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easieuiet ceteels Malad 5p aelttiy TT ee FINAL oe "oe PRICE ONE CENT. FLIGHT FROM RIGA Berlin Reports Evacuation cording to despatches received here to-day. ‘ The destruction of the Vistula bridges has been ordered. the encircling of the Russian fortress of Ivangorod is proceeding. ‘The forces of Prince Leopold of Bavaria are now hurling themseives against the fortresses defending Warsaw, according to the offictal TORPEDOED German Army Headquarters Staff. The statement adds that the Rus- \ outer line of defenses of the city. RIGA, Aug. 4 (via Petrograd and London).—In obedience to orders for the removal of Government institu- tions, the state bank already has nm transferred from Riga to Tula, 9 the south of Moscow. The other banks are being removed, and the educational institutions are being mainly transferred to Dorpat, 137 miles northeast of Riga. The shipping agencies are over worked and are refusing further or- submarine. landed. Nine of \ tlepool in 1911, 9 feet long, feet deep. THREE RE @ers for the shipment of household} * goods. | Riga is the princlual Russian sea- Port of the Bal Xt to Petrograd and is an important commercial ¢ HEAVY LOSSES AS GERMANS PRESS ON reports are current i tions in Portugal, Ri PETROGRAD, Aug. 4.—Gen. von Galliwitz's new drive southward to- ward the Petrograd-Warsaw Railway is being held up by stubborn Russlan resistance along the railway leading through Vyskof. It is oMeclally ad- mitted that the Slav losses in the past forty-eight hours have been very heavy. A brief official bulletin to-day tur- nished only meagre information re- garding the German assault from the north, but It is considered very en- couraging in military circles. Last night's official communique reported the Germans making progress along the Narew River, but “only with enormous losses, Military men take this to mean that the German advance has been brougot to @ halt, though with heavy sacri- fice of lives. The belief prevails that If the Russian line on the Narew con- tinues to hold for two more days the main Russian armies will have reached the new positions assigned for them beyond the Vistula. “During the last three days," said the official statement, “the enemy has made enormous efforts to dis- lodge us from the sector of the Na- rew River from Ostrolenka to Lomza. “In the district p* ‘Sno the enemy is conducting trench warfare, but m the exploding of miner we. aye continually held the wai Cal “On the Pissa and Bkwa the whole enemy army attacked us, hav- {ag first launched against us rein~ forcements brought from France. Nevertheless we soon saw a complete Continued on Second Page.) organized the army, supporters and other quent. Yesterday a as belonging to the NOGALBS, Aris, was begun shortly Carranza forces coin! to be only two miles town. Carranza was by Washington not tng by his forces at My holes over the Kennedy, near Bore recently WARSAW BRIDGES BLOWN UP. ARMY QUITS THE CAPTAL: BEGUN Is Ad- mitted byRussian @nvoy toHague— Petrograd Admits Losses, but Hopes to Save Army. BERLIN, (via wireless to Sayville), Aug. 4.—The Russian legation at The Hague has officially announced the evacuation of Warsaw, ac- The evacuation was ordered because the Russian armies lacked am- munition to defend the city properly, the legation was quoted as saying.| ran his car into Miss Lillian Carleen AND SUNK ans have been thrown from their Have Been Saved. Position at Blonie, fifteen miles west i yet the Polish capital, back on to the] LONDON, Aug. 4.—The Belgian steamship Koophandel, of 1,885 tons ross, was sunk to-day by a German the crew were The Koophandel was built at West The vessel was 40 feet beam and 14 ——_—__ PORTUGAL NOW FACES REVOLUTIONS | Political Feeling Has _Disorganized | the Army and Clashes of Op- tre. It has a population of about 300,- zi . 000, posing Parties Are Frequent. apie st LISBON, Friday, July 30 (via RUSSIANS ADMIT Paris, Aug. 4)—(Delayed in trans- misston).—Sensational and alarming n the capital of no less than three separate revolu jots and assaults are of daily occurrence, Political feeling has completely dis- and clashes be- tween the royal and the republican factions are fre- quartermaster from the engineers’ barracks shot and killed three sergeants of his regiment and then committed suicide. The sergeants were members of a secret society known as the “White Ants” and had denounced the quartermaster republican fac- tion, which is accused of conspiring against the present Government, ——___ NOGALES BOMBARDED BY GARRANZA TROOPS) Guns of Attacking Force Only Two Miles From Town, Which Is Near the U. S, Line. Aug. 4—Bom- bardment of Nogales, Sonora, held by Villa troops under Gov, Maytorena, before noon by manded by Gen, Calles. The Carranza guns appeared from the border requested to permit fight- Nogales because of the danger to American lives, ——_—_—————— Wilson Agéin on Golf Links, CORNISH, N. H., Aug. 4.—Pri Wilson played golf to-day for the firet 4 tS almost a week. fel mn Bezeiclan, rei hey pl ident His opponent his naval 4 18 course * WEATHER—Clearing bpraper: ‘Thursday fair, . FINAT 14 PA GIRL IS RUNDOWN BY AUTO SPEEDING TOESCAPE POLICE Chauffeur Continues Flight After Car Hurls Miss Carl- sen 12 Feet to Curb. SMASH-UP ENDS CHASE.| Taxicab Crashes Into Lamp Post and Driver, Uninjured, Is Arrested. \ On the thirteenth block of a wild! flight through Harlem streets, a taxi- cab chauffeur, trying to escape arrest, of No. 177 West One Hundredth Despatches from the front say thai @—-———________________ | Street, and sent her body hurtling BELGIAN STEAMSHIP through the alr a dosen feet to the curbing. Inotéad of atopping, however, the chauffeur continued his efforts to es- cape, but six blocks further, a turn @atement given out to-day by the| Nine Members of Crew of the}eround a» corner on two wheels over Koophandel Reported to & wet pavement emashed the taxicab into @ lamp post and ended the chase. An automobile commandeered by 4 policeman and several cars carrying cager spectators of the chase were trailing the taxicab when it hit Mise Carlson and later when the lamp post wrecked it. The chase started at Central Park| ‘est and Eighty-seventh Street at/ 10,30 o'clock last night. The taxi was; showing no lights and Sergt. Brophy | of the West One Hundredth Street Station says the driver cursed him when he shouted to the man to light Jampe, An automobile was standing at the curb and Bropby leaped into it, or- dering the chauffeur to catch the taxi, Brophy's chauffeur did his best, but the machines were about evenly matched as to speed and the space between the two was no* diminished appreciably as they sped northward, other cars swinging in behind them. At One Hundredth Street, Miss Carlson, accompanied by Melvin Lynch of No. 469 Lenox Aven was| about cross Central Park West, | when Pollceman Sullivan, sighting the oncoming taxi, shouted, “Look out! there!” Miss Carlsen tried to go forward. Lynch, according to the policeman, tried to pull her back, The tug of war lasted only ap instant, but io that instant the whirling taxi bore down on the couple and asruck the girl. Brophy continued the pursuit, leav- ing the injured girl to Sullivan, At Oné Hundred and Sixth Street the fugitive tax! swung to the ‘left, the chauffeur intending to dash west through the cross 1 turn at high epeed over thé rain- glaced pavement was made too reck- lessly and the car crasbed into the lamp post. The chauffeur was unhurt. He leaped to the street and ran, but Brophy overtook him and led him back to the point where the girl had been struck, She was being placed fn an ambu- lance for removal to Knickerbocker Hospital. She was painfully cut and bruised and, it was sald by the doc-| tor, probably was burt internally. It was reported at buspital to-day, how- ever, that she would recover. ‘The fugitive chauffeur said he was second Street, He was locked up at the West One Hundredth Btreet Sta- tion, charged with felonious assault. John RK. Drex NEWPORT, Au night KATHERINE PAGE |MANY NOTABLES THERE. | el) Bay Avenue, WEDS IN PALACE OF BRITISH KING U. S. Ambassador’s Daughter | Becomes Bride of Charles G. Loring in Chapel Royal. English Government Repre- sented by Premier Asquith and Sir Edward Grey. LONDON, Aug. 4.—Miss Katherine Allce Page, daughter of the American! Ambassador to Great Rritain and! Mrs, Walter Hines Page, was married at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon at the! ,, Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace, to! Charles Greely Loring, son of Gen. Charles Loring of Boston. The cere-| mony was performed by Bishop Boyr- Carpenter, sub-dean of Westminster| Abbey, assisted by the Rev. Edgar D.| Sheppard, sub-dean of the Chapel | RACIN SCORES DIE IN CLOUDBURST IN ERIE, PA.; FREAK STORM TAKES LIVES IN NEW YOR — SMALL FIELDS AT | SPA BECAUSE OF VERY MUDDY TRACK 1 Race, Santo, 5 |Isirose, 1 to 5, Being Second. SARATOGA RACE ATOGA, N. Y,, Aug. 4.--On account Along Coast. | of the very muddy condition of the : track, as a regult of the continuous - | rain of the last few days, the flelda) a+ teast four lives were loat, many | were very small In all of the FaCe®) song ware injured and much prop- on the card here to-day, FIRST RACH Distant Shore. Tyre 190, ae and 7 tw 6, ate Anson, 105 ilémee) Left Havoe in Section. Wins nae to 1 Place, | | Many Persons Are TRACK, SAR- 4 inile: handivay tee 1, 3 to 8 and . 8 tod, 1 to 3 New the (list race Jong shot, at 3 place, aud | Miesissipp! Valley first last evening. Later In 10T (Byme), & ap the Atlantic coast Small Craft Are Smashed erty damage resulted in New York, Jersey and Long Island to-day In one of the most remarkable atorms | He ; that ever swept over these sections, |/00d which, following a cloudburst, swept through the centre of this city According to Weather Bureau ree- | Jast night. orda, a #torm’ which came from the there came a tremendoun wale the Gulf of Mexico which had swept GI WILD STORM HITS ‘CITY AND SUBURBS: -UDEAD IN WREEKS |60-Mile Gale and Downpour| | Wide | | | Injured— hit the city the evening from Royal, The bride was given away OYA ie 5 and 1 1 2, think. Time-1.10085, It met the Mississipp! Valley storm her father, and her brother, Frank| rete, Chance ami tary Waren abo mn | ang, agcording to Weather Forecaster | Page, waa Mr. Loring’s best man, ThE) ii. ai 1 un 5, with MeAtes up, winnivg:| James HH rr, a “duel of the ele- Chapel Royal was tendered for the) saute, a1 5 to 1 for vlace, wae sem, with| ments," with New York, New Jersey occasion by King George. hikes: (geyser neers ind Longytsland as the battle ground The wedding was simple becaded|MeNonaid, 113 (Buston), 3 t 1 resulted, YWhile thot “duel” lasted Ata > Atl baadedor A }to &, firet: Shynens, 8 (Meteo? the wind blew at sixty miles an je Ambassador's family dedired to), 4nq ond: Marahon, 113 (7, MeTas'| hour, The ra.nfall was heavy, but avoid anything resembling a soctal ee ae a) . o i igngoe Tmt not record breaking, It amounted to function while the war is in progress.|' Yinaia Matonal! arth: tte 1 shot, with | 89 Inches during the night The floral: decorations were beautiful | Masten 1), won the thinl, with Shynem, 20 to 1 N the Seotland Lightship the, but not profuse. Members of the Gove oy eee "9 ha pe aa i 7 ay : i kA aie : | and the captain and a member of the erninent, representatives of the Royal FORT eT RESULTS. row were drowned. The captain of Court and diplomats present wore| @ fishing boat iost bis life when his morning dress, The invitations Vir-} inet RACE Perse. 600 pI ery raft was wrecked off Seaside Park, tually were limited to persons in oM-|seiting: foaled in Canada; five and ome hat] Ns J+ ne . forlongs.- Kathleen H,, 108 (Cooper), straight In the Kill von Kuli near Constable t ; cla} Hite and intimate friends of the) is co, cane, 98.18; show, ). first, Foxit, | Hook the tuxboat Elsie K. foundered. family, the guests numbering hardly | é 105 (Obert), piace, $10.60 70, second: | "Phe captain Wak among those res- more than a hundred all told. Thorneliffe, 107 (Carver), how, 89.40, third. | oo but he died afterward, All the Ambassadors to great Brit-| Time, 1.14. Mis Fas, Hocla's Mame alw ran Oe eure Lyle tain were resent with thelr wiv BLCOND HACK vine, $04), four yearoids o'cloe Ue morn- p 0% | sod pwants: selling: mile and scventy yan] ing the storm raged. Then the wind and the British Government was re resented by Premier and Mrs. Asqui and Sir Edward Grey, Secretary for Foreign Affairs. The military and naval attaches of the United States Embassy acted as ushers. ‘The bride’s gown was of white tulle over crepe de chine with rows of old Brussels point lace around the under- | \ skirt. Her vell was of white tulle| edged witfi pearls and she carried a small wreath of orange blossoms. The bridesmaids, Miss Frances Leg- gett of New York, Miss Katherine | Sefton of Auburn, N. ¥., and Miss Joan Cavendish-Bentinck of London, | wore gowns of ecru lace with skirts in three flounces and witb little jack- ets of green taffeta shot with silver. Their hats were of black tulle and! velvet and they carried lilies-of-the-! valley. | After the ceremony, Premier Aa- quith, Sir Edward Grey and the Am- bassadors signed the register. and Mrs, Loring then went to the Pago residence in Grosvenor Square, where they said good-bye to a few)!" close friends before departing on their) wedding trip. There was no formal reception, After a brief period spent, in England Mr. and Mrs, Loring wiil go to the United States and will be | ¥ at bome after Sopt. 8 at their resi dence in Otls Place, Boston. Among tho gifts received by the ‘pride were a fan made of amber and | old lace from King George and Queen Mr. | 10 Stanley 8. place, $52.60; show, 105 (Stearns), show, » Tune,| York was enjoying 62 $5, arly Light, Baby Mister, Bherlock| ropical ” Holmen, Beau Pore, Dr. Holmberg, Jack Kava It wan: liso 6 4 cipal nangh, Apriaa and Cottyhunk also rao eald Forecaster Scare. THIRD RACK Purse 8400; three-year-olds | eon anything exactly like It around and ujrard, selling; 9ix furlongs, Yorkville, 100] New York before.” Brandywine, 108 (Hirst), pl Commensia, 108 (McDermot 11820. Fate Helen, Redland and Langhorne —oee— FORT ERIE ENTRIES. RACE TRACK, FORT ERIE, Ont. An ‘The entries for to:morrow's races FIRST RACE— Purse 860 up; gelling: five aud a. ha 6; *Dimiti, v8; * Mie Gay tim, 104: ‘Newiile, 107 105 (Vandusen) $15.40. first: Fim St place, 811,80; straight, $46.60; disappearing and onc show, $8.00 secon ace $4.70, t), alow #3 railroad trains York were held up, and commuters were late cae toll Estimates of the damage which was 0; sala year ode snd | done in New York alone run toe hun- lo, 10; "U2;| dreds of thousands of dollars. The SHOOND RACK —Méiden two.peas-obte; purse Bon, fe furlongs Hendy, of | Meg and B. R, T. lines. fins, 103; Damietta,, 103; Margery, 106; Vrolubl.| Over in Brooklyn tion, 142; ride of Grecia Td; Bouyer Blak. milling; tin, Casea. 108; rotntiat TACK tue itis ful uiKD RACE Pures $600; thece-seat-g ive and a hal sua; *haur 110 died down, the heavy clouds began “normal weather.” Throughout the city streets were flooded and surface car traffic paralyzde during the morning, All bound their places of employment. greatest sufferers were the surface the Brighton Beach cut of the B. R. T. became | Dwellers along the creek saw it rise tagiog river when a se Nowkirk Averue. The railroad was; undermined and all traffic in the cut|by telephone more New “I've never was for New thousands of in reaching « buret at GES PRICE ONE CENT. STRETCH NETS OVER RIVER TO RECOVER THE VICTIMS OF CLOUDBURST IN ERE P From 35 to 60 Perished and Property SUREACE CARS TIED UP. | Loss May Reach $3,000,000—More Than 1,000 Families Made Homeless by Flood. SOLID WALL OF WATER SWEEPS THROUGH CITY. (Special to The Evening World.) Aug. 4.—From thirty-five to sixty lives were lost in the ERIE, Pa., The property loss is estimated at from $2,000,000 to $3,000,000. More than a thousand families are homeless. More than twenty bridges in this corner of the State have been carried away. The Weather Pureau reports that the rainfall between 3 o'clock yes- terday afternoon and 8,30 o'clock was 4.52 inches, reaching its climax with a cloudburst a little after 5 o'clock. Nets were stretched across th®-————————______ mouth of Mil i at Lake Erte tol ine stack e wat catch the bodies of the drowned, atere of cross stresiansy was sometimes possible to send boats Many were recovered in this Ways} p9 Twenty-three bodies He in the morgues established by Coroner D. 8. Hanley, and he is authority for the state- ment that as many more have per- ished. those who were in the upper stories of buildings which were sur- rounded by the waters. FIREMEN BRAVE DEATH IN Ri CUE WORK, One crew of four firemen, under IDENTIFIED DEAD. ALLEN, DAD. Deputy Chief Breenan, saved a man, ANDERSON, CENY, Albion, Pa. |woman and child from a tottering BALDWENWICK, house, only to have thelr boat overd CARROLL, CATHARINE turned by the fall of the butlding. CARROLL, TIMOTHY, Sr: They were believed to have been lost, CARRO TIMOTHY, Jr. |but hours afterward it was found they had clung to the wreck of the house DAVITT, W AAM GARBER, EDWARD. and had lodged safely Just inside the GARVEY, RICHARD pact appol poragettnrny HIC N38, JOHN, his wife and two The steep banks of the creek were undermined. One little girl was lost almost within the grasp of a rescuing j policeman by the caving in of the | bank under her feet. ebildren HOPKINS, L. D. LANGDON, THOMAS, MAIN, Mra. CORA A MEYER. ss ene Many persons were saved by B pet a “tA clothes lines thrown from brick build- aA . i 4 fi SIMRARUOR: ANWL ngs along the line of the torrent, Wiltiam Donovan, who was separated from a boat crew by the twisting away of an uprooted house, in which there were several children, waved” his hand at Chief McMahon when the Chief shouted a warning. “I'l ride it out with ‘em, Chiet!* he yelled. He wi drowned with CLOUDBURST SENDS CREEK OUT OF ITS BANKS. For three days Mill Creek, ordi narily a sluggish stream flowing be- tween steep twenty-four-foot bank: had been rising, fed by steady rain: Yesterday, just before dusk, came @ downpour which drove rubber-| those he tried to save. sheathed policemen to shelter end © rescue work was hindered ter- made small rivers of the streets, |ribly by the drowning out of the plant of the Erie County Electric Company, Telephofe communication was broken By the falling of many poles, Wor a long foot by foot and were nervous, At half-past 4 o'clook came word from the Glegwood ns me the eastern half of the aifron, 102: "ha Males, | came to a stop, Cars were run, how-|dam, four miles south of the city,/oity was entirely cut off from com- Mer.) over, from Church Avenue to Park|that the embankments had gtvem} munication. No boat could cross the Row. away. Firemen and policemen were] current tearing down over the normal ‘note Mare” | AML along the Atlantic coast, in|O™Mered down to the creek section to} course of the once harmless Mill 104; "Red Fire, warn the dwellers there, Except for|Creek, Crew after crew of Naval jariley, 107; * Bxme SIXTH HACE: up, welling: mile craft wrecked. the wake of the gulf storm, reports ame of big boats damaged and small Most of the wrecks fin, 100; *Monc *Abbotafors. 102; Wheat 103; *Heau Were, 107; Make and Cep,) took place between Sandy Hook and SKVENTH RACE--Parse $900; three yearolds;| the Virginia Capes, gelling,” mile And a sixteenth, *Kneelet, 06 ——- ae of Lave, 100; Dundreary, 109; *Africe Beau 4 ; ice allowance clatmed, Weathe ,| SCHOONER GOES DOWN Mary, two large cut glass vases from | | ae ae the American Society of London and | ILEE MAGEE FINED | | Jobn Riordan, of No. 439 West Fifty- | two silver fruit dishes from the Amer- | ican Luncheon Club. a Drowned Man 1 ed ‘The body of # bather found floating in Princes Bay, off the foot of Princes Tottenville, to-day, narrowly escaped Gowning la ba \t cht club, He re went overboard. by two sailors. thought to be that of Patrick O'Neil, | 120 Hull | derly conduct |taurant party carly this morning, in- one of the party to twenty-seven, a clerk, of No. cht | Street, Brooklyn, who was drowned on| (i /0t rescued | July 81 while bathing off Thirty-fourth| and tight and then crit man who tried to end the troup! Street, Coney Island. FOR RESTAURANT ROW. The captain and mate and the crew of four barely escaped OFF SANDY HOOK; TWO LIVES LOST. were lost this PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug 4-—Lee Magee, manager of the Brookfeds, was| With@&heir lives when the schooner given @ warm lecture in Central Po-|M- V. B. Chase wan wrecked is| lee Court and fined $10 by Magistrate The Chase was a twenty years old, arges of disor- outside ices morning off Sandy Hook, three-master, of 380 tons and sailed a week ago from Chezarie, Continued on Second Page.) @ few places the flood, pouring through State Street and the parafel thoroughfares, beat the warning, The van of the flood, a wall of water from three to five feet high, boiled through the streets, pushing a crashing mass of fences, debris and wrecked frame houses on its crest, Men and women ran out from atores and moving picture theatres and were knocked down and rolled along until they alded each other to struggle to safety. Many in that first rush wer swept away down the stream and are believed to have been carried out into Lake Erie, with small chance that any of their bodies will be recovered. Militta made the attempt and had hard work to save themselves trom being swept out into the lake. OPERATOR RISKS LIFE TO SEND OUT THE NEWS. The Erie Despatch Building became unsafe at 9 o'clock and the staff was @ismissed. They gathered later at the office of the Times to get out a makeshift morning paper. An Asso- clated Press operator got the first news of the disaster to the world by wading up to his breast from the Despatch Building to the main office of the Western Union, The armory has been made a tem- porary barracks for the homeless, and Under the personal command of|ali the hospitals and public institu. Mayor Stern, the firemen and police|tione on high ground have been formed emergency rescue corps. In thrown open to them. The Erie Herald