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0, , . , , ..'.- ' A .GOOD HABIT ' It's a good habit to make It a point to .The Sunday Journal 6 Sections 72 Parc: keep posted regarotr atthe Wants. Jour . nal wants coat but little. The weather -' RalrF today with. south westerly winds,, , : NO. 27 PORTLAND, "OREG0 SUNDAYf- MORNING. OCTOBER i 1, 1911. ?RICE FIVI1 r CENTS reds" DieT When i Mad Waters From , Grtishfed -Dam Sweep Town ; to Ruin i, - ;. Strike Conditions Grow More Serious .... L 1-t I I -, SI s - i.C,"lr;.M. " : : ... KWvm. 4 . .- ill 1 ti I .v-. . ti'i '.' "1 ir -AS (! urfcxsh Army Evacuates Tripol JfJDS. RUSH UPON HELPLESS voitv mnn nri r. t 'Jll I; IUUU ULLILVLU IU UL ULIIU It 'a of Austin, Pa., Wiped Out When Stje Reservoir Breaks Fire Adds to ;;Vrror of Awful Catastrophe Two er Towns Swept to Destruction. . 'i7r'Cai Pna Ceaneif Wlr- v VP. 30. with th wont - , fairly way, and a , a.- V of tin Yulni BaTlajf teta ; , nattd'har that tha total 7- 4 v1' U and about Auatln and y j1. o towns which fcorf tha T '-' th9 dalugw, U 1a la tha of looo. Aeourat firm rf jr ' ara ont of tka o.uartlon. ! ; , .x'. port, i ri., SepM S0. Be , , . and 800 - men, ' women ' and r r'viira drowned, and , counties! ,era Injured when "th ; mam " . -"V of the Baylesa Pjilp A Paper lurst with a jroar. aiii-passlng f.7 ' 'v Niagara and , poured Its " more ' )i a billion gallon .af.weter th town of Aflstln, 14 nHe !fcclty, late thia afteroB.,' ' tin a valley between' IWro high 'Vfalv extend east and weat,-for ; .Un was at 'the mercy of "'.fit .which awept , nearly, every ' fc away, piling them tip at the ' a narrow gully east -of town. JV'" elaewhere In Austin, fire .". k1ded ltd terror and even at J (mtdnlnht) the flamcaj- ara iJ 7 stlng alive the. VlcUoia who Av-t Jha dabria, ." '' " - . f ''' ,.,alley below Aiwtln are the I- -, Costelli a'iaTnar'pnr;';A'rtr ',.;Vr(V (f larg:er towna lnrutn the V V' -.'wit on to tliem. caugnt mine v rushing waters they too, s, v , but. warned by a modero .'.' who dashed ahead of the . t,m . -n.li rnad In ' a motor TP ' iilmbltanta had time to; flee. , , u til tfare of flaming; debris fi""' Ht Austla are heart rending, 1 - otldren are wanaenngr aooui ,r father' or mother,' whose ;".J buried and. hurnlnK Jtl. thft , , era. and fathers, wringing 1 f sit daWd on the spota that i v afternoon contained ; thelr a Ahead of Swirling Resident of Austin s (' .i"fo$9 Races Madly .for rFi l.Mied Wlre.V 1 1 -v .-'if pi.A. "The dam, wfth a 45. . . "aier, ourdi wiinoui wr. f a mile above the" main V , h. v The sheet of water ' t ind wave nearly 60 feet fl feet wide, circling down t-Mley.' The hills hem the k . 'y that the. water could y u Its force. BiV in 1 t the residence aection . . about 700 feet wide and s in the center. It carried j.'i'ji. efore it, a tangle mass." aace for life. . rklng in my barn.' A . little earby shouted to me that burst. I knew in a flash it, Eer since the trouble ni "nearly two years, ago , ear. I ran into the street it-it was a race ror lira I ft i"' n the Mxt house-heard me 111 " ! 'or your lives!': and fot- was not six; feet behind ached the hill. -vBehimd hie, d ma that I wm not sure "i il K stumbled, panting, up ; v nfc. A horse from ' a barn 7 T' .i .to the dam -was ' hurled T Y it... r . J ,. 1 i. 1 -. t'a WviBSf reraoa. ' r , n not another living aoul in ! - . 't '.'-i ' ''": ok down Turnjsr street, the ' . v nee street, . running the ' .-. -! valley. Not. a house Mood . ' " en I heard.. the crashing -, and Jamming' of the debris h- " ' , nam streot. wnere tne pig t end hotel were, i They, C . ; wn In a heap. Big build- half a mile down the lied up and went to ere torn loose and Injured militt . have r rcsouo was out of -rnRTF mm ; l ull I wa . IGffltWElS t ,mlt. Pa., ept 80.-John ! V.'",, - v he first, aurvlvor from . P ,-".h ICeatina; 8ummit,i. the J ' ' f relief, li milea awiy, Johnalown flood, on a I I 'i r but an exact reproduc n i yrr-jt )KJt t if k 1 WATERS BREAK inirn m dc nimn homes, now- with UieiC children, forever gone. . - Blame for the disaster is being placed tonight upon the Bayless Ptfb & Paper company, which bwoedthe dam.H . .The dam, stretching frem hill to hill and Imprisoning , Freeman Run. just be fore it reaches-Binnemahoning .creak was 630 feet long' and 60 feet high. It was completed in 1909. . In exactly two, months it began, to leak and the Inhabitants of Austin, fearing; such a flood as awept away ; the town today, fled to the hills. ' Repairs were made to the dam at that time, but defects In the construction which made pos sible the dlsaiter. of today were not remedied. , ' ' The flood, it' waa learned ' tonight, practically ; destroyed Costello, located some milea below Austin. Only three lives were lost there. -. The people were warned by a young man who aped through the valley In au automobile shouting- to the people to take to the hills. His course waa over a rocky road through the . narrow val ley, but ha maintained a lead over the rushing water and arrived at - the lit tie hamlet- In time to spread the news before the flood ' arrived, However, the property' loss there and elaewhere in the valley was heavy, r , .- . The pulp mill, half a mile north of Austin, felt the force of the flood. It waa torn from Its foundations, with Its great piles of logs and doubled .hack, upon the city. The Goodyear' lumber yards had 7,000,000 feet of lumber la storage. At the outskirts of the city thia waa added to the great loa;-wtr battering ram which formed tna rex of the flood. The planing mill and the hotel and' atore buildings fell, before the hammering of the -great logs. ' The Davy Houae and the Qoodyear House, large 'brick 'structures, , and the First National bank; building and the' tele phone exchange crumoled. . . The churches were left standing:. The escape of more than" 'two score who sur vived the- first onslaught of the flood waa cut off by a long wire fence which tan along th , creek. When the flood had-passed rescuing parties -found the ; ( Continued on Page Nl na. ) , Many Drowned in Homes Be fore' Realization ofi Catas f : trophe's Comings Known Hundreds fojured.; (Br tbs tntern.tlooal N.wi Rr1e.) 1 Coudersport. ' Pa., Sept.. 30. -A tele phne operator stationed on a hill' above Austin, from which he viewed the en tire dlaaster,':' telephoned the Inter national. News Service correspondent here that only one house in the village remained intacti That house Is onva 11 overlooking the - town and. waa .re moved from -the death dealing track of the fiercely- rushing flood. ." He said that in a few minutes after the deluge swept down the narrow valley, fire added to 'the horror that had been struck Hthe hearts of the unforttinate people. - Buildings, . that were only partly wrecked caught ; fire and the flames are devouring .the rem nantsjo'f the town.: F4, ' .." ' Hundreds of survivors took refuge on the' hillsides,, mad with terror . i'.v ' When the flood came, women and ehlldrerf fled screaming," men cursing and fighting back the weaker, V ' Scores ucon scores of persona ot all ages were seen floating, wadlns; Mnd scrambling around in the water. Moth ers with babies In their arms were seen by: the International News Service In formant krieellng and .preying loudly. ror rescue as the, wafer curled and ed died about thefr recumbent forma. , ? Everything -la gone and all but one telephone' line went down under tht tremendous and sudden Impact of the deluge, "Railroad tracks were washed out as if they 'Were mere .solder webs. The town's fire department, buildings were among the first , to go. : The scene of death, desolation and 'helpless despair Is complete. ' . j . ' ' ' TlTe dam that broke whs about half a mile above the town. It was'800 feet long and 80 feet .high. ; It backed, the water for. more than a mile. atnadreda Zajured. ;'r''"f The masonry gave wav with a terrl bl roar at about 8 o'clock this ' af teTi noon,- , as . a grest volume of water rushed .Into the main stream from Its little tributaries. , The thunder of the oranh came ao swiftly that the people in tne peacerui valley below, walled in hy high hills, had no warning of their Imoendlna doom. The l1nvn hit with full forest every building Immediately In Its track and either carried them down Or wrecked them before thflr oe. (ContlnuuJ uir J'une Nine.) His, -Candidate. Wins ' ' ' i c ' .'"'. 7 - v.'-ran. ' , : l'" ; V - j" ; ' t , "Y S i ' ?. y " J. c11 ' Senator noles-renroee; ,r ' ; ' r vi'nltM rr- Lcinrrt Wtr.,1 ' ' Philadelphia, . Sept. 30 George, H. Earle ' waa this afternoon elected the Republican nominee for Mayor ot; Philadelphia-; According : to the ' count to night, hla I majority "will be about , 25, 00. Earle .waa Senator.'penrpse's can didate. . i ' .f ; PRESJDOJT HOLDS IJ Taft'at Sedalia;Sees:Work ; Mules, Race ;Mutes, iTrick . Mules, ; and - Just r Mules talks on Tariff; Vetoes. A Sedalla, Mo., Sept. SO. -A: presidential day off was spent at the Missouri state fair .here today and much 6f It was de voted to .that humble animal, the Mis- 'After two weeks of wildly strenuous political campaigning; the president made today a holiday. . j. ; ' . . - . i , MliBoari is more proud of her-mute than anything else, and the mule made the big feature of the president's, visit. He- reviewed ' parade f of 2&0 ; mules decked: out fantastically at , the "state fair grounds.: He shook bands with Zip, the five year old' trick mulo of It year old Henry .Harbaugh. . "' --vu, ' . Zip . waa . brought out this afternoon to show the president what can be' done in the way' of education with thei'Mls- eouri mule. ' After the boy-had put him through hU paces, mule' met president and they , shook hands, the 'president complimenting the boy on -the talent of his pet. '. . , " , ' ' -' h J '.:'..; '. Mlmourl ' declared that the president t (Continued on Page , Ten.) i ONE SESSION WITH MISSOURI filULES Entire Harriman System Affected :By Stpkf J I Map of the many lines' of the great Ilai rlmnn syKtcm, thriughout M hlcft the shopment are strlklrisc. The map ;; " ihovtsj, the Kreatnevi of 'the, nystent and the inftCit title. o( the walkout' The Union J'acfflc; Oregon Short i 1 Line, Orejron-Wu.thliieton, ! Southern Ia lflc ami all branch' lines" are affeclf-d. , ' X -V". ,'; 7 :,V:','',:'' J . ; '. .""..? ".. i r--..;.; -'-.':';;' '.'''.", w'";' tl ' . . ' ' ' I- . .,'- 'I--..,,.... . S v ' . ,!.-,. .... .1- STR1IE SITUATION GROWING lirtlTICAL THROIIGHOUTWEST Shopmen of Two Systems Out and Santa Fe Men May Fol low;. Federal Judge Issues Sweeping Injunction. FEARED ALL ROADS A , r , MAY BE4 AFFECTED Fierce Battle May Be Fought in U. Courts;" Strike breakers Recruited. United Prm Leard VTlr. - Chicago, Sept. "So. With members of the system .federation of the Harrlman Kines and Illinois Central railroad on strike, with Santa Fe railroad employea striking in sympathy rather than' handle work "Otherwise handled-by strikers; with the federal courts in New Orleans issulngone of the. most sweeping In junctions yct handed down against strlkers.and' with, strikebreakers being recruited In large numbers,, the middle west and far West tonight, fated what. It is 'feared,, will prove one pf the most critical upheavals . American railways have ever , encountered.,, Officials' of the systems federations of the larrinian lines and- the Illinois Central declare 35,000 men already have obeyed the strike rail; officials of the roads declare they do not employ that many men in the departments affected. The strike order went Jnto effect at 10 o'clock this morning, called. eut boll- ermakers, machlnleta. car men, black smiths and helpers; clerks, "steamf lttera, sheet metal workers, paintera and labor ers. '"' i . ?."..: ' -". -'..I It involved alt the far western lines of the Harrlman system, the main lines be- ' "(Continued' on Page teri.1 T First Day . After Strike. Finds Both- Sides Firm and Pre paring for Fight to Finish on Issuer ' The notable feature of the railroad strike situation in Portland yesterday afternoon was the self satisfaction and complacency of the local strike leaders over,, the manner In '.which , the strike was -put - into effect and the way, the men conducted , themselves. ' The strike, which went into effect yesterday morn ing at 10 o'clock, affected about 6S0 men in the O.-W. R. A N. arid Southern Pa cific shopa at Alblna and Brooklyn and a1 rhalf dosen men at the. -Portland & Yamhill division. The strike waa a-clean sweep here, nearly ..every man quitting work.- The men who walked out were machinists, blacksmiths,' car . repairers, bollermakera and sheet metal workers. At the- Labor Temple, headquarters for the- strikers, the IB members of the advisory , board, ' appointed at a ma.es meeting 'of the strikers held' immedlate- (Contlnued on Page Sight) vTOCOMENIDNDAY ; Maii Be Embroiled Ik i t , a Ji I-.,' f.: - .'v.. ..;.vi: .;.:..:.! ' ,v: i 1 i i t ' a ! ! i' . .i.'M'l'!:V',''''1!',i!-l ' v tr Emperor ; Frana; Joseph,,'fft)ired ruler of Austria-Hcgary; The unex pected masning of Italian troops on the border pf Austria-Hungary has aroused the emperor V subjects to high state of excitement for they fear that Italy , Intends 'to 'try to settle bid scores with them as well as with Turkey. . Medf ord ' Alone! Passes? It ' by 1 371 o and When News' Js Announced. Wildly Cele brates; Ashland Opposes. (Speel.t to The JTonrnnl ) Medford, Or., Sept. . 30,-By the tre mendous; majority of more than" 1650 vGteav'Jackson county . tod,ay passed the i,ouu,uuu pona issue ror tne , purpose of constructing - a ,i modern system '. of highways" In this , county. Medford alone t gave ,' the bonda a major 1 ty, of 1371,-casting the heaviest- vote she has ever cast.1: ' v" "; ; ;'.,' -:' '.Tonight when news of the passage of the bonds was flashed to' the city from the tower of the Mail-Tribune building, the wn went mad with' Joy, . The Streets - tonight are Jammed v with a; fcreat thfjrng pf people celebrating. Sol -Bom, has the equal of tonight's celebration-'-been - witnessed ; in ; southern Ore gon. Ths bond issue was . a. Medford move.- fathered . by. the Medford Com mercial club.t which - has : carried on a systematic and , earnest . campaign In favor" of the. bonds. Its work i.was demonstrated "when thai ballots were counted tonlght.V , i'-."ri,i'.'''.;v.-.'.s, i::,, -:.':.- l'., .'AabJnd (Jives jSOO. Agralast. ' i The opposition to the bonds centered at -Ashland, and i the three Wards in (Continued on Page eleven.) : '..-. -X. 1 1 Turkey Suffers Loss of r Large Portion of Navy; : ; Appeals for Intervention WHEN TURKEY IS Downfall of Ottoman Empire Assured' but Dividing of ; Pieces May Cause General Conflict. " -t - By Paul Lambeth. - 1 . . (PobllKb.rs- trrt l.Kd WlrAl , w London, Sept. JjO. Will ' tne episode of the last : few days precipitate - a mighty European warT " ti' That is the tremendous question which Is being : buried about official' London tonight The situation really Is ex tremely serious, according to the best opinion. ;' ' '":." '.' : " f" i : '-" ' Turkey's downfall Is assured but that the carcass, will , be peacefully : divided among European nations' Is extremely doubtful eo doubtful that chances of a general ' conflict , are ' sufficiently im pressive to have, affected instantly the markets here, although the Indicated un easiness was much less than might have reasonably been expected. . " . . There are no ' two opinions of the probable outcome of the war, if Italy Is let alone, although France's over confidence when she started ..war on Germany in 1870 may be remembered to offset this confidence and England's dis illusionment after, at the beginning of the campaign In South-Africa in Octo ber, 18 9, her general;in command de clared ..he would dine on, Christmas in Pretoria. - ' . - :v, '-;::'.' - 'Franoe . was iwhlpped and . England's victory came long after the; date set for it and at a coat whtoh. as Krueger had predicted, and no Englishman had be lieved, staggered hamaoity. t . s ;,taly JEntirsly FrepareA,.- ;,V: Italy, however; had evidently been working well and long In secret prepar ation for this attack on 'Turkey Her fleet was in full 'command Of fevery point which it ouid hope to cover befbre hostilities began, the comparatively Un important Turkish army which could be brought ' against' her was cut off com pletely from - both Italy and Africa. There Is no ;doubt : that she began her : (Continued on Page Five.) . Ill Total Business for September : ; Fraction il Under $50,000, ' 000. ia 1-2 Per Cent In- , ; crease; Postal " Receipts. Gains in bank clearings, building per mits and realty transfers and a stand off in postal -receipts is Fortianas September " commercial and ' industrial record when compared .with the figures of one year ago. "&'rKfrf, Considering the strike V situation, which has hovored over the country for th nnat month and which culminated In an actual "walkout - yesterday : the money market .which la ; anything- but satisfactory, in the- east,, and the war news front; the Mediterranean, rort inBd a record for the month endlnig yes terday is one that every oltisen of the city 'and the state may well be proud in bank clearings thev gain . Is so marked that It leaves no room to doubt that Portland s commercial life wi continue to show, a weir sustained and steady growth. ' The, total of the month, is within' a fraction P ,of 150.000,000, which Is , nearly ,008,000 more , than the clearings for September; J910 the increase being 13 per.cent . ' . Sv the eurprislng ;,f eaturej Of the com merclal; figures for the month was the increase' Jn -building operations both as to number and value. During tha month Just, closed there -were' 7S4 permits is sued for buildings which: cost 1.496 Jtl compared with 607 -permits and 4 total of $1,391,360 for September. 1910. Again residence construction, author lied during the' month- amounted to considerably more than half the money invested in buildings, j To- ba mm-e-ae-curate, -the - month's- residence permits provided Tor tha -expenditure of t more than;SQO,ooo.V Yt',1":.,' , : The real' estate 'market waa more than satisfactory, there ' having been' i more transfers by more .than' 10d during- the month just closed and the value of the property transferred was ISOO.ftO In ex. cess ef that of September. 1010, f ! , In the matter of 'postal'- recelrrts,' 'the month wllj show practioally he same figure ' as that of September of last year or about $79,000. , Building permits ' for .the; first nine months of the -year, were $14,118,161, which Is in round numbers $1,000,000 more than for the ;(iam period of 1 mo. There were 1431 Veal estate transfers :.. (Continued on . Page - Ten.) SgjjLLM. RECORD MONTH TURKISH GARRISQil RETREATS AS GUi OF ITALIANS BQDi.l Move Believed to Be fop Purpose- of- More Effective ..Fighting by Campaign of Guerrilla Warfare. : - , - (United Freas Leased Win.) " , , London, , SeptT SO. The . Turkish gar rlson of Tripoli is retreating Into tbe Interior, according to messages received here tonight. i . The Italian fleet began to bombard the town soon after at 10 p. m. and a start on the, evacuation followed. ... One story is that the Turkish com mander Is - under orders not . to ' fight -pending further ' negotiations, between Italy and Turkey, and that he means to wage a guerrilla campaign from the Interior. ; Admiral Aubey, tbe Italian commander, has cabled to Roma that he will complete the capture of the Tripoll tan coast before morning.. ,' j - . ,', - Aside from, Tripoli, the Italians have, been, victorious over t the Turks wHer ever they, have met .them..: .Three small Turkish warships :: were sunk by the Italian cruisers today near Santa, Maura, Ionian islands.: It i said the loss of Ufe waa' heavy;-.', .: i-ti-M-.w'.f .v . The Duke of Abtusxl la reported main taining his foothold at Prevesa. where he landed following a bombardment, the inking o a Turkish destroyer and drlv- , tng two transports ashore to escape cap ture. . . , , ' - The only mishap the Italians have suf fered was the grounding of a warship, off Tripoli. , .- v . , Accoantvhara been rcceivecf of fhe , loss of other Turkish VeBselg but tbey are probably duplications of the engage meats already referred to ' ' ' An Italian fleet is watching for, a daah by the Turkish squadron from the , Sea of Marmora. , j ; ," To Xeeonp Possible loss. v At , Constaatinople, -War Minister; Chef ket; Pasha is calling out the army reserves. Turkey Is not only threat ened by Italy, but fear dismemberment by the other European powers.' It Is ready td die fighting. In retaliation for (Continued on Page Five.) TO NEWSPAPERS Believed That Correspondents . Subservient ; to Syndicate " "and Citizens' of Cordova- May Mean Investigation. : , ) - By John E. Lathrop. " , . (Written for The Journal and Kewark News, Newark, N J.-HCopyright. 1911.) Cordova, Alaska, - " Sept. , 9.' ( Via Skagway and Seattle) -Most araa-- ' tag are the I statements..; appearing hv the newspapers in the states on the vialt of Secretary Fisher1 to Controller bay and i other coal claims is well a the experiences' 'of ., our- party.'.' ' .' i'- Fisher - rode through". Controller bay waters smooth as a mill pond upon the positive statements of Captain Lane and. bis pilot of the launch Elvlera, , whltti carried Fisher; Whatever storm Fiahef may have experienced was, outside Con troller bay in.other waters that had not tho- absolute protection that, Controller bay has.f Anyone who haa gone through ' tho''-(wa-r in- cuestion ' comes back s to readrtha accounts telegrapljfol to the Outside newspapers and simply gazes In astonlebment ,. The same is ,., trua..et the' Statements regarding - the'' move- menuts.of our party. It is unqualifiedly untrue that we were at ' any time de tuyed or ; had the. sllghteet lneonven-. ieoe Ju i Controller hay.. ,. We ca rrled coast and Oeodetio survey chart of tha soundings," went' where w : desired,. found the harbor .waters . protected by . the -Kayak. ' TV onham,; Kanaltft Islands and Okaleo splt from the winds from any direction excepting off shore winds which would not' disturb the' seas to any 'extent. - :;. lluoh atisrepresentatCon- - . There has been more coarae mir.fp- reaentatton, absolutely, -.. aCout tho waters by persons who are erpet ted to report. -that', Controller '.ay Is of no value" than . could , be fbelieved hv eny one hot persohaliy-acaviainted, with the facts here, ,;, ,;::' , : i . n Captain Lane fa'ld one'' teattl pnr. respondent admitted to him that he wm gotnsr trt knock -Controller t.V r.-i?ii l- ies of fa-H. Many oftur statrim 1 i leiegrapnea -.out 'to; pap.is uyjmi r wore actuated by. eWuiar im--.ii !,, Kvery One. here" know that OnilriiM r bay dons-- not- lncluilo any !"" slile of Kanaka' iMlnnd to tl " v the correspondents wrotA -l i' vteit ef Flflier ani-'Miurh'tr r,.;;- though all the waters wu: : of hut Isinnd -tt're -' ' t ' ' buy. . Tliei facts ifl h"-. ':-. (( ,i(,t,lii-d on 1 ALASKA HIRED BY; FALSE TALES SEIIT