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Medford Mail Tribune
SECOND
EDITION
Weather
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I'urly-Hi'i'iiiiil Vt'tir,
Unity -Pnvmilli Vfiir
MUDFOItl), OUlOOOy, AlOVDAV, .U'LY 15, 1912.
NO. 97.
CLOUDBURSTS RUIN MEXICAN CITIES;
AND SUBMERGE DENVER AND ST. LOUIS
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Piuprrly Dsimnuc Caused hy Clmiil
liursts That Destroyed Two Cities
mid Many Towns Laid Wastn 1000
Siiiarc Miles of Trrrllory.
Fnrnlnn Adds to Horror of Situation
City of Guanajuato Among the
Ruined Places.
MKXIco CITY, .iiilv I.1.--A imi.
cinl meeting of tint enliinel wild I'li-HJ.
ili'iil .Mmlcro was called Imliiv mid it
H plolllllllc t lilt I fl'lll'llll llOllp will
iinnicilinlclv In' rushed In (In Hull' .if
(llllllltljllllto, ulllTH ehltlllhutrfts have
wifi'lii'il (wo cities mill miiiiv smaller
lowim. Iiii'iiiii)i'Iii ii')uiIk decline
llnil imiliiililv 1,0(111 person IiihI tln-ir
live while I ho propctty damage will
teach .fJII.ODII.IIIMI.
Til' greatest danger imu in of I'lim
iiH', ntiil tin' government plans to nub
icltcf tluillM III llll' scene. All Clops
within mi area of 1,00(1 sipuitc iiiiIi'n
have Iicoii swept nwiiy, foodstuffs hi
I Iio linger cities itinl village were
Miiiu'il liv tin' waters, mnl Ihegiciitcst
hiilfi'iiiiir ha K'Hiilti'il. Over 'J.OOO
Inhoiers have all cad v ln't'ii Hi'iil t'ruiii
I if re ti aid in clcunug til" debris I rum
t lit larger cities, Iml with their arrival
Imlny woii was immediately scut
luiuli to Mexico City to xcml no more
mi'ii until food wiih tarnished, iih
them wuh no way of feeding the it ii -ported
laborers.
Probably tin' wool conditions ex-
inl al Ouuunjunto, tin) capital of the
Mate, which has been sliuck' hy n
cloudburst within I lie past few day.
The 1'iitiic country sin rounding the
city U submerged. Half of the citv
wiim wutJiod away. The elect nc light
plant iw pul mil of commission ami
cilice then tilt city hu heeu in total
dai kites.
Thousands of peons are w mulct tug
through the streets, ill search of food,
ami in their search ate robbing ami
Jooting, Women ami cliililien ate
without clothing ami fooil, Telegraph
facilities have heeu hailly crippled by
the Hood, ami only uieauer tcpoits
have heeu icccivcd. tl in feaied that
when eoiiiuitiiiicatiou is leestnblishcd,
it uill he foiiml Dial mlililiotial hun
dreds have died from hunger and ex-
pOSIIIC.
WAGE OWE
IS
MANHATTAN HKACII, N Y., duly
15. Thn arbitration committee which
will ilceiile tlui wage dispute between
the fifty-two railroads in the terri
tory oust of the Mississippi mid north
of the Ohio rivers ami their engineers
wont into session today.
Oscar H. HtrausH, founor cahinnt
officer ami diplomut, wan cliairiiiau
mid tlui olhoix were:
Charles JL Van H'ihc, Frederick X.
Judsoii, Otto M. Kidlitx, Albert .Shaw,
Daniel Willan! and P. II. Morrissoy.
(Irimd Chief Warren S. Stone, of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive, Knp
iiccrs, presented tho ease for tlui en
gineers, while H. A. W'oithington,
picHideul of tho Chicago and Alton
mul icceiitly receiver of the Wheeling
ami Lake Krie, represented the com
panies assisted hy William M. Duncan
of Cleveland ami Attorney Thomas M.
Kiihy.
HOT WEATHER IS
ON NOW IN EARNEST
The mercury touched 1)1 Sunday,
thn hottest day experienced during
the prortciit warm Hpell and will pro
hahly piiHH that mark this afternoon,
The heal in normal for this hciikoii
of this year. Humidity raiis around
yj'iior gent which i norm,u,
II II I! I
n mm
ARBITRATED
DELUGE WES
ST.L
Four Lives Lost at Alton and Damaqc
From Clotitlhiirst Runs Into Mil
lions 3.6 Indies of Rain in Half
Hour Floodlnu All Streets
Man Swims Tliroiih Alton Streets
Notlfylnii People to Flee for Their
Lives From Dcltioc.
ST. LOI'IS. .Mil, July IS. KhIi
iiiati'K today place the iliiiiinun in St.
I.ouiii and vicinity at 1 1.0110,00(1 tlH
the it'Mitll of t lit' lain and witnlnlm-iii
,cMlerday. l-'our pciMins were drown
cil near Alton, III., when the unlet
NWepI tllliuili (wo liitliU'h.
Mix. I'lauciH .Medline, her tliui
.car old ou; A 1 cine ltotc, :ill, ami
lather Muni, ;!.', weie swept thioiih
the wimloun nf the Iioiixcm ami
diowiied. In St. I. mm III! iiiiiIich .,)
ram tell in half an hour. StiecU m
many paiN of the city were fl led.
At Alton the yah plant was put out
of t-omuiiKhinii ami the city was mi
darkncHK hiht uilil. All MiceU weie
llii'xloil, mid William Nacey swam
from Iioiiho o hoime, inanhjjii; in
windows and wnnuiij;' the inuinlcn 10
llei) for their lives? 'uicn mul
ehildicu weie carried froiii hoiihe hv
iiicii mid placed in limits, while a wae
of water tluce fee( Iiicii was lacing
thtouKh the town.
Oimute City, Kilwailhillu mid oth
er point, near St. Louis weie iiImo af
fected. It is ettimated that mote th.in
ten iuches of rmu fell at thesu poinls.
CARS WILLBEABLE
TO REACH DIM OF
It is now possible to drie an auto
inohile within a mile ami a half of
Crater Lake aecordinc to I'rof. P. d.
O'dara who has jiikI returned from n
visit to the lake. The miow is rapidly
disappcariiii; ami within a week union
will he aide to make their way to the
hnlc on the rim. The Crater Lake
company has everything in readiiicns
for hnmlliii (oiirihls at tho lake and
the season will mioii he 011 in full
hlast.
"Despite stories to the effect that
there is 1(1 feet of snow in thn road
hctween Arauts Camp and the rim of
Hie lake," slates 1'iof. O'dara, "I
found the road in fairly good shape.
I walked from the lake to the camp in
ri,r) piinutcs which would not have heeu
possible had there bcun much snow on
tho urotiml.
"Hy the end of this week I believe
that it will be possible to drive a ear
clear to tho rim. Tourists will find
every comfort at tho rim."
SCUKNKCTADV, N. Y., duly 15. -"Clieaji
ico for tho poor" hcenine tho
war cry of the socialist administra
tion of Schenectady today and the
whole city is stirred by the attempt of
tho otgniii.cil ieo dealers to proven!
Mayor Liinii and his officers from
currying out their plans. Tho admin
istration stored a lot of ico last win
tor as part of its promise to help tlui
people, ami star led to sell ico at LTi
cents this Hummer while tho dcaleis
put the price at -Id cents.
Mayor Luuii told his side of the
story lotlny in u maimer which show
ed he hud not p,ivou up Ids plan.
"They got 'u local dealer to enjoin
us from selliiie; ieo to the people" ho
said. "And Unit injunction cannot
he argued until duly 'J!t. They went
at it as you might expect them to.
"They don't (tito any law as lieiujr
violated by our Qt't'oi'tu o liolji out
OVER
LAKE END
OF WEEK
HGHIS A
MILLIONS LOST
NV
Cloudburst Dnluiics Colorado Capital
Several Lose Life Four Miles of
City Suhiucnjcd and Wall of Water
Sweeps Down Dcstroyiuij Buildlnns
Collapse of Dam at Castlcwood Lakes
Threatened Hundreds of People
Made Homeless.
pKNVKIl, Col., .Inly Ifi.-Tw.i
known ilcad ami tluce miNiuc is the
toll taken by the clotilhutrt and flood
which swept Denver Sunday, neeor'l
iliK to liKUics late this alteinoou. The
known ileml aic:
I'KKD HILL, 7(1.
MRS. LYDIA MICKFOUD. H.r..
Mihsiny: oe Wallace, Albeit Clan.
Krnct KlaiiKx.
Hill was found dead itloni; the rail
road tracks in the lower section ot
the city. Mrs. Itickford locked her
self in her home when the flood came
Shu was found dead today in her
bouse, which had been washed off it
fotimlatioiih.
DKNVCIt, Colo., .Inly 15. At noon
today Mayor Arnold wiih notified
Hint the waters of CiHtlewood La It en.
Impounded hy Caxllewnod Dam,
eighty inllen north of here, aro rUIni;
rapidly and Hurt the diun threatens to
go out at any moment.
If tho dun) Huould collapKo 11
would Kweop n torrent of water down
upon Denver, far greater tlinn that
which struck tho city Sunday. This
would create enormous damage.
Thn dam Ih otto or tttu largest In
the world.
DKNVKIl, Colo., July 1.1. Al
thotiKh tho police early today ex
prcHncd tho fear that n dozen or morn
peritoiiH were drowned In the cloud
liurfct and flod which Hwept Denver
ycHtonlny, there was confirmation of
tho death of only one man. Two
men are mlhsliiK and a woman and n
hoy were hccii to fall Into tho flood.
Tho flooded dtntrlrt Iiiih not yet boon
thoroughly examined, however, and
other fatuities may ho revealed heforo
night. Tho property loss will run he
tweon fl, 000, 000 and J 1,000,000 ac
cording to today's estimates.
Tho flood was tho most terrific In
Denver's history as a largo city, tho
only scnurgo comparing with Its be
ing a flood In ISO I, which killed
many persons. The storm, which
m mo In tho wake of a sultry morn
ing, did not extend beyond a rad
ius of twenty miles.
From tho state capltol, west and
and north tho city was flooded over
tho curbstones and water stood n
foot deep on tho floor of tho union
depot, which Is In tho lower part of
twou. A four ntllo area In tho busi
ness and pooror roaldoncn districts
was Inundated, flvo hundred famlllos
being rendered homeless.
Immediately aftor flood, Mayor Ar-
(Continued on Page Three)
tho poor people in this hot weather
hy Holliug them ico at a roiiMmahlo
rate, but thoy just alleged that we
haven't tho right to do it. They tied
us up on duly It and on duly 4 we had
fully 10,000 people who needed our
ico badly. So wo tried to do our
work by taking tho ieo over from the
city iih individuals, and in this way
letting the people have the benefit.
Justice. Wliitmyor has ordered the ice
we have left, about Ifi.OOO tons sold
at public auction, and this will be
done today. Apparently tho trust
thinks it will get our ice, hut if it does
it will pay well for it.
"They have already tried to ham
per our work further by asking to
have tho injunction modified so as to
prevent us from using the telephone.
Thoy don't want to let the people call
us up to get cheap ice, ami they don't
want us to have any place where wo
otw meet (hem (o tell them bout it."
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CHICAHO, Julv 15, - With Norman
H. Mack in the chair the democratic
national committee went into execu
tive .session this afternoon in the Con
gress hotel. It wag said thai the
commitlcemau would hear what mcs-
sup- Committeeman Hudspeth of Now
Jersey hi ought from dyvomor Wilson
and proceed at once to the election of
offieciN.
It leaked out of fho executive ses
sion that M ham 1'. .Met oin i mul
been elected chairman mid Joseph tl.
Davics, of Wisconsin, seciotary. John
I. Martin, of St. Louis, was chosen
sergeant-al-anns.
It was understood Hint the conser
vative members of the committee
gracefully aoipiioeo to doveruor Wil
son's choice of McCpmbs for chair
man, but that they attempted unsuc
cessfully to block tho election of Dav
it's ami re-elect Uroy Woodson, ol
Kentucky, secretary.
Tho committee Wilson desired to
direct tho campaign is composed ef:
William McAdoe, Now Jersey; Jos
eph K. D.ivies, Wisconsin; Senators
O'Oonuau, New York and Thomas V.
dore, Oklahoma; Congressmen Hinle
son mul Henry of Tivxas; Committee
men Koheit Hndpath, New Jerscv,
Joseph DaiueN, North Carolina, A.
Mitchell Palmer, Pennsylvania , and
William Saulsbun, Dulaw.uc.
I
NKW YOK'K', July .i. With tic
exception of ii weakness in St. Paul
stocks developed a steady tone al the
ooeuiiig of today's stock market. lTn
ion Pacific, Great Northern preferred
and Hook Island preferred wore up
nearly a point. Later St. Paul re
covered and the entire, list made fur
ther gains. United Slates Steel, den
oral Klcctric, Wotinghomso and
Amalgamated Coppgr all shared in
the improvement. ,
Thu uiavket oloscitrunjr,
Hpiuls wore firm,
M'COMBS
CHOSEN
TO LEAD D
1RAT
AT WILSON'S WISH
THE SEVERE HOT SPELL IN
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THEI3MOMETBR- .
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BY TOM JOHNSON
LOS AMilCLDS, Oil , July 5.
llort II. Franklin, following his ar
rest for Jury bribing, bollovod that
Clarotico Harrow had collection with
tho doal, and that Franklin offered
to produce within a few days tho man
who passed him inonoy for brlbory
purposes, was tho testimony In tho
Darrow trial today of Colonel Tom
Johnson. Johnson was Franklin's
attorney am held sovoral conferences
with him prior to his confession.
Dp to tho time of Darrovv's indict
ment by the grand jury, Johnson tes
tified, Franklin was looklug for tho
"dark eoinple.xioiicd mysterious
stranger," who has figured before
during the Darrow dial. It was this
man, and not Darrow, who passed tho
bribe money, Johnson declared
Franklin confided to him.
Tho testimony of the nttorooy fur
ther set forth that Franklin sent him
to the district attorney's office with
an offer to uiieaith, if given u few
days time, the man in question. The
proposal was rejected by Assistant
District Attorney Ford, Johnson said.
Continued on Pane Throe)
STOCKHOLM, Julv 13. -With the
Americans in first place, tho Olympic
games will officially end tonight,
when the prices won will ho distrib
uted in the stadium in tho presence,
of the king1 of Sweden and members
of the toyal family. Tho games have
been successful from everything but
a financial standpoint, mid (hero is
nothing but congratulations for the
mauagemeut.
First honors go to the United
States, although the total points will
not bo complete until tonight. Hut
the American margin, especially inso
far as the veal athletic events the
truck and field contests aro con
cerned, is so great thiit everyone con
nected with the team is being show
ered with congratulations.
Aniorioii scored in only one of thu
big runnlue; events today, tho 1U0Q
meter team rneo, whore tho Amoriunn
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lO UVERHEATEP HOkSE. .
1VAN.THE
ALASKAN
BEAR..ENJOyiNG
A 5HOWER. BATH .
ARE CUT
BY
Dates Cut J'roin San Francisco to
Mctlford
f lbs. from ? .70 to $ .31-5
10 lbs. from flO to All
J.r lbs. from I.IIO to .77
100 lbs. from t 3.Jf to U.uO
WASHINGTON. Julv l.--.--Thc in
terstate commerce commission's rul
ing in (ho express cases, reducing
rates materially, if it goes into effect
will reduce the cost of living, provid
ing the middlemen do not absorb 'oo
much of the difference," said Chair
man Clements of the commission to
day. Ho pointed out that tho com
mission's ruling was an order to show
eauso why the now rates should not
become effective.
'Necessarily," tho chairman said,
"the tendency of important reductions
such as are proposed, would be in
greater or less degree toward a re
duction in the cost of living, just as
would be the tendency in a reduction
of tho cost of transpoiting produce
from tho producer to tho consumer in
all Hues of business."
(Continued on Page Three)
runners made n show of their field.
Tho isitors from over seas failed to
show at all in the 8,000 meter cross
country race, where they had hopod
to have u man "iusido tho inonoy."
As was expected, 11. Kolohinuiuen,
the great Finnish runner, who plans
to turn professional and come to the
United States this full, was first.
Anderson of Sweden was second and
F.ko of Sweden third. II. llelawell
proved tho best of the Americans in
the race, but the best ho could do was
to laud twelfth in tho race.
The pace was torrifio mid ninny of
tho contestants wore ovoieomo while
all that finished were completely ex
hausted. Iu the 8S00 motor team swimming
event, America finished second to
Australia, with F.uglaud third. In the
high diving ovqnt Bvvcdon was first
and third, with Qorpinuv second.
EX
RATE
TWO
COMNBSDN
HONORS
E
FATAL WRECK
Nlntccn Killed and Fifty Injured
When Mall Train on Chicago, Bur-
' llngton and Qulncy Clashes Into
Overland Limited.
Heroism of Bride .Who Sent Doctors
to Husband and Died Herself En
gineer of Train Dead.
CHICAGO, July 15. Coroner
Peter Hoffman today continued his
offorts to place tbe blamo for tho
wreck-of tho Chicago, Darlington and
Qulncy yesterday, In which tblrtceti
persons wcro killed, and nearly fifty
Injured; It was dotormlnod definite
ly to that efforts wcro mado to halt
tho mall train bofore It crashed Into
the Pullman sleeper of tho Overland
Limited.
Mrs. F. A. Wilcox, towor operator
at Western Springs, southwest of
Chicago, received tho message that
tho mall train known as No. 8, .was
coming on at full speed. An auto
matic block signal had caused tho
Overland to stop 850 fcot west of
tho Westorn Springs. Tho woman
operator rushed from her , koy, to
flag the engineer of No. 8. She saw
him pass tho semaphoro signal,
which should havo had halted him,
and. as tho train thunderod past tho
station, the women saw that a hor
rible wreck was certain, rushed to
tho telephone to call doctors, and
then swooned.
Dead Engineer Warned
According P. S. Eustls, passenger
traffic manager ot tho Burlington,
tho blamo for tho wreck Ilea between
Gcorgo Bronso, englncor of .No. 9,
who died wltn his hand on tho,brak
levcr and John Woodruff, flagman of
train No. 2, who placed tho torpedoes
on tho track. Woodruff Bald, he
not only went back and placed tor
pedoes on the rails, but that ho also
walked up the track and mado an
effort to flag number eight.
Ono incident of tho wreck that
stood out clearly In tho stories told
today was that ot tho heroic sacri
fice of Mrs. E. O. Pohlmann, brldo
of a San Francisco, Cai., traveling
salesman. A doctor helped Y.lt her
clear of tho wreckage and started to
cxamlno her for posslblo serious In
juries. Tho young woman drow her
skirts over her limbs and nodding
toward her husband, said, said:
"There's my husband. He's hurt
worso than I am. Please look utter
him first."
Jewelry Missing
Pohlmann was found seriously but
not fatally hurt, and tho doctor re
turned to tho bride, finding both h,er
legs broken and her spine fractured.
She died on tho way to St. Anthony's
Hospital.
Company officials today stated a
considerable amount of Jewelry ot
tho doad was missing, but whether
this was tho work of vandals or a
freak ot tho wreck Is not known. The
pollco assort that tho small Bums of
money found on many bodies In
dicated tholr pockots had boon picked.
Horbert Heaso, assistant gonoral
solicitor of tho Burlington, today de
clared ho bolloved tho catastropho
was duo to tho dense fog.
STOLE HALF BILLION
nUIVALO, N. Y., July 15. Suvou
teen year old Joseph MuCnrthy, ol
Jorsoy City, undersized who roully
looks about 1-1, is looked up hi tlio
local station, awaiting tho arrival of
New York officers, Tho child ho in
that only in years mid. intelligoiieo'
is alleged to have stolen liulf u million
dollars worth of ohcoks unci $200 in
inonoy from tho United Cigar Stores
company, the retail cifjur trust.
Tho police say that Joo admitted'
his guilt. Thoy suy ho tod tlieiti
when ho was sent to tho bank In Now
York Saturday to deposit tlio checks
uud money tho night of tho largo
amount of cash uud cliucka duzzlcid
him.
Tho cheeks weie recoyorjid mid
turned over to thu poIiee.Joifiwd $U&
Pf tlio stolen money left.' "-
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