NIGHT EXTRA— Germany Demands Baltic Provinces From Russia*" NkSßt ! TRA At HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH M, ®f)e otar-2n&epcnscnt , ■ ' LXXXYII No. 21 16 PAGES TWO ARE DEAD; MANY INJURED IN SLEIGHING PARTY ACCIDENT BOYS AND GIRLS TOSSED INTO AIR BY TROLLEY CAR Hummelstown High School Youths and Maidens Are Terribly Mangled When Ruth erford Car, Going at High Rate of Speed, Crashes Into Party on Way Home From an Evening's Outing; Bodies and Injured Youths Are Cared For in Homes of Families Awakened by Screams of the Injured Two of a sleighing party w ere killed and nineteen injured early this morning when a trolley ear crashed ioto a sleigh which was taking tiie boys and girls to their homes in Hummelstown. after an evening's outing. Six of the injured are in a serious condition in the Harris burg Hospital where the dead and hurt were taken in three ambulance trips. The party was held up until 4 o'clock this morning by the condi tion of the roads and the driver had taken to the ear tracks when a Rutherford car said to be Loin,; at high speed crashed into the sleigh. Hard))* a stick of the sleish was left unsplintered. Bits of it were scattered along a distance cf 150 feet. The occupants were tossed high into the air and landed in snowdrifts. The sleigh was drawn by four mules, which escaped unhurt. Thirteen of the accident victims are In the hospital. The two dead Mere removed early this morning to the undertaking establishment of C. J!. Mauk and later to their homes. The other eight members of the party, who received minor injuries, v.eie treated at Vhe Harrisburg dis pensary this morning. The dead arc: Mice Suggett, 10, who made her home with Miss Elizabeth Fox. Alberta Grove, S3, daughter of Mrs. Mary Grove. Poplar avenue. The .seriously injured are: CaroU libersole, lis, a clerk at Rutherford, who lives in Hanover street. His left leg was fractured. Paul Martin. 19, son of the driver, who lives in Hummelstown; internal injuries. Rebecca Sutcliffc. -1 Main street, right arm fractured. Frank Muth, Hi, sou of 1". L. - Muth, serious head injuries. Ileatri< e Zeitcrs. 2.'>, 221 Kailroad street, a.clerk in the Farmers' bank: i hest injuries. Lc-ta Hit/-, 15. Hailroad street, head injuries and a compound frac ture of her upper right arm. .1. Thouias SiutelilTe. 1", 207 Fast Main street, fractured pelvis. Margaret t'assei, 15, East Main street, unconscious. The extent of her injuries has not been ascer tained. The less seriously injured at the hospital arc: Fsthcr Miller, I I. 107 East Main street, a school girl. She is suffering from the shock. Edith Ebcrsolc. 17. Hanover street, suffering from shock. Vivian Mnmma, 125 I Jerry street, 15, whose injuries were slight. Archie Shinier, of BOUKPSIOW u, Is also in the hospital suffering se rious injuries. Besides minor bruises he sustained a fra< cured pelvis. The following uiemTters of the Weighing party figured in the acci dent without receiving injuries se rious enough to require detention at the hospital. They received atten tion at the dispensary tills morning. Blackened eyes, bruises and cuts were sustained by nearly every one of them: Herman llorst, of Homer-tow n. The remainder are from Hummels town. They are: William Grill, 15: Kuth Swojie, II; Leta Alweine, 20; Russell Zciters, 16: Russell Miller, WEATHER FORECAST For llnrrlnliurjK nnil tlciiitty: LiKlit now or rain and warmer to-night, with lowfMt temperu tur* about 22 Friday partly rloudy with moderate temperature. For Kißtern Penimyh anln: Snow In north, rviow or rnln In Mouth portion to-nisht: warmer: Fri day partly cloudy with moder *rnte temperature: moderate to freah *outh to wet wlnd. WM. M. DONALDSON Says Thrift Stamps are a Real Bargain at * $4.12 For $5.00 He Ought to Know. MISS ALBERTA GROVE I One of the two Hummelstown girls who met death near the end of a sleighing party gotten up by the pupils of the borough high school. t: Beatrice Xlssley, II: Carrol Kbersolc. and Esther Alweine. Happened in Twinkling Occupants of the ill-fated sleign I who could remember details of the' .accident this morning said that it' | took place so quickly that the mem : bers of the party hardly knew what was happening until it wajs over. Both the sleigh and the street ;' car were on the Rutherford track. , bound for Rutherford at the time of the accident The members of the ! sleigh said they had reached a point!! on the road near the Park drive , when the accident occurred. Their first knowledge of the ap-' ptoaching street car was when it j 1 topped a slight rise behind them.; and threw the glare of its head-1, flight upon their sleigh. According; i to the victims of the accident, the j street car was approaching at a high ] speed, and did not give any warning i of its approach. Tossed Into Drifts j The driver, a man named Martin. 1 had just time to turn his double! . team of four miiles to one side be-; fore the impact. Owing to the impassable inow ; banks thrown up on either side of the tracks, the •victims said this} | morning, the mules could not niakei way into the side of the street, or 'pull the sleigh off the track. The I mules had gotten off the track, but I the sleigh wa.< still full in the path j i of the oncoming car. when it was ! struck with a terrific crash. The victims were tossed, scream-j 5 ing into the drifts, and onto the icy 'pavements, and the heavy sleigh was ; i ground into a thousand pieces. The f ! only whole piece of the sleigh this 1 morning was the shaft, which was | standing upright in the snow, as ai | marker of the location of the grim tragedy. Screams Arouse Neighbors • The terrified screams of the party,! at the sight of the oncoming ear, i I and after they were hurled into the! air. attracted the attention of neigh-1 bors. who bore the unfortunate vic tims into their homes. The tragedy took place within one hundred feet of the double houses. ' 3217 and 3219 Derry street, occu- ' pied by the families of Byers and Bates. Wakened from sound sleep | by the crash and the immediate ! cries the two families threw open j the doors and in a short time the j first floors resembled a combination j morgue and hospital. Into the Bates i home were first brought by the rail- j j roaders and some men who were on ! the way to their daily work, two ! girls, unconscious, and one of them j almost unrecognizable. Fared For in Homes One died just before the carriers | reached the house and the other j lingered but a few moments. Mean time they were bringing all other members of the unfortunate party | into the Byers home where some were put on sofas and cots, others lay on the floor. The sufferings were so acute and their cries so heart- j rending, said Miss Bates to-day, that ' she could not stay in the house and I rushed outside to wait for the am bulances, holding her ears. "Every ; one was covered with blood." related Miss Bates, barely able to command her voice. "Some had broken legs, some seemed to be injured terribly in the spine. When the ambulance came the doctor said that the poor 1 girl who was dead when they brought her in had suffered a crush [Contlnucd on Page 4.] HARRISBURG, FA., THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 1918. PRESIDENT DOES NOT KNOW TRUTH, REPLIES SENATOR i Chamberlain Stands Firmly by Charge of Government Inefficiency • Washington, Jan. 24.—Stand-! ing firmly by his charge that America's military establishment) is enmeshed in efficiency, Sen-j ator Chamberlain, of Oregon,; chairman of the Military Com-, mitt.ee, replied in the Senate to-! day to President Wilson's de-i nunciation of his recent New York speech, by repeating the state ment which drew the President's j [Continued on Page 14.] Here's Real Farm Eggs and Country Butter For Sale at Great Auction At S o'clock to-night at the Em crson-Brantingham building. Market, street, where the state farm products' show has been on all week. Governor Brumbaugh will raise a plate of prize apples and ask what he is offer ed for it. And after that he will auc tion oft" other valuable and prize-win ning foodstuffs—for the benefit of the Harrisburg Red Cross. This list of edibles will include: Real, hope-to-die, fresh eggs. Honest, really, truly, eountrv but- I ter. Regular whoppers of potatoes. * Prize-winning apples. There are quantities of these fresh foodstuffs for sale and inasmuch as it is infrequently that Harrisburg j householders get a chance to buy I j fresh country eggs and countr.vmade butter, indications are that the i crowd at the Red Cross auction will j be a recordbreaker. Governor Brumbaugh will start the auctioneering. He will be follow \ed by Secretary William H. Ball. Red Cross workers from this city will vie with the Governor as auc : tio'neers. i "I think it is a splendid scheme," said Mrs. Lyman D. Gilbert this aft ernoon. "It will not only enable Har : risburg people to purchase real country produce, but it will mean something for the local Red Cross , Chapter." "Market day" is Saturday, but "market night" is to-night! An , nouncement of the auction on "the Hill" district to-day caused the! housewives of that section to get I their baskets ready. Red Cross 1 workers will be out in force. Fresh eggs! i Real butter! j Prize apples! "What do I hear for this dozen I I eggs?" Germans Evacuate Mountain Territory in Northern Italy Italian Army Headquarters in i Northern Italy. Wednesday. Jan. 23. ! —The enemy has evacuated territory ! on the northern mountain front be | hind Monte Tomba, extending from | the Plave river westward. Their de ' fense lines have now been moved i back to Monte Spinoncta. I Italian patrols making reconnais i sances in the past few days found that the enemy patrols and sentinels had been withdrawn, and later dis covered that the enemy had aban doned the entire region. The retirement of the enemy is j important as showing that he has ; given up his effort to force a passage I to the Venetian plans byway of | Mqnte Tomba and the west bank of I the Piave, at least for the present, jHe is now constructing defensive j works in the rear. H)I8 AFTO TAGS TO-MOKROW The State Highway Department to-dpy Issued notice that there would | bo no extension of time for use of 1317 automobile licenses beyond to morrow, January 25. After that date 1318 tags must be displayed on all motor vehicles. ALL THAT IS TEFT OF TH sU m* * --cr—-'s^ flgfcs> 1: |gPyi ■ ' -3fe' m Only splinters and the tongue of the sleigh are left following: th e crash early th'.s morning that re sulted in the death of two Hummelstown girls and the injury of nineteen others, thirteen of whom are being treated in the Harrisburg Ho spital. RUSSIA MUST GIVE UP ITS PROVINCES IS GERMAN DEMAND Germany, Controlled by Military Party, Has Thrown Down the Gauntlet and Defines Frontier Lines Beyond Which Russia Must Not Claim Further Influence; Fail ure to Accept Terms Means Occupation of Reval Petrograd, Wednesday, Jan. 23. —The Russian delegates to the Brest-Litovsk peace conference have decided unanimously to reject the terms offered by the Germans. Petrograd, Wednesday, .Tan, 23. i KuM>ia must give up Courlund and all the Baltic provinces or the Ger mans will resume military operations mid occupy Itciui within a week, the German delegation at the Brest l.itovsk negotiations informed (he Russian representatives at tlio last session of the conferees. An adjourn ment was taken until January 20, to permit the Russians to consider the German terms. Reports of the session indicate that the Germans took a definite stand and most frankly outlined demands upon which they are insistent. The secretary of the Ukrainian.delegation gave out an account of the meeting. It says the Russians put a question to the delegates of the Central Pow ers as to what were their final peace terms. General Hoffman, one of the German delegates replied by opening a map and pointing out the follow ing line, which they Insisted should constitute the future frontier of Russia: Prom the shores of the Gulf of Findland to the east of the Moon Sound islands to Vaik, to the west of Minsk to Brest-Litovsk. Eliminate Baltic Possession This completely eliminates Cour land and all the Baltic provinces. The Russians asked the terms of the Central Powers in regard to the territory south of Brest-Litov'sk. General Hoffman replied that was a question which they would discuss only with Ukraine. M. Kameneff, a member of the Russian delegation I asked: "Supposing we <lo not agree to such cpnditions. What are you ifoing to do?" Will Occupy Revat General Hoffman's answer Is re ported to have been: "Within u week, then, we would occupy ltcvul." The Russians then asked for a re cess, which was granted Vel.uctantly. The Germans declared it was the last postponement to which they would consent. The request was made by Leon Trotzky, head of the Rus sian delegation who said he desired an opportunity to lay the German peace terms before the Council of Workmen's and Soldiers' delegates. The negotiations between the Ukrainians and the Central Powers are proceeding amicably. The Aus trians offered to cede Choimtchina to the Ukrainian republic, but only on condition that the Ukrainians send grain and other foodstuffs to the Central Powers immediately on the conclusion of peace. YVeat Front Drive Near On the western front in France and Belgium, and in Italian front, where the contending armies of the chief bellitteifcnta in th_ world war have displayed little activity for some time, ofl'c.p' reports announce a resump tion of hostilities of unusual activ ity for winter months. While the operations mentioned In the atute iiienta from the varioua nrntjr hrad l Continued on Page 12.] BIG AUTO SHOW OPENS SATURDAY; GREATEST EVER; Everything Thai Is New in Utility Cars to Be on Exhbilion Harrisburg is going to have an auto show, all reports to the con trary notwithstanding. It promises to be some exhibition. Nothing Kite it ever seen in Harrisburg. This fact will be proved,- once the big doors at the Emcrson-Brantingliam Company building at Tenth and Market streets, are open to the public. The bell for the start of the show will ring Saturday night at 8 [Continued on Page 4.] Gov't Ownership Not Administration Policy, Stipulates Railroad Bill By Associated I'ress Washington, Jan. 24. The ad ministration railroad bill has been modified to stipulate expressly that Federal operation is undertaken as a war emergency measure and shall not prejudice the future policy of the government toward ownership of the roads. No specific time, how ever, is fixed for turning the roads back to private owners. The modification says the act "is expressly declared to be emergency legislation enacted to meet condi tions growing out of war, and noth ing herein is to be construed as ex pressing or prejudicing the future policy of the Federal government concerning the ownership, control or regulation of carriers or the method or basis of the capitalization thereof. . Complete details of th# water situation in Harrisburg will be found on Page 4 of this edition i of the Telegraph. Single Cow, 2 Cents NIGHT EXTRA i•LATE NEWS I 4* *f 4* i* - $ PRACTICAL COAL MAN APPOINTED !• V." 1 Morrow, :retary &*' ' •4 the National Coal )S|sociation, formerly of Pittsburgh F I r , 4* fUlu f * admin ibution ot £ *; fboth anthracite and bituminous. ,* * *! SITUATION CONSIDERED CRITICAL • <$ 4* London —Thi . , 911 the western f ron t is now (" * it * * 4 cnt >cal m tht oninio: , • I ► X the foremost English military critics who recently rc- \ *|* signed from the Time me milita •* * J, for the Morning Post. '! , % H J THREE MORE CASES OF SMALLPOX j [ Harrisburg—Three more cases of smallpox were dis- ,* \ * * f coveted to-day by cily health authorities. The victims \ 4* ' ' it are colored, and reside in North Sc.' f ,! f* streets. JL -X I T T WATER EXPERT TO COME HERE W •f* Harrisburg—John Walter Ledoux, chief engineer of !w '*sLx §• v 'X idelphia. has been engaged to come to the city "and make JJj a complete investigation of the city water works. He will X come to Harrisburg to-morrow morning. T j" MARKET CLOSES'FIRM * f 2 X f iay i" the rally of the final hour. The closing was firm. T Liberty 3 1-2's at '■ • :i! fir l 4's at 96.70 made new mini- X 4 mums, the Second 4 T cialtics re< y noteworthy changes in to- | | day's dull market, in • r|| trend. Sales approximated 325,000 shares. AS ? DRAPER AGAINST FACTIONALISM 4* 'm. X Harrisburg—Factionalism in thq Republican party ; T * was decried and the need for a broad-minded man for .*§* 4 Governor pointed o tby Dr. William Draper Lews, who ran m* G . 4 1914, during a brief visit litre on business at. the capita *| to-day. "I have no jinten t in factional Republican poli *2* tics at a time like this when the country is at war and * § , * <§* ra need of a broad-minded man for state executive,' said J, X '*T T he.. "When the struggle degenerates into a factional con- j* • the fact merely indicates the inability of faction... 4* e r \ j|, leaders to measure up tj existing conditions. Pcnnsy X vania is* a Republican state and the voters of the R J 4* publican party arc entitled to an opportunity to vote lot 2 y a man who has a 'definite constructive policy and the ' 4* confidence of the g r cat body of Republican voters iiu l i|, matter whether those voters were at one time identified 'progressive party or not." Dr. Louis declineJ I $ „ sto c?press any opinion as to individuals mentioned for. t nominations. ! jf > |T EMBARGO GENERALLY OBSERVED 4* Washington—The movement of fuel, food and muni- L 1 T tions went forward to-day in the face of adverse weather * * 'lt * I .;? conditions. The embargo placed on several lines cast of ® 4* Pittsburgh, will likely continue for several days. 40 KILLED IN MOSCOW RIOTS s ' 1 # > I Petrograd—Foi ty persons were • killed and 200 1 * j X wounded in riots at Moscow on Tuesday during a dem > 4* onstration .i- anni ersaty celebration of "Bloody Suri- >* * 4 J da y " * ► X ' LONDON REPORTS NOTHING SPECIAL \* " 1T r * I 4* London—"There is nothing'of special interest to rc- , ► X port," sayis to-day's official comihunication. * * i 4 BOIL ALL WATER HALF HOUR > t |* •<% 1 Harrisburg —Dr. Raunick, cityhealth officer, dictated ¥ , , this bulletW to the people of Harrisburg from his sickbed 1 * ■ T 1* * 3 2 afternoon: ure to boil all water from what- * ' 4* tv* l Eoutce a full half-hour. This includes water from -A v , ■ X th-. city niaias and snow. Boil it all a half-hour and t X avoid sickness." * * IT. * * a £ I..iixMAtib LICENSES * 9 : T Snmuel H. Urnndt. Mlddletntvn. anil Mary Mcj'rrs, Roynlton) > l ull"' n. Miller und Helen K. Sunyer, llnrrlaburKl Frnneln . liel- J. I , nett and Kate M. Mutter, MlllerftliurKi (.'hnrleai Bnrtela, Jr., ISnhuut, L T* nnd Edna M. Sbollj, Hnrrlabuia. <a^<
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