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" ' ' - - ' , Till tasaa ef Tho Gunclay Journal Coniprl.e 7 SccUons--74 Penes The - weather Falrj continued cool; Hunt east wind. ' JOURNAL CIRCULATION , - '.YESTERDAY WAS , 1 VOL. VI. NO. 33. PORTLAND. OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, . NOVEMBER 14, 1009. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BY, J uwm. i t r i i X . .aT 1 M II w 701 473 . v. M Oral 1(M fire disaster in coal vein Atgherr HUNDRED FEET UNDER GROUND! E ROUTE TO IQ MME. STEINHEIL IS ACQUITTED; III T TO ts im tivt mrnrrnniM i -r JUliNd UN Midi I2K1LIAL U1S BUR SEVENTEEN MINE HORRORS IN 22 YEARS COST 4810 LIVES DEMONSTRATION OF APPROVAL prlng Tafiay, tt., Wow. .13-r"Th !a,0t. ' appalling mine diaaster In tW history of' r Illinois mining1 ui u of the worst la : the history of the United States, " took place late this afternoon when tho llroa of hundreda of miliar were snuffed on la ft fir la the second Tola of tho CM- . cego, Milwaukee A St. Paul oal mine M Cherry, seven miles from here, v With too fire still ragta- at mldnlglit la the depths of the mlao, the abaft : of which have boon wrecked. It wtl lm possible to estlmato accurately the num- bar of man who perished. Whether 900 or 473 men perished was not certain at midnight. At that hoar tho official of the railroad, company Issued a state- . moat that between 800 and 8SO minar wro etui a tho mlna praanmaoly flaad, whilo poraona who haro baoa ooa tantly at tho month of tha (haft ataoo tho dlaaatar ooonrrod, doelara tho time- kaopor'a rooorda ladloato that 473 moa hare pari had. The railroad official la 1st that of the 485 maa who want Into I tho shaft thia .morning-, about 30Q. have k booa taken ont alive. . XAto roporta from 1 JJmorrjr, however, deny . tho . aaaortlon : that of the men who went into the mine la the moralaa; only 8 are now on the nrface and living;. - 0 ' . Cliarry, III. Chicago, Milwaukee A St Paul , mine exploalon, 471- . 4 believed to bo dead.'' : " ' ' :' ' - "Fairmont, W. Va. Falftnont colliery, of , Fairmont Coal ft Coke 4 company explonUj la 190;, 400 dead. a 4k . . Jacob Creek, Pa.-Darr mine. Plttabura; Coal company, exploalon In 4) December, 107. 875 dead. - . - ., Tolande mine, Yolande, Ala., December, 1J0, 70 dead. ' - 4 . 'Naomi, Pa. United Coal company's colliery, devastated by explosion 4 4 ' In November, 1907. 19 dead. . ' -. - . . . 4 Cananea, Mexico, June 1, 1906; 100 dead. - . " 4 4 ' ' Paa, Do Calais, France, March 10, 1906, 1060 dead. - Warratown, Wales, July 11, 190B, 1I dead. . e " Karteyck, Russia, June 17. 1906, 300 dead. " 4 - - Hanna. Wy0.k July 2. 1901, 191 dead. e; W Harwick, Pa.,; Harwlck mine, explosion In 1900, 600 dead. . Auderlue.. Belgium, March 11, 1897, 200 dead. 4 4 " Johnstown. Pa., July 11, 1892.-Ill dead. e 4 Abermllla, Wale. May 24, 1891, 90 dead. v 4 , Dovan, Belgium, Nov. is1888, lie dead. . e 4 gydiiey. Australia, March 24, 1886, 189 dead. , 4 4 Nanalmo, Vancouver, jaay , ibst, 170 dead. e Lundhlll, England, February 19, 1887. 189 dead. ' : 4 Deputy; Sherift Bcatty De parts From Denver With Prisoner on . Late Train Saturday 'Mght; Expected Here Tuesday. 0EUtlSl25BlCE FLAMES JUIEIEIU '"' JpZ f " - - ' 'r r,r1A' . -.., (SoeeUI Dlapatcb te Tba Joanul.) Denver, Colo., Nov. 13. Deputy Sher iff Beatty left Denver for Portland late tonight, having In charge Gus Lowlt, who Is wanted In Portland on a charge of- embezsltng funds of the Oregon Trust & Savings bank Beatty and hia pris oner are expected to arrive at Portland Tuesday morning. Tho sudden depar ture of Beatty and his prisoner caused surprise here, 'as It had been given out that Lowlt'a attorneys had prepared a petition for a writ of habeas corpus and that a hearing would be held in Den ver Monday before Judge Whltford. m 1 (Cut ted Pn-!a Leased Wire.) Spring Valley, Hi., Nov. 13. Am un known number of miners, estimated at 450, are dead literally roaated alive a hundred feet, under the earth, as the result of a fire in the second vein of a caal mine, at Cherry. III., seven miles from Spring Valley, late this afternoon. Men escaped, with their lives to tell hor rible stories of the scenes they : wit nessed below the earth's surface." The first that was known of It was wnen there was a deafening- exnloslon COLORADO GOVERNOR SIGNS REQUISITION FOR PORTLAND MAN Telegraphic advices from Denver re ceived' Saturday afternoon state that Governor . Shafroth has granted the requisition papers for the custody of Qua Liowlt, wanted in Portland on a charge of embezzling funda of the Ore gon Trust & Savings bank. Lowlt, how ever, has not given up tha fight to avoid extradition. He will commence habeas corpus proceedings In. the district court in-Denver tomorrow rt the grounds that he once returned to Portland to face trial, and was told by the then prosecut ing attorney, John Manning, that his skirts were clear. - i Attorneys for Gus Lowlt prepared their writ of habeas corpus yesterday; and It will be argued before Judge Gree- Water Hauled Three -Jlilcs In Blinding Blizzard, lake to . Extinguish , Fire in f 'Boat Hoyt Strikes Rock: iYH'rr- , L,TU tate? . . l . . . . ' I that he will flaht to the last to prevent r Jiurnmg Jnme fetory 01 Tempestuous Wares Are pis being taken out of Colorado, and Escape of Two men Is ler . ribly Vivid: - 'United Preaa Leased Wire.) ' Duluth. Minn., Nov. 13. -Helpless Spring Valley, 111., Nov. 13. Late to- end a column of fire and smoke shot out I night special trains carrying fire ap- of the mine shaft. : The cage -was in-lparatus were 'sent to Cherry and the agalpst the fury of a northeast, gale stantly lowered and a moment .later it volunteer firemen began to pour water j the steel steamer James Hoyt, of Du waa pulled back full of miners, who j into tha mine in the hope of checking I iuth, owned by tne Wolvin Steanishiu the .flames. The work was rf"y company, Ilea on a reef in Lake Super- tbU T lltUewatr a7 Cherr and" I-11;" rl1 ' --ny assured h.m that-he engines have to carrv it three miles in i " , ...- wuum uvy uo uocuuito wiy w.uiw, staggered to the ground as it reached the surface and gasped out the story of the scenes of horror they had wlt- T.,1 11 T1 --j TT 'J. Itnai.ne win carry on nis oatiie in ana Xiupiuiy X UUUUlIlg Iier lUlout of court as long as he has a penny. Piof oe ' ; . ,'V: I in .case he Is brought back to Oregon XiMA-o . v I the former drn.rtment store head nrom- laes to make things lively for every one concerned In the Oregon Trust A Sav lngs bank case since the failure of that institution. He points to the fact that be returned to Portland of his own ac cord soon after the failure of the bark, and of his department store even after a requisition for him had been denied, and says that following the hearing of the charges of larceny brought -against him in justice court at that time the it ' ' v if - ' $ Ill f - N . - " , ;V.'--wi,"r"- ' LJ X. 7 . .'.Ml VERDICT Mme. Steinhell, Hha. Was Acquitted of Mardor of Ilcr Hasband. COUNTY ATTACHES STEAMER FOR JAR OF BURNSDE BRIDGE Before they could tell their story the j cars.! ....Several hundred men, some of ln death the steamer is slowly being I and in fact gave him a clean bill of battered to pieces. William Chamberlain, a mate and a sailor, , battled with the storm for 13 hours In ; a lifeboat and reached Red alive, and that wheatho fire has been - - u "J " rheokl nd the mnk cleared from' the l exhausted. He brought to land the first them ' armed with -buckets were set to work dumping the water Into the shaft, President Karllng and General Man ager Bush- expressed the belier that some of the entombed men are still (Continued on Paga Seven.) cago was sent down again and again, each time bringing up its burden of blackened and '-weakened : men. Finally there was no signal from below to drag the cage up, and then it came up empty. Explosion Za Caase. - ' . Then the survivors told the atorv I checked and tha smoke cleared from the while physicians attended them. They shafts, rescuers mayt be sent down safe- news of the disaster which . occurred ea)4a4L Jthe. jienwereit Jfcoricat ly and effort madeto-communicate I early this morning, Two-- tug-nd- a o'clock when there was a terrlflo ire- with any of the' miners still surviving. I wrecking crew organized by the Steam- port, . and almost in an Instant the I . rk,tiAnk trui... lahiD eomnanv left Burfield tonla-ht but wnow . mine- WM .nuea. with , riamea. nm- unM r nnt hr hv were unable to reach the ill-fated ahlp. They.aeemed to go everywhere and It L .rhr.h- Buffeted by the tempestuous waves th M it h. (mnrianoM men nnMthe boats limped into Bayfield shortly jget aid; they could not have survived etore midnlghtpartly disabled by their th Intenaa heat or thai fire.. . I v.im ""' cit-iuenia, It was sUted at Cherry tonight that I JU ciT Iedge. the officials of the local miners' union I It began to-snow late tonight, and It were formulating a demand for a com- is becoming colder Tiourly. If the storm plete investigation Of the disaster and doe not subside before morning there the - circumstances surrounding it. Is little hope for the crew or the vea- Mlners were heard to declare that if eel. which lies on a rocky ledge, her the exhaust fan had not broken at a critical moment aome ot the men now entombed - might have, been taken out alive. " v ' '. - . . . Telia Tlrld tory. ' A vivid story of the fire was told tonight by John Haney. a miner and one of the 24 men who were taken outlgUng alive. Haney and - James . Flood.' the I which latter of whom went back- Into the mine' with the reacue party and per Isned, are believed to have been the last- miners taken out of the mine alive. - Haney declared fie and Flood were the first to discover the fire. : He said he waa about to leave the mine about 2 p. character so far as his Portland record was concerned, Mr. Manning stated last night that he had no recollection of having told Lowlt he would-not be prosecuted any fur ther, although he said that' it was his understanding that Lowlt'a record was clear. -.- . , , J"I did not try.Lowlfs-4iasa-4n coa nection with ' the alleged department store larcony, said Mr. Manning, 'but my chief deputy, Gus Moser, had entire charge of the matter. I was present, however, and knew In a general way what- the circumstances of the case seattle sees Wraiths (Continued on Page Seven.) tSpeeta! Dispatch t Th, Joareat ) Saattle. Nor. 1J. Without giving eny reason in open court for th rinn propeller out Of the water: According I I to the mate and companion, who fought for their lives while going 20 miles j from the vessel to Red Cliff, the Hoyt. bound for a Lake Erie port wUh- Iron ore from Duluth, went aground about 4 0 clock thla - afternoon while atrug- against - tha northeastern gale occurred with a blinding blU- sard. The vessel struck the rock with sufficient Impact to drive her onto the ledge until her prow waa several feet above water. William Chamberlain of Duluth, who with a sailor . rigged up an Improvised sail on a lifeboat and flew before the gale to Ked Cliffy Wis.. Is the son of DWIUL GETS YEAR JIIID 81000 CaHfornia Land Fraud Con spirator Must Serve Time Partner Is Sentenced. (Hearat New Serrlea.) 8an Francisco. Nov. 13. Dr. George W. Dwlnnell will spend a year in the AlAmfta muntr iJt fn, hivlnv i-nn. m. and waa walking through .the I Captain Chamberlain, who with his crew j Pired with John Garpln to defraud the main entryway from the escape 'ahaft to the hoisting anart when be dlacov- JudV fJtchU0iUla,B ,n tb npeHorlered. the flamea. .. He summoned Flood, cour .toaay cauea a grand Jury. The action waa taken upon a a order signed by every Judge ef tha superior court. Twenty-four names were ordered drawn, and the men whose names ware selected were ordered" to appear for service on November , , -,, ', Aa unofficial-statement bad been mad that each actloa would fee taken and the courtroom waa crowded, nrin. eipally with attorney, when Jodge Gil liam mounted tbr beach. The crowd awaited expectantly the reeding of- each '"' iew were inaiantir nnw ho- was nearby, and together - they fought for an hour with tbe fira In an effort to extinguish Its spread, . eea name. . "I doa't know how the Tire atarted." said Haney. "I only know that I aaw the flames and I realised that It waa absolutely necessary that I put them out or several hundred miners would be roaated to death. "The heat waa terrible, and both Flood and I were blackened and burned, but we atared with" the fira for an rwae drowned about thla time last year! TOVatmmAnt few tirw.t'n In aw dnmmv lswa whn bis Ten?l, trie Ctmffon, was aunk I In a storm off . White Fish point. Lake j Judge De Haven. Imposed that sentence Claiming negligence on '' the part of those engaged in the handling of the, steamer Olson A Mahoney, when- she hit the east pier of the Burnside street bridge February 27, which resulted in considerable damage to the bridge,, the county of Multnomah' attached the steamer yesterday afternoon for the sum of $3022 damages, through the county sheriffs office, the papers be ing served bjr Deputy Sheriff Harry Bulger at about 4 o'clock. " "When " seen by ""aT'represontative "of The Journal Captain H. T; Payne, mas ter of the Olson & Mahoney, waa some what Indignant about the affair, and said that was the most Irregular, pro ceeding that he had ever Seen. "As ships come directly . under the laws of the United States govern ment, and therefore are handled by thai federal courts, It seems rather strange proceeding for the sheriffs of flee to usurp the duties of the United States marshal. ' "The charge against the steamer is that, of negligence, but for my part think that the county is negligent and contributes t,o accidents in not having guards around the piers, which would protect them in case of Just such acci dents as occurred on the- afternoon of February27. , and which, was unavold. able,, according to, the findings of the United States local inspectors, who ex onerated the pilot. Captain, Al Betts, of Astoria. 1 They form a board ap pointed by the United States govern ment for the investigation of just such cases, and they , acquitted the pilot. (Continued on Page Seven.) 20.000 GAIN IN 10 DAYS Burkhard Building Sold Again, Napoleon Davis Making Good ProfiUVhen V.D.Williamson, a New Yorker, Invests on East Side Improvements Planned. (United Praaa taurd Wire.) ; Paris, Nov. 13. Amidst scenes of greatest confusion , and excitement, which required soldiers to maintain, or der, Mme. Marguerite Stelnheil, accused of the murder of her husband. Adolph Stelnheil, tho artist, and her step-mother. Mme. japy, on the morning of May 61, 1908. was acquitted by a Jury in the ' tribunal of the assizzl tonight The ac cused woman showed remarkable forti tude, but weakened when she learned of her good fortune and swooned. Great crowds stormed the assizzl building and sympathizers paraded through the streets. The case was given to the Jury at 10 minutes of 11 o'clock tonight, in the most sensational trial of the French annalsv- The Jury- deliberated- briefly and returned a verdict 'of not guilty of murder. The verdict" followed a day of unusual scenes in the court, when sensation after sensation thrilled the spectators. : ' , ... Verdict Spreada Quickly.- The word "acquitted,", pronounced at 12:60 a, m., Jn an almost Inaudible tone ' by the foreman of the Jury In tha crowded assize courtroom in the Palais da - Justice,- spread like fire." - As Jim btelnheJL stretched out her arms in mute gratitude to the Jury that ' saved her life, tha news traveled The shout "Acquittal!" Issued from the lips of the hundreds of distin guished spectators In the courtroom. hysterical wave "Acquittal" was swept along ; by the hundreds In "the corridors - of the Palalsede Justice and rolled a volume of sound across th sea of 200,000 people who jammed the . courtyard of the palais and filled the1 surrouding streets for blocks. ' 1 From street to street, from alley to . alley, the tidings spread, until tbe tat tered denizens of the Mont , Marte dis trict, from their crooked alleys. Joined the thousands in tbe gay-lit boulevard In a cry of "Bravo! Bravo! The red widow. Is Innocent," , ; . , All Paris Shouts Approval. ' Cafes, hotels and residences emptiad their thousands into the streets to join the mob; wild with excitement, that surged to and fro wih but one object to apread the news. Hysterical Paris, almost universally of the opinion that the "red widow" was guilty, turned (Continued on .Page .Seven.) 8USlEf Superior. HICWAUKEE ROAD.TO PASS UP SEATTLE; BUILD TO PORTLAND nlswl aa the name of men well kon I hMjr ' r,bat to pat it out la austneaa lire, but the majority were rtamea ef men who bad gained no protn Inaaee and vera pratleally unkaowa te tba fee era. 1 puhlle. Two Wall zaewa Baakera. Cr be 14. two ar weU knowa bank era. R. R. ?raer, vice prwidaat ef th National Back f rntnwieree. and J. P. Oleaaoa, manarer f fha Araerlrea Fank Truat mmpafsr Thr ar or e-fr-t or. lx mahanlra tw wajra- nr, two grr"-r, frn;r raarher or f rmera. ema rai?md man, two r-l aetata wen, a he ! Wt, one other tirineoa tnaa and thr men v linae --" rat I m la Tint ksrn, Tra a 'i 1 1 ee.aa fr ef wr fr, Flaally. though, the fire got away from M," and whea tt rrapt w Into ever- haad tuntering ef tbawmra I eoald ae it was all on. "Flood and I then ran from the place i aa fast aa wa -rould te tbe bolatlnc share w eonM that ethare had j been there before us and wer being hoisted up. Wa waited In the let enaa beat f ir .what anied a lifetime te at, het final! tbe ore. un dowa aal were lifted te tl.e s-jr-face. I -iea: we were th Mat men tkm emt alive. f -T wt4FB turn rata wertt 4n the iit tlfre It ram up einttj-. Zacap ZjRparaiv "I " t tnr-m what beatua f the rnttd rraa Iaaed Wire ) , Waahington, Nov. 13. Govern- meet traffic officiate claim to 4 have advlcea that the Milwaukee ) road will ge te Portland and will e) make Everett, not Seattle, He e rr.ler aorthem termlnaL Aa of flctat from the coaar saidr r-ra 'Tha Milwaukee has booght a e) half mile water frontage at Ev- e arett for terminals, elao aa Island for anop. afy understaading Is 4 that . Jim erposition to tb e upon him today In the United States district court, after .denying -a motion for a new trial. A fine of 1 180 waa added to the Imprisonment Judge De Haven refused to change the location of the Incarceration. - A, request waa made by attorneys that the' defendant be aent to the county jail of Sink! you county, where the defendant resides, ao that hia family could enabled to visit him more frequently, but Judge De Haven refused to accede to tbe request Galpln. who waa con victed with Dwlnnell, received a atmllar entenre. Dwlnnell le a prominent Republican politician. lie Was on of tbe Taft tier tor a from California, and owns large tracts ef- tltabertaads Jn SUklrou county. Jr: c" MRS. ROOSEVELTAND . e sid the MUwauke ia gettmg a ) . .VTImu; rviifivn Tinrr footing la Everett where Hill a) h 1 11 lAt I VM I Ml JlUjlh henceforth mm dirlde tntfis- wlth the Milwaukee company. From what I learn. I am lad to believe that the aama ru!t may b prodweed Is Pnrtland. to. which city th Mttwaulre road l rer tata t build la the nr future. 4 beficef orth mm dirlde trfi;4; a with the Milwaukee company. e i Nap Us. Nr. u. alra. f.oo-elt aad Miss Kthel Roosevelt sailed today oa tne it'imT Koenls AINert for New Trk. A nsmber of frietida. Inrludln; Trt PWreiary Oarrett of th A atert'-an etnhy. Captain l.tinr. naral attach, and tfi wtar of Kaplea. want to to ah'p to e i' m ff. . . For th second time In 10 daya the Burkhardt half block building on East Burnside street hss changed bands, the property havUng been aold yesterday by Nanoleon Davis to V. D. Wllllameon. a New. York capitalist for $170,000. The property baa a frontage of 300 feat on the north side of East Burnside, 190 feet en Vnlen eveau and 100 feet on Grand avenue, and la Improved with a three story brick building. It wss purchssed Just 1 dsys ago by Mr. Davis from Arata Brothers for IliO.OOO. and by yesterday's transaction th aeller neta 320.000 without- ever naviog eompieiau hia original purohaee. Th buyer. V. D. wnusmsen. is a v.w Torker or large means, wno nss operated extenalvely la the north we t during the past Tew yeara. II was th original organiser aad ballder - ef U Grand Trans; railway, which recently pasaed under th control ef th Hill tn- terearte aad la now a part or tne ureal Northern. Be Tor taking over tne Burkhard building Mr. Williamson had a local arciuteec inapeci tn STrurture, with tho result that Be announced hurt night that b would Immediately expend from 11 &.(' to Siee.M In Intprwvtng J. tnektng atterortvw 1 1 era lo tn (It Interior of th bulldlag and eultding two additional stories. Tb 1 Is tbe largevt tranaawtlna, Snd If refartfed as tb moat mjortnt det that baa aet b'a wiede tn eaat . I b. m ( n Tr-rwr t v If 1 a la 1 ' Ilk tn well defined aKTwiwut t k sIM ( trlct extending from Hawthorn ave nue on tb aouth. north to Holladay are nu. Mr. Williamson said yesterday that he regarded Portland realty aa one of the aafeat and best Investment a to be found anywhere In the country, maa uiai ne anew or no omer city WDer better opportunities were afforded for profitable Inveatmenta In real estate. He leaves today er tomorrow for Spo kane, but will return to Portland In a few days when be contemplate maklna- Othr Investments In business property vn wu aiaea 01 in nver. The Burkhard Drooertv has rh,n.1 hands ao leas than riv times la the past three years. At that time It waa optioned by th owaer, Joeeph Burk hard. t Joseph M. He ley and Joseph. Bachtal for tltt.eee. Later they sold It ror a auostaaual profit to John P Sharkey, who aold It to Arata Brothers for. $131.00. Arata Brother tM tt ea man, two year and sold It to N poleoa lvls for $i(.eoe. to txjuaiag now yield aa tuul rwntai oi aoout .n.oa. but with tb re modeling nd building a of twa ad.ii. tteaal atotie aa prepooed by th new wwor. it ia expected that h lacom caa b more than doubled. Corjte Law re-are- FVj-brm. rwaUrt-ra' Tvmm eed W . -Cblcro, Nov. 11. Oeerft j, v rerra Peyton of Macon. Oa, well ken threnjghont th fnJ1e4 gtate. dUs tyre today. Tor ye--a Mr. v?to waa in rsee t4 t tfr' dei-artmeat 0.1 (United Preaa Leaaad Wlnu) , . New York, Nov. 1$. The moat aenea- tlonal development of tha government's war against , the sugar trust came today when the direct charge waa made that evidence against the trust which Impli cated former high officials, was stolen nearly two years ago from the desk of Richard A. Parr, the special -.' treasury agent who uncovered the "crime of tbe seventeen hotes" at th . Williamsburg refineries of tbe sugar company, This crime has been concealed by the government officials and waa only mad public becauaa District Attorney Wis believes h has presented to th- federal -grand Jury evidence sufficient to aeour the indictment of the maa responsible. According to District Attorney Wlae, th suspect to a former government spot ial agent who waa "removed for cauae. Th evidence, however, has never bea located. According to Wise, althouf thr waa evidence agaidat other I r corporations in Parr's deak at the tltua. aad Jewelry and rash, nothing but tb evidence against the sugar trust was touched. - i Th report that other sugar rnra- paaiee bar also svolileJ payment ef duties through short wefjisng of cr- goem, wss partially ronffrni"! Yy ;- cial Proeeuior Sllmaon IM nfni, when b s-lBiHted that rejf'tat! iii we- tn proarren hy th eoru-r.- a ment rl (Cofitinue-t on I'ara T''n DI'FFY IS LINE v foi: lock (jr.u;i:v Ja-k Ijffr. 0Sr4 5t of I i r.r Ju- t I - 4 -t f u - ti ! ' r. e r t tte.J 1 " a P"- ; J . (Cor, tiu4 i f a k out urtr4 on rag r it ee4ee4e4e up as twrnen J eaat ' e bt.rf as dis- OM f t ' l'fl rewtr-arra tt-a.