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ROCK ISLAND ARGflJ FIFTY-NINTH YEAR. NO. 807. MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1910. TRICE TWO CENTS. nn HE HUNDREDS DEAD M FIRE IN RAINY RIVER DISTRICT One Estimate Says Total May Reach High as 1,000. SEVERAL TOWNS GONE Area of 50 by 30 Miles Burned Over Financial Loss Up in Millions. "Winnipeg. Man., Oct. 10. It is possi ble the death list In the forest fires along the-'border will reach the appall ing total of 1,000. The most conserva tive estimates place the number at 200 to 500. Every settler in the fire-swept district who has not been accounted for is certain to be dead, as there was no escape. For a distance of 50 miles from Baudette and Rainy River west to Warroad the woods was a solid mass of fire Sunday. Charred Remnant of Town. Only charred remnants mark the sites of Baudette, Spooner, Cedar Spur, Gracton, Pitt, Swift, and Roose velt. The mayor of Baudette states 75 bodies already have been found, and the list may reach 150. Refugees re port having seen many dead bodies in the roads. Searcbtna; Parties Ont. Rainy River. Ont., Oct. 10. Search lng parties started out this morning! over the fire swept zone. It will be days before all the dead can be reach ed, owing to the obstruction of roads by fallen trees. An instance is re ported of 16 persons being saved by getting into a dry well and staying there until the fire passed. Many settlers were saved by wading Into Rapid river. The burned district will be placed under martial law, and soldiers will distribute rations to the refugees. Property Loss In Millions. Warroadr-JVIinru, Oct. 10. Estimates of the loss of life In the forest fires 1, , Vf Kft M and is still racing, ranees from 50 to 200, and the property loss will go into the millions. The fire zone covers an area 85 miles In length and 30 miles in width, cover ing all the territory between Red Lake and Lake in The Woods. The fires have, wiped out Baudette, Spooner, Graceton, Pitt, Myron and Malcolm. Survivor Telia Story. Duluth, Minn., Oct. 10. After be ing hemmed in by fire on nearly ev ery side and finally reaching a rail road station with the unconscious form of a woman suffering from ty phoid fever in his arms, Frank Wat son of Baudette, Minn., arrived here today bringing the patient with him. "It is impossible to describe it," he said, "everything was confusion. Families became separated in the rush. Women shrieked and children cried. It was for the most part ev erybody for himself and the mad rush for a place of safety was like a stampede. Women Sink to Ground. Some persons ceased to be human, while others were more than human under the circumstances. "Women with babies in their arms sank to the ground to be trampled underfoot. Some held out their babies and asked that they be taken to a place of safety knowing they were unequal to the task and re signing themselves to the fate that the fire would bring. Rash Bark Into Fire. "Men driven half crazy by the fact that part of, and in some cases the whole family had been lost, ran wildly about asking of newcomers concerning their relatives Every now and then some man on whom the terrible disas ter worked harder than others, would dive back to the burning districts to save his family or perish. It was nec essary to hold a great number of men who fought those who attempted to re - i . ! T1 -l, A -v- n ll-OV tHOnt I m.-ui innu. .uuw s; back into the rolling billows of fire' and are numDered among the dead " Sixty Bodies Found. Rainy River, Ont.. Oct. 10. Three hundred charred bodies, pos sibly scores or even hundreds more. mark the path of a wall of seething, crackling flame which has been forc ed by a relentless wind through the bush of Minnesota on the south side of the Rain river. Sixty bodies, blackened almost be yond recognition by the fierce heat of the burning forests, already have been found. Most of them lay on railroad tracks, far from the towns the victims called home, the fact testifying to the frantic flight of men, women and children along the only open space it was believed the death-bearing flames might not reach. Two thousand residents of the stricken district are missing. Many of them are dead, but most are be lieved to be safe in towns along the Canadian side of the line. Three Towns AYIped Out. Three Minnesota towns PittJ THE WEATHER Fair tonight and Tuesday. Slightly warmer Tuesday. Temperature at 7 a. m.. 43. Maxi mum in 24 hours, 65; minimum, 43. Precipitation in 24 hours, none. Wind velocity at 7 a. m., 2 miles. Relative humidity, last evening 38, this morn ing, 100. f RIVER BULLETIN. (For 48 hours.) St. Paul 1.7 .1 Red Wing .2 .0 Reed's Landing .3 .1 La Crosse 5 .0 Prairie du Chien 8 .0 Dubuque 9 .1 LeClaire 3 .0 Davenport 1.0 .0 J. M. SHERIER, Local Forecaster. ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS. (From noon today to noon tomorrow.) Sun seta 5:24. rises 6:03; moon sets 9:46 p. ni.: 8:32 a. m.. eastern time, moon at first quarter in constellation Sagittarius: Mercury visible; asteroid Vesta (diameter 2Z0 miles) visible, passing 1 degree north of star Gamma in Cetus in southeast in evening; sun's declination 6 degrees 40 minutes south of celestial equator. Baudette and Spooner have been wiped out almost as though they had never existed. The property loss is as difficult to estimate as the loss of human life, but, like the latter, it is known to be tremendous. With the exception of the destruc tion of the mills and stock of the Rat Portage Lumber company, Rainy river, although in the course of the flames, escaped great damage The flames touched a corner of the town, but the principal loss is con fined to the south side of the river and chiefly sustained along the American border. Ia Xo Communication. Railroad and wire connections from the west with the scene of the great disaster is cut off by a burned district extending from Warroad, Minn., on the Canadian Northern railroad, a distance -of 40 miles. The road is open to the south and east, however, and relief is being afforded from Fort "William. The fires have been smoldering In that district for months and were . . . started anew by the terrific wind which began to blow two days ago. The wind Increased in velocity until a wave of flame over a hundred feet high and a half mile wide leaped up. It was this that caused so many to perish on the railway tracks. They sought the only opening in the bush, but were burned to a crisp by the fiery wall leaping this barrier of some 300 yards. Searcher Find Bodies. For hours searchers have been working in the burned district, re covering bodies. The victims' re mains have been found in every con ceivable position. The known dead are: Six unidentified residents of Pitt. Unknown woman and boy; homes at Leader near Pitt. Seven unidentified settlers, found on tracks west of Pitt. Two entire families, one of eight members and one of seven, who liv ed 10 miles east of Pitt; recently ar rived from Grafton, N. D. John Tulley and five members of his family, recently arrived from Fullerton, Neb., burned to death west of Spooner. One servant of Albert Berg of Spooner. Four land speculators from Dav enport, Iowa, recent arrivals at Bau dette; caught by flames while out for homesteads on south side of Bau dette river. John Simmons of Red Oak. Iowa, timber ranger; caught by flames on railroad track while trying to es cape to Rainy river. Matson Berg and five members of his family; burned to death on out skirts of Spooner when house was destroyed. They attempted to weath er the sea of flames in a big stone cellar and were suffocated. John Rolin and family of eight, from Pitt. Severt Hagen. George Weaver, Charles Baker and Patrick Omera VIilln Many IJle While Fleeing. The flames struck Pitt early in the afternoon, and everything was destroyed. Previously Baudette and Spooner had burned and the people fled across to Rainy river. Many were overtaken as they fled from Pitt and perished. The identifica tion of the dead is most difficult be cause the people have scattered so widely. The prompt work of relief engin eered by the Canadian Northern rail road officials preserved thousands of lives, as practically all the residents of Spooner, Baudette and Pitt who (Continued on Page KIght.) $9,000 TAKEN FROM EXPRESS CO'S. SAFE St. Louis, Oct. 10. Three packages containing $9,000 disappeared from a safe of the Pacific Express company between St. Louis and Fort Worth, Tex. There is no clue. DRIVING MONKS OUT OF PORTUGAL Several Hundred Nuns Also As sembled to Be Sent From the Country. REPUBLIC MORE STABLE King Leaves Yacht at Gibraltar and It Is Sent Back and Turned Over to Government. Lisbon, Oct. 10. The expulsion of the monks from Portugal has begun No time will be lost in driving them across the frontier. Several hundred nuns have been assembled and will be deported out of the country. Cardinal Neto, ex-patriarch of Lisbon, the bish op of Bejadarota, the ecclesiastic, has been expelled. The authorities utter a warning against the fantastically exaggerated reports constantly finding currency among the excited and imaginative populace. Grows More Stable. Each day apparently adds to the The aeroplane contest from busy along the route. stability of the republic. .The mem bers of the new administration assert that adherence to the new principles has been given by many outlying towns and provinces. Openly there are no royalist troops to oppose the forces of the republicans, and Lisbon, after two days of bloodshed and a further brief period of disorder, is quite as peaceful as it was the week before the rising took place. Klnjc l.favm Yacht. Gibraltar, Oct. 10. The royal fam ily of Portugal left the yacht Amelie yesterday and are now the guests of the governor at Government house. The yacht sailed for Lisbon last night. It will enter the harbor without dis playing any flag and be turned over to the government. FARMERS' CONGRESS FOR PARCELS POST Experimental Service on the Itural Routes Demanded in Resolu tions Adopted. Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 10. An experi mental parcels post service on a few rural routes is demanded in a resolu tion passed today by the Farmers' Na tional congress. Resolutions were also passed favoring a law forbidding shipment of liquor into prohibition ter ritory, favoring conservation of na tional resources, demanding a soil sur vey, and endorsing the tariff commis sion. ROOSEVELT AT HOT SPRINGS Attends State Fair and Is Given a Characteristic Welcome. Hot Springs, Ark., Oct. 10. Roose velt arrived here this morning to visit the state fair and deliver an address this afternoon. Great throngs of peo ple welcomed Roosevelt. He was es corted to a hotel, where he held a pub lic reception. Dickinson at St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg, Oct. 10. American Secretary of War Dickinson and party arrived here today. Des Moines at Lisbon. Lisbon. Oct. 10. The United States cruiser Des Moines and the British Qyitr Yum axrived. hara tnriag. j uo. sTrMt'tS? , , - i S" S Cloa Jfc 3g& l Q ELY MAKES BADJTART Two Mishaps Mar Open ing of Chicago-New York Flight. MACHINE IS BROKEN Leaky Gasoline Pipe Forces Descent on Second Attempt Lands in Ditch. Chicago, Oct. 10. Aviator Ely, who Sunday started a flight to New York, but was obliged to descend because of trouble with his engine, attempted to start again this morning, but after ris-1 lng 75 feet discovered a leaning gaso- WATCHING FOR ELY Chicago to Aew York causes the members of the Look-up club to get line feed pipe landed in a ditch and damaged his machine. l.nnK Trip IlrKtin. Chicago, Oct. 10. What probably will be the longest aeroplane flight ever made was begun yesterday after noon when Eugene Ely, in a Curtiss biplane, ascended from the Hawthorne race track on his way to New York for the $30,000 prize offered by the Chi cago Evening Post and the New York Times. Two slight accidents, which delayed the first lap of the flight, the goal of which is half way across the continent, prevented the aviator from reaching South Bend, Ind., before night, as ha had planned. The start was auspicious and Ely sailed through the air, 1,400 feet up, at a fast clip until the stop ping of the carburetor of his engine forced him to descend. I. and on tiolf Link. The aviator landed safely on the golf links of Beverly Hills, 15 miles south of the race track. The carburetor soon wag repaired, but while the aviator was trying to ascend again one of the front wheels of the machine struck a stone and broke. After telephoning back to Hawthorne for repairs Ely pre pared to spend the night in the special car in the Rock Island yards and make a sunrise start from Beverly Hills this morning. "1 shall fly through to New York whether it takes me seven days or seven weeks," Ely said last night. "My trunks and supplies have been sent to the Astor house in New York, and I expect to be with them not later than Friday." Went t'p at 4:10. Ely went up at 4:10 o'clock, circled the race course once and started on his long flight at 4:11. In 414 minutes he had disappeared over the southern horizon and 12 min utes later had landed on the golf course (Continued on Page Eight.) EX-G0V. HUGHES NOW ON SUPREME BENCH Washington, Oct. 10. Former Gov ernor Hughes of New York was today sworn in as an associate justice ofthe United States supreme court. The death of Chief Justice Fuller was an nounced, and out of respect to his .memory thu court adjourned. CHARGE FIRST DEGREE MURDER Members of Dietz Family, Af ter Surrender, Will Be Held for Trial. KILLED DEPUTY SHERIFF Pleadings of Family Induce Wiscon sin "Outlaw" to Capitulate Defenders All Alive. Winter, Wis., Oct. 10. A coroner's verdict was returned today that Dep uty Sheriff Harp was shot and killed Saturday "by "one of the Dietz family." The charge of murder in the first de gree will be made against Dietz, his wife and son, Leslie. Daughter la Sent Ont. Winter, Wis., Oct. 10. "If papa com es out will you promise not to shoot him? He is shot through the hand and wants to surrender." These words, spoken fto Sheriff Mike Madden, at the edge of a clear ing surrounding the besieged home, by little Helen, the youngest daugh- ter of John F. Dietz, brought to an end Saturday afternoon the stubborn resistance of the man whose stand for the last six years against what he considered Injustice has attracted widespread interest. Blood la Shed. The surrender did not come with out death and bloodshed. One man Is dead, three men and a woman wounded, and much property has been destroyed. The dead: OSCAR HARP, aged 35, deputy sheriff. The Injured are: John Dietz, aged 4 9. defender of Cameron dam, shot through the hand. Chet Collepltch, deputy, aged 35, right ear shot off. Clarence Dietz, shot through the arm. ' Myra Dietz, shot through the body, will recover. The last named are children of John. Dietz was shot last week by depu ties. William Rankin, 2S, ear grazed by a bullet. Harp was found on a hill behind the Dietz cabin with a bullet hole In bis head. Jnt Hi Rdm. Dietz had not been wounded dur ing the morning fusilade, as was supposed. His drop to the ground was merely a ruse to fool the depu ties. He was injured while firing from the barn, when a bullet went through a crack and passed through his left hand. Dietz denied the wound caused him to surrender. To Father Joseph Pilon, the priest who was largely instrumental In bringing the long drawn out contest to a close, he whispered that a baby is about to be born to his wife, and he feared both she and the infant might die. The whole Dietz family were brought to Winter in an automobile, but John Dietz and his son, Leslie, were taken to the Hayward county seat for safe keeping. Mrs. Dietz broke down and weep- Ingly asked reporters to say that she and her children did not fire a shot. "If I hadn't argued and argued 1 with John we would . all have been ! dead before morning," she said. History of FIKht. - Dietz and his family have been Lbaslftgarl Xxl their noma cm Tlmcn m. FIFTY MEN ENTOMBED IN MINE AT STARKVILLE, COL pie river, in the Wisconsin wilder ness, for six years. During that per iod there have been numerous pitch ed battles between the Dletzes and deputy sheriffs, three sheriffs have resigned their jobs rather than at tempt to serve papers on the "out law," and the Dietz children have all become expert with the rifle. The trouble all grew out of a dis agreement Dietz had with the Chip pewa Lumber and Boom company. He holds title to an 80-acre tract of timber land. On this tract is locat ed the Cameron dam, on the Thorn apple river. The Chippewa Lumber company transferred its lumber In terests to the Mississippi Logging company, an Iowa corporation. Dietz refused to give up the dam. Fur thermore, he insisted that the Iowa company pay him 10 cents a thous and feet for all the lumber that pass ed over It. The lumber company re fused to pay the toll and made sev eral attempts to seize the dam by force. Dietz resisted them all and succeeded finally in driving the in vaders away. Court Order I an o red. The logging people then went in to the courts and got an order direct ing Dietz to give up the dam. Dietz paid no attention to the order. The court turned the matter over to the local sheriff and the latter, with a posse, attempted to arrest Dietz. A fight followed, in which the posse was badly whipped and several per sons were wounded. This thing was repeated again and again. Many more men were shot and some of the Dietzes were wound ed. Then the sheriffs gave up trying to enforce the orders of the court. several resigned and one served a term in Jail for contempt. For more than a year up to a few weeks ago, Dietz had been left in peace. BUBBLE IS PRICKED United Insurance Company, Laid Out on Big Lines, Insolvent. VAN LANINGHAM CONCERN Planned for Greatest in World It Is Wrecked at-X)ui.se&-by -the. Cot . of Promotion. New York, Oct. 10. Another big in surance promotion bubble has been pricked by the New York insurance department. The department examin ers have Just completed an investiga tion Into the affairs of the United In surance company of Chicago and New York, one of the Van Laningham en terprises and find that of the $170,000 contributed in cash by the investors in its stock, sold at $5 for each $1 share, only $18,000 remains. The rest has all been consumed by the high-pressure methods of the company's pro moters and stock salesmen. The com pany cannot start until it has at least $200,000 in cash. Salesmen Expensive. The United was the conception of Otto L. Van Laningham, who has made a business for years of organizing in surance companies for the profits of promotion. He developed a corps of high-pressing expert salesmen who could sell anything, including blue sky and hot air, but they were high rollers and (very expensive, and in nearly ev- ery case it cost more to sell the stock than the stock amounted to. Whether anything was left to oper ate the company on as an insurance proposition depended upon the prem ium at which the stock had been sold and the proportion of this which had been left unabsorbed. Two Companies Fall. Two of Van Laningbam's companies, the State Agoncy company of Indiana, and the Great Western Life of Kan sas City, went into the hands of re ceivers. The Consolidated Casualty company of Chicago, also organized by him, was found to have its capita! im paired before it began business, and was never able to get a license from the Illinois insurance department. The United, however, breaks all his records for costliness of promotion. The i-ost of actually soiling the stock was 140 per cent of the par value, and 1 the total cost, including salaries and ! other expenses, was 242 per cent. j The United was to have been the , greatest insurance company In the j world,- according to the story of lis. promoters. It was to have $1 0,000. noo capital and $lo.noo,nno surplus, and was to write CO different kinds of in surance. Only those who subscribed for stock were to be agents, but the lucky man was to be able to write all the insurance of any kind his commun ity might want. SNUB FOR CARRIE BY METHODISTS Dixon, 111., Oct. 10. The Leek-La v- Tider-Cravrord case will come before the Rock River Methodist conference if Rev. Mr. Leek, who was allowed , to withdaw from its membership last year, can bring 4t about. He 13 mak- lug every effort in that direction. "Car-! rie Nation" was in town today and was refused permission to addrogg the ennfaranro because of "lack Of time." Explosion Places Lives of Half a Hundred in Jeopardy. GAS BALKS RESCUERS Many Trying to Go to Relief of Victims Are Overcome by Black Damp. Starkville, Colo., Oct. 10. Reenei at work in the Starkville mine are hopeful of reaching the entombed men during the day unless their efforts are further blocked by wreckage. Arc More Systematic. The desperate dashes in the face of death and the abandonment of every consideration of self by the rescuers gave way to more effective and infinite ly less dangerous methods of rescue work today. The work la moving steadily but none of the men entombed have been reached. The crowd about the mine settled down to a day of waiting, with prospects of no sows from the depths of the mine before night. Try Many Plans. Every plan the ingenuity of the ex perts can summon is being put Into use to penetrate the black depths of the mine and reach the Imprisoned men. The fact that the mine is fairly clear of black damp is shown in the report brought that all is well with the rescue party and they are making rap id progress in the direction of the vic tims of the explosion. Increases NDmbtr. A rechecklng of the employes at the Starkville mine adds four names to the list of the missing. These make the total 55 missing, according to the com pany's showing. Entombed by Explosion. Starkville. Col.. Oct. 10. En tombed by an explosion in the Stark ville mine of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company, at least 52 men are the objects of hereto -efforts -of res- cuers, who worked throughout yes terday trying to penetrate the black depths of the mine in the hope that some, or probably all. of the im prisoned miners might be rescued alive. The presence of black damp, which almost invariably follows In the wake of coal mine explosions, made the work of rescuers extreme ly hazardous and time and again yesterday members of parties were overcome, necessitating retreating to the open air in order that their Uvea could be saved. Portable Fan Installed. Late in the afternoon those super intending the work of rescue decided that none should enter the mine un til a medium of protection in the shape of a portable fan was install ed and rescue work was called off for the time being. The fan reached the portal of the mine at 4 o'clock and under the supervision of the chief electrician of the Fuel and Iron company was mounted upon an electric motor car j an(i gradually pushed forward Into the new slope, working as it went, driving the gas ahead and. as was hoped, to an air shaft thousands of feet inside the mine where It -might escape into the open air. The greatest caution possible was exercised that the motor carrying the fan should not be advanced too rap idly and a sudden rush of gas, or kick-back, overwhelm the men oper ating the machine and snuff out their lives. ' According to a statement given out officially by the coroner, there are known to be in the mine 28 Poles, I three Russians, ten Americans, four Mexicans and one Servian. FAST TIME MADE ON LEXINGTON TRACK Lexington, Ky., Oct. 10. The Tran sylvania slake was won today by Joan in 2:03 3-4. In the Wilson pacing Make the Abbe won In 2 : 03 3-4. In the Johnson stake trot Baron Penn won in 2:0!i. In the pacing futurity, $2,000 Twinkling Dan won. in 2:10 1-4. CANADIAN WOMAN SHINES AT GOLF Fssmoor, I'd., Oct. 10. The wo man's national golf tournament op ened today at Homewood. Miss Dor othy CanVpbell of Hamilton, Canada, made the remarkable score of 85 for the qualifying round. EMBEZZLER PLEADS GUILTY Ben CartwriKht of Peoria. Took $2.", OOO from M axons and Park Itoard. Peoria, 111., Oct. 10. Ben Cartwrlnt, ex-secretary of the Peoria park board, today plead guilty to an indictment for conspiracy, and the other 50 in- dictments were nolle prossed. The shortage in his accounts with the Ma sonic lodge and the park board wm $25,000.