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Horror of Sky at Antwerp Described By One Who Was There
■V H. 1. fM II I lI
OBTKNU. Belgium. Oct 9 —By
Mall I have Juat eon dm ted •
■saaterlv retreat to Oataad
I was practically on Antwerp's
five-yard line whan the (iermana
were within striking distance of
tka goal.
And. being unlike moat war
eorraspoadaatts who, 1 understand
write home about the deilrloua
past idling they find la dodging
kulletk, I retreated I can't
Hodge them vary well — YET'
1 have walked home at mid
night in Chicago—but 17-inch
■balls and bombs from the sky,
well, that's something else again
I know all about the bombs
from tue «k> the 17-inch sheila
1 don't want to knew about.
But of the two I would prefer
the shells. Prom the atortaa I
baard atnong the refugee*. »ith
whom I traveled to Oatend. there I
Is nothing more terrifying, noth-j
tog mure horrible, than a Zeppe
lin attark upon a sleeping city.
liulil<~ Itiown t<> at»an while!
U>»> «I«>|M at their mother*. side.
Httle i lilltlrem's fauiita Utrm uff sad
thej live In awful a«oay. Maatart
roof* faJllaK uavd crushing or
smotliei !»>* whole famllle"—tJwwe
•re only a le-w of the revolting
renultM 11 ml rolluw night attack*
front above.
KoN-4 OMISATANTS
AIjONK i.M I » |.
That k what Antwerp suffered
while besieged. And from what I
•an leai n not a soldier wan killed
ky UM all fleets Non-combatants
alone fell. Half-starved and ter
rorized men. women and children
were the victims. The nearest
aiM>ri>arh to the military who were
killed were two civil guards—ac
knowledged non-conjbatants —
who were buried under a falling
house
—"iiiirn is imuni.
*N WVhll TtitAj'.
I was perhaps 2 5 or 3 0 miles
from Antwerp when I came upon
the fleeing hands of refugees from
that cltr Always in this country
refugees are the same. Merchant
or peasant they come slowly along
the road in quaint and dilap
idated carts drawn by horset one
would swear were resurrected
from the soap factories for the
occasion.
With the two boy scout*, sep
arated from family and rriends.
I had met along the road — all of
us on bicycles -we rame upon
this odd parade.
V\ h turned about and kept
abreast of the leader of the pro
cession, a simple thing as the
earth ambled alonit at only two or
three miles and hour. Alongside
the burse ilrHvtliiK the first i-ait
trudged a thin, stoop-shouldered
and middle-aged school miihter,
not unlike the kind we caricature
In the I'ntted States. In the ve
hicle were hU wife and aged
mother. One of the family was
missing.
IJTTI.H lIAt'OHTKR
dI.AIN XV ItOMH.
Their Mill* daughter who h«<l
• ••.me In thrill late In lift* was
killed i>> a liotiib n/» she vle|»t <m
the second floor of their little
I'otiiiiir. Tiie «l lim.i-iii and
!■!•■ olio In another room esca|ie<i
with inwclv splinter hruixen.
They buried her as best they
roulil. Hm|i|>nl In blankets and
111K-. in their own flower garden!
From this calm and Hilent
scholar I learned, not without dif
ficulty, as he spoke reluctant!v,
of the horrors the people of Ant
werp went through. The Rlack
Hole, of Calcutta ma> still pro
duce a gasp whenever mentioned,
but for pure ferocity the sieg» of
Antwerp rivals anything the Hin
doos or Mongolians ever exhib
ited.
I cannot repeat all I have heard.
It la too terrible. Peculiarly e.
•ry one in our caravan had suf
fered a bereavement. Half of my
money I divided among the poor
w retches.
Before even • fortified town
ran be bombarded, the rule* of
war provide for twenty-four
hours' notice before the com-
men cement of actual bombard
ment Hut they aren't cat,'ing
on this war according to Ho>le.
From the R-Niolmu.-ti-i 1 I learn
ed'this much:
"Piloted li\ a German who
knew the rity well, a huge air
ship had for Its object i\e the
Palais dv Rni. where the queen
of Belßium. the little princes and
Princess Marie-Jose lay steeping
The raid proved a complete and
litter failure as far an trapping
the royal family wan concerned
However, seven innocent persons
were killed and some twenty oth
ers wounded
CARMAN JURY, DISAGREED-ALL MARRIED!
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14.1R1> PA(IW
TOitN" Ofc'K.
"Tfce hi siku «Uck »rrr «<•
asm ■ tils it U*» «mh *•«* •»•»
rauMlly «Ml to kava ilnM—it the
!»■■—■ ton totu a* adjnaalaf'
■•pact. wrariMd a lmas« sad to-'
jure.l two hums. TImK ds»tiafd
fur tfca dmtnHiKHi ••# tit* ksaa.nr ■
xtrurfc »Im- unit at a Ih«m aear
by. kiik-d a nnul m aka stoat
■ad iajured two utaisi'a.
"Another—and the meat use-'
ceasful boanb struck a private .
house inhabited b> poor people.
murdrrrd a woman and horribli !
mutilated three girls, killed two
civil guard*, and seriously injured
another.
"Nssrsiy to ntf place ■ wnsu
tottered uul. <rvku« 'Itoctur, dor-|
tor!' Hearatti the rutn» of the 1
Ikhiw two civil tu,inl« were dead. |
Wiiltiti th<> ImSM- ititiful siPaais I
I c»me mmi three ffsriat who had ■
| be«a nisord from nloap by rerrit- I
1 iafK (Irw^Hlful wiminilm ob. the im r ;
laad 1k.,1> one irii I liad half her I
<!•• • hlowa ■»•); the two other*
were »ori«m»ly wnuaded »a tlie
I far«. Kvktsmtlr tlMsr Ihh1««~. liad I
| lon imi—ewhat untCeeled by the
: hcMtclot h«M.
i l-ori I ATION
IN I'AMi.
' The Xeppehn at the time of
this appalling incident was almost
stationary in the sky. some aeven
hundred feol up. A panic at on< c
•■•u^l. and thousands of people
took refuge in their cellars, while
others dashed out into the stree'g
i In their night attire.
Time after time the earth
tremhled as the terrible botnin
fell, til using devastation ever -
i wher.'
•'Truly it was a night of terror.
for the populace through the
hours of tension did not know
from one moment to another that
iliim might not he blown to
atoms
"Ten luinilm struck ten differ
ent xtreetH. One which fell In
the Hue dcs Navets, made a hole
six feet six inches In diameter
and twenty-two inches deep. It
probably was filled with shot, for
all the houses In the vicinltv were
riddled by bullets, all the doors
and windows being broken and
the ceilings have fallen in.
"It was calculated thai about
nine hundred houses were more
or Iff* damaged nuii about sixty
houses destroyed. In a single
house four persons were found
dead Indeed, in one room two
people had been blown to atoms
Three men were walking in the
Rue de la Come, when one of the
bombs fell One was killed ;iml
the other two mortally wounded,
while another passer-by had hl«
leg blow off
HM \T A IHIMIi
LOOKS MltK
"All the bombs, which created
a terrific explouion, were found
to have been in h steel cover one
and ,i lialf Inches thick and about j
a foot in diameter The Zeppelin
was, of course, fired upon from
the forts with guns SBd rifles, but
having launched its dendh min
is! lea it moved oil into tt<- <l<rk
ness
"A »ul>«e«|iie*it examination of,
the pi-o.i*-< I ile*. thrown showed |
ilmi they I■ iid a double covering,
the two imam lielug joined to
gether by iiiiiHtir«M»iii-HliH|ied rlv
rts. which net the i»h»-i <ii Inillert*,
and laiiHt <■■>« horrible iiiim i«-*
hh the two covers <»r en%elof>et» are
torn to |i-«»»imiI« l»j ibe explo
sive."
Attack Prince
LONDON. <)<» -.'« In connec
tion with the increasing agitation
against German residents of the
Hattenbern. one of the lords of
British Isles. Prince Louis of
the admiralty, came in for out
spoken comment There have
been veiled attacks against hi mi
before, but thin afternoon the
Glob* iiu-ntiotieil his name plain
ly in an editorial stating that it
should be considered an impro
priety to have e»en naturalized
Germans in posts as important us
tin one he occupied.
NEW TRIBES
PHILADELPHIA, Ort. 16. —
Trtbes. heretofore unknown. wh»
wear clothing made from the
feather of the macaw and other
birds of rich pluniss;<». have been
found in the southern part or
British Kuinea among the Carib
and Arowak Indians, by tlie < Di
versity of Pennsylvania Vina
zonian expedition
FIRST PICTURE FROM RUINS OF ANTWERP
THUS HCKNK Is ON THK MTKKKT IN ANTHKHP KNOWN AM TMK 1:1 X I»K I»KI 'VI.K. \NI» IMWI'H'.iL OK MANY mtCMsM IN
THIS «ITV. WIIK'H (WLV A MONTH AOO HKI.I> iimi....mi I'l KIM I THK UKKMAKH I MCI l> iihhi -.111 1.1 INTO THK <IT% IM M
IN«. THK HOMHAIIIIMKNT.
BULLETINS
LONDON, Oct. 'J6. The Rus
sian governor of (ialicia has an
nounced that any persons offering
spirituous liquors to the Russian
troops will be tried hy court imir
tial. This statement is contained
in a dispatch to the Times from
its Petrograd corresnondenl
OCNBVA, via Paris. Oct. 26.—
The retirement of General Hi I
muth yon Moltke as chief of the
German general stmi on O<-tolic-i
II is contiriiifd by a teleKiam
from Basel. He requested Kiu
peror \\ illiam to be relieved from
his post Ihmm of his ;ioor
healih His resignation was hc
repted
IIKfILIV Oct. •>«. —Field Mar
Klial llaron yon rter Goltz, gover
nor of Belgium, has visited Car
dinal Merrier, who promised to
use his influence to restore oriler
ami to reassure ihe population,
fays a dispatch from Brussels.
XXXI.IN, Oit 26. — (Via Th>-
Hague to London I In the cas
ualty list issued yesterday appear
ed the name of Major General
l'o< hliamnier. who was killed (ii I
4 while leading his troops in the
forests of Argonne.
< KTTINJK, Montenegro, Oct.
Oi-t 26.— (via London.)— Three
Austrian aeroplanes dropped
bombs from above Antivari with
out effect. Apparently the at
tempt was directed against the
Frenth aeroplanes recently
brought here by the fleet.
NKW YORK. Oct. 26. — Three
British warships lying off .New
York and Nantucket were panned
by the British steamer Myrafoll
on her way to this port. Captain
Fornquist of the steamer report
ed on her arrival late today from
Kowey. The first wait sighted
near Nantucket. another near
Fire island, and a third off the
AuibroH* f'hanuel lightship.
WASHINGTON', D. C, Oct. 26.
Sir Edward Grey. British min
ister for foreign affairs, ham an
siired the I'nlted States through
Ambassador Page, at London,
that England will not Interfere
with American cotton shipments
as "contraband of war."
BERLIN', via The Haene. Oct.
!< —Commander Luedecke. of the
THS TAOO_L| TiM_,B
SOLDIERS CARE FOR LOST BABIES
Theae Imliie* of Antwerp were lost by their mother* In the wild fluclii from Antwerp Into Holland
whew the 1 lennua lM>mh*rd«<l |J«»| city. Uihiiiii at the l>in<-b border, the Holland soldiers took the
little oatew !■ charKe and catrad^for them until h<imi»w were found for the Uttle ones.
crulaer Karlsruhe, which has sunk
many Mritish ships on the Atlan
tic trade i(iu|i>b, lias tieen promot
ed to the rank of captain.
fiKXKVA, Oct. 2fi Hundreds
of French refugees, including old
men, boyx. women and children.
who have been allowed to lea'
Germany, are arriving In Bwitser
land. They complain of the lack
of food, but aay they were well
treated.
BKRI.IN". via Rom*. Oct. 2«- -
The Oermaii terror of the wai,
the submarine I'-S, which sank
the British cruiser Hawke. re
turned Hardy to her home harbor
Friday, after an adventurous voy
age, during »hl(h she sent four
British cruisers to the bottom.
KINGERY TO DISCUSS HIS
8 HOUR LAW BILL TONIGHT
I VY H. Ktugery. father of the
eight-hour law bill which cornea
before the voters of the state a
week from Tuesday, will address
• mass meeting held under the
auspices of the Central I,abor|
♦♦♦♦♦»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
♦ *
♦ NFK'IM-K IOMIN JOIRNKV •
♦ THIIOI'OH WOMAN'S HUItV ♦
«. WKNACHKK. Oct. 2*.— ♦
♦ Thirty three years ago, when ■♦
♦ Mrs. A F. PrMMa was a girl. *
♦ BhP swallowed a n«"edle Thin »
♦'•'Week the needle made its a|>- #
♦>?r»ea ranee In h*r left leg and ♦
JfCWas removed by Dr. Cong- ♦•
"■♦'OBon. During nil the years >i>
Ke needle had been travel- *
g through her body ahe #■
♦ b«<l never felt Its presence ■*
♦ until a few days ago A •»■
♦ black and blue spot, a<- #
» com pan led by soreness, was ♦
Vthe first indication that ♦
*7«nythinp was wrong. Nest #
-*>*Mie sharp point of the ■>••- ♦
♦ die showed itself It^ras ♦
♦ then that nhe sought medt- ♦
♦ cat attention. ♦
♦
PARIS, Oct. 2«.—Crown Prln«'«
Frederick William of Oormany,
narrowly escaped death rerentlv
when a French aeroplane drvpped
♦ bomb near his headquarter* at
Rcvignr, says the Rxcelalor's cur
rMliondtnt at Vitry-le-Francois.
The homb killed 15 persons and
injured 20 ethers. |
Inion in Moose hall tonight. The
C. L. V. has invited the -Stop,
Look and Listen league" to be
represented at the meeting.
Charles Perry Taylor will di»
cuaa all of the bills known as
the ' Heven Sisters."
SCHOOL OFFICIAL
GUILTY CONTEMPT
ri.KVKI.AND, 0., Oct. 2«.—
Tpholdlng the right of labor to
organize. Judge W. B. Neff today
found Supt. J. W. Frederick
guilty of contempt for ignoring
the court injunction for restrain
ing him from discharging school
teachers because of activity In
forming a union Judge Neff
will sentence Frederick Friday
uajler the contempt statute The
maximum penalty is a fine «f
$500 or 10 day* in jail, or both.
Storm On Lake
\4aVRQ! ETTE, Mich , Oct. 2€.
—JL-Ws^r blissard prevailed today
in V^prrthern Michigan. A terrific
f^RriiunKerrd Lake Superior
ITALY HAH QI AKK
LXIWDON, Oct. 2«.—Turin.
Italy, experienced a sharp earth
quake shock today, according to
a Rome dispatch. Several bulld
ioss wee* damased.
PUYALLUP COP
SHOOTS YOUTH
Lao Nelson 23, is proaabl.v dy
ing today from a bullet wound In
flictad by O. R Faraaa. on tba
fair (rounds In Pu>allup Saturday
night Forbes is a policeman aad
asserts that he fired at Nelson
after the tatter refused to is It
when urdsred to do an.
Prom Forbas' owa story of tka
shooting there seems to bo no ex
cuse for his even taking his gun
from his |h>< ksl and It Is likely,
that if Nasson dlss. tbe over s»,«l
ova cop will be arrested and
charged with uiaaalaughter
Puyallup people wars Indignant
today over the shoottug aad ■!■■
mauded that action be taken
Acrawad of "Pi ijtaa,."
Forbes declared today that he
believed Nelson to be guilt > of
peeping Into the wluduws of
homes about the fair grounds
The policeman in considerably
frightened by the result of hi*
| POLITICS "]
Stanioii V\ arburton. |>rogres
slve nominoe fur congress. and
other cundidates started the laat
week of tkelr camp*lf" yester
day when they visited Wilknsou
and Carbonado aud talked to tin
mining men of the two placea.
Warburton told of Hi. legtala
tion be h»d supported i» behalf
of the laborinK m«n in the legis
lature and in congress He an
nounced his approval of a nation
al compensation law. in which the
men of the mines. nillU, factor
ies and every other vexation
would be insured. In this lie
wag supported hy Unvnor Teats,
nominee for the slate senate in
the Twonty-aiath dlntrlct
Teatu attacked the casualty
corapanleH, which he said are
preying upon the Injured men all
the tlnii
"ThlH burden of Insuring the
laliorinn men," Teats *ald.
"should be placed upon the in
dustry and not upon the man
. Thin Is a fundamental principle
|of our development We must
'eliminate the casualty roiupan
...»
A. M Bryant and James P.
i Riwuon, candidate* for the l»g
--| Islature In the Thirty-fifth dls
li let. KHi.i that the progressive
party deserving of the support of
tin- laboring men since it repre
HcntK theli iiiealH In seir-govern
mt'iit
Five hundred dollars against
$22 that Ole Hanson will be the
next United States senator is the
way they are betting in Spokane,
according to I C. t'ettit, 747 T«
--i ulna avenue, who ha* Juat re
turned from that place.
"Thin bet was made three
'veeks ago, ami the same money is
being offered at this time,"
I'fltlt continued. "Another bet
of f 2 ltd even money was made
that Hanson would carry Jones'
county Yakima. Two to one is
offered that Hanson will carry
Spokane, city and county."
Arriving this raorninn, f>le
I llaiiHon. proKressive candidate for
United States senator, spoke at
noon al the Northern Pacific
BURGLARS' LOOT!
IN CENTRALIA
1 CKNTRAKIA. Wn , Oct. 26. —
, About 100 pounds of brass cast-'
ings believed to have been stolen
from some mill In thia vicinity
were found secreted under a
bridge in the uorth end of On
tralia I-ocal officers are search
ing diligently for a quantity of
loot reported stolen from mills j
recently and the finding of the!
brasH follows the finding of l»fl
pounds of babbitt metal aecrered
1 in a local junk shop Wednesday-.
BEAUTIFUL GIRL
KILLS HERSELF
DAWBON. V T.. Oct. 26 —
Miss Emma Flynn. the beautiful
22-year-old girl who was report
ed to have committed snlclde in
Nome recentH, left this city
late this season. Desimndency is
given as the cause for the sol
tide. She had relatives in Albu
querque, Mojave and Pueblo. Col.
It Is said here that Jim Flynn,
the. boxer. Is her brother.
PARIS. Oct. 26. —A great dem
onstration in faror of Russih at
Milan. Italy, caused by the offer
of Kmperor NlcholaK to liberate
such Austrian subjects taken an
prisoners of war as were of Ital
ian origin, was suppressed by the
police, according to the Rava«
Agency correspondent at Rome
AL.TOW W. LfXINARI) TAKrs
IM-AO: Or JACOB r'l RTII
The Stone * Webster rori<ora-,
tlon, Boston, has announced that
Alton W Leonard has been chos-J
«m president of the Puget Sound I
Traction, I.inht * Power com-1
pany and member of the North-1
west board of managers for th»f
Btone-Webater Interests to fill then
place left vacant by the late Jacob J'
FVrth. !
PAGE SEVEN
promt»M«Ms uss of his sun •■4
fearful of the casssaMSODsa.
Nslaon was on his a-ajr haaa*
froa* worm at the NarthwaMn
Wood*nwar* fa< tur> In TaoawaV
whH Korb«i. broucht to lh« fair
(rouoda ■•icatM>.-hwo4 by tk« r»-
Itert of a paaitins Ton" In tiM
n«l«lil»i Ihmkl acra*ia<t lilm aa4
ordvrvc) him to halt
I It- -HKhi Ili«lil-U|i
Nelson said ha thought that
Kerbs* was • hold-up man •<•*}
started to run through a flats'.
Korbes jarked out bla revolvar
snd fired, the bullet aatartac
Nelson's bark aad penetrating has
1.-! i lung KoratM asarched tha
Maid, but did nol find Nat—.
and imagined that h« had in las ad)
biai.
The youth dragged himself ta
the liiiitw of his foMter-parasttaV
Mr and Mrs P A Norman, wnoal
be supports, aud than fainted
shops, and la scheduled to speak
this evening at the M< Kiuley
Park Christian church aud Vat
ball* temple.
Republican nirrilnm will ac,
h. hi ilim •■vi-iiiiik at i o'clock al
South Side hall. WMtan'i kail.
Bismarck, Mm H. 8 King*
hum.-, 418 North li. at - o. lock 5
Ariuoiy. a A. H N 3#;
Colored club. ISO; t'uyallus)
( ouimerclal club, S o'rlock.
A progressive rally will he)
held at Buckley this evfiilag.
with more than hair of the rout
ly i'Minildat«*H attending. Ther*
will be ,l«nnw rMlu meetings at
Vaiiahn. tJllh.it kail, aud !■>
dlan addition.
Miaa Nelda Jaecer. a proml
neiit youag attoney. la the first
woman to be nominated for a
county office. Hhe la running for
one of the three office* of ]aa»
tice of the peace. If elected eh*
will be the first woman to sit o*
a beni h In Taroma Miss laener
is not making public addresew,
but haii a (treat nuinhor of wumea
friends work lux for her.
Senator JonM and Representa
tive Humphrey |«rt V\ aahlngtoa,
I). < lam evening for their Nome
state, planning a f«» day*' cam
paign before Hi. il.-c t ton next
week.
Don't think because
Flour is high and
going higher that
the cost of living is
advancing. It isn't.
It's going down if
you know how to buy.
Here are a few items:
A wholesaler discovered
some old fashioned 20-bar
boxes of Lenox Soap ha
doesn't sell any more and
we IxniclH them to sell at
~."Vc box. Remember, the
stork Ih old and one bar
will do the work of two.
Boat Yakima Potatoes Sl.in
hundred
16 lbs. Best Cumulated
Sugar »l <m». with f I <M»
of other goods.
<;<iod Butter. »»c n>
Kxtra quality Butter. 3 lbs
. for «l.< Ml.
\ pkgs. Shredded Wheat
Biscuits Mr.
Shredded Coenantit ITr lb.
Pure Cocoa. Mar Hi . I Iba.
for SI.BO. Kqual to (he
best co< oa in caas at half
the prlea.
Kin Drip Syrup. 15c bottles
Ha
4 lbs. Sago or Tapioca 95r.
;>:.< box <tvi, Bouillon Cubm
l-<\
4 lbs Head Rir-e. *Tr.
25c sacks Salt Ma
3 pkgti. Crackers Mr, any
kind, any make.
Don't buy Apples unti
see our stork find grei
price*. You a til regret It
if you do. We have them ,
up from {Mr.
Yakisaa King Davids, Tuea
day and Wednesday •!!."»
box, worth $1.16.
Diamond M Flour. •I..Vt •
hag , In a rlase h> Hself.
in' Flour, 91.xi a bag.
Equal to any local br!nd.
Coffee fresh from the roast
er every day, 85«- lb. up.
Rtdgway s Tea Mr lb.
Maclean Bros.
(Incorporated)
"OV^I.iTV t »•• •; l f>■