sae} } tipped and 1 was thrown into the | back on top of me, upside down | . |made today to recove: bodies | 4 Pages ies of victims of yesterday’s| “while rescuers were straining every effort this n | oa filed immediately, It was ann: morning. “I heard no warning see . Thursday by William Tucker, HERE CHORUS G comm: | hea ne ney for Ole Larson, wh Dear Homer: When you say that (tion on a grand larceny P& yond (hy f ~- affirmed by the state supreme court theater here ta 1845, thea lieth to | Wednesday. Tucker did not learn of | the city. |the court's action until he waa in cals Save Ma etlotreehea sinter. |formed of the decision by The Star Bet 1 met her on the street not long | He telephoned to Olympia immediate. ago. It seems she was @ leading (jy for a copy of the decision. Ho | river. Timbers fell and crashed I had to fight my way out of the | about me. I was carried to the wreckage to clear water and | disaster, when the Kelso suspension bridge over the semen recovér bodies of victims, officials refused to ‘ ; m bottom by og) Lenses a switn ashore.” river collapsed. lestimate of the disaster’s cost in lives. J.J. Fleur polies officer on duty! It was feared, however, that the complete list of the dead| Coroner W. G. Johnson is expected today to assist T fought my way |e eit, eo he ii 0, 4 William Broack, | but the timbers \iice tender, raced from the center May never be known. Several bodies were seen floating Coroner W. D. Van Note, who is now directing the : of the divers exploring the wreck, ' | Folled abeet and over me as I ith others down the swollen stream, and it was believed that they | struggled to climb up on them. lady for 90 years after playing st 0 to comment hind ld be is Gockuag, ‘teas boron teat jxaid he did not care | 1 was pinned between two thm wou swept into the Columbia and thence out to sea 4 s m 2 ter woman ter 40 years and new ts jon tho case before receiving the copy.| bers, and expected to be crushed | them dect | before anyone could reach them. According to eye-witnesses and survivors, after th | One hundred fif porting towers had toppled and the cables slack r : me hundred and fifty persons were on. the bridge Ot | tire deck of the long span, between 200 and 300 feet i in musical comedy chorus and | iut admitted that he would continue| ¢» death, but they finally cau nt sion @ detng. fine. Some, lthe fight for Larson and might De are, any J. Windia sayne, | th | in @ cable, and, tu ore possibly carry it to the United States threw me up on the top side pants of automobiles penerktiy were | the time it collapsed, when a supporting cable snapped. , M D ‘Among the leading candidates for| supreme court. thls tine: the ioviukake bat ¢ thrown into the water. | this number, one has died at a local hospital; another is} turned completely over to the south side, carrying the Outta-Luck club ts the gink who| Larson also tearned the decision ea to the. new inidge aud b Aut mobile “occupants who were | near death, and many more are believed to have either! }and burying beneath it, all pedestrians and automob threw his corkscrew away when pro-|for the first time from The Star.| there, Someone on the west rescued. all.toltt stories very much | i ~ this ; “ re hibition came itt EROS He hurried to Tucker's office in the| op the steel bridge grabbed me |alike; there was the first roaring |drowned or been crushed to death in the wreckage of the| Paint On i spa Be the besirggr 9 which is eee Lowman building as soon as he| and pulled me to safety.” sound and then the rising water with | bridge, where 1 Th "4 a) e Kal expec: bei cap most o Three men were arrested in Chi-|learned the news and went into con] Another survivor, William sultt-|{t# terrible weight as 4 closed around| The known list of dead and missing follows: bodies, e town of Kelso is crowded with new al cago yesterday for making $5 bills. {ference with his attorney van, who Iq also a LongBell em-|them, and the struggle to free! 6° “nen naia aied earl omar - Te Paeatt 1 owing to the extensive building operations being con It does seem, sometimes, that tt | ploye, and who is in the hospital with |themselves from the side curtains, oe " y y apetel by the Long-Bell Lumber company, at their new to facgetting harder and harder to| his legs crushed and broken In two {#84 fighting to rench the surface, Missing: of Longview. make money. ATHLETES OUT | sincen’wan torced to fight oft the| Al Walthrop of Portinnd was! Mr, and Mrs. A. G. Huntington, Kelso. . 4 > soe clinging hold of other victims, who | walking near the east end of the! TJoyd Huntington, Kelso, Many of the passengers on the bridge at the time it: We Ia the rt that} clung to him tn their desperate at bridge when the cable snapped. Hi " 2 | aes ae Sacte Beer atet| AT STANFORD |curg nin ate suernte rue sees ic, ar cnaly tneminars |, Beam Bare, Bewly elected county commissioner, Wood. peed were the sewer workers, who, wane rela land, Wash. |Comparatively few of them have homes, or are Bull Smith. We don't know why he| STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Jan.| gujivan had peen riding on a {to five. da called Bull, but our guens is that |4—The faculty scholarship ax fell) tryok, but at the w “1 saw what was going to hap John Godfrey, Long Bell Lumber company employe, Kelso. hare, and this fact adds to the uncertainty regardiny " is missing. ~s because he has been thrown so a Lay scr gre lr ek Sglege om | Cone® he alighted, as ” Walthrop 4 “and 1 started Ralph Chamberlain, lumber mill worker, Kelso. THE AURORA BOREALIS =| Included are Glenn Hartranft, ta \ ie thought My could make better |@bout 26 children in it go down, 1| We F. Hartley, W. P. Croake, W. E. Philo,’ Bu¢k,|company payroll in order to obtain a reliable estim When this new color-playing | mous allround athlete, and Al Smith, | progress afoot and was on the mid-|think four of them were rescued. |all employes of the Westlake Construction company, Kelso.|their missing employes, but in the confusion and susp machine ie periccted we may.cx: |mier. who were expected t0 win 25/ Gia apan, dodging between automo-| ‘sa tot of peopie went down the| Allan Chishold, Kelso. of work, this is difficult. pO 07 ‘0 es, when he he crack similar! iver we couldn't go to °. , 4 they broadcast Christmas neck- | meet they entered this spring. to the report of a pistol. He had [Fiver we couldn’ fo to te tana| 2okn Cooper, Kelso, So far only about a dozen actually have been ‘reps thes. | Six members of the varsity foot-| sagt met a team of horses hauling @|"ewan ear help and then me down, | Bb Titland, Tacoma. missing, but only about one-third of the 150 persons Be Daeg a aig ge ball squad a rere included in the | wagon from the ast side, and can | Wien wa got to the apot we coulan't| RR. H, Oswald was rescued from the wreckage and is in a| mated to have been on the bridge when it crashed int o he dope evil, « hose dropper mE recs nything un he was ¢ fi | ee ate, oe see eke, 8) ogo goal OEE ER pra enra earings 9 find any trace of him local hospital. jriver are known to have escaped. United States attorney for Oregon, and then only if the faculty There is great confusion here regarding the number| Bridge experts differ as to the immediate cause | valt, he was srrounded, <i Mai fit to permit their return, | rine failing timbers, which drowned. It is generally agreed among witnesses who were | idisaster. J. F. Hamilton, engineer in charge of trad'to inhike ta it eating tobacco. | we saree st rec biad “anc proedinroy WHY DON’T aster that at least 150 persons were crossing the bridge amined the spans, piling and cable of the old bridge a is . | Cuddeback, fullback; Johnston, | Succeeded in. grasping a piece of when the cable snapped, with a report that could be heard | days ago and found them safe, aver! tackle; Taylor, second tring full:| wreckage YOU a thousand feet away. Of these 40 are known to have been| A. L, Haley, former harbor engineer of Astoria, d Pheeney, Houch, ¢' Hition to ard; Douglass, “~ was almost exhausted; rescued, while many who were near the ends of the bridge|the bridge should have been closed as unsafe after varsily football said Sullivan today, “but I ae | PLACE YOUR were able to escape unhurt. mas, when its supports were subjected to a pressun ‘Plan Burial om i jr dent ieee of wr ; } Sand Pit Victim |: ; ep consgpar ne Asay x 2 nige was shot ¢o the surface, and Authorities believe the death toll will run as high as 80,/5,000 tons from a log jam. The grinding of these lo; Funeral services of Mrs. Mary W| {tam who were looked uP in the struggle the person who WANT ADS |but the exact figure will never be known, as so many of | it is said, loosened the piers of the supporting towers Hiinker, Tha ella ante’ aye Wa | ‘This wholesale sunpension of ath-| Wis iFrasping Tne ont ls hold | the pedestrians hurled into the swirling stream were|when the recent high waters cleared the jam, the cab ed by le of ‘as alone on the timbers. ; a eTARa i et ; in @ bunker Wednesday noon, pie Draped Mpateig dD Gs. sacteat, A fishing boat pleked me up. I | IN THE STAR’S transient laborers employed by the Long-Bell Lumber com-| were unable to stand the strain. pany, in the building of the new model mill town of Long-| Rumors that three or four bodies had been seen “GREATER view. Some of these workers are not even registered on|sand bar at the mouth of the Cowlitz sent a fleet of the company’s payrolls. craft hastening down stream this morning. Up to Eye-witnesses, and those who saved themselves from the|the frantic efforts of searchers had been unreward water, or who had fled back to the banks at the first|the discovery of any bodies. COLUMNS?” |\ominous cracking of the splintering timbers saw several} The bridge, built in 1907, was a timber-constru men, women and children clutching at floating debris in|pension type. For two weeks it has been subjected by city firemen and police, but died shine to Johnny Bertschaft, 22, of| who was vain efforts to save themselves as the rushing, yellow flood; pressure of a jam of logs which had broken loose and within a few minutes. now near death, |“ wae driving across the suspen- carried them down stream, (Turn te Page 10, Column 3) being arranged Thursday at the Cre ot see anyone near mo mation Society of Washington. [hopes for winning athletic honors peal in the water, altho I Mrs, Klinker, while shoveling sand ie the next year go agiimmer-| ieard many erles. 1 was close on the crest of the bunker at Third to two sunken automobiles when ave. W. and Barrett st., owned by I came to the surface, and could WANT AD her son, Horace Klinker, fell into the | CL¥: KLUM.—Wearch being made| hear ealls for help coming from pit. She was instantly covered by| here by posse of citizens and mem the people inside them, One was tons of sand. bers of police and sheriff's force for| a elosed ear, and a man appeared When dug out she was given aid|bootlegger who sold poisoned moon-| to be calling to hin companion, py