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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-08-29

Lloyd Swain OF Columbus was here
Tuesday.
Miss Mary Fudge of Ulysses is visiting
relatives here
s. L. Heacock and family of Bethany
were here last Friday.
Frank Watkins OF Neigh drove down
last week to attend the picnic.
Ford Bates Of Lincoln was here at
tending the carnival last week.
Everett Swain and son, Robert, of Chi
cago left Thursday for their home.
Mrs. O. ]. Milstead of Peru is visiting
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. 8. c. Haney
A surprise party was given Miss Sarah
White at her home Wednesday evening.
A. f. Dunn of Council Bluffs was here
Tuesday. He is soon to move TO Bellevue.
Richard Kiger and wife returned from
tour of the west in their automobile last
Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Byers and family OF
Lyons are visiting J. b NicholsOn's
family.
c. +. Reyes has returned from an ex-
tended visit to Connecticut and other
eastern points.
Charles Speedie, superintendent Of Otoe
county schools, is visiting his parents
here this week,
The Sarpy County Sunday School con-
vention will hold its annual session at
the Platford church Sunday, September g.
Mrs. J. Russell Of North Platte and Miss
Nettie Cahill Of Cheyenne Wells, Colo
are visiting Mr. and Mrs. NJ. Botorff.
Ernest Christianson, Ernest Kieck,
Leon stacy and Joseph ElwelI. ir.. at
tended the tennis meet In Plattsmouth
this week.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-08-29

Avoca.
Ora z. Copes and wife were Omaha
visitors this week.
Miss Eva Hennsley was at Weeping
Water Monday visiting.
oliver Seacat was in western Nebraska
this week looking at land.
V. w. Straub was at st. Joseph. Mo,
this week attending the stock show.
Mrs. Lester Hoback, is spending the
week with her parents at Winnebago
Mrs. !. C. Zimmerer and son. Oscar, are
spending the week with relatives, near
Lorton.
Victor Koelch and family of Cincinnati,
o., are visiting at the II. A. Straub home
this week.
Mrs. Dick Bohlman and daughter OF
Berlin were visiting Avoca relatives
Wednesday
l.. r. Linvllle and wife OF skidmore,
Mo. are spending the week with relatives
east of town.
Mrs Ella b. Lewton and daughter,
Opal of Weeping Water, were over
Sunday visitors here.
Mrs. Ruth Trook and daughter, Elsie,
were visiting with relatives near Auburn
the first OF the week.
Dick Wyatt and family of Walthill ar.
rived this week for visit with her
parents south of town.
Miss Elizabeth kirkpatrick of near
Weeping Water was visiting relatives
west of town this week.
Gus Ruhge had the misfortune TO get
a splinter into his eye. He was taken 10
Omaha to have IL removed.
Misses Stella and Elsie Opp have re-
turned from a two weeks visit with their
brother, Prof Opp, at Sutton.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-08-29
COLLISION KILLS
ONE, INJURIES MANY
Engineer Fatally Hurt When Light
Engine Hits Passenger or
Omaha Road.
ELEVEN ARE SERIOUSLY HURT
Number OF Others sustain severe
Bruises and Cuts-BoiIers on
Both Locomotives ESpIode--
Accident Near Oakland,

Engineer Morris j. Raymond of Omaha
was fatally hurt, four others, including
two from this city. were seriously in
iured seven were painfully bruised and
cut, and numerous others badly shaken
up when train No on the Omaha road
collided with light engine at curve
between Oakland and Craig Thurs
DAY afternoon.
Engineer Raymond. who lived at 1911
Laird street, died before reaching Craig
while being brought TO Omaha. one leg
and shoulder was broken and his hip
was crushed.
The injured:
Engineer H. r. Fry. Florence, left leg
broken. finger cut off, shoulder broken
and head severely cut; has chance Tor
recovery.
Arthur c. Dawson mail clerk. 1914
North Thirty-thrd street. Omaha, severe
cuts on head and face.
l.. G.. Riley, Kansas City, hip dislo-
Gated, badly crushed.
Harry Bledsoe. Kansas City ankle
broken, bruised.
A NJ. Peterson, 1874 South Twenty
seventh stree, Omaha, jaw bruised. teeth
knocked out and hand sprained.
J. f. Gibbs, salesman City National
Cigar company, 400 South Sixteenth
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-08-29

street. omaha, head and face bruised
John T. Wulcott fireman Of light en-
sine, leg sprained. bruised.
J. II. kuppig. fireman No. GS02 Grand
avenue, Omaha, head and face bruised,
Frank G. Odell $40 worthinston place.
Omaha, brpken nose.
O.. II. Woodward. Blair, hip, chest and
hack badly bruised
Oscar Nelson. Stromsburg, face badly
Mrs. c. 5. Dempster and two daughters,
81 Lincoln avenue, Council Birfts,
slightly injured.
Injured Brought Here.
Engineer Fry and Riley we're taken TO
Oakland for treatment. All the other in
mred from Omaha were on the train
when II pulled into the Webster street
station in tow OF No. at 1850 last niSht,
Trsinmen are said TO believe Engincer
Raymond II the light engine had orders
to sidetrack for No. 3. Raymond, II Is
said. helpei a freight up to Craig from
Omaha and then got orders to SO to
Oakland and help another eight down
and to s!dctrack midway for the passcn-
ger. At q spot about three and onc-hRlt
miles from Oakland, where there is a
steep embankment. Engineer Fry OF the
passenger noticed the other engine found
ing curve 200 yards distant. lie threw
on the air and had almost brought his
train to a dead stop when the other en-
gine crashed into It head on. SO terrific
was the impact that the boilers o, both
engines exploded and cast debris for hum
dreds OF yards Fry and his fireman
jumped before the crash. The other crew
stuck to their posts,
The crash and the explosion of the boil
ers were accompanied by the breaking Of
glass in the car windows and the piling
up OF seats, Passengers and trainmen
can hardly account for the fact that the
coaches we're not all hurled down IN, en-
bankment following the collision and that
there were not more serious injuries.
Riley and Bledsoe. who both say their
homes are in Kansas City, are tramps
who were stealing a ride on the blind.
How they escaped with sucn minor in
luries. considering their proximity to the
demolished engine, is another fact hard
to understand
Mail Clerk Dawson was injured when he
jumped from his car, as were Engineer
Fry and his fireman Wolcott
Conductor Praised.
The passenger train was In charge of
Sonductor Fran f.. Mcdonald. 2555 Pratt
street Omaha Passengers prepared a
testimonial of appreciation for the con-
ductor and his crew for the courteous
and panstaking treatment accorded
every one, injured and uninjured. after
the accident
Robert NJ. Encell, a travelling man liv-
ing at ALI lizard street, was ON the train
at the time, and after viewing the en-
CINE wreckage thought that traffic would
be halted for too long "a time and walked
six miles to Craig. carrying two heavy
grips. He came in with the rest Of the
passengers last night
Among the Omahans who were ON the
train and who escaped without injury
were. NJ p Cote 24o2 South Thirty.
second street, H. c, Mason. coo south
Twenty-eighth street; r. E. Pratt, 72O
South Twenty sixth street; r. o. Willis,
2l5 South Twenty-fifth street
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-08-29
From Our Near Neighbors

graph operator at this place for several
months, has been given the position OF
agent at Oskaloosa, Kan.
Miss Margaret Robinson of Cedar Gap,
Mo, is visiting her brother, John Robin
son, and family.
Kathryn and Elizabeth Ralston have
returned from two months visit In
Illinois and Iowa.
DIS Forest Philpot has gone to Candy
county where he will teach school and
prove up on a homestead.
Mrs. Joe Holdeness and daughter of
Elmwood were here this week visiting
the formers sister, Mrs. Lars Nelson.
Willis Bird and Merl Maddy of Stock
ton, Kan, were recent visitors at the
home of the formers sister, Mrs. James
Johnson.
Mrs. s. Mathews, who has been con-
fined to her home since the last Of May,
was able to be down town for the first
time one day last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Otto Mutz Of Lincoln
passed through here Wednesday enroute
to Murray to attend two days picnic
and family reunion of the MUTT families.
Rev w. II. Hickman, pastor of the
German Methodist church at Berlin,
changed cars here Wednesday on his way
to attend the West German conference
at Wichita, Kan.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-08-29
REFUGEE FROM PARIS
VISITING IN SHENANDOAH

SHENANDOAH, la, Aug. 27.-(Special)
Mrs, William White, who was stranded
in Paris for week after the opening of
hostilities, arrived in Shenandoah last
night for months visit with her sister
Mrs. T. n. Pace, before returning to her
home in Los Angeles. Mrs. White and
her party paid an American yacht owner
500 a person to transport them, with
their baggage, down the Seine to Rouen,
whence they crossed to southampton and
caught their vessel home to the United
States.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-08-29
SAN DOMINGO FACTIONS
AGREE ON PEACE TERMS

WASHINGTON. Aug. 2s.-Peace doomed
today in turbulent San Domingo. where
the president, Bordas, had promised to
resign and leaders of all elements agreed
TO disarm their followers and release
political prisoners. The agreement was
reached after conferences between the
contendlng leaders and the American
peace commissioners. Bordas will be sue
ceeded by Ramon Baez az provisional
president, who will conduct elections.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-08-29
ElkhOrn.

The families of Henry Bay and George
Paasch visited Krug park Sunday.
Miss Anna Aye entertained the ladies'
kensington Wednesday A nice lunch was
served
Mr.. and Mrs. William Grencock enter
tanned large number Of friends Tuesday
evening.
william Hansen of Osceola, Neb. visited
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. II. A. Hansen,
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Max Tallon left Friday
to visit relatives of Mrs. Fallon at Key
stone. Ia.
Prof. and Mrs. j. f. Fate left Friday
for their new home at Lincoln, where the
professor will attend the university.
Mrs. Anna .McGrew and Mrs Dave
keuhl are visiting the latter's parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Smith at Jackson, Neb.
Tom Kinney and son from Illinois ar
rived Tuesday to visit Charles Kinney,
who is seriously i'll in a hospital in
Omaha.
B. B. Baldwin and daughter-n-law, Mrs.
Roma Baldwin, were visited by the h. r.
Sterrlcker family and others from Omaha
Sunday
T. j. Hickey of Spring Grove drove
through here Tuesday on his way to Ben
nington to visit his son, Dr. c. W. Hickey
and family.
G; E. Kellell and family and Richard
Mills of MonNtte, Mo, who is visiting
them, called on the j. A. Gibbons family
Monday morning.
1t is reported the young son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Leizenberg has typohid fever.
Katie Malek. who has been I'll some
time with typhoid fever, is convalescent.
IrvingtOn.
Mr.. Charles Vestal is visiting at Bent,
S. d.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hole were Arlington
visitors Friday. 500. >
Mr.. and Mrs. Rex of Omaha visited al
the ]. NJ. Anderson home.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. M. Anderson, jr., Wis
tied at the Arant home in Omaha Sunday
Mr.. and n4rs. Lubny OF Sioux City
Bolt.
Miss Elsie Brewster Is going TO attend
the Mosher-Lampman college commencing
Monday.
Mr. Dewitt Rabbit visited with his
sister, Mrs. s. R. Brewster, Friday and
Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs, John Bleick spent Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Anderson in
| Rusty Gulch.
Mrs. Hansen and Evelyn, her daughter
spent the latter part of the week at the
| Brewster home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Beals of Blair spent the
week with the latter's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Spring.
Messrs. Elmer Christophersen and Ar.
| chic Hazard attended the tractor show In
! Fremont Thursday
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Wedderspoon OF
Council Bluffs and Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
Jensen OF st. Paul, Neb., spent Tuesday
at the Sundell home.
Mrs E. E. Brewster of Omaha and
Mrs. Carmichael of Pueblo visited az the
| Brewster home Friday.
! Mr. and Mrs. Goldbeck and Mrs. Knud-
| sen spent a few days with the latter's
| daughter, Mrs. Soren Thompson.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-08-29
Austria Declares
War on Belgium

LONDON. Aug. 2s.-(4:15 p. MIA dis
patch to the Exchange Telegraph COM
pany from Rome says that a dispatch
received there from Vienna states that
Austria has declared war on Belgium.
The American minister in Belgium has
been asked TO take charge Of Austrian
Interests there.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-08-29

We have secured a liberal stock Of d. NJ.
c. cotton. French. All sizes. We paid
a little advance to get the stock. Within a
short time there will be no stock in all this
broad land. And no more to be had till all
this cruel war is over. ANTICIPATE YOUR
WANTS.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-08-29
WeenInr water

Mrs. A. B. Knots Of Sioux City is
visiting Mrs. I. n Hunter.
Invitations are out for the wedding Of
Miss Augusta Day to Mr.. Dan Switzer
September 2.
j. G.. Fredrickson. who has been on
the Missouri Pacific depot force as tee-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-08-29
MID OF Pneumonia

is seldom written Of those who cure
coughs and colds with Dr. Kings New
Discover 90 = bottle today. bc anc
a.. al ,t r-AdVertisemc
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-08-29

child will find place for. The prices
Sc wee, so trifling, SO little, that they
MUST APPEAL.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-08-29
PnpilIton,

Miss Eula Wester of Omaha is the
guest of Mrs. Charles Schaab this week
Miss Bffie Mcclure returned Saturday
from a several weeks visit with frients
at Sioux Falls, S. d.
j. j. Langdon and A. j. Langdon OF
Pueblo, Colo, are visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
J: r. Wilson and other relatives here
this week.
Miss Irene Majors of Omaha visited
Papillion relatives and friends Sunday.
Miss Majors taught the Portal school last
year, but leaves this week for FL Reno,
Okl., where she will teach next year.
Mrs. Franz Marth, Misses Emma and
Tillie Marth have returned from a visit
with relatives at st. James, MINI. Mrs
NJ. Storm accompanied them and will visit
here before returning to her home in
Oklahoma.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Lesieur and Jacob
Lutz of Papillion Orrin Edwards Of Fort
Crook and David Graham of Bellevue
will leave Sunday for Detroit where they
VIII attend the national encampment OF
the Grand Army of the Republic. They
will be gone two weeks.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-02-06
The Captive Set on Fire.

The whole affair of the Underwater,
from the firing of the first shot from
the Confederate boat howitzer to the
surrender of the last man, did not take
over ten minutes. At the very outset
q Federal gun on land tossed a shell
into the gunboat. which struck the up
per machinery and exploded ON deck.
Taking that shell as a signal that the
ship had beer captured, other Federal
shore batteries opened fire, so that the
triumphant boarders found that after
all they had another battle on hand.
The prisoners were ordered into the
boats under a slender guard, the mag
azines opened and the guns manned
for action. But there was no steam
in the boilers, and the Federal shots
had already disabled the machinery.
Colonel Wood saw that he could not
carry off the prize won at the cost OF
fifteen lives and determined to destroy
her. Handing the wounded of his own
and the Federal crews tenderly into
the boats alongside, he trained the
guns upon the town, applied the torch.
and in five minutes the Underwater.
freighted with the bodies of the brave
antagonists who had fallen, was afre
from stem to stern.
A heavy fire from the Federal bat
teries and volleys of musketry from
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-02-06

enough steam from her banked fires to
run the Confederates down. The Fed
eral sailors, led by Commander Joseph
Westervelt, gathered in the ways just
aft of the wheelhouse and poured vol
leys Of musketry into the daring Con-
federates.
When the boats struck the sides Of
the Underwater grapnels were thrown
to f~astenings above, and boarders to
the number of 100, pistol and cutlass
In hand, climbed to the deck, undaunt-
ed by the fire poured into their very
faces. In many a thrilling deed Of
"derring do. nobody gets hurt, but not
20 on the decks OF the UNDERWRITERS
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-02-06

the forts swept the river as the Con
federates pulled away from the burn
Ing ship. Lurid flashes lighting the
sky and the dull booming of confined
explosives soon announced that the
flames had reached the shell room of
the doomed Underwater, and it was
all over with the gallant gunboat
which had fought under two flags In
the space of ten minutes and as sud
denly disappeared forever.
BY overpowering the guard of one of
the prison boats Edgar Allen, engineer
Of the Underwater, escaped and car
ried his companion captives into the
Federal lines on shore.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-02-06
" Capt. GEORGE [. kILr1HR. Late U. $. v.

~ Capt. GEORGE L. KILr1ER. Late U. 5. v.
"IFTY years the last week In Jan
- uary the C~onfederates made an
attempt to recoyer North Caro-
lima territory, which they had
lost to the Federal army and navy In
February, 1862. In the summer of
1862 General A. e. Burnside, captor Of
Roanoke island and Newbern, with
Hrew from that field, taking the larger
part of his force with him. In the
lpring of 1863 about 1900 Federals
left the department to re-enforce the
army operating against Charleston,
3. G.
Newbern itself was garrisoned by
1000 men under General l. N. Palmer,
stationed ia Fort Anderson and Fort
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-02-06

Pickett's plan embraced an attack
from both land and water upon the
forts. His force WAS to invest the
works on the land side, and while
pressing close in that quarter Colonel
Woods boats. having first cleared the
rivers of Federal gunboats, would
transport a large detachment of infan-
try to the water side of the forts and
attempt to take them by storm.
Distant firing back of Newbern
had been heard by Woods naval de-
tachment during the evening. Toward
midnight it became louder, and Colo
mel Wood knew that Pickett's line
was at work. He launched his boats
In two divisions and moved rapidly
downstream until warned by the toll
ing of an unseen bell that he was near
the enemy. -Four steamer bells sound
ed. Guided by the bells, the Confed-
crates pulled toward the unknown
steamer, pistols, cutlasses and muskets
in hand. Suddenly the hull of the I'm
derwriter doomed out of the darkness.
Then came five bells for half past 2
O'clock, the hail, thrice spoken, Boat
ahoy, boat ahoy, boat ahoy!' and an
answering shot from a boat howitzer.
Boarding the Gunboat.
No answer was given to the hail. The
boats moved steadily in. The Under
writer was Il large sidewheel steamer
mounting four guns, three of them ri
fed cannon, and carrying a crew of
seventy. She had fred the first gun
in the famous attack on Roanoke island
and fought in all the battles on the
North Carolina coast. She lay that
morning with her fires banked, having
no warning that there was a hostile
sailor nearer than the Confederate fleet
at Wilmington. The assailants might
have dropped from the sky, so sudden
and so noiselessly their appearance ON
the scene. They announced their err
rand some minutes after the watch
mans hail by a shot aimed at the ships
machinery.
In the excitement of the moment the
assailants, expecting that the gunboat.
now thoroughly alarmed, would play
havoc with their frail craft, all rowed
forward to the bow of the Underwrit-
err. In the meantime the gunboat slip
ped her cables and tried to get up
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-02-06
The War Fifty Years Ago

Confederates Take Bold Initiative In North Carolina.
Attempt to Recover Newbern From Federal 0ccu-
pancy-General Pickett, of Gettysburg Fame. Heads
the Enterprise-Bold "Cuttine Out" Expedition.
Federal Gunboat Boarded at Night, Captured and
Set on Fire-Fierce Hand to Hand Struggles on
Deck-Federal Ship Commander ~Slain-Repulse of
Pickett at the Forts Defeats His Campaign.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-02-06

LIONEL JOHN TAYLOR WOOD, G. s. A.,
COMMANDER OF BOARDING EXPEDITION.
Stevenson. Three little war steamers
the Lockwood, Commodore Hull and
Underwater = lay at anchor in the
Neuse and the Trent, the Underwater
being under the guns of Fort Steven
SON..
The Confederate commander In North
Carolina at the opening of 1864 was
General George e. Pickett. leader Of
the luckiess charge at Gettysburg. His
force included some of his Gettysburg
veterans. With the brigades of r. #.
Hoke, ID. NJ. Corse and General j. l..
Clingman he set out from Klnston, N.
c., late in January prepared to take the
town of Newbern, with all its de-
lenses and defenders, by surprise. His
plan included a cutting out expedition
aimed at the Federal gunboats.
Plan Night Attack.
The cutting out expedition had been
organized at Wilmington by Colonel
John Taylor Wood of President Davis
staff. The boats selected for the ven
ture, with crews of picked men from
the southern warships at Wilmington,
Richmond and Charleston, dropped
down the Neuse by night from Kinston,
a distance of sixty miles as the current
flows, and lay by all day Feb. / In the
shrubs and tall grass of a little island
above Newbern. The men were call
ed to quarters at midnight and the ma
ture of the work before them for the
first time explained. The force under
General Pickett was to make a land
attack on the Federal works around
Newbern to draw the attention of
the forts and ships inland. Under COW
er of this diversion Colonel Woods
band would attack a gunboat in the
river and if successful In capturing 1t
turn the guns on other hostile ships and
also on the forts close at hand.
After explaining his errand to the
men Colonel Wood inspected their
arms and ammunition and pinned upon
the breast Of each a white badge to be
worn on the left arm as a sign OF rec
ognition In the darkness, at the same
time giving out the password SUM-
ter"
Attack on the Federal 0utposts.
General Pickett's column after a
march of thirty miles drew near to
Newbern on the 31st. Next day Pick
EFT led Hoke's brigade and part of
Clingman's and Corse's on a econ
noissance to within a mile and a half
Of the Federal d~efenses of the town.
The Federal outpost at Bachelors
creek was driven back with a loss of
about 100 In killed and wounded and
nearly 300 prisoners, with two can
non, caissons, rifles and camp equi-
page. Confederate loss was thirty-flve.
The attack at the outposts put the
Federals on their guard. General Pal
mer notified the commander OF the
fotilla of the situation. Pickett was
planting a battery to sweep the rivers
and the works on land. The Under
writer took position on the Neuse
where her guns could command the
plain outside of Fort Stevenson and
aid In repelling an attack on the fort.
The Hull attempted to take position
alongside of her consort, but got
aground and could not work herself
free. The Lockwood sailed up the
Trent and remained there. Thus the
Underwater was alone and at the mer-
~ OF any formidable enemy.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-02-06
John F. KIEFFER gMBafMHs 9
SIS West Girard Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa.
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IT IS TO THE INTEREST OF EVERY

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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-02-06

that winter morning. Every one OF
Woods boat commanders led his men
up the sides of the ship. The firing
was so hot that 1t seemed as though
half the boarders would be cut down,
and in point Of fact one In three was
killed or wounded before it was over.