The evening world. Newspaper, March 24, 1913, Page 1

TORNADOES IN FIVE STATES KILL 333; GHOULS ROB HOMES 0 B ywers probable to-nigh: FI to-morrow clearing. EDITION. [ “ Circulation Books,Open'to All,” | _ PRICE ONE OC HANGING BY HIS HEELS ENT. FIREMAN SWINGS WOMAN ~INBURNING Dangles Head Downward, Supported by Comrades, and Lifts Her to Safety. ALREADY A MEDAL MAN. by Carrying Her Across - Narrow Coping. ‘Two thrilling rescues of women were witnessed this morning in a fire which cleaned out the millinery store of Mra. Goldie Sadykies, No. 320 West Fifty- eighth street. Five girls were em- ployed in the store, and the three floors above are occupied as a lodging house. About 9 o'clock one of the girls in iscovered flames and, shout- ing !" rushed into the street Bhe was followed by the proprietess ang the other girls, An alarm was turned in and warning sent to the lodgers. Instantly all was excitement. People came pouring out of the ad- Joining houses and soon several wom- en rushed down the stairs of the burn- ing building, clad only in their kim- at its height ft Mrs. Vivi- man appeared at a win- dow in the adjoining building. Without &@ moment's hesitation he stepped out on the coping and made his way back to he building to where the woman stood. ing her by the hand, he edged his back to the window whence he came and hauled the rescued woman through the opening, cheered by the crowds in the street. Meanwhile Mrs. May third floor, tn which overlooks ere cried to her not to Jump. moments th: men appeared on the roof abi ‘They were Lieut. Simpson and Firemen John F. Mooney of Truck No, 4 and ‘Thomas MoManus. men who received @ medal for bravery last week. Hanging over the roof, head down- ward, while Simpson held him by the feet, Mooney reached down and grasped the woman by her hands, which were atretched toward him. McManus etood vy and grabbed one of her hands and he and Simpson pulled Mrs, Bradley to the roof. The rest of the lodgers on that floor went through the skylight and crossed to the adjoining roof, from where they descended safely to the street. The flames shot up to the third floor on the outside of the building, bit the fire did not reach the interior of the house. ‘The damage is estimated ‘The cause of the fire Is not THINK CAPTURED CROOKS MAY BE PAWNSHOP ROBBERS. in the country are, the Milwaukee polive department believes, now at the central Citizen Saves Another Woman | ‘adley appeared | - | heard. Mooney is one of tne | to be one of the cleverest eangs of crooks HOUSE 10 ROO (QUARRELS IN EATON HONE ARE TOLD BY ONAN SERVAN {Grand Jury Witness Quoted | as Declaring Mrs. Eaton Said ‘Conditions Are Unbearable.’ HAD ADMIRAL WATCHED Expert and Detective Hired to Watch for Insanity Signs —Daughters Called. (Srecial to The Erening Wortd.) PLYMOUTH, Mass., March %4.—Dis- trict-Attorney Barker placed before the Special session of the Grand Jury the facts that led to the arrest of Mrs. Jennie May Eaton on the charge of having murdered her husband, Rear- Admiral oJseph G. Haten, by poisoning, Admiral Joseph G, Eaton, by potsoning. Judge Huga A. Dubuque in instructing the jury made it plain that any known revelation of what took place in the jury room would be followed ewiftly by the punishment of the offender. The witnesses summoned included Miss Dorothy Ainsworth, Mrs, Juue Ainsworth Keyes, daughters of Mire, Exa- ton, Dr, Joseph Frame, who attended the Admiral in his last illness, and Prof, Wiillam F, Whitney of Harvard | Medical School, who found arsenic in | the Admiral's stomach, | Miss Annie Rooney of Boston, a | trained nurse, was the first witness Miss Rooney has spectalized on mental diseases and in 1911 was in- vited to the Eaton home in Norwell by Mrs, Baton with a view to determining whether the Admiral showed symptoms of insanity. DETECTIVE WAS ALSO CALLED TO WATCH EATON, | She was followed into the Jury room jby Mrs, Fred Corbett, with whom Mrs. jne#s that Admiral Baton had threatened her, Miss Jessie Collamore, a neighbor of the Batons, Charles E, Nordstrom, a te detective, and Mrs. Hanna EF. Barnes of Rockland, who was formerly a housekeeper for the Eaton family, festified, Stories of jealousy between the Fatons have been told by Mrs, Barnes, During the six weeks that she was employed by (hem she Was under Instructions from | Mrs. Baton, she has etated, to refuse admittance to a woman neighbor dur- ing the absence of Mrs. Eaton from the house, A few weeks before the Ad- -—— ‘s death, the witness once sald, wi 3 " este, Irs. Maton told her phat “conditions at Two “Members of Gang Arrested) i jouse are unbearable, something for Rochester Job Thought | will have to be done pretty soon.” Probably Wanted Here. Nordstrom recently gave out a state- Seca hl sumer am; ment in which ke said that last summer MILWAUKEE, Wis, Marci 24-—The| Mog, Katon asked him ta spy on the ringleader and one other of what is safd! admiral because she thought her hus- |vand was insane. He undertook the work, he said, but did not go far, as he Coprriaht, 1918. by The Press Publishing Oe. (The New York World). Che F DEAD IN OMAHA * A ROe VE NING ua Vi iS Za \S2 ard Showers probable to-night; to-morrow clearing. NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAROH 24, 19 13. PRICE ONE CENT. SAVES 47 AT SE IN FUROUS EAL Tremendous Waves Make Res- cue in Lifeboats from Help- less TexasHeroic Job. CREW ADRIFT ON WRECK With Propellers Gone, Vessel Flashes Word of Present Serious Plight. Fioundering helplessly in a high sea and a heavy gale, asweep alow and aloft, the s\xamer Texas, of the Norway, Mexico and Grif line, ts adrift eome- where, 1,800 miles or more, east of Am- brose Lightship. Her forty-seven pas- sengers wore traneferred on Saturday to the C. F. Tletgen of the @candinavian- American line, The story of the resoue was received in this city to-day by ‘wireless from the rescuing vessel. ‘The tranefer was made at noon, while the storm was at its height. The Tiet- gen had picked up a wireless call for help from the Texas early in the morn- ing and had altered her course toward the disabled ship. Eight boats were launched from the Tietgen and were like chips in the bills and swales into which the gale had converted the ocean, There was danger of the boats being smashed against the Texas. In life buoys men and women were lowered to'the dancing boats. The light Jacob's ladders swayed in the storm and the pitching and rolling of the Texas, with her propeller gone, made the handling of passengers more dim- cult. Thunder, Mghtning and tremendous downpour of rain and hail added to the terror of the passengers. But the men and women of the Texas, reassured by the officers of that vessel and cheered by the officers of the Tietgen in the boats, behaved heorotcally, Four passengers on the Texas elected to remain on the ehip. When Cpt. Wil- quist of the Texas heard of this he sig- nalled for a boat from the Tietgen and had them aleo transferred. He asked Capt. Thomas of the Tietgen to report his position. The following wireless was recelved to-day from Capt Thomas the offices of the Scandinavian- Am: foan line, No. 1 Broadway: At noon on Saturday took forty- three passengers off the Texas of the Norway, Mexico and Gulf line, 1,0 miles east of Ambrose, in 47.41 and 33.27 west, All well and safe. A later wireless from to Furness, Withy & Ci way, mentioned the tra: additional passengers. The captain's aerogram showed that the Texas had then drifted many miles. ‘The conclu- gion of the momage was: ‘Terrifo weather.” Another mensage from Capt. Thomas said that the Wilson Ilner Francteco had caught the ‘Texas by wireless and was going to her assistance. ‘The Texas is 39 feet long and 46 feet beam. She was tound from Chris tania for Gulf ports, by way of New- pert News, The Tietgen is bound for New York. — —— MERCY PLEA DOESN'T SAVE CARUSO BLACKMAILER. Gets From 24% to 7% Years Despite Appeal by the Jurors Who Found Him Guilty. \ige Fawcett in the county court, Brooklyn, to-day sentenced to not less than two @ a half yeara or more than seven and a half years in Sing Sing Antonio Cincotta, one of the three Shaken by the Fury of the Great Tornado | | JUSTICE STEINERT MADE WILL THAT IS FOUGHT AS ILLEGAL Oldest Son Attacks Trust Fund Dividing Whole Property Among Three. ‘The intention of the late Justice Henry Steinert of the Court of Special Seasions to provide hountifully for the education and welfare of the three youngest of hie eight children may come to naught, if the contention of one of Me older sons, Henry N, Steinert, prevatle, Justice Steinert died suddenly of Pneumonia Feb. 2 last on Staten Inland, He left an estate valued at about $90,000—$50,000 in Manhattan and Brooklyn real and $26,000 in Bugento M, Steinert, | Ambrose M., Walter G., John F., Anna! T., Mrs, Alma ©. Klernan and Mrs. uit} Nan KE. O'Brien LEFT ALL PROPERTY IN TRUST | FOR YOUNGER CHILDREN, Ry the terms of his will, which was fled for probate to-day in the Sur. rogate’s Court, he appointed Tenry M. and Eugenie jand bequeathed all his property to them. to be a trust fund for the benefit, only, of his three youngest children, Anna Walter and John The will was dated May 22, 196, and 1 Mt Justice Steinert said that while he felt the same affection for all hiv children the five oldest were self-sup M. Steinert hia executors | WIRELESS ‘‘S QS” Heart of the Business Section of Om OMAHA, NEB YUTAN, NEB BERLIN, NE OTHER NEBRASKA TOWNS. CHICAGO ......... tas COUNCIL BLUFFS, 1A WOODBINE, IA.. FLAT 8PRINGS, MO TERRE HAUTE, IND.. TOTALS .. LIVES LOST, 200. PERSONS INJURED, 700. HOUS DEMOLISHED, 160, tion this morning: To the People of Omaha: A ereat calamity has struck are doing all that can be done In the dead and injured. erally to be patient. (Signed) 333 Killed and 1,275 Injured By Storms in Five States STORM DAMAGE IN OMAHA A Mayor Issues Proclamation Asking Aid for the Homeless OMAHA, March 24—Mayor Dabiman issued the following proclama- Thousands of volunteers are doing all they can, the people in this hour of distress to house and feed all that need help until other arrangements can be made. aha Keska Baieeba Rottmated The Weather Bureau reports that another storm is developing weet teed i head. Rieet of the Rocky Mountains. It is due to pass over the East Tuesday night or 15 25 50 Wednesday, 8 8 30 Storm warnings are ordered up from Hatteras te Eastport on the At- 18 35 160 lantlc and cold wave warnings im the West Lake region, the Middle and Ls = 100 Upper Mississippi Valley. 8 16 20 —— 6 10 : ie 4 OMAHA, Neb., March 24.—Omaha, with the bodies of eighty of + 25 30 150 169 333 1,278 LONE: CHURCHES WRECKED, 11, SCHOOLS WRECKED, 8, HOUSES DAMAGED, 250, our city. Many lives and homes have been destroyed. The authorities, with the assistance of Major C. F. Hartmann of Fort Omaha, with two hundred troops, guarding property It will be necessary to properly patrol this district, which extends over several miles of territory, until matters can be justed so that property can be protected portunity to clear the wreckage. No one will be allowed in the lines unless properly authorized, so I call on the public gen. ppeal to JAMES C, DAHLMAN, 400 HOUSES WRECKED, 200 KILLED IN OMAHA; TROOPS GUARD CITY. Tornado Destroys Eleven Churches, Eight Schools, Convent and Hos- : / pital, and Soldiers Are Called toKeep Robbers in Check. MANY SMALL VILLAGES \ WIPED OUT BY STORMS . Totak Number of Injured Is Reported to Be 1,275, and Property Loss Is $8,000,000. Two toraadoes tn districts Im the Middle Weet separated by nearly 600 mils brought death to about 888 persons and caused property pee amounting te probably $5,000,000 late yesterday afternoon. Omaha, Neb. and Terre Haute, Ind. were the twe separated ternade’ centres. I¢ fs estimated that the mumber of dead in and around Omaha will reach 290, In Terre Haute, Ind. it is now known to be twenty-five, The tornadoes, one om the banks of the Missouri and the other im the heart of lovel Indiana, were the most violent manifestations of an equinec- tial weather disturbance that covered the entire West and Southwest, The “_ entire area between the Rocky Mountains and the Great Lakes was affected, her people in morgues and probably 120 more in the ruins left by the tornado of yesterday evening, is under martial law to-day. It has been discovered that in the darkness and desolation following the storm ghouls prowled through the district laid waste by the storm, looting homes and even stealing jewelry and money from the clothing of the dead. Soldiers of the regular army from Fort Crook, under command of Major Hartman, and the entire local force of the State militia have fomed a line around the devastated section and none is allowed within the lines without authority. A procession of automobiles pressed iato ambulance service is moving from the tornado swept section to the various emergency hospitals that have been established nearby, BRUNT FOR THE DEAD ONLY JUST BEGUN. Nearly afl the injured have been accounted for. The work of |searching the chaotic mass of wreckage of homes for the bodies of the dead has just begun. It is estimated that the dead in Omaha proper numbers 200 and |that nearly 100 more were killed in smaller towns in Nebraska and lowa which were visited by the main storm or its branches, The known dead |in Council Bluffs, la., across the Missouri River, number eight. | Offers of assistance are pouring in from all over the West. The |city of Omaha has appropriated $25,000 to a relief fund and private \citizens have already raised as much more, The Red Cross is arranging | for relief and doctors and nurses are arriving from neighboring cities. | PROFESSIONAL MEN GREATEST SUFFERERS, | The tornado’s greatest force was exerted in the best residential dis- was noc paid. It had been guggested| tiackmallers who tried to extort $15,000] porting and hountifully supplied, and he és A SBarned ae bed Melby. 1s a Jewel that Mrs. Baton was obsessed with the|by threats from Enrico Carugo, thelwished the three youngest to have ee Itrict of Omaha and among the sufferers are many of the best known urglary at Rochester, | thought that her hsuband was trying to| Metropolitan star ten good a start in life as tifeir older broth. | — —_——— = \business and professional men. To-day a section of Om Be call non AREA A polaon other menibers of the family and) The Jurors who found Cincotta gullty jers apd sisters, one-aighth of the eatate, tnatesd| Fourth and Fifth at © ity’s pride im twenty-four hours Prat a bleak waste pyre 2 e fd was made on their room at ri ivan? seally 4 merey be shown h .d s rt fled auit y 4 N » {city PI k- when a raid wan made on thelr rom at}that haw given the Impresston that 1 that merey be shown him and) tenry N. Steinert Aled a aul third, as provided In the will, che] FOUITIE RACK-Thres-yeurcotte endl cae nn gins , smok. en! hotel 7 ninslon may pe appointed to dater- »wed this request with a letter to} supreme Court today, askin Reet PNe goin aiia'ia /aact afl UseeeaT Ue aaa aie a ne wreckage. The sky is overcast and a bitterly cold north wind adds is though ne nine the prisoner's sanity ’ mnatruction > will b 2 is ' i seve ‘de— i he the EATON GIRLS TAKEN TO COURT | oot Mal «other five children, wha were cut! Deunner, 100 (Skirviny 5, out ana {to the misery of the scene and the discomfort of the wretched survivors. vin ete ya rn 6 BIAS LO by the will's pr ne [owt, firwt; Armor, 94 (Snyder), & to 1, ‘The stretch of Omaha covered by tl ‘ OY SMERIer. ms a BTIAIAYERATBOt cada, Nee ea PY The stretch of Omaha sore red by the tornado reaches fromthe south- Te had Cathing Creante len W. J. BRYAN SAFE; (Buxton. 1 te tek ty ant ire 1° orn Limits to the suburb of Florence, six miles north of the point of origin. POE to ao el f e LEFT 0 MAHA FEW Time—1.4 S oNanlA White |The storm swept the western part of the city for its entire length, following yutly a 1 that ais | capes Hye Pee on Sib , f ; hs RS BEFORE ORM. Woll also fnimhe med, | the west side of the valley, extending along the Missouri River bluffs. The i Keaton family wap | *48 Teleased on $0 Ry aa HOURS E STORM, Fir FAC eT * and! eastern half of the clty—generally composing the business section—-was out Sinawurth ert had ; Ho even erate) of the path of the storm, but suffered greatly, arrived he att rae WASHINGTON, March 26.—State ontour), Blut t & wow th i ae ae =, as witne fy 5 ariment offtclals were relieved t | a, (Derond 9 to | DAMAGE WEST OF TWENTY-FOURTH STREET. : y afte mn that 8 tary of to a n, 10 The greater pa e ’ rwenty-i cet, The two young women were accom s . . nd tis wife Were not in| (Drever? rd The greater part of the damage was done west of Twenty-fourth street, d from t eget rin he moneys in 1 : Baer REALS " 1 \,|@ north and south crosstown street, extending the entire length of the 4 who ha PO cs nerary, ae he jeft It here. f Murs il Toston feity, Numerous streets with retail stores are in this section with the res- are GA : iS dina ! ren pajad ABE Ne talent bave Deen Ir ano FA) ¢ # named | idence portion of the city scattered in intervening sections, Attorneys William A, Morse and Fran- ora) Eastern cite Voungest cudisd Would eacd receive] having left Omabs Sunday morning — FOR RACING SEE PAGE & Many of the best parks In the city are located within the district caw I / ¢