Terrific Wind and Rain Storm Causes
HAHRISBURG Sfilliii TELEGRAPH
LXXXIV— No. 179
40-MILE GALE DOES
HEAVY DAMAGE IN
CITY AND SUBURBS
House Caves in at Briggs and
Cowden; Man Burned by Live
Wire; Crops Ruined
TREES AND POLES SNAPPED
Corn Suffers Most; Electric Co.'s
Lines Down; Many
Washouts
In the wake of the forty-mile-an
hour gale which swept over the city
from the East for two hours early
this morning, lie thousands of feet of
twisted and tangled wires, broken
poles, shattered trees and badly dam
aged crops.
As a result of the storm, one of
the severest midsummer disturbances
ever recorded at the local weather bu
reau, one man is in a serious condi
tion at the Harrisburg Hospital.
John Plank, a huckster, of Sixth and
Calder streets, was badly shocked and
burned when he picked up a live wire
in Capital street near Forster. The
man was on his way to market when
he stumbled over the wire which was
tangled with branches on the side
walk. The electricity jumped from
his hand to his body and caused se
vere burns.
Weakened by the rain two sides of
the foundation of the new hall of the
United Order of Odd Fellows at Briggs
and Cowden streets, collapsed during
the height of the gale, taking with it
an entire corner of the three story
brick structure.
Studding had been placed in the in
terior and £he lower floor was being
placed. Mlach of the timber was
broken by the falling bricks and will
ha\«e to be rebuilt. The work is in
charge of W. E. Bushey of Lemoyne.
D. S. Eshelman, of Lemoyne, had con
tracted for the brick work.
No part of the city and suburbs
was exempt from the wind. Awnings,
shutters and unhooked screen doors
were blown from their fastenings.
Many trees were uprooted and
branches and twigs littered the streets
this morning. Capitol Park and all
the city parks suffered extensively,
't'ops of many trees were blown down
id very few escaped without the loss
some branches. At Mulberry and
Crescent streets a poplar, more than
two feet through, was snapped off
clean. A big tree which took a light
pole with It, fell at Second and South
streets and blocked traffic for a time.
Trees and shrubbery In Reservoir
Park and the valley leading to Lln
glestown suffered heavy damage.
Forty-mile Wind
From the Instruments at the
Weather Bureau, Forecaster Demaln
determined that the gale which lasted
from 3 to 5 o'clock blew at the rate
of forty miles an hour. During the
night one and two-flfths inches of rain
fell. The wind and rain forced the
temperature to sixty degrees which is
twenty below normal for this period
of the month. At 8 o'clock this morn
ing, the mercury had ascended to 6G.
According to Washington. D. C„ the
present brand of unsummery weather
is at the end of Its rope. Generally
fair weather Is predicted for the re
mainder of the week, with moderate
temperatures prevailing for at least
four or five days.
' Crops Suffer Heavily
The corn and oats crop suffered
the brunt of the storm. Practically
all the nearby farmers have their oats
cut and In shork. The wind back of
the rain forced it through the caps
and as a result the sheaves will have
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THE WEATHER
For Harrlabnrar an<l vicinity: Fair
to-n<u;ht and Thursday; moderate
temperature.
For EaKtern Pennsylvania i Gener
ally fair to-night and Thursday;
moderate southwest to west
winds.
River
The North and Weat branches and
the main river will continue to
rise. Only moderately high
h stages are Indicated. A stage of
about K.A feet la Indicated for
Harrlabnrir Thuraday morning.
General Conditions
The Ktorm covera an extensive area
extending from the Middle Wlun
tlc coaat northwestward throuKh
the Ohio Valley and Lake Region
Into Canada. It has caused gen
eral, and In aome places heavy
rains, in the last twenty-four
hours east of the Mississippi
river. The greatest amount re
ported, 8.26 Inchea, fell at
Raleigh, North Carolina. Amounts
ranging from 1.28 to 2.74 Inchea
fell in Eastern Pennaylvanla,
Eastern New York, New Jersey.
A farther fall of 2 to 12 degrees In
temperature occurred over the
greater part of the eaatem half
of the country.
Temperature) S a. m., Mt 2 p. m„ g.%.
Sum Rises, SiOB a. m.| acts, 7il#
P. m.
Mooni New moon, August 10, 5i53
p. m.
River Stagei 4.6 feet above low
water mark.
Yesterday's Weather
Highest temperature, 74.
Lowest temperature, 71.
Mean temperature, 72.
Normal temperature, 74.
TAYLOR DECLARES FOR
9-MILL TAX RATE AND
ALL MOTOR APPARATUS
Principal Planks in Park Com-;
missioner's Campaign For Re
election to City Council
ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY TODAY
Briefly Reviews Work and Says
People May Judge as to Whether
He Should Serve Again
City Commissioner M. Harvey Tay
lor, superintendent of parks and pub
lic property, to-day formally an
nounced his candidacy for re-election
to Council.
The continuance of the 9-mill tax
rate for 1916, if further reduction be
Impossible, and the complete motor
ization of the city's fire apparatus are
the principal planks Commissioner
Taylor declares for in his campaign
platform.
Mr. Taylor, with City Commissioners
Lynch and Bowman, were entirely re
sponsible for the reduction of the mill
rate from to 9 mills for the pres
ent year, although it was pointed out
by the other two commissioners,
.Messrs. Gorgas and Royal, that the
halt mill would nave to be added in
11(16.
Mr. Taylor's Announcement
Commissioner Taylor's formal an
nouncement to-day definitely settled
the reports as to whether or not he
would run again, as it had been gen
erally known that he was considering
a definite offer to return to private
business activities.
In making known his intention to
I let the people of the city decide as to
whether or not be should be a com
missioner for another two years Mr.
Taylor issued this statement:
I have decided to be a candi
date for re-election as City
Councilman. The public must re
view my work of the past and fit
ness for re-election should be
measured by my record. Let the
people Judge.
When elected I sacrificed my pri
vate business to devote my entire
time to public duties and have
performed these duties honestly
and to the very best of my ability.
Many Improvements
I feel that not only in my coun
cllmanic business but In my de
partmental work,l have made con
siderable progress, and many per
manent and valuable improve
ments have been accomplished for
the city. Whatever work has
been accomplished in this depart
ment under the circumstances of
the past two years, can, I feel
sure, be very much improved upon
under normal conditions. The
experience and knowledge gained
would be of great value if the
people should decide to permit me
to continue the work entrusted
to my care.
That the motorizing of Harrlsburg's
entire fire department will be one of
the goals at which he aims was Indi
cated by Mr. Taylor when asked as to
the probable time of the arrival of the
additional motor-driven apparatus al
ready ordered for the city. Greater
efficiency and greater economy com
bine to make the Notorizing of the
tire department superior to the horse
drawn method, the commissioner
pointed out.
More Motor Apparatus
"Within the next ten days," said he,
"we will have seven pieces of motor
driven apparatus and a comparative
statement for June shows that the
horse-drawn combination wagon cost
the city S3B, while the Friendship
motor-driven combination cost but
sl.lO and the Good Will but $1.19.
That is the reason why, if I'm re
elected," said the fire commissioner, "I
will advocate and work for the com
plete motorizing of all of Harrlsburg's
fire apparatus."
Throughout his administration Mr.
Taylor has worked consistently with
Messrs. Bowman and Lynch for the
improvement of the city, while in his
own department he has accomplished
an extensive program of permanent
improvements costing approximately
i $9,000 in the past year, the money for
these, by the way, was paid for by
i saving from the previous year's maln
! tenance. This estimate was the same,
practically, as the year previous.
Under his Jurisdiction the ground
was obtained througn which the city's
great encircling park driveway is be
ing constructed. Of this 23.55 acres
was secured by gift and 35.33 was
purchased at an average cost of $285
per acre. This includes the section
from the present terminus of Cameron
parkway to Reservoir. This week the
commissioner will begin negotiations
to acquire what is needed to continue
the roadway through to Wildwood and
Reservoir.
Is This Progress?
Thousands of yards of new park
along the river front have been re
claimed by filling out and perma
nently treating and planting the slope
ramps have been T>uilt to afford easy
access to the river front walk, pre
liminary steps Incident to the construc
tion of the roadway from the end of
the lower River Front park to Cam
eron's have been taken, permanent
lighting has been Installed on the city
owned Twelfth street playgrounds and
on the lower River Front park, the
new Sycamore street and the Emerald
street playgrounds have been bought
for the city, a new shelter at Reser
voir, tennis and golf clubhouses in the
same park have been erected, the
tennis courts have been reconstructed,
new bridges, both concrete and rustle,
have been built In Wildwood, and a
new concrete and rubble masenry
bridge has been constructed In Cam
eron parkway, thus eliminating the
dangerous curve caused by the old
frame viaduct.
Mr. Taylor, with Messrs. Lynch and
Bcwman, has consistently advocated
and urged the completion of the river
wall gap at Market street.
AUTO STRIKES BRIDGE
Special to The Telegraph
Gettysburg, Pa., Aug. 4.—Two Rob
inson brothers on their way to this
place from Philadelphia, had their
automobile badly damaged when they
crashed into a concrete bridge that
spans Brush run a few miles ea«t of
Gettysburg. Neither of the occupants
HARRISBURG, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 4, 1915.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE COLORED ODD FELLOWS' BUILDING AT
BRIGGS AND COWDEN STREETS DURING LAST NIGHT'S STORM \
RUSSIANS RESISTING
ASSAULTS OFGERMANS
Kaiser's Forces in Poland Have
Been Reinforced by Soldiers
Brought From France
LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES HEAVY
German Admiralty Without Re
ports on Sinking of Iberian
and Leelanaw
A Russian official statement from
Petrograd claims continued and suc
cessful resistance to the efforts of the
German armies to cut off Warsaw.
There has been severe fighting and
very heavy losses on both sides. The
Germans In Poland have been rein
forced with troops brought from
France.
This report refers to the "enormous
efforts" of the Germans to dislodge
the Russians from their positions on
fho Narew river north of Warsaw. On
the Pissa and Skwa rivers, further to
th£ northwest, the Russians have been
attacked by the "entire German
army" reinforced with men brought
from France. The Germafts, however,
met defeat in this sector. The battle
for the crossing of the Narew near
Novogord has not yet even begun.
This official statement then relates
a Russian success near the mouth of
the Skwa. The Germans brought up
further reinforcements, but all their
efforts to make progress in this sec
tion failed. They are at present en
deavoring to break through northeast
of Ostrolenka.
The German losses are described as
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AMBASSADOR PAGE'S
DAUGHTER A BRIDE
Miss (Catherine Alice Page and
Charles Greeley Loring, of
Boston, Wed in London
By Associated Frets
London, Aug. 4. Mips Katherine
Alice Page, daughter of the American
Ambassador to Great Britain and Mrs.
Walter Hines Page, was married at
2.30 o'clock this afternoon at th«
Chapel Royal, St. James Palace, to
Charles Greeley Loring, son of General
Charles Loring, of Boston. The cere
mony was performed by Bishop Boyd
Carpenter, subdean of Westminster
Abbey, assisted by the Rev. Edgar D.
Sheppard, subdean of the Chapel
Royal. The bride was given away by
her father and her brother, Frank
Pago, was Mr. Lorlng's best man.
The wedding was very simple be
cause the ambassador's family desired
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Liner Torn From Her
Moorings at Baltimore
By Associated Press
Baltimore, Md.. Aug. 4. One of
the fiercest storms that ever visited
this section swept over the ChesapeaKe
Bay last night causing damage which
will run into thousands of dollars.
Heavy damage was reported to the
corn and fruit crops In Baltimore and
Howard counties.
Along the bay and river shores hun
dreds of small craft, mainly pleasure
boats, were torn from their moorings
and cast ashore. So far as learned
there was no loss of life.
The Hamburg-Amerrcan liner Bul
garia which has been tied up at this
port ever since the European war be
gan, broke her lines and was carried
into a Pennsylvania Raiload pier ad
joining her dock, demolishing about
sixty feet of the concrete retaining
wall. The Bulgaria apparently was
not damaged.
CITY OFFICIALS ARE
SHOWN PAXTON CREEK
Big Inspection Party, Including
Mayor Royal, Travel Over
Great Concrete Gutter
REASONS FOR ADDED COST
Indefinite Lines, Treatment of Re
taining Walls, Contractors' De
lays, All Are Expensive
Paxton oreeek of to-day—the S
mile stretch of great concrete gutter
that extends from Maclay street to
Iron alley—was formally inspected
this morning by city officials prepara
tory to settling with the contractor
who finished the splendid improve
ment.
More than a week ago City Commis
sioner William H. Lynch arranged to
day's inspection trip and the time was
particularly well chosen to-day in(
view of the question that had been
raised as to a possible small deficit In
the Paxton creek fund.
Just what is needed will be shown
by Commissioner Lynch In his state
ment to Council on all the improve
ment work at next Tuesday's session.
In the party to-day there were Mayor
John K. Royal and City Commission
er M. Harvey Taylor, E. C. Thompson,
of the Board of Public Works, Wil
liam Jennings, formerly president of
the Board and one of the prime mov
ers in Harrisburg's public improve
ment movement, and J. D. Justin,
principal engineer of the Board of
Public Works who had charge of the
construction of the great drain.
Delays occasioned by the failure of
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Says Crazy Husband Gave
SIO,OOO to Conscience Fund
Washington, D. C., AUK. 4- * — The
Secret Service is investigating an effort
made by a man and woman to get
from the Treasury SIO,OOO, recently
added to the "conscience fund." The
following letter, signed t>y an appar
ently fictitious name and mailed on
the train between Sterling ana Peoria,
111., has been received at the office of
the Secretary of the Terasury:
"My crazy husband, nearly dead,
sent you SIO,OOO a few days ago
three SIOOO bills and eight SSOO bills
and 30 SIOO bills.
"T/e is now dying. Please return
the money to me. No sound mind
would do the thing he did."
The writer gave her address as
Rochester, N. Y. The Treasury De
partment has since learned that the
writer then wrote to the postmaster at
Rochester and asked him If a valuable
letter came for her, to rorward It to
Van Patten, 111. At the same time her
husband wrote to the postmaster at
Van Patten and asked him If a letter
came for his wife to forward it to a
railroad brakeman at Nelson, 111.
Rome Paper Comments
on London Statement
By Associated Press
Rome, Aug. 3. 9 P. M., via Paris,
Aug. 4, H. 45 A. M.—The Osservatore
Romano in an editorial which is con
sidered to have been Inspired replies
to comments and criticisms In the
world's press on the pope's appeal for
peace.
"We see In some .British newspa
pers," the Vatican organ says, "a
wrong appreciation. They see "a con
nection between the pontifical docu
ment and recent events In Russian Po
land. The letter was due to the spon
taneous initiative of the pontiff. He
was led to write it only by the anni
versary of the war and his solicitude
as the vicar of Christ at the spectacle
of misery and anguish wrought to his
children'by the year of war.
"Tt was addressed to all Indiscrimi
nately and without consideration as to
who are In fault. It was the father of
a great Christian family who spoke.
"Allusions to peace while the conflict
still is raging now are infrequent or
remote. Thus we salute with Joy the
messages of Sir Edward Grey, the
British foreign secretary, and Wil
liam 11, or all words which do not
vibrate with hatred and revenge. They
show the first rays of a bright dawn."
BLOCKADE JUST SAYS
GREY IN NEW NOTES
Declares Action of British Is in Ac
cordance With Inter
national Law
ONLY EFFECTIVE MEANS
Replies of Great Britain Made
Public in Washington and
London Last Night
Washington, D. C., Aug. 4.—Great
Britain's replies to the latest American
representations against interferences
with neutral commerce reject entirely
the contention that the Orders in
I Council are Illegal and justify the
British course as being wholly within
international law.
"Unsustainable either in point of
law or upon principles of international
equity," Is the British reply to the
i American protest against the blockade
of neutral ports, with an invitation
to submit to international arbitration
any cases in which the United States
is dissatisfied with the action of Brit
ish prize courts.
I Great Britain's reply, embodied in
! two notes, one supplemental, was
made public here last night and In
I London simultaneously by agreement
; between the two governments. With
the notes was made public also the
correspondence over the American
steamship Neches, seizes by the Brit
ish while en route from Rotterdam to
the United States with goods of Ger
man origin.
These notes—four In all—together
with the "caveat" note against the
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TO PIJTTOIMij
AT p l«K
Commissioner Bowman to Provide
Pure, Filtered Water For
Thirsty Thousands
I City Commissioner Bowman, who is
responsible for the beautiful plaza in
the rear of the pumping station at
North street, is going to provide a
rough river stone fountain convenient
to the walk bo that the thousands of
people who pass up and down the river
front may get a cool drink of pure
Altered water.
Mr. Bowman would also like to pro
vide a public comfort station on the
north side of the enginehouse which
would be concealed by shrubbery, but
he cannot do so without special 'legis-
Uition. He feels, however, that such a
station is greatly needed and must be
provided In some way inasmuch as the
facilities at the pumping station are
not adequate for public uses.
The filling of the space behind the
plaza wall will he completed this week
and the continuation of the walk along
th«> top of the slope along the wall
will then be started. Meanwhile nlans
for the planting are about completed
and this will go forward without delay
[so that everything will be in good
shape for the September celebration.
I HERE ARB A FEW IMPORTANT 1
| DATES TO KEEP IN MIND
August 24—Final day for filing pri
mary petitions for State offices
with Secretary of Commonwealth
August 26. 31 and September 11
City registration days.
August 31-—Final day to flle pri
mary petitions for county and city
offices with County Commission
ers.
September I—Final day to be as- I
sessed for November election
September 2—Return day for regis
tration lists to County Commis
sioners.
September 21—Final dav to pay poll
taxes for primary election.
September 21—Fall primaries.
October 2—Final day for out-of
town voters to pay taxes In order
to vote at Fall elections.
November 3—General elections.
12 PAGES
DEATH LIST IN
ERIE MAY GO TO
FIFTY IS BELIEF
Loss Is Estimated at More Than $3,000,000; Police
and Firemen Work Throughout Night in Inundated
Business Section of City Searching For Victims;
Dam Breaks and Sends Wall of Water Five Feet
High Through Central District; Many Buildings
Swept Away; Traffic Paralyzed; Members of Rescue
Party Injured
Eric, Pa., Aug. 4.—Coroner D.
S. Hanley, shortly before noon to
day estimated that fifty persons
perished In last night's flood.
Mayor Stem -it 10 o'clock said the
number probably would not ex
ceed 25, but after a survey of the
debris, and looking over a list of
missing. Coroner Hanley raised
the estimate to fifty.
Although Coroner Henley's
lists of missing, many of whom
lists of missing, many of whom
were later located, he did not
lower his estimate as these names
came in and other city officials
were inclined to accept his esti
mate as the most accurate yet
made.
By Associated Press
Erie, Pa., Aug. 4. —With the coming
of daybreak, Erie turned to the task
of recovering the bodies of victims of
last night's cloudburst and flood, and
this afternoon 18 have been placed
in the temporary morgue.
The flood caused by the overflow of
Mill creek, following the bursting of
the Glenwood dam, swept through
a section of the city a block In width
and a mile long, killing at least 25
persons and causing property loss es
timated at $3,000,000.
The identified dead are:
Emma Osborne, 44 years old, of
Parade street.
John Donovan, city fireman.
Sweeney Anderson, 60 years old, of
Kant Ninth street.
John Hlggins, 40 years old, a prin
ter.
James Hlggins, 17 years old, son of
I John Hlggins.
INDICTMENTS COINING 3TSON
Chicago, Aug. 4.—lnvestigation of the Eastland dis- 1
] aster v. ally concluded by the State Grand Jury to- A
< i day and it was reported that a number of indictments may J
be voted beiore the close of the day but may not be return- I
j| ed in court for several days. The indictments, it is said, 1 *
J will charge manslaughter, criminal carelessness and con
i spiracy. ►
T FAILS IN ATTEMPT TO ROB BANK
* Savannah, Ga., Aug. '4. James T. Fannan, an 18-year- * !
: old boy attempted to hold up H. I. Williams, teller of the 1
< ' Merchants National Bank here shortly after noon to-day, I f
1 failed and was captured. !
< » REVOLUTIONS IN PORTUGAL f »
j . Lisbon, Friday, July 30, via Paris, Aug. 4, 12.20 P. M.— ' t
j I Delayed in transmission. Sensational and alarming re- t
( ports are current in the capital of no less than three separate |
, revolutions in Portugal. Riots and assaults are of daily oc- I
currence. 4
< 1 I
CAPTURE OF DACIA CONFIRMED I
( ® Paris, Aug. 4, 4.20 P. M.—A French prize court to-day A
confirmed the capture of the American cotton ship Dacia. |
; i BOTH GAMES POSTPONED
j Buffalo, Aug. 4.—(lnternational) —Harrisburg-Buffalo 1 *
| | both games postponed, rain.
LONE BANDIT ROBS BANK 1 t
' , Cedar Rapids, la., Aug. 4.—A lone bandit held up and
1 robbed the Cedar Rapids.National Bank to-day. He is said >
! to have made his escape with $23,500. Lee Perrin, the bank '
< * teller, was discovered bound and gagged an hour later. I >
: WARSAW EVACUATED, SAYS BERLIN I
j » Berlin, Aug. 4.—By Wireless to Sayville—The Over g >
j Seas News Agency to-day says the Russian legation at the
< I Hague, Netho-i lands, has officially announced the evacuation
of Warsaw on account of lack of ammunition. The bridges ' *
, over tlie Vistula river, the same advices say, have been or- ® »
dered blown up. The report has not been verified.
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* POSTSCRIPT
Mrs. John and infant.
Mrs. Cora Anderson Main, 28 years
old. l ast Seventeenth street.
Katharine E. Carroll.
Thomas I.angdon.
Mayor Stern ha,s made a request for
a company of the Sixteenth regiment
of the Pennsylvania National Guard to
| patrol the ruined section of the city.
Police and Firemen at Work
The entire police and tire forces of
the city worked throughout the night
on the ruins, recovering the fourteen
bodies from an area that included ap
proximately one-half of the devastat
ed district. The men worked under
the direction of Mayor W. J. Stern
and the four members of the City
Council.
The district swept by the flood ex
tends from Twenty-sixth street and
French street in the uptown business
section to Tenth and State streets, a
distance of about a mile. The release
of the water held back by the dam
sent a huge wave five feet high toward
the city and by the time it reached the
first buildings in Twenty-sixth street,
it was crested with a mass of debris
that acted like a huge battering ram
on everything in its path.
After almost an all-day rain a
heavy thunderstorm last evening cul
minated in a cloudburst. For an hour
residents along the course of Mill
creek through the east center of the
city watthed the alow rise of the
stream due to a rainfall of nearly
three inches in six hours.
Glenwood Dam Breaks
At 8.46 the Glenwood dam, three
miles above the oity, .burst and a huge
wall of water swept down througt) the
city carrying with it the homes of
those who had waited until the last
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