| THE WEATHER j ! CLOUDY TO-NIGHT I FAIR TO MORROW I Detailed Report. Pace • i ftT A ? , , , :" FD VOL. 77—NO. 91. LOSS OF ALLIED SHIPS DUE TOTORPEDOES, SAYTU RKS Destruction of the British Battleships Irresistibleand Ocean and the French Bat tleship Bouvet in the Dardanelles Not the Result of Floating Mines. Is Turkish Official Statement MORE THAN 600 FRENCH PERISH British Cruiser Inflexi ble Also Badly Dam aged in the Fighting —Shell Exploding on Her Deck Is Reported as Having Rilled 40 Men and Wounded Many Others Constantinople, via Berlin By Wire less to London, March 20, 9 A. M.— An official statement issued from Turk ish headquarters says the sinking of British and French warships in the was due to "torpedoes" find adds: "A hard eoven hour fight ended with suet ess for our forts. Beyond slight damage to the earthworks, no tiamage was done the fortifications.'' According to statements made yes terday by the British and French ad miralties, the British battleships Irre sistible and Ocean and the French bat tleship Bouvet, which were sunk in the Dardanelles, were blown up by float ing mines. •14 Saved From Bouset's Crew Paris. March 20, Via London, 4.4S T M.—Official announcement was made here this afternoon that 64 men liaxe been saved from the crew of the French battleship Bouvet, suuk iu the Dardanelles March IS. The losses on the other ships of the French division which took part iu this action are declared to be very slight. The British Admiralty's Beport London, March 20.—The British admiralty lajt night announced that in a general attack by the allied fleet Thursday on the Dardanelles fortress es, the British battleships Irresistible and Ocean, and the French battleship Bouvet were suuk by mines. The bat tle cruiser Inflexible and the French battleship Gaulois were so greatly dam aged by the Turkish tire that they had to withdraw. The admiralty statement says that virtually the entire crew of 6c'l men of the Bouvet were lost. French of ticial reports, however, state there is reason to believe that part of the crew was rescued. Sixteen warships with a total ton nage of 231,598, were engaged iu the Dardanelles, while from the Gulf of other ships bonr'aarded Fort Kiiid Bahr at long range. During the battle there was a steady stream of shells from more than 200 guns of more than 6-inch calibre. Vice Admiral Sackville Hamilton Carden, who is ill, has been succeeded in command at the Dardanelles by Bear Admiral John M. de Robeck. Forty Killed On the Inflexible I'aris, March 20, 4.30 A. M.—No attempt was made by the allied fleet to develop to the fullest extent its first general attack on the Dardanelles, which was launched Thursday, says an Athens dispatch to the Havas agency which quotes a British officer as au thority for the statement. Two thou sand shell# were fired in a six hours' bombardment designed to force a pas sage to Kiiid Bahr and Chanak Kal essi. Fire from the Turkish batteries was uninterrupted and violent according to information obtained from other sources, the Havas correspondent de clares. The prow of the French bat tleship Gaulois was touched bv a mine but the damage can be repaired in a few days. She left the straits and an chored at the island of Navria. One Turkish Fort Damaged The British battle cruiser Inflexible, which was hit on the bow by shells, also steamed out of the straits cou- C«tUnt4 M Twelfth l'ait. She. Star- mmb Jtikpctikwi PASSENGERS SEE CHANNEL ME Those on Board Lap* land Witness Fight Between Torpedo Boat and Submarine LINER ESCAPES FROM THE SCENE Captain of British Steamer Steers His Vessel in Zigzag Course Under Full Head of Steam to Dodge the Sub marine's Torpedoes I By Associated Press. New York. March 20.—Passengers j aboard the British steamer Lapland, which reached here to-day from Liver pool, witnessed a battle in the English channel between a British torpedo boat | which escorted the Lapland and a Ger- I man submariue. The Lapland, crowd- i i iug on all steam, fled in a zigzag line j from the combatants. The Laplaud picked up her naval es- ! cort outside the entrance to Liverpool i harbor. Before the steamer left Liver- i pool it was stated that submarines were |in nearby waters. Steamer and convoy 1 were not far from Liverpool when the ; torpedo opened fire. The raider fired a torpedo at another ; \ essel. Passengers aboard the Lap | land watched the progress of the missile : through the water and saw it went wide of its target. Meantime the torpedo ! boat's guns had quickened their fire to a fusillade of shots. The L.ap!aud's • aptain ordered full speed ahead unit the steamer shot forward. To dodge torpedoes and to afford ihe submarine i poor target, the lort issued on | March 17, stated that in the fighting in I the Dardanelles on March 13 the Ame : thyst made a dash into the Straits. She | was struck by several shells and had ; 23 men killed, 19 severely wounded I and 13 slightly hurt. LATE WAR NEWS SUMMARY The attack of the Dardanelles was resumed yesterday, notwithstanding the heavy losses of the allied fleet on the preceding day. No official announce ment has beeu made concerning the re sult of yesterday's operations, but un official advices are to the effect that little was accomplished on account of unfavorable weather conditions. A Con stantinople dispatch says that the sink ing of the British battleships Irresist ible and Ocean and the French battle ship Bouvet, ascribed by the British Admiralty to floating mines, was due to torpedoes. i The Turkish positions on the main land near Smyrna are being strength ened and large reinforcements have been sent to the assistance of the de fenders. Eflorts are being made to re pair the damage already done to the defenses on Smyrna and to plant mines. The new naval policy of the allies Is now in operation against Austria, ac cording to word which' has reached Rome. The commanders of the Anglo- French fleet In the Adriatic have been notified to prevent transportation of all goods to or from Austrian ports. The government of the Netherlands has Cmtlaaed aa Twelfth Put. HARRISBURG, I*A., SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 20, 1915—12 PAGES. SURVIVORS OF AMERICAN L Rtjß Otter MATE SWAN SON (CENTRE) AMO SOME OF THE JUfi-VIVORJ OF THE EVCLYM Five survivors of the American steamship Evelyn, sunk by submerged mines In the North Sen on February 10. reached New York on board the steamship Matanzas. which brought a carge of dyestuffs from Bremen. The men gave a vivid account of the mishap to their vessel They were picked up several hours later by two Qerman patrol boats, which conveyed them to Heligoland, whence they were sent to Bremerhaven. The rest of the crew of twetity eiglit, including Captain David Smith, will leave Bremen ou board another steamship. The five survivors were dressed In clothing supplied to them by the United States Consul in Bremen, they haviug lost everything but what they wore when the Evelyn was sunk They were "broke" to a man, and but for the kindness of officers of the liatanzaa they would not have been able to leave the ship. PITTSBURGH FIRM WILL BUILD CAR. R. BRIDGE Announcement Made To-day of Award j to Grayce Construction Company of Contract to Erect $750,000! Structure Across River Here To the Robert Grayce Construction Company, a Pittsburgh contracting' firm, it was announced here to-day, ha* ! been awarded the contract to build the ' new mile-long, doable-track concrete i arch bridge over the Susquehanna riv er. from Mulberry street, this city, to replace the present single track steel structure of the Cumberland Valley . Railroad. Officials of the railroad company would not say positively when the '■ontraetors will begin actual work on | the structure, but let it be knovcu that the successful bidder has been in structed to make preparations imme diately for going ahead with the work.; Neither would the railroad officials} make public the amount of the propo- J sal submitted by the Pittsburgh firm.' which was the iow bidder of 38 com panies that submitted (inures but engi- i neers have said that the total cost of j the bridge will run to the neighbor hood of $750,000. The bids of the thirty-eight con tracting firms were opened by M. C. | Kennedy, president of the Cumberland j Valley Railroad, at his Chambersburg office, ou Thursday of this week. Until the engineers went over the estimates and made comparisons the low bidder i i was not known. The new bridge will lie built one | side at a time. The one-half to carry ' the south side track wiil go up first., I Work on the second half will be start- '■ ;ed immediately after the first section j jis put into service. Recently the Penn-| sylvauia Steel Company completed its . contract under which the present steel '' i structure, carrying the Cumberland i ■ Valley tracks over the river, was j moved bodily for eight and one-half | feet northward to make room -on the 1 southern part of the piers for the first half of the new structure. About 45 spans will go to make up the new concrete structure which will be of the barreled arch type. EXPLAINS SCHAEFFER'S S3O Downes Says State Superintendent Re ceived It "According to Custom" —Other Officials Paid The payment of S3O to Dr. Nathan j C. Schaeffer, State Superintendent of I Public Instruction, for a speech before the city teachers' institute, was dis-j i cussed to-day by City Superintendent F. E. Downes, whom the County Com- i missioners yesterday asked to explain I why such a charge should be made. Dr. Downes said the payment was i made "'according to custom" and that j the S3O was not actualiv charged by ; State Superintendent Sehaeffer. Under the State law the County i Commissioners made a payment to ! ward meeting the expenses of the in l stitute. The City Superintendent was required to file an itemized expense ac- I count. This showed S3O given to Dr. Schaeffer, and the Commissioners ask : ed Dr. Downes about the item. The Commissioners did not protest ! amounts paid to Reed B. Teitrick, ■ Deputv Superintendent of Public In struction, and I>r. J. George Becht, i of the State Board of Edu i cation, both of whom spoke at the lo | cal teachers' institute. | WOMAN EDITOR'S DEATH LEAP Mrs. Ellen Heney, Delirious From Fever, Plunges From Fifth Story By Associated Press. New York, March 20.—Mrs. Elien Heney, editor of the "Woman's Maga zine "published in Detroit, and writer of short stories, plunged five stories from her room to her death at her home to day. She was delirious from typhoid fever a f the tim- and made her way to a window during a brief interval in which her nurse had left the room for medicine. MTS. Heney was 32 years old and came to this city fifteen years ago from Biughamton, N. V. Ml! 1 HOTEL SHE Westerners Ready to Close For Opera House Plot, Says an Authoritativeßeport I PAPERS PREPARED ' FOR SIGNATURES Apparently Well-substantiated Story In Circulation That Transaction Will Be Closed Next Week With Weight man Estate, the Owners There was an apparently a well-sub- | i stantiated report ill circulation to-day I that the vacant ground at Third and ' Walnut streets, the site of the old Opera House which was burned in 197, has changed hands; that it has been purchased fcom the Weiglitman estate by a western hotel company— : name as yet kept secret—and that the agreement transferring the property j to the hotel company will be signed by the purchasers in Philadelphia within I the next few days, the attorney for : i the Weightnmn estate already having i i signed it. The negotiations are with a ! ] view to the construction of a hand ! some new hotel on the site. The report ia so definite as to have placed the purchase price at $2-25,000, I bat the names of those interested in i the purchase have been kept secret. They represent a large hotel company, however, ami are convinced that Har risburg needs a new hotel and that the ; best location for it is the site at Third j and Walnut. I Recently a representative of the Star-Independent had an interview with a representative of the Hamil ton Hotel Company, of Indianapolis, ' and was informed that a project to 1 build a hotel here was in process of I incubation, but no information could j be disclosed at that time. It was said I that negotiations were then in progress I to obtain the Thftd and Walnut street j site, and that a representative of the Cußtinard an Twelfth Pate. STORK MAKES FIRST TRIP HERE BY 'TWILIGHT' ROUTE New Anesthetic Is Tried for the First Time in a Childbirth Case in Har risburg in Connection With Caesar - ean Operation "Twilight sleep" was used in child birth for tbe first time in this city at the Harrisburg hospital yesterday aft ernoon and the results were to-day ■pro nounced by the staff surgeons to have i been entirely satisfactory. The sur geons performed a Caesarean operation while the patient was under the new anesthetic. A boy was 'born to 'Mrs. Charles Fry, 24 years old, of West Fairview. She was sent to the Harrisburg hospital yes terday afternoon by her family physi cian and her condition was such that surgeons deemed it best to use "twi light sleep." Both mother and child are reported as resting well this aft ernoon. Tbe "twilight sleep" method has been used here in other forms of sur gery recently with succestt, patients re covering sooner than under the ordi nary anesthetic. There are now three patients in the hospital who underwent operations while under the influence of < "twilight sleep." THE REV.T.L. TOMKINSON, FORMER RESIDENT. DIES He Passed Many fears in This City, Helped to Found Ridge Avenue Church and Served -As Pastor of Stevens Memorial The Rev. Theophilus Lessev Tomkiu son, » former resident of this city and one time pastor of the Thirteenth citreet Methodist church, now B. F. Stevens Memorial church, died yesterday after noon at his home in ware. He had lived in this city until recently and attended Grace Methodist church. He was a member of the Cen tral Pennsylvania conference. Mr. Tomkinson was born at Pultney ville, N. Y., July 19, 1536. Coming to this city as a boy to learn the potter trade, be WHR eotrveTted here and joiuod the Loeust Street Methodist Episcopal church. He waa one of a group of young men who founded the mission which has developed into Ridge Avenue and St. Paul's Methodist churches. When he entered the ministry he was stationed by the Philadelphia conference in Mary land and Viriginia. When the Wilming ton conference was formed he became a charter member. After tilling important appointments in that conference he was transferred in ISB7 to the Central Pennsylvania conference ami stationed at the Thir teenth Street church in this city. He also served at New Cumberland, Ber wick, Phillipsbnrg, Williamsport and Mount Camel. After nearly half a century in the ministry he retired be cause of ill health and took up his resi lience in this city. Recently he moved to Wilmington. Ho leaves his widow, two sons, Charles, of Plain field, N. .T„ and Hor ace, Seelmore, Pa.; one daughter, Mrs. William Hunt C'arsou, of Cambridge, Md.; three grandchildren, and a brother and two sisters at 604 Boas street, this city, the Kev. William E., Martha M. and Ellen P. Tonikinson. The funeral services will be held at Grace Methodist church, Wilmington, at 3.30 o'clock to-morrow afternoon. At the arrival of the body here on Mon day morning at 12.45 o'clock burial will be made in the Bast Harriaburg cemetery. Brief services will be held at the grave. The Rev. Dr. John D. 'Fox will proba'blv officiate. HURT IN CRASH WITH AUTO John Minsker and Two Sons Thrown From Wagon in Collision Near Home at Dauphin Dauphin, March 20.—John Minsker, of Clark's Valley, near this place, was badly injured when thrown from his wagon in a collision with an automobile in the Narrows at 7 o'clock last night. His two sons, Simon and John, who were with him in the vehicle, were also thrown to the road butyescaped injury. Mr. Minsker was returning home with his sons from a public sale near Harrisburg, when his team was struck by an automobile coming from Dau phin. He was thrown to the road on his head, and in a semi-conscious con dition was hurried to the office of Dr. A. C. Coble. The horses ran away as the collision I occurred and were not caught until some hours afterward. The wagon was entirely demolished. F. R. R. FINISHES EXCAVATING Work on Second and Front Streets Nearly Completed Announcement was made this morn ing by Superintendent Martin, in charge of the construction work in South Harrisburg by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, that all excavations will be completed within a short time. Two steam shovels have been constant ly at work for the past several months and all work on the excavating of Front and Second streets is a'bout fin ished. Work on the grading of the streets, it is said, will start within the near future. Work on the erection of the new steel bridge at Front and Mulberry streets, spanning the subway, will be started early Tuesday morning. A large force of men will be placed- at work and a huge derrick erected to as semble the parts. It is believed that the erection of the other bridge at Sec ond street will follow. 1110 SHOWS DAD WEEK OF SUCCESS To-night Is Final Op portunity to See the Best and Latest in Motordom TO PICK WINNERS OF DOOR PRIZES Managers Myton and Johnson Pleased With Returns of Week—Exhibits Better and Business Conditions Steady—Auto Education Provided •Harrisburg is about educated to the mysteries of autnmobiling. Having had two shows running since last Saturday night, accommodating almost capacity crowds for a week, exhibitors have but to night to get the late auto-showgoers in line. The gates will ciose at mid night to-night on what has been the most successful week of united effort on the part of all dealers of self-pro pel led vehicles for the general advance ment of the business. The horseless age has not arrived as yet, but from a trip around the Kelker street hall and the Arena, where twin : shows are in progress, one is convinced that that era is not far off. If you have a business which takes you on j short trips over the city, if you are rich | or poor, there is a machine and it is |on display at t>he automobile shows. Cars for every known purpose are dis ; played and if you have not picked your i machine at either of the shows it is be cause you are nrtt in a business which requires one, do not have the money to purchase or have not been to the auto shows. This is not the fault of the ex hibitors, who have spent every effort to give Harrisburgers the opportunity to make selections. They have produced shows which include stock machines of most every representative make. Me chanical mysteries have been simplified 'by the exhibition of cut-out engines and other working parts. It required no Continued an Twelfth Pace. BROTHER OF FUGITIVE UROERER SENTTO PEN i John Filer, Whose Kinsman Killed Wife and Her Alleged Paramour in Steel ton Twelve Years Ago, Is Sentenced for Attempted Burglary Echoes of the crime in which Wil liam Filer, now a fugitive from jus tice, shot and killed his wife and her alleged paramour, in Steelton twelve years ago, were heard in Judge McCar "rell's side of criminal court last even ing, when John Filer, said to be a brother of the fugitive, was sent to the penitentiary on a robbery charge for a term of from feightcen months to three years. John Filer, -while intoxicated, broke into the home of Mrs. Emma S. New comer, 1423 Derry street, on the night of March 10 and was captured before he could make a getaway, the police having been attracted to the home by Mrs. Newcomer's screams. When Filer was called for trial yesterday afternoon he pleaded not guilty, but later made a confession. The defendant is 23 years old and, according to his story to* the court, he has been living in Harrisburg about fifteen years, further than that he would say nothing regarding himself. Charles Mollere, 903 North Third street, this morning was convicted on charges of felonious assault and point ing a revolver, growing out of an at tack he is alleged to have made upon his wife and Miss Annie Kretos at the Mollere apartments a week ago. Witnesses declared that Mollere had made an attack upon his wife and also shot at Miss Krebs when she entered Coatlnned on Twelfth Pace. 4 WOMETMITCORED Released From Almshouse Ward Where They Had Been Under Treat ment for Drug Habit (Four women dope fiends, who during i the last fortnight had) been receiving I treatment at the Dauphin County [ Almshouse, to-day were pronounced 'cured of the drug habit and discharged from the institution. None of the women had been permitted to use drugs while being cured of the habit after the federal 'ban on the sale of drugs became affected on March 1, last. In the male ward it has been the practice slowly to diminish the size of doses of drugs* that the patients are re ceiving. No "cured" case have yet 'been reported in this division. Police After Auto Speeders Spring has brought out automobile speeders, according to Chief of Police Hutchison, and motorcycle policemen have been ordered to keep a sharp watch for violators of the speed law. Already several scorchers have been arrested and fined by Mayor Royal. Spanish Ship Seized by British By Associated Press. London, March 20, 4.43 P. M.—lt Is reported jthat a Spanish ship laden with iron ore and proceeding to a German port has 'been captured by a British cruiser off Goodwin Sands in the Straits of Dover and sent in to Jarrow ia charge of au armed crew. POSTSCRIPT PRICE, ONE CENT. 3 HILLS DAIAGED mmm Accident at Steelton Plant Most Costly, Save One, in the Last Thirty-five Years LOSS WILL BE CLOSE TO SIO,OOO 500-pound Missile, Hurled Out Top of One Building, Falls Through Roof of Another 1,000 Feet Awty When 2-ton Flywheel Breaks A two-ton flywheel, propelled by a 1,200-horsepower electric motor, flew apart late yesterday afternoon in the 28-inch finishing mill of tho Pennsyl vania Steel Company's plant in Steel ton with such force that a 500-pound section of the wheel was hurled through the roof of the mill and, going a thou sand feet further, crashed through the top of the 4 4-inch mill. Damage done to the buildings and more particularly to costly machineiy installed in both of them is unofficially estimated at SIO,OOO. No person was injured, but several workmen almost miraculously escaped being struck by flying pieces of machin ery. It was the most destructive mis hap, except the burning of the mer chant mill many years ago, Wiat had occurred in the big Steelton plant since November, 1879, when a 30-foot fly wheel attached to the engine of the roll traia in the old rail mill uruKe and so badly damaged the woodon building that it was replaced with a steel struc ture the following year. Cause of Accident a Puszle The flywheel of the electric motor that broke yesterday was but four feet in diameter but was a solid piece of cast iron. The cause of the wheel bursting and separating into various parts of unequal size could not be ex plained by officials of the company this morning. They said the matter was being investigated. Men who worked near the place of the explosion unof ficially advanced the theory that the wheel hail an unseen flaw and that the high rate of speed at which the ma chinery was operated caused the dis integration of the iron circle. At the time of the accident the motor driving the new roll train was being tested out. Without warning a rain of heavy projectiles began, doing damage more than 1,000 feet away, but not one of the employes received a scratch. William Shipp, a machinist, standing almost against the motor, had a particularly narrow escape. One of the flying missiles struck the electric crane over the hot bed and damaged the operating machinery of the crane so badly that it will take at least two weeks to place it again in commission. Machinery Badly Damaged One of the heaviest missiles to leap into the air, estimated to weigh at j least 500 pounds, rent a large hole in | the roof over the 28-inch mill and was hurled through spaco at least 1,000 I feet, finally coming down through the ] roof of the new 44-inch mill. It land-' |ed with such force against the roll j train table in the latter mill that that piece of machinery was forced loose from its foundation as if a giant had plucked it up bodily. Smaller pieces of metal hit steam and waterpipes which were snapped! | like pipe steams. Some machinery in the nearby 32-inch mill also was dam aged, but it did not suffer as much as that in the other two mills. Until the machinery is repaired, which will take several weeks, the ex act cost of the accident will not be known, but it is believed it will ap proximate slo, oob. H. FRANK M'REYNOLDS DIES Son of Former Publisher of the "Pa triot" a Victim of Appendicitis 'H. Frank Moßeynolds, Jr., born and raised in Harrisburg, the son of the late H. Frank M-cßeynoldg, at one time pub lisher of the "Patriot," died at his home in Waterbury, Connecticut, on Thursday morning, after an operation for appendicitis. Mr. Mcßeynolus was taken seriously ill on Saturday last, and his sister, Miss Mary Y. Metteynolds, of the De partment of Education, was summoned to his bedside. Shortly after the oper ation ho sank rapidly until he died on Thursday. Mr. Mcißeynolds was for years con nected with the United Gas Improve ment Company, as manager, but retired several years ago. The funeral will b» held to-morrow. He was 56-years old and is survived by his widow and three sisters, Mrs. Richard B. Zeigler, of Phil adelphia; Mts. George McGowan and Miss Mary Mcßeynolds. A "brother, An drew McKeynolds, died in Philadelphia a short time ago. SPRING STARTS TO-MORROW Fine Day to Mark Opening of Season, Weather Man Says To-morrow will be the first day of spring. This is the official day set by the sun itself years ago when the uni verse began and discovered by astron' omers after years of labor. Days and nights will be equal in the distribution of light and darkness. The season will be ushered in by I fine spring day, if the weather mat can be taken seriously. He says Sun day will be fair, without much change in temperature. The minigium to-nigh( /will be close to freezing and the maxi mum to-morrow afternoon will reacl about 45 degrees. This convbinatioi will make a fine early spriug da.V an< should bring out lots of pre-Hastei suits and hats. »