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ALL MERCHANDISE 4DVKETISE? IN THE TRIBUNE IS GUARANTEED ^ LXXX1 Xo. 27,328 First to Last ? the Truth: News (f'opjrlirlit. 1021, Smv York Tribune Inc.) SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1?21?82 Editorials?A dvertisements T II E W E A T HER Cloudy, with local shower? to-day: to? morrow cloudy; somewhat lower temperatures; southerly winds eny wind? full report on pass* 11 PAO KS?. PART I (Including Sport*) * * # # V I V Fa KA*a^S I O and The Brom I Kiwiwhar? 150 Believed to Have Perished in Sai Bodies of 42 Are Recovered; 5.00C i Antonio Flood; ) Made Homeless Curran Seen Winner by Big Majority With Lockwood Nomina? tion Assured, Coalition Forces Figure Only Al dermanic Post in Doubt Women Rallying To Fusion Slate Democratic Chiefs Admit Hines. An ? i-M urphy Can? didate, May Beat Miller An impartial appraisal of the four fleered contest for the Republican ? Mayoralty nomination indicates that Ker.jy H. Curran will win by a sub- j ?tbtial majority. The nomination of' fliarles C. Lcckwood for Comptroller j tVtttnred, he not only having the; designation of the Rc-publioan-CoaM- j tion group, but of two of 'Curran's op poa?nts for the Mayoralty, F. H. La Guardia and William M. Bennett. The contest for the Republican nom? ination for President of the Board of Alderman is the only important one on tbe Reppblican-Coalition slate in 'doubt. John J. Halligan, a member of the New York County Committee, has made as aggressive campaign in al! five boroughs against the coalition candidate, Vincent Gilroy, a Democrat, j Halligan bas rcade an appeal as a par- j tisan to hisVfellow Republicans, and | while the organization, especially in i Manhattan, has dore its best to offset j this, there is fear that Gilroy may be j ted. Halligan a'so has been desig- ; nated by R H. La Guardia. There is a third candidas for this placo, L. I L&rtort Case, n former Alderman, who' ?5 running en he p_<jnne$i ticket, but ?iehes not mnde any considerable in-S 1 ?tos ar.vw':;-;e. Haskell'; Strength On Decline Judge R?ubon L. Haskell. who in all probability will run second, has lost considerable strength in the last week. Ril refusal to meet Bennett to debate the question. ' Shall the Republican Party Become the Saloon Party V has vMt him thousands of votes by empha l??Eg the nature ci his campaign, i La Guardia also has grown weaker in 'he last week as the result of attacks ?isde on him as a Hearst-Hylan candi? date by Jud?e Haskell, a charge which U Guardia has not yet denied. It has beer, a noticeable feature of the cam? paign that La Guardia, of all four can? didates, has not made any onslaughts ?Mayor Hylan, ;,nd vhen he has crit ? ized the Hylan ?eg;;!?1^ it has been in ?".'/mildest and friendliest sort of way. Brooklyn arain is the pivotal bor ?ugh. Tie result in that borough is expected to be ous? between Haskell ind Curran. Some of the Curran man? ors are willing to ccneede it to Has ?1!, but by a very small margin. ??*w in the Curran camp declare '"-'? the are discovering ?" i "sue is merely '? pleasing fabrication which has '?". <-.- cr.j, campaign; The ?omen voters in all boroughs are ex? isted to register a strong protest jpinst the anti-prohibition candidate. ?J large majority of the Republican *omen appear to be for Curran. Big Curran Vote in Manhattan The Curran managers are putting weir best efforts into the task of piling ?P a big voti ?n Manhattan and the MJM, particularly in Manhattan. Ihcv ?P?ct to offset the vote for Haskell, ???guardia or Bennett in other bor? ons by carrying New York County wdsomely. The Curran men, how j?. do not figure Bennett in the run ?"-e materially. They predict that Jrjnett will run fourth, with Curran a J?? by at least 25,000 votes, Haskell g?d and La Guardia third. The '?Mrs expect that about 200,000 vc ? StMPO?led throughout the city. kWviF"?" ?en teel ??? that otes ^ 2S?? polled throughout the city. ?ti! ran men ?eel PUre tna* the ^Wican-Coalition candidate will I_ ^Continuad on pas? s?ven) Solves Rent Problem by L?V?ns inHolein Ground B??itt Shoelace Merchant Finds Roofless Cellar an Ideal Home ?1? Seldin, who became a fresh-air >uTm Whil? in the Russ?an army, iiv. ? Vered tho idea) existence. He ?ltd m * h0le in The Eronx which ibov *? bc a cellar until the building ? ? rotted or burned away, and all 7 '?rig he is out in the fresh air ^?nS shoelaces and collar buttons. Cto?? j1* leaves his excavation he *wrt *\iUp with Planl<s so that he *h?n t, 5t fi!led witn rain water tate? V2u?n8' but during his occu Ur ' oi it he leaves it open to the ti l'JlM ?een living there for a vear ftttf. j?and never kas suffered a mo ?rmV? .8cJomf,OTt- Hia tracte in shoe ^frbm ?d coUar buttons brings him ft? ??? *5 t0 ?15 a week and, having **to?taki pay' he ?ets el0"K quite ""in 1 y' <&?*?;' warned me," he said yester. ?We? T J L'ived very long in such ??j&I. ,,UW di<s from some disease. " "iSSli Vn* her* I havc gained Kr ?.** we??ht? I probably am i ?? ir*1* tne average person 81,000 High School Students Denied Full-Time instruction jHylan Neglect, With Increased Registration, Leads to Most Crowded Conditions in History of the City Approximately 81,000 high school ] students of this city are confronted with the fact that practically all of them will be instructed in part time under the most, crowded conditions in the history of the city. The advance registration indicates that the total number will be well in excess of 80,000. At the beginning of last term there were 75,G92.pupils on the register, and at the end of March this year 23,141 of them were on part time. Virtually all the educational authori? ties believe that their most liberal esti? mates of the number of students will be exceeded, because of tho economic condi? tions existing at the present time. All previous experience has shown that un? der conditions such as now ex?3t there is always a tremendous increase in the high school registration. This is caused by the lack of employment for boys and girls of high school age. This condition has come to aggravate the situation that was almost almost impossible to meet. To relieve these terrible conditions the Hylan administration can point with pride to the opening of an addi? tion to the Far Rockaway High School, which will have a capacity of 348 seats i to care for the approximate t>,000 in? crease there in the number of students. As a result of the Hylan indifference the only possible solution of the whole problem is to eliminate the study : period from the time of all the students and place them on a steady grind of four hours each, without relief. Onlv , in this way can they be instructed, and then in many of the high schools they ' will be so crowded that two students I will be compelled to sit on one seat during class hours. ; An idea of the appalling conditions ) that will exist in some of the older high schools is shown in the case of the New Utrecht high school, at Eighty-sixth Street and Eignteenth Avenue, Bath Beach, Brooklyn. There the entire student body will have to go on double time. The conditions in this school are alarming. It is one of the schools visited by the twelve wom? en's civic organizations last June, and was the subject of a special chapter in their report. The building is structurally unsafe and in a perilous condition. It has been condemned as a fire trap. The stairs are rickety and worn down. The sanitation is vile and impossible. Its timbers and girders are rotting. The (Continued on pane three) Bavarian Split Held Menace to Ebert Republic Munich Is Said Openly to Defy Mandates of Ber? lin; Compromise Jus? Reached Flatly Rejected Monarchist Spirit Rises Secret Military Organiza? tion Ready to Join in Separatist Movement Special Cable, to The Tr;bunc Copyright. 1921, New Ycrli Tribune Inc. GENEVA, Sept 10.?Grave disorders ' are menacing Bavaria, and may be the ' beginning of a movement that will ! overthrow the German Republic, ac ? cording to v/ord received here by cor i tain delegates to the League of Nations ' Assembly. Bavaria is openly refusing to obey ? the mandates of the Berlin authorities, The information available here show; . that the Munich leaders are trying tc ! force a crisis in the negotiations no-? I in progress with Berlin and attempt : the overthrow of the republic at th< : earliest possible moment. i This defiance of the central govern | ment is viewed with apprehension ir connection with the growth of the mon archist movement that is developing ir Munich and throughout the southen : state. The parties of the left and thi national authorities, it is felt, may no . be powerful enough to subdue thi ! spirit of revolt Crown Prince Still Popular It is reported that the secret organi zation of military volunteers in Bavari; 1 is now ready to join the separatis | movement, led by Minister Presiden ?von Kahr and Crown Prince Rupprechl whose great popularity is aemon strated every time he appears in th streets of Munich. A Bavarian separatist movemenl ! with the possibility of seriou3 civi war, has for some time been re garded by certain of the Allies, espe cially France, as a favorable poasi i hility. Since the armistice was signe there has been a French party in Ba varia composed mainly of Catholics desiring the dismemberment of Ger many. They have been leaders in th agitation against Prussia and in favo of a union of Bavaria with Wiirtero berg and Austria and possibly Hun gary. For some time France has ha a special minister in Bavaria who sti remains in Munich. However, thi general antagonism to Prussia has nc developed into more particularly fight against democracy and the Gei rr.in republic. It ?3 regarded here as certain thi if Bavaria were to win out in a coi test at arms with Prussia the foui dation for the return of the Wittel bach dynasty would have been lai The Prussian reactionaries, such ? General Ludendortf, are reported to t ready to support such a saparati movement through pure hate of tl Liberals. Bavaria Rejects Compromise BERLIN, Sept. 10 (By The Assoc I ated Press).?The Bavarian gover i ment, according to the Munich corr ! spondent of the "Lokal Anzeiger," h. j completely rejected the compromise < | differences which arose between it ai tho Berlin government over Preside I Ebert's decree conferring exception i powers on the German Cabinet. The proposed compromise had be ' reached in Berlin at conferences t 1 tween Bavarian delegates and membe ! of the German Cabinet. In a sitti which lasted until 1 o'clock in t morning, the agreement was reject through the opposition of ministers t longing to the German National Peoph party and the Bavarian People's par The "Tageblatt'' declares Bavarii rejection of the compromise agreem? has created a grave situation. T newspaper says Dr. von Kahr has c dined to agree to "any diminution th? aoverign rights of Bavaria." 20 Black Hand Crimes Cleared ! By Paid Slayer! Joseph Ales, Arrested in: Detroit, and Carlo Bar-| hara, Caught in N. Y., | Sait! to Have Confessed Killed for $30 a Head; One Prisoner Declared to Have Said He Slew Any One Camorra Desired Full confessions, which .'?re reported by Detective Sergeant Michael Fias chetti, of the police Italian division, to ! clear up twenty Camorra murders were obtained yesterday by Sergeant Fias- | chetti and Assistant District Attorney P. Francis Morro, they asserted. Those confessions are supplemental to those of Bartolo Fontr.no, young Sicilian barber, whose disclosures first revealed that 200 murders in New York and probably 100 more in other parts of the country were the wor/K of Italian mur? der bands. Joseph Ales, alias Jen Napoli, brought here under arrest from De ! troit, and Carlos Barbara, arrested in j New York, were the authors of the confessions and their statements are ? now in the hands of the District At | torney's homicide bureau. The ad ! missions of Ales are said by Sergeant Fiaschetti to be startling. He told the District Attorney's? officers and thu ; Italian detectives, they assert, that he was a murderer by profession, that j he killed for fees and* that he took any i odd jobs of murder that offered. $30 for a Murder He was employed by certain Camorra | groups to dispatch men who had in | curred the disregard of the Camorra j or who had outlived their usefulness i to the murder tvust. His regular fee I was $30 for each man killed. Some ? times the too! of Ales's trade was a ; sawed-oli" shotgun and sometimes a stiletto, cr dagger. Ales gave his permanent address as 135 Scholes Street, Brooklyn, but said he had "worked"' in various cities. He was brought back from Detroit on a fugitive warrant charging him with the murder of Rosario Briganti, shot, killed and robbed ir. a hallway, at 193 Cherry Street, June 27. 1919. Besides the killing of Briganti, Ales admits, according to Sergeant Fias (Contlnueti on nwet pass) Margaret Wilson Buys Old Stuyvesant Fish Dwelling Daughter of Former President Acquires, Through Washing? ton Lawyers, 15?h St. House Miss Margaret B. Wilson, daughter of former President Woodrow Wilson, has bought the old Stuyvesant Fish residence, 208 East Fifteenth Street. What purpose Miss Wilson has in ac? quiring the property could not be learned. The negotiations for the pur? chase of the property had been carried on by Washington attorneys repre? senting Miss Wilson. The property is a four-story and basement dwelling, on a let 22x203, and is oppcr.ite Stuyvesant Park. A few months ago the property was sold by Sidney Webster Fish, grandson \ of Stuyvesant Fish, to Mrs. Ella M. Mott, who has resold the property to Miss Wilson. John Fink was the broker. Train Held Up in Missouri Engineer. Ordered to Cut Loose, Rushes to Town for Aid PARKSVIX.LE, Mo., Sept. 10. Train robbers hold up and robbed Train No, ! 16 on the Burlington, four miles north of here to-night, according to reports reaching ben. The engineer and fireman, when com? pelled to cut the engine loose from the. train, put on fujl steam and came into Parksville for aM. Four Treaties On Mandates, ardinff P?an Separate Covenants With Each of Allied Nations To Be Made if League Concedes U. S. Rights )en Door Policy To Be Insisted On Early Announcement Ex? pected of Agreement With Japanese on Y?p From Th* Tribune's Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, Sept. 10?Formal , treaties between this government and each of the principal Allied powers as? sociated in the war against Germany ? Great Britain, France, Japan and Italy?protecting American interests in al! territory under mandate control will be sought by the United States as the proper solution of the mandate problem now before the Assembly of the League of Nations, it was officially disclosed to-day. The treaty system, it is believed here, is the only method by which all misunderstandings and disagreements that might lead to grave consequences can be eliminated. As soon as the powers having representation in the League of Nations assent to the Amer? ican demand that the open door in mandate territories is to be the accept? ed policy the work of negotiating treaties carrying this protection to the United States will be taken up. American Rights Affirmed The recent note and mandate dis-j patched by Secretary Hughes, reaffirm- ! ing the American position of equality' of rights in territories under manda-( tory powers, is now before the powers ! for consideration. In this communica-! tion the Allied nations are frankly ad-; vised that, as the United States was ? an equal participant witn them in van quishing Germany, the rights of this ? government cannot be ignored, and the privilege of.being heard in framing of' the mandate forms, as well as in the selection of the mandatory power, must be accorded this nation. It has been the contention from the outset of the Harding Administration that this government has relinquished none of its rights as one of the prin? cipal and associated powert- in th - vic? torious war with Germany, and that none of the privileges accruing to any of the other Allied powers could be re? fused this government. It has been rigorously maintained that the United States muct be consulted in all man? date questions, and equal insistence has been placed on the American de? mand that the rights of United States nationals in any territory under man? date control could not be abridged. Earl? Action Contemplated To secure^ to this government the rights ?emended in the note dispatched by Secretary Hughes, it is the belief of the Administration that formel treaties should be negotiated with the powers und steps toward entering into these treaty obligations are expected to follow immediately upon confirma? tion by the powers of the American principle of equality of rights. In this connection it was disclosed that the conversations between Secre? tary Hughes and Ambassador Shide hara, of Japan, over the future con trml of the Island of Yap, with par? ticular reference to the distribution of the cables radiating from that island, were progressing satisfactorily. It is confidently expected in well informed quarters here that this government and Japan will soon enter into treaty guaranteeing to both countries the rights they seek under the Yap mandate. Roads Cut Live Stock Rates Twenty Per Cent Reduction in West on September 20 OMAHA, Sept. 10.? Western railroads will reduce freight rates on livestock, except horses and mules, 20 per cent, and will endeavor to make the cut ef? fective September 20, it was announced by the Union Pacific Railroad Com? pany here to-day. Arbuckle Is Held as Girl Guest Dies Film Comedian Detained in San Francisco Pend? ing Investigation of Fa? tal Party in His Rooms' Victim Is Virginia Rappe, an Actress Became Hysterical and Then Grew Violently 111 After Taking Drinks Special D'apalch to The Tribune SAX FRANCISCO, Sept. 10.?Roscoc ("Fatty") Arbuckle. motion picture star, is being held by the San Fran? cisco police to-day in connection with the mysterious death here yesterday of Miss Virginia Rappe, a Los Angeles motion picture actress. Arbuckle ar? rived here to-day from Los Angeles, ready to aid in clearing up the circum? stances surrounding the death of the twenty-three-year-old woman. According to information in the hands of the police, Miss Rappe was a guest at a party given Monday in Arbucklo's suite in a hotel here. There was some drinking and later Miss Rappe was taken ill. The hotel phy? sician was called. The next day the actress was taken to a hospital, where she died. An autopsy showed that Miss Rappe died of peritonitis. The stomach has been submitted to Dr. Frank C. Green, ci:y chemist, who will make an exami? nation. Reported She Was Injured Meanwhile, the police are trying to obtain information concerning injuries said to have been suffered by Miss Rappe prior to her death, and are studying the circumstances surround? ing her final illness. A grand jury investigation, at which Arbuckle will be called to testify, and an inquiry by the Coroner also will seek to bring out all the information available on the case. Arbuckle denies that he was in any way responsible for the girl's death. He issued a statement on his arrival here, which said: "While I was at the hotel Monday Miss Rappe, Mrs. Maud Delmont and Al Seminacher, manager for Miss Rappe, came to my rooms. They came to San Francisco by auto from Los Angeles the day before. I have been acquainted with Seminacher for about ten years and have known Miss Rappe for the last five years. At my invita? tion they came to my rooms to have a few drinks. I was clad in pajamas, bathrobe and bedroom slippers and was having my breakfast when the trio en? tered. We sat in the room, had a few drinks and talked over matters that concerned us. "Shortly after Miss Rappe had taken a few drinks she became hysterical, complained she could not breathe and then started to tear off her clothes, i requested two girls present at the time to take care of Miss Rappe. She was disrobed and placed in a bathtub to be revived. Finally Called Physician "The immersion did not benefit her and I then telephoned to the hotel manager, telling him what was wrong, and with the request that Miss Rappe be given a room. She was taken out of my room and put to bed. "When no change came in Miss Uappe's condition, I summoned a physician, "I departed from the hotel Tuesday, having engaged passage on the steamer Harvard the Saturday before to go to Los Angeles. The report that I was or? dered by the management to leave the hotel is not true. "I was at no time alone with Miss Rappe. During the time in my rooms there were at least half a dozen people there all of the time and 1 can produce witnesses to bear out that statement. I am only too glr.d to return to San Fran? cisco to assist the authorities in straightening out this terrible mess. "Mrs. Delmont, who was one of my guests, returned to my room after Miss Rappe was put to bed. I had Miss Rappe taken from my room be? cause she had gotten too noisy." Atlantic City Greets Harding Asid Party on -Week-End Visit ATLANTIC CITY, Sept. 10.?Atlantic j City rat up late to-night to greet a; distinguished week-end gue^t- -President j Warren G. Harding. The Presidential party, motoring ! from Washington and stopping for] dinner at Phi'adelphia, arrived shortly j before midnight, and was received by a throng of other week-enders and shore residents. During his stay here Mr. Harding will be accorded cveiv honor aid every efToit will be made to make his visit; an enjoyable one. An entire floor at ' the Ritz-Caritcn Hotel was s?t aside ! for his use and the us-: of his party, ' which includes Mrs. Harding, Secretary ? of Commerce Hoover and Mrs. Hoover, ' Under Secretary of St&te Fletcher and . Mrs. Fletcher, Gecrge ?I. Van fflcet. : manager of the Harding newspap<^ at j Marion and Mrs. Van Fleet, and George i H. Christian, secretary to the Presi- ? The length of the President's stay wni n.ot known to-night, but it is gen- | erally believed that he will remain at leasfr two da"s. The President, it is understood, is enger to try out the golf course at the Seavi^w Country Club, and is expected to spend a number of hours on the links. The Ritz-Carlton .Hotel, from man? ager to the lowliest bellhop, was placed at the service of the President. The entire hotel had been turned upside down to provide accommodations that were considered proper, and patrons of the hotel, who had rooms on the fifth floor, the floor reserved for the Presi? dent's use. were" asked to take other quarters. They willingly complied. Special decorations, including valu? able paintings, were put into the rooms t"> be occupied b' the President and Mrs. Harding and a snecial staff of servants hastily assembled fer duty in this apartment. The hotel arrangements had not been more than completed when a squad of Secret Servie? men arrived by train from Washington and carefully in? spected the arrangements w;,th a view to the President's safetv. -,-_-,-< 27 Persons Drowned As Bridge Collapses Men, Women and Children, Watching Attempt to Rescue Boy, Are Dropped, a Struggling Mass, into River at Chester, Pa. Speciul Dispatch to The Tribune CHESTER, Pa., Sept. 10.?At least '.wenty-seven persons were drowned, including men, women and children, at 6:55 o'clock to-night, when one end of the footwalk of the Third Street bridge collapsed, throwing them into the Chester River. The disaster was caused, police re? port, by the presence on the footpath of an immense crowd to watch the op? erations of a rescue crew grappling for the body of a boy drowned a short time before the crash came. The boy, whose name has not been learned, had tipped over in his frail boat just below the bridge. A man leaped from the bi-idge to rescue the boy. A crowd had begun to gather when, without warning, thero was a sharp crack, and then came the sound of the splintering of the col? lapsing wooden structure. . The shrieking, struggling mass of humanity was dropped into the waters. Men, women and children, fighting frantically for safo footholds as the structure gave way, were, ?lumped from the death trap. A few who tried to grip the firm edges of the bridge wer? torn from their hold by their desperate companions and pulled to their deaths in the water. For a few moments the bridge liter? ally dripped humanity. Then the strug? gle on the structure ceased and the fight for life was transferred to the water, as the drowning clutched each other. Paralyzed with horror at the tragedy, ' those on the shores were slow in com? ing to the rescue. In a few minutes, ! however^ a score of rowboats were at the scene and the work of rescue was'commenced. Of the sixteen saved, ! twelve were good swimmers. They j afterward said that the only way they managed to keep above water wai by ? fighting off their dying companions. All the ambulances and police | patrols in the city were rushed to the j spot, and those taken from the water ] were hurried to the Chester Ho-pital. j The rescue work come too late for i most of the victims, however, and they ! were either dead or dying when taken from the water. .The tide was on the upfiow when the tragedy occurred. Under the direction of George Boutelle, city engineer, a makeshift dam was thrown across the river shortly after the collapse to pre? vent the bodies from being carried to sea-with the change of tide later at night. Second Victim In Auto Murder | Found Buried Car Salesman, Whose Com? panion Also Was Slain, Is Discovered in Garage of Youthful Suspect Wrists Lashed to Ankles Harvey W. Church, Buyer of ; Machine, Reported to Have ; Made Vital Admissions Special Dispatch to The Tribune CHICAGO. Sept. 10.?The body of Carl AsmuB, Packard automobile sales? man, who disappeared Thursday, prior to the discovery of the murder of his companion, Bernard J. Daugherty, was found to-d&y, buried in a shallow pit in a garage behind the residence of Harvey W. Church, twenty years old, who was arrested last night in Adams, Wis., in connection with the crime. Asmus's body was bruised and cut and the wrists were lashed to the ankles. The killing of Asmus was apparently as brutal as was the murder of Daugh- j erty, whose body was found yesterday i in the Des Plaines River here, after! the hands had been manacled, the head beaten in and the throat cut. Find Body in Shallow Grave When search of the river failed to , disclose Asmus's body near where. Daugherty's body was found, the po-1 lice decided to make another search of j the Church premises, where splashes '? of blood and a smeared hatchet and a < stained baseball bat were found. I The police prowled through the base-1 ment and then went to the garage, a j frame shack with a dirt floor, large i enough for two cars. An old car stood j close to the walls in one corner. At first the officers turned up the j earth in the open corners. Then they \ moved the car and the first thrust of ' a spade where it stood struck a shoe. Enough earth wa3 removed to dis- j close the body, lying on the left side ! in the hunched position forced by the hands to feet bonds. Meanwhile Church, with his mother and father, was being brought back to Chicago from Wisconsin, where he was found in the new Packard car deliv? ered to him Thursday, when Daugherty and Asmus disappeared. Although Church denied any part in . the murders, there was a rumor that. he had made admissions to his guards, while speeding toward Chicago, that: directed the Chicago police to dig in the garage. Victim's Parents Arrive Asmus's father and mother, Mr. and Mrs Richard Asmus, came to Chicago to-day, convinced that their son had b..i n murdered. Officials of the Madison & Kedzie j State Bank contradicted assertions ? credited ta Church at Adams last night, j He was quoted as saying that he paid \ for his new car out of his account at ' the bank. The payment was said to '. be $5,400. Bank officers said that the | only account held there by a member i of the Church family was a $5 savings i deposit in Harvey's mother's name. Mo?t of the police activitv was di- | rected toward finding Miitcn Walker, a friend of young Church, who yester? day, when Daughertv's body was found, : failed to appear in the Maywood Court ? on a robbery charge, forfeiting $5,000 bond posted by his mother and his em? ployer. Walker was captured the night, of August 21, when he and two other ! youths tried to rob the Atlantic and j Pacific tea store in Maywood, THB BALSAM?. oixriHe Notch, X. H., I offer? spec!*! Autumn r*t?ft,?Advt Texas Floods Kill Trainman; Tie Up Traffic Storms in Many Sections Cause Injuries and Dam? age Property; Railway Bridges Washed Away Tornado Sweeps Austin Town of San Marcos Is Under Water and Is With Out Any Light or Power, _ DALLAS, Tex., Sept. 10.?High winds ' and heavy rains which swept south I Texas late yesterday and early to-day in one of the most severe storms in several years, causing great property i damage and injury to numbers of peo? ple, had subsided late to-day, according i to reports received here. Only one fatality, that of Brakemmn j Wagner, who was killed near Noonan ! in the wreck of Southern Pacific No. 227, has been reported us resulting di? rectly from the storm, excluding the ! persons who were killed in the flood at j San' Antonio. The train, a mixed pas senger and freight, was derailed early i to-day when it plunged into a washout ( between Sa? Antonio and Eagle Pass, ? The engineer and fireman of the train i were injured. None of the passengers ? was hurt. Near Austin property . damage esti- j mated at $150,000 was caused, and ? eight persons were injured by a j tornado and cloudburst late to-day.; Owing to demoralized telephone and j telegraph service, it has been '.mpos- \ sible to estimate the damage wrought in several towns within a radius of I fifteen to twenty miles of Austin. Stores Are Flooded Hardly had the force of the tornado j spent ittalf in the thialy settled cutly ing di ?tricts of Austin when a heavy fall ? of rain commenced. The torrent soon I filled the streets, flooding stores and j buildings. During the twenty-four hours endelj at 7 a. m. to-day 18.23 inches of rain \ fell at Austin, the Federal weather ob? server announced, the greatest precipi tation for that length of time ever re? ported there. All trains from Austin to San An- | tonip and Dallas are held up, and rail? road officials expressed belief that sev (Continued on next pajj) Grain Shops Are Looted In Two Indian Towns Rioters Carry Off Stores When Merchants Are Accused of Swindling - ALLAHABAD, British India, Sept. 10. ?Serious rioting, marked by the whole? sale looting of grain shops, occurred in broad daylight at Meerut, thirty-five miles northeast of Delhi, yesterday, it is said, in a telegram received from that city. In the course of tv/o hours the entire stocks "of the shops were re? moved by the rioters. A similar out? break occurred at the corn mills at Meerut, and the losses are estimated at approximately ?120,000. The trouble started when two grain merchants were arrested on a churge of swindling a purchaser, the incident be? ing aggravated by the present shortage of grain. Several of those who par? ticipated in the disorder were arrested. 25 Dead in French Wreck j Strasbourg Express Derailed at SO ?Miles an Hour LYONS, France. Sept. 10.- Twenty five peisons are reported to have been killed and sixty injured when an ex ! press train running from Strasbourg to Lyons was derailed to-night near this l city while running at the rate of Afty mites an hour. Millions in Damage; City In Darkness Cloudburst Sends Flood of Water Down River, Inundating the Business and Residence Districts Troops on Guard To Foil Looters Majority of Victims Thus Far Accounted For Are Women and Children Special Dispatch to The Tribun? SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Sept. 10.? With a death toll estimated at one hundred and fifty and property loas totaling close to $20,000,000. the business district of San Antonio is a mass of muck and wreckage, the resuit of a cloudburst and flood which swept over two different sec? tions of the city late last night and this morning. Meager reports from outlying districts indicate many others have lost their lives there. This city to-night is in total dark ric?8S. Federal troops from Camp Travis and Fort Sam Houston are aiding the police in patrolling the streets, and a condition of semi martial law prevails. At 8 o'clock bodies of forty-two of the flood victims had been recov? ered. Telephone lines are out of commie sion and the city is wjthout water for drinking or fire-fighting pur? poses. Most of the streets in and leading to the downtown section are impassable because of the chaos wrought by the water. 1,000 Dwellings Wrecked Many of the bodies recovered up to darkness to-night are those of women and children, helpless victims of the deluge as it swept everything before it in a two-mile strip in the western part of the city. More than 1,000 dwellings in the Mexican quarters were, smashed to bits by the wall of water that swept down upon that district early this morning, and about 5,000 persons made homeless in that section are to-night being sheltered in tents pro? vided by the military authorities. Approximately twenty blocks of downtown stores are almost a total lots from the twelve to thirty feet of water which swept into the busine3u district, filling basement.' where f.tores of merchandise were being kept and converting the entire district into ruio. The estimate of dead is believed to be exceedingly conservative. Police Warning of Danger Two hours before the fury of the flood broke, the Police Department notified residents of the threatened district of the impending danger, but these warnings were generally disre? garded by the Mexicans in the devas? tated territory. San Antonio had been flooded before and the waters had never reached that district. They would stay, declared many of those who were warned by the" police. Therir refusal to leave cost many of them their lives. In the entire district, about .twenty blocks, there is not a whole dwelling remaining. Most of the one thousand that were there have now vanished, and are twisted heaps of splintered debris, piled high In many places along the area encom? passed by the waters. What the final death toll will be when the wreckage has been searched by the military and the gangs of men pressed into service by the city author? ities is a matter of conjecture. Esti? mates of the dead have been placedlas high as one thousand by city authori? ties, but these can be confirmed only when the ruins yield their victims. Whole Business Area Inundated There was small loss of life in the downtown district and the sections sur? rounding it, but the property loss there was enormous. The city is situatvd on the banks of the San Antonio River, which twists and turns through the main streets, with fifty-two bridges within the city limits. The raging water of the river found easy access to the business buildings in the heart of the city. The swollen stream, its preg ress impeded by the numerous bridges, backed up and inundated the entira business section. After tearing away a number of the bridges in the down? town section the water continued to rise, carrying ail before it. Refugees from the devastated region in the western part of the city say the wall of water that swept down upon them in the early hours before dawn was ten feet high and a half mile wide. Soldiers Clash With Looters Federal troops have been assisting the local authorities in guarding the ruined business section from looters since early this morning. Frequent clashes between looter? and soldier? occurred to-day. Late this afternoon Thomas M. Petty, 90th Aero Squadron, Camp Travis, on duty on one of the main streets, shot and killed Robert Cleveland. The latter refused to obey a command to halt. Heroism of enlisted men from the army camps near San Antonio saved the lives of many imperiled person?. More than 500 w-re pulled from th? torrent,