St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 26, 1915

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NR BL RE ete A NR pRB SPEEDS NIGHT ' EDITION FINANCIAL MARKETS = SPORTS _ GERMAN SUBMARINE SINKS AMERICAN FREIGHTER; NOLIVES LOST —| INVESTIGATIONS BEGUN [Easton es She Ly Aner Tuna Over _VECCFL | QADED 10 FIN BLANE FO? === WITH CONTREBIND, EASTLAND DISASTER FROM ARCHANGEL Leelanaw, Carrying Flax to Ireland, Destroyed Off Northwest Coast of Scotland. The Half-Year’s Want Record emer] OT], LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Dispatch printed 323,326 Real Estate and Want Only Evening Paper in St. Louts W ith Associated Press News Service. Ads, 33,472 more than the three nearest com- e petitors COMBINED! “VOL. 67. NO. 340. ee ee aaa ae eee eee a PRICE ONE CENT | pee a oT. LOUIS, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 26, 1915—+6 PAGES. SS A , ij Chicago Prosecutor Says His Evidence} Indicates That Boat Was Overloaded. ANOTHER ‘FRYE” CASE, IS OPINION IN WASHINGTON NEW CORONER’S ESTIMATE PUTS THE DEAD AT 1080 Great Britain, in Note to United States, Defends Order in Council as Within Law— Berlin Awaits U. S. Protest td Britain Before Answering Wilson Divers Continue to Search in Steamer’s Hull for Victims—Federal and State Officials Con- duct Inquiries — $300,000 Raised Immediately for Relief. LONDON, July 26, 2:16 p. m—The American steamship Leelanaw from Archangel, July 8, for Belfast, with a cargo of By Associated Press, CHICAGO, July 26.—Figures announced by Coroner Hoff- man this afternoon place the total of lives lost in the Eastland steamshi pdisaster at 1080. The Coroner’s statement gave the number of bodies recovered as 810 and the number of missing reported to the Western Electric Co. as 270. All but nine of the bodies recovered have been identified. It is estimated that there still are 200 bodies in the hull of the steamer. Investigations to determine the cause of the accident and pun- ish the guilty were vigorously pushed during the day by Coroner Hoffman, State’s Attorney Hoyne and Charles F. Clyne, United States Distirct Attorney. After questioning members of the Eastland’s crew and scores of eye wit- nesses, State’s Attorney Hoyne and his assistants expressed the opinion -that the accident was caused by the over- Icading of the boat. United States District Attorney Clyne, after conferring with Federal ecmmont inspectors. said: “When the time comes for us to talk’! we will have plenty to say.’ Steamboat inspection officials met with District Attorney Clyne and sev- eral others today, and while no an- nouncement was made as to what trans- pired at the meeting, it was hinted that plans were formulated for conducting the Federal investigation so as not to have it conflict with the State and city investigations. , Dickerson N. Hoover, acting super- Vising inspector-general of the steam- hoat ingpecifon service, and Charles H. Westcott, District Supervisor, attended the conference. An official of the Fed- eral Department of Justice and a rep- resentatives of the State’s Attorney's of-* fice also are said to have been pres- ent. Atormey*General Gregory at Wash- ington orderec agents of the depart- ment to assist District Attorney Clyne. Officials Inspect Steamer. Albert Goodrich of the ‘jcodrich Tran- sit Co. und Battalion Chief Edward Buckley of the fire department made ™ an inspection of the Eastland today, but neither would talk as to the reason for it. The steamer also Michael F. Sullivan, Assistant’ State's Attorney, ard Joseph Geary, the latter Chief Inspector of the State's Attorney. Late this afternoon it was announced it would take 10 days to raise the steamer and that the work would be begun at cence. Coroner Hoffman an- reunced today that testimony befcre the Coronor’s jury will begin at 19 oclock tomorrow morning. He also announced that he had engaged W. J. Wood, naval architect, who is familiar with the ecnstruction of the Eastlard, to make a thorough inapection of the teat at the earliest possible moment. State’s Attorney Hoyne began the preparation of evidence for the Cook County grand jury on the theory that the United States Inspection bureau erred when it granted a license to the boat to engage in the translake business. - Hoyne declared that he was ignoring the question of the filling of the water ballast compartments and expressed the opinion that the evidence he has in hand already indicated that the East- land was an unsafe vessel, regardless of the diligence of the crew in comply- ing with regulations. An effort will be made to complete the identification of bodies at the Second armory today. $200,000 Fund for Retief. A fund of $300,000 will be ready today for general relief work, it is announced. was inspected by POLO MERIT i = ri Glee OE GLE ILE EL AOL I A aiaatied Relief committees which were appointed yesterday took up their work today. The finance committee~ will meet with the Mayor to complete the plans for raising a fund of $300,000 to which the Western Electric Co. has given $100,000, The funa ror the relief of the dis- tressed as « result of the Eastland di+- aster had passed $150,000 before noon. The street car employes’ tributed $6000 to the fund. The rescue work at the steamer con- tinued with a reduced force of divers today. F. H. Avery, in charge of the divers, reported to Coroner Hdffman that he believed there were about 200 bodies still in the steamer, but feared they could not be recovered until the boat is raised. Employes of the Western Electric Co. took their usual places in the big plants on the West Side today. They remained idle and silent while the foremen of the various departments checked off the missing. There were many places unoc- cupied. The foremen jottéd down the name of the men, women, girls and boys who last Friday left their work never to return. Divers engaged in rescue work re- ported to:.Coroner Hoffman today that they believed there were about 200 bodies still in the hull of the steamer East- land, many of which are in such a po- sition they can not be taken out until the vessel is raised. The work of searching the submerged interior of the boat ‘and dragging: the river for victims progressed slowly. At noon three additional bodies had been recovered, Coroner Hoffman believes the total number of dead will reach 1200, if the estimates of divers on the number of bodies still in the boat proves correct. F. H. Avery, in charge of the divers, engaged in the rescue work, said that his men were able to see many bodies in the hull which they were unable to reach. First Funeral Service Held. The first funeral services for the East- land victimes were held today. More than 300 corteges passed through the streets. Arrangements have been made’ to hold services for some of the dead every day this week. In several instances today the same serviae was said over two or three persons, members of the same family. Several hundred survivors who swal- lowed river water today followed the ad- vice of Health Commissioner Rebertson and were treated with typhoid fever antitoxin by Health Department physi- clans. . Harry Thayer of New York, president of the Western Electric Co., conferred with Mrs. Osborne Rowe, head of the city's Welfare Bureau, and John J. O'Connor, director of the Red. Cross CouUaued en Page 3, Colama 1. Orem ee ee = : union con-, i PRUDUGE MANS WIFE, FURNITURE AND DOG VANISH Robert W. Kiely, After Search- ing for Them Since Last Tues- day, Asks for Police Aid. Robert M. Kiely, cashier of a Fourth street produce firm, returned to his home at 6146 Waterman avenue last Tuesday night and was amazed to find his wife, his furniture and his bulldog had vanished while he had been at his office. He searched for them five days and last night asked the police .v Assist him. Kiely told the police he thought his wife, who is 28 years old, might- be found in,the vicinity of Lindell boule- vard and Vandeventer avenue, and that she might be known there as~ ‘Mrs. Stevens” or/ ‘Mrs. Baum.” Kiely’s request for police assistance disclosed that he and his wife had be- come reconciled after she had-sued for divorce on May 2. In her suit Mrs. Kiely alleged that her husband drank to excess, associated with other women and remained away from home fre- quently at night. The divorce suit never was dismissed. Kiely, sipce his wife's disappearance, has been living at the home of his fa- ther, Patrick M.’ Kiely, 31 Windermere place. In his absence today his father teld a reporter that his son's irregular hours,. caused by his business, was re- sponsible for some of .their marital dis- content. He said that his son had, to be at his business at 3 o’clock in the morning, and frequently missed _ his SHOWERS PROBABLE: NOT MUCH EMPERATURE CHANGE IN THE T THE beeen er —_* ES. 74 Official fore- east for St. Louis and vicinity: Un- settled weather tonight and to- morrow, probably v'tth showers; not much change in temperature. Missouri—Unsets tiled tonight and tomorrow, with showers; not much change in temperature. — Illinois — Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow: probably showers by tomorrow aft- ernoon or, night. Stage of the river, 3.8 feet, a fall of .2 of a foot. A DAVENPORT THAT LETS DOWN. GLEN ECHO TRUSTEES OFFER 10 TURN BACK PROPERTY Plan Is to Place It in Receiver’s Hands and Have It Sold at Auction Again — Old Members Expected to Consider Proposals. The Board of Trustees of the New Glen Echo. Country Club, which had keen accused of attempting to ‘‘freeze cut” 135 mengbers of the oid club, today old members. It says the list of mem- bers merely as gone over by the trustees and it was found that many of the members were not personally known to any of the trustees. On this made public a propdésition by which it | point the statement says: agrees to turn the property back to the old club, have it placed in the hands of a receiver and again sold at public ‘auction. It this will be’ considered at a meeting of the old club members set for 2:20 p. m. day at the Planters Hotel. Old mem- bers of the club are organized as The Glen Echo Protective Association. The.trustees, who purchased the cluo property at public auction July 10 for approximately $132,000, are now willing to forege® their plan to form a new club. The only conditions laid down are that the Glen Echo Protective Association shall pay back to the trustees the $132,- 000 which they paid for the property and all interest and expenses connected is expected that proposition to- | with the sale and shall consent to the appointment of a receiver to be agreed upon by the trustees and by the Pro- tective Association. Receiver to Resell Property. It is stipulated that the receiver shall act without charge for his’ services other than the cost of his bond and that he shall resell the property under di- rection of the St. Louis County Cir- cuit Court, the proceeds to be divided among the club members as the court may direct. The trustees’ meeting, .t which it was agreed to make this pro >osition, was held Saturday, after the Pust-Dispatch had published the fact that caly about 70 persons asked to join the ,»roposed new club had sent in acceptances of th invitation issued by the trustees. Copies of the. proposition to resell the club were received by all members os the old Glen Echo Country Club in this morning’s mail. It was accompanied by a “long printed statement, in which the trustees denied that in purchasing the club’& property they acted as trus tees for the members. According to the statement, they did not band them selves ‘together as trustees until after they” bought the property, and they then organized as trustees of the New Glen Echo Club Trust: Agreement, which hal no obligation to the old club members. A conégiderable portion of the state- ment is in effect the same as the one issued by C. D. Johnson, one of the trus- tees, and published in full in the Post- Dispatch last week. One new feature of the statement is that it denies that there ever was 4 purpose to finally exclude any of the “After a discussion it was decided that for the time being only a limited number of persons should be asked to become associated with the nine trus- tees, it heing stated that from time to time, as the persons unknown to the trustees became known to all, or to some of them, invitations could and would be sent to them.” In further support of the assertion that no effort was made to ‘“‘freeze out”’ anyone, the statement quotes the min- utes of the secret meeting at the Noon- day Club: ‘Motion by Mr. J. C. Robefts, second- ed by Mr. C. D. Johnson: Whereas a ma- jority of trustees are present, that con- sideration of members and any other business be proceeded with. Negative vote of two trustees on a name will post- pone consideration at this time. Mr. Jones voted no. Carried. All others voted yes.” Jones’ Action Criticised. After quoting this entry the statement issued by the trustees says: “It will therefore be seen that anv statement by any person that anyone was rejected by the trustees, discussed as undesirable, frozen out or otherwise discriminated against, is absolutely un- true. The only unfortunate feature about this entire transaction has been that, according to newspapers, Mr. J. CC. Jones saw fit to give to the news- papers a list of the persons upon whose names action was postponed at an ex- ecutive session. No other trustee has. to our knowledge, disclosed anything that took place in this meeting, and if a faise impression has been created with the public as to the action of the trustees and anyone’s feelings. have been hurt, the foundation of all this trouble lies with the person who gave the newspapers the above-mentioned ig Ma The Post-Dispatch was the first news- paper to publish a list of the 135 old members of the Glen Echo Club who were not invited to join the proposed new club. It did not obtain the list from J. C. Jones, or any other of the nine trustees. After reading the statement Jones said he was not told“that the trustees’ meeting was executive and if he had been so informed he would have con- sidered it his duty to the members of the club to make khown what he be- lieved to be ai deliberate effort to “freeze out” certain of the members. . He said it was unlikely that the prop- Ceatinued on Page 2, Columa 3. sf "= BUMBS DROPPED ON WAROAW ; GERMAN DRIVE CONTINUES Raid on Vistela:Beideo Fails, but Civilians Are Killed— Invaders North of City Are Only 24 Miles From the Main Petrograd - Warsaw Railway. LONDON, July 26.—A dispatch from Petrograd to Reuter’s Telegram Co. to- day says: “A German air raid on the Vistula bridge at Warsaw failed of its object. though the bombs caused several cas- ualties among the civilians.”’ oo BERLIN, via London, July 26.—Fur- ther German advances on the Russian front are recorded in today’s statement from the War Office: ‘North of the River Niemen the army under Gen. von Buelow has reached the district of Poswol and Ponicwitz. Wherever the enemy has offerad re- sistance he has been beaten. We capn- tured over 1000 prisoners. (‘The towns of Poswol and Ponicwitz are about 40 miles to the east and south- east, respectively, of the Shavli, in Rus- sian province of Kovno, and about 5 miles west of the Petrograd railways which supplies Warsaw.) “On the Narrew front our _ troops forced a crossing of the river. Further- more, both above and below Ostrolenka, our troops are slowly pushing the enemy back in the direction of the River Bug. The Russians are offering obstinate re- sistance to these advances. Here alsvy we captured about 100 Russians and more than # machine guns. On the northwest front our troops wre advane- ing toward the group of fortifications around Novo Georgiecsk and Warsaw ‘In the southeastern theater of war. north of Wojslawice and south of Chelm on the River Bug, German troope tn tho recent fighting pushed the enemy: still further back. Yesterday we captured here 11 officers, 1457 men and 11 machine guns." Germans Now 24 Miles From Main Warsaw Ratiroad. LONDON, July %.—The German ad- vance from the Narew River now is 4 miles as a crcw flies from the Warsaw- Petrograd main raliroad, but the Ger- mana still have to fight their way_across the Buc River, as well as over miles of virtually roadiess country” between the Narew and the Bug. “The fate of Warsaw really depends on the Bug River,’ says a Petrograd dispatch, “which is a much more form idabie obstacle than is the Narew, the crossing of which by the Germans was Zaci'itated by an islet in mid-river near the confluence Of the Orjitza River.” ep 2 age ek el Te a RNR rm a 8 St. flax, was sunk yesterday by a German submarine off the North- west coast of Scotland. All the members of the crew of the Lulanaw were saved. They were brought into Kirkwall in their own boats. The Leelanaw left Galveston May % and New York May 17, with a cargo of cotton consigned to Russia by way of Gothenburg. The vessel was detained at Kirkwall while inquiries were made as to the possibility of getting her car- go to Russia, as Sweden forbids the ex- port of cotton. The ship was released June 26, with permission to proceed to Archangel, where the cotton was dis- charged and a cargo of flax was load ed for Belfast. No details of the torpedoing of the | Leelanaw have been received beyond/sa message stating that the crew had been safely landed at Kirkwall, Scotland, and had notified the American Consul at Dundee of the sinking of the ves- sel. The Leelanaw was owned by the Har- by Steamship Co. of New York. She was formerly called the Earnwell. She was 280 feet long and of 1924 gross tons. An official statement of the German Government, issued April 18, 1915, set forth that flax was contraband of war. The Leelanaw,was commanded by Capt. D. B. Delk. Her crew consisted of seven-officers and 32 men and her owners planned to return the Leelanaw in ballast to America. The British steamers Grangewood of $422 tons and the British steamer Firth and the French stéamer Danae and four trawlers also have been sunk on the Archangel route in the Nerth Sea by a German submarine. The Crews were saved except for four men killed on tne Firth by the explosion. The attacked by two submarines, one which, crews from the trawlers say, was sunk by gunfire and bombs from the trawlers. Impression in Washington Ia That It In Another “Frye” Cane. WASHINGTON, July .%.—While of- ficilals would not be quoted on the sink- ing of the Leelanaw the general im- pression seemed to be that it was a rep- etition in kind of the Frye case, since the vessel was carrying contraband to the allies and no American lives were lost. The Frye case is settled in prin- ciple, the only disagreement being as to whether the amount of damages to be paid by Germany should be determined by a German prize court or through dip- lomatic channels. It was pointed out that the act of the submarine commander in permitting the Leelanaw crew to leave the ship before she was blown up was added evidence of the recently noted change of policy in German submarine warfare on com- merce, | One view was that Germany, in ef- fect, had ignored and disregarded the note sent in connection with the sink- Ing of the Frye. In that communication, the United States vigorously asserted its position that even though an American ship carried contraband of war, it was pe- cullarly protected from destruction by the stipulations of the Prussian-Ameri- can treaty of 1828. The United States has, in its corre- spondence with Germany, insisted on the application of the following article 13 of the treaty: “In the case of one of the contract- [ing parties being engaged in war with any other Power, to prevent all the difficulties and misunderstandings that usually arise respecting merchandise of contraband, such as arms, ammunition and military stores of every kind, no such articles carried in the vessel or by the subjects or cjtizens of either party to. the enemies of the other, shall be deemed contraband so as to induce confiscation or condemnation and a loss of property to individuals. Damages Provided For. ‘‘Nevertheless, it shall be lawful to stop such vessels and articles and to de- tain them for such length of time as the captors may think necessary to pre- vent the inconvenience or damage that micht engue from their proceeditig, pay- ing, however, reasonable compensation for the loss such arrests shall occasion to the. proprietors. “But In the case, supposed, of a ves- sel stopped for articles of contraband, if the master of the vessel stopped will de- liver out the goods supposed to be of contraband nature, he shall be admit- ted to do it, and the vessel shall not in that case be carried into any port, nor further detained, but shall be allowed to proceed on her voyage.” Germany immediately admitted her li- ability under the foregoing article, when the Frye was sunk, and agreed to pay damages. She replied, however, tat she could not admit that the desiruc- tion of the Frye was a violation of the treaty. “On the contrary,” said Berlin, “Article 13 expressiv reserves to the party at war the right to stop the car- ryirg of contraband and to detain the contraband; it follows then that if it cannot be accomplished in any other way, the stopping of the supply, may, in the extreme cause, be affected by the destruction of the sh¥) carrying it. As “a matter of course, the obligation of the party at war to pay compensatidn to the interested persons of the neutral con- tracting party remains in force whatever be the manner of stopping the supply.” Ul. S. Refused te Concur, The United States, as late as June 4M, replied that ‘‘the Government of the United States cannot concur in tws conclusion,” The case of the Leelanaw. it was ind}. cated by officials, would be argued along the same lines, as soon as an of- ficial report was received. Saving of the lives of the crew. they thought. could not allay the feeling of the Amer- ican Government that Germany had four times in the present war violated a treaty of nearly a century’é standing. Under that treaty the American Gov- ernment considers that the American ships Qulflight and Nebraskan, which were torpedoed without warning, the .William P. Frye and the Leelanaw should have been immune from violence of any kivrd. German Reply to Depend Upon Our Note to Britain By Associated Press. BERLIN, via London. July 27.—There is every indication that ecneiderable time will elapse before the German Gov- ernment makes any attempt to answer «QR SQ alee eager 7 oN the latest American Rote on the sink- iin ——— — y Guat, — ao ——