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THE SUNDAY OREGOMAX, PORTLAND, MAY M, 1908. AIRSHIP TUMBL AT FIRST ASCENT Carries 16 Persons in Wreck age, but Miracle Saves Their Lives. PILOT'S DARING EXPLOIT Clambers Anions Higging on. Top ot Gasbag as It Falls Aeronauts Gave Warning Balloon Was Too Weak. OAKLAND. Cat.. May 23. A giant airship, on Its trial trip In Berkeley today, rose 300 feet from the earth be fore J0.000 people, tilted, burst and dropped to the ground, with Its crew of IB men. every one of whom was Injured. By one of those peculiar and fortunate chains of circumstances which sometimes attend sensational accidents, these 16 men miraculously escaped death. None of the injured. with the possible exception of one. Is expected to die. Seven of them are seriously hurt, and nine severely bruised and suffering from shock. The Injured. Following is a list of the Injured J. A. Morrell, inventor of the air ship; right leg broken and bruised. 55. T. Taylor, an aeronaut, known as "Captain Penfold": broken ankle and instep and injured spine. Otto Olsen. one of the crew; broken ribs and injured back. C. A. Nelson, an engineer; fractured pelvis and Injuries to back. S. Whipple, engineer; broken ribs and ankle, probable Internal Injuries. L. V. Rodgers. engineer; fractured right leg, contusions all over body, in ternally Injured, will probably die. E. C. Wallln, newspaper photograph er, San Francisco; Injured foot, bruised and suffering from shock. Justin Barber, photographer, Berke ley; ribs broken and bruised. P. H. Goodfriend, engineer; bruised and suffering from shock. H. Miller, one of the crew; cut and bruised, not serious. John Byrne, pilot; bruised and later ated. not serious. Charles P. Hall, photographer, San Francisco; bruised and suffering from shock. John Peterson. photographer; bruised and lacerated, not serious. V. J. . Fluno, engineer; cut and bruised, not serious. John Ahem, engineer; bruised, in juries slight. W. Mowrey, engineer; bruised, In juries slight. Airship's Spectacular Fall. The accident was a spectacular and sen sational one. Probably 10,000 people from Berkeley and Oakland had gathered around the big vacant lot wherein the great caterpillar-shaped air-craft had been inflated with illuminating gas. It was just 1:30 o'clock when the stay-ropes were cut and the airship rose slowly from the earth. - The five gasoline engines, sus pended beneath the big bag at intervals of probably 50 feet, each attended by an engineer 'Were not put in operation un til well up into the air, when two of them had slowly- set in motion the long pro pellers reaching out from either .side. The engines were suspended independent of each other and the weight did not appear to be equalized, for- before the, ship could be propelled further than a few feet, the forward end tilted downward and the airship stood at an angle of 45 degrees, suspended in the air. The engineers and the other members of the crew seemed to lose their heads, and Instead- of running along the canvas pathway in order to equalize the weight and to Tight the airship, they clung des perately to the netting and frail super structure The rush of the gas to the stern end of the long airship and the tre mendous weight of the engines and crew caused the none- too substantial envelope to burst with a loud, ripping noise. The release of the great quantity of gas al lowed the airship to settle slowly toward the earth, and for a few moments it looked as if It would come down slowly enough to avoid any injury to the 16 men. Lose Heads and Jump. Some of them, however,: lost their heads before the big machine' could reach the around and Jumped. These escaped- with broken limbs or severe bruises. Nearlng tha earth, however, the gas escaped with a rush and allowed the engines and the big bag to come down with great force. Morrell, the inventor, and several of the engineers were thus caught and injured by tha engines. ' There wm a panic "in the big crowd that watched the ascension when the air ship began to tilt. As it burst and fell toward the earth, women screamed and ran In fright in every direction. Several of them fainted and had to be cared for. When the airship landed on the ground, hundreds of men rushed forward and with knives ripped the gasbag in a hun dred places, cutting away the varnished material to get out the men buried under neath. In the excitement of cutting the gasbag. Robert Dibble was seriously slashed about the hands and arms. The injured men were quickly rescued and taken to the Roosevelt and Oakland hospitals, where they are all doing well tonight with the exception of Rodgers. who. It is believed, will succumb to his injuries. Morrell has for a -long time been build ing and exploiting his airship. He had extensively advertised that today's trial of the big airship, which was more than X feet long and 36 feet in diameter, was only a model of the one he Intended to build, declaring that he would con struct an air-craft 1S00, feet long and capable of carrying 500 passengers. The big airship was not unlike, in form of construction, many of those experimented with in different parts of the countrv. It was a long torpedo-shaped affair, with blunt ends, round on top and sagging somewhat in the middle on the lower or under part. Five engines had been sus pended by means of heavy net work, and a canvas runningboard connected them. The engines were of the automobile gaso line type, and each was attended by an engineer. It Is said that Morrell was warned by I several experienced aerial navigators that the kind of bag he had provided would not stand the strain of the great weight placed upon It and that It would certain ly explode If he attempted an ascension. Morrell was confident, however, that It was safe enough and so were all who made the ascension today. Including sev eral photographers, anxious to secure aerial photographs. The airship was not In the air long enough to determine whether it could be propelled and directed by the engines and -the ten propellors, I wo driven by each engine. ' It was built at a cost said to be m.0rt. One of the thrilling sights of the ac cident was tha daring efforts of John Kyrne. the pilot. to right the airship when It began to tilt downward. He clung t the rigging on top of the great gasbag and tried to reach the slern or upper end. Just as he got on top of the air ship, however, the bag burst and began to fall. The break In the bag occurred only a few feet from where Byrne clung to the rigging and it looked as if he would be overcome by the escaDing gas. He climbed upward, however, and when the big ship reached the ground be was clinging to the network and endeavor ing at the same time to avoid the escaping gas. Byrne describes the accident and his escape as follows: I was riding on the back of the balloon and felt thai we were making a great ascent, when suddenly I heard a "pouf,1 as if some one had blown a blast from i bellows. I felt the balloon quiver, stand still and then the gas under me began to usu iow aru ine stern end. I knew IT stayed where I was I would be swallowed up In the tangle of bag and wrecked ma chinery, so I climbed upward for life, where tne gas was rushing out but where there was still a foothold for me, so that I could Keep my head In the air and keep from v. mi. n nen we landed I was on tne tip end ot the balloon and the bag umue a cusnion that1 broke my fall. SOLD STOCK IX PORTLAND Airship Company Long on Promises, Short on Performance. when William Ots. agent for the National Airship Company, was selling stock in .Portland, the company prom ised that the first airship would sail from San Francisco to Portland April 1. A great deal of advertising was done in Portland, and on the strength of the advertising thousands of dollars worth of stock was sold. A landing dock and factory were promised for Portland, but when Mr. Ots was asked where they were to be located, he was evasive. The National Airship Company con tinued to sell stock until the scheme was reported in the newspapers as be ing unfeasible. Some one reported the matter to the Postoffice authorities In Washington, and Postoffice Inspectors of Portland and San Francisco began to Investigate the concern. The pub licity given in Portland stopped tha sale of stock apd Mr. Ots closed his offices. Since then nothing had been heard of the airships, only that it did not reach Portland April 1, until the news of the disaster of yesterday. PASTOR S WORDS RED HOT DRAMATIC SCENE IX PROHIBI TION CONVENTION. licv. Mr. Kellogg Vscs Fiery Lan guage in Denunciation of Plank for Direct Legislation. . SKA TT I,E, May 23. ( Special.) Rev. W. M. Kellogg: created strife in the State Prohibition Convention this morning when he scathingly -denounced the advo cates of the initia-th e and referendum. The discussion arose over the question of favoring the doctrine in the platform. Its advocates were scored as traitors by Mr. Kellogg. It was invented, he de clared, by a "degenerate Jew." and every man who wants to destroy the Republic favors it with his whole soul. "Every degenerate socialist," he shout ed, amidst loud cries for the question, "every murdering anarchist, and every enemy of the flag cries aloud for the nefarious theory. Danger threatens the Republic and the most alarming symp toms are to be found in the increasing demand for what is called a pure democ racy a democracy that will supplant representative government and produce political chaos." 1 - Chairman t. i. J-uniap interrupted, tne speaker to tell him that he had said enough. R. J. Faussett arose to dissipate Kellogg s ideas and had begun a wordy fusillade when the chairman informed him that he. too, had said enough. The initiative " and referendum plank was adopted. The convention adopted a platform de claring that local option offered no re lief and was In Itself vicious, because 'no state, county or municipality should have delegated to it the power to do a manifest wrong." Woman suffrage, the election of United States Senators. by a direct vote of the 'people, suppression of gambling and the prohibition of child labor were among the things demanded. REED AND U'REN DEBATE Proportional Representation Is Dis cussed at the Y. 31. C. A. The proposed proportional representa tion amendment to the constitution was the subject of a debate last night in the Y. M. C. A. between Sanderson Reed and W. S. U'Ren, of Oregon City. In speaking against the measure, Mr. Reed expressed the belief that if it should pass at the coming election, the Socialist, Anarchist, Social -Iemocrat and other radical parties would' be represented in the Legislature, under the present sys tem, the speaker said, the anarchist has been permitted to preach his doctrine of violence, that he has now and then been responsible for bomb throwing, but he has never been able to undcnnine the Gov ernment by getting into Us lawmaking bodies. The speaker pointed out that even so few radical members in the Legislature, as would be possible under the new sys tem, would be 'able to do immense dam age. Mr. Keea rurtiier declared that the system of proportional representation had been tried, at 'different times, in the world's history, and had been discarded; that the framers of the . Constitution of the United States had considered It, but had decided that it was impractical. In expressing his opposition to the views of his opponent, Mr. U'Ren declared that if Mr. Reed could produce authority to show that the system of proportional rep resentation had ever been tried prior to 3S40, Mr. U'Ren would present the Y. M. C. A. with $50. He said that the system is now successfully in operation in Japan, Switzerland, Denmark and Tasmania. The speaker did not think that Mr. Reed's fears with regard to the danger of getting anarchists and Socialists in the Legis lature would be realized. He believed that such people could do less harm in that body than outside it. He was con fident that the system would result in securing the ablest men for the Legis lature. Accident to Col. Frank J. Parker. Colonel Frank J. Parker suffered a painful but not severe accident at the street fair and carnival being given by the Catholic. Young Men's Club at Williams avenue and Morris streets. ast night. He had purchased a bot tle of soda-water, which exploded and pice of the flying glass struck him between the eyes, cutting a deep gash, which bled profusely. He was taken to Watts & Matthieu's drugstore, a short distance from the scene, where his wound was dressed, after which he was removed to his home at 53 Taylor street. A Satisfactory Dividend. Mr. Frank Nau says: "The dividend on my "Oregon Life1 policy is certainly sat isfactory, and the result shows that it can be done at home as well, if not bet ter, than elsewhere, and the money kept in Oregon." Proprietor Hotel Portland Pharmacy. 1 FLEET AT SEATTLE City on Elliott Bay Capitulates to Admiral Sperry. TURNS OVER A GOLDEN KEY Guns and Whistles Salute as the Flagship Arrives In Sight Jap anese ' Discharge Fire works at Night. '' SEATTLE. May 23. The City of Seat tle capitulated today to the fleet ot bat tleships under command of Rear-Admiral Charles S. Sperry. The gates of the city were thrown open wide . and Admiral Sperry was aiven the key made of Alas kan gold. As the fleet came into sight around Point No Point. It was caught sight of by many thousand people as sembled on the heights, terraces and high buildings overlooking Elliott Bay, aril the shore of the bay was black with a patriotically impelled people. The citys normal population was aug mented by immense numbers who came from Montana, Idaho and Oregon and from across the Canadian border to wit ness the unusual naval spectacle. . Great Fleet Reassembles. At 9 o'clock this morning the different divisions of the fleet, which was divided two days ago, reunited at Port Town send. The Missouri came up from the navy-yard at Bremerton, and from Bel lingham came the flagship Connecticut, Kansas, Minnesota, Vermont, Georgia, New Jersey and Rhode Iwland. From Port Angeles came the Louisiana, Vir ginia and Ohio. Out of the harbor of Port Townsend steamed the Illinois and the Kearsarge. Forming in single - line, the reassembled fleet began the advance on Seattle in precision. As the flagship arrived off West Point, it was met by a flotilla of ex cursion boats which turned and fol lowed in its wake as it rounded the forested points of jutting land under the lee of the snow-capped Olympic range along the channel into which in the days primeval the wooden pad die of the Indians' war canoe was dipped. Mayor Greets Admiral Sperry. Neartng the city the steamer Una' tilla, carrying the reception commit tee, came abreast of the Connecticut, turned and escorted her to the anchor age ground, while the hundreds of boats In the welcoming flotilla formed into double line and escorted the re mainder of the fleet into the harbor. Anchors were dropped amid the firing of salutes, blowing ' of sirens and cheers from thousands of throats. The reception committee, headed bv -Mayor John F. Miller, boarded the Connecti cut and officially assured Rear-Ad miral Sperry that he, his officers and men were "welcome to our city." In the name of the city. Mayor Miller presented Rear-Admiral Sperry witn a golden key fashioned from Alaskan gold. The battleships began to receive visitors and the harbor was soon thronged with excursion launches. Tonight every ship is outlined from masthead to waterline in electric lights and the Japanese residents are dis charging novel fireworks. The -only official ceremony tonight was a re ception to the officers of the fleet at the new ashlngton Hotel, which was brilliantly decorated for the occasion. The fleet will remain in the hartior until the morning of May 27. Maine Goes Into Drydock. SAN FRANCISCO, May 23. The bat tleship Maine came down from the Mare Island Navy yard today and Is to be docked at Hunters Point for an overhauling. FILIBUSTER TO THE END WILLIAMS -STILL DEMANDS AC TIOX BY CONGRESS. Democrats Ready to' Join Indepen dent Republicans In Passing Bills Roosevelt Favors. WASHINGTON. May 23. John Sharp Williams, minority leader of the House, announced tonight after a recess had been taken until Monday, that the Demo crats proposed to continue their filibuster ing until such legislation as President Roosevelt had recommended should re ceive consideration, or final adjournment had been ordered by a vote ot the ma jority. In his view, adjournment of Congress will not be reached before the latter part of next week. 4 In -a statement, Williams said: "The Democracy is standing solid with less division than I ever knew In its ranks, still tendering the full Democratic vote of the House to any 30 independent Republicans to pass on or consider at any rate a bill for pre-election publication of campaign. contributions; a bill to secure the liberty of the citizen by a modifica tion of the powers exercised by inferior Federal Courts in connection with injunc tions;, a bill to safeguard the rights and dignity of the states from the same sort of attack: a bill to put wood pulp and print paper on the free list.- and a bill for a model Insurance law in the District of Columbia. . "The Democracy will continue to pre sent itself for that sort of an alliance. It will vote against a motion to fix a date to adjourn and it announces now as it has announced all along, and as it will announce on the last dav of the session, that It is ready and anxious to continue at the post of dutv for an etxia session to be called by the President! if he be in earnest and reallv is desirous to have passed the remedial legislation Indicated in the foregoing." STEALS COMMUNION WINE Thirsty Seattle Burglars Loot Trin ity Parish Church. SEATTLE. Wash., May 23. (Special.) Tr-in i. .- .;,k , -1 1. t - ... . ....... wiuiui, riiguin avenue and James street, was entered by bur sars rxioay nignt and two decanters full of wine Intended for communion serv ices were stolen. The thieves also broke Into the church tabernacle, but there they secured noth ing. Every nook in the structure that might possiblj have been a hiding place for valuables was searched. Rev. H. H. Gowen. rector of the par ish, believes the theft was committed by some miscreants who on the night of May 2X broke into the basement of the church. At that time no report was made to the notice, as nothing of valii ... .)... The burglars gained an entrance Friday night by prying open the front door of the church. IiOWELIi ANSWERS GOVERNOR Pendleton Man Refutes Arguments Put Forth by Chamberlain. EUGENE. Or.. May 33. (Special.) In a most masterly address at the courthouse this evening, before a large audience. Judge Lowell, of Pendleton, answered ef fectively every argument made by Gov ernor Chamberlain, why he should go to the Senate. He showed up in a clear, logical and ef fective manner the true conditions in the Senatorial fight and made a plea to the voters to stand for Oregon and the inter ests of the great Northwest by voting for a Republican Senator who could be in a better position to act with the ad ministration and majority side of com mittees in securing appropriations. " He was applauded to the echo and made many friends. He also brought encourag ing, news from the southern and eastern parts of the state that the University appropriation would carry by -a handsome majority. ASTORIA TO SEA BV TROLLEY Organization or Electric Railway Company Vnder Consideration. ASTORIA, Or., May 23. (Special.) Pre liminary steps toward the organization of the Astoria, Seaside & Tillamook Rail road Company, with a capital stock of $2,000,000, were taken here at. a meeting of local business men and property-owners last evening. The company is being organized by F. L. Evans, of Southern Oregon, and it is expected to be incor porated in a few days. The object of the new company is to build an electric car line from this city to Seaside and thence to Tillamook. M'BRIDE STATES POSITION DECLARES HE STANDS FIRMLY iOX" SPOKANE PLATFORM. , Favors Local Option Once Vetoed Such a Bill Because Many of Its Provisions Were Faulty. SEATTLE, Wash., May 23. (Special.) Ex-Governor McBride. now a candidate for the gubernatorial nomination at the hands of the people through the direct primary, when requested to express his opinion of the Republican platform re cently adopted by the state convention at Spokane, said: . - "I approve the platform and will stand squarely upon It. Common honesty and fairness to himself, as well as to his friends and the people at large, would require any candidate for a state office not in accord with his party platform, to withdraw from the contest. But as I have been especially requested to de fine my position in reference to local op tion, what I have to say at this time will De connned to that question. ' I have been charged with having once vetoed a local option bill. The charge Is true.. The Legislature of 1903 passed a local option bill, which bill I felt con strained to disapprove." McBride explains his veto of a former local option measure on the ground that it was faulty in respect to the provision requiring the number of signatures to be secured, and the manner In which the County Commissioners were to determine whether or not the petition signers were legal voters. Elections under such pro visions, says McBride, would have been expensive, .and would involve many legal contests. Furthermore, the bill, McBride believed, was inoperative and of course useless. "My reasons for vetoing the bill," says McBride, "seemed good to me at the time, and seem equally good to me now. Should the next Legislature pass the same bill as that passed by the 1903 session, I would veto it, were I Governor, for ex actly the same reasons that I vetoeri it before. I am not, however, opposed to ine principle or local option. I am In fa vor of a square. deal on thafquestion, the same as upon any other question that may arise. The plank of the Republican party, relating to local option, is as fol lows: . We believe that the Issue of local option Is purely a local one and this convention records Itself in favor of a reasonable local option bill to be enacted by the next legis lature. "Should the Legislature enact a. local option bill In accord with the spirit of the piaiiorm utterance of the Republican par ty, I would approve It." CAN'T FIND WORK; ENDS LIFE Seattle Man Calls Wife Over Phone, Then Blows Out Brains. . SRATT1.U1 Wotli . .... rn ic i, . " - ; aj it. opciai. J This morning Marshall Adams, 45 years old, called up his wife and asked her what he should get for dinner. A few minutes later he placed a revolver to his rifi-llt tpmnlp -ind hlon ntit i t . .0 .. u v mo UI&MI1S. Brooding over a mortgage on his little home which was about to be foreclosed i irsiruiiaiuie lur ills suicide. Adams 15-year-old daughter was alone with him in his house at the timo nf l,A t-.. . but knew nothing of It, as the man had into new auumon lo tne house frt till hlmaalf A nainKl. i . ... .'rie,fiL,iri ji?ura xne shot and found his body. . Adams had ucen uui vi worn an n inter and his wiie naa ooxameu employment at a dve works. where she was when he self. Business Colleges to Fix Rates. gpoxrivc. -r .. o T ! . . . -'' .- s-i r-m iiiH IIVCS Of the business colleges of the State- of asuiHg-ion auu jjrooaoiy ot the Pacific Northwest are to meet next Monday at Seattle for the purpose of forming an as sociation that will fix a definite rate of tuition. NEGRO UNDER SUSPICION Tries to Sell Diamond Believed to Have Been Holmes'. CHICAGO. May 23. The police todav arrested Henry Long, a colored man. on suspicion of being connected with the murder of R. C. P. Holmes, the pur chasing agent of the Commonwealth Edison Company. 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