Semi-weekly herald., 1912-07-29
FROM BUSY cENTERs
Stories OF Real Life as Told by
Wire. from Every Section Comes
Tales OF the Busy " orli

overflowing streams.
Sixty-five lives are the toll thus
far known, while the damage to homes
and industries cannot be estimated
but will exceed $5,000,O00.
Fifteen lives were lost in the Su-
perba mine No. 2 near Uniontown,
seventy-five miners narrowly escaping
death, while from many other sections
come reports of lives lost by noun
tain torrents rushing into the mine
Slopes.
Hundreds of families deserted their
homes in their mad rush for safety
on the mountain sides and sought
shelter in improvised shacks and tents
toward the construction of which ev-
cry available piece of debris was turn
ed to account. At daybreak shiver-
ing women and children gazed over a
| scene of desolation in the upper
Youghiogheny valley and as the wa
ters receded upturned dwellings, shat
tered buildings and crumbled piles of
mortar had heaped in conglomer-
ated mass by railroad bridge or tres
tie where the progress of the debris
had been impeded by some larger and
stauncher building.
1t was long after midnight before
the waters began to recede.
Following is the death total of the
| floods this morning:
At Uniontown, Pa, fifteen drowned.
Smoke, Pa, in the Red Stone valley,
fourteen drowned
Grindstone, Pa, fourteen miners are
reported drowned.
Lynn, Pa, two miners drowned.
Wheeling, w. Va, three drowned
Lomont, Pa, four miners are report
ed drowned.
New Martinsville, w. Va, six
drowned.
Monongaha, w. Va, one drowned
Fairmont, w. Va, two drowned.
Redwood, w. Va, three killed by
lightning and one by Landslide.
| DENVER, July 25.-F'rederick G
Bonfils, one of the proprietors of the
Post, appeared this morning before
Judge Hubert l.. Shattuck to answer
for himself and his partner, Harry
H. Tammen, the charge of criminal
contempt of court brought against
them by William G. Evans.
The court room was crowded with
men and women eager to hear the pro.
ceedings. Hundreds were unable tc
gaia admittance.
Evans and Robert w. Speer, whose
hearing on the contempt charges hat
been set for the same time were moi
present, but were represented by theil
counsel.
As soon as the court convened Mr.
Bonfils for himself and Mr.. TANNER
filed a motion to quash the proceed
ings. The motion to quash was baseC
on the grounds that the contempt
proceeding is in violation of the STATE
and federal constitutional guarantee:
of freedom of speech and of the press
is in violation of the fourteenth
amendment to the constitution of the
| United States declaring all persons
equal before the law and guaranteeing
fair trials to all, besides providing that
no person shall be deprived of life
liberty or property without due proc
ess of law lis in violation Of the con-
st;tutional provision that the truth OF
any publication may De given in the
evidence before jury, and if truth
be shown, the jury under the direction
of the court, must acquit the accused)
| and in violation of all the constitutions
al guarantees of trial by jury for
any one accused of any offense, the
penalty of which is deprivation of life,
liberty or property.
After the preliminary argument the
case adjourned until this afternoon.
DENVER, July 25.-Returning to
Denver from the Sand Creek road
house, where they had been spending
the larger part of the night, an auto
mobile load of joy riders were spilled
out near the intersection of Forty-fifth
and Wewatta streets at three o'clock
this morning.
One woman was killed, one man
seriously injured. Two other men es-
capped with light bruises, while the two
other women who were in the machine
escaped harm. The dead woman, whose
body is at the morgue, has been iden-
titled as Madeline Baugh, said to be
also known as Madeline Kelly. Wom-
en-, who assert they knew Madeline
Kelly, say the Identification is correct.
N Fred Graham n drug clerk mt Sew