Gilpin observer., 1912-04-25
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depart.

With dramatic suddenness the SEN
ate investigation of the Titanic dis
aster came to an end so far as the
New York hearing was concerned 1t
has been resumed in Washington.
Unless the managers of the railroads
in the territories east of Chicago and
north of the Ohio river reconsider
their flat refusal to advance wages of
the engineers, the worst railroad strike
in the history of the United States
may be precipitated
The directors of the Denver & RIO
Grande railroad, at meeting in New
York, authorized the execution of
25.000,000 mortgage on the properly
of the railroad to secure the recent
bond issue. The stockholders will De
called on to ratify the execution of The
mortgage at a meeting in Denver.
The tender of the friendly offic IS
of representative of the federal gov
ernment has called temporary halt
to a strike of railroad engineers in the
territory east of Chicago and north OF
the Potomac river, in which ii is es
timated 52 per cent of the railway
traffic of the entire country is han
died.
News from the flooded area of the
Mississippi valley in Arkansas, Mssis.
sippi and Louisiana continues increas-
ingly grave. Thousands of those who
were compelled TO flee to higher
places when the flood invaded their
homes have been cared for, but there
are many more in need of aid. 1t Is
estimated that fifty towns and vii
lagos have left the effects of the flood
Some places are under two to fifteen
feet of water. In all 200 lives have
been lost.
The break in the main line levee on
the Mississippi river four miles below
Rosedale, Miss, and another on the
Arkansas river added $4,000 persons to
the flood sufferers in Arkansas, Louisi-
ana and Mississippi. The levee at An.
COLA. La, on the east bank of the
Mississippi river, broke ana two thou.
sand acres of planted cane will be
wiped out. Hundreds are marooned in
isolated places, many have been with.
out food for days and scores are suf-
fering from want of clothing
From the scene of the wreck of the
Titanic comes the news by wireless
that sixty-four bodies of victims have
been recovered and are now on board
the cable ship Mackay Bennett. which
is searching The entire region where
the catastrophe occurred. Dispatches
were meagre, but 1t was indicated that
the sixty-four bodies are possible of
Identification. Others. the messages
say were found impossible of identifi-
cation and were buried at sea. How
many of these there were is not even
limited at.
The government steamer Earl Grey
struck a rock between Tony River
and Cape John and sank, according
to reports from Pictou. N. S. 1t is be.
lieved all the 200 passengers and the
crew were saved. Before the steamer
sank the life-boats were manned and
the women on board were first put
off in them. The men passengers,
officers and members of the crew
followed. They were being unloaded
when the relief boat arrived. Iac
steamer Minto picked up those who
were drifting about in the open boats.
Five persons were robbed of money.
or valuables. or both. by three masked
men who went through the sleeper
Nottingham of the Rock Islands west
bound Golden State Limited, at Shelf
field. Ill. forty miles east Of Moline.
one passenger was robbed Of $1,000.
Thirty-two persons are known to be
dead. half score are so severely in
iured they may die. and hundred
and fifty others were hurt In two tor.
nadoes which swept over southern
Illinois in one instance, and across
northern Illinois into Indiana in the
other.