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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-09-12
MOST ALL WERE Drowned in
TOWNS OF WEST VIRGINIA
and pennsylvania.
Torrential Rains Start Floods in West
Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio and
Observation-Disclosures Over 100000
Worth of Property--Many Houses
Hit by Lightning In Chicago.

Pittsburg, Pa.-As a result of terri
fic rains Sunday and Monday and
throughout West Virginia, western
Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio, SO are
dead and others missing. Added to
the list Of fatalities are 10 foreigners
at Golfers, w. Va, bringing the list
there up to IS; three at Bergettstown,
Pa, bringing the list there up to four,
and one at Woodlawn, Pa, near this
city. Others are reported missing.
From meager reports it is believed the
monetary damage will approximate
s. 1900, 000.
Latest reports from the various dis
tricts give the following table Of ia
talities:
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-09-12
Loss Estimated AT $4,000
and insured FOR ABOUT
sum OF $4,000.
Many Firemen Hurt and Special Train
from Anaconda Mas Wrecked, Kill
Ing One Man and lnjuring Others
Chief Collins Had Both Arms and
Legs Broken.

Butte.-Fire of unknown origin,
starting in the basement of the
Thomas block shortly after midday
Sunday, completely destroyed that
block, covering an area of 120 feet
along Park street, causing a loss of
1880 covered by $4,000 insurance,
and indirectly causing the leath of one
man and the injury of six others, one
fatally.
Edward O'Leary, a Butte fireman,
sustained painful injuries and was re-
moved to a hospital. Six other fire
men were overcome by smoke and an
other was bruised by falling into a
basement.
For a long time the entire square
bounded by Main on the east, Park on
the south, Broadway on the north and
Dakota on the west, was seriously
threatened and many Of the buildings
caught fire in places, but the absence
Of wind aided the firemen, and after
fighting from 1890 o'clock until 4:3O
the fire was brought under control.
Fire departments from Walkerville,
Williamsburg, Anaconda and all the
apparatus of the Butte departments
and the different departments of the
mines early were summoned.
Special Train Jumps Track.
The Anaconda department aboard a
special Butte, Anaconda & Pacific
train, in an endeavor to make a rec
| ord r,1n Woo ditohad nAo- D,ront ool
Engineer Patrick Duffy of Anaconda
killed and Fireman Walsh, also from
Anaconda, fatally injured.
Chief Charles Collins of the Ana
conda department had both legs and
an arm broken. He is paralyzed and
his condition is serious.
Other Anaconda firemen injured
were: Bruce Bryan, arm broken and
internal injuries; Larry Brennan, Jo-
seph Stevens and Alderman Timothy
Egan.
Others injured were: G. H. Speng-
Ter, master mechanic, badly bruised
and burned by steam; T. j. Walsh, To-
connective fireman, back sprained and
chest and arm bruised; Henry Duane,
fireman, wrist sprained and cut;
Charles Mulvehill, brakeman, bruised;
Conductor Goodwin, badly bruised; ].
G.. Skinner, ~roundhouse foreman, back
hurt and badly shaken.
The train consisting of a heavy
engine and caboose, was bowling
along at terrific speed, planning to
pick up the Rocker fire department
when it struck a sharp curve, flew
from the track, the engine and the
caboose turned a double somersault
and landed in the bottom of Silver
Bow creek.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-09-12
TRAIN DROPS INTO RIVER
Four Killed in Wreck Following Wis
consin ~CIoudburst.

Four Killed In Wreck Following Wis
consin CIoudburst.
Camp Douglas, Wis.-Four persons
we're killed in the wreck of train No.
10 on the Chicago, ST. Paul, Minneapo-
lis & Omaha railroad, which a wash
out caused by the cloudburst threw
into the Lemon-Weir river near Camp
Douglas. Six other persons were in
jured. several seriously.
The dead:
Engineer Ralph Thompson.
Fireman Abraham.
Mail clerk, name not known.
Baggageman Lee.
The train was tagged at a tunnel
OF account of a washout, and later
was ordered to back up to Camp Doug
las so that the passengers might break
fast. The high bridge and the banks
on both sides of the Lemon-Weir river
were washed out, and the train
plunged into the whirling water.
Sleeping car and smoking car pas
sengers escaped.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-09-12
Over 10000 Sheep Must Be Sold.

Weiser, Idaho.-Inquiries being re-
ceived from sheepmen in all sections
Of the country indicate deep interest
in the ~receivership auction sale Of 49,
500 registered and thoroughbred sheep,
to be held in Weiser September 16 and
II. The sale is the largest of its kind
ever held in the world and it includes
the entire thoroughbred flocks Of the
Butterfield Live Stock company, which
met financial disaster during 1910.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-09-12
U. S. ELECTRIC FUEL SHIP.
Jupiter Is the Largest Boat Ever
Launched on the Pacific Coast.

Vallejo, Cal.-The United States
fuel ship Jupiter, the first electrically
driven sea-going vessel ever built and
the largest ship of any description
ever laid down on the Pacific coast,
was launched at Mare Island navy
yard Saturday.
The Jupiter is 572 feet long by IS
feet beam, draws 81 feet 6 inches;
displaces 1880 tons Of water and has
a carrying capacity of 1880 tons of
coal and 375,O00 gallons of fuel oil.
The keel was laid on October 16 last
and the hull has been built in record
time at a saving of nearly 100000
over the appropriation of $1,2OO,O0
allowed by congress.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-09-12
PrIze Fighters Offered Big Money.

San Francisco.-One of the largest
prize ring purses rendered a boxer
since James Jeffries fought Jack John
son, two years ago, was hung up to-
night by Eddie Graney, promoter and
manager of the Tuxedo club, when he
agreed to give Lightweight Champion
AID Wolgast $4,000 for his end of the
prize money, win, lose or draw, to
fight 20 rounds with Willie Richie in
this city Thanksgiving day.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-09-12
HONOR MEMORY OF GEN. BOOTH
Memorial Services for Late Salvation
Army Leader Are Held in All
Parts of Nation.

~ VI NdhiCi'
San Francisco.-Men of all walks of
life Sunday honored the memory of
the late General Booth, founder of the
Salvation Army. The Rev. Louis j.
Sawyer, president of the San Fran
cisco church federation, presided at
the union church service, while the
roll of honorary vice presidents in
cluded state and municipal officials,
the foreign consuls of the city, men,
bers of the supreme court, federal civil
officials, officers of the army and navy
and men of every denomination.
The service was conducted by the
various ministers, all Of whom paid
brief tributes to General Booth, and
vas followed by a musical program.
Special memorial service will be held
at each Salvation Army post in the
city tomorrow night in honor Of the
dead leader.
At Seattle.
Seattle.-Public memorial services
in honor of the late William Booth
were held here Sunday, Governor Ma
rion E.. Hay, Mayor George E. Cotterill
and leading ministers participating.
After the service at the theater a pa
rade led by the Salvation Army band
Of Victoria, B. c., marched down Sec
ond avenue to Pioneer square, where
brief open-air services were held.
EuIogize Booth at Butte.
Butte, Mont.-Public memorial ser
vices for the late Commander William
Booth, founder of the Salvation Army,
were held at the auditorium
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-09-12
Mob Hunts for Negroes.

Chattanooga, Tenn.-Determined to
get two negroes accused of killing a
policeman here Sunday a mob of 600
men and boys is %parading from one
prison to another, and demanding that
it's members be allowed to search the
places. The blacks, Newton Howard
and Ernest Selman, have been spirited
out of the city, officers say, but the
mob members refuse to believe it.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-09-12
Mexico Friendly to United States.

San Francisco.-Senor Rafael Her
nandez, secretary of the interior of
Mexico, who arrived in San Francisco
on a business trip recently, gives as
surances of the friendly attitude of the
Madero administration to the United
States.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-09-12
FREIGHT Rates Remain Same.

Observation-Disclosures freight rates
proposed by transcontinental railroads
for transportation of commodities from
eastern points to Pacific coast termin-
ais were suspended recently by the
interstate commerce commission from
September 2 until December 81, pend
ing an investigation.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-09-12
Seven Hurt BY Motorcycles.

Los Angeles.-Two men fatally in
jured, one seriously hurt and five bad
ly bruised, is the net result of five
day. w. S. Allen, As years old, a mail
collector, collided with another motor
cyclist, and William Milton who drove
head-first into an electric car, are ex-
pected to die.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-09-12
Auto Kills Woman at Tacoma.

Tacoma.-Run down by an automo-
bile whose occupants ar not known,
Mrs. G. w. Woodbridge of Burlington,
Ala, was killed Sunday night and her
husband seriously injured.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-09-12
Olympia Athletes to Compete.

Stockton, Cal.-Ralph Rose, shot
putter; Peter Gerhardt, sprinter, and
George Horne, high jumper, all of the
American team at the Olympic games,
will be among the ~contenders in the
track and field meet here admission
day in connection with the native
sons celebration.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-09-12
ENGLAND Makes Kick.

that the British government will make
a formal demand upon the United
States government for arbitration of
it's claim that the Panama canal toll
act, as passed recently by the United
States congress, violates the Hay
Pauncefote treaty.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-09-12
Drowned.
Lightning Strikes Houses.

At Ford City, Pa, a dozen houses
were washed from their foundations.
Lightning struck a score of houses and
McGrahan, a suburb, is under three to
five feet of water tonight.
Transportation facilities in all direc-
tons from this city were practically
put out Of commission.
After "a hours of excessive hot
weather the storm broke Sunday. In
addition to a heavy rainfall the cleo
trical features were most spectacular.
The steady rain caused every stream
to leave it's banks. Within a short
time the water had washed away rail-
road tracks and sent tons of earth
from surrounding hills, making thor
oughfares in the flood zone impossible.
A cloudburst deluged the valley in
which Golfers, w. Va, is situated, and
many houses were swept from founda-
lions. Golfers seemed to suffer the
brunt of the storm in West Virginia.
Debris floated down the creek piling
high at Halildays Cove, and a score of
houses we're washed away there.
~Cannonsburg Under Water.
C%annonsburg is under three feet of
water. Business houses are flooded
and streets washed away. Many
houses, undermined by water, col
lapsed tonight.
Prompt action on the part of the
Pittsburg-Buffalo Coal company
brought 400 miners out of the floods
path. When the water was seen to be
gaining Roadway whistles were blown
calling the surface men to the office.
Quickly they notified the men beneath
the earth. Men on horseback rode
down a narrow valley and warned the
families of the miners.
Great Loss at Travers City.
Travers City, Mich.-One of the
worst electrical storms in years ragged
in this district. The loss is expected to
total several hundred thousand dollars.
No deaths have been reported.
One Death at Wausau. q.
Wausau, Wis.-The Wisconsin river,
which rose about eight feet as the re-
suit Of the heavy downpour, receded
Monday and danger of a floor is past.
One death by drowning was reported.
Chicago.-Aheavy rain fell, breaking
a two and a half days hot spell. The
temperature dropped 10 degrees in less
than an hour. Many houses were
struck by lightning.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-09-12
Coal Is Wasted.

Washington.-Of a production of
5O0,0 900 900 tons of coal in the United
States in the last year, $50, 200, 900 tons
were either wasted or left under
ground, probably unfit for future use,
according to a statement by DR.. Jo-
seph A. Holmes, director of the United
States bureau of mines.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-09-12
INVESTIGATE COAL VALUES.

Party OF 80 With Horses and Supplies
leaves Seattle for Alaska District.
Seattle.-A party of 35 men, sent
out by the United States bureau of
mines, sailed on the steamship Mari
posa for Alaska to investigate the
value, extent and availability of the
Boring river coal field for the use of
naval vessels. The men took with
them pack horses and so tons of sup
plies.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-09-12

The Automobile Association of Eng
land has 10000 members.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-09-12

Chicago.-Aheavy rain fell, breaking
a two and a half days hot spell. The
temperature dropped 10 degrees in less
than an hour. Many houses were
struck by lightning.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-09-12
Great Loss at Travers City.

Wausau, Wis.-The Wisconsin river,
which rose about eight feet as the re-
suit of the heavy downpour, receded
Monday and danger of a floor is past.
One death by drowning was reported.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-12-22

Duds features fell and he hest
tRtod.
Look here" said Prinkle. I'm tell
you what III do, III give you an ex
ira quarter week, perhaps that will
pay for SnoOps board while you're
away guess you know somebody
who will take care OF him"
bud perked up instantly. 1T is a
70, sir" he said. Jim Cordy win take
care q him. When do you want me
to Btart?"
This morning." said Mr.. Prnklc.
i have TO rcach'-he named a Con.
necucut toUn-"by seven o'clock this
evening, and thcre is work to do IN
the interval"
81 ain't got much 10 pack mp" re.
piled Dud easily. so I'll be back in a
ilhy"
bud fc'l into the vortex Of his pro-
fess,on Ike a rinoba iato It's socket
lie not only laughed an the phases Of
laughing gus,o bNt n the audience
were composed largely of children, he
would girgle like a schoolboy at his
first circus ON the other hand, II
the audience were more au5tere and
gray.headed, he would emit a digni-
ned guffaw betting the occasion.
Wherever MIR. Prinkle went. he could
rely on Dud with absolute assurance.
lie never failed to put in an appear
ance and he studied the lectures
carefully, and the audiences also.
Il was only once, whilo trying to
arouse the members Of young la
dies seminary, that he almost met his
Waterloo The fair audience took Dud
for some asinlne individual who had
wandered in aimlessly, and they
finally began to laugh at him, paying
not the slightest attention to the
Prnkle wisdom.
One evening, Dud was preparing TO
leave his hotel for the hall where the
lecture was to be given. when a letter
from Jim Cordy arrived It was brief
and written shakily, and was 70 the
effect that Snoop. while hunting rats
in woodpile a couple OF days before
had, somehow or other, brought the
whole business down about his ears
Both the dogs front legs were
broken. and they thought he was In
jured internally and could not live.
bud sat for little time stunned ;
then he rose and walked mechanically
to the lecture-hall, feeling sick at the
thought OF having 10 laugh with
Snoop dying hundreds OF miles away
However it had to be. and with n
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-12-22

dead Jim Fiddler" The wall came
to them again, weird, eery.
Rising from the midst OF the water,
with the ghostly wall, came weird
green glow. The iron buoy, strainlng
at its anchorage, took on the same
sickly hue which spread into the sur
rounding sea like a reflection of some
central light,
And I've my penance now to pay
the wall grew in volume, coming faster
and faster. The men sat petrified with
fear in the cutter her bows lifting in
the wash from the great barrel on the
edge OF the sickly green hue. might
by night | follow some good fellow
like myself, joining glass by glass, and
song by song with him. oh, I'm
weary, SO weary of 1t all. But on /
must go until l send some man back
to duty"
The grating cry was swamped again,
even as the voice rose In pain. but the
coxswaln capped 1t with yell OF NOR.
tai terror, his own face green In the
light.
Mother Of Hope" the stroke-oar
whimpered "'Tis no drown man!
'Tis dead banshee-a sea-divil! Back
to the ship for our livesl"
His panic fear reused his mates.
They struggled. rolling and falling
against each other in their haste to
fee the place. and crying out.
Up to that moment Barry had stared,
helpless to do anything. In his condi..
.. tpI 10 hu
him. Imagination it might be-but the
men had heard-and, as well may hap.
pen to the best Of men in moments OF
great doubt and peril, his only feeling
was one of bewilderment, incredulity.
amazement. But, as the cutter swung
round. his senses rallied. What to the
superstitious sailors was the cry OF
some sea-wraith became again to him
stricken cry for help from some fel-
low mortal.
with a passionate cry, he sprang up
in the well, telling the gawking stroke
with a backhanded blow that keeled
him over the thwart.
Even as he did so, the buoy swooped
down upon him like great black bat,
and again the aurora OF green burst
out OF the water. illuminating the
whole ugly bulk.
Barry glared. wild-eyed. at this mys-
terry that Knocked them-the buoy, the
eery green light-his brain whlrling.
For, as he looked. fascinated. all re-
gardless Of his own hazard standing in
the plunging boat, from the green
water something rose. as though lifted
by some unseen power from the heart
of the ocean.
Slowly the thing ascended the bulg.
ing buoyside. It reached the top OF
the buoy. far out OF the green fluid.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-12-22

Standing upright against the swaying
iron sides of the float without apparent
support, it slowly and solemnly turned,
as on a pivot, facing him-a tall, spare
figure with arms that rose and fell
with the tapping of the water around
the buoy, with an odd familiar gesture
The coxswain's eyes bulged with
horror; there was note Of absolute
conviction in his yell of terror.
1T is Left'nant Fiddlerl" he howled,
and dropped on his knees, with hands
uplifted as if to ward off some over
powering peril,
The ghostly wall rose once more in
distinguishable anguish.
Give heed! Go backl For my sake,
Barry b. B. o. Barry, b. b. o.
Then there was a pause.
For an instant, as he faced the thing,
Barry's brain still stroye toward san
| ity, but that halfforgotten secret call
from out of the old days at Annap-
Iolls-only he and his cousin and Fld-
dler knew that And the coXswain had
seenl
Barry missed going overheard as he
dropped, flung into the stern.sheets by
the roll of the cutter and the savage
tug OF the four panic. stricken men at
the oars. But the coxswain caught him
and eased the fall, while the cutter.
travelling faster than she had been
rowed since she was built, made for
the Jungfrau.
From that night forward Lieutenant
Barry was changed man on the
transport Jungfrau.
In fact, he ceased to be Lieutenant
Billy" Barry at all. He was another
man-as the worried executive officer
put it-from keelson to truck, fore and
aft, port and starboard.
More than once his engineer cousin
approached him. looking guilty. But
he, like all the others, failed TO break
through the barrier of reserve which
Barry shed about the occurrences Of
that fateful night.
SO the wardroom left him severely
alone. to go his own sinful route OF
reformation, for Barry was la dead
earnest
While Barry remained simply a
harmless crank" In the wardroom ana
martinez at duty, the high powers OF
the quarterback did not interfere; but
when a transformation took place
tween decks, the commander took a
hand And the "Old Man" was wroth.
For almost a week tho transport
Jungfrsu had become "nerve.ship."
Whispers OF spooks and spirits and
hobgoblns and wraiths were always in
the air Men shuddered at night duty
and almost mutinied when sent aloft
in the dark. In one nosing expedition
to a derelict at night (for the Jungfrau
destroyed derelicts among her other
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-12-22

the most part, as an apparatus ship
on the Asiatic station where she made
harbors deadly with cons acted con
tact mines, electrical bombs, subma-
rine bells, and mysterious floating con
trivahces, just as she had been en-
ployed recently by the same old crew
on the home station, before receiving
orders for the East again
In the meantime, Lieutenant Billy
Barry was in the stern-sheets OF the
Jungfrau's cutter. shooting shoreward
under the impulse OF four oars. And
Lieutenant Barry's face was gloomy.
He had caught the surgeons men
ton OF Fiddler's name as he left the
wardroom, and that mention had re
called memoies that saddened and
sobered him, turning his thoughts to
the gay, care-free friend who formerly
had always shared his jaunts OF pleas
ure and pain.
A cool wind came from the sea, and
Barry pulled his coat about him. SHY
ering.
The effervescence OF the wardroom
had passed, and that sorry comparison
of the surgeons between himself and
Fiddler had brought his image clearly
10 mind, dismally visualizing on his
mental retina his lost comrade-con-
found that Scotch doctor, anyhow!
The night was very still. with the
crescent moSn just making darkness
visible The sea-wind hummed low and
mournful over the tapping OF the
waters, and the long, slow man-o'-
wars stroke as the four seamen rose
and fell on the thudding oars. The
stars above seemed cold, aud the dis
tant shore-lights took on a suspicious
look. Barry shook himself angrily.
"Confound It! I'm getting forecasile
muligrubs, toe. Get up more steam
there men. We're not pleasure rowing
we're pressed for time"
Way 'nough-back water hard!
the coxswain's sudden shout electrified
the boat "Jove. cir, we most ran
down the buoy"
Barry recognized 1t as the big iron
cask.buoy the jungfrau had planted In
the harbor for experime ntal purposes
| in connection with mysterious signal
ing apparatus and submarine bells.
The incident rasped on his already
! tensed nerves.
You're blind fool"
"shipmate ahoy! Go back! Go
back, say"
The ghostly wall fioated over the
water from the buoy not twenty Feet
away. half.mufled, like the voice of
man drowning.
The officer heard and the crew, as
they Law on their oars, while the cutter
swung closer.
give heed, I say! Go back! I'm
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-12-22

cupying a corner, and how they got
along very wcll until the family IN
the northeast corner took in a board
er, when the others protested
Sdddcny end without warning, pud
let forth a peal Cf uuctuous each
innation that seemed to set tho raft
ers shaking
Instantly and in concert, tho rest
of the audience loin,i him, and fer
nearly FIVE minutes the lecturer wGs
unable to proceed b. reason OF tho
"Hal Has" that cane from the
thrcats CT the gathering.
After that the evening was an easy
one for Mr. rrinlSle, and of inoescrib-
able relief 10 the rector. Pr.nkle
simply aimed 2 stale joke ct Dud,
and the Tiyer,onia1s followed with q
unanimous eufaw, As the lecture
drew TO a close. the laughter in
creased in quantity aud quality, pune.
usted frequently and thoroughly fy
~ dominant note that belonged to
Dud.
As the schocl.oom was being
cleared som,NCal l'u'Een qua On lht
eIIo"' anu lN'A.as tIC"nu' Le 81" d
yoIns man "Io h'"'I YEA "'Iap'5'
me ness wants u see !C" ''F Z"
minute Ae S"'u'
Who IS the boss Elnned Du4'
me Gta-!N"aA VINO ha5 b,eh e'''
ing th' lecture olE fiiAhle.
All i3hl shIu D"u, WHO never