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' V 1 Weather. Washington,, D. C, Jan. 2 Fore cast for North Carolina for .tonight , and Sunday: Fair tonight, probably followed by increasing cloudiness. ESTABLISHED 1876. RALEIGH, N. C, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1909. PRICE 5 CENTS 2nd Edition f ' . ...... STARVING IN FIGHT FOR FOOD N RUINED CITY Moe Earthquake Shocks Though of Small Propor tions Add to firleff THE CRY FOR HELP Feared That Two Ships Loaded With Refugees Have Been Engulfed by Tidal Wave The Cry Is For More Ships and More Men to Aid In the Work of Rescue King Victor Em manuel Sends Urgent Message to Premier to Send Every Man Pos sible. . (By Cable to The Times.) Rome, Jan. 2 Survivors of the earthquake at Regglo and Messina, without food or shelter, today en gaged in riots and' troops were sent to quell them. Men were fighting each other for scraps of food found In the ruins. More shocks and another tidal j -wave tn me strait 01 Messina nave added to the devastation, There is a fear that two ships loaded with refugees may have been! lost In the tidal wave. More towns were found to. have proceeded. . -"v- . King Victor Emmanuel, who Is in charge of the rescue work at Mes Blna, sent this dispatch to Premier Giolltti: . ' ; -. "Bend ships, and still more ships. Send as many men as you-can, and;1" tho ulaln to details at Red Gables above Quicklime. rnina. fcot It 1 lmnoWhi, lo rc'j them,' Horrible tales are coming' Ia softly moderated voice, falter from Calabria of fights between ;lnS onlv when the recollection of starving families for crusts and of some Particularly barbarous Indignity fearful struggles for food and life threatened to bring on a fainting between men and dogs. The terrors sPe11 ,,ke tnat r yesterday, Mrs. Erb of famine and thirst are heightened by fresh occasional shocks of earth quake. ;; ' Few of the survivors dare to go beneath a roof. In the open the rain I falls heavily, mercilessly and unceas ingly. On the Russian warship, which ! took manv refueees to NaDles. three babies were born. . The mothers In b,nd her arm8 and feet extended at these cases are making good pro- ful1 length. Rushing at her one even 'gress. A Russian sailor offered to ln at the dinner table and giving adopt one of the Infants but the ner crashing blows with both fists In mother would not part with it. the face- her busband had rendered An Englishman at Messina named ner unconscious, she said, and caused Barret, after the first shock, found her to spend days in a hospital, himself, his -wife and his child be-i Tlme after time she was rendered tween mattresses on the ground floor ' insensible or ill from her husband's burled under the debris of their 'onslaughts,-' going -to sanitariums or house, which had completely col-, other retreats On one occasion when lapsed. With difficulty he managed accused by her husband of trying to to extricate himself, but was unable poison him and threatened by him to save hit wife, and they, imploring th death, she fled to Virginia Hot help, died from suffocation almost, Springs. I within his reach. Men and women "My husband was killed while try-' are literally dying of starvation in 8 to kill me. He attacked me and, ruined Calabria and help arrives, but 'when I fought him off, he again tried j slowly: but a greater danger than! to kill me. When my sister came to : that of staravtlon hangs over the vastated district and cities tha dan- fn h . n..HiMU Uonna hie mo icntv'p AVI UUauiVUWD. UCllVO U.O uwjUB.j rtmnrfor 0ickiim . Thousands of corpses lie festering and lmmov-'llke a madman he would sot have' able beneath tha debris of the wreck-, been hurt. Even if he had. gone to ed town and cities. Burial In many. bed after the first attack there would Instances 1. Impossible ..J len" U.nm nent- . i-1 '-i tei,. trlLSr. rruwiiDK aoes ib ousy, una cm-, rlnn birds would SDread enldemlc. The streets are so encumbered with wreckage that Jhe movements f the rescuers are very slow and the area 'to be gone over to vast that. Glfl Works at Clarksburg Will Re much time must elapse before ali the . open on Flat Wage Scale. crevasses, holes, cellars and heaps of (By Leased Wire to The Times) , ruins can be examined. .. Clarksburg,, W. Va., Jan. I After ' The city has been divided Into a shut-down of several weeks, caused tones and the work of rescue in each; by a disagreement oyer wages, the district is In charge of army officers. (Clarksburg Glass Company has come The soldiers continue to distribute to an understanding with its em- bread and water , to the survivors. The corpses being recovered through out the .city are being mutilated be yond recognition.' The survivors are Imploring the rescuers to search for relatives and friends. ' The distribution of food has been organized. .Bakeries have been' open ed and slaughter houses established and It is hoped that by today no one need be without bread. Tb road between here and Mes- slna ts filled with refugees, who In Evani Hughes today for the second lawyer and capitalist, had been la the vast majority of cases havo saved time was Inaugurated at governor of vited to come to Augusta to discuss nothing."- All their possessions are New York state.. V ; ; -. t r ' cabinet mattert. Judge Taft refused on their backs In the shape of tatter-1 ; ,Few ot the old line party, leader to disclose the' exact nature ot the td clothing, end ln many cases the ' war 1n attendance their Plaoas. b matters to he discussed, but It It not garment! only .partly cover the own- inf filled by men who have tome into believed Mr. Cromwell's visit will art. - Tha survivors tay that thers (ConUnued on Page Twa) - I MRS. ERB TELLS liiDEl 0 HER HUD Court Rocm Densely Packed cs Widow Tells Story of Murder DEFENDS HER SISTER Crowd Listens With Breathless Atten tion As Mrs. Erb Relates An As founding Tale of Cruel Treatment. Defends Her Sister, Mrs. Beisel, For Turning Revolver on Her Hus band and Shooting Him Ejacula tions of Horror Came From Specta tors As Story Was Unfolded. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Media, Pa. Jan. 2 With a densely packed crowd in the Delaware county court-room listening with breathless attention and the 12 Jurors leaning forward in their seats to catch her every word, Mrs. Florence Erb re- iated today an abounding tale of cru el treatment at the hands of her mur dered husband, Captala J. Clayton Erb, and defended her sister, Mrs. Catherine Beisel, for turning a re- volver u pon him on the night of Octo- ber G and slaying him In the hall of his country home. Red Gables. The pale-faced widow, with girlish figure and youthful features, who, with Mrs. Beisel, is accused of plot ting, the death of Captain Erb, kept las unfolded by her today racounlea treatment, ainiosi unneara of on the part of a husband who jwas supposed to love and cherish his I wife. - . i Smothered ejaculations of horror came from the spectators as she de I scribed how Erb had once tried to "spread eagle" her on the floor of her room - securing straps with which to d-rniy aid he tried to kill her "Then when she ' wrested the re- vol ver from him he was flnnllv shot. . " I "If the .captain had attacked us! """"a led. MEN WIN IN STRIKE. ployes and will resume Operation un der the flat scale,, making the Brat blowing Sunday, at midnight The settlement Is considered, a Vic tory for the men, who refused to work under the sliding scale. Pros pects are good for resumption , at other plant here. V-.,,' Governor Hughes Inaugurated. (By Leafed Wire to Tha Times.) Albany. N. Y.. Jan. I Charles .tiaie prominence wita ua rua M ov, "WOf Khghefc . ILA -1 lv4l ' Kwlcsss m 1 W ?,:', b ciie "4 IrM 4 ; -mm K?vV ' rvH5 WW ' VI v 1 ckTiPW V'y LIST OF TOWNS DESTROYED GROWS. Italy has stopped searching for tha dead to aid the living. Every hour's delay in help may cost a thousand lives. . The King has wired from Messina for ships with quicklime to avert the threatened plague. Estimates Of the dead still go to 200,000. As investigation pro ceeds the list of towns destroyed grows. , It Is estimated that more than half tlie population of the devas tated towns on the Calabrlan and Sicilian coas'.s have been killed. Men and women continue to die from starvation, but the work of relief, though inadequate Is becoming more organized. The two stea mars of refugees believed to have been lost In a wave in the Strait of Mes.;ina are still missing. Relief contributions from various American cities amount to "$400,000. In New York $75,000 has been turned Into the Red Cross and $17,000 to the mayor's fund. Receivership Granted on Application of Railroad . , .... 1 . , . ' BJ Lased wlr to Th Times.) Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 2 The Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic Railroad gompany haB been place4 ln tne hands of a receiver by Judge Pardee, 1 the United States circuit court. i President H. M. Atkinson and Vice President P. 8. Arkwright, of the Railroad Company, were named re ceivers.. It developed that the application for receivership was granted late last night but the fact was not made pub lic until after the close of business at noon today. The receivership is granted on the application of the railroad company President-Elect Confers tfr Leased Wire to The Times) Augusta, Oft., Jan. 2 President elect Taft announced today that WU Ham Nelson Cromwell, the New York aavt any tpaeiai political tigniacance, J Senator Hnry Cabot . Lodga, ot itself and Is friendly litigation. It was made for the purpose of proleit- ing the railroads interests and hold- ir.g them intact. $588,000 is now due and the com- pany has found it Impossible to meet The road places itself In thehand of the courts In the hope of prevent- tntr thn varinns IntArnata frnm hmnv " t . VI dismembered an dto protect the oond- holders from suit as the trustees will not foreclose on any or tne roads properties. , " Tl-e receivors have taken chargo of the road and there will b no in terruption of its operation. Wm. Taft With Cromwell Massachusetts, has arrived here and Is In frequent conference with the president-elect. Socretary Loeh, Timothy Woodruff, of New York, and Senator Knox, it Is f8,and 6na Fr,8C0 board, died sudfie-. New York. Jan. 2-Martln McMahon, also announced, are expected next ly yesterday afternoon at his home in who roomed at ill East mrd street, week. Fort Worth of apoplexy. -.i jwas Mined to death while asleep by Fln.1 derininn witi h ohA hJ Judge Yoakum was one of the most imol today from a blaze that start Final eclaloa win ba reached brprom?1Mt of the youns of pubc ed In his room from the explosion of v.yc.uiu i we. iq whlthar 0. Voa L. Mfr and Wm.jtsrmt la tongraa. Loab, Jr., wm ct in tak jcaoiaoi. , ; OFFICE HUNTS THE MAN Cuba Wonls hissing Man for Daniel Marco, Son of the Famous Gcnrrul, 'Could be I'rcsitlci't of the Ishind Rep il lie Searching All Over Woild For I!iin. Los Anftcles, Jan. 2 Four Cubans Joez Goniej, son of. tho famo:is gen eral, Maximo Gomez, Jo3e Garcia Del t Rio, son of another revolutionary commander; Ramon . Morales and j Francisco Villa, arrived ln Los An Igeles today to search for Daniel j Maceo, youngest son of General Maceo, whom the party want to make president of the island republic. The four searchers are members of a junta whose headquarters are in Washing- ton. -.:'';...'-.: They have been hunting for Maceo' all over the world the European countries and India where he was 'supposed to havo been before coming They came here on a e'ew furnished by Consul Mortimer, of San Fran- tiotu, uui, ii.nceu una nwappenreu. ' ... "We want to find Maceo," said ! Gomez, "to make him president. a ..... j... , "1,10"Li ruie enccu yesieraay ana we must And him soon or there will be further revolution ln Cuba. "Maceo Is supposed to know the hiding places of papers relating to claims amounting to millions for supplies furnished to the Cuban army of liberation. General Maceo was custodian of these papers before he was killed. They cannot be found now." JUDGE YOAKUM DEAD. Brother of I). F. Voakum and One of Vos& to be a severe cold. Later ' the Most Prominent of Young j pneumonia developed and finally ty ' Texas Attorneys. j phoid symptoms set ln. His condl- Dallas, Tex., Jan. Judge C. H. tion became alarming yesterday. Yoakum, general attorney for the Frisco jlnes ln Tfctas, brother of B. ! F. Yoakum, chairman of the Rock! mw to Texas. He bad served two Ha wat 80 yaart ' 1 1 joid. YLVANIA GRAFTER HAS SWELL ROOMS Juhzi 11. Siintan, Convicted aid S inta iced in Pennsyl vania Is Shk ILLNESS NOT SERIOUS Says He is Xot Seriously 111 and That He Is Xot Suffering From "Yellow Dogism" Sanderson And His As sociate Wore 'Convicted And Sen tenced to Two Years in The Penl tontlary lint Are 0 ;t on Bail Sanderson''.- Occupies Luxurious Apartments at Slierrys. (By Leased Wire to The Times.) New York, Jas. 2 John II. San derson, a contractor ot Philadelphia, who, with James M. S.iumaker, Wil liam P. Snyder and William L. Ma thues, was sentenced to two yean' imprisonment each for defrauding the state of Pennsylvania out ot thoucands of dollars in connectlo.i with tlie decorating and furniBhin;: ; of the new $13,000,000 capitol build-. f the night-riders and that he was n,r at HarrLburg, but who wt-re re- with the band on the night Captam leased on bail pending their applic:'.- Rankin was killed, but hie wife swore i tiu?i for a new trial,- is occupying be had pot left home that night and apartments at Sherrys, where he ha3 that 'he was not a member of the or ' :)en under the tare of a physician ganlzation. ' Today Mrs. Morris ad- lor several days. jmitted that she was guilty of perjury Alatiiues, formerly state treasurer, ! and that her husband's, confession died several days ago as a result of was true. She declared that unknown the humiliation following hla arrest, parties threatened to hang her hus ! immediately after being granted bail band and herself unless she swore on pending their appeal, Sanderson came to this city and engaged apartmeuU at Sherrys. : The woman's confession created Over the telephone Sanderson de- j great excitement In the court-room nled Jie. was, aerAojislx, iU,,.98iagvth,at.i and; apparently threw tbe defense fnto he had been laid up for severardays.i 'jpahlci' ''',.''' '; ' '-.y " With a.SilslJtOld. : ' "' " .L: 1 ' .."l . . M . . "I feel mucn better todar, wplied n'MYSTERY. SURROUNDS DEATH,. Sanderson in answer to a question. P "" "'-: n , iy. . s When asked as ta the nature of hij reported illness Sanderson re- plied: "Well, If you care to do so, you can state most emphatically that I am not suffering from 'yellow dog- rick Henry Prendergast, a rich Ber ism.' ". Hn farmer and Alice May McQuillen, He said he did not know when he formerly a school teacher In the would leave the city. . Westslde high school, whose bodies were found in a room in the Claren- WARFIELD GETS THREE YEARS, dorf Hotel late yesterday afternoon. : Gas was flowing from a Jet in the Found Guilty in the Famous De Luxe room and the woman s face was badly . Book Swindling Cose. burned by acid of some kind. The (By Leased Wire to The Times) Chicago, Jan. 2 Samuel T. War- field was found guilty and his pun- I ishment fixed at three years in addl- ! tion to the paying of $2,000 in the famouse De Luxe book swindling ! case and Willis N. Cooper was found I "not guilty." The verdict of tha ! jury, reached after a deliberation of five hours, and which was sealed, was , rendered at 10 o'clock today and ere - ' ated a sensation in the court. The alleged victims attracted ' a ' large crowd. Neither James A. Pat- ten, the millionaire board of trade ' operator, nor his wife was present. I ' ' " i STRIKE OIL NEAR CLARKSBURG, ::'.''. .: .-''...'. While Drilling For Gas, Oil is Found at Depth of 2,200 Feet. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Clarksburg, W. Va., Jan. 2 While ' ThU Zntv' Sfh Hm- r. Hope Natural Gas : Company struck un Bt ,VV I'jei, and tho wpll la rnnii fnr "il hnrron Sv The Section n y tZ ll lZ 88 "ly.long ago, and leases had been cancelled The dlscovni-v of olt hn 1T !. i !!!Ly.. L.! . muacu a I un.i ul uii uicu lu Hint sec tion, and everv foot of eround hn i,0on fnhnimo i,0.,tn. beun naid ' ; B. & O. Official Dead. (By Leased Wire to The Timo3) , Baltimore, Jan. 2 D. D. Caroth 'ors, chief engineer of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, died early this morning. He was taken sick early last week with what was at first sup- . Stifled to Death While Asleep. - (By Leased Wire to The Times) "it.1; nr from ssrsadlng to ths rest of ths building. NEW SENSATION PRONG IN TRIAL U Mrs. Wad Morris Contradicts Iter First Testimony and Corroborates Husband IAS GUILTY OF PERJURY MoitIs Swore That He Was With Band Night Captain Rankin Was Killed, Bnt Wife Swore He Did Not Leave Home That Night, Now She Says Her First Testimony Was False and That Her Husband's Confession Was a True One Was Under Threats. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Union City, Tenn., Jan. 2 A sen sation was sprung In the trial of the eight alleged night-riders today when Attorney-Qeneral Caldwell recalled Mrs. Wad Morris, the wife of Wad Morris, a self-confessed night-rider, who turned state's evidence. Wad Morris had sworn he was a member the stand that Wad Morris, had not , left home the night of the raid. Bodies j OF NIGHT RIDERS Found in Room With Gas" ' " 'T Flowing From Jet. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Grand Rapids, Mich , Jan. 2 Deep mystery surrounds the death of Pat- j body of Prendergast was stiff and cold wnen found, while that of the woman was still warn when found, and 11 is the opinion of the coroner ,nat she had been dead only about 33 minutes. Prendergast is said to have come from Boston last Thursday, on which day he met Miss McQuillen. He Is 8aid to have been drinking heavily. , Coroner Hillker is Investigating the . case. . ' ' FIGHT AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS. I More Than a Million Dollars Spent in tliis Country. (By Leased Wire to The Times) New York, Jan. 2 According to the annual report of the national as sociation for the study and preven tion of tuberculosis, published yester day, the year 1908 saw the most suc cessful organized campaign against '. herculosls.. in the history of medl- : cine. Measured in money, the re- fha firhi atralnpf Ik. i - - - c - a - n .wv "white plague" in the United States cost more than a million dollars dur ing the last year.; r YOUNQ MAN A SUICIDE. Found Dead With Picture of Girl Tightly Clasped to His Breast. (By Leased Wire to Tho Times.) Pueblo, Col., Jan. 2 With the picture of a beautiful girl, evidently his sweetheart, lightly folded to his breast j and a tefegram ly!nr nearby, an nouncing the death of his brother, the remains ot W. H. Blancett was found in a room at the Gold Dust House, on South Union avenue. An empty laudanum bottle by bis side told the rest of the story. . c Blancett came frwn champaign, 111., where his family Uvea, Mother and Baby Fall Five Storlev (By Leased Wire to The Timet) . New York, Jan. 2 Having fallen five stories through the dumb-waiter shaft at her home, 447 , West 66th. street today, Mrs. Rose Whelton, with her two-year-old baby In her arraswas picked up ln tha basement practically unhurt, while the baby wat tmlllng at happily at If being bounced on hit mother's knee. ' , i :' r "7 i. . I v 1 ( -.A..-...:.'. "
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