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PORTLAND, OH EG OX, TUESDAY, AI'RIL 23, 1912. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. LII- NO. 16,041. "BREAK RECORDS," ORDERS ON TITANIC PORTLAND FIRST IN EXPORT OF WHEAT HUSBAND, MOURNED AS DEAD, RETURNS LAPSE OF MEMORY EXTENDED OVER SIX WEEKS. TITANIC SINKS WITH AID 5 MILES AWAY T RAILROAD STRIKE TOLLS HEM LOSS CO PER. CENT OF GRAIN SENT FROM THIS PORT. FIREMAN' I)1XURI BOILEBS STEAMED AT FCLL I'RKSSCKK. GRAZY MEN FLEE; POSSE IN PURSUIT GOVERNMENT HALTS DOUBLE ORNADO 72 Dead, 200 Hurt and Many Destitute. STORMS MEET AT HIGH SPEED Big Buildings Crumple; Whole Towns Are Laid in Ruins. DAMAGE NEAR $2,000,000 In Destructive Course, Cyclones sweep Over Middle VH to Deal Iteath and Havoc in Georgia and Alabama. CHICAGO. April. II. Latest figures -egardlng the results of the tornado vhlrh swept over Illinois and Indiana mday evening and which haa spread n Georgia. Alabama and Florida. Rive 2 dead, nearly 200 Injured and nearly families destitute. More than lO mniM mere demolished andi the prop rty loss totaled several hundred thou and dollars. Ureatet i)int was dona at Rush. A llllsTllle. Murphysboro. Campus, reeman and Kankakee. 11U and Mor eco. Ind. Governor Deneen and Adjutant-Gen-ral Plrkson arranged today to extend tate relief to the stricken district in Illnols. The dead and Injured were dls rlhuted as follows: Bush. III.. H ad. 104 Injured: district east of -lush. IIL. S dead. 30 Injured; Marion, lU K dead (unconfirmed): Wlllls llle. I1U dead. 20 Injured: XIurph'- hro. Ill, dead. S injured: Campus. IL. 2 dead. 1 Injured: Kankakee. 111.. " dead. 31 Injured; Morocco, lad.. S ad. I Injured: Freeman. IIL. 2 dead; istrlct near Morocco. Ind, 2 dead. DANVILLE. 111.. April 22. Tha fer tile force of the storm which leveled 0 houses and Injured 41 persous at Iran Park. Ill, last night waa Shown hen It became known today that 12 ox cars loaded with brick had been down from tha track and overturned. At Sheldon. IIL. It Is reported that a nan and a baby war killed. Mayer Appeals far Aid. SPRINGFIELD. Ill, April 22. Gov rnor Peneen received a telegram to ay from Mayor Jerome Child, of lush. Williamson County, asking for Vt tents and 200 cots for the victims f the tornado yesterday. Adjutant '.eneral Pick son will send the tents, ut the state has no cots. HAMMOND. Ind, April 22. A de tractive storm which struck Lowell, a ity of 2000 20 miles south of here, i.-t nlh'hu cut a swath 200 feet wide lirouch the residence section. Several crsona were hurt, but none fatally. Ma Killed la (iearsrla. NKKBKRN. Ga, April 22. A tornado Inch passed over this section of the tale today caused the death of six ersona and injured a score of others. BIRMINGHAM. Ala, April 22. A tor .ajo passed over Adam-vllle. Hlnckney ity. Jugtown. Brookslde and several lining towns today. Incomplete returns say 12 to IS per on were killed and aeveral were hurt, "wenty houses were destroyed at .ronkslde. ST. LOUIS. April 12. Late reports to Ight from tha storm-swept territory f Southwestern Illinois tell of more an 40 dead, 200 Injured and property amuse estimated at JJOO.000 to $-,-'9.000. Rush, a village of 600 persons. In viaiamson County, suffered heaviest, "lie two norms which wrought havoo 1 Central and Southern Illinois Sun ay met at Bush at ( P. M, one coming rum the west and the other from the tiutheast. Fifteen persons were killed, three id uf Injurtvs. and a hundred or more re suffering- from injuries as the re il t of the storm. The two storms met at a velocity of 3 miles an hour and In a few minutes :ush was in ruins. The property of he Western Coal & Mining- Company tii destroyed, as was the Pos toff lie. . rneral department store, hotels, res auranta and 40 dwelling's. Thirty-five ther homes were wrecked partially. In addition to the dead and Injured rcounted for, 15 peraona are missing. Thirteen persons, a family of elzht n.l five boarders, sought refuge In a stern. The house was blown over, cov ing the opening of the cistern, and lev were not rescued until late to glit. Kalliwad Traffic Tied l Traffic on the Herrln. St. Louis & -nton divisions of the. St. Louis, Iron iountaln Southern Railway will be ed up three daya because of the retkage of the 40 cars on the main no near Bush. , j. W. Campbell, section foreman at ush. with his wife and six children, as sitting In the section house when e storm demolished It, killing the rupants Instantly. The stoma at Bush was accompanied t- the usual freak Incidents. A cow as picked up In the main street, car ed 190 srds by the wind and landed frly on the railroad tracks. Harmon to Mump Texa. vit.UM Kl'A 0 April 22. Governor imon left tonlsht for Pallas. Tex, herr he will stump t-e slate during . coming week. Miin Who May Re Important Wit no Before InijuMtorial Body Tell- What He Know. NKW YORK, April 22. John Thomp son, a fireman of the Titanic, suffer ing from a broken arm at St. Vincent's Hospital, may be an Important wit ness at the Senatorial Investigation Into the wreck. Thompson comes from Liverpool, and lie asserts tliat the Titanic was out "to beat all records on maiden trips." "From tjueenstown out," Thompson Is quoted as saying, -all the firemen had been talking of the orders we had to fire her up as hard as we possibly could. We had to make as quick, a passage as possible, the orders ran. I heard that these orders came from the engineering deportment. We were carrying full pressure. From the time we left Queenstown un til the moment of the shock we never ceased to make from 74 to 77 revolu tions. During that whole Sunday we had been keeping on the 77. FRENCH ARE MASSACRED Street of Fes. Morocco, Run Ited With Wood. FKZ. Morocco, Thursday, April 18. (Delayed in transmission.) The re volt of the populace and the Moorish soldiery began at midday yesterday, af ter a delegation of native troops had obtained admission to the palace and complained to the Sultan of the new military regulations in counectlon with the French protectorate. As the military delegation came out from the palace the soldiers composing it seized and killed a French Captain. This was the signal for general pillage and massacre. The native soldiers, urged on by shrieking Moorish women. rushed through the streets, slaving the French and Inciting the population to violence by the false cry. "The Sultan Is a pris oner of the French and must be liber-, ated!"' The French telegraphers were at tacked and made a heroic stand, de fending iheir offices for four hours. In the meantime sending messages to headquarters at Tangier. Finally the office was broken Into and the tel egraphers were killed and their bodies mutilated and burned. The heads of all the European slain were paraded through the streets on pikes. The French Legation rent nut relief troops and brought in many foreigners, and afterward the French artillery opened fire on the rebels, who were grouped In the northern quarter. NAGLE URGES TRADE BODY National Chamber of Commerce Is Hold Xcce-sarjr. . WASHINGTON. April 22 Secretary Nagel today, outlining the purpose of the Commercial Conference called here by President Tart to form a National Chamber of Commerce, made an urgent plea for a permanent representative trade body to assist the Federal Gov ernment In solving the economical problems pressing for decision. Unless the Government met these questions along the lines of progress and devel opment. Secretary Nge4 foresaw a con flict with business. So pressing are the problems, the Secretary declared, that If t rm Governmental agencies do not find the solution, commercial and In dustrial forces would compel that so lution In one form or another, Nagct said tw hoped to see the pro posed organization ultimately clothed with a National charter. "so as to give the right and the means to have the Government and representative com merce, and industry touch elbows." TAFT STOCK GAINS IN IDAHO Two Additional Counties Swing Into President' Column. nOISK, Idaho, April 22. Special. The stork of President William- H. Taft advanced in this state today, when two more counties swung to his column. Oneida and Elmore, giving him. it is believed, control of a total of 2 delegates in toe state conven tion to be held at i.ewlston May 14. Slxe of these delegates are from El more County and 19 from Oneida. Delegates to the state convention from Elmore County were elected by the Republican County Central Com mittee, while primaries were held in Oneida County Saturday. MONEY TRUST PR03E IS ON . Former President of American Bar Is Retained. WASHINGTON. April 22. Samuel t'ntermeyer. of New York, and Edward H. Oarr. of Chicago, former president of the American Bar Association, have been employed on the House commit tee on banking and currency to con duct the Investigation into the so called money trust. They will direct an inquiry Into the private affairs of leading financial in stitutions before the committed begins cross-examination of witnesses at pub lic hearings. COSTLY AUTO IS WRECKED Joy Ride in $1,00 Car Kill One; Injures Three. NEW YORK, April 22. Four persons were Injured early today when a 112.000 automobile, known as one of the finest cars In Now York City, crashed Into a telegraph pole and was wrecked. The machine was owned by Mrs. J. Maxwell, of Fifth avenue, and was oc cupied by her chauffeur and three of his friends. The police say It was a "joy rld.'" to Which Mrs. Maxwell had not given her sanction. One of the Injured. Miss Adcllue Cal lias. a steooirranher. will dt. Five Lunatics Bind At tendant, Escape DOCILE ONE IS RECAPTURED Others Regarded as Danger ous by Asylum Officers. GIANT FIREBUG AT LARGE Massive Frenchman, Who Has Long Trail of Incendiaries to Record, Among Fugltlveo Searcher Cover All IWrections. SALEM, Or April 22. (Special.) A posse of 15 asylum attendants la scour ing the vicinity of Salem tonight, searching for four dangerous Insane men, who. with the aid of a fifth who already has been recaptured, overpow ered an attendant at tho Institution, took his keys and made their escape. The break occurred shortly before 8 o'clock In ward 21. which Is considered a semi-dangerous ward. This was the regular night for showing moving pic tures at the Institution, and all of the men are allowed to attend If they de sire, but these five expressed a prefer ence to remain in the ward. They were left alone with Attendant Bayleys. Shortly after the ward was cleared the men attracted the atten tion of Bayleys to something supposedly occurring in a linen closet. When Bayleys entered the closet he was pounced upon and overpowered. Lawatlca Take Prisoner. Then the lunatics bound their pris oner with pieces of clothing and car ried hlra to the bathroom. They took his keys and a pocket-knife, shoved his mouth full of clothes and left, lock ing the bathroom after them. By the aid of the keys the men made their way out of the building Into the rear yard and apparently separated. Bayleys succeeded In freeing himself. Finding It Impossible to escape from the bathroom, he opened a window and shouted for help. Chief Engineer Strang beard his cries and made a re port to the office. Bayleys was bleed ing sbout the head and mouth when he was released, but it Is reported that his injuries are not serious. One of the men. William Colin, the most docile of the five, was recaptured shortly after the break, walking along a road near the state fair grounds. Colin was committed from Multnomah County three weeks ago. Fagltlvea Coasldered Daagerona. All of the other men are .considered dangerous, especially Augustus Doug las, a Frenchman, who has a long crim inal record. An Indictment is now hanging over his head In Klamath County, from which place he was com mitted three months ago. Douglas has an Incendiary mania. Re is a giant and wears a No. 16 shoe. He came to this country some time apo tConciuoed on Page 3.) Record for Nine Months Relegate-) New York lo Second, Place, l'lour Shipments Gain. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash i.iriAn inrii 9-vesr.v fio ner cent -of all wheat exported from the United States In March was sh:pped rrom, ron- 1 . .w? vn,illnff In th. monthly StattS- tlca of the Department of Commerce and Labor, and this record enabled Portland to distance New Tork and once more assume flist place among the wheat-exporting districts of the country. In the nine months ending with March,' Portland exported 6,327.541 ...hoi- f when.r or 455.000 bushels '- than the amount exported In the 'ln-Htnir month, of last year. In March Portland exported 622.358 bush els of wheat, as against 729,114 bush els lu March. 1911. Puget Sound exported 2.S69.84J bush els of wheat in the past nine months, which was 879,000 bushels less than In the corresponding nine month of last year. ' In March Puget Sound exported 135.103 bushels, as against 311,103 bushels In March. 1911.- New York, which Is now the second heaviest wheat shipper, exported 6.042,646 bushels of wheat In the nine months ending with March. Portland shows a steady gain in the export of flour, its total for the past nine months being B43,r.S2 barrels, as against 416.3SS barrels in the same months last year. Puget Sound in creased its flour shipment for the nlno months ending with March from 1.378. 513 barrels In 1311 to 2,184.532 barrels this year. ACCIDENT COMPANIES LOSE Titanic Disaster Costs Hartford Cor porations $1,000,000. HARTFORD. Conn., April 22.- The Tltanio disaster will cost Insurance companies of Hartford nearly 21.000. 000, according to statements by offi cials of the companies. The loss will fall chiefly. It Is said, on those companies which do an acci dent business, while the companies Is suing only life policies will suner sman losses. SWAT0W TO BE EVACUATED " j., Heavy Cash indemnity Promises to Settle Trouble. AMOY, April 2 2. T lie United States cruiser Ilulnbow, flagship of the China squadron, arrived here from Swatow today. Negotiations are in progress between General Ho. commander of the Can tonese troops, and General Ling, com mander of the local troops, for the evacuation of Swatow and environs by the latter for a heavy cash indemnity. COAL STRIKE END IS NEAR Anthracite Miners and Operators Approach Settlements. NKW YORK. April 22. Tho sub-committee representing the anthracite miners and operators conferred here today for what Is expected to be the final session, as a settlement of the demands of the miners, it Is under stood, has been virtually reached. The basis is said to be a & per cent increase in wages and an Indirect rec ognition of the, union. There will be no acceptance of tho check-off system HIS MASTER'S VOICE. 1 jilt i ....... . Federal Men Intervene on Walkout Eve. BANKRUPTCY OF ROADS FEAR 34,000 Men and 52 Per Cent of Nation's Traffic Affected. $7,553,000 A YEAR ASKED All Lines but Three Small Ones East of Chicago and North of Poto mac Involved Commerce Court Feels Duty. NEW TORK, April 22. The tender of the "friendly offices" of representa tives of the Federal Government called a temporary halt tonight to a striko of railroad engineers In the territory east of Chicago and north of tho Po tomac River, in which- It is estimated 62 per cent of the railroad traffic of the entire country Is handled. The mediation of Federal officials came immediately after the refusal of managers of 60 railroads to concede the engineers' demands for an 18 per c?nt Increase in wages, when Chief Warren S. Stone, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, had an nounced that, In view of this refusal. a strike of engineers would go Jnto effect within 36 hours. Knowing the situation had reached a critical stage, Martin A. Knapp, pre siding Justice of tho United States Commerce Court, and Charles P. Nelll, Commissioner of Labor, hurried here from Washington, and as soon as the break occurred, they addressed a lettor both to Chief Stone and to J. C. Stuart, chairman of the conference committee of railroad managers, saying that a grave situation had arisen and the sense of duty impelled them to tender their "friendly -offices," In " the hope that some means might be found to ad Just the questions In dispute without the calamity of a genoral strike. Government's Proposal Accepted. Although Chief Stone a few minutes before had said his associates on the engineers' committee would proceed to night to their headquarters to prepare for a strike, he was Impressed with the letter of Messrs. Knapp and Nelll to the extent that he amended the or der, and the committee met and voted to accept the proposal of Messrs. Knapp and Nelll for mediation. He said: "No organization is so strong that it can fall to harken to an appeal from rep resentatives of the Federal Govern ment." Chairman Stuart, of the railroad com mittee, received an identical letter from Messrs. Knapp and Nelll, but would not comment on what position the railroads would take as to the tender of mediation. He Immediately ordered a meeting of the committee or tomorrow to consider the proposal. In this manner the crisis rested to night, still regarded by many observ- lConi;liided on Pace 2.1 From Boise, Idaho, to San Francisco Mind Was in Absolute Coma, Blackwelt Declares. BOISE, Idaho. April 22. (Special.) Almost as silently and mysteriously as be left home six weeks ago last Satur day. L. D. Blackwell, of South Boise, returned today, surprising his wife and children, who had begun to mourn him as dead, having received no word from him since his departure. Blackwell tells a strange story of a lapse of memory which extended over almost the entire period after his sud den disappearance. He claims that It was only a few days ago that he came to himself in a San Francisco hospital, where he learned be had been a patient for several days, having been picked up there by officers while wandering wilmlessly about the streets. Six weeks "ago last Saturday morn ing,' according to Blackwell, he left home for his work in this city, and re members cleaning one office, after which be went out on the streets, and from that day until he regained his senses in the big hospital in San Fran cisco, he does not remember where he went or how he lived or the manner In which ho traveled. He declares that he had no object in leaving home, and had never given a thought to going away previous to tak Ing his long and unknown trip. DOCTOR, ON CALL, SLUGGED Robbers Kelent. Give Back Medicine Case Too Late. CHICAGO, April 22. When hurrying to visit a dying patient. Dr. E. W. Hervey: 301 West C.icago avenue, was held up by highwaymen near his home early today and robbed of a case of med icine, a small tank of oxygen, his watch and chain, and his purse, containing $12. The robbers struck the physician on the head with an empty bottle and he sank to the ground dazed, but recov ered as the men were running away and shouted to thein: "I am a physician and on my way to attend a dying woman. Please give me back my medicine and that tank of oxygen." The men held a whispered conversa tion, and a moment later walked back. helped the physician to his feet and pave him back .the medicine and oxy gen. When Dr. Hervey arrived at the home of his patient, he found her dead. INJURED MAN GETS $15,000 Jury Awards C. C. Goodell Damages. - Lumber Firm Defendant. One of the largest verdicts In a personal injury case recorded in the State Circuit Court came yesterday when a Jury in Judge Gatens' depart ment found in favor of C. C. Goodell and. against the St. Johns Lumber Company for $15,000. Goodell was hurt while driving a dump wagon for the company on June 27. 1911, All the ribs on his left side were broken and torn from the breast bone and spinal column, his left ankle was shattered and dislocated, his left log was broken and ho suffered severe interna Injuries. Before the accident he was earning $2.50 a day. He is 51 years of age. INDICTMENTS FOLLOW RIOT Editor, Lawyer and Justice Charged With Intent to Murder. ROCK ISLAND, 111.; April 22. Indict ments charging assault with intent to murder against K. H. Gardner, a So cialist editor, Harry McCaskey, Repub lican nominee for State's Attorney, and Philip Wells, a Justice of the Peace, were returned today by the grand jury that investigated the recent riot which resulted In the killing of two and the wounding of nine persons. The three mentioned are held re sponsible for the fatal clash between the police and the moD mat attacKea the City Jail. Gardner Is at the head of a move ment for the recall of Mayor Schriever and Police Commissioner Hart. There are 26 indictments not yet made public. REVENUE BOATS TO SEARCH Senator Vrges Month to Look for Titanic Victims. WASHINGTON, April 22. Acting up on information tnat ooaies oi several of the .victims of the Titanic disaster had been picked up near the scene of the catastrophe, Senator Martine, of New Jersey, today introduced a resolution requesting the President to send tp the place several revenue cutter vessels and to keep them there at least a month in the hope of finding other bodies. THe resolution was referred to the committee on commerce. BOY'S TRAP WINS FORTUNE Government Pays $100,000 for In vention of Wisconsin Lad. FOX LAKE, Wis.. April 22. Benja min Card, an amateur electrician, who Is still, in the high school, has been awarded $100,000 by the United States Government for a, rat-trap that will solvo the problem of exterminating rats on board warships, according to notice received by Card yesterday. An uncle of Card, residing in the East, who financed the eNperiments. will receive half of the award, it Is announced. Passing Ship Doesn't Answer Signals. VESSEL'S LIGHTS ARE SEEN Officer Not Sure Whether Calls Were Noticed. SENATE HEARS OF MESSAGE Wireless Telegram From Ismay to White Star Lino Urging That Cedric Be Held That He Might . Leave at Once Is Shown. j WASHINGTON. April 22. With suc cor only five miles away the Titanic slid into its watery grave, carrying with It more than lfiOO of its passen gers and crew, while an unidentified steamer that might have saved all failed or refused to son frantlo signals of those on board. This tragic feature of the disaster was brought out today before the Senate investigating com mittee, when J. Boxhall, fourth officer of the Titanic, told of his unsuccessful attempts to attract the stranger's at tention. This vessel, according to Boxhall, could not have been more than fivo miles away and was steaming toward the Titanic. So close was it that from the bridge Boxhall plainly saw. its masthead lights and side lights. Both with rockets and with the Morse elec tric signal did the young officer hall the stranger. Captain Smith and sev eral others in the vicinity of the bridge said at the time their belief was that the vessel had seen them and was sig nalling in reply. Steamer Keeps oa Course. Boxhall failed to see the replies, however, and In any case the steamer kept on its course obliquely past the Tltanio without extending aid. This and the assertion by P. A. S. Franklin, vice-president of the Wlilto Star line, that there were not enough lifeboats aboard the Titanic to care for the ship's company at one time, were features of the hearing. The official was quizzed throughout the morning session on the messages exchanged between the Carpathla and himself, after the ship had started for New York with the Tltanic's survivors aboard. Among the survivors was J. Bruce Ismay, managing director of the line. laiuay's Plans Revealed. Among the wireless telegrams read Into the record was one from Mr. Ismay, urging that the steamship Ced ric be held until the Carpathia arrived with Us sorry burden. He said he be lieved It most desirable that the sur vivors of the Tltanic's crew be rushed out of the country as quickly as pos sible. He also, the message said, would sail on the Cedric, ana askea tnat clothing be ready at the pier for him when the Carpathla docked. Tho Sen ate committee's subpena blocked the plan. The committee will resume its hear ing tomorrow. Fourth Officer Boxhall is expected to unnear on the stand to tell more fully of the events Immediately preceding the collision. Franklin Makes Denial. vio-President P. A. S. Franklin, of the International Mercantile Marine. rnmnanv. told the committee how he had asked to have the ear lier renorta of the Titanic disaster held up to avoid unnecessary alarm. He de nUH nnv trnowledzre of the message ad dressed to Representative Hughes, of West Virginia, about the snip Dein towed to Halifax, and gave other de tails. Senator William Alden Smith, of Michigan, presided. After denying that officials of the White Star Line had any knowledge of a misleading telegram to Hughes, It was acknowledged by Franklin that lie had Issued reassuring statements when he had no facts on which to base them. "Do you know of any one, any officer or any official whom you deem could be held responsible for the accident and its attendant loss of lifer' "Positively not. No one thought such an accident could, happen. It was un dreamed of. I think it would be absurd to try to hold, some individual respon sible. Every precaution was taken. That the precautions were of no avail is a source of the deepest sorrow. But the accident was unavoidable." Liner Had No Searchlights. "Were there any searchlights on the Titanic?" said Senator Smith. "Not that I know of. I never have heard of searchlights on a trans-Atlantic liner," said Franklin. Congressional measures contemplate requiring searchlights on all ocean liners. Franklin volunteered a statement regarding criticism of the White Star Company for attempting to return the crew of the Titanic to Europe immedi ately. "I think there has been an awful mistake about that matter," said Franklin. "I would like to clear H up. The criticisms have been made that wa were trying to keep those men from (Concluded oa Face 2.)