Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 176, Decatur, Adams County, 24 July 1915 — Page 1

VoluiTiC XIII. Number 176.

EASTLAND SINKS IN THE CHICAGO RIVER

THIRTEEN HUNDRED MEET SUDDEN DEATH STEAMER WITH 2000 ABOARD GOES DOWN IN TWENTY FEET OF WATER AS GOOD-BYES ARE WAVED TO FRIENDS LATEST NEWS OF EASTLAND HORROR. NUMBER ABOARD. 2,000. NUMBER RESCUED, 700. BELIEVED DEAD. I,3OO—ESTIMATE OF THE POLICE IN r CH ARCE. BODIES RECOVERED, 600—OF WHICH 350 ARE IN ONE MORGUE. STEAMER EASTLAND, OWNED BY ST. JOE LINE, CHARTERED BY INDIANA TRANSPORTATION COMPANY TO CARRY WESTERN ELECTRIC EMPLOYES TO MICHIGAN CITY PICNIC. STEAMER CONDEMNED SIX YEARS AGO AND ORDERED REEL ILT BECAUSE CENTER OF GRAVITY WAS NOT RIGHT. CAPTAIN AND FIRST MATE OF BOAT ARRESTED, AND CHARGED WITH HAMPERING IN RESCUE WORK. RIOT OCCURS AS THEY ARE LED AWAY. Chicago, 111., July 21—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Six hundred diodics, victims of the Eastland, had been taken from the Chicago river and vouched for by a police census at 2:15 o’clock this afternoon. First Deputy Police Superintendent Schuettler gave out the figures. “There are at least seven hundred bodies still in the steamer’s hulk or in the river.” said Scheuttler. “The six hundred bodies now accounted for include three hundred and fifty-three bodies that are at the temporary Reid-Murdock morgue alone. CAPTAIN AND MATE ARRESTED. The arrest of Captain Pederson and First Mate Fisher was ordered. Police charge that both officers had hampered rescue work. As ten thousand persons saw Pederson led away, there was a near riot and he was struck. A card system was installed at noon to aid in identifying bodies. This work went forward slowly, due to the confusion and attempt at rescue. Former Aiderman F. W. Taylor said the Eastland had been condemned and rebuilt six years ago because its center of gravity was not right. He demanded a complete and merciless investigation. Big warehouses were turned into morgues. Injured and dazed victims wandered far into the loop district with clothing partly off before they were found and sent to hospitals. Bodies were piled in long rows on floors and friends of passengers wandered among them seeking familiar faces. ONE MAN COUNTED OVER 400. Chicago, II!., July 21—(Special to Daily Demcorat) —At least six hundred persons were drowned and every indication citing to over one thousand dead and missing when the steamer Eastland sank in Chicago river early today. This was the estimate of police and coroner officials at noon. At that time several places had been cut into the upturned side of the vessel. A score of men were carrying out the bodies as fast as they could go in and out. An official of the Western Electric company declared that several departments in which only girls were employed had undoubtedly been wiped out. Most of the employes in departments where only girls and women were employed were assigned to the Eastland. Dr. T. E. Carter told a United Press representative that he had counted four hundred dead. Dr. Carter was assigned to the work of feeling the pulse of those brought ashore. Those with any sign of life were rushed to hospitals or given first aid immediately, while the others were taken to temporary morgues. “I counted 400 dead among those j j examined,” said Dr. Carter. SHIP LISTED AS CROWD SURGED. Chicago, 111., July 24—(Special to Daily Democrat)—More than 300 people are known to have perished early today when the Lake steamer Eastland listed and sank in the Chicago river. Some estimates place the dead and missing at 1,000. Many are believed imprisoned in the staterooms. The Eastland was carrying 2.000 souls—within seventy of her capacity. The ca- . tastrophe is believed to have resulted when hundreds of picnickers on board ran to one side to wave farewell to friends. The count of 300 bodies was made by Deputy Police Superintendent Schuettler. who personally counted the bodies taken to the steamer Theodore Roosevelt and to improvised morgues. Scores are believed to have been crushed into the muddy bottom of the river. Other scores could be heard pounding and screaming for help, imprisoned in the staterooms. Officials of the St. Joe line, owners of the ship, ordered workmen to cut open the bottom and sides in the hopes of rescuing those imprisoned. EASTLAND WAS DEATH TRAP. Investigation disclosed that the Eastland was regarded as a (Continued on Page Three)

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening, July 21, 1915.

SELLS INTEREST Fred Schaub Disposes of Hardware and Implement Business to .John Shuey. i GOES INTO EFFECT November Ist—Mr. Schaub Will Travel for Van Camp Hardware Company. A business change that will be of niterest to many has been consummated whereby Fred Schaub, senior member of the Schaub-Dowling Hardware company lias disjxised of ills interest to John Shuey a well known farmer residing northeast of this city. Mr. Shuey will assume his oflicial connection witli the store about the first of November. For the past seven years Mr. Schaub has been in the hardware and implement business and is intimately known to practically every resident of the county through his business activity. He has accepted a position as traveling salesman witli the Van Camp Hardware company of Indianapolis., one of the largest of wholesale dealers in the state. For a number of years prior to entering the retail business here, Mr. Schauh was connected with a wholesale company and thoroughly understands this end of the business. He does not know at the present time whether or not it will be necessary to move from this city, it depending ui>on the territory to which he is assigned. Mr. Shuey is well known and very popular in the vicinity of his present home and being of a very progressive nature will add greatly to the success-* fu.l business. William Dowling, the present junior member, will become the senior member of the new corporation. Mr. Schaub will retain his connection with the store until Mr. Shuey assumes control. The new corporation has not derided upon a name at present but in all probabability will be known as the Dowling-Shuey company. IS IT EVE£ RIGHT To do Away from Home the Things One Would Not do at Home. IS THE SUBJECT For Epworth League Sunday Evening—Miss Abbie Bigham the Leader. Miss Abbie Bigham will be leader for the Epworth League at the Methodist church Sunday evening at 6:30 and extends a hearty welcome to all who will come and make the League service a success. The appropriate subject will be: “Is it Ever Right to do Away from Home What One Would Not do at Home?” The program follows: “Life of Daniel”—Mrs. Farr. “Never Be a Stumbling Block” — i Professor Spaulding. Solo, “O Where is My Wandering Boy Tonight?”—Miss Hazel Butler. Talk. "The Reason Why People are Tempted to do Things Away from Home that They Would Not do at Home”— Harvey Everett. Instrumental Solo—Dorothy Williams. Talk, “Why We Should be the Same Away from Home as at Home” —Helen Kinzle. Song, “Home, Sweet Home” —Oliver Gottschalk o TO GET SEVEN FORDS I. A. Kalver of the Kalver-Noble garage, and Luther Hower, Dallas Brown, Lloyd Beery, Babe McClure, Frank Brown, and Ben Lang, left on the early morning train over the G. R. & I. lor Indianapolis and will return this evening with seven new Fords. Mr. Kalver was at Indianapolis the first part of the week and signed up for this years supply of Fords. The Kalver-Noble Campay has the agency. . - —

• JAMES GLENDENING DEAD. Geneva, Ind., July 24—James O. Glendening. 22. son of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Glendening, died yesterday from tuberculosis at the home of Harry Hungerford, Portland. Funeral Monday morning at 10 o'clock at the M. E. church. Geneva, the Rev. E. M. Dunbar of Pennville officiating. Interment in Hartford cemetery, west of town. I MRS. ALBERDING RECOVERING. Mrs. John Alberding residing near 1 this city, was in town yesterday. Mrs. Alberding is receiving medical treatment and is recovering nicely from a stroke of apoplexy which she suffered last January. o ANNUAL_PICNIC Presbyterian Sunday School Will go to Robison Park Next Tuesday. HAVE SPECIAL CAR Leaving Here at 8 O’clock, and Returning in Evening—Members Free. Next. Tuesday is picnic day for the members of the Presbyterian Sunday school and their friends. On that day they will go to Robinson Park at Fort Wayne, leaving here at eight o’clock in the morning in a special car over the traction line. The Sunday school members will go free of charge while their friends who accompany them can make the round trip for fifty cents and you are j cordially invited to join the crowd in a day of pleasure. The picnic is an annual event and always enjoyed by the youngsters as well as their papas and mammas and big brothers and sisters. There is no better place any where for a days outing then this famous park. You can hit the roller coaster, ride the ponies, attend the shows, indulge in amusement of every sort and eat cracker jack and peanuts until you are tired of them. Its a big day. Take the kiddies and make them happy.

TEXT OF THIRD NOTE TO GERMANY CONTAINS SOLEMN WARNINGS.

Washington, D. C. July 24(Special to Daliy Democrat)—The text of the American note to Germany on submarine warfare, made public by the state department today, follows: “The Secretary of State to Ambassador Gerard: “You are instructed to deliver textually the following note to the minister of foreign affairs: “The note of the imperial German government, dated the Bth day of July, 1915, has received the careful consideration of the government of the United States, and it regrets to be obliged to say that it has found it very unsatisfactory, because it fails to meet the real differences between the two governments and indicates no way in which the accepted principles of law and humanity may be applied in the grave matter in controversy, but proposes, on the contrary, arrangements for a partial suspension of those principles which virtually set them aside. “The government of the United States notes with satisfaction that the imperial German government recognizes without reservation the validity of the principles insisted on in the several communications which this government has addressed to the imperial German government with regard to its announcement of a war zone and the use of submarines against merchantmen on the high seas—the principle that the high seas are free, that the character and cargo of a merchantman must first be ascertained before she can lawfully be seized or destroyed, and that the lives of noncombatants may in no case be put in jeopardy unless the vessel resists or seeks to escape after being summoned to submit to examination —for a belligerent act of retaliation is per se an act beyond the law and the defense of an act as retaliatory is an admission that it is illegal. “The government of the United States is, however, keenly disappointed to find tha tthe imperial German government regards itself us in large

AUTO OVERTURNS Miss Gladys Bowers and Prudenz Family in Automobile Accident NEAR AVILLA, INDIANA Miss Bowers’ Arm Injured —Mrs. Prudenz More Seriously Injured. — Avilla, Ind., July 24 —Miss Gladys Bowers of Decatur and Mrs. Prudenz of Cincinnati, Ohio, were severely injured and four members of the Prudenz family were badly bruised at 4:30 Friday afternoon when an automobile carrying the party to Rome City, ran over an embankment at the Fairbanks crossing on the Fort Wayne & Northwestern traction line, two miles north of this place. Mrs. Prudenz was the most seriously hurt of the five victims of the accident. Dr. W. M. Veazey of Avilla, who was called by telephone by a farmer after the woman had been taken from beneath the overturned auto, found that she had swallowed a large quantity of blood from an injury to the nasal cavity. An automobile carrying W. J. Conroy, Carl Centllver, William Malle and Joe Zorbuche of Fort Wayne, chanced to pass soon after the accident and the car was converted into an ambulance to rush the injured to the Kneipp sanitarium at Rome City. The Prudenz family occupies a cottage at Rome City during the summer. and Miss Bowers, who is a sister of Mrs. Richard M. Kaough, 1023 West Jefferson street, Fort Wayne, is a guest at a hotel at the resort. The party had driven to Huntertown to get an auto tire that had been lost on a trip a few days ago, and the accident occurred on the return trip. All of the victims will recover. The | car. a seven-passenger Buick, was j badly wrecked. The above dispatch taken from the ’ Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette contains practically all the information that j Decatur relatives had of the accident. : i The J. S. Bowers family this morning

degree exempt from the obligation to observe these principles, even when neutral vessels are concerned, by what is believes the policy and practice of the government of Great Britain to be in the present war with regard to neutral commerce. “The imperial German government will readily understand that the government of the United States cannot discuss the policy of Great Britain with regard to neutral trade except with that government itself, and that it must regard the conduct of other belligerent governments as irrevalent to any discussion with the imperial German government of what this government regards as grave and unjustifiable violations of the rights of American citizens by German naval commanders. “Illegal and inhumane acts, however justifiable they may be thought to be against an enemy who is believed to have acted in contravention of law and humanity, are manifestly indefensible when they deprive neutrals of their acknowledged rights, particularly when they violate the right to life itself. If a belligerent cannot retaliate against an enemy without endangering the lives of neutrals, as well as their property, humanity and pustice, and a due regard for the dignity of neutral powers should dictate that the practice be discontinued. “If persisted in, it would in such circumstances constitute an unpardonable offense against the sovereignty of the neutral nation affected. “The government of the United States is not unmindful of the extraordinary conditions created by this war, or of the radical alterations of circumstances and method of attack produced by the use of instrumentalities of naval warfare which the nations of the world can not have had in view when the existing rules of and it is ready to make every reasonable allowances for these novel and i unexpected aspects of war at sea; but > it can not consent to abate any es-

| received a telephone message from k their daughter. Mrs. Kaough. of Fort Wayne, who had talked with the men who had rescued the party, they arriving in Fort Wayne at midnight last I night. Miss Gladys Bowers was not thought to have been seriously injured. An arm was thought to have been broken, but as she was able to lift the member, some doubt was expressed as to the fracture. Mrs. Prudenz was the most seriously injured of all. They were taken to the sanitarium for treatment, but as no word was received by the Bowers family here, directly. their condition is not thought to be serious. Miss Gladys Bowers had been at the Bowers cottage three weeks, hav(Continued on Page 2.) DEATH JATE LOW For Month of June—lndiana Has 2,300 Deaths— Tuberculosis CLAIMS 285 VICTIMS Births Number Nearly Twice as Many as Deaths —The Statistics. Figures made public by the state board of health showed that the month of June had a record of 2,360 deaths in Indiana, as against 2,598 last year in the same month. Os the total deaths, 24S were under the age of one year and 833 who died were more than sixty-five years old Tuberculosis claimed 258 victims: pneumonia, 88: cancer, 192 and external causes, 189. The total births in the state dur- 1 ing the month were 4.945, of which 2,580 were males and 2,365 were females. Fifty colored children were born. Lake County had tlie highest I birth rate witli 35.4 and Clark County | had the lowest, with 10.8. Mrs. Jeremiah Archhold, aged 83. a well known lady of northwest of the city, mother of County Treasurer W. J. Archbold, is said to be quite ill again from a complication of ail ! ments incident to her extreme age.

sential or fundamental right of its) people because of a mere alteration of circumstances. The rights of neutrals in time of war are based upon prin ciple, not upon expediency, and the principles are immutable. It is the duty and obligation of belligerents to find away to adapt the new circum stances to them. “The events of the last two months have clearly indicated that it is possible and practicable to conduct such submarine operations as have characterized the activity of the imperial German navy within the so-called war zone in substantial accord with the accepted practices of regulated war fare. The whole world has looked I with interest and increasing satisfac j tion as the demonstration of that possibility by Geramn naval commanders. I It is manifestly possible, therefore, to 1 lift the w'hole practice of submarine attack above the criticism which it ■ has aroused and remove the chief causes of offense. “In view of the admission of illegality made by the imperial German government when it pleaded the right of retaliation in defense of its act: and in view of the manifest possibil ities of conforming to the establish ed rules of naval warfare, the govern ment of the United States can not believe that the imperial government will longer refrain from disavowing the wanton act of its naval commander in sinking the Lusitania or from offering reparation for the American lives lost, so far as reparation can be made for a needless destruction of human life by an illegal act. “The government of the United States, while not indifferent to the friendly spirit in which it is made, can not accept the suggestion of the imperial German government that certain vessels be designated and i agreed upon which shall be free on the ' seas now illegally proscribed. The • very agreement would, by implication. I subject other vessels to illegal attack . and would be a curtailment and there- • fore an abandonment of the princi-

Price, Two Cents

NO COMMENT MADE ON NOTE ' German Officials Refuse to be Interviewed Until Text is Made Public. DESPERATE ATTEMPT Being Made by Russians to Save Warsaw—fJermans Renew Attack. Washington, July 24, — (Special to Daily Democrat) —President Wilson will map out on his return from Cornish a “fair, reasonable and practicable program of the national defense,” it was anounced today. This program will be based upon conferences between the president and the secretaries of the navy and war. During his stay at Cornish the president will devote much of his time to the defense problems it was stated. Berlin. July 24. — (Special to Daily Democrat) —Official circles here today refused to comment in any w.iy upon the latest American note in the controversy over submarine operations. The text of President Wilsons communication probably will be published in the late editions of the afternoon Berlin papers and until publication it will be impossible to gauge the German attitude since the newspapers here do not accept the English forecast as accurate. Berlin, July 24, — (Special to Daily Democrat) —From Roseau south to- : wards Pultusk Gen. Von Hindenberg has begun a heavy bombardment of the Russian lines of defense north of Warsaw along the left bank of the Narew river. German troops are making simultaneous attacks on the enemies position. All despatches agreed today that the Russians are making a desperate attempt to save Warsaw. o — The William Harting family was jonied here today by Miss Jennie Gast jof Celina, 0.. and tomorrow .they will I all go to Rome City for a week.

] pies for which this government contends and which in times of calmer counsels every nation would concede as of course. “The government of the United States and the imperial German government are contending for the same great object, have long stood together in urging tl>‘ very principles upon which the government of the United States now so solemnly insists. They are both contending for the freedom of the seas. “The government of the United States will continue to contend for that freedom, from whatever quarter violated, without compromise at | any cost. It invites the practical co- | operation of thq, imperial German government at this time when co-operation I may accomplish, and this great com- ‘ mon object be most strikingly and effectively achieved. “The imperial German government expresses the hope that this object may be in some measure accomplished even before the present war ends. It can be. The government of the United Slates not only feels obliged to insist upon it, by whomsoever violated or ignored, in the protection of its own citizens, but is also deeply interested in seeing it made practicable between the belligerents themselves, and holds itself ready at any time to act as the common friend who may be privileged to suggest away. “In the meantime the very value i which this government sets up on tho long and unbroken friendship between i the people and the government of the German nation impels it to press very I solemnly upon the imperial German > government the necessity for a scrupu- , Sous observance of neutral rights in ■ this critical matter. Friendship itself prompts it to say to the imperial government that repetition by the commanders of German naval vessels of acts of contravention of those rights must be regarded by the government of tho United States, when they affect American citizens, as deliberately unfriendly. LANSING.”