Twenty-Two Killed by Gas Explosion in Tunnel Beneath Lake Erie HARRISBURG ifiSSlk TELEGRAPH LXXXV — No. 170 GAS EXPLODES IN TUBE UNDER LAKE - ERIE; 22 KILLED Ten Workmen Trapped by Ex plosion in Ne\\ Water Works Tunnel RESCUE PARTIES CAUGHT Life Savers, Equipped With Gas Helmets, Rring Work men to Surface By Associated Press Cleveland, July 25. Twenty-two i men are dead and half a dozen others j dying as the result of an explosion of j gas in a water works tunnel five miles , from shore under Lake Erie late last night. The dead Include workmen who were trapped in the tunnel when pas exploded and members of two rescue parties who attempted to save the men first trapped. Of the dead eleven were in force trapped by the explosion. Xone of these escaped. The first rescue , party consisted of seven men. Four; of them perished and three were i saved. The second rescue party com- j prised eleven men. Six of these lost j their lives and five escaped. The first rescue party accomplished nothing. The second saved one of the first re lief expedition. No one has yet reach ed any of the original eleven caught in the workings. Of the eight res- i cuers who got out alive two died later. The others may die. Two men were also overcome by fumes who did not go into the tunnel. j A third rescue party entered the tunnel at 8.30 and brought out alive Gustav C. Van Duzen, superintendent of water works construction, who ,had headed the second relief force. van Duzen may die from his experiences. One body was also brought out by the third rescue party. This was a mem ber of the second rescue crew. It had been supposed that Van Duzen had perished. Lack of Apparatus Hampers The tragic fate of the rescuers in the first and second instances was due to the fact that they worked without tContinued on Page 7] Rounding Up Runaway "Lampers" in Rain Beats Chasing Greased Pigs When Karl Steward, secretary of the C. Day Rudy Company, is not establishing new records for the sale of stained glass windows or making after-dinner speeches before the Har risburg Rotary Club, he loves to go fishing. Bass p.nd salmon fairly fight each other to «et caught when he casts in his line, but it's different, oh, very, verv different with lamprey eels. Mr. Steward demonstrated this to his own satisfaction and that of a party of grinning friends this morning when he stepped off a West Shore car with an umbrella in one hand and a bucket of fine "lampers" in the other. A swish of the wind turned his um brella wrong s>de out and in trying to recover his balance Steward and the lampreys went down together. Mr. Steward got up in a moment. Not so the lampreys. They reveled in their new-found freedom. After it was all over and the eels were back in the can Mr. Steward con fidentially informed a party of friends, as he wiped his perspiring brow, that he'd just as soon any day undertake to capture a herd of greased pigs as to round up a bunch of runaway "lampers." GOT IT? AH-H-H CHOO-O-O! Red Xoses, Watering Ftfb nnd Sntftn in Hay Fever Time It's coming—Ah-h-h-h-h Choo-o-o! In fact, it s here Ah-h-h-h-h-h-h Choo-o-o! Of course, it can be prevented Ah-h-h-h Choo-o-o!—in some cases and by taking certain Ah-h-h Choo-o-o! —precautions, but there will still be hundreds of Harrisburgers who will Ah-h-h-h Choo-o-o!—get it. City Health Officer Raunick ad vices that wind-pollinated weeds, such as—Ah-h-h- Choo-o-o!—the scientists and naturalists call the Rumex crispus and the Amaranth us spinosus or the Xanthium strumarium—Ah-h-h- Choo o-o! be cut down from yards and lawns and done away with. For be it known that one whiff of the pollen of these weeds is sufficient to cause Ah-h-h Choo-o-o!—a paroxysm of hay fever lasting from three to five davs. A dozen or more of said whiffs— Ah-h-h-h-h Choo-o-o-o! will give one a regular case of this midsummer ailment. 1 THE WEATHER- For Harrlshur* ami vicinity! Part ly cloudy to-nlKlit and Wednes day; warmer Wednesday. For Eastern Pennsylvania: Partly cloudy to-nlKbt. showers In southeast portion i Wednesdu> partly cloudy, warmer In west portion) gentle to moderate shift ing winds, mostly south. River The main river will rise somewhat. The principal tributaries will probably remain nearly station ary. A stage of about 4.0 feet Is Indicated for Harrlsburg Wednes day morning. General Conditions The weather continues unsettled over the Eastern part of the country and showers have fallen generally in the Atlantic States from Maine to Florida, the great est nmounts of rainfall reported occurring In Virginia and \orth Carolina; Lynchburg reports 4.2H Inches and Halelgn 2.38 inches for the last twenty-four hours. . Temperatures are 2 to 10 degrees 9 lower over nearly all the country west of the Rocky Mountains and over the western part of the Lake Region. It Is 2 to 14 de gress warmer In the Missouri Volley and 2 to 8 degrees warmer In New York State; elsewhere temperalnre changes have been slight and Irregular. Temperaturei 8 a. m., 72. Son: Rises, 4:58 a. m.; sets, 7:25 p. m. Mooni New moon, July 20, 0:15 p. m. River Stagei 8.8 feet above low water mark. Yesterday's Weather Highest temperature, 88. l.owest temperature. 72. Mean temperature, 80. lioraai temperature, 75. BY f ARRIKHS 6 CESTS A WEEK. SINGLE COPIES 2 CENTS. WET DAY BRINGS PUBLIC DEMAND FOR SETTLEMENT ; Gilday Says Both Sides Owe It to Greatest Sufferer to Arbi trate Dispute MAY POSTPONE PARADE Will Man All Cars, Musser Says, if Men Do Not Return as "Individuals" The heavy rain of to-day brought to a head the public demand for a settlement of the street car strike. Scores of the jitneys that have thronged the streets did not venture from their garages and hundreds of working people trailed wet and un comfortable in dripping lines along the streets to their places of employ ment. Discomfort and discontent were manifested everywhere. That there should be a ground whereon the men and the company could meet without loss of honor or prestige to either appeared to be the general con sensus of opinion. Patrick Gilday, head of the State ! Bureau of Mediation and Arbitration, j hit the nail on the head so far as j public opinion is concerned, when he said: "If no meeting between the strikers and the company is possible, then both sides owe it to the public, | which is the greatest sufferer, to sub- i mit their case to arbitration." Mr. Gilday made his statement when he learned that the Harrisburg Railways company will not meet the committee of the union to-morrow mor.iing at 10 o'clock, but insists on dea'ing with the men "as employes." The strikers again declared this; morning that they will insist on re- ' cognition of the union, and are willing and have been since the strike started j to submit to arbitration. To Man All Cars President Frank B. Musser, of the Railways company said this morning that the company has decided not to recognize the union, and should the men on strike not meet with hint to- i morrow morning as employes, ar rangements will be made instantly to | man all cars on all lines of the com pany and resume regular service to all points. Owing to the steady rain of to-day, the parade this evening may be post poned. Union men stated at noon | that should it rain to-night the par ade of the strikers, labor organizations and sympathizers probably will be j held on Thursday night. To-morrow night a big mass meeting open to the public will be held in the Technical High school auditorium. Operate 22 Cars Twenty-two cars were operated during the day on the city and su burban lines of the company, with service to all points except Oberlin and Hummelstown. For the flrst time since the strike became effective, cars were operated on the Lingles town line of the company. President Musser announced this morning that the new men now op erating cars will remain here until the situation is settled and that should there be no meeting to-morrow morn ing with the strikers "as employes of the company" regular service will be [Continued on Pane 5] Impressive Services Mark Riley Funeral By Associated Press Indianapolis, July 25. The fun eral of .Tames Whitcomb Riley was held at his home here to-day. The simple services were attended by rel atives and a few of his most intimate friends. The funeral was private, but the placing of the boay in the vault in Crown Hill cemetery here was public. I.arge crowds assembled near the vault to see the last ceremonies. The services at the house were con ducted by the Rev. Joseph A. Mil burn, of Sewanee, Tenn., former pas tor of the Second Presbyterian church here, and a close friend of the poet for many years. The Rev. Frederick E. Taylor, pastor of the First Bap tist church, assisted. The body was placed in the vault pending arrangements for its final disposition. The vault was decorated with flowers of brilliant colors which the poet liked best. Beautiful rugs were spread on the floor. A short prayer at the cemetery concluded the services. Municipal Leaguers Will Be Presented With Medals Johnstown, p a ., July 24. Bronze medallions containing the city's seal suspended from gold pins by silk rib bons made of the city's colors, purple and gold, will be distributed to every official delegate coming here for the annual convention of the Municipal League of Third Class Cities, next month. Johnstown is expecting a biz attedance, as shown by an order of 200 of these mementoes. Mayor Louis Franke will deliver the address of welcome at the opening ses sion, August 29. A tour of Johnstown, Windber and the Quemahoning dam will be made by automobile, with supper served at the Laurel Ridge clubhouse, and the return made to Johnstown via Westmont, the visitors being brought down the incline plane. The entertainment feature of the closing day of the convention will be an inspection tour through the works of the Cambria Steel Company. Illinois Troops Charged With Rioting and Shirking By Associated Press San Antonio, Tex., July 25. The rioting of certain members of the Eighth Illinois Infantry, composed of negroes, and the alleged shirking of whole squads of the First Illinois Bri gade on a practice march yesterday were the topics of much comment to dhy. Negro Guardsmen said that slurs cast on them by whites, both civilians and military, led to the attack by Herbert Henne. Some of them chased Henne in to a saloon, where he defended hlmseli until a provost guard of regulars arriv ed and fired on the militiamen, slightly wounding three of them. . HARRISBURG, PA., TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 25, 1916. FIRST GERMAN PRISONERS TAKEN IN THE GREAT ALLIED ADVANCE | v j GEJgMAhfit EJRJSPMEiRS J£i E£SSA«A-fc£D.. An official photograph showing the arrival of the first German prisoners captured in the great advance, at South ampton, England. Note the careworn expression on the faces of the men. t V How to Save Your Baby From Infantile Paralysis PRECAUTIONS to be taken by mothers to keep their baiies from the dread ravages of infantile paralysis are set out in a TOlletin issued to-day by the Pure Milk Society. The bulletin is as follows: "Of the mother of every child, her mother heart will demand: What shall I do to save my baby? "Watch, anxious mother, for every symptom which may prove an index to the disease; and seek medical care without an hour's delay. "Infantile paralysis is a germ disease. The best preventative is cleanliness. Our duty as citizens is to do all we possibly can, indi vidually and jointly, to stamp out the causes of any epidemic as swiftly and effectively as it can be accomplished. "The agency of the disease is known to lurk in the breeding places of insects, such as flies, mosquitoes, fleas, bedbugs, ticks, ants, body lice and similar vermin. It is known also that many small animals are the carriers of the poison in this, as in many other infections. Among them are active carriers—cats, dogs and probably rats. Household' tf"6t6 should at all times be kept scrupulously clean and, during the preva lence of any epidemic, should be withdrawn from the vicinity of infants. "Take precautions to avoid infection by maintaining conditions of extra hygiene for all infants and other susceptible persons, keeping their health at the highest pitch of excellence. "The utmost vigilance must be exercised in feeding, in clothing, in freedom from harmful excitements and exhaustion, in taking abun dant rest and in protection from such common carriers as flies, mos quitoes and small animals. During the entire epidemic young children should be kept apart from others wherever It is possible. "The Pure Milk Society is doing everything within its limited means to prevent any epidemic among the babies of our city. In this work it finds among other things a very great necessity for mosquito netting and fly paper; donations of either of these articles will be highly ac ceptable and much apreciated. Any donations or communications relative thereto may be sent to the Pure Milk Station, Front and Boas streets." i J U-BOAT CAPTAIN READY FOR TRIP Laughs at Warship Dangers; Declares "Sea Is Big -and Deep I By, Associated Press Baltimore, July 25. "Circum stances and conditions over which we i have no control are keeping us in Baltimore. There is no cause for alarm from any source. At the prop er time we will get away; there is a time for everything." Thus did Captain Paul Koenlg, t commander of the German merchant submarine Deutschland, explain hisj [Continued on Page 12] PAPER MAKERS ! AT WIT'S END Mills Selling as Fast as They, Manufacture, With Price No Object Boston, July 25. The paper trade in New England has passed beyond all trade conventionalities that have char acterized it in the past. For the first time in its history paper as a commo dity is on the samiS trade basis as cot ton, wool or leather on the buyers' market. There is nothing left to spec ulate in. Goods are taken from the mills as fast as they are produced, vir tually at the makers' own price, and It [Continued on Page 12] Third Brigade Wallows in Deep Mire at Gretna By Associated Press Mt. Gretna, Pa., July 26. Camp! George C. Marshall. Jr., awakened to | the slosh of rain this morning, and because the meadows and parade | grounds are saturated, open order j work by the men in the Third Brigade N. 3. P. was temporarily abandoned. After morning's mess the men hud dled in tents and wished for better weather. If the weather clears up and the ground hardens sufficiently the 13th regiment will take a 2 5-mlle hike to-night. , BRITISH RETAIN GROUND GAINED Germans Place Fresh Troops For New Attack; Fail to Re capture Trenches By Associated Press The British are holding all the I ground gained along the Somme front i in northern France against desperate j counter attacks by the Germans, ac j cording to to-day's official statement j'froip London. Fresh troops have been pushed into the fray on the German side and addi tional artillery massed for the effort, but General Sir Douglas Haig reports [Continued oi. Page 7] IRISH QUESTION AGAIN CRITICAL Home Rule Is Beaten; Make shift Government in Charge; Lloyd-George May Quit By Associated Press London, July 25. Apparently the status of Ireland has gone steadily from bad to worse ever since the Sinn Fein rising on Easter Sunday, for at present the country is in the hands cf a temporary and makeshift gov ernment composed of a commission of judges assisted by Major General Sir John Maxwell, commander of the ! British forces in Ireland, who still | Is maintaining military control over : most of the ordinary police functions. There is no viceroy in the place of Baron Wilmorne, former lord lieu- j tenant ot Ireland, and as Premier As- | [Continued on Page 12] Architects Meet Here to Discuss State Registration j A proposed State law requiring the , registration of all architects was dis | cussed at a meeting of the Southern i Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Institute of Architects at the office of M. I. Kast, 222 Market street, yester day. Tw;elve members of the chapter were present from York, Lancaster and this city. Folowing the business session a luncheon was served at the .Harrlsburg Club. IS YOUR FLOAT READY FOR NEW NAVY'S REGATTA? 10 Big Firms Already Arrange to Participate in Labor Day River Parade "GREATER HARRISBURG" i Girls Will Be Members, Too— Appoint Permanent Develop ment Committees Ten of the leading businesshouses of the city have already arranged to enter decorated floats in the first big river regatta to be held under the di rection of the newly organized "Great er Harri6burg Navy." Fifty-two other firms which are considering the matter will report definitely before the next meeting of the navy, Monday evening, July 31. Scores of department store owners and managers, civic and fraternal bodies and other commercial com [■Continued oil Page 2] DISCREPANCY OF $243 IN 11 YEARS City Audit Shows How Errors \ Were Made and How Differ encefc Were Made Up The only discrepancies in the books and accounts of the city treasury in nearly eleven years, total just $243.54, according to the official audit submit ted to City Council to-day by the Pitts burgh Audit Company. The period covers from April 3, 1905, to January 3, 1916, and repre sents the tenure of office of Captain O. M. Copelin, ex-city treasurer and now doing duty on the Mexican bor der. The report goes into minute detail of all city receipts and expenditures and the total sum which was handled through all those years ran into hun dreds of thousands of dollars. Inci | dentally the auditors call attention to the fact that the "differences" mostly due to clerical errors in' footing of columns of figures, etc. In these in stances Captain Copelin made good these amounts. Report Is Pretty Council listened attentively while the huge prettily bound, leather cov ered book of nearly sixty extra large pages were read. Then upon motion of City Commissioner H. F. Bowman, the father of the plan to audit the ac counts, the report was referred to Council to consider In committee as a whole. The meeting for this purpose will be held within a few days The auditors' bill of $2,950 will be consid ered at that time, too. Referring to the $243.54 shortage, [Continued on Page 5] John H. Brown, Inventor of Wire-wound Gun Dies Hoboken, N. J.. July 25. John H Brown, Inventor of the segmental wire wound gun. died yesterday at his home In West Hoboken, at the age of 79 years His wire-wound gun. a six-inch weapon, was extensivelv tested by the United States Government. It was con structed •of segments, encased in a tensely drawn sheathing of steel wire Its chief asset was its ability to with stand enormous pressure Recently Mr Brown was constultlng engineer of the Maxim Munitions Corporation for which he designed a new artillery rifle. PARALYSIS STII.L SPREADS New York, July 25.—80 th deaths and new cases increased In number to-day in the epidemic or infantile ! paralysis. During the 24-hour period ending at 10 a. m., thirty-eight chil dren were killed by the disease and ,150 stricken. i U. S. TO PAY BIG SUM TO DENMARK FOR 3 ISLANDS Treaty Negotiated Giving America Danish West Indies For $25,000,000 NEEDED AS NAVY BASE Deal Lnder Consideration Since Civil War; Opposition Overcome Sfecial to the Telegraph Copenhagen, July 25.—A treaty for | the purchase of the Danish West In dies by the United States has been I negotiated between the governments of Denmark and the United States, j and, in the near future, is to be sub- i mitted to the Senate and House of the United States and to the two houses of j the Danish I'ailiament for approval, ! according to information given to-dav in Copenhagen by the highest official authority. If the treaty is ratified as It stands < n "project" form to-day, the United will r> a >' for the islands i $-0,000,000, and in addition will re | linquish to Denn-.ark the rights of the United States in Greenland. Green | land is a Danish possession, and the ! rights which the United States will j abandon are merely rights of discov- I ery. the scope of which is ill-defined. The United States will obtain from Denmark full possession of the islands | of St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix, or Santa Cruz, as it is better known.. These islands lie about 50 miles off [Continued on Page 3] NAMES OMITTED YESTERDAY Through an oversight the names of jC. J. Crego and John Kelley, shoe merchants, and the Harrisburg Hard ; ware Company were omitted from the : advertisement yesterday of stores j which have joined in the movement I to close Saturdays at 1 o'clock during the month of August These three merchants were signers to the original agreement and their names should have appeared in the initial advertise ment on the subject yesterday. Since publication of the opening an nouncement yesterday the following | stores have signified their intention to join in the Saturday early closing movement: P. H. Caplan Company, Jewelers: Dauphin Electric Supplies Company; Rubin & Rubin, Opticians; I Vanderloo, Tailor and Importer. ■ jryyin■—»yy M n >ryy w wfywp TWO CHARGED WITH MURDER I Harrisburg. .Murder is charged against both John •« Christley and Alice Gutshall in informations sworn out to- f day hy County Detective Walters at the police station and £ 1 before Alcferman Hilton respectively. Christley shot his I wife in a fit of jealousy: the woman drowned her small i I child in a bathtub. Both Christley and the Gutshall woman I <it l are in the Harrisburg Hospital and"£lo dates for their hear- < , ings will be fixed until their conditions are improved. ( ( IRON WORKERS WALK OUT 1 Duncannon. About sixty employes of the Duncannon ] Iroii Works went on a strike yesterday after a special Sj officer employed by the company had made several arrests I in an effort to break up loafing about the plant, according to 9 ' General Manager Brown. The men demanded the officer's J removal. The differences were adjusted to-day and the men 1 i are again back at worli, according to Mr. Brown. FINE "SCAB" CRIERS % Harrisburg. Alderman James Deshong at the police j station, this afternoon, fined Clayton Yeagley, and Peter 4 ! Montgomery, each $lO and costs on a charge of calling 1 4 I strike breakers "scabs." 1 ! WILSON NOW FAVORS BIG NAVY | Washington. Official word went to the Capitol day that President Wilson stands behind the constructior. f program of the naval bill as it passed the Senate, four dreadnaughts and four battle cruisers to be built im ! mediately. it , WILSON WILL STAY IN WASHINGTON j 1 Washington, July 25.—President Wilson has definite-' ly decided to remain in Washington no matter how late j 1 Congress is in session and will postpone notification of his® renomination until after adjournment. ' ~ MARRIAGt LICENSES> ( Henry H. Stauffer and Minerva May KaulTman, Juniata coonty. ! Burrell Lotharian Henry Dank nn<l Sadie May Lillian Walker, city. VI 11 W intun'inr i' *• CITY EDITION 12 PAGES BISHOP KILLED WHEN STEEL ROD HITS LIVE WIRE Rev. Dr. William Terry Eve land Meets Death While on Fishing Excursion BORN AT HARRISBURG Graduated at Dickinson Col lege and Served as President of Dickinson Seminary Bishop William Terry Eveland, mis sionary bishop of the Methodist Epis copal Church to the Philippine Islands, who had been spending his vacation with hip wife and other relatives at Mount Holly Springs, Cumberland county, was killed last night while on a fishing trip when his steel fishing rod came in contact with a high-tension wire of the Cumberland Street Rail ; way Company power house blown to ! the ground during a storm. Bishop Eveland left the house yes ; terday afternoon with his fishing rod ! and when he did not return at 8 I o'clock last night searching parties | began to scour the countryside to iind him. Part of Mountain run, where he ! had been fishing, was dragged thi.-i morning, but the body was discovered | at 1,16 o'clock this afternoon near tho power house. The high-tension wi;j which caused the bishop's death la.' ; almost beside his body, long cold !n death. It is believed his fishing I i came in contact with the wire as ha j walked homo through the dusk. Bishop Eveland, aged 52, was born , at Harrisburg in 1864 and graduated at Dickinson College in 1892. He was a trustee of Tome Institute, Port De | posit, Md., and was president of Dick inson Seminary, Williamsport, Pa. He has served as pastor at York, Cham bersburg and Bloomsburg. Bishop Eveland is a brother-in-law of J. Austin Brandt, of Harrisburg. SPAXXELIi HEARING TOMORROW By Associated Press AlpiMp. Tex., July 25.—Reports that ' Harry™ Spannell, the hotel manager i who recently shot and killed his wifa and Lieutenant Colonel M. C. Butler, of the Sixth United States cavalry, i while the three were motoring here. ! would probably be brought, back for a preliminary examination Wednesday I were received here last night.
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