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MKOFORl). ORlXiOX. SATl'UDA V. .JAN'TARY '.!0, 1917
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LAST "ALOHA" MAY SOON BE SUNG
II LOSE LIFE
WHEN SEATTLE
THREE U-BOATS NATION PAYS
FINAL TRIBUTE
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LONDON IS
THREE BURN TO
FOR FAMOUS QUEEN OF HAWAIIANSj gj 5 SCOUTS !
DEATH N HOTEL
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Munition Factory Blows Up With
Tremendous Roar, Setting Entire
Neighborhood Ablaze Forty Bod
ies Recovered From Ruins and
Over a Hundred Injured Entire
Country Shaken as Smaller Ex
plosions Follow.
LOXDOX, Jnn. 20. lletuecn
thirty mul forty bodies have boon re
covered today us a result of the ex
plosion in n munitions factory now
London lust night. Practically all
the explosives as well as t lie factory
wero entirely destroyed. The effects
wero felt at a great distance and
three rows of small houses in the
neighborhood were ulmost demol
ished. About 100 persons are reported to
have been injured seriously.
LONDON, Jan. 20 Last' niRhfs
explosion was not only heard within
a rndins of ninny miles from the
scene, including; London and subur
ban towns, but shook buildings and
'rokc windows a long distance away.
" In normal times n panic probably
would have resulted in the theaters,
where the audiences were just assem
bling and in other public places, but
tho population in this case was re
markably cool.
Tho general churaeler of the ex
plosion, as it wns experienced, in the
center of London, was a roar of
short duration, as though a vast res-
. orvqir of (?us hud ignited and eun
Kimied'in one burst of flume. A tre
mendous puff' of fire flashed high
into the air and then quickly subsided.
Eyewitnesses in suburban towns said
the flame had disappeared a full min
ntc before thev heurd the roar which
accompanied it.
Iliv Follows rtUv-l".
Kilo had broken out more than a
quarter of nn hour before the explos
ion and firemen were on the spot
lighting; it. The day shift of work
ers in the neighborhood were with
their families at their evening meal.
As swiftly as a battle-hip is wrecked
by a magazine explosion, the chem
ical works were virtually wiped off
their foundation and with them the
flour mills adjoining and blocks of
workmen's dwellings.
Heavy clouds of smoke and flumes
rose to a great height throughout the
night, but the worst of the destruc
tion had been accomplished in the
minute of the explosion.
Tho following official announce
ment in regard to the explosion was
given out here today:
"At about 7 o'clock lust night fire
started at a factory in the east of
London, near the river, which was
employed on refining explosives.
V Fortunately n few minutes elapsed
after the commencement of the fire
before the explosion ( urred. during
which interval many operatives were
able to escape.
KartoiT 1'Cti-nyeil.
'"The explosion appears to have in
volved practically all the explosive
in the factory, which wits itself com
pletely destroyed. Fires were caused
in neighboring warehouses and fac
tories, one of the largest of which
was an important flour mill. The ex
plosion was felt for a great distance.
Three rows of small houses in the
immediate neighborhood were practi-
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FREQUENT RAINS
WASHINGTON', Jnn. 20. The
weather predict ions for the week be
ginning Sunday, issued by the
weather bureau today, are:
"Rocky mountain and plateau reg
ions; Generally fair, except local
noffs are probable over north por
tion by Wednesday or Thursday.
Temperature will eontimie below sea
sonal average.
''Pacific states : Frequent rain
probable in northern California, Ore
and Wa-hing(nn, Southern Cal
ifornia generally lair; teiuHUature
he'ow seasonal average."
Assistant Fire Chief Killed, One Man
Missing and Eight Injured When
Roof of Grand Opera House Col
lapses During Fire That Guts
Structure.
SEATTLE. Wash., Jan. 20. The
tJrand Opera house, on Cherry street,
near Third avenue, was binned this
morning. Assistant Fire Chief Fred
(lillani was killed, another man is
inis? ing anil eight men were injured.
The alarm was turned in at li:l."
o'clock. At that time the interior of
the opera house was burning fiercely.
Firemen entered the building with
hose, ami while they were ut work
the roof crushed down, burying them
all. The tall Alaska building mid the
Hotel Hector, adjoining the theater,
were saved. The (Irund, built nearly
twenty yeurs ago, was once the prin
cipal theater of Scuttle, but Cutely had
been a moving picture and continuous
vaudeville house.
With the northward growth of the
business district the theater became
unprolitutde. It was built for John
t'ort, and was under his management
for 'a dozen years or more.
List of Injured.
The seriously injured are: Ocorge
I'oyd, broken leg and bad bruises
about the head and body; t'hurles A.
Hull, broken right shoulder and cuts
about the body; Otto llooncy, broken
right mm and bad bruises.
Those slightly injured are: Hon
M. Ginley, badly cut und shocked; J.
M. Longhi'un, bruised; L. lirunsou,
shoulder injured;-, L. Shuughnessy.
cut und bruised; A', li. t'olliurn, cut
and bruised. ' J- ,
The injured men verc removed lo
hospitals.
Assistant Chief Oillain was lake:
from the flames with both feet cluirr
eel and his body badly crushed and
burned, lie was rushed toward the
city hospital, but died before the am
balance arrived there.
The fire started shortlv after li
o'clock on the fourth floor of the
theater building. The building is n
brick structure extending four stories
from the street, but with a fifth story
in the shape of a slightly sloping roof.
Ituililing Collapses.
A Japanese janitor noticed the
rlanics shooting from the fourth floor
und turned in an alarm. When the
firemen arrived the entire roof was a
mass of leaping flames, which threat
ened the liector hotel building at the
right and the Alaska building ut the
left. The firemen soon checked the
flumes. Host of them had entered
the building and were playing water
on the flames from within when, with
a resounding crush, the roof col
lapsed, pinning the firemen beneath
debris and heavy pillars.
L. Hrniison and A. 11. Colburn were
working on the flames from the gal
lery of the theater when the collapse
came. They were carried two floors
to the main floor of the theater. The
others injured were working on the
stage.
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ON SERETH RIVER
BKHLIX, Jan. 20. The town of
Nauesti, in Rumania on the Sereth,
was taken yesterday by German
troops, It Is announced officially.
I'KTUOG RAD, Jan. 20. In the
face of an attack in the Nanestl Hec
tor along the Sereth line on the Ru
manian front the Kunsians were
pressed back towards the Sereth, the
war office announced today as fol
lows: "In the region of Haras, ten miles
south of I.amuntelu mountain, the
enemy attempted an offensive, but.
was thrown back. Southeast of KaUo
tlach the enemy also attacked with
out sneieJ'R. Here the enemy used
explosive bullet.
"On the Nanestf front in the vicin
ity of th River Rimnik the enemy
pressed hack our detachments toward
the Kiver Sereth.
"Muring the lRst engauenients with
the Turks It was discovered that tl.
used explosive bullet "
New Rosh Hotel In Lower Part of
City Destroyed One Roomer Se
verely Burned Eight Lodgers Res
cued by Firemen Overheated
Stove Causes Blaze.
PORTLAND. Jan. 20. Three men
were burned to death and a fourth
received serious Injuries la a fire
that gutted a hotel in tho lower part
of the city shortly before dayhreuk
today.
The dead are: Taylor Washburn,
Keliio, Wash.; Krnest Marquette.
Portland: Thomas Lauren, Portland.
Frank Talbot, a motorman in the em
ploy of a Portland street railway
company, was seriosly Injured while
making bis escape through a Hecond
story window. Ho was burned about
the chest und cut on bis arms and
head by f lass. As tar as can be
learned the killed were laborers.
Ulght other lodgers, including two
women, were carried by firemen
down ladder from the second story
windows.
An overheated stove In the hallway
of the second story was the cause of
the fire. The stove stood near the
head of tho stairs, cutting off flight
in that 'direction. ,
The hotel wus the New iiosh and
occupied the two upper stories of a
thrco story . frame structure. The
loss to the building prabably will not
exceed $1000. Marquette and Laur
en died as they slept, evidently, as
their bodies wero found in their beds.
Waslihurn was aroused by the flames
und fled Into the hullwuy. where he
was overcome. Talbot, the injured
motorman, said ho received his in
juries when he,. suiuh'id a window
with his baud and escaped onto an
adjoining roof.
1 COAST
liCKNOS AIKKS, Jan. 20. Ac
cording to press Uispntehos from Rio
Janeiro, a stranne fiteaniHhtp with
four smokestacks painted black, lias
been sighted off (Vara. Brazil, run
ning at high speed. Word of this
vessel was brought by the men on
a .steamship which arrived yesterday
at Hahia, Hrazil, who say they saw
the steamer.
The Cerman raider which has been ;
operating In the south Atlantic is re-J
ported to be equipped with collap-:
sible smokestacks, the number of
stacks being changed at intervals to
disguise the identity or the vesl. !
The state of C'erna is in the north !
of Brazil. '
AMERICAN CONSULATE
AT ALGIERS ROBBED
I'AlilS, Jan. !tl. The American
con-ulate ut Airier. hii entered by
hurulur- on Tuc-dny niubt, iiceordin;r
In tlie Matin. The afe was broken
open and all papers in it were fftolcn.
MAYOR SEIZES CAR OF COAL, CUTS PRICE
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Seiiite of coat by (he carload by Mayor laVfrur of '" l0'""'"1. !"! the prhe ami made It (mis-
.tb! for Hie HMr l jwh-iii-p fuel. Y lien coal InMiimc cjnrp and hiuh, Ihe inaor, with poll emeu, uenl lo ilie
rnllroml ynnU. confiMatrd roul and dd it. The picture, crlolw to The Mail Trlhuire, dion om ,f ilo
rai lcd with n Hiliriiiui on united.
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Queen I.ilhiokalaiii, who is serioii
ually sinking. Owing to hci
for her i-ecovery.
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STATES
WASHINGTON', Jan. 20.-The
(ierniitn admiralty slatenient tliat the
neutral -subjects in the crews of ilie
vessels captured by the (iennan
raider in the south- Atlantic have
been "removed as prisoners of war"
will raise a complicated question if
any Americans are amoii them.
Tile ( whole question lurns on
whether an armed merchant ship is a
war vcs.-cl and the yull' between t!tis
country and (iermaiiy on that que..
tion is still unbridled. Of course,
Americans on such ships could be
considered prisoners of war only
if the vessels were considered as war
vessels.
No indication has been received
,,(,
that anv of the vessels sunk 'y
German raider were other than de
fensively aimed. The state dciia:'t
ment has held throughout that a ve ;
sel cannot be clas-ed as a waisliip
unless it is under ii.ivnl orders, flics
the naval flaj; and is manned by na
val clew.
The Genu an admiralty statement
made just at 1 i lime on the armed
ship issue between the two count lie-.
indicates the situation is becumiin;
more complicated anil was taken to
forc-liadow a ui"ie pronounced atti
tude as (.i the qtie-tiou on Gennany'
part. I), f. Wilson of Sains Valle
in Medford Friday.
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sly 111 in Honolulu and reported tfi-ntl-
d age,
7K, little hope Is entertained
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ON SOME HEM
ItKUl.lX, Jan. JO.-The rcul.-e of
lii'itih patrol attacks anil ilie. mic
ccssl'ul carrying oul ol' reciumoiler
in o)K'i'al inns (ierinaii troops on
the Kraiieo-lteliau front are
ed bv the war office (o.lay.
rcpor
IlKliUN. Jan. 2(1.
forces w hieh recimtly
sion of (icrmnn trench
The
Mritish
tonk pi(St'S-
near Serrc.
on the Soiiime front
Mililarv critic of ill
arc s:iitl by the
tlverseas News
agency to have snt'lcrcd heavy losses
in attempting to h"ld thee positions.
"After Ilie l!rilili slicceciled ill ol)
laininu' a footing in the Herman sal-
' it'iit on January 1J." he writes, "lllcv
.-lii'lled lieaMly lor live days iicnnan
Irenclii's which hail been abaniloncd
on tlie following nibt, ami did not
venture lo oeenpv tlie-e positions un
til January 17. Ina.-iiiueli as tile
trenebes had iieen destroyed, viviii":
no protection, and as the tiermail ar
lillery had the exact iiin-je. a hellish
lire wa- showered on tlie llriti-h
troops eoweriii'- in the open field.
They were eolnpelled lo retire with
heavy lo-s,.s ;l several plaecs.
'Kor eerel days military activity
ba- Iieen impelled by snow at many
point-. There ha- I n little riylitin-
exeept artillery duel-, wliicb rejodied
a piteb id' I reineiidoii- intcti-ily south
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Submarines of New Type Accompany
German Pirate Three Americans
Members of Crew of Steamer Yar
rowtlale Captured by Raitler antl
Taken Into Port by Prize Crew.
HID .1 AXHIKO, Jan. 2. Tlio .lor
nale Pcqneno of I'ernainliuco asserts
that it has Information that tho Ger
man raider Is accoinpanlel ny three
small Mihniarines. These slionini'ines
are raid to he six meleif In leliKlh
and of an entirety new t 'oe. .Mem
bers of the crews of sliii's sank by
(lie raider and who haw iieen held
lil'iponer on lioard her, are quoted as
sayiiiK that the submarines cCKHiiiit-
ly leave tho mother ship and ro ap
pear after short'intervals. r.pparently
doing scontinK duly. T l say lllut
(he raider lias a speed or t .venty rive
knots, hut slows down dininf the
nlKht.
NKW YOltK, Jan. ' .--Tliree
Americans were niemliers of the crew
of tho HrltiKh steamer Yanowdalo,
captured by the German raider and
taken into a German port by a prize
crew, according to the records of the
British consulate here.
Dispatches from Ilerlln last niv'ht
said that the Yarrowdale had brought
in 409 prisoners, crews from other
captured ships, among them lull sub
jects of neutral nations, but no men
tion was made of there being any
Americans among them.
The Yarrowdale's crew numbered
UT. Her ei'rgo, consisting chiefly of
contraband was worth about $2,000,.
000, shipping brokers estimated to
day and the fchlp itself, based on the
present prte of ocean tonnage, 'be
tween $1, .'00.000 and $2,000,0(10.
Conveited Itaitler.
NKW YOltK. Jan. 2 0. Tho warn
iiiK Heut out by wirelesn to vhh1.h of
the entente allies by the British all
tliorities, that the captured llritlHh
merchantman Sl. Theodore had been
converted Into a (icrman commerce
raider, was pointed to today by local
shipping men as tending to prove
that at least two German raiders are
at lai'Ke In the Atlantic ocean. It
won recalled that a steamship hud
been sunk Kouth of the equator with
in eisljt (lavs after the Samland had
slKhted the raider December -1, about
4 00 miles west of Kastuet. Kor any
vessel to have covered the distiince
In that time, it was said, would have
been an Impossibility.
Docks at Kivineimteiidc.
AMST KKDA.Vi. Jan. Aeeord
inr to nn oflieial statement from
Iter! in, sny the Cologne (iazet'e. the
ltritih slejuner Yarrowdale, carrviu
erew-i of earners eat urcd by t he
(icrman raider in the Atlantic, vn
bronchi into the port ot S ineinueude,
rrus.-ia.
The official .statement frhi Iterlin
Friday flight, reporting; the arrival
of the Yarrowdjile in harboi on le
eember '. hi.-t, a- a prize of tlie
(icrinaiu raider, did not indicate the
) mi t at whieli -he arrived.
Sv iiK'Minendc in I'oinerenia, ea.-t
of Sicttin, of which it U (lie outport.
The town i on the Swine river, one
of the ehanncis cotllieet in the Stet
tiner I la IT with the I'.allie ea. Ycs-.-eU
ea pt u red hy 'icrman war era It
have fieoiienllv been taken into
Swinenilieiide
ui previous
NKW Yo(K, Jnn. 'JO.- -The Itritish
steam-hip Toflwood, earryim: n cargo
worth $7iU. OUil, wa- submarined and
sunk 'in her voyage shirting from
New York on Clm-tmus day, aei nrd
itig to advice- received here by the
French line, which cleared the es-el.
The me--age received from Havre,
ihe pint to which the Toft wood ".u
bound, did not say when and where
the freighter was sunk or uive the
circauisl:nces of the attack. Tlie
cablegram wn- dated January 17,
Tbe To 1 1 wood carried a general
enr-o, u Inch included machinery,
-Icet and twine. She look no ammu
nition and no foot! -hipiucitl--, accord
iiiLT I" Kreneli line ollicial-. The ve--sel
m a- of lm; i,,,,, ,.,
Funeral of Admiral George Dewey
Imposing Private and Public
Ceremonies Attended by President
and High Government Officials
Middies Form Escort.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 'JO. Ad J
Uliial Dewey was laid lo rest today
with nil the honors a erntcful nation
can bellow.
After funeral services conducted
under Ihe dome of the capital und
attended by President Wilson, tho
cabinet, the supreme court, the dip
lomatic corps and a notable company,
the admiral's body was taken to Ar
lington national cemetery to rest with
those of naval heroes pme before.
Two of Dewev's commanders at tho
battle of Manila buy Ucn.jnmin I
Lambertou, the fleet captain, and
Captain Joseph' I'. Cojihlnn of tho
ruiser Raleigh, lie nearby. Not tar
i way on the wooded slopes rest
Sehlev and Sampson,'
Attended hy President.
Private sitvVh at the home wero
nllcndcd bv President Wilson, Secre
tary Daniel and a limited company.
The funeral parly then moved to tho
capitol. All business of the govern
ment was suspended for the day; all.
private business in Washington Mop
ped for an hour. On every American
naval ship on the seven sens an en
sign fluttered at hnlf-tuast and nn
admiral's salute of nineteen guns was
fired.
The entire corps of midshipmen
from Annapolis, who came not under
orders, but as Admiral Dewey'n
friends, as be bad wished, escorted
Ihe body to Ihe rotunda of the cnj
ilol, where Chaplain J. It. Frazicr,
chitphiiu of the Olytupia at -Manila,
buy, conducted brief and simple fu
ueial services. Mrs. Dewey did not
accompany the funeral party to (ho
capitol, but joined it on the way tn
Arlington.
Kseoited hy Middies.
The private services ut the honid
were begun promptly ut 10 o'clock.
Soon (hereafter a procession of mid
shipmen escorting Ihe admiral's body
mo veil along Masacliuetts avenue
for the plaza of the capitol and into
the rolundn where the body was
placed on a catafalque directly un-i
der the great dome.
President Wilson and Ihe cabinet
assembled in Ihe president's room on
the senate 'uv and marched to their
place.- beside Ihe bier. The supremo
eonrl justices, Ihe diplomatic corps,
Ihe chief of staff of the army, tho
committee- representing both houses
of ciumre.-s and officers of the army
and navy followed. There wus no
funeral oration and (he occasion. As1
the admiral wihed. was very -implc.
After the reading of (he funeral ser
vice a qiuirlet atig "Lead, Kindly
Light." and "Abide With Me," tho
admiral-- favorite hymns.
l-'tiiieml Procession.
While Ihe services under (he dome
of the eapidd were proceeding, thy
midshipmen, drawn up on the plaa,
were joined hy the remainder of (he
in i lit ary escort. Six companies of
ma riiie-, a but t a lion of bluejackets
from the Arknii-ns ennpanies of sea
men from the iruuhont Dolphin and the
presidential yacht Mayflower, a com
pany of army engineers from tho
Wa-hinyton barracks and two eom-
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K ANA P(i. IS.. Knn., Jan. 'JO.
Jarae- Covvie. Jr., on of the president
of Ihe Kxehaiiu-e Stale ban!; here, was
uonnded early today in a running
fight with a band of four or five men
! who blew up the bank vault and es
caped in an automobile with $'J50l)
in cash and 10011 in stamps, after
cullui- all telephone ami telegraph
wires out of the town.
James Cow to. Sr., the bank presi
dent, and hi- -on were aroused by the
explosion that wrecked (he safe, and
bcjaii finny at tbe robbers from their
home within a block of the bank.
Other citizen;- came to iheir -sUt-auce
and a general fiuhl ensued, in
whieli more than tiftv shots were
fired.