Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-10-28

CONFIDENCE PARTLY RESTORED
Huge Boxes of Gold and Silver Arrive
and Have ouietins Effect-womsn
Crushed and Their Clothing Torn in
the Jam About the Bank Corridors
Other News.

st. Louis. Oct. 2S.-Lonp before tha
ooors OF the Mississippi Valley, Lin
coin, Mercantile and Missouri trust
companies opened today, there were
long INES OF depositors assembled,
awaiting the beginning of the davis
business. Small groups stood before
the savings institutions before the
doors opened. Most of the anxious de-
positors were working people, whose
savings were not heavy. Owing to the
action taken last night by officials OF
the trust companies. requiring thirty
to sixty days notice of the intention of
withdrawing funds, depositors were not
able to get any money The trust coml
panies have also decided not to pay
certificates Of deposit before their ma
turity.
AT the various institutions named.
officials stated to the Associated Press
that current accounts are being receiv-
ed and paid out as usual The early
crowds which thronged the doors and
fought for places In the lines sooK
thinned out, many deposttors takinA
their blank notices of withdrawal
home. Officers of the different institu-
t1ons made reassuring speeches to the
depositors before their doors and this
helped to send others away. The ar
rival of several boxes of gold and silver
in express wagons. guarded by armed
officers, seemed to restore degree OF
confidence in the crowd before the
Mercantile Trust Company building.
President Walsh, OF the Mississippi
Trust Company. stated that he believ-
ed that the excitement was about
over.
The creates crush was before the
doors of the Mercantile Trust Com
pany. AT . o'clock the doors were
opened and the crowds surgai In with
a force that swept aside the lines OF
police and bank employees, formed tt
preserve regular line to the windowl
of the paying tellers. The police were
unable to handle the crowds and FestuS
j. Wade, president of the Mercantile
Trust Company, mounted upon
chair and made the statement that un-
less the depostors formed in line, they
would all be elected from the building.
The announcement had the desired ef-
feet, and a semblance of order was
restored. When as many persons as
could be accommodated at one time
in the banking rooms had formed in
two lines, further admission was re-
fused until some Of the first comert
had left by separate entrance; theI
others were admitted and forced Il
keep in line and leave as soon as they
had transacted their business. BY II
o'clock the crowd around the trust
companys building had increased tt
such an extent that the police were to-
tally unable to control 1t, and the Of
ficers stationed at the doors were swept
away from their positions almost as,
rapidly as they could regain them.
Women, who constituted a large per
centage of the crowd, were crushed in
the jam, and in the struggle their
dresses were torn and hats knocked off.
Policemen. in trying to handle the
crowd. pushed many Of them into the
gutter, and in several instances per-
sonal fights We're averted only by the
of cooler persons
This afternoon the unusual crowds
at the different trust companies had
dwindled away. There We're only a few
depositors withdrawing deposits and
many persons who had withdrawn
money re- deposited it, and in some In
stances new savings accounts were