EVENING EDITION
EVENING EDITICII
WEATHER REPORT
Calling cards, wed
ding stationery, com
mercial stationery and
Job printing to order
at the East Oregonlaa.
'air tonight and Fri
day. CITY OFFICIAL PAPER.
TOL. 23.
PENDLETON, OIIEGON, THURSDAY, MAItCJI 3. 1910.
NO G840
. , .,, Sgaa&ss" -a
- sawiiBBBBsk r ,ar., ' ;t- a .sbs.
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER. . ' t- VaqjPt- o
VICTIMS OF WELLINGTON AVALANCHE ill
TOTAL
m mih tuns official estimate
Death List Grows as Work
Under Snow and
Rescuing Parties Work Continuously In Hope of Saving Entombed Per
sona Thirty-nine Dead Bodies Recovered and Interred In Snow Over
Forty Still Miming and nope of Finding Any More Alive Almost
Abandoned Many of Survivors Tell Story of Catastrophe Dream
Awakes One Man and Premonition of Danger Prompts Him to Leave
Train Old Woman Wlio Is Missing Was on Way to Celebrate Golden
Wedding List of Dead, Missing and Rescued.
44 444444444444
4
Wellington, Mar. S. The
4 horror of scenes here Is Indes- 4
4 crlbable. It will be weeks be- 4
fore the bodies remaining In a
tangled mass of trees, earth 4
Ice and snow can be exhumed 4
V and It will be ten days or two 4
weeks before the bodies recov- 4
4 ered can be taken out of the 4
4 mountains. Twenty eight bodies 4
4" havj now been recovered, the 4
rescuers adding seven during 4
the night. Mrs. Sherlock, wife 4
of the telegraph operator here, 4
Is the heroine of the wreck. She 4
Is taking charge of the Injur- 4
ed nt a makeshift hospital es- 4
4 tabllshed here. 4
4 Supt O'Nell who escaped 4
4 the avalanche Is leading the 4
rescuers. He has no hope of 4
clearing the line for traffic be- 4
4 fore April 1. Only the Ice box 4
4 of O'Nell's car was found, so 4
complete was the wreck. 4
4 A party of deputy sheriffs ar- 4
rived today. A number of Ital- 4
4 lans had been discovered rob- 4
4 bing the bodies and they were 4
4 driven off. ' 4
4
4
44444444444444
Seattle, Wn March 3. The Great
Northern Issued an announcement at
ten this morning, .giving the dead at
Wellington as 83. All of the missing
are figured in the statement as dead.
The company says the list may be
too high or too low.
Following Is the official list:
Passenger Known to be Dead.
R. .M. Barnhart, Spokane.
William May, Chemanlus, B. C.
Edgar Lemmnn, Hunters, Wash,
and Mrs. Ada Lemman, his wife.
James McNeny, Seattle, a well
known attorney.
Miss Nellie Shary, Spokane.
Frances Starrett and Lillian Star-
rett, children, sisters, Chemanlus, B.
C.
A. R. Vail, Trinidad, Wash.
Employes Known to be Dead.
Trainmaster A. R. Blackburn.
Engineer J. O. Carroll.
Brakeman William Dorety.
Brakeman A. R. Dupy.
Brakeman Charles Pcnlson.
Brakeman J. Kelly.
A. E. Longcoy, secretary to Super
intendent O'Neill.
Engineer T. I Osborne.
Lewis Walker cook on. Superintend
ent O'Neill's car, all of Everett.
Passengers Missing:.
John Tist, Burlington, Wash.
Soternl B. Vasll, Seattle. (
Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Beck, Pleasan
ton, Cal., and three children, Emma,
Marlon and baby.
John Berrk.
R. H. Bethel, civil engineer, Seat
tle; well known In New York and
Cuba. "
Ernest Blnatole, Portland, Ore.
A. Boles, Moberly, Ont.
J. Brockman, Watervllle, Wash.
Patrick Brue. Burlington, Wash.
H. D. Cantrell, Vancouver, B. C,
Nick Clcl, Burlington, Wash.
Alexander Chlsolm, Rossland, B. C.
Sol Cohen, Everett.
Mrs. Anna Covington, Olympla.
George F. Davis, Seattle, motor
man, and three-year-old daughter
Thelma.
Bus Ebert, Seattle.
Mtla Ell, Seattle.
C. S. Eltlnge, Seattle.
I Fisher, Rossland, B. C. s
Colored Cat, Burlington, Wash.
Mike Coghclm, Burlington, Wash.
Joe and Lulgl Gummanestl, Bur
lington, Wash.
George Heron, Seattle.
Mrs. L. M. Latsch, Seattle.
John Mackie, Seattle.
A. Q. Mahler, real estate dealer,
Seattle.'
Bert Mathews, Cincinnati.
James Monroe, Seattle.
Miss Katherlne O'Reilly, Spokane.
R. G. Thompson, Vancouver, B. C.
Rev. J. M. Thompson, Presbyterian
minister, Belllngham.
E. W. Topping. Ashland, Ohio.
Passengers Rescued.
Passengers rescued, none seriously
Injured:
EIGHTY-THREE DEAD AND MISSING
of Uncovering Trains Buried
Debris Proceeds.
Ray L. Forsyth, Monroe, Wash.
John .Gray, Nooksack,-Wash.
Baby Gray, Nooksack, Wash.
Anna Gray, Nooksack, Wash.
Mrs. William May, Chemanlus. B.
Mrs. Starrett, Chemanius, B. C.
uaymona Starrett, , Chemanlus, B.
C.
R. M. Vrfle, Everett.
II. H. White, Seattle. ,
Employes Injured.
Porter Lucius Anderson.
Fireman Samuel A. Bates.
R. M. La Velle.
Trainmaster William Harrington.
Mall Clerk A. L. Hensel, Spokane.
Fireman J. D. Kerles.
Fireman George Nelson.
Brakeman Ross Phillips.
Porter Walter Smith.
Engineer D. Tegtmeler.
Conductor M. O. White.
The train employes all lived In Ev
erett. Employes Missing.
Express Messenger Beagle.
Fireman Bennington.
Mail Clerk Richard C. Rognrt.
Conductor Campbell.
Express Messenger H. J. Dlehl. Spo
kane. William E. Bovel. brakeman.
Nat Gilmore, brakeman.
J. Ladue.
Porter Duncan.
Mall Clerk John Fox.
Fireman Dan C. Gllman.
Mall Clerk George Hoefer.
Engineer J, F. Jarnagin.
Brakeman Jewels.
Fireman Jenks.
Fireman Jones.
Brakeman Kenzel.
Conductor Ed Llndsey.
Brakeman MacDonald. .
Engineer Frank Martin.
Conductor Parzybok.
Conductor J. L. Petit.
Brakeman W. E. Raycroft.
Brakeman Strawmyer.
Hiram Touslee, Spokane.
M.all Clerk John Tucker.
Two unknown mall weighers.
Stenographer, ear A-18.
Porter, car A-16.
Mrs. M. A. Covington, who Is am
ong the missing passengers, was on
her way to Seattle to celebrate her
golden wedding tomorrow. She was
the mother of Rev. L. j. Covington,
superintendent of the Washington
children's home, Seattle. Charles S.
Eltlnge, a missing passenger. Is treas
urer of the Pacific Coast Pipe com
pany and his family live In Spokane.
Mrs. Starrett of Chemanlus, B. C, was
returning from Spokane, where her
husband was killed In a railroad ac
cident Inst month. Mrs. Starrett and
one child are saved, and her other two
children were killed.
Dream Saves Man.
Scenic, Wash., March 3. Awaken
ed fifteen minutes before the Well
ington slide by a dream and literally
forced to dress and walk to the bunk
house Just In 'time to escape being
hurled to death with the others,' Is the
story Charles Andrews, an engineer of
Leavenworth, tolls today. Andrews
says he was awakened from a sound
sleep at 1 o'clock In the morning
and was unable to go back to sleep.
A mental Impression of the Impend
ing disaster was so strong that he fi
nally walked to tho bunkhouse where
the other men were sleeping and sat
down on the steps alone. A few min
utes ln,tcr there came a rumble, then
a roar and flying particles of snow
cut off his view. When It settled.
where the trains had been but a few
moments before, nothing remained.
Gave Up Hope Twice.
I was under my engtno for five
hours. It was snowing hard and ntl-
Ing around my head. Twice I gave
up nrjrl said, 'It's all off and then
the rescuers came."
Tills Is the story of Fireman F. A.
Bates on the engine of the mall train
who reacned here today, rrom Wel
lington. "Fverythlng Is covered
with snow," he said, "and It Is hard to
tell tiow many are dead. When I
left they had recovered fifteen bod
ies." Tombs In the Snow.
Scenic, Mar. . Twenty-eight tern-
porary tombs in the snow, each with
a body of some' one lost In the ava
lanche and marked with a rough
board, dot the little flat just east of
Wellington today. It will be fully a
week before the line Is clear. It Is
Impossible to bring the bodies out and
the snow will prevent dissolution for
days. Five undertakers and assist
ants left Scenic early today for Wel
lington. Truiu Leave for Sceiu.
Reports of a new avalanche at Wel
lington are denied absolutely today by
railroad officials. The last courier
to reach Scenic through the snow
stated that rescue work Is In full
swing. His message was dated fonr
o'clock this morning. The company's
list of passengers and employes on
the wrecked trains Is a hundred and
two. Of these 29 are positively ac
counted for.
The railroad Is attempting to get a
train through to Wellington today.
It left Everett at ten this morning
with newspaper men, supplies, doc
tors and nurses.
Two Women, live Children Die.
Uay Forsyth, one of the injured
passengers, was In a car In which
there were five women and seven
children. Three women and two chil
dren escaped but the others undoubt
edly perished. In' telling of the ex
perience Forsyth said that it seemed
as If the car was lifted bodily from
the track and held poised In midair.
Suddenly it toppled over the edge and
rolled down the steep embatikment.
Instantly the air was filled with the
shrieks of the Injured. A fearful
storm was. raging. A high wind was
blowing and there was a spectacular
electric display. The first men to ex
tricate themselves from the mass of
wreckage set to work at releasing
those less fortunate. They had no
lights, and carried on their work by
the flash of the lightning, which was
almost Incessant
This morning the severed hand of
a woman was found. On a finger was
a ring bearing the Initials which lead
the workers to believe that It belong
ed to Miss Katherlne O'Reilly of Spo
kane who l listed among the missing.
Men returning from the scene of the
disaster hold little hope that any of
the missing will be recovered ailve.
This tends to strengthen the estimate
that the total number of dead will ul
timately reach 84.
Firem;in S. A. Bates, one of the in
jured, was buried under snow six
hours. Other survivors heard his
shouts and dug him out before the
first party of rescuers arrived.
Blackburn Thinks of Others.
Trainmaster A. 11. Blackburn, who
was sleeping in Superintendent O'
Neill's private car. was taken out of
the wreckage alive. His only words
were: "LoVik out for the others."
Then he lapsed into unconsciousness.
.Station Agent Fiannery pt Wellington
dug Blackburn out of the snow and
started to carry him to a place of
safety. A small slide struck them and
Flunnery was knocked down. Black
burn's body slipped from his grasp
(Continued on page 8.)
TRAIN SERVICE IS
RE-ESTABLISHED
TRAIN'S FROM EAST POUR
THROUGH IX A STRIXG
Traffic Demoralized by Floods, Be
gins to Assume Normal State Again
First Spring Colonist Rush' Is On.
After days of delay because of
washouts trains from the east will
begin arriving In Pendleton sometime
after midnight tonight and from that
time on for several hours there will
be almost a continuous string of pas
senger trains pouring Into this city.
There will probably be at least five
number fives between midnight and
daylight.
These trains will bring the first In
stallment of the spring colonist rush
as well as the hundreds of passengers
who have been stalled at various
points along the line since the flood
season started.
Coincident with the news that
through train service with the east Is
to be established tonight comes the
report that tho Washington division
is also to be opened to traffic tonight.
This means that the Alto Hill "lino
which has been out for the past six
weeks will be opened up as well as the
Hay creek canyon route and that
throuph communication with Spo
kane Is at last to be resumed.
Train service to the west of Pen
dleton Is now in good shape also and
from present Indications the railway
traffic will soon have attained normal
conditions.
The water In the Umatilla seems to
havo reached the highest point and
has now started to recede. It fell
four Inches during the night and has
been going down steadily since that
time. I
COLFAX IS ALMOST
WASHED OFF MAP
Colfax, Wn., Mur. 3. Many persons
missing, dozens of families homeless
and dwellings and business houses
swept from their foundations is the
condition in Colfax today as a result
of the floods. The waters are now
receding. The damage is estimated
at one hundred thousand dollars.
Many persons were rescued from
housetops this -morning, many narrow
escapes from death occured. There
Is Intense suffering among the desti
tute. The electric light system Is
wrecked, the water suply cut off, and
the railroad tracks washed away.
SK)knne Aids Colfax.
Spokane, Wn., Mar. 3. In response
to Colafx's appeals for aid, supplies
will be rushed this afternoon. Hun
dreds are homeless and the loss is es
timated at two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars. A million feet of
lumber was swept away last night.
USUAL IOST-DISASTER
GRAFT CIIARGKM IX PARIS
Paris, March 3. Serious charge
that the relief funds in the hands of
the authorities have been misdirected
are contained n resolutions adopted
at a mass meeting of tho merchants
today.
The funds subscribed by the French
government and foreign nations were
intended for the relief of the destitute
and to rehabilitate the small mer
chants. The resolutions demand an
accounting of the millions subscribed.
GLKASOX AND RICKARD
GET MORE NOTORIETY
&m Francisco, March 3. Indica
tions are .today that this city may not
be the scene of the big fight. Rick-ard-
and Gleason are not Inclined to
pay five thousand dollars for a per
mit to stage the fight here. This
sum Is asked by Griffin, the holder
of the July permit There is no Indi
cation what city Is likely to. secure
the fight, but Los Angeles is conced
ed to have a good chance.
TOWN CUT OFF BY SXOW
AXD PEOPLE STARVIXG
Seattle. March 3. The new town
of LaCona on the Milwaukee road 50
miles from here near the summit of
the mountains, has been cut off from
th outside world for two weeks by
snow and tuc people are starvlne.
Four men reached Seattle today. They
saia tne inhabitants had only a few
oeans lert when they left and that
conditions were horrible. There are
50 people In the town. The Milwaukee
tried to get a rotary plow through but
tailed.
IWILURE TO PASS BUDGET
WILL AFFECT WHOLE WORLD
uonnon. March 3. A world-wide
disorganization of money is believed to
be inevitable by financiers here to
day as the result of the evident lm
possibility of passing the government
budget before the end of the current
fiscal year. resolution adopted by
the house of commons last night
snowed this situation.
E
0. R. S If. SCHEDULE
RUMORED LOCAL WILL BE
EXTEXDED TO SALT LAKE
Also Reported That There Will Soon
Bo Pcndloton-Umntilla Ixxal Put
On to Aocommodnte Westerners.
Rumors of other changes in the O.
R. & N. train schedule are current
in local railroad circles. One of these
Is to the effect that the Pendleton
Portland local Is to be extended to Salt
Lake city, while the other Is that a
local train Is to be run between Pen
dleton and the town of Umatilla.
Neither of these reports has yet re
ceived official confirmation, but local
railroad men are expecting a new time
card, telling of the changes, to go In
to effect next Sunday. That being the
case the official confirmation will
probably be received today or tomor
row. If the local train Is run on through
to Salt Lake the arriving and depart
ing times of the trains will probably
be about as they are nt present There
Is small likelihood of the westbound
train being on time, .however, for
Judging by past experience it will be
impossible for the road to run Its
westbound trains on time or anywhere
near It.
Ixical merchants will be glad to re
ceive confirmation of the reprt that
a Pendleton-Umatilla local is to be In
stalled. It Is said that this train will
leave Umatilla In the morning and
"ill return to that station in the eve
ning. That would give the residents
of the west end of the county who de
sire to trade tor transact other business
In the city, the best train service ther
have enjoyed In many years.
GREAT STRIKE
IS
Central Labor Union Decides
On Universal Walkout at
Midnight Friday. '
100,000 LABORERS WILL
BE IXOLVED BY ORDER
.Sentiment In Favor of Strike is Unani
mousCondemn Action of Traction
Company Walkout Will Paralyze
Business in Quaker City Proclama
tion Says "An Injury to One Is the
Concern of All" Mayor Will Xot
Act.
Philadelphia, March 3. A univer
sal strike of union workers and their
sympathizers to. begin a midnight
Friday was proclaimed by the Central
Labor union of Philadelphia and vi
cinity last night
The strike leaders declare that 100,
000 men will stop work at that hour
if the Rapid Transit company does
not in the meantime consent to arbi
trate its differences with the striking
car men.
The meeting at which the strike
order was promulgated was large and
sentiment was apparently unanimous
In favor of the general strike.
Telegrams were read from the Chi
cago and San Francisco Federations
of labor pledging their moral and fi
nancial support
Resolutions were adopted condemn
ing the attitude of the traction com
pany. Councils were called upon to
Insist that Mayor Reyburn immedi
ately serve notice on the company that
It must submit to arbitration, that he
return, the police to their regular
posts of duty.
In a proclamation addressed to the
trades unions of Philadelphia and
their sympathizers the grievances of
the car men were recited in detail.
One Hurt, All Hurt.
"In the ranks of organized labor,"
the document proceeds, "an injury to
one. is the concern of all.
"The capitalists and the small
group of self-seeking politicians in
control of the Philadelphia Rapid
' Transit company are part of the larg
er group of capitalists and trust own
ers who hope to crush all organized
labor by attacking and defeating It,
one at a time.
"Therefore, It is hereby proclaim
ed that the time for action has ar
rived. All union workmen and their
sympathizers, for the assistance of the
union street car employes and for the
ultimate protection of all union em
ployes and the working class, will
cease work on Friday, March 4, at
12 o'clock midnight, whether or not
that is their regular stopping time and
remain on strike until further notice
from their duly accredited represen
tatlves."
A committee was appointed to wait
upon the select and common councils
Jomorrow afternoon and present cop
ies of the resolutions and proclama
tion. Stage Hands to Strike,
Union stage hands employed In the
theatres and other amusement places
In this city today notified their em
ployers that If the Rapll Transit com
pany and Its employes have not reach
ed an agreement before Saturday the
stage hands would quit work.
Mayor Reyburn said today that he
would continue to refuse to be a party
to any arbitration proceedings even If
It caused him to break with the re
publican organization.
Althought the day was unusually
quiet throughout the city, rioting
started again last night In the north
eastern section.
A revolver was fired at Captain
Duncan of the Park guard, who Is do
ing special duty during the strike.
last night while riding In an automo
bile. Director of Public safety Clay an
nounced that he had been collecting
statistics as to the number of men
who would not strike. According to
the report In the police canvass work
men generally will Ignore the strike
order.
MOR TAKES XEGRO DURIXG
TRIAL AXD LYXCIIES HIM
Dallas. Texas, March S. Allan
Brooks, tho negro a censed of assanlt
Ing a two year old white girt, was ta
ken from the court room here by a
mod today dnrtng his trial and Ivnch
ed. '
WILL ATTEMPT FLIGHT
IX 350 LB. MONOPLANE
Son Francisco, Mar. 3. An attempt
at flight In a monoplane weighing
only 350 pounds, one of the lightest
In the world, will be made Sunday
at Richmond by Clifford O'Brien, a
California Inventor. The engine
weighs but eighty pounds and sup
plies 36 horse power. It resembles
the plane used by Blerlot.
PUD
EF! 0. N.
E
Oriental Limited Strikes
' Boulders and Plunges 50
Feet Over Embankment.
OXE K I I.LIU) AXD MAXY
ARE SERIOUSLY rXJURED-
Engine Strikes Iuiiedlnient on Track
22 Miles East of Spokane, Plung
ing Train Over Embankment Fire
Cars Take Fire From Gasoline Ex-plot-ion
and Burn up Engineer
Prevents Greater Disaster Con
ductor Saves Many Lives.
4444444444444
Spokane, Mar. 3. Railroad 4
officials and passengers on the 4
wrecked Oriental limited are 4
marveling today over the small 4
loss of life that occured when
the train was destroyed by en- 4
countering a rock slide at Milan 4
yesterday. The engine and five 4
cars were wiped out by fire. 4
The .only man killed was Ed-
ward Miller, fireman. None of 4
the dozen Injured' are seriously
hurt and all -but six left the
hospital today. 4
Spokane, Mar. 3. Crashing Into
two tons of rock boulders, the Orien
tal limited, No. 2, of the Great North
ern railroad yesterday plunged dowa
a 60-fqpt embankment 22 miles east .
of Spokane, carrying with it five burn
ing cars, incjudine the mall car, kill
ing the fireman, Ed Miller of Hilyard,
Wash., seriously injuring the engi
neer and several passengers.
The accident occurred near Milan,
a station on the main line of t&
Great Northern, as the train was turn
ing a curve.
Half a dozen of the 173 passengers
on the train saw the approaching dan
ger, and only to the heroic effort of
Engineer Alonzo Carle, of Spokane,
who threw on the emergency brake IS
feet before the rocks were reached,
was the entire tralnload saved front
probable death.
Explosions of gas tanks on the burn
ing cars added to the catastrophe.
The entire train was saved from the
flames when Conductor B. S. Robert-'
son marshaled the uninjured passen
gers, and. uncoupling the cars not
burning, by human strength alons
shoved them out of reach, of the
fiames.
The Injured.
Alonzo E. Carle, engineer, Spokane.
Albert H. Fortin, Mount Mernon.
William Oliver Eldrldge, a 17-year-old
tramp boy, no home, thrown with
the engine dowji the embankment.
J. B. Fahey, Seattle, news agent.
F. H. Ashley, Seattle, news agent.
C. M. Coffinberry, Seattle.
. H. C. Wilson, baggage clerk, Se
attle. P. Van Llppeloy, mail clerk.
John Nelson, mall weigher.
The- Rev. Benjamin Wingert. No.
1132 Washington building, Chicago,
and wife, bruised. Mr. Wlnget Is 7
years old and. Is suffering from a '
wrenched back.
When the train struck the boulder
gas tanks exploded, setting fire to flT
cars, which gradually toppled orer
the embankment There was Just a
few minutes of time in which the
conductor saw and seized the oppor
tunity to uncouple and shove back
the last three cars.
nelnie Trial to Begin.
New York. March S. On today's
calendar of the criminal bench of the
United States Circuit Court appears
the case of the United States govern.
ment against Fitz Augustus Helnze.
charged with misapplication of the
funds of the Mercantile National
bank. There are two old Indictments
against the former "copper king," one
found In January, 1908. and one In
June, 1909, the first containing thirty
counts and the second only one. John
B. Stanchfleld Is Heinze's counsel,
and has repeatedly urged that his ett
ent be tried as soon as possible.
Brown Interschnlastlc Meet.
Providence, D. I., Mar. 3. A fif
teen yard dash, potato race, high
Jump, shot put and relay races con
stltue the program of the Brown Uni
versity tnterscholastle Indoor meet,
to be held this evening at the Lyman
gymnasium. Medals will be given the
individual winners, and a champion
ship shield to the school scoring tha
largest number of points.
Klondike's Metropolis Bums.
Dawson. Mar. 3. Half of Grand
Forks, the famous metropolis sf
Klondike, burned today. It started In
the Grand hotel, once the notorious
dance hall and gambling resort.
AIT
CAT T