Medford Mail Tribune
SECOND
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MEDFORD OREGON, HA'ITMUY, .TAX ('AMY 22, IQIH
NO. 259
HE SUES TRAiN IN CASCADES HURLING CARS 0
MOUNTAIN
AVALANC
1
FOURTEEN DEAD
IN DISASTER ON
GREAT NORTHERN
Diner and Day Coach Hit by Ava
lanche Near Corca and Hurled
Down Mountain Side Diner
Catches Fire and Is Destroyed
Sleeper Topples Over.
SHATTER, Wash., Jan. 22. Grcnt
Northern train No. 'J.", tliu Cnscndo
limited ,rliii'li left Spokane for Sont
tie Inst night, was struck by an ava
lanche near Corea station, on the
west h1oo of the Cascade mountninti,
100 miles from Seattle, at 7:lfi
o'clock thin morning anil the diuiu
car and day conch were torn from
Hit' train am hurled .100 feet down
the mountain Hide. The loan of life
i. unknown, possibly fourteen. K
rv person in the two cars must have
hceu killed or injured. The dining
car, which enntnincd five company
employes, caught fire. The day coaeu
did not take fire, hut there was dif
ficulty in entering it, owing to the
snow and tlopris with which it was
partly covorod. Tho engine and
other car remained on tho trnck.
The first passenger found hy the
rescuers wan a little hoy, alive, hut
seriously hurt. Tho ne.t two ms
scngcr were dond. Two dead and
three injured have been taken from
the dining car.
Illlti Train in Center
The nvalauolio struck tho train in
the middle. Tho dirior and day conch
were eiuried nway, and a sleeper, he
hind them, waft toppled over on itH
side and swung partly over tho bank,
but not taken down. There is a long
horseshop curve at Cortta, and th" two
cars that were at nick slid down
toward the trnck, eighty fl below.
The dinr stopped half way to the
trnck, caught fire nnd w destroy
ed, and tho day conch ootitinuod all
the way to the lower trnjtk. One dead
limn and three injured wero taken
from the diner and a charred body is
still In side.
Seven or eight injured passongors
and no dead wore taken from the day
coach. No attempt haa been made to
gather namci of dead ami injured.
.Sccno of Old Disaster
A similar neeident, in which nine-tv-three
nersons wero killed, took
place February 28, 1010, a few mile
west of the scono of today's disaster.
Two flrent Northern passenger trains
which had hoen detained two weeks at
To station by snow-slides in front
and rear, wero struck by an ava
lanche at night nnd carried several
hundred feet into n gulch. Noarlv nil
the persons on the trains perished.
The hodiet were not nil recovered Jit
(Contlnuod on last Page)
escape OF VILLA
T
by mmm
CHIHUAHUA CITV. Jan. 22 no
ports of the capture of Ueneral Villa,
or of poraons known to have taken
part In the Santa Ysabel massacre.
In which -eighteen foreigners were
killed January 10, are untrue, ac
cording tq a statoment by General
I.uls Herrora who dictated today the
following statement:
"Tlw bandits who assaulted the
train carrying some Americans wa
attacked by our forces from the San
ta Ysabel garrison at a point wiled
I Jayn and war completely dis
poned and four of them killed.
"With regard to the direct pnrsult
of Villa, General Cavasoa was charg
ed with this tags and as he at pres
ent at Ouerrero. ao report so far
haa bees received from hliu la this
office regarding bli campaign.
"Wo HaTO thme competent gnertl
laa ensagod exclusively5 pursuing
landlu whoOaiwauHed the train In
wlildi i lie American rode.
iSigavd) Ueneral LuU llerrera."
OHILLSGONFIRMED
AM
ERI
BY A MEXICAN
CATTLERUSTLER
Bert Akcrs, Rancher, Shot In Back
While Attempting to Recover Stolen
Cattle Across Border Self-Dc-fense
Is Plea of Murderer, Who Is
Prisoner In Hands of Mexicans,
EI, I'ASO, Tex., Jan. 22. Tho
tense situation at this border point
produced bv the Santa Yhabel mas
sacre was considered today to have
further been complicated when do
tail of the killing of Port Alters, an
American rancher from Yaletn, Tex.,
bdenmo known. Akera was slain by
Hernardo Durnn, n Mexican cattle
niHtler, in a fight yesterday at San
Lorenzo, Chihuahua, a villago n few
milos below tho border. With n com
panion, Douglas Down, nnd a Mexi
enn police officer, Akois Nought to
lvcover cnttlo stolen last Monday
from Mrs. Murphy, n neighbor, at
Ybleta, when Durnn with his brother,
IVcdorico, opened fire from tho roof
of their house.
General Gnhriel Gavira, command
ant nt Juarez from bin hendrpiartors
early today gave out a carefully dic
tated statement, in which be covered
the circumstances of the fntnl bat
tle (is they wero rolated to him by
llurnardo Durnn and hi brother, who
participated in tho fight, nnd by n
sound of Currauzu soldiers who hap
pened to be near the wene of the
froy, nnd who arrested the Mexicans.
(Halms Self Defense!
General Gaira declared that Du
ra n had claimed self-defense. The
general said, however, that ho believ
ed tho Durnns to bo cattlo thieve,
and emphasized the statement that if
found guilty they would receive
prompt punishment.
Akers was shot in the back while
riding n horse that also carried his
companion, Douglas Downs, who
reached Ysletn last night. Downs ro
portcd that the Durnn brothers, one
of whom is Kiii.l in have nerved n term
iu the state Muitentiary of New Mox
ico, had been ninniiiir Ainencnn cat
tle across the border for weeks. Thov
wore said to have been mutilated in
various ways such as cutting off thoir
ears to prevent identification.
Akcrs' body was brought to Juarez
for purposes of identification by n
sound of police sent out by Gouorni
Gavira. Tho Duran brothers are in
jail awaiting proceeding which Mex
ican authorities declared would re
sult in tho prompt administration of
justico.
Shot in tho Itack
General Gavira's statement of tho
circumstances af the killrag were
supplied largely by Juan Harriott, a
secret seivice offioial of Juarez, who
was detailed to aid Akers and Downs
in recovering tho cows.
Downs said thoy woro trying to get
awav front tho Duran house when the
cattle thiovos open firo and that Ak
ers was shot in tho back. Duran was
lound leading; tho horso on which the
Americans had tried to escape. He
declared ho did not know the men
woro Aniorienns until he examined the
body of Al.er.
OF
COPKNtlAGHN, Jan. 11, via Lon
don. The Norwegian town of Molde
was still burning at midnight. The
grantor part of It baa already been
reduced to aaaee and it Is threatened
with entire destruction. Nearly 1000
people are bomelesl. No casualties
have been reported.
An earlier dlsoateh announced that
the fir, which sUrted at Molde. Jait
uary SI. had consumed the central
part of the town and that the flames
wero being fanned by a high gale.
Molde nfa small seaport on tho Ua
of Molde, to the southwest of Chrts
tlansed. It haa many historic asso
ciations and conducts a tradu in tim
ber, tar uud tulii
AN UN
DEATH TRAIN AT SANTA YSABELLA, MEX., GATHERING BODIES OF
ELE JbT fk IJl JJPjWjjfc Vi TTJJLci ft flHssaw'lrBM. jW',ak'V YbVKa Vjj Ovj 's T'iTiwlvi
TO BREAK ICE JAMS ' S
IN ILLINOIS RIVERS i . liilBrW)
CHICAGO, Jan. 22 A cold wnvo
said by tho weather bureau to ho
Hwccplng eastward from tho Itocky
"Mintnln roplon today was hl'l
as bringing hopo for relief from flood
conditions which prevailed In Illi
nois and neighboring states yoster
day as the roeult of torrential rains
following a rapid rlio In temperature,
"With thousands of portions tem
porarily homoloss, property losses
running Into uundreda of thousands
of dollars, railroad traffic Interrup
ted antT fidferal cities facing a pos
sibility of epidemic as the result of
pollution of thulr drinking water by
tho flood, tho rocedlng waters were
watched with considerable anxloty.
Delated roporta reaching Chicago
early today told of extensive havoc
wrought In city and countryside
within a radius or fifty miles or Chi
cago. Hundreds of farms In tho Kox,
Desplanes, Itock nnd other river val
leys aro Inundated.
Jollet. Aurora and ISIain. III.,
forod most from the floods. Streets 'Norwegian freight steamer Sygnn to river today. Mayor Charlen ('. Monro
and bnsomonta woro flooded, much put baok to thin port todny after bar- j died of heart failure caused by ox
.lowland Inundated and realdenta ink' nailed yeateidny for Archangel I oitcmont iu trying to restore, order,
horoon drIVon from thoir homo, whllo' with u large nargo consigned to tho 'Many of tho roaidinila wore panic
in a fow casoa the house wore
od off their foundations nnd oarrlod
away by the wators.
.At all throo points dynareto was
used to break the Ice Jama which
held the water In chock and with
tbceo brokon and the waters subsid
ing many porsons were ablo to return
to their homes today.
In Chicago water in the sowers
bached up and hundreds of basements
woro flooded.
L
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r
IUTTE, Mont., Jan. 22.--IW de
cision rendered in the United States
distnet court twlay the Kim Orln
Mining company, a W. A. Clark cor
poration, gains title to immensely val
uable bodies of mineral formerly
claimed by the Uutle & Superior com
pany. Oro boilies involved in tho lit
igation aro of an estimated value of
$20,000,000.
Tho court holds that the Elm Orlu
company is entitled to 300 foot of
these voins by o.xtra lateral rights. It
had claimed IfiO feet. The court de
cided thnt ISO feet of the disputed
ground belong to the Ilutte & Super
ior. Representatives of the Butte A
Superior stated the decision is not
unfavorable to them, since their olaim
before the court was centered upon
holding the 150 feet or ground award
ed them.
ARKANSAS niVER ENTERS
HIGH FLOOD CONDITIONS
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Jon. 22.
Tho Arkansas river entered flood
condition this morning when urgent
waruiuga were seat by the loeal
weather bureuu of nesding rises. The
waruiug predicted 34 fHV at Itttle
K.'.k ti,,od tage 2J- Tuesday
-- v m w
,,.ut
GOURTGIVESC
ARK
$20,000,000
RE
IV- - MmJ
Only iiiiulvvIio IliiiMicU liaiullcap with death; Tom IKdmcs, Iteing iv
tniKM with his fnnilly at HI Piiso after Ills cscapo from Villa's firing
squad.
MYSTERY
VEILS
EIREONNORWEGIAN
STEAMER
SYGNA
NEW YORK, Jan. 22. Mystery
auf-'aurroundod tho fire which forced tho!
float-'luiaainn govommont. Tlie lire houl
I William Gaynor met tho frohjhtor nnd
after quantities of steam had been
turned into tho Sjgna's hold, it was
.believed the fire -waa under control,
Offiiiora fit' tliu fwii'lilitr ani.l t lint
so far as they know no oi-plosion pro-freaml that the ontire valley irould grnuon nas neen in. iukmi in mo imr
eoiloil the firo, but they were unable1 be iHiindatetl before nightfall. Kf- "wnngratioii bill, which is to be
to offer nn oxplanalmn of how the 'foils were made to repair tho hnwk, ",lM!r,'". to "' ,10,"'(! wxi ,uk h'
blaze drigiimtatl. Asked if thera waalbat so far they bate been uuaiiouoss- ,u. '"lratioii eoromittee. fho pro
evidence that th fire had h offul. The government levee on helv,u"w culmination of efft.rta 1
incendiary origin, the officers aaid :' California side of the liver nlno gave lf l ",;it'!' 'her, pritposes
'Thnt it was soon to Im aeteruined , way and great damag to the irriga- fhe "'n. f Ui Iiiwwn and yel-
bv an investigation."
Tho Sygnn will Is docket, partly
unloaded and examined to determine
the cause of the bhue. Steel roils
land Mirious forms of structural steel
i were said to he iu the fiottom of the
j forehold, while on top of thin mater
ial was ti inrgo amount oi railway
Kupplioa, chiefly steel oar jmrt fjpr
assembling in Kitssiu.
Norton, Ully A Co., agents for the
Sygnn, asserted the treightor did not
carry any munitions or highly ";
flammable inatcrinl.
ALLIES BOMBARD
PARIS. Jan. 22. -A dlspaUli from
Milan to tho Temps n that the
squadron of sixteen wtrshlns of the
allloo whlgh on Wednesday last hum
barded Porto Lagos, the llulgsriaa
seaport on the Aegean noar the Greek
border, also shelled the military bar
racks and railway station at Dedeag
hateh and destroyed u military train.
The dlapateh adds that among the
attacking vaawls waa tha Italian
cruiser Plemaate.
PBTROOltAU, Jan. It. KiAlan
torpedo boats In the Black sa, it
waa aNHOuacad hare to4aj. buv- sunk
i ... -. ... .....
' two Wrktvti ships ioaaeu wun war
!uPPlle- The crews were made prls -
Oners,
BULGARIAN
19 AMERICANS KILLED DY RODRIGUEZ' BANDITS IN MASSACRE
YUMA
DEO
WEN
COLORADO
L
Yl'MA, Ariz., Jan. 22. Yuma tvns
EVEES GIVE WAY
flooded by water from the Colorado
alrioKeu. ater whs rusiung liirougn
' tho main street several feet duep,
'washing away many of the older
buildinga.
The go eminent leveo protecting
' iimu vallPi' linikM (imIuv nml It U'flH
tion project there was feared.
Acting Cntttaiu Kuiiiwou with
Cttniuuiy I), Twelfth I'. S. Infantry,
tns aiding in atndling the city.
A committee to take charge of the
local situation was aiHwiuted today
at a eitiaeua' muss tneetiriif. Polieing
of the city was placed in ehargu of
the sheriff, chief of Mthce, Acting
Captain Hunifnton of the United
Htatcs army anil Major Donkersleu
of the Arixona national guard. Com
munication with the Imperial valley
f Ciilitorma was Mcrcd and not)
ik-lm.ie ....hi be burned of the
enliilitlnii llifir.
OLYMI'IA. Wah., Jan. 22. The
.contcn-ion lat niKht of Frank W.
Stone, alleged aet'iilupliec lit the slate
itccidciit iuKUuur-c frauds that he
forged the hffcirious claims, halted the
trial of (lilhcs today until Judge
Mitchell can rule on the motion of the
slate to limestone indorsed as a
htute willies.. The ronfvssiou eame
uii'XH-rtedlv and i-aught the Gillie-,
llrli n -r nit il- uunrd. JiuIku Mililull
rub d Hii-. iiiiiiiiin thnt lieldiv ,Stone'-
li.uiif I'Hi'd lie llidiirrd a-, u Uitni'xn
i .... .. mm. !.. 1st
, jor wie siuie uu aiuusvii wouiu nave
, to be tiled mukiSJr u shouiug why
'mu-U ucikjii aliuuiu ne lUktU.
NE
CONFESSES
INSURANCE FRAUDS
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General Joso ltoriiipit', hauler of
Iwudits. iaturcI and cxccuttsl hy
rnrrnnrii titMHs.
T
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.- A pro
ision to exclude Hindus as well us
Chinese ami restrict Jupuncsa, iniini-
low races, with cortaiii passport ox
eeptious."
This aotfou to which the commit -tee
has been plnlgetl lo a d hero until
the bill emerges from the committee
became known today.
Itewtgee the provisions regarding
Hindus, Chinese and Japanese, the
bill broadens the penalties to "fine
and imprisonment" where the measure
heretofore coutemjjMted held only
"fine or imprisonment."
The ltfovisinu for exclusion of the
yellow and brown races, with certain
'"'"P'''ins specified, is regarded !
luemhers of the committee as pmpoN
ing absolute exclusion of Hindus and
Chinese and as putting into legal
form the Itool-Takaliini agreement f
between Japan and tho United States
under which immigr4ilon of laborers
in re-trieted.
ABOARD MAY FLOWER
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. -President
uiul Mrs. YViUoii, aboard the na
val yaeht Mayflower, today were
cruising down the Potomac, hound
for the waters of tha Chesapeake
bay. The trip, which la to occupy
two days, was t.iUtu to enable the
lircMdt'iit to prepare in seclusion the
iiililrc- he -. t" make in N'nw Yoik,
' Jmii iar 27. at th
h'.iilro.id Pusuuiss
haniiuet aud to
Meh ii--ui'iiitlil
I. m. . t . t I
lenmtiveiy urart otiiere lie is lo wake
.on nutional prepareilness ou his tnid-L
"tile Ht'-U'lU Hip.
HAN
X N
YELLOW AND BROWN
PEOPLES OF OMEN
ROOT ENDORSES
ADKIRAIN
AW PBM
Two Former Secretaries of War,
Elltiti Root nnd H. L. Sllmson, Fa
vor Continental Army Plans ef
Secretary Garrison The National
Guard Useful Only for State.
WASHINGTON, Jnn. 22. Two
former socretnilos of war, both un
der republican itdiniuiHtrationH, in
dorsed tudny Sccrotnry Garrison'$
army program.
Klibu Hoot, in n letter rend before
tho National Security league at its
final Roaaiou, nseortcd that "thoro aro
good things in Secretary Garrison's
plnn. Tho tloing of thorn would bo
lirogrcss in the right direction. Don't
lose those good things, oven though
you find you can't at. this timo givo
sotuothinc mora in itho snmo dircc-
'lion."
Honrv L Stimaon, in u HpeucJi ml
voeating compulsory universal mili
tary service us tho runl solution of
nntionul defense, indorsed Secretary
Garrison's plnn ns "sound nnd Intel
ligent," nnd advocated its ndoption,
"if congress is not ready yot to sanc
tion universal training," as tho sound
initial step.
National Guard of Statc.i
"It ia idle," wrote Mr. Hoot, "to
talk of developing tho nntionnl gunrd
Itself into nu udemmto nnnv for nn-
'tionni defense, nnd any such attempt
would incvitnbly result in tho failure
of the whole movemont and tho wnsto
of all tho onorgy and offort devoted
In it. Tho national gunrd is for stnto
purposes, hot us tnko tho first step
of any sort of n program thnt is dl-
reeled toward n national trained citi
ien wildlory under tho instruotion nnd
ndmluistmtiou nnd loudorship of an
adeipiato, though small, regular
army."
Doelnring himsolf in favor of com
pulsory universal militnrv scrvico ns
the true solution of tlio dofonso prob
lem, Mr. Stimaon snid ho regarded"" tliu
program now ndvnuood by Seorctnry
Garrison ns tho sound initial step.
"If congress in not yet ready to
sanction uuivorsnl training," ho said,
"tho measures whloJt pro unnoted
should bo thoso which, so far as thoy
go, aro in nocord with this groat fun
damental duty, nnd which, nH timo
pnoe and o.xporionoo ripon9, will
load most naturally to tho ostnblish
hieut of Mich ii system."
"Tho national guard iu, other than
tho regular army, our only present
force of ovou partinUy trulnoiT sol
diery. Nothing should bo qlono to
discourage its work, but, on tho con
trary, everything to stimulnto nnd
eueourage it shnuhlbo done. KiiKour
ageiuent should bo iu tho dirootlou of
transferring it wholly into tho serv
ice of the federal government nnd not
of perpetuating it in iu present
statu-.
E
I'KKINO, Jan. 22. The rebels in
the province of Yunnan lutvo dofoatcd
a body of government troops and uro
moiug northward.
The ongngomout betwoou tho Yun
nan revolutionists and tho fcderul
forcos took plnoo nt Suifu, Szo
Chuuii provluuo, tho robola hnving
crossed tho northern bordor of Yun-
,11(411.
The foree opposing them nt Suifa
was the garrison of that plnoo and,
after defeating it, the rubola march
ed northward toward Tioliu Tsing,
jtpimreutly with tho intention q mov
ing on to Cheng Til, tho capital of
Vise-Omen provinee.
Mauv ko eminent troops from
Hankow wile .limine at ChunK-KIng,
en the Yangtsv-KiBiujr, iu Szo-Chuen
province, but the nuvigfttlon on tho
river above hero is difficult.
CHINESE
REBELS
W N C
TORY
OR
GO
RNINIARMY