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T"1" '"WJUfWIP ""wjii- ? -T-TVl,-! $tttju& P .:' ,' (i i 'i MT. VERNON, OHIO, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1911. NO. 79. iff: i PRICE TWO CENTS ESTABIslSHED 1836 . i TAFT SPECIAL FOLLOWS FLOOD Throne Room In the Vatican, Where Pope Receives Visitors r M&uni$w&fy tfe Wmxntv. jp w i u nil lu if irLij 1L1 If if 1 11 r sly llLllliL K ? I Dam reaks Letting Hot f Of Water Austin, Pa JsMassi of Wrecka DEATH LIST DECREASES Will Not Exceed 300 Persons at the Outside, PROPERTY LOSS $6,000,000 Business Men Are Bankrupt and Prosperous Little Village Will Not Be Rebuilt. Fire Alarm Instead of Flood Warning Kept Many From Es caing With Their Lives. Austn, Pa., Oct. 2 Revised esti mates of the number of persons kill ed when the dam at the Baylisa Pulp and Paper company's plant, a mllo and a half north of hero, broke and let a deluge of water down through the nanow valley, are greatly re duced from the figures originally given out and It is not now belloved that the number will run above 800 and limy be as low as 200. The schoolliouso on the hill has been converted Into a morgue, and It 1b crammed with bodies. Bodies are Bald to have been soon as far as 10 miles south of Austin, and a great many of them will never be recov ered, as they, will bo swept down to the Susquelianua river. Tho flood has covered up everything with wreckage and not oven a foundation or cellar remain. Except for tho bank building, tho site of Austin is a leveled muss of bodies and bits of wreckage. Fires are still burning among tho piles of drift and many bodies are being burned. The Renova Are company fs on tho ground and Is gradually overcoming the flames. Thoy brought 200 men with them on a special train. At the Buffalo & Suaquohnmia car shops a great pile of bodies is believed to be beneath tho wreckage. Tho Are companies aro trying to extinguish tho flames here In order to rocover tho bodies. Many or those who escaped from the wall of water and the. tiros are lying at tho point of death from tho terrible injuries they huve received. A numbo of amputations of legs and arms have already beon made. Dr. Matsuay lost his entire family In the flood. Ho Is on the ground now and ono of the bravest of the retraining citizens of Austin. Word recolvod hore from Costello, a small village, 10 miles Bouth of Austin, states that 10 of Its residents lost their lives in tho flood which descended from Austin to them. -Fifty Buildings wero washed away and help Is needed thero very badly. The state constabulary havo ar rived hero "and they aro patrolling tho town and surrounding country. Fifty men havo been sworn In as dep uty poltco and are aiding in the search for bodies. Only 50 Buldlnga Remain. But CO buildings remain !n what was Austin, and they are perched along the hillside All live churches wero destroyed, and tho Austin Na tional bank is tbo only building that fountain Btill stands in tho town below. The pillar of water that lammed Its battering ram of cordwood through the alley where the town of Austin lay swept Itself a clean path for an even mile. Theie It smashed a broadside against a full ltugth of the principal street, gatheilng up as it went the boards that a minute be fore were houses, and heaed tbo splintered fragments against the moii' substantial line of brick stoies. The dam, that split into eight pieces, just us a row of dominoes will bulge out, was not an old structure. It wa'i placed below an antique wooden crib a trifle over two years ago But there have been murmur Jngs against the heavy bulk of water that it restrained even in spite of Its newness. The women of ths town eapecitilly have woirlcd about tho day when It might break. The men were disposed to laugh at these ft-ars Last spring there was an alarm wbtn it was thought that the brink WHb ready to give nay. Tho wafer poured mer it so freely and with such violence that a man galloped on horseback down the valley crying the warning Unit another ililer once gai- in a flood In 'this state. At that time the, people ran to the oveihang Int, hills, but there was no need for their fears. The flood did not come. But when the alarm was over and the townspeople went out to look at the bu'-rler, It was found that the concrete hud slipped down something like 18 liu-hes. After that notches weie cut in the upper suiface to lecsen the pressure by permitting a larger volume of water to trickle over the edge. The examination of Failey Gan nett, engineer for the state wator Bupply commission, showed that one chunk of concrete, weighing perhaps a ton and a half, had been piojected down stream 100 feet. Another much longei section lay GO feet out of the plumb line of the dam. Mr. Gannett found a man who from the hillside sav. the bursting of the wall. "A. Newman, a politician of Cow denjport," said the state engineer, "told me4that he was drlvlug along the hillside, away from the dam. His companion turned back to look at the flood of water. 'It seems to me that there's an awful lot of water coming ovor today,' said Newman. 'That's right, agreed his driver, and then as they looked Fieeman shouted, 'By God, there it goes.' , "The big lump popped out of place and catapulted down the stream. Then, like the cracking of a whip, the other popped out. In anothor second the great mass of wood pulp was being flicked Into tho air like matches. It went up Hko a cloud. The smokestacks of the Bayll&s Pa per company wero hidden behind the spray nnd cracking logs." Tho chunk that popped so far down was tbo -first to give way It was the top half of a section, ripped off as cleanly us If it had been sawed. Tho oxposes surface of the base that re mained in places showed that It had not beon roughened. It apparently marked tho end of a day's work In the construction nnd tho only way In which tho next day's section had been welded into It was by four twisted Iron bars which were pressed downward. Hired Special Lookout, After the false alarm of last spring tho Inhabitants of Austin decided that In tho event of another flood they might not place any rellanco upon tho speed of a horse'.-, hoofs and tho strength of a man's voice to warn them. It was agreed that ono long blast from the whistle of tho Standard Wood company should bo tho signal for the people to spread out of tho quarter-mllo width of tho vnlloy and to climb the hills. Thoy went further and hired Harrv Davis, tho general factotum around Cora Brook3' roadhouso, which was tho nearest building to tho dam except tho pulp mills, to keep an eye out lor danger signs In his leisure mo- Photograph by American Press Association, 1911. 10V triMuuns go to Home without seeing the outfclde of the Vatican; tin mugnllbent palace that for huutlmls. of yeais lias been tho reddeuct of the head of the Konmii Catholic church. Tho Vatican stands ou ground that was once occupied as the gardens of the Emperor Nero Pope S.viuinachiiK lirtt Imllt a residence theie in the early jears of tho sixth century. Nicholas V. (l-W7-.ri.ri began a systematic policy of Improving the Vatican, which Iiiih been followed by IiIb kuc essurs. The pulace Is now :i scries of buildings covuiiug nearly fourteen acres and containing about 1,101' rooms. The throne room, pictured above, Is where the pontiff holds founal audiences, and this room Iiub in pan, .venrw Ix-en been by nolflble pcrsous from nil pnfts of the world. r ments. l)uis went up to take a look at ihe dam with Fred Anderson, super intendent of the mills. The handy man around the roadhouse did not like the looks of it, he said, and he went back to his job a little bit wor ried. He went to the window more frequently In the lull in business around the noon hour. It was a few minutes after 2 in the afternoon that he hoard tho bound of which tho town had been In dread. One look was onough to show him that the break had happened. He ran to the phone as. he had agreed to i"o and got the telephone cei.tral in tho Bank of Austin build ing, where a young woman had the receiver across her bair. Ho gave the traditional warning Just as every one else who had the chance gavo it. They had been thinking a lot about the Johnstown disaster, had the Aus tin people, and In every case thoy appear to have followed tho action of history. "Tho dam has burst!" yelled Harry Into tho phone. "Quit yer kidding," said Miss Bln koy, the phono operator, "He says tho dam has burst," she repeated to hor co-workor, Katherlne Lyons, aV tho next desk. "I toll you it has!" shouted Davis. Something in the way ho said it made Lena believe It this time, and the way that she reached for a hand ful of wires sent Miss Lyons to work too. Thoy called up tho Standard Wood company, told tho mnn who answored to send out his warning, and then began telling everyone thoy could reach. Miss Blnkey waited until she saw tho wall of water coming and then she ran Into the streets. Miss Lyons stuck to her switchboard until she saw tho steeple of tho Presbyterian church topple and drop. Then she clattered down the stairs. Sho stayed so long that she forgot br pocketbook. But It was Just a step to the higher ground from tho bank building, and she came out all right, as did Miss Blnkoy. Got Slnnale Twisted. Somehow the men nt tho kindling yards didn't sound the flood signal. Instead of ono long blast thoro came eight short toots and then a sus tained wl.lstlo, tho town Are signal. Ab a result people strolled out to Bee whoro the blaze was. The single boso cart was yanked Into tho main street, and was whirled around tho corner Into Railroad avenue, tho chief thoioughfarf, that cuts off at right angles along the banks of Free man .tun, the creek thpt went over tho dam and then rippled throush tho town with a width' of not ' more than a dozen fed. The flruuipn turn ed up tho valley and rived rlrlit at the wave that was spreading before them. John Dczlel was standing vpon the high ground at the west. He saw what ths men below couldn't see ana he shouted with all his voice. They heard him, dropped their ropes and ran to his place of safety. The hose cart was scooped up a minute lator. eziel's sister was beside him. She reamed and pointed down to Main street, where four schoolgirls were walking along, arm in arm, looking into tho sky for sparks. As the? watched, the four were caught in tho force of the wood and water and hurled against the brick buildings. Their bodies hae not been recov ered. The property loss will exceed ?C, 000,000, and It is tho general opinio-', that the town never will be lebuilt. Two, at least, of the large plants will not be reconstructed, and n majoiity of the business men of tho place fcave been financially ruined. Mary Blaltz, employed In the office of the Bayllss Pulp and Paper coin pnny, was caught beneath a huge grindlnK Btoue and all efforts to re lease her failed. At last, In despera tion, she pleaded with her would-be rescuers to amputate her leg with an ax. At last one man was found with sufficient nerve to do the girl's bid ding, and after whacking away four or five times tho leg was severed and tho girl released. Columbus, O., Oct." 2. Convinced j that gross niismohagemont and irreg ularities, If uot dishonesty, havo long huen tho accepted standard at tho Ohio penitentiary and other state In stitutions, Attorney General Hogau announced that ho would proceed with an investigation of Institution purchases and will omit no effort w discover offenders and punish thorn If posslblo. Tho Investigation will, bo public nod will commence tomorrow morning. An Itemized Bill. The depattlug guest, according to a writer In the London Opinion, scruti nized his bill and exclaimed, "Look beie, you charge for writing paper aud 1 haven't used a scrap till tbo time I'vo been hvrc!" Tho Proprietor Ah. pardon, m'sleur. It Is for tho paper on which your bill Is made out. Rons Into Dig Cloudburst at' Atchison, Kan, IS LATE IN REACHING OMAHA Four Stats Visited by Regular Del uge, Which 8end Water Over Tracks In Many Places and Ren ders Bridges and Trestles Unsafe. Pilot Sent Ahead to Pick Way Is One of Most Thrilling Incidents In President's Long Journey.' Omaha?" Neb., Oct. 2. President Taft was marooned in his special trnln for nine hours on the Missouri prairies by the deluge that flooded four states and halted traffli from Omaha to Kansas City. The delay brought the president into this city 12 hours behind his schedule. For most of the day the president's train was the only one running be tween Omaha and Kansas City. Tres tles wero built to hold the tracks above the surging mass of water that burled the meadows and trains were made up to test the track before tho Taft special was allowed to continue Its Journey. For miles at a stretch the water ran up to the tracks and flooded over them. No rock bedding could have lasted a minute before the rush of water. Houses with the water half up to their windows were passed and entire cornflelds, fences and roads were submerged. Families with wag ons full of household furniture res cued from the flood stood stranded In the mud on the highest points of the roads as the president's train passed by. At every dangerous point the president s peivnlssion was asked each time beforo proceeding. Broko Monotony of Trip. Doapite the precautions of the Tall road officials and their assurances that there was no danger, it wns tho most thrilling ride that the president has ever been given in all the hun dred thousand miles of his traveling, about the country. About six miles north of Atchison, where a cloudburst occurred, is the village of Rushviile. The route of tho. tiain passed by that town and over the old river bed, which is low and flat and partially marsh land. Into the old river bed the water had rushed and eaten away the bedding. About a mile north of Rushviile the land gave way entirely beneath the tracks just as the pilot train passed ovor. They tried to cross buck to in tercept the Taft special, but It was Impossible. So they tolegrapned the dispatcher at Rushviile and he caught the news Just before tue head light on the Taft special came into sight. By that timo tho torrent had weakened the tracks behind tho train so badly that it was not safe to at tempt to return to Atchison The Taft special was marooned and, though the railroad men had turned heaven and earth, they could not move It. The pilot ran on to St. Jo seph and tho work was at once be gun to patch up the tracks LIVE STOCK AND GRAIN CHICAGO Cattlo: Boevis. 4 7GS 15; Tonus steers, $t 30iSG 10; western steera, $4 IfttfJ 00; stockers and feeders, J3 10 (5 70; cows "and heifers, 52 l0t?G 25. Cahis JC 00O0 50. Sheep and Lambs Mitl sheep. $2 2.')i?l 00; westein, $2 73 .4 lu; native lambs, SI 006 00; eU cin, 54 5iA(jG 00; yearlings, $3 S54 0. Ijosh l.lirlit, JR lOffrS 75; mixed, J6 05 6 80; hcaxy, $5 80G 70; roush, S5 S0SJ i. 05; pls, $1 00O0 15. Wheal No. 2 red, 95i&9ric. Cam N'o. 2, CS'llffCOc. Oal No. 2 white, 47s48Kc. CINCINNATI Wheat: No 2 red, 07 9Jc Corn No. 2 mixed, "O.glc. Oats No. 2 mixed, 4S4Sc. Itye No. 2, iiftC'iIJl 00. I.ard $D 30. Hulk Meats til 7Ci)0 00. Hacon $17 5018 50, But ter Creamei, 2029u; duiry, 17Mrff 18Vi I'oultiy SprliiBers, 1213c: bona. 12U'c; tutkeys, 17c. Kergs 14021c. Cattle Steei-9, $3 75?il 7C; heifers, J2 78 fi6 35; cows. H GOGH 75. Calves S3 OOffJ 8 CO. Sheep nnd Lambs Sheep, SI 500 3 50; lumni. S3 OOOfi 00. Hogs Packers, Ii) 5000 85; stass, 3 005 25; sows. JJ00 (5 M; pls-i and llffhts, S3 00G 10. EAST BUFFALO Cnttlo: Export cat tle, $S 7."07 00; shipping steers, SG 15 0 50; butihor cattle, J6 506 75; heifers, 3 50&G 00; fat caws, S3 505J3 00; bulls, $3 O0S75 00; milkers and springers, $25 00 friO 00 Calves $10 OOftJlO 50. Sheep and Lambs-Mixed sheep, $?. 75gt 10; weth eri. 1 0001 35; ewes, $3 504 00; lambs, $4 75ffi 50; yearlings, $1 505f5 00. Ilogfl Ho-nies, $ii 00517 00; mediums, $7 000 7 0; YorktrB, 5G 90(7 00; pigs, $G 00itf 6 10, lOUghB, $5 75S15 60; stags, $5 00(0 5 50. PITTSBURG Cattle; Choleo, $7 230 7 50. prime, $G 7507 00; tidy butchers, $6 00(76 25; bulls. $2 COQi 75; caws, $2 00 01 25; fiesh cowj and sprlnners, $25 00 CiiO 00 Calves Veal, $S 509 00. Sheep and Ijimbs J'rlmo wethers, $1 0004 15; Rood mixed, $3 50fT3 75; lambs, $3 500 G 25. Hrtirs- -Heavy hoes, $G G05?6 70; heavy mix l. 5G 7000 75; mediums and heavy York' is. $5 00 90; llpht York era. $6 25n0 5"! pigs, 5 OOB5 75. TOLEDO-Wheat, 9Stfc; corn, 710J oat, 4SHiO; eloverssed, $12 00. t Ready For Italians WilUwait Reinforcements-News Wires From Seat Of War 2 In Control Of Invaders And Roman Press Is Filled With Tales Of Valor WhiciilLack First ElementsIOf Truth, But Serve To Fire Hearts Of Countryman WltblPatrlotlsm The Situation la Tripoli Rome, Oct. 2. Even the yellowest exponents of sensational journalism are shocked at the liberties taken with the truth by the Roman press in announcing a series of naval vic tories. The Italians, however, ac cepted the news as a matter of fact and with genuine Italian pride. Reliable informatipn is lacking, I since the Tripoli and Malta cable Is in the hands of Italians. The only positive facts aro that theTurks have changed tactics, abandoned Tripoli and departed Into the Interior, where they intend to remain pending the arrival of reinforcements, and that tho Italians, ara now occupiing-Tripoli. The Italians are already show ing nnrlpty lest the Turks swoop down on them. To date tho Italians have sunk four Turkish cruisers and five destroy ers, including tho Hamidlr, Alpagot and Tarablony. These vessels werp Chicago, Oct. 2. Railroad officials and shopmen ou the Harriman lines, who struck to enforce their demands for recognition of the newly-organized federation, spent the day in pre paring for the struggle. The walk out, occurring just before the Satur day half-holiday,, gavo the railroads a full day anfl a half In which to make preparations to run tbe shops, and it was said that in many of the shops practically a full force of men would he at work. The men at tho Lima," O., Oct. 2. A cyclone demol ished bams, unroofed houses, laid orchards wastp nnd caused damage estimated at ?100,000 four miles east Df here. The two-story frame house of Edward Nelson, farmer, while sev eral members of tbe family were within, was blown off Its foundation nnd set down 200 feet distant. No one was seriously injured. Tho cyclone swept a strip of country ono half mllo wido and live miles long. Centenarian Preacher Dies. FIndlay, O., Oct.. 2. Rev. John Smith died at his home at Sit. Dlan chard, aged 100 years and 3 inontlis. Ho was born In Hampshire county, W. Va., and came here in tho early twenties. Ho has beon la the minis try slnco 1840, and cast his Jlrst vote for Andrew Jackson. His long life was attributed to abstinence from iicuior and tobacco and constant, work. An Old Family. Ho Mtaa Bellneour claims to belong to n very old rurally. She Well, phe's Justified There ate six of those girls, snd tho youngest of them must bo at least thlrty-llvc-Exchange, PARKABLE CONFESSION MADE 10 THE POLICE - i Settle With unaware that war had been declared and It is considered that the Italian attack was an act of piracy. Tho vessels were mink at Prevesa, as told of In previous dispatches, and the attack has lneeneed the Austrian, government. CREMATE! Indiana, Pa, 0t 2. Eight chil dren of Mr. amf Mrs. William Dias. of Heshbon, ranging in age from 13 years to 3 month?, were burned to death when tiro destroyed the family home. big BunmUle shops here spent the day quietly, gathering in little knots in the streets and In their cottages, discussing the outcome of tho strug gle. Watch erfa near the ship's stockade Bay mors than nft strikebreakers were brought into tbe stockade on a special train. Provisions for keeping the men at the shops were also made. There was no sign of a dem onstration, although a guard of po licemen was constantly at the gates. FIndlay, O., Oct. 2. John J. Gar land of Minneapolis, sentenced to four years In tho penitentiary; An qrew McGorrald, an alleged highway robber, not yet tried, nnd Harry JJbert pf Columbus, who was held on n statutory charge, escaped from tbo Hancptjk county Jail after Garland Icnooke'd down Sheriff Johns and tho other Iwo kicked him. He is in a sorloui condition. Scanty Ammunition. Colonel Stark's regiment just prion to tbo battle of Bunker Hill was quar tered nt Milfonl. Bomo fonr miles dis tant, and wns destitute of ammuni tion. About 10 o'clock on the morn ing he received orders to march, how ever, each man received a gill oupfut1 of powder, fifteen balls and one flint. As the tnuskpts were of varying cali ber it was necessary to reduce the sizo of the balls for many of them. Maga zine of American liistory. Art Versus Nature. "How came h1il to get such a suddei vrazo on to visit the beauty doctors?" "She wnntb-itp look like, her photo Ernph." Houston Post. CHLDREN fl p, ft" 1 V it m J I ra w liV ,w t. 'JM ' 1 ,-S r r li'; '1 m m jt hi HI "auxAsM fS ..daYto.htW 'I'iiMAi'i-i iiiiittiiiffirtiilifateiiatitoiiliifli mi- irmMmmmM