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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1927. SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
• New England Paralyzed
Hundreds Dead, Injured
Thousands Suffering
DEATH AND DESTRUCTION FOLLOWS IN WAKE
OF TORRENTS AND BURSTING RESERVOIRS—
UNCONFIRMED REPORTS FROM ISOLATED
REGIONS PLACE LIVES LOST FROM 30 TO
MORE THAN 200—FLOODS POUR INTO GREEN
MOUNTAIN REGIONS VERMONT, BERKSHIRE,
MASSACHUSETTS.
LIEUT. GOV. JACKSON REPORTED DOMED
Thousands of men, wbmen and children homeless, exposed
to rigors of falling temperatures, and with food sup
plies cut off—communication severed^—buildings and
bridges are torn from foundations.
BOSTON, Nov. 5. (/P)—Raging rivers continued to
spread destruction through the valleys of northern and
western New England paralyzing communication and
shrouding the districts in gloom. The extent of disaster
is an uncertainty for while more than 30 lives are known
to have been lost unconfirmed reports from the isolated
areas indicate the death toll will mount above 200.
TEN FOOT WAVE SWIRLS THRU CITY
From Montpelier, Vermont, from which trickled
vague reports of loss of life varying from 137 to 212, a
bursting reservoir is said to have sent more than 10 feet
of water swirling thru the city.
A wireless message from the stricken area reported
< the loss of 10 lives among them Lieut. Governor Jackson.
Meager reports pictured a dim outline of thousands of
men, women and children homeless and exposed to the rig
ors of the steadily falling temperatures; with the food
supply cut off and without means of appealing for help.
PROPERTY DAMAGE IS STAGGERING
Damage to property mounted to staggering sums
« while thousands of persons are temporarily deprived of a
livelihood with paralysis of industry..
STATES ARE SWEPT
The Green mountain region of Ver
mont and Berkshires and a region in
Massachusetts, were the most serious
ly affected. The floods poured into
other New England States, New York
and the Province" of Quebec, tearing
buildings and ripping bridges from
their foundations.
PROSPECT COLORADO CREEK
RUBY, Nov. 5. (£>)—John Vik, who
operated extensively on Bear Pup
claim in the early days of the Ruby
gold camp, left for Cripple where he
will prospect in Colorado creek this
winter.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 5. (£>)—Joe
Dundee, welterweight champion, was
arrested by the police of Pasadena
on a Los Angeles warrant charging
him with false advertising in con
nection with the title bout fiasco,
Thursday night. The titleholder’s
manager, Max Waxman, was also ar
rested and taken to Los Angeles
from an eastbound train. They were
later released under $1,000 bail each.
MOTOR VESSEL THAT
LOST IS FOUND BY
CUTTER UlLfi*
LAST VESSEL FROM NOME, CAR-|
RYING REINDEER MEAT, WAS
ENROUTE SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Nov. 5. UP)—The motor
;w *- i»» w "j
vessel Eurus of Juneau, which was
believed lost, has been found by the
coast guard cutter Unalga after a
long search thru the waters of South
eastern Alaska.
The craft will be towed to the safe
waters of Cape Spencer. It was the
last vessel out of Bering Sea this sea
son and -was taking 2,000 cases of
reindeer meat, the first packed in
Alaska, to Seattle.
SINKS OFF CAPE SPENCER
SEATTLE, Nov. 5. (^-Flash
While being tow^ed hy the Cutter
Unalga, the motorship Eurus sank
off, Cape Spencer. The crew was
taken aboard the Unalga and landed
at Juneau.
_— -
AMENDED COMPUllT
INSTEAD $251101
ATTORNEYS FOR CANADIAN PA
CIFIC COMPANY FILE ANS
WER TO LIBEL
KETCHIKAN, Nov. 5.‘ (/P)—With
the amended complaint of the Alaska
Packers Association asking $50,000
instead of $250,000 in libel against
the S. S.Pri ncess Charlotte, of the
Canadian Pacific, attorneys filed an
answer in the District Court deny
ing the vessel was in danger, was
being greatly damaged or becoming
helpless.
The answer says the Princess
Charlotte could have dropped her
anchors. She was under the tow of
three smaller vessels, the fourth being
dismissed when the Alaska Packer’s
boat Kvichak arrived offering assis
tance. The attorneys said it was
purely a “meritorious towage and
entitled to be compensated as such.”
YUKON SAILS NORTH
WITH 80 PASSENGEHS
SEATTLE, Nov. 5. (JP)—'The S. S. j
Yukon, of the A. S. S. Co., sailed for
Seward at 9 o’clock this morning car
rying 80 .passengers. The Seward
listing is Mrs. Larson, Tania Shadma,
J. McAllister, Mr. and Mrs. J. McAllis
ter, G. D. Whitworth, Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Phelps, Mr. and Mrs. C. D.
Geyer and daughter, Lawessie Rich
ards, M. Kleeman, Mr. and Mrs. M. W.
Shylock, Wm. Lehman, Mr. and Mrs.
G. O. Thatcher, T. W. Knoell, Mr. and
Mrs. J. Dean and daughter, Miss Palfy,
and three steerage.
FOUL COMPLAINT
CHARGING SINCLAIR,
AGENT, IS ISSUED
WARRANTS ALSO DRAWN FOR
FALL BUT IS BEING HELD IN
ABEYANCE PENDING ACTION
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5. (JF)—A for
mal complaint charging Sinclair and
one of his agents, Henry Mason Day,
with conspiracy to tamper with the
jury which was hearing the criminal
oil conspiracy, and a similar charge
against Sinclair and Fall, was issued
by the United States Commissioner
! Turnage.
' The warrant against Sinclair was
| swrorn out but later District Attorney
| Gordon said this action had been mis
!
I taken and the warrant revoked. It
I developed, however, that the warrant
was simply held in abeyance pending
final action of the grand jury which
is investigating the activities of de
tectives from the Burns Agency in
shadowing members of the trial jury.
FILL SERIOUSLY ILL
FAMILY II BEDSIDE
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.(^)—Form
er Secretary Albert Fall is ill with
congestion of the lungs. His case
i,s serious, as he is very weak and
unable to talk. He slept 'but inter
mittently during the night, as his
throat troubled him considerably. His
wife and two daughters were at his
bedside during the night.
MAKES FORCED LANDING
BERLIN, Nov. 5. (JP)—Lieut Koen
neeke made a forced landing at Al
lahabad, India. The German Consul
at Calcutta informed the foreign office
the iplane was damaged in making the
landing.
PREVENT STEAMER
LOMEN REINDEER COMPANY
STEAMER SIERRA FORCED
SAIL FOR SOUTH
BOATS FREE FROM ICE
CARGO CONSIGNED TO NOME
COMPANY ON BOARD; NO CAS
ED REINDEER
NOME, Nov. 5. (iP)—Without her
scheduled cargo of 2,<JO0 cases of
canned reindeer meat and still carry
ing a cargo consigned to the Lomen
Reindeer Co., at Nome the steamship
Sierra sailed for Seattle last night.
Low water and ice delayed the un
loading of the Sierra for a week and
'prevented reaching Golovin or Egavik
and loading cargo here. The vessel
was only half unloaded when condi
tions virtually prevented continuance
but local owners of the Lomen Rein
deer interests ordered a tug and light
ers to proceed so that Nome will not
be left without sufficient provisions
for the winter.
The ship was raised, which permit
ed the lighters to be pulled in by hand
and under difficulties Eskimos were
formed in lines to land the cargo.
A Japanese cook, Kono, fell over
board from the steamship Donaldson
after being forced to shore by ice and
which followed the Sierra out.
Kono flew from Teller by airplane
after being forced to shore by ice and
storm from the Motorship Silver Wave
which is high and dry, but uninjured.
The Sierra and Donaldson are report
ed free from the ice.
CITY ID DISTRICT
THREE HUNDRED DEATHS RE
PORTED FROM DEVASTATED
CITY, REGION, 35,000
LONDON, Nov. 5. (£*)—A dispatch
to the Daily Mail from Madras,
India, says the city and district of
Nellore has been devastated by a cy
clone. Three hundred deaths and
hundreds of injuries are reported
from Nellore alone.
The dispatch says the town hall,
church, hospital, public buildings and
the district capital had been unroof
ed and several office buildings blown
down.
Nellore is a city of 35,000.