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-VCN AA AvA A v u rir Liar LiLi r v 'y v xy ni VOL. L.X- NO. 18.944 Entered at Portland lOregon) yJlJ' -A -I C3 , . - Po.tofflce as frond-CIass Matter PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1921 PRICE FIVE CENTS FULL SPEED IN FOG ! WRECK S HISSING 103 KNOWN SURVIVORS LISTED UNOFFICIALLY MOUNT HOOD VENT POURS OUT HOT SAND STEAMER ON REEF; TELLEGENS SEPARATE DPU ON CHILDLESS H0ME,,,lJ,, E'S BODY ADMITTED BY OFFICER RELATIVES HERE STILL IN DOUBT Many Portlanders Get No Word of Loved Ones. BRIO IS REDUCED TP 29 More Survivors of Alaska Are Located. 99 ARE IN DANGER IS FOUND IN TRUNK Mrs. Kate Mahoney Is INQUEST WITNESS SEVERELY CRITICISES ALASKA CREW. WRECK VICTIMS TABULATED AT SAX FRANCISCO. OBSERVERS REPORT IMMENSE ERUPTIVE ACTION. GERAL-DIXE FARRAR CALLED UNREASON INGLY JEALOUS. ONLY 214 REPORTED ABOARD Total of 167 Landed and 18 Bodies at Eureka. SOME ARE NOT IDENTIFIED XOss of Passenger 1,1st Makes Work of Checking Up on Dead Very Difficult. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 8. Down ward revision of the death list resulting- from the sinking Saturday night off the Northern California coast of the steamer Alaska was made necessary today by the arrival In, San Francisco of a number of sur vivors, whose fate previously had been In doubt. The known dead were Increased to 18 today by the findings of the body of a man, yet unidentified, under the lighthouse at Cape Mendicino. Of the dead, seven were passengers, nine were members of the crew and two of the bodies were unidentified. The passenger lists, which were in the custody of E. R. Morgan, purser, went down with the steamer, but the number on board, according to an estimate made by him at Eureka was J32 passengers and 82 crew. The rescue ship Anyox brought to Eureka yesterday 97 passengers and , 70 of the officers and crew, leaving 2V to be accounted for. First Count Inaccurate. Inasmuch as the first count taken on the Anyox proved to be inaccurate, officials of the San Francisco & Port land Steamship company, owners of the Alaska, believed that 'some of the missing 29 might still report themselves as survivors. The loss of the passenger list has made the work of the steamship com pany exceedingly difficult, but It was expected that within a few days, the earlier discrepancies will have been cleared up and the number of dead definitely known. Lifeboats Washed Ashore. The sea gave up only the one ad ditional body today, but seven life boats were washed ashore near the eoo ne of the wreck. One lifeboat con tained a woman's skirt. All day long, crowds of anxious friends and relatives of missing pas sengers thronged the local offices of the company seeking information concerning them. Most of the sur vivors who landed at Eureka, came to San Francisco today by railway, leav ing at the northern coast town only a few who are in hospitals. An uncharted northeast current was blamed for the wreck by E. D. Dupree, second officer, who reached San Francisco today. Captain Harry Hobey, master, went down with his chip, the accounts today of crew and passengers agreed. Uncharted Current Blamed. "We thought we were three miles outside Blunts reef," Dupree said. "when, in reality, we were Inside. An uncharted northeast current had car ried us in-shore. We noticed this current later when our l'fe-raft drifted northerly from the wreck.' Harry Palmer, a steward, said: "We were sailing 1 points off our course, suing xuii speed ana taking no Bounds, when the crash occurred. v-uiiipitLiiiis were neara irom some passengers today that the lifeboats were not In good condition and that the crew was not familiar with the! method of launching them. The boats I were equipped with rusty plugs." E. ! N. White, Madera, Cal., a passenger declared, and I. W. Skoglund, Omaha, Neb., said: "There was no plug in the bottom of our boat and we had to keep bailing." Engine Crew la Praised. Heroic work of the engine crew prevented a panic when the Alaska foundered. First Officer McClintock of Alameda. Cal., said today. Electric lights aboard the steamer burned un til she went down, as the engine room workers remained at their posts and kept steam up for the dynamos. Ten or 11 life boats and four life rafts were launched, according to the first officer. "We were able to clear the starboard side of all passengers, and those who were lost were on the port side. captain Harry Hobey, master of the ship, was in the wheel house when she foundered." McClintock cuaunuea. inc secona officer wad In the cross trees trying to look out over the fog. "When the Alaska struck, I was ordered by the captain to take sound ings, but this was impossible. The pumps were ordered started, but they could not stop the rush of water." Death Lint la llevtscd. The list of known dead, as revised tonight by the steamer's owners here: follow: Parx-en-rer. Thomas Johnson, Brooklyn, N. T. J. C. Jakway. Oakland, Cal. N. Fickell. Los Angeles. A. M. Hutchinson. San Francisco. S. Kumazawa (steerage passenger). (Concluded on I'm to 2, Column s. Steamer Employes Declared to Have Become Demoralized, Try ing to Handle Lifeboats. EUREKA, Cal., Aug. 8. First ad mission by an officer that the steamer Alaska was proceeding under full speed despite the heavy fog when she crashed on Blunts reef Saturday night was made today by S. A. Carlson, third assistant engineer. Carlson said he was on duty when the ship struck. Late today an Inquest over the body of Charles Heane, chief steward, was held. The Jury found Heane came to his death "through drowning as a result of the wreck of the steamer Alaska." The findings of the jury, it was said, would apply to all the dead. George Goodall. a passenger of Spo kane, in his testimony before the coroner's Jury was particularly se vere Jn criticism of the Alaska's crew. Goodall said members of the crew made efforts to get the passen gers off the ship, but they became demoralized when it came to handling the lifeboats. He declared the life boats were not In proper condition. Other testimony was given by E. C. Morgan, purser; W. E. McClintock, first officer: J. J. Michaelson, radio operator, and Mrs. Mabel Lanberg'of St. Paul, Minn., and Waltham Bass of Oakland, passengers. Michaelson said he was on duty, but because of his activity did not notice how rapidly the ship, was traveling when she struck. The inquest developed the theory that Captain Harry Hobey had died on his bridge. It was said he had been crushed when the smokestack col lapsed or died following collapse of the deck. Fishing boats cruised throughout the day from Eureka to Blunts reef searching for bodies. On shore other 'persons ranged the 40 miles of beach on the same quest. YOUNG SPRECKELS KILLED San Francisco Capitalist Victim of Automobile Mishap. BAKERSFIELD, Cal., Aug. 8. John D. Spreckels Jr. of San Francisco died this afternoon in a local hospital fol lowing an automobile accident near Taf t. Cal. Spreckels. who was said to be heav ily interested in the Kern county ol fields, was riding alone in a limou sine. The car turned over on a curve between Fellows and Taft. He was taken tp Taft, where first aid was given, and was then rushed to a Bakersfield hospital. He was injured about the arms, shoulders and head. Spreckels was on his way to Taft on business at the time of the accident. According to a surgeon's report, he died from loss of blood and shock. In the accident his arm was stripped of flesh and he rapidly lost conscious ness. In Bakersfield he was operated on and a transfusion of blood was at tempted to' save His life. When found, Spreckels, according to reports, could talk, but said nothing about his accident, and it was not at first realized how serious his Injuries were. TWO GIRLS ARE D'ROWNED Horses Step Into Deep Hole in River and Unseat Riders. THE DALLES, Or.. Aug. 8. (Spe cial.) While attempting to cross the John Day river on horseback 12 mile east of Kent, Marie and Priscilla O'Sullivan, sisters, 21 and 18 years old, were drowned early yesterday morning when the animals upon which they were riding stepped into a deep hole, unseating the riders. The two girls were, said to have been riding to- their home in Sherman county, their route lying across the river, which is shallow at this time of the year. The hole Into which the horses slipped was 30 feet deep. The bodies were not recovered until late last night. Mrs. Michael O'Sullivan, the motner, is convalescing Irom a se rious operation and It was feared that the shock may prove fatal to her. The girls' father is in Alberta, Can ada, where he is employed as a rail road engineer. Marie was well known in The Dalles, where, she at tended St. Mary's academy. $6000 REWARD OFFERED Efforts to Find Thus Far Missing Fruitless. Priest SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 8. A re ward of 15000 for Information leading to the return of Rev. Patrick E. Hes lin, Colma priest, was offered today by the San Francisco diocese of the Catholic church. This is in addition to $1000 raised by public subscription. Rev. Mr. Heslln has been missing since Tuesday night, when he went with a stranger to answer a sick call. A house-to-house search In Colma and Daly City, suburbs of San Fran cisco, will be made, according to the police, in an effort to locate the miss ing pastor. STEAMER WRECKED IN FOG Lady of Gaspe Probably Is Lost Upon Trum Cape Slioals. HALIFAX, N. S.. Aug. 8. In a dense fog tonight the steamer Lady of Gaspe, bound from Boston to Halifax, struck on Trum Cape shoals, to the eastward of Halifax harbor, and probably will be a total wreck, ac cording to advices here. It Is reported that the crew has abandoned the vessel. SOME BODIES UNIDENTIFIED Phone and Telegraph Wires Rushed With Inquiries. OTHER CASES CLEARED UP Several .Messages From Survivors Are Received Death Reports Bring Sadness Here. Forty-eight hours after the pass enger steamer Alaska plowed Into Blunts reef on the. California coast and went to the bottom of the Pa cific, carrying many of her passen gers to their death, considerable con fusion still prevailed at the little California city where the survivors were gathered in improvised accom odations, and where the bodies, some of them still unidentified, were laid out in a morgue. In many cases, however, the sus pense of those who had friends or relatives on the Alaska was ended yesterday when communication was established with Eureka by telephone or telegraph, and It was learned that the loved one was alive and well or identified among the dead. Many Have No Word. Because of the congestion on the telephone and telegraph wires, many Portlanders were still without word last night from those reported among the saved. This fact has given rise in many cases to the tear that the survivors, though rescued, are in a hospital at Eureka and injured to the extent of being unable to communi cate. Several messages from survivors were received here from San Fran Cisco, whither they had been taken on special trains. Some anxious rel atives, from whose dear ones no re port has been received, still held to the hope that they may have been picked up by some boat going south and will be heard from later. Heroism Story la Told. Stories of heroism among the pas sengers on the Alaska will never all be told, but the following message, received by Dwight Edwards Jr., 730 Weldler street, relates in part the heroic act of George Edwards, his brother, who was on his way' to Berkeley, where he expected to enter the University of California Au gust IS. The message was sent tc Mr. Ed wards here by Captain Irving E. Howe of the Federal building. Eu reka, and was worded as follows: "George among the missing. He may have been picked up by a boat going south. He was last seen trying to quiet two women on the deck who (Concluded on Fuse 2. Column 1.) X O. SAVE. VV-slj 4v 11 VWVAY Data Are Obtained From Various Source - Many Portland Persons Are Saved. BAN FRANCISCO.' Aug. 8. An un official list of 103 known surviving passengers of the steamer Alaska. with their addresses, so far as obtain able, compiled here today from vari ous sources, follows: Mrs. M. J. Albers. Toledo, Or. Dorothy Anderson. Waseca, Minn. Miss E. Bradley. Hammett, Idaho. M. Banders. C. Bailey. Pocatello, Idaho. . A. E. Bailey, Pocatello, Idaho. Elma Bohn, Woodburn, Or. Frieda Bohn, Woodburn, Or. Mrs. L. M. Blestrom, Portland. Clara Beckwith. The Dalles, Or. Mayme Baker, Seattle Wash. K. F. Bonnewell, Portland. N. Bass, San Francisco. Mrs. B. Cole, Portland. Helen E. Carlsen. Portland. Miss Ida Carlston, St. Paul. Minn. J. R. Clark, Portland. C. Cunningham, Portland. B. J. Doherty, Portland. R. Davis, Seattle. -Frona Erker, San Diego. Frank Erker. Frank Erlckson, Salem, Or. H. A. Franklin. Seattle. Mrs. M. Fellers. Mr. and Mrs. George Goodell. Spo kane. F. C. Germano, Portland. George Glenn, Portland, Or. C. Herlow, Sail Francisco. Louis Horrowlts, Portland. Or. 2. A. Huff Jr., Portland. Miss Isabel Landberg, St. Paul, Minn. Miss Isabel Jakway, Oakland. Mrs. T. Johnston, Brooklyn. Mrs. J. C. Jakway, Oakland. H. M. Jensen, Vancouver, Wash. O. L. Knuth, Portland. Martha Knudsen. Margaret Knuth, Portland. H. S. Laughlin, San Francisco. Mrs. C. Lange and baby, Portland. J. H. Mose, Spokane. Mrs. F. Mophir. C. F. Monke, Portland. Miss H. B. McFarland, Portland. Joseph Nagy, Portland. W. B. Neiswender, Topeka, Kan. . ' Margaret Nichols, Dayton, Wash. Mrs. J. E. Nichols, Dayton, Wash. Edward Ostliff and wife, Tacoma. G. Phillips and wife. G. W. Putman, San Francisco. Florence O'Brien, Portland. W. G. Koss, San Francisco. Miss Anita-Rosti San Francisco. Harold Schave, wife and baby, Spo kane. Mrs. J. Summercamp, Welser, Idaho. Mrs. J.. Stone, Toledo, O. M. H. Springstead and wife. F. J. Richards, Portland. Miss Betty Sanders. Evelyn Shipley. Portland. Miss Nubia Seyden, San Francisco. H. W. Dwyer, La Grande, Or. S. Searsbeck. J. W. skaglund and wife, Omaha. H. Skell. O. G. Hoopier. Mrs. R. S. Whiteford, Portland. I. N. Waggoner and wife, Spokane. C. Wright and wife. New York. Miss A. C. Quortent. C. L. Vileim, Portland. E. N. White. Portland. O. F. Tevlin and wife, Indianapolis. A. E. Welch, St. Louis. (Concluded on Page g. Column 4.) TAKING CHANCES. VltYS. 5fA i . - "c c Tie. "THE. ttV'AN 5 C WEJCAeS Heat Declared So Intense as to Make Approach to Great Crevice Impossible. RHODODENDRON, Or, Aug. 8. (Special.) Discovery of an immense subterranean eruption under Crater Rock, on the south side of Mount Hood, out of which hot sands poured. was reported here late this afternoon by Chester Treichel and Orville Zim merman, official guides of the Gov ernment Camp hotel, who made a hur ried trip to the rock following their daily observations this morning. "We found a crevice about 60 feet wide and more than a mile long," said Zimmerman. "Powerful, hot sands were working their way out. and we saw indications of enormous underground pressure. I "Heat from the sands rushing out from under the rock had cut the ice Into large cakes, and these, with boulders, were slipping down the mountain side. The movement of the sands, ice cakes and rocks was strik ingly regular. The heat was so In tense we could not get near." The guides saw the evidences of eruption while making their daily ob servation, at the Government Camp hotel at 8:30 o'clock this morning. They Immediately left for Crater rock, which is about six miles dis tant. In the meantime the peculiar action caused wonderment at the camp hotel. The movement at the rock was visible but no smoke could be seen. Treichel nad Zimmerman returned here late this afternoon. L F. Pridemore, owner of Govern ment Camp hotel, who was in Port land last night, observed the hot sands Issuing from the mountain side yesterday morning. With the aid of a telescope Mr. Pridemore saw what ap peared to be a stream of mud pouring out from Crater Rock. "During the night Mrs. Pridemore and I heard sounds that we believed to be thunder," he said, "but this morning when we saw the black strip of mud or sand on the mountain side we concluded that .the noise had been caused by the sands setting rocks to tumbling down the slopes." STONE'S BODY RECOVERED Remains of Educator Killed by Fall on Way to Camp. - BANFF, Alta. Aug. 8. The body of Dr. W. E. Sone, president of Purdue univesity, Indiana, who was killed In a fall on Mount Aenon, was. recov ered yesterday and will arrive at Eau Claire camp, near Banff, Tuesday eve ning, according to a message received here today. A. E. Wheeler, a member of the party which has been searching for Che body, sent the message. UNEMPLOYED START FIRE London Laborers Try to Destroy Property Valued at 1,000,000 LONDON, Aug. 8. (By the Associ ated Press.) Disappointed over their failure to obtain Jobs at a timber yard in East London which advertised for 50 men, 5000 unemployed laborers to day broke Into the premises and set fire to a stock of lumber valued at 1,000,000. ex? Tri IVut 1 1' . A0V)Y .HERE DUV TOO TrVtk. t Tbr r ' : ' San Jose Is Reported on Verge of Sinking. . CRAFT TAKES HEAYY LIST Passengers Threatened, Ac cording to Radio. 66 MEN COMPRISE CREW Pacific Mall Craft on Asuncion Island; Broadcast Call to Stand by Is Issued. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9 (1:30 A. M.) "Still O. K.." said a message just flashed out bv the San Jose and nicked un here. The message Indi cated the ship's commander was fear ful of his position. SAN DIEGO. Cal., Aug. 9. The naval radio station at North Island received a. call for helu from the steamer San Jose early this morning. At the station it was said that the steamer had 33 passengers and a crew of 66 aboard. "The steamer is likely to sink at any minute," was the- word received in San Diego from the radio station. Several messages were received here direct from the San Jose. The naval radio station sent out a broad cast asking vessels to go to the as alstance of the steamer, but It was said here that no United States navy vessel was anywhere near Asuncion island. Danajer Reported Imminent. "The San Jose is in imminent dan irer." was the word given out at the radio station at 1:30 A. M. today. "There Is no panic aboard," said message received here from the San Jose at 1M0 A. M. "The passengers are treating the accident as an ad venture." The naval radio, station said at that time another vessel had been reached by radio within 330 miles of the scene of the accident and was going to the assistance of the San Jose. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9. The steamer San Jose struck and grounded on San Pablo reef. Asuncion island . Distress messages were received early this morning by the United States naval radio station 'on Yerba Buena island. The passengers aboard the San Jose were declared in danger. One message received was from the naval radio station at San Diego. It was a broadcast telling other ships of the San Jose's plight and instructing any nearby to go to her assistance. Bis: Lint Reported. A third wireless said the San Jose was taking a "big list." The San Diego station sent out the following message: "Steamship San Jose struck. grounded on Asuncion Island, San Pablo reef. Any ship near dis tressed vessel should go to her assistance Immediately and stand by." One message from the San Jose direct said: "Vessel In Immediate danger, any ships near please come to rescue. The San Diego station asked the San Jose if she was sinking. The answer came: "No, but we are tak ing a big list. Think we are stuck on reet. Stenmer Is Pacific Malrm The San Jose Is operated by the Pa cific Mail Steamship company be tween San Francisco and Panama. The vessel left Salina Cruz, Mexico, August 1, and was due here August 13 after stops at San Diego and Los Angeles. The San Jose has a capacity for 55 first-cabin passengers and 15 steer age passengers, according to Daulton Mann of the Pacific Mall company, and her crew numbers 60. Mr. Mann Aatd he doubted if the vessel had a large passenger list, as he had heard travel from Panama to San Francisco at this time was light. A message from the San Jose picked up at 1:33 A. M. said the vessel had 33 passengers and 66 crew members aboard. The San Jose's position was given as five miles south of San Pablo point. One message from the captain said. "Holding out O. K., I guess." A radio message picked up at 1:45 o'clock by the navy radio station said "J.he ship is resting easily." It gave the vessel's position at latitude 27:06 north and longitude 114.171 west. The steamer San Jose is of 2135 tons and is owned by the Pacific Mail Steamship company. She Is a two deck steamer of steel construction and was built in 1882 at Chester, Pa. GENERAL HUGHES IS LOW Canadian War Leader Reported to Be Near Death. LINDSAY, Ont., Aug. 9. General Sir Sam Hughes, former Canadian minister of militia and an outstand ing figure in Canada's war effort, was very near death at, 5:30 o'clock this morning. His physician did not think he would live marry hours. He has suffered from acute anaemia for months ana nas Deen Kept alive wltn Uiouu iransiusiuu lur weens. Cross-Suit by Noted Actor in Case Brought by Singer Is Foreshadowed. NEW YORK, Aug. 8. (Special.) Alvin Untermyer and Harry N. Stein feld. counsel respectively for Geral dine Farrar Tellegen and Lou Telle- gen, singer and actor, in their do mestic smashup, returned to New York today and a little was added to the sum of public knowledge of the details of the break. In the letter of notification sent to Mr. Tellegen by Mr. Untermyer for Mrs. Tellegen he was expressly warned that he was not to annoy her or seek to enter her home, even for his clothes, but that his clothes would be se,nt to him if he would give a forwarding address. In response he asked when he could call for his clothes, but the only response was another letter from Mr. Untermyer, dated August 3, notifying him that, as he had not sent the for warding address requested, his ef fects had been shipped to the Man hattan Storage Warehouse and his co tenancy of the Farrar domicile was thereby terminated. Mr. Untermyer was not ready to tell the nature of Mrs. Tellegen's threatened counter suit. While It was no longer denied (here had been friction between the couple a considerable time, the actual break came as a great surprise to Mr. Tellegen, according to Mr. Stein feld. Mr. Steinfeld said: "Mrs. Tellegen visited her husband at his little camp in the West End section of Long Beach July 21 and brought him back to town in her car. He went back the next day to the camp, which is Just a little shack, where he had gone to study his part in his new play without any chance of being disturbed, and was just as amazed as he could be to get the letter a couple of days later from Mr. Untermyer telling him his wife was through with him and warning him not to attempt to see her, oi to enter her home, even to get his clothes." Mr. Steinfeld Is still reticent about the date -when he expects to file the complaint foreshadowed by the sum mons Issued last week. All he would say was that "It will be filed within a couple of days." He admitted, however, that it would, charge unreasoning jealousy on the part of Mrs. Farrar, and that she had been unwilling to have a family, as desired by Mr. Tellegen. This recalls that one of her before-rnarriage cynicisms on- marriage was that a singer couid not study a great role with a squalling baby in the next room. HAWLEY ASKS . HEARING Supreme Court Asked to Reverse Stand In Divorce Cose. OREGON CITY, Or., Aug. 8. (Spe cial.) Willard P. Hawley Jr.. to whom a divorce was granted from his wife Marjorie in the circuit court here and who later lost the divorce on his wife's appeal to the state supreme court, today petitioned the supreme court for a rehearing. The petition was served on Mrs. Hawley's coun sel. Wallace McCamant of Portland. The brief is a lengthy book of 53 printed pages, prepared by Harrison Allen of Portland, attorney for Mr. Hawley. It declares that the decision of the high court is absolutely con trary to the trend of the decisions of the supreme court of Oregon since 1879. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 87 degrees; minimum. ti3 deicreea, TODAY'S Fair and cooler; westerly winds. Ala-ka Wreck. Miaainir In wreck of Alaska reduced to 2d. Pag-e 1. Many Portlanders atlll In doubt of fate of loved ones. Page 1. One hundred three survivors of Alarska are listed. Page 1. Full speed In fog admitted by officer of Alaska. Page 1. Portland youth describes wreck of Alaska. Page 6. Foreign. Slleslan question before allied supreme council. Page 3. , 1 National. Republicans lop $50,000,000 of direct tax upon consuming public. Page 6. Senate passes anti-beer measure and bill goes to conference. Page 7. Plot to coerce dye firms Into support of tariff is charged. Page 6. Domestic. Emma Goldman pines for home. Page S. Auto tire Involves Burch with slaying of Kennedy. Page 4. Childless home separates Geraldlne Farrar and Lou Tellegen. Page 1. Pacific Northwest. High seas salmon case arvued and sub mitted at Astoria. Or. Page 5. Trio, believed to nave open involved m holdup of Maiamas. arrested. Page 4. Great crevice In Mount Hood reported to be venting hot sand. Page 1. Camp is burned; logger missing In blaze. Page 5. Body of rich bride Is found in trunk In bay near Seattle. Page 1. Oregon school fund hard hit by depression. Page 7. Sports. B. Colorado wins fourth stake out of six starts this season. Page 12. Jockey Bennett, old-time fighter. Issues challenge. Page 12. Commercial and Marine. Apple shippers cautious In making open ing prices. Page 19. Rapid rise in sterling strengthens stock market. Page 18. Santa Crus slated to get part cargo here. Page 18. Portland and Vicinity. President of American bankers says wave of optimism needed to improve .busi ness. Page 10. Fraud on public laid to garagresi Page 10. n-i tsertruoe ni-nurrnnn allien hv . : Telephone .company presents mass of evl- deuce on raica. rut 11. Identified by Teeth. HUSBAND IN SEATTLE JAIL Dragging for Corpse Suc ceeds After Two Months. BLOW ON HEAD FATAL Body Nude Except for Towels and Lime Wrapped About Head. Box Anchor Breaks. CHRONOLOGY OP EVENTS IJT MAHONEY CASE. February 10 James E. Ma honey, paroled convict, marries Mrs. Kate Moores Mahoney, wealthy and many years his senior. April 16 Mrs. Mahoney seen alive for last time. Groans and screams heard during night in Mahoney apartment. 400 Denny Way. Later In evening Mahoney leaves, house with mysterious trunk which, according to re ports, he dropped into Lake Union. April 25 Mahoney reappears at his apartment, telling neigh bors that Mrs. Mahoney is "back east." May 3 Suspicions of police aroused by stories told by Mrs. Mahoney's nieces, Mrs. Kate Stewart and Mrs. Carrie Hewitt, and Mahoney is arrested on charge of forgery while Investi gation of murder Is started. Mshoney maintains Innocence. August 8 Mrs. Mahoney's body Is found. SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 8. (Spe cial.) Discovery of a mutilated body, declared by Cnarles Tennant, captain of detectives, to be that of the miss ing Mrs. Kate Mahoney. in a trunk in Union bay here this afternoon was the culmination of -Jiving and drag ging operations which the police bad carried on for more than a month. Mrs. Mahoney, wealthy and elderly bride, has been missing since about April 15. shortly after her marriage to James E. Mahoney. Mahoney has been In Jail hero for two months on several charges of forgery, all filed in connection with, an alleged fraudulent power of at torney by which he was said to have obtained title to some of his wife's property. Bride Reported Missing. Mahoney and his bride went east on their wedding trip shortly before the woman was listed as missing. St. Paul was said to have been the last city they visited before the po lice began to send notices broadcast on the disappearance of Mrs. Ma honey. Soon after Mahoney's arrest here, the police announced they had evi dence indicating that Mrs. Mahoney's body was in Lake Union, and since they have continued the search. Union bay, "where the trunk was found to day by the tug Audrey, is an arm of Lake Union. When the trunk was hauled aboard the tug. It was found to 'contain three rugs. Beneath them was the body of a woman. Blow on Head la Fatal. Mrs. Mahoney was killed by a blow on the head. Two inches above her right eye there was an oval hole in the skull, such as might have been made by a hammer. There was 'also a dent in the back of the skull. Coroner Corson said death appar ently had been caused by a blow on the front of the skull, though there were various otner aDrasions aoouc the head. The woman had been dead about three months, he estimated. Credit for the discovery seems to be divided between the crew of police divers who were dragging for tne body and the crew of the tug Audrey of the Anderson Towboat company. A sledge carrying Police Diver j. w. Bell was dragged across tho spot where the trunk lay this morn ing. It struck: sometning ana it later developed that this "some thing" was evidently the rope con necting the trunk with the stone that was used to weigh it down. In any event, the rope was severed and the trunk floated to the surface. Floating Trunk Sighted. At 5:30 this afternoon the trunk, floating bottom side up. was sighted by Martin Cammon, chief engineer of the Audrey, about 250 yards east of the Latona bridge, in the canaL He got his glasses and after making sure that it was a trunk. Informed the rest of the crew. The crew of the Audrey, consist ing, in addition to Cammon, of Cap tain Meagher of Bellevue, First Mate Bailey, 5614 Ninth avenue northwest, and Second Engineer Beeman, made the trunk fast to the University boat house and whistled for harbor patrol boat No. -2, which was dragging the waters nearby. Jgiie trunk was bound with three 1 "Concluded on Paj-sti Column 4.)