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» ASSOCIATED * PRESS * DISPATCHES VOLUME XXIII Spruce Pine Crisis Is , Given Much Attention Adjutant General Metts on Way There to Take Charge of Serious Situation Fol lowing Attack by Negro. ! NEGROES ORDERED TO LEAVE TOWN According to Message Re ceived in Raleigh and Gov. Morrison Act? to Keep Up per Hand in the Case. (By (he AuMUUxI Pxm.) Raleigh. Sept. 28. —Governor Cameron Morrison went into consultation at 11 ;30 o'clock with Major Gordon Smith, second in command, to Adjutant General Metts. No details of what would be discussed at the conference were made public but it was understood Major Smith had re ceived additional data on the situation at Spruce Pine, where a deportation of negroes is reported to be in progress. Adjutant General Metts is en route to Spruce Pine, and is expected to arrive there at 2 did this afternoon. At the Governor's office it was stated u policy of prevention would govern in handling the Spruce Pine situation, it being the desire of the administration to prevent any serious outbreak by tak ing the matter in hand at once. Will Ask For Troops. Spruce Pine, Sept. 28.—Governor Mor rison will be asked to send state troops to this town so that negro laborers de ported yesterday by an armed mob follow ing an attempted attack of, an aged white woman by a negro, supposedly an escap ed copvict, may continue work on public improvements. The forced exodus of black labor was reported complete today by Mayor A. N. l-'uller. The- crowd of citizens who col lected nearly 100 negroes from epnstruc- Li<im gangs in the vicinity and placed them aboard freight trains yesterday, de clared they never will hire another ne gro in their town. Mayor Fuller said today while this sentiment probaßly will die down in a few days, it is necessary that the improvements go forward. There is no white labor available, he said. Gen. .1. Vault. Metts, instructed to come here by Governor. Morrison, is expected to reach here this afternoon. Mayor Pul ler and other officials will consult with 1 the General and will urjje that a military company be sept to guard the negro la borers. General Metts wilf make a ret- . ommeuilation as to handling the situa tion. it is believed. No trace of John Goff, aged 22. escap ed negro convict, wfio is believed to have attacked a white woman Wednesday at noon, has been found, though more than one hundred citizens have been seanh ing for him. Negroes Make Protest. Raleigh. N. C., Sept. 28.—Governor Morrison this morning received a tele gram from Walter F. White, assistant secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, re questing information concerning the re ported deportation of negroes from Mitch ell county and calling on him to exercise his power to protect the "civil and con stitutional rights of the colored citizens who are being driven from their homes and jobs regardless of their innocence or guilt." -. Replying to the telegram the State's Chief Executive said news of his action in regard to the Mitchell County disturb ance were to be given to the press as quickly as possible and could be learned from the newspapers. He said lie would make no private reports to the Associa tion concerning the disturbance, or his actions in regard to it. Conditional Parole For Brinkley. (By the Associated Press.) Raleigh, Sept. 28.—Governor Cameron Morrison today conditionally paroled Daniel Brinkley, 52, convicted as the July 8, .term of Catawba Superior Court of' the theft of sls and sentenced i tot serve 10 years In the State's prison, from which he escaped after serving three years of his sentence. He wandered about the world for 30 years, but com ing back to this state to visit a sister, was apprehended and returned to the prison several months ago. Quiet in Bavaria. (By the Associated Press.! Berlin. Sept. 28.—With both the Ceil tifc! and Bavarian governments co-op-r --nling for the maintenance of older in Bavaria, advices from Munich say pos -1 sibility of an outbreak by extremist tac tions is regarded as remote. A body, of ti'tops believed be large enough to co operate in iny situation has been as smiled in Munich. HOME OWNERSHIP SERVICE The AMERICAN HOME has been called the great est asset of OUR NATION. Men and women, who work and save for homes, are entitled to the respect and helping hand of this community as a whole. Our Association is organized to help these home builtjing people. We are banded together to perform a worthy mutual service. People with savings or other surplus money to invest can find no more constructive field in which to put their money to work, than by taking out shares in series No. 52 of this old Reliable Building and Loan Association. CABARRUS COUNTY BUILDING LOAN AND SAV INGS ASSOCIATION Office in Concord Notional Bank The Concord Daily Tribune PERMANENT THREE PER CENT. QI’OTA LAW URGED Immigration Commissioner Firm for Present Legislation. Washington. Sept. 2S (Capital News Service). —All government officia's in terested in the workings of tbo immigra tion law are pleased with the emphatic statement of Commissioner General W. W. Husband, regarding Ellis Island con ditions. He said: "The reports of thousands of destitute aliens refused admittance, severed fam ilies. and so forth, are exaggerated and misleading. Most of these stories arise from the fact that under the present system it i« impossible to count the quotas until the immigrants reach port. This means that there must often be some de lay, while the quotas are beiug checked up. and the first report that gets out its that shiploads of immigrants liaCe been turned back because of full quotas. I.ater investigations prove many of these senrehend reports incorrect. “Also many aliens are turned back because of restriction having nothing to do with the quota law. which, however, usually gets the blame' for it all. Last year out of 2(Mil!) aliens) debarred, only 2.080 were returned to their countries because of guotn restrictions. The rent edy is, of course, a system by which im migrants would be sifted, out before they embark for America. Under this sys tem tile ‘red tape’ which makes enforce ment of the monthly quotas such a bug bear could be done away with. “The employer is disgruntled because lie has to adjust his business to the av erage labor supply. In the old days he could depend on an unlimited supply for peak business. The fact that he com plains of labor shortage means usually that lie has not learned to adjust his business to the labor market, or that conditions in the industry are not such as to draw labor from more crowded in dustries. “The immigration law has done more for labor than the tariff, strikes, and all the industrial legislation of recent years It has given the laborer more continued employment, at a better wage. Unre stricted immigration put the unskilled American laborer in a hopeless situation. Hp could not compete with foreign ln mor. willing to work at any wages, un der any conditions. The immigration law has raised the dignity of labor." TUTTLE IS EXONERATED Advertising Mari Charged With Murdar of Fatlier-in-Law. preetisboro. Sept. 27.—F. Clyde Tut tßv-weH known adverttning man off his 1 city, was tonight declared not guilty on a charge of manslaughter, resulting from fatally shooting his father-in-law. C. A. Jones, former judge of municipal court here, on the evening of August Ist. The trial lasted all day in Superior Court here, before Judge T. J. Shaw. Evi dence presented included that of Tatt'e himself, his wife, aud the widow of ex- Judge Jones, and the defense made a strong case of self defence. The jury had the case a little over two hours, returning a verdict a few minutes after 10 o’clock tonight. Mr. Tuttle received it calmly, receiving the congratulations of his friends. Evidence was presented to show that there had been domestic difficulty be tween the two, anil that Judge Joues fired tlie first shot. Mr. Tuttle lived at the home of Judge Joues, and it was brought out that Judge Jones was drink ing prior to the tragedy. The shooting occurred in the kitchen of the Jones' home. The wounded man. whose intes tines were perforated seveu times by a pistol ball, lived 20 days. • With Our Advertisers. Jno. K. l’atterson & Co. have a num ber of city real estate offerings. See ad. in this paper. Try the regular business men’s lunch served from 12 to 3 regularly every dny at the Ideal Lunch Room on Barbrick street, on# 45 cents. Take out some shares in the 52nd se ries of stock in' the Cabarrus County Building. Loan and Savings Association. Scarboro's are offering a special sale of ladies’ hats for Saturday. See new ad. today. , Saturday and Monday are the last days of the sale of lots at City View. Cline’s fast delivery will get goods to you in a few minutes after purchase. Globe and Gotham Tires are sold by the Central Filling Station. Made of best materials. The Browus-Cunnon Co. will observe Shirt Week, beginning tomorrow. New ad. today gives particulars. The I’arks-Belk Co. in a new ad. to day points out some bargains it is offer ing in Chatham blankets. These blankets are made in North Carolina and are of the best materials. CONCORD, N. C., PRIEST SAYS VOLSTEAD ACT ) IS RESPONSIBLE FOR CRIME Insists Majority cf People Want Dry Law Modified, and Declares it Can Be Done, Chicago. Sept 2S.—Dire consequences will result unless the Volstead act is changed. Rev. Francis C. Young, assist ant. jiastor of ‘St. Raphael's German Catholic Church, author of verses en titled "The March to Victory" aud “Our Nation’s Prayer." declared in a state ment today. It was at his church that the funeral of George "Spot" Bucker. who was shot and killed with George Meeghnm. September 17, by an unidenti fied assailant, supposedly in a war be tween rival beer runners, was hold. "The Volstead act is a law. It is. however, one of the biggest farces in our country and must be changed,” said the assistant pastor- "The genera l disre gard for the Volstead law is the cause of much of flic present disrespect for n’l law. “Why are bootleggers and beer run ners in such large numbers if there is no demand for their stuff? There is no doubt in my mind that the majority of the people want the Volstead law changed- This can be done. Let those who represent you . understand that it must be modified if they care for your .support in the future." Until the law ean be changed, the minister said, the authorities -must en force the law and the people must re spect it. CHARLIE CHAPLIN RETIRES FROM CUSTARD PIE STUNT i - Resting Now. But Will Hereafter Act Rather Titan Register. Chicago, Sept. 28.—Charlie Chaplin has retired temporarily from custard eomdies and is resting, lie said today when in Chicago en route to New York to view a picture story which he wFote and directed, but in which he does not act. Chaplin says he hopes to do better things for the screen and will return to comedy acting, but it will be whimsical humor rather than the slapstick vari ety. “Only in the movies do the actors ‘register’ emotions with strange facial distortions." lie sniil. “The human is a consuinmate actor and covers his tragedies with laughter." So in the new Chaplin order of things the characters live the plot, "but do not make the fatal mistake which ruins the average movie of today of showing their “motion by distorted facial expression." he said, adding, “Tlrey do not ‘register’; they act. They do what they can to remedy their situation. They struggle. That is drama." FUNERAL^OF*MIL FARRIS TO BE HELD TOMORROW Services WUI Be Held in First Baptist Church at ,3 O’clock. —Was Pioneer Newspaper of Hfefa W. (By tk* «mo«IRtrH Ptmr.l High Point, N. C., Sept. 28.—The fun eral of J. J. Farris, one of the pioneer newspaper publishers of this city, will be held at 3 p. m. tomorrow at the First Baptist Church, of which he was u mem ber. Rev. .las. A. Clark, pastor of the church. Rev. E. K. Mclairty. of the Methodist Episcopal Church here, aud Rev. W. A. Lambeth, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of Gastonia, will con duct the services. Honorary pall bear ers will include Major C. M. Steadman, and W. C. Hammer, members of Congress for the fifth and seventh North Caroli na districts. Mr. Farris died on the eve of his 58th birthday. For years he was publisher of the High Point Enterprise, and at his death was publisher of the High I’oiut News. THE COTTON MARKET Opened Steady Today at an Advance of From 4 to 15 Points—October High. (By Mwel»WPr«».i New York, Sept. 28. —The cotton mar ket opened steady at ah advance of 4 to 15 points on more bullish private crops figures and. firm Liverpool cables. The weather news, however, was consider ably more favorable, as it was believed the tropical storm not likely to strike the inland, anil -the opening advance for October rose to 28.88 and for December to 28.64, met considerable southern, western and local selling. Cotton futures opened steady. Oct. 28.75: Dec 28.53; Jan. 28.05; March 27.00; May 27.07. WYOMING TOWN IS PARTLY UNDER WATER Heavy Rains pause Two Creeks to Leave Banks and Flood Sheridan. (By the Associated Press.! Sheridan. Wyo.. Sept. 2R. —Swollen by terrific rains, the waters of the Big Goose and Little Goose creeks left their banks early this morning and (lushed over wide sections of Sheridan. Scpre* of residents in river bottom sections be gan packing belongings to move to places of safety. The water is standing Ito 3 feet in various sections of the town. Lutherans WUI Hold Convention ait Mad ison. (By the Associated Press.! Madison, Wis., Sept. 28.—A1l Luther an bodies in the United States,' except the Missouri Synod, will be represented at the third biennial convention of the Lutheran Brotherhood of America, to be held here October 3-5, according to announcement by the Rev. J. A. Stub, president. the principal organizations to send delegates, which' are expected to number between 800 and 1,000, are. the United Lutheran churches. Norwegian Synod, Augustana Synod, Joint Synod of Ohio, lowa Synod and the S.vpod of the North west. These bodies represent a total membership of approximately 3,000,000, embracing poritions of the territory be tween New York and the far North west. T]he dominant note in the con vention program is to be the man’s place in the church. The rapidity with which the chame leon ptrikes with the tongue at a flying insect is such that the tongue cannot be' detected with the naked eye. ' Gonnm OFFERS PfiDTECTION TO HOMERS Chief Executive of the Statt Declares Hip Will Send Troops to Spruce Pine tc Keep Order There. NEGROES PROTEST TO THE ifoVERNOR i Negro Societylin Northern States Asks j||r„ Morrison to Give Negrhes All Pro tection He Can. •By tbs Associated Press. 1 Raleigh. Sept. 28.4-x Following reports to the state executive office that a group of citizens of Mitchell county had warned the supervisor of the state convict ciiinp near the scene of the; reported attack by an escaped negro cptrvict on an aged white woman Wednesday, to move the camp by noon today. Governor Morrison announced that lie had ordered troops to the county and law dud order would -be maintained if it is within his power to do If the camp is moved before the nat ional guard company ean be dispatched to the place to prevent the removal, the camp will be replaced Immediately in or der that the convicts might continue working on the state highway from Spruce Bine to Ledger, the Governor declared. Work on the highway will continue, the Executive said, if it is necessary to pro tect the convicts with troops. Governor Morrison said Mayor A. N. Fuller, of Spruce Binipand other author ities were doing all 'in their power to maintain order in tw> vicinity of the mountain town. 4 It was reported early in the morning that a mob of Mitchell county citizens were moving on the eouviet camp located four miles, from Bine,- the Gover nor said he.had from authorities, but this report later ijgoved to be wrong. The report that thj; convict camp su pervisor had been warned to move camp by noon followed a message stating that the first report was mistaken. About seventy-five fcgroes working on construction jobs in >|(tehell county, left Thursday when notified to depart by a group of about 100 igien. following the alleged attack bS' a jjjjgrd op an aged 1 while ..Wiuoan jjai-es j from Spruce Bine and near the camp. Tlie negro lias not been found aud a poss of men which has been searching for him. according to advices received here. WILL - INVESTIGATE THE DEATH OF MRS. WEBB Prominent Society Woman of.New York and Philadelphia Died Last Tuesday- After Illness of Three Weeks. (By tbs Associated Press.) 1 Rye, N. Y.. Sept. 28.—The death of i - i adelphia. society woman, which it is j learned last night lilts aroused the sus picion of several Westchester County of ficials, will be thoroughly investigated in an effort to discover its cause, authori ties said today. Mrs. Webb, who is said to have been wealthy an ter own right, died last Tues day in the fashionable Westchester-Bilt niore country club after an illness of three weeks. I)r. Wm. J. Meyer, hex physician, declined to issue a death cer tificate.on the ground that her a death fol lowed unnamed mysterious circum stances. Secretary Weeks to Visit State. (By tbs Associated Press.) Washington, ' Sept. 28. —Secretary Weeks today accepted an invitation ex tended by a committee from Durham, N. C., to attend exerejses to be held there some time in October in connection with the unveiling of a memorial to General Joseph E. Johnson of tile Confederate army. The memorial has been erected at the old Bennett place, three miles from Durham, which ia the point at which General Johnson surrendered to Sherman after the war between the states lind ended with Lee’s surrender. .Rook by Former Governor. Raleigh, Sept. 28.—The North Caro lina Historiral Commission announces that tlie "Letter Bijbk of Governor Bick ett,” which lias been in course of prepa ration for many months, Is expected to be off the press in October. The book, which is a collection of public pattern and address of the Governor during his administration, has been compiled by Santford Martin, Governor Bickett's pri vate secretary, aud R. B. House, of the. Historical Commission. mining REGULARITY IN SAVING g* is the keynote of success. This bank will welcome your weekly or £ monthly deposists, whether large or small, and I X will pay you four per cent, interest, compound -3 ed quarterly. Be /CITIZENS M BANK 8$ TRUST CO J aME 1 PARCEL POST SHOWS HUGE GROWTH SINCE INCEPTION las Brought in the Postoffice Depart ment Over a Billion Dollars. (By (he AMMOClmrt) Press.r Washington. Sept. 27.—The parrel •oat in the first ten years of its existence ms brought into the Post Office Depart ment revenues totalling about $l,lOO. 100,0000. In 1021 alone, department records •how 1,071.000,000 puskages weighing from a few ounces to 70 pounds were •arried in the mails as parcel post. In lie first .year, 1013. the total was 417,- KKI.OOO. In 1013 parcel post revenues amounted to $40,038,163, and in 1021 iad climbed to $130,605,717. Figures tor the fiscal year of 1022, are not yet complete, but if is estimated the revenue will approximate $160,000,000. Second Asuitant Postmaster General Henderson has been engaged for six months in an investigation to determine lie full scope of the parcels service, but die task is so great that conclusive fig ures are not yet available. . UNDERYVOO BELIrVES IN ENFORCEMENT OF DRY LAW .Alabama Senator, in Interview in Lex ington, Offers Little Encouragement to Wets. High Point. Sept. 27.—A local inter viewer of Senator <). W. Underwood, of Alabama, candidate for- the Democratic uomiuation for the Presidency, asked him what would be paramount in tlie next campaign, and Mr. Underwood said that foreign relations would loom larg est among the issue, he believed. Tlie newspaper mail got to see Mr. Underwood at Lexington last evening, after tlie senator hail delivered an ad dress at tlie Lexington fair. Although believing that tlie matter of European affairs and American relations to them would be a great issue for the campaign. Mr. Underwood added noth ing to his recent statement concerning tlie League of Nations. Asked if he thought tlie whiskey laws should be moderated. Mr. Underwood said he lmd opposed the 18th amendment originally, bat that he now believed in enforcement of the laws on the books. The interviewer had in mind the charge of some that Mrs Underwood is acceptable to the wets because of his position on prohibition, but tlie senator did not indicate that he offered any plan for the betterment of the condition of the parched. Charlotte is Selected as a Co-op Classing Station. Raleigh. Sept. 27.—Recognizing the importance of Charlotte as a logical'dis tributing point for North and South Car olina. particularly in the cotton industry. General Manager U. B. Blalock spent several days in Charlotte this weeke. to gether with Fred T. Hass, assistant head clusser. - The result was that a ciass- Uigi wkV opeiifd to >■ known classing departmeflF *‘lU’ ol Che North Carolina Cottton Growers Co-operative Association. Mr. Haas will direct con trol of the office and with tlie assistance of other classers aud tlie necessary of fice help will not only control the class ing of all cotton concentrated at Char lotte, but the classing department "B" will very likely include all the ware houses in that section of North Caro lina west of Monroe and probably the territory west of the Bee Dee river. More cotton was concentrated in Char lotte last year by the cotton association than at any one point amt it is expected that still more will be concent rated there this season. More Testimony in C. C. & 0. Lease Case. (By the Associated Press., Washington, Sept. 28.—Any lease of the Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio railroad which would give the Louisville & Nash ville anil Atlantic Coast Line roads ex clusive right in its operation would be injurious—"almost to the inter ests of Charleston, S. C., and the south east generally, John B. Grace, mayor of that city testified today before the In terstate Commerce Commission. Mexican’ Population Dwindles. Mexico City, Sept. 28.—Preliminary figures from the 1021 census indicate that the population of Mexico decreased nearly 1.000.000 between 1010 and 1020. The 1805 census showed 12.6i12.427 inhabitants; IDOO. 13,607,250; 1010; 15,1^0,368; ami 1021, 14,106,312. Emi gration due to a decade of revolution is believed to have caused the decrease in population. Jury Gets the Ward Case, (By the Associated Press.* White Plains, N. Y.. Sept. 28.- The jury in tlie case of Walter W. Ward, charged with the murder of Clarence Peters, retired to consider its verdict shortly after 12 :0 o’clock today. Reports Tell of Republic in Turkey. •My the Associated Press.- . Baris, Sept. 28. —A Havas dispatch from Vienna says it is rumored there that a republic I'V been declared in Turkey. There i« no confirmation of the rumor from any direct course. Many ’Vhen Train i nfough Bridge SECTIONAL GAMES TO FEATURE SEASON Football to Appear For the Formal Open ing Tomorrow. New York. Sept. 28.—Football will appear mi the athletic stage tomorrow for the' formal opening of the fall season of sport at tlie American colleges. All of the colleges, big and little, in the East and West, the North and South, are pre paring for a campaign more extensive than any since the introduction of the sjiort. While a large number of teams will appear on the gridiron tomorrow, the most of the games will be ia the nature of practice contests and it will not be for several weeks to come before the clashes of championship caliber will be staged. Standing out among the features of the season now begun is the great num ber of interseetionnl battles scheduled among the leading colleges of the East. South' and Middle West. More than a score of such tassels are listed for East ern "elevens ulnae, and the practice of playing teams from far-off sections of the country appears to be growing rather than diminishing. M est Boint, Yale and Princeton are among those colleges which will engage in some of the major attractions in tlie next, two mouths. The Army leads in interseetionnl contests with no fewer than five of its nine games scheduled with elevens from other sections. The firsf of these is to be played at West Boint tomorrow witli the eleven from the University of Tennessee. Florida, which played in the North last year against. Harvard, Notre Damee, Alabama Poly and the Arkansas Aggies, will also ap pear on the West Boint gridiron. The Alabama team and Notre Dame were on West Boint’s schedule last year, but the others are new opimnents. Yale will start its campaign against North Carolina and will play a few weeks later the University of Georgia and Maryland. Maryland was beaten last year by the Elis by 45 to 3, and North Carolina was downed 18 to 0. Georgia is new to Yale competition. Harvard, ns it decided last year, will confine itself to Eastern rivals, but Brinceton, the other member of tlie "Big Three," will oppose Notre Dame in what looms as one of the most interest ing games of the season. The Tigers ended a two-year rivalry with the Uni versity of Chicago. Its 21 to 18 tri umph over the Windy City collegians stood out in Princeton's record last year as “much as its victories over Yale and .Harvard. ■ AliVorig the " Uffter'-fin inWtanO-tfftcfkef* tioaal contests listed are those between Ohio State and Colgate, at Columbus; University of Chicago and Carnegie Tech, at Chicago; Syracuse and University of Alabama, at Syracuse; Pennsylvania aud Centre College, at Philadelphia: Detroit ‘University aud Washington mid Jeffer son, at Detroit; Boston College an.l Mar quette "nivei.-ity, at Boston: Penn Slate and Georgia Tech, at State College, Pa.; Wc-t V l-ginia and St. Louis University, at Moijp ntown. W. Va. • Nebraska ,uul Syracuse, at Uncoil. Nob. ; aa! Mer qui tte University and tit-' University of Verm- nt a; Milwaukee. Wi fi the excep tion of rlie Syraeuse-Nebranka game, all of these iuterseotiona! contests are new fixtures on the football prog am. On Saturday of next week the program o' i-.p .isectional clashes wi(l bring to g-'".ci Pennsylvania anl Maryland at Philudfl]-liia. the Army arid the Univer sity of Florida at West Point, and Yale anl thi- University of North Carolina at New Hindi. GOMPERS STANDS WITH INTERNATIONAL OFFICERS Who Have Sided Against Pressmen in Strike Called in New York City, l By the Associated Press,! New York, Sept. 28.—George L. Ber ry. president of the International Web Pressmens and Assistants Union, today announced receipt of a telegram from Samuel Gompers, president of the Amer ican Federation of Labor, approving the International's action in outlawing the local pressmens union which struck a week ago Monday night, in alleged viola tion of an agreement with the parent body and with the Publishers' Associa tion of New York. The message declared that “unless the pressmen redeemed themselves from this awful blunder,” "Mr. Berry is justified in resorting to every means" within his power to keep tlie original contract invio lable. New Interest Quarter Double Your Savings-It Can Be Done All deposits in our Savings Department made by Oc tober 10th will draw interest irom-October first. \ V We paid our depositors—on their savings, $25,000.00 interest for the past year. Did you get your part? THE CONCORD NATIONAL BANK Capital $100,000.00 Surplus $135,000.00 > TODAY’S K NEWS > TODAY NO. 230. Passenger Train on C. B. & Q. Road Wrecked Near Casper, Wyo., and Causal ties Were Very Heavy. FORTY BELIEVED TO HAVE PERISHED And Some Estimates Place Number of Dead as High as One Hundred—Coaches Carried by Swollen Stream Caspar. Wyo.. Sept. 28 (By the Asso- ,;5 ciated Press). —The loss of life last night ~j when the Chicago. Burlington & passenger train No. SO went through Sg'ijJ bridge over Cole Creek, 14 miles *ast of here is estimated at approximately forty persons. The stream, ordinarily dry dur ing the summer, was swollen into a' rag ing torrent by the heavy rains of yester day, and the roar of rushing waters ovo lte coaches could be heard three, miles. One passenger coach was swept 100 yards into the Platte River, widen ’at that point is more than a mile wide. It V is believed that no passengers in that, conch were saved, because by the . time rescuers could have given aid the coach had rolled over on its side and becom" completely submerged. It is believed it will he 24 honrs or more before any bodies can be taken from the submerged cars. Most of those drowned may have been washed ont of the cars because of the terrifie current Ot V the stKearn. Although one of the lightest ticket sales in years was reported by the Bur. liagtou Railroad, it was believed tt-e final list of persons aboard the train would show probably seventy persons, missing. Estimates of the number of persons ' who lost their lives differed at 7 o'clock this morning. The lowest figures placed the dead at 40. A railway telegraph operator at Glen Rock, near the scene of the wreck, and who assisted in the res cue work, said he thought the death list might mount to 100. All rescue work had been temporarily abandoned at 2 o’clock this morning. It began snowing about that hour, after 24 hours of continuous rainfall. No 4 bodies had been recovered at daylight. C Cars Blown From Tracks, j Kimball. Wyo., Sept. 28.—Forty-one ' empty freight ears were blown off the tracks of “the Cnipu T'acific Railroad near ■: Pine Bluff. thirty miles west of , •■here, by-high Wfmts according fb telephone messages reaching here. The wind storm seems to have lim ited its destruction to the railroads. None of the crew was injured. Derrick Must Move Coacbes. 1 Denver, f'olo.. Sept. 28. —No bodies can be recovered from the Burling'-n wreck near Caspar. Wyo.. until v derrick can lift the cars from the flood waters of Coal Creek, according to a message received by the Denver Post frotn Cas par. Eight Persons Alive In One Coach. Denver, Sept. 28.—A special to the Post from Caspar, says one of the sub merged cars of Burlington train No. 30 which was plunged into Cole Creek near Caspar last night has been pulled from the creek and eight persons found alive in it. Dead Fanner Found by Son. (By the Associated Press.) Winston-Salem. Sept. 28.—Wm. A. Padgett, aged about .10 years, was found dead in a room of his home 21 miles from Friedberg, Davidson county, at 6 o'clock this morning by oue of his sons who states .that the father was lying on the floor. The Davidson county coroner was summoned and is investigating the case. Mr. Padgett, who for a number of years was one of Davidson county’s well known farmers, had been working at the carpenter's trade in this city. The son who found tile body says his father was in Winston-Salem yesterday and when he retired last night the father was appar ently in his usual good health. Aviators on Way to St. Louis. Charlotte, Sept. 28.—Lieutenants E. P. Gaines and Leroy A. Walthall, pilot ing a de Haviland plane from Fort ! Bragg to St. Louis, left here early to day expecting to arrive in Louisvil'e, Ky.. before nightfall. They plan to ar rive Saturday at Pope Field, near St. Louis, where they will participate in air races.
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