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Medford Mail Tribune
SECOND
EDIT J ON
WEATHER
I'nlr f oiilwfif ; rain .Sinidnyi
IMitv ft I; .Mlii, .'17.
forty tlilnl Yrnr
IMIIv I'litlilli Yrnr
miohfoiu), omwoN, kamtuday, octohkr n, hjih.
NO. 171
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STEAMER VOLTURNA BURNS AT SEA
WITH 633 PEOPLE ABO ARD-136 LIVES LOST
TEN OCEAN LK SURROUND SHIP SANK AT
CHARRED HULK AS IT GOES DOWN SPOT TITANIC
RESCUING 521 OF THOSE ABOARD IS WRECKED
explosion Aboard Doomed VcsscJ Spreads Flames Drck Becomes an
Inlrrno Propeller Fouls Tackle So That Only Two Out o( Six Life
boats (lot Away, Othrr Tour Dclnn Smashed, Drowninn Occupants
Most of Passennrrs hi Stcrranc Cunardrr Carmanla First at Scene
for Reiciie Din Ships Maneuvered to Get Close to Burnlrifi Ship, Nar
rowly Avertlmi Collision Gale Fanned Flames.
HERMANN OELRICHS, JR., YOUN G SOCIETY MILLIONAIRE, I
ARRESTED ON CHAR GE OF STABBING GIRL IN AUTO
Liner Uranium Recently on Fire at
Same Place, But Crew Kept Flamrs
IIiiiIit Pnnlrnl rnnt.iln nf RpcfiiP I
Ship Scuds Message.
lilVKItl'OOU Oct. II. AHcr huriiiiiK l (lie walk's
cli, the hIciiiiiim' Vnllimin mink in iiiiil-Atlnntif la.sl l'ri
iliiy iiioriiini.
'She caniril five- hundred and .sixiy-four passcnp'i-s
and a rnuv of nincty-lluco on hoard. Of llicsc, one hun
dred ami thirty-six are missiuj;. lTndouhtcdly all per
illed. Ten hif; liners surrounded I he charred hulk when
it went down. At desperate risk to themselves Ihey had
rescued live hundred and twenty-one of the crew and pas
senders. The Volturuo was commanded by l-'raneis Inch, who
only won his captain's stripes two months if:. It
beloiiL'ed to the Canadian Northern Steamship company,
Fourteen Cabin Passengers Aboard,
Bound for New York Eighty
Seven Children and Babes Aboard.
LIT.UPOOL, Oct. 11. The tost
of the wii clean ii.cmihko first receive!
from Ci.plniii Ilurr of tliw (Innniiiiin
ooi.eorniiiK the Iimm of the Volturuo
amm ti follew:
"TlmrnilHy morning I walviM
window. ililrcM i'hII from Voltuim,
then Hociilv-filil mile off, K(iiH
ftlio was on fin-. The ('urm.iniii
ll'llllllll tOWIinl llIT i'tlll Speed.
Itcm-hcd Volliiriin nt noon. Slit win
better Icnown as the Koyal Line, but had been leased to burning fWc'v forwuid nnd rolling
Ibe Cranium Steamship company ol Holland.
October J she sailed from Rotterdam with twenty-fotir
cabin and five, hundred and forty steerage passenger,
bound for Halifax and New Vorlc.
;iIohiiii on Horning Sllp
I'l.n Kpir.oN Uiipldly Voltumn, hut, In the storm, each time
i:rly Thnrrtiy flru broke mil ui " il to got near tlio inncl
I I'...!. ...I t, ........... ,,....
board It inil to rapidly Unit Opt. '
Inch soon mw tint ship could not tio
m.mI, At bis oulwr fta wltt.loM
llaahiNl thi ". O. H." null for ulil.
henily. Tin' propcllnr hud fouled
Ilic tackle, so tlmt only two out of
tho my ImhiIm lowered pnt away. iln
oilier four were miiiiimIilhI. drowning
occupnuls. llitrr."
A HllllMMlll'llt Statement .ttl
hero by llio I'rniiiiiin company gno
fourteen Hh the iiinnlii'r or cabin
from ninny dlrortlat. nlil iomnsi
null Immediately.
Tho CunnrrtiT Ormnnln win only
smvttt) -right imIIm Rwny. Captain
itwrr ordrd full Iikiiii toward tho
Annul V o'clock Thumduy night iwrnmiiKi'm hound for New York, ami
there wm an implosion mi lint flam-1 tM.jr nnmo n follew:
liiK ship. A shower n( sparks wan "Itenhou lloin.or, Joseph Fnrbor.
hurled hlh In tho nlr. to (nil l'ni'k,,!o1iu Itrutr, Mr. Frieda Kmjr. Klhcr
nmny or thorn, upon tho flool of r- -),,,), ,.,lwi.. Klil., Cirl, Mm1,
HUERTA PLAYS ATHLETICS
T ; WORLD SE
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ROLE OF TYRAN
RES
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Provisional President Declares Both
Branches of Conness Suspended
and Assumes Dictatorship by For
mal Proclamation.
B R
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'All Mexico Terrorized When Huerta
Orders 110 Deputies Locked Up
for Probing Death of Opponent.
Eddie Plank Outpitches Mathcwson,
Holding Giants Down to Two Hits
New York Batters Unable to
Solve Old Master's Delivery.
Plank's Errcr Admits Only Run
Scored In Final Game by Giants
Philadelphia Starts Off In Lead.
(lie nulo ' ivns
reafe.cAisEzzgc?'
iiiiiii; llrnnnsin Oulrirlix, Jr., ft ' uii.iltlnrld w
Hoplioiuoro nt ('iliiiiiln.i miitr-jtv. I ". , ,
,-.,,, , loiiiiK Oplriplis is ii "rniulson of
wliofco fninilv ins Iii'cii irv nrnml-' , , ,,,,,, ,, . , .:
1 Old ".Inn ' hmr. mil. of llm ItiiiiMiirn
unit in Sow York soi-iol for -omt ii.,... (lr v.,.,,,1,,. ti... vn, ...,
fiftiTii yraw, Hti c1ihikn1 U Mi- iiioIImt u TinMi Fair. oIiUhI,
rtilhK llucr.
Willi (ho oxil(iffion tlio Volturno'ii
tti ffiiH ai noon Tliunxltiy.
rtm'iiorft Marrlillglitrt hmu to nliow
Ii.m I I r..lallml liiiuu.illliK.fil lit'ltllltL
If una mtrwiniii irrf nr' n iiiirk
1 . bt.....l lliiaimu nf umnll Knntu
- -..... 1. ... ..I. .... I. ll HtriUtllllMi IMKIMin IH llltlll ltn
innlo wink.
k. ,.. ..iii,.-1"f" !' MHliiB tlin wnt.-r for
i ..n .,. . ....,. u ai I .thlMII llllll IllllllllniltOil llllO)H
MIMIIIIT Iflll HIMHI! rwil. Ol I'lftllfl
liml litwii louoroil from tho liurnliiK
I were iiulrkly Inwiiroil ami Ix'Kim jilck
jlm; thtun up. Tho Hi'aruhtlKhU
woro
cinft. but iiuIiik to tho fmilliiK of (ho
liirKlii four of thoui wro hiihisIiihI
thrown ovnrhoitnl to khIiIo thoiu,
In tho Htorm nml ihirkno, how
over, many of thorn umloulitoilly pur-
oii tho Vnlliiriio'ri aliliM ami tholr nc-l' ", ,,,,.., ,. ,.... ,,.
....limit wor rtn.wn.il. Tho othorl ? """" "' "' '
Uo r.mrl.u.1 tho or,..,.. ifoly nurt , "'"""; " "l r ' '' ."T '
., . . IIIU IJIII lllHl'lilll. liuin mintitih "J ,,M
Vylllllllllllll.
IIouIIiik Cnlo ItrowlitK
Thoro whm a linwIliiK nno ami for
lliu Carmnula to run i'Iiiko to tho
Volturuo wan an umlorlaliliiK of tho
i;rontot illfflculty ami rtiiur.or.
Captain lltirr attutuploil It iu;alu
nml ukhIii, howovor. Tho llnoM
(IroiMur l'urMt ami Ht'lilllti rnmn up
nhmit o'clock Thurmlay nftornon.
I.a Tmiralnu, tlio Mlmmpollx, tliu
Krooutaml, thn Kappahaunock, tho
NiirniK'iiwtt. tho Duvoulau ami tho
IVar arrlvml noon aflorwanl.
ThrmiKhout TliurHiluy ulKht tho hli:
HhlpH iiiaiiouvorort I'onntiuitly In an
offort to rH chu ononith to tho Vol
tiirnii to tako of hor crow ami juih-
npuKcrK. All nun roppntcii narrow
hiniil,
lilfo llontN Hwiili Wn-rU
lty thin (lino tho Kalo hail almtoil
ami tho mm wiu not ho high. Sov
.oral llfohoatn miroci'iloil In rtmchlui;
'tho wri'ck nml IiiKIiik ff '" ro
jmiiluliiK piiMKonitorH. It wiih hut a
jfow iiiflinoiitH aftur tho'hiHt nun hart
Mipoii ri'hcui'rt bofuro tho Volturuo
I wink.
It waH U: IT. rrlrtay JiiornliiK wlion
I tlin work of riiM'tiu watt romplotoil
Tho Cannnnla hnil Btoort hy tho burn-
Ihk bout innrn than twenty-ono liniira
tho GroHnor Kurln ml tho Solrtllts
mwontoi'ii ami tho othom from four-
ttll'll to BlXtOI'll.
Cantaln llarr inarto a tolerably
MKXICO CITV, Oct. 11. Dcrhr
in hoth hrnnchcM of coiif;rpH hu-.-kji.iU'1,
Provisional I'n.iuVn( llnorln
pmotipnlly ;iwuiiiki1 a dictatorship
lioro today. Uit fonnal tiroclninntk)'!
ilissolvin tho national livinlnt.iri
announced that new fennton, nml
ilomticH would he chosen at the elec
tion October 2ti.
All Mexico wa terrorizud lat
niht when I'ro.-idnit Ilnorta onlcred
110 members of Hie chamber of dep
uties lockcil up for refusing to ilmp
an investigation into the kiliii.t; or
Kenntor Dumiiinos of rhiupn-i.
DnininueE was conductiwc n ani
pnijni auiiin.t llurrta.and wn mys-
teno.ly killed. The chnmlior of
iiopiitirs win couduutiui; an invfil!-
Kation into the killing.
WASIU.VOTON', Oct. ll.-Offieial-
loni iii M'timclv worried herp to
Her), Kla nml I'aiko flipMr, l.iedc
Sal.xiui', Miehnol SiiIimiio ami Arm
ond .Nuipoim.
SuilorH here Miiil. from nil ne
eoiiiiH. i In Vollunio inuil l.avo ir"'ii'
down nt iiIiiiohI the hihiii' spot lis tlu
Titanic. Tho liner Uranium wai on
fire ii'ivnlly in the winio locality, hut
the crew kept llio llniiuw under con
trol. At (ho lime of her los Ilic Vollur
no's chief officers were; Cantniu
FranciH Inch, Chief Officer II. P.
Miller, Chief Knniueor It. Dewar,
Surceon W. Carton, Purser V. V.
Ilrown nml Sic ward William Malilou.
Tim iiit.-en(ji'M iuclmled cihty
H0en yomi) clnhlreu and babies.
SEATTLE BLAZE
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WEEPS
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I i..i. I.. . .tii nf tint illdrtlltltt llV
............ frniu rolllKlnn with tho burn- l'"'l"" "'I " "" "--
""".''' '
lui; muol or with ono auotluir.
tali, llarr ran tlin Carmnula
Call-
wlrclcsa an noun hh ho could eatnh
IIhIi coninninlratlon with tho nearest
I ..... 1.... mi tlin .'..at iiul 11 f I r.l llllll
within ono hunrtrcrt foot of tho Vol- , . ,liia m11. ..
.11.11 ..HI IIIIIV, ..,. .,. MU..V ...w.-
iiiohhiii;cb through him,
Tho Carmanla was enntbouml but
l!ir of tlin Volturuo'H pnBOUKor aro
duo hero Tiumrtay nlKht or early
Woilncflilay on tho Kroonlaurt ami
(IroHsor 1'urnt.
turuu'rt tern hut fallml to cut n lino
to her beforo tho j;alo Hwopt hint
ailii In to to ureal a iIIhIiuich. l.lfo
boat after' lifeboat, trlml to reach tho
mm
EADER
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OFF FOR AMERICA
PARIS, Oct. 11. .Mrs. Kniinelino
I'uuUliui'ht, llio I'liniiiiiM mililnnl hii!'
fiai;cllo Icuiler, hiiIIciI from llaxie
for llio Unileil Slalen today nlioiinl
tho liner l,u l'lovcnce, llel'oro lcu
hK I'iiiIh jUi'.s. l'aukhurHl hiiiil:
"I ui-li to hciiiI lliroiiuli (ho Uiled
Slules KieelinuH t all men ami wo
men of America Htnmlini; for inure
hcullliv hociul couilltioiiH, for pulliiiK
liumuuilv on a lihthcr level nml for
llio mliiiluliilrl.llou of plain j.iblico lo
nil man
Liml.1
RAIN PREVENTS FIFTH
GAME NAPS VS. PIRATES
CI.KVKUND, 0., Ocl. ll.-ltuin
today prevented tho pluyini; of the
fifth glum) between llio Cloveluuil
Nap-t of (ho Ainoiionn Icauo nml tho
l'itlHburj: Pirn ton of llio Niitloiuil
Iciikuo. Kach club has won two
miuicH.
Football Finals
CarllBlo 7, Cornoll 0.
llrnwn 0, U.hIihih 0,
Army UU, Yalo 0.
Labor toinplea aro to ho eroded In
Hpi'h lUluM, ()., ami llulllimhain,
W'uHh.
SKATTI.K, Wn-.li., Oct. 11. Fire
linn nftenioon ilestroyed tho dry
kiln, plnuini; mill and Htorno shop of
llio pattern department of the Seattle
Construction iV Dryilook company. A
heavy pile, blowing at tlio tune,
threalcued a serious hlnr.e in Scat
lie's uianufacluriuj; district, hut of
feclivo work by tlio firo department
confined the flames to tho three
buililiugs destroyed.
I.....II.. Mi..L...t..... .....iiv ..irl. H.H. dmid.ler of the Il.m..i. Lin... x .(."""": "oiimv worne.. nere to-
.....: ,,..., ... .,..:" when he died, left (l1...,.i JM2.oiiiuin.i.,,.,?- "l w l 'r'v.M..nl I'res- .tuff In a frosh y
'" ,7 7 Z ,, ' ,,il""' w,h Virgin... Fair, who iv, V m "rr"t "f "" 1,"'.-iu" h
mobile mil-. She aflorwaruV n-eri- pm, Nijrs W(I. bow of Mexico s wg, and 1..., battler.
c.l that her cImwh were f..U.. ,,.,.1 Vaii.Icri.ilt, Jr. That vmm iiim i ,l,",c,nnlwt,n of . virtual dictator. l'lnnk lv
II... I k. u..c i,....rn.1 I.. .. l.,.,l...i!l...l.,.,...l I.. I...... ..I...... finniinnnn snip. Jl )US IlUlllllU'.l llllll IllOSIt- At tlio COnclllS
I - ' .-,....., .-..v..,, .. u.. .. I1.I....I .-,.. IT. Ill, VIM-. .
FATAL CYCLONE
WEEP
11
D
WIN
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1IAI.TI.M0UK. Mil., Oct. 11. Col.
(laillnrd, ono of thn httlldora of tho
Panama canal, IIoh iiiicoubcIouh horn
today In Kt. JoIiu'h houpltal. llo la
m.fforlnK from brain malady and It
In oxpectod to curt fatally booh.
Colonel (lalllaril docs not uvon roc0o
uUo Mm, Galllard.
REAL ESTATE DEALERS
FAVOR ALIEN OWNERSHIP
KVKKKTT, Wihh., Oct. 11. -Real
eslato dealeiH of tho Hlalo of Wash
ington in their second uuuual cou
venliou held in Kvorolt Priiluy passed
resolutioim fuvoring alien ownership
of laud and pledging llio association
to work to that cud.
CIHCAOO. Oct 11.- Loss of life
and heavy fiu.u rial damage is ic
Niitctl from scleral Wisconsin ami
Iowa towns today as a result of se
vero storms.
An nuconfirni.'tl report from To
mah, Wis., pays llio town has been
wiped out ami several persons killed.
Heavy dauiago is- also loporlcd at
Mansion, Ilillsl.oio, Union Center,
Wouowne, I.nvall.', Elroy and l'Vieml
ship, Vis. All wiio commuuiraliou
is badly crippled and it will ho sev
eral days before llio exact damake U
known.
At Aflon, near Tleloif, Wis., the
homos of Lconaid Mcliea ami Aithur
Jackson were demolished nml four
persons injured.
Waterloo, la., was visited by a
heavy wind, accompanied by a down
pour of rain and hail. Several build
ings wero blown down, lluildings
were ulso down at Sumner, In.
PRON
PriYICAN
SEVERELY
WHPPED
E
UllKMKHTON'. Wash., Oct. 11.
Hearing positive Indications that ho
had boon murdered, tho body of
Karl J. Mlucklor, second cIiisb elec
trician on tho United States Bteam-
Hhlp Now Orleans, was founrt yester
day, ttud In a sack, afloat on ltelllnt:
Hay near l'ort Madison,
M luckier rtlsappearcM on Soptom-
ber C last, ami his Identity was es
tablished hy marks upon his clothing
and articles In tho pockets. Thoro
wero brulscH on his throat and body,
which allowed that ho hart been
beaten ami strangled In death,
Mlncklor'H homo Is In Helena,
.Montana, where his mother. Mrs, J
t Mlucklor, now resides,
BY SUFFRAGEHES
r.OXDOX, Oct. 11. Catching him
just outside Hollowny prison, three
suffragette jmhmcim on Dr. A. For
ward, tho jail physician, today and
broke nil African sjambok, or ruin
ocerous bido whip, over ins shoul
ders. Tho doctor did not try to de
fend himself. The militant suffrag
ettes have hntcd him with especial
bitterness because of tho forcible
feeding under his medical administra
tion of suffragette prisoners in Hol
lowny prison.
Considering the rest of tho medi
cal profession, too, at fault for not
linviug protested against the Hollo-
way odors' methods, n suftrngette
war party lute yesterday smashed a
largo number of windows in Hurley
street, where there is a large medical
colony.
Suffragettes today denied the re
port that Mr. Paukliur.t did not sail
on I.a Provence for tho United
States.
nation
serious
Mwer.
may prove to
since Hucrtn
bo tlio n.o-t
came into
WRECK
VICTIMS
RUSSIAN
JEWS
POLO OIIOUXD8. NEW YORK,
Oct. 11. Kddlo Plank won tho
world's baseball championship for
Connlo Mack's Athletics hero this
afternoon when. In tho fifth Karoo
of tho series, tho Athletics annexed
their fourth victory by a scoro of 3
to l. Two lone singles was tho gross
hitting effect of tho Clants. Plank
duplicated Mathowson's offort of
tho second gamo when, llko his vet
eran contemporary, ho weathered
uvory storm and by n superb demon
stration of all thoiio thlttKS which
make for pitching excellence ho stood
tho Giants on their beam-ends.
Plank's southpaw was thoro forty
ways today and to tho very last flick
er had the stuff to ninko puny tho ef
forts of tho Giant batters. No kid
pitcher could havo displayed Krcator
ouiik arm than was
great aottysburi;
ALEXANDERS JURY
A jury in tho federal court late
Friday afternoon returned a verdict
in tho damage suit of J. A. Alexan
der against tho California-Oregon
Powor company, awarding him $-000.
lie asked for .fl."i,0iH).
Tho jury wns out about an hour.
Tho verdict was received without
protest, although it is understood an
appeal will bo taken. Tho testimony
showed that the company bad prev
iously offered him $1000.
Weather Forecast
Oregon Fair south, rain
port ion tnii'i'lit. Sunday,
southerly wimfe.
north
rniu,
TOItOXTO. Out.. Oct. 11 Tho
Canadian Northern Steamship com
pany nover ran tho Volturno. tt was
stated nt tho company's headquarters j
today but had kept It chartered to
tho Uranium company throushout
tho whole seven years It has been In
commission.
Most of the stecrago passongcrs on
tho lost steamer wero Russian Jews
bound for Halifax and Hollanders on
tholr way to Western Canada.
Tho Volturuo was valued at
$100,000 and insured for $300,000.
en Ovation
Ion of tho game his
teammates displayed their sentiments
In the matter by bearing tho veteran
twlrler from tho field on tholr
shoulders as the other Athletics
worked, a revolving wedgo through
tho throng of admiration-wrapped
rooters. Just as rortaluly as Plank
was there, Just so certainly wero tho
Giant batters not there, and whllo
the veteran Mnthewson pitched tho
full nine Innings without an earned
run being registered off his delivery.
(Continued on pago 2.)
PRICES DEPRESSED
MIAN
REBELS
CAPTURE WATER
SUPPLY SOURCE
NEW YORK, Oct. 11. Prices
wero depressed abruptly by largo
blocks of stock being thrown on tho
market at tho opening today. Now
low records for tho present decline.
woro made by many of tho loaders.
Union Pacific droppod 2U to 1307s.
Amalgamated lost 1 Vj . Caudanla Pa
cific, Smeltlug, Reading, Steel, In
torboro, Metropolitan, Louisville,
American Can ami Third Avenue lost
a point or moro.
Later oxccutlon ot stop loss or
ders accelorated tho decline, whlcu
ran from ono to two points, regis
tering tho lowest lovol ot tho week.
Ilouds woro heavy.
Tho market closed woak.
LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER
KILLS SELF ACCIDENTALLY
AUKIIDI-Uttr, Wash., Oct. 11.--Captain
llnmux Peterson, keeper of
tho Willapu lighthntiso nt North Cove,
ended bis life with u revolver hIiuI
Friday. It is believed tho shooting
wns iieeidenlul. Cnpluin Peterson
was (ill years of ago nml had been
In thf government senico eighteen
yeura,
SAN DIEGO, Cab, Oct. 11. That
four thousand rebels in tho hills
back of Mnntlaii have succeeded in
capturing tho wntcr supply of that
city is be'icvcd lierq, today nnd havo
sent nil ultimutum Tor u surrender.
Tlio rebels.' ultimatum wns deliv
ered October 1, tho day that tlio
steamship Heuito Juarez sailed from
Mazntluu. At that time 200 had
already taken refugo on tho United
Slates transport Uuford. Americans,
in nil parts of the interior had been
warned by messengers sent out by
tho American government to leave
tho country. Tlio cruiser Murylaml
was expected hourly, nnd immediate.
iy upon its arrival tho Huford was to
sail for Ounymns to pick up several
hundred other American refugees.
CAMINETTI FILES
NW
EXCEPTIONS
8AN FRANCISCO, Cal Oct. 11.
Counsel for V, Prow Camlnnttl filed
his hill of exceptions today In tho
Lola Norrls whlto slavory case. It
asserts that Judge Van Fleet erred
In not transferring tho case to Sa
cramento and admitted Improper
evidence to the tuno ot four hundred
typewritten pmccs.
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