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TIIE 3IOKXTNG OKEGOXIAX, MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 1916. GREAT DAM, WHOSE BREAKING CAUSED LOSS OF 100 LIVES, AND SCENE ON SAN DIEGO RIVER. I COLONEL TAKES UP FLOOD MIES PEOPLE 40 From Men GUDGELFDHBELGIUM HOMELESS San Diego Chamber of Com merce Begins Organizing Work of Relief. DISTRICTS ARE CUT OFF Hotels, Cliurches, Hospitals and In dividuals Shelter Refugees and Efforts Are Made to" Send Aid to Stricken Zone. SAX DIEGO. Jan. 30. Authorities and people here alike have not qfally start ed to take stock of the casualties and property looses following in the wake of the flooding of the Otay. Sweet water. Tia Juana, San Diego, San Luis Key and San Pasqual valleys, conceded by all the worst catastrophe which has upr befallen the lower portion of Southern California but onj. and all have devoted themselves since Friday to relieving want and distress in the in undated areas. Three thousand persons are home less, a. cord inn to the estimate given out late today by the relief committee organised by the San i-Meo cnamoer of Commerce. Of these. 60 are shel- trrad on the hillsides at I'alm Station, the highest point adjacent to Otay City, where buildings of all kinds were leveled and washed into the waters of San Piego Bay. Otay Valley ReHlifeata Warned. As far as it has been possible to check against the casualties at Otay City only six persons appear to have lost their lives there, the others having received ample warning of the waters sweeping down the otay Valley to nee to the safety of the Palm Station hills. In few cases, however, oia tnese rem gees save anything more than small bundles of hurriedly gathered personal possessions. Another refugee camp Is that at San Ysitlro. where 200 colonists. Known locally as the "little landers," are shel tered in tents. Hotels. churches. hospitals and countless individuals are sheltering their share of those made homeless by the flood. The exhibit rooms of the Chamber of Commerce have been given over to ever-accumulating piles of bed ding, clothing, household furnishings, new and cast-off. and boxes, barrels, bags and parcels of food and fuel. Since early yesterday there has been a steady stream of applicants for aid, while volunteers have worked unceasingly, loading supplies into automobiles and other vehicles. Flood Section Dltrlcted. The flooded portion of San Diego was divded into 25 districts, each un der the direction of a chairman. Be fore noon relief work was progressing rapidly and fewer persons applied to the relief station. The trouble not only the Coroner but all others have encountered In reach ing isolated districts was Instanced to day when a district chairman in charge of the relief work in the San Diego Kiver valley was obliged to row across the swift current and stretch a cable to be used by a ferry in carrying sup plies across the stream. In that district the relief committee found Miss O. A. McDermott. a teacher in the public schools, who was forced by the swollen waters to leave her home. She told of having watched with a pair of field glasses six Chinese farmer drown. The Chinese were sur rounded by the flood when they sought safety on a mound with their three horses. Helpless to summon aid. Miss McDermott stood horror-stricken as she watched the men run madly one way and the other in efforts to climb upon a piece of driftwood, until after their horses had been swept away by the rising torrent. Three Dodlra I.ashed Together. A report reached the coroner from the same district of the finding of three bodies, two Japanese and a Mexi can, bound together, indicating, he thought, that they probably lashed themselves to some floating object in hope of being rescued. I ntll today, he first day that no rain has fallen in more than a week, prac tically all roads into this city have been impassible, which, with the fact that telephone and telegraph lines are dowa in all directions, accounts for the slowness in receiving reports of prop erty damage and loss of life. It was due to these conditions that residents of San Diego, removed only 15 miles from the casualties in the Otay Val ley, did not hear until late Friday of the calamity that befell that district. News of the calamity became known for the first time when Raymond Mor ris, an aviator of the United States Ar mv, and a San Diego newspaper report er, made a flight which laid the picture of desolation before them. City Recovering Rapidly. In San Diego proper there were few evidences today that the streets in the downtown district had been inundated within a week, though in the bay the waters were discolored by flood silt and its surface strewn with lumber, trees, livestock and other debris, all be ing carried rapidly out through the channel past Point Loma by a tide which was said to be the swiftest ever known here. The tide kept vessels riding at an chor for hours before daybreak by stir ring tip a heavy sea on the bar as it met billows rolling in from the south west before a stiff wind. For four days the only means of communication open to San Diego have been the wireless tele-aph and ocean vessels. Both the latter have been literally swamped wtih business, the commercial wireless to such an extent that the'Vnited States radio station at Point Loma consented yesterday and today to send short messages of an urgent nature. S SCHOOLHOCSES DEMOLISHED Man Killed Avoiding Anto; Woman Struck Down in Wind Storm. SAN PERXARDIXO, CaL. Jan. SO. Omar Whitlock. of this city, was knocked down and killed today by an automobile when he stepped Into a street to avoid flood waters which had accumulated across the sidewalk. F. L. McLain. Unfler-Sheriff. who re turned here today, reported that Mrs. Rebecca L. McXanney was killed last Thursday during a windstorm in Lu cerne Valley, San Bernardino County. She was struck on the head by a piece of timber which was picked up by the wind. McLain said two school buildings were demolished by the wind and the debris was strewn for miles over the desert. Te Throw Off CoM n rrereat Grip Take LAXATIVE BKOMO QUININE. It de stroys rnn, acts as a tonic and laxative, and helpe to keep the system In a healthy condition. There la only one -BROMO griMNE." E. W. GROVE'S slsnature on bux, Oc, ,"v,v " . - , - ,W -i , .-A V V .iCTVl I ; - V , - r ; t -1' - - II -t i. n .;.vv n"'.-" vj t. ' s Bv s Is-, a ? v"--' , 5 4 -sfv .er sJ? i h vi X V I j V. hs . I R.- S,N-f';.xi A,v.';- . v v: A 1 1 M si nil iTTi riiiTifn- TOP OLD DAM BUILT IX 1760 BT FR.1XCISCAX FATHERS OX SAX DIEGO LOOTERS ARE BUSY Admiral Pictures Flood Situa tion as Serious. - 29 BODIES ARE RECOVERED Another Dam Believed to HaVe Been Carried Away; AVarsbip's Men, Instructed to Kill Ghouls on Sight, on Patrol. (Continned From First Page.) into a creek which fed the Lower Otay dam, the one that first went out. The natural channel for the water, how ever, was down Cottonwood Creek into the Tia Juana River. It was suggested by some that a cloudburst might have brought today s flood, but engineers said not. The sun shone here and fair weather was re ported in the limited area with which communication was possible. Adventurers Turned Back. Federal patrols turned back would be sightseers and adventurers who hoped to get into Otay Valley by way of Coronado strand and military and naval authorities kept tight grip on the situation. The strand is a long sand spit like a thumb, which forms the southern wall of San Diego Bay and offered the only means of ingress into the Valley. Fifty farm houses, according to per sons acquamted with the Valley, must have stood In the path of the flood. It was estimated that from four to five persons occupied each of these, al though those housing Orientals held a larger number. Many of these are be lieved to have had time to escape, al though it has been impossible to check in any way against the known residents of the valley. The estimate of 50 dead is considered conservative. Six Persons Reported Saved. Lieutenant W. W. Bradley, command ing the destroyer Hull, reported today that be had been unable to find any trace of six persons said to have been carried out to sea on a ranchhouse, but it was -rumored that they had been taken off in a small boat. Reports that the town of Tia Juana, Lower California, had been pretty well drowned out, seemed to be confirmed toda. and it was said that nothing much was left of the brand new race track plant, which cost, it was given out by its builders. (200,000. With clearing skies it is hoped that the Sweetwater dam, in another little valley north of tie Otay Kiver. will hold out. A large force of workmen continued their efforts to make it solid. Valley Aids Own People. The Mayor of San Luis Rey headed a committee of townsmen and ranchers engaged in relief work in their valley, and Indications were that military aid would not be needed there. Of the 89 bodies recovered In the Otay Valley, only six have been identi fied. They are: Carlos Rega. employe of the Daneri Winery. John Jamison Pub, rancher. Mrs. Margaret Dube. his wife. William George Gallagher, pipe walker at Lower Otay dam. Joseph ilosto, employe Daneri Win ery. Rosa Mosto, his daughter. Varna Battles Desperately. VTMA. Aril.. Jan. S9. Tuma was fighting tonight against the ever-in creasing flood waters of the Colorado River fighting as she never fought before, to prevent the debris-filled flood from destroying that portion of the city that was badly damaged when the Government levee broke a week ago. Early tonight the levee protecting Yuma was still holding, but the banks of the river just below here were crumbling and the water was rushing over a portion of Yuma Valley in Ari zona, and the Barde Indian reservation on the California side o' the river. Of ficials of the United States reclamation service, aided by all available men and equipment of the Southern Pacific Rail road and residents of this section, have waged a mighty contest since yester day to prevent a repetition of the re cent flood. Throughout last night and today hundreds of men fought without ceas ing to strengthen the levees and river banks sufficiently to hold. The womep kept watch from the higher ground, preparing coffee and food for the fighters. The water, however, kept pace with the men and at some places forged ahead of them until it succeeded in battering the defenses of the small army. Tonight will bring the climax. Be fore morning the battle will be de cided, as messages from communities further up the Colorado and from the upper Gila River said that the water was falling. LITTLE AD STIRS ELITE BAROX DE PATTERSON PUBLISHES DEBT WARXIXG. Wife. Daughter of "Lucky" Baldwin's Widow, Denies Dome tic Woe; Police Often Called, However. LARCHMONT, N. Y., Jan. 30. (Spe cial.) The following advertisement, which appeared in a morning news paper, caused tongues to wag among the exclusive set at Larchmont on the Sound: ' "Larchmont Gardens, Larchmont, N. Y, January 29. 1916. I hereby declare that from this date inclusive I am not responsible for any debts contracted in my name. "H. V. PATTERSON, "(Baron de Patterson)." The Baron could not be found at Larchmont today. When a reporter called at the country house occupied by the Pattersons, a pretty dark-haired woman opened the front door about six inches and said: . "1 am Mrs. Patter son. Mr. Patterson is in New York. I don't know when he will return." "Have you seen the advertisement h inserted?" "Yes, but I don't know why he did it. There is nothing to it- There is no trouble." Then the door slammed. From a neighbor it was learned that the Baron's wife is a daughter of the "unlucky" widow of "Lucky" Baldwin. The coifple have been married about a year. It is reported there were numer ous quarrels and that the police were called in several times to quiet mat ters. DR. SMITH-IS IMPROVING Pneumonia Patient Ont of Danger. Say Physicians. Dr. Alan Welch Smith, 477 Tenth street, who was stricken with pneu monia last Tuesday, was pronounced out of danger by the attending physi cian last night. The crisis is believed to have passed early yesterday and he rested during the day. All day long yesterday it was neces sary to keep one person at the tele phone at the Smith home, says Mrs. Smith, to answer phone calls of inquiry from his friends. RIVER 12 MILES FROM SAX DI- DISCORD BEATS FORO Autocratic Leaders of Peace Party Blamed for Failure. MEMBERS ARE HUMILIATED Signing of Pledge Opposing Ameri can National Defense Policy Vir tually Compulsory, One of Charges Made on Return. NEW YORK, Jan. 30. Sixty-seven members of the Ford peace expedition came homeV in the Holland-American liner Rotterdam, which arrived here yesterday. Most of them had prepared statements of their views on the expe dition, and those statements were dis tributed among the newspaper men who boarded the steamer at quarantine. "Autocratic leadership" was blamed by most of the voyagers for the lack of success that attended their enter' prise. State Senator Helen Ring Robinson, of Denver, asserted that "certain ideas fostered by leaders of the party and which they attempted to impose on the delegation created discord. Ai though the mission did not measure up to its ideal, she said, "it helped to mobilize the raea or peace in lour neu tral nations, and showed those people that the United States is not. as they have been led to believe, a buzzard Nation." Mrs. Inez Milholland Boissevain, who left, the expedition at Stockholm, de clared that, while the motive and. in' tention of the mission was sincere, it was a failure because it was "an auto cratic. rather than a democratic or ganization." Herman Bernstein, the author, who also left the party at Stockholm, said an Important blunder was made when members of the party "were virtually forced in a humiliating manner to sign a pledge declaring their opposition to President Wilsons policy oi muobm defense." BRYAN WANTS RECOGNITION fContlnued From First Page.) through the period while National con vention delegates are being elected. It also is figured that Immense strength would be added to the campaign for delegates backed openly by Mr. Bryan that are opposing delegates' tickets named by state organizations that Mr. Bryan fought bitterly in the Baltimore convention, such as the Sullivan ticket in Illinois, the Murphy ticket in New York, or the Taggart ticket, in Indiana. Committee Secondary Issue. Consideration of Mr. Bryan as chair man of the resolutions committee, which will consider the platform to be adopted at St. Louis, Is understood to be a secondary matter. The Demo cratic politicians gathering in Chicago in anticipation of President Wilson's arrival tomorrow have the understand ing that Mr. Bryan will head the Ne braska delegation and will be Its mem ber of the committee on resolutions. Scattering gossip indicated that noth ing but the determined opposition of President Wilson, exerted through his convention lieutenants, can keep the chairmanship of the platform commit tee away from Mr. Bryan, even though he may lose on the temporary chair manship of the convention itself. Munitions Exports to Help Free Unhappy Country Is De clared "Highly Moral." NON-ACTION IS CRITICISED Central Powers Declared to Have Shown Contempt for American Demands; "Professional" German-Americanism Rapped. NEW YORK. Jan. SO. Theodore Roosevelt .discussed "Promise and Per formance in International Relations" before the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences in Brooklyn tonight "In private life no human being thinks it to the credit of any man that he makes a promise unless the prom ise is kept. But when we deal with nations instead of individuals a large number of reasonably well disposed people loudly take the view that the promise is Itself meritorious and that the keeping of it is something wholly ii.tr.nt A fraiitv i mcffl V o nrom- ! ise. Well meaning persons would be wise if they kept the analogy between public and private promises steadily in view." . Colonel Roosevelt mentioned The Hague conventions in their relation to "the violation of neutrality of Bel gium," asserting it was "dishonorable conduct on the part of the United States to take no action." StunItlonsifcmbarRO Opposed. - Discussing American export of mu nitions, he said: "It is immoral to export munitions or materials out of which munitions can be made in order to prevent Bel gium from freeing herself. It is highly moral to export munitions which will help Belgium to free herself. It is an act of gross infamy on the part of this Government and this people to take any step which will help the wrongdoer against the wronged, and such step would be taken if we imposed an em bargo in the interest of Germany against the allies. "A year ago this Government noti fied Germany that it would hold her to a strict accountability if she sunk pas senger ships and murdered women and children. Again and again in con temptuous defiance of this warning Germany has sunk these ships and killed non-combatants, until the number mounts up into thousands. This rep resents more clearly the contemptuous desire of Germany the directing and dictating mind of the central powers to give this Government a chance to crawl out of making good its fine words. No Effective Action Taken. "We took no effective action what ever to stop these repeated murders. They were finally stopped simply be cause the British fleet destroyed so many submarines that the warfare ceased being profitable to Germany. "At the same time the German and Austrian governments, through theii accredited representatives in the em bassies here, have carried on a cam paign of the bomb and the torch against our industries. "The action our government should have taken, in view of this campaign, was not merely action against Dumba, Von Papon and Boy-Ed, but the holding of the German and Austrian govern ments themselves responsible for every munition plant that was damaged. Yet now it is announced that we are to ac cept money for the death of our women and children, and, in return, are to play the game 'Of the murderers of those women and children by acting in their interest against the allied na tions who are trying to free Belgium. Proposal Declared Base. "It is a proposition of sordid base ness. It asks us to put dollars above lives and to consult our own cowardice and weakness instead of adhering to the eternal principles of justice. "I believe that the great mass of Americans of German descent are straight out Americans and nothing else. In the Civil War a larger pro portion of the men of recent German origin than of the men of old native American stock stood for the Union and for freedom. "These Americans of German descent, I believe, will disapprove with all their hearts any proposal to use the embargo as a weapon in aid of the ruthless and brutal German militarism which has crushed Belgium. These Americans of German descent are the true patriots. I believe that they are shamefully mis represented by the professional hy phenated German-Americans who have been so loud In their insistence that the United States should be pros tituted to the service of despotism against democracy. SLIDE BARES RICH ORE RICHEST TTJXGSTEJf BODY EVER FOUND INDICATED. Colorado Miners Defy Dangers of Snow-Covered Mountains In Rash to New Streak. DURANGO, Colo.; Jan. 30. Reports from Silverton say that recent snow slides have resulted in an important minine discovery. According to Dis trict Judge Searcy, Silverton miners prospecting along the Cement Creek saw a boulder 10 feet in diameter which had been carried down by a slide and had split on striking the bottom of the gulch, exposing a six foot black streak. The streak, says the report, proved to be tungsten assaying 85 per cent. with a market value of $8000 a ton at present prices. Mining men say this discovery would mean a body of the richest tungsten ever found. A tungsten fever that is said to out weigh the fear of avalanches is re ported at Silverton. Miners, driven to Silverton by mines closing on account of the snow, have Joined the rush. Other miners are reported to have left the La Plata district on snowshoes, defying slides over the 40-mile trip to Cement Creek. STORM IS KILLING CATTLE Gateway Reports Loss of Horses Also from Starvation. GATEWAY. Or, Jan. 30. (Special.) Stormy weather with Icy blasts con tinues here. Horses and cattle are dying because of lack of feed. Bob Conley, a prominent sheepman of the Bake Oven country, is feeding 2000 head of sheep at South Junction, and is shipping hay from Dufur at J18 a ton. It is reported that several of the big cattle men are low on feed. A hundred letters to the Editor of The Ladles' Home Journal were recently opened, and 40 were found to be from men. It was surprising until the fact was realized that, although primarily a woman's magazine, the Home Journal, is actually a home magazine. It ap-( peals to the entire family. That is why so many call it the "Homa Journal"; they, instinctively asso ciate.it with home rather . than solely with women.' Two little" books on building and financing a home were recently put out by the Home Journal. Everywhere real-estate men, arch itects, promoters, builders, jumped for it, and two editions, a total of 65,000 copies, were quickly snapped up principally by men. Theman is just as large a part of the home as the woman. That is why folks say that more men read The Ladles' Home Journal than any home magazine. The reason is apparent in any number. .Just buy a copy of The Ladies' home journal; Jfs only 15 cents Si MAGDALEN IS CRITIC Style Hides American Women, Says Passion Player. INDIVIDUALITY NOT FOUND Marie Mayer, Slary of Oberammer gau, Says She Has Time to De vote to Intellect by Not Worrying About Dress. CHICAGO, Jan. 30. (Special.) "They are all alike, they spoil their individu ality because it is the fashion copy, copy, copy." Marie Mayer, of Oberammergau, the Mary Magdalen of the "Passion Play," shrugged her shoulders and shook her head. She had been asked what she thought of the dress of Chicago women. "Women are all different; they are Individuals; but you all put on the same kind of dress, the same kind of hat, the - ; -f ,hnii whether they fit the personality or not. You are sub merged, ana oy iookiub aio think alike and talk alike. You lose all your originality and become like all the rest" She stood out among the women who wore silks, chiffons and laces as the most effectively dressed women in the room, an example of her own dress "philosophy," as she called it. They gasped and admitted the fact. "I do not worry about dress, as I have much time to think of more Intel lectual things." she said. "Those who always are looking for something new for adornment use up great amounts of energy. I have not the time. There is so much else to do and so little time in which to do it." The" subject of cabarets. Miss Mayer avoided. "I have not time to go to them, but your movies," and she made a face, "they are cheap; they are terrible. At home we open the theaters, the good plays, free, or nearly so, to the school children every week. With a chance there for high ideas and ideals; they do not see the robberies, the crimes you show your children in the moving pio ture theaters. "We still produce the plays of Shake speare. You live too fast in this coun- try IU H1JJI1 C7t.IU.LO 111.." '..,,... . . it 0 something new, always something new, I that you are after." Deckload Rate Revived. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash inKton. Jan. 30. Representative Ad- ELL-ANS Absolutely Removes Indigestion. One package Proves it 25c at all druggists. amson, of Georgia, chairman of the Interstate commerce committee, quiet ly introduced today an innocent look ing bill which, if enacted, will permit the Panama Canal Commission to re ceive its old freight rate on deckloads of lumber shipped through the Pan ama Canal, thus upsetting the execu tive order of the President, which abolished the charges to which Paclflo Coast shippers objected. The Attorney-General held that the Canal method of measuring deckloads was contrary to law, and it was on this decision that the President acted. Adamson's bill would make legal what the Attorney-General held is now ille gal and would permit the readoption of the old scale of charges. 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