Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 164, Hammond, Lake County, 30 December 1908 — Page 8

THE TRIES.

Wednesday, Dec. 30. 1908.

UuivE DEATH LIST GROWING

Five Demented Persons Are the Only Ones Saved from

000, and Warship Finds no

Trace of City. '

GREATEST CATACLYSM

OF UODERH TIMES

Change In Geography By Earth's Up

heaval Shows That Many Cities . Were Swallowed Up By Sea ' and Ninty-Foot Wave Hits Shaken

Towns In Italy.

Rome, Dec 30. Wlille It la still lmpossible to calculate the fall extra of the earthauare disaster la soothers

is one of the greatest la history perhaps . the greatest df , modem time. From the latest adriceavaad eomallattoas the following terrible fig-are. ana facts Rive some Idea of the monstrous trasedyi Total number of Sicilian dead, Including- Messina 70,AOe Total number of Calahrlana - . aead SO,

HARBOR PDLlGESGEfll

All ARSON MYSTERY

Believe That Fire in Domb-

kowski Building Work of Incendiary.

TWO IN ARE UNDER ARREST

Fire Breaks Out In Euins of Build

ing Last Night and Endangers Property.

Grand Total . ..

Exact Figures I'nobtstlaable.

(Special to The Times.)

Indiana Harbor, I a A, Dec. 30. The

local police department Is now con

fronted with an arson mystery that

promises to be interesting to at least

two Indiana Harbor men. Thvy are

of the belief that the fire in the Domkowsfcl bnlldlng, on Cedar street, was

of Incendiary origin, and on follow'

Ing- this angle of the case, ' were re

warded by the arrest of two foreigners,

The building was occupied by three families, and used as a boarding house

by about thirty foreigners. Among these were John Bukowski, an old man 50 years of age, and Mike Bubert, who gives his age as 27 years. Early yesterday morning Officer Mike Gorman was called into a saloon on Cedar street and informed that the two men

were talking about the fire, each ac

cusing theother of setting it. After

listening to the men's declarations ror a few minutes, Gorman arrested both men and escorted them to the Jail at

East Chicago.

Grilled By DeBrlae.

The two men were haled before

Judge DeBriae and under a fierce grilling, Robert declared that he did not be

lieve Bukowski set fire to the house.

Although maintaining his own inno-

iaa AAji f cence, Bukowski refused to say mat

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POLICEfU

TO COOIIGI

HIS RECORD

Edward Saeler, Self-Con-

f essed Holdup Man, Reveals His Past Life to East Chicago Officials; Father a Police Sergeant.

F ADE GOOD RECORD Oil

SHAROII PA. FORCE

Says His Arrest Is Best Thing That

Could Have Happened to Him Hopes That Court Will Show Him Leniency When His Case Comes

Up Next Monday Morning.

FIRST dOOTRAGT FOR

GARY CP HALL LET

Town Board Wants Excava-

tion Work to Begin : at Once.

COSTS 20G. PER SQUARE YD.

City Fathers at Begular Meeting

Also Pass a Pure Ice Ordinance Dealers Are Warned.

FREEZES HIS LEGS;

LIAGHIHISTS FLOCK TO EAST CHICAGO r 1 i Calumet Region ; Workingmen Enjoy Great Time There Last Night.

The contract was let yesterday afternoon by the Gary town board for the excavations for the new city hall and fire station, to be erected next spring by the city of Gary. The contract was awarded to the Gary Construction company for the price of 20 cents per square yard. Tho two next lowest bids were those of the W. C. Covington Construction company, 22 cents per square yard, and Frank

Brink, 22 cents per square yard.

Charles Underwood, a Gary "Rounder,'.' Will Round no More; Is a Helpless Cripple Now; Come from Chicago.

Charles Underwood, 68 years old, was the sad victim of an amputation yesterday morning in the Mercy hospital when one foot and half of the other was removed because of having been frozen during the' early part of the month. The case was one of the most pitiful that has come to the attention of the hospital authorities. Underwood is apparently a bright old

man, but has been a "rounder" all his

The letting of "the contract. whichl1Ue working at add jobs here and there.

to i (until he finally struck Gary. During is entirely separate from the contractthe tlme-that he haa been m the Steel for the construction of the building. City, Underwood stayed at the Delameans thai the work will start at once , ware hotel and was employed in the so that everything will be in readiness steel mills shoveling concrete. Finally, to start the actual work of construe- i however, he reached ' the stage where tion before the frost Is out of the 'he could not pay his bills at the hotel ground next spring. There were nearly and the police were asked to put him a dozen bids for the work and the lout.

(Special to Thi Times.) East Chicago, Ind., Dec 80. International Association of Machinists, more particularly local No. 209, made merry In Weiiand's hall In this city last evening; when one of their frequent "love feasts' was held. ' About two hundred members and friends of the union were present and thoroughly enjoyed the good things to -eat and drink, as

well as the splendid boxing and sparring program. Business Agents Stratton, Beaton and Grelner of Chicago ; were present and made brief addresses on topics of interest to union men, and were assisted in the musical portion of the program by John Morgan of South Chicago and George Dixon of Hammond. Four sparring matches were held, the participants being various sturdy members of the entertaining organization. The members of local bollermakers' and helpers' unions were invited to the function of last evening and responded in goodly numbers. Local No. 209 comprises the machin

ists of the entire Calumet region, front Blue Island to Hammond, and it is their intention to hold these social sessions about every three months. The success of last evening's venture assured the active committees that their efforts "are well appreciated and an effort will be made to . hold another "feast" at Hammond inthe near futare. The officers of the local are: M. Selder of Hammond, president; W. J. Jenkins of East Chicago, ex-president; W. A. Corner of Hammond, vice president; Henry Loverldge of Hammond, secretory; U.. A. Caddott of Hammond. . reccrdtng secretary; S. Cunningham of Blue Island, treasurer; C. A. McLain of East Chicago, conductor, and D. J. Reed of East Chicago, Inner sentinel.

Ptrsautlon. After he has hammered hi? thumb ' nail a few times it is easy for a man to feel that he really has not the time to nail down the hall carpet-

SCIENCE

Is eppUed In our dairy. We have more than complied with the state pure food law. Still our prices are no higher than yon pay elsewhere.

THE HAMMOND DAISY CO. Cor. Oakley Ave. and Clinton SU

(Special to The Times.)

East Chicago. Ind.. Dec. 30. "From

Policeman to Convict" might be an ap

plicable title for a book reciting the

adventures and downfall of Edward

Saeler .self-confessed holdup mi

Saeler, as. reported in yesterday's quality, of ice sold in this city. Here- i whlch the Physician in attendance says

prices ranged up as high as thirty cents per square yard. Get Pur lee. . Another matter of importance dispos

ed of by the board was the passage of ;

Voth Feet Are Removed. It Is not known whether or not his feet were frozen while he was wandering around the city after that or

a pure ice law, which is to regulate thelwhether the facts -are " he re,ate.

his friends was not guilty, come of the affair is that

The outBubert is

ranr frnm n ooft t'ftBO.fton: that i "till In jail, awaiting the result of an

Reggio, with its adjacent villages. Investigation now pending, in which number 45,000 people, includes almost Cjief mina Pcts to secure rather

the entire popularation. At Palml 1,.

000 are reported dead; at Cassano 1,000; at.Cozenza 500, and half of the population of Bagnara, about 1,000.

The Monteleone region has been de

sensational evidence against his prisoner. .' '. . '

Bukowski lost- all his clothes and

money in the fire of Monday evening.

When arraigned before Judge De

vastated, and Riposto, Seminara, San Briae. he had on but a thin undershirt

Giovanni, Scylla, ' Gazsaro and Cahnitelo and all other communes .and vil

lages bordering on the Straits of Mes

sina are in ruins.

and a pair of trousers. In his frantic

efforts to escape the flames he had al

lowed his clothing to be consumed. He was supplied with a lot of second-

Times, has promised Chief of Police after no vegetable matter will be al-

uy . inc Biakc. xiuB jhui mug, .jiuwever, i he was reported to' be doing nicely and it is not thought , that Infection will set. in. , The.brd Hi an did not say what

No exact report of the number of nana .doming irom me ui dead is obtainable up to this hour, and, H"1 allowed to return to his work at

in fact, it may never be obtained, as ttle miana rams,

manv tidies have been totally de- Flp Breaks Ont Again.

utrnvM in the ruins. Messina and Ree- Fire broke out among the ruins Of

iria are utterly destroyed. Messina had the building about 8:15

a pipulation of 150.000. evening and burned brightly for about Tidal Wave Swallows Thousands. an hour. The fire department was Their annihilation was due less to called to protect the adjoining propthe earthquake than to the tidal wave erty, but as there was a heavy rain which followed ' it. swallowing ud falling, their services were not needed.

thousands of human beings before they Today nothing remains of the former

had a chance to escapes Two othei two-story boarding, douse, but a rew

Calabrian towns, Bagpara and Palm!, smoldering ashes and embers. Inwere also destroyed and it Is feared vestigation reveals the fact that there that many foreign tourists have per- is but a partial insurance on the buld-

lshed. It appears certain that th Ing, controlled by the Fowler agency

ninety English ' and forty Germar

guests at the Hotel Triniacria In Mes sina lost their lives. , RegTtlo Disappears Entirely. The ominous absence of details con

cerning Reggio dl Calabria proves to be due to the fact that not only the city itself, but its whole population with

the exception of a mere' handful has disappeared: ' Tho war ships which

were ordered to relieve , the survivors R id pr0frresS IS Made in were unable to approach the coast ow- ""i"" a

ing to the ' changed configuration of the Straits of Messina. Ultimately a

torpedo ' boat ' ran close to the shore,

but was unable to discover a trace of

the city.

Only five of the city's inhabitants have yet been accounted for. These

If

FURNACE i. 11

IS

BLOWN IN

Work at the Steel Mills.

The second furnace, 'So. 11, of the

Indiana Strc-I mills at Gary was blown

unhappy wretches reached Cattanzaro ,n 8hortIy a(ter 4 ,'clock yesterday a fl

at Palmi half demented by fright. One

ernoon. It, as the first, was very suc-

of them was mainly impressed by hav- I WWBfuf there being no accident to mat

Ing seen the sea cover the cathedral

The government is withholding

news concerning Reggio for the pres

ent, hesitating to publish the appall

ing tale until lt'IS fully confirmed. In

view of this latest development of , the

catastrophe the death roll 'may well

reach 125,000.

Some of the survivors from Messina

say that the gas meters at the gas

works exploded and started fires in

the lighting; of the new farnace,

The blowing in of No. 11 furnace will

mark the lighting of other furnaces

and the employment of men at inter

vals as the steel company officials see best fit. It was said by the officials of the plant today that the power plant, supplying gas to the entire plant, will be started within a few days. As soon

as the second furnace is in operation

thtre will be a supply of gas sufficient.

every direction. -It was not Idhg after T u thougM to c,perate severai of the

the tidal wave had receded when the havoc by fire made the catastrophe

complete.

Thousands of injured were laying

pinned under fhe debris and many of

these were burned before help could

reach tme. The fire is still burning in Messina . and many ' thousands more who are still, imprisoned under fallen

walls and wreckage must perish un

less they are promptly extricated. Survivors la Helpless Daze.

gas engines. as otner iurnaces are lighted the supply of gas will he in

creased, thus furnishing increased

power for the plant. In time this will be sufficient for the company to do away wfth steam power and these en

gines will be turned off and only ustd in a case of emergency.

The first rurnace of the mill has been

in operation over a week and there

have been no accidents to prevent the operation of the second furnace today.

The survivors In Messina are demor- Th,g m b done without any cere

alized. Despairing groups of men and mony, only the officials of the mills bewomen parade the ruined streets, try- ing present at the time. The dally ing to get some trace of relatives or capacity of the first furnace Is about

friends, but seemingly powerless to 300 tons of pig iron per day. This will render any real service toward caring De increased, however, until the normal for the wounded or extinguishing the capacity is about 600 tons per day. The flames. second furnace will have the same

All the chief municipal officials of capacity, but it is thought that it will

Messina and Reggio , were killed and be a month before the two furnaces

thus there was no one with executive will be turning out their full capacity

ability to take charge of the situation of 1,200 tons per day. "At the present

immediately following v the shock.

Clutching at a Straw.

Gaston burst like a whirlwind in up

on his friend Alphoase. - "Will you be my witness?" he cried. "Going to

fight?" "No; going to get married,' Alphonse after a pause inquired

"Can't you ipologtze' From French. r . ; '

Canada LargerJhan United States. The total area of the United States U 3,002,340 square miles; of Canada, 5,303.320 square miles.

time No. 12 is turning out three ladlts

of pig iron every six hours.

It is sail that furnace No. 11 was really lighted by acicdent yesterday, but no credit can be given the above report. It is said that employes were busy charging the furnace preparatory to lighting it when a workman was told to go up on top of the skip-hoist

the to look after some part of the fur

nace. He carried a ball torch and while there the gas accumulating In one- of the air shafts caught fire and lighted the furnace at the top. It was up to the officials to get busy and light the furnace at the bottom, which was done shortly after.

SQUEAL KILLS G1E Boxing Game in West Ham- j

mond Receives a Body Blow.

Since the West Hammond , boxing bouts which were put on last Sunday proved to be something of a failure and were not attended by the crowds which were expected, it is doubtful if the box

ing game in West Hammond will be re

vived.

It received a bad set-back when a die

gruntled hall owner over across the line

squealed to the county sheriff just be

cause he was afraid he was not getting his share of the rake-off 1 nthe way of

hall rent.

- After the Chicago fans had been

brought all of the way to Hammond only to be disappointed they were npt very keen for another fiasco of th

kind.

The local support which Is given the

boxing contests does not amount to much and as a result the chances are that there will not be many more box

ing contests In West Hammond.

The various managements hardly feel warranted , In going ahead and securing good talent for the reason that

any person who cares to do so can go to the sheriff and stop ths fight in five

minutes. .

are improbable, that his feet became

in I. i ,:wet wnue ne was snoveiing concrete.

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Higgins that he win pieaa gumy to , and that he kept his wet shoes on until

the holdup ccharge, throwing himself out 8UCh matter as fish ' and frntra hls feet T(ze. At any rate, however,

upon the mercy of the court for leni- which specimens have also been found they were frozen 80 that circulation ency. "I was crazy when I did it and secreted In the improvised cold storage "topped in both of his feet, and both

the judge will probably consider the The ,ee .hlch . . . j remained In this condition for. two

fact that I was drunk," is the prison- Gary has been particularly bad, being weeks before he asked for medical as-

er's suggestion. He was taken to 1 full of secretions which have not only sisiance, ,ana was taken to me nospi-

wammnnri vecterdftv but as the suDer- made it dirty, but Health Officer Tem-ital- Hre " was found necessary to re-

. . . , , v. Pn says mat it is injurious to. liealth. move lne section -.-io-, prevent. ,m

.or Ull ..v. ... Th,s ordInance,nas been under conal(J..'fectlon of the remainder of his body. impossible to secure the conviction be- ration for some time, but owing to the I Before the operation took place the

fore next Monday morning. On that fact that the ice had. been harvested j ld man informed the doctors, : that If dav however. Deputy Prosecuting At- fr the season-, the board thought it V11 was not successful,- that no ona

torney J. D. Bartholomew will present ?" wait until another crop was nouio oe nounea ana xnai ne oe nunea .

1 i narvesea Deiore ine law the case to the court and demand the Was pa9ged Thls will glve the dealers

infliction of a prison term of two to 1 ample warning,

fourteen years.

Father a Police Seargeant. I I" TOTJ OOJPT SEE IT I3C THE OTB. t he intended' to do wtth himself in case

For the first time since his incarcera- I ER PAPERS LOOK FOR IT DT THI i he recovered, and he -will probably be-

tion, Saeler last night consented to Tss Ttaaaa. ;. , come a burden on the public

give a few details regarding his past

life and their simplicity are astoundirtg.

You would never beleve it," the pri

oner declared, "but I was a member

the Sharon, Pa., police force for eigh

teen months and during that time made an excellent record." Further narration revealed the fact that the young

man's father Is now sergeant of the

Sharon department and one of the most

respected citizens of the Pennsylvania

town. After leaving Sharon, Saeler

declares that he worked for a while

in the various mills in Ohio and Indi

ana, finally securing a position in ine

tin mill 'of 'the Inland Steel company

It was whle working here that he be

came addicted to the use of liquors,

and declares that it was the "bad whisky" that tried to hold up L. Mark,

and not Ed Saeler.

Really, now," and here the prisoner

spoke in a confiding manner, "I think my arrest was the best thing that

could have happened to me. It was caught at my first holdup attempt and might have been killed in another raid

had I been successful in my early crim

inal career." Chief of Police Higgins

is not so sure that Saeler has commit

ted but the one offense and is making a

rigid examination of the man's state ments.

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