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CHARLOTTE, N. C; WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 3, 1913
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1 1 -"". o. Twenty-five men
: ii in a fire which swept
:. upper floors of the Area
. a lodging house in the
v.oii of Boston early today.
.!! missing. Scores were
hospitals suffering from
i i:.,':"ic's received in jump
v.'i::do vs.
a!I the bodies were terribly
V'.rn.O and mutilated, making idn-'I'-k:.
impossible. The victims
w !'''!-.-a in poor circumstances who
! ruorted to the place for a
hi's.ousm?. Caught in the crowd
'i iiunks on the top floor of the live
":'-"V ''rick building and in the
ricms on the fourth floor they
i: -iiks. When they were
the rtairways were in flames
-:ia '..;, was a mad rush for the
::r- tra; es at the rear. Practically
'A :;: nu-ii were naked.
Ma;iy v, ! : f. rescued by the firemen
j.'.'e. Some escaped by walking
l-ank stretched to an ad-
building or by jumping
r.- live foot alley to neighbor-mi-
The property lo,3s is only
The Arcadia was located at
Tlie lower floors were
1 hy streets
How Fire Started.
trc- ai.parently started in a hall
j.oset on the street floor. The
''s c 've!il "P the wooden stairways
-tipum..d onto the roof. According to
;':'a-j Ualsh, the night clerk, there
'-gerg in the building when
;rr 'vas discovered by a massing
L'0-V- Altr turning in an nlnrm ho
o the building, awakening
lowered one by one to the street and
placed in wicker baskets.
Two More Victims.
Two mere bodies were found in the
ruins curing the forenoon, bringing
the death list up to 27. The only body
identified was that of George F.
Adams of South Boston. One of the
injured is Frank Harris, of . South
Market street, Chicago.
Before the ruins had cooled two in
vestigations were begun. One was un
dertaken by the grand jury, who view
ed the scene and prepared to hear
testimony regarding the manner in
which, the owners and lesses of the
property had observed the building
and fire regulations.
Another probe by the building in
spection department of the city was
started under orders from Mayor Fitzgerald.
HI pioirp pice
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Mrs. Nick Johnson, Wife of One
Of Men Being Held, Is Now
Being Detained By Police
Gave First Information To
The Police.
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with his shouts. The top floor
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'Jli. IfirSP rnnm fill -Ut, i
The Fourth Floor
f -'n t:i? founh floor, where the loss
7. "re v'as heaviest, there were 30
roon,:i iike cens wUh tWQ cot
'e3,f;A hallway ran through the
m'!:r' -wrty all those occupying
"j'-s '-n the front of the building
' 'nwi. 7ilfJ men in the rear roomS)
,i,;un- (n rl:e fire escane, had locked
tr'oVi''';rs xvbf;n they went to bed and
J m iMj'it were unable to reach the
firemen arrived flames
r0ti!i' 20 frpt in the air frnm
jw''!R , on the fourth and fifth
' s at,., (he fire escapes and the roof
V-li:'S? of shrieking, struggling
respite shouts of assurance
l'r "' men jumped from the
' ; instantly killed. The
'.ar' trapped a mattress
escaped with a few
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By Associated Press.
Waco. Texas, Dec. 3. The Brazos
river flood passed all previous records
here' today When it touched 36 feet,
6 inches, and still was rising. East
Waco, the old portion of the city with
about 10,000 inhabitants, had ten feet
of water in its principal streets. This
section began flooding last night when
a levee broke. Ample warning to move
out was given before there was any
danger of loss of life.
Floods Elsewhere.
Dallas, Texa.s, Dec. 3. Swollen by
heavy rains, creeks and rivers reach
ed a dangerous stage today in cen
tral Texas, much of West Texas and
South Oklahoma. Waco w-as the only
city of consequence in serious flood
trouble but Dallas expected a rise in .
Trinity river.
TIP CO IS
TIMS TO C DLL EG E
FUND TODS!
ued in Life Nets.
1 re quickly stretched by
':.' many were rescued
r. Others were taken
The committees appointed to raise
$150,000 for Queens College reported
at the 1 - o'clock luncheon today at
the dinner and a very notable element
of enthusiasm and determination that
undoubtedly assures the success of the
campaign in the ten-day limit.
The table below shows the work
done today and the progress of the
campaign up to the present time:
Committee A Captain W. S.
Alexander $1,420
Committee B Captain, F. C. Ab
bott Committee C Captain . J. M.
Scott '. 2,500
Committee D Captain, J. Arthur
derson
Committee E Captain P. S. Gil
christ Committee F Captain E. R.
Smith
Committee G Captain, Wm. An-
10
500
455
derson 3,110
''ith the flames sweeping Committee H Captain, J. R
jrnarr
' beat soon drove the Committee I Captain, O. J.
tbeir ladders and made' Thies 35
fight the fire from
Coroner Will Resume Sittings
I his Afternoon When Mrs.
" Johnson Wii! Be Examined
Belief That Sne lay Know
Further Facts,
Mrs. Nick Johnson, wife of one of
the men held in connection with the
killing of B. B. Carter Saturday even
ing, was today apprehended and lock
ed up at police headquarters for in
vestigation in connection with the
mysterious killing of Carter in his
office four days ago.
No statement has been given out
from the coroner's office cr from police
headquarters regarding the arrest and
detention of J.Irs. Johnson, nor has
any declaration been made that new
evidence has been procured, but it is
believed that the police are satisfied
that the woman who is now being de
tained can tell something that may
throw light on the crime whic was
committed Saturday when Carter was
found in his office with his head
frightfully cut and gashed and a bloody
adz lying on the floor near the body
of the victim of what appears to have
been orieof' the most " dastardly and
cruel killings ' in the annals of the
city or county.
Woman First Gave Alarm.
It' was" Mrs. Johnson who gave the
first information that anything was
wrong in Carter's room on Saturday
evening.
According to the information availa
ble, Mrs. Johnson had heard groans
coming from the room occupied by
Carter oyer Grier's livery stable on
West Sixth street for two or three
hours before it was known what had
happened inside of the room. Then
Mrs. Johnson informed her husband
of the matter, it is said, and a col
ored man was called on to enter the
room and see what had taken place.
The result of t? investigation was
the finding of Carter, in a dying con
dition, his body lying across an over
turned chair and his head gashed and
his skull fractured, with the adz which
had evidently been the instrument of
death, lying near Carter's head while
the floor about the body of the victim
was covered with his blood.
Mrs. Johnson gave the first informa
tion of the affair to the police, tele
phoning to headquarters that some
thing was wrong. Then it was that
the police got busy and soon had ar
rested four men, three of whom are
still locked up, these being James
Gregg, Brady McNelis and Nick John
son, husband of the woman who was
placed under arrest today.
The situation in regard to the killing
of Carter is daily becoming -more mys
terious as the prolonged efforts of the
coroner and of the police have thus far
failed to place the responsibility for
the crime, so far as has been given
out from headquarters.
The apprehension of Mrs. Johnson,
who gave the police the first informa
tion of the affair over Grier's livery
stable, added interest and no little ex
citement to the situation today.' Her
husband has been held now for near
ly four days together with Griggs and
McNelis. and the matter is further
complicated by the announcement that
Griggs is to endeavor to secure Ms re
lease through a habeas corpus pro
ceeding to be conducted by his attor
ney, Mr. F. Marion Redd.
It is not- believed on the outside
that the woman apprehended today
had anything to do with the slaying
of Carter, but the police believe that
she may be m possession ot certain
information which has not yet been
secured" and which will be of import
ance in the unraveling of this mystery.
By Associated Press.
Mexico City, Dec. 3. The seaport
city of Tampico was today officially
declared the temporary capital of the
state of Tamulipas. General Antonio
Rabago, the military governor, who
was forced to abandon Ciudad Vic
toria by Mexican rebels and who was
erroneously reported to have commit
ted suicide, ha: gone to Tampicc un
der orders from the federal govern
ment to re-establish his governorship
m the temporary capital.
The war department today announc
ed that General Arizmendi and other
federal officers who fled from Ciudad
Victoria to Cerritos, in the state of
San Luis Potosi, had been ordered to
re-organize their forces and to march
again upo- Victori-.. This task had
been entrusted at first to General
Rubio Navarrette, who .retreated to
Monterey after his failtfre to relieve
the hard pressed garrison of Victoria.
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Tonight at. B o'clock,! G&arlatte will
make a formal offer of sites in a de
termined and wel-l directed effort - to.
secure Horner's Military Academy for
this city, the meeting being held at
the offices of the Greater Charlotte
Club.
Prof. J. C. Horner, accompanied by
Mrs. Horner, arrived in Charlotte last
evening, and are stopping at the Sel
wyn hotel.
Professor Horner, was taken in
charge by the special committee to
day, with Mr. .S. B. Alexander, Jr.,
as chairman, and visited a number of
sites about the city in which it is be
lieved he will be interested. The com
mittee desired to have Professor Hor
ner view the possible sites here before
they extend to him for his onsidera
tion a formal offer of land for the
buildings for Horner's school.
By tonight it is hoped that all of
the details which the committee has
to work out in regard to these sites
will have been completed, so that a
straight and clear-cut offer can he
made to Professor Horner for his con
sideration. Favorable to Charlotte.
It is understood that Professor Hor
ner has expressed himself very freely
in regard to Charlotte as a suitable
place for the location of his school,
the buildings of which were recently
burned at Oxford. Professor Horner,
it is stated, believes that Charlotte is
in the center of a most excellent ter
ritory from which to draw students
and he believes that if the school is
located here it will be possible to
greatly1 enlarge Its field and increase
the attendance beyond anything that
the school has known in the past
years of its successful history.
Indeed Professor Horner is quoted
as saying that it should be possible
to procure at least 400 boys if he can
locate the school in Charlotte and if
the local alumni shall come forward
to the support of the institution and
give it their aid and assistance. Pro
fessor Horner, it is further believed,
regards Charlotte very favorabl and
is anxious to bring his school here
if the city, the alumni, and others in
terested, can make him such an offer
as will justify his acceptance of the
same at this time.
The meeting tonight will he one of
the most important gatherings that
has taken place in Charlotte in many
months. The possibility of 'securing
this well known boys school opens
up for the city an inviting prospect
and the great value of this kind of an
Baggage Car and Combination
Day Coach Turn Over and
Burn No One Injured is The
Report Which Came At 1
O'clock This Afternoon.
Cause of Derailment of Cars
Not Known Train Had Just
Left Keysville For Danville
Details of The Wreck Are
Difficult to Secure.
Train No. 11 from Richmond to
Charlotte was derailed near Keysville.
Va., at an early hour this morning
and two cars Durned. According to the
report of the accident received here
none of the passengers or the train
crew were injured.
The train had just left Keysville for
Danville, 70 miies distant, when the
baggage car and the combination day
coach left the rails and were turned
over. The cars quickly ignited and
were burnc d . The engine was quickly
brought to a stop and the three cars
to the rear of the combination car
were pulled back to a safe distance.
The two cars derailed were entirely
consumed. The remainder of the train
was saved, as above stated.
The cause of the derailment is not
yet known. The train is supposed to
have been running at a moderate rate
of speed, though the time. at. which the
accident happened "Indicated that "it
was about 10 minutes behind time.
- No. 11 is due at Keysville at 2:30
p. m., and the accident happened
about 20 minutes after this hour.
Not a person was injured according
to a telegram received here by Super
intendent Foreacre and Mr. DeButts,
traveling passenger agent.
Full details of the accident had
not been received up to 1 o'clock this
afternoon, but it is believed that the
derailment was not serious, other than
the reported burning of the two cars
next to the engine.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Dec. 3.-Laws widely
adopted since 1909 by various states to
regulate fire, insurance rates were de
nounced as unconstitutional today in
a printed brief filed with the United
btates supreme court by John G. John
son, of Philadelphia, and associated
counsel.
The brief was filed on behalf of the
German Alliance Insurance Company
which is seeking particularly to have
court declare unconstitutional the
Kansas fire insurance rate law. A
similar attack will be made shortly be
fore the court on the Kentucky fire
insurance rate law. A number of other
state laws, it is said, will stand or fall
by decisions in these cases.
It was insisted by counsel that a
state has no power to fix rates charg
ed to the public by those engaged in
private busines.
Bearing This Report General
Villa Sends Troops to Inter
cept Them Many Subordin
ate Officers Are With Them
Also Citizens.
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rem the elevated rail- Total for the day $8,530.00
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cne of the Fire 'Grand total to date $io,i&u.uui iu juij j ;7wwiP is -fullv realized by the
- -n the heart of a crowd-1 The spirit of optimism was -rkedA. Hovis reconvened thn afternoon, he
and lower-class hotel dis- at toaays meeting ana an Piuttt f,; is-. nprmiadins Professor Horner to
bring his school to Charlotte and lo
cate here permanently.
Several suburban sites were visited
today and this afternoon by Professor
Horner, in company with members of
i mm -i ;iJ. nvtH V
authorities. 'the aiumni coiuiuihcb auu uiumo
wrho are interested, mciuums mem
bers of the Greater Charlotte Club,
and while nothing definite has been
H THE WEATHER.
a m lower-da's hotel dis- ai louay s meeting aiiu cm yitouni. - --- . r. j .,
'!s of occupant f ad-' agreed that he prospect was most en- 7oUZ
"ii'Hnes rushed to the street couraging. As an evidence of the de , gation .and I as is M'
Johnson whose detention was decided
upon this morning after a careful con
sideration of the whole matter by the
quantity of apparatus ! termination ot those at toaays mn-
hree alarms clanged up cheon to do their utmost every one
Scores of excited for-' aggreed to guarantee that he would
'v find about tha hurnine- bring a man with him tomorrow and it
;'in, ;U.f, ::mpe(led the flremen n is expected that there will be a large
r ;' ' - k a large squad of police had ' attendance present. .
' '' : ty in forcing back the! It was stated today that 40 individ
. ),;' liinic rnmnnsfid all that had yet given
i; u :; ir'y an hour after the fire- anything towar dthe fund. In other
em' iunvf'; 'lore they were able to' words out of the 50,000 people in the
to'aVT lf;,lci-ins house. The first man ' Queen City only 40 people of the city
...j ! 'i f smoking ladder shouted: ! had said by their donations .that they
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-ooys, that place is littered
B. McGrath arrived
were willing and ready to lend their
aid toward making Queen College one
nf the assets of the city. Those present
'r: . .". : """i ana soon was joined agr.eect mai me irasuu uj muiv;
a! ( v. y J-eary, associate mem- 4U naa comnouieu was ucauoc -"w
as i. ;- was a gruesome sight . had not Deen caiieu. upuu auu
'"-u s were rpmnvpii in t.h wore tnlrpn to ereatlv extend the field
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Onlookers turned away '. of the canvassing committees' opera-
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Forecast for North Carolina:
i uc-d and mangled bodies were tions
SDecial to The Newe.
Washington, Dec. 3. Representa-; Thursday; light
tive Stedman today recommended the is north winds.
appointment.. of Dr. W. G. Bradshaw
as postmaster at High Point.
Generally cloudy tonight and -?
to moderate
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given out as to these sites in prospect,
the committee will have completed
the necessary preliminary work by
this evening when it is expected that
the formal presentation of the whole
matter can be made at the meeting at
8 o'clock, when Professor Horner will
have an opportunity of making a for
mal declaration on his part as to
what he desires and what also will
constitute a sufficient guarantee . to
induce him to remove the site of his
school from Oxford.
The opportunity which is knocking
at Charlotte's doors is looked upon by
those who have studied the question,
as one of the most inviting that the
city has known in many years and
there is therefore a keen degree of
public interest manifest to know what
declaration Professor Horner will
make at th formal session tonight
when the matter is to be taken up
in a business-like way, and carefully
weighed.
The committee realizes the impor
tance of this opportunity and the of
ficials of the Greater Charlotte Club
are likewise deeply concerned in the
affair, ' and although the removal of
the school to Charlotte is not assured,
it is felt that if a proper induce
ment can be offered, Charlotte , will
have a fine chance of securing the
school so much desired. For this rea
son those at the head of the move
ment locally are exerting their best
efforts to get as gbod a proposition as
possible to present to Professor Hor
ner, knowing that on this will depend
largely the success of Charlotte in
her efforts to get Horner's school
brought to this city.
President Hook's Message.
In view of the importance of the
matter under consideration, President
C. C. Hook of the Greater Charlotte
Club, has had mailed to a large num
ber of citizens and members of the
club the following invitation, which,
it is believed, will be very generally
heeded:
Charlotte, Dec. 1, 1913.
Dear Sir:
We would like to have you attend
a meeting at the Greater Charlotte
.Club Wednesday evening of this week
at 8 o'clock to hear President J. C.
Horner and to encourage him to build
Horner's School near Charlotte.
No subscription will be askeu for.
Some interesting propositions will
be presented.
This is Charlotte' opportunity to
show an interest ia securing enter-
: prises for ' this city.
I The members of the alumni have
'asked me to extend to you a special
I invitation. Please therefore, do not
fail to attend the meeting Wednesday
of this week at 8 o'clock.
Very truly yours,
Signed:
CHARLES C. HOOK, .
President.
HEW DIFFICULTY
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OF HIT STREET
Mayor C. A. Bland has not let sign
ed the agreement presented by Uncle
Sam toT'the use of S feet ht Mint street
to widen that thoroughfare.
The securing or this space from the
United States government for the wid
ening of Mint street promises to be a
somewhat- difficult task after all, ac
cording to city officials today, and
while officials hope to get the mat
ter arranged satisfactorily in the end,
it seems now that there is a more or
less difficult task ahead.
Mayor C. A. Bland has just had a
conference with Postmaster J. H. Wed
dington and the latter showed to the
mayor the contract or agreement
which the city is to sign and some of
the terms of this contract make the
undertaking look almost out of the
question just at present.
In particular is this true of the con
dition that the widening of the street
shall not in any way interfere with the
government property or buildings. The
taking off of 8 feet from the west side
of Mint street will bring the curb
line within two or three feet of the
stone steps entrance to the postoffice
on the Mint street side, and Postmas
ter Weddington stated that he did
not believe that the entrance could
be thus interfered with whlie the
present psotoffice building stands.
Mr. Weddington was firm in his con
tention that to bring the curb with
ing two or three feet of the Mint
street entrance would be contrary to
the provisions of the proffered con
tract, and accordingly Mayor Bland
has net signed the agreement and
when seen at his office today Mayor
Bland was unable to say what the out
come would be. The situation is as
stated above and it is now up to the
city to suggest or find a way around
the obstacle that has come to light in
the agreement and understanding
which Uncle Sam demands before the
land can be used. Such use also is
subject to a revocation at any time,
the grant being placed in a form des
ignated as a "revocable license" to
use the 8-foot strip of land on the
government property.
D.
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Motorman Fatally Wounded.
By Associated Press.
Tampa, Fla., Dec. 3. Louis
Hockett. the motorman employed
the St. Petersburg Street Railway
Company, was fatally wounded there
last night by falling beneath the
wheels of the trolley car which he
was driving. Hockett leaned over the
dashboard to adjust the headlight
of the car, lost his balance and fell,
the car passing over his body. His
left arm and left ear were cut oft
and he was otherwise injured. He
died early today.
It is Behevsd ihe Dictatorship
oj Euerta in Northern Mex
ico Ens Now Collapsed
Latest News From the Storm
Center.
Special to The News.
Jaurez, Mexico, Dec. 3. Confident
that the seven Mexican federal gen
erals who evacuated Chichuahua City
with their troops intend to seek re
fuge in the United States and thus
te beyond danger of being taken
prisoners by the rebels, General Fran
cisco Villa today sent more troops
to attempt to intercept them.
The generals, led by General Sal
vadore Mercado, whose desertion ol
Chihuahua and whose statements that
he had no money to pay his troops
are regarded as a virtual breakdowr
of the dictatorship of Provisiona.'
President Huerta so far as the north
of Mexico is concerned, are headed
for Ojinaga on the border, It is
thopght they will cross the iiio
Grande river to Presidio.
At Presidio ihey are expected to
be arrested by the United States
military authorities, taken to Marta
and thence to San Antonio. Their ar-,
rest on crossiugf the river would tol-
low as n..m&itef, 'course under- a',
ruling of Secretajfy jof War Garrison.
With the generals are many sub
ordinate officers, about 2,000 federal
leguiai soldiers and mere than a
thousand persons of the wealthier
class of Chihuahua who took to flight
rather than lace an attack by tne
rebels
Gen. Pascual Orczco and Gen. Jose
Ynez Salazar, believed to be w?tu
Gen. Mercado, are under indictment
returned in the federal court in Ki
Paso, Texas, for violation of the neu
trality laws. Gen. Salazar Ls out ol.
bond but Gen. Oroczo never was ar
rested. Gen. Villa had little hope that his
soldiers would be able to overtax
the federals w-ho had left Chihuahua
several days before the fact of then
flight became known.
That Gen. Mercado, after handing
the portfolio of state to Fredericc
Moye, civil governor ad interim,
should on behalf of himself and sub
ordinates offer to surrender and then '
fly to the border, was regarded by
Gen. Villa a.3 an unusual proceeding.
"The only place they will surren
der will be in the United States,"
said Villa, as he sat at breakfast in
his Juarez headquarters today and
patted an automatic revolver wtucn
lay among the spoons and forks at
his hand.
Carlos A. Heberlein, of Los Ange
les, Cal., who came from Chihuahua
with the peace commission requesting
Gen. Villa to occupy the city, said
that before the federals left the pen
itentiary was emptied of all the polit
ical prisoners.
"Everything possible was done by
Gen. Mercado to treat the citizens
humanely," said Mr. Heberlein. "Pa
tience, however, was worn out. The
people had been in a panic for so
long they could endure it no longer.
All the money had been withdraws
from the city. The repeated defeat or
the federal troops, as they ventured
forth and came back broken, was dis
couraging. There was no money to
pay the troops and everybody lost
heart"
EN
ZIS
POT ON TRE
ACTIVE LIST
By Associated Press.
. Mexico City, Dec. 3. The war de
partment of the Mexican government
today published an order transferring
General Porfirio Diaz, the former Pres
ident, from the retired to the active
list. The order bears the date of Sep
tember 20th.
THINK LOPEZ
IS NOT
THE M
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By Associated Press.
Bingham, Utah, Dec. 3. That the
work of Sheriff Andrew Smith and his
200 deputies in the last three days
has been for naught and that Ralph
Lopez, the Mexican bandit and mur
derer, has not been in the Minnie
mine here since Sunday was the opin
ion generally expressed among the
miners of the camp today.
This opinion, however, is not in ac
cordance with that of Sheriff SmitD,
who said he probably would open the
mine Thursday morning when he ex
pected to find the body of Lopez.
Some credence, however, is being
given to the theory advanced that Lo
pez made his escape from the mine
and detectives have been put to work
in Bingham to trace down . possible
clues. - v -..
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