Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 141, Hammond, Lake County, 13 November 1912 — Page 8

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THE TIMES.

Wednesday. Xov. 13, 1912.

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taken to "V 1 1 d rs, the Eria railroad rroBsins, whore, it is presumed, the burglars took the train for Chicago at 3 o'clock. The sherff of I.aporte ifiunty, who was hunting at UiCrosso station, near M.'da ry vi lie, had esveral bloodhounds with him, and these, were brought to Medaryvllle and placed on th trail.

building- supply yards were shattered to pieces by th blast. Cil'SKS A I.AMDSLIDK. Employes of the Garden City Sand company at Hook Sidinjf, seven miles east of Miller, were ensnKed in driving timber to prevent a landslide on a bin dune 150 feet hih from which a steamshovel was dlcKlne: sand. Under the direction of Judjro 'William Wester-

WATERWAY PROJECT GETS SOME BOOSTS tContlnasd from Pit X.V

The officers of the bank are Michael

Robinson, Elmot t C. Williams, Charles i Ercn, superintendent of the sand comA. Guild, cashier, and Edward C. White,! puny, barricades had Just been cornassistant cashier. The bank was pro-j pleted when the explosion occurred. It

i tooted acrnlnst robbery

with the Massachusetts

pany. The Med iryville postoffice ! robbed twelve d lys acn.

by insuranc

Ponding; Com-

.'auae a landslide and inany of the

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mercer of

some talk or the republican

moose parties in (lary fro

city election. Should this Mayor Knotts and tho

havins a and bull the comiii'.;

be done lemoeratlo

TRAGEDY DETAILS ARE TOLD

forces will have to walk the plank.; The plan has met with the approval of. many of the leaders of both parties and something definite in ttie way "f amalgamation news is expected within ;i few (lavs. ! Republican candidates for mayor in- , elude Judge A. O. Huber. A. ". Hoover.' Judge P. P. FitzsrcralJ. Peter I.a'iil., : and Clarence P.retsoh. I'm the bull . moose enil there is tnlk of John . j Powers. C. P. Pavi.lson. Harry Hail and ; 1 1. H. Highlands, who is a semi-hull moose. Hilly Warren, superintendent j of the rail mill is also mentioned. , ('nl!nun In Knee. j There will he an Independent d'-mo- i c ratio ticket in the fWd with 1:" x - j Adeiman Pattleaxe CasTleman in oont-j r:ani. A number of salooi.men have' been promised berths on tho ticket, j Gary socialists plan to have a complete' city ticket. ' It is probable that the win nine: tic!;t '' rM fall will be an independent or citizens ticket. Homer J. ("arr, ttv; Fifth avenue editor, would like to run on such a ticket but he is so linrnly 1 allied with the steel corporation that there is some frowning on his candi-l dacy. Aldermen W. S. Keuer, it is sa.l. would run on such a ticket. Ir. Prank Smith is declared to be the best harmony candidate so far. I

(Continued from I'airo onil terday are the only remains of the six employes. With the exception of the head of the foreman. Halpin, identit'e-a-tion of the others was almost impossi-

the pi. -cos only vicchild to

'.ST. of the plant r road

Me so badly mu'ilateii were of the bodies. Halpin is tin t!m who leaves a wife and

mourn him. ii i) Di', th i'i:rr.TPii' William h!s of Hobart one genera! foremen at the Aetna was drixirK the Aetna-Milh

to work when lie saw William Halpin.1 ters, pieces

the powder line foreman who met his death yesterday, leave his house at Pdankville and rut across the tracks to work. Mr. I'lds waved at the foreman. In less than tor. minutes Halpin had met his d-.i'th It appears tint Halpin was kiHed just a s he was about to enter the dyna-

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head was blown off of

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DYNAMITE BANK.

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bank was beinjr robbed. The telephone In the bank is automatic, and one of the three explosions used In tearing the doors off the safe raised tho receiver of the telephone causing the

shutter to drop at the telephone office, i to

Mrs. Pramor answered the telephone and frettini; no reply ran?: the bell. IIKKI AMITIIKIl M.XI'I.OSION'. At the same timei another explosion occurred. She saw three men run from the bank. She pave the alarm, and soon many Medaryville men were on the prone. There was nothing to indicate the direction the. burelars had tak

en. The Ions-distance telephone wasjeupi

used to notify surrounding cities, and the Chicago police were notified at 4 o'clock to watch incoming Chicago trains. STKAI. 1UMI f K TO CO E4ST. It was learned that a hand car had been stolen from the section house at St. Pjerre on the Motion railroad, and

mite house

his shoulders. When ihe e xp! sab! to a neish

husband is dead. ' W TF.1 TO KOW

I'.reathlessly she ran up to the nates of the powder nulls and asked the men if her husband was saved. "Pill Is saved," the answered. "Put 1 know different, tell me the truth," the woman pleaded. V little later Stipei intendent K.J -wards telephoned down to Miller and asked Mrs. Allen, an aunt of Mrs. Halpin, to fjo to he;- house and tell her that her husband hail been killed. Mrs. Allen set out to undertake the sad task and as she approached the Halpin doorway the widow of the dead foreman said. 'l know that you have come

toil me that my husband is dead.'

Then she fainted Neighbors took care

of her and her li

a yountr man in his thirties and because of his ahil-ty as a powder maker he is paid to have receved a izood salary. iti.n humi: is muma. The worst damace clone at Miller was caused to the- huiidmi; recently oc-

d on the second Iloor by Judtre A.

C. Carver and families. All of the piass windows in the structure were shattered and other damase was done. Many windows were also broken in the. Miller school house. Pake, avenue in Miller was one line of shattered plate frlass panes. One hundred win dow panes at William West trijren s

i workmen were partially hurried by the

falling sand. Wpstprgrcn himself was knocked from his horse. Of the twonty injured by the blast not more than six were seriously and as far ji s can be learned at this time none was fatallv injured. That not

more deaths occurred was clue to tho j fact that the blowup took place a few ( minutes before starting time. i TtH.II II V KIK-WITXrsS I Probably it will never be know n j what caused the blast as every man j who was in the paekhouse went to his i death. Su peri n t enden t Watler Pd-i wards of the powder company could!

advance nu herv for the explosion. "It was rather dark yesterday morning." said one employe at Miller ast nisrht. "1 saw a (lash in the sky, then a puff of smoke, and then a deafening" roar. In another minute splin-

f timber, sand and bits of

llesh and bone onm dropping down about me and the noise of shattered class could be heard on all sides." SIHKN WHISTLK (ALLS IKV. As soon as the blast had occurred the siren whistle at the powder mills which pive warninp of dantror Founded five blasts summoning the survivors M man the fire post. Superintendent Edward s was on the scent in a few minutes and the first duty of the powderworkers was to quench several small tires. Then came tho work of rescuing injured men in adjoining pack Louses. either men were sent out to father up the pieces of the dead bodies. Every one at Aetna and Miller instinctively felt that the blast hud sent more than one soul into eternity and there was much fear until Ihe names of the victims were learned. Pears of other employes were confirmed when they were able to rush to the site of the powder house. As they neared it the marks of death were on all sides. ROM. (AM. MKS SPAIN. Even then It was known how manywere dead and It was not until all of the injured had been cared for that a roll call tolled off the names of the ill-fated.

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tie baby. Halpin was: and Hobart for doctors and a little

while later Pr. Prank Smith, coroner of the county, oamo down from Gary. Jn the afternoon Mayor Knotts and Chief Martin motored down from Gary to see if there was any further danprer. A peculiar fact in connection with the blast was that the shook extended to the eastward. Not a single window pane in the Aetna offices were broken nor was any damaj.ro done to any house to the west. Put to the east the story was different. As yet no blast has over traveled toward Gary. Had the fon o. bien westward many believed tn.it Broadway would have been a street jf shattered panes yesterdaj'.

33.1.000 appropriation reccomended by Col. Zinn and how John B. Peterson, tho new congressman from this district, has agreed to go to Washington at the eomlnir short session of congress and use his influence in the interests of the aproprlatlon. After this the 150 members present adjourned to the banquet hall where they partook of one of the finest dinners that was ever served for 50 cents.

The dinner was served by the ladles of' the Christian church. Karvrell peaks. j After the dinner President Yirfril S. 1 Reiter introduced Arthur Purrape Par- ; well of Chicago who spoke at some lenirth on the subject of civic righteousness. His speech was an exhortation rather than explanatory of the work he Is dolntr. However, he received the attentive consderat ion of his audience. I Pollowinp: that .Tudyre Reiter intro- ; dueed Charles Fowler of Indiana Har- ; bor who made a stirriner speech in the 1 interests 'of the creatine, of sanitary J district to cover all of the cities In ; North township, this district to take c hartre of the water supply and sanita- . tion of the district. He suvryrosts that it be made a sepa-! rate taxlns' district and that in this' manner the common problems of water .supply and sewate disposal be solved. ' His reference to the probability of the amalgamation of the cities of the region elicited tremendous applause. I .Indite Reiter then called on W. ( ' .' Pelman. who has been active jn Ihe ' interests of improved street lichtina-, to make a report to the organization. i ll Knvor 1.1k his. Ho did so in his usual vigorous and j concise manner and pointed out the dire need of modern street lights in 1 Hammond. The result was that the entire audience present jumped to its feet and declared it to be the sense of the organization that the neyv lights, ' be installed. Then W. P. Gonkey, the c hairman of j the committee on parks and boulo-j yards, spoke at lenpth on what has ' been accomplished by civic orpanlza- i Hons in other cities, notably Akron, !

Ohio. He told of a project, now on foot, j which Is expected to result in the creaHon of new parks and the linking of, them by boulevard loops. He told of the progress that has been made alone; this line by other cities. It was Mr. i'onkey who. with the cooperation of the press, forced the local street car company to filve a 15 minute service. j A number of others made remarks clurine; the evening: and it was nearly, twelve o'clock when the meetlntr ad- : journed. The dinner and after-dinner talks were splendid and the affair is ; one of the most suoor ssful that has

ever been piven by a civic body in Hammond.

CHANNEL WORK IS lilED

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HUSBAND my oie

The East Chicago company is rush-

inp with all possible speed the. work of' With his wifo lyinp dead of typhoid preparing the channel of the canal and; fever. A. M. Peterson of 3611 Grapethe turning basin in Pake George for vinc Ptreet, Indiana Harbor, was taken the Schlesinfrer people, so as to bo out i J'esterdaj noon to St. Bernard's hosi.f their way as early as possible in T'ltal in Knslewood, suffering: from the

tute prosecutions for violations of the quarantine law.

the Sprimr, at which time work

their mammoth ste el plant will be be;-j (.vun. The; biir dredge New York broke the' bank into Wolf Pake on Sunday and. the water poured into the canal lik a mill race. The Indiana is workinif ' with the bipr dredge and it is also like-j ly that the dredire Michigan will be set, to work, its work on the Inland dock i having been completed. The steel company has already br sun its concrete work for the proposed coke ovens and the piles aio b.-iriK driven for the, clocks. . The turnitm basin jn Lake Gtorcre is 60 0 feet sijuare. On the, Kast side the company will put in about Ma feet of dockase. They will also clock both sides of the canal at the junction of j the south and west blanches, to protect the banks of the channel at this point. There will be l,!eh) feet of ci(.cka:e h"i'e. Tlie Kast ohieauo company in fact is pmtinc into work on the canal the entire sum paid them for the. Sohlcs-

inser tract of four hundred and fifteen a cress. I'erdina n! Schlesi r.q er, the head of the company which purchased this immense tract, impressed it noon Messrs. Tod and Westber;; of the Past Chicago company on the occasion of their recent visit to Milwaukee, that it was his wish that the latter company finish their work on the canal at as early a date as possible, in order not to interfere with work by his concern, when it was ready next pprintr to beyvin operations. The Kast Chioatro company can scarcely finish its work before the latter part of next sprlnfr. but in all probability Mr. Sehlesinsrer will bepiu his preliminary work before the land company is throutrh. Mr. SchlcstniLver had read in Tin: Times the estimates of the amount of money to be expended by him In the erection of his plant, and he said that .while nmkinjr no definite promises as to what he would do, it would undoubtedly be fully as much if not considerably more than the predictions would indicate.

on ! same ailment which proved fatal to

Mrs. Peterson. The funeral over the remains of Mrs. Peterson will take place this afternoon at 1 o'clock from tho late residence. Rev. K. G. Svcnson, pastor of the Swedish Putheran church officiating-. The decased was thirty-three years old and born in Sweden. She had been in this country eleven years, coming' to Indiana Harbor three years aco from Past Side, South Chicairo where one

y ear before she was married to Mr. ! Peterson. The latter holds the position j of roller boss at the Inland Steel mill. Mrs. Peterson had no children and is! survived by her husband, two brothers '

and one sister, tho latter and one of j her brothers beinp in Sweden. The in-I

torment will be in Oak Hill cemetery. I

Hammond.

KEALTH OFFICER'S WARNING

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HAPPY DAYS. When you can hiiy IMOV SCOl'T SCRP from any dealer unit not have to rc from store tu Mora to get the best Adv.

CLUB THREATENS SUIT. Calrsbursr. Ill, Nov. 13. Directors of the GalesburR Baseball association are considering- the question of instituting suit against the Central association for throwing Galtsburg out of the leaerue without due notice.

atre within a short distance of its water intake. A favorable wind will not only carry the typhoid (ferms in th Harbor sewage back into the nearby nater intake, but carry them beyond , into the intakes of Kast Chicago, Wb.itin; and Hammond. This is the season i for typhoid anyhow, and Dr. Wels Insists that the public cannot be too careful. There are at the present time four typhoid cases in private homes in Hammond, and a number of cases in St. Margaret hospital, although the latter include patients from the surround- ! Ins cities.

j Smallpox Wiped Out. ( There has been a slight increase In the number of cases of measles in Hammond, there heinf at the present time sixty patients in the city. Ths quarantine on the one case of smallpox ; has been raised. Within the. last two j days, one case of scarlet fever was rel ported, the city having: been temporari

ly free of this disease. The number of diphtheria cases remains the same. Ther are two chickenpox quarantines up. Only the most faithful co-operation on the part of the public will prevent an epidemic of measles in Hammond, and feeing; that some people are beyond suggestion. Dr. Weis says he will instl-

NEW REFORM WAVE SWEEPS GARY

Another reform wave has hit Gary. Several policy gamblers and a number of young- women taken in a red light raid have boon arrested as a result. The gamblers and the women will appear in city court today. Most of the girls arrested in tho Jefferson street dives are young womn in their early twenties. Women taken are: KITTY MIPPKK. 24 years old. FPOSSV MANPi;., ri years olc PAN NY SMITH, 25 years old. MAY IJIMOXD. 2.". yea if, old. KITH STANLEY, 21 years old. ROSF. REDMOND, 22 years old. ALICE PRKNCH, 27 years old. ELSIE MILLER. 24 years old. These women are taken from a report at 940 Jefferson street, the rail being lead by Acting Chief Newman and Detectives Peter ,Iui io. Policy gamblers arrested at Fifteenth avenue and Washington street by Chief Newman and Detectives Eisner and Kertesj include ALBERT PECK. MARTIN HARRIS. i JOHN FERGUSON. A large amount of policy paraphernalia was taken by the police in their arid last night. Sam Cohen, an alleged procurer and Annie Rose, a Russian Jewess, 24 years old. were also arrested in Gary's underworld last night.

ODD FELLOWS HOLD BANQUET Dr. Jacob Goldman of East Chicago has called for this evening a meeting of the committees of the various lodges Interested in a banquet that is to be given by the Odd Fellows at Lake, county In January. The meeting will be held In the Odd Fellows' club rooms, committee of three members each from seven lodges being expected. The lodges are two in Hammond, two in Gary, one in East

Chicago, one in Indiana Harbor and one in Whiting. The date of the event and the placo of gathering have not yet been set, but it is expected to take place soon after the first of the year, in either the East Chicago Masonic temple. If the latter is completed as anticipated, the Auditorium, or some large hill in Hammond, and theso are details for consideration at tonight's meeting. Preparations will be made to serve between 50 Oand 600 persons and speakers of distinction from out of town will be Invited to address the banqueters on Odd Fellowship and Its aini3 and benefits. If successful the banquet will bo made an annual feature of lodgo lifo in this community In the future.

f 4 CP A LI St 5E'::jP:

is eminently suitable for the Kitchen, Dining Room, Living Room, Bedroom or any room in the house. THE LIGHT is bright and strong, yet easy on the eyes. You can read or work under it with the same comfort and absence of eye strain as when you read or work by clear daylight. You turn it on or shut it off by the mere pull of a chain THE ECONOMY is a striking feature. The cost for gas for THREE HOURS' burning is only ONE CENT. THE QUANTITY of light is three times as much as can be secured from an open flame burner and the gas consumption is only one-half as much. ; THE TERMS ARE SO LIBERAL AS TO MERIT THE WORD SENSATIONAL. THINK OF IT! 10 DAYS AFTER INSTALLATION 75 CENTS; 30 DAYS LATER, 75 CENTS, AND 30 DAYS LATER, A LAST 75 CENTS $2.25 FN ALL. THE GUARANTEE is the strongest you have ever heard of. If the globe, chimney or mantle breaks within three months we will replace it free.

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