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VILLAGE RAZED IN
DESPERATE FIGHT
Details of House-to-House
Battles Near Arras
NOTHING IS LEFT
Only Heaps of Ruins Mark Site of
Village of Carency—Taking Wine
by Wheelbarrow Load Too
Much for the French
Abbeville, France, July 10.— (Corre
spondence of the Associated Press.)
The character of the town to town,
house to house struggle that has been
going on north of Arras is shown in
nearly all its details by the experience
•f Carency. An insignificant hamlet of
about 475 inhabitants before the war,
this village will have the honors of
history. It first came into the zone of
operations when the German movement
toward the sea was finally checked
there.
The Bavarians, leaving Beaumont Oc
tober 1, secured a footing on the hills
©f Vimy and Uevin, the 4th they were
at Carency, Givancy-en-Gohelle, Notre
jDame de Lorette, Souchez and Ablain
Baint-Nazaire, all of which have since
had the honors of frequent mention in
the official communique. The French
cavalry wdth the Moroccan mounted
riflemen met them there and opposed
further prolongation of the enemy's
front by the valleys of the Anthie and
the Canche, forcing them to fortify
themselves on the hills of Artois and
In the coal fields around Hens, thus
saving Boulogne, Calais and Dunkirk.
The French took about half of the
\ village of Carency on the night of Oc
tober 5, but were stopped at the most
considerable building of the town, the
Carency brewery, where the Germans
im.de their final stand and where they
maintained themselves all winter. Its
fall was the prelude to the conquest
of the surrounding hills. In the mean
time the physiognomy, not only of the
hamlet itself, but of the surrounding
country, had been so changed that it
Is almost impossible for those who
knew' it before the war to recognize it
HOW'.
The owner of the brewery, an of
ficer in the French artillery, was al
ready at the front. Mis wife and chil
dren, driven from their residence by
the approaching German fire, took
refuge there, but had scarcely estab
lished themselves when the place, be
came the center of a violent conflict
While hand to hand fighting was go
ing on in the gardens all round, at 1
o’clock in the morning, French sol
diers hitched horses to a conveyance,
sent the family hack of the lines and
th«I’ with fixed bayonets returned to
the assault of the brewery. They were
tumble to carry it, but succeeded in or
ganizing the position with loopholel
through the walls so as to hold th#.
enemy in check.
From that day the brewery and the
other buildings on the French lines be
came the target for the German 3-inch
and fi-inch guns. As fast, however, as
the shells reduced a building, the French
dug down and maintained themselves. Un
til the end of November the French re
mained in the garret of the brewery, then
were obliged to climb down to the second
floor. In December the roof and garret
fell Into the cellar and New Year's Day
saw nothing but two Jagged walls re
maining erect, from behind which the
French continued their fire. At Easter
there remained hut a fragment about two
feet above ground and the French for
tress was now entirely dug into the earth.
The part of the village held by the Ger
mans had undergone the same transform
ation. and whein the day came for the
final assault, scarcely anything remained
on either side of the lines but heaps of
Stone and plaster.
Trees Only Stumps
Partly mowed down, partly dug up at
the roots, the hawthorne hedges around
the houses and fields bad lost their orgi
nal lines. The shade trees, stripped, splin- I
tered and cut down by the constant fire
are nothing but .stumps resembling bat
tered and nibbled hitching posts. From'
October to May a soldier’s cap or a sap
per’s shovel appearing alx»ve the surface
of the earth or around the corner of a
ruin became Instantly a target for a
volley of musketry or for machine gun
fire.
The soldiers who had endured the ten
sion of this situation for seven months
are said to have danced for pleasure on
May 9 when the word went round that the
moment for the attack had arrived; they
were going to meet the Germans face to
face, with no earthen fortresses or ruined
walls between them and fight it out in
the open. Men whose ears had been hard
ened to the thunder of artillery months
before stopped them with their fingers
When the preparatory artillery fire opened,
for no less than six lines of batteries
in the rear played upon the German
trenches. The attack has been officially
described, but many details of individual
* heroism and many anecdotes of the siege
and the assault remain to be told.
When the French and Germans held
•ach about half of Carency. two nouses
in the center formed a sort of neutral
■one because neither side could occupy
them. One of them—a big farm house
had the best wine cellar of the region.
Several nights running the Bavarians
crept out of their lines into the cellar
■mi regaled themselves. The French
learned this and also visited the place—
neither side fired until the Bavarians
Went so far as to come one night with a
wheelbarrow. This was too much for the
French and the rifles went off almost
automatically. The wheelbarrow re
mained there and a G-lnch shell soon after
caved the walls in and the balance of
the wine soaked into the earth.
Another story is told of a subaltern of
fi cer w’ho in the early days of the siege
got lost in the mase of trenches ap
jh/ proaehing the lines and ran into the Ger
mans. He told the Bavarians he had
come on behalf of six comrades who
wanted to surrender, just to learn the way
and find out if they would be well treat
ed. The Bavarians told him to go back
and fetch his six comrades who would
be treated well. Of course the officer
went buck and forgot to return to the
7 German lines.
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State-Wide Meeting Held
Yesterday Under Auspices
of City of Savannah.
Many Speakers Heard
Savannah, July 24.— (Special.)—The
Georgia state-wide meeting In the in
terest of agricultural development, un
der the auspices of the city of Sa
vannah, and the Savannah Board of
Trade, was held at Tybee Island, Ga.,
today. J. W. Motto, president of Sa
vannah Board of Trade, presided, out
lined the purposes of the meeting and
stated generally the plans and pur
poses of the Southern Settlement and
Development organization in estab
lishing state organizations In the South
Atlantic states.
H. J. Davant, mayor of the city of
Savannah, extended a cordial welcome
to those present.
C. J. Hayden, president of the Geor
gia Chamber of Commerce, who was
unable to be present, wired his full
co-operation in the movement. Hon
orable Joseph A. McCord, governor of
the federal reserve bank at Atlanta,
Ga., gave an interesting talk on "Both
the Banker and the Farmer; Their
Eeconomic Relation."
J. D. Price, commissioner of agri
culture of the state of Georgia, spoke
on "Georgia's Need of More Farmers
and What She Has to Offer.” S. Davies
Warfield of Baltimore, made president
of the Southern Settlement and Devel
opment organization, spoke on what
the Southern Settlement and Develop
ment organization is, what it has done
and what it offers to do.
Robert M. Plndell, Jr., vice president of
the Southern Settlement and Development
organization, spoke on the subject "How
to Get the Farmer That Georgia Needs."
E. W. Johnson spoke on "What the
Railroads Are Doing and What They Will
Do to Make Diversified Farming profit
able."
G. Gunby Jordan, president of the Eagle
and Phoenix Mills of Columbus, Ga., spoke
on the subjject of "The European War
and Its Ultimate Effect Upon the Cot
ton Industry."
Clark Howell of Atlanta, at the con
clusion of the set speeches, was given
the floor and stated that in order that
the meeting might be a concrete expres
sion of what had been done, he desired
to offer a brief resolution and stated, as
the primary object of the meeting had
been to afford un opportunity to the pro
moters of the Southern Settlement and
Development organization to state their
plans and purposes, which were so forci
bly and fully set forth by Its president. S.
Davies Warfield of Baltimore. Mr. Howell
stated that in his opinion no captain of
industry in the south Is doing more un
selfish or zealous work that means more
for the development and prosperity of the
south than that which Mr. Warfield is
now doing.
"The time has come," Mr. Howell said,
"when we of the south must realize that
now Is the time to take advantage of
the opportunity and call our children and
our children’s children back home again."
EXCURSION SHIP
* WITH 2500 ON BOARD
SINKS NEAR WHARF
(Continued from Pngf One)
The cause of the capsizing had not
been determined tonight, but federal,
city and state officers were conduct
ing investigations to determine wheth
er the ship was top heavy from faulty
designing, was improperly ballasted or
was poorly handled In leaving the
wharf.
EASTLAND WAS
OF FAULTY DESIGN
Marine architects asserted that the
Eastland was faulty In design, that tho
tep deck had been removed because
of the tendency of the ship to list and
mso pointed to the possibility that the
ship had been unevenly or insufficient
ly ballasted. The Eastland used water
ballast, so that it could pump out some
on entering shallow lake harbors, so
some investigators are working on a
( theory that the ballast tanks were not
filled and the rushing of passengers
to one side of the (leeks caused it to
roll over.
Under misty skies 7000 men, women
and children went to the Clark street
clock early today to fill five large lake
steamers with holiday mirth in a trip
to Michigan City. The steamer East
land was the first to be loaded.
Rain began to fall as the wharf su
perintendents lifted the gangplanks
from the Eastland, declaring that the
government limit of 2500 passengers
had been reached. *
The passengers swarmed to the left
r.iclfc of the ship as the other steam
ers drew up the river toward the
wharf. A tug was hitched to the
Eastland, ropes were ordered cast off
and the steamer engines began to hum.
The Eastland had not budged, how
ever.
Instead, the heavily laden ship wa
river side. The lurch was so startling
river bank. The lurch was so startling
that many passengers joined the large
concourse already on the river side of
the decks.
SHIP NEVER
HEELED BACK
The ship never heeled back. It turned
slowly, but steadily toward its left
i side. Children clutched the skirts of
l mothers and sisters to keep from fall
ing. Water began to enter lower port
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' mcago, juiy 24.—Relatives of employes
of the Western Electric company are
provided for under an insurance plan
maintained through affiliation with the
American Telephone and Telegraph com
pany.
The death benefit provides payment of
six months’ wages to dependents of those
having been in the employ of the com
pany for five years or more and one
year’s pay to those having served for
10 ^iurs or more
Plunges Into River
Chicago, July 24.—Charles Williams, rep
resentative for a New York -concern,
stripped to his underclothes and plunged
into the river. He saved a man who
was choking to death.
Next he saw a young girl struggling in
the middle of the river. Williams grabbed
her by the hair, swam to a north side
dock and helped her climb to safety. A
man in a patrol boat yelled to him that
another young woman had gone down at
j a spot he pointed out. Williams dived,
j found the girl and took her to shore,
where a pulmotor revived her. Then he
j brought a 3-year-old child to shore.
Jokes Come True
Chicago, July 24.—The July •‘Jubilator,”
the official newspaper of employes of
the Western Electric company, advertis
ing the picnic in Michigan City, lnd.,
that was prevented by the steamer East
land disaster, was filled with Jokes and
cartoons of what might have taken place.
Copies of the paper were found on many
of the victims.
Introducing the front-page cartoon was
the caption: ‘What Ho!”
“Readers of the Jubilator be jubilant.
“Last time it was a submarine.
"Long ago Jonah took a trip in a sub
marine.
\ "There is no Jonah about this.
“But it will be a whale of a suocess."
The fifth annual picnic of the employes
was to have been the largest ever held.
A great parade in Michigan City with
movie men recording every event, athletic
♦ PICTURES OF TKAliKDY f
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• Chicago, Jflly 24.—Exhibition •
♦ of moving pictures depicting the $
i Eastland tragedy in any photo- j
♦ play theatre in the city was t
i forbidden by Acting Mayor W. •
* R. Moorhouse. t
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contests and other amusement had been
provided.
Prizes had been offered for the most
novel costumes in the parade and this
accounted for the gorgeous attire on
many of the bodies.
Grand Jury Impaneled
Chicago, July 24.—Coroner Hoffman im
paneled the following jury:
Dr. William A. Evans, former commis
sioner of health.
William P. Bode, vice president of Reid,
Murdoch & Co.
Henry A. Allen, mechanical engineer
In charge of the department of public
works.
J. S. Keogh, general manager of W. F.
McLaughlin & Co.
Eugene Beifeld, manager Hotel Sher
man.
Harry Moir, proprietor Hotel Morrison.
Dr. Evans was chosen foreman. The
Jury spent several hours viewing the
bodies.
Hunt for Bodies
Chicago, July 24.—With 10 highpowered
searchlights playing over the scene from
rooms of neighboring buildings and the
inside of the ill-fated steamer illuminated
with electric bulbs, the hunt for bodies
continued after dark.
The hazardous task of stringing the
electric light wires inside the wreck was
iccomplished by 20 or more electricians.
Avenue in Mourning
Chicago, July 24.—Kolin avenue, a home
ly West Side street, was an avenue of
mourning tonight. For blocks there was
hardly a house which had not felt direct
ly the shock of the Eastland disaster, for
many of its residents were employes of
the Western Electric company. One large |
house, in which dwelt two families of
workers in the factory, was without a
light tonight, and neighbors said that
every resident of the place was dead.
An Appalling Scene
Chicago, July 24.-*-Bodies, long rows of
:hem, 85 to the row, made the scene at
the Second regiment armory something
ippalling to the uninitiated, and even to
officials hardened to such scenes the
sight brought tears.
Ten long rows of blanketed victims met
the eyes of the thousands who were al
owed to enter this place of death shortly
before 10 o’clock and then were enacted
leartrending scenes surpassed only by the
lisaster itself.
Preceding the admission of those who
were seeking friends and relatives, the
bodies were brought in and checked oft
with systematic precision, each being
lumbered and then laid in the particular
•ow that the number called for. Two
lozen physicians and undertakers, work
ng at improvised operating tables, em
balmed the bodies.
Carefully wrapped in blankets the vic
;tms presented a similar appearance until
he crowd was admitted when the
blankets were turned back from the faces,
rhousands had stood outside the armory,
rhere was no disorder and the very silence
>f the assemblage emphasized the awful
:ragedy that has been enacted.
When the doors were thrown open the
jrowd was met by two lines of police
bfficers and through this lane the seek
ers were forced to pass their way in
Jingle file. Squads of 26 were admit
;ed at a time.
Shortly after the opening of the great
norgue to the public, the first identifi
:ation took pla**e. An elderly woman ac
jompanled by a young man dropped on
ler knees, then fell moaning and walling
lpon what proved to be the body of her
laughter. Similar scenes followed fast
md the line appeared to be ever on the
ncrease.
When the large armory showed signs
bf becoming overcrowded preparations
were made to convert the armory annex
nto the second general morgue. With
bractically all of the bodies in these struc
ures the coroner and police believed iden
:ifications would be made rapidly,
holes and the hawsers tore out the
spiles to which the vessel was tied.
Screams from passengers attracted the
attention of fellow excursionist^ on the
dork awaiting the next steamer. Wharf
| men and picnickers soon lined the edge
of the embankment, reaching out helpless
i ly toward the wavering steamer.
For nearly five minutes the ship turned
before it finally dived under the swift cur
rent of the river. During the listing of
the vessel lifeboats, chairs and other
loose appurtenances on the decks slipped
down the sloping floors, crushing the pas
sengers toward the rising waters.
Then there was a plunge and a sigh
of ait escaped from the hold, mingled with
crying of children and shrieks of women
and the ship was on the bottom of the
river, casting hundreds of living oreatu.es
into the water.
Many sank, entangled with clothing and
bundles, and did not rise, but hundreds
came to the surface, seized floating chairs
and other objects. Persons on shore threw
out ropes and dragged in those who could
hold these life lines. Employes of com
mission firms along the river threw crates,
chicken coops and other floatable objects
into the water, but most of these were
swept away by the currents.
Boats put out, tugs rushed to the scene
with shrieking whistles and many men
Jumped into the river to aid the drowning.
With thousands of spectators ready to
aid and the wharf within grasp, hundreds
met death despite every effort at rescue.
One mother grasped her two children
in her arms as she slipped from the
steamer into the water. One child was
torn from her but she and the other
were saved. Fathers were drowned after
aiding their wives and children to safety.
While those on land w'ere disposing of
the dead, injured and rescued the divers
in the heart of the sunken vessel sent
up an almost constant stream of corpses
from the submerged decks. First it was
a gaily dressed girl in her teens who
had been caught between a pile of chairs
and a cabin wall. Next it was a slight
boy, gathered from the lifeless arms of
a fond father, who had clung to his off
spring. even in death. Then followed an
old woman, who had gone aboard the ship
to watch the youthful pleasure of he**
grandchildren, or a little girl with bare
legs and bootees with gay ribbons sodden
against the lace of her holiday gown.
BABY GIRL IS
FOUND ALIVE
One thrill passed through the crowd as j
word came from the steamer that a girl1
baby had been found alive among the
hundreds of dead in the ship. The child
was discovered in a starboard state
room, where she had been held from the
water by a chair that jammed against
the berth. The baby only half-awakened
as it was carried to land. Its mother
could not be found.
Two women were found alive in an
other stateroom in a protruding side of
the Plastland, but that ended the hopes
that any number had escaped death in
the trap. There were still 300 persons
in the hold when these three persons were
taken out alive and the explorers of the
hulk said that all were dead.
Work of tagging the bodies of the dead
and placing them in accessible places
for Identification proceeded all day and
night. Reports from temporary morgues
gave a total of 770 bodies, but tabulation
became so confusing that it was decided
to take all bodies to the Second regiment
armory, so that those who were looking
for lost friends and relatives could view
all the victims in one place.
Identification was slow and scenes at
the morgues were as affecting as those
at the river when the steamer capsized.
Mothers fell across the biers of children
whom they had sent away a few hours
before on what was intended to be a
day of pleasure. Men had to summon
the stoical qualities they possessed to re
tain composure as they passed between
the rows of corpses, looking for missing
children or wives.
Yet amidst all the horrors and heart
ache officers of various departments
attended to pressing duties of disposi
tion of the dead and injured, tracing of
the missing, inquiry into the cause of
the disaster and precautions against
disease from sunken bodies and the
carrying of corpses by the river to
wards the canal locks.
Federal Judge Landis ordered a grand
Jury impaneled to investigate the
catastrophe; State’s Attorney Boyne
PLANS LAID FOR RELIEF
OF EASTLAND VICTIMS
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Chicago, July 24.—Acting Mayor Moore- survivors flashed word to anxious rel
house and J. J. O’Connor, director of atives.
the central division of the American Red Thp Red Cro8s established an emergency
Cross, laid plans for relief of the East- station at the Second regiment armory,
,nn, prepared to take care of prostration cases
land victims at a meeting tonight, at- and accidents. The nurses’ association
tended by officers of the Western Electric and society volunteered to care for sur
company. vlvors and stricken relatives and were
Private stores and offices were turned b?lped by hotels' which furnished gallons
Into relief °‘ coffee and hundreds of sandwiches.
"I, , S‘at‘°"a anf, publl° Under direction of the city health de
terns helped. The ( hicago ielephone partment treatment to prevent typhoid
company installed a score of free tele- fever was accorded survivors who might
phones near the Eastland’s docks, whence have swallowed river water.
prepared a county grand jury Inquiry; |
Coroner Hoffman selected a jury to look i
Into the cause of the deaths; the police
arrested all the officers of the Eastland J
and the health commissioner arranged
to purify the river, for fear disease
might be spread by the presence of so i
many bodies in the stream. .
Arrangements also were made to get '
at the sunken vessel to determine U s
underlying causes of the accident. Dor- ■
ricks on scows were taken to the side !
of the Eastland and marine engineers
were engaged to inspect the ship.
Those in charge of the various works
of clearing up the toll of casualties and
determining the responsibility for the
capsizing of the boat said tonight the
endeavor would necessarily be slow be
cause of the large number *jf persons
aboard the Eastland and the difficulty
of getting at the hull of the steamer.
One man was seen to cling to a spike ,
In the side of the wharf while two
women and three children stepped up
his body to safety. He fell exhausted I
into the river as the last one of the
five reached the pier.
Instances of heroism were almost as
numerous as the number of persons on
the scene. Boats as soon as full took
rescued passengers to the wharf or to
the steamer Theodore Roosevelt, which
was tied up opposite the Eastland.
In an hour the water was cleared of
excursionists. Those who had not been
taken to lhnd had sank or were swirl
ing down the river towards the drain
age canul locks at Lockport, 111., many
miles away. The locks were raised to
stop the current and arrangements were
made to take bodies from the river
along its course through the southwest
part of Chicago.
FIREMEN WORK
ON SUNKEN HULL
Shortly after the water was cleared, city
firemen and workmen were on the exposed
side of the Eastland’s hull, cutting
through its steel plates with gas flames.
Divers were hurried into under-water
suits. A tug was moored as a bridge
between the pier and the capsized ship.
As the divers gained entrance to the
hull, the scene of distress moved for
the time being from the river to the ex
temporized morgues. Warehouses of
wholesale companies along the river were
thrown open and bodies were placed in
row's on the floors. Scores of persons res
cued from the water were injured and
these were taken to the Iroquois hospital,
built in memory of the 600 women, children
and a few men who were burned and
crushed t odeath in the Iroquois theatre
several years ago.
MANY INJURED
WILL DIE
Efforts to resuscitate those taken from
the river were generally unsuccessful.
Only two or three were thus saved. It
was also said that many of the injured
would die.
The wdiole city was in consternation
over the catastrophe. Word of the acci
dent spread rapidly and to the thousands
already at or near the wharf other thou
sands added themselves. The Clark strett
bridge near the w'harf was crowded until
it threatened to collapse. Streets had to
be cleared by the police to allow the pas
sage of ambulances.
Business men sent their automobiles
and motor trucks to help aid the injured
and carry away the dead. One warehouse
soon was filled with bodies and other dead
w’ere taken to the Second Regiment ar
mory, a mile away.
Mayor William Hale Thompson w'as in
San Francisco and Chief of Police C. C.
Haley was also out of town, but Acting
Mayor Moorhouse sent out a request
that the city display signs of mourning.
Flags on public buildings were placed at
half-mast nnd many places were draped
with mourning. Baseball games were
postponed and festivities largely ceased.
At 9 o’clock tonight 831 bodies had
been removed to the Second Regiment
armory.
Revised figures show’ed 176 bodies
had been identified. Of 114 partially
Identified bodies, 47 were men, 48
women, seven boys and 12 girls.
The armory, situated in a thickly
settled part of West Side, was sur
rounded this evening by a great throng.
Most of the victims were residents of
the West Side and nearly every ele
vated train bound for that section to
night carried its group of weeping men
and women.
It was hoped to have the recovered
bodies all In the armory by 10 o’clock,
and until that time no one was ad
mitted. Accordingly, thousands formed
in line hours before the great doors
were opened, awaiting a chance to seek
trace of kin and friends believed lost.
At 9:35 o’clock the first batches of
people were admitted io the armory
and began efforts to Identify the dead.
They were admitted in groups of 25.
and judging from the crowds which
surrounded the building coroner's aides
J ‘ ' ,.
tclievcd it would take all night to let
hem through.
ilORE THAN 900
BODIES IN ARMORY
More than 900 bodies were then in
he armory and some of the officials
laid they had reason to believe 300 or
00 more still were in the wreck.
The first squads admitted to the
irmory consisted mainly of the curi
ias, and Coroner Hoffman, through a
nagaphone cried out that he would
irrest "in tile name of decency'* any
>ne who entered the armory without
•eason other than the satisfaction of
norbld curiosity.
As fast as the bodies were identi
fied they were removed again to under
taking establishments to make room
or others waiting outside in ambu
ances. There were more than 900
corpses in the armory when the first
Jeople were admitted and within an
lour 50 bodies were taken out and 50
nore brought in.
ILLINOIS CITIZENS
MOURN DISASTER
San Francisco, July 24.—Thousands
Df Illinois people who had gathered at
the Panama-Pacific exposition to cele
brate "Illinois Day" remained to mourn
the Eastland tragedy. They stood with
bared heads while the band of the
First regiment of the Illinois National
lluard played “Nearer My God To
rhee.”
News of the disaster plunged Gov
ernor Dunne and other high officials
nf the state and city into sorrow. No
nces were at once sent out cancelling
the dinner, reception and ball.
"Chicago Day,” set for next Tuesday,
Probably will be devoted to memorial
services Instead of festivity.
Money for Atrocity Probe
Petrograd, July 10.—(Special.)—The
council of empire has appropriated
$20,000 for an extraordinary Inquiry
into "the breaking of accepted rules of
viarfare by Germans and Austrians in
the field."
PRESIDENT OF LINE
NERVOUS WRECK
St. Joseph, Mich., July 24.—W. H.
Hull, vice president and general
manager of the St Joseph-Chicago
Steamship lines, which owned the
ill-fated Eastland, lies at his home
here, a nervous wreck, as a result
of news of the catastrophe. Phy
sicians and nurses who are attend
ing him refuse to allow any one ex
cept near relatives in his room.
Other officials of the line icfised
to discuss the tragedy, it is said.
PREVIOUS STEAMSHIP DISASTERS
Titanic, April 14, 1912, off New Foundland bar’tf . 15 lives lost! IfJ||
Lusitania, May 7, 1915, Atlantic ocean, 1100 lives lost. wt
Empress of Ireland, May 29, 1914, St. Lawrence river, 1024 lives lost. ft%8
General Slocum, June 15, 1904, East river, New York, 959 lives lost. M M
Bourgoyne, July 2, 1898, off New Foundland banks, 871 lives lost. |P|J|
Princess Alice, September 3, 1878, in Thames, near Woolwich, 700 lives UMj
lost. SS-M;
Uptopia, March 17, 1891, off Gilbraltar, 574 lives lost. eJB
Matsu Maru, March 23, 1908, off coast of Japan, 300 lives lost ill
Ship Kapunda, March 29, 1897, off coast Brazil, 289 lives lost.
Lady Elgin, September 8, 1860, Lake Michigan, 287 lives lost. | j§
Excursion steamer, April 24, 1909, at Montevideo, 200 lives lost. ;i\! If
I^archmont, February 12, 1907, Long Island sound, 183 lives lost. !«■;
Volturno, October 11, 1913, Atlantic ocean, 135 lives lost.
State of Florida, April 18, 1884, off Canadian coast, 128 lives lost. ^B
Libau, June 7, 1903, off Marseilles coast, 100 lives lost. Wt
Norge, June 25, 1S94, off Rockall reefs, 600 lives lost. |j|
Nile river steamer, April 8, 1912, Nile river, 200 lives lost. ^Bi
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PLEA OF LITTLE GIRL
WINS PARDON FOR
CONVICTED FATHER
Milledgeville, Ga., July 24.—The plea
of a 6-year-old child to Governor Har
ris today won a promise of freedom
for Thomas Edgar Stripling, who was
arrested in Danville, Va., in 1911,
where he was chief of police, and re
turned here to spend his life in prison
Cor murder after he had escaped from
Jail 14 years before while awaiting
transfer to the Georgia prison farm.
Learning that the governor would
visit the prison today, Bessie Lucile,
Stripling’s little daughter, obtained
permission to be present and make her
appeal.
"Mr. Governor, won’t you please turn
my papa loose?” she pleaded. “He is
Blck and there is nobody home to work
for us. Please turn him loose, Mr. Gov
ernor."
Governor Harris, visibly affected by
the childish plea, patted her on the
head and replied:
"Little girl, run and tell your papa
that I’m going to turn him out of here.
Tell him that I am going to pardon
him."
Later, after the prisoner’s daughter
had told him of the decision, the gov
smor himself visited Stripling. He did
not announce the date the pardon
would be given.
Stripling was known as R. E. Mor
ris in Danville, where he w*as prom
inent. Four years ago he was recog
nized by a former acquaintance. He
admitted his identity and voluntarily
returned to this state, where he had
been convicted of shooting W. J. Cor
nett in 1897.
Two other governors have refused
clemency pleas in behalf of Stripling,
lie Is said to be in ill health.
Galicians Much Relieved
Vienna, July 10.—(Special.)—The enforced
evacuation of most of Galicia by the Rus
sians has brought untold relief to the
occupants of the province, many of them
Germans who have colonized there, and
whose farms have suffered the same fate
that those In Bast Prussia did last fall.
A. recent investigation of the province as
far eastward as Przemysl, farther In some
places, shows that horses and cattle have
been stolen, churches, school houses,
barns and cottages burned, and fc#d,
furniture and valuables robbed right and
left. In a few isolated cases the Rus
sians appear to have paid, at price far be
low value, for what they took. For some
ourious reason not yet entirely explained
they left, in dozens and scores of cases,
one single cow for each family that was
robbed—perhaps on the theory that this
would prevent the starvation of their vic
tims. Hogs they usually slaughtered on
the spot, but at night so that they should
not be seen at their work. Hay and
straw by the wagon load has been carried
off by the Russians. The Germans in
many instances attempted to secrete
their things, but almost invariably the
hiding places were betrayed by tne per
sonal violence that was so often the case
In East Prussia. There are comparative
ly few complaints of this nature. Houses
that have not been destroyed have suf
fered from occupation by Russian soldiers
and officers.
German Slang Being Enriched
Berlin, July 10.—(Correspondence of
the Associated Press.)—German slang
is being enriched by a number of in
teresting expressons which have come
into use at the front. The aviators, for
instance, do not drop bombs—they “lay
©ggs” Soldiers no longer talk of the
aviator-observer and of the pilot. The
former is always called Franz and the
latter either Heinrich or Emil. From
the observer's name a verb has been
formed, "franzen,’r meaning to observe
or spy out. From this £he derivative
“verfranzen” has been formed, mean
ing to observe falsely or poorly. Thus
“ei®e Sache verfranzen” signifies the
rendering futile of a movement by poor
observation. The projectiles of the ar
tillery, both of the German and hos
tile armies, bear a number of pet
names. The German missiles are called
“gifts,’’ “Iron gifts" or “old gentle
men." Hostile projectiles are termed
from their development of smoke,
“black sows" or "woolly bears," from
the manner in which they land,
"chained dogs" or "blind skippers;"
from their noise, “rowdy Henry" or
“trailer wagons," and those that scat
ter their missiles effectively rejoice in
the name of “sprinkling cans."
Women Section Hands '
Berlin, July 10.— (Women, who have
gradually replaced men on the Ger
man railroads as ticket choppers at the
stations, as guards, etc., are now be
ing installed by the management of
the Bromberg railroad as section
hands. The Bromberg management has
jurisdiction clear to the limits of
Greater Berlin and has put in women
along the greater part of its line. In
some cases women also are acting as
station masters. They receive 2.80
marks (70 cents) daily.
VEGETABLE CROP I
TO BE CONFISCATED ■
Vienna, July 24.—(Via London, 8:50 p. ^B
no,)—1Confiscation of the 1915 vegetabl* HI
crop, Including peas, lentils and beans, ||H
was ordered by the government today to ■■
prevent a repetition of the speculation and fill
unwarrantably high prices that have pro- w|
vailed throughout Austria. ,
All existing supplies of vegetables from ME
the 1914 crop will be seized after August tfsjj
L. The confiscated crop will be sold un- flfi
3er state supervision.
Bees Swarm in Paris Streets Ip)
Paris, July 10.—(Special,)—Twice within UK
el week the business quarter of the Rue Krai
de Chateaudun has been invaded by ||K
strange refugees from northern France— 1■
swarms of bees, which, following theirit jfgj!
queen, l>egan to hang in a cluster frorai jS
one of the lampposts. Presumably they}' ^B
had been driven from their former home If
by the ceaseless hurricane of fire, smoke B
and explosion. When the first visit oc-j
curred, the police sent for a scientist from| K
the zoo, who arrived with the usual |fl|:
equipment for enticing bees into a hive, 1 ijm
but the visitors turned a deaf ear to the 6 J'MHk
time-honored wiles and stung a few otk mm
the too curious public. Then the firemenj® ^B
were sent for, but it was finally decided! ^B
that it would be better to suffocate theBHjj
bees than to scatter them by means of ai H
stream of water. Accordingly they were*
subjected to a poisonous gas which re-‘ |§|||
duced them to insensibility and enabled^ ^B
the specialist from the zoo to sweep them JB
away in a bucket.
Two days later another swarm arrived ^B
ir. the same place and were similarly [111
dealt with. |^B
Bulgar-Turk Relations Strained
Sofia. July 10.—(Special.)—Corre
spondence of the Associated Press.)
Relations between Bulgaria and Tur
key are believed to be becoming
strained as the result of Turkey’s fail
ure to allow free passage of Bulgar-I
lan passengers and goods on the L)ede
agatch railway, as had been promised.
The military authorities at Adrianople
continue to hold up and examine the
Bulgarian freight cars and it is
charged that much of the freight ex
amined is scattered or stolen. Much un
rest prevails among the Turkish pop
ulation of Gumuljina, where young,
Turk agitators are trying to incite the|
people to revolt in case Bulgaria joins
the entente powers. The seriowness of
the situation is indicated by the facti
that the Bulgarian charge d’affaires at
Constantinople has advised the Bul
garian students at Robert college and*
the American College’ for Girls to re-?
turn home. x
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New Bird in Switzerland J
Geneva, July 10.—(Special.)--The
Swiss papers report that a beautiful
bird, strange to Switzerland, which has l
appeared in limited numbers in the
Iirgadine, has caused apprehension!
among superstitious Swiss folk. R is |
traditionally believed that the bird vis
ited Switzerland in 1570 when there i
was a famine ; in 1784, when there was
great internal political disturbances;
in 1866, when the country was afflict- .
ed with pests; and, lastly, in 1870, dur- $
lng the Franco-German war. So far as
known, it has not been seen in Switz
erland since then. Bird students believe
they have Identified the visitor as the
"bombycilla garrulus,” popularly
known as the silk-tailed starling, .
which is supposed to have its habitat
in Lapland.
To Protect Disabled Soldiers
Paris. July 10.—(Special.)—A distinctive
sign, ribbon or arm badge, is demanded >
for soldiers who have accomplished their -
duty, been incapacitated by wounds or j
other disability, and returned to civil life. 1
In many cases their disability is not ap- 1
parent and in civilian attire they are sub- [
jeeted to disagreeable incidents. Some ‘
propose for these victims of false ap- j
pearances a "1915 medal;’’ not the "war
cross." reserved for exceptional exploits, J
but a simple distinctive mark that will ■ |
make known to everyone that they have ;
done their duty. The proposition lias been
complicated by a demand that it be given
to every man that wras mobilized, while
the originators of the idea w’ant it to be >
reserved for those returning from service
"at the front.” j
School for Girl Clerks
London, July 10.— (Special.)—The ;
I/ondon municipal school where girls '
may learn In six weeks to become ; j
grocers' clerks, has been successfully ! j
launched in the western part of the 1
city with a class of 30. The girls will
be trained in all the routine work of
asr'stants in grocery and provision ;
stores. Tuition is free and pupils un- 1
pble to support themselves during the
six weeks’ course are granted $3 a
week from the Prince of Wales fund.
Prince Henry's Son Promoted %
Kley, Germany, July 10.—(Special.)
Prince Sigismund, the second son of
Prince Henry of Prussia, who at the
age of 17 entered the navy in active
service—at the outbreak of the wrar— j
has just passed the examinations for r
ensign and has been promoted. He has
been attached to the marine corps and
assigned to Flanders.
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