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THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAN. THURSDAY, APRIL, 1909. WIND KILLS MANY IN- VALLEY STATES MEL3URN INDULGES New CHIEF OF REBELLIOUS CREEK INDIANS AND HIS TWO SONS . Th e ForsytKe Waist Riding Hats INTHGETIOUSNESS Storm Sweeps Up Mississippi and Ohio Rivers and Across the Lake States. Declares Government Is Try ing to Steal Ida TarbelPs Copyright on Oil Plots. ; DAMAGE IS TREMENDOUS COMPARES TRUST TO BODY I 1 . CRAZY SNAKE" Mind Carrie Down AYIres, Takes Hoofs From Houses and Vproots t"It.. Many Bring Killed and Hurt In lebris. CHICAGO. April 7 Wind that often 1 cached a velocity of more than 60 miles .r' "'-'-""panied by thunder and lightning, drenching rains and. in some s.-cllc.ns heavy snow, ewept through the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys and over the Lake states last night and today, doing tremendous property damage and maiming and killing people. In many places the storm approached the violence r a tornado and ruined a wide area of farming land, killing atl standing crops. Ires east of Chicago as far east as ntsburg went down rapidly in the f n;:."rdl"B to tho telegraph com panies Wheeling, w. Va.. reported every wire down east of that point. Of the numerous leased wires running east of hleago. but one was working this aft ernoon, and conditions were said to be growing worse. In this city several persons received minor injuries from toppling fences and loosened sign-boards. Scores of plate glass windows were broken. .Man Soars In Air. By far the most freakish whim of the :,,W;,, slve a Perilous ride to Ban uel Hoi and. an elevated railroad conductor. Holland was seated on the runway of a boxcar on the Metropolitan Klevated when the roof was lifted by the gale. It maintained a horizontal position and Holland w-ent whirling away. He alight, ed over 100 feet from the starting place, none the worse for his experience The roof settled to the ground with compara tive steadiness, considering its weight. ,i.rJ?n.K amo,,K ' I'" crew insisted that the conductor must be internally in Jured and took him to a doctor, who confirmed the statement of Holland that lie was not hurt. Many Killed In South. At Aberdeen. Miss., w. C. McMillan rashier of the bank and his son. T T McMillan, were instantly killed in the wreckage of the Illinois Central Station Two negroes also met death. At West Point. Miss., much damage was done on the Terrell plantation, east a V'tr.'vand two neeroe were killed. &"&m"ilfn"itU! ra,n- hail ..etnoued"- P,an, A'k ChUrch Reports from Western Tennessee say the storm wrecked many small buildings. At Buntyan a schoolhouse was shaken causing a panic among 300 students kiMedStarkV'"e' Miti8' fUr nesroea were At least eight persons lost their lives In the storm that visited Detroit and Michigan. Three men attempted to cross the- Detroit River in a rowboat and were drowned. At Jennings three men were killed by being caught under a wall blown down by the wind. The wind's velocity reached 65 miles an hour. TOI.KDO IS SWEPT BY TOHXADO Hundreds Forced Out of Work by Damage of Storm. TUI.UL.O. o.. April 7. Hundreds of men out of work, thousands of dollars damage done and many persons slight ly injured are the results of a hurri cane that visited Toledo and vicinity The wind attained a velocity of 69 miles an hour In this city. The roof of the plant of the Massilon Bridge Com pany. lMx440 feet, was ripped off and hurled into a field, and 300 men were thrown out of employment until the damage can be repaired. Pedestrians were Injured by falling signs, parts of roofs, chimneys and limbs of trees. Many women were bowled over by the wind. in small towns near Toledo consid erable damage was done. Many houses were struck by lightning and occu pants stunned, but there are no re ports of fatalities. 107.KX 1IOISES DEMOLISHED Wabash, Ind., In Direct Path or Storm, Suffers Seriously. WABASH. Ind.. April 7. -A tornado passed over this city last night. Injuring a score of persons and doing thousands of dollars- worth of damage. The storm struck the city at 8 o'clock, passing through the northeast section of the town. J'oiens of house were demolished. Mrs. James Hayes and four children were pinned beneath the wreckage of thetr home, which caught fire. The mother was fatally burned and the children were seriously hurt. William Shepard, wife and to children, were held beneath fallen ru ns and the neighbors extricated them. Mres went down and the city was In darkness throughout the night. The en tire second story of the dwelling occupied by Militant Hains was carried away, leav ins the family In their beds exposed to a drenching rain. The wind was followed by a cloudburst and the river rose, flood ing lowlands. Many bridges are washed ay. The streets are impassable this morning owing to fallen trees. STOKM SWEEPS FIVE- ADRIFT llurse Driven Front Sandusky With I our Men and Woman Aboard. SANDUSKY. O.. April 7 The barge Norman Kelley. with four men and a w..m aboard. Is drifting helplessly I . fore s.i-n.lle gale off Kelley ". Island. The barge broke away from b.-r .lock early today. A tug from here is attempting to rescue the barge and Its crew. The barge was last seen near here at noon today, when It was being car ried swiftly to the northeast. The passengers are at the mercy of the water. There is no way by which they can change the course of the boat, as it Is without an engine. Neither are there any provisions aboard. ELECTRIC CURRENT RIOTOUS Lightning and Power GeU Mixed Vp In Chicago Storm. CHICAGO, April 7. Lightning plaved oueer pranks during a storm last night. HURLBUTTE hARJO CRAZY NAK.E- EUFAULO HAfO .... : ""die, me l uk i Live inaian Chief still remains n hiding. Nothing had been heard up to tonight from his son who had started three days ago. m company with a deputy marshal In an effort to locate him. ueputy It ran down the chimney of one home and shattered a large mirror in the par lor, set the roof on fire at another place and destroyed a third residence. One of the electric feed wires of the sanitary district carrying 12,000 volts, broke during the storm and fell to the roof of an elevated railway station, charging it so heavily with electricity that policemen had to stand on guard. A terrinc wind storm of short duration tore up from "the southwest through Ken dall and Kane' Counties at 60 miles an hour last night, killing hundreds of head of stock and wrecking frame buildings. It crashed in plate-glass windows of store fronts by the score. Hogs, cattle and poultry were killed and buildings damaged to the extent of $100,000. Numerous minor injuries to farm -workers were reported, but no fatalities. GALE REACHES TO XEW YORK Woman and Child Blown Off Feet and Cunarder Blocked. NEW YORK. April 7.-The high gale prevailing to the west and north of New York today attained its full force here at 7:45 o'clock tonight, when the wind reached a velocity of 60 miles an hour. A woman and a child were badly hurt by being blown off their feet. The Cunard liner Caronla, from Liver pool, which arrived tonight, could not berth, but was. obliged to anchor at quarantine owing to Hie gale. The high winds here tonight caused a 12a.000 fire which destroyed the repair shop of the Second Avenue Elevated Railway at Second avenue and One Hun dred and Twenty-eighth street. A large sign which hung at the east end of the shop was blown down and in falling dislodged several electrical wires one of which dropped into a barrel of oil. Instantly there was an explosion that blew a section of the roof off the building and a moment later the end of the structure was a mass of flames. Several cars were damaged and traffic was at a stndstill for bout three hours. HAVOC THROUGHOUT OHIO Barge Adrift on Lake Erie With Five Persons Aboard. CLEVELAND. O.. April 7. The storm which prevailed In Northern Ohio today practically Isolated Cleveland from communication with the East. The 65-mlle-an-hour gale created havoc In all directions. Telegraph and telephone wires were reported down throughout the state. Navigation on the lake was made hazardous by the high seas. The barge Norman Kelley Is reported to be adrift off Kelleya Island with four men and a woman aboard. They have no provisions and are in Immi nent danger of being wrecked. COPPER COUNTRY ISOLATED Ieep Snow Tears Down Wires in Vpper Peninsula. HOUGHTON. Mich.. April 6. The copper country was practically isolated from the outside world todav as the result of a blizzard which swept down on the district last night. Telephone and telegraphic communication Is de moralized, there being miles of wires down. Between four and six inches of snow fell in Houghton and over a foot In Calumet. PITTSBIRG BREAKS RECORDS Highest Wind Velocity in Nation Recorded There. PITTSBURG. April T.-Weather Bureau officials reported the highest wind ve locity In the United States at Pittsburg today when the maximum record was 6S miles an hour. For a time there was not a wire working out of the city. Peru Badly Damaged. PERU. Ind., April 7. A tornado struck his town at 8 o'clock last night and de stroyed four factories and several school buildings and wrecked many small struc tures. Samuel Cornes was caught under the wreckage when his dwelling collapsed and was seriously injured. . . . Spring: style shoes. Rosenthal's. RETURN ON WARSHIP Indiana's Wrecked Passen gers Reach Port. TAKE DISASTER CALMLY Stranding of Steamer Causes No Jar and Breakfast Eaten After Allshap Cruiser Cali fornia Hospitable. SAN FRANCISCO. April 7. One day ZTtl .f," thCy WOUld have ma1e pore had the Ill-fated Pacific Mail liner In diana completed her trip "on schedule PMnt -S f 8trikinS " a reef at Point Tasco. Lower California, last Saturday morning. Purser R K Pal ache and the 48 passengers of the vessel arrived here today aboard the United States cruiser California to which ship they were transferred from the cruiser Albany at Magda lena Bay on the morning after the In diana struck. As the California steamed slowly Into San Francisco Bay the harbor craft blew whistle blasts of we come to the crowd that lined the rails on the warship's quarterdeck Af ter coaling here, the California will start, probably tomorrow afternoon, on her return voyage to Magdalena frh W?eI? She wI11 cmPete for the trophy In the record target practice. Passengers Take It Calmly. Statements made by the Indiana's passengers and by the officers of the California were to the effect that there was no excitement or panic attending the running aground of the liner or the transfer of the passengers. All of the Indiana's people ' upoke in the highest terms of the conduct of Can tain J. F. Robinson, of the grounded vessel, to whom before leaving Magda- t"r.B,tT ,they Pr.esented a resolution sympathizing with him ow the loss of his ship and thanking him for his cool and considerate handling of the situation. When the vessel struck, at 7 In the morning, none of the 34 saloon pas sengers had breakfasted. Those who had not arisen were awakened by the stewards who told them to dress, af? ter which Captain Robinson passed among those on board and assured them they were In no danger. Fifteen minutes after the vessel struck break? fnSt rL'Vf,"'6? T;ith as llttle commo tion as If the Indiana were still main taining her course Instead of lying on a reef in a dense fog. There was no appreciable jar. one of the ladies on board said, when the Indiana ran on shore. On the trip north on board the Cali fornia the ship's officers gave up their quarters to the saloon passengers and quartered the American steerage pas sengers with the chief petty officers. Everything was done to promote the comfort of the impromptu guests most of whom expressed the wish that the run to San Francisco could have been longer. Concerts by the Califor- jSf Jband and other entertainment whiled away the hours for the passen gers, while the officers stood trying watches on the bridge as the cruiser moved cautiously through the dense fog. . Officers' Wives on Board. Among the Indiana's passengers were the wives of four naval officers 1 hey were: Mrs. Hazel ORear. wife of Midshipman O Rear of the Pennsyl vania; Mrs. Lillian Perkins, wife 'of Paymaster Perkins of the Washington Mrs. Sarah S. 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Kellogg, "the Government here is trying to deprive her of it." Mr. Milburn compared the Standard to the human body, with its many ramifi cations corresponding to the blood and its pipe lines to VTie veins and arteries. "To dismantle this corporation." he said, "would be to strike ir dead. It is like the organism of the human frame. Every part of It is so related to the others that to separate them would be to dis member and destroy it." Oil Company a Leader. Instead of being a menace to the Inde pendent refiners, Mr. Milburn declared, the Standard had always led the way and blazed the trail ln the oil world, and the independents had to follow, as they had always dofie. ' Having told yesterday of John D. Rock efeller's Introduction into the oil busi ness through the acquisition of a refinery in Cleveland in 1865, the New York at torney today continued' his recital". ' He told of refineries throughout the country prior and subsequent to 1870. Mr. Mil burn said that these. Investments had been very prosperous at first, but later as a result of overconstruction, there had followed a decline in profits. The rise and general development of the Standard prior to the trust agreement of 1882 was next taken up, and its acquisition of properties, including pipe lines, down to 1S76, explained as necessary to the de velopment of the corporation's growing business. Tells of Business Growth. Mr. Milburn next explained the organ ization and extension of the oil marketing business after 1875. The lubricating field was then invaded, according to Mr. Mil burn, a feature which the lawyers ex plained with great care; especially- as the acquisition of 97 per cent of the country's railway lubrication by a- Standard subsid iary company, the Galena Signal Oil Com pany, through the alleged weight of Rock efeller money in the railway directorates, had been one of the Government's prin cipal charges against the defendants as showing a tendency toward monopoliza tion. Tho defendant's chief counsel told of the establishment of the marketing sta tions for the lubrication business, and its causes and effects. - , : Mr. Milburn discussed the facts sur rounding the Standard's acquisition of various miscellaneous properties, which he said were only incidental to the cor poration's general expansion, and then took up the properties prior, to the trust agreement, narrating just how and under what conditions each concern was pur chased or founded by Standard Oil money. , This is one of. If not the. most impor tant, feature of the defendant's case, as it will Insist that the properties coming Into the trust agreement were in no sense competing companies, and from the start were companies possessing distinctly a separate field in the oil world and there fore not competitive. Young Firm Economical. . Mr. . Milburn told of the care with which the firm of Rockefeller & Co.. even ln Its earliest days, studied the econ omies of the oil business, establishing warehouse and lighterage facilities ln New York that they might be indepen dent of local conditions. "As early as 1869." said Mr. Milburn. "the young firm made its own barrels at J1.50 each, instead of paying ,2.50 in the market. This care, of .detail gave the banker confidence in them and en abled the young oil- merchants to borrow capital." Telling then of the fight made aealnst Cleveland as a refining center by the Pennsylvania Railroad in an endeavor to dominate the oil works, . Mr. Milburn, pausing dramatically with uplifted hands said: "Instead of sitting in the night burning the midnight oil and concocting this so called conspiracy about which we have heard so much, Mr. Rockefeller and his associates were at that very moment fighting for their own lives and com mercial existence." The Standard's lawyer denied that Mr. f : -; 4 rcttjTiiff NEW EASTER HATS Today we place on , sale 500 NEW HATS shown J6r the -first time today. Received by express. Special $4.95 On iale to Jay. only W if Rockefeller was one of the organizers of the famous South Improvement Company of Pennsylvania. . Instead, he said, the embryo oil king denounced the plan as Impractical. Reprieve for Betting Men. NEW ORLEANS April 7. W. W. Lyles. Placide Frigerro and R. M. Shef field, who began a seven months' sen tence In. the parish prison yesterday, were released today on .a. reprieve of Governor Sanders, pending a hearing of their case by the Board of Pardons. They were con tinued in a test of the so-called Locke anti-racing law. Large Timber Sales Made. VICTORIA. B. C. April 7.-D. J. Crom well, of Vancouver, formerly of Port land, today sold 38 timber berths near Jordan River for 1160.000. Mr. Cromwell 1Jnember of a New Tork syndicate and the sale Is to a firm of Minneapolis people. 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