CHICAGO'S GREAT CALAMITY.
Latest figures
Coroner Hoffman
the
steamer
842
and
1,588
with
pany a
counted for. it
given out
Of
by
Chicago, on
death the
Eastland
bodies
that
Parse
the
toll of capsized
showed that
been i
of the
ngers ha
have
1.000
ve
Els
Of the
was
Western
8 saved
t
£0t
thou
about
in the
approxim
100 alive a
making the
Were nd 18K
river total dead
ately 1,000
A considerable p
blame the Eastland disaster
the United States
Tests
spection Bureau,” said Mac!
{
Hovne, state's attorney
ment in Chicago regarding
vestigation of the wreck
had done thelr the
could not have urred
the ship was conside
inspectors duty
accid
We
ent OC
Know red
am, because
copies of
ietlere sent to
ton which
rence i
at th
al he
predicted this
may introduce
inquest.”
The state's attorney will n
to the grand jury a letter written
in 1813 by John D. York, a
architect of Chicago, to the steam
boat inspector warning him
the Eastjand was not a safe boat
Colonel Hannan, secretary to
Senator La Follette, puts the
blame faulty laws and lax in-
spection He says a
tive of the Seamen's
called the attention of the
tion the danger of al
lowing crowds
the Eastland type
Acting Mayo:
cided to raise a relief
£200,000 be distri
the direction of National
Cross in addi
ters
naval
that
on
representa
Union had
Ins Deg
service to
r
large on boats of
Moorhouse de
fund o
to ted unde:
Red
the
Western Electric
Company, whose
employes formed the
the ill-fated excursi
nounced that $100,000 from
ployes insurance funds
able for
The
the four
boat was overloaded: tha
majority
On party
wa
relief
dis
are
Moet
disaster
1nsed
not properly ballasted
that fast
land from the docks
ing too soon; that
passengers rushing
glide, attracted by
sensation,
over
Lnatl a
Fast
started pull
congestion of
made to warp the
10 the port
BOM
passing
tipped the steamer
Chicago
most of them nd
women ar children
were drowned Saturday within a
feet of land by
steel steamer Eastland as it
to leave its wharf in the Chicago ri
with 2.500 relatives and friends
Elect
FO 8
the capeizing of the
was about
ver
of am
ployes of the Western
pan for excursion
ihe ghip Tolis] Oye
gide in 25 feet of water wi
Ins
to list
minutes after began
Thege
The ca
been determined, but Federal
officers are conducting
gations to detern
investigations Under Way
CAPRIZIDE nas not
city and
=e of the
State investi
ne whether the ship
was top heavy from faulty designing
was improperly ballasted or was
ly handled in
Marine
Eastland
the
Cauge
poor
warping from the wharf
d that the
design
tects a
faulty in
had been
tendency of
the
archi serie
was that
deck
the
list and also pointed to
removed be
the
op
of whi
possibility
that the ship had been unevenly or in
sufficiently Eastland
used that t
pump out some entering shallow
lake harbors, so investigators
working on a theory that the
Were filled and
passengers to one side
to roll over
ballasted Ihe
ballast
on
water £0 could
BOIS
bal
the
are
last tanks
rushing
the deck
7,000 Were Out For Merry Day.
Under misty skies 7,000 men, women
and children wended their way to the
not
of
caused it
steamers with
to Michigan City. The steamer East
land, brought to Chicago from Lake
Erie after an unsatisfactory career,
was the first be loaded
Rain began fall as
to
10 the wharf
from the Eastland, declaring that the
Government limit of 2500 passengers
had been reached. White dresses
peeped from raincoats along the shore
rails as those aboard waved good-by
to friends on shore waiting to board
the steamer Theodore Roosevelt and
other vessels.
Then the passengers swarmed to
the left side of the ship, as the other
steamers drew up the river toward
the wharf. A tug was hitched to the
Eastland, ropes were ordered cast off
and the steamer’s engines began to
hum. The Eastland had not budged,
however. Instead, the heavily laden
ship wavered sidewise, leaning first
toward the river bank. The lurch was
po startling that many passengers
joined the large concourse already on
the river side of the decks.
i
|
1 hie
turned
left
skir
ship never
slowly toward
side Children clutched the
ts of mothers and sisters to keep
falling The
toward falling
heeled back
but steadily
from whole cargo was
mpelled the ide of
t! Water began to enter lower
the
to which the vessel was
it ship
postholes and hawsers tore
the p le tied
screams from
attent
n the dock
passengers attracted |
i
the ion of fellow-excursionists
awaiting the
and picnickers
f the embanknient, reachir
the
next steamer
Wharfmen
the edge ©
goon line
out helplessly toward waver
teame;
nearly
before
ve
swift
:
fe & iia
flows from the
n aty turning
ra
11
al
d other
decks, slipped dow:
rushing the
waters
112
piunge
from
ngled with crying of children and |
hrieks of women, and the ship was |
on the bottom f the river, casting |
hundred of living creatures into the |
Hundreds Saved Quickly.
Many
and bundies
sank, entangled with clothing
but hun
seized float
Those
and did not rise
dreds came to the surface
ing chairs and other objects
Y ' 3
in those these
life |
firms |
who could hold
) .
lines. Employes of commission
alane 3 % 3 3
aiong the ver threw crates, chicken |
and other
current, but
COOps floatable thing
he y » }
the nost of the
away by the stres
Boats put ou tugs
whistle and
off
SOIR I 2 a th
prang | he
and
to aid |
ousands
Coat
thoes and
Irowning 3 } +1
arowning ie 181
river
ready to ald and the
ind
nd
ers hi reel &
Pp. DUNGreas
ag"
:
vy effort
THE PRESIDENT'S SYMPATHY. i
Lipton Also Offers Condolences and |
a Check For $1,000 :
Mavor Moor
the follow
ACLIng
rece
Pres
DICARO ved
am fron gent Woodrow
“Windsor, Vt
William
‘Mayor
Hale 7
Chicago,
I speak the
people of the i
athy
symp
ff 5
¥ pre found
Ce oO $
received
Lonaon
EMPLOYES WERE INSURED.
Relatives Of Drowned Persons Tem. |
porarily Provided For.
Relatives of
Elect
the (
of
any who
h employes
Western
death
are
ic Cor
hicago
for
in
provided
which
iver dis |
in
maintained |
aster tinder an
pian is
through affiliation with the American |
Telephone and Telegraph Company
The death benefit provides payment
of six months’ wages to dependents of
those having been in the employ of
company for five years or more
one year's pay to those having
10 years or more
and
Chicago. — Exhibition of moving -pie-
tures depicting the Eastland tragedy
in any photo-play theatre in the city
was forbidden by Acting Mayor W. R.
Moorhouse
HISTORY OF THE BOAT.
Built In 1903, Owned In Cleveland,
Remodeled This Year,
The steatmmer Eastland was built in
1903 and owned by the Eastland Navi.
gation Company, of Cleveland, Ohio.
It was 265 feet long, 38 feel wide and
had a draft of 23 feet, with a net ton
nage of 1,218. It was brought to Chi
cago in 1904 and was used in the ex-
cursion business to South Haven,
Mich. for several years. Later It was
taken to Cleveland and placed In the
excursion service there.
This spring the boat was remodeled,
It was then brought to Chicago and
put on the run to St. Joseph, Mich. It
had a steel hull and was known as
one of the fastest excursion boats on
the Great Lakes. It had a speed of
21 miles an hour.
rau righc)
A ROHT ATTACK 19 EXPECTED
ominous
As AN AERIAL
Admiral Fiske.
D. N
To Guard
Against Submarine
Attacks
Rear.Admiral
Net
Taylor invents
Battieships
Washington Ihe
ment
“AVY
is expect to adopt a
{ the battieshi
Y rim! ’ v i os ¥ v r
All aerial lorpedo bon the Invention
now attached to the
lege at Newport
The aerial boat
& torpedo from
proaching or In
charge
than
ing !
ral F
this
plere
Adm
with
it is u
new
Fiske
new tests
Adm
bureau of o«
and a
Hear
the ction of the Navy
Department, will
has been stated
experiments so showed that
pedo attacks co espf
he explosion of
resisted and that ¢
torpedoes would destre
Admiral Tavlor
his tests of
or more
both ot torpedoes
CRIREONDE, reureseniing s+
and on the valu
Many navy
of battleships
ywpedo
py gad
I net
new ne
WANTS U. 68. TO BUY BELGIUM,
Wanamaker
Over To People.
Phila
olay fe vy
glum om
States
d
delphia The purchas
by
position
Lsorm
of
by
and the ir
uties on imports and exports
the suggestions
an ad
which
country were among
Wanamaker in
meeling
and professional
branch of the Na
ue
made by John
dress
prominent
here atl 2 at
blisiness
men formed a local
tional Security lLeag
Mr. Wanamaker, was later
elected president organization
said it is now the duty of the business
men of this country to do all in their
power to restore normal conditions in
Europe, and that $100,000.
000 be loaned without! interest to the
Government for the purchase of Bel
glum. He suggested that later the
Government of that country could be
turned over to its own people,
who
of the
proposed
LUSITANIA VICTIMS FOUND,
Two More Bodies Of Americans Re.
covered From Sea,
Washington. The American Consul
at Queenstown cabled the State De
partment that the bodies of Harry J.
Keser, of Philadelphia, and Mra. R. T.
Leverich, of New York, victims of the
Lusitania disaster, have been re
covered, These bodies and that of
Herbert 8. Stone probably will be
shipped from Liverpool for New York
next Wednesday.
MRS. RICHARD H. DANA DEAD.
Daughter Of Longfellow and Wife Of
Boston Lawyer,
Lancaster, Mass Mrs. Richard H.
Dana, wife of a Boston lawyer and
daughter of the poet Longfellow, died
here after a brief fliness. Her mother
was the second wife of Mr. Longfel
low.
Hi CAPITAL
Carranza Insists on Countries
Having Diplomats There.
Likely Teo Be
Villa Is Regarded |
Recognized, As
n Army Circles
As Having the Better Of the
Military Situation.
approa
ranza anda
900 MORE COKE OVENS FIRED
Production In Connellsville Region Be
low Capacity.
hundred
to the
Connells
Connellsville, Pa Nine
ovens were added this week
producing capacity of the
ville coke region, bringing producing
possibilities to 400,000 tons a week if
all in blast. That point, how
ever, was not reached, reported pro
ductione having been 371.000 tons
with ghipmente 5,000 tons over
preceding week Furnace ovens in
operation are 76.5 per cent. of the
total and merchant ovens 62.6 per
cent.
were
HARDY FOUND GUILTY.
Was Charged With Conducting Base.
ball Lotteries.
Cincinnati, O.~Edward Hardy, ar
rested here in connection with the
country-wide campaign against base
ball lotteries, was found guilty in
Municipal Court. On his plea that
he was simply an agent for men higher
up and had accepted the position of
agent because he could get no other
work, the minimum sentence of 10
days and $50 fine was imposed, the 10
days then being remitted and the fine
cut to $25, which Hardy has arranged
to pay
a SRR,
fast,
P mn king mone
NOMONEY
without a eend depowit $n
actunl factory cost,
a wish,
to keep the bie
; Lome cond,
We furnish the highest grade bicycles it is
‘ possible to make at one small profil above
You save $10 10825 middicmen 's profits by buy
bicycle,
Y & bleycle or a palr of tires from anyone at
urhesrd of
1 YOU WILL
Pp Licyuies for lees toone
above Paclory oor,
OWE GeO
» sECOND
bat uenlaly have
COASTER BRAKE
; he vogular vetatl price of these
fore
Liven fo $10.00 per poly, but Lo (stro
soe stl peil you a » pl ir Jor y {2
Solth oveler 84 0 v apple patr J AE (ousk
FOMORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES
Malis, Tooks or Glass will net lof the sir out.
A hundred thousand pairs sold last year.
DESCRIPTION: }!*% 17 ¥] =p It
. is lively and easy
Fding, very durable and Hned inside with
Bb special guelity of rubber, which never bee
tomes porous and which closes up emsil
punciures without slowing sir Ww EHCU DE
BO more th an ordinary Ure, the pun
Qualities ving gl veg several layers of thir
prepared fahric on
Brow Is $10 ir, bu
Baking s spoecis clory t
! 3 i % shipped
ved H shi OD
BOL need nti you
We will sliow
3 send FULL
naling us a1 !
Lietaetory on
fr of these |
advertising «
TOE
same d
on BPLroY
fFXAmMiue 8
CASH WITH ORDER sr. «
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i haveaver ged OF seen sl ay §
ey w
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IF YOU NEED TIRES ©=.5 =
Tow rites above: or write for our wig Tire and
Indie of 11res and bicycle ir pas and sundries st s
O NOT WA write us a poral (od
of tires Frosh sty coe Got
Bt oonts only a poste! Lo be
when you receive our bosutifel este.
logue and study our supert models at
the hig her! grade
Ve arw eelised with § 90 prof
i our Wey cies under Jour
Orders Slled the day roseivod,
wisrly had ie seonnd band &
iby Iastory
$10, Deneriptive bargain Hote malied free
| pedals, paris reped rs
Puncture-Proof $ 45 80
A SAMPLE PAIR
TO INTRODUCE, ORLY
Notice the thick rubber tread
‘A’ and punciure strips’ 'B8"
and “D' aise rim strip “MH”
to prevent rim outting. This
tire will outlast sry other
make -SOFT, ELASTIC and
EASY RIDING.
iy us re emer tad
“ the price $4.88 p
is advertisement a ru
OUR expense If for ay ressos
ue io ar sulle ae is
wor twilter
resisting
specisl
of only
letter is
i GO
rt Phe
(Lhereby
fancier
Gh prem
DO BOT THINK OF BUYING » bieys
Jou know the Sew and wonderful offers we are making
BRIEFLY TOLD
Latest Doings in Various Parts
of the State.
PREPAREDFORQUICKREADING
Big War Order Landed By ML Cs:
Concer.
Ends 1
Young Girl,
\ By
Weight Kills
Long |
SROCL AC ew-
B ’
undred
the producing
ville Oke
possibilities
were
fF ih
ovens
CAPRCILY «
region. br
10 40:0 Oi
blast
reached
been 371.000 ton
ODE over he
B. Hertzler, a but
has disappeared from his
home leaving a note for hb wife
ng he never Coipci
dent with
Clayton
Rothsville
stat
would return
the
town. The Farmers’ Bank of
Lititz hae issued an sttachment for
$2700 against Hertzler.
the same
Despondent because of continued ill
health, Miss Margaret Cusatti, aged
eighteen, committed suicide at her
home in Hazleton, by twice shooting
herself through the heart. Her mother
was taking tea to the bedroom, when
ghe heard the shots and found her
daughter dead
Congressman W. W, Griest. Licuten.
ant Governor Frank B. McClain and
Mayor H. 1. Trout were in a party of
Conestoga Traction Company direc.
tors, officials and citizens of Lancaster,
who were guests of the Ephrata &
Lebanon Railway Company.
Struck on the head by the heavy
weight which held a fire escape above
the street level, Paul V. Estep, aged
twelve, of Altoona, was instantly
killed. He had jumped on the escape
from a fence and the jar snapped the
wire chain.
Jacob H Wise, one of the oldest
members of the Knights of Pythias
in this { ate, was installed as master
of records and seals of Jmprovement
Lodge, 187, of Clifton Heights, for the
fortv.aixth consecutive time.
OUTLINES PLANS FOR
LABOR INSURANCE
~
epartment
MM
Brashear Modest At Highest Honor
Brashear. wh brewer
has
moO
oke, not know
.” said Dr
weeks age
3
ago
that he
naming me
I sent that gen.
id told him that he
arrested for repeat
ie
: Why should a name m«
there
State
BE &
were
who
leading tizen?
many great
could 1} honor
| While as press
dent and member of some of the great
est mechanical and academy of science
America, 1 congider it a
be named one of the
Jeading citizens
“1 believe my most notable achieve
ment wae the raising of the $300,000
| fund for the erection of the Allegheny
{ Observatory and securing permission
{to make part of the observatory free
{to the people. Since ite erection five
| Years ago. more than 15,008 persons
have visited the observatory.”
ure
this
given the
honored
men
ave been
have been
{ spcieties in
Serer amd »,
BIRLA Do
| State's
nor io
Cost Of Militia Encampment.
The Adjotant General's Department
announced thet the total of the pay
warrants on account of the recent Na
tional Guard encampment at Mount
Gretna was $101,088.70.
The disbursement in detail was as
follows
First Regiment, $11,279; Second, $16,
887: Third. 810.721; Fourth, $12881:
Sixth, $12,698: Eighth, $12.650: Ninth,
$11.457: Thirteenth, $12,152; Separate
Battalion, $3822. Division Headquar
ters, $1,086; Headquarters First Brig.
ade, $735; Third Brigade, $747; FPourth
Brigade, $827
State Highways OWicial Dies.
George A. Barclay, of Pittsburgh,
superintendent of sign erection of
State Highway Department died In
Harrisburg Hospital as the
injuries received May 7 when a
way Department auto truck on
he was riding plunged over an
bankment on the road leading from
this city to Bunbury.