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VOLUME XXVI
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Gov. McLean Confers With
Dr. Anderson.—Money
Forthcoming for Imme
diate Rebuilding.
CAft BORROW MONEY
UNDER EMERGENCY!
The New Building Will Be
of Fireproof Construc
tion.—There Were No;
Serious Casualties.
Raleigh litlrefill of
The Concord Daily Tribune
Raleigh, April 12.—The miraculous
escape of the 400 male inmates of
. the State hospital for the insane while
the wing in which t’.iey were housed
burned down about their heads Satur
day afternoon vied with the problems
of what will be done with the patients
thus burned out of the only home they
are mentally fit to occupy as tfie prin
cipal topics for discussion in Raleigh
official cirees yesterday.
The balked in their effort
to consume the entire structure by
tire walls and super-human efforts on
the part of the tire fighters, had
burned sullenly all night long on the
ruins of the gutted west wing, until
finally quenched by t‘.ie flood of water
from several lends of hose and the
rain of early yesterday morning.
The ruins still smouldered last
night, but there was no live fire.
Walls, of brick and stone, stood black
ened and bars, tottering upon their
weakened foundations. The more
dangerous of the towering masonry
piles were being pulled down by a
tractor, hitched to long ropes, and
blasted down with dynamite yester
day evening, under directions of the
chief fire marshal, to prevent injuries
to chance passers-by When they fell,
ns seemed imminent at every slight
breeie. Interior walls praeticall’ - all
bad fallen and lay in huge heaps of
smoking masonry inside.
, Governor A. W. McLean conferred
with Dr. A. A. Anderson, superin
tendent of the institution, immediate
ly ufion the governor’s return from
Washington yesterday morning. TJu
governor extended his fieart-feit con
gratulations and praise to Dr. An
derson upon the noble work done -by
his organization in emptying -the
deemed wing of its helpless human
contents without a single casualty
and assured him that money would
be forthcoming for immediate rebuild
ing to relieve tbe emergency* now ex
isting.
T'nder an net passed by a recent
legislature, the council of state is em
powered to borrow up to $500,000 for
permanent improvements in such
emergencies, anticipating the action
that the next legislature undoubtedly
would take. •
The architect who has drawn the
plans for recent additions to the hos
pital for the insane was expected at
the institution this morning and will
start at once on plans for thi re
placement structure. Just what
changes will be made in the architec
ture, Dr. Anderson has not deter
mined, but one thing is certain—the
new building, or wing, will be of fire
proof construction.
The danger of fire in the old build
ing. which was erected in 1865, was
well known and several appeals have
been made to the legislature for an
appropriation with which to install a
sprinkler system. At the last ses
sion, Stacy Wade, commissioner of
Insurance, stated that he had made
arrangements for spreading the $150,-
000 cost of such a system over a pe
riod of five years, by far the best
proposition made up to that time, hut
the plan was refused.
Dr, Anderson declared yesterday
that he knew of no insane hospital
fire of like magnitude in'the history
of institutional conflagrations in which
there Were no serious casualties. He
praised without stint the work of Dr.
It*K. Adams, his assistant, who waß
in charge during his absence, and of
tbe attendants who jeopardized their
lives to herd the last of the inmates
to safety. It was heroism and fault
less judgment in the fullest sense of
the words, he asserted.
Like horses caught in a burning
barn, a number of the mentally un
balanced patients, further crazed by
the danger, resisted efforts to force
them into the open and safety. They
hid under the beds; they wrapped
themselves in bedclotbing and crawled
into the innermost recess of closets in
, their efforts to remain in the only
home they knew. One man barri
caded himself in a room, directly in
the path of the sweeping flames, and
refused to listen to attendants who
attempted to cajole him Into coming
out.
With the aid of a fireman, armed
with an axe. Dr. C. E. Houston final
ly effected an entrance and carried
the would-be human sacrifice to safe
ty, kicking, squirming and screaming.
This was one of the men later report
ed as burned.
* Many rumors were afloat Saturday
evening to the general effect that one
or more of the inmates had slipped
back into the burning building and
perished in the flames. The victims
were named in several eases but, in
variably, a check showed the inmates
thus verbally' consigned to a fiery
death to be safe.
Dr. Anderson stated yesterday eve
ning that a complete check-up showed
every man listed on tbe records as
an. inmate so be present or accounted
The Concord Daily Tribune
■ , North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily
mm
SOOTH HKD BIG
THE 10 WEEK
Two Oil Ship Disasters at
New Orleans Respon
sible For the Majority of j
,the Deaths.
i AUTO ACCIDENTS
j SHOW DECREASE
Nine Deaths in This Stated
Were Reported—Louisi
ana Held the Lead Dur
ing the Past Week.
<-40—Greatly augmented by the two
oil ship disasters in the Mississippi
River mar New Orleans, traffic toll
in 11 stales last week sooretl to <55
dead and 230 injured, it was shown
by a survey conducted by the Asso
ciated Press.
The survey was of all forms of traf
tic casualties, whether highway, rail
road or river, including those by au
tomobile. trolley, motorcycle, boat or
otherwise.
The Louisiana death toll was exact
ly half that of the entire South. The
sub state suffered no deaths from other
traffic causes, but 22 were injured in
various forms of traffic iccidents. The
state's total injuries was 811. of which
67 were due to river diasseers.
Arkansas rejwrted no deaths what
ever. while South Carolina with 6
hurt held the iow record for the
South.
Despite the balmy weather of the
week winch has lured thousands of
automobiles to the roads, the survey
showed remarkable falling off in auto
mobile accidents.
A tabulation by states includes:
Virginia 2 dead, 10 injured; North
Carolina 0 dead. 12 injured; South
Carolina 2 dead, C injured.
Minister Expelled.
South Manchester, Conn., April 12.
— (/f>) —Tlie charges of conduct unbe
coming a clergyman, preferred against
the Rev. Guy Willis Holmes of Xew
Bedford, Mass., were sustained by the
special investigating committee re
porting to the Xew Orleans Southern
Conference of the Method’st Church
and the pastor was expelled
from the'ministry.
for. As a matter of course, a look
out will he kept for human bones
when the ruins cool enough for work
men to start removing the debris, but
no gruesome finds are expected.
When the word spread that tlie in
sane- hospital was on fire, Raleigh
townspeople had terrifying visions of
liberated maniacs running amuck
through the streets, endangering the
lives of all who crossed their paths.
Xothing could have been further from
the actual occurrence. All the dan
gerously or criminally insane were
kept in heavily barred quarters on the
second floor of a new. fireproof build
ing to the rear of the wing which
burned. As soon as it became decid
edly uncomfortable. these inmates
were loaded - into huge moving vans
and moved, under ample guards, to
the State’s prison. Not a one es
caped.
Some of the patients not afflicted
with dangerous delusions were, in
normal times, given the run of the
grounds. It was ievitable that some
of them wonld escape in the excite
ment, and few did. Three of what
are known as “happy chases,” for in
stance, did heroic work in caring for
the disabled Inmates, put them to bed
and comforted them into quietness,
then took French leave. They were
found later in the evening and were
back under the watchful eyes of their
guards last night. One of them, for
n time, was reported as a casualty,
but denied it indignantly when he |
was discovered, several hours later, In i
tbe store of a friend far down town.
All but a very few showed no inclina- i
tiop to take advantage of the situa- 1
tion and leave. ]
The insane patients, routed out of <
their aecluded quarters, attracted al
most as much attention from the huge
crowd of spectators that gathered Sat- ;
urday afternoon as did the fire it- i
self. The men first were placed in
a blockade several hundred feet to
the renr of the burning building.
There, they comported themselves, for
the most part, aB if nothing out of
the ordinary were happening. Scant
ily clothed, as there had been no time
to get them into outdoor garments
before they were hurried from their
indoor rooms, and with the stamp of
idiocy upon their features, they made '
a pitiable exhibit. A few of the in
mates, who retained their sense of
propriety, did their best to prevent
their fellows from performing acts
which might shock the spectators,
many of whom were women.
Twenty incapacitated inmates were
housed in the male wing when the fire
broke out. They were carried to the
open on mattresses, then taken to Rex
Hospital in ambulances.
The fire is believed to have started
from a blow torch used by tinners in
making repairs in the attic of the
burned seetiori. So complete is -the
destruction that.it is doubtful if the
truth of this deduction will ever be
ascertained.
The entire building was valued at
about $950,000. Exactly what the
loss in the single wing will be has
not been figured, but estimates run
from $350,000 to $600,00. The build
ing as a whole was Insured for $445,-
000, which means that approximately
half the loss will be recoverable.
The Prettiest and the Next Prettiest
wont a s e Tond l rg,Dla University the other day. and Mis, Mary Lafferty of Mound*
' ICtt ’ won “• Seconfl P ,ace "on by Miss Betty Morris of Clarksburg, at the right.
INCOME TAXES COLLECTED
TO DATE IE $5,523,842.41
Estimate of Budget Bureau Seems to
to Be Assured.
Raleigh Bureau of
The C’ouc ird Daily Tribune
Raleigh, April 11.—With a total of
$«>.i>23,N42.il in income taxes eolleot
ed to date, there is no question but
that the estimated collections used
by the budget bureau iu figuring its
appropriations for the fiscal year will
be renewed and a balanced budget for
the current period seems assured.
The budget bureau used an esti
mate of $5,730,00 in income taxes as
one of the bases for its year's figures
last spring. Had that proved far
off. and there were many who thought
it would prove so, a deficit would
have been inevitable, for income taxe*
provide nearly one-half of the total
revenue of the state. With only
some $200,000 to go to reach tbe fig
ure demanded, there is but an Insig
nificant chance of failure. R. A.
Houghton, commissioner of revenue,
said today.
Extensions were granted prior to
March 15th to some large concerns in
the state. A few of them have paid
since, but there are enough still out
standing to make the estimate unless
unforseen surprises should occur.
About th£ only eventuality now
that could bring about a deficit at
the close of the fiscal year would be'
a falling down in collections on sched
ule B, which takes in license fees from
the various processions and businesses
subjected to tax. Such fees become
payable .June Ist, but the payers have
until August Ist to pay up. If
enough of them choose .to hold off un
til the last month of grace, a deficit
might result, but it would be only
a paper deficit and not serious, since
the money needed to balance would be
collectable under all ordinary circum
stances.
The revenue department this year
will collect approximately $11,000,000
of the total revenue of $12,000,000.
Much hard work still is ahead, with
both schedule B and the automobile
license fees to come in.
The combined report of the auditor
and treasurer will be out soon and
will show a neat surplus in the gen
eral fund, due to income tax collec
tions, after several months of mount
ing deficit.
At last work on the new passen
ger station in Greensboro has begun
in dead earnest. As the Southern
Railway has undertaken this work
itself without calling on anybody for
help, the prospect is that it will be
pushed to spmlly completion, with
out any more haggling over details.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kluttz are con
fined to their home on North Spring
illness. They are suffering
with ptomaine poison, it -is said.
® DREAMS COST NOTH
ING AND BRING
NOTHING
, But a thrift account in
our safe “building and loan”
ret ' Urn ° n C^°rt } OU
plan is best since it partic
, ularly encouragds .regular
NEW SERIES NOW every month progress in
. money matters.
OPEN
No other sound invest-
START AT ONCJE ment is quite so good.
CABARRUS COUNTY B. L. & SAVINGS ASS’N
OFFICE IN CONCORD NATIONAL BANK
CONCORD, N. C., MONDAY; APRII2, 1926
Witness Applauded As
Drys Offer Testimony
In Debate On Liquor
THE COTOX MARKET
Opened Steady at Advance of 5
Points to Decline of 6 Points.
Xew York, April 12.—(/P)—The
cotton market opened steady today at
an advance of 5 points to a decline
of 6 points. Near months were rela
tively- firm on further covering by
May shorts while there was selling
of new crop positions on prospects for
better weather in the South and easy
Liverpool cables.
After selling to 18.99 May eased off
to 18.88 or 2 points net lower, and
new crop months showed net losses of
about 4 to 7 points at the end of the
first hour. There was continued de
mand for May, however, and the main
tonance of the near month premium
seemed to hold selling in cheek, the
market showing a fairly easy under
tone at the decline.
Cotton futures opened steady: May
18.99; July 18.36; October 17.60;
December 17.25; January 17.18.
With Our Advertisers.
New Manhattan and Berger shirts
at Hoover's. See new ad.
The Frigidrire will give you sntis
fnstory electric icfrigeration. For
sale at 85 South Union street. I’hone
563.
The Bell & I-Tarris Furniture Co,
has three floors overflowing with
good furniture ami house furnish
ings.
See the new ad. today of Wilkin
son's Funeral Home. Open day and
night at 28 West Depot street '
Live wire electrical fixtures at VV.
J. Hothcox’s.
Spring shoes for ladies, men and
children' at Efird’s from 09 cents to
$5.95.
You will find the boys’ department
at Parks-Belk Cot! running over with
specials. They will give free with
every boys’ knee pants suit for f 4.98
and up a $1.25 watch. Don’t miss
the grocery department in the rear of
the second floor.
No Review' on Gifts Tax Question.
Washington, April 12.— UP) —The
recent decision of the Supreme Court
holding invalid and unconstitutional
State laws imposing inheritance taxes
upon gifts made within a specified
time of death will not be reviewed,
the court announced today in refus
ing a rehearing sought by Milwaukee
and the state of Wisconsin.
Mrs. Henry Peabody First
Witness Called by Dry
Leaders Before the Sen
ate Committee.
SALVATIONARMY
OFFICER SPEAKS
He Says That Conditions
* Among the Poor Better
Than They Were Before
Prohibition Came.
Washington, April 12.—(/P)—ln
terrupting the presentation of the
case of the wets a corps of 65 dele
gates from civic, temperance and other
women’s organizations passed before
the senate prohibition committee to
day urging enforcement of tlie Y’ol-
Stend act, and opposing any modifica
tion of national dry laws.
“We represent the homes, the church
and the school” was the slogan con
tained in testimony of the first wit
ness, Mrs. Henry Peabody, of Bever
ly. Mass., chairman of the Women’s
National Conference for I.a \v Enforce
ment, which is meeting here.
"We stand for enforcement and no
modification. We have a strong feel
ing ttiat the women ought to be rep
resented by the men who hold our
views.”
Mrs. Peabody was questioned by
Senator Reed, democrat, of Missouri,
and she to]d him In reply to his first
interrogation that the only change in
the Volstead act to which the women
would agree would be a move to give
it more power.
“We stand for the strengthening of
the Volstead act rather than its mod
ification,” she said.
“We want it enforced by officials
who are in sympathy with it.”
“Are you satisfied with Section 28
of the Volstead Act?” asked Senator
Reed.
“I am not acquainted with that
section," Mrs, Peabody said.
“That is the section about fruit
juices,” put in Senator Harreld, re
publican of Oklahoma.
""We stand for the strongest thing
in enforcement, and the weakest thing
in liquor,” Mrs. Peabody replied, and
the crowded committee room broke in
to applause.
Martha Hainon. of Xew York, a
lieutenant colonel in the Salvation
Army, appearing as tlie representative
of Commander Booth, said conditions
among the poor had improved under
prohibition.
“Tlie children wear better shoes and
stockings now than they did,” she
said.
She added that fewer cases of in
toxication were handled by her or
ganization than formerly.
“Do the children you come into
contact with explain to you about
bootlegging?” asked Senator W’alsh,
democrat, Montana.
“Well, yes,” was the reply. "Their
mothers complain to them and they
tell us about it."
“Don’t you know that liquor can
be obtained in thousands of places in
New York City?’’ asked Senator Reed,
“That is true,” Col. Hamon replied.
“Then if a man wants to drink he
can do so.”
“Y T es, if he has money enough.”
Mrs. Xell G. Berger, of Springfield.
Mo., spoke for the Women’s Christian
Temperance Union,
i “The W. C. T. U. is mobilizing
half a m llion of women for the law
enforcement,” she said. “The work
ing men may demand the return of
light wine and beer, but the wives and
children of the working men who foe
the first time have decent clothing and
ROBBERS BLOW TO
SAFES UNO SECURE
CASH IN CHARLOTTE
Safes in Ivey’s Store Were
Blown and $6,000 in
Cash Was Taken by the
Yeggmen.
CHECKS LEFT BY
SIDE OF SAFES
Police Think the Robbers
Climbed on Fire Escape
to Gain Entrance to the
Building.
Charlotte, April 12.—UP)—Y’egg
men, operating early yesterday blew
two safes at Ivey's department store
here, and escaped with more than
$6 600 in currency.
T'.iis became known today when it
was announced at police headquar
ters.
The burglars also left more than
$13,000 in checks scattered about*on
the ffuor near the vault.
Police are working on the theory
that the men entered the building by j
climbing on top of the five-story struo- j
ture on the renr fire escape and came i
down to the t'.lird floor on a freight
elevator. The general officers are!
located on that floor.
Tracks of two men were plainly
discernible but officers expressed the
opinion that four were in the party.
The loot was taken from the store
inn suit eas purloined from the build
ing. Xothing else was missing.
HAXIFAX TABLET
TO BE UNVEILED
Exercises Tomorrow in Honor of
Anniversary of Independence Re
solves.
Xew Bern, April 10.—Hon. YV. L.
Long, of Roanoke Rapids, will make
the principal address Monday after
noon at the unveiling of the bronze
tablet in front of the Constitution
House at Halifax by members of the
Elizabeth Montford Ashe Chapter of
the Daughters of the American Rev
olution.
Although the proposed sesqui
eentennial state-wide celebration of
he Halifax resolutions of independ
ence had to be indefinitely post
poned. appropriate exercises will be
held at 3 o’clock at he old Constitu
tion House by the D. . R. Chapter,
Mrs. E. L. Travis, chairman of the
Halifax Day program, in charge.
Mrs. Edwin C. Gregory, of Salis
bury. states D. A. R. regent, Mrs.
C. M. Parks, of Tarboro, vice-regent,
and others will take part in the exer
cises. A number of visitors are ex
pected from various parts of the
Staet.
At the request of Mrs. Gregory
and Mrs. Travis, practically every D.
A. R. Chapter in North Carolina
will celebrate during the week a
Halifax Dap Program. Some will
have historical papers and exercises
at D. A, R. meetings; others are
planning public programs at schools.
Believe Twp Are Lost in Dismal
Swamp.
Norfolk, Y T a„ April 12.—(/P)—Sher
iff A. A. Wendei, of Norfolk County,
led a searching party into tlie Dismal
mal Swamp today to try to find Po
lan Banks, author of “Black Ivory," •
and E. Cameron Shipp, nephew of
Melville E. Stone, councilor of the I
Associated Press.
Banks and Shipp went into the
Swamp in search of "local color" for
their writings, and are believed to
have been lost in the wilderness dur
ing the absence from camp of their
guide.
Boruo Re-elected.
Port Au Prince, Haiti, April 12.
(d s ) —Louis Borno was re-elected Pres
ident of Haiti on the first ballot to
day.
The hour for the funeral service of
George YV. Means has been changed
from this afternoon at 4 o’clock to
tomorrow (Titesday) morning at
10:30. Services will be conducted
by Rev. J. C. Rowan, pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church, and will
be held from the home on South Un
ion street.
food will not join in that demand.”
Looking straight at Senator Reed
she added that "prohibition has been
immeasurable benefit to my home state
of Missouri.” She quoted from a news
paper that from 6 a. m Aprii 7 to
6 a. m. April 8 there was not a sin
gle arrest in St, Louis.
"That was so startling that it real
ly became news,” interjected Senator
Reed. “Do you know whether that
results from the fact that the police
were off duty or from the great moral
wave sweeping across the city?”
"I hope it was due to the moral
wave,” said Mrs, Burger as tlie crowd
laughed.
Mrs. Burger agreed with Senator
Reed that there Was a large amount
of crime in St. Louis.
"The flip flash trade is rather a
heavy trade in St. Louis, is it not?"
asked Mr. Reed.
’I don’t know about that.”
“Isn’t it so bad that your organi
zation has taken cognizance of it?”
“Not any more than we have of
other problems.”
Mrs. Burger told the committee that
the dry law could be enforced in St.
Louis.
“With the present force?” asked
Senator Reed.
“No, we wbuld heed a larger force."
Win s Hat
tl* r
| m
Hr
y
Laura Willjs, 17. of Youngstown, 0.,
! wanted a new Easter hat. So when
a Youngstown paper offered to give
a hat to the girl who sketched the
best one, she went to work and won
the prize. But then, she doesn’t need
a new hat to look charming—doe»
she?
WANTS TO OPERATE
BUSSES WITH SLEEPERS
Peltion Submitted by W. A. Watkins
Denied by State Corporation Com
mission.
Raleigh. April 12.—UP)—Applica
tion of YV. A. YY’atkins to operate a
line of motor busses fitted out with
sleeping compartments between YY’il
mington and Charlotte was denied to
day by the State Corporation Com
mission. The matter had been pend
ing before the Corporation Commis
sion for several months.
Brantley YY’omble. attorney for Ylr.
YY’atkins, announced that he would
appeal the case to Superior Court.
Operation of the sleeping compart
ment busses was opposed by the Car
olina Coach Company, according to
Attorney YY’omble.
The corporation commission is said
to have given its reason for refusing
the petition that “the time is not
ripe" for the operation of such busses
in North Carolina.
BANK HYSTERIA IN
CUBA HAS PASSED
Arrival of $43,000,000 From United
States Sets Depositors at Rest.
Havana, Cuba. April 12.— UP) —
YY’ith the arrival here of 43,000.000
dollars from the United States Sat
urday’s hysteria among small bank
depositors apparently has passed.
Officials of the Royal Bank of Can
ada said the run on their bank was
dying out. A moderate amount of de
posits were made, and the withdraw
als were of small amounts. Their
branches In the interior reported ev
erything quiet with no sign of un
usual withdrawals.
’ The National City Bank which
also experienced a slight run Satur
day reported its usual Monday morn
ing business with no abnormal with
drawals.
Western Newspaper Union to Quit
Charlotte Field.
Charlotte, April 12.—The YY’estern
Newspaper Union will not reopen a
branch office here, it was learned to
day. On April 2nd the practically
new plant of flic company on Graham
street was destroyed by fire, the third
fire in four years to strike the local
plant of the company, and officials
today said that the company would
no longer continue its office here. YY’.
M. Harper, of Omaha, Neb., assistant
generul manager of the company, an
nounced that henceforth business that
had been handled here would be
handled from the company's branches
in Baltimore and Atlanta.
Quartet Mentioned For Jackson’s
Job.
Asheville, April 10.—YY’estern
North Carolina Republicans are dis
cussing four men a s possible suc
cessors of Brofnlow Jackson as
United States marshal it was learn
ed today. Ylr. Jackson ix expected to
resign because of his election this
week as Republican state chairman.
Tlie four men being proposed for the
marshal’s post arc Frank Patton, of
Morgauton, assistant United States
district attorney; Charles A- Jonas,
of Lincolnton; Charles E. Green, of
Bakersville; John Isenhour, former
sheriff of Calawba county, and Jim
Bailey, of Asheville now a deputy
marshal.
Three Hurt in Auto Accident.
Statesville, April 12.— UP)— Three
persons were severely injured today
when an automobile in which they
were reding overturned near Barium
Springs. C. B. Lee. his wife and Sirs.
E. S. Lee, his mother, were injured,
while Ills two children escaped with
only minor scratches.
$85,000,000 For Naval Aviation.
YY'ashington, April 12.— UP) —A bill
embodying an $85,000,000 five : year
building program for naval building
in the naval air service was approved
by the House today and sent to the
Senate.
THE TRIBUNE
PRINTS
TODAY’S NEWS TODAY
NO. 84
jBLOTEDHULLOf
*"11 aNKER RIDINB
ITER QUIETLY Iff
Tanker Gulf of Venezuela
Was Wrecked by Gaso
line Explosion Which
Killed 25 Men.
CREWS SLEEPING
QUARTERS WRECKED
No One in the Quarters at
Time of the Explosion
| Escaped.—Captain Had
Narrow Escape.
. Port Arthur, Texas, April 12.—0 P)
—The blackened hull of the oil tank
er UMlf of Y'onezuela today rode quiet
ly on the waters of Port Arthur Bay
where early yesterday a gasoline ex
plosion abord her tore out her vitals
and killed twenty-five men, climax
ing a week of oil disasters in the
southwest. o ,
The buckled plates, scorched sides,
and twisted superstructure of tbe
tanker tell a mute story of how the
metal of the ship was heated to a
glaring whiteness in a two furious
hours, during which the twenty-lice
men were incinerated.
Rending the quiet night with a
terrific detonation, whil the men slept
in t'.ieir quarters aft. the explosion
as sudden as mysterious, shot a flame
of burning gasoline 150 feet into the
air. The blast took several mem
bers of the crew with it, and left
others imprisoned in a shell of hun
gry flames.
None who slept in the quarters of
tlie crew escaped, but several of those
who were on deck were saved with
more or less serious injuries.
toll of the injured today stood ate ten
in the hospitals, with two missing.
About fifty men were dismissed from
the hospital after receiving emergency
treatment.
YY’hile the flames seemed to envelop
the entire ship, only one of her tanks
was ignited, and the gasoline in ad
joining compartments remained un
disturbed, though some of tier bulk
heads were white hot.
The cause remains undetermined,
but it was tlie opinion of refinery
men that the explosion was due to
the overflowing of a compartment, the
gasoline coming into contact with
steam pipes. One of the injured men
in the hospital is quoted as saying
a compartment overflowed as it was
being filled.
The disaster is the seventh serious
loss to the oil industry in the last
week, including two oil tank fires in
Texas resulting from lightning. A
tank far mat San Luis Obispo, OaMf.,
burned with a loss of millions of gal
lons of oil and two deaths. A sim
ilar fire occurred at Brea, Calif. The
Duth tanker Silvanus collided with
the steamer Thomas H. YY’heeler in
the Ylississippi River forty miles be
low New Orleans Thursday, and on
the same day an explosion rockedthe
tanekr O. T. YY’aring in a dry dock
at New Orleans. Thirty or more
lives were lost on the latter two ships
and the damage to the three ships
is estimated at more than $3,000,-
000.
Further Decline in Textile Stock*.
Gastonia, April 12.—According to
southern textile mi!letao2B 1..)3 3
tlie average of twenty-five active
southern textile mill stocks as com
piled by R. S. Diekson & Co. there
was a further decline of 40 cents
per share, bringing the average down
from $118.56 of last week to $118.16
for the week just ended. The pres
ent average is $4.88 per share hig"her
than as of July 15. 1925, which is
the low market for four years.
Trading was more active through*
out the week than during the previ
ous week, even in tlie face of the de
clining market.
Decide Brookhart-Stock Today.
YY’ashington. . April 12.— UP) —The
Senate was under agreement today
to wind up its debate on the lowa
senatorial contest, and made its de
cision before nightfall.
The agreement provided for the
shutting off of unlimited debate which
consumed al! of last week at 3 p. m.
with senators limited to fifteen min
utes each thereafter, and the begin
ning of tbe roll call at 5 o’clock.
Bank Cashier Takes Own Life.
Ludlow, Ky., April 12. —< A >)—
Thus. I?. Balsly. cashier of the Farm
ers & Merchants Bank of this city,
who admitted that he was between
$30,000 and $40,000 short in his ac
counts, shot and killed himself in the
basement of the bank today.
SAT'S BEAR SAYS:
4* * 1
Cloudy tonight and Tuesday, with
showers tonight and probably on the |
coast Tuesday. Continued coo) fol
lowed by rising temperatures in north
portion Tuesday. Fresh to strosf S
northeast winds.