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' . I ' VOL. L.. "0. 15,500. PORTLAXD,, OREGON, MONDAY. OCTOBER 10, 1910. PRICE FIVE CENTS. HUNDREDS DIE IN IIESOlA FOREST FIRES Settlers Crazed With Grief Wander in Burning Woods. CORPSES FOUND IS FILES Property Loss in Onrushing Blaze Will Reach Far Into Millions. ENTIRE FAMILIES WIPED OUT Death List Grows Each Hour Many Are Missing. TOWNS BURN LIKE TINDER Great Conflagration Carries Tales of Horror Four Town Destroyed. Women and Children Are Unshed Fpom Flre'a PatB. WARROAP, Minn.. Oct. . Death' toll from forest fire now sweeping Northern Minnesota in the Rainy Hirer district my reach A General Superin tendent Cameron, of the Canadian Pa cific Railway, says this estimate, will be larger. Four towcs hav ben wiped out by the flames. Hundreds of settlers are missing, and the death list grow Dourly. Bodies or dead have already been gathered. . Thousands of refugees fill Warroad tonight. The town is In (rest danger from forest fires which are graduallly approaching the town. Two special trains left Winnipeg at ( o'clock over the Canadian Northern Railway with fire apparatus and hose. Roosevelt la safe after an all-day tight, but the town is crowded with refugee Refugees till Warroad. Tonlgb Warroad Is crowded with thousand refugees, and fires are burning all around It. The fire la spreading this way and is now only seven miles from f-prague. Manitoba, which is X miles northwest of here. A fire also Is com ing down from the north of Sprague, where K has burned great quantities of cord wood, telephone and telegraph poles awaiting shipment. The forest firs Is the greatest since the Hinckley, Minn., horror of IB years ago. It Is almost Impossible to estimate the number of missing, but messages sent out by private Individuals, indicate that 100 relatives, mostly from around Beaudette. havs not reported. Oeneral Superintendent Cameron, of the Canadian Northern Railroad, places the number of deaths at 400. but admits thst it may b larger. Four Towns Burned. , The towns of Pitt. Spooner. Grace town and Beaudette were burned Friday night. The fire was heralded by a shower of sparks and burning brands which swept across ths Beaudette River, snd tha In habitants barely bad time to reach the special train that as 'waiting before both towns were on fire. Sick people, apparently by the score. appeared and were carried or assisted i to points of safety. There were five patients In Carrlgan's hospital who had been burned. Or. young woman, who had given birth to a child earlier In the evening, had to be tikcn to a lumber office to make room for other patients. A special train is waiting to take the people to some other point east in caao the fire should get a fresh start. Uhe town Is not jet entirely free of danger. oonrr Wiped Clean. The buildings of the Shevltn Mathleu Lumber Company are pra-tically tlie only structures standing In Spooner. net a tree, fence or a foot of sidewalk being 1 left. There are not even the heaps of debris that usually remain after a fire. The property ! in Rainy Kiver. Beaudette and Spooner alone. Including tiie iwi ruriase Lumwr company s uant j ru i run ii t ruver ana ine yard of Sbevlln Mathleu Lumber Company at Fpooner. will total about Jl.JOO.oOO. It wUl be soma time before the loss of life Is known even approximately. Wagon loads of human bodies axe being brought .into the railway station at Beaudette. It Is reported that many settlers, erased with grief at the loas f families and property, are roaming the woods, and searching parties are )ooklns for ths Injured, ths dead and lh demented. One family of nine, on of seven and on of five perished oa Friday night. At t:30 P. M. Saturday a tornado of fire struck Beaudette and Spooner. and ' iCusUbtled ua i 4-J GERANIUM BIG AS SAUCER IS GROWN CALIFORNIA GARDE.VER DEVEL OPS BIG BLOOM. Number of Individual Flowers In- creased From 22 to 6 7 Huge Carnation Perfected. SAN FRANCrSCO. Oct. t. (Special.) Richard Diener, a gardener at Col ma. a suburb of San Francisco, where Coffroth used to hold his fights, who ha been experimenting secretly with all kinds of flowers In order to ascer tain how to enlarge their slxe. ha per fected a geranium six Inches in diam eter, which has been pronounced by experts or.e of the most extraordinary achievements In floriculture. By removing the pollen from a sin gle variety of "white" geranium, which I In full bloom, and crossing It with a red one. Diener has discovered that the flower will become twice lta orig inal slxe. and by a second and third crossing he Is able to produce a truss or cluster of blossoms measuring from five to six Inches in diameter. According to the number of times he crosses the flowers, the number of Individual flowers la Increased from about 22 to 7. with the color chang ing from pinkish white to scarlet. Diener haa also perfected carnation four and five Inches in diameter. MAN SELLS 'STRAD' FOR $10 Purchaser In Turn Disposes of lo ll n for $300; Price Now $1500. TACOMA. Wash.. Oct. . (Special.) Two small merchant here are bemoan ing their Ignorance, and a dealer In musical Instruments is much pleased with himself as the result of the pos sage through their hands of a rare gtradivarlus violin during the past few day. The Instrument was first sold for $1. and after being bartered for twice and sold 1 now held at 12500. A German sailor, who was "down and out. first sold the tnsturment to a Pa-clflc-avnue pawnbroker for fl, who In turn thought he was doing a good stroke of business, when hs passed It on to a Commerce-street cobbler for $10. The cobbler was playing on the Instrument the same evening that he bought It, wina prominent music dealer entered his shop and at once of fered him $500 for it- PIONEER KILLED BY HORSES Runaway Team, With Wagon, Twice Passes Over Man's Body. HOOD RIVER. Or- Oct. . (Special.) P. D. Hlnrlchs, a Hood River pioneer of li year, was killed here yesterday In a runaway accident. Mr. Hlnrlchs was hauling apples from the orchard to his apple-house. Ths team started to run and, unable to control them, he fell from the wagon, which paaaed over hi body. Before help could reach him the team, which ran in a circle? passed over him a second time, caus ing death almost Instantly. ' Mr. Hlnrlchs had amassed consider able property. He Is survived by his widow and eight children, and by hi brother. J. W. Hlnrlchs. vice-president of the First National Bank. TREASURERIS INDICTED Warrant Out for County Official at Jlontesano, Wash. MONTE9ANO. Wash.. Oct . (Spe cial.) Judge Mason Irwin issued war rants Saturday night for the indictments returned by the grand Jury. Th warrants wer for County Treas urer G. J. Taylor, for malfeasance In of fice; for Wilson Buttner, for grand lar ceny; for, R. C. Moxley. for dynamiting a home, and for C. Minklef and F, Moe, for killing a steer. 4 ABOVE, fROWn WATIHlVr, AVIATOR rLIKHT, GROIP SHOWI-JO r. c. nm tivm, thomas p. baluwu, eiuem; ely, vho is sow DEMOCRATS WILL SEND DIX ON TOUR Programme in New York Is Changed. LACK OF ORATORS IS FELT Candidate for Governor Not Great Spell-Binder. HEARST TO GO IT ALONE Independence League Will Confine . Efforts to New York City Re publicans to Open Campaign Friday Night In Gotham. BT LLOTD F. LOHEBOAS. NEW YORK. Oct. . (Special.) That the Democrats do not consider they have a walkover Is Indicated by the announcement tonight that Guber natorial Candidate DIx will take the tump. Dlx Is not an orator and the original Intention was for him to play a silent part In the campaign. But State Chair man Huppuch, who, like Dlx, comes form Washington County, and Is the nominee's business partner, has made a change in the programme. On Wednesday, the commltee named by the Democratic State Convention will travel to Thomson, Washington County, to tell Dlx that ho Is the party's standard-bearer. Thomson is In the woods. 15 miles by trolley from any railroad station. After the notifi cation ceremonies, Dlx will be sent on a tour through the state. His plans have not been completed, but the an nouncement Is made that most of his time will be spent in the rural dis tricts. Democrats Are Worried. Democratic managers admit private ly that they are worried over the lack of capable orators.. Thomas Osborne, bead of the Democratic League, Is not a convincing talker; Edward M. Shep ard, despite his abilities as a speaker, la handicapped by hi corporation af filiations, the same disability that af fects John B. Stanchfleld, of Elmlra. while Martin Littleton, easily the prlxe Democratic orator of the atate, la the candidate for Congress In Roosevelt's district. The minor candidates on the state ticket are not merfwho can charm audiences, so the decision to draft Dlx waa really a last resort. William Randolph Hearst, who vain ly sent orders by wireless to his con vention to nominate Stlmson, Is now glad that his commands were dis obeyed. Hearst's lieutenants did their best and somlnated State Chairman Hopper for' Governor, the understand ing being that Hopper would retire If desired. ' After looking over the field, how ever, Hearst decided that he would gain (Concluded on Page 3.) AVIATION MEET SCENES, AVIATORS WHO PARTICIPATED IN CHICAGO FLIGHTS AND ROW AND " INDEX OF TODAY'S i NEWS The Weather. TESTE RD AY'S Maximum temperature. 53 degrees: minimum. 52 degree. TODAY'S Fair and warmer, northwesterly winds. Foreign. Expulsion of Monks from Portugal .under way. Page 8- Domestie. Chaloner explains intuit to prince as de fense of name of Chanter. Page 2. Rescuers overcome In rush to save SO en tombed miners In Colorado. Page 1. . Tugs fall to float steamer Oamara. Pass 3. Victims of Los Angeles Times explosion . buried. Page 2. Gardener develops geranium six Inches In dismeter. Page 1. Death list In Minnesota forest fire grows to hundreds: flames still spreading. Page 1. Following Jail religious services convicts make Sheriff and missionary prisoners. Page -x. Cholera cases In New York Increase. Page S Aviator Ely only starter In flight from Chi cago to New York for $J0.0O0 prise. Page 1. Politics. Alarmed by scarcity of spellbinders. Demo crats will send Dlx on tour. Page 1. ' Bowermsa will not permit repeal of direct primary law by Legislature. Page 8. Union nominee for State Senator files cam paign expense account showing excessive speuamg. page 5. Multnomah County Democratio candidates announce platform. Page 4. Sport. Pacific Coa.t League results: Portland 4-1 .Sacramento 0-0; Vernon 0-2, Oakland r-4; San Francisco 7-0, Los Angeles 2-4. Page 10. Los Angeles will open series here Tuesday. Page 10. . Walter Camp says new football rules do not solve question. Pag 11. Pacific Northwest. Kelso starts movement to becom county seat or cowllts County. Page 5. Masked men rob bank In Vancouver. B. C, suburb while people lo3k on. Page 5. Portland and Vicinity. City will not attempt to deliver Broadway bridge bonds, page 8. Runaway girls from Aid Society captured after four nights In forests. Psge 14. "Search Law" proposed by Prohibitionists denounced by speaker. Page 14. Rousing welcome arranged for T. P. O'Con nor, irlsb leader. Page 9. John Milton Hodson Is dead. Page 8. Professor Shaw says dry farming Is West's biggest problem. Page 9. Mounted battery drills to' be horse-show feature. Page P. Man accused of building-loan fraud says he Is loser. Page Hawthome-avenue bridge nears completion. rage 7. Portland to get new theater, home of bur lesque- Page 4. GIRL WEDS, AVOIDS JAIL With Husband to Guide Her, Embez zler I to Go Free. SACRAMENTO, Cel.. Oct. . (Special.) Opal V. Reed, a pretty department cashier of the Charles P. Nathan Com pany, a local department store, will es cape a charge of embexzlement by her secret marriage last night In Woodland to George T. Howlett, employed by a wholesale house of this city. New of her marriage made known here today reaulted In a statement from City Attorney and heads of the department atore to the effect that she would not be placed on trial for the offense, which was discovered about a month ago. She was to have had a hearing this week In the Police Court and efforts were al ready on foot to seek probation for her when she was held to answer to the Su perior Court. City Attorney Hart says all she needs is somebody to look after her and now that she has a husband. he believes there Is no need of pressing the charge. The firm takes the same view of the situation. Manager J. W. Laughlin says. Miss Reed In two year embezzled close to $2000 by altering checks and cash slips. She spent the money for clothes and in supporting her sister, she said. She was engaged to Howlett and when out on bail went over to Woodland and was married, getting the County Clerk to give her the license Saturday night- ON CHICAGO-TO-NEW a Photos fcopyright BCD M4RS, MRS. MARS. MRS. fiLEXTf CCRTlSS AD MRS. El GEMS ELY, CHARLES K. HAMILTON BELOW, t. eoite fkum chicaoo to sew vobk by aeroflaae. j. a. mxi.kdv ajvd charles f. willabd. AVIATOR STARTS FLIGHTTO GOTHAM For $30,000.00 Prize, Ely Leaves Chicago. ACCIDENTS CAUSE DELAY Aeroplanist Expects to Reach New York by Friday. ROW ELIMINATES RACE Wrlglfc - Brothers Refuse to Enter Competitive Event for Big News , papers' Award, Considering It Too Dangerous Undertaking. CHICAGO, Oct, 9. (Special.) Eugene Ely, aviator, started today on an aero plane flight from Chicago to New York for the $30,000 prize oftered by the Chi-" cago Evening Post and the New York Times, but tonight rested at Gary, a few miles out of Chicago, owing to minor accidents to his machine. Ely first deacended at Beverly Sta tion on Ithe Rock Island Railroad to fix the carburetor of his engine, which had shut off while he was at a height of 1400 feet- Ely landed safely on the golf links of Beverly hills, 16 miles south of Hawthorne Park, from where he made his start. The carburetor was quickly fixed, but while he was trying to get the machine up In the air again one of the front wheels struck a stone and broke. After telephoning back to Hawthorne Park for repairs,, Ely prepared to spend the night In the special car at Gary, and to make a sunrise start tomorrow from Beverly Station. Ely Determined to Fly. "I shall fly to New York whether It takes me seven days or seven weeks," said Ely tonight. "My trunks and sup plies have been sent to the Astor House In New York and I expect to be with my trunk not loiter than Friday." "It was a great wind for speed, but one of the roughest I ever tackled, said Ely. "It was extremely shoppy and kept me on the move every second to retain the balance of the machine. As to the carbureter, the trouble was not serious, only I couldn't reach It. It needed adjustment. The machinists have constructed an arm by which I can govern it from where i sit ana then I'll have both the gasoline and j spark under control." Ely has seven days In which to com plete the trip. . A special train on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, will follow the aeroplane. Newspapermen and a few enthusiasts will be carried on the train. . Asked If he had not been blown out of his course by the high northeast wind. he replied that he had chosen that route (Concluded on Page 5.) YORK TRIP. CONVICTS LOCK UP SHERIFF AND GIRL DCO FLEE, FOLLOWING GIOUS SERVICE. RELI Desperadoes Take Officer and Mis sionary Unawares, Make Both Prisoners, Then Escape. SANTA ANA, Cal., Oct 9. Taken un awares at the close of religious services In the jail here today. Sheriff Lacey and Miss Christian Ken, a missionary were thrown into a cell by two prisoners an alleged murderer and a forger end held for nearly an hour while their cap tors escaped. The fugitives, Rosario Slanz and Alejo Naclas, are being pursued tonight by several posses. Both are armed with rifles taken from the Sheriffs office, and a battle is expected before they are recaptured. Lacey was with Miss Kerl, who con ducted the service in the main room of the jail. Slanz. who is said to have a record of five men killed and who was one of the recently scattered band of Chinese smug glers, struck the Sheriff on the temple, dazing him. Naclas grasped for the Sheriff's keys. but Miss Kerl secured them and rushed for the corridor. She opened the Jail door and got outside, but seeing the plight of the Sheriff, re-entered the pris on. She was promptly overpowered by the two desperadoes; who flung her into the cell with the Sheriff and then, with a Jeering laugh, made their way into Lacey's office. There they procured two rifles and going into the street, they also seized two bicycles. They soon dis appeared. The Sheriff and Miss Kerl remained prisoners until a boy summoned aid. TRAGEDY TEACHES LESSON Young Slayer of Conductor Will Never Carry Revolver Again. VANCOUVER, Wash., Oct. 9. (Spe cial.) E. Merle Fuller, 19 years old, who shot and killed Conductor Stewart at Rldgefleld, June 30, and who was acquitted of the charge of murder in the first degree, last night, said to day that he never again would carry a revolver, so long as he lives. He said that he was sincerely sorry for his act. With his sweetheart. Miss Gladys Hughes, who remained with him dur ing the trial, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Fuller, young Fuller went to Ridgefleld last night, after attend ing a show, and he will go to his home at South Bend, W ash., " tomorrow. DIETZ TO BE ARRAIGNED Wife and Two Sons to Be Charged Jointly in Warrants. CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis.. Oct 9. John Dletz, his wife and two sons will be arraigned this week on the warrants against them. It was said by District Attorney Davis, of Sawyer County, to day. Of the large squad of deputies who took part in the battle at Dietz" house, at Winter, only Oscar Harp was killed, the rest all reporting safe. Hundreds of people visited the scene of the battle today and hacked almost to pieces the Dletz cabin In efforts to get bullets for souvenirs. BIRDMAN WHO STARTS ALONE by George Grantham Bain. RESCUERS RUSH TO MEN ENTOMBED Many Overcome in At tempt to Save. FEAR LIVES ARE SNUFFED OUT Colorado Disaster May Count Total of 52 Dead. BLACK DAMP HALTS WORK Origin of Explosion Mystery, Though Coal Dust May Be Cause Port able Fan Last Resort to Save Lives of Those Imprisoned. STARKVTLLE. Colo., Oct. 9. At least 62 men are entombed tonight in the Starkville mine of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, while, in the approaches to the mine, hundreds of their fellows with oxygen helmets, movable rotary fans and picks and shovels are striving simultaneously to open the living tomb and to draw from it the poisonous gases with which it is at least partly filled. The men have been imprisoned and the rescuing parties have toiled since 10:50 P. M. Saturday, when an exDlosion. nrob- ably caused by coal dust, shook the earth for a radius of seven miles, de stroying the main entrance to the mine and sealed the hapless toilers within it. Because of the vast ramifications of the mine and its connections with other mine-workings It is hoped that perhaps half the men may be rescued. . An at tempt probably will be made sometime tomorrow to open up the sealed passages. Black Damp Halts Rescue Work. The presence of black damp, which almost invariably follows in the wake of coal mine exploaions. made tha work of the rescuers extremely hazard ous and time and .again members of parties were overcome. Late today those superintending- the work of rescue decided that none should enter the mine until a portable fan was installed and rescue work was called off for the time being. The fan reached the portal of ths mine at 4 o'clock and, under the super vision of the chief electrician of the ' company, was mounted upon an electric -motor car and gradually pushed for ward into the new stope, working as It went, driving the gas ahead and, as was hoped, to an air shaft thousands of feet Inside the mine, where it escaped Into the open air. , The greatest caution was exercised that the motor carrying the fan should not be advanced too rapidly, and a sud den rush of gas or kick-back over whelm the men operating the machine and snuff out their lives. . Five Americans Entombed. According to a statement given out officially by the Coroner, there are known to be In the mine 28 Poles, three Russians, five Americans, four Mexi cans and one Servian. These nation alities represented In the list of the entombed were classified after a care ful house-to-house canvass of the city made by the house clerk and a town marshal. The Americans are: Tom Upperdine, 23 years old, wife and two children; Luke Upperdine, aged 50, wife and five children; Fred Leppe, 21, single; Frank Greet, 1, sin gle; Wilbur Headqulst, 20, single. The other missing men are Poles, Mexicans and Italians, most of whom have fam ilies. Discrepancy Seen in Missing. While this list only totals 46, the Coroner eays that he Is positive that there are 52 men inside the mine and explains the difference in figures by saying that the nationalities of some of the men believed to be among the missing are not known, and no attempt was made to classify them. Some, who are familiar with ths working conditions at the Starkville mine, express the belief that the total number estimated by the Coroner is too conservative and they freely state their opinions to be that when the list Is completed. It will number nearer 80 than 50. Others Dig to Save Lives. In addition to efforts made to enter the mine by the east, or new stope, ex perienced miners were sent Into the Englevllle mine, which adjoins the Starkville property, to dig through the masonry wall built to separate the mines when the workings ran together several months ago. It was necessary to use the greatest care to make only a small opening at first so that foul- air from the Starkville mine could be checked and the lives In the Englevllle mine be not endangered. At i o'clock this evening word reached the camp proper that a two Inch hole had been bored through the wall and a test of the air showed it to be surprisingly good. Orders were Im mediately given to enlarge the opening, and If the air was found to be pure, the men were to go on through. This Information was followed by Helmet Men to Rescue. news that the men who were Installing the portable fan, had been overcome and barely escaped to the entrance of the west portal with their Jives. 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