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TIIE MOEXIXG OREGOXIAX. FRIDAY, -TAXUARY 3, 1913. LAND SLIDE HITS T 00 THAN "Scene Indescribable," Says Passenger Reaching Here Wednesday Might. GRAPHIC STORY RELATED H. A. You mans Tells of Wreck on Pacific Hallway & Xavlgation Company's Line Seventy-Five Feet of Mud Blocks Track. After traveling 15 miles over a peril, ous mountain trail with a gale threat . ening to blow them Into the sea at times. In order to reach a railroad, three men reached Portland late Wednesday night in time to give the remark able details of a train wreck which oc curred three miles north of Mohler, on the Pacific Railway & Navigation Com pany line Sunday morning. All telegraphic communications are down and it will be two weeks before the line will be in thorough repair. A landslide, carrying with It immense ror-ks, trees and stones, struck the train that left Tillamook at 7:00 A. M. Sunday morning-, some three hours later. Thirty passengers were on the train, most of them being cut by the broken glass and bruised by the contact of stones and branches. Two at least were hurt seriously. Seventy-five feet of mud and earth blocked the track and the travelers report trees blocking the road along the track. graphic Story Told. The story is told graphically by H. A. Youmans, manager of the Redwing Company, with offices in 221 Henry building. "We left Tillamook last Sunday at 7 o'clock in the morning," he said. "It had been raining and blowing on Sat unlay night and the storm still contin tied. After traveling along till we got some three miles away from Mohler, with a suddenness that was awful a huge landslide came tearing down to wards us. Trees, stones, rocks mingled with the earth, struck the train right in the middle, just as We pere passing a canyon. One huge tree, over 70 feet long and five feet in diameter, caught the train In the center, breaking the couplings. "There were In all, the engine, the baggage, the smoker and the chair car. Both the passenger cars were thrown off the track, the engine was lifted up and turned over at an angle, though it remained standing. The hag gage car was wrecked. Smoker Turns Over. "The smoker was turned over, hang ing on the side suspended In mid-air over the bank, its sole source of sup port being a trunk which was rooted there. I was In that car myself. "Conductor Bentley was hurled through the window of the smoker by the avalanche and crushed against a barbed wire fence. Though his hands were badly lacerated and though torn in more than one place and bruised, he pluckily made his way back as best he could to Wheeler. Thence a wrecking train was sent out with all speed, reaching the scene at 2 o'clock that afternoon. "I forgot to say that our train was trave-ling at a speed, of from 10 to 13 miles an hour at the time the accident occurred. Scene In IndcMcrlltable. "The scene was indescribable. Amid all the driving rain and wind. It was at first impossible to see anything of what had happened except that there in front of us was the damaged, train, , the huge mass of mud, and earth and on all sides were the cries of excited peo ple. Thirty people were on the car, as near as we could tell, many of them women teachers going back to their work. "Mr. Slpe was sitting in the seat opposite me Just before the accident. The next minute the landslide struck us. We were hurled to the far side, and the next thing we knew of was the wreck." "Not knowing what might happen we rushed back for our coats and things. Where Mr. Slpe had sat was the branch of a tree, which had pierced the seat, glass strewed the cars and men and women were standing about helpless. "Just 200 yards south of the wreck was a ranch, which goes by the name of" Roys' ranch. Here everyone took refuge, including the two who were so seriously hurt that they had to be car ried.. There we waited the arrival of the wrecker. One Vmoilbr Deed Helmed. "In the baggage car were tons of fish and a little dog. The poor ani mal was saved in some miraculous way by being sandwiched In between some of the fish. 'Bohunks, we learned, looted .the express packages and took away quantities of the fish, which was the only deed of unworthiness per petrated. "After what seemed hours of waiting t::e wrecker arrived and the passengers were all removed to Wheeler Sunday night and lodged at the hotel. They left Monday morning at 7 A. M. for Garibaldi, where, on account of a fresh landslide, they had to be transferred by boat to Tillamook." Mountain Trail Danceroua. 'Ve went across the bay to Nelialem ami from there we took the Necarney Mountain trail over the mountains to Elk Creek. Vver shall I forget that trail. The wind was still blowing so hard that many a time we thought we should be blown off into the sea. Mr. Slpe even carried a rock in his hands some of the way as an additional weight against the force of the wind. "By the way, Monday night we stopped at Neah-kah-nle Hotel, where Mr. Reed was kindness personified, and Tuesday night at Warren. "Finally w got to Klk Creek, where we mauaged to take the stage to Sea Bide, and came In on the evening train, and here we are. "Kxcept for two or three points, the trail, which of course is an old one, was fairly good. Humbug Point' was dif ficult, and we reckon that In all we traveled from 13 to 16 miles, having to go right over some of the hills, as we could not go around." Story Is Corroborated. Mr. Youman's story was fully cor. rrborated by his fellow walkers. C. O. Snipe, of the Singer Sewing Machine company, and H. M. Kisbet, of Isisbet Bros., Eighteenth and East Morrison streets. Mr. Xisbet had gone, with his wife to pass Christmas and had to leave his wife at Tillamook, as they were the only three of the men to make the trail. while it would have been Impossible tor the women to think of attempt ing it. No telephone communications were possible, as the line was all down, and it will be impossible for any of the others to reach Portland until tonight, they say. From accounts they heard the storm was the worst ever ex perienced, while the force of the wind and the continued length of the storm wrought great havoc all along the line. In places the mud rose above their knees, and where they stopped for the night the first thing they did was to try to rid themselves of some of the incumbering dirt and mud. CURIO DEALER CAUGHT HOLLYWOOD WOMAN FINED $2 700 BY GOVERNMENT. Should 3Iiss S. Bella Stevens Refuse to Pay Fine Attempt to Smug gle Will TSf Charge. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2. (Special.) When Miss S. Bella Stevens, a curio dealer of Hollywood, Los Angeles County, packed her trunks full of em broidered silks and articles of Chinese and Japanese art at Shanghai before leaving the Orient on the steamship Korea, she did not entertain the slight est suspicion that on her arrival here she would run afoul of the customs regulations providing that every duti able article purchased abroad must be entered upon her declaration. When the Korea docked at San Fran cisco a small-sized but agreeable man, attired in blue uniform, handed a pa per called a declaration, containing blank spaces for her to write the list of articles purchased by her in the Orient and subject to duty. Miss Stevens filled out the declara tion and handed it to the boarding of ficer. It called for something less than $1000 worth of goods. When her trunks were searched at the dock about $i00 worth of dutiable merchandise was found in them that had not been entered on the declaration. Appraiser Mattos notified the collec tor that the undeclared articles were of the value of $902.50 and the collec tor imposed the fine prescribed by law, which is three times the appraised value of the merchandise, or $2707.50. But this is not all. After the fine is paid the property will not be returned to her, but will be sold for the bene fit of the Government. Such is the law and no exception is made in the case of the gentler sex. Should Miss Stevens refuse or neg lect to pay 4he fine, criminal prosecu tion will be inaugurated against her in the Federal Court on a charge of attempting to smuggle. INDUSTRIAL UNREST GROWS Austria-Hungary Strikes Show Large Increase Over Previous Year. VIENNA. Jan 2- (Special.) The citizens of Austria-Hungary have been studying the statistics of last year's strikes, and are somewhat uneasy on realising that there were 49 more than n litlO, when there were 6d7. Most of the strikes were fought In connection with the building trades, though the metal trades and the tailoring and mil- inery trades also drastically reflected the growing industrial unsettlement of th country. Over 1 22,000 persons participated in these strikes, 8507 factories were af fected, and the loss of money to strik ers was estimated at $1,145,835. The average duration of strikes was 15 days, and the longest strike ran over 234 days, a decrease in their duration when compared to the previous year's record. The workmen claimed complete vic tory in 127 cases, as against 114 in 1 10. Of the total number of strikes 555 were aggressive and 90 were fought in defense of the workmen's demands. The industrial barometer still regis ters unsettled weather. PARCEL POST USEO System Is Inaugurated With Enthusiasm Everywhere. RAILROADS NOT PREPARED Indication Already Is That Equip ment Will Be Found Lacking to Cope With New Demands Made Upon It. WOMAN, BABE, NEAR DEATH Mrs. Ti. Ijawrence Thrown From Auto Before Speeding Trolley Car. Thrown from a wrecked automobile o the path of an oncoming streetcar, Mrs. L. Lawrence, of 1030 Pacific street. Wednesday night with her baby escaped death when the streetcar was brought to a halt within a few feet of where she was lying. The accident occurred at East Thirty-seventh and Sandy Road bout 7:10 o clock. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence with the baby were driving rapidly east on Sandy Road when their automobile ran into an excavation between the tracks, which sewer diggers had left unpro tected. The two front wheels of the machine were broken off. Mrs. Law rence, holding the baby, was sitting n the front seat of the machine be side her husband, and was thrown across the right hand track to the left hand track, alighting full in the path f the speeding Rose City Park car. The motorman applied the brakes and the two, unhurt but for bruises, were helped up by passengers. TWO BRIDGES SWEPT AWAY KIgh Water in Fifteen-Mile Creek Destroys Railroad Property. DUFUR, Or., Jan. 2. (Special.) Two bridges on the line of the Great Southe rn Railway have been swept away by high water in Fifteen-Mile Creek so that no trains have moved since Sun day. The recent heavy rains have raised all the streams In this vicinity higher than any time in recent years. The ground was frozen so that practically all the rain that fell has run into the creek, very little, if any, of the water inking into the soil. Schoolmates Are Pallbearers. Six schoolmates acted as pallbearers yesterday afternoon at the funeral serv ices of Clara Marjorie Clark, who passed away suddenly last Monday at the house of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Clark, of 1205 Kerby street. She was almost 14 years old and was to have been graduated from the Ockley Green School in February. In addition to her parents, two sisters, Inez and Ethel survive her. Interment was at Columbia Cemetery. V. W. C. A. to Banquet Tomorrow. Thjp membership of the Young Wom en's Christian Association will gather for their annual banquet tomorrow evening, when reports for the year will be given In the form of toasts, the for mal reports to be distributed in printed form. The meeting will be an inter esting one and doubtless will be well Attended. Preparations will be made for 350 guests. FEATURES OF PARCEL POST OX FIRST DAY. TONKERS, K. T. Brindle bull pup is received as first parcel package, and exception to law is made, and carrier allowed to deliver animal. WASHINGTON Post office De partment receives no complaint of difficulties In handling the mall. ST. LOUIS Eggs mailed several days ago received in form of cake from Edwardsville, 111., 'as flrs package today. ADDISON, Mich. Four-pound piece of side pork mailed to Detroit. DETROIT Besides receipt of pork, postofflce also received broken horse collar, mailed by farmer at Peck, Mich. SEATTLE Woman sends package to herself at town she expects to make her home in near future. Eggs are among first shipments. BAKER Postofflce clerk fails to receive supplies from superiors and system fails to go into operation. CHICAGO About 2500 packages deposited under the new law. Mail order house malls 450 parcels. One concern buys $17,000 worth of stamps. SPOKANE First day of new law sees 172 packages mailed to various zones. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. (Special.) The inauguration of the parcel post system in Washington was an unquali fied success. Owing to the number of substations, it was impossible last night to tell with accuracy the volume of business in the city during the day, but the number of packages handled at the main office seems to warrant the statement that the public has quickly adjusted itself to the new service and will make much use of it. No reports from postoffices through out the country were received today indicating any material difficulty in caring for the new business. Here in Washington all patrons complied with the rules in regard to the size and weight of packages, and none had to be refused. BtiHlnens Widely Distributed. Surprise was expressed by the postal officials over the distribution of busi ness, but it may have been merely in cidental to a holiday. No drays backed up to the" postofflce loaded with par cels from a single shipper. The pack ages received today came from nearly as many individuals as there were packages. It is expected that mer chants will utilize the service to secure suburban delivery of parcels, and in Chicago and other large cities special arrangements have been made to meet the situations which are expected to develop. By the payment of an additional 10 cents senders of parcel post packages may have them insureds and here to day about 10 per cent of the packages were so insured. At the main post office the receipt of packages averaged about 17 an hour. There was large bus .uess in the sale of parcel post stamps, many being taken by collectors. Success, Hitchcock Sntyii. Postmaster-General Hitchcock said today that, while it was too early to make any definite prediction concern ing the volume of the new business, a close study of the situation had con vinced him it would prove a tremen dous success and would be of more benefit to the people than anything done by the Federal Government In half a century or more. Mr. Hitchcock said he would not be able for several weeks to .obtain anything like a rea sonable daily average of the volume of the parcel post business. It Is expected to show wonderful growth when its success is demon strated to the people and they come to a full realization of what it means to them in the saving of time, as well as In cost of transportation. The parcel post system worked without a hitch during its first 24 hours in New York. There was little rush, due to the holiday, and the clerks were able easily to cope with the busi ness. It was said that 200 parcels had been received at the general postofflce up to tonight, and it was estimated that, the first full day's business there would show a total of about 350. Postmaster Morgan received on an early train from Washington the sil ver loving cup sent by Postmaster General Hitchcock to inaugurate the service. Eggm Returned in Cake. Six fresh eggs, mailed from St. Louis to Edwardsville, 111., early -this morn ing, were returned tonight made into 6 cake. The eggs were mailed at the main postoffice at 12:05 o'clock this morning, and the cake was delivered at 7 P. M. Edwardsville is about 20 miles from St. Louis. A four-pound piece of side pork, mailed from Addison, Mich., was the first package received by parcel post In Detroit. The second was a broken horsecollar which a farmer at Peck, Mich., sent in for repairs to a whole sale harness dealer. A brisk business marked the opening of the parcel post service In Boston, more than 100 persons waiting- for the night. One of the first packages was a small pot of Boston baked beans, sent to Mayor Fitzgerald. Chicago's New Tear's resolution to make use of the Nation's gift the par cel post system was Initiated today by the sending of approximately 2500 packages of merchandise through the mails. Although the main postoffice and the substations were open only until 10 A. M., many individuals were on hand to test out the new carrier system. ConOrn Buys $17,000 in Stamps. A majority of the packages deposited weighed from a quarter to three pounds. Practically all of them were for delivery in the first, second, third, fourth and fifth zones. A mail-order firm deposited 450 packages for deliv ery. Several large concerns who use the mails and express exclusively in their business, have been holding up pack ages for delivery up to the fourth zone, until the new system was operative. One concern alone bought $17,000 worth of stamps today, and another an nounced it had 10,000 pieces ready to be dispatched. The insurance feature seemed to ap peal to those who dispatched packages today. A large number paid the regis tration fee of 10 cents, which insures the merchandise up to the amount of $50. Some Difficulties Foreseen. It became evident to postal officials early in the day that some difficulties, more or less serious, were likely to be encountered in the incipient stages of Your Sunday Dinner Will be as welcome as the fine ones we served to you on Christmas and on New Year's, and it will be as well prepared and as cour teously served. To enjoy it to the utmost, bring some one to share it with you. Music. THEATER SUPPERS. AFTERNOON TEAS NOON LUNCHEONS The Portland Hotel x. J. Kaufmann, Mgr. N. K. Clarke, Asst. Mgr. the operation of the new system. From every city came reports that many packages bore ordinary postage stamps instead of the distinctive parcel post stamps. Under the law such parcels have to be held for lack of proper post. age. Notwithstanding that it was a noli day, the amount of matter offered at offices throughout the country fairly measured up to the Christmas rush. On the ordinary business days indications are that the volume of traffic will be tremendous. How this matter is to be transported by the railroads is a serious question. Within a few days it has become ap parent that the railroads generally had not sufficient equipment ready tt han dle a vastly increased weight of mail. Generally, no delay in the delivery of parcels is expected, as extraordinary measures have been taken to provide service. COXFCSIOX RESULT FIRST DAY Few Freak Packages Are Mailed but o Parcels Reacli Portland. Confusion and general misunder standing was the result of the first day's business of the new parcel post system at the Portland Postoffice. Sev eral people took advantage of the op portunity and mailed freak packages, within the limits of the law, one being a dozen eggs to President Taft by a local poultryman, and several others with the intent of advertising purposes. Many people came to the main Post- office building with packages that had the old "class' stamps attached, and when told that the. new parcel post system had gone into effect they ex pressed surprise, saying that' they had never heard of it. Not k pound of mail was received from out of town yesterday in Port land with a parcel post stamp attached to It, and the total receipts amounted to three of the usual-size mail sacks that disappeared in the regular way as the mail trains departed. Managers of the express companies doing business in Portland are watch ing the outcome of the parcel post system with more than passing inter est, and, while they say that their busi ness will have to adjust itself later- to meet and compete with the Govern ment, these plans have not reached a tage to be made public. The man ager of one express company did say, but he asked that his name be not made public: "We believe that a private company can conduct such business more economically than a public serv ice corporation, and we will prove this to the public before a year is passed. It 'may lead to some restrictions by Congress, but we will win out in the end, as conditions In this country can not be compared with those in foreign countries, and it is on this that we will win out." SEATTLE PACKAGE IX EARLY Woman in Postoffice at 5 A. M. to Mail Herself a Parcel. - SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 2. (Special.) Seattle's first parcel post shipment was made promptly at 8 o'clock Wednes day morning, the honor of being the first sender of a package by the new system belonging to Mrs. J. E. Morris, of 718 Cherry street, who sent a pack age addressed to herself at White Sal mon, Wash., on which the postage was 62 cents. Roy R. Hazard, who is to have charge of the parcel post window, threw It open at 8 o'clock, and Mrs. Morris, who had been , waiting since 5 o'clock, handed her parcel saying, "T expect to move to White Salmon within a few days, and I just wanted awfully to try out this new system." Ten other parcels were received im mediately, one being a basket of eggs mailed by Mrs. Molly Kelly, of Auburn, to her sister, Mrs. Martha Kelly, at Snohomish, marked "Please expedite," and "fragile." Superintendent Hazard said many had failed to put the new stamps on Great Annual Clearance Sale , OF Hart Schaffner & Marx Fine Clothes and Furnishings A sale which is based upon strictly legitimate adver tising and profit-sharing basis. A sale -where reduc tions are genuine and merchandise are of the highest character. To save yoti must take advantage of these extraordinary price concessions. Men's Suits and Overcoats Off $20.00 Suits and Overcoats reduced to $14.95 $25.00 Suits and Overcoats reduced to $18.75 $30.00 Suits and Overcoats reduced to $22.50. $35.00 Suits and Overcoats reduced to $26.25 $40.00 Suits and Overcoats reduced to $29.95 Blue, Black, Full Dress and Tuxedo Suits, 20 Off Coyyrtjtht Rut Schafhcf & Mux Raincoats and Slippers 20 DISCOUNT E. &. W., Arrow and Guett Shirts Regular $1.50, Clearance Price, $1.15 Regular $2.00-$2.50 Clearance Price, $1.35 All Boys' Suits and Over- y Q-f-f Boys' Furnishings Greatly Reduced t Men's Trousers Reduced All Neckwear Reduced All Umbrellas Reduced All Fancy Vests Reduced All E. & W. Shirts Reduced All Arrow Shirts Reduced All Flannel Shirts Reduced All Underwear Reduced All Union Suits Reduced All Night Robes Reduced All Pajamas Reduced Sam'l Rosenblatt & Co. Northwest Corner Third and Morrison their packages and consequently their parcels would be held Tor postage. FIRST PARCEL - IS "JIXXED" New Stamps JTot Available and Five Cent Package eosts 13 Cents. BAKER, Or., Jan. 2. (Special.) What should have been the first pack age under the parcel post law that went into effect Wednesday was probably influenced by the "13" Jinx. It could not be sent under the new law with the cheaper rate because the supplies had not been handed to the local Postofflce clerk who was In charge of this depart ment. The package as it was sent, cost 13 cents, whereas it would have cost but 5 cents. It "was a bundle of collars from a laundry of this city, and was being sent, to J. J. Chute, in Durkee, a place within the 60-mile zone under parcel post. pound roast from New 'York addressed to a Tonkers housewife, so she might have it in time for New Tear's dinner. Spokane Sends 172 Packages. SPOKANE. Wash., Jan. 2. The par cel post started with a rush in Spokane today, 172 packages being offered for shipment. Twenty-eight apples made up a package of 11 pounds, which was handled by the Postofflce Department to California for 79 cents. Ioulsville Business Large. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Jan. 2. The par cel department of the local postoffice began its career with a vim yesterday, 97 packages being mailed at the main office and various branches. TACOMA OFFICIAL RECIPIENT New Year's Greeting Goes to Post master as Parcel Post Package. . TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 2. (Special.) The first parcel delivered by parcel post of the Tacoma postoffice was re ceived by Postmaster Stocking, sent by a friend in Tacoma, and containing a New Year's greeting. The first package for delivery out side of Tacoma was mailed by Mrs. Charles B. Cobb to Colby, Wash. The first piece of parcel post mail deliv ered went to Mrs. R. W. Radcliffe. 1122 South E street. It contained a dressed chicken mailed at Glen Cove. The package arrived here on the 10 o clock boat and was delivered to Mrs. Kad- clifte in time for the New Year's din ner. Postage cost S cents. DOG IS SENT BY PARCEL POST Brindle Bull Is First Pavkage to Be Mailed at Yonkcrs, N. Y. YONKERS, N. Y., Jan. 2. (Special.) A brindle bulldog was the first parcel post package mailed in-Yonkers. It was in a box 'addressed to William Trievor, of 30 Woodworth avenue. AI though live animals are not accepted for transportation through the malls Postmaster Warren made an exception as it was the first parcel, and had a carrier deliver it. The postmaster went in his private carriage to deliver personally a six- GOT INDIGESTION? STOMACH UPSET? BELCHING UP GAS OR SOUR FOOD? You don't want a slow remedy when your stomach is bad or an uncertain one or a harmful one your stomach is too valuable; you mustn't injure It with drastic drugs. Pape's Diapepsin is noted for its speed In giving relief; its harmlessness; its certain unfailing action in regulating sick, sour, gassy stomachs. Its Mil lions of cures in indigestion, dyspepsia, gastritis and other stomach troubl has made it famous the world over. 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