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DEAD CANNOT
BE IDENTIFIED
Victims of Chicago Crib Fire
Unrecognizable.
SINGLE FUNERAL FOR ALL
Btilet Burned Beyond Human Sem
blance Will Be Interred in Same
Cemetery With a Single Tombstone
to Mark the Grave—Remains ol
Forty-nine Men Recovered, but
death List May Be Higher.
Cfhicago, Jan. 22.—A thick grey mist
fcMging over the city lent the last
touch necessary to complete the gloom
of the scene in the vicinity of Mur
phy's morgue, where rest the bodies
of the victims of Wednesday's crib
acoident. Inside the undertaking
rooms, like the granary of some terri
ble bluebeard, rested forty-seven
sacks, each containing the unrecog
nlzable body—in many cases only the
torso—of those who met death in the
chornel house in the lake. In the
street a quiet, grief stricken crowd oi
relatives and friends of the unrecog
nizable dead, stood talking softly in
groups or plodding up and down the
slippery walks. Unless very persist
ent inquirers were not allowed within
the morgue. The bodies have no hu
man semblance, all look alike, and
where possible it was desired to
spare friends and relatives the shock
0{ gazing on the awful spectacle.
"There is no hope of knowing
father, son or brother," said Coroner
Hoffman, as he be«an the work of se
curing a jury to visit the scene of
the holocaust.
In the lake the tug Morford contin
ued its search among the ice floes
for bod'os of any who may have been
drowned.
George W. Jackson, of the construc
tion company which built the crib,
Informed the coroner it would be im
possible for several days to give a
complete list of the dead. As it will
be impossible to identify' more than a
few of the dead it is probable that a
single funeral will be held for all of
them. The interment will be at the
same cematery and probably a single
tombstone commemorating the trag
edy will serve for all.
BELIEVES 100 PERISHED
Union Leader's Estimate of Dead in
Crib Disaster.
Chicago, Jan. 22.—President Joseph
d'Andrea, president of the Sewer and
Tunnel Miners' association, expressed
the fear that the death list may reach
one hundred. "I am told," he said,
"that there were about 175 men work
ing at the crib when the fire started.
If till* provea trpt the number qt
THAT ENGAGEMENT RING
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Is now in stock at our store and you should "run in" and see it. ft has
been the practice to buy diamonds for this purpose, and this is very nice
indeed, but then, a BIRTH-STONE is also very nice, particularly if they
are the real thing.
We also have in stock a large number of WEDDING RINGS the sequel
to the Engagement ring. .......
Then to, we are the people to call on for Wedding Gifts. Don't forget
that our facilities are increased so that we are now in position to handle
the increased trade that must come to us in our new store. Your custom
e i u o i e w i e a e i a e
A N E S O N
Ol LUt iiiCu n iiO die ixiiodiltg c4i'»'
undoubtedly at the bottom of th
lake and their bodies will probably
never be recovered. Our organization
will make an investigation."
Coroner Hoffman expressed tha
possibility that the list of dead may
reach sixty-six. There are forty-seven
bodies at the morgue, which corre
sponds witti the number reported
missing by the Jackson company. But
the company's payroll was incomplete
*nd inquiries have been received for
nineteen men whose names were not
on the payroll, but who were said by
relatives to have been working at the
crib by the day.
TRAINS STALLED BY FLOODS
Snowslides Increase Trouble in
tana and Washington.
I Missoula, Mont, Jan. 22.—The flood
i conditions west of here are growing
worse and all Northern Pacific east
bound through trains are stalled on
the Western division. The conditions
are very bad around Pasco, Wash.
Local trains are moving through
1 Western Montana, but the tracks an1
in bad shape owing to the rapidly
melting snow. Several snowslides
occurred west of St. Regis during the
past twenty-four hours.
FIVE OF FAMILY
PERISH IN FLAMES
Mother and Four Children Die
When Home Burns.
Winnipeg, M»«., Sem. 22.—A special
from Kenora, Sask., says: While
Frank Engles, who lives fifteen miles
south of here, had gone to Milestone
for supplies, fire destroyed his home,
burning his wife and four children to
death. A boy, who went for assist
ance to a neighbor, will probably die
as the result of being badly frozen.
Mrs. Engles, who slept down stairs,
awoke to find the house in flames
and sent her eldest son, a boy of six
teen years, to safety.
She attempted to reach her other
four children, who were asleep above,
but 'ohe failed and perished on the
stairs.
The boy who escaped then attempt
ed to rescue the sleeping ones, but
was badly burned and while running
over to a neighbor, scantily clad, was
so badly frozen that his life is de
spalred of.
BURGLAR BADLY WOUNDED
Jeweler
Superior (Wis.) State Senator Fires
on Intruder.
Superior, Wis., Jan. 22.—Senatoi
George B. Hudnall shot and danger
ously wounded a burglar who was
trying to get into the Hudnall resl
dence and didn't heed the senator's
warning shout. He was wounded
once In the cheek and once in the hip
with buckshot The man was sent to due to ill health to
the hospital and will probably live. cause of his act
A. F. Laity, Optician
STORM RLSULTS IN
MKENSE DAMAGE
All Rivers Are Ristof end Traf
fic Is Mcrrypled.
Sacramento, Cal., Jan. 22.—It Is
feared that lives have been lost in a
violent storm which raged in the Sac
ramento and San Joaquin valleys and
which, according to early reports,
caused immense damage.
In Sacramento several buildings
were unrocffed, the electric light plant
was put out of commission and street
car traffic almost paralyzed. The
damage throughout the valley cannot
yet be learned, as all wires are down.
Following thirty-two hours of con
tinuous rain the lower part of Stock
ton is inundated. All the rivers are
rising and the levees, which have
been strained to the breaking point
for a week, will burst, it is feared,
under the heavy wind.
At Angles camp a cloudburst
washed out nine houses, killed one
Chinaman, and left part of,the town
under water.
At Farmlngton the water is higher
than before the big flood of two years
ago.
ITALY FACES GRAVE PROBLEM
Task of Caring for 200,000 Homeless
People.
Rome, Jan. 22.—.Italy Is confronted
with a grave problem, the caring for
the 200,000 persons made homeless by
the earthquake of last month in Sicily
and Calabria. At present, it is esti
mated, it is costing $100,000 a day to
meet the simplest necessities of the
poor. Furthermore, the bestowal of
charity is having an ill effect upon
the lower classes and many disorders
are reported to result. It is strongly
urged here that public works be speed
ily Inaugurated to offer employment
for those who can labor and that the
bestowal of charity be restricted to
those who are sick or helpless.
Revenge on Snake by Law.
Des Moines, Jan. 2\.—Senator Rob
ert Quigley has introduced a bill plac
inga bounty of 15 cents on the head
of every rattlesnake killed in Iowa.
The bill follows closely upon the seri
ous illness of former Senator Byron
N wberrv, whose poisoning by the
bite of a rattlesnake last summer
made it impossible for him to take an
active part in the fall campaign, thus
causing his defeat.
Collage
Protest or End* Life
Galesbur?r, 111., Jan. 22.—Professor
John W. Grubb, for over twenty years
occupant of the chair of mathematics
of Lombard college, committed sui
cide by taking strychnine and cutting
an artery in one of his wrists. He
was prominent in Universallst circles
and highly respected. Despondency
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MADISON. SOITH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, JAXrARY 22, 1909
GALLS ON NATION
TO
SAVE ITSELF
President's Message Proclaims
Need of Conserving Conn
try's Resources.
REPORT OF NATIONAL
CmUATM COMMISSION
In Sending It to Congress Executive
Declares Facts Contained In Docu
ment Constitute an Imperative Call
to Action—"Permanent Welfare of
Our People Cannot Exist Save on a
Firm Foundation of Material Well
Being"—He Defends General Course
of His Administration.
Washington, Jan. 22. President
Roosevelt sent to congress today a
message transmitting the report of tlje
national conservation commission. lie
prefaces the report with his own com
•nent, stating in vigorous terms his
conviction that immediate action is
needt-d if the rightful heritage of pos
terity in natural resources is to be pre
served.
The message says: Jy
To the Senate and Hoqm df
The facts set forth in this report
constitute an imperative call to action.
The situation they disclose demands
that we, neglecting for a time, if need
be, smaller and less vital questions
shall concentrate an effective part of
our attention upon the great material
foundations of national existence, prog
ress and prosperity.
Immediate Action Needed
This first inventory of natural re
sources prepared by the national con
servation commission Is undoubtedly
but the beginning of a series which
will be Indispensable for dealing intel
ligently with what we have. It sup
plies as close an approximation to the
actual facts as it was possible to pre
pare with the knowledge and time
available. The progress of our knowl
edge of this country will continually
lead to more accurate information and
better use of the sources of national
strength. But we cannot defer action
until complete accuracy In the esti
mates can be reached, because before
that time many of our resources will
be practically gone. It is not neces
sary that this Inventory should be ex
act In every minute detail. It is essen
tial that it should correctly describe
the general situation and that the
present inventory does. As it stands
It is an Irrefutable proof that the con
servation of our resources Is the fun
damental question before this nation
and that our first and greatest task is
!to set our house In order and begin to
live wltbin our means.
The first of all considerations is the
permanent welfare of our people, and
true moral welfare, the highest form
of welfare, cannot permanently exist
save on a firm and lasting foundation
of material well being. In this re
spect our situation is far from satis
factory. After every possible allow
ance has been made and when every
hopeful indication has been given Its
full weight the facts still give reason
for grave concern. It would be un
worthy of our history and our lntelil
gence and disastrous to our future to
shut our eyes to these facts or attempt
to laugh them out of court. The peo
pie should and will rightly demand
that the great fundamental questions
shall be given attention by their repre
sentatives. I do not advise hasty or
111 considered action on disputed'
points, but I do urge, where the facts
are known, where the public interest
Known.
luc
wplij clear,
as
Superiority
of
Repre­
sentatives:
I transmit herewith a report of the
national conservation comnllsslon, to
gether with the accompanying papers.
This report, which is the outgrowth
of the conference of governors last
May. was unanimously approved by
the recent joint conference held in this
city between the national conserva
tion commission and governors of
states, state conservation commissions
and conservation committees of great
organizations of citizens. It is there
fore in a peculiar sense representative
of the whole nation and all its parts.
With the statements and conclusions
of this report I heartily concur, and I
commend It to the thoughtful considera
tion both of the congress and of our
people generally. It is one of the most
fundamentally important documents
ever laid before the American people.
It contains the first inventory of its
natural resources ever made by any
nation. In condensed form it presents
a statement of our available capital in
material resources, which are the
means of progress, and calls attention
to the essential conditions upon which
the perpetuity, safety and welfare of
this nation now rest and must always
continue to rest. It deserves and should
have the widest possible distribution
among the people.
puuim miciv-pi
that neither indifference and
adzMM private ^tereate
CALUMET
Baking Powder
shall
Received Highest Award
World's Pure Food Exposition
Chicago, 1907.
1
way
v. ol i
tif the public j. ccd.
Our Responsibility For Putin*.
The preit basic facts Mv? already
well known. We know that our popu
lation is now adding about one-llfth to
Its numbers In tj'ii years and that by
the middle of (lie present century per
haps 150,000.000 Americans and by its
end very many minions more must be
fed and clothed from the products of
our soli. With the steady growth in
population and the still more rapid in
crease In consumption our people will
hereafter make greater and not less
demands per capita upon all the natu
ral resources for their livelihood, com
fort and convenience. It Is high time
to realize thnt our responsibility to the
coming millions Is like that of parents
to their children and that in wasting
our resources we are wronging our de
scendants.
We know now that our rivers can
and should be made to serve our peo
ple effectively in transportation, but
that the vast expenditures for our wa
terways have not resulted in maintain
ing, much less in promoting. Inland
navigation. Therefore let us take im
mediate steps to ascertain the reasons
and to prepare and adopt a compre
hensive plan for inland waterway nav
igation that will result in giving the
people the benefits for whh they have
paid, but which they have not yet re
ceived. We know now that our forests
are fast disap[earlng, that less than
one-fifth of them are being conserved
and that no good purpose can be met
by failing to provide the relatively
small sums needed for the protection,
use and improvement of all forests still
owned by the government and to enact
laws to check the wasteful destruction
of the forests in private hands. There
are differences of opinion as to many
public questions, but the American peo
ple stand nearly as a unit for water
way development and for forest pro
tection.
We know now that oar mineral re
sources, once exhausted, are gone for
ever and that the needless waste of
them costs us hundreds of human lives
and nearly .$rW).000,000 a year. There
fore let us undertake without delay
the Investigations necessary before our
people will be In position through state
action or otherwise to put an end to
tliis huge loss and waste and conserve
both our mineral resources and the
lives of the men who take them from
the earth.
I desire to make grateful acknowl
edgment to the men both in and out of
the government service who have pre
pared the first Inventory of our natu
ral resources. They have made it pos
sible for tills nation to take a great
step forward. Their work Is helping
us to see that the greatest questions
before us are not partisan questions,
but questions upon which men of all
parties and all shades of opinion may
be united for the common good. Among
such questions, on the material side,
the conservation of natural resources
stands first. It Is the bottom round of
the ladder on our upward progress to
ward a condition in which the nation
as a whole and Its citizens as individu
als will set national efficiency and the
public welfare before personal profit.
Industrial Democracy In Danger.
The policy of conservation is per
haps the most typical example of the
general policies which this government
has made peculiarly its own during the
opening years of the present century.
The function of our government is to
Insure to all its citizens now and here
after their rights to life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness. If we of this
generation destroy the resources from
which our children would otherwise
derive their livelihood we reduce the
capacity of our land to support a popu
lation and so either degrade the stand
ard of living or deprive the coming
generations of their right to life on
this continent. If we allow great In
dustrial organizations to exercise un
regulated control of the means of pro
duction and the necessaries of life we
deprive the Americans of today and of
the future of industrial liberty, a right
no less precious and vital than polit
ical freedom. Industrial liberty was a
fruit of political liberty and In turn
has become one of its chief supports,
and exactly as we stand for political
democracy so we must stand for indus
trial democracy.
The rights to life and liberty are
fundamental, and, like other funda
mental necessities, when ooce acquired
they are little dwelt upon. The right
to the pursuit of happiness is the right
whose presence or absence Is most
likely to be felt in daily life. In what
ever it has accomplished or failed to
accomplish the administration which
Is just drawing to a close has at least
seen clearly the fundamental need of
freedom of opportunity for every citi-
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CHAS. B. KENNEDY
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PRE-INVENTORY
CLEARING SALE
Until MONDAY, JAN. 25
ONE-THIRD
discount on onr entire line of
Fur Coats
Mens' and Children's Fancy
Suits and Overcoats
/4 ONE-FOURTH V*
.Discount on all.
BLACK and BLUE
Suits and Overcoats
These are the biggest Clothing
Values that were ever offered
in Madison /. .V
DONT MISS RR
Lake County Clothing Co.
ProidHt
THE
Madison State Bank
MADISON, S. D.
FARM LOANS AT LOWEST POSSIBLE
RATES
VAL BLATZ BREWING CO.
MILWAUKEE BEER
on draught at
FRED K&IETH'S,
J* S. MURPHf#
PETER HEAGNEY
Prioate stock, Wiener style, Bottle beer
at all Leading Saloons in the city.
L. J. AHMANN, Agent.
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