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PORTLAND. OREGON. TUESDAY. MARCH 25, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. LIII M. 16,328. STORM DEAD; 686 INJURED Cyclone Hits in Many Corn Belt Centers. 19 TOWNS REPORT VICTIMS Extent of Disaster Still Un realized, Is Belief. 1500 PROBABLY HOMELESS Second Gale Follows in Path of Tornado and Now Fury Is Being Spent Across Great Lake, Due to Strike Atlantic. XX 1 CITIES AND TOWNS tt ARB Kll'ORTED OKAOi 6M HURT. CHICAGO. March 24. Totals of the dead and Injured In the track of Sunday's storm are as follows, according- to reports received tonight: Nunt Dead. Info. Omaha and suburbs ......132 350 Terra Haute. Ind IS 230 Chicago S 40 Yutan. Neb IS Berlin. Neb 7 17 Council Bluffs, la 12 13 BarUstt. la 3 10 Weston. la 2 2 Neo'a. Ia 2 3 Glenwood. Is. ....... ...... 0 1 Beebe. la 2 Malver, la. ........ ........ .. 3 Walton. Ill 1 41 Sterling. Ill 1 Traverse City, Mich 1 Perth. Ind 1 Desoto. Neb 1 ... Nehawka, Neb. ... ......... 1 ... Rock Bluff. Neb 1 Total ". 218 8M cmCAGO. March 24. Two hundred and twenty-five persons lost their lives in the tornado which swept the Middle West last night and early this morning. The list of injured Is placed at OS. but as reports come in this lat ter list Is gradually being increased. The greatest loss of lite was at Omaha, where 152 persons were killed and between 850 and 400 injured. The storm spread over Nebraska, Iowa. Kansas. Missouri. Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin and. at latest reports. Is now sweeping on over the Great Lakes toward the St. Lawrence River, whence it la predicted. It will descend with full force tomorrow night on the Atlantic seaboard. By far the greatest damage was done In and near Omaha. Neb.. through part of which a tornado swept Sunday evening, throwing down many substan tial buildings, ripping off roofs and siding off hundreds of houses, slaying men and women and children by the score. Storm's Secret Held Flonra. The storm was a secret from the rest of the world for hours by break ing down all wire communication. Messengers with stories had to go to Lincoln, to give out the first definite tidings of the disaster. During the early hours of the night, uninjured citizens worked desperately to remove persons who had been caught benvato razed buildings. The debris caught fire In many places and many persons were painfully burned before they could be extricated from broken timbers. No great number was killed in any one place. The wind swept along, tak ing Its toll here and there. The torna do even jumped over portions of the city In Its path, swooped down again and dashed obstructions to earth. The gale left Omaha only to sweep on to towns in Iowa in the same de structive manner that it had attacked villages In Nebraska before reaching Omaha. The rage of the elements even extended in a somewhat abated form to points far to the east in Iowa and Illinois. Sreoaa Gale Follows. No sooner had the great wind passed than a second violent gale swept over much the same territory, but with lea sened fury. What seems to have been a separate storm swept portions of Indiana. This tornado did the greatest damage in and near Terra Haute. There nearly a score of persons were slain and hun dreds were hurt. Other places in In diana report Jess damage. The sleet and wind storms of the last few days had reduced the telegraph and telephone companies to sore straits, as hundreds of poles and thou sands of miles of wire were carried iown in a tangle. The Easter torna do added to the havoc to the west of Chicago, although wires were repaired to the East. In many cases large re gions were unable to use commercial telegraphic facilities, and news asso ciations were compelled to send re ports in the most crude ways in order to reach the newspapers. Wlaeoasla Haa Flaoda. Floods swept through several Wis consin cities, damaging many thou sands of dollars worth of goods In basements. Duni were washed out In many places and the released waters swept over the fields below. In Chicago oil the elements seemed to meet shortly after Easter Sunday 1 ad closed. Wind blew a violent gale, now flew before it in some places. l:all crushed windows under its pro pelling power in other parts uf the (Concluded on Fas A) HYMN OF VICTORY PRECEDES DEATH "STRIFE O'ER." SINGS TENOR BEFORE GALE STRIKES. Omaha Church 'Wrecked and Song ster Killed Mao Clings to Door and Saves His Life. OMAHA, March 24. "The strife Is o'er, the battle done: the victory of life is won." sans; Cassiua Shimer. a tenor, at the Easter service in McCabe Meth odist Church Sunday morning. Mr. Shimer was killed when the tor nado destroyed his home. The church in which he had sung was badly wTecked. Many of the congregation afterward remarked that it was the best Mr. Shimer had ever sung: that he had put sentiment and earnestness into the song. "The powers of death have done taelr worst. "But Christ their legions hath out burst- ran the second verse. Oscar Carlson, night cashier of a res. taurant. residing at Forty-flfth and Leavenworth streets, had his life saved In a peculiar way. When the storm approached and the wind began to blow a hurricane, he attempted to iock an outside door and. In resisting a sudden gust, he clung tenaciously to the door. The next thing he knew he was out in the back yard, with the door on top of him. When he arose and looked around there was not a house In sight as far as he could see In the seml- darkness. Aside 'from a few bruises he was unhurt. "FATHER" FLYNN HONORED Xlnty-Slxth Birthday Celebrated by Large Party of Friends. "Father" John Flynn, dean of Port land's Methodist Episcopal clergymen, was honored yesterday when his 96th birthday was celebrated by 30 min isters of the denomination and their wives, who went to St. Johns for their regular association meeting Instead of holding It at the First Methodist Epis copal Church. The venerable preacher went with the party, enjoying the ride in a trol ley car and showing no signs of fatigue. A month ago "Father" Flynn fell down his cellar stairs and though he was 111 for a while, he fully re covered. Testerday he mads an ad dress at the business meeting. The following officers were elected at the meeting: President, Rev. B. J. Larsen: vice-president. Rev. J. K. Haw kins: secretary-treasurer, Kev. C F. Hopkins. The women of the church served a luncheon." LIPT0N" WOT TO GET RACE Xcw York Yacht Club Refuses to Let Sportsman Dictate Terms. NEW YORK, March 24. The New Tork Yacht CInb is unwilling to meet Sir Thomas Upton In a match for the America's cup so long as Sir Thomas In sists on limiting the size of the defend. Ing yacht to that of the challenger. This announcement was made this afternoon on behalf of Secretary Cormack of the club. A copy of the reply of the cup committee of the New York Tacht Club to the Royal Ulster Yacht Club's request for a reconslderatton of its recently de clined challenge on behalf of Sir Thomas Upton was also made public The club's members maintain it would be In violation of the deed of gift under hlch the New York Club holds the America's cup as trustee, to permit the limitation of the defender to that of the challenger. FIREMEN GET 22,000 NAMES Most Extensively Signed Petition to Ask Vote to Aid Injured. The most extensively signed Initi ative petition ever filed with the City Auditor in Portland will be the firemen's relief fund petition, which was com- J pleted yesterday and will be filed to day. The petition, which asks that the peo ple vote on the question of establishing fund for the relief of injured or aged firemen, has more than 22,000 signa tures, all of which have been secured by tbe firemen themselves in about a month's time. Each member of the de partment has had a copy of the gen eral petition and has made a personal canvsss for names during the lunch hour and on days off. No soliciting has been done during working hours. GRAVES TO HOLD GOOD JOB Position of Chief Forester, Paying 95000, Put In Civil Service. WASHINGTON. March 24. One of the best jobs at the disposal of the Wilson Administration has been placed under tbe civil service. It is the position of Chief Forester, which pays 45000. The position ia held by Professor Henry S. Graves, who succeeded GiSord Plnchot. Under new conditions the po sition will become vacant only on the voluntary resignation of Mr. Graves or his removal for future failure to carry out properly the duties of his office. POPE DENIED AUDIENCES Until April 3 No One Shall Pontiff Is Edict. See ROME, March 24. Owing to the weak condition of Pope Plus, Professor Marchlafava decided after a consulta tion today that no further audiences can be given by the pontiff until April 3. Tbe Pope is much depressed by the death on Saturday of Cardinal Peter Resptghi. the Vicar-General. i 152 DEAD, 400 HURT III OMAHA'S RUINS Damage Estimate Five to 12 Millions. 1200 BUILDINGS ARE LEYELED Troops Patrol Stricken City as Order Is Restored. MANY FAMILIES LOSE ALL Public Structures and Hotels House Victims Trains Bringing Aid Forced to Crawl ' Along Toll In Nearby Towns Grows. OMAHA, Neb., March 24. With the death list probably aggregating 152 and the list of Injured all of 400, Omaha and the surrounding territory In Ne braska and Iowa tonight faced the problem of housing the thousands ren dered homseless by last night's tornado. Tbe number of buildings destroyed was placed in the neighborhood of 1200 and the property damage at several million dollars. Belated reports com ing to Omaha tended to Increase the enormity of the havoc wrought and in dicated that a much wider territory had been in the path of the storm than was at first shown. The hospitals in Omaha tonight are full of Injured, many of whom have not been identified, apparently because their friends are either dead or among the injured. Troops Patrol City. . ,' Tonight tbe stricken section of Omaha Is patrolled by Government troops from Fort Omaha and the State Militia. Governor Morehead himself has taken personal charge of the state troops. There has been little or no looting. The businessmen are co-operating In every way. The Omaha hotels have thrown open their doors for the in jured. Every train into Omaha today brought scores of physicians from nearby towns who have friends and reUtlv-M he-re, and,. they- made- up. the continual stream of visitors to the morgues and hospitals. The storm appeared to have started (Concluded on Pago 2.) EEIP INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 44 degrees; minimum, 34 degrees. TODAI'ti Probably fair; westerly winds. Storm. Death toll In corn belt now at 228. Page 1. Nineteen killed ISO Injured at Terre Haute. Ind. Page 1. Toll of Omaha cyclone now is 152 dead and 40o hurt. Pace 1. Death list in Iowa growing hourly. Page 3. Sky glares red as cyclone deals death, say eye witnesses. Page 3. Fire dead at Chicago as result of storm, Fsae 3. Portland folk anxious for safety of friends and relatives. Page. 3. List of identified dead and Injured at Omaha grows rapidly. Page 2. Gale now raging tver Great Lakes. Page 2 Ploods follow Indiana cyclone. Page 1. Choir singer meets dramatic death. Page 1. Foreign. Amerlcan n on combatant killed In attack by rebels on cananea. rage o. National. Ex-Senator Bourne reviews postoffice bill. Page 4. Democratic caucus to decide whether tariff shall be revised In one bill or ichbiuw schedule. Page 5. Domestic. Observations at Flagstaff tend to belief In nebular hypothesis. Page 4. Sports. Fawcett figures out opening day lineups In Coast League. Page 7. Colt regulars win ll-lnntng game. Page 7. Klawltter assured of berth with Jjein-K tigers. Page 7. Freddie Allen loses to Balph oruman J" boxing bout. Page i. Pacific Northwest. Sneeess of Washington's compensation law proved by figures. Page 6. Eastern Oregon country now In grip of bllz rl. Tn ten 6. Attorney-General picks flaws In Day bill for special elections, page e. Dr. Hasznrd, starvation doctor, loses an other patient by death, page . Commercial and Marine. Coast cargoes increase over 1911. Page 14. Eastern hop dealers expect prices to do weakened by good crop prospects, rase JO. Bull leaders force wheat np at Chicago. Page 19. Stocks advance in wall street with money strain abroad enaing. rage v. Portland and Vicinity. East Fide growth shown by railroad busi ness, page 11. Opera company's matinee alluring here. Page 10. Police troubles threaten to create sensation. Pass 11. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 14. Boss Island bond Issue to be placed before voters again. Page 12. Five thousand children Join In Easter egg hunt In parks. Page 1. United states Chamber of Commerce asked to intervene In lumber boycott, rage i Data being gathered with view to deporting undesirable cninese. rage 1-. Dan Flood, of. "Follies" fame, can't enjoy safety pins where suspenders are neeaeo. Page 12. Rosarians meet with great success In can vass for Festival fund. Page 14. Willamette glee club charms Portland au dience. Page 13. Cathollo Women's League benefit ball bril liant .affair. -Page 20. Phil Mctschan and son celebrate birthday anniversary.-- Page 18. - Progressives busy grooming H. Bussell Albee for Mayoralty race. Pase 12. Supreme Court Takes Recess. WASHINGTON, March 24. The Su preme Court today took a recess until April 7. A LADY IN DISTRESS TERRE HAUTE HAS 19 T Wreckage Believed to Cover Other Bodies. PROPERTY LOSS $1,000,000 Rain Adds to Suffering but Puts Out Starting Fires. HUNDREDS ARE HOMELESS Freaks of Wind Are Many Sleeping Man Torn From Home, Which Is Crushed, and Dropped Safely on Mattress In Street. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., March, 24. Nineteen persons are known to have been killed, 250 are seriously Injured, 275 homes are destroyed and other prop erty damage, estimated at nearly $1,- 000,000, was the toll of the tornado that devastated Terre Haute and vicinity lost night. Tonight the officials in charge of the rescue work say the list of dead will be Increased as the search ers clear away the debris of WTecked buildings. Hundreds of homeless tonight are be ing cared for by charitable institutions and citizens, while the wrecked district is being patrolled by Company B, First Regiment, Indiana National Guard, and the local police force. ' Militia Ordered Out. The militia was ordered out early to day by Governor Ralston, who directed the. relief measures from Indianapolis. The dead: James H. Brown, Sr., Allan McGulre, Mrs. Ida Davis, Bryan Leslie Houts, . Clandis Edwards, Miss Hannah Tulley, Alexander Rogers, Dr. Ernest L. Moore, Joe Houts, John E. Meyers, Jr., Mrs. Clara King and baby daughter Helen,. Moses Carter, wife and child. William Matherly, Gardentown, Mrs. Belle Griffin, Gardentown, Albert Watts, Oblong, 111. Fatally Injured: Fred King. Ollle Hid&nrloh. James Welles. Missing: . M. A-Carder, Neal Teager, Jesse Griffith ... John Fox;- Illnes. Relief work today showed that bun dreds lost everything they owned and (Concluded on Page 6.) DEAD FLOODS FOLLOW INDIANA CYCLONE INDIANAPOLIS LEVEE BREAKS, MENACING PART OF CITY. Four Are Drowned as Streams Over, flow . and Boats Remove Inhabi tants From Second Stories. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. March 24. The worst rain storm in years last night and today followed in tho wake of the tornado that carried death and de struction Into Southern Indiana. Four persons were drowned today in swol len streams and tonight practically everv river and creek in Indiana is overflowing its banks. At Lafayette the river is rising a foot an hour and the lowlands are in undated. At Newcastle, Ind., John Hagner was drowned in the Blue River, while at Frankfort, Ray and Rosio Roethen- berger and Wallace Garrison were drowned in Big Wildcat Creek, which at nightfall was a mile wide. At Richmond many homes are under water, the Inhabitants being removed In boats through the second-story win dows. Saratoga, on the Missislnewa River, is entirely under water. Tonight the downpour In nearly all of the state continues unabated. The White River levee at Sixty-fourth street here broke late tonight and It is feared all that part of Indianapolis will be flooded. PITTSBURG, March 24. Portions of Ohio and West Virginia are threatened tonight by high water. Rivers and other streams are- out of their banks. Many places have been partially Inun dated, necessitating hundreds of fami lies vacating their homes. LAW'S PENALTY LOWERED Judge Tazwell Assesses "Costs" on Traffic Ordinance Violators. That the fraraers of the city traffic ordinance did not mean to be as severe as their production indicates, is the belief of Municipal Judge Tazwell, who has found a novel means of evading the duty of 'imposing penalties for its violation. He does so by substituting 'costs' for a fine, making the "costs" considerably lower than the minimum fine in the ordinance. The expedient was applied yesterday in the cases of a number of business men arrested Saturday for leaving their automobiles within the congested dis trict. The lowest fine provided is 20, but four defendants got off by paying $5 and he paid 310. H. Metater. George T Moore, B. I Knight and Dr. A. K. Hlggs escaped with the lighter penalty, while R. Goldsmith, who was accused of disobeying a traffic signal, was made to pay S10. R. P. Knight was given a continued sentence for running his au tomobile with an offensive exhaust ELECTION FRAUD CHARGED Warrants Issued for Officials on Complaint of City League. SEATTLE, Wash., March 24. War rants were issued by the prosecuting attorney today for the arrest of Paul Redslob. A. A. Graves. A. B. Curtis, t. Lund and H. Williams, election offi cials, who served in a lodging-house precinct in the city election March 4 The men are accused of fraud in connection with voting on the part nership agreement between the city and the Chicago bondholders of the Seattle, Renton &. Southern Street Railway. Warrants were issued on complaint of the Municipal League, which alleged that there was much fraudulent voting in certain precincts. Redslob was arrested for alleged elec tion frauds after the city election a ear ago, but was not convicted. STORM T0LL SCATTERED Nehawka, Rock Bluff and Desota, Neb., Increase L4st. LINCOLN. Neb., March 24. A tor nado struck Nehawka last night, wrecking buildings and killing Mrs. Alford and injuring her son. At Rock Bluff, in the same county. Mrs. John Schroeder was killed. At Desota, Washington County, Mrs. Svoboda was killed. Henry Richmond, clerk of the lower house of the Nebraska Legislature, said tonight that it would in all probability appropriate $100,000 for the benefit of the sufferers of the Sunday storm. Mr. Richmond said he had talked with a number of legislators and all were in favor of such a measure. KANSAS HAS PRAIRIE FIRE Five Counties Swept by Fiames but Little Stock Is Burned. DODGE CITY, Kan., March 24. The worst prairie fire in Kansas in many years swept over tore, rioageman, Gray, Scott and Finney counties yes terday and last night. The damage to property was great, but little stock was burned. One fire started in Finney County and went eastward; another began in Gray County. Ten motor cars filled with volunteers left this city In re sponse to appeals for help in fighting the fiames. DJAVID PASHA SURRENDERS Turkish Commander and 15,000 Men Xleld to Servians on Skumbi. CETTINJE, March 24. DJavid Pasha. with a Turkish army numbering 15,000 men, has surrendered to the Servians on the Skumbi River, in Albania. DJavid Pasha was commander of the Seventh Army Corps and formerly mil itary commander at Uakup. T FOR EASTER EGGS Haunts of Youth For saken for Day. THRONGS TRAVEL PARKWARD Adults-Impressed Into Service of Children. PRIZE IS LOST TO TRADER youngsters Leave No Conceivable Spot TJnsearched and Are Likened to Swarm of Ants In Eager ness to AYln "Bunny." BY WALTER GIFFAKD. A strange and miraculous thing hap. pened yesterday. Of a sudden all the children of the city seemed to be leav ing their accustomed haunts and play spots. About 2 o'clock the streets leading to the parks were filled for a short time with a hurrying, eager, inquisitive, but above all, gloriously, radiantly happy throng of children. Shopkeepers were bewildered by re quests for paper bags, and old boxes, while mother's baskets also were pressed Into service. All was hurry, hurry, hurry. It was as though some Pled Piper were calling them, luring them On with lute or string. Yet surh was not the case. Something far more appealing than music attracted them, something of the pristine savage drew them to the parks, something of the inherent love of nature called them. For what? Why. to hunt eggs. Not ordinary eggs, but colored eggs, with pictures on them. That was the first thing. The other, the desire to possess for their own the white "wabbit" with pink eyes, which was to go to the lucky finder of the" largest number of eggs. Quest Ia Dlllgeat, This was Easter Monday, this was egg-hunting day, and if anyone was repaid for the trouble they took it was the people who had given of their time or of their money to brighten the lives of the youth of the city. They went to one or other of the six parks where the thousands of eggs were hidden, and they saw literally thousands of children swarming over the ground, peering here, looking there, in every conceivable place, and In many impossible ones, always hastening, fear ful lest some eye keener than their own should first spot the treasure they sought so diligently. Here was some breath of the spirit of the ancient games of Greece with their worthless yet incomparable prize of a laurel wreath. Here was but an egg or two and a rabbit, yet there was as much eagerness, as much cupidity displayed as If the prizes had a weighty value. Adulta Catch Infection. It was a study, too, in rejuvenation, to watch the fathers and mothers and the other adults who went to see the fun. They went to see, yet they could not refrain from taking part. Under pretense of helping some child or other, some staid business man be came hopelessly entangled with a fir bush, he lost his hat and had it tram pled on, and he had a large wet patch on his left knee, yet there was an un accustomed light of Joy in his eye as he finally emerged triumphant with a purple egg in a scratched and dirty hand. Then he gave it up to a little girl, yet he gazed after It wistfully. A woman and three grown-up daugh ters organized themselves Into a search party to help a wee Japanese girl, who. if you please, had walked over from the East Side to the City Park. Eggs. Eggs. Eggs. One heard nothing but eggs, and a running fire of conversation relative to the find ing of the aforesaid painted edible. Plana Carefully Laid. So similar In every way were tho proceedings at the various parks that what happened in any particular one is true of all the others. Here Is a re sume of the proceedings at me tjuy Park: Long before Miss Johanna Cramer and Robert Krohn arrived on the scene. children had begun arriving, singly, in pairs and in groups of two, three and four, some sternly determined to hunt alone, others arranging terms of part nership. Then a teacher would arrive, surrounded by a flock of children, all of whom expected that some super natural sagacity in the teacher would enable her to find for them an unlim ited supply of eggs. The minute they arrived they got to work, they couldn't help doing so, al though it was known that some one was coming to lead them. Within a minute there was a swarm, as if of ants, climbing over the heights to the west of the park. Inspecting tbe reser voir, visiting the blrdhouse and the animals' cages. Always on the move, unceasing, unending, they roamed here, there and everywhere. Lona-Expected Moment Arrives. Finally, the powers that were re sponsible arrived and in a moment there was a rush to the bandstand. It was impossible to estimate closely the crowd, owing to the fait that the chil dren were here one moment and gone the next, but even at a conservative estimate there must have been 5000 Concluded on Page 18.). 5000 0 Hi I" BJg