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VOL. XIV. NO. 73.
PENSACOLA, FLORIDA, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 26, 1911.
PRICE, 5 CENTS.
Official Weather Forecast.'
RAIN SUNDAY AND PROBABLY
MONDAY BRISK AND HIGH EAST
WINDS.
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Most of the Victims Girls Em
ployed in Shirt Waist Fac
tory in New York.
MANY JUMPED FROM THE EIGHTH, NINTH AND
TENTH FLOORS, OTHERS SMOTHERED BY
SMOKE, WHILE SOME WERE SHRIVELED
: TO A CRISP GREATEST DISASTER IN NEW
YORK SINCE THE STEAMER SLOCUM WAS
: BURNED IN 1804. ;
By Associated Press.
New York, March 25. One hundredand forty-eight
persons, nine-tenths of whom were girls, were crushed to
death on the pavements, smothered by smoke, or shriveled
to a crisp in a factory-fire this afternoon in the worst dis
aster New York has known since the steamer Slocum was
burned to the water's edge in 1904. Onehundred and
forty-one bodies had been removed from the ruins at mid
night. Seven of the forty-eight injured died in hospitals,
and this, it is believed, completes the list of the dead, most
of whom are unidentified. Grief-crazed relatives besieged
the morgue as the bodies were laid out.
"Nearly all the victims were, employed by the Triangle
Shirt -Waist .Company, on the .eighth, ninth and tenth
floors of the building at. No. 23 Washington place, on the
western fringe of the down-fown wholesale district. The
partners of the firm, Isaac 'Harris and Max Blanck, es
caped unscathed from their office on the tenth floor, carrying-with
them, over an adjoining roof, two children and
their governess. , 1
There were no outside fire escapes on the building,
and how the fire started will perhaps never be known.
On the ninth floor fifty bodies were found, sixty-three
or more were killed by jumping, and over thirty were
clogged in elevator shafts. The property loss will not exceed-one
hundred thousand dollars.
Pedestrians on the street were at first startled when a
body hurled through the air and flattened on the sidewalk.
Looking up they saw the windows of the upper floors black
with r-ir1 rrnwdinp-to th&" sills. - - .-:w Ar
"Don't jump," was yelled, but there was no' alternative
; nnd they began to fall to the sidewalkin a terrible rainjjf
flesh and. blood.
In an hour the fire was out, but in half an hour it had
done its worst. The building stands to-night with its shell
it'act, but barely scarred.. Seven . hundred people were
employed by the company, and two-thirds were women.
The first rush of the flames almost equaled an ex
plosion, the floors being thickly covered with lint and
scraps. Many died in chairs, while scores rushed to the
windows and so fast did they fall that the fire nets were
soon gorged beyond their capacity.
The fire b'ursted out five minutes before quitting
time, and caught nearly the, full force present. Scores
were in the waiting line to be paid.
MANY PATHETIC SCENES.
" At a ninth floor window a man and a woman ap
peared. The man embraced the woman, kissed her and
then hurled her to the street and jumped. Both were
killed: Five girls dropped in a struggling tangle and were
crushed into a shapeless mass. ";
On the eighth floor, from one window a girl of thir
teen, a woman, a man and two women witbtheir arms
about one another, threw themselves to the ground in
rard succession. One girl, jumped into a horse blanket
held by firemen and policemen. The blanket ripped like
.. cheese cloth and the body was mangled almost beyond
recognition. Another dropped into a tarpaulin held by
three men. The weight tore it from their grasp, breaking
almost every bone in her body. Almost at the same time a
man somersaulted down upon the shoulder of a policeman,
holding the tarpaulin," glanced off, and struck the side
walk. He was picked up dead.
The call for ambulances was followed by successive
appeals for-police until five hundred patrolmen arrived to
cope with the crowd, numbering ten thousand, a mixture
of morbidly curious and half-crazed relatives and friends
of the victims. One hundred mounted policemen charged
the crowd repeatedly to keep it back. .
. AWFUL SIGHT WITNESSED.
Led by Fire Chief Croker, a squad of firemen stormed
the stairways and .gained access to the building at 7
' o'clock. Fifty roasted, bodies were found on the ninth
-floor. Women with their hair burned away, with here and
there a limb burned entirely off, or with a charred stump
visible, were lifted tenderly from the debris, wrapped in
oilcloth and lowered by pulleys to the street Across the
street rested on the sidewalk a hundfed pine coffins into
which were placed the bodies and carried away in any
kirid of vehicle that could be pressed into service, to the
morgue. at Bellevue hospital. The Charities Pier morgue
V wis opened for the first time since" the Slocum horror. -
Citv officials to-nip-ht annnnnrpH that trip usual ricrirl
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investigation will be instituted at once. Fire Chief Croker
-j "T'u: i- -.I.. : a. t i 1 i i :
sam. xma wcwawiiy i just wnai i. nave ucen preuicung.
f There were no outside fire escapes on the building. This
large loss of life is due to this neglect."
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Bight Killed in Wreck
of a Passenger Train
By Associated Press.
Ocda, CUu, March 25. Eight persons
were killed and more than a dozen In
jured when train No. 6, known as ths
"Dixie Flyer," and running between
Chicago and Jacksonville, Fla, was
wrecked on the trestle over the Ala
bama river, near here, at 7:30 o'clock
this morning: The first and second
class coaches and . the first Pullman
sleeper went Into the river, carrying
away about 400 feet of the trestle.
According o the reports of soma ot
the passengers who came to Ocilla, the
wreck happened without any warning
and was caused by the breaking of an
axle on the engine when midway of
the long trestle. The coaches in the
river are about ten feet under water
and It is said the list of dead may be
Increased when the debris was cleared.
Seven . bodies had been , recovered by
noon and the Injured were brought
here and will be sent to the Atlantic
Coast Line hospital at Waycross, Ga.
First reports of the wrcek were to
the effect that the entire train went
into the river and that forty were
killed outright, while many were In
jured. The scene of the wreck Is In a
remote section of the state and It was
several hours before accurate Informa
tion was obtainable. .......
SPIRITS WILL
GO ICH HIGHER
NAVAL STORES SITUATION PRE
SENTS SPECTACULAR FEA
TURES SPIRITS WILL REACH
$1.10 BEFORE APRIL 1.
By Associated Press. .
Savannah, Ga, March 25. The na
val stores situation at the opening of
the market In Savannah today present
ed many spectacular features. Spirits
were .quoted at $1.0$ 1-2 a gallon and
that the highest price of the season has
not been reached Is . conceded by all
who have anything to do with -the
market. The naval stores year will end
tm "March 8.1, it A freely predicted
before that date arrives spirits will be
selling at $1 JO a gallon. . . . -,
SETTLE STRIKE
WHITE THEN
QUEEN & CRESCENT TROUBLE
COMES TO AN END, BOTH SIDES
CONCEDING POINTS DISPUTED.
By Associated Press.
Cincinnati, March 25. The strike of
the white firemen . on the Queen &
Crescent road was declared off tonight
after an agreement had been signed by
representatives of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen and Englnemen
and General Manager Baker of 'the
road.
The strike agreement, to all appear
ances. Is & compromise. . both sides
yielding several points disputed. The
company reserves the right to refuse
to employ any fireman who commit
ted an act of violence during the strike.
Negro firemen cannot be employed
north of Oakdale, Tenn., and cannot
be assigned to over one-half of the
passenger or preferred freight trains.
ELEVEN PLAGUE VICTIMS. ,
Amor. China. March 25. Eleven
deaths from bubonic plague and six
deaths from smallpox wer reported
within the city during the past two
weeks.
DEFENSE BEGINS.
Independence, Kaa, March 25. The
defense began its testimony In the trial
of A. A. Truskett, the aged Caney,
Kaa, business man, for killing J. L.
S. Neery, a millionaire oil man of Lima,
Ohio, today.
Lost and Found Wants
There's Intense interest in the
Lost and Found Columns of The "
Journal Want Ads for many who
have been so unfortunate as to lose. "
some article of value how eager
iney are 10 regain the lost keep
sake and how they hope that the
t nnaer wiu restore it.
Jj If s natural enough that the first
g thought that comes, alike to the
S; loser and the finder, is a Journal
X Want Ad. The "Wants are always
S; at the service of those who lose
3; things and those who find things
S of value they offer a quick, con-
S venient means of communication.
4, The Journal Wants have been
S the means of restoring many lost
2 articles to their rightful owners
i and bringing happiness to many a
i person who has been quick to take
-s. advantage of them.
Read The Journal Want Ads.
& Use The Journal Want Ada ;
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Relief trains have been sent to the
soene from Waycross Tlfton and Wll
lacoochee and It Is stated that It will
be 36 hours before the tracks are
cleared for traffic.
Tonight but one body, that of John
T. Watson, of Lands, Wyo., remained
In the cars In the Tlver. Had he not
been In the wreck , he would have been
a bridegroom tomorrow. His sweet
heart. Mis Shlppey, of Pasadena, Cat.
who was with him, remained at the
wreck throughout the day watching th-j
rescuers search for the body. Late to
night it was stated that the death total
will not be Increased, and all pas
sengers are accounted for. All th;
wounded were removed to the Atlantic
Coast Line hospital at Waycross.
The cars plunged into the river
without a moment's warning to the
sleeping passengers, when an axle of
the engine broke when midway the
trestle. The dead are: O. F. Bonra
wart, Henderson, Ky.; W. W. Culpep
per, Tlfton, Ga.; Mrs. W. D. Fletcher,
Rowland, I1L; John T. Watson, Landa,
Wyo.; J. P. Woodward, express mes
senger, Waycross, Ga.; C J. ParnelL
conductor. Savannah; Lucius Ellis,
fireman, and Albert Simmons, porter,
both negroes, Waycross. Tonight two
wrecking trains are busily engaged
clearing the track. y . . .
SCHEME on
iJ. Y. DEADLOCK
ALL REPUBLICAN MEMBERS OF
THE NEW YORK LEGISLATURE
URGED TO BE IN ALBANY MON
DAY. I
By Associated Press.
Albany, March , 25. Senator Roose
velt learned today that an Republican
members of the legislature have been
asked to be in Albany Monday morning
by MinpritX---LealxBcfcait - and
Merritt and he sent a telegram to fel
low Insurgents urging that they also
be on hand ready for any emergency.
What -the "Imperative need is for
assembling the members Is unknown.:
INSANE MAN SH00T8
AND KILLS A DEPUTY
By Associated Press.
Des Moines, Is-, March 25. Dr. H.
B. Kelly, of Council Bluffs. Lau, while
being taken, to the inebriate asylum at
Knoxville, whipped a revolver from his
pocket and instantly killed Deputy
Sheriff Clarence Wool man, also of
Council Bluffs. Ed Stursing, a bar
tender, hearing the shots, ran to the
officer's assistance and was himself
fatally wounded. Kelly was overpow
ered. '
MILLION DOLLAR PLANT
BLOWN UP BY DYNAMITE
By Associated Press.
Cleveland. O., March 25. It Is
reported that the new million dol
lar ore handling plant of the Erie
railroad at : North Randall, a
suburb, was blown up by dyna
mite tonight and that bloodhounds
have been placed on the scent of
the vandals.
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FLORIDA FEE SYSTEM
Example No. 1.
Case State vs. Oscar McCraney-, in Escambia county.
Charge Carrying concealed weapons.
Examination July 1. 1910.
Tried August 10. 1910.
Flea Guilty.
COSTS.
JUSTICE COURT
Taking affidavit
Issuing warrant ...... .40 .
Docketing case ....... .......... ........... .08
Entering Judgment ...... .20
Writing committment ............... .40
Indexing case ........ ........ 05 '
Filing two papers . JO f 1.59
SHERIFF
Arrest of prisoner ........ ...... . .. 1.00
Return on warrant ..................... ........ ...... ..10
Committing to JaC .60
Recommittal of prisoner ............... .25
Release of prisoner
Board .-.. ....................... ...............
CLERK
Docketing case ...........
Indexing case
Information, writing oath (20c), administering oath (6c),
affixing seal (10c), filing (5c)
Issuing capias
Issuing writ flere facias ,.
Calling, swearing and recording
Filing two papers
Entering sentence
COUNTY SOLICITOR
Total costs
SUCCESSOR TO
ENRIQUE CREEL
DECIDED UPON
Leon de la Barra Will Be
r
Minister of Foreign Af
airs in New Cabinet.
HE IS THE ONLY MEMBER AN
NOUNCED, THOUGH FOUR MORE
ARE SELECTED LIMANTOUR
WILL REMAIN MINISTER OF FI
NANCE AMERICANS AND MEX
ICANS ARRESTED AND ARMS
AND AMMUNITION SEIZED. '
By Associated Press.
Mexico City, March 25. Francisco
Leon de la Barra, the Mexican ambas
sador to the United States, will be the
successor of Enrique C Creel, minister
of foreign affairs of the new Diaz cab
inet. This Is the only member of the
new cabinet announced tonight and the
appointment was not announced offi
cially. It Is conceded that Jose Yves
Llmantour will remain minister of fi
nance, "i
The four selected are Demtrlo Sedl.
Judge of the supreme court, as minis
ter of Justice; Norbeto Dominguez, de
partment -of communications; Manuel
Marroquln department of fomento, and
Jorge Vera Estanol, minister of educa
tion. Gen. Bernado Beyes, now lh
Italy, ' believed to be slated for secre
tary of war and marine, is returning
to Mexico, but will not serve in thut
capacity. If Is stated. According, to
high authority, he will return to serva
In the army In the campaign against
the rebels in the north. With the
changes of the cabinet, reforms will fct
enacted, it is reported, which include
changes of the electoral system and
effective suffrage In the election of
state governors. It is said a full pro
giam of reforms will 'be given In the
president's message next Saturday at
the opening of congress.
AMERICANS AND MEXICANS ARE
ARRESTED AND SUPPLIES SEIZED
By Associated Press. , .
Del Rio, Texas, March 25. Eleven
Mexicans and two Americans were ar
rested last night at Sanderson, charged
with setting afoot a military expedi
tion : against Mexico. In default of
bonds the twelve were Imprisoned her
today. Twenty-five thousand rounds
of ammunition,' fifty-six rifles, twelve
horses and a quantity of provisions
were captured with the men. An at
tack on the town of Las Vegas, oppo
site the city, is expected tomorrow.
WAR CLOUD TURNS OUT
TO BE FULL OF RAIN
- By Associated Press. -
San Antonio, Texas, March 25. The
war cloud turned out today to be fuil
of rain," and everybody in Texas is
happy except the soldiers and General
Smith, in command of the brigade at
Leon Springs, twenty-seven miles from
camp, who telephoned to headquarter
ne would remain through the end of
the month to follow the completion of
the program of maneuvers delayed by
the weather.
AMERICANS WERE ARRESTED
ON SOIL OF UNITED STATES
By Associated Press.
FJ Paso, March" 25. Although the
anxiety of Juarez, across the border. Is
less keen today, bands of insurrectos
can be seen near the city. Lawrence
Converse and Edwin Blatt, the two
Americans held In jail at Juarez, were
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DISCUSS METHODS OF
ADVERTISING CITY
RUSSIA WILL
AT EARLY DAIE
SENDS LAST ULTIMATUM TO
CHINA AND THERE MUST BE A
SATISFACTORY AND EXHAUST
IVE REPLY BEFORE MARCH 23
OR. CHINA WILL BE HELD RE
SPONSIBLE. By Associated Press,
St. Petersburg, March 25. Russia
has sent an ultimatum to China, de
claring if an exhaustive and satisfac
tory reply to the Russian note of Feb
ruary 16 is not received by March 28,
it reserves to Itself freedom of action
and will make the Chinese government
responsible for the obstinacy it has
displayed.
The note of February 16 contained
six points ; with which Russia de
manded compliance, giving Russia the
right to impose Import and export du
ties unlimited, except in a zone 'n
which duty is free, that extra territory
rights of Russians in China shall not
be infringed, that Russians shall en
Joy special privileges of trade and duty
free commerce with Monoglia and ex
tra wall provinces, and that Russian
consulates be opened in Kobdo, Khami
and Guchen, due respect to local au
thorities for Russian consuls, and that
Russians are to enjoy the right to ac
quire real estate and erect structures
in Mongolia and extra' wall provinces.
THE PRESIDENT
IS GRATIFIED
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RECEIVES A MESSAGE FROM THE
EMPEROR OF JAPAN tWARMLY
RECIPROCATING r MESSAGE ' OF
GOOD WILL. .
'By Associated Press.
Washington, March' 25. President
Taft was gratified today when he re
ceived from the Emperor of Japan a
message warmly reciprocating the ex
pressions of good will made by the
president to Ambassador Uchida sev
eral days ago.
Uchida called at the White House
this afternoon and delivered the em
peror's message.
SECOND WEEK
OF TRIAL ENDS
GOVERNMENT
VIGOROUSLY
COLA TRIAL
CONTINUES TO
ATTACK COCA
WILL CONSUME
TWO MORE WEEKS.
By Associated Press.
Chattanooga, Tenn., March 25. To
day closed the second week of tho
coca-cola case and the defense has re
ceded but little from, the attacks of the
prosecution. The government has com
pelled the defendant company to di
vulge, apparently, the trade secret
thought to be wrapped up In "mer
chandise No. 5.
It Is believed the government will
seek to prove the existence of cocaine
in the fluid cock-cola. It Is stated the
defense has concluded only about one
fourth of Its evidence, and the hearing
will continue for at least two weeks.
DECLARE WAR
Choice Treasure is Added to the
Smithsonian Institute Collection
By Associated Pwa.
Washington, March 25. An addition
which. Is regarded by officials of the
bureau of ethnology of the Smithson
ian Institution as "one of their choicest
treasures," has been made to their
collection In the form of four scared
bundles or packs, of the Osage In
dians. They were secured for the in
stitution by Frances Laflesche, an
educated Omaha Indian, employed by
the bureau of ethnology, from an In
dian in Oklahoma to whose care they
have been entrusted.
The sacred bundle represents the
holiest fetich of the tribe and are
generally guarded by a special priest
l or medlae man. Thenars ppened at.
Publicity Committee of Com
mercial Association Con
siders Matter. ,
MEETS WITH ST. ELMO MASSEN
GALE OF ATLANTA, AND WILlL
RECOMMEND THE EXPEND!-.
TURE OF $2,500 FCjfl ADVERTIS
ING IN MAGAZINES AND NEWS-
PAPERS TRAFFIC COMMITTER
TO REPORT.
. The publicity committee of the Com-
mercial Association met yesterday af
ternoon in a two and a half bear sei
sion with St. Elmo Mass en gale of At
lanta. Tarious suggestions were made
as to an advertising campaign, and that
discussion covered a wide range of
magazines and advertising methods
generally.
The committee finally decided on
recommendations to be made to the
next meeting of the board of directors,
providing for the expenditure of about
$2,500 for continuous systematic ad
vertising in three monthly magazine
two weeklies and four high . grade
newspapers of national reputation.
The committee also approved th
secretary's suggestion for issuing 20,- 1
000 reproductions of the recent fre
illustrated write-up by the Atlanta
Constitution In the form of a folder.
The back of the paper on which the
constitution article is reproduced will
be devoted to statistical matter and
terse statements of the salient advan
tage of Pensacola, with a limited num-
ber of illustrations.
The board of directors,, at the re
quest- of the publicity committee, will
be called for a special meeting Monday
night, when a report will also be re
ceived from the traffic committee and
the wholesale trade committee on thi
question of Joining the New Orleans
Board of Trade, the Mobile Chamber
of Commerce and some other southern
commercial bodies to employ a special
attorney to appear before the Inter
state Commerce Commission and fight
the proposed increase of rates from
northern and western points to all gulf
ports. This proposed Increase would
probably mean more than $100,000 a
year to Pensacola .and the proposed
appropriation to help pay the expense
of defeating the increase would be a
very small percentage- of the saving to
Pensacola Jf the proposed increase H
defeated.
CARL MORRIS AND MIKE
SCHRECK TO ENGAGE IN BOUT
By Associated Press.
Sapulpa, Okla., March. 25. The last
nail was driven yesterday in the arena
where Carl Morris of Oklahoma and
Mike Schreck will battle on next Tubs-day-
ef tern oon. Sapulpa "fans" are
confident that the "white man's hope"
of the the heart of the Oklahoma oil
belt will add another victory to his
list when he meets the Cincinnati
heavyweight.
Twelve thousand persons can be
seated in the big structure that has
been erected especially for staging thi
fight.
STOP ANTI-JAPANESE
LEGISLATION IN CALIFORNIA
By Associated Press.
Sacramento, CaL, March 25. A men-
sage from President Taft to Gov. John
son has had the effect of stopping antl
Japanese legislation and it is said there!
will be no action on the bill to prohibit
Japanese aliens from owning land In
this state. The exact nature of the
message - from the president has not
been divulged by Mr. Johnson. Th
latter was brought to the attention og
the legislature through the action c
the committee on Judiciary. The com
mittee made a favorable report on the
bill to prohibit aliens from owning real
estate. ...
Yesterday the committee was called
together and asked to rescind that ac
tion. The committee rescinded Its ac
tion and the bill remains on the files.
FEUD IN WHICH FIFTY '
PERSONS HAVE BEEN KILLED
By Associated Press.
Portland, Ore., March 25. Six Bul- j
garians were arrested last night and
warrants issued for others for a mur
der which has puzzled the police sinoai
1809 when Theodore AtJam, a Mace- i
donian, was murdered here, -
certain times and th contents wor-t
shipped amid most elaborate oer4
monies. y
One of the bundles has been opened
by Dr. Walter Hough, a curator of
th Smithsonian Institution. Th out
side wrapping or sack was toad of a
rar Indian fabric, woven of silky
brown hair from the Buffalo. It was
bounded with buckskin, decorated with
human scalps and the legs of ac eagle.
Inside was a buckskin bag which con
tained a haversack In which a Pip
decorated with scalps, a tobacco bag, a I
braded cord made of woolen fabriaj
and a bundle of buffalo bladders with!
a thong ornamented with a scalp and'
one other bundle which represented!
the "h of hones.''