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full report on pass* 11
PAO KS?. PART I (Including Sport*)
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# 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
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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
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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,