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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-09-26
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-09-26

A. q rule the Giant s~ssssrs die
like 20 zee one Charley scbs1si,x
walk TO tho pitching mound. hus
yesterday they took kindly to his
servings. With Jim wiEgs. lbe
elongated one. hcaying q strictly
first class article. the Giants hop
ped al over the Tigers and won
the first ~ the series 8 to O.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-09-26
BERKELEY, Cal, Sept. 2e.

BERKELEY, Cal. Sept. 26.--
After having been postponed three
times, the annual track and field
championships OF the Pacific Assoc
citation OF Amateur Athletic Unions
VIII be held on the University OF
California cinder track, Thursday.
October ~. according TO tho an
nouncemont made in the issuing of
the entry blanks today.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1911-09-26
Giants Win First
: ssssss.sttttt

Today We have halfasrne lead
over the Pipplus for third positloa.
aud we may land IN the first a.
vimlnn after all. when the s<nsoa
draws to a close Practically lied
with the Portiandcrs Sunday. the
win over the Tigers yestssday.
while the pipplns were idle Of sDe
kane. did the trick
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26
QUEEN AND CRESCENT
STRIKE ENDED
Both Sides Make Concessions and
Agreement is
Reached.
rGate City Leased Wire Service.

lGate CITY Leased WIRE SerNlce.J
CINCINNATI, Ohio, March 25.-
With the signing of compromise
agreement that involved equal CON
sessions by the striking firemen and
the Queen and Crescent Railroad Co.,
the s'color line" strike against negro
tiremen was settled tonight. A lengthy
conference between Representatives Of
strikers and officials OF the road at the
office Of General Manager Harper
formulated the agreement.
The agreement ends the strike at
once and the employees now on strike
are reinstated without prejudice, thir-
ty days being allowed the company
to file charges against those accused
of violence.
No negro fremen are hereafter to
be employed Oh the road; the per
centage of negro iremen on the road
between Oakdale and Chattanooga is
to remain the same as the per cent
age January I, 1911. providing sui,
ficient competent white men can be
secured.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26
REPORTER TELLS
HORRIBLE STORY
CONTINUED from page u

before l started carrying folks out.
saw girl on the shirt waist building
roof stand there for a moment and
then jumped. Her hair was ablaZe and
streaming behind her as she tumDled
through the air.
District Attorney Whitman left a
banquet 10 go TO the scene when he
learned of the extent of the holocaust
No sooner had he talked with Chief
Croker than he declared be would
cause investigation of every. building
in New York. Il shall first inquire
whether the law provides perfect safe
guards and whether there is enough
law on the subject.
1t was in the Triangle shop that
the garment workers strike troubles
La year ago originated After union
organizer had organized nearly all OF
the Jewish girls then employed there
the shop was closed for a fortnight,
due to slackness of work. according
to owners. When work was resumed
the Jewish girls found they had been
Isupplanted by Italians and breecl
between the garment workers and en-
poyers throughout The district start
| ed, which finally resulted in the
strike.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26

the eighth floor found a group of
girls screaming and pressing up
against the door Looking through the
broken glass was Mr.. Harris. The
girls were all around him and badly
scared MIR. Harris was telling them
10 keep back. Some of the men en-
ploves were also crowding around and
Mr.. Harris was telling the men to
keep back an let the girls down
first.
While MIR. Harris held the men
back, about twelve or fifteen girls
scrambled into the elevator and
carried them down to the street.
The next time | went up the girls
were in a panic and fought each other
to get into the cars.
II made about twenty trips in all, !
think always letting her run for the
bottom. On the last few trips ! could
see the fire.
ION my last trip the flames began
breaking into the elevator shaft and
it would have been madness to Ven
ture up again so ] could do nothing
more. Hardly two minutes after
reached the bottom after the TWEEN
tieth trip, and even while the passen.
gers were scrambling out, body
struck the top of the elevator cage
The next instant another followed.
Then the car went down to the
bottom of the shaft and the bodies
kept on plunging Oh it was horrible
II will never get the sight out of my
mind. should think. at least 50 mer
and women plunged down the elevate
shafts from the eighth, ninth am
tenth floors. Some OF their clothin'
was burning as they fell, and l coul,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26
clinaino to Wealth.

Practically all the victims had just
drawn their wages and when the
bodies were taken to the morgue II
was found that in several instances
the pay envelopes We're still elenchea
in the hands Considerable sums OF
money were found on some OF the
bodies, one woman having 5000 in her
purse.
Several OF the girls died while shell
tered in the arms of older women
iand in s1me cases the bodies were
] still locked together when taken TO
4 the morgue.
i Toward midnight the authorities
realized that it would be Impossible
to continue throughout the night and
no other searchers will be admitted
until morning.
I OF the 141 bodies, thirteen were
those OF men and the rest women.
4 Thirty-three bodies were burned be
You'd recognition
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26
CUCKOO STYLE
OF PARENTS
Colonel Roosevelt Has no Sympathy
for Them or Woman
Suffrage.

TGate CITY Leased Wire Seryice.l
SAN FRANCISCO. March 25.-In
his lecture this afternoon before 49,
600 people. Colonel Roosevelt assert
ed that he was not friendly TO woman
suffrage. In part he said:
II am not strongly in favor of wom-
an suffrage. 1t is infinitely less i'm
portant than many other questions
which affect women. woman is un-
worthy of her position unless she
thinks and feels more deeply of her
duties than her rights. have abso-
lutely no sympathy for the cuckoo
style of parent who, turning MS chllo
into school, thinks he has shifted
the responsibility OF training the enid
to instructors as deputy PARENTS
There is too great q tendency to
treat with levity the baby question.
see this nation today is beginning TO
travel the path which France has
long been travelling. Census reports
show that America is not only I'M
porting art and literature--but babies
also.
To-day the immigrants produce
more babies than native Americans.
am not over much concerned with the
actions of multi-millionaires except
that we are foolish enough to allow
ourselves to be injured by their eX'
ample along lines of unproductivity
eve must have less divorces, bet
ter women, better men, better fam
lilies and learn to perpetuate the
American stock.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26
Scenes at the Moraue.

The old covered dock of the depart
ment Of charities at the foot of East
Twenty-siNth street adjoining the
Bellevue hospital was the scene OF
many soulrending happenings that
have not been parallelcd since the
victims Of the Gen. Slocum We're
brought there to be identified. Each
body was made as presentable as pos
sible and covered with a sheet BY
order of the coroner and the police
officials efforts to identify the vic
Tins were suspended until more than
100 bodies had reached the morgue.
The majority of the victims were ltal-
ians and long before the first persons
We're allowed to go inside, the street
adjacent was damned with men, WON
en- and children seeking for loved ones
who were missing. BY 10 o'clock the
crowd about the morgue numbered
5000. Police reserves from a dozen
precincts held a line behind which
none was permitted to go. Other
uniformed officers mingled with the
throng and tried to comfort the bro
ken hearted. 1t was a gruesome task
as the Latin-Americans, eXcitable un
der ordinary conditions, seemed tt
have lost all control of themselves.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26
NOT EFFORT
TO SAVE LIFE
CONTINUED from page ~


that the bodies of the unfortunates
IN the streets be placed in the fiimsy
brown pine boxes and taken to the
city morgue at Twenty sixth and the
East river.
Reverently the small army of police
picked up the poor broken forms and
placed them in coffins, covering them
with sheets that had been reauisit-
Toned from Bellevue hospital. They
were then loaded into patrol wagons,
delivery trucks, grocery wagons and
every other means of conveyances
and taken to the morgue. 1t was soon
seen that the morgue was too small,
so the big dock of the charities de
partment adjoining, was thrown open
and the bodies were laid out there in
long rows.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26
Saved By the Panic.

Caught up by the torrent of girls
when the rush for the elevator began,
Ethel Monick was carried bodily into
one of the cars. and to this she owes
her life. She was just preparing to
leave the building when she saw
smoke.
Vainly trying to restore order
among her panic stricken charges, An
ME Gullo, the Triangle Company $
fore woman happened TO glance over
the heads of the crowd. In the blazing
work room she saw her sister Mary,
enveloped in flames from head 10
foot and standing absolutely rigid.
paralyzed with fear. The forewoman
tried to break through the surging
crowd of girls and reach her sister,
but she was thrown back by the rush
and carried headlong down the stairs
Marys body. burned almost beyond
recognition, was later found on the
spot where her sister had seen her
burning.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26
Back Of the Iron Door.

An iron door part of the Triangle
Company's system to prevent thefts
of lace by lis employees. is held re-
sponsible for at least score OF
deaths At closing time each night q
man is stationed at this door to
search each employe as they leave
He wasn't there when the mad rusA
of the trapped and hysterical girls
began Yesterday afternoon and the
throng could not force the barrier.
passing which, the girls might have
escaped When the fire was over,
charred bodies were found tightly
TANNED against this door, positive
proof of the part it played in the hor-
4 re-.
A premonition OF danger was all
that saved Pauline Greenberg from
being one OF the girls trapped in the
burning building. she had secured
work with the Triangle Company and
was to have begun her labors yestef-
day, but having an undying feeling OF
danger, she refused to begin.
Elevator Mans story.
Joseph Tito one of two elevator
u men on duty in the burned buildine
at the time of the fire was called il
to the district attorneys Off tc
night. He gave Attorney Whitman
the following statement of his ex
perience:
Il had just brought several EN-
ployes down stairs and was waiting
for ring when | heard crashins
Of glass. apparently on the eight
floor. A shower of glass came dow
the shaft and landed on top of my car
81 started the car up at once. A
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26
Raxwell { 7TumeIiy
Insurance and
Real Estate
IL North Sixth Street
FOR SALE

A new seven room frame
dwelling, steam heat and bath,
In very desirable location in
third ward.
A new seven room partly
modern dwelling in First Ward.
A new thoroughly modern
seven room frame dwelling, Sth
and Des Moines Street.
Five room cottage, on front
half Of corner lot, 9Th and Des
Moines Street.
Double frame dwelling. four
rooms each side, Sic and SIS
South Sixth Street, Lot 65x90,
owners are non-residents and
this property is offered at a
bargain.
Six room dwelling, fine condi-
ton, 718 South Fifth Street.
Ten room thoroughly modern
dwelling, on corner lot, First
Ward.
Eight room partly modern
dwelling, 9th and Blondeau
Street.
Six room cottage. full lot,
18th and Orleans Street.
One-half of double brick
dwelling, rooms Ninth and
High streets, very suitable for
boarding house.
Twenty acres adjoining city
In West Keokuk, with fine i'm
provements, suitable for town
lots and borders railroad.
BELL PHONE, 222-RIack.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26
Roller is GETTING Easy.

BUFFALO, y. Y, March 25.-Kid
Cutler of Chicago, defeated Dr. B. F.
Roller of Seattle tonight in straight
falls. the first in 52:03 and the second
in 1921. The wrestling of both men
was clean cut and clever throughout
the bout
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26
Looking For Dorothy.

IGate City Leased Wire Seryicel
PITTSBURG, March sit was
learned today that George s. Grisconl,
Jr, known to fame as the sutton of
the missing Dorothy Arnold. arrived
in Pittsburg Yesterday afternoon and
is stopping al the home of his uncle.
Gilbert NJ. Black. The elder Griscom
and Miss Griscom are both at the Ho,
tel Kenmawr. Efforts to interview
yonug Griscom have proven unayail-
ing. The Blacks admitted that he is
in the house but beyond this they
would say nothing.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26
Billiard Match.

IGate City Leased Wire Seryice.l
ST. LOUIS, Mo. March 25.-Pierre
Maupone defeated ". Campbell, rep
resenting Philadelphia in the national
three cushion billiard tournament
here tonight by a score of 80 to &c,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26
Searching the Ruins,

AS soon as the fire was under con
troll, the firemen started to search
the building. At the foot of the air
shaft or inside fire escape they
found a number of bodies, while 9th
ers, a total of thirty, we're taken from
the other walls.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26
Mother Finds Her Daughter.

There were 100 bodies in the morgue
at 10 o'clock when Deputy Police Com
missioner Driscoll permitted the first
squad of searchers to go into the
building From one shroud TO the 9th
er they passed, but the initial search
ers proved unavailing. AS the party
started towards the door through the
low row of white covered bodies, one
women. attracted by a glittering ring
on the hand of badly charred form,
stopped and gazed at it. Then, with
a cry, My God, Mary she straight
ened up and fell in dead faint across
the cold form The body was that
OF Mary Finesta, shirt worker. who
had been in this country only a short
time. From that time on. indentif,ca
lions followed SLOWLY. The seventy
five pine boxes which were used to
convey the victims from the scene OF
the death were those hurriedly bought
BY the city for use at the time OF the
General Slocum disaster.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26
Never Such a Horror.

These bodies We're terribly charreG
and mangled. The clothing was burn
ed off many Veteran firemen like
CHIEF Croker, who have witnessed
many terrible sights during their years
Of service, said they had never en-
countered any thing more horrifying.
Croker, with a squad of firemen and
Captain Dominick Henry penetrated
to the ninth floor There they en-
countered another horror. Piled up
against the closed doors OF the ele-
vators were charred bodies. most OF
them almost entirely denuded of cloth
ing. 1t had been a struggle of the
strong against the weak, but victory
awaited the victors nothing. All had
been smothered by the smoke and
finally sank on the floors unconscious
there to remain until the fire had done
its work
Norris Blank, one of the partners
in the firm had his wife, his two chill
dren and the latters governess in the
office when the cry of fire was raised.
ne uSJcu Out vi luC uOOl tJlu JOliiSN
his partner, Osaac Harris. Together
4 they held back the men and showed
/ the women into the elevators and
down the stairways. 1t was only
when the elevators were useless that
they quit and made their own es-
cape. When he reached the street
Blank remembered his family and
tried to go back, but was driven down
the stairs by the fire. Whether they
got out safely had not been learned
at late hour tonight.
Harris said that majority of hi:
employees were Italians. He said tht
firm had number of strikers ant
had replaced the strikers, whereye
they could with Italians. He sait
that he did not know how many were
dead and when the police tried t.
question him he collapsed and va
sent to his home in an ambulance.
When word of the holocaust reach
: ed District Attorney Whitman he hun
ried to the scene with a number o
his assistants and started an invest
CATION. He said he was satisfied th
loss of life was due to criminal care
lessness and he and Fire Marsha
Beers questioned scores of person
who could throw light on the tragedy
, When firemen started to take boz
les down to the streets from the III
per floors they discovered the stat
ways were dark. Engines We're the
! brought up along side the shattere
: structure and their searchlights trail
: ed on the upper windows. Each bod
was wrapped i'll blanket and lowe
ed to the ground by ropes, afte
which il was placed in coffin an
taken to the morgne.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26

he hung there while the water slowly
rose until it reached his neck. His
right arm is very badly injured, but
the doctors think he will live.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26

WANTED Manager and solicitor for
'Old Line" Health and Accident
Company, Gndustrial-Commercial poll
cies). Splendid opportunity, liberal
compensation for capable. honest
hustler Experience not necessary.
Write our Travelling Representative,
j. Wyatt. general delivery, Keokuk.
Iowa, stating experience covering past
five years, age, address and refer
ences.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26
Death List Of $50.

At 9:90 Coroner Holzhauser, who
had taken charge of the case, said he
didn't believe it would be possible TO
get the bodies out of the building be
fore Tuesday He said there We're a
number in the cellar and sub-cellaI
which are filled with water. II was
his opinion the dead might reach as
high as 80 but the police said this
estimate was too high.
This was supposed to be modern
fire proof building said Holzhauser
but after inspection can only char
acterize it as a worse fire trap thar
any ramshackle structure on the cas-
side. / have arranged with Districl
Attorney Whitman to be at the IN
quest on Monday and | will see tina
those responsible for the conditions
that have cost the lives of so many
are properly punished.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26

WANTED in our egg depart
ment. Apply at superintendent de-
partment S. p. Pond Co.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26

WANTED-Girls in our egg depart
ment Apply at superintendants de
partment s. p Pond Co
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26

Mean temperature, March %, 81.
Highest temperature, 6S.
Lowest temperature, "a.
FRED z. GOSEWISCI,
Observer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26

WANTED for general house.
work, two in family. No washing,
Good wages. "Housekeeper, care
Gate City
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26

FOR SALE Vacant lot, Grand ave-
nue., between Fifth and Sixth; Won.
derful view of river and the great
water power project. Also have for.
sale fifty feet on North Fourth street.
between High and Morgan, the latter
probably being the best available va
cant in down town Keokuk Sutlive
Brothers, 312 Main street
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26
Remarkable Escape.

The most remarkable rescue In the
history OF the New York fire depart,
ment was made during the fire. A
deputy chief While walking through
tho water in the cellar heard sroans
coming from the sub.cellar in the
neighborhood of the freight elevator.
Hurriedly summoning a number Oh
men with lanterns, he lowered him
self into the water. There, submerged
with only his head above the water.
but clinging with a death grip to the
cable of the elevator he found LYMAN
Messed, u, of $50 East Fifteenth St
The boy was hurriedly carried into the
street where an ambulance surgeon
forced stimulant down his throat
and brought him back to conscious
ness.
Messed said he was on the sixth
floor when the fire broke out and
finding his escape cut off he slid down
the elevator cable landing in the sub
cellar. Too weak TO get any further
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26

WANTED-Sticker man, plain work.
Could also use two or three mill
men with ordinary experience" Bush
nell Tank Works. Bushnell, Ill.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26

WANTED to learn tailoring or
one that is experienced. az Main
St United Tailoring Co.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26
Boat Plant Burned.

lGate City Leased Wire Service.l
PlTTSBURG, March 25-Fire orig
mating in the boiler room of the
Monongahela River Consolidated Coal
ana Coke Co.'S boat building works at
Browns Landing, destroyed the entire
Plant. The loss is estimated at $780,
600.
ASsABnI.
Use Gold Mccall Flour for your pastry.
GERALDINE.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26

FOR RENT Corner store, best loca-
ton in city. Especially suited for
harness shop: also warehouse. Geo.
n Bot, Warsaw, III
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26
THE WEATHER.

WASHINGTON, March 25.-Weath-
er forecast for Iowa: Showers and
colder Sunday; Monday unsettled;
colder
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26

WANTED-Two girls--a cook and
housemaid. Apply to Mrs. j. F. Ell
der, Park Place.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26

FOR Household goods, Chas..
Forman, 500 Blondeau Street.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26

FOR RENT Three rooms for light
Housekeeping. also one furnished
room. Call at 904 Timea street.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26

LADIES make supporters. s12 per
hundred; no canvassing; material
furnished Stamped envelope for par
ticulars. Wabash Supply Co.. Dept.
Ss7, Chicago.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26

FOR RENT-Three pleasant rooms,
can be used for light housekeeping
321 South Seventh.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26

FOR RENT Furnished rooms, mod
ern conveniences. Upstairs over
Uhich's grocery, 9oola High street.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26

FOR SALE-On easy terms, small
payment down. Five room cottage,
with three room cellar. large cistern
with pump in house, located on two
full lots, 50x1aU each, plenty of good
fruit. Also good chicken houses and
and splendid location For poultry
raising. near 18th and Palean. For
quick sale $500 Roy G. Burner, AIS
Main. Bell phone No. 29S.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26
The Want Column
WANTED.

WANTED-A five or six room house
Address c. G. care of this office
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26
FOR RENT.

FOR RENT-Six room flat with bath.
Corner 9Th and Johnson streets. f.
A Wedler
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26

see the streaks of fire coming down
like rockets
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26

WANTED TO RENT Modern to 8
room house with yard for garden
and chickens. Address XYZ, this
office.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26

DEAD ONES making $4,000 weekly
giving safety razor free with box
soap Show rs what live one can
do. Tremendous success. Samples
free. Parker Chemical Co, Chicago.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-26
roa SALE.

FOR SALE-Ope nice golden oak hall
tree: one new garden hose. Call at
SIT Morgan street.