All-Russian Congress of Soviets, Meeting at Moscow, iffc HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH M, N ' * ©K £&ar~lndeptn&ent / LXX N\' 11 No. 63 22 PAGES TWO KILLED; 28 INJURED IN WRECK OF PENNSY EXPRESS IN THE ELIZABETHTOWN CUT TWENTY TON ROCK CRASHES THROUGH PASSENGER COACH Rescuing Party Sent From City to Gorge Forced to Cut Through Steel Sides of Sleeper to Get Out Injured; Hospital Here Is Crowded With Men and Women Brought to City Scantily Clothed Two women were killed, one passenger conductor seriously and twenty-eight passengers more or less injured at 1.02 o'clock this morning as the result of a landslide in Elizabethtown cut on the Pennsylvania Rail road, nineteen miles east of this city. Three hundred tons of rock and dirt rolled down the embankment, hitting train Xo. 19 westbound, which was passing at the time. In the big slide was a boulder measuring 25 feet in length, 18 feet thick and 12 feet wide, and weighing 20 tons. This big rock landed against one of the sleeping cars, lifting it into the air. The entire train was derailed. Three sleeping cars were badly damaged. The dead are: Miss Rcna Palmer, aged 24 years, daughter of Charles Palmer, of Morgantown, West Ya., a passenger on the train who was killed. The body was taken to Colum bus, Ohio, this afternoon, by Walter A. Jones, a relative, who was a passenger on the train. Miss Vera Ravenscroft, Pittsburgh, buyer tor the Mc- Crcery store at Pittsburgh. Body placed in charge of Funeral Directors Hoover and Son, this city. Jhe slide hit the traiii, striking the corner of the Pullman sleeper, Limedale, lifting it up and throwing this and the next sleeper, Collington, across the other tracks against the west side of the cut, crushing the first sleeper. A third sleeping car, Irvinetown was partially turned over and badly damaged- Of the twenty-eight injured, four were sent'to Lancaster, and twenty-four were brought to th*e Harrisburg Hospital. Of the latter, eight were later sent to their respective destinations. One of the injured is E. E. Edwards. 1624 Derrv street, con ductor in charge of the train that was wrecked. He" has two legs broken, and is injured internally. His condition is said to be critical. Twenty-four victims of the accident were cared for at the Harrisburg Hospital, of whom sixteen were so badlv injured they had to remain at the hospital for treatment. Eight "of the victims received treatment for their injuries, and were afterwards removed from the hospital to their homes or other places of refuge. The most seriously injured at the hospital are: T. J. Shane, 501 North One Hundred and Tenth street, New York city, possible frac tuie of shoulder, joint and chest. H. H. Steinmetz, Dover, N. J., fracture of outer left clavicle, abrasion of left shoulder and arm- Elsworth E. Edwards, the train conductor, 1624 Derrv street, 1 larrisburg, bad scalp' wound, dislocated left shoulder, pos sible fracture of left ankle, contusion of knee; may die. A. A. Richardson, Pullman por ter. 332 E. One Hundred and Forty-eighth street, New York city, laceration of scalp and contusion of back. Mrs. Mary Pijulski, Herminic. Pa., contusion of chest and back. Others Injured Other patients remaining at the hospital for treatment are: Charles DeForest. 10.". East Twenty second street. New York City, lac eration of forehead, contusion of thumb and left leg. THE WEATHER For HnrrlKbiirg mid vicinityi Fair nnd voider to-night, with low <"• temperature utiout 30 de- Kreeai Saturday fulr, with mod erate temperature. For Kaatern I'rnna.vlvanla: Fair nnd colder to-nlutit: Snlurduv fnlrt norlhwrat to north aalea. Temperature: H u. m., 40. Sun: It Urn. <1:03 a. m.; net*. 3:53 P. m. Moon: Flrat qunrtcr. Marrb 19. Hi.lo n. m. River Sluice: ll.fl feet :ilove low it nter murk. Yeaterdny'a Weather IllKheat temperature, 3*. I,on eat temperature, an. Mean temperature. 37. .Normal temperature, 37. Israel Le bend leer, 71 North Pearl J street, Youngstown, Ohio, slight injuries to both hands. ' Archibald MacSpooran, 2114 Park | avenue, Montreal, Can., laceration ! of forehead. j Miss Alice Manning, 171 West One j Hundred and Second street. New \ork, at first examination appar ! ently uninjured, j Albert Schcflling. Pullman conduc tor, 13S Highland avenue, Jersey I fit)', N*. J., suffering considerably i from shock but otiierwise appar | ently uninjured. ! Charles Palmer, 478 High street, Morgantown, W. Va„ contusions and abrasions of back and hands. Walter Croft. 221 Camp avenue, | Braddoek, Pa., slight injurv to back. William Kilpatrlek. 106 Morningside i Drive, Xew York City, apparently not injured. Isadore Kisciibergcr, 7 West Thir tieth street. New York City; lacr-1 ation of scalp and hand, i Abe Kaplon, 4 .">0 Riverside Drive, j New York City, general contu ' sions. | J. R. Kemp, Pullman porter. C 7 West One Hundred and Thirty-eighth I street, New York City, laceration j of scalp and hand. Slightly Injured The eight people who receive 1 treatment for their injuries at the hospital dispensary arc: Louis Ilersehberger, Ford City, Pa., contusion of chest, right arm and leg. | ilucli Soles, 240 Greensburg Pike, i Turtle Creek. Pa., contusion of | back. j Isadore Wolf. 70.1 Bowery street, Akron, Ohio, apparently no in | juries. Rcbccea Wolf, ." years old. appar [ ently uninjured. | Leon Cohen, 2113 Locust street, St. Louis. Mo., laceration of left eve. | E. H. Rowley, 111 Smithfleld street. Pittsburgh, slight laceration of 1 hand. F. 11. Forker. 620 West First street j Oil City, Pa., slight laceration of I hand and spraiped foot, ill. M. Wilson, 1132 Heberton street, Pittsburgh, slightly bruised. I A relief train with physicians and i surgeons left the city for the scene of the accident as soon as the ?eri ousness of the wreck was learned. Passengers who were in the 'wo rear Pullman cars who received cuts and bruiHes were sent to Lancaster, [Continued on Page 10.] HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 15, 1918 Germany's Dream of New Railways to Reach India f"" L ' N [ \osco |QERMANV r . u ( S * B C R. I A> V""AU STRIAK V* """ V VIfUNOAKV \ J ___/•"-' tsr \ \ ✓ A, j \ . S T"A N 1 .. L I j£? AJ . ®. •( ? f ;"| \ r u |Ki a Vo VQ \ ****** k CHINA *+*ts*SKAX fj A. ) JS&SL, A With the fall of Russia, the Germans have begun to dream new dreams about reaching India and the Orient. After the British capture of Bagdad their Berlin to Bagdad railway, through Constantinople, was useless. When Rumania was forced to succumb, Germans with the aid of Turkey virtually controlled the Black Sea. They now propose a route across that sea from Constanzu in Rumania on the west shore of Batum on the cast shore. From there a Russian railway runs to Baku on the west coast of the Caspian Sea, and there is a ferry line across the sea connecting with the railway at Krashnovodsk. It runs on through Turkestan to Merv and turns south to Kushk, eighty miles north of Herat in Afghanistan. But the Germans propose a better route into India, by building south from Baku to Teheran. Isfahan and Shiraz Bushire on the Persian Gulf and on the Indian border through Baluchistan to Karachi. The Ber lin to Bagdad Railway is here shown running from Constantinople south through Smyrna and Aleppo to a point north of Bagdad. In that neighborhood and south to the Persian Gulf it is in possession of the British. MORE RADICAL STEPS NEEDED TO SAVE WHEAT Cooke Returns From Confer ence With Hoover With Warning Philadelphia, March 15. —"Wheat is still the overwhelming problem which daily grows more difficult," wat: the announcement made yester day by Jay Cooke, local food ad ministrator, after his return from the meeting of State and Federal food administrators with Herbert Hoover in Washington. In a formal statement he said: j "The supply is seriously short of requirements. It is becoming per ; lectly clear that more radical meas • ores than those now in effect must soon be adooted further to conserve ! the scanty supply. Such measures ] were discussed by the state adminis trators in Washington. No conclu- I sions or decisions had beeu reached j when 1 left. • I "The meat supply of the nation is ; plentiful just now. but it is a tem j porary condition. I do not look for iany radical fall in price. A little later jon there will be another scarcity, j The present condition results fr n I bad transportation conditions in the [Continued on Page 18.] "Can'f Eat More Eggs and Poultry Unless We Raise Them/' Mitchell "The government tells us to eat more poultry and eggs." said E. B. Mitchell, federal poultry administra tor for Dauphin county, to-day. "but with 2,000,000 fewer hens In Penn sylvania now than there were a year ago we can't eat more chickens and eggs unless we produce them. And that is going to be up to everybody who wants to have his own private supply next fall and winter. We pro pose to show how it can be done economically antl without great labor at a public meeting to be held this evening in. the Senate caucus room at the Capitol, to which all interest ed are invited." The meeting will be addressed by Mr. Mitchell, himself a recognized poultry expert: D. M. Green, of the United States Department of Agri culture, Washington, and S. W. Dc lancy. War Poultry Commissioner for Pennsylvania. Pamphlets and bulletins will be given to those de siring them and these will be espe cially useful to beginners. Don't Wait for BOY SCOUTS to tag you for Thrift Stamps Start saving to-night ! COND UC TOR A HERO, SAYS WOMAN WHO AIDED RESCUE WORK Passengers Brave in Face of Death as Cars Fill Willi Steam; Conductor Thought Only of Flagging Train to Save Others, Who Might Be Killed A vivid account of the wreck by one of the Harrisburg survivors was given to-day by Mrs. S. M. Harris 686 Schuylkill street who boarded the train at Philadelphia after attending a theater. Mrs. Harris is no novice in eatastrophies of this sort having been in three automobile tragedies. "I was sitting next to the window about the middle of the car a day coach, just next to the first sleeper w|ien tii ecrash came," she related. "I was listening to two soldiers and a traveling salesman inquiring about MUST COMBAT GERMAN ACTION, SAYS BALFOUR Penetration in Russia Must Be, Combattcd, Declares the Foreign Secretary London, Thursday, March 14. — j Debate oil the -question of Japanese intervention in Siberia In the House of Commons to-day brought from Foreign Secretary Balfour the dec laration that German penetration In Russia must be combatted. The al lies' point of view was that they should help Russia in protecting, herself against Germany. Although 1 he did not think that Germany would] send an army to Vladivostok, he said j he had absolute faKli in Japan's loy-1 alty in carrying out any decision reached by the allies. Discussing the situation in Russia, Mr. Balfour said: Falls Into Chaos "If Russia had not been at war il would have taken many years to [Continued on Pago 13.] CAPTAIN OF BOMBING GOT HA HAD ORDER TO SLA UGHTER INNOCENTS Officer Schoebler, of Munich, Aboard the Bombing (iotlia Brought Down i{i France, Ilad Special Instructions * Paris, Wednesday, March 13. — Captain Schoebler, of Munich, who was aboard the bombing Gotha brought down at Kssones, in the De partment of Selne-et-Oiae, on Mon day night, met a dramatic end. ills two companions were burned to death, but the captain managed to extricate himself from the blazing machine and to run away from it. A French soldier saw him and rolled him on the. ground to extinguish his burning clothing. General D 7, commanding the lines of communication was passing in an automobile and took the cap | gettjng berths in the sleeper when 1 uh-h-h-h, immense volumes of steam 1 began t<> escape and the train crashed I with a sound of freight cars jamming ; together at a sudden stop. There was very little panic in this wreck. 1 never saw people so cool. One big man stood up and kept saying 'All I keep your seats. Calm down. We are in no danger.' Kvery one in our j car obeyed him though the car was [Continued on Pago 18.] COAL OPERATOR FOUND GUILTY OF TRIPLE MURDER First Degree Murder Verdict For George Tompkins at Second Trial • By Associated Press Kbensburg, Pa.. March 15.—George Tompkins.', Philadelphia coal operator, was found guilty of murder in the first degree in connection with the shooting to death last July of Mrs. Caroline Humphries, by a Jury ir. criminal court here last night. The Jury had deliberated five hours. Tompkins was found guilty of sec ond degree murder last December on an Indictment charging him with the killing of Edmund I. Humphries. The second trial was asked by the District Attorney. Tompkins was indicted on three charges, the killing of Mr. and Mrs. Humphries and their 15-year-old son. Kdmund, Jr. The three members of he Humphries family were shot to [Continued on Pago 18*.] tain to a hospital, where his coftdi tion was found to be hopeless. Al though suffering severely from burns on all parts of his body. Captain Schoebler showed extraordinary self command in answering questions. "Yon had a mission to perform Had you accomplished It or were you about to do so?" asked the general. "I already had accomplished It, general." "You went to Paris?" "Yes, general." "But, wretch! You have .killed women and children," cried the gen eral. "I h£d my orders," was the ceply. METHODISTS TO GET TOGETHER IN WAR ON LIQUOR "Must Take Hand in Personal Bcgistration," Philadelphia Conference Holds Philadelphia, March 15. —A call to Methodists to "get together" and vanquish liquor by active and de termined participation ,in politics, was sounded at the Philadelphia Methodist Episcopal conference here.' The summons was voiced by the Itev. Dr. John G. Wilson, superin tendent of the Central district, who said"; "If we are to have prohibition in this state we must Ret busy and take a hand in personal registration and primary elections. It is a pas tor's duty to see that every voting member of his congregation exer cises his right of franchise." The Rev. Dr. T. T. Mutchler, sec retary of the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Sabbath Association, in his annual address, asserted that mHny improper things are done on Sunday under the guise of patriot ism. According to Dr. Mutehier. many men at the Hog Island ship building plant worked from Monday until Friday night, then went olf Saturday and worked again on Sun day to get double pay. "We appealed to President Wilson against this sit uation and he soon put a stop to that sort cf thing," said Dr. Mutchler. ARCHY D.GLENN, NOTED EDUCATOR, DIES SUDDENLY Was For Thirty Years Con nected With Department of Public Instruction Arcby n. Glenn, of Armstrong county, connected with the Statu De partment of Public Instruction for more than thirty years and Deputy Superintendent of that department since July 1906, died this morning at 2.30 o'clock at the Hartman Hospital, after a brief illness, aged 76 years. He is survived by a brother, James A. Glenn, of Dayton, Pa., and a num ber of nieces and nephews. Funer al arrangements have not been made. Born near Dayton, Armstrong coun ty. Pa., January 3". 1842. Arehy D. Glenn was educated' at the Dayton Academy and Iron City College, en gaging for several years afterward in teaching. Ills last position in that line was as principal of Wood's Run school, Allegheny county. He was superintendent of the public schools or Armstrong county from 1872 to 1881 and for two years editor of the [Continiictl on Pago 18.] Woman Is Ejected For Not Paying Rent; Owner Denies She Is Dependent on Son ■Because she was unabl6 to pay her rent, .Mrs. Laura Taggart, moth er of a soldier and depending on her son for almost her entire support, was ejected from her house and her furniture set upon the street this afternoon. Mrs. Taggart lived at 17 48 Logan street. She takes In washing and lias three small chil dren. The owner to-day said the son in the Army was in reality only a brother and that she was not depen dent upon him. Mrs. Taggart's son, according: to her statement, is George W. Tag gart, stationed at Camp Hancock. A large crowd of neighbors were gathered around tbe house when a reporter for the Telegraph arrived. The neighbors said that 'John K Hemperly, ii 114 Chestnut street, owned the house and four or Wive others in the neighborhood. Service Flag Flics A service flag was flying across the little house where the mother lived. When the reporter asked where Mrs. Taggart was, he was told by neigh bors that she was at the office of Alderman George A. lloverter, i;ig to secure a stay. It was said by the neighbors that she had through some means or other, finally secured '.lie money for the rent and had offered the sum to the owner, but accord ing to the neighbor*, it was refused. A recent war measure passed bv Congress Is to the effect that it is unlawful to eject the dependent of a soldier. Mr. Hemperly declared that ho was ejecting the woman because she had not pahl rent, for about six months and that it was impossible for his agent to secure entrance to her house. He said in an interview, that he had done everything In :ns power, and after duo consideration, had Riven orders to #jcct Airs. Tag gart. Single Cono 2 Cents HOME EDITION HOUSEWIVES MAY PICK SUBSTITUTES FOR WHEAT FLOUR Grocers Have No' Authority to Foree^Sales on Any Par ticular Brands AN OFFICIAL LIST ISSUED Breakfast Foods Arc Not to Be Sold in Lieu of Wheat County Food Administrator Don ald McCormicU this morning said that grocers may not under any cir cumstances force their customers to buy any particular substitute cereal, when they purchase wheat flour. The ruling is important, because there is no likelihood of a revocation of the ruling governing the sale of wheat Hour on a 50-50 basis. Orcers, it is said by Mr. McCor niick, have in a number of cases been forcing their wjctomers to buy certain breakfast or certain cereals on which they make a larger margin of proiit, when their custom ers buy wheat Hour. It Is absolutely [Continued on l'agc IB.] Charles W. Hardt Named Assistant Engineer For Big Government Depots Charles W. ltardt, for twelve vears an engineer with the State Highway Department, and now in charge of I>auphin, Lebanon. Perry. Juniata and Snyder counties' state highways, lias been granted leave of absence by Highway Commissioner O'Xeil to en gage in Government work. Mr. Hardt will' bp lirst assistant engineer to Major \V. B. Gray, in charge of construction of the big depots along the -Susquchannu. Mr. Hardt was in the construction de partment of the Pennsylvania Itail l'oad for six years, among the big projects ill which he had a part being the Rockvilie bridge and the Knola and Marygville yards. He was also in charge of work connected with other railroad improvements in this vi cinity. J t IT- • CLOSED RAILROAD 4*l ***■ | •X |4 . X & I X m I* 5 Tf A S S :■ aul (I X natives have occurred in T haiige T IT I ®ir T t . i ' : X resulte * 4* CITY'S FIRST DRAFT X Ij* Harisburg—Harrisburg to day was called upon to fur- <•! T. *s® Y nish 22 men for th- National Army, the first draft to be A X made upon the city, Dauphin county is to furnish 23 T Ijr men. The district quotas arc!" Harrisburg, No. 1, five; .*•? "T* !• No. 2, nine-; No. 3, eight; Oauphin county, No. 1, ten; JL : fC j'/! Ka. ?, JP i4# ' 7 I 'ATRIAL WORKERS INDICTED • i\ T " ere T £* § ;hr At T JL e, *V j* *4* V S i ' *s* M-, iL - 4* •I FA-JON' : -'.AD T 4* Jy 'Marinette, Wis —Former United States Senator Isaac. £, , IX" on hid *j| 'J here f. r . v tck, • le to itv'ir.nitief Z J OFFENSIVE MUST*GO ON, SAYS BERLIN 4| ,An Marshal Von Hindcnburg has ± #tated i . lew in Berlin that the entente has shown ■ < f* i tf - JJ an unresponsive altitude toward Germany's peace inters t J f tions and that'the great German offensive therefore must £ ,'.5 go cn. In well-informed neutral quarters receiftly Jtho ▼* jh Asjso( I'ress correspondent was to id the Germans 4* :c. prepared to lose 300,000 men in an offensive t MARRIAGE LICENSES £ -? Karl ISoriftaer iiiiil Mmnnnn /.Immrrmun, .MlllrrnburKi Hnrin J StoJln mill l'erldn Hiidntiiii. 4rrltont irgc \V. .Michael nml * . lllnnebr sluiHle, l.jkruiii Irtvln t|, Parr unit tiinn 11. Vnurl llnr -4| rlnburist IWvM 11. Iliioter nml tiertrnde 11. r.brrMOlr, i:n>l' Han. j i oicr to nahlin I'nul 11. Ilrntten and l.cnh I'. It ml <. llnrrUbortf. J SLAV CONGRESS RATIFIES HUN PEACE TREATY All-Russian Congress of So viets Holds Conference in Moscow MAJORITY IS DECISIVE Delegates, by Vote of 453 to 30, Accept Central Pow ers' Terms Petrograd, Thursday, March 14.—The All-Russian Congress of Soviets, meeting at Moscow to-day, by a vote of 453 to 30, decided to ratify the peace treaty with the central powers. M. Ryazonov, a prominent Bolshevik theorist and represen tatives of all the professional unions, resigned from the Bol shevik party after the vote. One year ago to-day Emperor Nich olas abdicated as autocrat of Russia and yesterday the All-Russian Con gress of Soviets by an overwhelming vote agreed to German peace terms. KUNNIII I.ONCM Much ! German militarism takes from the [Continued on Page 17] I Aerial Activity Intense Over Fighting Lines Rome, Wednesday, March 13. Raiding operations on the front be tween the Stelvio and the Piav, are i reported in the war office statement i to-da.', which adds: [ "On the plains the aerial activity i was intense over the lighting line | and over the immediate rear lines. , Seaplanes of the Royal Navy dropped I bombs on enemy stores and the nvia- Ition grounds of the enemy were bombed by our airships. One enemy airplane was brought down."
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