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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 29, 1919)
THE MORNING OREGOXIAN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1919. M DIE lie SHIP IS mark, residing about two miles north east of Oregon City, died at the fami ly residence after an illness of short duration. Mr. Sorensen, who had en gaged in farming, was 77 years of age, and is survived by his widow, Mrs. Catherine Sorensen, of Clacka mas, and a son at Astoria. Mrs. Naomi Bowers Turner, younger daughter of Mrs. N. A. Bowers, of Canemah, died at the Bowers home Sunday. Mrs. Bowers, a native of Canemah, is survived by her mother. Mrs. Amy Athey, widow of the late E. Athey, died at the family home on the Stafford road near Tualatin bridge, Sunday af 1 jr a brief illness. Mrs. Athey was born in Missouri, and LSHED TO PIECES TO LIVESTOCK SHOW Attend the FOOD SHOW at the ARMORY Giant Seas Throw Lake Steamer on Pier. Incomplete Report Received on Day's Canvass. 50 PASSENGERS SAVED $100,000 DRIVE STARTS AMERICAN GIRL SAID TO HAVE SUNG BEFORE KING GEORGE. Coast Guard With Single Flash light Assists In Rescue Wo men Handed Down Kopcs. Luncheons to Be Held Each Day to Receive Reports Ad Club And Realty Board Tie. S4300 SUBSCRIBED 01 0 J I 4 j MUSKEGON. Mich., Oct. 28. With 14 known dead and six or mors miss ing, only time can bring an accurate count of the toll of the great seas which early this morning bodily lifted the Crosby passenger steamer Muskegon, formerly the City of Hol land, and smashed her to pieces on the piers at the entrance to Muske gon. The steamer, a sidewheeler, bound from Milwaukee, after out-riding a night gale, made for the harbor in the early morning darkness but it is said by Captain Edwin Miller to have struck the bar at the entrance. The wheel paddles jammed in the sand, cheeking headway'- and the great combers threw the ship about and hurled her on to the pier. There she hung, momentarily, pounding into wreckage and then slipped off into the deep channel, going down in 50 feet of water. The vessel lies a storm-torn tangle of steel and splintered wood, effectually blocking the harbor entrance. Fifty Passtneen Saved. Fifty of the 72 passengers and crew, guided to safety by a single flash light in the hands of a coast guard, were tonight known to have been saved. It was feared several were caught between decks. Survivors, most of whom escaped only in their night clothing, were being cared for by the Red Cross, while in the city morgue lie the bodies recovered. James C. Reilly, Grand Rapids, was added to the list of identified dead to night. Graphic stories of terror, suffering and heroism were told by survivors and the bravery of Captain Miller and his officers and crew, who remained at their posts to the last, was re counted. Captain Miller, sensing dis aster as the vessel was driven toward the pier, ordered all to leap for their lives, and the sea rule "women first" was followed. Only four women, one of whom was employed on the boat, are known to have been lost. Women Handed Down Ropes. The women, fearing to venture over the rail were bravely led by Jlrs. Fred L. Beerman of Muskegon, who leaped from the ship. Others jumped or were handed down ropes by passengers and crew. ' Captain Miller, hard-stricken by the disaster and loss of lives, declared the undertow swung his ship after she struck the bar. "I told the cabin boys to awaken the passengers and crew and ordered all over the rail." he said. "Those who moved quickly were saved. The ones who held back lost their lives." To R. J. Kaknborsky, a coast guard, many of those saved owe their lives, according to survivors. Approaching as closely as possible to the suspended steamer, he, while others of the coast guard struggled to free men and women from the wreckage, held a flashlight, directing the way to safety. Wreck Is Described. "It seemed that the ship was lifted out of the water, striking with ter rific force," said Kaknborsky. "The lights went out and the boat was pounded to kindlin-. "1 used a flashlight and it was by this means that many of the passen gers were able to jump to the piers." George Watson, a passenger who found his way from the darkness of a stateroom deck, assisted a woman to escape. Watson found life preservers in the darkness, climbing the steeply inclined decks to an outer door. He found a woman crying, and assisted her to safety down a line from the housing over one of the wheels. Wat son said the heroism and quick work of coast guards and crew did much to quiet the panic. He escaped with the dying screams of the unfortu nates in his ears. Harry Ries, second engineer, was found dead on the beach. He had Deen wasiied overboard, others of the crew said, after being caught in the live steam of bursting pipes in the engine room, where he had remained as long as possible. Exhaustion BringM on Death. Apparently he reached the shore safely and crawled some distance irom me water, exhaustion and in juries inflicted by wreckage are be lieved to have caused his death. ' To the cabin boys and a stewardess. wno gave her life, is given credit for awakening and thereby saving many or inose wno escaped. Knowing them selves imperiled, these members of the boat's complement made their way to staterooms along the ship's dark ened passage, pounding on doors and arousing the few who slept despite the storm. Then came the crash and the pounding requiem of the waves. The Muskegon was an iron vessel, built in 18S1 by the Holland Steamship company and lately rebuilt for the Crosby line. She was 241 feet in length and had a gross tonnage of 1148. I Vv f t jA i J- i -i "l J 3 1 I j, ' ' ' I Mis Gertrude Long. It is seldom that the honor of singing before royalty at its re quest comes to a girl, but such was the good fortune that befell Gertrudp Long when she made her debut in London, according to a story for which the Fan tages theater management is sponsor. Miss Long was known as the American girl with the wonder ful voice when she first ap peared on the English concert stage, and friends who heard her spoke of her to King George. As a result, she was summoned to sing before the king, and there she scored heavily. With Miss Long at Pantages Is Spen cer Ward, who won fame on the English operatic stage. had been a resident of the Stafford country for the past 58 years. Mrs. Athey is survived by several daugh ters and one son, all of Clackamas county. CENTRALIA, Wash., Oct. 28. (Spe cial.) St. Clair A. Cross, aged 58 years, died last night in Tenino. The funeral will be held tomorrow after noon from the Newel parlors in this city. The deceased is survived by one brother, Frank Cross of Tenino. Funeral services for Mrs. John Mc Craken, who died Friday, at the age of 84 years, were held Monday at the Portland crematorium. Dr. A. A. Morrison of Trinity Episcopal church officiated. Mrs. McCraken was the widow of the late Colonel John McCraken, widely-known philanthropist, who was frequently called "Portland's Grand Old Man." Mrs. McCraken was born . .vi,t ivaua in isaa ana was one of the first white children born in the northwest, being the daughter of Pierre Panbrum, well known through out the early settlements and later cities or the northwest as a membe of the Hudson Bay comoanv. Mrs. McCraken is survived by two sons, James R. and Robert G. Mc Craken of Portland, and Mrs. Charles a. inuriey or Tacoma; by five grand children, Harry S. and Peter B. Mn Craken and Airs. George C. Mason of Portland, and Katherine and Charles Hurley Jr., of Tacoma; also by five great-grandchildren, sons of Harry micraiten ana Airs. Mason. RAILROAD CASE DECIDED Obituary. COTTAGE GROVE, (Special.) Mrs. Or., Oct. 28. John Alleman died Friday at the age of 67 years, the funeral being held at 9 o'clock Mon day from the Catholic church, Father Moran officiating. Mrs. Alleman's maiden name was Virginia Duval and she was born Oc tober 25, 1832, at Three Rivers, Que bec. She was married in 1873, moving to WilsoiMWis., in 1877 and coming to Cottage Grove in September, 1910. The husband and the following children are living: Mrs. Timothy Hastings, of Wolf Summit, W. Va., who spent the summer here; Mrs. Arthur Turner, of St. Johns, Or.; Mrs. B. E. Sharpe and Mrs. Louis A. Bender, of this city; John Alleman, of Cornell. Wis.; Thom as Alleman, of Wilson, Wis.; Robert J. Alleman. of St. Johns, Or., and George Alleman, of Divide, Or. OREGON CITY, Or., Oct. 28. (Spe cial.) Mrs. Lydia B. Parker, daugh ter of Earl D. and Mary J. Jones, died at the family home near Estacada, Oc tober 26. She was 66 years old. Be sides her parents, Mrs. Parker is sur vived by a sister, Mrs. Laura A. Ben jamin, of Estacada; lour brothers, Al bert F. Jones, of Prindle, Wash.; Freeman O. Jones, of Lafayette, Or.; Leonard D. Jones, of Clackamas; Wil liam Jones,, of Seattle, Wash. John T. Brown of Canby died at the family residence Saturday after a brief illness. Mr. Brown, who for 15 years had resided at Canby, is sur vived by his widow, Mrs. Sarah Brown, and several children. Corf ix Sorenseiv a -nativeof -Den-' SUB-tU.MHACTORS LOSE SUIT OX RE-CLASSIFICATIOX. Judge Tucker Renders Opinion In Action of Fuller & Bain Against Southern. Pacific Company. Efforts of Fuller & Bain, sub contractors under Twohy Brothers, to obtain a re-classit'ication of material in which they worked during the grading of 20 miles for the Willa mette Pacific railway west of Eugene, by which they might claim aDDrnxi- mately $200,000 more from the South ern I'acitic company than under their contract, failed yesterday when Cir tun juuge xucKer nanded down a decision adverse to the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs alleged that the Southern Pacific engineers failed to exercise honest judgment in making classifications and estimates of work and material, cheating and defraud ing the contractors. What the plain tiffs held to be adobe clay was clas sified as cein-.-nted material by the defendant's engineers, it was as serted. "I carefully inspected some 20 miles of the railroad under consideration and was assisted by counsel on both sides," reads Judge Tucker's opinion, "and I cannot but feel that if the railroad company should have insist ed upon a classification of this sticky substance as adobe, soft clay shale as earth, that the same could have been maintained under the definitions of the contract. ' "There has been no proof of any collusion between the principal con tractor and the railroad company and I do not think that counsel for the plaintiff contend rr rely upon this theory. Taking the contract as the p-arties have framed it, applying to the evidence the general rules and construing the provisions for clas sifications and the definitions. I am forced; to believe that the railway company was justified in not classi fying this material as it is claimr-rl should have been done." IDAHO WOULD OPEN MINE Governor Asks Construction of Spur to Coal Deposit. BOISE, Idaho. Oct. 28. ( Governor Davis today aDDealeri tn Walker D. Hines. director-eenemi nf railroads, to facilitate construction of a spur on the Oregon short line at Driggs to the properties of the THahn Coal Mines company. According to a telegram rpraiv.j by the governor from R. S. Talbot of Salt Lake, representative of the coal company, there are thousands of tons of coal that would be available for use of Idaho citizens in the event of the nation-wide coal strike ta kino- effect next Saturday as scheduled. i With the realization that their ef forts will contribute to the advance ment of one of the most important industries in tne Pacific northwest, and that success is inclusive of Ore gon and her sister states of the north, campaigners of the Pacific Interna tional Livestock exposition building fund took the field yesterday to place $100,000 worth of stock with local friends of the enterprise. Reports for the first dav of solicit ing are meager, as the field -workers spent but a few hours in the initial phase of their canvass, but teams that did render an accounting last night had reached a total of $4300, with several not reporting. Rrporta Are Heard. That the city campaign is to be lively and thorough is attested by the fact that the canvass has been intrusted to civic clubs and their leaders. By yesterday's' report the Ad club and the Realty board were tied for the first day's honors, each reporting a total of $900. Other clubs reported as follows: Kiwanis $575: Progressive Business Men's . club, $625; Chamber of Commerce, $525; flying squadron, $775. The first of the daily get-together luncheons, when workers hold con ferences on the progress of their plans and receive campaign instruc tions, was held yesterday noon at the Hotel Portland. The various par ticipating civic organizations were seated, in campaign committees, at special tables. It was then that the initial reports were made. Late last night tabulations of the afternoon work had not been received. John L. Etheridge. as financial chairman of the drive, brought all his arts of oratorical persuasiveness and logical argument into play when he addressed the field workers and their chairmen. The task that confronts them, said Mr. Etheridge. is big with possibilities and means much to the future of Portland and the northwest. He expressed confidence in the ability of the campaigners to win a clean-cut victory at an early day. In answer to a question concerning the accept ance of liberty bonds for stock sub scriptions, Mr. Etheridge told th workers to accept them whenever offered. 1 00,000 la Goal. The drive for the $100,000 fund. which will permit the opening of the November stock show without the ghost of debt at its portals, will be n active progress today, and every day until all of the stock is sub scribed. The noonday luncheons of conference will be held throughout the campaign. Leaders of the various campaign committees are as follows: Ad club. w. l. jevarney, chairman: Kiwanis club, J. G. Meeko, chairman: Chamber of Commerce, J. D. Abbott, chairman; Progressive Business Men's club, E. E.' Ldmunds, chairman; Realty board, George E. Englehart. chairman'. . ALLIANCE MOVE STARTED Farmers' Vnion, State Grange and Labor Federation May Join. An alliance by the Farmers' union. State Grange and the State Federation of Labor is being planned. The execu tive boards of the three organizations will be called into conference to can vass the idea of making a triple alli ance. The initial step is being taken by the State Federation of Labor executive board. The conference will undertake the holding of a convention of the three associations on January 20 at Salem.' Among the objects of the movement. aside from its political possibilities. win De the advancement of the pro gramme mapped out at the recent meeting of the State Federation of Labor at Bend, and this includes a constitutional amendment to provide tor perioas or unemployment. 175 "Whales Seasonal Catch. ABERDEEN, Wash., Oct. 28 (Spe cial.) The total catch of whales bv the American Pacific whaling fleet for tne season just closed was 175, which is within three of the catch of last year. On the final week of the sea son six sperms were brought in, but H they were exceptionally small. "SYRUP OF FIGS" CHILD'S LAXATIVE Look at tongue! Remove poi sons from stomach, liver and bowels Accept "California" f!vTiin nf pif-o only look for the name California nr, the package, then you are sure your child is having the' best and most harmless laxative or nhv.i- tnr little stomach, liver and bowels. Chil dren love its delicious fruity taste. Full directions for child's dose on each bottle. Give it without fear. Mother! You must say "California." Kill Dandruff With Cuticura '-MCMm, MfL riMj.iL." BRAND) FLOUR For Every Purpose rw&ttwi w rsv BLEND'S J MAH FRIEND. .2Wf? BLEND FLOUR a scientific com- bination of choicest Eastern hard wheats and the choicest of Western wheats jjtakes more and larger loaves of better bread than other flours. COSTS MORE PER SACK COSTS LESS PER LOAF is a trade phrase which we have used for a very long time. FISH ER 'S BLEND costs yon a few cents more per sack because it costs ns just that much more to produce. IT COSTS YOU LESS PER LOAF because actual baking tests scientifically made have dem onstrated that it 9bakes more and larger loaves of better bread to the given amount than any other flours on the market. $ BLEND is manufactured in 'America's Finest Flouring Mills 9 Fisher Flouring Milk Company Ask your local grocer for FISHER'S BLEND FLOUR; he has it or can easily get it; or we will see that you are supplied tf you will communicate with our Portland office 704-5-6 Lewis Bldg. Telephone Main 4240. At the Food Show in the Armory this week we are demonstrating FISHER'S BLEND FLOUR.FISHER'S ROLLED OATS, and FISHER'S PANCAKE FLOUR. Those who attended the San Francisco Exposition will doubtless recall Fishers big colored man, BLEND, and the hit he made sellingFISHER'S BLEND SCONES. BLEND is at the Food Show this week. See him; he is serving SCONES equally as delicious as those at the San Francisco Exposition.