EIGHT MEDFORD (OREsolf) MAIL TRIBUHE
Wednesday, Marcb 5. 1152
March Claims Lion's Share (Solution To Brazil Jungle Mystery Object of Search
On Nation's Big Disasters
New York (U.R) March may
come in or go out like a lamb but
it claims the lion's share of major
disasters in. this country.
That is revealed in a st jdy by
historians of the Kemper group
of insurance companies which
shows that 10 of the worst Amer
ican disasters during the past 100
years occurred in March
It is nearly one-fourth the cen
tury's total of 43 major disasters
those, other than mining and
marine accidents, in which 100
or more persons were killed.
As part of their crusade for
safety, the insurance men list the
following catastropies as grim re
minders of what can happen in
March:
March
March 25, 1911 Fire, Trian
gle shirtwaist factory, New York
145.
March 25-27, 1913 Floods,
Ohio-Indiana 732.
March 25-27, 1913 Floods,
Brazos, Tex. 500.
March 4, 1918 Fire, Collin
wood, Ohio, school 175,
March 18, 1925 Tornado, Illi
nois 606
March 13, 1928 Dam' burst,
St. Francis, Calif. 450,
March 10, 1933 Earthquake,
Long Beach, Calif. 120.
March 18, 1937 Explosion,
New London. Tex., school 294
f larch 2, 1938 Flood, Los An
geles 181.
March 17, 1942 Tornadoes in
Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Ten
nessee, Kentucky, Alabama and
Mississippi 111
Fire and explosion caused 19
of the disasters, wind 14, water 8,
and earthquakes 2.
April ranked as the second
worst month, with seven disas
ters; September third with six;
October fourth with four. Thus
the four top-ranking months
(when the sun is nearest the
equator) accounted for 63 per
cent of all the past century's ac
cidents. The Kemper historians
noted that none of the catastro-
phies occurred in February but
they bad no explanation for that.
Here is a month-by-month list
ing:
January
Jan. 13, 1903 Fire, Rhoades
Opera House, Boyertown, Pa.
169 dead.
Jan. 20. 1925 Cyclone in Mis
souri, Indiana and southern Illi
nois 830 dead
Jan. 22, 1937 Floods. Ohio
and Mississippi rivers 360,
February
None.
April
April 18, 1906 Earthquake
and fire, San Francisco 452. .
April 21, 1930 Fire, Colum
bus, Ohio, penitentiary 320.
April 2-7, 1936 Tornadoes in
Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia
402.
April 23, 1940 Fire, dance
ball in Natchez, Miss. 208.
April 12-13, 1945 Tornadoes
In Arkansas, Oklahoma and Mis
souri 119.
April 9, 1947 Tornado, Texas-Oklahoma
167.
April 16, 1947 Explosion and
fire, Texas City 550.
May
May 31, 1889 Flood, Johns
town, Pa. 2,209. 1
May 15, 1929 Fire. Cleve
land clinic 125.
June
June 30, 1900 Fire, docks and
ships, Hoboken, N. J. 145.
June 23, 1944 Tornadoes in
Maryland, Pennsylvania and
West Virginia 159. '
July'
July 6, 1944 Fire, circus,
Hartford, Conn. 107,
July 17, 1944 Explosion,
Port Chicago, Calif. 322.
August
Aug. 17, 1914 Hurricane,
Galveston 275.
Aug. 16, 1915 Hurricane,
Texas 375,
September
Sept. 8, 1900 Tidal wave,
Galveston 6,000.
Sept. "29, 1915 Hurricane,
Louisiana 500.
Sept. 17-18, 1926 Hurricane,
Gulf Coast 372,
Sept. 12-17, 1928 Hurricane,
Florida 1,500.
Sept. 21, 1938 Hurricane,
New England 682.
- Sept. 16-19, 1947 Hurricane,
Florida-Louisiana-Mississippi
100.
October
Oct. 9, 1871 Fire, Chicago
107.
Oct. 9, 1871 Fire, Peshtigo,
Wis. 1,152.
Oct. 12, 1918 Forest fire, near
Cloquet, Minn. 438.
Oct. 21, 1944 Stored gas ex
plosion, Cleveland 135.
November
Nov. 2, 1927 Floods, Vermont
120.
Nov. 28, 1942 Fire Coconut
night club, Boston 491.
December
Dec. 5, 1876 Fire, Brooklyn
theater 289.
Dec. 30, 1903 Fire, Iroauois
theater, Chicago 575. ,-'
Dec. 7, 1946 Fire, Winecoff
hotel, Atlanta 121.
San Francisco's Ferry build
ing houses the California State
Mining Bureau's museum.
Daily Weather Report
FORECASTS
Medfrd and vicinitv: Rain nnH r.
easional gusty south winds tonight.
Becoming showery Thursday. Low to
night 35. High Thursday 45-48.
Oreeon IWtprni- a feu, ihnw.
but considerable clearing tonight and
Lows tonight 36-42. Hieha Thurvlav
45-55.
LOCAL DATA
Temrjerature a vear a an inAav
Highest 37: lowest 29. V
Total monthly precipitation .12
inches. Deficiency for the month
us incnes.
Total Drecimtatinn sine Sntpmh.,
1. 1951 17.10 inches. Excess for the
season 5.22 inches.
Relative humidity 4:30 p.m. yester
day 74; 4:30 a.m. today 88.
voservaiions 'iaKe at 4:30 a.m
120 Meridian Time
High Low Prec
Boise
Boston
Chicago
Denver
Eureka
Havre
Klamath FaUs
Los Angeles
Medford
New York
Omaha
Phoenix
Portland
Reno
Eugene
Salt Lake
San Francisco
Seattle
Spokane
Washington. D.
xaxima
C.
39
37
34
39
48
16
32
60
42
38
23
65
46
48
47
37
54
43
37
40
46
TOMORROW
Sunrise 6:38 a.m.; sunset 6:07 p.m.
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Trees will grow well on this land
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crop. - - - -
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0 acres of woodland pay well. In
, 1940 he began managing his second
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home use. materials for a new barn.
including a cedar shake roof, and
enough fence posts for a mile of
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acre from his woodland each year:
$2.77 in cash plus an estimated
jj.SJ In fence posts, fuelwood and
Ibnildlng materials. He estimated
Uat it oaj cost Us about U cents
per acre per year for taxes, 'fire
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has his forest in excellent condition.
How can you manage a second
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right along as the forest is growing.
Thinnings may yield pulpwood,
cedar poles, alder and maple bolts,
Douglas fir poles and piling and
fuelwood. The Snohomish fanner
discovered that his woodlands had '
increased in value about 500 per
cent from 1940 to 1949 because of
the increased volume due to faster
growth after thinning, proper care
of his forest and increased value
of his growing timber. A bonas for
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Do you have to wait 50 to 100
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with critical eye. .. .
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By W. W. COPELAND
' UJ. Staff" Correspondent
Rio De Janeiro (U.PJ Brian
Fawcett may be. near the end of
the trail of what happened to his
famous . father, Col. - Pervical
Fawcett, or he may be merely
adding another chapter in the
long mystery. '
In 1925 the English explorer,
Col; Fawcett, with h son Jack
and another English youth, Ral
eigh Rimell, disappeared into the
wilds of Brazil in search of a lost
civilization.' They never - re
turned. Many expeditions and explor
ers have sought them ever since,
some losing their lives in the
quest. The search has become
nearly as famous as that for Liv
ingstone in Africa.
Last year, savage Kalapalo In
dians revealed a grave to a
Brazilian expedition which they
said contained Fawcett's bones.
They said he had been killed by
now dead members of their
tribe. ,
Bones Not Identified
Orlando Vilasboas, leader of
the . expediiton, brought the
bones back. They were sent to
England where anthropologists
said they were not Fawcett's.
Brian Fawcett, another son,
from Carlisle, England, has now
come to Brazil to follow up the
trail. He does not believe the
bones are his father's. He has
gone to the Kalapalo territory to
talk to the Indians himself, ac
companied by Vilasboas.
Vilasboas believes the Kala
palos killed Colonel Fawcett
Vilasboas said Colonel Fawcett's
trail has been definitely estab
lished to the frontier outpost of
Naugua, where his Baca iris In;
dian guides abandoned him,
afraid to enter the domain of the
dreaded Kalapalos.
"From there on," Vilasboas
said, "I must base my account on
what the Kalapalos told me."
This is his story:
Trouble With Guide
Col. Fawcett found a few In
dians in the first Kalapalo vil
lage he reached. .
He picked up an Indian guide
named Cavucuira. Several argu
ments occurred between them.
"After the third incident with
Cavucuira," Vilasboas said, "the.
colonel was doomed. Cavucuira
asked Chief Kaiabi for permis
sion to kill the explorer and got
it.
climbing a bank, he was bludg
eoned. Two other Indians attack
ed Jack and Rimell. Fawcett was
buried, with his knife, while
Jack and Rimell were thrown
into the river."
Vilasboas said he found this
out after years with the tribe.
He said: "I - slept for eight
months in the same hut with
Izarari, but even he as chief
wouldn't say anything. He was
succeeded by another chief who
was afraid. For two years we
never mentioned the matter.
"One night, while chatting
with the Indians I playfully bet
one of them he could not show
me where Fawcett's bones were
buried. The Indian said he
could. Finally the Indians took
me there."
White Chief Respected
Why would the Indians bury
Col. Fawcett and not the oth
ers? Vilasboas said Fawcett was
buried because of the respect
for a white chief. The others
didn't count, in the eyes' of the
Indians. ... .
He said the Kalapalos always
made marks on trees to show
the height of the white chiefs.
They showed him such a mark
height of Col. Fawcett, that of a
tall man.
The anthropologists in Eng
land said the femur dug up in
the jungle grave was that of a
man above five feet six inches
tall. Col. Fawcett was over six
feet
Brian Fawcett said his father
had suffered a fractured right
jaw but the discovered bones
showed no sign of such a frac
ture. The British anthropologists
also said the teeth did not match
Col. Fawcett's record.
Brian Fawcett fears his father
is dead. He would now be more
than 80 years old, if living, and
it is doubtful that he could have
withstood the hardships of the
wilds. It is possible, the son be
lieves, that his brother, Jack,
may still be alive unless he was
killed by the Indians or the ex
pedition perished from other
perils.
Brian hopes to get the answers.
"One day when Fawcett was on a tree, supposed to be the
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