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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-12-29
The Great Schwartz Clearance

The cleanup sale at Schwartz's is
now on. Continues throughout the
week. we want you all to supply
your wants. Sale is this week only
Schwartz BrOS-Advt.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-12-29
Philadelphia Grip Epidemic.

Philadelphia. Dec. 27.-The grip
epidemic continues, a hundred new
cases being reported.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-12-29
The Big Event.

ale Schwartz clearance sale is now
'' 'ome during the entire week
'iiN your needs. The cleanup is
1'01ah the entire store. Schwartz
f'O@. -Advt.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-07-31
START TWO INVESTIGATIONS
Chicago In Mourning and Prayers OF.
fered for Victims and Their
Relatives.

Cornish, N. H., July 27.-President
Wilson ordered a complete investiga-
ton by the Department of Commerce
into the sinking of the excursion
steamer Eastland. The President d.
rected that nothing be left undone to
fix the responsibility.
Chicago, July 27.--Bodies of 800 per
sons killed in the capsizing of the
steamer Eastland at its wharf in the
Chicago river had been recovered Sun
day after forty hours of searching by
divers around the steel hulk, still lying
on its side, half submerged, where it
rolled Saturday, while laden with 2,408
excursionists.
The total dead as result of tho
turning over Of the ship still remains
at approximately 1000, according to
estimates made by Coroner Hoffman.
whose reports indicated that probably
200 bodies still were held in the mud
of the river by the superstructure Of
the overturned boat. While only 1902
passengers of the Eastland have regis
tered with the Western Electric Com.
pany as saved, 1t is thought that about
ATS survivors. including the crew of
seventy-two, had failed to report their
escape.
Acting Mayor Moorhouse and his
advisors at meeting Sunday began
the raising Of a relief fund of 100000
to be distributed by a subcommittee
acting under the direction of the ma
tional Red Cross. the Associated Char
tiles and the municipal health depart
ment
In addition to this, the Western Elec.
trio Company. whose employees formed
the majority of the Inflated excursion
party, has announced that 100000
from its employees insurance fund is
availa BILE for relief Numerous private
relief funds also have been started.
Meanwhile, Mayor Thompson, who
was at the Panama-Pacific exposition
to take part in the ceremonies in cele-
bration OF Illinois Day, left for Chi.
cago on a special train to take his
place in the direction OF the relief
work.
Coroner Hoffman issued an appeal
to the public for fund for the burial
Of the unidentified dead.
In churches and homes throughout
the city Sunday were offered prayers
for the suffering and victims.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-07-31
Life Guards and Divers, Priests
and Physicians Labor to
Save Victims.
MOR6UE IN A WAREHOUSE
Row After Row Of Bodies Fill Great
Rooms az Waiting Crowds Weep
and Curse-Pathetic Scenes
Are Witnessed.

Chicago, July 26.-The tug Kenosha,
tied to the pier west of the Clark
street bridge, formed an approach to
the liner.
From the tugs after rail one
stepped onto the great iron side of the
overturned steamer and scrambled up
to the fiat length, taking care of the
open portfolios, and the holes cut by
the acetylene blowpipes.
The side of the boat had become as
a deck-a place where the rescuers
might stand.
The scene was confusing.
Policemen, officers, firemen, SOL
diers, divers, men in bathing suits
life guards-priests, reporters, physi-
clans and others jostled and bumped
each other.
Every second came the cry:
"Stretcher!" and a dozen men would
rush toward the spot Then came the
warning, "Gangway! Gangway!" and
four men would go by carrying a still,
blanket-covered figure.
Now and then policeman walked
through the crowd, carrying a bundled
corpse of child in his arms.
Here two men were pumping air to
a diver down in the depths, there a
group waited. pulling on ropes,
watching someone down below
ready to haul up another body when
the signal came.
Office Of Church.
A priest stood by one such hole.
There was a shawl round his shout
ders and he held an umbrella.
Il have given them all conditional
absolution,' he said; some who came
out alive. but almost dead, received
the last sacrament, the viaticum
"All ready upstairs!" came the
shout from below.
The firemen pulled on the ropes
The body came up bit by bit.
"Stretcher!" bawled someone, and
in a trice there were two stretchers
waiting.
The hand of the priest made the
sign of the cross as the body came
into view and his lips muttered:
Ego tie absolvo a peccatis tuis, in
nomine PATHS, ct Fiji, ct Spirit Sane
ii, Amen!-I absolve you from all
your sins, in the name of the Father,
and of the Son and OF the Holy Ghost
Amen"
1t was the body of young girl,
dressed in a white dress. There were
white pumps on the feet and white
silk gloves on the arms. She held
clasped in one hand a gold watch. 1t
was opened
"Ah, poor SOUL" said the priest.
She was holding her sweetheart 8
watch, perhaps, and they were chat
ting together when the boat over
turned"
Up came the man from the hold
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-07-31
BIG SHIP DISASTERS.

Feb. I, 1s62.-The orpheus. Brit
land; 200 lives lost.
Oct. 20, 1S67.-The Rhine and
asore at st. Thomas. West Indies.
with about SO other vessels in the
grip of a hurricane; 100 lives lost.
Nov. %, 1S73.-Atlantic White
Star liner. wrecked off Nova Scotia
Sept. 8, Is7s.-Princess Alice,
British steamer. sunk in collision
in the Thames; 700 lives lost.
Sept. 10. 1S90.-Ertogrul. Turk
ish ,frigate, foundered off Japan;
March II, 1ss1.-Utopia, Anchor
line. sunk in collision with British
steamer Ansoa oft Gibraltar; 574
''s July i0' Z. 1sss.-La Roursoyne,
steamer. rammed by British sailing
vessel pear Cromartyshire; 5s4
June is, 1so4-General slocum.
took fire at He'll Gate, East river,
New York: 1000 lives lost.
July 3, 19o4.-Norge. a steamship,
foundered at sea; 81 lives lost.
Feb s. iso3a IL pd,n ;, steam M
Atlantic coast IT'S lives lost.
- April Is, ls12-Titanic. White
Star liner, struck iceberg and sank;
1,517 lives lost
May 80, l914-Empr of Ire
Storstad in st. Lawrence river: 945
May !. lel5.-Lusitania. cunard
liner. sunk by torpedo of Old Head
kinsale, Irish coast; 1896 lives lost.
July "a. 1s15.-Eastland, lake
lists, overturned in Chicago river
1000 lives lost.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-07-31
Arizona.

Considerable activity is reported at
the Stonewal Jackson mine in the
Globe district
The spelter recovered from Arizona
zinc ores in 1914 amounted to 1882
337 pounds, valued at $499,4 against
an output of 9.42S.067 pounds, valued
at $527,972, in 1913.
The gold produced in Arizona in
1914 amounted to 202 ,166.62 ounces
valued at $4,179.155, an increase OF
$l55,244 OF this output, $50, lao came
from placers, s3,002,7O2 from dry OF
siliceous ore, and 81 ,O5l. OLA from cop
per ore.
The copper output from Arizona
ores, principally from crude ores and
concentrates, decreased from 407,923.
402 pounds, valued at s63,22s,127, in
1918. to 393 ,Ol7.40O pounds, valued al
So, 271,314, in 1914, but Arizona con
tinues at the head Of the list of cop
reproducing states.
Silver production from Arizona ores
and placers increased from 3.94S,091
ounces, valued at $2,3S4,647, in 1913
to 4,377.994 ounces, valued at $2,421,
OBJ, in 1914. OF this output, 2,604 ,371
ounces came from copper ore, 1,l33,
976 ounces from dry or siliceous ore
and 1925 ounces from lead ore.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-07-31
Two Denver Youths Are Safe.

Denver. July 26.-There was rejoic-
ing in two Denver homes Sunday
when word was received that Arthur
Ellery and Robert Manard, two young
employees Of the Western Electric
Company in Chicago were safe. Mel
Their was on board the steamer East
land. Mrs. Frances Ellery. teacher
In the Garden Place school and moth
o. Of Arthur Ellery. was SO i'll that
grave concern was felt for her until
she received q telegram from her son
stating that he was safe h New York
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-07-31
WyominQ.

The production of petroleum in the
United States in 1914 aggregated $780,
312,535 barrels. Wyoming showed the
greatest relative increase in oil pro.
duction during the year, exceeding its
record output in 1913 by nearly AS
per cent, though failing to gain there
by a rank above that attained in 1913,
namely, ninth
The news comes to Thermopolis Of
the bringing in of three new wells in
Hot Springs county within the last
ten days. X. Whiting for the Mexico
Wyoming struck good producer in
Grass creek on the Littlejohn lease,
where he has been drilling for some
time. The Mexico-Wyoming will be
recognized and the development Of
this property pushed along rapidly
Nat Levi also reports oil on Cotton.
wood
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-07-31
Colorado.

1t is encouraging to announce thai
the zinc oxide plant of the Western
Zinc Oxide Company at Leadville lie
now running at full capacity, and the
results being obtained are proving
highly satisfactory to the stockholders,
At Leadville the pumping work at
the Penrose continues under the most
favorable conditions.
Carter and associates, leasing on
the l,000-foot level of the indicator
mine at Cripple Creek. have opened
a fine body of better than the avera :e
grade ore.
j. w. Burns, one of the pioneers OF
Rico and an old Comstock miner, has
opened up very promising deposit of
copper ore on the Catskill claim on
Silver creek
The June net earnings of the Trail
lease at Cripple Creek are placed at
$4,000, from some fifty-three cars OF
ore OF this, $4,000 went as royalty
to the United Gold Mines Company.
From SCI. 92 in January to $1,000 in
Trail lease as payer of royalty to
the United Gold Mines Company,
which owns the territory and about
400 acres Just as good"
MCGEE and Cleveland, leasing on the
fifth level of the Henry Adney prop
erty, situated on Rosebud hill, Grip
pie Creek, have started shipments OF
ore that will carry average values of
about $40 ton in gold.
The mineral discovery made on the
Ella W. property, situated on Tender
foot hill, Cripple Creek, is topic OF
general interest in mining circles. The
first carload shipment of ore that was
made from the surface workings
brought a settlement of 1885 ton
in gold.
The Portland Gold Mining Company
has increased its quarterly dividend
to 3 per cent (S9O,O0O), which was
paid July 20, making $4,000 since
the opening Of the year, and $10,o27.-
$50 all told since the company was or
ganized !, 1894.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-07-31
the steamer upset.

the steamer upset
In describing her experience and
rescue she said:
We were on the side Of the boat
nearest the dock and as the steamer
suddenly listed threw out my hands
in an effort to catch hold of some
thing, out failed and fell into the
water went under and as | came
ing out through a portfolio. They
pulled me through. do not know
whether my husband, daughter and
sister-in-law were saved"
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-07-31

The good news revived her. Miss Ro-
sale Manard, 1852 Quebec street. re-
ceived a telegram yesterday from the
Western Electric Company annonnc-
ing that her brother, Robert Manard.
an architect employed by the COM
pany, was saved. Nothing has yet
been heard from John Malnburg.
brother OF Mrs. Carl Eklund. wife Of
the pastor Of the First Swedish M q.
church. Mrs. Eklund believes that her
brother. foreman Of ono Of the depart
msnts at the Hawthorne plant. went
on the excursion.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-07-31
Reseuer Finds Daughters Body.

Chicago. - Private tragedies were
numerous about the wreck. The
crowd moved and swayed against the
police lines, striving to catch q
glimpse of the dead or the tragedy
stricken survivors as the latter turned
from their efforts to bring life back
to loved ones One city fireman, lean
ing far over an opening cut In the hull
pulled out body passed to him by .
diver. He turned the form over, and
tainted as he gazed into the face Of his
own daughter.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-07-31
EXCURSION STEAMER, LOADED
WITH PIcNIckERS, cAPsizES
At DOCK IN THE HEART
OF CHICAGO, ILL.
DIVERS SEARCH HULL
OFFICERS ARRESTED DOUBLE
INVESTIGATION STARTED
TO FIX BLAME FOR
DISASTER.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Chicago, July 26-Coroner Hoffman
announced Saturday night that he had
ordered the arrest OF every official of
the Indiana Transportation Company,
leasing the steamer Eastland which
capsized Saturday morning with
party Of excursionists. nearly 1900 Of
whom were reported drowned. No in
aividuals were mentioned in the coro-
ner's announcement.
W. C. Steele, secretary and treas
urer Of the st. Joseph-Chicago Steam
ship Company, which owned the East
land, built on Lake Erie in 1903 and
remodeled later because topheavy. it
is said, was arrested and locked up at
the police station.
The cororer at II o'clock Saturday
night said that he had hopes that the
number OF dead would not exceed
1000. The number of bodies in the
morgue, according to official count.
was s09 The coroner said that any
bodies in addition to the 500 we're in
the river or the hull Of the Eastland.
The big steamer capsized within .
few feet OF land as 1t was about to
leave its wharf in the Chicago river
with $500 relatives and friends Of
employees of the Western Electric
Company for trip across Lake Michi-
gan. The ship rolled on its side In
twenty-five feet of water within five
minutes after it began to list.
Coroner's Physician Springer de.
clared that 1900 persons were killed,
while other estimates ran as high as
2.100, but these did not agree with the
statement that not more than $500
passengers were on board the vessel.
During the day more than 800 bodies
were taken from the river and the
hull of the overturned vessel, whose
sides were cut open with gas flames
to admit divers. Several persons
were taken alive from the cabins in
the ship after it had lain on its side
in the river for four hours, but the 200
other persons said to be in the hulk
are all dead.
Under the glare OF searchlights
scores OF men worked in the hull OF
the vessel to remove the bodies. The
steamer lay on the bottom of the river
one-half of its side protruding from the
water.
The cause of the capsizing had not
been determined Saturday night, but
federal, city and state officers were
conducting investigations to determine
whether the ship was topheavy from
faulty designing, was improperly bal
lasted, or was poorly handled IL
warping from the wharf.
Under misty skies, 1000 men, WON
en- and children wended their way tc
the river wharf to fill five large lake
steamers with holiday mirth in triI
to Michigan City. The steamer East
land, brought to Chicago from Lake
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-07-31

Henry Bauer of 1927 Lawrence ave
Il must rest awhile" he said. I'm
all in. ! must have fastened dozen
girls to the ropes. 1t seems there are
piles of them. Somebody give me
cigarette"
The bodies were carried down to
the tug, across the tug, on the right
side up the steps and over the bridge
to the Reid Murdoch storage room
Others were taken in the opposite
direction. placed in one of the score
of small boats at the end and taken
across the stream to the warehouse.
Thousands of men and women
looked on, crowding the bridges. fill
ing every window overlooking the riv-
er, choking the docks and the piers
near by.
Morgue in Warehouse.
The Reid Murdoch warehouse pre-
scented another picture of confusion.
The dead were placed in long rows,
side by side-men, women, children
There We're boxes, and bundles, ano
barrels and articles of merchandise
all over the great room
The police swarmed all around, com
pany officials, doctors, nurses-and un
dertakers who were embalming bodies
Clear away all these things" bel
| lowed Schuettler through his mega
phone; make room!'
How many bodies are here noWg
he asked someone.
Six hundred" he was told.
There's twice that many on the
boat yet" he said; get some more
men in here to guard these bodies. We
caught one ghoul robbing on the boa'
and ones too many"
Finds Girls Body.
man stumbled through the crowe
around the corner and exclaimed;
I've found my little girl, I've foune
her and ! want to take her home"
The coroner shook his head.
I'VE can't do it, we cannot release s
single body. We're going to take al
these to some central point--the Sec
ond infantry armory or the Coliseum
or some place big enough. Write down
the girls name on tag. the one who
identified her, the address and the
amount Of the estate"
| And so it went all day. the stretcher
men going and coming.
Work to Restore Lives
Upstairs in the storage building
physicians worked to resusctate many
Many were brought to life, many were
| given up after lung motors had beer
used for hours in vain.
One of these latter was boy OF
eight years.
diver had found him clinging to
the submerged rail. He was dressed in
an Indian" play suit. with bathing
suit underneath.
I'VE worked on him for more thar
an hour" said DR.. Joseph Ross. There
were signs of life, but very faint. He's
gone in spite of all we could do"
A string of ambulances and auto
trucks lined Clark street A Gordon OF
police stood about the doors of the
Reid Murdoch building, and crowds
sought to get past. claiming relatives
parents, children, friends.
The police were forced to refuse
most of them admittance-and the
women went away weeping-the men
murmuring, cursing or threatening
And more came in their places.
Suddenly Finds Wife.
A man in overalls, who was thought
to be one of the electricians at WORK
putting in the emergency lights at one
of the hospitals, suddenly sank by the
side of young woman who had just
been brought back from the embalm
er's table. The black-haired pretty
girl wrapped in the shroud was his
! wife.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-07-31
EASTLAND DEAD
PLACED AT 1000

Erie, after an unsatisfactory career,
was the first to be loaded.
Rain began to fall as the wharf SUI
perintendents lifted the gang planks
from the Eastland, declaring that the
government limit OF $500 passengers
had been reached. White dresses
peeped from raincoats, as those aboard
waved goodbye to friends on shore
waiting to board the other vessels.
Then the passengers swarmed to the
left side of the ship as the other
steamers drew up the river toward the
wharf. A tug was hitched to the East
land, ropes were ordered cast off and
the engines began to hum.
For nearly five minutes the ship
turned before it finally Owed under
the swift current of the river, which,
owing to the drainage canal system,
flows from the lake. During the
mighty turning Of the ship with its
cargo OF humanity, lifeboats, chairs
and other loose appurtenances on the
decks slipped down the sloping floors
crushing the passengers toward the
rising waters.
Then there was a plunge with a
sigh Of air escaping from the hold,
mingled with crying of children and
shrieks OF women, and the ship was
on the bottom of the river, casting
hundreds of its passengers into the
water.
Many sank, entangled with clothing
and bundles. and did not rise, but
scores came to the surface, giving the
river the appearance Of a crowded
bathing beach. Many seized floating
chairs and other objects. Those on
shore threw out ropes and dragged in
those who could hold these lifelines.
Employees OF commission firms along
the river threw crates, chicken coops
and other floatable things into the cur
r Mt, but most Of these were swept
away by the stream.
Rushed to Aid Of Drowning.
Boats were put out, tugs rushed to
the scene with shrieking whistles, and
many men snatched off their coats and
sprang into the river to aid the drown.
ing. With thousands of spectators
ready to aid and the wharf within
efforts at rescue.
One mother grasped her two chill
dren In her arms as she slipped from
the steamer into the water One child
was torn from her. but she and the
other were saved.
At o'clock Saturday night 800
bodies had been removed to the Sec
ond Regiment armory. They were laid
in rows of eighty-five across the whole
length of the armory.
Revised figures show 176 bodies had
been identified. OF ia partially iden-
titled bodies, forty-seven were men,
forty-eight women. seven boys and
twelve girls.
The steamer Eastland was built in
1908 and owned by the Eastland Navi-
cation Company OF Cleveland, Ohio. 1t
was 265 feet long, 80 feet wide and
had draft of % feet, with a net ton.
mage OF 1,218.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-07-31
New Mexico.


large deposit of bismuth is re-
ported having been discovered recent
ly in the san Andreas mountains
New Mexico produced 4,345 tons of
spelter last Year, according to the
bulletin OF the U. S. Geological Sur
very just issued.
A large number of oil locations are
being filed from the Playas Valley, and
great deal of development work is
being done in the Playas toward
bringing out the oil indications in the
field.
1t looks as though New Mexico were
destined to have that oil boom so long
anticipated Columbus, in the south
ern part OF the state, is likely to be
the iorerunner of such a desirable
contamination, for a we'll al that place
has unmistakable evidence of its
presence. Locations of land are
numerous adjacent to the discovery.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-07-31
Russian Ship Sunk.

London.-The Russian ship Rubonia
has been torpedoed and sunk by sub
marine. Her crew of thirty was land.
ed on the Orkney islands. The trawler,
Star Of Peace, also was torpedoed and
sunk off the Orkneys. Her crew was
landed at Stromness.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-07-31
WOMAN TELLS OF DISASTER
Mrs. William Peterson Saws She
Was Separated From Hus-
band and Child.

Chicago.-Among those rescued
was Mrs. William Peterson
Mrs. Peterson was on the second
deck with her husband. foreman at
the Western Electric company; her
daughter, Ruth, eight years old, and
her sister-in-law, Mrs. Emily Chell-
berg, of 4129 Sheffield avenue. when
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-07-31
EastIand Victims Had s12,soo.

Chicago. - Ten thousand dollars
worth Of jewelry and $500 in cur
rency has been found in the clothing
Of Eastland victims or near the scene
Of the accident.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-07-31
w ERIN
MINING NEWS
IN 3 r e +

esrtI . ~ 1TaT'T 7 mon N0WS SfFNICe-
Metal Market Values.
Spelter, st. Louis, S2u.91la.
Copper, casting, $19.25 q 1850.
Lead, New York, $3.50.
Bar silver, 475sc.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-06-11
Righting Wrongs

NORWAY has passed which sudyingand adopt
- ing-here these United States This
places etmae children in the class those born wedlock
The Legitimate Norwegian child right
wishes has right with the legitimate children
the matter + inheritance
We Americans handling those children
them namele and make them dependent upon mother whom
call an "outcast' fallen
It's true we do occasionally punish the father Of these children
while burn the
head.
Some day Americans will quit Visiting the fathers"
their lgtme children and let God Almighty to the
Furnishing!
VANDERBILT HEAD in New orl
the conference that
probably as well fixed But borrow
SEEMS TO
hated
ITALY GOES will
hona ideals for Gods sake
SAN MARNO has declared
STATISTICS SHOW
CLEVELAND LEADS all Of families
PoLA NOW Austdaa naval base peninsula
historical mention in HS b c. when the
EVEN IL The pope Worrying about safe
Il cost with clay Is
ting up homes Tor workngmen for SIPS
for
nave shed the good old soft flannel hat Of VIM Alden Smith