Iditarod Pioneer
One Dotxak Per Month. IDITAROD^ ALASKA, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 11. 1913._T\vo Bits Per Copy
Destructive Tidal Wave, Accompanied by Fear
ful Wind and Rain Storms, Devastates
Towns of Seward Peninsula
Nome, Oct. 6.—The worst tidal wave and rainstorm in the his
tory of Seward peninsula is raging along this coast today. The streets
of this city are full of water, the electric light plant and the telephone
service are out of commission. All the buildings on the south side of
Front street are completely wrecked. The Sandspit was wiped clean
of all buildings, and the small school house for native children was
carried a mile.
The property damage is estimated at $1,000,000. Other towns
and settlements along the coast have not been heard from, owing to
the telephone wires being down.
Nome, Oct. /.—The outer wharves along the water front are
washed away, as also is the federal jail. All the residences and busi
ness houses on the south side of Front street are totally destroyed, and
the losses are very heavy. Many stocks of merchandise were saved,
and the north side of Front street is uninjured.
The city is ruined from the Sandspit to the Standard Oil building.
On the south side of the street not a house is standing. One four-story j
building collapsed in a heap. Many narrow escapes are reported.
Four persons are reported to have lost their lives m the disaster, but this
has not been confirmed.
The water is now subsiding, and the storm has somewhat abated.
The steamships Victoria, Corwin and Navajo are anchored seven
miles off the coast and are safe. Every lighter at Nome is a wreck, and
this will prove a handicap to late shipping interests.
Nome, Oct. 7.—The fearful storm of the past five days, which
resulted in the destruction of a great portion of this city, had its be
ginning last Friday night in a wind of 20 knots from the east. By
Sunday the wind was blowing at a rate of 50 knots, and swinging
around to the southwest. At 2 o’clock Monday morning the gale
was blowing at the rate of 76 knots directly from the south, and the
angry sea rushed onto Front street with such fury that every business
house, cabin and residence on the beach side from the Sandspit to
Fort Davis was swept away.
Buildings and Bridges Swept Away
Eight or ten hotels, six saloons, three jewelry, five grocery and
six dry goods stores were wrecked and demolished, besides hundreds
of splendid residences on First avenue and Front street east as far as |
the Sandspit, while the Snake river bridge, the Nome river bridge and
two Dry creek bridges were carried away. Three-story buildings were
carried half a mile up the creek.
Bath House Went First
The first building to crash was the Elite bath house, which went
down at 3:30 Monday morning. The Board of Trade was the next
one to go, then the buildings along Front street crashed in rapid suc
cession. The morning dawned on Monday with the sea breaking
over Front street, with a pelting rain driving unmercifully upon huge
stacks of merchandise of all kinds, which crowds of men were work
ing heroically to take to places of safety. The loss of merchandise
is considered wonderfully small, but the inmates of the cabins who
lost all their personal effects are the worst sufferers.
Scene of Desolation
Today the city looks terrible in its desolation, now that the storm
has subsided. A terrific surf is still breaking over the beach, and
the Sandspit is washed by huge combers. The Pacific Cold Storage
Company lost its $70,000 stock of meats, which had but recently
arrived here.
River Street Wiped Out
River street was completely wiped out of existence. There is
not a stick of the scores of buildings left on the scene. Front street
below Sesnon’s dock is impassable, owing to the accumulations of
great stacks of wreckage from the demolished dwelling houses.
Loss of Life Not Large
One body has been found in the wreckage, and only one per
son is reported missing at the present time; consequently the loss of
life is fortunately very small.
The loss is estimated at $1,000,000, but this is considered a
very liberal estimate in view of the fact that many of the business
houses succeeded in saving the greater bulk of their stocks.
Cutter Ordered to Nome
Washington, Oct. 9.—The revenue cutter Bear has been ordered
to proceed with all haste to Nome, Alaska, to render all aid possible
to the sufferers from the tidal wave of last Monday.
Congress Overly Liberal
Washington, Oct. 10.—In the lower house of congress today
Representative Johnson offered a resolution appropriating $20,000
for the benefit of the Nome tidal wave sufferers.
Refugees Arrive from Solomon
Nome, Oct. 9.—The first refugees from settlements along the
coast arrived in this city at noon today from Solomon City, and re
port that that camp was completely wiped out by the tidal wave of
last Sunday night. All the stores, hotels and roadhouses of the place
were entirely swept off the map.
The wreckage of the town of Safety was carried as far as two
miles inland by the furious gale, and the railroad terminals and other
equipment were utterly wiped out.
The only remaining dory to be found in the vicinity of Solomon
City left there surrounded by raging waters at 2 o’clock on Monday
LOTS OF FUN
IN OLD MADRID
Madrid, Oct. 9-This city is gaily dec
orated in honor of the visit of President
Poincare of France, who arrived here to
day for a three days’ visit with King A1
fonso and Queen Victoria. Many enter
tainments have been arranged for the dis
tinguished guest, and thousands of visitors
are crowding the city.
GOVERNOR FELKER
IS IS NO HURRY
Concord, N. H., Oct. 9.—Governor Felker
has postponed his decision in the Thaw ex
tradition case until after the authorities of
New York state have had ample time and
opportunity to make a full statement of
their case.
IDITARODERS IN
AUTO ACCIFENT
A telegram received by Jack Baird last
evening, dated at Dawson, from his busi
ness partner, Ed Anderson, of the Branch,
Flat City, who left here on the 13th of last
month, accompanied by Ed McArdle and
Bennett James, stated that the "bunch"
was delayed in that city on account of an
automobile accident. The accident, the
telegram stated, was nothing serious, and
they expected to proceed on their journey
in a short time.
HENRY STROUP PICKS UP
$98 NUGGET ON GLEN
Glen gulch has been heard from but sel
dom this past summer. While there has
been a little work going on. there have
been practically no returns because of the
dry season. Stroup & Brunnel. who have
been working steadily this past summer,
have not had enough wated to do any
sluicing, the best they could do being to
“splash" occasionally, according to 'Gene
Brunnel, who was in town a few days ago.
Brunnel received a telephone message from
Stroup, before leaving for his creek home,
to the effect that while shoveling into the
boxes he (Stroup! had picked up a nugget
weighing S9S. thus bringing Glen gulch into
the limelight again. Ruby Record Citizen,
September 27.
An ocean steamer of the first class, go
ing at full speed, cannot be brought to a
standstill in less than three minutes, in
which time she will have traversed a dis
tance of about half a mile.
To solve the problem of disposing of the
dead, a famous German architect proposes
to erect in the chief cities immense pyra
mids, each of which would hold the ashes
of 1,000,000 cremated bodies.
Fresh-cured silver salmon best dog
feed. Crowley & Porter.
Location Notices at Pioneer office.
PUGILISTIC
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JEANETTE GETS DECISION
New York, Oct. 9. After a fast 10-round
fight in this city last night between the
two colored heavyweight pugilists, Joe
Jeanette and Sam Langford, the decision
I was awarded to Jeanette, the “Boston Tar
: Baby.”
WALSH OUTPOINTS HYLAND
Butte. Mont., Oct. 9. - Dick Hyland was
| clearly outclassed in a 10-round bout last
night by Freddie Walsh
GUNBOAT GOT DECISION
New York, Oct. 10.—The boxing contest
last night between Gunboat Smith and
Carl Morris terminated suddenly in the fifth
round, when the referee disqualified Morris
for fouling.
FAIRBANKS NOTES
(Fairbanks Times, September 22.)
After working for two months in search
of the paystreak which was lost on 1 be
low, Happy creek, Frank Potts, the lay
man. has again picked up the pay. The
discovery was made Thursday morning,
and shows that it is much richer than
when it was lost.t During the early part
of July Mr. Potts was working the ground
and was down to a depth of 130 feet when,
ownig to a great slide, he lost the streak.
He immediately began to extend his tun
nels in the hope of finding the pay gravel,
and continued in all directions for the
greater part of two months. During the
early part of the week he decided to sink
his shaft a little farther, and when down
140 feet he again started to drift. When
about eight feet downstream from the shaft
he again encountered the gold.
According to Mr. Potts’ statement the
paystreak is about 120 feet in width, and
will run approximately 22 to the square
foot of bedrock.
That they were lost for eight days in
the vicinity of the new strike is the story
brought to Fairbanks by Matt Scott and
Sam Comfort, who arrived in town late
Friday night. The men went into the dig
gings by way of Dawson and the White
river, and after several days in the district,
started on their return, as they thought.
For eight days they mushed on through
the woods without sufficient food, and
finally came to the Chisana river, which
they thought to be the Donjek. They foi
lowed the stream for some distance, and
about forty miles from the diggings con
structed a raft and started to float with
the current.
They report that they could have built
the raft a number of miles farther up
stream, and could have made the whole
trip, from within fifteen miles of the dig
gings, by water. The men were among the
earliest stampeders, and arrived at the dig
gings long before the Reliance passengers.
While there they staked some ground on
Raylite creek, which is a tributary of the
Chisana.
Everything as represented.
Sam’l Applebaum.
Location Notices at Pioneer office.
morning, in the darkness, with six women and two children and a
crew. This party were the last people to leave the desolated camp,
and were compelled to leave all their personal effcts in a desperate
effort to reach a place of safety. All the stocks of merchandise in the
stores of the camp are total losses. No lives were lost.
GOVERNOR SUER DIDN’T TESTIFY
Albany, N. Y., Oct. 9.—In the impeachment court, both the
prosecution and defense have rested their case, and the arguments
of counsel have commenced. It is expected that a verdict will be
reached by next Tuesday, the 14th.
To the disappointment of hundreds of spectators who have been
regularly attending the court of impeachment, neither Governor nor
Mrs. Sulzer testified.
DELEGATE WICKERSHAM GOES TO JUNEAU
Seattle, Oct. 9.—Delegate James Wickersham of Alaska arrived
in this city yesterday en route north, but intends going only as far as
Juneau.
In an interview with the Pioneer’s correspondent the delegate
stated that he believes the Alaska railroad bill will surely pass both
houses of congress early in December.
SEATTLE TIMES HAS ANOTHER BIG FIRE
Seattle, Oct. 9.-—For the second time this year the office build
ing of the Seattle Daily Times has been visited by the fire fiend. Last
March the entire plant of the big daily newspaper was destroyed.
On Sunday morning last a mysterious fire was discovered in the
press room, and had gained such headway that $75,000 damage was
done before it was gotten under control.
I
UNDERWOOD
! FOR SENATE
Washington, Oct. 9.—Congressman Os
car Underwood of Alabama, the Demo
cratic leader of the house of representa
tives, this week announced himself as a
candidate for the United States senate to
succeed Joseph Forney Johnston, deceased.
PITCHFORK BEN
AGAINST SUFFRAGE
Washington, Sept. 20.—Senator Tillman,
showing hsi old-time vigor that won him
I the sobriquet of “Pitchfork Ben,” pitched
into women suffrage in a senate sjieech
Monday.
“It’s a beautiful dream,” said he, “that
female suffrage will purify politics. The
vital and important thing for U3 to con
sider is the effect upon women themselves.
We had better endure the evils of corrup
tion in politics and debauchery in our gov
ernment rather than bring about a condi
tion which will mar the beauty and dim
the luster of the glorious womanhood to
which we have been accustomed all our
lives.
“We can better afford to have degraded
and corrupt politicians than degraded and
bad women. To have both in ever-increas
ing degree, as was the case in Rome, would
make the world so unspeakably horrible,
as well as so corrupt, that good men and
women both would disappear from the
face of earth, and civilization would be
blotted out like it was in the dark ages
after the fall of Rome.
Tillman Fears Results
“I am so thoroughly a convert to the
belief that you cannot touch pitch with
out being defiled that I shudder to think
of the consequences to the womanhood of
America should suffrage become universal,
taking in both sexes and all races. Yet
l he experiment is going to be tried, I fear.”
Senator Tillman said the demand of
women for suffrage was growing too fast
to be stopped by “old fogies” like himself,
and that it was apparent that the men of
the country would give them what they
demanded, even though it be to their ulti
mate injury.
“I believe women will improve politics.”
said he, “but ultimately politics will de
stroy her as we know her and bve her,
and when our good women are no longer
to be found and we have lost the breed
the doom of the republic is near.”
Senator Tillman included in his speech a
vigorous attuck upon the divorce evil, and
referred to the Diggs-Caminetti white slave
case in California.
Unwritten Law Favored
“If the California men had our customs,”
he cried, “Diggs and Caminetti would not
be alive now, because they would have
been shot like dogs, and the fathers of
the girls they have ruined would be ac
quitted almost without the jury leaving the
box.
“The unwritten law is the best law to
protect women’s virtue that I have heard
of. The more I think about the Diggs
Caminetti case, the more outraged I grow
at the state of morals and society which
not only permits such crimes, but encour
ages them.”
The danger from women suffrage, said
Senator Tillman, was increased by the
cowardice of public men everywhere.”
AMERICANS ARE OBJECTING
Paris, Sept. 14.—A score of Americans
living temporarily on French soil today
formed an organization to fight the French
army bill, a clause of which, they declare,
would force them to serve in the army.
The clause to which they object declares
the following are naturalized Frenchmen
and so must serve:
“Children born on French soil of a
father, himself born on French soil; chil
dren born on French soil of a father born
outside of France, and of a French mother;
children born in France of a foreign father
and who are domiciled in France at the
age of majority.”
Basil Clemons, the photographer, for
merly of ths camp, is expected to return
in a short time and remain during the
winter.
In Iowa not all the farmers' daughters
are seeking positions in the cities. More
than 100 farm girls are enrolled each year
in the purely agricultural courses at the
state college.
A rabbit-canning factory has been opened
in Argentina. The furs of the animals are
sold to a hat factory. Rabbits have be
come a great pest in Buenos Aires prov
ince.
Fresh dry-pack Butter.
Iditarod Meat Co.
Western Australia produces more gold
than any American state, sends more pearls
to Europe than any other country except
Ceylon, and is said to have the richest belt
of hardwood timber in the world.
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McGraw’s Giants Have Won But One Game
of the Four Played—Matthewson Seems
to Be Their Only Winning Pitcher
New York, Oct. 7.— The first game of the !9I3 world's cham
pionship series was played here today before an immense crowd.
Bender was the pitcher and Schang the catcher for the Athletics, and
Marquard the pitcher and Myers the catcher for the Giants. Crandall
replaced Marquard in the sixth inning, and Tesreau replaced Crandall
in the eighth. The score :
Athletics . 0 0 0 3 2 0 0 1 0—6
Giants . 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 4
Athletics made 1 1 hits and 1 error; Giants, 1 I hits and no errors.
Second Game
Philadelphia, Oct. 8.—The second game of the world’s series
i resulted in a shut-out for the home team. There was not a score made
until the tenth inning, when the Giants rushed in three. The score:
Giants . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3—3
Athletics . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0— 0
Batteries—New York, Matthewson and McLean; Athletics,
Plank and Lapp. Giants made 7 hits and 2 errors; Athletics made
8 hits and 2 errors.
Athletics Win Third Game
New York, Oct. 9.—The Athletics had little difficulty in win
ning the third game of the world’s series this afternoon. Pitcher
Bush and Catcher Schang were the Athletics’ battery, and Tesreau
and McLean for New York. The Athletics made it so interesting for
Tesreau that he was replaced by Crandall in the middle of the seventh
inning. Score:
Athletics . 3 2 0 0 0 0 2 I 0 6
Giants . 0 0 0 0 I 0 10 0-2
Athletics made 12 hits and I error; Giants made 5 hits and i
error.
Athletics Capture Fourth Game
Philadelphia, Oct. 10.—In a very exciting game this afternoon
the Athletics put another one over on the Giants. Demaree and Mi -
Lean were the Giants’ battery, and Bender and Schang performed for
the Athletics. Marquard and Wilson replaced Demaree and McLean
in the sixth inning. The score by innings:
1 Athletics . 0 1 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 :
Giants . 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 0-5
Athletics made 9 hits, no errors; Giants, 8 hits, 2 errors.
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VIRGINIAN APPOINTED
TO SUCCEED JUDGE MURANE
Washington, Oct. 9.—For the first time since his inauguration
President Wilson has found it necessary to go outside of Alaska to
fill a federal office of the territory. This exception was made this
week when he nominated John Randolph Tucker, jr., of Virginia, to
be the successor of Cornelius D. Murane as judge of the Second divi
sion of Alaska.
Notwithstanding the fact that the new appointee comes from a
family of the Old Dominion noted for its statesmen and jurists since
the early settlement of America, there is much disappointment ex
pressed by those who have heretofore lauded the president for making
his selections from the people of the territory.
Saxton Appointed and Confirmed
President Wilson this week sent the name of F. M. Saxton to
the senate for confirmation as district attorney for the Second division
of Alaska, to succeed Bernard S. Rodey. The nomination was con
firmed.
Tucker Going to Nome
Washington, Oct. 10.—Judge John Randolph Tucker, who was
appointed to succeed C. D. Murane in the Second Alaska division,
will sail from Seattle for Nome to take up his new duties.
JEIGE MEADE TO TAKE
HIS CASE BEFORE CONGRESS
Seattle, Oct. 9.—Seattle friends of Judge Cornelius D. Murane
of the Second judicial division of Alaska, whose resignation was re
cently requested by Attorney General McReynolds, on the stated
reason that the "good of the service demanded his retirement, have
advisd the jurist to take the fight to retain his office into congress, and
he has decided to do so.
The resignation of District Attorney Rodey of the same division
was asked for at the same time and for the same reason.
POSTAL OFFICIALS DON'T WANT THE CABLE
Washington, Oct. 10.—Officials of the postoffice department arc
not inclined to enthusiastically approve of the proposition now being
considered by Presdent Wilson which has for its purpose the taking
over of the Alaska telegraph and cable system by the postal authori
ties. The President, with postal officials and Charles Saltzman of the
United States signal corps, have been in conference on this subject
during he past few days. , . . —