St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 28, 1915

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A Man ADDS to his VALUE | asa Citizen When HeBuys a Home sa combined. Last week the Post-Dispatch printed 13,565 War: and Real Estate advertisements—1711 more than the FOUR Other St. — ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Only Evening Paper im St. :Louis With Associated Press News Service. INIGH EDITION Louis pew: io VOL. 68. NO. 39. » ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 28, 1915—-22 PAGES. | PRICE ONE CENT | FINANCIAL MARKETS _SPORTS _ ODIES FOUND IN ARDMORE RUINS AFTER EXPLOSIONS Injured in City in Oklahoma Where Gasoline and Dyna- mite Blew Up Number at of Least 200, Several Whom May Die. FLAMING LIQUID WAS _ _ SPREAD FOR BLOCKS Property Loss Estimated at More Than $1,000,000 — Fifteen Negroes Killed "When Pool Hall Collapsed. By Associated Press. ARDMORE, Ok., Sept. 28.—Discovery of additional bodies today in the ruins at Ardmore increased to 55 the number of known deaths resulting from yester- day’s explosion of a gasoline tank car. The property damage is estimated at mrore than $1,000,000. There are at least 200 injured, some of these probably fa- tally. Of the dead 3% are white and 19 ‘negroes. | The car which éxploded contained 300) galions of gasolife. It caused great damage. Six blocks in each direction from the Santa Fe freight and passen- ger depots were affected. Flames leaped to a height of 200 feet and the flaming Nquid was scattered for blocks Car in “Bad Order.” Railroad men who were in the yard at the sult. On the contrary, he suffered in many places very consider able losses, besides bringing us an appreciable gain in territory. ‘‘Our counter attack resulted in-our-eapturing-20- officers and 750 meh, increasing the number of prisoners taken in this locality to 3397 men, including a number of officers; Nine additional me chine guns were captured. ; ‘*At Souchez, Angres and Roclinecert and also along the en- tire front from the Ghampagne to the Argonne, attacks by the French were repulsed without a break. | French Said to Have Sent Cav alry Forward. ‘‘In the region of Souain, the enemy actually brought forward masses of vavalry, showing a remarkable lack of appreciation o¢ the situation. Naturally many<of them were shot down and the others forced to flee as quickly as possible. ‘‘During the repulse of these attacks the Saxon reserve regi- ment and the troops of the Frankfort-on-Main division especially distinguished themselves. Germans in Champagne Protected by Concealed Wire Entanglements By Associated Press. : : PARIS, Sept. 28—The new offensive movement of the allies has resulted in a further gain in the Artois region, near Souchez, the War Office announced today. Additional progress is reported in Champagne. The German counter-attack in the Argonne is said to have keen repulsed. The Germans left the ground before the trenches eyvered with dead. The Germans are offering determined resist- ance in Champagne. The positions to whieh they have retreated ure protected by a system of barbed wire entanglements. The text of the communication follows: ‘¢In the Artois district we made advances yesterday evening and night we gained ground step by step in the directions of the hill tops enet and to the southwest of Souchez. Concealed Wire Entaglements Protect Germans. ‘‘In the Champagne district the Germans are offering resistance ‘rom certain of their positions where they are protected by concealed barbed wire entanglements. ‘¢We have made further progress in the direetion of Hill No, 186, whieh ia west of the Navarin farm and in the direction of La Justice, whieh is north of Massiges. ¢ ‘‘In the Argonne the obstinate attacks delivered yesterday by the enefhy with six or eight battalions (6000 or 8000 men) against our first line trenches at La Fille Morte and at Nolante resylted in a serious check. counter attacks made by us im the course of the night made it possible us to expel the German infantrymen from almost all the positions they hed succeeded in penetrating. The ground in front of our trenches is covered . with dead bodies of the enemy. ‘The night passed with relative calm along the remainder of the frout.”’ Intelligence from the Champagne front have been dismissed hitherto with brie: 4 Chalons, which reached Paris to- | references in French official communica- eeretss . . ' tions because the resulta were only day, shows that it was the right o | negative. Chitieniin the German Crown Frince’s army which» testify that the resistance of the French was shattered in e attacks of Fri- day and Saturday. The Crown Prince's center made furious efforts to counter in the Argonne yesterday, with the re- sult that all railroads to the\ecast and north, according to French informa- tion, were engaged last night in car- rying away German wounded, French otficers reckon that the Crown Prince's army lost 100,000 men in this attack and previous assaults during the summer. The plan of attack of this army has been the sending in masses of two di- visions, or about. 40,000 men, at a time against French works, These engage- ments—each one equal in importance toe some of the great batties of fensive and that their artillery fire, © deadly effect a year ago, has sow | é 7 ; RTE Oh s Spin gait