The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-10
IN CLUTCHES OF
White SLAvERS
That Party Of Twenty Immigrant Girls
Who Disappeared From the
Train In Pennsyl-
vanla.
1t Has Been Three Weeks Now Since
They Were Lost Sight of and
Vanished Com.
pleteiy.

limited Press Leased Wire Service
CHICAGO, April 10.-Andrew Sill
verson, president of the Chicago
branch of the Norwegian Danish
Young Womens' Christian Associa-
ton. today wired New York officers OF
the organization to take up the search
for twenty immigrant girls, who SO
mysteriously disappeared from B.
and 0. train enroute from New York
to Chicago more than three weeks
ago and are believed to have fallen
into the clutches of white slavers.
Silverson declared that he did not
mean to criticise either federal off,
cials or officers Of the B. and o. rail-
road, who reported one week ago that
they We're unable to find any trace Of
any one of the missing girls, but that
the officers of the association in New
York might turn up some clew be-
cause of their wide acquaintance
among newly arriving immigrants.
Il have some new information that
may help government investigators" ["
said Silverson. 4 will give it to G..
G. Dewoody. of the federal depart
ment of justice, today and request
him to have federal authorities in
Pennsylvania use every means to find
some clew by which the whereabouts
of the girls may be traced.
Receipt Of another letter from a
grief stricken relative of one of the
missing girls stirred officers Of the
organization to action today. This
letter came from Mrs. Emma Peter.
son of Grenshaw, Pa, another rela-
tive of Anna Bachman, an Is year old
Danish girl whose failure to reach
! Chicago started the investigation.
Mrs. Peterson begged Silverson to
urge federal officials not to let the in
| vestigation drop. She said she had
communicated with all the known rel
atives Of the missing Bachman girl
who reached New York On March IL
and started for Chicago and that
none Of them had learned the fate OF
the young immigrant girl
|
guess as to the fate of these young
girls" said Silverson. Il would not
increase the fears and the anxiety
that their relatives now suffer. But
apparently they have vanished as
completely as If they were swallow
| ed up. 1t is more than three weeks
! now since they disappeared. Hac
any one of them arrived safely at hel
destination it is practically certain
that her relatives would have so re
ported to the authorities when the
i newspapers printed stories OF theil
disappearance"
i silyerson is particularly interested
4 in the disappearance of the youns
Bachman girl because her relatives II
i Copenhagen, Denmark, entrusted he
TO the care OF the Norwegian Danisi
j Young Womens Christian Association
4 here She reached New York from
Z. Copenhagen on the morning OF Marci
il ~ aboard the steamer Baltic, accord
inc to the information obtained D,
!, officers of the association here
!, Whether other immigrant girls came
down the gangplank Of the Baltt
with her ls not known here. However
several of the girls in the party ar
said to have been Of French an
!. spanish extraction and it is presumed
that they arrived in New York a
about the same time, but aboard otn
er steamers.