Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 328, 2 October 1911 — Page 1

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S SEARCHED TO FIND BODIES festimatcd Today that Five Hundred and Fifty People Were Killed by the Flood at Austin, Pa. VENTY MUTILATED BODIES WERE FOUND frlalf of the Victims Are Said to Be Children Property Loss Is Estimated Now at $5,000,000. (National News Asniatlon) AUSTIN, Ta., Oct. 2. Five hundred and fifty dead and a monetary loss of iflve million dollars were the estimated results of the disaster caused by the breaking of the concrete dam at the Bayless paper plant, according to a compilation today by leading citizens, conducting an unofficial census of the urvivors. More than half the dead are children. Seventy mutilated bodies had been recovered and fully five hundred rescuers worked desperately today in the ruinB for the recovery of otherB. Stringent precautions were in stituted today to prevent a possible i epidemic of disease from the decomposed bodies of victims. Police authorities declared the loss of life would range somewhere between 100 and 400, but it is practically certain many bodies will be found several miles from Austin, some already having been discovered seven miles away. 2,000 Are Homeless. More than 2,000 are homeless suffering from exposure and hunger although the latter want is being ably (provided by the state and sister comtxnon wealth of New York and New Jersey. A detachment of state constabulary under Capl.'.Grooni patrols Ihe scene 'of the disaster with orders to shoot

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down vandals or looters of the dead. j' h s"f"n water falling on the Corps of rescue workers who labor- j bridge, finds its way through the paveed all night amid the flickering glow jment along the rails of the car track, of huge bonfires, declare that the dead j The Mock, pavement has its foundamav go to 300 or that it may fall farition on steel buckle plates which are under that estimate. They frankly , bolted to the steel I-beam stringers stated their inability to set a definite I which in turn are fastened to the floor figure j beams. These steel buckle plates are Although investigations of the Cal- co,ltn""8 over the entire bridge-floor amity are in their incipient stage, a"l offers the best kind of a reservoir these were pressed to the rear today for thp water draining from the surIn the more important work of digging fa:t of the pavement. , - .i j i ii . 1. ! The Kv01inir nr hnli'me-' nf iYif nav.

OUl anil luenmyuiK uenu ouuit , mu- . ... , :..: i s. f. - ing tne ruins 101 nmB a.m wuus w rthc flood which swept the val-i l.y when the big dam of the Bay- j less Pulp and Paper company had subsided, it left a thick layer of mud and mountain of wreckage, only part of which had been consumed by fire and the relief corps was handicapped by tremendous difficulties in searching' the debris for the dead. Adding to the desolate scene and the general element of woe was the grief of stricken families who sought to ibreak through the line of soldiers and hunt for missing loved ones. Police Kind, but Firm. Scenes too pathetic for adequate de-

Beription nna too rraugtu. wim : readily assist in the oxidation of the panic of despair for adequate descrip- exposed steel. tlon were common along the guarding paint will not adhere to the steel as cordon of troops. The constabulary j long ;,s this drainage from the pavewere armed with service revolvers ; mont finds is way through the tracks and ball cartridges for use in enn rg-! anu- 0Overs the structure beneath as at er.cy, but their kindness toward the i present.

flood victims was strongly in contrast with the sternness of their accouterments. It will take days before the search j of the mountains of wreckage is com-j pleted and it may take days before a definite and authentic death list of the toll exacted by flood and fire is prepared. In the meantime stories of gallant rescues nnd heroic risk of life to warn the menaced townspeople are being circulated. It Is a rafe hazard that the allotment of Carnegie hero medals will reach more than one survivor of the disaster. Many women and children have fallen ill from exposure and Samuel G. Dixon, state health officer of Pennsv!-

vania, who is on the scene, has made:cat(d on the south edge of the road-'later

arrangements for many of the striekeu to be cared for in Costello. a village five miles from Austin, which escaped devastation from the Torrent. THE WEATHER 8TATE Occasional rain tonight and Tuesday; cooler tonight. LOCAL -Occasional rain tonight and Tuesday; not much change in temperature. HIGH SCHOOL OBSERVATORY Highest temperature In last 24 hours lA m 11" 1ft A tn Slinrlav 1 n-a-act .temperature in last 24 hours 58 at 6 . m. Monday. Temperature at 11:30 n Vromter w fri,!,., jAJjlfjdAlittt .Friday, .57 inch.

ENGINEER MUELLER SAYS THAT BRIDGE IS BADLY DAMAGED

County's Expert Submits a Written Report to the Commissioners and Advises Prompt Remedies. TRACTION CARS ARE TOO HEAVY FOR IT And the Structure Has Been Damaged by Electricity, He States Steel Construction Menaced. In a full and conclusive report to the county commissioners today County Engineer Mueller stated the facts concerning the Main street bridge and J suggested remedies for the existing conditions. The report bars out the facts brcught out in a news article in the Palladium a week ago, and he says that the condition is serious and recommends early consideration of the matter. His report in part, follows: Following your instructions for a complete and careful examination of the Main Street Bridge in the city of j Richmond, I herewith hand your hon-1 orable Board my written report as fol-; lows: The examination discloses the fol-j lowing conditions: ; 1. A disintegration of the steel con-1 struction. J 2. The absence of a drainage sys-1 tern under the tracks of the Electric i Railway. I 3. An unbalanced loading, caused by heavy Interurban car traffic on the . extreme south edge of the roadway. 4. The presence of numerous cop- i per feed wires carrying a heavy volt-1 age of electric currents. i The oxidation or rusting out of the steel construction appears more sen- . . . , ous in members comprising the floor system by reason of a continual state of dampness present under the pavement. This condition exists most serious i along the south curb line and under j th tracku of the electric railway. It is wholly probable 'that one-third - ---- ----. . nc h neks between The tracks mnv , ' . V ' ' you t ne this water confined on the buckle j les under Hie tracks. j plates under the tracks. There is only one opportunity for this water tn pscanp ;itut th:it is through the joints between the buckle ; plates and the steel I-beams stringers ! which is a bolted connection. if is the ,.nntin.ii Hrinnin f thi water over the balance of the steel j

work at the points described, that is 1 nls touI8e commence n.ucjrrontinr tho most eorio,, nvitim, evening at half past sevein in the As-

and disintegration. The storm water drainage off of the ! bridge pavement contains the residue from the sweepings which is large in percentage of ammonia and metallic salts and acids in solution which will Unbalanced Loading. The bridge is made up of what is known as pin connected deck trusses supported uy steel bents or towers. These trusses are in pairs and center I between a pair of trusses is also the center of the roadway in order to properly balance the loading on the bridge. A stress diagram shows the bridge was designed to carry light street car traffic only and when loaded with the present interurban cars which weigh i from 40 to 0 tons with full passenger I load, it can easily be estimated that i the bridge is carrying a SO per cent, j overload under the present condition, i The street railway track is now loI way and the greater part of a street car load being carried by one truss only. This condition tends to strain the south side of the bridge and naturally will shorten the life of the structure. If the track were located in the center of roadway the loading would be divided equally between the two lines of trusses which make up the bridge. The balancing of the street car loading is very important and I insist that you give it your early consideration. At the northeast corner of the bridge, a series of three copper feeders carrying the electric current for street car service, are hanging within ( reaching distance from the railing of he ,brt dge. Tbe rublH?r vnng and Mu,a! on 18 m any npped m sections more than 2 feet in length. c - .(.Continued on Page Eight).

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PROF, RUSSELL TO DELIVEIUECTURES Each Friday He Will Talk on Lessons for the Sunday Schools. During the last summer the lesson j committee of the International Sunday School Convention completed a set of graded lessons which was adopted by the convention at San Francisco. This event marks the end of a long controversy between leading Biblical schol-1 ars and educators and the Sunday School leaders. For a number of years progressive Biblical scholarship was alienated from the Sunday school movement by its unpedagogical selec-

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hie and nromote its stndv anart from ' D,e ana promote n& biuu.v apart iroui . tne sunaay senooi tnrougn sucn agen-1 cies as the American Bible Study Un- j ion. the American Institute of Sacred ' j Association, and the Bible study de-i partments of the Young Men's and Young Women's ChristinTsvcuaAiott. But now that their most serious objection to the Sunday School lessons i is to be removed. Biblical scholars and I leading educators realize the very ! great power of the Sunday School in .shaping the religious faith and character of the children, and are coming to j help in its work as never before. ; Richmond is keeping abreast of the times in this matter. The Y. M. C. A. 'has made arrangements for the next six months to have Professor Russell I of Earlham lecture each week on the i Sunday school lesson for the following d Th , in n t be tQ have sunaay. l ne plan win 1101 oe iu nave normal or teacher s ineetine. f ZXVTtlVll n am such a vie .of ace with suggestions as to its practical applications as to help the hearers get at lhe heart of the ,csson so as t?ach k bctter- Opportunity will be given. for questions and discussions after each lecture. rtiL- . 1 Tf.. ; A sembly Hall, of the local Y. M. C. A. and a large and interested number have already decided to enroll. Full information regarding the work can be had at the association office. ELECTIONS BEING HELD OVER STATE National News Association) HARTFORD, Conn., Oct. 2. Almost all the towns in Connecticut hold their annual meetings today for the choice of town officials for the coming year. I The occasion is usually referred to in this StPte as 'Little Town Election Da" and in years gone by' whf;n a presidential election was to follow, seme significance attached to the way the parties lined up. In recent years the political significance of these elections has disappeared, but this year a new interest has been aroused in them bv the referendum vote on two proposed amendments to the constitution. one to give the lieutenant governor larger powers in case of death , or disability of the governor, and the other to tne eitect tnat tne i.enerat Assembly ly shall adjourn sine die not j an the first Wednesday after than

the first Monday in June, following the Mosaic hoiy davs .with its observthe organization. ' The complications ance the penitemjai season which hefollowing the death of Governor Lilley witn the Xew Year come8 to an showed the necessity of the first of j end and the Jews tben Jook forward the proposed amendments, and the un-;with , f . anticination to the eele-

! nsnallv lor.e session of the leeislature .. this year, out of all proportion to the results, the latter. ESCAPES WORKHOUSE I (Palladium j!pecial EATON, O., Oct. 2. Before Police Justice Kennel Saturday, Cornelius Crowell was found guilty of public in toxication and was given a fine of 5 and costs. Old scores standing against j jhim for previous infractions were added, making a total of 123.50 for which payment was provided. A work house sentence of 30 days was again JsusDended. during good behavior.

House in the City of Tripoli

HERO OF SANTIAGO DIES M EW YORK Admiral Schley While Walking This Afternoon Suddenly Expired. (National News Association) NEW YORK, Oct. 2. Admiral Winfield Scott Schley dropped dead this afternoon on Forty-fourth street near Fifth Avenue. Heart failure was the cause. Schley spent the afternoon at the New York Yacht club in West Fortyfourth street and was on his way down town when he turned in front of the Berkeley theater, apparently intending to cross the street. At the curb he sank suddenly. He was past aid when an ambulance and a doctor arrived. mana oi me American neet in tUDan . . , . . v.., wr, and, in the absence of Admiral Sampson, commanded the fleet at the battle of Santiago, when the Spanish fleet was sunk. LEARNS OF DEATHS OF AUSTIN FRIENDS C. H. Greene, Railroad Man, Anxious Inquirer at the Palladium Office. An anxious inquirer for the latest information regarding the terrible flood at Austin, Pa., was C. II. Greene, of Buffalo, N. Y., who called at the Palladium office today, and eagerly read all the dispatches received from the scene of the tragedy. Mr. Greene is trainmaster of Buffalo and Susquehanna railway, the only road that enters Austin, where he frequently vis its in connecton with his railroad du-1 ties. He has many friends in the little town nnrl trttav dl cnnvroH for tho fipct 1 time that quite a number of them had been drowned. He was also anxious to learn what damage the flood had done to the railroad. Mr. Greene has been visiting his sis ter, Mrs. Aaron Hill, South Sixteenth street, and he will visit his daughter, Mrs. Edwin Calloway at Cambridge City. "Of course I never thought the retaining wall of the reservoir would DreaK, said Mr. ureene, but I realized many times that if such a thing happened it would kill every one in Austin, as the millions of gallons of water in the reservoir, fed by a mountain stream, would drop into the town the same as pouring a bucket of water ijnlo a y,ei YOM KIPPUR BEING OBSERVED BY JEWS (National News Assoclatltn) NEW YORK, Oct. 2. The Jewish peonle throughout the world todav ceiebrate Yom Kinnnr or the nav of Atonement, the most widely observed! :of an tne many feasts and fasts in the Hebrew calendar considered the m This fast day is most important of all 1 1 " ... .. , urauun ui succum, ur me rrasi oi TaDernacieS! the harvest festival of the ancient Israelites. Among the orthodox Jews, Yom Kippur is kept as a solemn fast, and for twenty-four hours no food or drink or nourishment of any kind is allowed to pass the lips of the pious and observing Jew. From this observance none is exempt except the sick, children under age, very old people whose health would be affected by abstention from nourishment and nursing mother. The reformed Jews join with the orthodox fin the celebratioa f Yom KIppur, but as a rule they do not fast, nor are the Jerricea in Jtetorm. temples contin

E ARE INJURED IN A WRECK TODAY Union Traction Line Limited Car Jumps Off Track Near Anderson. (National News Association) ANDERSON, Ind., Oct. 2 Nine passengers were injured and a score of other lives imperiled when a limited car on the Union Traction line which left Anderson for Indianapolis at midnight was wrecked in the western suburbs of this city. The injured were taken to St, John's hospital but none of their injuries are likely to prove fatal. The car, which was due to leave Antierson for Indianapolis at 11:15 waa about fifty minutes late. It was going at a fast rate of speed when wrecked. The car failed to follow the rail, shot straight again, cutting down a big tree and a telephone pole as neatly as if done by a sharp ax and then crashed into the residence of Walter L,arimore, fifty feet away from the tracks, tearing away the veranda. . The car was badly broken and every window light was smashed, and it tumbled over on its back. The car was heavily loaded. Doctors were hurried to the scene and ambulances and police patrols conveyed the injured to the hospital. Motorman Gawhn, of Indianapolis, says the air failed to work when he applied the brake on nearing the switch. Traction officials say the track was slick. Passengers declare the high rate of speed at which the car was going made it impossible to round the curve. AGED NEGRO SLAVE WAS BURIED TODAY (Palladium Special) EATON, O.. Oct. 2. Susan Richardson, 74, one of the county's oldest colored residents and the last of her sex to have been held in slavery, died Saturday evening at her home on South Cherry street, the result of general infirmities. She was born in Somerset, Ky,, and was placed in slavery when quite young, and was among the number released from this bondage by the emancipation proclamation of Abraham Lincoln. Her husband Ned Richardson, also say years' of slavery, service. Besides the husband there are surviving three children, George Richardson, Mrs. Andrew Johnson and Mrs. Sarah Field, of this city. The funeral services were held Monday afternoon at two I o'clock at her late home, conducted by the Rev. Charles A Hunter, of the local Presbyterian church. Interment in Mound Hill cemetery. DICKINSON TRUST IS A DEPOSITORY The Dickinson Trust Company this morning received official notice from the post office department at Washington, that it has been appointed a depositary for the postal savings bank fund in this city. Supplies for the bank are arriving almost every day, and the affairs are being put into shape to handle the bus iness. An expert from the headquarters of the postal service is expected in a few da3"s to instruct the local men in the proper methods of running the establishment. NO MORTGAGE WILL SHE GIVE LAWYER "Ah ain't goin' to let no attorney get no mortgage on ma property," declared Mrs. Martin Young, wife of Squire" Young, the aged negro fined in police court last week on the charge of stealing old ties from the Pennsylvania railroad company. "I'se jest goin to pay dis fine and be done wif it, and dere ain't goin to be no appeal in." Forthwith Mrs. Young handed Day Police Sergeant McXally $11 with which to psy the fine. The attorney for Young persuaded him. it is said, to - Juke an appeal to a higher court.

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COMMERCIAL CLUB ISSUES STATEMENT ON TRACTION CASE

Follows Signatures of Both County Board and Traction Company of a Compromise Agreement. EXPLANATION MADE TO THE TAXPAYERS Under the Terms of This Agreement It Is Claimed that the County Will Be Saved $4,000. E. M. Haas, chairman of the com mittee from the Commercial club to settle the traction matter today presented to the county commissioners an agreement signed by the T. H., I. & E. Co., whereby the county dismisses its appeal to the Supreme Court and agrees to build the wing walls to the traction bridges on the National road improvement, and furnish necessary ground for the fills. The traction company is to pay the county not to exceed $750.00 for this work. The agreement had previously been signed by the county board. It is claimed that the county will save over $4,000.00 by this action by applying the amount saved on other gravel roads. The bonds have already been issued, consequently the amount cannot be paid back to the tax-payers. The committee from the Commercial club has issued the following statement: Statement Issued. In view of the long discussion of the various phases of the troubles between the county commissioners and the traction company regarding the location of tracks on that section of the National road which is being improved, west of the City, the committee of thirty from the Commercial club desire to make known its attitude in the matter in a public statement, the same being herewith set forth over our signatures. The Commercial club, as early as May 1, appointed a special committee to offer its services to the county commissioners in the settlement of the controversy. This committee, so long as the commissioners and the traction company were negotiating did not participate in the matter. When these negotiations failed, the commissioners employed attorneys to continue further effort to settle the matter, but it finally terminated in a suit in court in which the court ruled that the traction company had the right by franchise to place its tracks within 12 feet of the center of the road. This decision was rendered on July the 8th. From this time forth the traction company made no effort for a settlement, and the attorneys urged an appeal to the Supreme Court, but sixty days elapsed before the papers were perfected and filed. It was after the decision of the court when the special committee of the Commercial club was again urged by the president to look into the matter and make a report. The committee made a thorough investigation of the contract and specifications, con: ferred with parties along the line of the improvement, talked with attorneys on both sides of the controversy and the traction officials and then made an exhaustive report of its findings and made a recommendation for a plan of settlement, to the board of directors of the Commercial club. The Principal Points. The principal points of the report were that the contract and plans pro vided that the new road should be built 46 feet wide and the traction company should place its tracks outside of this new roadway and also that whatever portion of this 46 foot road way the company would construct should be deducted from the contract price of $52,000. This seemed to fur nish the solution for a settlement. The committee thought that if tbe tracks of the company could be moved out about 5 feet further from the center than their present location, and the company build at their own expense the 6 feet that they would occupy the road would still be wide enough for traffic. The committee made some comparisons with the streets in the city and found that if the road was built 45 feet wide it would be 4 feet wider than Main street all through the business section of the city, and ten feet wider than South 9th. 10th and 11th streets. The committee came to tbe conclusion that ii the road were made 4ft feet wide between the north curb and the north rail of the track it would be amply wide for all the traffic for all time to come and that the appearance and proportions of tbe road would not be injured, and would save the township $4,095, The committee's report therefore recommended that the road be made forty feet wide between the curb and the north rail. The board of directors thoroughly discussed the , matter and unanimously adopted the committee's recommendation and instructed them to call on the county commissioners and offer their services to obtain a (Continued oa. FagEIht) . -

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ARE REPORTS ON A BATTLE Turkey Denies that Her WarN Fleet Was Met and Defeated Off Dardanelles by the Italian Fleet. UNREST IN BALKANS A CAUSE OF ALARM Servian Army Was Ordered. Mobilized Today by the Cabinet Russia Is Also Massing Army Corps. (National News Association) LONDON. Oct 2. The Italian an Turkish ambassadors held a long conference at the British foreign office today and Intervention was discussed.

Preliminary steps toward a tentative t peace agreement was reported. f f 4

LONDON, Oct. 2. Conflicting advi-; ces continue to be received of the reported naval battle between Italian and Turkish warships at the western mouth of the Dardanelles in which the Turkish fleet was first reported to be annihilated. Turkey denies that - her war fleet has been defeated, declaring it was intercepted by the Italian, but la safe in the harbor, after having engag ed the Italian squadron in order , to circumvent it. Commanding could be heard daring the engagement and the detonattona

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phorus. , SERVIA'S WAR MOVE. r BELGRADE, Oct. 2. Sorvia has bfr gun to prepare for general warfare tat the Balkans. King Peter convoked h cabinet today and the mobilization ' the army was at -'once ordered. Th garrisons on the frontier will be heav '

ily reinforced. Fears are expressed that Turkey will through an invading army enter Servia. -j, I , . RUSSIA l ACTIVE, i. t tMl ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 2. The) threatened war in the Balkans which, ? A is menacing the tranquility of Europe. ,i has aroused war preparations in'-,

southern Russia. Russia today com menced concentration of troops on Uta border of Turkey. The excuse given is the fear of an uprising of Kurds. " A REPORTED BATTLE. LONDON, Oct. 2. A dispatch from Curfu early this morning states that an Italian flotilla sank two Turkish torpedo boat destroyers and captured! a third in an engagement off Coman Zetza. ' PREVE8A HAS FALLEN. CONSTANTINOPLE. Oct. 2.-The Italian fleet has bombarded and destroyed the fort at Prevesa and the city has been occupied by 1,600 Italian troops, according to a dispatch this afternoon.

NATIVES REVOLT. " ROME, Oct. 2. A revolt of Tripolitan natives against foreigners baa -broken out in Benghaei. Mohamme- . dans, frenzied by appeals to their religion, attacked the city, killing and ' plundering. Scores are reported slain. " Italian warships are blockading Ben- . ghasi harbor. ; .

FEAR IS EXPRESSED. " MILAN, Oct. 2. The Italian gov- . ernment's reticence regarding the ait uation at Tripoli is causing apprehension here that the Italian invaders ate -encountering greater resistance than anticipated. f.

TRIPOLI EVACUATED.' - I -MALTA. Oct. 2. The entire Turk v ish army of defense in Tripoli haa evacuated the city following. the oe, cupation by Italian forces, but ,1a con ' centrating with forces of wild; Arab tribesmen in the hills beyond, FoK lowing the bombardment, in' which aiT portion of the city was destroyed and I" the palace of the Turkish governor' -1 general demolished, the Italian land -?i force took possession of Tripoli and -,' began to strengthen the defenses in r preparation for a sortie from the Turk

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ship and by wireless. . -v. j The object of the Turkish troop 4a evacuating the city without resisting the landing of the Italian expedition ary force was doubtless to lure tbe :; t Italian soldiers into the : desert J stretches that lie south of the city and thus transfer the theater of, - action 'f' from sea to land. Thrilling a6eount ; ; of the bombardment and inveetmetii of Tripoli were brought her today. ' V Despite the tact that ordexr;Were grt en by Admiral Aubrey t ?ae tiba most caution in firingon 'the -cltjr , some of the Italian gunnera i t&eir

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