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VOL.XLIV. NO. 27.
MISSOULA, MONTANA, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 27, 1917.
PRICE FIVE CE^TS
WOMEN AND CHILDREN ARE VICTIMS OF AIR
HELPLESS CITIZENS IN COAST
TOWN OF ENGLAND RUTHLESSLY
KILLED DT DENMAN AIN BOMBS
Fifty of 76 Killed Were De- j
fenseless . Women and
Children in Market.
A. P. CORRESPONDENT
VISITS RUINED TOWN
Most Deadly of Any Raid
Because Missiles Struck
in Crowded Street.
By Associated Press.
A Town on the Southeast Coast
of England, May 26. Via London.
—Women and children, who had
ttood for hours in a long line in
the busiest street here, waiting to
purchase potatoes, werè the prin
cipal victims of the German air
plane raid last evening. They
had little warning of the raid and
were easy victime of the air vul'
tures, who dropped their deadly
bombs indiscriminately.
The raid, which claimed the lives
of 76 persons and caused injury to
175 others, proved more deadly
than any the Zeppelins have made
on England since the beginning of
the war.
Of the killed, 27 were women and
23 were children. Of those in
jured, 43 were women and 19 were
children.
Flying so high that they looked
like a flock of ducks, the raiders
rained dozens of bombs on the
busiest block of the main thor
oughfare, which was choked with
shoppers of every age and sex.
Visited by A. P. Correspondent.
A correspondent of the Associated
Press visited the destroyed section to
day. He found a grocery store that
had collapsed and was told by the
grocer, who lost two members of his
family, that ten dead persons were
found in thç debris of the building. A
dozen more were killed and three score
or more injured by flying glass and
bricks and shrapnel like fragments,
which were scattered forcibly by the
bursting bombs.
Many persons lost their lives on
narrow stair like passage way between
two buildings on this street, when
bomb hurst overhead, the concussion
lulling them. All the victims in this
part of the twon were struck down
within a radius of 200 yards.
Property Damage Not Big.
One of the most striking results was
the small property damage here com
pared with the heavy loss of life. This
Is thought to have been due to the fact
that the bombs happened to drop
where large crowds of shoppers, aug
mented by people attracted to the po
tato sale, were gathered. In the resi
dential sections fashionable homes
Were demolished, but only one or two
victims wore found In the ruins.
The casualty list for this town alone
was tonight placed at 60 dead and ISO
injured. Workmen continued to
search huge piles of debris tonight In
the residential section where several
persons are missing.
The raiders spent less than three
minutes over this town. They came
from places further inland, which they
bad bombed freely.
The loss of life and property dam
aged In those places, however, is
ported to have been comparatively
slight.
War Summary
The Italians are continuing their
brilliant offensive against the Aus
trians on the Carso pleateau to
ward Trieste. Thirty-five hun
dred addltionnl prisoners have
been captured, bringing the total
thus taken since the beginning of
the offensive on May 14, up to
22,411.
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Seventy-six persons were killed
and 174 Injured in Dovef or Folk
stone, England, ns a result of an
air raid by German air craft. Of
the killed, 27 were women and 23
children. Of the wounded, 43
women and 19 were children. On
the return of the raiders across the
channel they wore attacked by air
squadrons from Dunkirk and three
of them were brought down.
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The French have made further
progress on the Champagne front.
Herlin states that 544 men and of
ficers and 15 machine guns were
taken from the French on the
Chentlndes - Da mes.
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Russian troops frustrated n
Turkish attempt to dislodge thorn
from heights south of Van on the
Caucasus front.
j The Weather
TWENTY-SIX DEAD
IN KANSAS STORM
Wichita, Kn.«.. Mny 26.— 1 Twenty-nix
lives ;iik! more Ilian 60 injured, several
of whom i>rohahly will die, was the
toll of I relay's tornado whieh swept a
lean until so miles throng'll Kingman
ind Marlon enmities in south ventral
Kansas.
POSTERS AROUSE
IRE OF NfeW YORK
New York. May 26.—Police and ma
rine corps recruiting officers began
in investigation today to find out
who is responsible for pasting posters
with scraps of paper bearing the in
scription :
"To hell with the United States."
Posters in various parts of the city
have been torn down.
Montana—Generally fair Sunday
and Monday; warmer Sunday east
of the divide.
SWEDISH SHIPS
SUNK BY SUBS
London. May 27.—Six Swedish
steamers have been sunk in the Baltic
sea, says a Reuter dispatch from
Stockholm. The steamers are the
Kyros, Pauline, Kjell, Therese, Olga
and Erik.
The Swedish steamers Less!. Goeta
md Marta, the dispatch adds, have
been captured and taken into Swine
nuiende, Germany.
WOULD CONTINUE
COLLEGE SPORTS
New York, May 26.—An informal
conference of graduate managers and
athletic representatives of 14 univer
sities and colleges discussed the pres
ent condition of college athletics at a
meeting held here today. While these
representatives had no power to bind
their several institutions the discussion
brought out the fact that it was the
sense of those present that college ath
letics should bo continued. Many
modifications of the usual systems
were discussed, although no conclusion
was reached.
WEST IS FACING
FAMINE IN FUEL
Pan Francisco, May 26.—Pacific
coast and other western cities were
facing a possible fuel famine, accord
ing to a statement issued hero today
by southern Pacific railroad officials.
The shortage applies to wood, coal and
oil. 1 »earth of coal is due to shortage
of labor in the coal mines, shortage of
ships for coastwise and foreign coal
and lack of equipment for rail trans
portation. The wood situation is so
serious, the report says, that the
Southern Pacific company has de
termined to reclaim all scrap piling,
ties and second-hand lumber along Its
lines.
CONSULT LABOR,
BRITISH MOTTO
New York, May 26.—James H
Thomas, member of the British par
liament and general secretary of the
National Union of Railways of Great
Rritain and Ireland, speaking tonight
at a reception given in honor of him
self and other British labor leaders,
sent to this country, declaim'd that the
labor movement in general had not
been weakened by the war and that
it now was "stronger than ever."
"Lahor." ho declared, "has been con
sulted in every instance where matters
affecting It have come up, and the re
sult has been satisfactory."
NEW DUNN PLOT
STORY IS TOLD
St. Papl, May 26.—A new story of a
plot to kill Mrs. Alice McQuiflan Dunn
while she was in Montana last fall was
related the police here "by William
Hickey, held as a witness in the Dunn
murder case, today. Hickey told the
police, it is said, that $4,000 was to
have been divided among the prin
cipals of the plot but that it fell
through. He implicated, according to
officials, several of the persons in
dicted in connection with the murder
of Mrs. Dunn, including her husband,
Frank J. Dunn, Joe Redenl»aUKh, Mike
Moore and Frank MeCooI.
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GLEIM BUILDING ON WEST FRONT. WRECKED BY RISING ^ATER.
Missoula River Rises Fast;
Crest Not Yet Here Thinks
Government Expert Kramer
Building on Bank En
dangered by Rapid
ly Growing Flood.
The Missoula river, fed by numerous ■»
streams and rivulets, which, through)
the melting of immense quantities of
snow during the past weeks, have be
come rushing torrents, is rapidly ris
ing and will continue to rise for sev
eral days, according to experts. Fri
day the gauge placed near the Hig
gins avenue bridge by E. \Y. Kramer,
district hydro-electric engineer of the
forest service, gave the height of the
water in the Missoula river as 9.4 feet.
Yesterday the gauge recorded the
height at lots feet, the highest reached
for about four years.
Another Rise Expected.
The gauge was first
May 17, and at that time recorded
height of 10 feet. Later tile water
gradually receded, but commenced
rising Thursday night, as an increase
of six inches was shown on the gauge
Friday morning. The river will rise
at least another foot, in the opinion of
Mr. Kramer, who lias made an intea
site study of the snowfall during the
winter, and believes that the worst is
yet to come.
The River's Record.
Mr. Kramer submits tile following
the
a
. ,, ,
installed on j
in
shows the
gauge
height in
the last 10
days:
May 17,
, 9.8: May
19, 9.3 ;
; May 20,
, 9.3; May
22. 9.3
; May 23,
, 8.9; May
25. 9.4
; May 26 ,
feet during
9.1; May 24
10.5. According to a high water mark
painted on the Higgins avenue bridge,
the high water mark of 1908 would
have read 14.6 feet on the gauge now
used. It is believed from estimates
made that the 1913 high water would
have read between 11 and 11.5 feet on
the gauge.
The Flathead river, which joins with
the Missoula river, the two making
what is known as the Clark's Fork
river, has risen four and one-half feet
during the last two weeks, though tin
rise lias been very gradual. The re
ports of the height for the last two
days, during whieh the Missoula river
has risen nearly two feet, has not yet
been received, however.
Danger Farther West.
There is not much danger for the
people living along the Missoula river
as far west as the conjunction with
the Flathead river, according to Mr.
Kramer, as the banks are fairly high
all the way. The worst sufferers will
he farmers along the Clark's Fork
liver in Idaho and Washington, and
lumber companies in (hose slates. In
1913 a great deal of damage was do,,
to them during the high water and
Mr. Kramer believes that when the
water rises another six inches, dam
aging floods may l»e expected on the
Clark's Fork river during the follow
ing week. Studies of the stream show
that the peak of the flood will reach
Newport, Wash., from five to nine
days after the flood peak passes Mis
soula.
Building Threatened.
While It is not believed that the high
water will do much damage in tin
vicinity of Missoula, expect perhaps
along the river road west of (lie city,
there is one building, on West Front
street, which is already seriously
damaged by the flood, and may col
lapse unless the waters recede. The
building is a two-story concrete struc
ture, owned by the Gleim estate, and
already has been undermined by the
high water so as to split in two. It is
thought that the outer section, which
is an addition to the original build
ing, will fall lnt<p the river any time.
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LEAVES HOSPITAL TODAY.
New York. May 26.—Madame Sarah
Bernhardt tomorrow will leave the
hospital, where she has been a patient
several weeks and go to Briar Cliff.
N, Y., to complete tier convalescence.
flEAD OF MINERS
SEES DANGER TO
COAL INDUSTRY
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New York, May 26. Declaring that
the program recentl.t outlined by the
committee on coal production of the
Council of National Defense would
"place the great coal areas of the na
tion at the dictation of the avowed
enemies of uition labor, with all the
calamities that would entail," John 1'.
White, president ot the United Mine
Workers of America, today addressed
a protest to President Wilson and
members of the council of
defense. The mine workers, he assert- i
.., mist not be chained to the soil
in the* spirit of tho old Russian serf- ;
<lom," its the arrangement proposed by
the committee on coal production
"would chain them
President White Sees Ene
mies of Union Labor Mas
ters During War.
national
A matter of grave concern to our
nation lias been precipitated by t ht»
sudden development out of your organ
izatiou ol a committee on coal produe
lion, whieh sets aside a complete tu
tional agreement between mine own
ers and mine workers just recently
arrived at In New \ ork city," said Mr.
White in his letter. "By that agree
meat the basic industry ol the nation
Was placed on an assured Inundation
ol adequate and uninterrupted coal
supply.
Not Called in Conference.
'Speaking mi behalf of (lie half mil
lion workers of our organization, and
assuming to speak only for them, I
hasten, to call to your attention the
tart that these two notable conferences
ot the central competitive field and
the anthracite field offered to you. as
"" auxiliary to your own counsel, joint
oinmittees ot operators and workers
to direct the production of coal on
tliu basis id mutual Interest and mu
tunl conlidenee and efficiency.
"Doubtless through the immense
pressure of duties resting upon you.
that Offer bas been completely ignored
and this vital basic industry is threat
ened with complete disruption. If not
successfully resisted at once, your
committee on coal production would
place the great coal areas of the ns
tien at the dictation of avowed en
einies id union labor, with all tho
calamities that would entail.
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It. vvoiiM defeat the maintenante
throughout the war of those union
labor standards of justice and effl
eiritcy, which the president of the
United states so nobly pledged himself
and this government to maintain. It
would set at naught those principles
of industrial square dealing which not
only the l ulled Mine Workers have j
successfully advanced, but which the
great associations of mine owners |
themselves have agreed to. |
"Perhaps most of all it would set
the mine owners who have recognized
decent, humanitarian standards .«moult
their workers at the mercy of the
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SUBSCRIPTION BLANK
I,................................................................, do hereby agree
to contribute $.............. for the purpose of building a
municipal swimming pool in Missoula. I give this
money with the understanding that if a sufficient
amount is not secured to construct such a pool, my
subscription shall be null and void.
Name............... „ ......................................
Address.
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BISI,
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Barbers' Union and Missou*
lian-Sentinel Teams
Wifi Battle.
Pi r\ iously acknowledged
II. M. Rawn
Melville Rawn ..................
Dorothy Rawn.......
L. E. Johnson ..............
Mrs. Sarah Longfclt.....
t>. E. Ilousottc
Electrical Workers' Union...
Ray mer and Hell...........
Ray Hamilton
J. P. Ritchie ...........
Fred .1. Millard .........
Dr. George Jennings.......
H. A. Roberts.......
Morrell MacSpaddon
Raytner and Hell .......
A boy's friend ........
Jane Holmes............
Edwin Johnson ........................
Frank Kigemnn .....
John Eigeman, Jr..........
United Brotherhood of Uarpe
ters and Joiners, local No.
Total
crowd is expected,
charged hut
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COLLECTION TAKEN
FOR FUND'S BENEFIT
Big Dance Monday Night
Prom'ses to Be Best
Event of Its Kind.
$ i.:wr*.'
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Raseball is the next event on the
calendar of swimming pool benefits.
This afternoon the barbers will meet
Hie Missoulian-Sentiiiel baseball team
on the university diamond. The game
has been called for 2:30 and a large
No admission fee
collection foi the
benefit of the swimming pool will be
taken. Each member of the two teams
has been advised to bring a I least 25
cents for the collection so that some
kind of showing can'be made when t tic
returns are in.
1
A Big-League Game.
Every baseball fan in the city should
p ( , present at the game. He will re
ceive many valuable pointers ns to
how the great national pastime should
pot lie played. Jake Fuller, captain of
tlie- barbels' team, has several leagtte
caliber pitchers and lias announced
that he will try out the fat ones first
and gradually work through the list,
The newspaper men are pinning their
| u m, , m ; L dark liorse pitcher who has
worlds of speed and a curve like a
right angle. The contest should l>e as
enjoyable as if real baseball were to
*'e offered,
The Grand Total,
I The , o(!l j nmt „ lnt collected at the
preK) , nl timi . is $ 4 ,r-:s 3 . 7 r.. This ......ns
hk( , flmd making good prog
,. PNK and it is, but it is not growing as
rapW , v ;ls „ Hhon |,i. The very satis
r iictll ,. v feature of the campaign up to
)h< . p,., js wav in wlll ,. h i( iH
being supported by the people of Mls
HO(lla KPn ,. r! ,„ v . Tho Mlssotillan does
not eX p„ ct lhat , ho flln d can be raised
over night and realizes that it will
take some time to get together the
necessary amount, but It feels sure
that eventually the fund will reach
the place where it can be turned over
with the knowledge that it will I».
sufficient to construct a clean, safe,
sanitary and comfortable place for
Missoula children and their eitler« l
enjov tho sport of swimming.
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The Big uance.
dance Monday night prom
iH, ' R '° U "' "s ,lmt " <>f <•'>" Klml
put on In Missoula. The young
«omen in charge of the ticket
It report that they are meeting with till
liln,ls ,,f «"cross and Monday night
« llo "l<t sl '*' Missoula peopli
j «aged in thoroughly enjoying them
«fives than it has seen for a long
| *bne.
| Tin* MIkbouIu Minstrels will rehearse
this afternoon at 3 o'clock at the I'll«
a
temple. The opening chorus has been
selected and copies of it prepared for
the choristers. Fred Angevine Is
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RAIDj HUNDRED PERISH
AND IMMENSE AREAS OF
ERRITO RY LA ID WASTE
Mattoon and Vicinity Suffers Most, From 50
to 70 Being Dead and Much of Residential
Section Destroyed—Hail Follows Wind
and Beats Hundreds of Acres of Growing
Crops Into Ground.
HAVOC AND DEATH REPORTED
FROM WIDELY SEPARATED POINTS
BULLETIN.
Springfield, III., May 27.—Advice over the long distance telephone
from M.ittoon at 1 o'clock this morning stated that 42 bodies had been
recovered.
Captain W. W. Austin, in command of state troops at Mattoon, tel
ephoned Adjutant General Dickson this morning that 75 to 100 per
sons were killed. 300 seriously injured and that 100 blocks of build
ings and houses had been levelled.
A fire followed the tornado, but was said to have done only little
damage, comparatively.
Decatur, III., May 26.—(Bulletin.)—Charleston, III., 10 miles east of
Mattoon. suffered a loss of 33 known dead and many injured in today'*
tornado.
This report was sent irom Mattoon tonight by a reporter for the
Decatur Herald, who said that the loss in Charleston might prove to
be greater than in Mattoon. The information was carried to Mattoon
by a resident of Charleston who was seeking aid for the stricken resi
dents of his community.
By Associated Press.
Mattoon, 111., May 26. Thirty-five
prison« are known to be dead and it
1 M estimated that
puil number
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ai«* hurled In the ruins of Mattoon as
a result ot a tornado whieh struck
the city about 4 o'clock this afternoon,
in addition more than 200 persons
were injured, many of them fatally.
Tonight every available vehicle
the city was carrying the dead and in- j
jured to hospitals, churches and other !
public places thrown open to them.)
Mattoon was in complete darkness ex- j
eept for the Ittfht of hundreds of lau
terns carried by rescue workers and
not until daxlis'ht can the full extent
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the damage lie known.
Comes Without Warning.
Without, warning the storm hurst
upon the city and before persons on ;
streets could seek safety, a dis- |
t on the northern, end of the city,
two miles long and about four blocks
idc, had been devastated. Tho prop
tty damage, it was estimated to
night, will exceed one-halt million «loi
lnrs and hundreds of families are
homeless.
Immediately the plight of the corn
muntty bet
Ih
known, special trains
tug physicians ami nurses wert'
rushed here from neighboring cities.
Handicapped by lack of proper bos
GERMANY TO SINK
HOSPITAL SHIPS
AS WAR VESSELS
Misuse by British Assigned
as Reason in Official
Statement Issued.
Dy Associated Press.
London. Mny 26. The intention of
the German government to sink all
entente hospital ships in tie entile
"barred zone" v\ith the exception of
certain ships from Saloniki to Gtbral
tar, is send - officia 11 y announced in
Berlin, according to a Reuter dispatch
from Amsterdam. The German an
nuuneeinent was made in reference, to
llritish denials of tile German allega
tions liait the British misused hospital
ships. it cited several Instances
which, it was asserted, proved the
correctness of the German accusation.
The semi-official announcement reads |
in part:
"The German government will In th.
future prevent all traffic by hospital 1
ships in the entire tarred zone and in!
the .Mediterranean, including the road j
left open for Greece, and will regard |
hospital ships appearing therein as
war vessels and attack them iimnedl-j
ately."
Germany.' the announcement adds, 1
will allow the transportation of the til'
and wounded from Kalonhlki on Greek
railways to Kalamata harbor and
I thence on hospital ships to Gibraltar
on the following conditions:
Firstly These hospital ships on the
road left open to Greek shipping must
proceed at a rate of speed previously
reported to the German government.
Secondly—That the name of the ves
sel and th
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time of arrival or depar
oinmunicated to the German
government six weeks in advance.
Thirdly—-That a representative of
the neutral government representing
Germany's interests in the particular
country In question shall certify he
fore the departure of the hospital ship
that she carries only the ill, wounded.
and nurses and no goods other than
nmterlals for treating them.
pit a I facilities, every effort was be
ing made to care for iho injured, and
many of them were being treated in
private homes. Many of the Injuries
were caused by wreckage which filled
the air for several minutes after the
storm had passed.
'.Meager reports which seeped into
Mattoon from the surrounding section
indicated that the storm did heavy
proper!> damage and caused loss of
h*r a distance of 30 miles in each
direction from here.
Most *»f the business quarter of Mat.
,uon «'.scaped i he fury of the tornado,
Ihe path of the wind was through the
north side residential part of the city.
'Phis swath was about four blocks
wide. Houses were wrecked out of
shape, toppled over
most eases.
smashed flat In
Militia Arrive on Ground.
The Kffinghurn militia arrived to
night and took charge of guarding the
wrecked property and caring for the
homeless not otherwise provided. All
churches and other public buildings
were thrown open to the homeless and
Injured who were eared for by Mat
loon doctors and nurses, and those
sent from t'hampaign. Word
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■ame at
i Intervals from surrounding towns anil
I tarins, reporting death and injury.
Many Sections Storm Swept.
I Chicago, May 26.- Spring tornadoes,
j making their appearance cailler than
[ usual in the central west, caused the
deaths of more than 100 persons today
and yesterday, the Injury of several
hundred more, and property damage
which cannot be estimated because of
sciions loss In growing food crops.
While the principal force of the
storm struck at Mattoon. other sec
tions of Illinois were visited by vagrant
tornadoes which left death and de
struction through a rich farming ter
ritory. Casualties were reported as
follows:
Westerv.lt, five killed, 21 Injured,
three of whom will die.
Mianlmttnn, I dead, 6 injured.
Joliet. 2 Injured
FI wood. 4 Injured.
Modesto, 111., l dead, 9 fatally hurt.
I Pearl, I fatally Injured, I hurt.
Charleston, many reported injured,
I but definite information lacking until
wire communication is restored,
j Early «reports of property losses In
dicated serious damage to many towns,
j Joliet estimated a half million dollars'
lamage in Will county alone.
Hail followed the wind In many
places, beating growing crops to the
Five Dead at Westervelt.
Wcstervett, III.. May 26.—Five dead
id 21 Injured, three probably fatally,
a result of the cvelone and hail
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MUSKOGEE, OKLA.,
SHAKEN BY BLAST
Muskogee. Okla., May 27.—The city
was shaken by a terrific explosion at
1:30 o'clock lids morning. Windows
were broken all over the city.
Immediately five riot calls from
scattered parts of the city were re
reived at police headquarters.
| At 2 o'clock, the police had been
unable to find the cause of the ex
plosion which, they said early this
morning, war at the powder magazine
at the outskirts of tho city, where
t .000 pounds of dynamite was stored,
The riot alarms were given by peo
pie who believed their homes were be
ing robbed.