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WHARF AND HUNDREDS ARE DROWN > LIKE RATS
SHRIEKS OF THE DOOMED
PIERCE UPTURNED HULL
CHICAGO, July 23.—Loaded down
with two thousand human beings and
right at a dock one of the most ap
paling marine disaster in history
occurred here yesterday when the
steamer Eastland capsized and car
ried hundreds of people to their
death. At the present moment it is
supposed that the number of dead will
be over a thousand but the most blood
curdling of all the facts connected
with the horrible occurrence is that
right at this moment the screams of
hundreds of people who are trapped
in the overturned vessel can be heard
rising in agonized terror. The river
is dogged with bodies and the whole
population of the city almost is rush
ing to the scene.
CHICAGO. July 25.—(Later) The
Eastland was loaded at the time of
the disaster with two thousand em
ployes of the Western Electric
company and was leaving the dock
when she overturned. As many of
the excursionists were below they
have been trapped in the ship and
their screams of terror can still be
heard as rescuers are struggling mad
ly with steel drills to punch holes for
their rescue. Even yet the number
of dead can only be guessed but it is
sure to be well in the hundreds at
least. Captain Pederson and Mate
Fisher have been arrested and the
captain states the belief that the
catastrophe was caused by the break
ing of the air chute. Some people say
that the officers delayed until too late
the taking of water ballast and this
delay was responsible for the occur
rence.
CHICAGO, July 25.—(Later) It is
now estimated, an hour or two after
the capsizing of the Eastland, that
the number of dead is from thirteen
hundred to seventeen hundred. The
vessel is resting in twenty feet of
water on her side and still contains
immense numbers of the bodies of
the victims. A tierce struggle has oc
curred between the police and the
crowds that stormed around in an ef
fort to lynch the captain and mate.
One hundred police battled madly to
beat off the infuriated mobs that rag
ed to reach the men believed to be
responsible for the deaths of relati
ves. Some of the most thrilling in
cidents are recorded of the rescue of
some of those aboard and tales ot
unequalled tragic intensity are com
mon because of the unusual condi
tions surrounding the affair. The un
fortunates who were corralled in the
hull only a few feet from their
friends and would-be rescuers suf
fered the very limit of the the agony
of terror and despair and their
shrieks drove the crowds of helpless
spectators to a frenzy. The captain
and mate have been hurried from the
scene under a strong guard but the
danger of another attempt to take
their lives is by no means passed.
The scene around the capsized steam-!
er continues to be one of the most
thrilling ever witnessed. The bodies
are being taken from the water as
fast as possible while the relatives
and friends watch feverishly for the
recovery of the remains of their own.
CLEVELAND, July 25.—It is
known here that the Eastland had
nearly capsized in a former excursion
and condemnation proceedings were
started against the vessel to prevent
her from service ever again.
CHICAGO, July 26.—Eight hundred
bodies of the victims of the Eastland
disaster have been recovered but
hundreds are yet supposed to be mis
sing. The state attorney declares
that the government inspectors are
to blame for the occurrence as most
people who knew the vessel were
aware of the fact that she was un
trustworthy. Several letters were
sent to Washington telling of her
condition and predicting just such a
disaster. The mayor has started a
fund of two hundred thousand dol
lars for the families of the victims.
President Wilson wired his sympathy
with the relatives of the drowned im
mediately on hearing of the disaster
and Sir Thomas Lipton at once gave '
FOREST SERVICE GIVES
R. R. COMMISSION TIMBER.!
Allows It to Cut Five Million Feet in
the Chugach Forest
Reser\ e.
WASHINGTON, July 25.—The for
estry service has granted the Alaska
railroad engineering commission per
mission to cut eighty-live million feet
of timber in the Chugach forest re
serve for use in construction of the
railroad.
GREAT CANNERY DESTROYED.
SAN JOSK, July 25.—Fire destroy
ed the D. 1. Fiori cannery here today.
The loss is estimated at one hundred
thousand dollars.
ANTON E1DE HAS MORE
THAN THIRTY MEN BUSY.
More than thirty men are now em
ployed under Superintendent Anton
Fide of the road commission in this
district. Fifteen or sixteen are do
ing rock work out of Mile Twenty
nine on the wagon road. Another
gang is on the Mile Thirty-four road ■
repairing. A third gang is on the
Willow creek-Knik road doing re- ;
pail's. Slight repairs are also being
made on the Seward-Kenai lake road. j
It has been reported that quite a lot
of work will be done this summer on
the road near the city of Seward.
a thousand dollars to the fund. The
' Western Electric company, whose
i employs were giving the excursion,
' says that a hundred thousand dollars
is available from the employes bene
fit association for the relief of the
bereaved families.
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CORNISH, July 2t>.—President
Wilson has ordered the department of
Commerce to begin at once an in
vestigation into the cause of the
Eastland disaster and severe punish
ment will be meted out to the respon
sible parties.
FIVE THOUSAND FEET
OF WATER PIPE HERE.
When Laid Down City of Seward Will
Have Five Miles of Water
Pipe Altogether.
Five thousand feet feet of water
pipe arrived on one of the last boat
for the Seward Water and Power
Company. Some of it will be used to
carry water to the new Terminal
tract which is now being surveyed by
the engineering commission and
where it is likely the houses will be
built for the permannet employes of
the railroad work. The rest of the
pipe will be used to lead water to the
other parts of the city where new
buildings are going up. When the
latest pipes are laid down the com
pany will have more than five miles
of pipe supplying Seward.
LEELANAW WELL KNOWN
IN ALASKA WATERS.
The United States steamship Lee
lanaw which has been sunk by a Or
man submarine off the coast of Scot
land was well known on the Alaska
run. She was a regular freight
steamer carrying in the Nome trade
from Seattle and San Francisco. She
was a vessel of some thousands of
tons and one of the largest freighters,
if not the largest, in the Alaska
trade.
GERMANS "LIKE NOTE
WASHINGTON, JuTy 25.—German people in the
United States declare that Germany will be pleased with
the contents of the latest note sent by this government as
there is nothing in the communication insisting on the
abandonment of submarine warfare. This fact, the Ger
mans declare, is the chief one to be considered. Germany
has no objection to meeting the wishes of the United
States government in most instances but declines to drop
the undersea war until Great Britain raises its blockade.
SEVERAL SHIPS SUNK
LONDON, July 26.—German submarines sank a
French steamer and four British trawlers yesterday but
it is reported that one of the submarines engaged in the
work was sent to the bottom. The loss of the submarines
has not been officially confirmed but there is good reason
to believe it is true.
TURKS BUY BULGARIA
SOFIA, Bulgaria, July 26—Turkey has ceded the
Turkish portion of the Dedeagath railroad to Bulgaria
and this gift is assumed here to be the price, or part of
the price, paid to this nation for its neutrality in the
present war. It is also supposed here that Germany and
Austria have made promises to Bulgaria of greater acces
sions if we continue to refuse to attack Turkey from the
north as it is now generally thought that the efforts of
the allies to take Constantinople without our aid are
futile or, at most, can only be successful after tremendous
losses.
GERMAN ACCUSED
CLEVELAND, July 25.—A German has been arrest
ed and held on the charge of complicity in the plot to
dynamite the American Wire company and the Peerless
White Auto Company which are manufacturing muni
tions of war for the allied nations. The plot is believed to
have wide ramifications and further evidences of its ex
istence has been unearthed.
FUNSTON MAY
YET OPEN WAR
ORDER FROM WASHINGTON TO
STOP FIRING ACROSS BORD
ER AT ALL COSTS
WASHINGTON, July 25.—Gener
al Funston has receeived orders to
stop the firing by the Mexicans over
the border at any cost. The Mexicans
are constantly sending bullets across
the frontier near Naco and Nogales
and all warnings have fallen on deaf
ears. It is said here unofficially that
the failure on the part of the Mexi
cans to make an end of this practise
immediately will result in an invasion
of Mexican territory by the United
States troops. Villa and Carranza
have been positively and finally noti
fied that the United States govern
ment will use force if necessary from
this time forward to protect Ameri
cans and matters between the two
countries have reached once more a
dangerous stage.
MEXICO CITY, July 25.—Two
hundred Indians are now in control
of the capital city of Mexico. Zapata
with his main forces has left the city
to destroy the railroad fro the pre
vention of the approach of the Car
ranza army from the direction of
Vera Cruz.
ALL ALASKA REVIEW
OFF PRESSES TODAY,
The last pages of the July All
Alaska Review came off the presses
today and the Review will be on sale
tomorrow. It should always be re
membered that in the condensed news
columns not an item of information
of any part of Alaska is omitted if it
is worth recording. In these columns
are given each month all the births,
deaths, marriages, strikes, business
deals of importance, accidents and
everything else. In speaking of the
vital statistics contained therein in
the shape of news it is worthy of
note that John Barrett, representative
in this part of Alaska of the New
York Life Insurance Company, and
E. L. Webster, the representative of
the same great company for the
whole northwestern states, subscribed
and stated that these columns are
most useful to them. Even the im- j
portant events happening to former
Alaskans outside are chronicled.
Every paper which could possibly
have Alaska news is carefully search
ed and that news condensed for
those pages. Sometimes one column
of the condensed news in the Review
represents the reading carefully of
scores of newspapers and, consequent
ly, a tremendous amount of work
which cannot be measured by the re
sults unless it is remembered that no
news connected with Alaskans any
where is overlooked. The present is
sue of the Review is probably the
most instructive and best up to the
present. The mining information has
been selected with a view to giving
outside capital an idea of what we
have. Keep all those issues. A vol
ume of them means the current his
tory of the social, industrial and
political life of the territory.
NINE MILLION PEOPLE
HAVE VISITED THE FAIR.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 26.—Nine
Million people have already visited
the San Francisco exposition and the
largest crowds are expected in the
future. It is now believed that the
attendance will reach the enormous
•figure of twenty millions before the
close of the great fair.
BERLIN CLAIMS RUSSIAN
FIFTH ARMY WIPED OUT
DEPUTIES CAPTURE THE
MUNITIONS OF STRIKERS.
Men Who Battled With Authorities
Had an Arsenal Like
Real Army.
BAYONNE, July 25.—The deputies
last night raided an arsenal of the
strikers and captured fifty riflles and
a large quantity of amunition. The
strikers had large supplies of such
things and are apparently determin- '
ed to continue the resistance by force |
of arms. The guns captured were 1
some of those used in the battle of
some nights ago.
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ARREST SUPERINTENDENT
OF THE OIL PLANT.
Thirty Guards Also Arrested and All
Are Charged With Incit
ing to Rioting.
BAYONNE, July 26.—The Sheriff
has arrested Superintendent Edwards
of the Standard Oil plant here and al
so thirty guards on the charge of in
citing to the riot that led to the bat
tle here a few nights ago. The
authorities are quoted as saying that
the heads of the plant and deputies
were responsible for driving the
strikers to armed resistance.
WHIPPLE COMMANDER
NEARLY LOST LIFE.
Man Who Will Bring Destroyer to
Alaska Saved by the Gallant
Work of Sailors.
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BREMERTON, July 25.—Lieuten
ant Alexander, commander of the
Destroyer Whipple, had a narrow
escape from drowning here today
when a gang plank broke and pre
cipitated him into the water. As he
fell he was struck on the head and ren
dered unconscious but the sailors of
the Destroyer seeing the accident
jumped to the rescue. Some of them
dived after the disappearing com
mander and succeeded in getting him
out. His injuries are not serious
and he will be able to accompany his
vessel to Alaska next week.
MOVIES AND PHONOGRAPHS
FOR RAILROAD EMPLOYES.
Paternal Government Gives Alaska
R. R. Workers Means for
Horrible Dissipation.
WASHINGTON, July 25.—The
government has authorized movies,
Kelly pool and phonographs near the
government railroad in Alaska in
order to keep the employes of the
construction contented. It is assum
ed that all questionable forms of
amusement will be tabooed and that
nothing but the mildest forms of
“dissipation” will be permitted.
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COMING ON MARIPOSA.
SEATTLE, July 26.—The Mariposa
which sailed last night will go no
further than Sew'ard this trip. She
has the following passengers for Se
ward:
M. Goodman, H. Coleman, G. Pen
croft, Mrs. Donovan, Mrs. Dell
Nicholls, F. Copies, Miss Latarte, E.
Niles, W. Wilson, F. Youngs, Jos.
Anderson, Mrs. L. Chapman, A.
Reamsnider and three steerage.
The following are for Knik: Ed.
Burwell, Mrs. R. Bugge, Eda Sachs,
Mrs. C. Bade, Dorthy Bade and S.
Breedman.
FURNISHED HOUSE FOR RENT
See Dougherty & Stewart, 5th &
Adams. 7-26 6t
CLAIM CZAR ARMY WIPED OUT.
BERLIN, July 25.—Von Buelow, who is operating
| north of Warsaw has wiped out the Fifth Russian army,
! and captured a tremendous quantity of booty. So great
is the amount of the supplies of war and all other kinds
I that an estimate of it at present is impossible. The army
in the north has been strongly reinforced and is now
! sweeping southward in a line that will bring it to the rear
I of the enemy’s position. The people of Germany have
• now come to the positive conclusion that the resistance
of Russia is at an end practically and that only the finish
i ing process remains to be carried out
GERMANY SEIZES FOOD
BERLIN, July 25—The Federal council has now fix
ed a maximum price for foodstuffs throughout the empire
to prevent anyone from taking advantage of the war to
raise the prices beyond a reasonable figure. The entire
vegetable crop of the empire has been confiscated to rend
er impossible all forms of speculation and severe penalties
have been provided for the punishment of all those caught
in an attempt to corner any sort of foodstuffs.
SINK U. S. STEAMER
LONDON, July 26.—The American steamer
Leelanaw was sunk yesterday off the coast of Scotland by
a German submarine. No one yet knows whether the
steamer refused to answer a command to stop or not and
if she did not trouble may be expected again between the
governments of the United States and Germany. Fhe
vessel is supposed to have had munitions of war aboard
but the exact nature of her cargo is not yet known.
SAY U. S. NOTE DOMINEERING
BERLIN, July 26.—The American note has arrived
here and been published and today it is being attacked by
the whole press of the city. The newspapers declare that
the Washington government has ignored the German
view point entirely and seems to be wrapped up in its own
conclusions while the tone of the reply is domineering and
apparently intended to show that the entry of the United
States into the war is a bogey by which Germany can be
frighened into compliance with all American demands’
The manner in which the note is received is, indeed, most
unfavorable and portends a change for the worse in the
relations between the two governments.
PETROGRAD STILL HOPEFUL
PETROGRAD, July 26— An official announcement
was made here this morning which clearly has for its
purpose the laying of the fears of the people. It contains
the statement that even if the Germans succeed in break
ing through the Lublin-Kholm line they will have a hard
task before them in piercing the line Ivangorod to Brest,
and the forcing of that line will be necessary before cap
turing Warsaw. Ivangorod is about sixty or seventy
miles south of Warsaw and the line to Brest runs north
east so that the latter position is south by east of the capi
tal and is the point from which a retreat from Warsaw
would be covered. Ivangorod is a strongly fortified city
on the Vistula and occupies to the south of Warsaw a
similar defensive position to that which Novo Georgievsk
occupies to the north.
RUSSIANS ATTACK
PETROGRAD, July 26.—The Russian army near the
southeastern border of Galicia has renewed its activities
to relieve the pressure on the lines from the latter region.
The struggle at various parts of the eastern front has be
come battling of the most fierce and savage description.
The Germans are desperately striving to secure Warsaw
and the fortified line of the Vistula so that they might be
able to undertake a general attack against the French and
British in the west before the coming of winter.
REPORT ITALIANS VICTORIOUS
GENEVA, July 26.—It is rumored here that the Ital
ians have captured Gorizia but the report lacks official
confirmation- It is known that a severe struggle has been
i waged around that city for several days. The fortifica
tions of the Austrians are strong and so well situated that
every point of approach is covered with remarkable in
genuity. _
GLASGOW, July 26.—The British trawler Star of
Peace was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of
Scotland yesterday. The hostile undersea crafts have
now become frequently in evidence off the northern coast,
a fact which gives rise to the belief that the Germans have
produced greater numbers of them.