St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 18, 1906

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RTHQUAKE DESTROYS THREE TOWNS IN CHILE; SANTIAGO _ BADLY DAMAGED; VALPARAISO, SHAKEN AGAIN,

~ FIRE AGES ON EAST SIDE IHR HOURS Baxter Molding Works and Adjoining Dwellings Are Flame-Swept.

-EMPLOYES FIGHT BLAZE

Firemen Summoned After Ef- forts of Workmen Had Proven Unavailing.

NO FIRE PLUGS NEAR BY

Thousands Watch the Firemen Who Worked Under Great Difficulties.

Fire destroyed the Baxter Moulding Works in East St. Louis Saturday at ‘hoon, entailing a loss estimated by the manager at $130,000. Four dwellings near the plant’ were ignited, one of them be- ing totally destroyed. ‘Bast St. Louis residents flocked by * thoushnds to watch the fight on the fames, which was made under diffi- culties and lasted for three hours. The nearest fire plug is 800 feet from the plant, and the first hose attathed to it burst. It was replaced with another, which held. A second line was run to a fire plug 1200 feet distant, and these two streams of water were the only available means of combating the prog- ress of the fire. t cars bound for the scene were wegen sengers, who were enjoy- MBEsa? Sea" tRs vissine cory ‘be about the azing fa came so great npn ; police had dif- fie y in man e fire ro et at 11:45 a. m. It originated oa the third story of the plant, in rooms set for storage manager and secretary of the con- cern, said to a Post- tch reporter “that the loss would be ,000, includ- building, stock and machinery. building of the molding company Market streets, = covered a site 600 20 feet. It ‘was a three-story brick, stretching from 2 streets mentioned ‘to the Terminal belt tracks. ‘Girls Discover Fire. Two little girls playing near the fac- tory first noticed smoke rising from the roof and called to Frederick Starfinger, oe foreman. He and other employes at- tempted to extinguish the flames with- ~ out other assistance, but were unable to do so, and Richards telephoned to the Fire Department. The flames spread so rapidly that when the firemen arrived they quickly _gaw there was no hope of saving the factory, and turned its their attention to the dwellings which had caught fire Wie from the sparks, The one-story frame house at 2007 rte Emerson home, was saved fight, the damage amount- two-s tory boarding house con- mG peey at 2009 Market street wae y destroyed, the loss @ $1000, and ‘the cottage occupled was 58a the dam- amounting to about $400 to the fur- Co. recently __ bough Coy and six the ag .: for an The b e remain ro of loss is Richards to spoiled stock ery. 70,000 insurance,

4 SS Si 1 DT : ; Wife Finds Him Dying on Floor —Believed to Have Been Murdered. Special to the Post-Dispaten. _ ..) WEST PLAINS, Mo., Aug. Hibbard, a farmer residing on GIRL DECEWED INTO MARRYING MARRIED MAN ‘ Tennie Brown, Train Caller’s Daughter, Finds Bult- man: Was Wedded. FUND TO BRING HIM HERE Her Office Associates Subscribe Money to Insure Arrest in West. a POSED AS

TS “THOMPSON” Discovery Came After He and Second Bride Had Settled in Flat, A fund now being raised in the offices of the American Credit-Indemnity Co. has revealed the amazing story of a q young married man, who, under an as- sumed name, wooed and won pretty ‘Catherine Tennie Brown, an employe of the company, and eloped with her to Springfield, I1ll., where they were mar- ried, Two days after the wedding, when they had gone to housekeeping at 3714 Connecticut street, the young bride dis- covered that her husband, Harold Thompson, whose real name is Harold lL. Bultman, had a wife living at 4%1 Vista’ avenue. Before sfié could bring him to task for the deceit, Thompson, or Bultman, who is 26 years old, gave up his position in the office of the Southern Freight Asso- Clation in the Odd Fellows’ Building and | left the city. The fund is being raised to pay for bringing him back from a Western city, where he is believed to be. The young woman with whom he eloped is a daughter of Ben Brown, train caller at Union Station. She is 18 years old, clever and vivacious, and has resided with her parents at 8810 Botan- ical avenue. Her friends and relatives call her Tennie. Mr. Brown said to a Post-Dispatch re- porter Saturday that his wife and daughter had ed to Chief of Po- lice Gillaspy to have Bultman arrested, but was told that before this could be dene it would be necessary for them to

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Sunday Post-Dispatch Sunday Magazine Aug. 19, 1906 CONTENTS: Page A St. Louis Woman in the Nevada Desert (in colors) Increase of Motor Freight Wagons in St. Louis. i: ca More Bible’ Quotations in Politics bird That Looks Like a OOS OR oscar ‘ox ‘ m Remarkable Dry Land Fish... naan Fight for Control of a New State —— St. Louis Reaches Out 10 athlete Effect of ee a Motor Boat ....... . The “Willie Boys” of St. douis.. 5 Doctors Who Visit Their Patients by Phone “Mr. Rockefeller. Has Not Re- formed.” By Ida Tarbell Chinese Radishes Grown on Amer- WE PON Gs 5 eka uns “Nerves” and the St. Louis Tunnel | Habits of Modern Millionaires... 7 Newest Way to Beauty. . Home Life for the Working Girl. Ei otic New Ways of Making New Tas of “Buried Treasure”. A Monument of Crutches.... Freakiest Boat in Existence..... “Field Ordnance” for the Farmer. New Summer Amuséments on the _ Mississippi (in colors) THE FUN A sessans The Prodigal Son.....,. The Bad Dream That Made Bill ' a Better Boy.. Yens Yeneon, Wail tbe Se Gets No Graft : *_e + © Billy Bragg’s Big Bank Roll Panhandle Pete Has ére T m _ ble With the Pole enigoaer

Xa i ‘ Gromer oe How Ti aie Brown’s Ardent Suttor Courted Her a - Year, and Married Her When He Already Hada Wife

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HANDBGOK SHEET WAS IN HEBREW Clever Device of Chicago Layer of Odds Fails to Deceive Police. Special to the Post-Dispaten. CHICAGO, IIL, Aug. 18.—The ancient and honorable, principally the former, art of sheet writing for a handbook, will become one of the learned profes- sions if the police continue to raid books be ggg are not operated in plain Eng-

Detective Sergeant Schubert arrested Samuel Bronsky, 220 Van Buren street, for running a handbook. In the s- session of the man was found a piece of paper with strange marks inscribed on the surface. “I will be out soon,’’ said Bronsky to eant. ““‘Those marks 4amean noth- e was right so far as the ser- geant was concerned, but later on po- lice operator George Marsh found the key to the mystery. “This is. a sheet, all right,’ said the operator, ‘‘but it is written in Hebrew. Other bookmakers doubtless will soon | employ sheet writers who have a know!l- edge of ancient Greek and Latin, and it will then ot Sane a college graduate to | make @ han BOYS LOOK BETTER. Woman Storekeeper Lost Shoe Blacking and Tooth Brushes: Mrs. Catherine Clark, who conducts a small general store at 1300 Grattan street, says she has noticed a marked

improvement in the appearance of the. bovs| shoes and teeth of muny o: the in her neighborhood since someone en- tered her place a few days ago and, after making a careful investication :« ¢ the stock, carried away M4 thoxes of shoe polish and 18 tooth brushes. She gays she suspected several of the boys Of the neighborhood and the gen- eral lreprovement in the tollet of some of these boys has confirmed her sus- picions, She has reported the matter to the police.

SUNDAY ANOTHER OF WARM DAYS

Fair Skies and Continued High Temperature Ahead. THE Seas | ie RE, There is no prospect yet for weather Louis. The are to remain fair Sunday and the temperature will be high. The official forecast: ‘Fair and continued warm tonight and Sunday; light southerly winds.”’ St. Louls is not getting any more than its share of the warmth, though. High tempera- tures prevail in practically al} sections east of the Rocky Moun- tains. It {fs be- the North Pacific Coast. Heavy rains fell during the past 24 hours in Centla T[llinois ana parts of the Ohio Valley. indications Saturday a gulf storm forming ft

TWONDER'-WILL NEED POLICE PROTECTION AT THE HOUSE OF DILIGITS picnic TODAY eooler in St. skies

low normal on There were morning of ‘the coast of Texas. Unidentified Body Found. The body of an unidentified man was found Saturday at the foot of Market street by Charles Ramsey, an employe on the Government harbor boat Lilly, he man was about 55 years old. 5 feat 6 inches tall, with a gray mustache and sandy hair. He wore a white shirt with black stripes. No coat or hat. was found. The body is at the Morgue.

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ADOLPHUS BUSCH NEARLY FAINTED Son-in-Law Lieut. Scharrer Brings Strange Outfit to . His Villa, Local brewery circles were very much exercised over a report conveyed to St. Saturday by letters trom that Adolphus Busch, the brewer magnate, now at his villa, Lilly on the Rhine, had a fainting fit. Telephones began to get busy and Mr. Busch's friends here sent inquiry after inquiry to headquarters down on Ninth and Pestalozzi streets. The emmediate cause of the fainting spell, from which, however, Mr. Busch sooh recovered, was the enormous royal retinue with which Mr. and Mrs. Ed- uard Scharrer made their appearance at the paternal summer home, where now all the members of the family are cele- brating a home-coming. The young Scharrers came on from Stutteart, where they live With the elder Scharrers, and will probably make their home for some time to come, Thev hired a train to convey them to Mainz, where they took to the country road in their automobile. A procession never seen in those parts before moved up the road to Schwalbach, the litttle towls upon which the villa Lilly looks down from a hill. The Scharrers Arrive. The arrival of the Scharrers had been announced and the lord of the castle, Herr Adolphus, is called by the villagers. was on his broad veranda to be the first to greet his daughter and son-in-law, who made history in Louis by their strenuous transcontinen- ta! eourtship ard elopement to Belle- ville during last Christmas holidays When the nirtourb bile scorched wu: » ‘the road Herr Busch exc laimed : , “Die Kinder sind da! Wi essen’ It was then past dinner time, There | was a cavalcade drawing up behind the moror car, burt Herr Busch had no ide i that what looked like a moving pano- rama in the dust of the road was headed for his villa. ilowever,

(er- Louis as he St. Koennen there hove gradually in sight the roynl appenage of the Scharrers: Seven horses, two coaches, the afore- said automobile and chauffeur, a coachman, 8 een a valet, a maid and seven dor “tm Gotteswitten kommt noch et- was?’ cried Herr Busch as the four servants passed into tre grounds behind couches and herses, but when the seven dogs scampered up the broad veranda, yelping and jumping over everybody, the brewer magnate fell over into a chair, closed his eyes and fainted awny. His favorite daughter's ngs and Herr Eduard’s jollities soo brovug yt him to, but he immediately ordered that tents should be spread about the The MISSING BANK HEAD SUSPECT SURROUNDED Fugitive Paul Stensland Be- lieved Located in Mountins Near Boundary, B. OC. SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 18.—Shad- owed by detectives, a nervous, middle- aged man left Boundary, B. C., by stage this morning to go into the mountain mining camps, upholding his statement that he is Mr. Montgomery, a mining man from Los Angeles. By officials here he is believed to be Paul O. Sens- land, the fugitive president of the Mil- waukee State Kank of Chicago. Montgomery arrived at Midway, B. C., a week ago, accompanied by a hand- some brunette about 23 years of age, whom he introduced as his wife. He was a stout man, middle-aged, a trifle gray and somewhat nervous. Compurisen of pictures of Stensland and the woman. who is believed to be with the banker. strengthened the be- lief that Montgomery was the fugitive. A message was sent to the Chicago authorities asking for a detailed descrip- tion of the baxker. and if this corre- sponds, the Midway police putposed to take Montromery into custody this morning, but at tion hed arrived Montgomery golng into the hills and left Midday bv stave this morning. accompanied by his leompanion. The Canadian | decided thev

(Ce Chief of Police of Midway states ithat the officers are still shadowing him. however, ahd can capture him, if he is the man wanted. During his stay at Midway, Montgom- ery is said to have had plenty of money and to be in no hurry to Inspect mines, acting like a man of leisure. He played| cards, went fishing and made himself a “ongd fellow,” but always appeared very nervous. For several davs a man who suspected hing to be the banker has been shadow- ing him, joining in his games and. fish- ing with him. Patling to secure an ac- curate description, the amateur detect- ive came to Spokane for further Infor- mation and yesterday telegraphed from this city, calling for Montgomery's ar- rest. The authorities, however, were not satistied and preferred to wait more de- tal'ed ‘nformation. Should the susnect prove to be the man wanted, it is said

grounds to accommodate the influx from | Stuttgart. to be almost impossible for him to ¢es- cape. IS BURNING | YINGS IN. OLLAPSE:

MANY BUILDI CAPITAL

Vina Del Mar, Quilpque and Limache Re= ported Wiped Out—Earthquakes Con- tinue at Valparaiso, Half in Ruins, and Flames Are Sweeping Through Business Section. i Ms a, al iad PASSENGER TRAIN FROM SANTIAGO IS MISSING a mh », i ae

Buenos Ayres’ Cable Service Has Cuoased and Disaster Is Feared There—Situation at Valparaiso Declared to Parallel Condi- — tions at San Francisco After Earthquake, ~~ NEW YORK, Aug. 18.—The following cablegram, which was delayed in transmission owing to the cessation of cable service, has been received from Santiago, Chile, dated Aug. 16: : ‘‘A feerful earthquake ooccurred at 8 o’clock this evening. Many buildings collapsed. At present it is not known whether there were‘any fatalities. Awful consternation prevails.’’ Vina Del Mar, a town about three miles from Valparaiso, hay- ing a population of about 12,000; Quilpque, province of Valparaiso, — with a population of about 4000, and Limache, 25 miles from Vale paraiso, population about 4000, are reported destroyed... A telegram received from Punta Deveres sae thet a tenia frou Santiago, Chile, due to arrive there yesterday evening, had not yet reached the former place. Seismic disturbances on the Chilean side of the Andes continue. Further severe shocks were felt yesterday evening, the first at 8:40 and the second at 8:50 o’clock. The director of telegraphs here has received a telegram from Lapaz, Bolivia, announcing that, according to a message from the chief of the telegraph company at Tacna, Vaparaiso is in flames and the earthquake continues. _|HALF OF VALPARAISO DESTROYED; FIRE SWEEPING THE DEBRIS LONDON, Aug. 18.—Half of the City of Valparaiso, Calle; from Almendsal to Calle Bellavista, has been destroyed by earth- quake or fire, according to a private telegram received by a local - banking firm today. The ruined section contained scores of hand- some residences, as well as business houses and immense ware- houses, A private cable dispatch received here later in the day states that the fire is still raging in the business districts, but that it ap- pears to be abating. CONDITIONS PARALLEL THOSE IN FRISCO: RESIDENTS ARE FLEEING NEW YORK, Ang. 18.—Wessel, Duval’ & Co.,, who doa large business in South America, especially in Chile, has just re- ceived the following dispatch from Valparaiso: “Town nearly destroyed. Particulars later when shakes 99 cease. This dispatch was timed 3;55 a. m., but it is not known wheth- er it was filed yesterday morning or this morning. The Central and South American Telegraph Co, reports that the situation in Valparaiso is similar to that which occurred in San Francisco. Their manager reports that all places of business ~ have beeen closed and the delivery and operating staff is much de. moralized. No messengers have reported for-duty-and deliveries — can only be made on application to the office. Many persons are fleeing from the city, VALPARAISO CABLE WORKING, TWO OTHER CITIES CUI OFF GALVESTON, Tex., Aug. 18.—The manager of the cable company here re-

1i o'clock no descrip- way of the land lines to Santiago de C hile or Buenos Ayres. deciared his intention of | 'EEAVY LOSS OF LIFE, authoritics | would not be justified in! | arresting him and allowed him to pro- “cl,

ports the cable working to Valparaiso to day, but there is no communication ay has receiyed a from its com ren t at Iquique,. the seaport of Chile, saying that that esca ped mage. has twenty thousand inhabitants, and was leveled by an in feara were Cniestaihedl PRIVATE MESSAGES SAY By Leased Wire From the New York Bureau of the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, Aug. 18.—-Private mes- sages received here by commercial firms having branches in Valparaiso in- dicate a heavy death list from the earthquake and the subsequent fire. messages repeated here by foreign bank- ing firms say all is confusion, and the authorities seem helpless In the disaster. All say many are dead. No detalti« ae to loss of life are given or estimates as to the destruction of als yap oe Grave fears are ex these messages as to the fate of Non city of hich has not

oP ab on? Pot ty ” Valparstso, word ts awaited froin this handsomely ‘built city of 150. people. : A (Germany) banking firns