VOLUME IV. NUMBER 44.
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEWARD, ALASKA MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1928
PRICE TEN GENTS
PANIC STRICKEN CROWD CRUSH
EACH OTHER AS THEATER
FIRE BREAKS OUT
MADRID, Spain, Sept., 24, (A3)—
Approximately 120 persons are of
ficially estimated as the number
of those who were trapped and
perished in the Novedades thea
ter when they were caught by the
fire during a crowded Sunday
evening performance.
The injured was estimated at
more than 350: exact figures have
not been eswolishea because of
the dense smoke coming from the
smouldering ruins which prevent
ed authorities from learning how
many bodies are yet to be extri
cated.
Most of the victims were not
burned but were either suffocated
or crushed during the stampede
xor the exits. The bodies are being
taken from some of the sections
of the ruins this morning and sol
diers with fixed bayonets are keep
ing back the large crowd of an
guished persons who clamored for
news of relatives anci friend^
The blaze started during a storm
scene on the stage which was one
of the largest in Madrid. It 'held
4,000 persons and was crowded to
capacity. Electrical sparks ignited
ropes, which were part of the scen
ery, and the flame spread rapidly
to other parts of the stage setting.
As the curtain front burst into
flames there was a mad rush for
exits. Men, women and children
were trampled in the stampede.
The theater was equipped with
modern precautions against fire
but it was old and of wooden frame
work and burned rapidly.
People massed in the narrow
way to the exits at the front of
the building; soon these were
choked with the struggling mass
blocking those trying to escape
from the galleries.
HUNDREDS THOT KILLED
MADRID, Sept., 24, (/P)—Several
hundred are now thought to have
been killed in the theater fire and
_ more than 200 injured are under
treatmen. Stretcher bearers are
carrying the dead and wounded
out in a continuous stream. Many
of the victims were children.
Accidental Shooting
Ends Life Of Hunter
In Seldovia Environs
SELDOVIA, (Special to the Gate
way) Sept., 24. —Carl Albertson,
known as “Chukin" was shot and
almost instantly killed Saturday
evening by his hunting partnei
Tom Olsen who mistook him for a
moose.
According to reports received
here both had shot at a moose
which had run into a ravine. Ol
__ Sen went on the bank and Albert
son went below; Olsen seeing a
movement in the brush shot and
hit Albertson in the shoulder and
he died before help could reach
him.
The body was carried seven miles
to Homer where an inquest will be
held tomorrow. Albertson was about
30 years old.
Fflore Doctors Needed
As Disease Breaks
Out In Storm Area
CLEWISTON, Florida, Sept., 24,
(IP)—Additional doctors and nurs- ;
cs to cope with the threatened ep- j
idemic of influenza among the re- j
fuges here, is requested by Major
Jones, St. Petersburgh American I
Legion Post Commander in charge
of the relief work.
ALL EVERGLADES FLOODED AS
BODIES OF VICTIMS RE
MAIN UNBURIED
WEST PALM BEACH, Sept., 24, ,
(A3)—Disease and a rising flood of i
waters menanced operations in the
Florida Everglades as official esti
mates of loss of life from last Sun
day’s hurricane passes the 1,500
mark.
Tire first outbreak of disease
occurred at Clewiston where 40
cases are reported.
Governor Martin, who with other
survey of the disaster area and is
! authority for the statement that
i the whole of the Everglades are
j flooded.
The Governor’s party was forced
j to negotiate part of their course
! along a corpe-strewn highway to
Pahokee by motorboat because of
flood conditions.
I
MURDER HORROR WAS PERPET
RATED BY SO-CALLED STU
DIOUS STUDENT
HONOLULU, Sept. 24, UP)--A
studious young Japanese, Myles j
Yutaka Fukunaga, who confessed
to the kidnapping and murder of j
the 10-year-old Jamieson girl and
who avowedly wishes to die for the
crime, sat quietly in jail awaiting
legal proceedings by which he ex- ■
pects to be put to death.
Fukunaga who is 19 and graduat
ed from high school at the head
of his class confessed after officers
had traced him by means of identi
fied $5 bills paid to the kidnapper
by Frederick Jamieson, father of
the slain girl
Although feeing ran high among
the populace when they learned
the slayer had been apprehended,1
the prospective vigilante action
seemingly waned. However crowds
gathered around the jail Sunday
after the details of the confession
had been published and firemen
were called upon to play streams
of '•old water on them a£ter the;
pleas of the peace officers had fail
ed to quite them.
Editors Note—As the wire report
of this story came in, it was indi
cated that the son of Frederick
Jamie;on (apparently Gill Jamie
son i had been murdered as carried
in a previous Gateway story.
EDISON ENJOYED BOAT FORD REPRODUCING
~~ - -*■> iu.o, “ant: ausie it,” a Florida river packet, is to be re
produced and placed in Henry Ford’s museum at Dearborn, Mich., be
cause his old friend, Thomas Edison, (right) the inventor, enjoyed
many plcasants trips on her. The old ship, damaged by fire, is shown
above as she appeared at Fort Meyers, Fla.
Seward Res
To Gaiety Spirit
In “ 49 ” Blowout
TOWN AND COUNTRY TURN OUT FOR CELEBRA
TION OF OLD TIMES FOR BENEFIT OF SEW
ARD ATHLETIC CLUB—DEVOTEES PUT
THEIR FEET ON THE RAIL AND BUCK THE
TIGER—QUEEN IS SELECTED AND THE RE
SULTS OF THE SHINDIG BRINGS IN FUNDS
THAT WILL KEEP CLUB GOING MERRILY
THRU WINTER.
Despite the dampening winds and rains that des
cended upon Seward Saturday night there was no dam
pening of the spirits of Sewardites when they turned out
en masse for the “Days of ’49” celebration of the Seward
Athletic Club. It had been heralded as a gala occasion
and it turned out so to be with more than a thousand dol
lars turned in to the club’s coffers more than half of
which will be saved after the expense of prizes and pre
paration have been checked off.
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It was an evening long to be re- (
membered with guests coming from |
far out along the line of the Alas- >
ka Railroad. Practically every one i
in Seward who could get there
without the aid of a crutch was on
hand and when festivities were at '
their height every automobile and
“Tin Lizzie” in town was parked on
the surrounding streets of the old
Dreamland where bright lights and
music were pouring an enticing |
flood. |
It turned out to be just what it :
had been advertised as near as the !
“Days of ’49” as the committee
could make it and with the “mak- j
ings” furnished, the crowd went 1
ahead to complete the allusion. i
They came in the habiliaments
of the wild and woolly days but
were politely requested to check
their guns at the bar, as the bar
tender, wise in his day and genera
tion, wasn’t taking any chances.
He had met crowds something like
that before. Besides the committee
had spent a lot of time and trouble
fixing up the decorations and he
didn’t want them shot down on the
heads of the timid Chechakos.
As the guests begap to filter in
the dealers at the roulette, the
faro, the chuck-a-luck and the
crap tables perked up right smart
even while they assumed their |
“poker” faces and resolved that the
house was not going to lose money
on their deal, even if some of the
’•oysterers had a rnllion or two in
their kicks. # '
And a rnllion was no uncommon i
sight. Peonle flashed money re-!
gard’'‘ss. It is probable that $16,
300,090 changed hands. The case- :
keepers got cross-eyed, the lookot ts
got tongue-tied. The dealers shuf
fled with trembling hands for who
knew what fortune would be staked
on tV» next turn of the cards. Over j'
ot the roulette table the ball jump- I
ed merrly around $nd the chauf
feur of the wheel had to get him
self a hoe to rake in the dough.
And then the music tuned
up and it was some music. Coup
les dashed from the gaming tables 1
to have a whirl with Terpsichore, i
They returned to bother the bar
tender as the excitement grew re- .
zarding the choice of the “Queen <
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NATIONALLY KNOWN ARCHI
TECT INTERESTED SEW
ARD MEMORIAL
The proposed memorial to Wil
liam H. Seward, to be erected in
Seward, Alaska, received added im
petus by reason of the apprecia
tive interest shown by Eric Fisher
Wood, one of the architects who
designed and supervised the erect
ion of the Harding Memorial, re
cently completed in Marion, Ohio.
Colonel Wood, visiting Seward
upon a return from a Kenai Pen
insula moose and mountain sheep
hunt, looked over the proposed
sites for the location of the Sew
ard Monument, or Memorial, gave
his attention to some of the sug
gestions under consideration, and
promptly declared his interest in
the project, and offered the ser
vices of his internationally known
firm of architects of Pittsburgh,
Pa., in aid of the required initiatory
steps.
Colonel Wrood expressed the opin
on a memorial to Wiliam H. Sew
ard should typify and portray as
far ,s possible the tremendous
/atntss of the potential resources
if Alaska, give emphasis to the
state, manlike vision of Mr. Sew
ird; that the memorial should be
is massive and impregnable in ap
pearance 'as Alaska itself. He also
stated; This is my second trip to
Maska. I visited the Territory
ibout 19 years ago. I am impressed
vith the resources of Alaska. To
ne there appears a surety of its
progress, relentless, inexorable, and
is unchangeable through the cen
uries as the pyramids of Egypt.
Uaska is like the fabled giant
hackled in great chains—when the
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