Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-08-15
LIKE RATS IN A TRAP
Forty Men Are Caught in a Crib
Off Cleveland and Thir.
teen Die.
FIVE OF THEM BURN TO DEATH
While Three Are Imprisoned I'm the
Tunnel Under the Crib-Four 3
Bravely Rescued.


three and possibly four. We're suffo-
Gated. and several injured as the result
Of fire which destroyed Il temporary
water works crib two miles off the
Cleveland harbor early yesterday. The
dead. so far as known. are: Arthur
Hasty and Mark Snyder. drowned: Ar
thur Hastings. burned; Plummer Jones.
suffocated; John MARITIME and John
KowOlsky. drowned: four unidentified
men. burned.
Still imprisoned in tunnel: Victor
Kaufman. of Canton: John Enging and
Adam Kest. all probably dead
The injured are: John Leese, prob
ably broken back. fatal: o. Braddock.
burned about hands and face: Charles
Smith. overcome by gas; David Kelly.
rescuer. overcome by gas.
Twenty-sIx Go -Ovsrbosrls -
Twenty-six men Obeyed the order OF
Manager G. G. Van Deusen when the
flames broke out. and took refuge in
the water on floating pieces of wreck
age Four of them lost their hold upon
their floats ana sank beneath the
waves just Sis help reached their COM
l-ades. The crew of the ting j. Il.
Sprankle heard the fire whistle blown
from lHP Cfip anu TiFtu 10 lilt Sttuf
from the harbor. She picked mp eight
cen or the survivors who had drifted
10 the west of the crib on their floats
Of boards and wreckage. Van Deusen
and three Of his men were hanging in
the water from two-inch line sus-
pended from the crib.
Saved In ths Nick OF Time.
Just as the line was burning away
above the mems hands n yawl from
the barge Wilhelm. manned by two
men dashed into the veil of heat and
smoke that Pnveloped the crib and res
cued the four men on the rope at the
risk of the foatmen's lives. The men
picked M In the water were brought
TO the city on the tug Sprankle. They
were naked. exhausted and badly
burned. Many OF them were cut by
falling timbPTS.
Rescuer Meets His Death.
Late yesterday afternoon Plummer
Jones. of Warren. o.. an emplOye or
the.tunnel contractors. and one OF q
parry-6 rpScuerS who -xirfSrehtfe,i fTtc
the shaft 10 look for the missing men.
was overcome ny gas and expired
within a few minutes His body lies
i'm the tunnel Seventy-five feet from the
bottom OF the s..5ft. and is covered
with water The life line attached to
the body became fouled and could not
be pulled ont.
Crib Is n Total Loss.
The crib is a total loss. II was Il
frame building 200 by 10 feet. the sides
sheathed with iron. u contained valu-
able machinery. It Is now q charred. |
shapeleSS mass of wreckage. and
mingled with the blackened timbers
are blackened. rusted and twisted
pieces and plates OF iron and steel. |
The crib and machinery were the prop
aT.t nf ha q
tors. Their loss will exceed 5000 600. |
Plumbers Find Hidden treasure.
Oshkosh. Wis, Aug. 15.-Plumbers |
Mt work in the residence of the late |
Stillman Stone an old and wealthy |
resident of the south side. who died re- |
Gently. came acrsSS cache that con- |
tanned s.. 600. Half of IL was in paper |
IN an old wallet. the rest was gold and |
was in canvas bag. Tie money was |
discovered under n step in the door |
way leading from one room of the |
house to another. The 7heirs knew
nothing of its existence unIql il was
turned over to them by the plumbers.
woman's Curious Confession.
st. Louis. Aug. 15.-AIrs. May Cup
pies confessed to deputy coroner FitZ- |
morris Yesterday that she bought the !
morphine that brought about the death |
of Edward Alexander. son of n promi- |
nent family of North Vernon. Ind, last |
Friday night. She said that she was |
fully cogniZant of the fact that he |
wished to commit suicide because of |
his love for her. and which she could |
not reciprocate. but that she made no |
effort to Illustrate his plans.
CummIns for the MuIct Law.
Des Moines. Ia. Aug. 15.-A. r. |
Cummins. the Republican nominee for |
governor, in an interview Tuesday. de- |
clared himself an upholder OF the mulct |
law. aud insisted that this was the |
position of the Republican party of tie |
state. The interview is important in
view of the forthcoming convention OF |
the -Anti-Saloon League of Iowa. when. |
il has been asserted. an attempt VIII
he made TO take action inimical TO Mr.. |
Cummins' candidacy.
Men Hunting Harvest Work Robbed.
st. Paul, Mimi. Aug. ia bold !
hOld-up is reported as having occurred !
between Mastongs and Redwing early |
yesterday on a freight train Ihere /
were some fifteen or eighteen men on /;
fiat cars en- route for the Dakota har-
vest fields. and they We're pounced onto |
by five men with drawn revolvers. who !
jumped aboard. relieving them OF a
considerable amount OF money aud
several watches.
Memorial Services to Tanner.
Springfield. Ills. Aug. 15.-MemOrial I
services were held at the grave of John |
r. Tanner in Oak Ridge cemetery yes
terday afternoon by the Eighth battal-
ion OF the Illinois National Guard
The coloretl militiamen marched to the
cemetery. where the band rendered
selections and eulogy was deliS-
cred by Captain Wesley. the battalion
surgeon Flowers were then strewn
upon the grave. {,