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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1915-06-12
News In Brief

Hagerstown's new First Brethren
Church, built at a cost of nearly
$4,000, was dedicated last Sunday.
The annual Allegany county Sun
day school convention viii. be held at
Cumberland on June Is and Is.
Mrs. Alexis I. dupont, of Whining
ton, last week made a gift of $4,000
to Hope Farm.
At a recent meeting of the Bel Air
Road Improvement Association it was
decided to admit women to member
ship.
The Talbot County commissioners
have fixed the tax rate at o712 cents,
an increase of 2 cents.
Counterfeit silver dollars and half
dollars, the dollars bearing the date
of 1888, are in circulation in Winning
ton, the bogus money having been
much in evidence since May 10, circus
day in that city.
The annual Hartford County Sunday
School Association Convention was
held at the Highland Presbyterian
Church Friday of last week.
Foreign labor recently went on a
strike at the Seaford, Del, canneries,
demanding a ten-hour work day and
pay for Sundays. which was granted.
Frank P. Phelan, aged 80 years, di-
rectory clerk of Wilmington postoffice,
died last week after an eight weeks
illness.
The Superior Court in Wilmington,
has refused to grant a license to
James L. Dickson Tor the hote! at
Townsend, Del
Thomas Edgar Whelan, a promi-
nent Hagerstown business man, died
suddenly, one day last week from
acute gastritis.
James Wilson, of Hagerstown, has
been sentenced to two years in the
House Of Correction for stabbing Jas.
Anderson, of that place.
Prof. Howard Williams, of George
town, Del, former principal OF the
Milton, Del, High School, will go to
North Dakota, this month, where he
has accepted a position.
-"For baby's Group. Wilic5 daily cuts and
bruises, mammals sore throat, Granlma's lame
ness DR.. Thomas Eclectic Oh the household
remedy. 25c ard soc. udyt-s
Patrick Clark, a carpenter who lives
at Be.camp was found lying along
the Pennsylvania railroad tracks early
Tuesday morning of last week in a
badly injured condition. When found
Clark was barely conscious and was
unable TO tell how the accident &C.
Cured. 1t is believed that he was
walking along the track and was
struck by d passing train. An eN-
animation at Mercy Hospital disclos-
ed that his leg would have to be am
putated. The injured man is recover
ing.
t.Heary. impure blood makes muddy pim-
ply complexion, he Iarhe-, nausea, Indigestion.
Thin blood makes you weak, pale and sickly.
For rvre blood sound digestion, use Burdock
Blood Bitter+. $500 It al I ge7 adHt'
During the month Of May the Wi
mington police made 800 arrests, 1872
OF which were for drunkenness.
H. order TO supply the town with d
street sweeper and sprinkler, the
Women's Federated CLUB, of Chester
town mas started movement to raise
flrls 70 purchase the apparatus.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1915-06-12

Maybell Armour to Chesapeake &
Potomac Telephone Co., right of way,
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1915-06-12

You don't need to suffer those agonizine
nerve pains i'll the face, head @rm. Shoulders,
chest md back. just apply few drops of
soothing S!o;n's L:n:ment; lie quietly few
minutes. You viii get such relief and COM
fost! Life and the world will look brighter.
Get bottle to-d.y ounces for 25c., at all
Druggists. Penet.ates without rubbing. ad*
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1915-06-12

Elwood Balderston and wife to Levi
H. Balderston, lot of land in Sixth
district, $120.
Jonas Bollinger and wife to George
10th and Stephen A. Lesco, 80 acre
nronertv in Third district $4,000.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1915-06-12
No Two Noses Are AliIA
ETE s.TEN
Each EyeGIass TO give Satisfaction
must be Carefully odjr-fcd 70 fft
die face I.

Lawn EytRids. 70 give 0dtt3f8C1iou
must be Carefully odjr-fcd 70 fft
the face [. - NJ.
Your work. health. happiness and
eyesight can be improved by having a
pair of improved glasses. Call and
believe. Every Tuesday, all day, also
very evening, except Friday and Sat-
urday, you will find Specialist Wood
cock on eyesight in his Elkton Office
opposite Court House. He visits
North East, Md, at Hotel Cecil every
Wednesday, A. NJ. to IL o'clock noon.
Every one in Cecil county who writes
a postal he will call on them, examine
their eyesight FREE OF COST.
In his Philadelphia, Pa, office, 493S
Olive street, every Saturday.
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9as Acknowledgements bes infplge elmer
8erpunbung i'm &riegs6pIpital In gn6as
peit beritorbenen 9eutnants gdul @Db
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gdnenis pobnteu BEL Der Stdbtlommess
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giltratsratb 8ita in @ertretung br Stabt.
3cblrsihe RrGn3e 19midten ben Gurg,
barunter elmer nit Der NuTfdrift. Dem
tapfsreR 3dmeraben bic |. l. Mrmee."
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Stmben6nrss 9anf.

9elrraIfeIomarf9aa b. Sinbenburq
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tpeiterbin nit uns fetn unb uns nd9 treu
qfli6t einen ebrenboleu unb IL
Geren Grieop f9enteu. 9as 1T meim
felIenfeite leber3eugune."
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SMpere Gei.s Selbhaa6itcu Sntterie
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Meierue. Snfanterie .Reaiment Nr. 242.
2. saoer. Battalion gar. 10, aresben.

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7. Snfauteris .Gcaimeitt Gr. LOG,
2cipsia.
9ont Mouee 6. II. IA.

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@rnit Nroppe, 8urna, |. b.; Mnr 8tpans
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8. aomp.; Ct. anrG @eru6nrb, 9ubers
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,ity are served the full Leased
wire Service Of the United
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Thousands Grouped Themselves About Building,
While Bodies Were Being Brought in,
Four and Five to the Minute.
LIVING PLEAD IN VAIN TO SEE THEIR DEAD
Identification Work is Slow For This Was Holi-
day Crowd Bent on Pleasure and Few
of Them Carried Papers or Cards.

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CHICAGO, ILL.,, July "a
Dumb with grief, Chicago to-
night took up the solemn task
of preparing its dead for
burial.
With pale faces, and lips
pressed into two thin blue
lines, the workers at the Sec
ond Regiment almory, the
principal receiving morgue
| for the bodies as they were
taken directly from the hulk
of the Eastland, bent to their
tasks. The bodies were Trans
ferred in groups of six and
eight, by auto trucks from the
Reid Murdock warehouse on
the river bank. ..
Thousands grouped Chem
selves about the streets lead
ing to the doors Of the big
bare, red brick building Sc
lected to house for the night,
the victims of the disaster.
Working in squads of four
etretcher- hearers at a, time.
the police detailed to carry
the blanketed forms from the
vans outside to their place on
the floor inside, did their
work effectively. Fifty en-
ha1mers occupied one quarter
of the building. The steadily
growing line of bodies dis
tanced their desperate effort
to keep abreast the ever grow
ing stream that flowed into
the building.
At the rate of four and five
bodies a minute, came the
Eastland's toll. Eighty-four
were placed in a single line.
Then there were two lines,
four lines, six lines. And still
the muffled rumble outside
told of mere vans coming up.
PLEApINes OF THE LIVING.
Stretcher bearers worked until ex-
places and the steady march kept up
1t seemed unending.
In the shadow of the entrance
stood four young men. They were
pleading with the door man TO be
fused.
do no good now"
"But our wives are in there. man."
said one. He said It quietly, stoical-
said nothing.
"She had planned on this all summer.
| didn't know about it until noon. I
went down there. The police let me
on the boat. | found her hat. That's
all. Poor little KID" The other three
grouped close about the speaker he-
meath the splutterins arc light, but
held their grief within their breasts.
There was dumb horror in her
wide blue eyes. Her fingers worked
at button hole in her faded red
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CHICAGO, Jgly a Death
stalked into . happy ,ake
boat excursion today and fur
nished the world with the
greatest water horror III its
history. One Thousand six
hundred and sixty-siy wom-
en-, children and men died
within a step Of the shore by
the overturning Of the great
steel steamer Eastland, DIS she
rested at her North Clark
street dock in the Chicago
river.
Search for the victims con-
tinued tonight. Divers and
dredgers dragged the water
while policemen, firemen aud
citizens who volunteered for
the task in the hold. worked
Under the glare Of a dozen
searchights and incandescent
lamps, strung over the scene.
There were two outstand.
ing horrors in this disaster
which drew a toll three times
as great as the terrible Iro-
quois theatre fire here, in
which sos died. One was that
50 many died so close to land
and in sight of friends and
relatives to the number of
I,OOO, who a moment before
the accident were calling God
speed from the decks of five
other steamers that had been
Chartered with the Eastland
TO take the Western Electric
employees on their annual pic
mic.
The other heart-breaking
lact was that most Of the vic
inns We're babies, young girls
ana women. This horror. of
all the others was forced home
with scintillating vividness by
.ie long rows of victims at
:, .ne morgues. For every man.
.nere were three or four
Doales Of women, girls or
,vmldren. :. Long after artificial
nghts replaced the sun, the
workers We're removing the
:. vlcslms. Hopes were held out
.nat ~ some would be found
1--we until 3 o'clock. Shortly
=: .elore r that, twelve girls, all
u their teens, were found
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ESTIMATES OF DEAD.

TUnited Press Leased Wire Servicel
CHICAGO, July 25.-(Sunday)--
Coroner Hoffman, at 1:15 a. m. told
the United Press that as far as he
had been advised the number of
EastIand victims whose bodies had
been recovered was $50. At that hour
the police estimate Of the bodies re-
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alive, crowded In q state
room that had been thought
empty. AL were unconscious
and only responded to the
pnlmoters after literally hur-
culean effort.
ESTIMATES DIFFER.

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Late tonight there continued to be
q wide divergence In the estimates
Of dead. Asiduous effort by steam
ship, police and Western Electric
company officiaie who followed every
clue developed these facts: that there
were 2,4oe men, women and children
passengers and crew on the East
land. Charles cuip, Western Eiec.
trie superintendent, assigned to the
task Of tabuIating list Of the saved,
accounted for 742 persons.
Between $50 and 725 bodies have
been recovered. Even the number
Of eorpses could not be accurately
counted UP to late hour tonight, be-
cause 80 many volunteers had been
engaged in the work and because the
bodies were brought out 20 rapidly
they could not be counted or were
perhaps twice counted before being
removed, first to the score or more
Of temporary morgues In the vicin'
itv and then to the Second Regiment
armory.
Police officials would only promise
that they hope to give exact figures
when ali Of the bodies were conferred
at the Second Regiment armory. And
nlsn and not uive to the bereaveo
their dead until all were accounted
for, only added to the suffering OF
the living.
There was one faint oleam OF hope
offered by Police Deputy sohuett'e,
after most Of the bodies recovered
had reached the armory. where ne
had said he was certain the dead
would reach 1900 earlier in the
evening, he said another tour OF the
charneI houses led him TO oe"eve nv.
estirate was high-by 100, perhaps
by $50.
FIXING THE RESPONSIBILITY.
CITY, county, state and federal au-
thoritIes tonight got down to tne
task Of fixing tho responsibility. sev-
eraI theories were advanced 70 tne"
~ eauses- They were:
Possible smuggling aboard OF more
than the Eastlands capacity, which
caused too much weight above rhe
water line.
ack Of water ballast, the ballast
havIna been removed to permit the
Eastsand to leave the river moro
easily against the swift current
caused by the drainage canal.
possible faulty construction OF the
Eastland as suggested by severa'
ehip builders, which gave the steam
er too much weight above the water
line for the weight below
Victor OIander, secretary OF inc
Great Lakes Seamen's union tonight
traced the blame back to the ornees
Of the federal steam boat Inspection
service in Washington. With pree'
dent Fitzpatrick and seeretar NICK
III. Of the Chicago Federation or
i ahor. o,ander was granted for
mai interview with States attorney
Hovne. oIander told Hoyne that ne
has known Of many cases IN wn'on
local boat inspectors have oroereo
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pr,ieE Find STARTED.

Upon a long distance telephone
suggestion from Mayor thompson
who called up today from Can Fran
cisco, city and Western Electric Off
cIals toniaht laid tentative plans for
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OVER WITHOUT WARMING
Majority Of Victims Were Women and Children
Who Had Just Started on What Was
to be Day Of Pleasure.

THE TRAGEDY OF THE EASTLAND.
esrMATEp NUMBER BoARD-2,4os TO 2,7oo.
NUMBER OFFICIALLY ACCOUNTED FOR AS SURVIVORS 1o7s
NUMBER MAIN MORGUE, 700.
NUMBER BODIES At OTHER MoRoUES (EsTlMATED) $50.
TOTAL KNOWN DEAD (EsTiMATED) 1929 TO
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