Semi-weekly herald., 1909-04-12
.TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

cd this morning OF yesterdays tornaoo
show 1t to have been most disastrous.
The report up to ten o'clock today is
twenty-seven dead. scores injured and
property loss which will reach into the
hundreds of thousands, as the net re-
suits of the tornadoes which swept
over the middle west yesterday.
Telegraph and telephone wires suf-
fered severely. and Chicago, Detroit,
Cleveland. Pittsburg and other towns
we're isolated for many hours, nearly
all last night
Dispatches from Detroit report that
thirteen were killed on the lower
Michigan peninsula.
one hurricane swept through north
ern Mississippi, devastating plants'
tions and killing ten.
MEsSINA, April S.--A violent earth
quake was experienced here last night
at 9:45 o'clock. 1t was accompanied
by subterranean rumblings. Theodore
Roosevelt had sailed from Messina
twentyfour hours before.
ALBANY, N. Y. April s.-Govcrnor 8.
Hughes plan Of direct nominations,
embodied In the Hinnan-Green bill was
repudiated by the assembly judiciary
committee after stormy session last
night which lasted well into the morn,
Ing bours, and the committee reported
the bill adversely Its defeat is con
fidently predicted.
Instead the Republican organization
proposes to support the primary bill
OF Assemblyman Philips which amends
the general election law relative 10
the conduct of primaries by requiring
primaries in those rural localities
where no official primaries are now
held. II required that primaries are
not to be held prior to August l ex,
cept in presidential years. and that the
polls be open from noon until p. m.
DENVER, April S.--When Judge
Riddle In district court this morning
held that the seven defendants alleged
TO have entered into a conspiracy TO
wreck the Denver, Laramie and North
western Railroad company and thc
Northwestern Land and Iron company
must file formal answer to allegations
and that within twentyfour hours, the
associated companies thus won out In
the preliminary struggle over the tenn
porary injunction which the companies
asked for.
PUEBLO, April Son instructions
of Judge Lewis. the jury in the United
States circuit court today found fol
the railroad In the suit of Samuel r
Van Pool against the Santa Fe rail
road.
Van Pool sued for $4,000 damages
for the loss OF leg. He was employ
ed as coach cleaner for the Rock Is
land. and while working in the unicr
engine. Judge Lewis held he did MOI
exercise proper caution.
NIMRoD. Mont. April S.-Three
wor1men were killed in a blast yes
terday ON the Northern Pacific con
struction work near here. One man
was blown ESQ feet into He'll Gate
river. His body was recovered. The
other two are buried beneath large
mass Of debris and rock and their
bodies have not yet been reached by
the force of men engaged In digging
them out.
SAN FRANCISCO. April s.-"If that
bread doesn't rise I'll jump into the
sea-" +. H. Sluhme. a baker on board
the Mariposa. said shortly before he
disappeared from the deck OF the Mari
posa March 81 while the vessel was
plowing through the tropic seas en-
route from Tahiti to San Francisco.
When the Mariposa arrived In port
today the officers reported the dis
appearance of Sluhme and the cir
cumstances surrounding seem to In
dicate that he was nervous and wor-
ried and exasperated because his
dough would not rise. the chief baker
committed suicide. According to the
statements Of helpers In the kitchen
despite Sluhme's utmost efforts he
found his bread heavy and unsatis-
factoly. Unable to account for the
action OF the yeast Sluhme remarked
that IL the next batch was not better
he would jump overheard. The fol.
lowing morning the baker was miss,
ing.
NEW YORK, April Sire, part,eu.
larly dreaded by subway passengers.
broke out in a southbound express
train last night and 800 panic stricken
passengers fought desperately to es.
cape from the burning train.
Fortunately the accident occurred at
a point where for short distance
the subway tracks run ON an elevated
structure SO that the fumes were not
confined as they would have been In
the tunnel. Three cars filled almost
TO point of suffocatlon by dense
smoke which followed an explosion In
the motor box. Women screamed and
rushed for the rear cars. With a high
wind tanning the flames the two froat
cars were soon ablaze. The motor