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THE . ASHE VILLE . CITIZEN. Complete Associated Press Reports :,; THE WEATHER: BAIN ; YOU XXVII., NO. 157 ASHEV1LLE, N. C, MONDAY MORNING, MA KCII 27, 1911 PRICE FIVE CENTS aftermath oem. yows 6reat fireaddstotMwMorsofa HISTORY-MAKING Charred Remains of Holocaust's Victims are Weeping Hundreds Who Make Frantic Efforts of Death in its Most Hideous BLACKENED STUMP ALL THAT REMAINED OF SWEETHEART In the Chaos of Despair There is Found One Tragic Touch of Human Interest Tettingof Love's Young DreamRudely Shattered. NEW YORK, March 26. What will go down in history nu the lire disaster of Washington square enter ed upon It aftermath tonight with 82 of nearly 150 victims Identified. The official death list has been lessened rather than increasing. Revised count showed 141 dead to night, with 12 women and girls at death's door in the hospital. One hundred and 'fifty- a" told. wU1 Per haps conservatively cover the catas trophe when those whose Horrible hurts and burns seem fatal shall have joined their fellow workers now In coffins at the morgue. Careful counting still rates the female vic tims, young and old, at a approxi mately ten to every male. Broadly speaking they were Jewish and Ital ian, living either on the East Side or In th small Italian quarter near the scene of the Ire. Will Investigate. With all the testimony, at hand the coroner today began an investigation one of the several inquiries which will be conducted by city depart ments aided by agents from the dis trict attorney's office. An inquest Nwill be held and its result will ne placed before the gand Jury, Many grand Jurymen visited the scene and District Attorney Whitman an nounced that thota. responsible for the--!' of Uf: wotoV U rigorously prosecuted. " On Thursday night a mas meeting" Wilt be held at Cooper VWoii to agitate for more adequate protection of so-called fireproof buildings. The United Hebrew Chari ties and the Hebrew Free Burial so cieties announced trtVlghi they were readv to relieve any distress caused by he fire. The Independent Order of B'Nal B'RIth has opened a sub scription fund throughout New York, Massachusetts. Connecticut and a por tion of Canada for the sufferers. Di rectors of the Metropolitan opera house have offered the building free frr a benefit performance. Pr. Geo. H Price, cnairmnn m - "r tlon eommlttee appointed by the -nit and smri innui-i. PREPARATIONS ARE MADE FORWAR mTHOlEHWORK OF mm OBJECT Should Necessity Arise the United States Troops Would be Ready HIKES ARE ORDERED GALVESTON, Tex.. March 26. Ammunition Is belm? loaded aboard th. scout cruiser Salem, the gunboat "tTBCom and the three transports In 'port.' Every "preparation Is being made for war. even though the mob OJsation of troops and war vessels here result In .nothing more scHoub than war play. While no official advices bearing upon the proposed movement of troops have been received here, per sonal letters from those high in au thority in Washington indicate that the war scare practically has vanish ed .and that a further display of armed force is regarded as unneces sary. Gen. Mill 1 proceeding with the work of training the brigade under his command just as though war was During the present week tie expect to send each of the thre regiment on long hike up the beach. No word ha been received here from Her Admiral Staunton's armored cruiser fleet, which waa expected to arrive here today from Gunantanamo. ' It I believed here that the four ves sels are tllt t the Cuban station FAST FIELDING AND HITTING MEMPHIS, Tenn,, Mar.' 2 In game characterised by fast fielding and heavy hitting the Memphis Southern league team defeated the Chicago Nationals this ! afternoon f to I.- The pitching 6fFrit who al lowed but ..one hit in four Innings and the batting of Skaim. Frits and CrandaU of Memphis were feature. CATASTROPHE vestlgat and remedy unsanitary Con ditions, gave out tonight a statement with a long list of factory buildings which he fays fail to comply with Are regulations. "What was expected has happen ed," says the statement. -Those wno knew of the flimsy fire protection in the lofty butldinga of New York long ago predicted such s disaster a oc curred In Washington place. Tf. how ever, this building was the only one of those unprotected the situation would not be so terrible. But the fact Is there is hardly a -large lort building in New York which Is better protected against fire." No Fire Ear-apr In a statement to the press, Issued today. Borough President McAneney KKldthat 500 firemen, recently de tailed by Fire Commissioner Waldo for the purpose, reported 3.R0O build ings lacking adequate Are escapes, the building department has already investigated 750 of these canes, and reported that only ten per cent of them were in violation of the building CtiT McAneney urges a thorough r vislon of the code, lea vings the pro visions relative to Are escapes to a commission of building and fire c- ... i. ..inH tw the city. While crowd of mor bldt thouad was held back by the ponce. with grappling" Irons and fire hooks sought victims in the flooded cellar of the building all forenoon. A steam pump emptied the basement of wa ter during the morning, and the fire men believed when they rested at the dinner hour that they would find no more dead. Tonight, however, they carried out another body. ma'" three recovered during the flay. The overcount last night was probably due to checking off a charred portion of a body as a corpse. The work of the day shed no light upon the cause of the blase; This probably never will be known. A from the motor driving the i hinn shooting the Hnt ANOTHER DEATH IS ADDED TOLQNGLIST DFV1GTIMS 0F1NREGKQFDIXIEFLYEB Total Number of Dead in Coast Line Wreck Has Reached Nine CLEARING WRECK , TIFTON, Ga., Mar. !6. Informa tion from Waycross at a late hour tonight is that J. E. Powell, baggage master of train No. 95. known as the Dixie Flyer, on the Atlantio Coast Line, which early yesterday went through a trestle over th. Alapaha river, 18 miles east of here, who wa reported killed, is still alive but In a critical condition and his recovery is doubtful'. His wlSe wlo was at Jacksonville, Fla., reached his ide today. ' None of the other Injured, it Is stat ed, is in danger. The most seriously hurt is W. D. Fletcher, of Tampa, who had one arm broken and a shoul (der dislocated, and whose orlde of three days was killed in a Pullman car berth beside him. They had been married at Roland, III., and were on their way to Fletcher's home. Al though wrecking crews have bee at work continuously since yesterday the trestle has not been repaired suffi ciently for the passage of trains. The body of John T. Watson, of Lander, Wyo.. wss the last one recovered last night. His fiance. Miss Elise Shlppey, of Passadena, Cal.. who stayed at the wreck'and watched the rescuers until his body was found, accompanied it to Waycross, where U was prepared for shipment home. - INJURED DOING WRlIj WAYCROSS, la.. March 24.--.WUh the exception of J. M. Powell, bag gage master, all the victims -of the disaster In which train No.' 95, the Dixie Flyer, on the Atlantic .Coast Line, went Into the lapaha river early yesterday, were reported a do ing well . today. Powell; died .. last (Continued on Page Three) Watered by the Tears of to Pierce the Oblivion Form. charged air of the operating room to a four-Inch carpet of scraps on the floor could easily have started a fire, but Fire Chief Croker was unwilling to say tonight that In his opinion the fir originated this way. Scenes of Pat ho. . .Two hundred thousand persons filed in a serpentine line to the. pier from the opening of the Improvised morgue at one o'clock this morning until to day. Tens of thousands. Impelled by morbid curiosity, were turned away by the police. Nearly a hundred coffins lay in a Jong row upon the .pier, awaiting re moval or identification of the charred bodies. .Forty human' forms, so burned, blackened and distorted that they will never be recogmned, lay covered by white canvas In plain pine coffin apart from those les hori rlbly mangled. Utiles they are Iden tified by trinket and Jewelry found on their blackened limb they will fill a single grave of unknown, dead. A signet ring found clinging to shred of dress on a little girl's finger made Identification possible, where all oth er meap would have failed. A man who stood in line six hours seeking his missing daughter with a groan Identified a charred heap of clothing as her clothes. A pale girl bent over a misshapen mass long and doubtlngly. Then, with a final effort, she grasped a hand which protruded from, beneath the canvas, and with a shriek collapsed. The blackened hand, she sobbed, was her sweetheart, to whom she had be come engaged the night before the disaster. A ring on hi finaer told her of his Identity. She asked If the dead man had had a watch. They brought It to her. She opened It anf gared at her own features. Death lTnmakei. Twenty SlUtlan women became hys terical at oncexupon recognising their kin In the pine coffin. A man whoa face wss marked by a sear of flam, found III brother among the dead, ' Wi .sMMia5 W--rV. pouring water upon the fire. A cut ter identified his dead sweetheart by. their engagement ring and her purse. It contained her week's Wages, fl. The bodies of two sisters, horribly mangled, sst propped up In their cof fins, while a sobbing brother left them to search for his aged mother, who also had perished. The fire had left him without a relative. Picked up by a firemen on the eighth floor, a blackened hand still clenched a pitiful purse In Us grip. They pried the lingers Hway and re pleaser with IselandE-in chum lim leased the bag. It contained a small sum of money, keys and a receipt Continued on page three) OFBOOKERJJASICTON New York Pastor Uses Strong Words in Express ing Opinion of Assault ONE WANTED A MOB NEW YORK. March 2. At a meeting of more than ROO negroes In the Bethel A. M. E. church today, resolutions were adopted expressing confidence In and affection for Dr. Booker T. ' Washington, the negro educator, who recently was Injured during an encounter with Albert Ulrlclr,' a white man. In this city. President Taft was warmly praised for writing his letter of sympathy to Washington following the alleged assault. Rev. R. C. Ransom, pastor of the church. In opening the meet ing, said: ' "If Dr. Washington had been a white man this meeting would not be necessary, not berause we care less for a worthy man of tbn white race, but when an accusation, how ever unjust, or a suspicion, however unfounded, is lodged against a ne gpn. public sentiment may be more quickly inflamed, and if a white wo man give her word. It would stand against the whole world so (jar a a negroe's word Is concerned. We are not here to assail the' discredit ed accusers of Dr. Washington, but to vouch for our confidence in him." Rev. A. C. Powell said: "When I first saw the papers with the account of tbe assault on Dr. Washington, I felt like getting a mob and- bringing the man responsible for It by the thumbs, but a minute later I changed my mind and knew that nothing since the emancipation would so tend to help th negro race. orbrlng it cloeer together than thl very thing. ' v OLD TELEGRAPHER DIES ST. LOUI3,. March 2. Marcus D. Crane, 79 year old, for 20 year nlght chief! operator of the Western Union Telegraph company In St. Louis, died' today of aDDoolexr. XpT1" " - ,l "'"IV J y(l ' frrr' A spring lfy OH, look - ' Njowlr r( hiiSj0W who 's ne tj JfW WITH DEPARTURE OF DE LA BARRA FOR MEXICO BEGINNING OF PEACE IS HOPED Minister to United States Will Become Premier in New Mexican CabinetI$ Well Equipped for Duties and In Familiar With Demands of Insurgents. , ' X Prospect for Peace la Considered Bright. WASHINGTON". Mar. !. With the departure for Mexico City tonight of Francisco De la Barra, the Mexican ambassador to th United States, who yesterday was appointed minister of foreign affair In, the new cabinet of President Dla. official Washington believe the Initial stage of an era of peace In Mexico ha been Inaug urated, President Taft nd Secre tary of State Knox, it 1 known altar thl belief. Many message of con gratulation today from person In va rious psrts f the- worM to Nenor "De la Barra expressed thl sentiment. Trtenram from Carnegie. Andrew Carnegie who has been In close ommuitjoHwth Benor -&e la Barra because of fhe latter' ef fort In behalf of international peace and arbitration wired asi follows: "Cordial congratulation. Although we shall ml you sadly, we know It Is for your country' good." Diplomatic and high eoffiflcial of the government cam In a steady stream today to bid farewell to the new minister, but a pathetic sidelight was the fact that Henor D.- la Barra wa required tn remain In almost ranstfint attention at th bedside of his 13 year old son, Francisco, who lay critically III. tUgnlflcunt Oocurrom. Minister De la Barra's mission to Mexico Is regarded bere a the most significant occurrence In the Mexican situation since Llmantour. minister of finance, conferred In New York with Francisco Madero, sr., and Gus tavo Maderp, father and brother, re spectively, of the revolutionist lead er. . Senor De la Barra has had an op portunity while In Waahlngton to learn of the contentions of the revo lutionist party so that he is entering upon his duties as premier In the Diax cabinet as fully equipped, per haps, as Henor Llmantour to deal with the insurgent problem. PACES IRE FOR WEATHER Stiff Northeaster Over the Course at Jacksonville Makes Races Impossible JACKSONVILLE, Fla., March 2. On account of the stiff northeastern wind which has been blowing over the Atlantic-Pablo beach course In addi tion to the downpour of rain last night, the automobile races which Were echeduled to commence tomor row were postponed until Tuesday. While- practicing over the course this morning F, C. Flncke, New York agent of the Pope-Hartford cars, who was riding with Ioiils Disbrow In the Cope hummer, had a narrow escape from death. The car was traveling t an elghty-mlle-an-hour clip when the left front wheel hit a small puddle throwing Flncke out of the car hood, but fortunately his fsll was broken by hi foot catching In the oil pump, and he was but slightly Injured. SHOWERS l WASHINGTON". Mar. !. Forecast: North Carollfc. rain Monday, Tues day ' generally fair, colder Monday night, brisk, wirds becoming north west. In the Springtime. Francisco Madero, sr., and Gusta vo A. Madero, who passed through here last night en rout to Ban An tonllo, Texas, really are on their way to Join the declnred president of th provisions! government In his strong hold In Chlhuaflua. As the two men discussed Informally with Senor Llmantour in New York th propeot of peace and thu are believed to be fully acquainted with the extent th government Intend to go In it pro posed policy of reform, It Is bellvd that they will play an Important part In the negotiation calculated to re store tranquility In the republic. Minister De I Barra today declar ed thst he would dedicate all hi n ergy to effect peace in Mexico, ProsncKt for Peac Brlg.liu silt was learned tonight tht,th prospect of peace in' Mexico 11 to bright that the paramount question now Is to decide upon the modus operandi of the net otlaatlon. To revolutionist leader have requested that the negotiation be formal and that, they be carried on In Washing tonlo, Texa. really are on their way said, feels unable to accede to this request because of the fear that it dignity and prestige abroad would be weakened by the precedent. Such formal negotiation, It i argued, might be Interpreted aa a recognition of the belligerency of tle Insurgents, The Mexlcsn government Is known, hoowever. to be strondy disposed to treat (op peace and will endeavor to consummate a convenient mean of negotiations m-xt week. CABINET AN XOCNt'EMKNT TODAY MKXICO CITY, Mar. 26. Although no one ha yet ben selected by th government to replace General Manu el Gonzales Coslo a mfnlster of war there Is a Itellefi that General Ber nardo Heyes ultimately will occupy th Ht post. That Gencr! Reyes soon SEIECTEOW BORDER Airships Will Act as Scouts Along Line of Mexican Boundary BAN ANTONIO, Tex., Mar. Major Geo. O. Squire of the signal corps returned to the maneuver camp today after a week's trip along the Rio Grande for the purpose of es tablishing aeroplane scouting stations. He made no selections but It Is thought that by stationing aero planes at El Paso. Del Rio, Presidio, and Eagle Pass, a large territory could be observed. Recent night along the Itlo Grande and at Han An tonio by Lieut. Foulol have demon strated the utility of the aeroplane as a scout. One additional Wright machine and two of the Curtis typ have been ordered shipped here and Lieutenants Paul W. . Beck, J. C. Walker and Geo. R. M. Kelly ordered to report for duty In connection with the new plan of patrolling the bor der. KKIUXK ABANDON MEGK. MEXICALI. Mex., March 2 With ammunition almost exhausted and no provision except meat killed in th mountains, the rebel force which In vested Tecate returned here today. When the siege was abandoned Thurs day there were lees than sixty lnsur rectos In front of Tecate. Private soldier from Layva' dlvl slon say llerthold I St Alamopass. seventy-five mile outh. with only forty-five Instead of seventy-five men. It I believed that thl small force ha kept th federal close to the defense of Enaaoada. wilt return front Pari I conodd and . a ' eml-offlclal statement ha been made that he will be given a command ill th army.- Thl la tak en to mesn that the post of minister of war will remain filled by General Coslo until aftr th oloss of thewar when Ceweral Reye wilt be placed In oherg of th department. To morrow th formal announcement of th appointment of th new cabinet will be made and Tuesday th Inaug uration of the ministers will tk place, Little doubt e to th person nel remains except in th department Of th Interior. Thl I th depart ment filled "by VIoe-presidtnt Corral, - Among thos considered I Teodoro Deshs. governor of Vera Cms, Ie she ran for th vie-presidency at th Ust ' election )n opposition to Corral). H w an antl-Corrall man but, at no tlm ha h been against Dial,,..- : .."; v : Favorable Comment. ' According to report th president's lection of hi csblnst member ha been th , gubject of fsvorsbl com ment even in the cities held by th rebel. Th revolutionists prof to bellsv thsm capable men bvt itlll Insist th government hss jiot gone far enough to justify them in stop ping th light. ' fn spits of their pro testation, - however, official Mexico, the diplomats and th conservative public believe President Wa ha accomplished much toward satisfy ing th discontented element In th nw cabinet there Is no man who I avowedly Maderlst but thore also Is no mn who ha figured promi nently In dminlstrstlon affair. Thsy are young men with ambition. It 1 not possible that when th factual announcement of th person nel 1 mad tomorrow change may be mad In the list but such I not expected, Whatever alteration may , . . i.--.-.-..- -n-r --E-M--i,--,-HmRHj Contlnucul on page thre) OUT BY A FALSE IURM Reported That Armed Body of Men s Were About to Make Attack on this Side LARRDO,' Tax., Mar XI. A false alarm . early thl morning wa re sponsible for the calling out or sev eral detachments of the United State regular. A telephone massage was received sbout 1 a. m.m, that n armed body of men were In the neighborhood of Neuvo Laredo and were expected, to make an attack. United State soldiers and th lo cal militia were dispatched to several point up and down th river from this city to prevent violation of the neutrality daw. Subsequent devel opment showed that there wa noth ing In th rumor and th troop re turned to their barracks. RAIN Or Mi ll IV KANSAS. W ATHENA. Ken.. March Jl, Res idents hey War (pattered by a rain of mud today. Tbe phenomenon was caused by a high wind and dust storm which prevailed when a light rain be gs n to fall. It I explained that th drops of wsAer collected th dust in the atmosphere, turning; It Into mud. FKlX"TluioVG ICE, WOBURN, Mass., March Their hand grasping spray of willow, which they had ventured on thin Ice to gather, the bodle of Francis and ! George Weberg, aged four and lx ' yesrs, respectively, wr fo'in today I Jin Cummlng pond. . . ; i i GUI WILL AGREE' TO DEMANQSIHflT RUSSIAjJiAS MADE Today Empire Will Acquiesce Unreservedly to Demands ' In Ultimatum INTENSE INTEREST IN ; THE ATTITUDE OF JAPAN China Is Utterly Unprepared for War and So Has to Allow Concessions PEKING, Mar, U. China , I not vv,vTU v iiiwtuitia usa -uvniv,.. pletely, and a a result-of prolonged conference th Chin foreign of- ' fie today assured th Russian mini- . ler, M. KorostoVet. that China wilt acquiesce unreservedly on Monday t '' th demand made In th Russian ultimatum concerning th nrovlaion . of th treaty of Mil,,-Russia Insist ed upon n answer before Tuesday, - - Wa So Allcrnath. s It Is s-enerallv enn.lrf.r.rf that wa no altenratlve course In view of ' China' utter uoprepsreduess for war. J intense interest I bslng manifested In th attitude nl Jimn hlih la : obviously holding; nUrly aloof, al though more powerful. than vr at Peking. Whll the issue between China n4 " Russia hav been almost obliterated by th recent rl of ultimatum ' and theoretically insufficient ' causa for objection exist, Russia apparent ly fear that aha could obtain only paper promises; which th Chines would hot observe unless Intimidated. , Russians uoit out thst they hav . las now in th way of cnncsssion from China than when th treaty waa signed, Rnuuri fa Rlilldtiled, Horn section of th legation quar ter rldlcul Russia for not following In th flrt place th recent exsmnia t by Great Britain In occupying territory ana waiting Chinese readl ne to discus , the coninniil r"l"'. Buflt I rcognl! thst Jku- .. by falling to do this ha shown that h do not posses aggreselv -design. Th Chinese newspsptr, whluh ar Intensely Ignorant of foreign affair, re very hostll agslnst Great fr.ltaln which they acous of beginning th present land grab and thsy prophesy that both Japan Jnd franc will not be long In following suit. Report from Harbin tat that th RuMUn railway ha rfud to transport t. ral carload of arm and ammuni tion destined for Chines garrison on the frontier. Prom slsewhsre in Manchuria com indications - f Jap-, an rsadlnsss to invest Bouth Man churia, should th Russian lnveatmnt In th north aeeum seiiou aspect. , In a recent lau of th Peking Dally News, In an dltfrla evidently Inspired by. the Chinee foreign board declared that China would not submit to th o called aggression of various power ana mat an would not lgn away her natal rights, which must b taken from her. Whether thl was only a threat Intended to assist ' Chin' diplomacy, tomorrow should how. BATTLESHIP FLEET III Exceptional Records Are Expected From Shooting of Ships' Gunners , LOOK LIKE BOATS NORFOLK, Va.. March ll.sjlg' battleship, Including th New Hamp shire, whose , twIVe-inch . gun d- atroyed th old battleship Tex off ' Tangier Island last week, went out to sea today and tomorrow wilt begin firing st target off th outhrn drill ground. , Preceding th battleship ' to , th Leonids went out towing target navy yaru, ana wnivq win pe Tioqiooj by the deadly aim of gunners during.' the target shooting outside th cape. The target, mad of eanvaa, up- f ported by wooden masts on a raft-Ilk float, will be kept moving before th gun of the battleehlp by th Leon- Idas, which vessel will hav them, tn tow. Some of the target ar three hundred feet long. ,- .. On the canvas 1 painted outline of a snip, ano ine guiiuvre are expeciea to pick out vital spots - and rlddla . "hr" with shot. For th best record mad during the testa the govern ment will award prise money, and to the gun crew making the beet record of all ship will go the title of being th best shot In th navy. Five other hip that war In the roans last m-M are expected to weigh anchor tomor row morning and proceed to t ttk part in th (hooting. BEGIN TARGET PRACTICE ATSMALLMOHHETAREET
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