..... •. • •• - "-• - Scores of Persons Injured and Overcome bv Smoke in New York Subwav HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LXXXIV— No. 5 PANIC FOLLOWS NEW YORK ONE DEAD AND 200 HURT IN ACCIDENT; HOSPITALS RUSHED Passengers Rash From End Cars Unmindfalof Deadly Third Rail; Explosives Used to Make Openings in Street So That Rescaers Could Reach Victims; Every Avail able Fireman in Manhattan Harried to Scene; Pal motors Save Lives of Many By Associated Press New York, Jan. 6.—New York's subway was visited by fire and panic to-day which sent some 200 persons to hospitals, caused the death of one woman and damaged the transportation system of the city. The iirc was said to have been due to an electrical explosion in a conduit between che Fiftieth and Fifty-ninth street stations. The noise and smoke terrified the 700 or more passengers of two down town trains stalled nearby and in their unreasoning efforts to escape scores were badly bruised, many knocked unconscious and still others were overcome by smoke. The subway service, according to Commissioner McCall of the Public Service Commission, may be tied up for several days as a result of the accident. If this proves true, it will mean that the more than a million persons a day carried by subway trains will be diverted to the surface and elevated systems and cause a conges tion without parallel in the history of the city. The entire lire department of the city and all ambulances were sum moned to scene. At 11 o'clock hundreds of naif-suffocated passengers were being rescued from subway sta tions and preparations were being made to dynamite the streets to let air into the tube. It wa.s not possible at that time to determine the extent of the fatalities and some estimates placed the number «• f dead far in excess of twenty. Itcport of Collision The fire broke out in a subway train ft which was one of a long line of rush hour trains held up between the Fif tieth and Kitty-ninth street stations by :in earlier accident in the power house of the system which tied up the serv ice. There were reports that there had been a collision between two trains, but alttebugb some of the panic stricken passengers refered to a "smash-up," the police had not defi nitely established such a report. For the first time in the history of the lire department a special alarm called out firemen and battalion • hiefs without apparatus to light the llames and care for the injured. The tie-up started Rt S o'clock this morning, the beginning of the rush hour. An hour and a half later a slow express service was started, only to be halted by the discovery of fire. Three alarms were turned in. Eight ambu lances were soon on the scene. More were called for immediately. From trains stalled between stations firemen emerged bearing unconscious victims. Every available, fireman that could be spared was called on to help. Search for Pulnmtors Fire Commissioner Adamson, who assumed personal charge of the sit uation. sent men scurrying throughout the city with orders to bring every pulmotor available to the scene. Congestion, the like of which the city has seldom seen, prevailed at al most every station. At the Brooklyn bridge the Manhattan entrance was choked by tens of thousands. Sixty persons were taken in an un conscious condition from the scene of the fire to the Flower Hospital. Other hospitals received many victims as well. Rescued Through Ventilators Ventilator gratings were taken up from the sidewalks around the Fif tieth and Fifty-ninth street stations and many of the injured were removed in this manner. Tn an effort to get at the injured in the subway. Inspector Egan, of the bureau of combustibles, sent for a large amount of dynamite, with which to rip up the streets. All manhole covers were removed and in the openings thus made fire men placed their hose. Other squads of firemen crawled down through the ! THE WEATHER For flnrrishurg and vleluHy: (lain thlM afternoon, to-night and prob ably Thursday; warmer to-nlcht. with lowest temperature about ■lO degree*. For lOaatrrn Pennsylvania: Italn to night and Thursday) warmer to night; moderate 'to fresh south wind*. HI ver The rain Indicated for the Susque hnnnn \ alley In the nest thlrtv slx hour*, nlth higher tempera ture to-night, will cause a gen eral melting of lee In the river and Its principal branches and loenl movement** of lee are likely •to occur In some stream*, par ticularly tbe Ipper Went liraneb. General Conditions The disturbance from West Canad now eover* the tireat Central val leys of the I nlted States with Its center over Northern Minnesota. It Is causing cloudy weather gen erally from the Plains State* eastward, with light rains In practically all dlstrletn east of the Mississippi river, except N'ew Knfcland. The disturbance from West Canada era! rise of 4 to3o degrees in tem perature east of the Mississippi river in the last twenty-four hours. Temperature: S a. m.: 32. Sun: Rises. 7:! IS a. tn.; sets, 4:.-i3 p. m. Moon: Itises, 10:28 p. ni.i Inst quar ter. January 8. 4:13 a. m. Hlver Stage: Three feet above low-water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature. :tl>. i.owest temperature, IS. Meun temperaturr, 2S. Normal temperature, ;|». blinding smoke that poured from the Fiftieth and Fifty-ninth street sta tions into the tube itself and worked in relays. Through the smoke that rolled up from the manholes could be seen the red iiatnes below. The lire started in a train between the Fiftieth and Fifty-ninth streets stations. Hundreds of passengers wedged tight in the cars said after wards that it started with an explosion and that the train came almost imme diately to a standstill. Aboard tho train there was a frantic rush for the end cars. Through the open doors at each end there poured a stream of HUM and women who struggled through the smoke, apparently obliv ious of the danger of the third rail, toward the two stations. The plat forms at these stations were jammed and in tho wild rush for the exists [Continued oil Page 7] REGIMENT It. E. P. IN IBM. ME Colonel Hutchison in Command; Will Select His Own Staff Arrangements were made by the joint legislative inaugural committee for the military division of the in augural parade on January 19 to be composed of a provisional regiment of national guardsmen from the Fourth, and Eighth infantry regiments, to be commanded by Colonel J. B. Hutchi son. of the Eighth, who will select his staff. The regiment will be divided into three battalions, commanded by Ma jors F. D. beary, Alientown; E. M. Vale. Carlisle, and E. C. Shannon. Co lumbia. The organizations will be the Eighth Regiment Band, of Carlisle; Fourth Regiment aospital corps, Al ientown; Eighth Regiment. Companies A and K, York; G. Carlisle; D and I, j Harrisburg, and F, Huntingdon; | Fourth Regiment, Companies A and I, Reading; K, Lancaster; H, Lebanon; B, Alientown and L, Easton. The Governor's Troop will act as escort to the Governor and there will also be detachments of State police. I The parade will be commanded by | General E. DeV. Morrell, Philadelphia. Chairman E. E. Beidleman, of the committee, who was in close touch with Dr. Brumbaugh last night, an nounced that the exercises would be held at noon on the stand at the State street entrance to the Capitol, where accommodations for the Legislature and personal friends of the Governor will be provided. This stand will be. for both ceremonies and review, that .at the Executive Mansion being aban doned. The prayer will be offered by Elder William Swigart, Huntingdon. After the inauguration, in which Chief Justice J. Hay Brown will administer the oath, the parade will be moved. The route of the parade will be an nounced later. The usual reception will be held in the evening at the Capitol. The committee will provide hand some badges for the legislators and the whole- program is being worked out ni detail by Mi-. Beidleman, who will consult with Dr. Brumbaugh to night or to-morrow. PI'EBLA RETAKEN AFTER SIX HOI KS OF HARD FIGHTING By Associated Press Vera Cruz. Jan. 6.—Puebla, capital of the state of Puebla. which was evacuated a month ago by the troops of General Venusttano Carranza, was retaken yesterday after a campaign which began with the capture of Topesoa. a short distance to the south east of Puebla, six days ago. The fall of Puebla came after six hours of what is described as having been the most furious bombardment to which any Mexican jorce has yet been subjected. CHILD W ELFARE DISCI'SSED Washington, D. C.. Jan. 6. The need of a national children's charter and the child, a ward of the nation, furnished topics for discussion at the' concluding sessions here to-day of the National Child Labor Conference. HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 6, 1915. FIRE IN SUBWAY U . 5. Makes Little Girl, Aged 8, a Prisoner | After traveling alone nil the way from Maidenhead, Kugland, to New "\ork. on board the steamship Arabic, t«» join her father, whose home is in Quinc.y, Mass., Miss Mnry Still, aged right, thr pet of all the passriifcars on the vokage over, is a prisoner of the I'nited States government. Utile Mafv la uk lied and cried with joy when her father dashed up the gangplank and hupped nnd kissed her and told her of th.' happy times they would have in her new home. Hut when they about to leave the pier an immigration ofll eial stopped Mr. Stitt and tohl him he could notjiave the child until he pro duced proof of parentage. While Papa Stitt'is cutting Ills way out of a maze of red tape, his little girl must remain in the detention ward on Kills Island. COUHITY BEGINS YEAR WITH IMBUE Treasurer Shows $160,326.91 Is in Dauphin's Coffers; $142,- 562.02 in 1914 Dauphin county began its new year with the handsome balance of $160,- 326.91 in its coffers, according to the annual report submitted to-(2ay to the county commissioners by County Treasurer A. H. Bafley. The thriftiness of the commission ers in handling; the county's money and the careful businesslike way in which the county treasurer .looked after the funds is proved again, inci dentally, by a comparison of the re ports of last year. Good housekeep ing and business methods were re sponsible for the increased balance [Continued oil Page 7] icy WALKS REICH GREEDILY FOR UNWARY Scores Slip, Slide and Fall as Re sult of Congealing Rain; Warmer Weather You must have been guarded by a special providence if you wero oae of the early pedestrians who did not flop on the icy pavements this morn ing. Almost every pedestrian either got a solid bump or else violated the purity of the English language ir» hit' attempts to keep his balance or. some innocent bulge of the roly-poly pave ments. Many black and blue marks will be bathed with witch hazel to-night, before bedtime aid many sore heads were soothed with alcohol during the day, as the result of the rain that fell so gently and frcze so smoothly. Although people were tumbling right and left, and there was a con fusion of arms and legs as innocent people sprawled in every direction be fore 9 o'clock this morning, no acci dents were reported at the hospitals.! The skating is spoiled for a time' on the river and at Wildwood, but it i will be restored with a perfect' smoothness ir the weather only tight-' ens up a bit and freezes the now film : of water. But the hopes for this are poor, as the forecast is for more r.-ilu ' to-night and to-morrow with warm winds prevailing. GENERAL'S BROTHERS KILLED By Associated Press I.aredo, Texas, Jan. 6. General j Carranza, at Vera Cruz, in a telegram I to relatives here last night said his troops killed two brothers of General I Santlbanez. whom they were pursuing! In an effort to recapture General Jesus Carranza. brother to the first chief, who. it was said, had been threatened ) with death by Santlbanez. BROTHERHOOD MEN REM FOR BATTLE Will Vigorously Oppose Efforts to Have. Legislature Repeal Full Crew Law Representatives of legislative board® of three transportation brotherhoods to-day announced that all efforts to have the "full crew" law repealed will be vigorously opposed. The board members represent the Brotherhood ol' Railroad Trainmen, Order of Rail way Conductors, and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. In regard to petitions now being circulated among the Pennsylvania Railroad employes in Harrisburg, and throughout the State, to be presented to the Legislature, urging the repeal of.the "full crew" law, a brief state [Continued on Page 7] 'MUMMERS MIROH 111 MOVING PICTURES Telegraph Pictorial No. 2 Preserves Interesting Features of New Year's Celebration I The Telegraph Pictorial, No. 2, ; made up of moving pictures of the j Mummer®' Parade on New Year's I Day, receive its trial run at the Pho itoplay Theater this afternoon. It is a great picture. It was inadu by the Photoplay Theater under the .direction cf the Harrisburg Telegraph and is the second of its kind chron- I icllng historic and interesting even's ■in Harrisburg. The first was the Flag I Transfer picture, which on Monday : of this wetjlc was sent to the Pan-! American Exposition at San Fran jcisco, where it will be exhibited anions others of its kind by the State govern ment. j The "movie" man was certainlv on I bis job on New Year's Day. The hlms I are clear and well worth seeing. : Mummers in the audience to-day rec ! ognized themselves as they flashed, j across the screen and were loud in praise of the Telegraph's enterprise. \ The films will be on display Thurs day, Friday and Saturday at the Pho- I toplay. Manufacturers Do Not Want Country to Know Wares Are Made Here Pittsburgh, Pn.. Jan. fi.—The "Made in America" exhibit to have been held in Carnegie Institute here has been "•anceled by the Art Society of Pitts burgh, its sponsor, because," it was de clared, American manufacturers feared to let the country know their wares were . «nade In the United States iOECOISI KILLED; MOTHER BIDLY BURT John Walker Fatally Injured Near Carlisle; Rail Pierces His Abdomen SLED RAN THROUGH FENCE Similar Accident Near Mechanics burg Severely Injures Three Coasters Special to The Telegraph Carlisle, Pa.. Jan. 6.—A fatal coast ins: accident happened last night °n the Pine road, near Ilay's Grove, sev eral miles from Carlisle. John Walker, 19 years old, waaKu'-Ung a big bobsled when he lost contra. and it ran off the road and crashed through a fence. A large piece of broken rail penetrated Walker's abdomen, making a frightful wound. He was taken to the home of his brother, near by, and medical aid summoned, but he died at midnight. 1 Young Walker lived with bis mother. Mrs. Mary Walker, a widow, and worked among 'he neighboring farm ers. Besides his mother he is survived by three brothers. Levi, l.ieo and Har vey Williams, and a sister. Alba, wife j of Ray Reid, of Harrlsburg. Claude Williams' Bobsled Breaks Down Fence Panels at Graham's Schoolhouse .ifeetal to The Telegraph Mechanicsburg, Pa.. Jan. 6.—While coasting on a hill at Graham's school house, about two miles south of Me chanicsburg. last night, Claude Wil ! liams, a letter carrier, was severely in- J .iured when a sled which he was guid ing ran over a steep embankment and j dashed through a fence, breaking down two paue:s. Williams was se verely cut about the face and head and received numerous bruises all over his body. Miss Maude ITlrich was also severely injured, having a bruised knee. Clyde Hubcr was last man on the rear of the sled and he dropped off to save himself, but he struck a telegraph pole with terrific force and was badly bruised. All of the injured coasters were brought into Mechanics burg and received medical attention. CITY PIiVMBKK EXAMINERS ELECT AT ANNI'AI, MEETING Curtis W. Fisher was elected preoi ! dent and Dr. J. St. J. Raunick secre ' tary of the City Plumbers' Examining Board at the annual reorganisation | meeting held this morning In the | offices of the Health Bureau. January I 2 5 was chosen as the date of the next [quarterly examination for applicants for plumbing licenses. TKOUSMIDS OF MILES HE TRUVELED FOR HER Just by Chance He Met His Love of Long Ago, in the Streets of Harrisburg Thousands and thousands of miles he traveled—the hero of this tale—but never once did he notice a maid whom he thought should be Mrs. James A. Taylor. He looked o'er the girls of Nortli Bedegue, Prince Edward Isle, his home town, many's tha time. But never did he see a smile that could crowd out the memory of pretty Fan nie Ives, his schoolboy sweetheart, who long ago had moved away, he knew not where. So thousands and thousands of miles he traveled. But the right one lie could not find. Just by chance, the other day. he stopped in Harrisburg to see the sights of this fair town and to do a bit of fur business, in which he is engaged. And, that's all anybody knows about it all, excet that here lie met pretty Miss Fannie while walking about the streets; and that Monday evening at 8 the Rev. Harry Nelson Bassler, pas tor of the Second Reformed Church, married them. The ceremony was performed at the home of the bride's sister, Mrs. Albert Druid, 2235 North Fourth street. They will live at North Bedegue. Both are on the shady side of 30. Smile! Many Professional Photographers Are Here More than a score of members of the Pennsylvania Professional Pho tographers" Association met this after noon in the J. H. Kellberg stddio, 302 Market street. W. H. Towles, president of the na tional association, gave a demonstra tion in lighting and how to use elec tric light properly to obtain tho best results in photography. Others gave short addresses on their experiences with the many different methods used in taking and finishing pictures. The evening session will be spent in social features. BALTIMORE DESIRES BANK By Associated Press Washington, D. C.. Jan. 6.—Repre sentatives of Baltimore banks were here to-day for a hearing before the Federal Reserve Board to present for mal arguments against the decision of the reserve bank organization commit tee in locating the federal reserve bank of the fifth district In Richmond. Va., instead of their city. CORNKHKI). THIEF ENDS DIKE By Associated Press Atlanta. Ua., Jan. o.—Cornered by j police after an all-night chase, Walter Burdett leaped from his room down to! the roof of the Women's Club early j to-day and. according to his pursuers, shot at them, then committed suicide.' | Burdett, 20 years old, had been sought on a charge of stealing automobiles. 10 PAGES RUSSIA SCORES HEAVILY AGAINST HER ENEMIES; TURKISH ROUT COMPLETE Ottoman Army Corps Annihilated, According to Official Dispatches From Petrograd; Germans Handicapped by Bad Weather in Their Advance Toward Warsaw;' Berlin Says Kaiser's Forces Are Making Slow Progress Against two of the three nations she is fighting Russia apparently has scored heavily. To the victory over the Austrlans last week is added, ac cording to the claims of Petrograd, the rout of two of the three Turkish col umns which Invaded Russian Cau casus. Latest reports from the Rus sian military authorities are that tho defeat of the Turks was complete and that one Turkish army corps was anni hilated. The campaign against tho Germans, however, has led to no defi nite results. The Germans arc handi capped by had weather in their ad vance toward Warsaw, but Berlin as serts that slow progress is still made. in Ihe Austrian province of Boko wina the Russians, according to Pet rograd dispatches are meeting with little resistances. Friendly relations have been established between the Russian soldiers and the frontier guards of Rumania which adjoins Bo kowina and it is believed in Petrograd that Rumania is likely to enter the war. In the west the deadlock continues. Franco apparently is making progress In the Invasion of Alsace, but else where there is little activity except for sporadic encounters between com paratively small numbers of men. A German trench nearly half a mile long in the Argonne region was blown up by tho allies, according to to-day's ollicial statement from Paris. The French then made on infantry attack and captured half the trench. During this charge a grandson of tho Italian patriot, Garibaldi, was killed. The re cent death in action of another grand son was said in Rome tc have re awakened the war spirit in Italy. Activity is I.hiiitcd Aside from the lighting in the Ar gonne activity is limited chiefly to upper Alsace, where the Germans seem to have checked the French ad vance. The only claim made in the French statement Is that the ground won has been held. The loss of one position to the Germans Is admitted. SOLDIERS SUFFER FROM COLD London, Jan. 6, 3.04 A. M.—The '(mi m w w • « wm I SWEET ELECTED SPEAKER J Albany, N. Y., Jan. 6.—-Thaddeus C. Sweet, of Oswego, C to-uuy was selected speaker of the Assembly, and Elon C Btown. of Watertown, president pro tem of the Senate. ft Both are Republicans. In his first message to the Legis- 1 lature, Governor Whitman urged that the resolution to pro- 1 vide an equal suffrage amendment, passed in 1913, be passed 1 again this year. BLACK SMALLPOX IN VERA CRUZ Washington, Jan. 6.—Black small pox has broken out in Vera Cruz and the tropical town is in the throes of an epi demic, American Consul Canada to-day reported to the ' State Department. I TWO WOMEN FRACTUR';- HIPS 1 Mrs. Henrietta Lucas, 1121 North Sixth street, ft'! J ' while cleaning the i g from her steps at her home and ?: ic- J r tured her hip. She was admitted to the Harrisburg h J f pital this afternoon. Mrs. Catherine Heincy, 83 year 3 old, 1 • 611 Harris street, fell at her home and fractured her hip 1 r also. She too was taken to the hospital. Washington, Jan. 6.—Chief results of last night's con | ference between Secretaries Daniels and Garrison and Con- i f gressional leaders heading the military, naval and appropri ' ations committees were a general conclusion that the f revenue during the coming year would not bear any ex- | 8 tensive additions to the military esablishment but that next M f year when Congress considers some means of raising new W revenue in place of the special stamp taxes which then expire £ by limitation, the subject of •appropriations for national de- t feiise will be considered. / Springfield, 111., Jan. 6.—With the wet and dry issue C tl.c stumbling block to harmony in each cr.se the initial scs- J sfon to-day of the 49th General Assembly promised a speak- ■ eiship deadlock in the House and a bitter fight between the F Republicans and Democrats for the organization of the # Senate. m Fiank Marshall, to-day reported to the police, that he 7 was flin?flammed out of S3OO yesterday by two strangers. ? The old "put up your money and I'll get you a job" gag was f I used. C MARRIAGE LICENSES jj William lli>««rtl "l\ rrhirr, llnllfax, anil KUna May Kliutxclman, McClellaa. J | Nick Seirlnc ami TerralJl Staraiilnlc, Slccllon. i * POSTSCRIPT Post publishes a letter from its Buda pest correspondent describing the, tcr sible sufferings of the Austro-Tlungar iati troops in tho Carpathians. They are said to be famished, suffering from frost bites and so utterly exhausted that many have to be sent home. Oth ers are surrendering to the Russians without an attempt at resistance. EXTREXCHKD CAMP OP PARIS XO LONGER IX WAR ZONK By dissociated Press Paris, Jan. 6, 3 A. M.—The mili tary situation Is now so satisfactory that the government has begun grad ually to relax the rigors ot' the war regime for Parisians. By decree Alex ander Millerand. minister of war, has declared that tho entrenched camp of Paris, with the exception of the dis trict of Pontoise, is no longer includ ed in the zone of operation and Louis J. Malvy, minister of the interior, now I permits bakers to make, fancy bread, a practice forbidden since August 7. lU'.WANHXS OX PATROL 1)1 TV By Associated I'ress London. Jan. 6, 3.05 A. M.—The London morning newspaper corres pondents In the eastern theater lay emphasis on the advance of tho Rus sians in Bukowina, Austria's eastern province, where. It is said, only tho most feeble resistance was encounter ed. Bukowina is the borderland of Rumania and tho correspondents speak of tho excellent feeling which they say prevails between the Rus sian outposts and the Rumanian fron tier guards, Russia having astutely as signed soldiers of the Rumanian raco to patrol duty. GICRMAX SPIES ARRESTED New York, Jan. (>.—Charles Walter, an attorney of Toronto, Canada, an i nounced to-day upon returning to New York from England aboard tin steamship Minnehaha that forty three German spies had been arrest ed among the Canadian contingent of troops which sailed to England lat; Fall.
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