The evening world. Newspaper, February 21, 1914, Page 1

‘WRATHER—Fate To-Night and Sunday Warmer. PRICE ONE CENT. Cw Hb ete ABW ——S— | Rie 000 REWARD IS OFFERED } FORBANDITS WHO MURDERED THREE PASSENGERS ON TRAN QP tote Toe PASSENGERS PRAY = oS" RAMMED BY TUG Terror-Stricken Women Hand = Purses to Robbers as They > : . Women Faint, in Stampede Flee From Cars. | When Atlantic Is Struck BELLINGHAM, Wash. Feb, 21.— Off Governor's Island. A trail leading along the water front nase Be to a beat landing was the clue followed { Three men were severely scalded Pr to-day by posses from two counties! by escaping steam to-day and two seeking the three bandits who shot | hundred persons became panic strick j three passengers to death on a north- f bound interuational limited train, No. 388, of the ‘cat Northern, ten miles * 4 _ south of this city, late last night. A bs Farka owl qateng. rd ef $15,000 has been offered by Lohman crashed into the starboard indows of the ferr: boat were sinnthed and the shock “f | collision Was so great that the [frightened passengers belleved she was sinking. They made a rush for 3. life preservers and then ran back to C, Catudian Pacific Raitroad con.|th® stern, where several of them Westen, knelt in prayer. Half a dozen R. L. Lee, Bremerton, Wash., time| Women fainted during tho excite- clerk, Puget Sound Navy Yard, His| ment. parents live in Ackerland, Kan. After the crash thé Lohman, badly H. R. Adkinson, Vancouver, B. C.,| crippled, backed away from the At- travelling salesman. |Ientic. Before she did so, howover, 1 An examination to-day disclosed| Willlam Brown. a deckhand, leaped ‘ that bullet after bullet had been sent} 0M board the Atlantic. Brown be- into Lee's body afier he fell. One| Heved the tubboat was sinking. were » BANDITS TIED HANOKERCHIEFS ING SIGNALS. OVER THEIR FACES, | They Atlantic, on her way to the The bandits boarded the train at} Battery from Hamilton pex{pebe ptellpapad ete bedanit Brooklyn, was entering Buttermili: wed from joking car Into channel when the Lohman, in charge the day coach, tying white handker-| of Gent, Howell, bore down on her i (hiaty over thelr taces, /Capt. Ira B, Smith of the Atlantic, One stood on the platform of tho cing that the tugbo: a @ay coach, a second stepped just in- i ve) EMD IAE: WAR Gate. cide and # third walked the length| ‘"mercusly close, gave throo warn- ; of the car. ing blasts and then stopped his on- @ ‘As the train sped along the edge| #ne# * of Bellingham Bay shortly before s| Whether a strong tide had the t P. M. one of tho men drew an auto-|/0hman beyond control or whether @ matic pistol in the day coach and| Capt. Howell misunderstood the sis- t commanded “Hands up!" nals from Capt, Smith has not yet y Instead of complying with the or-| been determined. It in certain, how- ¥ der the three passengers who were] ever, that the bis ocean-going tus h Killed cloned with tho bundit and| kept atraight on toward the Atlantic pinioned him to the floor. The sec-/and rammed her about twenty-riye ead highwayman, who had ctationed| fect abaft the bow on the starboard Limeelf in the vestibule of the coach, | quarter, opened fire with an automatic pistol) Part of the bulkhead of the Atlantic iv and shot the three passengers who| was nosed up as if it had been made were grappling with his accomplice.|of tin and the ferryboat heeled far ‘They died almost instantly. over on her port side. That lurch led. MEN LEAVE TRAIN AS IT BEGINS the pante-stricken passengers to be- TO SLOW DOWN. lieve the Atlantic was sinking bow ‘The bandit who had been attacked | ©". and there was a general rush i by the passengers shot out the coach taoward the stern. During the stam- ) lights. The conductor pulled the bell] Pude three women fainted. cord, and when the emergency brakes Sitting near the bow of the Lohman ‘ were thrown on, and the train began eating his lunch at the time of the down, the highwaymen ewung| Collision was Deckhand Brown. When ncn, he heard the warning blasts from the passengers in the day coach| Atlantic and saw the Lohman bearing were paralyzed with fear. The whole down on her he ran forward and, as effair had occurred in less than four |the collision occurred, he swung him- ' minutes. self up to the ferryboat's deck. Immediately after the shooting the| In tho hold of tho Lohman a steam f robber who had killed the three mon| pipe burst when the accident o- started toward (he rear of the coach, | cured, and three firemen were over As he ran hysterical women passen- | co gers held out th purses to him, | scalded (hey pleading that tier lives be spa hy othor : He snatched re of the put > Bar i said to have contained about $60 in sy Sele i; all. ‘ q Aroused by the tng, passe that the Atlantic was from the other cars crowded to thé | not seriously damaged and could pro- day coach, and in tho confusion the|ceed to the Battery. The Lé exact direction the bandits took was|was towed to Hamilton avenue, j mot ascertained, It was possible for YH them to seck refuge either in the thickly wooded distrints, or escape bY | sistant Chicf Special Agent J, J. boat to the San Juan Islands. It Is} Davis, and Special Agent Lee Lignor. believed they took the latter route,!4 reward of $15,000 was offered at % and it Is that which the posses are} once for the capture of the robbers. + following. Skagit County deputy sheriffs joined ‘As soon as the.Great Northern of-/in the man hunt early to-day, Be- ‘ dale received word of the attempted | cause of the wildness of the country, he i railway detectives, In charge of As- tan Teeld-up, they despatched a special iittle hope is held out for the arrest seg romp Monin roving. © pegee ot of tho assarsins en when the big seagoing tugboat | side of the ferryboxt Atlantic just} —_ enue, South | FINAL _ The [* Chrowtation: Books Open to. AU’ yt SCHIFF ASSAILANT wat mow FQULKEE BRANDT AMERICA FOREVER. _FOULKE €. 8 BRANDT. LINER NEARLY HITS OVERTURNED SHIP. | NEW SEA MYSTERY Derelict Is in Ocean Lane, but | Barbarossa’s Captain Couldn’t bullet apiece finished t!:c other men. | TUGBOAT DOESN'T HEED WARN-| Make Out Name. Somewhere in the steamship lane which transatlantic liners follow at this season there ts floating, bottom up, the hull of a big iron steamship. It is a menace of the most dangerous wort to shipping, according to Capt. Rudolph Meyer of the North German Lloyd Mner Barbarossa, which got in to-day four days late from Bremen. He said he would report the location in which he sighted it at once so that a derelict destroyer can be sent to re- snove it, “i hute to think what might have happened had we encountered, the thing at night,” sald Capt. Me: ‘As it was, we had difficulty in seeing it. Never before had I experienced such weather, One storm followed another so that they seemed to be continuous. Seas ran high and gales Liew trom the southwest, west and northwest, never ceasing, but merely swinging into different points of the compass. “I was on the bridge about 7.80 o'clock Thursday morning and I had all I could do to see ahead at all, Spray passed difectly over the bridge, and it was like trying to peer through a blanket. We were steaming along as fast as we could when the man in the crow's nest gave tl rm that he had sighted something dead ahead. “After a time I made out what I thought was a whale some yards in front of us. I gave orders to swing the ship out of her course and the thing parsed us within 150 feet to port, ‘Then I saw that it was a dere- lict Mies Marj who has t >: 2 abroad studying the vious Het thy 1 port. She was the only passenger 10| ybacrve it, and ghe gaid tt gave her the shivers to see it bobbing up and down and to wonder what ship it might have been and who might have been aboard it, Capt, Meyer said it was a big steamer and might have been 4 freighter. There are many jreignters now overdue, and the derclict may prove to have been one of them. The Barbarossa brought in 1,179 passengers, among them seventy-five children and nineteen babies, and Be, had a hard time. It was almost ible to stick in a bunk, so that mighty little sleeping was done on the voyage, and Snag every one was pick a good part of the time, itton, a Boston girl, SCHIFF ASSALANT, LEAVES AR AMERICA | Young Nad Seana Sentenced for Thir- | ty Years and Pardoned by Sulzer Never to Return. |LOST ALL HIS FRIENDS. Beautiful Girl Refused to Marry Him After Learning of His Past. Foulke F. Brandt, who was sen- tenced to prison for thirty years for an assault on hix employer, Mortimer L. Schiff, and caused a popular up- heaval and a political tangle by pro- tests against the justice of hin sen- tence and innuendoes about the do- mestic life’ of his employers until he was pardoned by Gov. Sulzer Jan. 17 \iast year, han left the United States perhaps foreyer. He cannot return if his identity Is known. He is not a citizen, and as an ex-convict he is within the “undesirable alton’ *cinsa fication, Brandt went back to Europe hu- miliated by the refusal of a beautiful girl to marry him when xhe knew his past history, Senator Knite Nel- son, who had worked for his pardon and he had no one tn this country to whom he could hope to address hie appeals for sympathy with any chance of success, He suiled on the Amerika of the Hamburg American line last Thursday, ONLY.A CHORUS GIRL KNEW HE WAS HERE. Except to his young friend of the chorus Brandt's presence in New York was not known until the former valet walked into the office of Mira- beau L. Towns, who had been his at- torney, in the Woolworth Building a week ago last Tuesday. “Brandt's presence in gew York to m said Mr. “It was a violation of the terms of his parole, which ws nubject to his promise to Senator Nelson and Gov. Sulzer that he would remain away from New York and should not seek to capitalize his past ofvenses and the punishment of them by engaging in theatrical or other public enterprines. “The man's excuse for being in Now York and for coming to see me was that he wanted me to get the terms of his pardon modified by Gov. Glynn, I told him I would undertake no such commission. His presence in New York City was in itself such a viola- tion of good faith that he had no standing in making such a@ petition. I advised him to take the first train he could get out of New York City and suggested that he go to Wash- ington to see Senator Nelson.” ‘With regard to the affair of the chorus girl, Brandt sald nothing to the laweyr, and what Mr. Towns (Continued on Second Page.) Let By-Gones Be Ry Gones| As the old saying “It isn't what ag ‘used to be, but} it’s what you are to-day.” tunities—it isn't what inight have | been, but what you ‘ind actually of-| fered to-day through “want-filling| World advertisements. Why allow the chances hat World ads, offer fade away into the category of} tnings that “might have nF | About 7,000 offers of ities homes, | investment onrvortunities, bargains, etc., will be separately advertised in THE BIG SUNDAY WORLD TO-MORROW! So Why Let Another Day Go by Stamped ‘Failure’? and befriended him, had cast him off tt | And so it is in one’s search tor oppor- YORK, SATURDAY, “FEBRUARY Te TOFROM FIRE BY USEOF TELEPHONE Calls Up si Pek Family, Warns| Them, and Then Runs Ele- vator Up to Them. | | | | | BLAZE STARTED Superintendent, Overcome in Basement, Is'Rescued by Breaking Dovr. * Seventy-tive persons escaped cee | the Rochambeau Apartments, a six- | story building at No. 312 Manbattan 4 avenue, during a fire to-day through | the efforts of one policeman. ‘The scent of smoke attracted tl attention of Patrolman McG the West One Hundred and Twenty- | third street station. Ho followed the| trance of the Rochambequ, thick jeis were pouring Grath opened them a rushing wall of Befiding low, be entered the lobby the appes On a divan lay John Fredericks, thi negro elevator boy, stupetied by th fumes. McGrath carried him into the street, turned in an alarm, and ran back into the building. until he found the telephone switch: police operator, and he was able to| connect up all the telephones in the building quickly. “There is a fire in the basement,” he told the tenants, “but you are all perfectly safe if you keep cool, Get | « some clothes on and I'll be up In a minute with the elevator.” Fredericks had meanwhile revived, He said that Henry Peterson, superin- tendent of the apartments, was in the basement. A door at the street level | was forced and P rson rescued, then McGrath and the elevator boy, In| smoke so dense that they could vid. FINAL WRATHDA—Fair Te-Night and Sanday Warmen ! “Circalation Book: Onen to All.??\_ 10 PAGES HELO OPSAES GEN. VILLA SAYS BENTON THREATENED TO KILL HIM: GEN. DIAZ IS HERE TO CONFER AND keeps HIS PLANS SECRET. doors were unlocked, and as Mc-{ smoke drove him back to the street. | and found that the elevator shaft bad | ance of a belching funnel. He groped about on the lower floor | | * board, McGrath was at one time a| 14404O044044-0096 OZ WONT JN VILA OR MAKE scarcely breathe or see, ran the ele- vator up to the various floors, where the hallways were crowded with ex- | cited families. About half of them took to the fi escapes in the rear and descended, | |many of them varefooted, Into the snow covered courtyard, others | trusted themaclves to the elevator, 139 | the time the firemen arrived every | one had loft the Mhilding, Protected by smoke helmets, the firemen attacked the fire in relays, ‘The blaze had started in a bin filled with rubbish and had spread to store- rooms, After the flro was extingulshed amoke wan 0 thick in every part unable to return. They were given shelter in neighboring apartments. ieee TWO BOYS KILLED MAN “IN DEFENSE OF CROSS” —_—_. for Faith and’ Answered Turk's Curse With Knife Thrusts, WATERTOWN, heb, 21 “In defense of the cross” two Az menian boys, Nivhan Aprahania old, and Masioog ¢ mT on Tues ionk which police say they have obtained ‘Whe body of Sunlu-Xada, who was twent ven years old, was found ip a field and to-day the father of A {hantun notified the pollco that his son had admitted the crime and tm- plicated Garabedian, When the latte | was taken into custody, he told 4 |similar story. ‘The boys that |they had been taught to fight for thelr faith and they had taken an oath to defend the cross, Suntu- | [iss “coursed (he cross,’ and be. ev their duty to kill him, they otal Bim to death, WAR ON HUERTA Hopeless of Country and Has No Opin- ion of tae Outcome. in His] Gawa Gen. Felix Diaz, nephew of Porfirio Diaz and originator of the plot which ro Madero's rule in Mexico, arrived here to-day on the “astle from Hav- mes, #0 Diag says, ds and with no| The shifting bog bears the appear-| is that Villa shot the Bactetmas oa overthrew Fr of the building that the tenants were} Ward liner Morro simply to visit: frie idea of perfecting plans 1 ing himself with pre for ally~ the rebel leaders Carranza and Villa or of attacking toriano Huerta’s regime mer leader in Mv leas, he says, of seoing peace resto) | to his country, at least Say They Were Taught to Fight! time to « not eritic | ‘The for- jean affairs is hope- fa a and difficulty Is found in. stemming tts » would | PEOREERE t Wilson's pres toward the Mexican» J ation, heh aaalsted should | have briee | * ot |» Mra, | eyed woman at | nd dn't in should | T Thirty-ninth ste visit Washing tention, howey ence with Presidet Wilson king a confer- “PRICE ONE OENT, CENT. Rebel Agent Admits General Knocked aq Englishman Down, but Report * Says He Also Shot Ranch Owner During Quarrel. WHAT TO DO WITH VILLA Z NOW WORRYING WILSON: President and Great, Britain Await _ Official Investigation of Tragedy ~ Before Taking Action. (Special to ‘the Evening World.) i WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—An official statement was given out the White House to-day stating that the information in the hands Ithe United States Government shows that William S. Benton, the subject, whose death in Juarez has inflamed the whole on and breught Great Briiain actively into the Mexican |was executed because he entered the quarters of Francie Ville, $i rebel leader, und threatened him with death. This is the information that has réached” the "Goverment Consul Edwards, who questioned Villa yesterday. Of course the’S Department and the White House can take cognizance only of official report sent in by the representative of the Government, but’ official reports are pouring in tending to show that Mr. Benton was I= Villa himself. SCORES T oe OF ALLEN MOVING | ssscram trom sh Desir of AS RIVER SHANNON FLOWS|<isrineeoton “war murceea they dog,” was read in the Senate at the request of Senator Fall. Inhabitants of Galway, Leitrim and] also had read « telegram frem . El Paso mass meeting. \ Roscommon Are in a State “Lam almost certain Ville did tt of Panic, person,” said the telegram from CARRICK - ON - SHANNON, Ire- Me ‘evidents . Sha), Renta land, Feb. 21.—A quaking mass of! gram. bog several square miles in area is | blooded murder. on the move in the notghborhood of {Ur Government with safety " ok the lo-atricken In: punishment, Villa boasting of Carrie and eo pantc-astricl “lerime, In there no prot habitants of the countryside are flee-/ where? Kl Paso full of pert ; ing before the threatening disaster. |The business affairs of the revellien ‘The bog slide haus been brought |°Penly done here. Watchful waiting about by abnormal rains, Many |® aie = thousands of acres in the counties of these Mclal report . Leitrim and Roscommon | the State Department has ordered thorough Investigation into the jae nubmerged and tho roads are] p06) toh nthe very impassable except in bouts, The] ont saveae people in many Instances have been| eo signines provigie esd isolated from communication with] 1% satisfied that Mr. Be: their neighbors, owing to the Shan- Be eee (ta, beak. the Gooked |triianeiaeean stream is carrying many carcasses of cattle and other livestock, while hayatacks and outhouses as well farm implements have been, washed away. TELEGRAM ABAD IN OBNATE. ance of a treacherous morass broken] gAY8 WOMAN TOOK ®ART up by huge fixsures filled with water. Desperate efforts aro being made to drain away anough of the water to cheek the advance of the mass, but the Shannon is so swollen that great FATAL QUARREL. a % One unofficial report which has. reached the War Department states. that a Mexican who claims he beta in Villa's home when Benton ent telly how Benton, in vigorous kuage, gave bis opinion of the Const'+ It is not unusual for this bos—Mart! tutional general and how Villa got of the great Bog of Allen, that) uy from his desk and slapped Bea= ntrotches uimost clear acroms the Ce) toni face, 4 tre of Treland—-to "m ve" A few! Renton, according to thin unnamed! years ag) a section of it travelled) Mexican, closed in with Villa, whet: fa mile in the region of the) knocked him down. Villa, the Mexf+* Castlerea, It carried along can is quoted as saying, was abows i th it churches and houses and yo shoot Henton as be lay on the there was quile ik, but (he bos) but a woman intervened. The we fidn’t sink after al 285 is believed to have been Villa'a i ‘The Mexican fled and does not SAILING TO-DAY. | hak happened atwewace Official despatches say further 2 Arca muda 10.30 A.M.| Villa claima Henton came to Stephano, St. Johns 11A.M, | armed and that during the course + AM, o long argument an@ quarrel Adriatic, Maptss . 12M. raised a gun to shoot, but was 42M. armed, and a trial by a military 3P.m, _ | followed, | Villa takes the position that « fore |elgner who threatened the life of, | military officer is subject to ne munity or the rights eutae tended to non-combatants In view of thie Columbi: gow . | Niagara, Havre ... ————