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ASHEVILLE, N. C, SUNDAY (MOIiNTNU, MARCH 2G, 1911
VOL. XXVIL, NO. 156
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ONEHUMREDAMFIFTYPERISHM
VISlTEDMWYORICCmiWlEARS
Fire, Smoke and Merciless Pavements Combine to Make of Girls and
Men an Almost Indescribable Heap of Human Remains. Nine
Tenths of the Victims Were Girls Employed in Factory
BLAMES STARTING ON THE
8TH FLOOR
Sixty-Three are Crushed to Death, While Thirty
More Opgge the Elevator Shaft. tfeart
RendingScenes Attend Work of Rescue.
NEW YORK, March 25. One nun
dred and flftjr oul nine-tenth of
them girl front", the East Bider-were
crushed to death on the pavements,
mothered by amoke or shriveled to
crisp In the worst fire New York has
known since the steamship. General
Blocum was burned to the water's
edge oft North Brother's. illnd In
104.
Nearly all: If not nil, of the Victims
were employed bythe Triangle Shrit
Waist company on the eighth, ninth
and tenth floor' of a ten-story loft
building at ft' Washington place, on
the weatern fringe of the downtown
wholesale clothing, furniture and mil
linery district. The partners of the
firm,- Isaac Harris and Max Blanck,
escaped unsettled tom the office on
the tenth floor, carrying with them
over air adjoining roof Blanck' two
young daughters and a governess.
There was not an outside Are escape
on the buildlngV
'; Origin Is a Mystery.
How the fire started will perhaps
never be known. A corner on the
eighth floor was its omt of origin
and the three upper floors only were
swept On the; ninth floor fifty bod
ies, were' fouad, lxty-thre or more
persona were crushed : t . deeth, fer
. jumping and more thai thirty cfogged
' t'W:hftsrTlMi''losvp
. erty.wllj not exceed flOO.000, :
Pedestrian going , tutme through
"Washington place ' -lo Washington
square at ,th -minutes' to five wer
scattered by the. whls of smoke rush
ing through the lr before- them, there
was a horrible "plop" on the pavement
and a body flattened on the flags.
Wayfarers on the opposite side of the
street shaded their eyes against the
setting sun and saw the windows of
the three upper floors of the building
black with girls crowding to the sills.
There were no fire escapes.
Rain of Flesh and Blood.
"Don't lump don't Jump " yelled
the crowd. But the girls had no al
ternative. The pressure of the mad
dened hundreds behind them and the
OF OTHERS IS
Has Served Prison Term
for One Offense and Now
Surrenders for Another
VICTIM OF MONEY
WASHINGTON, March 28 A man
giving the name of Frank H. Flts
gerald, aged 45 years, surrendered
himself to the police here today. He
said he was an absconder from Rich
month. He Is held pending the ar
rival of the Richmond officers.
STOLE $300.
RICHMOND. Va,, March 25.
Frank H. Fltigerald, who surrendered
himself in Waahlngton. today Is
wanted by the Richmond police on a
warrant charging him with having
absconded with 1300, the property of
Kingan V Co., for whom he was a
bookkeeper. He disappeared from
Richmond three weeks ago. In 1902.
while clerk of the Manchester school
board, he disappeared slmutaneously
with $8,000 of the board's funds, but
surrendered later. At the same time
be was convicted of having robbed
the Southern railway of $5,000 in
money and stamps. Fitzgerald was
pardoned from the penitentiary and
was given employment In the local
plant of Kingan Co.
STKAMRR GETS ORDER
MOBILE. Ala.. March 25. The
quartermaster steamer B. B. Holablrd.
heretofore plying between thla city
and Fort Morgan, has been ordered
to report to the general quartermas
ter at Forth Crockett. Galveeton.
The vessel Is taking on coal and stores
and win leave as soon as weather
permits.
TLLKG I A af I ES
KNOXVIIXE. Tenn.. Mar. "5. F.
M. GUI, aged 5. Identified for a term
of years with Maryville college died
today. H waa a natlv of Ohio.
SWEEP UPWARD
urging of their own fears were too
strong. They began to fall to the
sidewalk in a terrible rain of flesh and
blood. '
Four alarms were rung within fif
teen minutes; Before the engines
could respond, before the nets could
be stretched or the, ladders raised.
five girls had fallen from the eighth
and ninth, floors so heavily that thsy
broke through the glass and Iron roofs
of the sub-cellars and crashed
through the very streets into the
vaults below. In an hour the fire
was out: In half an hour It had done
Its worst, probably the dearth list was
full in twenty minutes. , ,
i Exits Proved Useless.
The building stands on a corner,
with exposure on two aides, but the
only firs escape was in the interior,
opening on a light and air shaft. In
all there were seven exits, the single
fire escape, two freight elevators at
hthe rear, twopassnger elevators In
front and two stairways. All or tnem
proved almost useless and practically
all who escaped either climbed to the
roof and scrambled thence to tha roof
of the building occupied by the AHr.
lean Book company adjoining, or fled
in the first rush for safety before the
crush and smoke-grow too thick. The
building stands tonight wttb. shell in..
tact and barely searrd-ather . only
tnWtfl1W pnittot of rWNhKBe
lural tiling between floor and flooj; are
sound, and It Is Impossible for one
who did not see it. to Imagine how
the flames In so short a apace could
have wrought such hjavoc. Seven,
hundred hands: 500 of -them women,
were employed by the shirtwaist com
pany. The" sat In rows at their whir
ring machines, the tables before them
piled with flimsy cloth, the floors lit
tered with lint, the air itself full of
flying. Inflamvnable dust. The first
rush of flame was almost an explo
sion. .Operators died In their chairs,
their lungs seared by inhaling flames.
Others were crowded into the elevator
shafts after the cars had made their
last trip. ' Still others were pushed off
the Inadequate interior fire escape.
CASE OF 111 EMERGENCY
Must be There Monday to
Counteract Any Action
of Republicans
REASON UNKNOWN
ALBANY, N. Y March 25 When
Senator Roosevelt learned today that
all the republican members of the
legislature had been asked to be In
Albany Monday by Minority Lead
ers Brackett and Merritt, he sent
telegrams to his fellow Insurgents re
questing that they also be on hand
ready for an emergency.
"I ascertained certain informa
tion," said the insurgent leader,
"from which 1 deemed it advisable
to telegraph the various Insurgents
to be in Albany on Monday morning."
Tlfal was all that he .would divulge
Just what the "imperative" need
is for the assembling of the repub
lican legislators before Monday's Joint
ballot for United tates senator was
a subject of keen speculation among
the few leglslatera in Albany today.
All that Senator Brackett would say
was that the members were notified
so as "to guard against any possible
contingency that might arise."
When most of the legislators left
last Thursday for their homes with
pairs arranged, it was expected that
Mondny's-ballot would be peffunc
lory with no quorum present.
GALLAKHRlt AGAI.V WIXS
PHILADELPHIA, March 25
John J. Gallagher, the champion
scholastic (distance runner of the
city, thla afternoon won the third
annual "Press" road race from Villa
Nova to the city hall here from a
field of 325 runners. He covered
the 14 mile In one hour. It minutes.
10 2-6 seconds, breaking the record
for th course., He won theV event
last year jn one hour seventeen mln-
utes and four-fifths second. A great
crowd saw the raca.'
Fire Net Overflowed.
In such a horrible stream did the
bodies overflow from the windows
that the Are nets, stretched by the
first companies to arrive, were soon
gorged beyond capacity. Twelve bod
ies weighted one net to the bursting
point, but the bodies kept on tumbling
to the pavement, through meshes that
could no longer support them.
When the first breath of flame
curled over the edge of a pile of ahlrt
Ing on the eighth floor, live minutes
before quitting . time, hundreds were
in' line before the cashier's window.
In the offtc buildings across Wash
ington place scores of men, detained
beyond office hours, worked at their
Mesks. One of them saw a girl rush
to a window and throw up the sat.
Behind her danced a seething curtain
of yellow flames. 8he climbed to the
sill, stood In black outline against the
light, hesitating, then, with a last
touch of futile thrift, slipped her
chatelaine hag over her wrist and
Jumped. Her body went whirling
downward through the woven wire
glass of a canopy to the flagging be
low. Hsr .sisters who followed
flamed through the air like rockets.
Their path could be followed but
hardly heard. It was 5 feet from the
eighth floor to the ground ;..bout 5
from the ninth, and the upward rush
of the draught and the crackle of
the flames drowned their cries. Six
girls fought their way to a window
on the ninth "floor over, the bdi-of
fallen fellow workers and crawled out
In single file to an eight-Inch atone
ledge running the length of the build.
Ing. More than hundred fet above
the. Sidewalk they crept along tielr
perilous pathway to a swinging electric
feed wirei spanning Washington 'place.
The leaders paused for , their. 'Com
panions toVatcb up at the end of the
ledge , and the six grabbed the wire
simultaneously. It snapped like, rot
ten" whipcord, and they crashed down
to death. . ... ',. ' w, '
' ' Hanar by 4j1csw Tip 0
if evrf wi KvesTnild Mrt' fcuas-ftn'
three minutes by her finger, tips tj
the sill of ' tenth rioor window, A
tongue of flame licked at her lingers
and she dropped Into lire net held by
firemen. Two women . fell Into the
net at almost the same moment The
strand parted, and the two , were
ndded to the death 1st. A girl threw
her pocketbook. then her hat, then
her furs from a tenth floor window.
A moment later her body ca,me whir
ling after them to death.
At the ninth floor window a man
and a woman appeared. The man
embraced the woman 'and kissed her.
then he hurled her to the street and
Jumped. Both were killed. Five girls
(Continmed on page flvev)
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TfilltlinHIS TESTIFIES IN
Drink Beverage and Grow
Fat is Substance of Ex
pert's Testimony-
HEARING CONTINUES
CHATTANOOGA. Tenn., March 25.
The second week of the trial of the
coco-cola case closed today. Numer
ous experts have testified for both the
United States and the Coca-Cola com
pany. The defense has met expert
testimony with expert testimony. The
United States compelled the Coca
Cola company to divulge apparently
the trade secret thought to he wrap
ped up In "emrchandlse o. 5." The
defense has concluded perhaps one
fourth of Its testimony. Dr. J. R.
Wesener, of the Columbus laboratory,
Chicago, resumed his testimony on
the experiments on rabbits at the
opening of the case today. Based on '
the results of experiments he gave It j
as his opinion that humans having 1
acquired a toleraoce of caffeine are i
less likely to he affected Injuriously !
than would be the likelihood arising
from doses of caffeine to rabbits. Tie
testified that rabbits over 100 days
more than a grain of caffeine a day
fattened and were found to he In nor
mal condition when killed. Witness
gave his opinion as an expert that the
normal human might use as many as
20 or 25 grains a da' without seri
ously Injurious effects. Dr. Wesener
described his experiments on a
healthy young man with caffeine. He
said that the subject was given a to
tal of li grains of caffeine during
six day wifh no Ill-effects.
During the cross-examination Mr.
Miller presented a letter Dr. Wesener
had written to the Coca-Cola com
pany defining his first analysis of
coca-cola to 1107 in 1907 In which he
said he found no trace of alcohol or
cocaine, although In later experiments
alcohol from ,41 to .it ol 1 per cent
wa found. . "
Even
I ANDY. I'M JUST KPM N.
. S&S&X '
DIXIE FtYER
CARRYING EIGHT TO SUDDEN DEATH
Mor ThanPozcnSeriously
Sweetheart Watches for Rescue of Fiance's
.TIFTON. GsJ, Mar. 2,In on of
the worst railroad .'disasters vr
known In th South "Atlantic state
eight person wer killed and more
than a dosen injured when train No.
IS, known as th ?'pixHi Flyer, on
th Atlantic Coast JJn nd running
between Chicago and Jacksonville.
Ha., went through trestle over the
Alapaha river eighteen SpUee east of
hera early this morning. Tonight
but one body, that t John TV Watson
of Lander, Wyo, ., remained fin the
cars In the river, If ad It no been for
the wreck Watson j would have been
a bridegroom todo Hnr WwssOisart,
Miss Hheppe,. wfPasa4eh,
tllftrola h wa'piiHMt. traftn rltl
him and to whom ha wa. to ihav
been asarrled In JckonvIII tomor-j
row, remained. at the wrack through
out tba day and night watching th
efforts of the rescuers to recover
Watson's'body.
Injured Bushed to HuHpltaF, ,
The Injured Were transfered to the
Atlantic Coast Line hospital at Wny
Cross, Ga.. and the dead were takaa
to Tlfton and Way Ctom.
According to an official atatemrnt,
the wreck was caused by the breaking
t)f an axle on the engine when mid
way of the trestle, the weight of the
train causing the trestle to collspse.
Cain Without Warning.
The disaster came without a m
mcnt's warning to the train crew and
passengrai and as soon as those In
the rear Pullmans realised what had
happened they rushed to the edge
of the river and rendered assistance
to the vlotlms before - the hospital
trains arrived at th'' scene. As rapld-
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AFTEfl CAROLINA LANDS
Descendants of Carolina
Tribe Claim Lands in
Bertie County '
RALEIGH, N C. Mar. 25 Chief
Grant Mount Pleont of the Tusca
rora Indian of Nlnxara county. New
York, la In Raleigh examining the
state records preparatory to making
a demand for the return to his tribe
of 41, 113 acrea of rertiilc lands in
Bertie county tlil etote. The land
In that section Is worth about twenty
dollars an acre, mnking the property j
aggregate probablv three quarter, of ;
a million dollars. The claims of the '
Tuscarora, who ri- descendants of
the Tuacarora of Hertl. ar that In
leases made In ''i and 1803 to
many Individuals !r, Bertie county
the stipulation wns that these expire!
in ltlf and that Mm laws of this
state clearly set out that despite non-
occupancy of the lands the Tuscororas Texas reported all 'iulet on the bar
shall be, considered the owners. I der. The troops of the third cavalry
- I dispatched to t'hlshos from which
SEW YORK HET BOSTON j place alarmists reports have been re-
reived, has arrived and reports Bo ev-
AUGUSTA, Ga . Mr. 25. The, New (deuce, of depredations by Mexicans.
Tork Americans this afternoon de- Tito troop, however, will remain there
feated the Boston National by the I for some time,
core of I to 1. i
GMOWERfe
WASHINGTON. Meteh
15. Fore-
cast for North Carolina: Rain and
warmer Sunday; Monday rain, brisk
t and southeast wind.
Millions Have Their Uses.
GOES THROUGH BRIDGE
Injured. One of Worst Wrecks In South Atlantic States.
in Indescribable Mas in Narrow
ly s possible, th Injured were taken
from the cars on the bank and In
the river while the bodies of the dead
were brought out and ranged along,
side th bank, They were finally
placed aboard the relief trains and
harried to Way Cross and Ttfton,' It
la aot expected to, have the traoks
cleared and the trestle repaired for
traffic bofore Sunday night, '
All Bodies IxiraUMl. V
iIAte tonight it wag said that th
wreck had been thoroughly examined
and that the death total will not b
increased 'a all paste nxrs have been
acouuhted for. All the wounded h,v
been removed tn - th Atlanil Toat
of tbe dead war removed in Tlntnn
from which point thejr will be chipped
o their former homes, Th revised
list of the, dead and injured la given
as. follows:
tAm of tint Dead.
Dead:
O. F. Bonmwart, Henderson. Ky.
W. .1. Culpeppjer, Tlfton, (la.
Mrs. W, D. Fletcher, Rowfhnd. III.
John T. Watson, Lander, Wyo.
J. P. Woodward, express messen
ger. Way Cross, Ga.
C. J. Parnell, conductor, Savannah.
Lucius, Ellis, . fireman and Albert
Hlmoiut, porter, both colored, of Way
Cross. ,' ;
The Injured:
J E. Powell, baggage master,
Jacksonville.
J. P. Klein, wife and child. 8t.
Louis, rather and mother bruised
and child scalded. f-
Peter Cerlofs, Holland, Mich, bruls.
ed.
ALL IS PET IMF
RIO GRANDE SAYS REPORT
Maneuvers in Texas Are In
terrupted by Heavy Rains
Disturbing Soldiers
SAN ANTON to. Hex., Mar. 25.
The war cloud turned out to be full
of rain today and everybody In Tex
as was happy except the soldiers and
winter tourists
General Hrnllh In command of the
brigade at Leon Springs, 27 miles'
from ramp, telephoned that he would
remain there ?ntll the end of the
month to follow tin; completion of the
program of maneuvers delayed by the
weather, lie hail Intended to return
to the division -amp b-- next Wednes
day. .Lieut. Colonel McCarthy, the
dlvlnlon paymaster. If he is able to
curry out hl pinna, will l equipped
wlth a division ammunition train., a
matter vvhlrh previously has gone
no further than plans, tieneral Dun
can commandfr of th department of
H l.tKI-rAT 111111 Alll M IJIMflB
WASHINGTON. March 25. Cap
tain Ri-nj. T. Hlmmons, United States
army, has been detailed to make the
annual inspection over military In
stitutions located In Virginia, North
Carolina. Kouth Carolina and Flori
da. col. com;kovk ciuncAi,
RAtTIMORE!. March 25. Colonel
James sgrove. of Charleston, 8. C.
president of the south Carolina good
roads commission and a leading
figure In hia state. Is at the point
of death at Johns Hopkins hospital I
her. , Colonel Cosgrove
with kidney troubla.
is
suffering1
J3ody,Cars Piled : -i
Stream. .
Nick Vandermelon, Grand Rapid.
Mich., brulsad head and knee. ..
Mr. O F, Bonmwart, Henderson.
K. - ,
W. T. Prkln. Cattletsbnrg, . Ky..
prunes " ,
3. B. Greene, engineer. Way Cross,
bruised. 1 1 '
RaclM Axis Knapped.
' Th oar plunged Into th river
without a moment warning to th
(leaping pasisnger uhan an axl on
th angina ud.intynpBd when
midway of the trtl. ' Th locomo
tiv Bvr left th track but'th tn.
tat derailed and th tank 4um
bled ta the Iwnk of tha streaw, Th
taMtiwtla? &iiik';faHhmmtilhk
but th rvr waa low and at th
point of aocldtnt u not mora than
rt yard aoroM. Th xpra sd
baggaga, ' twa 'day coaehe and on
Pullman war piled in an lndfcrrb
able mass in th center of th stream
but fortunately fw of th paan
gera were carried beneath th watar,
J. P. Woodward, the xprw mea
se ng.i'. waa killed and baggage mas
tar i. B. Powell, waa probably faul
ty Injured by bridge timbers being
driven through their oar. Conductor
C. J, Parnall of Savannah and a ne
gro porter named Simmon wr In
itantly killed In th aecond elas
ooaoh whan It was telescoped by th
baggage ear. The first class coach
a now steal oar, w driven through
th sloapar. In thl oar 0. F. Bonm
wart. of Henderson. Ky was instsnt
ly killed while hi wife "beside (ITtn
scaped with alight Injuries. Bonn.
wart Bouy was recovered ' late thl
afternoon. '
E
ORE PUIiTITJLEMD
Recently Constructed at a
Cost of Million and is
Badly Damaged
ct.KVKLAND, O., March 25. Un
known vandal tonight dynamitd th
new iron ore handling plant of th
Erie railroad at North Randall, a
ubtirb of Cleveland. Th dynamite
was used on the or bridge of th
plant, which was destroyed with an
estimated loss of 1200,000 (official;.
The plant was only recently com
pleted at a cost. It I aatd, of about
11,000.000, and had been In op -ration
a few days.
There is no clus to the miscreants
and General Superintendent II. O.
Ihinkle, of this division of ths Erie,
ays that bloodhound will be used
In trying to run them down- The one
theory held by the police la that a
disgruntled employ may have done
the act.
SHERMAN LAW IS
JjRITICISED BY JUDGE
NEW TORK, March 25. Judge
Peter S. Orosscup of Chlcagro criti
cised the Sherman anti-trust law at
th republican club today during a
discussion of the question of th
"encroachment upon three cordlnate
branches of the government, on up
on the other." .
Judge Orosscup thought th Sher
man law was typical of the.law that
encroach upon powers ofHh Judi
ciary. H thought that laws should
conform to existing conditions. j
"Through th merer of th di
partment of luetic you may never
be prosecuted," be said. "The whole
power ta transferred to Washington.
It 1 no longer what will they aay
at the court in Buffalo
in New Tork
or rlsewhere. but what will they
in Washington r
IN FURIOUS STORM
LITTLE VESSEL IS
Turned Turtle and Went Down
With Twenty.two Passen
gers and Four of Crew
INDIAN WAS ONLY
WITNESS OF SCENE
Off Vancouver Island Little
Sechelt Is Victim of
Winds and Waves .
VICTORIA, B, C. March . Th
Orlttah Columbia Shipping company'
llttl wooda steamer Sechelt, built
for pasaengsr service on an Inland,
lake, turned turtl In a furious gal
off Beechy Head. Vancouver Island,
1st ytorday ufternoon and went
down with " all on board, II pa
aenger and th crsw of four ma.
Thirteen passenger had 1 tandtd at
William Head just befor th tam
r went out to destruction. " Moat of
th passenger were railroad labor
er bound for a Canadian Northwrt
eonatruction 'camp, - , . ' .
India Only wltncaa. ?
' An Indian waa th only y wlt
nesa to th disaster. ; Henry Charlea,
an Indian of Rocky Point, waa gat h
ring wood on Becht at' l.tt o'clock
In th afternoon ytrday and w
th Mtitiw go down. A heavy gal
waa blowing. When th 8chk wag.
thr mile off Beohr Head th gala
truck har and aha land over and
wung around aa though ah Intend
d to run acros th tratt at Port
Craacaht, on th American ld. Th
tiny craft had hardly, turned broad
aid to th wind whan th righted,
then went over and lay an hr sldet
The Indian watched th steamer ten
minute's and at th end of that tlm4
th ! wa wJlowd up by th
sva leaving not a trac on th ttirT
faca. Th Indian ran ax fast aa h
could ' to Rocky, Point and notified
a atajra driver, who telephoned th
new to WlUlam Head ouarantln
tatlon, whano launch w qu
Mtchsd to Vietori. ...
BtK'hir.HHd la wst of B sec her
Bay in the strait of rue, 21 mile
trom .Victoria. '
OT.UI5T:;; ii-
, s ' i ' , , .
Thought That New Cabinet
- Will Immediately hi- '
augurate Eeforms , ' " -'
SEMIOFFICIAL )
MEXICO CITT, March J). Al-
though no official announcement ha
bn mad, it la aald that flv of th
new member of Prldnt Plea's cab
inet hv betn sloud, and it 1 al
mot caruln that Jo Tv Llman
tour will . rmaln as mlnltr of
flnanc. Other (election beside that
of Donor t La iiarra a minister of
foralgn relations ri
Dtmtr1o Bodl. Judg 01 th u-
prm court, minister of Juatlc. uo-! ;
ceedtng Justlno Farnanda. . '
Norbeto Oomlngueg, postmaster
general, department of communica
tion, succeeding Lsandsr Fsrnsndes,
Manual Maroquln. wall known civ.
II engineer, department of fominto,
succetdlng Olegaiia Molina. .
(leorg Vara Estonol, an attorney,
minister' of education, guocMdlng Jus
to Sierra, i
Tonight It wa statid that th d
ministration would mk BO an
nouncement, however, - before nest
week. It I posslbl that at that tlma
changes may be mad' t nth nt of
thoe now electd.
With th change In th oabnfet
reform will b enactd, tt I eurrnt
ly reported, which will Includ
change In th electoral system which
Include th election of'tate govern
or and a reformation of th power
of the Jeff politico.
JACK JOHNSON IS
SENTENCED TO JAIL
SAN FRANCISCO. Mare ' .-
jack Johnson, champion heavyweight ,
pugilist, was today sentenced by Act-
Ing Folic Judge Tread well to serv
25 day In th county Jail on a charge :
of exceeding th automobll pd
limit Shortly after hi arrival her ,
several weeks ago Johnson wa con- ,
vlcted on a charg of exceeding th
peed limit and a fin of tl0 wa
Imposed. H appealed against tha -fin
and was arrested on similar .
charg whlls tha appeal waa pend "
Ing. Caught racing through th park
on Wednesday b pleaded guilty with
today's sentence as th result Th .
suspended warrant wa also served .
on him. ,. 4 ..... -A r - 1
HEAVY FROST IX VTRGIXIA . ' '
NOBFOLK, Va, March MvHeavr,'
frost throughout eastern . Virginia -last
alght did much damage to peach,
pear and plum tree, th early bloom
of which had not. already bean out
off by - previou 1 ever weather.
Truck crop are reported a but lie-'
tie hurt." Tonight I another vary
awU on.,.. ' t
SWALLOWED BYSEA
A-