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V V " of Pfl'sf fiff WeeJU Caused'Dam to Bur?t.t. ?
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TO DEATH
FLOOD AT
YESTERDAY
,000 BUILDINGS iDESTROYED
BDNRUSH OF THE WATERS
iztimate&That Nearly 1,000 Souls Perished in
, 'iioil Disastrous Flood Since Johnstown
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i Details of Catastrophe
; vDamof thfe Bajrliss IJulp & Papdr company
burst one mile" and a half nortn, ot town.
v -Eive Jwdred' milli on gallons of , water thrown ,
I y Fii t allows ."bta'Stinjs-eT natural gaStJuains.
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5: -a rims'. IOhL I-Tlw v
wire r dvi); K In lnipHtW
t!te to IWi h p"(tt U-low hr
tonight. , HeruiocM - from Contollo 4
4- Mmto. Oiily few huw U'tt ItMrvc, :
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Has Trices Fire ' ;
' 4USTIN, Pa cpt 30. A dangerous situation do
veloped immediately after the great wall of .water had
passed. Austin is piped for natural gas and the. great
force of the flood tore the mains from the stfeets, Oue
of them the largest pipe in the town, burst in the busi
ness section. v A moment afterward the 'gas gushed but
and in a twinkling it haffr taken fire.' There was no ex-
RAILWAY SHOPMEN
GO OH STRIKE OR
Hill
IDS
unions Claim That Number
Who Havo Quit Is Between
20.000 and 30,000
"MUCH SMALLER" SAYS
JULIUS KKUTTSCHNHT
plosion but-ltfii flames leaped tota height of 'seventy feet
or more anjdji'hlown by a strong wind, ,ws communi
cated to'tbe-nea? est house. In ten minutes a dozen other
gas pijs--had'.burst and were pouring their deadly in
flammuiftluid.iiito.the air.- Men who had rushed for
ward WthVhop'e of. dJiuk ome good were overcome
and fell; whiletforters' were ca,nght in the flames and
mhhfeVl?:Tiic;reet eoame a glowing hell and there
was M sarvaurm iornosc wno cnanpea 10 ne near, now
mafo perisBeoat tbis'i
th debris ahd
I ' Scores 'of opersoiis' caught 'bene
t ' slowly cremated, V Vrf V y
: ';: iQwrV.OOO'DuildiWedceM,
ven ' Jlf- jr"irst tinie'since-qbted.two year
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JtfOoa'BUppjy,iias vvwyanvynay. .r.
.Austin has (a population, of 3i!)0. ..J
CdBtello. town of 450 peoplei below ;Austni,
ished.
also sweiit away, , ' ' A, , , t
Two-thirds of citizens belieTed to nave per- , ;
TOUDEXSPORT, Pa., Sept. 30.-'H'ithilroarfthat
could be heard for miles the; great dam of 'the Bayliss
from
hun-
pOiht is not known, but one esti
mate.nilacesj'it at a score.. v - - ', k
h . ,V:'v.t'Deathby, Fire and Water ' .f
hjAti'sNii'iaittle' fire protection at best .and .with
tlilV-icptUway iry. the flood and no one' left to man the
little Apparatus tho;town possessed, the progress pt the
5ani' Vuniuteiwiptcd. Kapidly.Jioy-'-wept. -frcn)
hmistytd:ltOuse;-leapiag streets and alleys and' fed by
the cdniinnal supply of gas from bursting mains there
was. no staying their progress. They licked up what
the water had left.' 4 . ' , v -
Many persons, crushed and helpless in the wrecks
of buldings only partly destroyed by the water, werlj)i
sumed in the flames. Their shrieks ?mld be hearcLbv
I the helpless ones who, awaken I fromjtheir slee) and
J j paralyzed by the scenes about thenjjfr endeavored to
S save a life here and there here it'seTijJed possil)le. But
they were driven back by the deadly fumes of the ga
orjthe heat of the flames and half an hour after the
flopdhad passed they stood from the hillside, pitiful, in
thir inability to do anything. but bemoan the fate of
their friends.
Railway OfJIclafs Claim That
Strike Will Not Interfere
with Services '
ITALIA N WARSHIPS
REPORTED TO HAVE
BOMBARDED TRIPOLI
Now Feared There Will be Uprising
Among Arabs And Wholesale
Slaughter is One of Probabilities;
.Fleet Awaits Orders. ;
dred
ne
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Pulp & PapV eompany, at Austin, Pa., four miles fj
herV&ent out at 2,:30 o'clock;this afternoon. One h
-t. Ua4 VLrtkn' triinrkTTiiVfA fVz-im. tniiria vlion '1'iTtl.--
eAtlus-:Cveiungai?4,if'is estimated that fully 91K)
Htted;WyoaTe Denevea 10 ijg aeaa. ji o
'.nigni'jeaeatli lisA had reached 850 and may
' V liM130W JWg and 49'fect high,
b keld back more than
1$ ter.' For the few times since its
Uonwyrs a!go, the .water was running over
iL : iuOflthe draWoday and many perkons went out
r f iw vvbstinV a mile ani a?half awa);, to oe the unusual
;ft;VneyVera':pmic.itrifeken when a 'section aboit 20
t feet Mide gave way on the west side A prhocVvoluine of
watet poured through the hole aud the aL.ai was iuick-
ly scftnided. People ran foj their lives, to the hillsfnear-
by, but many were caught in- thejflood aiu whirledjdown
KwvaIIp-v A moment biter another br k 'occurred.
f ibis time on the east side.: It was much gi stcv thin the
t first and riennitted the hulk ,of th-! m r.,-,, J it to
rush in a mighty volu'me4o,ward tlic 1
! screaming immanity with it., j t ,, 4
t Operator Spreads Alan.
, ' Harry Davis, a locomotive engine
phone and notified the operator at
iu., ta Tying
d)i tele
'i"sce. She
iiitf was ;
,lr J carrying
t vnmen
e caught
iyrore they
d' before
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I ciUJed as many personals possiwc ou
Mshort.
I 5 The radne flood tore down thSV
, death "on its debris-covered creitf'r
j and children, the men were awaya
"lnflioiT hnmps nri drowned or. rrt tLi
-. knew what had happened. Houses v-t
" xne migmy jcrusn ot water, auu v. utw ,oent Bira
j : broken, released their dangerous floods iierethe wter
( ( had passed on its terrible course: throui the town, a
Y ? dozen fires were burning in .as "many pe and the
j' '; erje -of injured and imprisoned persptf? '''jollied in (the,
.. ten'iflc thunder of the flood. ' -,'5.- ;
" 1 - Women and Children,
'' "Women and children there were among the wound-
ed.ahd djTing, but among the scores of men who might
! at ! Other times have braved death to save the lives of
the unfortunate there was. none to dare.
Down at the shops of the Buffalo & Susquehanna
railroad history was in the, making. The buildings
were located below the business section on the banks of
Freeman' run and were more substantial than most of
the houses which had been swept away by the flood.
Whentthe great mass of crushed aud " broken timbers,
representing the homes of a few minutes before, came
crashing down they lodged against the, shops. The im
pact was so great that the buildings shivered and the
walls were crushed in. But the framework stood and
formed a barrier aeainst which flotsam and ictsam of
the flood found lodgement.
'.':?: : ; V- h Caught at M
Caught at Machines
IIere,(as elsewhere, the natural gas pipes burst and
asf tlie shops -wfeije in operation fire was quickly com
municated to the heterogeneous mass. Men were cauglit
before, heycould leave their machines. Some of them
we're crji&hod'to 'death without a warning, but otheifc
favored of 'fontunej. were pinned down and met hor
ribUuleatbs in thcrapidly kindling flames.
"-jNegrbv u jixvthe p'ant of the Standard Lumber com
P''iJi'yJt liad 'oujhand. aJarge stock of stove wood
re'ijy;t -icut. Vheir the pipes buret there the
burning 'as brokq through the building and it was soon
C -r0Vf d.' Ilcf.' too5dphri liad niled hiirh and the
ljii,Usvoiiofi who had'bcbn swept down stream met
dcvthjs point, .r.!;
lnjnrs the machine shons and the lumber nlant
burned. And 'the odor of burning flefh was so strong
asil drive many persons from the scene. How manv
3! uriLi w.'rii - '.. i i ' ."- . . .,
uiiwrptTP Miii never ne Known, out counting: tne em
. C.-H IfAQO, IIL, Bept 10. Th
threatened itrlko Of th shopmen on
the harrlman lftien 'to en fore rocoj.
liltlon of their newly organlned Ui
eutlon bucama reniny today- The
number of men to ialt In the fifteen
tte ailfctfd wm entlmaied at be
tween 20.000 una 10,000 by the un
ion men, althouuh Jullii Krultuchnltt.
vloo president 'o( th HorrJman lines.
in atatement ifonlght (Aid the num.
br was mueh amaller.'' ; '
Reporu from moat Of the point
indicate that tho mea walked out
without domonatratlone and no riot
ing wm reported.- :
Traffic waa continued without inter.
ruptlon and the rullroad ofTlclala eay
the tfiopmen'a ttrlke even if extended
would not Interfera wtth tranDor-
Utlon. - .
Oonrntl 1Uw(uiim) '
The repone 'to thjl atrlke order
wai general ' throughout the middle
wet and the eouthj , th Mdn hnd re.
cetved nutlcee from the Internviional
preMidnt of the Ave rrarte 51rtl'
involved and when the hour- came
they laid down their tool. At New
Orleans where the etrlke already bad
rxtended rrom a strike of the Illi
nois Central clerks and the men had
been out several days, two men re
ceived Jail tentencea for violation of
fodnral Injunction ' restralnins; tham
from Interfering; with the company's
property. , ' ; . .
In the far west it was mid by the
si irosde a small percentave of work,
ers responded to. ths strike call,
Vice President . Krutteehhltt Is
sued the following statement: "At
many of the Intermediate point on
the Union and Suthnrn Pnciflc lines
shop forces wrre laid off to reduce
working time and effect reduction of
expenses. At other points no men at
all wont out and ut some points only
one or two.
Train schedules on all lines are
not aftVcted and the maintenance of
I reaulur achiMllltom Will In no man n.r
t interrupt e4."
The men involved are divided Into
tho follovtlng groups, according -t
tho union men!
MnchlnliitM 10,009: - liollrrmoker
4.00((; blnckemlths 8,000; car men
1 1,000; clerkH 1,000; ... mlacellaneou.
workers 1,000.
MarkhamV Circular
W. L. Morkham, vice prenldent and
rfnral mannger of the Illinois Cen
tral iwiucd a circular to emplnyo
nf tKc roal tonight rtiaractrlslng the
min1 of the adlral, re-
lotlrg the history of'negotlatlon and
charging that th.ma.t between
tho men and the anlofiia tirhat len
Hbr:gatel by the neoiS)ttfy' thlrtr dys
notice, Concluding, he Mid'.
"ft Is well known that the inter
national officers of at loast some of
tho crafts supported our position and
opposed violatimc their contracts by
"onsentlng to call a strike on the
Illinois Central. The conrvst(vea
seemed to be In the mlnorHy, how
ever, and the result Is one of the most
uncalled for waifcouts of labor In the
hhxtorir of, this country.
"Tho Illinois CVsntrai fine not
'ought tt ls rantrovcrsy and- nan no
(UJttrrel with nrmnloil Inbnr kk turh
! bui it wllj uo a!) t rci!omcii at;
Its rommo.nd to rc aln such cnr-trnl of:
the mftna(mr4 a will enablo.it to-'
contin'u the exercise of public f-.inc-;
tlrns for which It was creatod nnd
which subsequent' events have shown
It could net onlln n eterrlse h'd
I the management connentod to nnterj wr and others. 7 Ttl est'aped con-i
; MALTA, Bept. 0, Jt it raportod
hera that the Italian warship began
the, bombardment Of 1 Tripoli at I
o'clock thla afternoon. The single ca.
tie (onnectien between. Malta and
Tripoli i blocked with. Official mes
sagia. A reliable prlvat message
from Tripoli, however; says that tb
Italian blockade began resterdav at
sunset, ana a bombardment was de
cided upon for today. There Is ap-
prenension or a rising among the
Arabs. Al Europeans ar safe.'
ine JJritlsh fleet Is axDeoted here
tomorrow and will coal immodlat.il.
Th fleet will await orders, and no
shora leave will be gheru The pro
tooted cruleer, J'arham. after her de.
partura from her was recalled by
Iroless. ' . , t "
Direct news from Trlnnlf la lark.
Ing, That the Italian force ihavo
landed there Is unquestioned . but
theie I doubt as to whether Turkey
offered any armed oposiUon. A Con.
ttantlnoplo dispatch gay that h
Turkish guns sunk two boat, with
contingent of soldier aboard, at
Tripoli, ,
'Many IUport
According, to advices received fcy
the port, Italy has effected a land
ing near Perveea In European Tur
key. As a result th reserve of the
vilayet or Janln are belnt moblllred
An orricmi announcement also conic
trvm Coitiuanttnopl thtit Urer j
mobilising her army. Th Italian
tMnmiit.. declares . Id. ..'determine
tion to malntulq tho 'tnrrltorlni ta
His. quo iq ' tho I?lnn, 1 explaining
that it naval Operation! along th
coast of Europehn Turkey ar mere
ly a measure, of, anfety , for. Italy'
own cpast towna and for th securltf
of t tuly's military expedition,
inn position oi ine Turkish auua.
dron, which is supponed to ba on its
way from Bernlt to Contssntinoplr,
I unknown, though report say that
it fnoiiia reach th nardanelle Hun
day. An Athens dlspMch av than an
itmian Mjuudron hMd several Ttir.
kish warship oft Commits.
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WA8HINOTON, Pept, 30 Formal
notification ti tho ITnlted State thot
a of . war exists between Ilale
nd Turkey was given to the tt
axpartmant iat today by the lti?
Ian charge 'Affair, ' Noblle Lassaro
doj Marchosi Negrotto Camblnio, Ttls
action pave th way for th forth
comlnit proclamation of neutrality by
thK p'pvernmont, ' -;.
President Taft win proclaim
trallty" of th trnlted Htatec pfnhbiy
Mooduv,- Tho effl! cUftcarton- Bf
Italy carries out the Hague cbnven
tlms of 1007, etlputnttnr that neutral
power must be notified of the de
claration of war.
RSTOOVEJI fK - ' Y
ROariC. Sept. 10. Th minister r
matin received th fallowing 1),.
pwtoh tonight xrom Cop gium. ,
'Tha destroyers Artigllert and for-
l!!11 morning gunk , Turkish
dottroyer and torpedo near fie.a
Th Coraaiei s now on iu way t
Tarnnto ecoorting a captured yucht.
-9 uiruyor Aipino : captured a
sttnaar munned by a Greek crew
coming; from the north and at tin
Momujt of anteilng th harbor oC ,
Prevwa. 8h had 10 Turkish Officer
and 111 odtr aoojrd beKk-s a
quantity of ammunition. No damug ,
on Italian ids." .
MINISTEltS isr,TEMT. '
NEW TtOUK. Kept. 10. Why di4
Italy go to warr.
; Dl Un Olullano, Itnllan mlnisler of .
fonlgn aOMra, answered th question
todsy in an. 1, son woiu cao,. ,j
Kara Kormy'hl coneul general herei
The statement reelc in dotaii numer.
ou alleged Instance of injiistiuo,
truslu nd larbarlty by th Turk
toward Italian subject, pak of
"Justlca eternally delayed and com.
plaint eternally involved1' tells of
ailiig'ed piratical artevby th Wosli-m
oh the high ens' against th Italian
flag) rhargt bloodshed. Brutlty, mur,
der and rape againat the Ottomati
sunject and indl-t the Sultsn's ad.
.hiliiistratlon "a government eitht
without authority or lacking in abii.
.Ity to Impcso obedlenc on Us .dopnd
enf, against Jtaiy ond Italians bv th
enlna, government wtilcn has li!led
to eep its International duti," -?
"Th conflict which app.ar to hav
unexpectedly broken, . out bet'ween ,
Italy and Turkey Is only th epllogu
of a long aerie yf vexatl'ons und
abuses, even tnoiv real than appar
authorities of' the .Ottoman amplr,
ay th statement 1 ' 1
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" TTItlUHH SHIP HHKIvWl. '
ATHX;NH, Spt 10. An 'Itnllan
qusdron today shelled the Turkish:
warships Hmldleh Illar-Ed-Dln-Bar.
heroes and Alpagut. anchored t Oo-
mlnltan, to th north of Frva.l -
Ortst excitement wa caused through
out Inlna Jnnlna and at rrevasa by
Ih new of th tngagemnt, T
The young Turk at a mrtlnr I
tn city ar jsntna nurrele4 b tterlrt
One faction advoctes restoring th old
reitlir-. An officer .wag killed during
the discussion, ''''.' t
AVOTIIKn ntJMOTt,'
PAHIH. C?pto. Th fatln' Con '
stantlnopl corrvapondont wire that a.
umnr Is in circulation at th port -that
to entlr Ottoman feet except '
on cruiser has bem destroyed, Of
ficials st th offlc nf th-f minister of
the mnrln ar ijnsble'to confirm o'
deny tho nfws. .,' ' ' ... ' '
CDAIVICIS
CAPTURED If SHERIFF
Overpowered Guards of Ro
wan County Chaingangr
Taking His Arms
eAUHmRT." N.-.C.. Bopt. i0.Kd
Hanea and Claud Hanes. the two
young white men who overpowered
Ihe goard and imadl tholr escape
from Rowan county ohaineang Thurs-
EHORfiflDUS EXPDBTS OF.
'"Hand to Mouth" State
ments of Foreign Exports
Very Strongly Eefuted;
aff oirryinft ott fho Winchester. pprts from flavanftah today.
PIt Bf th guard, wer p()r11 ,how ,)ln, tn, atyt
ncvnttiitiotis with the oreiinlr.ntiun
- hlch is primarily responsible for this
trouble.
I
PO&SVMS LIKE P.U'AWS
'lfl-M ef the plants and the persons in the flood it wilir
noJUrall short of two hundred.'
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i .- IJt re is where the first organized effort at relief was
wiVj "cMaddened by the sishts. about him, one ' mn,
m(h tears streaming down his cheeks, cried , for voluiv '
CcmUoacl Pag six)
I COU?MErfl. Ind- Sept. ,?0 Kd-
ward ; Jono,,j proprietor of a arbor
shop here, has two poemr'in and ho
dr'lare they .wero onti'ea to fi's
City by th scent of psnaws. Mr. and
Mrs. ftvid 'Rorbar'taori, of this city,
spent the day with James Flnfrel. east
of thl city. . Finkel owns two pet
0Kc"!u!ra and thy aro both very
fond of papaws. Fiatei gave the Rob-'
eruons a sack of papaw. and when
j thes retary d bm they 'rt . jr-j.
1 aj, supply t hr Java home.: Jcnes
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i.tii Kf in went of trie papaw led
t. opmuon to fotlpw the bit'gv to
tM e'tv, H'hen he hrrd hi dog
barklnnr he got out of bed to And th
opoeiums oatlng th papawa, in spit
of th frantic effort of th dog t
drive tlaem away. ,
BAVAXN'AH,'Oa.. Bopt I0.--Reent
statements that the foreign demand
for cotton was a mora', "hand t.
mouth" character, wero effectually r
futd by th' enormoua fort,i .:
Th re
port show Dint the day export
amounted to 9S,7C6 bales, ,of . whlckj ;
34,204 went to Great Britain, 1$.60A
to Prance. 40.680 to tho continent
and 4,172 eesstwla. .: Th other portl
vict were aeen passing China Orov; showed ,34 tnles repiesentlng a
C'lrt.-r rheir otripe and tarrying valuo of over 15.000.000. , ,
their stolen arros.,T;i herlff and' It I elivd ths( till 1 .on of
jii." en were oon on their trail in an; tho largest amoants ever exporul
automobile and rah on thm In the
uaik.iosa, otdeieej them to throw up
their hands, took he gun from them
and brought them to Kitlsbury Jail
to await A rial for assaulting an offl-
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captured at midnlgh leat night near
arbru county,, by Sheriff
3. H. Mc'tnslv OS Balliibury, assisted
by Dopui e Krider. : Tolbwrr. Atta-1
from any port lq on day.
I.VUKNIOTft INVEVTIOX
.CteRIJS, ,'pt. o,--An inventfva
Oerman ha retsntly taken out a pot
..n'f for a pistol for pr.idue.'njr'appar-j
ant death for a brief time. It I toad
ad kith a bullet mad of chemical
composition, to which la added enough
powder to prope! U. ,Th bullet ex
plode and -cause a thick eloud of
hlch envelope ' the , victim,
makes it. Imposslbl for him tat ,
PItF.VK.VT I.AIKJR EXPOKTATIOX
;, PA JTA MA, Sept. to. In order to
prevent the exportation f canal la
borer by degmlhf contractors- who:
cn find ready market for their er-'l vapor,
ie;m rarii .-and other South
American countries, the' assembly has reader hi -breathing Wlfflcult,: an
paed a law providing that any for- ho Anally fall Into a swoon- that last
etgner found rewrultlng -caml', ; .la- from ten, minute to hslf hour. It
bofor ahali, be ummarlly exported. la believed thot the new plutol will b
Na'Jves who try "to ord ci of. fmpo'latf for 'policemen, as they
employe to lfeav for other work tray b ahlo' to 'ove-'-.-i-t rmv.iioa e
must pay a fin cf. f w,than $!,- even tmfi'"Rcnb'e
O'lO not moo thnn tS.000. ; " ' r ti" '
e