St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 8, 1917

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aces 7, by H. ‘ ue ener wha a s. Om.) haope figure by the authorities. In Basen that between > £000 dwellings eccupied by the poor- 3 = @F classe there were scarcely blankets enough / t cover wounded bodies, and many ' the only lights obtainable were from © © lamps or candles. om tes thére are t of famine. u mass of wreckage searching for | Plosion and fire, men, women and Mildren huddled together as _ best could and passed a night of» fering. The chilling wind whis- through smashed windows Were unable to obtain food. Fires Were almost out of the question, and 20,000 Are Destitute. ‘hight: Vessel Was Commanded by Lieutenant- | This is a picture of the American Destroyer Wainwright, a sister ship of the Jacob J. nes, whose destruction in a torpedo attack with heary loss of life was announced today. The Wainwright, completed in 1916 about the time the Jacob Jones was c. mmissioned,. has the same — characteristics as the lest vessel. te ZERO TONIGHT: TEMPERATURE TO RISE TOMORROW Fair Skies Forecast for Sunday— Minimum of Two Above This Morning. THE at te ES. a. oe Yesterday: High, 23, low, 7 15, at 7 a. m. | GOODBy in (©) OULASH AND GYPSEY BANDS Official fore. cast for St. Louis and vicin- ity: Fair to- night and to- morrow: slowly | rising tempera-_ ture tomorrow : the lowest temi- perature to- night will be about zero. Missouri: erally fair night; colder in southeast por- tion; tomorrow, unsettied and somewha* warmer prob- ably snow in west portion. Illinois: Gen- erally fair to- colder in east and south por- tomorrow unsettled and some- ir? south portion. m., 2 feet, tion; what warmer Stage of river at 7 a. a rise of .1 foot. |Weekly Forecast Is for Fair and Cold in Mississippi Valley. WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—Weather predictions for the week beginning | ‘Sunday issued by the Weather Bur- cau are: South Atlantic iulf States—Generally and East and West fair: visits. temperature. homeless and accounting for the | - dead The Citizens’ Finance Com- ee, headed by Justice Harris, es- 20,000 destitute | ple in the devastated area, the ority of them from the poorer 8. Nearly 4000 dwelling | were destroyed, the commit- ' declares, and the actual losses the estimated cost of temporary | itenance will approximtae $30,-— ‘Perhaps the most serious of the) iny problems to be met is the food | on. There is enough food in city for immediate needs, communication is opened the city faces the poc-ibility The energies of locai. committees have been centered conservatoin of food, anc) Shants have surrendered nl! | available supplies for the com- m needs. Milk almost is unob able, and fears are expressed for | lives of babies in arms unless an) uate supply is assured from out- In the greater task of caring for living, no concerted effort is be- | ‘Made at present to compile «a -Of the dead, but hundreds o? . sailors, Am-:rican “jackies ™nG volunteers are groping under | ; | ; Te morgues are choked with | led bodies, many of whom bly never will be identified. Po- | officials still estimate the dea! t 2000 and the injured :at Svvv or _ Many Temporary Hospitals. | | Set hospitals, regular and im- | , every available spot is oc-. oy the wounded. In addition | © Nova , Scotia, General and Hall hospitals and the infirm-— athe Y. M. C. A., Knights of Co- | nbus building, St. Paul's Hall, and | places have been converted | q nto _ temporary hospitals. oma Ay Ayes apcaageaalany but |. ‘| NFRANCE, Dec. 8.—Capt. Bruce ' Bairnsfather ‘whose cartoons are ‘America, arrived in ‘training area today, prepared to set- | Ohio Valley, Tennessee and Great Lakes Region and upper and lower | Mississippi Valleys—Fair and cold. Southern Rocky Mountain and Plateau Rezgions—Generally fair: ne decided temperature change. CAPT, BAIRNSFATHER TO DRAW CARTOONS OF U. S. SOLDIER | Arrives in Training Camp in France . to eGt Color for Work to Appear in Post-Dispatch. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY | British army, well known in the American | of ‘the tie down and absorb a month or so.of , local color. Bairnsfather’s cartoons | ‘have brought many laughs. They are. ‘familiar to readers of the Post-Dis- | patch. “My Government feels that my |professional efforts have been an aid ‘in recriuting and helping to win the ‘war. I now want to try my hand on ‘American subjécts,” said Bairnsfa- ‘ther. “F want to get into the spirt of the American soldier.” Note—Capt. Bainsfather’s humor- ous sketches of American soldiers will appear only in the Post-Dispateh in St. Louis, “Bullets and Billets,” the Captain's story of his own experi-. ences in the trenches, begins in the Post-Dispatch next Momeny. HARDEN SAYS GERMANY MUST WIN OR BE CRUSHED UTTERL AMSTERDAM, Dec. eee. | declared in an article recently pub- lished in his newspaper: “Oniy a miracie can bring peace. Hither Germany must be crushed or. our enemies defeated. There is »o alternative.” Gen-— to- . slowly. TEMPERATURE 2 - Woe HERE. SNO Cars Forced to Run Slowly, Causing Congestion in Early Hours. The first heavy --ow of the season was quickly followed this morning by the lowest temperature of the _ Winter, when the official thermome- ‘ter ‘reading in St. the zero mark. The snow, falling yesterday, had through which began after noon after continuing all shortly ceased inches here. At the ~- fered with -set-car traffic and caused many to be late in reaching their destinations. United Railways snow plows had cleared the tracks. but the slippery condition of the rails made caut’ necessary and the cars were run more slowly than ‘ucual. This breaking up of the 'se*odules cause“ congestion on some parts of the system and lack of Cars when most needed on others. The temperature dropped 15 de- grees in nine hours in St. Louis. A: midnight it was 17 9 a. m. it was 2 de s above zero. The sharpest drop was 5 degrees .n one hour between 6 and 7 a. m., from 10 degrees to 5 degrees. The forecaster predicted a further drop to zero for tonight, with rising tem- perature tomorrow. The snow was general over greater portion of the country, ©x- tending from as far west as the Tex- as Panhandle to the Atlantic coast and was heaviest east of the Mis- | \sissippi River. Throughout the snow was a sharp drop in temperature. Springfield, with 8 below zero, was the coldest point in Missouri. . Low temperatures also prevailed in Kan- ‘sas, Concordia registering 4 below izero. Press - dispatches said that many towns-.in Kansas were short of Wave the fuel situation was consid- ered serious. The weather observer at City: called attention to an variation of temperatures in West, citing as instances 'Christi, Tex., with a temperature of 88; and Omaha, with 2 below. Kansas unusual the Louis approached | degrees and at | 7 | from the Kanawha iway down the Ohio River to South- area there ‘lations with Germany, /;an official announcement 'eountries at war matie relations ' early that the Minister the afternoon and night and reach- (ing a depth of 4.2 ! i~-~-to-work hour it inter-' ‘Quito said the action of the the | coal and that in view of the cold: Corpus | The Washington headquarters of. the Weather Bureau sent out cold ‘Wave warnings for the Ohio Valley, Tennessee and the plains states and. | Said a cyclonic depression of consid- | erable intensity was central over the lower Mississippi Valley. general rains in the South and snow in Tennessee, the Ohio Valley aad Middle Atlantic States. Trains Reaching St. Louis From One to Six Hours Late. indicating . The snow caused serious interfer- ence with traffic on all railroads run- ring into St. Louis and trains were from one to six hours late during the morning. All trains carrying mail to St. Louis from New York and other Eastern points were about two hours ‘behind their schedule. The Frisco, ‘Iron Mountain and Missouri, Kansas | |& Texas trains from Texas were six) hours late. The Cotton Belt from Arkansas and Southwestern points and the Illinois Central from Floridu was four hours and 40 minutes late. |Delays on other lines ranged from one hour to four hours. { All commuters’ trains from Continued on Page 2. Cotumsn 4. ’ \jfan Harden, editor of Die Zukunft, ' was five hours behind its scheduie, near. ee ~ ECUADOR SEVERS DIPLOMATIC. RELATIONS WITH GERMANY | Government Announces. Action. Ex- | pected Since Early in October: Ninth Nation to Break in Addi- tion to Those in War. GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, Dec. &.— Beuador has severed diplomatic re- according to made hy ‘the Government today. “tjon to take the 18! with Germany, has ©? breaking diplo- with Berlin since in October last, when Peru, Ecuador's neighbor on the south, the nir** in addition to Ecuador, such action, heen on the ~- ‘missed the German Minister at Lima After receiving his pass- Peruvian Dr. Perl. ports from the ment, Dr. Perl, ~ho also was .the ac- credited Ministér to Ecuador, mated that he would take up his resi- cence at Yuito, the Ecuadorean capi- tal. The Ecuadorean Secretary of i oreign Affairs, however, announced would not be re- Dispatches from Foreign Secretary was taken in order to dem- cnstrate the close affiliation of Ecua- dor wtih the Union of American Re- publics. 123 BARGES OF COAL ON RIVER 1,754,000 Bushels on Ohio on Way to Southern Markets. CHARLESTON, W. Va.. Dec. 8.— Eleven river steamboats, towing 12 barges and 31 flatboats, which carry a total of 1,754,000 bushels of coal field, are on their ceived officially. ern markets, the United States En- gineers’ office here has announced. The navigable stage, the statement said, was made possible by the most successful ‘artificial wave’ the en- gineers have yet created, as well as those of the upper Ohio | being utilized. In Tomorrow’s Sunday’s Post-Dispatch The Chivalry of the Air Fighters —Lieut. Bennett Moulter, an American flyer with the French army, tells how the men of alj belligerents who battle in aeroplanes observe all the courtesies toward each other that characterized medieva) combat. ae Empey Tells of ‘‘Teach- British Tommies How to Play Baseball — A humerous story of the difficulties that beset the British soldiers at the front in their endeavor to grasp the technique of the game. Merchant Ships and Their Yankee Gunners—The first of a series of five articles by Ralph Paine, famous writer of sea stories, on the experience of the armed CU. S. guards of steamships in the transatlantic trade. | Jerusalem and Its Environs Shown in Striking Photographs —A page of pietures from the birthplace of the Prince of Peace, now rocking under the thunders of war, strikingly re- produced in the Reotogravure on. Sketches From a St. Louis Artist ‘*Over There’’——An attractive feature of the Rotogravue Sec- tion. Ruthless Submarine War De- scribed By a Noted German U-Boat Commander—A first- hand story br a participant, gathered from his book in which the remorseless German ‘methods are revealed. Order Your Copy Today | dis- | | Italians Govern- | ‘to zn official Pi ee ement. _ inti-' points east of Siaco have TTALINS. FORGED BACK THREE MILES, ON TO-MILE FRONT : Defenders Offer Stubborn Re- sistance to Austrians Who Have Superiority m Guns. LONDON, Dec. 8.—The number of captured by the Germans and Austrians in their new offen- sive now exceeds 16,000; according een stormed, the statement says. indicates the capture of 1000 prison- € on Friday, for the official an- “ouncement yesterday said the total of prisoners taken was 15,0080. By Associated Press. America’s declaration Aur*~’ when the Italian northern front he- tween Asiago and the Brenta is be- ing hard pressed by an Austro-Ger- man army under Field Marshal | of war on i Conrad ven Hoe :zendorf. the | |damned up waters of the Kanawha On Friday the invading Austro- Germans back an average of three miles on a 10-mile front. But the advance was! gained at a great cost in casualties as.the Italians fought desperately | every foot -* the way and at some points preferred to die rather than to | surrender or retire.. In .addition to losing Monte Sisemol, three miles | east of Asiago, the Italians, accord- ing to Berlin, have given up 4000 ad- ditional prisoners. Although superiority in numbers) and artillery has forced the Italians’ to retreat, the defense line has not. been broken and there is yet 10 miles | of mountain country to fight through | before the foothills around Bassano | /are reached. The operation has straightened out the Italian iine, which now runs from Monte Cabed- labo, just south of Asiago, across the Ronchi and Frenzella Froza and east to the Brenta. The Italians are holding the invaders near the Brenta and the lates Aus- tro-German gains have been made. only around Asiago. DR. A. 0. MELVIN OF BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY DIES _Was Foremost Figure in Combating mal industry and well known to the} most figure in combating foot and | Foot and Mouth Disease in Cattle. WASHINGTON, Dec. 8&.—Dr. A: Melvin, chief of the bureau of ani- country as the Government’s fore- mouth disease and other diseases of cattle, died at his home here las: night of pulmonary hemorrhage. He was 55 years old, BELGIUM TURNS 600 ENGINES OVER TO PERSHING’S FORCES WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY) IN FRANCE, Dec, 8.——As-a mark of) , appreciation of what the States has done for Belgium. United the Belgian Government has turned over /to the American expeditionary force | 690 locomotives, all that remains of | the Belgian rail motive power. Pershing has béen authorized to. make such disposition of them as he (deems advisable. To the Belgian representative Gen. | | Pershing expressed the appreciation Which, he said, he knew would be ifelt by the people of the United | | States, especially as the Beigian Gov- ‘ernment’s act would result in a large , saving of cargo space on American | chips. strong. and Tuy, This Hungary comes at a moment! had forced the Italians’ valleys to. Gen. | ame Is Not i in List of Survivors... ‘REVOLT REPORTED TO HAVE BROKEN By Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 —Torpedoed in a night re ree ae OE Ae ee American destroyer Jacob Jones, one of the newest and largeat 0 | people the first naval loss of gretat consequence sinee the Outbreaks Against Gov eae entered the war. / | Thirty-seven of her officers and crew were. taken- ot Have Occurred in Lisbon, | Says Dispatch to Madrid. ‘rafts. The remainder are not accounted for in today’s | vivors. Lieutenant-Commander Dayid Worth Bagley Josephus aDniels, wife of the. Secretary of the } | brother, Worth Bagley, was the first have occurred at Oporto. An Oporto dispatch forwarded | life in the Spaniel Ameri ican War, ‘does not @ ‘demonstration at Lisbon was hostile | vivors. to the Government, while at Oporto | | Inasmuch as Peete Sims mentioned other. officers a the troubles were provoked by the high cost of necessaries, | survivors and did not name Bagley, it is feared he went ¢ and other shops being pillaged. In Oporto, 78 arrests were made | his ship. and 60 persons ‘were treated in hos- The complement of the Jones in peace times was five pitals. One woman and one man were killed. The Governor ordered | | five petty officers and 87 enlised men. Undoubtedly this hi the closing of all public places and/ inereased to a hundred more men. From the first report it issued a decree clearing the streets’ | pear that the loss of life would be upward of 60. at 9 p. m. The town is now said to | Vessel Probably Went Down Quickly. ibe quiet. | The attack, which was at 8 o’clock at night, was Recent dispatches cabled from London to the United States —_: by a torpedo. In the rolling icy seas of the North J said that telegraphic communication | ‘between Spain and Portugal hadj| 84 been shut off, it being intimated that | ; the shot. The submersible probably came upon the news of the situation in Portu al | ; | gagement. 4 jauth orities of the republic. : No details were contained in today’s report, but it’ has” MADRID, Dec. 8.-—A _ revolution has broken out in Lisbon, the capi- tal of Portugal, according to a dis- patch received here by way of Oporto Outbreaks also are said to In September last, a general strike | ie of workmen resulted in rioting at. | Lisbon, an® in consequence of those | | the case heretofore that when a submarine gts a ome ‘disorders the entire republic was declared to be in a state of siege. | | stroyer it is due more to a chance meeting and good « | Several persons, including a number | than fighting skill on th part of the submarine. a ‘of soldiers, at that time were said to’! a /have been wounded by the explosion The large loss of life would indicate mf ag =a wv made a fair hit a of bombs. The strike lasted _ charge of high explosive, k herwous cane _ o . ___| destroyer’s thin hull and that the submarine hunter 7 Five months earlier serious riot- ‘ing took place in Lisbon as the re-| ‘blown fairly in two. That she went down quickly. i is € ‘sult of the high prices of food. An-| +. fact that nothing is said of survivors getting off i ‘arechist agitators, organized disturb-. ‘ances and the crowds attacked bak-| Those saved got off on rafts which probably floated oth tb erties, groceries ane provision stores. | | ing ship as she plunged down. ge Martial law was proclaimed and | the military Governor, by taking en- The names of the 10 survivors — follow: ergetic measures, restored order. é. ‘Twenty-seven persons were killed in Lieut. hee K. Riehard the rioting. Hundreds of persons Ensign Nelson N. Gates. ‘were arrested and taken on board 734 PARE Portuguese warships in the harbor. Aatatenit Surgeon da While the disturbances were in prog- Charles E. Pierce, fireman. Timothy Edward Twomey, seaman. John C. Johnson, seaman. Henry A. Stutzke, chief machinist’s mate. ‘ : a) ne eke p>, ery .