The evening world. Newspaper, February 22, 1916, Page 1

SS PRICE ONE CENT, seitaaaenahieiniaeaiateadiand tnadiiiad dante -seiiednssanieneniadumeamalahiniiidlied eS Se EN AL ‘EDI TION he “Ctroal tion Books Open to All.” Comretent, 191 (Th ‘New (0 DEAD, by The Pree Publihian York Wi NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, (1916, a 2 at WEATHER—Rain to-night or Wednesday; warmer, \*Cirentation Books Open to All.”| Books Open to All.” eh. PAGES OQ HURT IN DOUBLE WRECK? THREE NEW HAVEN TRAINS IN SMASH-UP FIERCE. ATTACK —— Second Line of Trenches Also} Pierced, bui Not Held After Drive. VICTORY WAS COSTLY. \ Gains Around Verdun ‘| ; Mark German Offensive on Western Front. PARIS, Feb, 22 battalions, by o most violent Aagninst the French front in the Givenchy region, more half a mile of French first tine} heey #tenches and also second line trenches im many places, the French War Of- flee admitted this afternoon, The Teutons occupied fi French positions on a front of Yhan $00 yards. By Counter-a from practically ail the se Positions , The We Y German losses wer —Seven G nan | attack | Bois carried than | line nore heavy French acks they were repulsed ond lin ery heavy The Germans charged the Fre fines after a very violent artillery embardment lasting several hours. he War Office last night mentioned heavy artillery actions at th or of the front, reporting Preach guns were replying wally to the German shell-fire The Germans hurled hi @ive shells of all calibres and phyx- fating gas boinbs, The French first] Aine trenches were blown to pieces | wander the terrific bombardment at} many places. The Germany infantry onslaught | began yesterday ternoon Against a front of less than a milo the Germans hurled nearly §,000 men dn successive attacks. Into these (ex columus the French played| Steady streams of shrapnel, machine @un bullets and explosive shells that wrougit terrible loss of life Kh Bees the late Niouw Amaterdam, Rotterdam 1 P, M, BY GERMANS GIVES THEM HALF MILE OF TRENCHES ,Note From Lansing Will De- AT GIVENCHY (GERMANY. MUST CALL OFF PLANNED BOAT WARFARE | tee mand Definite Assurance From Berlin. WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.--An end of informal negotiations between Secre- tary Lansing and Aribissador von Bernstor{t final, formal note phasizing the need for unequivocal assurances regarding submarine war- fare, has been practically decided up- and the despatch of a to Germany em- on by the Administratio | One it Is said, can in-| terven is urrival from Berlin of definite assur 8 th the; dec garding sinking of armed} merehantmen without warning will not be put into effect March 1 ax an nounced The dec must be t to aquare with promises made by Germany in the-Lusitania case exchanges Administration has come to the conclusion that the con- ial discussions between the Sec- of State and the Ambassador have outrun usefulness, in view of the present apparent impasse and the personal bad feeling that has grown up between the two diplomats, Confidential advices from Berlin to-day indicated that Germany soon would inform the United States that her previous assurances—that unre- sisting liners will not be attacked without warning—hold good for future submarine operations, pro- | vided, however, that such liners do | not carry armament As none of the British and Fre: ners neh now clearing from American COLBY TOLD HM “OF MORGAN LETTER, | tween SAYS THOMPSON | Senator Surprised to Hear That} Ex-Counsel Now Forgets All About It. | HE CRITICISES | DAWSON. | Colby Denies He Ever Saw or| Heard of Banker’s Letter to Shont nator George Thompson, the airman of the Legislative Commit- relations be- investigating the the Public Service sion and the Interborough expressed surprise to-day at the sudden failure of the memory of Miles M, Dawson on the witness stand yesterday when Daweon was questioned about a cer- letter which, Senator Thompsow has reason to believe, was written by J. P, Morgan to ‘Theodore P. Shonte, President of the Interborough, about the Commis. proposed Stevens 10 per cent. contract third-tracking the L lines, Mr, Dawson was the assistant of Bainbridge Colby and resigned with Mr, Colby on Saturday after- noon for fond,” sald Senator that Mr .Cofby's memory ‘thas also suffered complete collapse on the subject of this letter, It is most interesting. “You see, | knew nothing about the letter until Mr. Colby told me about it after he was retained as counsel to the Committee. Mr, Colby told me ten or @ dozen times that this letter was the most important docu- ment that could be put in evidence. “L understood from what Mr, Colby told me that the letter was written by Mr, Morgan after Directors Read and Lane had called on him and protested against awarding a $20,000,- 000 contract to John F. Stevens on a basis of $2,000,000 profit, which was to be applied to certain commitments | and obligations, In the letter Mr. Morgan, according to whet Mr, Colby told me, severely censured Mr, Shonts and Mr. Shonts was very indignant about it, saying Mr, Morgan shouldn't have written such a letter to bim be- | under Thom defeated, bo 38 (ConUnued on Sevond Page.) ‘ Three of of the Passengers Who Were Aboard — The Express Train in New Haven Smash-Up AMBASSADOR GERARD HURT WHILE SKIING BERLIN, Feb. 2 bassador Gerard's collarbone was broken in an accident to-day. The Ambassador was injured while} skiing near Munict and returned to| Berlin at once. In addition to the broken bone his left leg was injured, though not seriously, He was taken to a hospitat | WASHINGTON, ~While the Ambassador is incapacitated, Joseph C. Grew of Boston, first ny JoMN will act in his place | American Am-| sec ‘ GheotRice ~ ay Flames Sweep Through West 44tn| Street Rooming House — Hotel Abeaires as a cris, 4 (Contuued op Second Pages — ee FIVE DIE N BROADWAY FIRE: ACTRESSES SAVED BY POLICE LOCAL RUNS INTO EXPRESS, FRELGn TRAN HTS WRECKAGE ~ CARS GO OVER EMBANKMENT asia Seriously Injured by Second | Crash—Rescuers Quickly Stop Fire From Adding to Horror of Dis- aster—Yale Students Help Save. |FLAGMAN LOSES HIS LIFE TRYING TO STOP TRAI Ten lives were lost and sixteen persons seriously injured in a threes train wreck on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad three- Quarters of a mile cast of Milford, Conn., at a little after 14 o'clock to day, THE KILLED AND INJURED IW NEW HAVEN WREGK Of the killed four were railroad employees and six were passen- join i gers, The list included Engineer Curtis and Fireman McGinnis of Spe- KNOWN BRAD. cial train No. 5, which ran into the rear of the Connecticut River Exe een ——) Magman of Tain! press, bound for New York, and threw smashed cars of both trains jo. 79. lapainai ae pe : on t, : ls CURTIS 5 anelieae vat Train | enn spec treight No. 1,003, piling up a huge mass of wreckage, in |no. 8. which the injured struggled in an impenetrable cloud of dust which did | M'GUINESS, —-, fireman of Train}not setile until ten minutes after the crash. The confusion was made |No. 5. worse by the starting of a fire, whict inguish | orse by the starting o ¢, which was soon extinguishe PULLMAN PORTER of Train No. a Wee 41 ; cue a Nhe Connecticut River express from Brattleboro, Vt, to New York SIX OTHERS unidentified. was stopped by a leak in its air brake line. The engineer and severat KNOWN INJURED. trainmen were searching for the leak. The r flagman was sent back HARKIS, GEORGE, No, #79 State} y, protcet the rear of the express, New Haven; abrasion of F Rita te 8 The local, which had been sent out from New Haven lo accommo. SCHEPPY, JAMBS, No.l0s James |date passengers who had expected to take a Boston train dere W Street, New Haven: scalp badly hurt.) was indefinitely delayed because of bad weather, and was filled with M'N. . ve one 8 tel ny, ” ’ . \ MNAMARA, Dae we Street.| nersons from Connecticut towns, was close behind the expre hest erushe . a 7 Be : AYMAN, WILLIAM W., No. o¢|PL4GMAN KILLED TRYING TO STOP TRAIN. Havens Street, New Haven: back] The flagman saw it almost as soon as he headed back down the | bruised track. In his brave determination to avert the collision he ran straight "ENTON, MAY, No. 608 Christe ; . . . Christo atong the middle of the track until he was struck down and killed by phen Street, New York, scalp wounds, | , ALLEN, ¢ Quaker Oats Co,,| the locomotive of the local Groton, hands and face severely ‘The local plunged on into the rear car of the express, crumpling and scalded, condition serious splitting it, The locomotive leit the track, rolled over and ‘ing the The German bombardment had] ponty carry any puntaeen auch Pe Bin cone ' | reatded, co a ; A ragging failed to wreck the Franch second |Dorts Carry aay mune whatever much cause he (Or. Morgan) ‘knew all Guests See Victims Perish. | RISER, HENRY. No. 1% Horsey rat ear of the Ineal with it rolled down » fitty-foot embankment Into & » aaurance mI we abou , Street. Ni ork, n orm frac- - dios Doditions From their tira line | tho nature of reassurances for the| sand now I am tea to betleve by | - = palerg om ES: brook. The last ear of the express also rolled over, but was checked om the ° h made a counter-attack anc - . » i A ‘ " ; x ture OEE tee eee ecnee te or {tatety for the neutrals they carry, | statements in tho press that Mr. Colby Five lives were lost in a fire which destroyed the Colonial cafe] Goopyean, br Th 1. North| brink by the upright of the electrical traction equipment. bi y iS era Joven under the terms of the new sub-|says he doesn’t know anything about ' . ss w, ° Haven, shock, internat injuries, con The two next cars of the expross 1 buckled t n fauch of the conquered ground. || Darine ampaisn, uch a letter, I aubmate that this ix] aNd rooming house at No, 155 West Forly-fourth Street, a few steps | Tare smock Xt cary of the express train buckled to the north and Violent artillery fighting, indicating a Oecd : d sorto were theo: . cinat tip! fra ea a jowsibly the Neginnicg a another & most remarkable state of affairs.| from Broadway, at a little after seven o'clock to«day. COLLINS, FRANK, 19 Pleasant] ¥¢?e “rown violently against the freight, which was moving y ie » Woe retained Mr. Colby because Mr. sare ‘ 6 Istreet, Meriden, right hand and fin-| the same direction on the next track, shattering the passenger coaches German offensive, is continuing! 4 ‘The patrons of the house, who ar treet, Meri 3 ry p ground Verdun. The war office ad-| Seley oe hy be Pel Saee W-| theatrical people, are late sleepers lgers crushed against the sides of the steel coal condolas Jf" mitted that the Germans succeeded in HAMILTON FISH JR, ingle iuatoy of the rejection of tt rs Bate Puy nor vat LIne ma : iit a Curtis aud MeGinnis were instantly killed, as were a won Shea | stor; h Tthe establishment 4 re treet hooper nen, back and ce aga Alas ae hag enase Stevens contract and gave us the /sroused until the only stairway was FROM THEATRES UPHELD head hurt men in the coach which went down the bank. The Pullman port ported that two violent German Putnam Progres ive Member's At Aevt nunatien oF tho “coramitimen's}ronring with flames we DONOVAN, Mrs. M. J., 74 Bradford] express train died before be could be taken from the car v "i > jand obliga matter, t were t ) : Street, Springfie! to sping : r 0 tacks east of Soppols, in the Vosges, tack on. Prosecutor oF Te-M.. | Young was an interesting eee a * 81 Court of Appeals Decides Manager SS COFSKI, COWIN ery alt At the moment Of the collision George W. Clark of Milford was standing Pere rere. aimivare neal Osborne Is Resented But he left the stand just THE DEAD | Gan Act, When Criticisms levrasione risnt forearm, within twenty feet of the express train. When he saw the engine crumple Pabiicg te proceeding on the British |, ALBANY: Feb, Ii—Ghargen mode | before Mr. CODY, Who Was Sxusnining| /ANTONIUS CRIATI. twenty-seven Injure His Busines: YVONNE, Mri. GROPFRONELL, | tie rear car of the express and topple down the bank and a moment later lin the Assembly to-day by Hamilton] him, got to the matter of the Morgan | years old, a waiter. | u is siness, ne address, left leg Jacerated and 7 Pande orth and south o! 3 rls 0 oke ca s from the ¢ for where the fire front in Flanders, _ rth and uth OF | ish jr, of Putnam County that Dis er to Mr, Shonts, Mr, Young said} QOBISCH, EMILY, thirty years old,, AILBAN Feb. 22.+The Court of | dislocated urls of smoke coming from the smashed cars, he headed for where the fir Pitas lige origi carer Tot, | trict Attorney Weeks of Westchester | he was ill and was excused for the | housekeeper. Appeais to-day upheld the right of a| LABADIF, WILLIAM BARNA.| threatened most and led passengers in @ fight on it. His clear-headed action comtrating the i" 68 County had been unfair in his prose-| time. He has never been back and] JONAS, PETER, thirty-one years], ; .| DELL, Hartford, internally injured. | probably saved ma ves. When the fire was extinguished he led in th terdam despatch to-day, |"Troops are | tion of Thumas Mott Osborne. for-| we haven't been able to subpoena| og, @ waiter | theatre owner to debar a dramatt VOuPAy. Winkel. ac Thi os p the @ launched | Cutler o A rn x p 5 . ‘ 2 A ; OFFRY, BTUE 0. 1481 Chapel a Gane being sent ta Ghent and i sn h Rica Mita ¢ Ming Sing, were or-{him, althongh we have been trying! KERATSAS, THOMAS. thirty-five Hie whose critelsms are injurious) ciivat, Nev 5 tnfurion to hene,| rue Wor against ere eens o shi i dered the minutes of | at € Sunday, One of our men went | years old, proprietor ot the boarding | theatre's business. CLARK GEC No, Train No, 12, with a score of physicians and nurses from Bridgeport - iting at Gent and Brie the BEAR Lee | uM ROE fe | house. drama itic of a New York) Higsun et, New lin, right| narrowly escaped ramming the wreck, The train was stopped at Washing awe arriving ni ie of Westchester indignan protested | Hote nd this morning #4] MUsSTOROPULUS, THOMAS ae ae i see \' , ? : , i : “The British have made many ; Fish t h| found all the doors locked | ud been barred from on Bridge. The engle hen went uhead at reduced speed, but he was : an gaint per use stich | found a dag twenty-four years old, kitchen man. | IIGHMOND, MRS. No. 2108 Dairy iy ates wie aye prenade “ta Kuage 8} nfavor| "OF ! ye anita THE INJURED. sa hat city, appealed from) es New York, internal injuries, | misinformed as to the eauct place of the accident aud saw the wreck ahead and bombs, from trench mortars, ani a Ny se coil ; . eens ULAYS ‘ ris, in injt there has been occasional desperate °° * hoe RN ; \ ue ng METSON, ARTHUR, actor: right ipholding the! NEENAN, W. I", axed twenty-five; of on a curve only in time to stop on the emergency brakes, with the bayonet work, by 1 1 eer td A ; ear and arm badly burned; feet cut 1 wns t to revok ST Haven str New Haven: |, her of hia engine ten feet from the locomotive of the expre The lente tenting contitiues 7b 96% i H and burned; to Polyclinic Hospital in = Ai tahoe) is li be points from Steenatraete to thy south | hear feel heoath en critical condition he Grin inc] RENTON, MARGARET}, N passengers plied out In a pa of Ypres. Combats between acro- \y ; ‘ i t it hia memory on), veces ‘ ' 1 bidding |¢ Avenue, New York City: 5 | Witty injured persons were like » the pore Hospital on the planes are general, and the German), ‘ 1 x ny Nea wits | Oba be eran ' its |mibly fractured skull Jarrival of the relief train Bee et verstan 1 vot Byatt | 1 » Marrs’ | ra Gal ee He THREE STUDENTS HAVE NARROW ESCAPE, Courtrai has been bombarded i “ea ; hasalittinee) Carel 4 een barred (rom the | Meriden; dintocated oe ‘ r : Y | 4 1 m pacll SCHAPPA, FRAN ree Morgan J. O'Brien jr, son of the former New York Supreme Court : \ STEAMSHIPS DUE TO-DAY, curion comolineton en ” ‘ Have ead Justice, John R. Kilpatrick, the Yale football star, and Allen Corey, son atriche fi ti 1 | 1 , 1. Corey of the United States Steel Corporation, were together in 7 ; ; MNAMARA, FRANK, uf Ansonia Lafayette, Bordeaux 0A a tion was ¢ ¢ ¢ ' ae 7 lthe rear ¢ 1 the express, O'Brien was slightly cut and bruised, The Saratoga,‘Havana... ee ITA Ms ldigsenting vote, ‘The Aranow B - 5 {skull tr gther two were uaburt. The three were among the first to emerge from *