The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 11, 1924, Page 1

“Story of the Utah Mine Horror Told in Pictures Ww Temperaty Maximum, 31 Today | dangerous, WEATHER - | ariable wind Last Mt tours Minimum a noon, Pain oe druggint, < VY Melvitie, > PL Key People's Berg. G. t; council, Citizens’ Baker, M. council, Joa Hantarvev/ VICTORY EDITION Extra! Extra! Precinct work ‘ers report of Lundin and Brown supporters voting for Bungsiarier! Last minute wave seis in for Maj. Hoople’s candi- jail "Smoke-screen” Brown jesing steadily! = “Anti-hooch” Landin unable to held votes! Hooray for OF Joe Bungstarter! (Rainier Valley, Capitol HUM, Ba ahh the Unitersity district, the old First Want, Queen Anne Hill, West Suttlevand the Ratnler club are re perted going for Bungstarter “I expect to finish this évening 2ageg votes and fou god)” Bungstarter declare at noon eee “Smokescreen” Brown declares that Seattle's prosperity is due to his alle administration. “That's nothing,” co garter, “I'm the guy wh tie & mild winter HONEST JOE WINDS UP CAMPAIGN for mayor, ended yn today in whirlwind kissing 378 babies. going to vote for Bung- n” said the fond mamas, 80 lovely to the kiddies.” “e eee “It looks like Hungstarter will everything.” predicted Maj. ie Bungstarter’s campaign man- f, today: “He carried 13 drinks 3 last night and the audience | Meer even suspected it.” ‘eae ae! © | Yee Bungsterter corralied the Reweboys ‘rote today, when he Came out mith a campaign speech 7 Grerybody to aticnd tae Ball at the Eagles’ Audi- Wednesday evening. NOODLE SOUP FOR BUNG- elyb hetd its 15th rally ‘Bight. and the enthusiasm was until the patrol wagon | yao see | EXCLUSIVE PHOTOGRAPHS oF __-BUNGSTARTER’S OPPONENTS 1, Alfred H. Lundin Ir Edwin J. Brown recary nds of votes were attracted larter’s banner tod Mt Pople's choice for bo pond that he would advocate Prohibiting cooks from applying tire than three coats of shellac to Festaurant pies. BUNGSTARTER! the undersigned World Wet to eal attention reasons why Joneph J. should be elected mayor 7 paorter says he will fin- the ety water with spirits of in memory of our dear, de- comrade, Gordon a pon-collapathie each hoard guaranteed four hoards to farnity t bow ” E. Pre- Malph A, j os Wihestarter taicon « broadcasting His topic wa Get Him “i Into TL Hope They Don't Ker er his o station || from No. 1 without obtalning identi- Load Guns The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington and A Lenroot First Pictures of Utah Mine Disaster Where 173 Are Believed Dead in Blast ! '81 VICTIMS OF “MINE FOUND 173 Is Now Given as Total Number of Blast Dead |SPEED TRAGIC RESCUE ‘Plan Joint Funerals for Men’ Who Died in Wreck CASTLE GATE, Utah, March 1L—At 1040 a. m. today the number of bodies removed from No. 2 mile had reached 81. Res- | ene work was then pfogressing very rapidly. Workers report | air in the mine now fresh and free from cna. The victims’ bodies are now being brought out by tram, this expediting work of recovery. still unidentified. | In a@ final recheck by company) | officinis, two names were added to; those who were in the mine peng the tragedy occurred. i These men had entered No. 2 mine} fication checks. There were a few | eliminations, however, and now t (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) Small Payment | ‘Down home that can bY} Here ts purchased on SRIDIAN ETY OM NGALOW || FOR A SMALL FA | THE TERMS ABE | THAN RED $2,500, ONLY $200 CABE | Thin 4-room bungalow / beauty. This ta the first time || advertived, abd. will be aulek || aned-in sun porch |} t Tight in ota -of Ni Poom; | AND be Kitchen! NOOK wed-in back porch; A beautiful tot, with a jawn afd lots. of shruba, ete || Thu Want Ads will tell you more bout this home | and was fore: 1924 Quits Probe! ; : | TTERE are the first pictures to) mine in search of bodies. reach Seattle of the mine hor-|is the first relay of rescuers, just |the yoto at 11:30 was 11%, compared] their pockets, they brushed out hur. | ine tie : At right jout on his behalf b: | Washington jhealth ta restored.” EARLY BALLOTS SET RECORD ‘Big Turnout Doped to Aid, | Both Mayoralty Men | EXPECT 85,000 TOTAL) All Candidates Predict Poll, | , Victories | With an carnestness and dispatch never excelled and seldom equaled, Seattle voters went Whout the busi- ness of olecting managers for the city government Tuesday, Conserv- ative estimates, made by close fol-| lowers of elections, predict a vote 00 by 8 p. m., when the polls of |close. In the courthouse precinct at Castle Gate, Utah, in which | after they had emerged froni the|to 70 at 11:30 in the primary. © | their lives in an underground ex- plosion. The disaster occurred Sat- urday. The picture at the top shows a bird’seye view of the canyon town of Castle Gate and the mine owned serves both No. 1 and No. 2 mines, The explosion occurred in No. 2 mine, located about a mile from the tipple. Below, at left, is shown a reseuc crew, equipped with gas masks, tering the main portal of No. 2 Seventeen 5/173 miners are believed to have fost |!ine after failure to penetrate to |the point where the men yvere ltrapped. These were the men who ‘brought to the surface |word that the entire 173. miners ‘were believed to have perished. \by the Utah Fuel Co. and known as | of the entryway to the mine, which, he |One of the model mines of the state. | with the main portal, form the only The tipple shown in the center means of egress from the workings. | ‘This point is more than 5,000 feet from where the explosion centered, but torn and twisted timbers, wrenched from this passage, were thrown a distance of more than | 1,000 feet across the canyon by the ifores of the blast. School Bus Turns Over on Highway Fifty schoo injan ie? monds school bus narrowly escaped injury Tuesday morning when the bus left the road within « short dis- tance of the school and overturned. ‘The accident the bildren resulted driver met vol when truck in the fog to avoid hitting it No one was injured. Fern Ritten hause was drivivg the bus. 1 to make a sharp turn | WASHINGTON, March 11—Pres ident Coolidge today sent congress urging immediate adop- per ja message |tlon of the. resolution for a cent reduction in taxes on 1923 in- |comes payable this year, Adoption believed im: of the resolution. was possible by congressional leaders |b of the widespread |tion from democrats and ¢ publicans, opposi- me re the first | Bottom picture shows the mouth | ‘ASKS LOW TAX County Auditor D. E. Ferguson) reported an unprecedented early morning vote, Voters began casting their ballots promptly at § a. m. in] almost every precinct. New early | records were established in almost every precinct, according to re . |. In one precinct where nine votes | had been cast by 8:30 a, th. in the! primaries, 32 votes had been cast at tho same hour Tuesday. The vote was equally heavy in the sections | known to favor Mayor E. J. Brown | | by two and three to one, with the | voto In the Capitol Hill precincts, |where Afired H. Laindin will poll} |five'and six votes to Mayor Brown's one, | In Ballard, according to reports, | |Mayor Brown was polling an enor-| mous vote. Likewise he was report: | ed to be strong in Rainer Valley, | Georgetown and West Seattle. Dopesters interpreted the big vote as favorable to both candidates. | Many expressed the opinion that the} heavy vote will result in Lundin‘s Jovercoming the lead held by |in the primaries. Others d |that Brown's precinet orgunizition ts | {bringing out the primary “stay-at-| home” ‘vote | County Auditor Ferguson predict: | ed the total vote will be 85,000. This (Turn to Page 7, Colun LEAVES ONL LAND HEARING Too Poor Condi- tion to Continue Work WASHINGTON, M h i Senator Lenroot, Wisconsin, to day resigned as chairm lands been of the committee, investigating naval oil reserve scandal, who has bee NC. f at South ck at his resignation to the com: The following statement was given the committee ate today Since coming to Southern Pines. I have not recuperated as 1 had hoped to, and it will not be possible for me to continue my work on the committee on public lands and sur xe ay Sind L realized some time ago that 1 Was hearing the-point of exhaustion, and stated upon the floor of the sen ate that if the off investigation con- tinued indefinitely, I would feel com. pelled to resign from the committee. T have given nearly four months’ service in this investigation, trying as best I could to keep up with such other work as could not be neglect ed, with the result that I cannot, in my present staté of health, continue any longer. “I hope to be able to return to next week, but anything more of my office unt sh. than my not attempt routine work ARE FOILED Customer Walks Into Store | and Frightens Trio While scores of people passed outside, three young bandits, driving a small automobile, at- tempted to stage a bold daylight holdup in the heart of the Uni- versity business district, Taes- day morning. Entering the Ho- mer Grocery, 4146 Univer. sity way, the trio drew guns on - Noumest, the proprietor, but fled when a customer en- tered the store. Tho stores along University way were just beginning to get under! way for the day's business when a| small car drew up at the curb at E. dist st. Lelsurely entering the | store, the first two of the three men drew guns and closed in on Nou. mest. “Hand over your cash, old man,” they advised him; “we mean busi- ness.” j Noumest started to comply. Then | the door squeaked and the bandits | turned to seo a man entering the store. Shoving their guns back in riedly and got into the car. H journest ran out as the car drew away and got the lcense number, which he gave to the police. No record has been found of the car, which probably hed been stolen, the |received Saturday night The SeattleStar SEATTLE, WASH, TUESDAY, MARCH 11, * TWO CED 'S IN SEATTLE. utos Kill 12 Here Since Jan. 1 The Hand Seattle's “Clock of Death” been killed by autos during persons have been killed by Fo rth Traffic Victim s of Death shows that three persons have the present year, while nine gunshot wounds. * 4% Near Death in Hospital “Death Clock” Shows Three Murders and Eigh Three persons have met death from jauto accidents {n Seattle since the beginning of the year and nine per- sons hive died from gunshots, it was shown Tuesday by reports from the coroner’s office, Five of the gun fatalities have been suicides and three were mur- ders. One was an accidental death, count A fourth auto fatality was expect- | ef any minute Tuesday as Mrs, Sadie ack, 46, living at $03 Pike st., was t the point of death tn the city hos- pital, following an night at Eighth ave. and Dike st., when she was run down bz an auto driven by R. C. Sutherland, 1123 Pike st Mrs. Mrs of Christina Bergman, 71, 2432 W. 6rd st., is the latest person | to succumb to auto injuries. She died Monday afternoon from injuries when she run down by an uwuto driven by 17-year-old Fred Schultheis, of 2238 ident Monday | Brack {s suffering frem a} | fractured skull and inze-nal injuries. t Suicides ) W. both st. | $750 bail. | ‘The two other auto deaths occurre.! j within @ day of each other. William Jones was run down and killed on January 6, and Benjamin Tickner on January 7. ‘The following are the persons who |have met death from gunshot | Wounds: | Homicides—Kelly Swarnigan, shot |to death January 17 in South End | poolroom. Toyo Hasagawa, shot to death | February 28 by enraged Jap. Paul Russell, bandit, shot dead by | Ballard grocer, January 14, Suicides—A. R. Purdy, shot self January 7, Charles Carpenter, shot self Janu- ary 21, Louis Neveler, shot self Febru- ary 6. Mrs. Grace Slade, shot self Febru- ary 21. Mrs. Florence Ping, shot self Feb- ruary 23. ‘The boy ts at liberty on Sound Boatman Slain by Mysteri Assailant Commits ous Gunman Suicide After Kill- ing Engineer on Mail Vessel Walking up behind his vie tim, without a word of warning, a roughly dressed and unidenti- fied passenger on the mailboat Edith H., plying between Stell- acoom and Grateview, on Hart- sell island,, Tuesday morning shot and instantly killed Robert Tolstrup, 38, chief engineer, and then shot himself thru the head then shot himself thru the head, dying at 11:15 at Steilacoom, He was about 50 years old and of the transient laborer type. The. shooting occurred in the washroom of the vessel as it was rounding Devil's Head, en route to Steilacoom. There were no wit nesses, but It {s believed that the stranger was insane from drinking moonshine whisky. Harry Sheligren of Allyn, pilot of the Edith H., and Tolstrup's part- ner, heard the shot as he stood conning the little vessel. He left the wheel in the hands of @ passen- FOR ACCURATE ELECTION NEWS— —Tell the newsboy it’s ‘ In the primary election ‘The Star” you want! “The Star” was first on the streets, by an hour, and it’s prediction of the re- sults, made on a carefully worked out survey of “key precincts” over the city, was so accurate that its readers got the night of election the same count, in thousands, for the mayoralty candidates as the offi- cial returns gave for the three men on the following morning. The Star extra on the right after the polls close. final election will be out If you want quick returns; if you want accurate returns DON’T SAY “PAPER”; SAY “STAR!” ’ ger-friehd and rushed to the hatch- way, thru which he reported seeing the stranger place a revolver to his | own head, pull the trigger and fail unconscious at tho feet of his | victim. | Shellgren brought the vessel into Steilacoom and reported to the sher- iff's office, Tolstrup’s lifeless body was removed to an undertaking es | tablishment and the stranger's etll! unconscious form was taken to the hospital. The shooting occurred about 8:15 Tuesday morning and the vessel | docked at 10 o'clock, Tolstrup was | married and had two children, resid- ing at 2234 E. Sherman st., Tacoma. Ho and Shellgren haye operated the nuallboat for several years. He is also survived by parents and eight sisters at Long Pine, Wash. IRELAND MUTINY Outbreak in Army Now Re- | ported as General | — | DUBLIN, March 11.—The mutiny in the army has become general, ac- jcording to advices here today, | The big barracks at Tipperary has | been deserted by officers and men, | who decamped with thelr rifles and | ammunition. Minister of Commerce and Indus- |try McGrath has resigned because lof his dissatisfaction with the zoy- jernment’s army reorganization plan. |Famed Australian in San Francisco SAN. FRANCISCO, March 11. {Wiliam M. Hughes, former premier of Australia, who headed the domin- [ion government during the war, was |nere today to fill lecture engage- ments in the San Francisco bay district. neopets ere