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X ANT advertise THE V^ATET) R 20 Pages T^TTT? ONE SECTION. B J B ^ J VOL 2, NO. 35 ^ ~ % HE^iE %1LL ^ A'N^'T^ANirBf CHAftLOTTE. N. G„ SgNOAY MORNING. OCTOBER I. 1911 20 Pages ONfe SECiriON. PRICE 5 CENTS "own of Austin, Pennsylvania* Swept Away By Mighty on- Rush Of Mad Waters i atest Estimates Place Dead at Be tween 850 And 900-Five Hun dred Homes Wrecked-Dead Bodies Strewn Along Route—Full Story. The Johnstown Disaster Repealed dtm broke a year ago, but for some reason or other the town escaded serious results. It has since been re built of stronger construction and was supposed to be safe. S. S. Eberts, Central Pennsylvania manager for the Bell Telephone CJom- pany, says the fact that Austin can not be reached on the telephone veri* fies the report that the town must be destroyed. Johnston Recalled. The Ayles pulp dam backs water for a * mile and a half and is forty rods wide, beside being 47 feet deep. Austin is situated, like Johnston, In Continued on Page Four. German Schools 2o the Country Statistics produced V ^ S' ^ y . •ix'.y %■ “ 'oudersport. Pa.. Sept. 30.— { f ";.e dead at Austin are now es- ♦ ' -3ted at between 850 and 900. ^ oudersport. Pa.. Sept. 30.—Nine ired men. women and children, - than a fourth of the total popu- nere drowned, and countless ^ers were injured, vrtien the mam- dam of the Bayless Pulp & ► . company burst with a roar assing that of Niagara and pour ’s more than half a billion gal* of water down upon the town of 5' n. fourteen miles from this city, -is afternoon. Town In Valley '>'•'1 in a valley between two that extend east and west 1 ' Austin was at the mercy flood which swept nearly nui.iling away, piling them up mou- 1 of a narrow gulley east ■ ■ to‘\n Fire *Spreads. *■ ’'.ere, elsewhere in Austin, lire .idded its terror and even at . uui I midnight) the flames are : ;:!T"hecked, roasting alive vic- ' ho remain in the debris. 129 Bodies Recovered. ' : ■ 1 clock tonight 139 bodies ■1 recovered but 'they consti- ’ - ' a fraction of the entire r I'' victims. mj^> of whom • on down the valley with " :!)d Hits Two Towns. aney below Austin are the Costello and - Wharton.^ ' ng the larger town in ruins •vept onto them. Caught in > of rushing waters they too :t. i but. Warned by a modem * ere. who dashed ahead of over rocky roads in a motor »''f inhabi»ants had time to es- ,:e Heart Breaking Scene*. ‘r.r red glow of flaming debris "r - enes at Austin are heart break* : ’ '0 night Parentlci 1 children are about searchins for father r“ .other whose remains lie buried a i bi.ine In the ruins; mothers aers, wrirtging their hands, sit c 'he spot that only this af- ■ - coi. thelr*homes, now with t_..r childrer forever gone. Blare Paper Conipany. -i^ie ■ - the disaster is being ' -a ;or upon the Bayless Pulp ^ ;'“per '-Company, which owned the r ■ The Dam. n.am stretching from hill to y d ' prisoning Freeman Run ^^ore * reaches Sinnemahoning .i30 feet long and 500 r It was completed on 3 mf! ;)ay, 1909. In exactly * aor 's it began *o leak and the i / uants of Austin, fearing Just - 8 Hood as swept away the town ' ^.ed 'o the hills. Dam Repaired. -ii were made to the dam at t ■ f ut defects in the construc- f ’ made possible the disaster * ’ "■ ere not remedied. I’l = >i5rt. Pa., Sept. SO.—At 9 r f »;»ht the number of dead is *■ ! With the receding waters being found east w far Many ’towns on the Sln- • “ nonin* creek below Austin are adj their toll to the aggre- Flret Alarm. ® hrs' alarm of the dam break* eiven by a Bell Telephone :eiLan, who saw the advance of the ^ tei from the top of a pole. ... tr a long distance wire and notified '• *'>n ^ith hlfe test set and then f to the hills,'barely escai)lng witn L;> fe Natural Ga8 Burning. ’’ oe country afound Austin Is wells of natural gas and this t eiiing the gas l»i the mains began to b rn, adding to tjhe horror of the sit* ufion. 9 '■‘'clock the flames were abso- beyond control. 4V ♦ DEAD WILL REACH ♦ ONE THOUSAND ♦ A report'from the seen# of the ♦ Hood this morning at three ♦ '* :lock stutes that the number ♦ dead wfll reach the thousand ♦ ’I'^rk. The work of bringing the ♦ ("Mdles out of the debris Is pro* ♦ iTressing I'apidly. Fire Fighters Helpless. The apparatus from Olean, N. Y., which arrived at Austin early In the evening was practically useless, as all water connections In the town had been destroyed by the flood. The cries 0/ victims impirsoned In demolished burning buildings are heard in every section of Austin and lumber men are attacking the buildings with any Imple ment at hand. Forty burned bodies have been removed. Another Town Gone. The flood, it was learned, late to night, practically destroyed Costello, located some miles below Austin. Only three lives were lost there, the peo ple having been notified of their dan ger In time to escape. However, the property’ loss there and elsewhere in the valley was heavy. Modem Paul Revere. The people of Costello were warn ed by a young man, who sped through the valley in an automobile, shouting to the people, to take to the hills. His course led over a rocky road through the narrow valley but he main tained a lead over the rushing w'ater and anived at the little hamlet in time to spread the news before the flood arrived. Town Wiped Out. Harrisburg, Pa.. Sept. 30.—The town of Austin, In Potter county, has been wiped out by a deluge of water resulting from theVbreaklng of a paper mill dam at 4 o’clock this afternoon. The lowest estimate placed on the death list ig 200, w’hile others say a thousand have drowned in the torrent which darrled the community of 500 homes dow'n a valley for a distance of a mile or more. . An Appeal for Aid. Anstl^Js in a remote portion of ,Pot- {er county*Tir the north ceoitral section of Pennsylvania. The nearest town of any size Is Goudersport. FYom this place this afternoon came an appeal to send linemen to repair telephone wires. A later message brought the first news of the disaster. Gouderspoit with which Harrlsbm-g has been in telephcyie communication confirms the story of the catastrophe and adds a meagre description of the manner in which Austin met her fate. The Ayles Pulp Paper mil], employing nearly every man and boy and many of the women in the town of Austin, the population of which Is three thousand, operates the monster dam, the burst ing of which let loose the torrent that wrought the destruction of Austin. The dam opened-the doors of freedom to at least three or four million gal Ions of water. Details Lacking. Details of how the hundreds of peo ple lost their lives are lacking. All Coudersport has been deserted by the population which has adjourned to the scene of the disaster. Over the long distance telephone it is ascertained that no real estimate can be placed on the number of fatalities. One mes sage to this city says a thousand have been drowned, another 700, and three others say that a hasty Investi gation places the number of dead at two hundred or more. Traffic Stopped. A sudden stop has been put to all traffic within a wide area of the strick en section. Railroads have discontin ued trains and help Is being rushed over water swollen roads In automo biles, wagons and other means of con veyance. Aid Rushed. Coudersport, the nearest town of any size, has shipped the entire hos pital corps and all able bodied men to the assistance of the town, wWch Is now reduced to a mass of wreckage spread over an arda twenty times Its original size. Entire Town Wiped Out. A later telephone message to this city states emphatically that the en tire town of Ausln lias been d«str^ed and all that remains Is a lone dweiung, situated on the top of a high moun- ialn on the outskirts the plwe houses were floated like pieces of pine wooi and a ^tness reports that he has seen many dead bodies, all of which are being care fully conveyed to Cciidersport. Hundreds SMfferlng. The latest message by telephoM from the editors of the Coudersport Democrat says hundreds of men w^ men and children are suffering from broken limbs « » '•es'ilt of being thrown and pitched about the Inter lor of houses turned topsy turvey by ^^Th^* Bell Telephone ager here has received word ^^om a section foreman named Stump the latter and his helper merely XI. death When they Hnl on top of pole. « »ho« di.tanM from Austin. Sturop says that tne same Berlin, Sept. 30. produced by- the municipal author’ ^ ties of Berlin prove that more tj- a fifth of the school childreti are pL, cal degenerates and this adarmlng le- port Is responsible for the project that all schools of the capital be transplant ed to the country so that the bpys and girls might be educated in healtltler environment. By su’ch a scheme it is hoped to arrest the physical degener ation that has been so notlcea'^e of recent years, and rear vigorous chil dren to take the ploce of the, isiciWy ones. I Of 365,000 Berlin school children, 74,000 are in such a state'of health that they are permanently under med ical supervision. While it is admitted that heredity is partly to blame fbr the lack of vlallty among the ' scholars, the parents of many haying perpetrat ed alcohol excessesi it cannot be de- nlned that the senltwy conditions under which the children live are not conducive to ^ood health. It is contemplated having schools erected not merely outside the city but placed in the midst of the gre'en fields and forests, so that fiiture gen erations of Germany may dot oqly gain physical advantage but ’may ibe come Imbued with-the sense of ai^t^- tic b»auty and Inspired with adn^ra- tioii for the.jworks of divine creation. It is confidently believed that t|ie'. re alization of the gigantic scheme^ kill produce ao better arid nobler race. The originators of the project ^polnt out that the sites of the thousand schools in Berlin are so valuable that the money they fetch will be more than ample to erect the schools ,,in the country. It is also planned that special facilities be made for the conveyance by rail of the scholars to iind fi-om the schools and that the poorer'chll' dren will ^e provided with 'tlie nec essary funds. PPMRRIII JL . , a ’ •. ■; ■ '• . ■ -V. • . )« . ■-v' V LUMBERMEN DENY CHARGE. FLOOD Turks to Arouse People to HoW War--This Has Never Been Known Jo Fail As Yet This Act Shows That Italy’s Quick Action Has Turned Turkey From a Spectator to Bitter Aggressor - Many Reports Heard Reports Of Fie) ce Fighting : v; New York, 30.—^The answer of the. Eastern States Retail Lumber Dealers’ Association ind other de fendants in the government’s suit for the dissolution of the lumber trust, filed today In the United States cir- i cult court denies that the defendans | now are or eveir have been engaged ^ in the conspiracy described. Htzel Murray^ ^sf '^&rtiii woman to be mentioned in con nection-with the .^poatalf ;»»ii^rity's‘ arfest of Jared Flagg, jr., who con- ;|h«ti^rtty ducted a brokerage, huslAete. paying investors over fifty per cent a yeai^.. Miss Murray; la t^#red to In a letter written by his confidential secretary, Mladeline RussA and;^say$ herself that Flagg “was just lovely, and prohnlaed to nraKe^ ,sreat actress of me.” Flagg is 52 years old. S j ■J' ■ I" s." t- .^1 , aaa m 8«dalia, Mo., ; S’ept. ’ Taft'xtook in all the deliglit^.of > the Missouri state; fair here tbtf^/ietting away" except for a fleetingr in^me^t^ from his campaign of admintsfratiiin defense. The president shook .hands with a Missouri mule,' lobked over; an exhibit of>' cabbages, pumpkins an| other Missouri gardeti '. truck, saw ah aeroplane wMz over his head and then wound up the day'.by playing golf with Governor Hadley.', ' It was. an off>di^y ini the president’s 13,000 mile s,wing to the.coagt. He needed it after his whirlwind flying through Kansas and Iowa, where he tried, to pat'down insurgency. ’ All . Missouri takes Infinite pride 111 its state fiiir and a considerable por tion of the rural population within 50 miles of. here poured into ^dalia by the tralnload, in vehicles or mule back. Thinking, to give the president a view of thte town and hear the cheering pop ulace, ^adalia’s mayor, soon after the president's special hauled up at the fair I grounds, took him on an automo bile ride. • ; , WARNING TO STRIKERS. MIS& MARIE WAGNER Miss Marie Wagner, the natlpnal ln- door tennis champion, who made a ftne showing on ^he courts of the Monteclair Field Club, N. J., In the women's open tournament. It Is e>^ pected that the results of SejK. 22 teml-flnal will pit against each Othar Miss W«gner and Miss Gwen dolyn Reese, the expert racquet wielder who held the Minnesota State singes lawn tennis champion ship two year* ago. The meeting of these tvw’ expert players is regard, ed *s one of the most Interesting matches between viwmen this season, t Augusta, Ga., Sept. 30.—It is under stood here that the Georgia & Florida Railroad'will designate six o’clock Saturday afternoon-as a time for i all striWrig firemen to go'back'to works or forfeit their positions pending a con ference. regarding alleged .grievandes. President John Skelton Williams ex pected to meet-a committee from the firemen here today but they did ; not come. Mr. Williams denies almost in toto the statements of H. O. Teat, rep resenting the firemen.- No trains have been run on this road since Thursday. ' X THE WEATHEfl. ^ ' '^^E.-hington, Sept. 30.-—Fore- ♦ cas-t for Sunday arid Monday. ♦ North Carolina and ^uth ♦ Carolina, generally fan' Sunday ^ and Monday. in .The. News. ^pt. - 30.—An incendiary fire rdestroyed the bari^, supplies and 'farrii.^ irnplements of B. Hobgood near this morning. He was in Ral- i^igh'"^s ;a juror in the Norris murder cfise^riHis'Uoss will be $3000 with no insurance. There is no clue to the incendiary. Something over a year ago Festus Perry ■ burned Hobgood’s barns with ‘mules#- vehicles and supplies and stole a fine, horse. . He. is now serving 30 years V in the penitent iary for the crime. Hobgood’ also lost a barn of Uobacco this summer. Ww Forces an Advance in Coai 'Cardiff, Wales, Sept. 30.—Trade in steam coal has taken on a tremendous spurt during the past two days^ ow ing to the war in Barbary. Italy^ has engaged in several steamers upon which to ship its large purchases. France .has representatives here en deavoring to make a. quick purchase of a quarter of a million of tons, with good^ prospects of success. The price of coal has advanced to above normal. THE BIBLE NOT COMPETENT TESTIMONY. Spartanburg, S. C., Sept. 30.—The Bible is not cc«ipetent testimony in a South Carolina court, of law and a person’s reli^ous beliefs cannot oper ate to annul a statute, according to a decision by Magistrate J. A. Scruggs, of this place, today. J. A. Brown and his wife. Seventh Day' Adventists, were brought before I Judge Scruggs cnarger with violating I the Sunday law, they having picked i cotton on. the first day. They attempt- led to read from the Bible a passage |Ito justify their working on Sunday and [iresting Saturday. The m^istrate re- |fused to admit the reading and fined |Wch $1. J. 'D Notice of an appeal was given. .1 "r”'* Special Cable. Constantinople, Sept. 3o.—Mahomud Schefket Pasha, the Turkish minister of war, tonight wired instructions to the Turkish commander in Tripoli to arouse the religious fanaticism of the Arabs for the purpose of prdvokln.^ a holy war. This plea to passion has never been known to fail. These actions coming close upon the announcement that Turkey would not fight, shows that the quick action of Italy in the past twenty four hours has turned Turkey from the supine specta tor to the bitter aggressor. Mobalizing Troops. Paris, Sept. 30.—Italy is reported to be mobilizing troops on the Austrian frontier. Bombarded Tripoli. Malta, Sept. 30.—10 p. m.—It is stat ed here that the Italian fleet began the bombardment of Tripoli at 2 o’clock this (Saturday) afternoon. The single cable from Tripoli to Malta is Jammed with official government business. Fighting in Progress. Belgrade, Servia, Sept. 30.—News was received here tonight that fighting is in progress on the Turco-Greek frontier. Confirming the report circul ated in European capitals that Turkey had thrown an army into Thessaly, It foreshadows a general Turco-Greek campaign. It is believed the fighting in Thessaly is little more than skirm- isshing, but presages a general en gagement of large proportions, as Greece will defend every inch of her domain. Turkey began the, occupation of Thessaly yesterday and Greece re sponded by dispatching a force of its own to resist them. These forces have now clashed. In addition to prevent the loss of Crete, the Turks hope to frighten Eu rope into intervention by a threat of a widespread Balkan outbreaKT With Turkey and Greece already embroiled, Bulgaria is expected to at tempt to seize Macedonia from tne Turks, the moment It Is sure that the latter Is too busy with Italy to inter fere. . Report Adout Fleet. Paris, Sept. 30.—A rumor is curren here tonight that the entire TurkisI fleet, with the exception of one cruiMr, has been destroyed. No confirmation of the rumor is obtainable. A late de spatch from Salonika reports that Italian warships were blockadmg a squadron at Mltylene, In the Aegean. Ask Powers to Help. Paris, Sept. 30.—Intervention of the powers in the Turko-Itallan, situation is believed in diplomatic circles here to be most likely. The French cabi net late today called upon President Fallleres and requested him to have France inaugurate a movement lookmg to the quick cessation of hostilities. London Story. London. Sept. 30.—Intervention of the powers in the Turko-Italian im broglio is regarded as likely within a short time. Dispatches received here from Paris and eBrlin indicate that the first steps are about to be inaugurated but the for mthey will take has not been disclosed. It is un derstood, however, that France will take the initiative. Berlin Side. > Beriin, Sept. 30.—There is a grow ing impression in government circles here that the war between Italy .and Turkey will be brief. The large finan cial intrtitutions profess to have infor mation that it is virtually at an end, but they decline to give the basis upon which they base this belief. The report late today, however, that the sultan has thrown an army into Thessaly, puts an even more serious complexion on the situation, causn^ more apprehension than does^ the pri mary cause of the war, as it involves, through this invasion of Grecian ter ritory, all European powers. Turkish Troops. Port Said, Sept. 30.—The Turkish transport Kaiser with 500 troops on board, has arrived here. Italians Start Home. Berlin. Sept. 30.—Two hundred Ital ians Who are liable to military duty started for Rome today. Aviators on the Job. Paris, Sept. 30.—Ten French aviators today sent a telegram to the officials of the Italian government, asking permis sion to follow the military operations in the vicinity of Tripoli. American Boat to Scene. Gibraltar, Sept. 30.—The American £cuot scrulser Chester ( which was or dered to Cyrenacia. to protect the American archaeological expedition, is coaling here. The crew is jubilant oyer the prospect of witnessing the fighting la Tripoli. Turkish Warships Destroyed. ^ Rome, Sept. 30.—The ministry of marine tonight received an official re port. on the Prevftsa affair, which con- .tains more details than the dispatch The from the Duke of the Abruzzi. late report reads; “The destroyers Artigliere and Gar- aziere this morning sunk a Turklish destroyer near Prevesa. The Gara- ziere is how escorting ; a captured yacht into Taranto. The destroyer Al- pino captured a steamed manned by a Greek crew coming froln the north, just as it was entering.PreverSa har bor. She had five Turkish officers and 162 soldiers aboard, besides much ammunition. There was'no damage oa the Italian side.” Turkish Troops Volunteer. Constantinople, Sept. oO.—From all parts of the interior and from Sheiks and Mussulmans of Tripali, telegrams are arriving hourly to the sultan, ex pressing the readiness of the senders to lose every drop of their life’s blood for their country and Islam. In Salonika bloody encounters hav® occurred in many places between the authorities and Italians desirious 'of leaving for their own country. In sev« eral-other-centers fighting has occur* red^ and^ Italian boycotts have already been inaugurated in many cities. Those revolutionary lieroes, Naizl Bey and Enver Bey, are ready to march with great bands of volunteers for Tripoli.' Great indignation is- felt against the grand visier and his cabinet, who are accused of having slumbered while Italy was quietly and effectively pre; paring herself, ^me papers got so far as to state that the former grand vizier, Hakki Pasha, will be summon* ed before a court martial. Remarkable demonstrations of feel ing against Glermany are being shown here, as a result of German flags be ing hoisted on an Italian despatch ve» sel here and on an Italian house. Oer many is accused of hypocrisy and it is said t]^ the last meeting between her am^ffltsador and the Turkish w*r most stormy. Tech ^Fmts" Busy With Raw Meat Atlanta, Sept. 30.—wkh 3i00 ne'W students matriculated at the Qeorgla School of Technology .this fall, tht various Greek letter fraternities are on the qui vive in their rivalry over the new eligible candidates, and the “spiking^’ .season is at. its. helghth. The rushing season, which began with the factual, opening of the schooL is practically over, while the actual final “spiking” Is now taking place. The friendly rivalry, between the fraternities for good new material is keeher than it .ever has .been .before. Th Kappa Alpha, ’ Phi Delta, Phi Kappa Sigma, S. A.llJ., Pi Kippa Al* pha, Chi-Phi, •Alpha Tan, Kappa Sif' ma. Sigma Phi Epilons and other fra ternities all announce important ad ditions to their memberships. MISS BEATTY WRIGHT Miss Boatty Wflflht, ieated in the whteh »he flew In the Interl ciJitlonar aviation meet at Nassai Boulevard, Long Island, which begar on Saturday (Sept. 23-'
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