St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 2, 1911

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t 5 : - RATS BIO PRRNS . doa Ghar. z a. i ator Baldwins | . ‘"The most essential matter in hand “Js the completion of a census of the -timates the total number of dead at 150. ‘}iis knowledge of the.gopulation of the {8 believed. ‘based on the known population of the where all the houses were destroyed. bodies remaining continuing flood. z practically perfect. ‘pour of rain served to materially re- ‘were relieved. The State constabu- Jeary, State sanitary. engineers and , tered by the shattered homes of their 45 Ble reliable estimate of the property lees can be soon made, but it is safe to gay it will not be less than $8,000,000. - Aitterly destroyed. The timber supply, . §ndeed, was rapidly nearing exhaustion © pada apne gana ME phi “FIRST IN EVERYTHING” 20 BODIES TAKEN M AUSTIN RUINS 10s $8,000,000 Census Taker Estimates the Total Loss of Life Is 150 and Bases His Figures on the Population of the Stricken. District Before the Flood. Two Hundred Families Had Recently Moved Away From the Path of the Flood —Waters Lost Fierce Mo- mentum When They Reached Costello. Dam Found Defective a Year Ago and When Disaster ‘Was Threatened. Watch- man Was Not There to} Open Sluice Gates. F'y Associated Press. AUSTIN, Pa., Oct. 2.—With the ar- sival of a carload of coffins here this morning the grimness of the tragedy which has practically obliterated this town was impressed on the survivors and a considerable number of workers who today began anew their efforts to mine deeply into the hard hills of debris. Twenty. victims, includings two et Costello, had been placed in a tem- porary morgue at Odd Fellows’ Hall, ene of the few buildings in the ruined istrict. ; The Dead. The identified dead are 12, as follows. J. E. Baldwin, father of State Sen- Mrs. Martha Kipatout. Miss Ida Miller. Mrs. Wm. Nelson. Mrs. A. E. Mansuy. Miss Annie Jackson. Mrs. Charlies Séifield. Mrs. Morton Schold. Mrs. George Rennicks. Miss Flossie Melzer. “Mre. Lena Richie. “Ralph. Donafiro. here, aside from the persistent. work of ¢ciearing away the more accessible ruins, jiving Austinians. - ©. C. Cockrane, the census taker, ¢s- ruined séction puts him in a position td make the most accurate estimate, it First Casualties Estimated. Reports sent out Saturday night es- timating the dead at 8% to 1000 were town, and the estimated percentage of these who lived in the path ‘of the flood ‘There is little hope that any of the in the wreckage would be found intact. The general aspect of the debris indicates that hundreds of thousands of javelin-like splinters and shreds of buildings were shot through and through the first accumuiations of ruins by the debris subsequently hurled onward by the The policing conditions today are A 12-hour down- duce the number of Incoming sight- Beers, and to this extent the police chief officials of the State Health De- partment are co-operating in the measures for protection and relief. . is a Dreary Sight. uote aspect of Austin, Costello and beyond today is as dreary as mea is appalling. The towns are pic- tures of desolation. The valley side bills, in. which they Le, are still lit- people and the remnants of prosperous pleces of business: and manufacturing plonts.. paper and lumber industries are ups. Only Evening Paper in St Louis With the Associated ‘Press, News Service. ie an cee VOL. 64. NO. 43. 53 of. LOUIS, MONDAY { EVENING, OCTOBER 2, i ~| WET WELCOME FOR | wardsville Monday and stopped in the VEILED PROPHET ON HIS ANNUAL VISIT THE TEMPERATURES. ey ar 73 10 @. m..«.+..--: 64 te oe 73 12. g@.. Me. ces SS . Mic Whis.c se 00% 71 12 (noon) . 62 TMs WE i occas RO Bs FN 8 wS 64 ee ere ee 64 2p. m.....-:- 65 VYesterday’s Temperatures. High, 75 at 6 p, m. Low, 67 at 11 a. m. said NOW WHOLL “Well,” ROUT THE Jones, “the Sick {HAREM SKIRT? | Man of Europe has had a relapse, and the Unspeak- able Turk has been knocked speechiess.”’ “Yes,” said Smith, ‘‘but what I want to know is, what is it all about? What have the Turks done?’ “What differ- ence does that make? There's al- ways a good trim- ming due to them, on general princi- She ples.”’ | 1 “That's no rea- son. What have they done that gives anybody an ex- cuse for lynching them this way?’ “T’ll tell you what they’ve done. They've thrust the Turkish cigarette and the harem skirt on the world, that’s what they’ve done.” “That’s so, they have. Italy !"’ Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Umnsettled weather tonight and Tuesday, with showers; not much change in temperature. Stage of the river: 14.9 feet; a rise of 1.65 of a foot. Hooray for Missouri and Illinois—Unsettled today and Tuegday. with showers; not much change in temperature. Nebraska and Kansas—Unsettled with showers tonight or Tuesday; warmer Tues- day. HORSE GREETS DRIVER OF 7 YEARS AGO Recognizes Fireman Who Hap- pens Near His Stall for Drink of Water. Louts Krieger, who quit the St. Louts Fire Department seven years ago after an accident, took a trolley ride to Ead- engine house at Main and High streets for a drink of water. The hydrant is near a stall. While Krieger was getting his. drink a big black horse in the stall began whinny- ing and tugging at his rope. “That black looks a lot Ifke a horse named Jim.I used to drive in St. Louis,” said Krieger. “His mame’s Jim,”’ one of the firemen replied. “‘We bought him from St. Louis just after the Fair.’’ Then Krieger and Jim greeted each other as old friends. Jim was one of a team of blacks which drew a combination chemical and hose truck and was sold to Edwardsville with the outfit. Bob, the other horse, has been sold since then. Policeman Loses His $28. Patrolman John H. Bohlen of the Angelica Street District, lost $18 while patroling his beat between East Grand avenue, Broadway, Ferry street and the river Sunday. He does not suspect pickpockets because, he says, he does not allow such characters on his beat. He thinks the money dropped from his pocket. The “For Sale” and “exchange” want ad& enumerate opportunities for those BRYAN’S TOAST PLEASES TAFT ON VISIT TO LINCOLN President Returns Compliment at Nonpartisan: Luncheon and ) Chats With Commoner. TALKS ON WORLD PEACE Chief Executive Says" Phat He and the Nebraskan Can Agree on That Question. By Associated Press. LINCOLN, Neb., Oct. 2.—Prerident Taft received a cordial non-partisan welcome to Nebraska and to Lincoln to- aay. W. J. Bryan, rising before the 4) guests at the luncheon given here in Taft's honor, proposed a toast to the President of the United States. The toast to the President was drunk standing, and at its conclusion Taft re- turned the compliment which the man he defeated for the presidency had paid him in felicitous language. In propos- ing the President’s health, Bryan said: “Lincoln is honored today by the pres- e1.ce of the highest official in the world. The President’s positidén is greater than 2a king’s. His authority is more vast than any citvilized people would entrust to an hereditary rujer, and he holds the place not by accident of birth, but by the suffrage of his countrymen. The chief executive of the nation wields the strength of 90,000,000 of people. | Bryan at Taft’s Right. “Lifted by voters to this position of supreme command, he becomes the most exalted of our public servants. It is fitting that we, a group of the sover- eign people, whom he serves, should pay our respects to him and to the office which he holds. I ask you to rise, fill your glasses with the beverage upon which the Almigthy has set the seal of his approval, and drink to the health of President Taft, and may God give him wisdom to discharge aright the onerous duties imposed upon him.’’ Bryan sat at President Taft’s right during the luncheon and former Sena- tor Burkett at his left. Both Bryan and Taft were greeted with cheers. “I would be wanting ir an apprecia- tion of fine courtesy if I did not ex- press my thanks to your distinguished fellow citizen, Mr. Bryan, for joining in the welcome to me here in Lincoln. I have had occasion to say in times past that no roses are so beautiful as those that grow over the party wall and to be received by Bryan this time is a pleasure which I must express. “Mr. Bryan nd I differ on some subjects, but the one on which I am going to speak this afternoon—world peace—is one on which we agree. But whether we agree or disagree, I have had a 10 years’ personal ac- quaintance with Mr. Bryan and I hope he will join mé in saying that it always has been a pleasure to meet each other under any circum- stances.” In addition to Bryan, Gov. Aldrich, United States Senators Brown and Hitchcock, Congressmen MacGuire and Kinkaid and other Republican and Democratic leaders’ participated in the reception. Congressman Norris, one of the leaders of the insurgents in the House, did not appear either at Omaha or af Lincoln, and it was said that he had found it necessary to return to his home in McCook, al- who wish to secure a used car or make an advantageous trade. though counted upon as a member of the reception committee. — BULLETIN 235: The Sunday Record! oa The Sunday POST-DISPATCH yesterday, October Ist, was, as it has been every Sunday for more than four and one- half consecutive years, with the exception of one single issue, first in the volume of REGULAR, BONA FIDE Sunday advertising. Globe-Democrat . The count yesterday, was as follows: POST-DISPATCH, 351 Cols. enblio......... - . 262 187 r . ° Post-Dispatch Over Republic i + neg 194 Cols. Over Globe-Democrat . .. 8Q Cols. Gen. Shafter, who commanded the land Excess Post-Dispatch . ., Globe-Democrat - Republic... . ‘The Want Ad Seote: POST-DISPATCH excess of Want Ads over the Globe-Democrat and Republic COMBINED .......;...... 147 Columns Over Republic ............. Over Globe-Democrat........ : Circulation Books open to all. Pirst in Everything. . « « 9l Columns ee 50 Columns . .-« 24 Columns 67 Columns “41 Columns . Taft's Reply to Bryan, Responding to Bryan’s toast, the. President said: ‘as the flying squadron, Taft learned tm Lincoln of the sud- den death of Admiral Schley. The news luncheon and Mr. Taft showed plainly Had Just Been to the New York Yacht Club for His Luncheon. NOT’ KNOWN His Body Taken to Police’ Sta- tion—Heart Disease Presum- able Caused Death. , By Associated Press. NEW YORK, Oct. Admiral 2.—Rear way downtown. fore medical aid could reach him. over Sunday, West Forty-fourth street, stay at the club, Admiral Schley start- toward Fifth avenue, when he was ‘tak- en suddenly ill. The spot where the Admiral fell is in ihe center of New York’s club world. the Admiral fell is the office of his son, Dr. Winfield Scott Schley. The doctor was notified of his father’s death and the body was taken to the West vit first Street Police Station. Heart Disease Cause. It is hardly to be questioned that heart disease was the cause of his death. He had suffered from that ail- ment for many years, and in 1907, while attending a meeting of a Masonic lodge in Baltimore, fell to the floor in a dead faint. Since his retirement from the navy, Admiral Schley had lived a life of quiet ease, with Washington and New York as rival cities for his affec- ticns. When he was in this city alone, the Rear Admiral lived at the New York Yacht Club. He haa luncheon at the Yacht Club today, and when he left the club he started East in Forty-fourth street. ceum a passerby noticed that he stag- gered. The stranger started to his aid, but Schley fell before the man could reach him. Policeman Cralk of Traffic C was called and he ordered an ambu- lance from Flower Hospital. Dr. Miller came with the ambulance and he told the policeman that the Rear Admiral was dead. Name Not Known. No one knew the name of the distin- guished officer. The policeman sent the body to the East Fifty-first Street Sta- tion, and it was only when the police tvarched his pockets and found a gold watch with his monogram and letters bearing his address that it became known that the body was that of éne of the most picturesque figures the American Navy had ever known. SCHLEY HERO OF THE SPANISH WAR ‘Rear Admiral Schley was born in Frederick County, Md., in 1839. After being graduated from Annapolis Naval Academy in 1860 and serving during the Civil War in minor capacities he was commissioned in 1866 as Lieutenant Commander. He did sea service in 1884 volunteered for and was placed in com- mand of the expedition sent to search for Lieut |Rear Admiral) Greeley and his companions, who had been lost from civilization for nearly two years. He found the party in a state of exhaus- tion, and about to die. His feat con- stituted one of the dramatic incidents in Arctic exploration. At the outset of the Spanish-Amert- can war in 1898 Admiral Schley was placed in command of what was known which sailed from Fortress Monroe to co-eperate with Admiral Sampson in the Carabean sea. . Under orders from Sampson he steam- ed through the Yucatan passage to the vicinity of Santiago,. while Sampson passed aroun the east end of the island. Schley’s squadron stood before San. tiago for some days and was about to leave when it wae announced that Cer- vera’s fleet was in Santiago Harbor. A junction with Sampson’s fleet occurr- ed almost immediately after and on July 3, 1898, Cevera-undertook to escape. At the time Sampson, aboard his flag- ship, the New York, was seven miles away at Siboney, in conference with forces. An engagement followed in which Schiey’s flagship, the Booklyn, took a leading part. After the war closed numerous charges were made in the public prints that Schley had been guilty of inefficiency if not cowerdice and he asked a court ox inquiry. After a prolonged period he was acquitted. He was retired Oct. 8, 1901, as a Rear Admiral and since that time had lived quietly in and about New as a Rear Admiral and since that time had lived quietly in and about New York, , Admiral Schley was married at An- napolis in 1863 to Anne Rebecca Frank- saa His sen is a beach WR in New York. wreintinnt Sik Metall bo Ge Wowk LINCOLN, Neb., Sept. 2—President was taken to him while he was, at ‘that it came as a distinct shock. He ls - years in ee AT FIRST Winfield Scott Schley dropped dead to- ’. day near the corner of Forty-fourth| ¢ street and Fifth avenue while on his The Admiral died be- . Admiral Schley had been out of town and on his return had| 4 gone to the New York Yacht Club in After a short | ? ed to walk along Forty-fourth stfeet ? Scarcely a block from the point where Just as he passed the Berkeley Ly- | ‘pishop. -|REAR' ADMIRAL SCHLEY — DROPS DEAD WALKING ON A NEW YORK CITY STREET [ > + > ? ? i¢ vr oa wr DR. HAWKINS MADE PRESIDING ELDER, Lafayette Park Minister Put in Charge of City Southern Methodist Churches. The Rev. Charles M. Hawkins, D. D., pastor, of the Lafayette Park Meth- oéist Church, was named presiding el- de: of the St. Louis district at the Scuthern Methodist district conference in Kirkwood Monday. The Rev. Dr. 8S. H. Wainright, whe retires as presiding elder after having served four years, was assigned to the pastorate of the new University Church in University City. The other appointments § involving changes in pastorates in and near St. Iouls were made, and announced by Bishop Collins Denny in the closing mo- ments of the conference, as follows: Ivan Lee Holt, from University Church to Cape Girardeau; William Court, from Farmington to Lafayette Park; C. C. Berry, from Christy Me- morial to Marvin Memorie}; J. P. Stub- blefield, to Carondelet; J. E. Martin, to Kirkwood; L. R. Jenkins, from Kirk- wood to Farmington; U. H. Duggins, from presiding elder at De Soto to Grand Avenue Church, 8t. Louis; J. W. Wor- snop, from Grand Avenue Church, 8t. Louis, to be presiding elder at De Soto: J. W. Hatcher, to the newly created Bridgeton circuit in St. Louis County. Bishop Takes Responsibility. Bishop Denny said that he desired to take the entire responsibility for the appointments. : . ‘Ig you don’t like the appointments,” he said, “don’t blame the elders, for I have not consulted them. I have not even called into conference her who rules my home, but I have spoken only to God and sought only his guidance. “In all my service,” continued the ‘TT have never heard so much talk of factions as I have heard in this meeting of the St. Louis district conference. I wish I could make you pastors_and people realize how much church work is harmed by this sort of thing. I pray God you may unite and work together.” Bishop Derny’s plain words of cen- sure, which followed a. glowing ex- pression of appreciation for the hos- pitality shown him in St. Louis came as @ surprise to the ministefs and lay- men attending the conference. The “For Sale” and “Exchange” want ads enumerate opportunities for those who wish to. secure a used car oF make’ on wang 91 LOUIS DISTRICT (GIRL, 16, ENDS LIFE WHEN TOLD Shit MUST LEAVE Gil Birdie Marsh of Springfield, Mo., Uses Revolver Found in Lodger’s Room. = Rather than leave St. Louis and re- turn to her home in Springfield, Mo., Birdie Marsh, 16 years old, shot and killed herself Monday in her room, at lil South Fifteenth street. The young woman came to St. Louis May 15 in search of work, and lived with her sister, Mrs. Lulu Tate. She fulled to find employment, and Mrs. Tate told her Sunday that she could not longer continue to care for her. “1 told her she would have to pack her trunk today,” said Mrs. Tate to a peliceman, ‘‘and she seemed very much ddwncast at the prospect of having to go back, to Springfield. “The family at home is a large one, and Birdie did not seem to get along well with the rest.” At 8:30 a. m. Mrs. Tate heard a re- volver shot from her sister’s second- floor bedroom. Roy Harris, delivery man for a coffee firm, was at the front door at that moment, and he ran up- stairs with Mrs; Tate. They found Miss Marsh's body lying across the bed, with a bullet wound in her forehead. The revolver, which was still held in her lifeless hand, was recognized by the landlady, Mrs. Louisa Schaver, as be- longing to J. W. Hutchinson, janitor of the Metropolitan office building, who oc- cupied another room on the same floor. How she got it no one could explain. So far as the other knew, she had no especial acquaintance with Hutchinzgon. JAMES W: ALCORN’S AUTO IS BURNED Machine Back-Fires and Ignites Gasoline on the Garage Floor. Fire caused $1500 damage to James W. Alcorn’s garage in the rear of his res- idence at. ss Lindell boulevard and cranking the car when the muffler hack- fired and the flame ignited gasoline drippings on the garage floor. igi PRICE ONE CENT itcrpedo boat destroyer Coatit arrived Tat the Dardanelles have telegraphed | Powers was drawn up at s meeting of to ali the Ottoman embassies. Later the|,, es aa Kaiser's hishociades' in bel stantinople Working Ac- tively to Effect Peaceful Settlement of War. — William’s Reply to the Sul- - tan’s Appeal for Interven- tion in Hostilities Pleases the Turk. Mohammedan Fleet Is Re- ported Sunk in Dardanel- les—Confirmation Comes in a Direct Way. By the Associated Press. ation in Rome. It ig semit-officially announced today that Germany is not considering the despatch of a warship to the Mediter- ranean and this is taken as a further indication that the Government expects the hostilities to be of short dura- tion. According. te official information the Italian landing\at Tripoli’ has been in- terrupted by bad weather. Enver Bey, the hero of the Young Turks revolution, who is the Turkish wiiitary attache here, before departing tor Constantinople told friends that he expected to be sent to Tripoli by Way of Egypt to organize the resistance in the interior. Enver Bey, who has Arab tlood in his veins, counts on the moral support of the Senussi Arabs, but his chief reliance will be the Tuareg No- mads, whose fanaticism and bravery especially fit them for guerrilla war- fare. The papers here ovint columns of re- ports of Turko-Italian fighting, but without confirmation of any of the re- perts except that of the encounter be- tween the Italian squadron and the Tur- kish torpedo boat destroyers off Pre-j| vesa. All others are believed to be in- correct. Italian War Boat Says Tripoli Firing Commenced Saturday at 8 P. M. AGOSTA, Sicily, Oct. 2—The Italian here today with refugees from Tripoll. The passengers state that the Italian, squadron began to bombard the forts of Tripoli at 8 o’clock Saturday evening. They say that when the firing began the romaining foreign residents left the har- bor aboard two steamers. Paris Hears Turkish Fleet ts] Destroyed. PARIS, Oct. 2—The Agence Fournier at midnight sent out the following Rome dispatch, dated Oct. 1: “A telegram from Constantinople to the Tribuna, says that all the consuls that a naval battle is going on in the straits. Reports of guns are heard as far as the Bosphorus.” At 1:30 o’clock this morning, the same agency sent out a Rome dispatch dated Oct. 2, which says: ‘‘News of the destruction of the Turk- ish fleet seems to be confirmed.” (The fleet referred to is the one which sailed from Beirut for the Dardanelles. Unofficial statements from Constanti- rople yesterday said the fleet had ar- rived in safety.) Two Boats Sunk and Third Captured by Italy Near Prevensa. LONDON, Oct. i1—A_ dispatch to Lloyd’s from Corfu says that two Tur- hish torpedo boats were sunk and a third captured off Gumenitza, near Prevesa, by the patroling Italian fleet. THIRD APPEAL — vn 10,THE POWERS) w York World.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. ar: new note, the third of the last week, to the} Sultan personally made a statement in on ad} TRIPOLI . . olation by Ita destroyed all or part of danelles. Turkish border. to the Powers. Turkish and one captured off itza. safely in capital. Other : onae gus thet teewace san fleet at entrance to the Russia mobdilizes troops @ The Porte sends another Lloyds, of London, hear gunboats were oo . a he Y pk ae >t ~ a ey “ b ex F. e% ee ¥ BERLIN, Oct. 2.—It was stated at the Foreign Office + evening that although no offer of mediation has yet been made, th German Ambassador at Constantinople, Baron Marschall ° Bieberstein, was already: working actively at the Turkish « trying to effect a peaceful settlement between Italy and T Baron von Bieberstein yesterday presehted the Emperor’ st graphic answer to the Sultan’s appeal for ‘intervention. Beyo the statement that the Sultan was pleased therewith, no details o: His Majesty’s response can be ascertained here officially, but it % believed Germany feels encouraged to continue her efforts at medi- Pasha as Grand Vizier. to inform ee tinued oral encoun height of a severe gale early t Cr ae ele” é (™~ eee nt 0 OPT PE ee ee ~ , > , Ss