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THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAy, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1909. - BL. , SUITS TO FOLLOW ST. 01 . WRECK Feeling Runs High Among III Fated Vessel's Sur vivors. RIGID INQUIRY TO BE MADE United States Government OrJers Inve.-tigation Serious Charges Made Against Officers Mass Meeting Is Planned. LOS ANGELES. Cal.. Nov. 22. (Spe cial.) Feellns ran high amont the passengers of the St. Croix as they gathered about the office of the North Pacific Steamship Company at 524 South Spring street, today. With some, thankfulness, through having escaped, was succeeded bv the passion of bitter resentment for real or fancied neglect Others championed the cause of the officers and crew. Plans were laid for calling a mass meeting of the passengers at San Francisco to, place the circumstances before a lawyer, and determine whether a damage suit against the Sehubaeh- Hamilton line should be brought. Serious Charge Made. One of the most serious charges brought during the excitement was that some of the barrels on the life boats which were supposed to be filled with drinking water contained only salt water. The charge was made by M. C. Sulll vant a mining man. and the statement was not lacking In support from others. "I know that at least one of those barrels contained nothing but salt water," said he, "for I tried to drink o me of it. and I know that others had the same experience In other lifeboats." Rigid V. S. Inquiry Next. Word was received from San Fran cisco that the United States Inspector of Boilers Bulger had announced that a rigid investigation of the fire that destroyed the St. Croix would be held as soon as the officers and crew of the burned vessel arrived there. A booking company has tendered tickets to San FTancisco to the sur vivors of the wreck, good for passage on the Roanoke, but a large number have declined to accept them. Many declared they never would go again aboard a. ship. The company has declined to give railroad transportation north. DISASTER DOESX'T STOP WAR Cut Rates Still In Effect, Despite Loss of St. Croix. ... LOS ANGELES, Nov. 22. (Special.) The statement of C. D. Dunnan. general passenger agent of the Pacific Coast Steamship'Company. that with the burn ing of the St. Croix the rate war. of course, comes to an end. turns out to have been premature. The loss of the ship will not put an end to the struggle, is the information given nut today by the local officials of the Schuhach-Hamilton line. David W. Ferguson, of the North Pa cific Steamship Company, who repre sents the Schubach-Hamilton Company here. left for San Francisco last night to take up with the owners the matter of the purchase of another steamer to replace the St. Croix, and also to ar range for the lease of another vessel to take the place of the burned craft tem porarily, until the purchase can be made. Representatives of the .company in the office here stated this afternoon that they hoped to have the temporary suc cessor to the St. Croix on the run be tween San Francisco and this point this week. ARTILLERY SHOOTS WELL Target Moving 8 Knots Is Hit 3 Out of 4 by Company. WASHINGTON. Nov. 22. Reports of ex cellent shooting at long range by Coast Artillery companies' continue to reach the War Department. A remarkable record was made, by the 116th Company at Fort Rosecrans. Cal.. on October 20. Four shots were fired from a battery of two 10-inch guns at a target 30 feet high by 60 feet long, which was moving at the rate of right miles an hour at a distance of about live miles from the. battery tiring. All four fehots were tired in an Interval of one minute and 20 seconds and passed through a rectangle nine feet high by 42 feet wide. Only three hits were scored on the tar get, as one of the shots passed four yards to the left of It. The 52d Company at Fort Robman, Mast., on October 39. flred four shots from an eight-inch battery at a 30xfl0-foot material target, which was moving at the rate of live milen an hour at a dis taince of about four miles from the firing battery. All four shots were hits and the tirst shot cut the raft of the material tar get In two. LAFAYETTE KISSED HER Mrs. Julia Gaugh, 93, Dies at Kan. as City. KANSAS CITT, Nov. 22.-Mrs. Julia M. Uaugh. a cousin of Abraham Lincoln's wife, and who. when a girl of years, was kissed by General Lafayette, died at her daughter" home here yesterday, aged 93 years. Mrs. Gaugh was a Mini Mc Gowan and was born in Frankfort. Ky. She was a cousin and playmate of Mar)" Todd, afterwards the wife of Abraham Lincoln. When 'I-afayctte visited this country in 3S;4 a great parade was held In his honor in Lexingttm, Ky. Mrs. Gaugh. -then only 9 years old. wa recognized by Henry Clay, who was a friend of her grandfath er, and lifted into the carriage where he rat with tlie distinguiyned Frenchman. She recalled plainly that the general took her on his kne and kissed her. Miss MeGowan married Perclval Gaugh, an architect, in 112, and they came to Kansas City in ISM. She Is survived by one daughter and four sons. GIRLS SHOULD PROPOSE At Least Chicago Minister Believes His Plan Would Help. CHICAGO, Nov. 22. "There is only one good reason for not getting mar ried, and that is 111 health," said the Rev. Frederick K. Hopkins last night in Pilgrim Congregational Church. "A medical examination for matrimonial purposes has more to commend it than such an examination for life Insurance The state should compel men to marry for the fwme reason it compels education, and in some countries mili tary service. It is for the welfare of the state that there should be the largest number of homes and a normal and regular increase of population. "Brutality and criminality are usu ally the only valid reasons for divorces, and when granted for such reasons neither party should be permitted to" marry again In less than three years, and in most cases the offending party never. ' "If, after a suitable acquaintance a girl would like to marry a man. but he does not ask her. then let her ask him. Why not? If she wants him she probably will give him a good -many hints anyhow, so why not speak right out and ask' for what you want? It is a useless conventionality, and a silly custom, any way we look, at It. to stick to the old-fashioned way. Some young men are simply too bashful for their own good, and a nice girl should help out a little." WHEAT' BRINGS $27,000 Grain Passes Dollar Mark and Farmers Pool Interests. ! -"OKANE. Wash.. Nov. 22. (Spe cial.) Wheat passed the dollar mark at Sprague. Wash., In the heart of the Central Wasnington wheat district, when the Farmers' Union pooled 27,000 bushels and sold it to T. A. Emery grain buyer, at 11.02. Farmers' Unions throughout the Inland Empire have secured higher prices for their grain tlian individuate. Walla Walla, Lind and Colfax buyers have paid more than 1 for wheat during the last wek. At Almlra yesterday several thousand bushels were sold at $1.01. Roads are nearly Impassable so that little, wheat is being marketed, the farmers generally being inclined to hold the remainder of the crop for greater gains. The bullish tone evi dent in the Chicago pit and the New York demand are said to be responsible. The market at Pullman Is dead, no quotations being marked up and little grain offered. COOK'S REPORT IN VAULT Explorer's North Pole Documents to Cross Ocean XTnder Guard. NEW YORK. Nov. 22. The voluminous report prepared by Dr. Fredericl A. Cook, for the University of Copenhagen, which will set forth the explorer's claim to hav ing reached the North Pole, will be shipped under a strong guard on the Scandinavian-American liner United States on Thanksgiving day. From the precautions taken, it is appar ent that Dr. Cook fears something may happen to his report. Arrangements have been made to store it In the strongbox in the captain's room on board the ship, where it will be guarded on the voyage by the explorer's secretary. Walter Lons dale. On arrival at Copenhagen it will be turned over only to authorized repre sentatives of the university. The report, which will contain about 50.- 0H0 words. Is due to reach Copenhagen on December 7. and Dr. Cook expects a ver dict from the university about the first of January. TOWN DRY, HOTEL CLOSES Sales of Liquor Had Counteracted Losses in Dining-Room. SPOKANE, Wash.. Nov. 22. (Spe cial.) Tagging on the heels of the local-option election in Kootenai County, Idaho, which was won by the prohibi tion forces by a majority of nearly 200, comes the announcement today of the closing of the dining-room at the Hotel Idaho, at Coeur d'Alene, the largest eating-house in that city, a direct re sult of the dry victory. For a year the dining-room has been losing1, but the sale of liquor has buoyed up the' cafe, the gain in one overbal ancing the loss In the other. Manager H. E. Moore, of the hotel, says he will close the place as a hotel and run it as a lodging-house. Finty-nine saloons will close their doors when the three months prescribed by law elapse after the election. Pool halls are going out of business and other changes are promised. CATHOLIC FAIR TO OPEN Eugene Parishioners Complete Plans for Big Event. HUG EN E, Or., Nov. 22. (Special.) The Catholics of Eugene have made extensive preparations for their fair, which will open tomorrow, in their new school building. The new Catholic school building, erected on Willamette street, between Tenth and Eleventh streets, cost about JS000. It is modern and well suited for the purpose of caring for the school children, which now number about 70. t VIEW SHOWING LOG JAM COLLECTED ABOUT FALSEWORK OF f :V y . - '. " -.' ." 1 A " . . ,. ,-:-'v' .. - .: .. v'..V .:s-.-: ;. v :: ;-i':.:.:-: W I t ', ' ; - ? -! " , . 1 M I ' ' , - '('.' ''1(,l'" 1 t I I ( I . . "fpsfT "i ' -''S-"-"- ! t I-"- ' ifSt? V,I " t II :: C" :"T- :; fTTTfT 4' T'vT I I ' ' "x w""l! - '- " II 7 i i ll jmiiWMHi'"11" r ' f. - ... v- . . - " 3 I II pmm Tr- . j t II f 1 (I I . - f III I ' , - I t I - JfaM .. --- -. f. r- i-.-.-A.-.-.......- .. 1 II STEAMERS WERE PRESSED INTO SERVICE TO RESCUE RUNAWAY RAFT. t VC i ? I RIVERS BOOM AS RESULT OF RAINS Traffic on 0. R. & N. and Co lumbia River Road Is Blocked by Landslides. WRECK CAUSES ONE DEATH Corvallis & Eastern Train Is Ma rooned Because Bridges Are Dam aged on North Santiam Lower Willamette Full of Debris.- (Continued From First Page.) held a prisoner by the freshet. The ves sel is- lumber laden for Shanghai and was to have sailed Sunday noon, but the pilot deemed it, unsafe to attempt the passage of the Madison-street draw under the existing conditions. There is abso lutely nothing by which to guide a vessel. When the razing of the bridge was com menced, the piling of the draw rest was broken off at a point about a foot above low water. The east pier was also torn down to the water's edge. This leaves bad obstructions at a depth of abotit ten feet with no markings and with the tremendous current a vessel of the size of the Christian Michelsen is hard to handle. Around Portland, especially in the Southern end, the heavy rains caused con siderable damage. From Terwilliger's Heights and the hills back of Fulton the water poured in torrents, flooding houses, taking out gardens and carrying general destruction to the roads and sidewalks in the vicinity. On the flat west of Jones' mill, people were unable . to leave their houses without wading. Children were prevented from attending school and wood stored in the cellars went on a cruhse. " , Oregon City Has Trouble. Outside of the city the damage was even greater. At Oregon City great dif ficulty was experienced in keeping the,ln take to the canal at the electric power plant free from leaves and drift brought down bv the freshet. A gang of men with long-handled rakes was kept busy drag ging the debris from the mouth of the canal. Had this become blocked. Portland would have been short of light and power last night. At Estacada the rise in the Clackamas was nearly six feet during the day. At 5 o'clock laet evening the official gauge at that place showed 21.4 feet and the water was still coming at a tremendous rate. At Cazadero the water had covered the dam to a depth of' 15 feet and was coming at a tremendous pace. Because of wire trouble. Incomplete river readings were received yesterday by G. H. Willson, forecast official. His report of river readings taken at 8 A M. and B P. M. Is as follows: Stations. 8 A. M. 5 P. M. Portland 10. 13.3 Wllsonville 31.2 t Salem 14.4 .... , Albany 14.3 .... Harrlsburx 6.4 Eugene 9.6 Tualatin 7.3 MrMlnnville Kstacada 15-6 Jefferson 11-1 7.S 24.4 21.4 14.6 DETROIT TRAIX MAROONED High Water Sweeps Out Parts of Two Bridges on North Santiam. ALBANY, Or., Nov. 22. (Special.) Swollen into a roaring torrent by the heavy rains of last night, the North Santiam River today swept out parts of two big bridges on the Corvallis & Eastern Railroad, damaged the track near the eastern end of that road and marooned the Albany-Detroit passenger train at Mill City. Two bents of the bridge across the North-Santiam at Mill City went out at noon and one bent of the big bridge across the Breitenbush River at its Junction with the North Santiam went down this morning, follow ing the breaking of the dam of the Curtles Logging Company two miles up the Breitenbush. The town of Sclo suffered one of the worst losses of the present flood today when the mill dam there went down the flooded waters of Thomas Creek. It will cost J3000 to replace it, but this does not represent the actual loss, as the city water and electric light plants and the Sclo flour mill will be without power for several weeks, perhaps months. This dam was 150 feet long and 10 feet high. The Willamette, which has been almost stationary here all day at 14 feet above low water mark, is falling slightly to night, but at this point it has not yet felt the effect of the second rise in the mountain streams, and will probably be rising here tomorrow. Reports received at 8:30 o'clock tonight state that the Southern Pacific bridge across 'the Calapoola at Brownsville on the Woodburn-Natron line Is in great danger of going out. The section crew has been called out and is making efforts to save it. The heaviest rainfall ever recorded at Albany occurred last night. In the 12 hours preceding 8 o'clock this morning 2:30 inches of rain fell. This breaks all records for a similar length , of time since the Government began keeping weather statistics here in 1S75, according to the record in the possession of F. M. French. United States Weather Observer here. WHOLE FAMILY MAROONED Rescue of Imperiled People in Xook sack Valley Despaired Of. BELLINGHAM. Wash.. Nov. 22. (Spe cial.) The Nooksack River is out of its banks and is still rising. The town of Deming Is partly under water and Glacier, in the Cascade foothills, is com pletely isolated. Train service on the B. B. & B. C. Road is demoralized by washouts, and four, railroad and wagon bridges have been swept out. The family of Edward Galtier, at Deming. Is marooned on an island and their rescue is almost despaired of, and all along the river valley the ranchers are moving their household goods and their stock. The crest of the flood will not be reached until tomorrow or the next day, and it is expected that tens of thousands of dollars of damage will have been done before the river subsides. Warm rains in the Cascade foothills are caus ing the flood. OREGON CITY LOCKS MAY SHUT High Water Endangers Tracks of Southern Pacific Company. OREGON CITY. Or., Nov. 22. (Special.) A rise of two inches more in the Wil lamette and the locks here will be under water. At noon today the upper river Ktnnd at 10.9. endangering the Southern Pacific tracks and covering the walks at Canemah. Freight cars have been piacea on the tracks to prevent them being washed away.' Drift Is coming down in creat Quantities. ' A raise of a few feet more -will drive many residents, from their homes on the lower bottom lands. The falls of the Willamette now pre eent a thrilling scene.' Great roaring cataracts precipitate themselves amid the great granite boulders, sending aloft a cloud of mist and spray tnrougn wnicn the rainbows play. Many visitors are here now to view the scene of grandeur. Houseboat dwellers are keeping a look out for the drift fogs and debris. SOUTHERN OREGON DRENCHED Week of Rain Heaviest Known for Many Years. ASHLAND, Or., Nov. 22. (Special.) Southern Oregon and all Northern Cali fornia, according to reports received here, has been receiving such a drenching the past five days as has seldom or ever been recorded in November or any other month of the year in this region. Since last Thursday morning.- when the rains began, the total precipitation up to 7 o'clock this evening amounts to 4.64 inches. The temperature has been high all the time, and streams are all running bank full. No damage has been re ported as yet. MAIN STREET IS FLOODED Water Courses Down Thoroughfare at Cottage Grove. COTTAGE GROVE.. Or., Nov. 22. (Spe cial.) A steady downpour of rain has continued since last night. Coast Fork River overflowed its banks at S o'clock tliis evening. Considerable damage is already reported. The boom of the Shortridge sawmill, 10 miles south of here, broke at noon and 75,000 feet of logs washed away. Water is running over Main street nearly its entire length from the .over flow just south of the city limits, and many sidewalks are washed away. GALE INCREASES IX VIOLENCE Barometer Drops at Astoria and Shipping Is Delayed. ASTORIA. Or., Nov. 22. (Special.) The intermittent gale that has been In progress during the last few days. In creased in violence during last night. The barometer dropped to 29:40, and the wind attained a high rate. While the gales have interfered with shipping, no disasters are re ported and little damage has resulted. WILLAMETTE IS RISING FAST Southern Pacific Bridge on Mohawk Endangered by Jam. EUGENE, Or., Nov. 22. (Special.) The Willamette at Eugene rose from the 9-foot mark at 7 o'clock to 13 5 at 11:30 and to 16 4-5 this afternoon. For the 24 hours ending at 8 o'clock this morning, the rainfall had been two inches, and with the rain of today and the continued warm weather a further rise in the river OLD MADISON-STEEET BRIDGE can be expected, as there is a great deal of snow on the watershed of the Wil lamette and tributaries. The Southern Pacific bridge on the Mo hawk Is reported In danger from a large log jam. Other bridges on the Mohawk and McKenzle are also threatened. FREIGHT TRAIX STRIKES SLIDE North Bank Fireman Slightly Hurt Near Cape Horn. VANCOUVER, Wash.. Nov. 22. (Spe cial.) North Bank freight train No. 75 struck a small slide of stumps of trees and rocks two miles this side of Cape Horn this morning and John Argo, the fireman, received a slight injury on. the head. Engineer Ryan and Conductor TrefCrey escaped without injury. The slide was due to the fact that the continued rains had loosened the earth and rocks on the embankment alongside the track. The railway company keeps watchmen at all points where It Is thought there Is any possible chance of a slide. The freight pushed through, af ter a short delay, and arrived safely In the local yards. HOOD RIVER IS ISOLATED Mount- Hood Road Suffers and Wagon Bridges Are Carried Away. HOOD RIVER, Or., Nov. 22. (Via White Salmon, Wash.) Today's disas trous storm and flood has completely isolated this city. Telephone and tele graph communication, except to White Salmon, on the north bank of the Co lumbia, Is cut off, and the wreck on the O. R. & N. at Bonneville has blocked all traffic by railroad. Four hundred feet of the Mount Hood Railway has been destroyed by wash outs, and wagon bridges across the stream of Hood River have gone out, cutting off communication between the two portions of the valley. The electric light plant Is Impaired and the city is In partial darkness. HEAVY RAINS IX YAMHILL Nearly Three Inches Fall in 24 Hours, and Rivers Rise. McMINNVILLE. . Or., Nov. 22.-(Spe-cial.) The rainfall here during the past 24 hours was 2:84 inches. The Yamhill River registers 24 feet above extreme low water and is rising three Inches an hour. There being practically no snow in the mountains of the Coast Range, the river is fed by the rainfall at this -time, -and according to the calculations of W. H. Puett, the observer at tills place, the crest of the flood will be due tomorrow. WAGOV BRIDGE ENDANGERED Headgate of Mill Canal at Marion Reported Out. SALEM. Or.. Nov. 22. (Special.) Both the Willamette and the Santiam rivers are very high, but so far no great dam age in this vicinity has been reported. Tiei Willamette at this city is now about 16 feet and is still rising. It is reported that the headgate of the canal of the Sidney Milling Company, at Marion, on the santiam, has gone out. W. M. LADD, President. E. 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