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GREAT FALLS DAILY TRIBUNE
THIRTY-SECOND YEAR
GREAT FALLS, MONTANA MONDAY MORNING, MARCH 29, 1920
PRICE FIVE CENTS
28 DEAD H 4-STATE TORNADO
HUNDREDS INJURED, THOUSANDS HOMELESS, MILLIONS DAMAGE
GERMAN LEFTS
RAISE CRY OF
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Uncalled for Actions of
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Muitary Arter Workers
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SlirrCTirlfr« Is Panap
ourrenaers, IS V_ause.
Strike Leaders Are Shot
After Arms Laid Down
Says Berlin Dispatch.
London. Mareh 28.—The newspapers
of the Left part}' in Germany are raising
a cry of "white terror" as a result of
the measures taken by government
troops for the cessation of the strike,
says dispatch to the London Times
from Berlin dated Saturday.
The dispatch adds that while the out
cry is exaggerated, there is some ground
for it. The measures taken by the mili
tary commanders in many cases were un
necessary, revengeful and politically fool
ish. it is said.
In many towns as soon as the agree
ment was reached to terminate the
strike, the workers retired from their
strongholds, whereupon officers of the
government troops instituted inquiries, i
searched house and removed the work- j
inen and their leaders who in some eases
were court martiuled and summurily
shot.
HOPE TO END RUHR WARFARE
AS RESULT OF ESSEN CONFLAB
Ddfseidorf, March 28.—(By The As
sociated Press.)—A speedy settlement of
ilie warfare in the Ruhr mining and in
dustrial district, which has been in pro
gress the last eight days, and of the
struggle between troops and workmen
elsewhere in Germany, is hoped for by
the members of the workers executive
committee here, as the result of the pro
posal drafted by the general conference
of workmen iu Essen. This proposal
provides for the cessation of the siege of
Wesel and other uprisings. The reichs
wehr troops of the Ruhr district, con
centrated at Wesel have been beleaguer
ed there for the past six days. ,
Telegraphed to Berlin.
The terms of the workmen's proposal
have been telegraphed to Berlin but
the government's acceptance has not
been received.
The proposals, according to the work
men's leaders here, provide that both
the reichswehr and the workmen around
Wesel and elsewhere, cease hostilities
and each force retire a certain distance,
a neutral zone being established, but
that the workmen be permitted to rertlin
thoir arms.
According to the agreement the settle
f i t
inent previously reached at Bielefeld j
would be enforced, with the addition of
the clauses just cited. !
Agreement Not Enforced.
that the Bielefeld agreement had not
been enforced because the workmen 's
army was
ment to fulfill its part of the pact
the present plan if an agreement is
reached the varions executive commit
tees now said to be in t-ontrol of all the
cities in the Ruhr district, would resign
within ten days after it became effective,
hut would reserve the right to resume
control if they deemed it necessary.
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reluctant to trust the govern
'fi'i its I ,art f,f the p,,ot - ünder
Düsseldorf. March 28.— (By The As
sociated Press.)—Three representatives
of the government have arrvied here to
day from Berlin. They went immdiately
into confrence with the workmen's cen
tral committee. It is said, however, that
they did not come to conduct negoti
ations, and are without power, but to
investigate the situation.
Büderich, Rhenish Prussia, March
28.—(By The Associated Press).—
Reichswehr forces today occupied Dins
laken, eight miles southeast of Wesel.
on the east bank of the Lippe, capturing
four heavy guns and quantities of muni
tions. The workmen's troops which had
been in possession of Dinslaken, retired
«cross the Lippe. Many of the rebel
forces were wounded in the fighting.
Berlin, March 2S.—The news from
the Ruhr district is still disquieting.
There is a report here that the govern
ment intends to issue an ultimatum to
the workers army, allowing three days
in which to observe the Bielefeld agree
ment. Failing this, drastic measures
will be taken.
EIGHT KILLED
WHEN TORNADO
HITS MICHIGAN
Detroit, Mich.. March 28.—Eight per
sons were killed in a tornado that swept
over portions of central and western
Michigan Sunday, according to fragment
ary reports reaching here over demoral
ized telegraph and telephone wires. Seven
men were killed when buildings in which
they took refuge from the gale collapsed
near Fenton, lß miles from Flint., and
a farmer was crushed to death in his
barn near Hart.
CANAL AGAIN OPEN.
Panama, March _ 28.—Obstructions in
the Culebra cut district of the Panama
canal were removed Friday and the ^reat
waterway is again open for traffic after
a six-day- interruption.
DEATH
LIST
Tornadoes that struck in half a dozen
states Sunday caused a death list that
may pass three score, caused property
! damage reaching many million dollars
iand played havoo with wire and railway
jservioe in widespread areas.
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ithe known death list was 28 and a num
i* •/ other _ we T e
Atlanta reported that the death list in
Georgia and Alabama was at least 36.
Apparently there were three distinct
storms, one driving northward into
Illinois and dying out on the shores of
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Miss -Elizabeth-Mowat m »« 7 iiis. Foota' I
Miss ÏÂ iÂac ^
Mr8 i Beverley i
Melrose Park ntnih—William Seik !
Philip Kino, Fred Ftopinger, Antoinette
m e eye n r?Auj!s r t Swanso™';
M n:.ML ,ie futts, aged ®°- c .
ansen ' E ,j 2 ^gf h
. _ fh Indiana j
and passing into Ohio and Michigan.
The known dead:
Elgin, III., eight—Mrs. W. D. Kimball, i
Jameson, Alfred H. Hansen,
Laufenderger.
Zulu, Ind., three—All unidentified.
St. Louis, one—Louis Hellings.
East Troy, Wis., one—Mrs. Louis
Brown.
Other points suffering great damage
follow:
Chicago suburb—Fifteen killed, hun
dreds injured, a dozen or more missing
and damage of upwards of a half million
dollars done.
La Grange, Ga—Death list reported
as high as 30 and heavy property dam
age.
West Point, G a.—Five reported killed.
Agrioola, Ala.—Five killed.
Greenville and Union City, Ohio—Six
teen reported killed.
Hart, Mich.—One dead.
Fenton, Mich.—Seven killed.
Genoa, Ohio—Several reported killed.
Nashville, Ohio—Four known killed
and the death list estimated as high j
as 20.
$200,000 DAMAGE
TO PHONE WIRES
IN MINNESOTA
Minneapolis. March 28.—Damage esti
mated at $200.4)00 resulted to the
property of the Northwestern Telephone
Exchange company in southern Minne
tr .
dais 8 he^ m snoTSn°t
a 50-miie au hour wind, knocked down
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teviedo, Willmar, and Luverne. ■ Five
inches of snow was reported at Litch
field.
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St. Paul, March 28.— Southwestern
day afternoon which shut off cornniuni
oat ion by wire with points west of I. it oh
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r ,n i, fl no" S wer a repor?e.i'in this vicinliv. |
North, east and directly south in this |
S^rri'r was 1,0 ,ntem,pt,on j
wnMiVTrïîï, I m
March "- a
storm which passed over East Troy, s
aitout 20 miles southwest of here at ■
noon Sunday, caused the death of Mrs. j
Louis Brown. She was in a barn feed- |
ing cattle when the structure was blown |
down, burying her in the debris. Several
other buildings in the vicinity were j
wrecked. A number of cattle were
killed.
buildings,
BIG WIND IN KANSAS.
Concordia, Kans.. March 28.—A snow
storm, accompanied by wind, swept
across central and western Kansas Sun
day. covering the whent . belt. From
several', points a 4~, mile wind was re
ported which razed silos and small
SEVERAL KILLED
OTHERS INJURED
IN OHIO STORM
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eons were reported killed and more '
cvür nn wfcvi OI ' H T e f, ''"molished by a !
cyclone which struck Genoa, a town 18 j
mdes northwest ot here Sunday right.
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passenger train.
~."9 ur . t i r,iin sapped a Genoa." said
Pitcher, and brought, three injured per
sons to a Toledo hospital. Besid" the
tracks I saw two dead womon <>ue with
her clothing almost torn off
"We brought to the hospital a Mrs.
Pearl lounker, who was completely
scalped. Her infant child was killed in
her armü,
"I saw a dozen houses blown down
one of the houses being on fire.
"In one house I entered ihere were
five badly injured children. They were
being attended by physicians."
SU&ME COUNCIL WILL
MEET AT SAN REMO SOON
Rome, March 28.—The supreme coun
cil of the peace conference will meet at
San Remo, Italy. Aoril 10 or 11, save an
announcement mademere.
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NORTHEAST ILLINOIS
IS STORM'S CENTER;
CHICAG O SUBU RBS HIT
Damage at Elgin Alone Is Estimated at $4,000,000 and Death and Desola
tion Are Strewn Over City; Nearly 200 Buildings Wrecked in Outskirts
of Metropolis; Wisconsin, Indiana, Missouri Are Hit.
Chicago, March 28.— Twenty-eight konwn dead, hundreds of injured and a property loss of
several million dollars were left in the wake of a tornado that swept northeastern Illinois and a por -j
I ^ SS} o uri a "2 Wisconsin today. Elgin, Joilet, the western outskirts of Chicago, the
North Shore and western suburbs were in the path of the storm, which destroyed hundreds of
i buiI ( ? ing ?' "Proved trees and demoralized railroad traffic and telegraphic and telephonic com
! munication, before dying out on the shoiv of Lake Michigan, the cool air of which stopped the
twister.
T *? e fury °[ th f tornado was felt chiefly at.Elgin and Melrose park. Eight were killed and
more than one hundred injured at the former city, 36 miles west of Chicago, and the property loss
there was estimated at $4,000,000. At Melrose Park, just west of the Chicago city line, seven
were killed and four were reported missing. Two Chicagoans were killed and a score were in- j
jured, while at Dunning, a northwestern suburb, four deaths were reported, more than a hundred
were injured and one thousand were made homeless. I
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While northeastern Illinois sustained the principal damage, the tornado, in its freakish career,
swept several Indiana towns, killing three persons at Zulu, Ind., causing the death of one man and
the injury of several persons in St. Louis, and killing Mrs. Louis Brown 51t East Troy, Wis. Re- !
ports from some of the country districts in Illinois and Indiana were meager and it was feared
that thedeath toll would be considerably augmented when isolated rural communities were heard '
from. Telephone and telegraph and power wires to nearly all towns in the storm's path were i
down, and many places were in darkness.
Outside of Chicago, Wauconda, McHenry, Woodstock, Algonquin, and Marengo, felt the full
effects of the storm, but communication with them was cut off. Edgerton, Ind., 18 miles from
Fort Wayne, was reported virtually destroyed. Several persons were said to have been injured
Heavy property loss was caused in Evanston, Wilmette and other north shore sub-'
uros, wftiie Bellwood, Maywood, Edgebrook, Norwood Park and other villages west of Chicago i
were damaged. No fatalities were reported from the latter places, but many were injured by I
the flying glass and timber.
Elgin Is Struck at Noon. j
The tornado struck Elgin at noon and swept northeast into the Chicago territory through
SÄSj a ^f th of . de !f ruc « < "> 200 yards wide and a mile and a half long. In ten
minutes one hundred and seventy-five houses in the Chicago district were levelled and four hun- :
dred were damaged. The wind tore into the business quarter of Melrose Park rinninir rnof* fmm
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- - . , - 1 { 1 . e church bell, weighing nearly a ton, was thrown 100 feet away. The
î f _ the ..? an ?. h h0 . use adjoininsr was carried away and three nuns were injured by flying debris.
Fire for a time threatened to add to the havoc, but the flames were confined to the wreckage.
, '^ le s ^ e hospital for the insane at Dunning on the edge of Chicago, was converted into an
| ,fî 3 p1 ^ °f refuge for the homeless - 200 ^uses were destroy
at uunmng. Calls for medical assistance from the suburbs poured into Chicago, emergency
^ in avérai of the villages, and persons and nurses from the
ITlUniClT )Al sanimn im uarp hnrpi^ 4^ i a
municipal sanitarium were hurried to the stricken towns.
Cuts Swath 200 Yards Wide.
A swath 200 yards wide was torn through the main part of Wilmette and property damage
was estimated at near half a million. Among buildings damaged were the town hall and Episco
pal church. A score of houses in Evanston were demolished, but no fatalities were reported.
tornado was the first to strike Chicago since 1896, according to Henry J. Cox, local weather
forecaster. The disturbance was a tornado and not a cyclone, he said, asserting that the peculiar
path was characteristic of a tornado. The path was just south of Chicago, endinir in Evanston
and Wilmette, adjoining Chicago on the shore of Lake Michigan. mansion
L, The eIeventh infantry, Illinois National Guard, was ordered out for patrol duty in parts of
Slf 5" b ' V «5® st °™' SMkn Fort Sh«i<l«. were
over the North Shore suburbs to guard property.
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ARMY LAW IN ELGIN
TO PREVENT LOOTING
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; known dead, 100 or
I property loss that may exceed $4,000.000
: Elgin tonight is paralyzed as a result of
a tornado that swept over this town at
I noon today.
J Tonight this city of 27,000 persons
is in darkness and almost cut off from
j the outside world. At ü p. m. the busi
ness district, which bore the brunt of the
storm, was cleared by order of Mayer
-8. With eight
more injured and
Erwin £ a8 pÄ?d
'volunteers are patrolliug the streets to
prevent looting
Mayor Price,' in a proclamation issued
this afternoon, called on Company D.
Tenth lllinois infantrv to tX cbarI4
volunteer. More than 200 volunteers,
many of them in the uniform of the army
and navy, with overseas chevrons on
their sleeves, responded, supplementing
the AO men of the local guard company
and Elgin's regular police force. Fifty
uniformed boy scouts also answered the
call.
Four Killed at Church.
The storm, which swept a path 200
yards wide across the heart of the city,
took its greatest toll of life at the
Congregational and Baptist churches
where four women were killed and
dozens injured.
The first four were killed when the
Congregational church collapsed.
Services had been completed a few
moments before and the majority of the
congregation^ had gone home. A few re
mained waiting for the rain to abate,
when*, without warning, the storm struck
I?i:d the brick edifice collapsed, burying
j the victims in its wreckage.
Theater Stage Collapses.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Beverley, of
Milwaukee, were in their dressing room
at the Grand theater preparing for the
matinee performance when the stage
collapsed. Their presence in the building
was forgotten for more than two hours.
.'When search finally was started the
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The G. W. Peck department store, a
i three-story brick structure, the Landberg
nn(I l,evftrnI of V 1 « principal business
8trurtures were destroyed. They carried
three places following the tornado, the
flames udding to the terror of thousands
who rushed into the streets when houses
and stores came tumbling down.
All street car service has been sus
pended.
The storm struck Elgin from the
southwest during a torrential downpour
of rain. The windstorm was followed bv
a terrific hailstorm, lasting fifteen
minutes.
Much Llvostock Killed.
Towns which felt the full effect of the
storm include Wauconda, McHenry,
Woodstock, Algonquin, and Marengo.
III. Dundee is said to have been passed
over by the storm, but damage In the
surrounding farming country was heavy.
Scores of horses and cattlr, were killed.
Sherman and St. Joseph hospitals here
are filled with injured tongiht, while
other scores were bruised and cut.
Two reports of looting were received
by the police. The window display of
a jewelry store was carried away.
Girls were reported to have looted the
window of a millinery store, carrying
away the display of spring hats.
To prevent looting Mayor Price issued
a proclamation tonight placing the busi
ness district under military law.
Storm's Freak Stunts.
Stories of the freak stunts of the
oiMttvD ui urn» BiuiiiB oi ine j
storm are legion. The families of Louis j
and Charles Henninff were seated nt
#rnûf r Jîi. Cn «»î^t » h - e i ho V ,e 1
from over their heads without lujurlng
any of the partir. Ten houses in a space
of three blocks in that neighborhood were
destroyed.
The first train into Elgin, leaving Chi
cago at 2:05 p. m.. reached here shortly
after 4 o'clock and was halted in the
outskirts while workmen sawed and I
chopped away scores of trees which had
been blown across the tracks. It pro
ceeded west after a delay of more than
an hour.
William McClure. city assessor, esti
mated after a survey of the wrecked
district, that reconstruction would cost
$4,000,000.
fire in storm ruins.
Chicago, March 28.— Several Melrose
park houses damaged by the tornado
were destroyed by fire when gaa from
broken mains ignited. The town'a water
supply had been cut off and water had to
be pumped from wells. All villages swept
by the storm were without fire protec
tion. To electric current waa available.
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HERE
Sam Beverley, and Ids wife Ada
Beverley, killed in the tornado Sunday
afternoon at Elgin, 111., when the stage
of the Grand theater in that city col
lapsed, are remembered by Great Falls
theater goers.
Mr. and Mrs. Beverley appeared at
the Grand opera house In tnis city on
Tuesday and Wednesday, May 20 and
27, 1919, with the Pantages vaudeville
show. Sam Beverley made a decided hit
with his song "She is the Sunshine of
Xorth Dakota," in the Swedish dialect.
The audience sang with him "Oh, You
Women."
smanL C a "ts le wMch °ha8 0 appeared 1 on the
{> an dro . uit . < ?. urin ?, *| e P«t few years.
la "mail round U "hat, ^cceSfng *hu
ra «^up
preparing to put ?n the same art "n
Jpgîn wben the tornado struck that city
Sunday.
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100 INJURED IN
ALABAMASTORM
r a, ï rca ,^-~ at iea8t Cities,
sons were injured and r property°damage |
l nto ? illion !v°! d ® l I ar _ 8 :
Atlanta. Ga.. Mareh 28.
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^f 8t point . reported ten dead and
section p f?vJ person^*'were' kined^It
f*"? 01 *-. Ah »- wMdl reported many
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an ^-® ome P er8 ° M were injured.
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dispatch a relief train because its wires
were down.
12 ARE KILLED
100 RESIDENCES
DOWN, GEORGIA
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Atlanta. Ga., March 28.—At least 12
pr.rsons were killed in a tornado that
struck l/fiGratige, Ga., late todav, ac
tnniaht
cording to word receire l here
A telephone report said some estimates
placed the dead as high as SO. The court
i churehe9 wer ' b " in * 08
i hospital«.
The town was left fn darkness as the
light and power plant was damaged and
the waterworks also went out of com
mission.
The greatest loss of life and property
was in the hillside mill section whera the
tornado smashed everything in its path.
t Estimates were that from one hundred
! to three hundred small residences were
destroyed or damaged.
The Atlanta & West Point railroad
reported that passenger train No. 86,
from New Orleans, had not been
located.
Macon. Ga., March 28.—A storm of
cyclonic Intensity struck Macon Sunday
night, causing heavy damage. Several
persons are known to have been injured
and several buildings were unrooted or ]
destroyed.
Freaks of Storm
in Chicago Suburbs
Chicago, March 28.—Georgv Mix, a
watchman at a railroad crossing in Wil
mette, was severely injured when the
storm lifted his snanty and rolled it
for more than three blocks, carrying him
0g ^ prisoner
One half of* the roof of St. Augustine'
-i -1 u ... «m ' 2 a - 1.
r, ® d more than three blocks
„-ind. The parsonage nearby
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damaged.
F. A. Waidner. a Chicago commission
merchant, lost trees valned at $50,000.
SÄüÄÄrrsJTüraL
occurred when a cow was blown into a
haystack in North Evanston. The hay
stack had to be torn down to free the
Wood and Johnson Are
But Few Hundred Apart
in South Dakota Vote
Pierre, S. D., March 28.—Unofficial
returns on 30 counties up to this even
ing show totale of: Poindexter, 80»;
Johnson. 17,008; Lowden, 18,870; Wood,
17 .552; Haney. 19,000;; Nobeck, 24.7W:
Richards. 17,801; McMaaters. 27.070:
r«aff. 15,480; Kin», 10,908; Hall,
13,«36; Cook, 10,589.
This covers practically all of the votes
of the state.
A
OF POLES FICHT
Bolshevik Monitors on
Pripet Lake Defeated,
and Many Captured.
Soviet Line Weakening
Say Warsaw Authori
ties, Spring Drive Fails.
Cities, arter cignt days of fighting at
vario '. ,s P°^ t8 on « kilometer front,
ned spring 0 di?vT of e t L 1 bo^hevikT which
Warsaw, March 28.—(By The As
sociated Press).—Polish armored trains;
fought pitched battles against the boisbe
vik monitors and other fighting craft on
the Pripet river during the bolshevik
thrust which was designed to gain
control of additional links of the rail
road extending from Hömel to Kalf
kowicz and Mozir. The bolsheviki put
down artillery preparation, which was
followed by the opening of a barrage
from the river boats and then infantry
attacks.
The bolshevik drive has been un
successful, according to a communies -
tion just issued. The communication ar
nounces that the Polish military authori
f; <" ! after eight days of fighting —
'E" s ^TgneTto bWak the "hold" of ^hë
:Po & up ^ e u ^^* n fro ^ (M> re OTt8
1{if htin *' n t . he "f 0 *,, 0 ' OiJnsk.i
^ oth e ®f d u eB e art uw rlv e Y
uwng artUlery «
She ralÄ
Zoi ,? rnik £. the bo,8h * viki iaving at
w ^reannihilated. formations
B Mmw e e<yïtntrr < n nt M* btin fh 'ILi l he
™ »"« «-» «°™. >w
^° asln r popiilatfoij.
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routed.
It is estimated that the locomotives,
rolling stock, armored boats and other
Pripet lakes craft seized at Mozir are
worth three billion marks.
POLISH ARMY HOLDS LINES
DESPITE GAS AND ARTILLERY
i Warsaw. March 28. (Bv The Associ
ated Press).—The Polish line is holding
: all along the front in Podolia. where the
i bolsheviki have been concentrating the
, attacks of their big offensive in an
effort to take the imt>ortant fortified
city of Kamenetz-Podolsk, according to a
! Polish headquarters communique. The
i enemy has been using gas shells, arfii
llery. armored trains, armed river boats.
i airplanes and cavalry in his attacks on
Tarious parts of the front, but he bss
j made no headway in Podolia or else
^ h ^ re -, according to the statement,
1 alth°u*h the ftgliting has been furious.
I ° n w northern front the bolsheviki
attacked between the rivers Dvina and
Beresina. The Poles counter attacked
and drove off the enemy.
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In the region of Mozir the bolsheviki
attacked after artillery preparation,
bringing a number of armored tfpinti into
action. The communique announces that
two of these trains were destroyed. Alone
the Dnieper river the red forces used a
flotilla in the region of Reichea. The
fighting in this sector is extending to
ward Kalenkovitz in a drive evidently
aimed at the recapture of Mozir and its:
important railway connections recently
taken by the Poles in their drvie anti
cipative of the bolshevik offensive.
To the north add northeast of Kame
netz-Podolsk the reds attacked Deremin
with gas and artillery. The railroad sta
tion was damaged. In a daylight air raid
iProskkiror was bombed. The Poles,
however, held fast all along the line, it is
declared.
MURDERS WIFE
KILLS HIMSELF
AFTER QUARREL
Billings, Match 28.—Enraged because
his wife locked him out of the hous<rand
j refused him money, Frank L Jones, a
taxicab driver, am ashed in a rear door
of their home hare with a hammer,
entered his wife's bedroom and, after
struggling _ to wrest soma money from
»•'. •>»!">«• «-»»ft m» «a
tnrued the revolver on himself.
Indications are that death in each casa
waa instantaneous. The shooting oc
curred earlv Sunday. The bodies were
discovered by a neighbor about noon.
Mrs. Jones is said to have been mar
ried to Jonea in Wyoming last summer.
Jones came here several months ago
from Sweet Crass county, wheas ha hin
« homestead. He served as a sergeant
in the signal corps with the America*
Expeditionary Forces.
floods threaten 50 families.
Manistique, Mich., March 28.— Ap
proximately 50 familiea were driven
from their homes early today when th»
Manistique river broke its bounds.
Nearly a half mile of the residential
sections were flooded by water ranging
ia depth from two to sut feet.