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WIPES OUT A TOWN
Lmdo Practically Wipes Out
the Town of Bellevue
GUINNESS
HORROR
SEVERAL OTHERS DEVASTATED
Physicians' Reports Given to a
Coroner's Jury
CONTRADICTORY HAPPENINGS
A Tornado Late Today Wrecked the
Towns of Louisville, Bellevue and
Richfield and Killed Several Per
ions and Injured Large Numbers,
SPRINGFIELD, Neb., May 12.
A tornado late today wrecked the
owns of Louisville, Bellevue and
Richfield and killed several persons
and injured large numbers. The
heaviest losses of life and injured are
teported from Louisville, the junction
point of the Missouri-Pacific and the
SorHngton Railroads in Cass county.
The number of deaths is unknown and
ma Barnes have been secured, but it
as said that between 40 and 60 are
injured, many seriously and some
fatally. The town of Bellevue is de
clared practically wiped out, but it
is not known that there are any fa
talities. Bellevue is the seat of the
Presbyterian College.
LINCOLN, May 12. It is difficult
so get any definite news out of
Louisville. Reports are to the effect
that the town was blown away and
the people panic stricken. The Bur-
Irogton station was torn to bits, most
of the businesses houses were wreck
ed and 30 residences destroyed. The
Missouri Pacific station is standing
but both telegraph and telephone
wires are down. There were four
fistinct tornado clouds seen at
Springfield. They made their appear
ance shortly before 5 o'clock. Heavy
damage is done in the country and it
is feared there is some loss of life.
Dispatches received at Lincoln say
hzt there were severe storms along
the Missouri River further south at
Kemaha City and Falls City.
OMAHA, May 12. Twelve per
sons are known to have lost their
Ives and a score were injured by the
tornado which swept over the north
ern part of Sarpy county at S o'clock
this afternoon. The storm which
gained velocity on its way south
started in Omaha about 4:30. At
Eellevue the college buildings are
iamaged to the extent of $50,000 and
several persons were injured none
fatally. The storm then moved to
touisville, Litchfield and Springfield
where the principal damage and loss
f fife occurred.
. The storm was the most severe that
trer struck Eastern Nebraska. At
tellevue the panic stricken students
ran to the basement and in this way
any fatalities were probably avert
ed. Following south the tornado
attack Fort Crook damaging several
Jarrack buildings but nobody was in
jured. In the town of Fort Crook,
iorever, a number of buildings were
wecked and other damage done.
Substantial Progress Was Made To
wards Bringing the Case to a State
Where it Will bo Transferred to
the Courts.
CONTRACT DENIED.
Hfew York Times Will Not Show the
Committee Their Contract.
WASHINGTON, May 12. -The
ease of the newspaper publishers has
iren presented to a special committee
f the house investigating the wood
jmlp and print paper question. When
ttie committee adjourned today John
Norris, the representative of the
American Newspaper Publishers'
Association announced that he had
Swished his statement, but -will be on
the stand tomorrow as members of
the committee desire to question him.
The next witnesses to be examined
rill probably be the paper manufac
turers. Norris today described the
Siternational Paper Company and
Atvnted the cost of manufacture of
LA PORTE, May I2-The evidence
to establish the identity of the three
additional victims of Mrs. Guinness
was the most positive development
of the day filled with contradictory
happenings. Both the prosecution
and the defense received setbacks
from discoveries and revelations but
on the whole substantial progress
was made toward bringing the case to
a state where it will be transferred
to the courts. The reports of the
four physicians who conducted the
post mortem examinations on the
bodies found in the ruins of the Guin
ness home were given to a coroner's
jury this morning. They failed to es
tablish the manner in which the wom
en and three children met their death
and it is probable that the coroner's
jury will return an open verdict re
garding them. The proccedure in
Indiana does not provide for the coro
ner's juries to consider the individual
conclusions of Dr. Mack.
CHICAGO, May 12.-A despatch to
the Tribune from LaPorte, Ind., says: ,
A complete solution of the myster
ies of the Gunness murder farm is ex
pected within 48 hours. The officials
who have been conducting the search
for the victims of the house of many
deaths practically admitted this fact
yesterday.
They refused, however, to make
known their purposes further than to
say that the final step may be taken
today or tomorrow at the latest.
The mystery surrounding four of
the fourteen deaths which are known
to have occured at the place is cleared
by the allegation that Pay Lamphere,
the farm hand prisoner in the county
jail set fire to the home of Mrs. Bella
Gunness on the morning of April 28
and thereby caused the death of the
widow and the three children.
For this, if proven guilty, he is
liable, under the provisions of the In
diana state laws, to coviction for
murder in the first degree as well as
for arson. Indictments against him
upon both these charges will be asked
of the grand jury on Wednesday."
As to the manner of death of the
ten murdered persons whose bodies
were uncovered in a little patch of
ground guarded by closely woven
wire netting the silence of the officers
in response to queries as to the arrest
of one or more accomplices provides
the only answer.
That the victims came to their
death through the administration of a
deadly amount of chloral has been
proven. The places at which the
drug was purchased during the last
eight years have been found.
That the inanimate corpses then
j were dismembered either in a cham
ber of horrors on the second floor of
the Gunness home or in the basement
has been shown to the satisfaction of
the investigators. Two knives, one
a six inch dagger and the other a
needle-pointed double razor edged
surgeon's knife, have found in the
ruins.
paper was greater under the consoli
dation than under the individual own
ership of the paper mills.
The contract which the New York
Times has with the paper company
was denied to the committee and in
this connection Chairman Mann took
occasion to state that while news
papers arc insisting on speedy action
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by Congress, a great majority of the
larger papers are showing a disincli
nation to furnish the committee the
necessary information upon which td
base any just conclusions. This raised
the question in his mind, he said,
whether the papers are not well satis
fied with the contracts they now have
and are putting ' up this request as
matter of bluff.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 12.
James W. Tread well, a director and
the controlling spirit of the defunct
California Safe Deposit & Trust Co.
was indicted today on a charge of
perjury. His indictment was brought
about by the testimony given by J.
Dalzell Brown. Treadwell swore be
fore previous grand jury that he
knew nothing about the hypotheca
tion of the Colton securities. Brown
gave information to the contrary.
John Fox, Pres. F. L, Bishop, Sec. Astoria Savings Baik, Trwa.
Nelson Troyer, Vice-Pres. and Supt
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