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THURSDAY, .TANTAUY 7, 1915.
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PRICE ONE CENT fc^-,tt?WSrrS5^SSi
IHRE FRENCH
COLUMNS NOW
PIERCE ALSACE
Third Force Makes Prog?
ress Around Altkirch,
in Extreme South.
UKl OTHERS. AIMS
AT MUELHAUSEN
Joffre's Troops Lose Posi
tion at Sennheim. but
\\ in at Four Points.
?RMAN TRENCHES
ARE BLOWN UP
sfiond Garibaldi I oses Mis Life
in I eadine charge on De?
molished Earthworks.
-
r\ h le Fail? ti
ie War Office's report
p of nearly a half
rman trenches ii the Ar
and the heroic death of
Garibaldi, while leading
arge of Italian volunteers which
nture of the demolished po
the announcement that a third
French colunn has made propre? in
Alsace around Altkirch to the
?hau?en is received with even
wore inter?:?' .-irr?sr.g military men.
The three column* which are st?
eward
Muelhaus'-n arc within
?rruricati^n distance.
Accord Rg to to-night's official
? he southernmost column has
wide a slight advance in the wood of
Hirtharr-, '-ear Altkirch.
Thi?. if what evi
Tho only
rfcent mertion of Altkirch in the offi
the announcement of
tie long range bombardment of the
mlwsy sta'ion last Sunday from a
? ar the border.
I middle column, fourteen miles
to the north, is ?still disputing the pos
session of ihe outposts of Cet nay
e;m . The Wir Office claims
i French have held the summits
?bnut Ike town, while the official re?
port from Berlin ?ays the Germans
hue driven the French from the
to *he v. est of the place.
Tienr-h Advance I'niform.
The third column is Still ?peri
?round Arbey 1'rbeis', twenty miles
further north. A line drawn north and
?outh would pass through the pos I
isir.ed by the three forces.
??ature of the military operat
?
? report, is generally accepted a*
?
panue the campaign in Alsace vigor?
ously, with Muelhausea as the first
Bimn object ire.
The French repoli admits that the
'?frmar.s have captured one of their
Ihe neighborhood of
bese are
The i.frman trenchc in front of
nick ?? baldi, grin
f Italy, lost his life
i ourte
?I the office of chief
?djuTaa- alian Legion, of which
lieutenant
?her Bruno, a luu
e.) just h
''
.'fier points
"lth
I ..
'?ruri' ? of I " Pietro.
The text el , communication
.? hich
*rc:
? ? ?
soe ?: . n ,,f ;/.',l]eh('kc. the
su.ntf? . em in th?'
our
I wood of Hirzbach. i"-.?i
1
Thr e, deal?ng
the eastern end
of the battle front and the death ?f
'.?lib?!'.
? r-my delivered,
attacks in
.nines and to the
M>?the?.
'?ont. to the
: from the I.'. ? "?
?
'
???tor ef 1 gamed
m upper hand 01 >*? theae of the en
'" ience. At a
report
? *het certain of is .-.c made
?f? advance of about 100 ?..
Take Trench,*? in Arfonnc.
ne there developed a
***7 ipinted action which pel
?h for??-. ?' La Grnrle at the Mime
-ritly a slight
fviii- ?jrjyi a, previously i?
**sm Bare tel le -ini from Fontaine
jU<Uwe there were ilrli\eri-d t?c vio
an attacks, euch < I
*?? repulsed. *i complete German
? ngaeed in each move
??nt.
"Near the ravine of (ourte Chaussee
?* blew up h I a mm.- 800
'?rd? (? German finches, half of
"^""h ?? nil> occupied.
-ges the
J**4 ??Satbei has continued. Therr has
??*? fo?? and mud. At diff?re '
? there have been fairly
???'ri'ed artillery ?-.changi*. If the
****st u< Ls Pr?tre, near Pont-a-Mous
.? ??? continu?td to ??am (round
n ?if I harm i in 1'pper
"'tiriiircl on laage. ?I mliuiin I
H It's Advertised in
?the ?Tribune
It's Guaranteed.
-*?s Editorial Page, First Column.
AUSTRIA SAID TO OFF
, COAST LINE TO SER\
I ondnn. .Ian. T.?"The Mor
?Sat" publiahcs the following
pat? h from it* Konu- ?orrrnponti
l "I hear thai \ualri? has off
pea.e to Ser> la on the haai* ot
?atalu? quo. plus Northern Albi
inrlading Dura/ro and the conn
the Mont?n?grin fnmtier. In o
word?, a romplete revenasl i? r
of *?hal Count Rerrhlold on V.
"er i<\ 1912. da?*rrlbed aa 'ea*??!
to Austrian polira "
-.
50,000 TURKS WIP
OUT IN CAUCAS
All That Remains of 1
Army Corps Is a Kc
Hundred Prisoners.
Ion, .Inn. 7 The l'ctroRra.l
reapond?*nt of "The Moroii .
scribing tl-e Russian intones in
laUB, report? that the Tin
losses are e? en ??renter than the;.
' poured to he fron' rhe Russian ofl
report?. His dispatch aaya:
"The Rursiatis have destroyed I
g 'ike fifty thousand men tra
in the terrible fastnesses of the
eaaaa rnnf*e?, where undr
rommander. they had the temeril
contest thi ereigntj Raai
Russian soil. Two Turkish mnn <?
have been slaughtered and all thai
mains of them is a fea bundrod f?
nate ? ;,r Sari K.???
Turkish army, several marches in
? .:???= if?Ti territory, had boon
Ca^-cd far aljou'. n week in a stubt
? with tne Rusaians, arho hai
the approach to I
"N" detail- of the t'ighting have
reached nie beyond tl
count? of th?? terrible cold ah ich
vcen: mount
e Tarifa wen
C01CS Of I.
base, and reponed ?
?o meet lach terrible we;.t)
For th* last three days and nights
'?as he? n
now ended not merely in a totil
il tne annihilation of
rrray.
"The best army corps of the Turk
army, the i'th, normally atationed
Din, lad the nvasion, support
another army rorpi drawn i.pp
entiy from Van. Neither now exit
! Tlio enure command of the i'th An
a isini
company of a Russisn regiment, m In
sufficiently ir,c condition
which Ihe eon educed. Si
rounded on all sid. by t
overwhelming Are of mountain art
lery, maxims and rifles, the i'th Art
Corps has been deliberately ?1?
Its commander, Ished Pac?
r ni commanders of the 13
ami S one, and two other di*
sioi... ? iriidr
other officers, are priaoBera. Artillei
maxims, ammunition, stoi' ?.:,?I t
, entir. s fall
into Russian hie
lurks l'l\ in Eve?*) Direction.
"Tl ia itriking victory coin? id? i a
? .'???? d al Artdahan, r
port? irkish fore
here have beoa thoroughly dispersi
and are flying in ??11 directions, vi
small chance of nit
11 mon . m
?
i orp ? have greatly dial
themselves. One squadron charged tl
Turf. two com pi
nies to pieces, v. hile another ?tuiudio
cut their way through the Uta Coi
itantino] le i ad ll
standard. Except foi erad burn
of fugitives. Turkey no longer ha? an
armed mer:
"A- thia incursion into Russia Wl
?lireet?.,l by Gorman commantlers ii
tic'd. Sanders Pacha was reported t
have visited Eneran in person to ai
ranee til" invasion
faction felt in Ku -u? si the di>
astrous ending of a vainglorious an
njj."
' military
"The attempl to invade the Caucasu
ir nml-wiiiter under the circuri.
was an act of atapeadou
folly which has boon rJooervedly pun
.
Liman van Sa: Il lie label ?>
incompetence. No general who kae**
! his basinesa would bava eonuaittod t I
arm) to an operation which ander th?
favorable condition WOuld in-er
difficult and hasardoaa. while,
?!.l only eod ? tar,
??The strategical CO -re si
4 tint ?mini <>n page I. lolumn *
3 ZEPPELINS HEAD
TOWARD ENGLAND
Leave French Coast at
Gravel.nes?Aeros Bom?
bard Dunkirk.
[Uj Ci - Psssssa 1
In .-'landers, Jan. 1 Three /.?PP?*
hns were- reported early this morning
off the coast, between ?Cala il i?'"1
Graveliaes. Tl ? ?ub"
;,t ion f i orn n-peu'ed ?> il
Cffrmsan airrn?-n to liunkirk daring
the day. litara, who. arith
.,-on, threw no bomb?, may
bly have been scouts sent out to
i i.irshipa m tl basta
or to repeal prog
times tin- aviatan
siffht Uni?- a shell fiom rie anti?
aircraft guns at Firminy burst within
fifty feet of a Goraaaa araockine, apael
.lance and sent it aws> dot
w m?) fety. Twice the a
of the allied foi ' .mmandcr
in, and aft? rward a Fraa?
Merit up nod COOBOd the intruder
nway. (tne ot the I.crmsn sinnen
dropped two bt.ini. m the aal
but ??id no alt*i>
"The Daily Ma bIbo prints
, the atory, .?ass th? /? I !
last seen going la the direct:?i!. "'
I England. No reparti bave baaa re
reived ?n l,onduii of their ba*/iag btcli .
a.ghted off the Knglish cosat. ?
500 Fight for Life in the
As Flames Generate De
Grope Their Way Thr
SUBWAY GRATING THAT SAVED HUNDREDS OF LIVES.
Subway
adly Fumes;
ough the Dark
Morning Rush-Hour Crowds Trapped Under
cows* or * i f ? 11 ! 11 . \\\\\\\\* ? * V
AGOADIASAy \\\\\\\\\'- ?*?A 111t\W\V?? \
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r\'?&? TAATjr/V . -,*?*?*?-." *?
oc/r. -*>*?>* - r '
?/IST CA/e. OF SOUT-tf ?
ffoc/A/o lOC^L -sroppeQ <ju$r szlow t#j$ C/vit/asg.
TEACHER KILLED BY
JILTED SWEETHEART
Her Ante-Mortem State?
ment Refutes Story Told
by Slayer.
: ? ?
Ol and killed by Frank March
man, her former sweetheart, on h.*r
way horn, from her school in The
Broas afternoon. Barchman,
wher, arre, ted, said the woman had
asked him tu shoot her. In her ante
mortei ? r. mode a I ?
William ?T. Plynn in Pordham Hospi?
tal, M i ? ? denied this.
g 'ollomed an elTor! on Harch
parl ',<> Induce her t'i renew
tlieir enfra^ement.
The engagement, made foui yean
BgO, had been broken off two months
?
had made. re hi did
I the eoroaer.
"lie was Waiting for me I
Pi em ml ami Anthony
?I. "?ind he
UP W th in... 1
him 1 would have ore to do
..m. He argued. Then, at Monte?
?.. be three
arma aroand me. I told him again I
?
with him. Then si ihoot nu."
Barett aa . a ho . I hirtv and the
... el I
larpe '
11\-1?.- ai I(76 Paitan av.
?? f'lin
ton av. !
friendi for four ye;.
anderatOOd until four mi.nth- a?.M that
the) were to be Baarried. The
brok?
Barchman, accoi
av. polite, ?uni work and began drink
mi: heavily. Queetioned by ih<
-t.-il tl,;.' M il l..'wis had
asked bim t?. kill bor, but he
has) m his reply to n
tail-.
He ,? ?i brotl ? ! Bareh
maa, "the fiddler politician," who
?.'allied ?on ?? through !
forts t.? orgauise the member of the
ehestrai of ' fork for
II oi ' "i the last mu?
nicipal campaign.
FIRE AUTO KILLS
TWO AT $5 BLAZE
..
\. .1 , ,l..'i. | A. ?
a tractor ?Ira-1
SOgine to ikid into a crowd on South
Broad || to-night. Two men were
I a woman were
l ;!y Injared that at least two of
HI die. The driver of ?h? . n
,,,-d unhurt. The lire did
about |i worth of damage.
Horace Doaa, driver of the enrme.
polled the rooehioa over to the left
killed instantly.
nab < Slid?' '
Barry, of 1 Daa
. ami Al
phonao Blanchi, of ?IM Ela
pinned betw?raa the machine and the
building ,! **iu!
01
huilla...*
lushe?! to the hospital.
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WAS UNAVOIDABLE
HEDLEY STATEMEN
"Such Accidents Will Hai
pen Until Short Circuit?
Are Prevented."
? ? !.. ' ? l.w-av accident v.t.s t
uiii.viiiilalile find of a ki
that cannot be |irc\ented. according
;. statement given out hv Frank Hedli
vice-president and general superinten
?he Intcrliorourh Rapid Tram
. al 10:80 e'doek last uipht.
"Until "me ? tie invents somethii
which will proven- . ireuit,"
said, "a .1? I nr which does not exi
in'. Set id-CUtS are apt to !.a
pen, for, uncertain as this matter
: fil :: >hort circuit starti
the trouble. Whoever makes this i
? will ne fully recompensed f
his trouble."
? ::ni! sei vice will I
d '.n al! subway linas, 'I ha loc
iras op^ii? terday a
and by 10:".o o'clock last ni**!
m v.i"? mar*
to prepare for the morning ruah, as
Sl 10.'SO the ,i: -' local tram
h to Broehljm,
Mr. II i,t nigh; he e;
poetad thai all would he read-, foi ?<?>
jlar traffic by -' e'el urn this nionuni
??or a greater par? oi the afternocn an
night local trains were run froi
n Brnlgc to Mtfe st , hut 10:.!
tonn? the Bronx an?: HrooKi\n ?i.\
? ? n operation. C enea ruing the a?'
said:
"The - ill which was th
? of the accident ccenrrad In th
two manholes in the subway sl
It is here 'hat the high tension cable
from ' ' power hi>u-e on th
North Hiver, carrying T.tmu volt*, en
t.-r the Ittbwoy. Prom this place the;
'tin north ami south, feeding the Rub
stations along the Une (rom whicl
SW tension direct current csblei
the power for the system.
"In these manholes there were thir
?? cables. After the explo'ior
?hort circuit, whicl
melted everything la reach, only foui
high tension cables were left. With
thesi- it is hoped to get the svsterr
running again. Tne destruction o!
cables pul
lion the Willoughby St
itatioa In Brsoklrn, which stalled
the trains in the tube."
| , ed what measure? were taken bj
? tough company to prevem
, rcnita, Mr. Medley said:
circuit ra unpreventable
Hut we take every precaution to maki
them impoaaihle. Every cable is testen
. | month to ?tecovoi any flaw Alst
the automatic circuit breaker is tested
Objected to a load three times th?
normal working pressure "
Mr. Ile?tle\ could not explain the re
i. thai wl Is the blow ant happened
at h:05 o'clock in the morning the first
arm was i Ot turned in until !":14
and then by a cltisen who saw smoke
coming through the ventilator grating?
If the assertion were true, he said, it
. the smoke would be notice
eoaei OH the street than in the
subway. Hi* then said:
far as I -moke being the cause
? uking many of the pussenger? un
i nus ia concerned, the reports are
incorrect. It was the gases snd fumes
from the me'ung copper and ?esd snd
the burning insulation which overcame
?pie Hut most of the injuries
were caused by the panic. I cannot too
strongly emphasize the necessity of the
newspapers appealing to the people to
keep their heads.
WOMAN TAKES CHARGE
OF THE RESCUE WORK
Tells How She, with First-Aid Kit. Aided Those Whom
Heroic Men Saved iron? Subway l?mes?Wants
Policeman MacFarlin Promoted.
Bv MRS. HENRY RUSSELL DROWNE.
I ?tnrted out early ihis morning '
attend to an errand, and my car wa
stopped at ."."ith st. \\ lien I saw th:?
something was wrong 1 got sal
found s traffic policeman trylog ti
kiep order, wh.le two
nigging away at the grating over thi
subway. Tboy had a piece ?if g
they had found somewhere, and ifl i
jiffy had broken the thing open. Thai
the women begsn *>ouring out.
The first of them were hyaterica
rather thai bur', and a little ar?mala
?pints of ammonia and a word br<iugh<
them around all right. I he smmonr.-i
was part of the aasftgiarty kH I al
ways carry in my machine. I had
brandy, you know, bandar?*, and all
that sort of thing needed in accident.?
"iirst aid material," it is called. Some
of my friend? have insisted that 1 in?
vite diaaster by carrying those things.
but we tour a grest deal, snd when
you wsnt that sort of thing you want
it badly. I know that, and, anywsy.
when one ha.? children about weil.
ose prepares for juat such things.
And when the women began to pour
? ut of the hole the stuff came in
handy The traffic policeman there
his name i? McFarlin, I think wa* a
whole police force ir himself He waa
all around, keeping folks in line, help?
ing people out of*the hole and mak.ng
others help. He seemed to know ju?t
whst to do all the time, snd he didn't
wsste any effort doing it. , I don't
think he notified Headquarter?. He
j didn't ha*.e time. He just left aome
.'. bus be did the mon
R ? didnl know then whether then
would be one dead or one hundrec
come out of that hole. We di.' no
bets man] wort in there
II was an indless chain of women at
The mei . fOO tee, had rigidl>
bold to the rule of "wcmsa first,'
though the conditions in the subway
must have been indescribable. The
womei' ?ame out o fast that after th*
i ?I them down on
the sidewalk and took caie of th*
? as they came. Other people saw
to it that they were taken off the side?
walks.
If it had not been for the Buiek peo?
ple I do not know wh; . we would havt
done. They just threw their place
open an?! we used I as a hospital. We
needed .t when the men began to ?ome
M .
Brai| man that came out of that hole
was blsck about the mo :th and lips.
Their tongues were black. It was the
gases that did it Qtviag the women
the first ch. .ce to get out meant th
they had to >tay ?here end .nhile the
?tuff. More than half of them were
in need of help. 1 knew that the thing
to do in cases of suffocs.ion was to el?
vate the srm? and depress the c e.t. I
started the volunteer* doing that. I
don't know why I took charge. ? ome
had to, snd 1 did. I'm glad I did
not faint. Once I found myself aski.ig
what I would do if I went off like
some of tho?e pool people were going.
Silly, wssn't it t But that wss only for
< oatlaued ad pace X. roluma 1
Broadway and 53rd St. by Insulation
Blaze Due to Short Circuit
SCORES OVERCOME IN MAD FLIGHT
Fog Pours Through Cars and Terror Becomes
Panic?Hundreds, Pulled Through Ventilator
Opening, Saved from Suffocation.
WOMAN VICTIM DIES IN HOSPITAL
Entire underground System Tied Up By Disaster?
Pulmotor Corps Saves Many Drawn Up to
Street from Smoke-Filled Tube.
What everybody in New York City had been expecting since
the subway was opened, in Octrjber. 1904. happened yesterday
morning.
At 8:15 o'clock the feed wir? in the subway at Broadway
and 53d st. short-circuited, the burning wire and insulation form?
ing a gas and smoke that caused the death of a woman, laid out
500 other persons, provoked a panic and resulted in the worst
condition the subway has ever known.
The fact that a ventilator to Broadway was ne.?.- the rear
cars of the two trains directly in the zone of the burning insulation
saved scores of passengers from death by suffocation or trampling.
The entire subway system was completely crippled for hours
because of the disaster, and it may need another day before normal
conditions are restored.
A six-car Lenox local, bound for City Hall, and a ten-car
Bronx Park express, marked for Brooklyn, were ??wsap>i?j?g tmmemr?
?the 50th st. station at 8:15 o'clock. The front cars of both trains
I were about even, just north of 53d st. All were as uncomfortably
; filled as subway cars are at that hour. And what oxygen had
filtered in with fresh air at the last stations touched by the train*
was being heavily drawn on.
The lights in the cars went out with a jerk that racked th*.
trains as the motormen swung the controller handles.
For a few minutes the occurrence was regarded as one of
many that have characterized the subway's career. Trains hive
been stopped suddenly before; lights have gone out.
A slight, licking flame from the feed wires in a manhole on
the west wall threw a threatening light into the cars.
"Fire!" shouted a young man in the first car of the local.
Strangely, his cry wa?, not productive of an hysterical rush f?>r doors.
He was jammed in so closely tli.it his exclamatioti di'ln t travel very far
and tho?c peTSOfll ar?>un?l him wcrr cool enough to quiet ?inn
GAS AND SMOKE POUR INTO CARS.
The tlanie didn't ?row iiiinli larger, but it swept alotsg to tlie Baa??
?"ini'liiiK insulation, and the melting copper, rubber and cloth material
developed a gas and smoke tint, in the lack ot active air, clouded up until
it? ro?ame poshed it densely into the tar?, of the two trains, up through
the crevices of the two manholes at 53d M , and ?n gradually increasing
Strength ahm? the tube.
The local train got the heaviest volume
There is always in the miada ot the majority o? Ittbwojr patrons the
,r t being ?..me day hopelcsly bottled in that cylinder. The stifling
gas begin t?i ?.mother what bellet in a trivial cause of the delay had been
entertained. A cottony fox was |>'iiiritiK into the cars and spreading a
terror that quickly provoked a general panic
lilniiily ihoating and m reaming, the passengers ran ironi the car they
were in t<< the other cars, hoping to Sad there some relief fron: the fumes
ami smoke. They knocked each other down in their wild scramble to
get air and clawed at each other-? clothing.
I be guards had BO ?letiuite mtrOOtt. Most o? them believed the lights
irrent would soon be mi again. In the darkness lay their safety.
Hysterical appeals were maile to open the door?, but these appeals found
no response by the guard?. .V.ine of the men tried to calm the other
i*ers. themselves believing that the trouble would quickly be rem,
edied, but their w?.r?l> were ineffectual. In a few minutes the sound ot'
crashing glas?, gave higher pitch to the panic.
The guards of the express tram ha.l waited only a lev?, minutes be
fore ?leciding that the situation was ?gr*o?s->iag too big for their direction, ?o
they ?.pened the ?loor.?. The c.vprrv. passengers r?t\ wildly ?n both di?
rections. They could sec nothing, but kn<*w that stations were not far
?listant.
Though the cars were of ?tec!, thai fact bad not been observed by
the majority ol the pas.enger? of the local train, who, consequently., feared
that nnlesi they g"t out they would be hume?! to ?ieath.
WOMEN AND MEN KNOCKED DOWN.
\\'r.iii'Mi lost their hats ,nnl their clothing w.,* t'?rn m the ru>h 1 he
mea Mlfered as exteiiMvrl). \ number <-f umbrellas, which frightened
?* had dropped in their scramble to escape, were picked up and em
ihmg the gla?s of the window? and the doors.
The question of which sex was to receive first consideration didn't
count much in the first few minutes. Moreover, it was not possible to
institute a women-and-children-first programme in a darkness that made
distinguishing difficult. Women and men alike were bowled over in the
crush and. as everybody believed that almost everybody else waa going to
be killed or hurt, the firat law of nature saw very strict observance.
In the la-t car, particularly, the panic wa? well concentrated. That
c.ir was a i>v. .?et from the ventilator at the corner of Broadway and 53th
?jt. !t run?, al"!*.?* "n Ilroadway for tJ :?-et
Though the ?.moke .va? a? thick a?, an ocean fog, the light from above
ivas sttf'tici-ntly ttfraog to ?how the paseatageri in the sixth car that some
hope lay there
Wild congestion in that car soon followed the cry tb-?t on "emergency
exit'' had been discovered. The narrow passageways between the cars
were jammed with struggling men and women, and all the time the ait
was filled with the reaping cries of those who felt that they had no chance
for life. Passengers walked over the fallen with no thought save that
they must get out of the gaseous smoke that was sapping their atrength.
I!y a freaki'h < ircumstance. the win.'.w? ,,f the nrst, fourth and sixth
?