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Pages 1 to 14 f) V y Yr v v r v x v Qj "" rr PHBTi.ixn. OREHON. SUNDAY MORNING. OCTOBER. 1. 1911. PRICE FIVE CENTS. I WIT. .). 4U. . . - DEATH FLOOD CREST; Huge Dam Breaks, Over whejming Families in Their Homes. FIRE FOLLOWS ON DELUGE Women and Children Comprise Large Proportion of Vic tims of Disaster. AUSTIN, PA., IS 'IN RUINS Forty Bodies Recovered, De bris Covers Hundreds. ALARM COMES TOO LATE (onm of Torrent I Through Bul nes Center of Village Great Wall Falls When Teat 1 Applied fjrst Time. WORLD' DKSTtUTTIVB IXOODS Or (M tT 1EAI8. U74 Mill River Valley, near North Hampton. Mesa.. 144 llvan lost. 1171 FIIUDurt. Allecheney Rlvar vrtrrlovH. S persona drowned. 1171 Toulouse, r tains of Garoaas Rl.r. lota ilraa loat. 1IT7 Xurcla. Spain. heavy rain. loa llvra loat. l.as Cantos Rlvar flooded. 3taO persona drownal JobBitowi destroyed by breaking of dam In Conamaucb River. 3141 persons drowned. Destructive flood a tn Wlacoa aia. Mississippi River flood a. beavy loaa of lira. 1!MX tjalveaton flood; eooo billed. IMI Quebeo and other Canadian ettlee submersed. ' Ie lleppner. Or., eloudbunt. be tween JOS and 30 Uvea loat. ItOI Pan Juan del Monbo. Phll Iplne. cloudburst. 700 Uvea loat. 1M Reservoir burst at Ploemen tetn. Uvea loat. let Dam burst on the Svaiuto. Cochin Chins, hundreds of Uvea loot. lfoi Rock falls tn Ioenva!d Lake. v near Bersen. Norway, causlna flood: e Uvea loat. le.V Mleelsslppl flooded; dam. are $.eon,eea. t ltl-Rer teln overflows, dam. a ace $::. e.4; :oe.ana paraona home-T j : ........ ........... ......... COUPKR8PORT. Ps-. Sept. 20, With a roar heard for miles, the (Treat dam of the Bayles Pulp Paper Company at Austin. Ta It miles from here, want out at 2. JO o'clock this afternoon. Forty bodies had been recovered from the ruins when darkness came tonight, and It Is estimated that fully 400 mora persons are unaccounted for and are' believed to be dead. The dam. which was 530 feet long and 4 reel high, was 31 feet thick at the base, and held back mora than tuo.ooo.OOO gallons of water. For the first time since Its construction two years tie, the water was running over the top today, and many persona went out from Austin, a mile and a half away, to see It. Tw aetles)a 4ave Way. They were horrified when a section about 20 feet wide gave way on the weat side. A great volume of water poured through the hole, and the alarm mas quickly sounded. People ran for th!r lives to the nearby hills, but many were cautiM In the Hood aa they fled. A few minutes later another break oc curred on the east aide. It was much greater and permitted the stater behind to rush In a mighty volume toward the lowlands. Harry Davis, a locomotive engineer, reached a telephone and Informed the operator at the exchange. She called ss many persons as possible. But the me was too short. Tt Bsaea aad Children Die. Hundreds of women aad children the men were away at work were taught In their homes and drowned or crushed before they knew what had happened. Houses went down before the mighty onrush of mater and pipes, bent and broken, released their den crcus gasea. rWore the water had paeeed on Its course through the town a dosen fires were burning In as many plK-es. and the cries of the Injured and Imprisoned ones were lost In the ter- j tmo thunder or the nooo. Much of the debris lodged against the shops of the Buffalo A Susquehanna RIDES 400 DROWNED t vackiwl 9m rg 3 ) rz : s i - i ($666 EACH ASKED FOR MULE KICKS ANIMAL Sl'BBED DYNAMITE BASKS $20,000 SUIT. Man Who Helped Brule Out ot Teot. Hou.e Tangle Seek Balm for Three; Distinct Shock. Dynamite, a mule. Is the central figure In a complaint filed In the Or cult Court yesterday by Attorneys Logan and Smith on behalf of Frank Castor. The Columbia Contract Com pany, averred to be owner of the mule, la defendant . The mule. by several kicks with a freshly-shod foot. Is alleged to have ruined the plain tiff's earning ability, and Castor sues for 120.000 damages. Dynamite 'weighs 1400 pounds, la I years old, brown, unbranded. - and, the complaint says, has a trait to kick' out and strike with his feet to Injure persons within his striking distance. .. Dynamite broke away from the corral and Invaded a certain tent-house, hla weight being such as to break through the floor. How the mule got the door of the tent-house open Is a mystery. Caator declares, and. being struck with compassion, he worked until he had liberated the animal. Once outside, the mule glanced side ways at Castor and recognised In him one of the men who had held him bound with chain during the process of shoe ing a fee days before. Then the mule kicked out. the com plaint alleges, with the follom-lng re sults: Kick No. 1. Castor's right arm was mashed. Kick So. . The plaintiff's right hand was lacerated and permanently crip pled. Kick No. J- Four of Castor's rlba wera caved In. virka two and three were delivered after the plaintiff lost his senses, he avers. ARCHIBALD GRAY RESIGNS Gould Road Gets Hill tine Freight Agent Here. Archibald Gray, assistant general freight and passenger agent In Port land for the Great Northern Railway, yesterday tendered his resignation, ef fective October IS. to become general freight agent of the Western Pacific at San Francisco. . His new position Is one Just created by the Gould road. He m-lll be asso ciated there with Harry Adams, ex general freight and passenger agent of the North Bank, who Is new freight trafflo manager of the Western Pacific His resignation was wired to St. Paul. No successor has been named for the office In thla city. Mr. Gray came to Portland March I from Seattle, suc ceeding H. A. Jackson, who was pro moted to the office of assistant gen eral trafflo manager of the Great North ern, wtth headquarters at St. Paul. Bear Feasts on Prune. VANCOUVER. Wash.. Sept. SO. 'Spe cial. A large bear has been visiting William Hoover'a orchard, near Wt shougal. and feasting on prunes. He has been seen several times, but the men did not have guns with them, so he escaped. He prefers to visit the prune orchard at night. A large cougar has been killing sheep on the KODen Mcintosh rsnch 12 miles from Washou. gal. and a hunting party will be organ ised to kill or trap him as soon aa tne prune picking season has passed. SCEHi: ON TURKISH BATTLESHIP. ir r t -- . LZ(S a BOIK TIIKIMI f;lrR T T,"K,,,HUViKT-Jli 20,080 MEN. OBEY STRIKE SUMMONS Traffic Not Affected on Harriman Line?. WAITING CAMPAIGN IS BEGUN Carworkers Evacuate Shops With Little Demonstration. MIDDLE WEST IS HARD HIT Preparation on Part of Railroads Gives. Advantage In Continuance of Operation of Trains Rec ognition Pivot of Trouble. CHICAGO, Sept. 20. The threatened strike of the shopmen of the Harriman llne.n to enforce recognition of the newly orgenlxed Federation of Shop Workers became a real'ty today. The nJmb-r of men who quit in the 15 states affected was estimated at be tween 20, .'00 and 20 000 by the union men. although Julius Kruttschnitt, vice-president of the Harriman lines, tonight said 'he number waa much smaller. Reports from most of the points In dicated that the men walked out with out demonstrations and no rioting was reported. Traffic was continued with out interruption and the railroad heads say that the shopmen's strike, even If extended, wovld not interfere with transportation. ilea Ready to Quit. The irspotse to the strike order was general through the Middle West and In the South. The men had received notices from the International presi dents of the five crafts directly In volved and when the hour came the men It Id down their tools and left. At New Orleans, where the strike already had extended from a strike of Ulnois Central clerks, and the men have been out several days, two men received Jail sentences for violation of a Federal injunction restrMnlr;- them from Interfering with the com pany's property. In the Far West it Is said by railroad officials only a small percentage of workmen respond ed to the strike call. Xnanber ( Strikers Given. Vice-President Kruttschnitt Issued this statement: "At many of the intermediate points on tlio Union and Southern Pacific shopmen were laid off to reduce working time and reduction of expenses. At other points no men at all went out, and at srme points only one or two." At the general shops, so far as heard from, trie situation mas as follows: Omaha general J.op.i. 29 per cent: at Sacramento, 25 per cent; at Oakland. 11 per cent. Train schedules on all lines are nor- (Concluded on Page FLAGSHIP OF IONIAN SQUADRON, AND MAP SHOWING; THE SCENE OF OPENING HOSTILITIES IN - si j "1 . ' - : V '. .'-; j Lab I nOHK-:i.ll, I'RIKKH KKOM WHIfH PIKK nRKI7.7.I l mRBrTIn OPi;RITin fitIST PRWESA, I lIUTK't H( ITALIANS HB XAUE HltT MOVK CLOSE TO HOMK B4K OK SIPPLIES. MEDF0RD SWINGS GOOD ROADS DEAL BOND ISSUE OF $1,500,000 PASSES BY BIG MAJORITY. Study of Return Shows City Carried Election, Thouph Jackson County Backs I'p Plan Strongly: MEDFORD, Or., Sept. 30. (Special) With one of the largest votes ever cast In the history of Medford and with the excitement throughout the -county at white heat, the $1,500,000 bond' issue for good roads waa passed by a majority estimated tonight at 2000. A study of the returns shows that the election was carried by . Medford. With a total vote of 1638 and a ma jority in favor of the bonds of 1502, the Issue was given a lead which it mas Impossible for the country dis tricts to overcome. As was expected, Ashland was not in favor of the Issue but the majority there against It was less than had been anticipated. Ashland voted yes.- 203; noes 437. Taking the Rogue River Valley from Ashland through Phoenix, Talent. Medford. Central Point, Gold Hill, the majority In favor of the bonds In all these towns showed plain ly that the sentiment through which the proposed trunk line will pass was strongly for the bonds. In the passage of this bond issue Jackson County sets a precedent in the state regarding good roads' construc tion. The action waa taken by the advice of attorneys who maintained that the amendment to the constitution clearly Implied the right of a county to bond itself for a sum over 15000 to quell rebellion or construct permanent roads. It Is believed that tnis inter pretation will be sustained by the courts. COUNTY FAIR, PROSPERS Union Folk to Number of 300 Pay Admission to Exhibit,' LA GRANDE, Or., Sept. 30. (Spe ,.1.1 1 There were 3300 paid admis sions to the county fair held here this week. This was distinctly a union County day. Tne stellar attraction during the afternoon was the baby show. Little Miss Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert tt. umitn- won ih. distinction of being the prettiest. other nrizes obtained by luck wnt to Alex Yana's daughter and an Enterprise boy. Reed Jordan. The monster crowd was aisappoimeo in the failure of Governor viest to nut m an armearar.ee. A public wed ding Monday night Is the next big at traction or tne lair. Oregon King, a Clydesdale owned Dy V. K. West, won the grand champion ship of all exlhlbts in the fair. SUYDAM GETS HIS DIVORCE Husband May Remarry; Privilege Is' Denied- to "Wife. NEW YORK. Sept. SO. An interlocu tory decree of divorce was granted to day to Walter Lispenard Suydam. of Bluepolnt. L. I., In the suit filed against Louise E. Lawrence Suydam. The de cree forbids Mrs. Suydam to remarry or to use Suydam's name. She may resume her maiden name of White. Suvdam is permitted to marry "aa though the defendant m-ere dead." Frederick Noble, the plumber's son. with whom Mrs. Suydam fled to New York. wa named In the suit as co-re- i spondent. ' r-xjcL-yi ?r CENTRAL OREGON BIDS-STAGE Requiem Is Sung Over "Coach and Six" REDMOND'S DREAM REALIZED Advent of Locomotive Is Fit tingly Celebrated in Holiday. NO DISCORDANT NOTE SEEN Grizzled Pioneers and Many Boys and Girls See Railroad Train for First Time in Lives Party Meets Hills Today. REDMOND, Or., Sept. 30. (Special.) Central Oregon is rubbing Its eyes. It can hardly believe It is wide awake and that the railroad has really ar rived. Redmond is sitting up trying to realize that its dream has come true and that the two great railroad systems are actually giving the advantages of modern transportation to the great un developed empire of Central Oregon. Today haa been a holiday, given up to the celebration of the advent of the locomotive and to sing!ng a requiem over the passing of the stage coach and the six-horse freight trains. It seems almost too good to be true. Redmond is- crowded with people to day. Several thousand visitors have been added to her population. Rugged pioneers, who have spent years In the interior, ruddy-faced young farmers and young women who are reclaiming homes on the desert, energetic young business men. who are determined upon making Redmond "The Hub of the In land Empire," and bright-faced boys and girls have all listened with eager ness to a new music, the clanging of locomotive bells, the tooting of the en glneers' whistle, and the crunching of woels upon 90-pound steel rails. KTo Discordant Note Heard. No discords In that music for Central Oregon pioneers, no complaints even would be -voiced if all the wheels were flat, if the palatial train standing in the tracks inside the city was unpaint ed and ungilded. Many grizzled pioneers and many boys and girla saw a railroad train to day for the first time In their lives. It was a sight worth driving miles to see, and tnrougn an tne iesnviiies to day there was present a happy spirit of welcome and thanksgiving, as well as the spirit- of pride that two great transportation systems had recognized the worth of this interior country suf ficiently to spend $23,000,000 to lay the steel raila with which to market the products of the farm and range. In the midst or tne jumiation a scrlcus note was struck. With the (Concluded on Page & J ADIEU MINERS- CAPTIVES 3 DAYS LONGER SECOND PARTY HURRYING TO RESCUE IN ALASKA JUNE. Ground Is Alluvial Gravel, Frozen Hard Imprisoned Men Well. 6-Inch Hole Saves. FAIRBANKS. Alaska. Sept. 30. (By Wireless.) The 14 miners who have been Imprisoned in the Shakespeare placer on Dome Creek since last Wednesday are alive, well and cheer ful, but will be locked in their dungeon at least three days longer. Last midnight the keystone drill, sunk from the surface of the ground, broke through into the drift In which the men are confined and food and drink, underclothing, matches, candles, tobacco and newspapers were lowered through the six-inch hole to the cap tives. The hole ventilates the cell. Except for their cramped quarters the men are snug and comfortable, their room being heated by the pipe that was used in thawing the gold bearing dirt. For 75 feet from the sur face the collapsed shaft has been cleared, but the rescuers have nearly 100 feet more to excavate. The second rescue party, which is moving through an old drift, entered from an abandoned shaft 600 feet from the new shaft, have advanced 100 feet toward the miners. The roof of the drift has settled, however, and much digging is necessary. If both rescue parties fall, the drilled Bole will be enlarged to a size sufficient to allow the men to be pulled through, one at a time. The ground In which the mine Is operated Is alluvial gravel, frozen hard. ELOPERS ARE CAPTURED Alaskan Pair Arrested as They Are Leaving Vessel. SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 30. (Spe cial.) Dan Cupid got another Jolt last night when a runaway marriage which he had arranged between Minnie Waud, an Indian girl of Ketchikan, Alaska, and Frank Peters, an Indian of the same city, was nipped In the bud as the pair stepped from the steamship Northwestern and were taken in cus tody by Ludwig Frank. Deputy United States Marshal. The trouble was that Peters had not won over the girl's grandmother before he arranged the elopement. Minnie, who "is sweet 16" and there fore under age, declared that her grandmother, was so cruel to her she had decided to run away with Peters to Seattle and get married. Peters swore that her grandparent had been so cruel to her that he had brought her to this country to place her In an In dian school. The grandmother . charges that Peters abducted her child without making satisfactory reimbursement. The heroine of the escapade traveled to this city by first class while the hero came by steerage. Minnie waa placed in the City Jail for safe-keeping while Peters was sent up the hill to the County JalL POST BANK HAS $67,586 1250 Persons Deposit Money First Three AVeeks. in George H. Carr, superintendent of the postal savings bank at the Portland Postofflce, reported at the end of the first three weeks of the bank last night a total of deposits amounting to J67.5S6. covering 1250 accounts, and ls33 de posits. Since the opening of the bank 133 accounts have been withdrawn. amounting to $3596. From the sale of stamps and postcards in the savings bank department, $45.10 has been re ceived. Eighty-seven account?" were opened yesterday and 122 deposits were re ceived. The deposits yesterday j amounted to .5316. Sixteen deposits, amounting to were wiiuurawn. Last week 283 new accounts were opened, and 429 deposits were made. The receipts were $17,576. There were 71 accounts withdrawn, amounting to $1844. . FALSE NEWS KILLS WIFE Woman Collapses When Told Hus band Is Wreck A'lctlm. SAN BERNARDINO. Cal., Sept. 30. Mrs. William Willard. wife of a rail way fireman, died here today from the shock produced by the false Informa tion given her by a chauffeur that her husband had been killed in a mreck. The police are searching for the chauffeur and If he is appre hended, the District Attorney declares a charge of murder will be lodged against him. The chauffeur appeared at the home of Mrs. Willard yesterday, told bar that her husband had been killed, and proposed to take her to the scene of the supposed wreck. She collapsed and the man disappeared. She never recovered consciousness and died early today. ALASKA YIELDS MILLIONS September Big Month at Assay Of fice AVIth October Promising. SEATTLE. Wash- Sept. 30. Gold bul lion amounting to $1,034,265 was re reived from Alaska and the Yukon Territory by the United States Assay Office here during the month of Sep tember. For the quarter closing today, the assay office lias received $2,646, 000. while the season's receipts amount to $2,851,000. ' It Is expected that the receipts dur ing October will add greatly to the sea son's output, one steamship now en route from Nome' having $1,000,000 in i treasure sboard. TURKS' FLEET IS REPORTED VANOU ISHED Constantinople Hears of Destruction of Navy in Aegean Sea. GREEKS MOSILfZING TR0QP3 Porte Thought to Have Recon sidered Intention of Sur rendering Tripoli. RELIGIOUS WAR IS ORDERED Appeal Made to Fanaticism of African Tribesmen. ITALIANS MAKE LANDING Forces Out of Range of Guns of Fortress, and Under Protection of Warships, Prepare for Invasion of Epirus. . PARIS, Sept. SO. The Matin's cor. reanondnt wlrer. that a rumor Is In circulation at the porte that the entire Ottoman fleet except one cruiser has been destroyed. Officials at the office of the ministry of marine are unable to confirm or deny the news. CONSTANTINOPLE. Sept. 30. The report has been received here that sub stantially the entire fleet of the Otto man Empire has been annihilated by the Italians near Chies, which is an island In the Aegean Sea. So far as today's official news is concerned, it is confined to the report of the sinking of two Turkish torpedo boats, the Alpagut and the Hami 1 Abad,' off Prevesa by the Italian squa dron commanded by the Duke d'Abruz zl. The further report, also received here, that Greece Is mobilizing troops, is adding to the feeling of alarm, it is realized that if these reports are true, there is justification for the be lief that the war is likely not to oe localized, as Italy had promised the powers, and that the dismemberment of the Turkish Empire has, in fact. been befjun. Tripoli to Be Defended. The decision, which it was announced day before yesterday that the Govern ment had reached, not to defend Tri poli, but to make an appeal to make an appeal to the Powers after a showing of force that would make the inequality of the com bat apparent, is said to have been re versed, and the newspapers here an nounce tonight that the Minister of War, Mahmout Shefket Pasha, has sent word to the Turkish commander at Tripoli to defend the place with all the resources at his command. The com mander Is instructed to appeal to the religious feeling of the people. This, especially in the case of the Arab fanatics who populate the country in large slumbers, gives the conflict an especially serious portent. Outrages that may have a serious effect upon the peace of other nations are almost likely to follow if the wr takes the color of a bloody contest between Christian ity and Mohamedanism.. No Europeans will be safe if there is a religious up rising, and other countries will be com pelled to take steps for the protection of their own citizens. Frontiers Are Protected. The government here is strengthen ing Its military forces on the frontiers of Greece and Montwnegro. The Porte also received a dispatch this afternoon saying that Italian forces under the protection of three cruisers and four torpedo boat destroy ers began a landing at 3 o'clock this afternoon near Prevesa, out of range of the guns of the fortress. The re serves of the villayet of Jan in a, In which Prevesa is situated, are being mobilized with ail possible celerity. POPE IS DEEPLY AFFECTED Prayer Uttered for Missionaries, "True Soldiers of Religion.'' ROME. Sept. 30. Pope Pius today ordered Cardinal Merry del Val, the Papal Secretary of State, to commu nicate to him immediately on receipt all messages regarding the Tripoli af fair. When the Pontiff read the dispatch today saying that all the Italian mis sionaries had refused to leave Tripoli and that they are under the protection of the Italian flag at the Italian Con sulate, His Holiness was considerably arfected, and, falling to his knees on the prie dieu, exclaimed: "Let us pray for those true soldiers of God and religion." I, A