f oneatial Rains Over East and Middle W HARRISBTJRG TELEGRAPH LXXXV— No. 69 TORRENTIAL RAINS CAUSE MENACING FLOOD STAGES THROUGHOUT BIG SECTION Susquehanna River Will Rise to 13 Feet by Tomorrow Morning, Demain's Forecast; Melting Snows in Upper End of State Swell Streams Throughout Valley; Downpour to Continue Juniata 14 Feet Above Normal, and Many Are Rescued From Inundated Homes by Boat; Buffalo Threatened With Most Disastrous Flood in History of City; Hun dreds Homeless at Columbus, Ohio Torrential rains during the last forty-eight hours have caused menacing flood conditions in many sections of the country, driving many people from their homes, and causing heavy damage to prop erty. .Much of the snow which has lain for several weeks in the moun tains along the watersheds of the rivers, melted with the rising tem perature, and flool stages are reported at many of the river stations in states in the eastern part of the United States. No immediate danger of flood here is expected, although the river will go to thirteen feet before to-morrow morning, according to E. R. Demain, United States Weather Bureau forecaster. State Water Supply Sends Oat Flood Warnings; 15 Ft. to Be Maximum Rise Here Three-quarters of an inch of rain fell in the city since early this morn- Inn and heavier rainfall in other sec tions of the State alone; the West and i Juniata branches of the Susquehanna river caused a rise of four feet within] the last twenty-four hours. The state will reach 13 feet to-mor row morning, according to the fore nut. Rapid rises In the Juniata and West branches, due to the melting of timet! of the snow along the water shed, caused flood conditions at many points along these smaller streams, nnd in several places more than an Inch of rainfall was reported at S J o'clock this morning. The storm which caused heavy rains i in the eastern part of the country re- j mains centered over the upper Ohio ; river valley, according to reports. Tlie State Water Supply Commission report issued at 1 o'clock announced J that should the rainfall continue along the Susquehanna and its branches, a; flood stage may be reached at Harris- . burg: otherwise the stage will not ex- I reed 15 feet, which will be reached at! noon. Flood warnings were sent out this' morning to a number of towns along j the Juniata and West branches with! the maximum stages to be expected at. the various points. Flood conditions according to the commission are expected at a number of points on the branches with the Juniata rising and the rain continuing. Flats on the opposite side of the river at Huntingdon on the rite of the old. fair grounds were inundated, and in! the warnings sent out by the commis sion maximum stages were predicted as follows along the Juniata: 26 feet j at Newport: 27 feet above low water mark at l.ewistown: 2l> feet at Mifllin town and an approximate stage for Mt. Union. Thi main stream and principal tri butaries of the west branch along the] upper reaches, were reported rising with the following stages: Clearfield, 8.0 feet: Kenovo. I ">.4 feet; Williams tort, 16.1 feet. Maximum stages pre dicted on this branch by the commis sion follow: Kenovo. IT feet; Lock j Haven. 12 feet; Jersey Shore, 25 feet, j and l.ewisburg, 20 feet. No exceptional stages were reported from stations! along the North branch. The United States Weather Bureau j office at Pittsburgh furnished the Wa-I ter Supply commission with a bulletin I n( noon predicting a stage of 24 feet I at Pittsburgh to-morrow morning and \ 26 teet at Wheeling. W. V., on Thursday evening. EMPRESS OF MIDLAND SI NK London. March 28. Sinking of the British steamship Empress of Mid-| land is reported in a Reuter dispatch! from Amsterdam. The steamship | I'romer. from London, arrived last night at Maasluis, Holland, with all the crew of the Empress of Midland.' The I mpress of Midland sailed] from New York January 5 for Car-[ diff, Wales. THE WEATHER For VlnrrlMhurn nnil vicinity* llnln (d-nlKhtt Wednemla.v partly cloudy: out much cliuiik<' In tem perature! lowext to-night about JIM degree*. For Ka«terii I'cniiN vlvnnla: Hnln to-night: Wednesday pnrtly cloudy; moderate to freitli north east to north wind*. River Substantial rl*en liuve oeeurred In tlie Susquehanna river nnd ftt k princlpnl trihutnrleM In tlie luMt twenty-four bour.% and practically nil streams are now rising. *tn«e* near the flood point have oeeurred In the Juiilnta and tlie Went llraneli aud Hood staice* are likely to he reaehed and prohalily slightly exceeded within the next «%venty-four bourn nt Kenovo nnd WllllaniNport nnd probnbly nt Clearfield. There la no Immediate Hanger of flood fttngen In the \orth llraueh, lint under proper weather conditions they may oc cur within two or three diiyn. V Mtage of alMiut thlrteea feet I* In dicated for llnrriMhurg Wednes ilay morning. General Conditions Xo material change has oeeurred In the disturbance over the eastern part of the country. It In 2to ill! { degree* colder over tlie eastern half of the country and In (he \orthweat. Temperature: S a. m. 38. Nun: nlues, a. m.; sets, (1:^(1 p. m. Moon: New moon. April 2, 11:21 a. m. Hirer Stage: O.fl feet above low water mark. Yenterday'a Weather Highest temperature. IS. I.owent temperature, tl. tempernturc. 44. Aormal temperature, 42 9 BY CARIUEK " CENTS A WEEK. SINGLE COPIES 3 CENTS. Two-Day Rain on Top of Heavy Snow Sends Streams Over Banks in Michigan By Associated Press Detroit, Mich., March 28. —Southern i Michigan to-day was menaced by j flood conditions which in some sec- I tions were the most serious in a dozen years. A two-days' rain coming im i mediately after a snowfall which aver- I aged nearly a foot in depth, sent rivers and creeks out of their banks in prac tically the whole State south of tiie Straits of Mackinac. The situation in the Saginaw river valley probably was the most danger ous to-day. Bay City, at the mouth of the river and Saginaw, about fifteen miles ui) stream, were threatened with further inundation l«y the flood wa j ters pouring Into the Saginaw from a dozen tributaries. In some of these, | ice gorges were being dynamited In an ! effort to let loose the backed-up water. | The Michigan Central and Detroit ; and Mackinac railroads were unable to run trains north of Bav Citv their i tracks being washed out in numerous [Continued on Page 7.] WASSON WORKING WITH BROWN UPON DELEGATE LISTS He and Dctrich Go Over Situa tion; Much Talk of Peace Is Heard I _ A'though __ Henry Wasson , of I ittsburgh. Republican national com . mitteemun. and A. Ncvin Detrich, of < hambersburg, chairman of the 'Washington party Slate committee, j were at the attorney general's office to-day arranging details or the cam paign for election of Republican na tional delegates, and it is suspected. )ot candidates for Republican State j committee, there were hopes express ed in other parts of the Capitol that there would be harmony in the selec | tion of national delegntes-at-largo and district. i Governor Brumbaugh to-day re ceived a number of visitors including [Continued on Page 21 Suffrage Leaders Concede Another Defeat in Efforts to Get Bill Before House B.v Associated rress Washington, March 28. —th e j House Judiciary Committee met to i day for final action on the Susan B. i Anthony constitutional amendment lor nation-wide woman suffrage with j suffrage leaders conceding another | defeat in their efforts to get the pro posal before the House. They were i assured of the support of oniy nine of the 21 members of the commit | tee. President Wilson's aid In securing congressional action will again be sought, it is announced, after suffrage leaders concluded their western cam- j paign when they will also report to' him the 'results of their trip. ; House Fights Over Free Sugar Repeal By Associated Press Washington, March 28. Reopen ing of the light in the House over the i repeal of the free sugar clause of the 'tariff was forecast to-day as a result ! of the action of the Senate Democratic I caucus last night in voting 23 to 7 to substitute for the House repeal reso- \ [ lution, a resolution extending the pres- i ! ent duty on sugar. The struggle is i expected to come when the Senate' proposal is returned to the House for i ; concurrence. , j ' Louisiana Senators lead the opposi-i ! tion to the House bill declaring that a four-year extension was no as | suranee to sugar growers and pro- i ducers of that State and that it would .be futile to restore activity to its < sugar industry. IMMIGRATION 811,1, TO PASS Washington. March 28.—The House ! to-day continued work on the im- 1 : migration bill with indications that ithe measure, together with its literacy! test provision Intact, would be pass-! led by an overwhelming vote during I ! (lie day. This was forecast as a result nf the house In committee of the i v hole yesterday in approving, 225 to tlie literacy test. HARRISBURG, PA., TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 28. 1916. TWO VIEWS OF DR. WAITE'S FELLOW STUDENT MRS. MARGARET HORTON Mrs. Margaret Horton has explained to the New York County District ne.v that Dr. Arthur Warren Watte, now charged with the murder of his wife's parents, rented a suite in the Hotel Pla/.n, New York, as a studio for them. She said they wished to study languages. Later she said she believed, Dr. Waite Intended to kill both her and her husband. ACCUSED DENTIST READY TO MAKE FULL CONFESSION Dr. Waite Prepared to Make Clean Breast; May Have Administered Germs New York. March 28. The case against Dr. Arthur Warren Wuite, ac cused of murdering his father-in-law, John E. Peek, is expected to be vir tually completed when District Attor ney Swann goes to Bellevue Hospital [oiu'liniied on Page 12] PENN HIGHWAY IS ASSURED AS MEETING ENDS Promoters of Big Project Go Home Happy,-Confident of Success of Project Promoters of the William Penn ' Highway were jubilant to-day over the great gathering in Fahnestock Hall ; yesterday, when the William Penn i Highway Association was formed. The : crowd far surpassed in numbers the fondest hope of the most ardent road enthusiast and from indications all that remains to lie done Is to carry out 1 the purposes of the organization. With the election of a board of governors j and officers yesterday and the adoption of the constitution and by-laws the' [Continued on Page !>.] FOUR DEAD AND 100 MISSING IN MINE EXPLOSION Blucfiold. W. Va.. .March 28.—An explosion occurred this morning in the cast entry of the kinjr Coal Com pany's mint' at Kiliilmll. near here. Four dead have already Ix-en taken from the mine, ami it is feared a number of others have been killed. Soon after the dead had been lo cated. rescuers found four other men, all badly burned, who were brought to the surface. Other rescue parties were 'quickly organized, and entered the i mine. it was not known Just how many [men were in the zone affected by the explosion. The mine has been operated for. about ten years and the workings ex tend fully two miles from the open-: injr. ordinarily some four hundred! millers are employed, the \cin u[ coal QUIET AT VERDUN; BITTER FIGHTING ON ITALIAN FRONT Even Notable Artillery Fire in Vaux-Douauniont Region Has Slackened The infantry continues inactive lie lore Verdun and even the notable ar tillery (ire reported for some days in the Yaux-DOuaumont region cast of the Meusc has slackened. The German guns have resumed a [onctimicd on Paffc 12] WAR BRINGS BIG ORDERS TO MILL AT YORK HAVEN Europe's Shipments of Paper to U. S. Cut Off; Causes Hush Output Here York llaven, F'n.. March 28.—Short age of certain kinds of paper in all parts of the United States is begin ning to result seriously but as long as wrapping paper can be used th?re will be practically an endless supply coming from the mills of the York Haven Paper Company here. G. C. Emigb, superintendent and general manager of the big plant, in an inter view stated that because of the in ability of many mills to get thd raw [Continued on Page 3.] II being known as Pocoliontas No. 3. No i explosion ever occurred there before and open lights generally were used j .| by the men. Volunteers hurried front! i; other mines in the neighborhood. A hurried canvass of the town j I showed that about 100 miners were missing, and at the mine it was said they were probably trapped behind I ; masses of coal and slate blown down by the explosion, as the section where! they were employed was not thought! to be directly affected. The afterdamp was said to be heavy, and constituted a j danger from which they might not I j escape. Hundreds of persons assembled tit j the mine, am on g them many skilled: ; miners who were toiled off in working j squads In order that the rescue work' wight not be slopped lor a uiowcut. MASKED MAN GAGS AND BINDS GIRL; THEN FIRES ROOM Outrage in Which Two Lose Lives Follows While Slave Investigation HOBBLES TO SAFETY Midnight Prowler at Cleveland Successful in Second Attempt tc Burn Building By Associated Press Cleveland, Ohio, March 2S. Fire which swept through an apartment house in Prospect avenue early to-day, | causing the deaths of two persons anil i injuring more than a score of others, | was of incendiary origin, according to j police and detectives. Police early to-day were holding three men and one woman at head- j quarters and had established a police guard at the bedside of Bessie neimer i at Huron Uoad Hospital. All of the live were involved in a white slave investigation a few days ago. following which one woman was sent to the workhouse. In this case the tleimer girt was the alleged victim. Most of these injured were hurt by jumping from the third floor windows. Of these, three. Mrs. Albert Melchoir, Dwight Eniptage and an unidentified man are fatally' injured. Fireman Ross and Ijieut. Thomas Nestor were also injured so badly in attempting to rescue occupants of the building that they may die. Both fell from third floor windows. The apartment contained 25 suites and more than a hundred persons were in the building at the time the fire started. Masked Man Filters Room Fir© started in the building on Monday morning in a closet in Miss Reimer's room anil she was rescued l>v firemen and taken to a hospital. The fire was easily distinguished, but Miss Keimer was nearly suffocated. She revived in the hospital, however, and last night returned to her room. According to the story she told police this morning, a masked man entered her room shortly after 1.30 this morn ing, gagged her and hound her hands and feet, after which he started a tire in the room with papers. Se<-on<l Attempt She managed to get to her feet and hobbled out of the room, but not be t'or the fire had spread and other oc cupants of the building had become [Continued on Page 7.] WINDOW BOXES FOR HARRISBURG ARE ENDORSED O. P. Bccklcy, of Bcrryhill Nursery Company, Offers Hearty Co-operation Announcement that ihe Telegraph will inaugurate a windowbox cam paign in Ifarrisburg during the com ing year has met with hearty coni mendltion in many quarters. _.. p. P. Beckley, president of the Bcrryhill Nursery Company, and one of the most enthusiastic gardeners in the State, heartily endorses the plan in a letter addressed to the editor of this newspaper and received to-day. Xot only that, but Mr. Reck ley in pri vate conversation assured the Tele graph that his company will go much farther than mere co-operation. In deed. Mr. Beck ley intimated that he would presently suggest a plan where by the installation of windowboxes might be made on a scale that would [Continued on Page 2j Contractor to Start Survey Work at Once on State Fair Grounds W. J. Randall, of the contracting firm of Bennett and Randall, which has the contract for excavation and grading at the Keystone State Fair and Industrial Exposition Grounds west of Middletown. arrived in this city to-day with six civil engineers from Greensburg, Pa. Immediate work will begin on the preliminary surveys and within a few days excavation will start. Four big steam shovels belonging to the contracting firm are now in the En ola yards. The contrac tor will employ between four hundred and five hundred men, and thirty-two horse teams in the work in addition to the steam shovels. John L. L. Kuhn Gets Contract For Pennsy Station Excavations The contract for the excavations and foundation work for the new freight station of the Pennsylvania Railroad in South Ilarrisburg was to-day awarded to John 1,. 1.,. Kuhn & Co., contractors, of ilarrisburg, with offices |at •16-48 North Cameron street. It is | understood the work will start at once. ; The estimated cost is not given, but it is said to be between $50,000 and i $75,000. The work will be under the direction I of George U Titzel, of Lancaster. a J member of the firm, who has for a number of years been identified with i large railroad contracts. In addition j to the necessary excavations, the work I will require extensive masonry and | concrete work. The latter will include large foundations for steel pillars. The new freight station building will be four stories in height and will I lie of brick /and concrete. Plans for ! the new structure are still under epn ! sideration because of n number of changes in interior details made a Lsiioi t time ago, _ J PURSUIT OF VILLA MAY BE HALTED IF RAILROADS ARE NOTSOONMADEAVAILABLE Bandit Fleeing Southward Is Meeting With Little Opposi tion; American Troops Experiencing Greater Hard ships as They Get Farther From Their Base; Impera tive That Mexican Lines are Turned Over Tension Along Border Increases With Reported Raid on Ranch of Former Mayor of El Paso; Troops and Texas Rangers Fail to Find Traces of Bandits; Car ranza Forces Dissatisfied . EI T aso, Tex., March 28. I lie pursuit of Francisco Villa may be hampered if not actually halted, unless Mexican railroads arc made available as the main iine of communication for the American army in Mexico. Military men expressed that view to-day after studying dis patches Irom the front that \ ilia was still in full flight southward and meeting with lkilc if any opposition. The American forces are more than j 200 miles below the border. Every mile the Mexican bandit ad- ' vances into the Interior increases the I difficulties of maintaining the already attenuated line of American coninuini cation. Motor trucks arc 1m to tjie army base at Columbus to heip keep up the necessary movement of supplies to the field headquarters at a point near t'asas Grandes. Every effort ts being mane to con tinue the line of transport in full op eration over the Rocky and sandy trails until the de facto government Rives permission to use the railroads. Raid Is Reported There was a very noticeable increase in the tension along tVie border to-day following llie reported raid last night on the ranch of C. E. Kelley, fovuier mayor of El Paso, by Mexican bandits. The ranch is thirty-two miles east of here and a mile and a half from the border. The alarm was given first by E. X. Barker, foreman of the Kelley ranch. Barker said he saw a number of mounted Mexicans cross the river and attempt to drive off one hundred head of cattle belonging to Kelle.v. He ran to a neighboring ranch house and called his employer on the long dis tance telephone here. In the mean time three of the raiders went to tho Kelley ranch house and threatened the ■«*!/>■— .i<Mm Y ■■ ifl T I GO AEHOTT CtDMESTIKRET' w " S C® Reading, Pa:, March 26. The Reading Eagle this * f "K. j. Stackhouse, is made superintend- 1 9 '■ ind supplies of the Reading Railway at T 1 siding to take the place of James K. Witman, deceased; f s M Lot*, superintendent of the Harrisburg d'- f 1 sion,) taking the place of Mr. Stackhouse. Mr. Abott was j 1 recent inted superintendent of Shamokin division, 4 J succeeding J. E. Turk, made general superintendent. F. j. f 1 Hagner, trainmaster at Allentown, is appointed superintend- 3 ent. of the Shamokin division. I FIREMEN CALLED BY FALSE ALARMS ( * Fire companies in the central part of the city were call- ' 1 ed out shortly before 4 o'clock this morning to answer two ' 9 false alarms. 1 | GRANTS MOTION TO SQUASH INDICTMENTS I 4 Youngstown, March 28. Judge Anderson tq-day ' I anted th- motion to quash the indictments recently re- ; I 'f inst five steel companies, charging them with ' i conspiracy to fix the price of labor and steel products. ' I 1 T COUNCIL APPROVES SCHEDULE t Aside from approving the schedule of the city tax ex- | * inerations for 1913 as submitted several weeks ago by the , f city treasurer, and approving some recent contract awards | w City Council transacted litle business to-day. ' * City Cornmissoiner Lynch offered a new ordinance au thorizing the construction of a 10-inch sewer in Briggs 1 ► reet from ifteenth to May. Bids approved included the 1 ' following: a J Construction of sewers in Herr's Lane and in Fulton * * ' street to Henry Opperman at his proposals respectively of , > $587 and $407. ■ I Water department supplies as recommended for the ' t I year by City Commissioner Hary F. Bowman as follows: < J ' , Castiron water pipe and special castings, R. D. Wood > t & Co.; brass ferrules, H. Mueller aMnufacturing Company; | ' * iron castins, W. O. Hickok Manufacturing Company; alu minum sulphate and hypochloride of lime for filter plant, y: Manufacuring Company. 11ARRIACE LICENSES «f win, >1 l(l«l ii. nml Anim )ln,v Foils, Roy a Hob. ami Stella A. Kndcrn, Caraonvllle. « » CITY EDITION 14 PAGES Mexican assistant rorenian with death if he interfered with them. Fail to Find Trace Word was immedaitely sent to the troops on patrol duty at Fabens, two miles east of the ranch, and to Ysleta, eight miles in another direction. Two detachments of the Eighth Cavalrv, accompanied by four Texas Hanger's, were sent in pursuit of the raiders. After three hours' search they re turned to camp and Captain G. AY. Moses reported to General Bell that; nothing had been seen of the Mexican* and that he believed the whole affair to be a false alarm. Barker, however, insisted on the truth of hip story. The reported raid served to give a freph start to the alarming reports about the attitude of the Mexicans and conditions in the Interior which have kept residents here in a state border ing on hysteria ever since the Ameri can troops crossed the border. This feoling had seemed to be dying away for the last couple of days. Railroad Problem Serious Matters were not improved by the news from Washington that General Carranza had again deferred a decision on the question ot permitting the use of the Mexican railroads for the trans, portation of supplies to the Amerk.ua troops in the field Army officers here admit freely tliat.i the question of the use of the railroad* |is becoming an increasingly seriouii | one. General Pershing's columns iiava [onctiniieil on Page 12]
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