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- 11 , "a'S""0" sm' Medford Mail Tribune SECOND EDITION Weather n Vnlr niut Warm, Max ff 1 Mlrt B2. I'urly-Hi'i'iiiiil Vt'tir, Unity -Pnvmilli Vfiir MUDFOItl), OUlOOOy, AlOVDAV, .U'LY 15, 1912. NO. 97. CLOUDBURSTS RUIN MEXICAN CITIES; AND SUBMERGE DENVER AND ST. LOUIS L I Piuprrly Dsimnuc Caused hy Clmiil liursts That Destroyed Two Cities mid Many Towns Laid Wastn 1000 Siiiarc Miles of Trrrllory. Fnrnlnn Adds to Horror of Situation City of Guanajuato Among the Ruined Places. MKXIco CITY, .iiilv I.1.--A imi. cinl meeting of tint enliinel wild I'li-HJ. ili'iil .Mmlcro was called Imliiv mid it H plolllllllc t lilt I fl'lll'llll llOllp will iinnicilinlclv In' rushed In (In Hull' .if (llllllltljllllto, ulllTH ehltlllhutrfts have wifi'lii'il (wo cities mill miiiiv smaller lowim. Iiii'iiiii)i'Iii ii')uiIk decline llnil imiliiililv 1,0(111 person IiihI tln-ir live while I ho propctty damage will teach .fJII.ODII.IIIMI. Til' greatest danger imu in of I'lim iiH', ntiil tin' government plans to nub icltcf tluillM III llll' scene. All Clops within mi area of 1,00(1 sipuitc iiiiIi'n have Iicoii swept nwiiy, foodstuffs hi I Iio linger cities itinl village were Miiiu'il liv tin' waters, mnl Ihegiciitcst hiilfi'iiiiir ha K'Hiilti'il. Over 'J.OOO Inhoiers have all cad v ln't'ii Hi'iil t'ruiii I if re ti aid in clcunug til" debris I rum t lit larger cities, Iml with their arrival Imlny woii was immediately scut luiuli to Mexico City to xcml no more mi'ii until food wiih tarnished, iih them wuh no way of feeding the it ii -ported laborers. Probably tin' wool conditions ex- inl al Ouuunjunto, tin) capital of the Mate, which has been sliuck' hy n cloudburst within I lie past few day. The 1'iitiic country sin rounding the city U submerged. Half of the citv wiim wutJiod away. The elect nc light plant iw pul mil of commission ami cilice then tilt city hu heeu in total dai kites. Thousands of peons are w mulct tug through the streets, ill search of food, ami in their search ate robbing ami Jooting, Women ami cliililien ate without clothing ami fooil, Telegraph facilities have heeu hailly crippled by the Hood, ami only uieauer tcpoits have heeu icccivcd. tl in feaied that when eoiiiuitiiiicatiou is leestnblishcd, it uill he foiiml Dial mlililiotial hun dreds have died from hunger and ex- pOSIIIC. WAGE OWE IS MANHATTAN HKACII, N Y., duly 15. Thn arbitration committee which will ilceiile tlui wage dispute between the fifty-two railroads in the terri tory oust of the Mississippi mid north of the Ohio rivers ami their engineers wont into session today. Oscar H. HtrausH, founor cahinnt officer ami diplomut, wan cliairiiiau mid tlui olhoix were: Charles JL Van H'ihc, Frederick X. Judsoii, Otto M. Kidlitx, Albert .Shaw, Daniel Willan! and P. II. Morrissoy. (Irimd Chief Warren S. Stone, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive, Knp iiccrs, presented tho ease for tlui en gineers, while H. A. W'oithington, picHideul of tho Chicago and Alton mul icceiitly receiver of the Wheeling ami Lake Krie, represented the com panies assisted hy William M. Duncan of Cleveland ami Attorney Thomas M. Kiihy. HOT WEATHER IS ON NOW IN EARNEST The mercury touched 1)1 Sunday, thn hottest day experienced during the prortciit warm Hpell and will pro hahly piiHH that mark this afternoon, The heal in normal for this hciikoii of this year. Humidity raiis around yj'iior gent which i norm,u, II II I! I n mm ARBITRATED DELUGE WES ST.L Four Lives Lost at Alton and Damaqc From Clotitlhiirst Runs Into Mil lions 3.6 Indies of Rain in Half Hour Floodlnu All Streets Man Swims Tliroiih Alton Streets Notlfylnii People to Flee for Their Lives From Dcltioc. ST. LOI'IS. .Mil, July IS. KhIi iiiati'K today place the iliiiiinun in St. I.ouiii and vicinity at 1 1.0110,00(1 tlH the it'Mitll of t lit' lain and witnlnlm-iii ,cMlerday. l-'our pciMins were drown cil near Alton, III., when the unlet NWepI tllliuili (wo liitliU'h. Mix. I'lauciH .Medline, her tliui .car old ou; A 1 cine ltotc, :ill, ami lather Muni, ;!.', weie swept thioiih the wimloun nf the Iioiixcm ami diowiied. In St. I. mm III! iiiiiIich .,) ram tell in half an hour. StiecU m many paiN of the city were fl led. At Alton the yah plant was put out of t-omuiiKhinii ami the city was mi darkncHK hiht uilil. All MiceU weie llii'xloil, mid William Nacey swam from Iioiiho o hoime, inanhjjii; in windows and wnnuiij;' the inuinlcn 10 llei) for their lives? 'uicn mul ehildicu weie carried froiii hoiihe hv iiicii mid placed in limits, while a wae of water tluce fee( Iiicii was lacing thtouKh the town. Oimute City, Kilwailhillu mid oth er point, near St. Louis weie iiImo af fected. It is ettimated that mote th.in ten iuches of rmu fell at thesu poinls. CARS WILLBEABLE TO REACH DIM OF It is now possible to drie an auto inohile within a mile ami a half of Crater Lake aecordinc to I'rof. P. d. O'dara who has jiikI returned from n visit to the lake. The miow is rapidly disappcariiii; ami within a week union will he aide to make their way to the hnlc on the rim. The Crater Lake company has everything in readiiicns for hnmlliii (oiirihls at tho lake and the season will mioii he 011 in full hlast. "Despite stories to the effect that there is 1(1 feet of snow in thn road hctween Arauts Camp and the rim of Hie lake," slates 1'iof. O'dara, "I found the road in fairly good shape. I walked from the lake to the camp in ri,r) piinutcs which would not have heeu possible had there bcun much snow on tho urotiml. "Hy the end of this week I believe that it will be possible to drive a ear clear to tho rim. Tourists will find every comfort at tho rim." SCUKNKCTADV, N. Y., duly 15. -"Clieaji ico for tho poor" hcenine tho war cry of the socialist administra tion of Schenectady today and the whole city is stirred by the attempt of tho otgniii.cil ieo dealers to proven! Mayor Liinii and his officers from currying out their plans. Tho admin istration stored a lot of ico last win tor as part of its promise to help tlui people, ami star led to sell ico at LTi cents this Hummer while tho dcaleis put the price at -Id cents. Mayor Luuii told his side of the story lotlny in u maimer which show ed he hud not p,ivou up Ids plan. "They got 'u local dealer to enjoin us from selliiie; ieo to the people" ho said. "And Unit injunction cannot he argued until duly 'J!t. They went at it as you might expect them to. "They don't (tito any law as lieiujr violated by our Qt't'oi'tu o liolji out OVER LAKE END OF WEEK HGHIS A MILLIONS LOST NV Cloudburst Dnluiics Colorado Capital Several Lose Life Four Miles of City Suhiucnjcd and Wall of Water Sweeps Down Dcstroyiuij Buildlnns Collapse of Dam at Castlcwood Lakes Threatened Hundreds of People Made Homeless. pKNVKIl, Col., .Inly Ifi.-Tw.i known ilcad ami tluce miNiuc is the toll taken by the clotilhutrt and flood which swept Denver Sunday, neeor'l iliK to liKUics late this alteinoou. The known ileml aic: I'KKD HILL, 7(1. MRS. LYDIA MICKFOUD. H.r.. Mihsiny: oe Wallace, Albeit Clan. Krnct KlaiiKx. Hill was found dead itloni; the rail road tracks in the lower section ot the city. Mrs. Itickford locked her self in her home when the flood came Shu was found dead today in her bouse, which had been washed off it fotimlatioiih. DKNVCIt, Colo., .Inly 15. At noon today Mayor Arnold wiih notified Hint the waters of CiHtlewood La It en. Impounded hy Caxllewnod Dam, eighty inllen north of here, aro rUIni; rapidly and Hurt the diun threatens to go out at any moment. If tho dun) Huould collapKo 11 would Kweop n torrent of water down upon Denver, far greater tlinn that which struck tho city Sunday. This would create enormous damage. Thn dam Ih otto or tttu largest In the world. DKNVKIl, Colo., July 1.1. Al thotiKh tho police early today ex prcHncd tho fear that n dozen or morn peritoiiH were drowned In the cloud liurfct and flod which Hwept Denver ycHtonlny, there was confirmation of tho death of only one man. Two men are mlhsliiK and a woman and n hoy were hccii to fall Into tho flood. Tho flooded dtntrlrt Iiiih not yet boon thoroughly examined, however, and other fatuities may ho revealed heforo night. Tho property loss will run he tweon fl, 000, 000 and J 1,000,000 ac cording to today's estimates. Tho flood was tho most terrific In Denver's history as a largo city, tho only scnurgo comparing with Its be ing a flood In ISO I, which killed many persons. The storm, which m mo In tho wake of a sultry morn ing, did not extend beyond a rad ius of twenty miles. From tho state capltol, west and and north tho city was flooded over tho curbstones and water stood n foot deep on tho floor of tho union depot, which Is In tho lower part of twou. A four ntllo area In tho busi ness and pooror roaldoncn districts was Inundated, flvo hundred famlllos being rendered homeless. Immediately aftor flood, Mayor Ar- (Continued on Page Three) tho poor people in this hot weather hy Holliug them ico at a roiiMmahlo rate, but thoy just alleged that we haven't tho right to do it. They tied us up on duly It and on duly 4 we had fully 10,000 people who needed our ico badly. So wo tried to do our work by taking tho ieo over from the city iih individuals, and in this way letting the people have the benefit. Justice. Wliitmyor has ordered the ice we have left, about Ifi.OOO tons sold at public auction, and this will be done today. Apparently tho trust thinks it will get our ice, hut if it does it will pay well for it. "They have already tried to ham per our work further by asking to have tho injunction modified so as to prevent us from using the telephone. Thoy don't want to let the people call us up to get cheap ice, ami they don't want us to have any place where wo otw meet (hem (o tell them bout it." SCENES DURING rrrijfb-r-r- SVKTS Wa mTkL.ms V ,i."fcss. W - r MlTk..h.'.JLW fcX V. HEI Tf VkTjIiVlVVsJTN a Ak L&i9BLK7lwmKS&:f W O vov A. . sswutmtxps'-' fk a s-x'w v TricK-a--- -r-r. . xw-i f rrrz - i..tstru ini vk- v fc. -h! -iti-" -" r ncAr k r rue --o-v " .Si w trU cliv is iriw Pi Pie t' roes f a mu .'en is u , l Mun and teast-are rc.il jiuffcrvra, and everything - tiring dene to ullri H.e t'u f-HT u.tid i - r pi , . "I j. r..sd strict tin bill Is happy withal, and In UU darlus io takes a dall.) iduujjc In olli of lUe I uiil-l uriuuud u t'a f.tsUlutiable Imallllca. -&' E CHICAHO, Julv 15, - With Norman H. Mack in the chair the democratic national committee went into execu tive .session this afternoon in the Con gress hotel. It wag said thai the commitlcemau would hear what mcs- sup- Committeeman Hudspeth of Now Jersey hi ought from dyvomor Wilson and proceed at once to the election of offieciN. It leaked out of fho executive ses sion that M ham 1'. .Met oin i mul been elected chairman mid Joseph tl. Davics, of Wisconsin, seciotary. John I. Martin, of St. Louis, was chosen sergeant-al-anns. It was understood Hint the conser vative members of the committee gracefully aoipiioeo to doveruor Wil son's choice of McCpmbs for chair man, but that they attempted unsuc cessfully to block tho election of Dav it's ami re-elect Uroy Woodson, ol Kentucky, secretary. Tho committee Wilson desired to direct tho campaign is composed ef: William McAdoe, Now Jersey; Jos eph K. D.ivies, Wisconsin; Senators O'Oonuau, New York and Thomas V. dore, Oklahoma; Congressmen Hinle son mul Henry of Tivxas; Committee men Koheit Hndpath, New Jerscv, Joseph DaiueN, North Carolina, A. Mitchell Palmer, Pennsylvania , and William Saulsbun, Dulaw.uc. I NKW YOK'K', July .i. With tic exception of ii weakness in St. Paul stocks developed a steady tone al the ooeuiiig of today's stock market. lTn ion Pacific, Great Northern preferred and Hook Island preferred wore up nearly a point. Later St. Paul re covered and the entire, list made fur ther gains. United Slates Steel, den oral Klcctric, Wotinghomso and Amalgamated Coppgr all shared in the improvement. , Thu uiavket oloscitrunjr, Hpiuls wore firm, M'COMBS CHOSEN TO LEAD D 1RAT AT WILSON'S WISH THE SEVERE HOT SPELL IN MP25 ATE. VAf4ER. . - - jt vyrviMrj KINUN55 THEI3MOMETBR- . E BY TOM JOHNSON LOS AMilCLDS, Oil , July 5. llort II. Franklin, following his ar rest for Jury bribing, bollovod that Clarotico Harrow had collection with tho doal, and that Franklin offered to produce within a few days tho man who passed him inonoy for brlbory purposes, was tho testimony In tho Darrow trial today of Colonel Tom Johnson. Johnson was Franklin's attorney am held sovoral conferences with him prior to his confession. Dp to tho time of Darrovv's indict ment by the grand jury, Johnson tes tified, Franklin was looklug for tho "dark eoinple.xioiicd mysterious stranger," who has figured before during the Darrow dial. It was this man, and not Darrow, who passed tho bribe money, Johnson declared Franklin confided to him. Tho testimony of the nttorooy fur ther set forth that Franklin sent him to the district attorney's office with an offer to uiieaith, if given u few days time, the man in question. The proposal was rejected by Assistant District Attorney Ford, Johnson said. Continued on Pane Throe) STOCKHOLM, Julv 13. -With the Americans in first place, tho Olympic games will officially end tonight, when the prices won will ho distrib uted in the stadium in tho presence, of the king1 of Sweden and members of the toyal family. Tho games have been successful from everything but a financial standpoint, mid (hero is nothing but congratulations for the mauagemeut. First honors go to the United States, although the total points will not bo complete until tonight. Hut the American margin, especially inso far as the veal athletic events the truck and field contests aro con cerned, is so great thiit everyone con nected with the team is being show ered with congratulations. Aniorioii scored in only one of thu big runnlue; events today, tho 1U0Q meter team rneo, whore tho Amoriunn DAROW A Y AR AM AN WN NEW YQM W t ' lcmjuc LJtz.mtriUirij lO UVERHEATEP HOkSE. . 1VAN.THE ALASKAN BEAR..ENJOyiNG A 5HOWER. BATH . ARE CUT BY Dates Cut J'roin San Francisco to Mctlford f lbs. from ? .70 to $ .31-5 10 lbs. from flO to All J.r lbs. from I.IIO to .77 100 lbs. from t 3.Jf to U.uO WASHINGTON. Julv l.--.--Thc in terstate commerce commission's rul ing in (ho express cases, reducing rates materially, if it goes into effect will reduce the cost of living, provid ing the middlemen do not absorb 'oo much of the difference," said Chair man Clements of the commission to day. Ho pointed out that tho com mission's ruling was an order to show eauso why the now rates should not become effective. 'Necessarily," tho chairman said, "the tendency of important reductions such as are proposed, would be in greater or less degree toward a re duction in the cost of living, just as would be the tendency in a reduction of tho cost of transpoiting produce from tho producer to tho consumer in all Hues of business." (Continued on Page Three) runners made n show of their field. Tho isitors from over seas failed to show at all in the 8,000 meter cross country race, where they had hopod to have u man "iusido tho inonoy." As was expected, 11. Kolohinuiuen, the great Finnish runner, who plans to turn professional and come to the United States this full, was first. Anderson of Sweden was second and F.ko of Sweden third. II. llelawell proved tho best of the Americans in the race, but the best ho could do was to laud twelfth in tho race. The pace was torrifio mid ninny of tho contestants wore ovoieomo while all that finished were completely ex hausted. Iu the 8S00 motor team swimming event, America finished second to Australia, with F.uglaud third. In the high diving ovqnt Bvvcdon was first and third, with Qorpinuv second. EX RATE TWO COMNBSDN HONORS E FATAL WRECK Nlntccn Killed and Fifty Injured When Mall Train on Chicago, Bur- ' llngton and Qulncy Clashes Into Overland Limited. Heroism of Bride .Who Sent Doctors to Husband and Died Herself En gineer of Train Dead. CHICAGO, July 15. Coroner Peter Hoffman today continued his offorts to place tbe blamo for tho wreck-of tho Chicago, Darlington and Qulncy yesterday, In which tblrtceti persons wcro killed, and nearly fifty Injured; It was dotormlnod definite ly to that efforts wcro mado to halt tho mall train bofore It crashed Into the Pullman sleeper of tho Overland Limited. Mrs. F. A. Wilcox, towor operator at Western Springs, southwest of Chicago, received tho message that tho mall train known as No. 8, .was coming on at full speed. An auto matic block signal had caused tho Overland to stop 850 fcot west of tho Westorn Springs. Tho woman operator rushed from her , koy, to flag the engineer of No. 8. She saw him pass tho semaphoro signal, which should havo had halted him, and. as tho train thunderod past tho station, the women saw that a hor rible wreck was certain, rushed to tho telephone to call doctors, and then swooned. Dead Engineer Warned According P. S. Eustls, passenger traffic manager ot tho Burlington, tho blamo for tho wreck Ilea between Gcorgo Bronso, englncor of .No. 9, who died wltn his hand on tho,brak levcr and John Woodruff, flagman of train No. 2, who placed tho torpedoes on tho track. Woodruff Bald, he not only went back and placed tor pedoes on the rails, but that ho also walked up the track and mado an effort to flag number eight. Ono incident of tho wreck that stood out clearly In tho stories told today was that ot tho heroic sacri fice of Mrs. E. O. Pohlmann, brldo of a San Francisco, Cai., traveling salesman. A doctor helped Y.lt her clear of tho wreckage and started to cxamlno her for posslblo serious In juries. Tho young woman drow her skirts over her limbs and nodding toward her husband, said, said: "There's my husband. He's hurt worso than I am. Please look utter him first." Jewelry Missing Pohlmann was found seriously but not fatally hurt, and tho doctor re turned to tho bride, finding both h,er legs broken and her spine fractured. She died on tho way to St. Anthony's Hospital. Company officials today stated a considerable amount of Jewelry ot tho doad was missing, but whether this was tho work of vandals or a freak ot tho wreck Is not known. The pollco assort that tho small Bums of money found on many bodies In dicated tholr pockots had boon picked. Horbert Heaso, assistant gonoral solicitor of tho Burlington, today de clared ho bolloved tho catastropho was duo to tho dense fog. STOLE HALF BILLION nUIVALO, N. Y., July 15. Suvou teen year old Joseph MuCnrthy, ol Jorsoy City, undersized who roully looks about 1-1, is looked up hi tlio local station, awaiting tho arrival of New York officers, Tho child ho in that only in years mid. intelligoiieo' is alleged to have stolen liulf u million dollars worth of ohcoks unci $200 in inonoy from tho United Cigar Stores company, the retail cifjur trust. Tho police say that Joo admitted' his guilt. Thoy suy ho tod tlieiti when ho was sent to tho bank In Now York Saturday to deposit tlio checks uud money tho night of tho largo amount of cash uud cliucka duzzlcid him. Tho cheeks weie recoyorjid mid turned over to thu poIiee.Joifiwd $U& Pf tlio stolen money left.' "- B CAUSE EAR CHICAGO YOUTH CAUGHT 1 $ iN v y