P resident Wilson's Special Third Train to Cross New Cumberland I falley Bridge HARRISBURG SfisSii TELEGRAPH LXXXV — No. 24 MANY LIVES LOST AND MILLIONS' D SERIES OF DIG FIRES Five Known to Be Dead and Several Are Missing in Conflagration Which Totally Destroys Canada's Magnificent $6,000,000 Parliament Building; Re port That Bomb Caused Fire Discredited MEMBERS OF HOUSE LOSE THEIR LIVES Were in Session When Blaze Started; Panic Breaks Out in Gallery and Many Wo men Are Trampled; Two Burn to Death; Firemen, Police and Soldiers Save Big Library Building Ottawa, Feb. 4.—Two women and three men are known to have per ished in the fire which swept through the central portion of Canada's mag nificent Parliment Building last night, destroying the Chambers of the Com mons and Senate. Several others are reported missing and it is feared they are buried In the ruins. All night long firemen, police and soldiers fought to save the $6,000,000 structure, which is considered one of tlie finest examples of Gothic archi tecture on this continent. They were successful in saving the beautiful library building and the east and west wings of the main edifice. Ruinor of I tomb. Immediately after the fire started a report was spread broadcast that it was caused by the explosion of an in cendiary bomb. The fire started In Ibe readingrooni of the House of < 'ommons and several percons who were present at the lime including Mayor Medric Martinfi of Montreal asserted that it was preceded by ex plosion which knocked down several persons. The bomb theory was, how ever, rejected to-day by Col. Sherwood commissioner of Dominion police, who insisted that the conflagration was accidental. The two women who lost their lives were Mme. Bray, wife of H. A. Bray, of Quebec, and Mme. Morin, wife of Louis Morin, of Beauce, Quebec. The men, whose bodies are still buried in the debris, are Alphonse Des Jardins. f> Dominion policeman, Alphonse Des Jardina, his uncle, an employ in the building and Robert Panning, a waiter. Members Missing. Among those reported missing is B. B. Law, a member of Parliment for Yarmouth, N. S. Mr. Law is under stood to have been at the House at the time the fire broke out and has not been seen sinoe. He was alone in the city and the management of the hotel where he was stopping said he left there last night to go to the House and that every effort to trace him since had failed. J. B. Laplant, assistant clerk of the [Continued on Page 11.] Secret Code of U. S. Navy Is Lost From Destroyer Special to the Telegraph San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 4.— A book containing the secret code of the United States Navy has been lost from the torpedoboat destroyer Hull, and, according to advices received from AVashington, the Navy Department lias ordered the court martial at Mare Island of Lieutenant Herbert A. Jones, commander of the reserve torpedo flotilla and of the Hull, and of Ensign Robert Kirkpatrick. executive officer, in whose joint possession the book was. If the book cannot be found, or its destruction, unread by outsiders, abso lutely demonstrated, it may be neces sary, it is said by naval officials here, to provide a complete new system of secret communication for the navy. 1 THE WEATHER For Hnrrlftburit nml vicinity; K«»l* to-night HIM! Satunlnj-, with slow ly rlHliiK temperature; Jovient temperature to-night about Hi ,|c greea. For Kanteru IVmiKvlvnnin: Fair to night anil Snturriav; N lowly rlnlag temperature; moderate aonthweat wlnila. River > The SiiM<|iieliauaa river ami all It* trlhiitnrleM will fall. t onahler nlile lee will prohahly form to night and nome of the Nlrenmn are likely to heeome leeliound In plaeea. A ntnge of about 0.4 feet IN Indlealed for llnrrlNhurg on Saturday morulng. (General < ondltioiiN The voaNt Ntorni IKIN dlNiippeared and high preNNure with clear weather now prevnlla over moat of |lie eiiNtern half of the eountry. Snow fell along the Atlnntle eoaat Thursday from \ew Jeraey north ward and In the HaNtern Canadian provlneeN. It IN '2 to 10 degrees eolder thlN morning In the I'pper Ohio Val ley anil In tlic k Middle Atlantic and New Fngland State*. Temperatures H a. m., 11. Sun: ItineN. 1 xi'A a. m.; setN f r»:2d p. m. Mooni First quarter, February 10, 3120 p. m. River Stage: 7.1 feet above low water mark, eNterday'N Weather IliglieNt temperature, -<f. l.owoNt temperature. 110. Venn temperature, ail. formal temperature, 2S. Overbrook Hotel at Atlantic City Burns at Loss of $150,000; Three Are Dead and Others Missing; Chambersburg Man Un accounted For; Many Killed in Jumping WOMAN BURNS IN SIGHT OF CROWD Flames Lick Her Body as She Partially Hangs Over Win dow Ledge. Another Grasps to Ledge Until Fire Causes Her to Drop and Is Killed Instantly Atlantic City, N. J., Feb. 4. —Three persons are known to be dead and ; from two to four persons are missing ;as the result of a fire which early i today destroyed the Overbrook Hotel jin this city. The known dead are: i Nicholas De Ray, engineer of the hotel. Thomas Mott, father of proprietor of hotel. Miss Marie Johnson, New York, a guest. | A search of the hotels has resulted j In locating all persons known to have ! been in the Overbrook except six. | Some of these are believed to have j escaped from the burning building. ! Those unaccounted for are: Paul C. Hendricks, Chambersburg, Pa. ! Mrs. Mott, wife of Thomas Mott. Edward Phillpsen, White Plains, N. I Y ' Miss Josephine Garsed. Philadel | phia. Paul Henrdicks was graduated ; from Haverford College last .Tune and j was employed as publicity agent for a I large hotel here. The loss is placed :at $150,000. | The fire is believed to have started lln the kitchen. When it was discov ered flames were shooting up the ele vator shaft and soon afterward the en tire building was burning. There were not many guests in the house, but most of them were aroused in time to es cape. Their exit was cut off and most of them had to jump from windows. Burns to Death One woman was seen to faint after [Continued on Page ll.] HALIFAX SHOWS ! BIG INTEREST IN FARM LIFE TALKS State Men Answer Many Ques tions Relating to Scien tific Farming By ROBERT F. GORMAN | Halifax, Pa., Feb. 4. The final | session of the Farmers' Institute was ! held last evening and the speakers ! sent here by the State Department of ; Agriculture were loud in praise of i the interest shown in the five meet ! ings. During his talk. E. L. Phillips, | of Clarion county, took occasion to say | that although the attendance in many I towns was better than here, he had : never talked before a more interested audience. "I have answered and heard an -1 swered more questions relating to ■"Continued on Page 11] Von Bernstorff Issues Denial; Dr. Hale Is Head of Embargo Conference Washington, Feb. 4. Ambassador Von Bernstorff, it was declared last night at the German embassy, had made no subscription to the American Embargo Conference. Ambassador Von Bernstorff declined to say any thing about the subject. The impres sion here is that the association has been financed by German citizens in | this country. The Rev. Dr. William Bayard Hale, | once confidential adviser of President Wilson and the special representative | of this Government in 1913 in Mexico, expenses for which mission were drawn from the State Department's j secret fund, is exposed as a confiden tial agent of fount Von Bernstorff. | In this new role Doctor Hale is shown i as chairman of the. American Embargo I Conference. This is an organization ! which displaced Labor's National j Peace Conference, many members of i whose Executive Committee are un der indictment for conspiracy. Zeppelin With Her Crew Sinks in the North Sea Grimsby, Feb. 3. —Skipper William Martin of the Trawler King Stephen who has arrived here reports that' early Wednesday morning in the North sea he saw the Zeppelin L-19 with her boats and a portion of her envelope submerged. He noticed from 17 to 20 members of the crew cling ing to the envelope. They asked to be taken off but as the men on the Zeppelin outnumbered the trawler's crew the skipper ile clined to accede to the request. In stead he came straight into Grimsby and reported the matter to the ad miralty authorities. HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4, 1916 Six Women Lose Their Lives When Home of Wealthy New York Widow Is Burn ed by Early Morning Fire; Daughter Gets Mother Safely Out, but Is Over come Trying to Save Sis ters FLAMES TRAP HER IN THIRD FLOOR HALLWAY Bodies of Victims Are Found Close Together on Stair way; No Fire Escapes; Firemen Delayed by Heavy Snow; Heroine Daughter Was Engaged to Be Mar ried Soon By Associated Press New York, Feb. 4.—Six women lost I their lives in a fire which destroyed j ! the home of Mrs. Casimir Tag at 243 ] Hancock street, Brooklyn, early to-day. j i The dead are: Miss Caroline Tag and Miss Helen ] ' Tag. the daughters of the late bank | president; Hannah E. Snavely, 68 years old. a cousin of Mrs. Tag; Jennie 1 Stebman, a nurse ,and Anna Cain and Lizzie Cain, servants. The fire, which began in a partition on the lower floor of the four-story house, is attributed to defective in sulation of wires. Miss Caroline Tag was awakened by smoke and discov ered the fire about 3 o'clock this morn ing. Hastening to the telephone, she notified her brother, who lived in an adjoining house, and then telephoned to the fire department. As she gave the address of her home to the operator at fire headquarters she said: "I am j being overcome by smoke." Rescuer Meets Death Miss Tag awakened her mother, who 1 is 60 years old, and ained her to escape j | through a third-story window to the roof of an extension In the rear of the j house. Apparently Miss Tag then went I to the rooms of her sister and the ! other occupants to awaken them, and ! she. with the others, was trapped by the flames and smoke which filled the hall and stairways, cutting off their [Continued on Puge 11.] FRONT STEPS OF I HARRISBURG PUT CITY ON THE MAP George A. Shreiner, City Plan ner, Sees a Chance Enroute to Washington When the national real estate execu tive committee special started away from Harrlsburg en route to Washing ton. D. C., a few days ago George A. Shreiner, member of the City Plan ning Commission, saw a fine oppor tunity "to help put Harrlsburg on the map of America," as he put it. And he jumped at the chance. The scores of real estate men from Western Pennsylvania and the Middle Western States had crowded to the windows and observation platforms to view the receding city and the smoothly flowing Susquehanna. As the I sweepins curve of the water front ap peared Mr. Shreiner saw his chancer "Do you see that river wall and 'steps, gentlemen?" he asked. "That I fronts the city from end to end. a dis continued on Page 22] Enraged Mother Follows Daughter, Given to Aunt The struggle which youthful Mrs. ! Rose Wertz put up with deputy sher iffs in the courtroom yesterday to re i tain her 8-year-old daughter, Kather j ine, who had been given Into the cus j tody of Mrs. George Dolbin, of 2135 I Jefferson street, an aunt, was not ! ended when the aunt left the eourt . house. The mother followed to the Dolbin < home and insisted upon remaining i there until the baby was returned to her. Finally, however, when the little girl, herself, asked the mother to leave, Mrs. Wertz, crushed, left the home. Try to Dynamite Levee to Divert Arkansas Flood Little Hock Ark., Feb. 4.—investi gation was being made to-day in the futile attempt last night to dynamite j the government levee at Pine Bluff which if it had succeded would have diverted the course of the Arkansas I river many miles from the site of the I town. With the water slowly rolling into the lower reaches of the Arkansas the suffering in the flooded areas is becoming intense. Hundreds of per sons have been driven from home, thinly clad and unused to the extreme cold of the last week. Relief work I can proceed only slowly as few fa- i cilities exist to prov ide succor and the towns In the flood area virtually arei isolated. The flood's death toll to-day i remained at 1. i PRESIDENT WILSON'S SPECIAL ON NEW C. V. BRIDGE I V J ! !■: <•" i / \:- 4 i M . ■ ■ i-mM -._. * ' . ' President Wilson's special train was the third train to cross the new Cumberland Valley railroad bridge across the Susquehanna, the first half of which was thrown open this morning from shore to shore to traf- j flc north and south. AUSTRIAN AIRMEN IN DARING RAID ON ALLIED BASE Shower Bombs Down on Dur azzo and Aviona; Huss Attack From Air Notable success for its airmen in 1 raids on tlie Albanian port of Dura-1 y.xo is reported by the Austrian admir ality. Three attacus by air on this important allied base between Jan uary 25 and February 1 are recorded. ! The Italian base at Avlona. Albania, » also was attacked by Austrian aviators ' on Feb 2. The eastern war theater, like the western and the Balkan, has in recent days been the scene of the numerous aerial operations. Vienna reports the bombardment of Buczacz in Gallcia by a Russian air squadron and Russiuni raids further north, in Volliynla while the Austrian airmen appear to have been equally active. A second Zeppelin air raid on Sa lonika attempted on Wednesday, was frustrated by the fire of the allied batteries, according to an Athens dis patch. Reports of infantry operations of .importance from any of the main war | fronts are lacking. Vienna claims progress for the Austrians at the Tol mino bridge head by sapping optra tions. A similar operation enabled the British to destroy one of the mine \ craters near Huluch on the French [front, recently occupied by the Ger i mans. Artillery activity along the western battle !ine shows no signs of lessen ing Indeed, Berlin to-day reports the allied tiro increasing in intensity. The Argonne is now named as one of the ; sectors where the big guns are most ! persistently pounding the German lines. Paris also records considerable artillery activity, but mentions only the Vosges as the scene of it. Only hand grenade engagements are re ported near Neuville where the mans appear to be holding tenaciously to the groiind recently won from the French. l-.rzcruni Evacuated In the Caucasus, events of momen tary happening if newspaper reports I are accurate. One such report from | Petro&rnd declares word has been re i ceived that. Erzerum to which a lsßrge j Turkish lorce was recently driven after a defeat by the Russians, has ! beon evaluated by the Turks. Erzerum has been considered one of I the many Turkish strongholds on the I Caucasus front. A relief force sent 1 thence from Trebisond, on the Black sea coast, was recently reported in re treat after a stubborn tight against the Russians. Impossible to Understand Awful Horror of Brindisi Sinking, Nurse Says By Associated Press Athens, Feb. 2, via London, Feb. 4. —"There is not any way to tell you so that you would understand the awful horror of the things that 1 have seen and lived in the last month," said Marie Lemos, of Irving Park, Chicago, | one of the Red Cross nurses who sur vived the sinking of the Italian steam ship Brindisi which recently struck a mine in the Adriatic. She continued: "The hideous rapidity of the sink ing of the steamship Brindisi with her decks covered with dead, and awash with blood; myself shot Into the water which was full of struggling -ouths trying to keep afloat but dis appearing one by one within sight of land; the Austrian aeroplane attacks on San Giovanni de Medua and I>ur azzo; the ghastly sight of hundreds! of Serbs falling exhausted and dying ; from hunger and cold along the road of their retreat through Albania—it | does not seem believable." JAILED FOR IUTYIXG GROCERIES; OX ANOTHER MAX'S ACCOUNT j William Hall, colored, charged with [ buying groceries on the account of Fred Hopewell, also colored, was held j under 5200 bail for court alter a hear- j Inu: before Alderman Fritz Kratnme this afternoon. It was testified that l Jlall bought groceries worth seven dollars and then sold them to another man for five. i .• NEW LUSITANIA I CRISIS RAISED BY i TERM "ILLEGAL" Germany Will Not Disavow Act Under Any Circum stances in Concessions SITUATION IS SERIOUS No Other Difficulties Remain in Way of Satisfactory Settlement By Associated Press j Berlin, Feb. 4, via London. 12:20 j j P. M. —Information reaching the As- | jdociatetf Preuc to-Uuy indicates that -' under no circumstances wlfi Oermwiy | ! i admit the sinking of the Lusitania was j I an illegal act. The new instructions forwarded to I |! Ambassador Von Bernstorff, accord-' ' j ing to this information, contains sim- ! i ply one phrase of the new formula , j tion of the proposed note of regret ] for the sinking of the Rusitania. The " j suggested sentence is short, consisting ' | of only eight words and does not con ■ tain the word "illegal." It represents ■ the extreme limit of Germany's con cessions in the Lusitania case. > The view is entertained here that ! one of the most serious crises of the i war has arisen in connection with • the Rusitania case and that it is Im possible to foresee the outcome from i any indications here. The result of • the negotiations appears to hinge i solely on the one word "illegal." Seven Letters Raise Crisis j | In the way of an agreement be - J tween the United States and Germany 1 | stand only these seven letters, express ing the conception which President ! Wilson and Secretary Lansing insist ' must be embodied in the German for mula expressing regret for the loss of ' American lives aboard the Cunardcr. ' The Associated Press is informed posi [ tively and authoritatively that Ger ! many cannot and will not designate as il'egal the sinking of a liner by any submarine. Virtually no other difficulties in the 5 way of settlement remain, and the 1 new instructions forwarded to Am ■ bassador Von Bernstorff on Tuesday ! contain merely the now formula by. 1 which it is hoped to satisfy Wash in g ! ton without humiliating this country. Although the suggested sentence, ac • cording to reliable Version, consists of ! only eight words and does not contain ; the word "illegal" or characterize the : sinking of the Lusitania as such, it • goes to otherwise the furthest extent - possible toward meeting American de sires. Situation Is Grave Dr. Alfred Zimmerman, under sec retary for foreign affairs, in an inter view with the Associated Press ex pressed the hope lhat the new for , [ mula forwarded to Ambassador Von | BernstortT would offer a possible base of settlement. However, he made no j effort to conceal the gravity of the , (Continued on Page 17.) Clear Paths Through Snow Along the River Park Front Promenades Broad paths have been cleared In | the snow along the top of the river j front wall and on the walks in the | upper park so that the recent snow fall hasn't interefered with the pro ! menaders or the, scores of mill men j and factory girls who prefer to use \ this method of getting to their places ; of work in the lower end of town. V. Grant Forrer, the new assistant to Commissioner E. Z. Gross, person ally supervised the clearing of the | paths yesterday. A horse-drawn ] j snow-scraper was used for the pur ; pose. j "As s(son as the snow permits we | expect to inspect the whole system," I said Park Commissioner Gross. "Mr. Forrer and I will go over the park and playground property so that we i may lay our plans for the Spring work ; ; accordingly. It will not be very long, ; anymore, you know, until we'll be very busy. Mr. Forrer has already taken hold and you can say," added! the commissioner smilingly, "that he I is already very much on his job,'' [ 22 PAGES CITY EDITION SOLE QUESTION IS HOW LONG SHALL j APPAM REMAIN U. S. Meets German Contention That Captured Steamer Is a Prize - Washington, Feb. 4. Secretary | Lansing indicated to-day that the United States had decided to hold that ! the Prussian-American treaty gov-1 [Continued on Page 5.] ;' j 1 160 DROWN WHEN STEAMERS COLLIDE 1 ( I SHANGHAI, FEB. 4.—THE JAPANESE LINER || ' DAIJIN MARU WAS SUNK WEDNESDAY NIGHT IN ! I A COLLISION WITH THE STEAMSHIP LINAN AND ' | J 160 LIVES WERE LOST. TWENTY-ONE PERSONS ' # WERE SAVED. THE LINAN, BADLY DAMAGED, ' I IS RETURNING TO HONG KONG. THE LINAN IS I OWNED BY A CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY OF I I LONDON. SHE IS 300 FEET LONG. THE COLLI- g I SION OCCURRED AT NIGHT, EIGHTY MILES J J FROM SWATOW. J I BABY GIRL SCALDED I (? Harrisburg. Goldie Hamcn, three-year-old daughter # C of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Hamen, 655 South Third stre-'t, a K Steelton, was badly scalded this afternoon while playin # j» at her home. She was treated »t the Harrisburg Hospital. 9 1 SAY THEY DID NOT REJECT DEMANDS I a Tamaqua, Pa., Feb. 4.—Anthracite coal operators ofii g J cially deny that they met in New York and rejected the de J 1 mands of the men. The ma*ting was held simply to prepa. - £ g the statement of explanation which appeared as an advertise m ■ fnent this morning. * 1 PRESIDENT WILSON REACHES WASHINGTON f # Washington, Feb. 4.—Presidwit Wilr*on returned to the i # Capitol from his western speaking trip shortly after 1.15 % M o'clock this afternoon. He reed the Berlin dispatches on » a the Lusitania situation on the train. Members of his party i I I said the situation was decidedly unfavorable. | ' PRUSSIAN LOSSES ARE 2,337,006 | London, Feb. 4.—A dispatch to the Daily Mail from ' j Copenhagen says: "The Prussian casualty list for January I | contain 36,500 names, bringing the total Prussian losses to 1 2,337,096. January lists include the names of 24 airmen * killed, eleven wounded and twenty made prisoners. The lists 1 £ also contain the names of five generals killed." I MARRIAGE LICENSES f a Cl«tu» l.croy Point niul Dorothy May I<OIIK, \Vllltnm»town. m M Snniuel llenr Keener, I rinoviu', ami F.mmn (irnce Smith, \\ ormleyn- 9 1 burjf. * jr Vlhei l It. < iirro.* aiiti WILSON SPECIAL THIRD TRAIN OVER NEW C. V. BRIDGE President's Car Crosses Shortly • After First on Viaduct JOB ONE-HALF DONE To Hush Work to Completion Just as Soon as Spring Opens President Wilson's special from th» i West was the third train to pass over the new Cumberland Valley Railroad, i bridge over the Susquehanna river, one-half of which has just been eom | pleted, and officially thrown open to j traffic north and south this morning. The President, en route to Washing ton, arrived in Harrisburg from the West at 9.39 o'clock and left the city at 9.55 for the South. President Wilson was on his way to the capital to lakf up with Secretary Lansing consideration of the Lusitania and Appam cases. After six days spent, in the Middle West in urging stronger national defense and describing the grave possibilities of the international i situation, he is now about to decide [Continued on Page 3.] Mrs. Mohr Weeps While Lawyer Closes Her Case By Associated Press Providence, R. l„ Feb. 4.—Mrs. KHz | abeth F. Mohr sat within full view of the jury to-day and wept while her attorney. John J. Fitzgerald, declared I in his closing argument that the state liad failed to show she had hired two : negroes, Cecil V. Brown and Henry H. i Sm-llman, to murder her husband. Dr. , ('. Franklin .Mohr. Air. Fitzgerald's \ address was the last word in behalf of the woman around whom the state hud attempted to establish a murder plot charge. Counsel for Brown and Spellinan j concluded their arguments yesterday. Attorney General Rice was to close for the state in the afternoon, although it was not expected thai the case would reach the jury until to-morrow after the charge by Judge Stearns. This probably will be presented at tho opening of the session to-morrow.
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