Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 120, 31 March 1913 — Page 1

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PA .ABIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM RICH3IOND, IND., MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 31, 1913. -neb SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS J. Herpoift MaDrausmm Pcari. RICHMOND PRAISED BY THE GOVERNOR Latest Photo of J. P. Morgan HE EXPIRED B)rDWi IN EAT

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Extreme Weakness of the American Financial Wizard Was the Direct Cause of Death, it is Said.

NEW YORK MARKET IS NOT AFFECTED

Master of Millions Went Abroad Several Weeks Ago to Regain His Health-Failed Very Rapidly.

, ROME, March 31. J. Pierfcjont Morgan, one of the world's greatest financiers, died at noon .today at the Grande hotel. The end came after Mr. Morgan had been subjected to a long sinking ppell. Shortly before his death the attending physician insisted that IMr. Morgan was not suffering ifrom any organic trouble, but that his extreme weakness and nervousness resulted from his inability to take nourishment, due to paralysis of the muscles bf the throat. A) . Food was administered artificially throughout the night by means of injection. Mr. Mor

gan's condition during the night iwas far from satisfactory. Part of the time he was in a coma and jat other times while semi-conscious he did not recotmize Her-

wJbejrt Li,Satterlee,.,his son-in-law,

. iana otner memoers of the family at his bedside. Mr. Morgan sev-

ieral times tried to speak, but

contraction of the throat presented him from making an audiible sound. Mr. and Mrs. Satterlee and other members of the Morgan family were up the greater part of the night, and as Sate as 2 o'clock this morning,

'Dr. Dixon assured them there

iwas no immediate danger. At 3: 50 o'clock Mr. Morgan became fsemi-conscious and tumbled neryously in his bed. Another injection of food was administered v land he soon sank into sleep. At

id o ciock nis pnysicians reported the was resting easy and that his (breathing was normal. A consultation of physicians jwas held at 10 o'clock and soon jafterwards members of his family were summoned to his bedjside, where they remained until rthe end came.

A SKETCH OF J, P,

MORGAN

STOCK MARKET QUIET NEW YORK, March 31. President Matson of the New

York stock exchange announced i today that the stock exchange ! would not be closed on account of jMr. Morgan's death. The Mor-!

gan stocks fell two points, but soon recovered the loss. A notice was posted at the of- . f ices of J. P. Morgan & Company this forenoon as follows:

death of Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan ; Miss Vera Crome to Take

John Pierpont Morgan, banker and financier, was born at Hartford, Conn., April 17, 1837. His father, Junius Spencer Morgan and his mother, Juliet Pierpont, were descendants of old New England stock. Both were noted families. He was educated, first in the public schools, of Hartford, later graduated from a Boston high school, and finished his studies at the University of Goettingen, Germany. He was an ordinary schor, evidencing no brjlliant streaks of mentality. " : " Entered banking house of Duncan. Sherman & Co. as a clerk In 1857. Became United States agent for London banking firm of George Peabody & Co., of which his father was a member, in 1860. Married Amelia Louise Sturges, 1861 died 1862. Married Louise Tracy, 1865. Had one son and three daughters. Became member of respective firms of Dabney, Morgan & Co and Drexel, Morgan & Co.. in 1864 and 1871. The latter firm became J. P Morgan & Co.

Floated bond issue of administration.

Organized and floated securities U. S. Steel Corporation. 1901 capital $1,100,000,000.

becured American subscriptions

amounting to $50,000,000.

Controlled 50,000 miles of railways, large American and British ocean transportation lines and English traction railways. Gave $1,500,000 for site and buildings for lying-in hospital" in New York. Other benefactions total millions. Twice won the international yacht races with the yacht Columbia, which he caused to be built. Checked a disastrous panic in 1907 by personally taking hold of the

BUUauou an dumping millions of dollars into the Ne

excnange.

l estified before the Pujo committee

"Money Trust" and could be none.

Made famous collections of paintings, bronzes and antique art. in- ? ?v SJhe famOUS GaineborouRA Fainting which he later turned over to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

rersonauy ne was gruff, all business, and kept

venture ne was concerned in.

$209,000,000 during President Cleveland's

to British war loan of 1901,

few York stock

In 1913 that there

was no

a string on every

RICHMOND GIRL TO ACT AS PRINCIPAL

Position of Gertrude

McArthur.

which occurred at Rome, Italy, at noon today." Large crowds had gathered about the Monran banki no-

house in Wall street. All kinds' vra Crome ot this city, will accept

of rumors were in the air. At 8 th Principalship of the Williamsburg O'clock a French cable company schools to take the place of Gertrude messenger was seen running to McArthur who will act as superintendthe home Of J. P. Morgan, Jr., in ent In the future. The present superMadison avenue. At 8 :45 a tele- lntendent. Claude C. Collins has rephone bell rang in the office of signed to accept a position in the InMorgan & company and one Of dlanapolis schols. Mr. Collins resign;the clerks took down a message. 'ed m January but consented to retain i A moment later a notice written I the P8ition until close of the nr?K a v n. a i xi i term.

"hi a naa jjuaicu up a L lilt;

GEO. SEIDEL FINDS

BODYJTA FRIEND Local Man Horrified as He Stepped Into Hamilton Morgue.

When George Seidel, member of the

local relief committee stepped into the morgue at Hamilton, O., Saturday, he was horrified to find the body of one of his former business associates, a prominent business man of Hamilton. The man's body was found south of the city, his arms clasped tightly around a trunk of a tree.

banking house. As the partners of the banking firm reached .the offices the shades were drawn and it was evident that a

conference was in progress.

PROF. LEBO RESCUED.

REQUEST SHERIFF TO BE ON LOOKOUT

Sheriff Bayer has been notified to be on the lookout for Theodore Lacey of Montgomery, Ala., believed to be in

this section and wanted in Montgom-

Dr. L. M. Gentle, who has just returned from Hamilton. Ohio ct.t

T1,J UV Jj A- ... . ' V 7 .u muuig

"c uc' me wurm s greai-; mis morning that Prof. Lebo, who has r ery Ior mtezxiement of 100,000. est financier evidently had not j taken charge of the symphony orches-! Lacey wa8 chiet ckjrk of Btat

ueen expeciea ior, wniie the tra here, was marooned in the hieh

partners were in consultation, ! school annex at Hamilton from Tuesmen began to arrive from var-jday 11X1111 Saturday before he was reious companies bearing boxes of cned- Wit hIm wer eight high stocks and securities for the i 2L3- -entlr. prty

.v. Kna;na,D A r""1 iWU lur oeverai nays until

J " Tr;'?. "7"C1 wf"- rescue boats could assist them.

iiuuiitcu niHi me iirm wouia not open for business today the American flag on the building

fwas lowered to half-mast. (Continued on Last Pace)

convict

$100,000

department. He

and absconded

embezzled

March 12,

THE WEATHER

STATE AND LOCAL Fair Tonight

Tuesday. Colder Tuesday. - tke county jail.

191.3. A reward of $1,000 is offered for his arrest.

ARRESTED AGAIN. s After being released from a 140-day jail term last week, James Allen was arrested for public intoxication. In police court this morning he was fined $1 and costs. Ha n tt n

One Met Death in Peru Flood Three in Dayton-Graphic Stories Told by Richmond Survivors.

Edgar A. Norris yesterday received a telegram, sent Friday, announcing that his nephew, Bert Smith, had been drowned at Peru, Ind. No details were contained in the telegram. The tele

gram was sent by the young man's vyKoIa Bister. M1b Trottn Smith Cmik. ! W UOIC

m - k v. uuiiui a wffe wag a former Milton girl, her maiden name being Effle Paxton.

Conditions all Along the Ohio River Serious but People Had Ample Warning to Save Lives.

LAWRENCEBURG HAS DISASTROUS FIRE

HER MOTHER DROWNED.

Mildred Gross Receives Thia Information From Dayton Today. A Richmond colored man today stated that he had peen the body of Mrs. Pearl, Briscoe, mother of Mildred Gross of this city. , The body was in a morgue and the woman's name was on a slip of paper fastened to the body. MissGr6ss will attempt to recover the body today.

LOCAL-NEGRO DROWNS.

City Under Deepl

Water Today But no Lives j

Have Been Lost Millions of Damage Done.

J. M'Connell .Was Caught in the Flood

Waters at Dayton. Richmond relatives of John McCon-

nell, colored," formerly of this city',

have been notified that he was drowned. The body' was identified at "'"a morgue.

DROWNED AT DAYTON;

Mrs.

William Hill Informed of Fate of

i Her Brother. A negro by the name of McCaffery,

formerly of this city and a brother of

Mrs. William Hill,, was drowned at Dayton. ;

(National News Association) BULLETIN ST. LOUIS, March 31. A telephone message from Shawneetown; on the Ohio river at noon said that the town was doomed and that the women and children had practically all been re

moved to the hills at that hour. The girls in the telehone . exchange were ordered out ?of the building as soon as : this message had been sent

! few 'fcTfis I "vVv v I

GOVERNOR

Captured as Looters and Sol-' Diers Censured For. Not Shooting Them Down as Their Orders Read.

EPIDEMIC MENACE MUCH FEARED NOW'

A Palladium Correspondent,'

First Reporter Into North Dayton, Tells of Some of Sights He Saw.

RALSTON.

GRAPHIC TALES TOLD.

By Richmond People Caught in Day. ton Flood. Graphic stories are being told today of the remarkable experiences of Richmond survivors of the Dayton flood. Frank Sheridan, once living here, told Walter Dalbey . that, when ;Jtne flood came he v ast 'in North Dayton. He got on to the top of a small house, then the Mad river levee broke and he was washed away by a great wall of water. He was finally hurled upon the roof of a floating house half way across the stream. In a few minutes

(National News : Association) CAIRO, 111., March 31. The levees were still "holding today after the river had reached a stage of 52 feet and was still ris

ing. The water is still several feet below the top of the levee,

but the worst flood in history is

imminent.

BY STAFF CORRESPONDENT. DAYTON. March 31. Four men. twowhites and two negroes, were arrest ed for Inntlng In &Annt . n '

TalkW P.IHMt C V ! " vw" .wm u;.

of the Richmond Commercial clublThey wlU tried by martial Sunday. Governor Ralston praised the i and ma' be ordered shot. The solspirit shown by Richmond in extend-; diers who made the arrests were replug relief to Dayton. Hamilton and rimanded fcr not literally executing other cities and towns. "Keep up the .h, . . . , ' " 1115 good work of sending relief to Ohio jtheif rder8 l loottn on ,nttowns," said the governor. "Indiana Efforts to restore public utilities flood victims are being well cared for. ' were being pushed by great forces of Let Richmond keep up its great work L,. toda ci w of assisting the Ohio victims. Your.' S,DCe th flood th ha city will be expected to conUnue in n no mean communication; this work and your help for Indiana ' about tne citT except by automobile, towns in the flood zone is not needed. ! Three thousand horses m-ere drowned ' Governor Cox of Ohio has informed j Th ho-lth '

- v -vm aic riuut ing dead animals of all kinds by the

AT LAWRENCEBURG. LAWRENCEBURG, Indiana, March 31 Practically the whole city was under deep water here today. Fifty buildings have been carried away. The Knippenburg carriage factory burned down, during the vnight. There is water seven feet deep in the banks, school houses and public buildings. There has been no loss of life and the suffering of the homeless is not great because of ample warning having

me that . there are 500,000 homeless people in his state that must be fed and clothed. Help him out.

PREACHERS DISCUSS

RECENT DISASTERS Rev. Ken worthy Says 17th Street Dam Should be Made.

in ineir sermons yesterday, many j . . r, .rWATrir. h. t..i-.MH.i.lIIn. breeding.

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thousands. Two wagonloads of dead cats and dogs were removed from the wreckage of Main street today. The situation in Dayton, as regards the amount of water in the stricken city, is very much Improved today for the water is steadily receding, so that North Dayton may be explored now. The Palladium's staff correspondent made a trip through practically all of north Dayton Saturday night at midnight and was the irst newspaper man in that locality. He found conditions there much the same as prevail over every othor section of the city wreck, ruin, slime and nesti-

The sewers of the

devasUtion caused by the floods ia) f111' pljf tEe ciy are nowrork--

uB auu wiijiug uu rivers 01 water. It is impossible now. and nmtuhiv

ICost of Dayton

Richmond and nearby cities, the ministers spoke on the and Hamilton floods.

"Laws of nature were disregarded

when persons built in the lowlands in

Stretch of Railroad Near Brookville Washed Out

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The above photograph illustrates how the recent floods in Indiana washed away the railroad beds on all of the big lines, causing long delays and great financial losses.

great onrush of water from the

Little Miami tore him off his place of

safety and he thought the end had come but he succeeded in grasping hold of a support on a railroad signal

tower and then climbed to a place of

safety. He remained there until Friday.

Will Rowlett, formerly residing at

126 South Twelfth street, was caught

in the Stoddard-Dayton automobile

factory vith over three hundred men

and women. Most of the men were tough characters and it looked fer a time as though there might be serious trouble with these rowdies, but a Dayton judge took charge of the situ

ation and organised a minature "city."

making himself mayor and naming Rowlett "chief of police." The mayor

made an address in which he stated

the crisis had to be handled in dras

tic fashion and that any man guilty

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01 uguung a maicn, or or msuinng a woman or stealing would" be put to death by being hurled into the river. This statement had a magic effect. Two days later three bunches of bananas were secured and distributed but one man .was caught steatog this fruit from a woman. He'wis not thrown 'into the flood but Rowlett sayt he never saw a man get such a

been received and preparations made for the high water. 48 FOOT STAGE SOON. EVANSVILLE, Ind., March 31. The Ohio river in this vicinity passed the 45 foot stage today and was still rising. The crest of the flood is predicted for Wednesday, .when a stage of

48 leet will be reached. Millions of dollars damage and thousands

of people homeless all along the

unio river, but no loss of life

has been reported up to noon to

day. AT INDIANAPOLIS. INDIANAPOLIS, March 31 With two additional bodies of drowned flood victims recovered

today the total known deaths resulting from the high waters reached nine. This number includes three dead from exposure, one killed by electricity and five drowned. Those bodies recovered today were P. R. Gray, a paper hanger.

the cities which were flooded." said the Rev. Truman C. Kenworthy. pastor of the East Main Street Friends' church. "Another thing was the fact that the levees of rivers were insecure. Improvement over this fallacy should be made at once. "I am in favor of continuing the work on the North Seventeenth street dam but the city of Richmond should not allow any one to live In the lower section and every modern method of

construction should be employed in building the dam. "Of course Dayton has suffered a

great loss of life. I do not know the

number of persons who perished, but I will take on the basis of 1.000 having been drowned or killed. Dayton has 250 saloons and according to statistics each saloon in the country kills three men each year. Yet people do not stop to think of this, which really Is as great a catastrophe as a flood." Other ministers who spoke on the flood and drew lessons from It in their pulpits Sunday were Rev. S. W

Traum, of the First Christian church.

Rev. E. G. Howard of the First English Lutheran church. Rev. Conrad Huber.

of the St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran,

Kev. s. K. Lyons of the Reld Memorial

church. Rev. W. O. Stovall of the First Baptist, Rev. Thomas McXary of the

Second Presbjteriaa and others.

win be for weeks, to estimate . the 'exact number of dead. There are I many bodies covered with mud and wreckage in the river bottom which will probably never be recovered. In one drift along the river thirty-eight bodies were recovered Saturday. In some places the river has changed its course, and the old channel is one seething mass of mud and wreckage. Many bodies may be piled in wind rows under the surface of this refuse. It is said in Dayton that bodies have been washed for miles down the river, and some people in Hamilton believe that many of the unidentified dead found there may be from Dayton. Estimates of the death list being below two hundred are much too low. Any reports placing the total list of deaths at a definite figure should not be taken as accurate. Hundreds of places where bodies are. known to be have not been explored yet. The food situation is well in hand in Dayton now. Every ronceivablo kind of provisions are coming in by the car load, but the relief work must continue for many days. The great danger in stricken Gem City now is an epidemic. The inhabitants ' returning to their homes are cleaning away the wreckage as best they can. but the menace of the hundreds of tons of yellow mud. laden with germs, read for the hot sun to touch and transform Into a peril worse than the rushing waters, confronts the homeless thousands. The scenes in the north end of the

city are absolutely beyond the power

of Human mind to comprehend if not

behold. For miles and miles a special

car drove through mud wallows, sometimes the thick, evil smelling muck reaching almost into the engine. Barriers of water with two feet of mud at the bottom, treacherous, broken manholes, and deep washouts in the strets, hidden by the thick brown mud and water were a great hindrance to the relief workers and to the residents ho are escaping Into West Dayton. Decaying carcasses of animals of every conceivable species, and many dead bodies were everywhere. Old broken down men. women and little children, worked in the mud carrying out their few household valuables, with bed clothing strapped to their backs. Looks of hopeless despair were oa every face. Stations over the city established for the benefit of the hungry, and where basket loads of proviions are being given out, were crowd

ed, with the hundreds of homeless and hungry. Guards kept order In the lines.

Looting Is going on in wbolesals

?tyle all over the city except In the main business section of the city which

is well guarded.

Hundreds of civilians have been eworn In. given police power and armed and are rendering much assistance in stopping the depredations of the hu

man vultures. Armed with almost any.

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