Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 172, 2 May 1919 — Page 3

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1919.

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IIARDE" DERIDES ENEMY ATTITUDE TOWARD TREATY

Compares Tactics of Victorious Germans in 1 870 With Present Behavior. By Associated Pres TTTDT1TX w n . ,,,, -, I .My Maxmilllan Ha UV71I. Ill I MM IBIDBT TllimnaV fT 1I1A V HIT. unit, recalls the behavior of victoiious Germany In 1871 and the heavy yoke tnat Bismarck placed on France, In connection with the present situation, end the tactics of the German political leaders. "In 1871, at the time of the peace pourparlers," he writes, "Jules Favre, annoyed, slightly raised his voice. Bismarck then began to speak in German, although he was perfectly aware that Favre did not know a word of German. When some wonder was manifested at his behavior, the chancellor declared that there was no need wv UVUUVVl W iiO for him to behave more politely than the French plenipotentiaries did. What Bismarck Said -"When asked what attitude Germany would adopt In case of a Fr?jch refusal to sign the treaty, Bisma.ck replied: "We will continue to occupy the forts. The armistice is not likely to be prolonged, as In any case we will lock up Paris more tightly than ever before. Our measures will prove efficient when the French feel the pangs of hunger; in the meantime, we will ask lor their arms and their guns. Let them cry if they like; they would at least realize how ridiculous it is to make formidable threats, which it Is impossible to carry out, to a victorious enemy.' "In 1919 the situation Is the same for the Germans, and the iron chan cellor would think that we are threatening too much. From the beginning the Weimar assembly has declared that our opponents had adopted an impudent attituude. "Herr Dernburg recently made threats again in the Tageblatt He also said, according to the formula of Karolyi, that if Germany does not ob tain he peace that she has a rignt to. she will open her gates to Bol shevism. For the present let us be content if the honorable deputy opens wide to us the gates of the splendid villa he possesses at Grunewald." I Indiana News Brevities V NOBLESVILLE Mrs. Edward Miller Is in a serious condition from ptomaine poisoning following the drinking ot coffee from a copper kettle in which it had stood overnight. Mrs. Miller was helping a number of other women clean up after a Victory banquet for returned soldiers. MARION The body of Mrs. Lulu Morgan, 52, widow of Tom Morgan, a former Indianapolis newspaper man, was found In the Missisinewa river. She had been missing since Tuesday. HUNTINGTON Left standing with its engine running, the delivery automobile of Ed StrodeL grocer, ran four squares down hill and crashed into the machine of L. L. Branstator. Both machines were badly damaged. GREENFIELD Mrs. R. L. Ogg, of this city, put two feather beds together to make a nice soft bed ior her son, Paul Ogg, and hiB friend, Carl Reed, who returned home after service with the Rainbow division. But they rolled and tossed half the night and then when Mrs. Ogg came in to waken them she found both sound asleep on the floor. KOKOMO Charles Welsh, Kokomo young man, has decided there are such things as fairies. He has received notice from the Rev. S. K. Byrne, of Montreal. Canada, who recently fell heir to an estate of $10,000,000, that the latter -oing to adopt him and make him eir. CARTHAGE This vfitege' Is to erect a community auditorium to be built of brick and tile, at a cost of about 118,000. The first floor will have a seating capacity of 800 and will provide for a basketball floor and the second will be used by the Odd Fellows. The money is to be raised by popular subscription. GREENSBURG Burglars entered the home of Dr. L. A. Wood and got 600 worth of jewelry, besides five diamond rings. The home of Albert Christian was also entered. VALPARAISO Mrs. Dwight Mathews, 67 years old, of New Philadelphia, Ohio, Is dead' here. . DECATUR Will Hammell, 30, clerk of Adams county, is missing from his home here. The bank has refused to honor checks Issued by him, claiming his balance Is exhausted. Steps have been taken to find him, but his friends say he will return, as he has suddenly gone on trips before. BLOOMINGTON Captain Joseph Knox Barclay, 38 years old. a Bloomington lawyer, is dead at Camp Knox, Virginia, where he was operated on for hernia. He was one of the bestknown young men of Monroe county, and a graduate of Indiana University. No Breakfast trouble at our house Every morning' now we have POST TOASTIES

Milton Man is Only ot Sultana Disaster

' So far as Is known. Martin Frazee, of Milton, Is. the only living Wayne county man who vraa on the steamer Sultana when she blew up on the Mississippi river while bringing back 200 Union soldiers from southern prisons, on the night of April 27, fifty-four years ago. Frazee was a member ol Company C, One hundred and twenty-fourth Indiana, which was captured as a whole by the confederates in their on slaughts on the Union army , under E1SU(UUI IU1 mo umuu iui; uuuct command of General Sherman on hia march to the sea. This company contained many men of western Wayne county. (- The company was taken to prison at AndersonviUe, almost entire, and was released after the confederate armies capitulated in the spring of 1865. They, with almost 2,000 other soldiers, were on the Sultana, a happy bunch of boys, when the catastrophe occurred. Nathan Williams, formerly of Chester, had thrilling experiences which he was never tired of relating. He was thrown into the river by the explosion, i but managed to catch onto a piece of t wood, and with this as his aid, reached the shore on the Arkansas side of the river and drew himself ashore. Credited Rescue to Mosqultos. The rough bark of the driftwood chafed his skin, but he was so tired that he could hardly stay awake, and he -credited his rescue to the sharp bites of mosqultos, which kept him awake. He lived lor many years after the war. Frazee also was Injured, and his sister went to nurse him after the disaster. Among the other men from Wayne county was Martin Lamb, who lived in Economy, and who was killed, and August Hackensburger, who suffered the same fate. Henry county also had many boIdlers on board the Sultana. The only living survivor Is Andrew J. McCormack, of Cadiz, but W. H. Peacock, Thomas Allison . and Lewis Johnson, lived many years after their exciting experience. Several of those who were lost were:. Thomas Laboyteaux, William C. Huber, Enoch T. Nation, Thos. L. Chenoweth, James M. Fletcher and Thornton W. Watklns. 1 J. H. Kimberlin, of McCordsville, known by several G. A. R. men in Wayne, county, and a friend of William Mathews, county assessor, has described the Sultana disaster. He was a sergeant in Company C and a prisoner in AndersonviUe, and was a member of the Sultana Survivors' association. "A little after midnight on the morning of the 27th the Sultana left her landing at Memphis and moved up to the coaling wharf two miles above, where she took on coal sufficient to run her to St. Louis," says Kimberlin. "After recoaling, the vessel again started on her northern Journey and when about seven miles above the city of Memphis and at the upper end and on the east side of what was known as Hen and Chicken Islands, and at 3 a. m., April 27, 1865, one or more of her boilers (there being four In number) let go or exploded with terrific force and destruction. . The force of the explosion was so graat.that the boilers were thrown to tho east and partially from off the furnace, leaving a great mass of burning coal exposed. All that portion of the vessel over the boilers and furnace was torn asunder and scattered with Its hundreds of human beings, who were sound asleeD. In every direction, many of them far out Into the water; much of the wreckage with its human freight, mangled and torn, many of them killed outright, dropping Into the open, un covered furnace. Many who were not Killed outright or badly Injured were buried In the wreckage, where they were soon burned to death. Soon Burned to Death "All that part of the vessel to the rear of the boilers was undamaged, tne rubDisn or parts of the wreckaco falling onto the open furnace with its roaring blaze instantly took fire and in a very few moments the whole vessel was a Beething, burning mass. Those who were badly injured, with their comrades who were killed outrixht end others who had become entangled or covered up in the wreckage, though uninjured, but unable to extricate tnemselves, were Boon burned to death. Others who became suddenly crazed by reason of the appalling dis ; aster lost all sense of reason and pow er to act; some were crying, some singing, some praying, while others were cursing. Everything one could think of, or man was capable of, one could see or hear in a very few minutes, for in twenty minutes after the explosion the boat had burned to the water's edge. "The hull drifted down and lodged against the upper end of one of the small islands, where it was soon cov-' ered up with the drifting sand and silt of the Mississippi river, where It remained hidden from the eyes of man until about eight or ten years ago, when some wrecking company with a dredging machine removed the sand and silt from off and about the old hull, raised and floated it ashore, broke it up for the material and machinery. When the explosion occurred everybody except a few of the vessels officers and crew were sound asleep. Instantly all those who were not killed or badly Injured sprang to their feet, knowing that something awful had happened, but not knowing what. As soon as they realized that the boat's boilers had blown up and the vessel had taken fire, the great mass of the living became crazed with fright and made one mad rush for the sides of the vessel nearest to where he happened to be sleeping. Many Were Killed "Those who were on the upper decks plunged into the water below; those on the top or hurricane deck, were twenty-two to twenty-five feet above the water. The poor, crazed fellows - never paused to look, but plunged as far from the vessel as possible, alighting In the midst of dozens who had preceded them. Some had wrenched a door or a window shutter from its fastenings from some part of the cabin, others had secured sticks of wood, a plank, a scantling, in fact, anything that might act as a float, and with this , they made one mad plunge for the water below, many times landing in the midst of and on top of dozens who had preceded them, and thus many poor fellows were killed through the, mad frenzy of some comrade. . "Of the command to which I belonged, Company C, 124th Indiana, there was one commissioifed officer, Joseph T. Elliott of Indianapolis, fourteen non-commissioned officers and enlisted

Living Survivor in Wayne County

men and two enlisted men Belonging to company K, same regiment, aboard the vessel at .the time of the explosion, making seventeen in alL Of these, Lieutenant Elliott, J. W. Thompson, Charles Bryant, Thomas White, Sidney Shlnneyfield and myself succeeded in escaping. The other eleven were lost "" "When I first sprang to my feet I rushed to the west side of the vessel and looked down from the hurricane deck, on which I was sleeping. The water around the vessel for a distance of twenty to forty feet was a solid, seething mass of humanity, clinging one to another. The best or luckiest man was on top. I then after partially dressing, went forward, climbing down on the wreckage to the lower deck on the west side, and when I looked out over the water where but a few min utes before there .were hundreds of men. struggling for supremacy, now there were but few to be seen. The great mass of them had gone down, clinging to each other. Of those who went into the water with the lirst mad rush, not more than one in ten escaped drowning, but of those who went into the water later, first taking off all their clothing, Including shoes or boots and securing some sort of a float, about one-half escaped and lived to return home. , River Was High. "At the time of the disaster the river was very high, and the. lands on the Arkansas side are very low, and at this time were covered with water in many places eight or ten feet. Where the disaster occurred the boat channel was between the islands and

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the Tennessee shore and about three hundred yards from the shore. Those who went Into the. water on the east had. but a short distance to swim. Not so with those who went off on the west side, for they had from fifteen to eighten hundred yards to go before reaching shore. By -reason of the high

water a man never knew when he was on land. Scores of men alter reach ing shore could find no bottom and would climb some bush and cling to its branches until some of the many rowboata would take him off." Kimberlin recalls that the steamer Bostona, which had passed the Sul tana, turned back and put out row boats to rescue those who had jumped into the river. . He pays high tribute to the men in these rowboata and boats from the Sultana and from the shore who worked gallantly to save as many lives as possible, and he credits them with having saved at least 400. Of the 2,300 persons on board, about 800 escaped with their lives, he estimates. The Sultana Survivors' association was formed after the disaster, which has been maintained for thirty years. and the 1918 roster showed the names of seventy known survivors. Recorder's Office Open Friday, Saturday Nights The county recorder's office will be open Friday and Saturday nights from 7 to 8:30 o'clock for the purpose of recording mortgage exemptions, said Recorder Fisher Friday morning. Monday is the last day for the bring ing in of these exemptions, the time being extended this year until the first Monday in May, and the office is open ed to accommodate people who cannot bring them in until after working hours. ' The auditor's office will be open on Monday evening.

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SIZZLING AGAWi Republican polNcs began to. sizzle again Friday with the approaching end of the loan campaign, - and the announcement that County . Republican Chairman. Lewis E. Bowman, now assistant auditor of state, had secured a house In Indianapolis, and would leave Richmond -with his family some time this month. Bowman's leaving win bring up the matter ot a chairman, as he must re sign from the office, as soon as leaves , Notices From Churches In Nearby Communities "Decision Day" will be observed at the regular morning service next Sunday at the Williamsburg Friends church. A large attendance Is expected. Sunday School at 10:00, and the morning service at 11:00 a. m. The public Is invited. Omar Brinkley, supt. Emerson Cloyd, pastor. Williamsburg M. E. church Sunday school, 9:30 a. m., special missionary program will be given. . Come with your missionary offering. Preaching at 8 p. m. This will be a jubilee service over the Centernary victory. Come and hear the reports. Webster . M. E. will have a special missionary program in the Sunday school at 2 p. m. Preaching at 3 p. m. This will be a special jubilee service over the Centernary victory. The Nell quartet will sing. R. M. Morris, pastor. "1 LESS

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