Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1915-10-04
McAdoo and Comptroller Williams
and Treasurer Burke, charging them
with an attempt to wreck the bank.


DENVER, Oct, Rockefeller, Jr.
went to Pueblo~today for tomorrov's
meeting with two of the representa-
tives of each of his eighteen camps
to approve a self government plan
Rockefeller has announced that
Sunday he will give exhaustive details
of the collective bargaining feature
of his plan.
The Miners union has announced
that it is Mackenzie Kings idea to do
away with all regular unions.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct, Mime
teen are dead here and the property
loss is in the millions.
The full force of the storm struck
the town of Houma, and it is feared
that the fatalities are tremendous be-
tween Houma and Morgan City.
All public utilities are still para
lyzed.
No important buildings were de-
stroyed, although but a few were
not damaged.
The river commission is preparing
to send boats to the lower coast,
around the cities where the full force
If the storm was felt.
Fears are felt for thousands in
Pass Christian and other towns.
Thirteen persisted at RigoIeta, La,
including nine in one family.
An aged woman was killed and her
three children Injured in the collapse
of their home al Long Beach, Miss.
While there were no deaths, Biloxi
and Glufport reported heavy dam
ages
NEW ORLEANS, Oct, -Four
hundred are dead at New Orleans
and the gulf coast as result of
Wednesdays hurricane, is the latest
figures.
Over two hundred are known to be
dead at New Orleans and in the sub
urbs there are Is. In the Barataria
district, 43; at Rigolete, "a; at Point
Ealahache, 81; at Lake Catherine, IT;
at Yeloskey, II; at Shellbeach, Is;
at Bayou Cook, IL; at Cheniere, 8;
at Grand Isle, 6; at Bayou Portage,
6; at Pass Christian, A.; at Daisy, 3;
at Bayou st. Louis, 2; at Hammond,
2; at Outrica, 2; at Ostrica Nestor,
2; at Nichols, 1; at Bayou Dufon, l.
Hundreds are still marooned in the
flooded sections along the coast.
Boats have gone to their rescue.
Three hundred are marooned at
Empire, La, seventy at Grand Isle
refused to go to hotel when the
tidal wave swept the island.
Over one hundred and fifty schoon-
ers are reported ashore between Gulf
port and New Orleans.
Some of them are fifteen feet above
tide water.
The property damage is estimated
variously owing to the unsatisfactory
communication.
1t is said that in southern Louisiana
alone there was ten millions of dol
lars worth of damage.
The tide water along the gulf coast
ranged from two feet in Mobile to
10 feet at Rigolets where the great
est casualties were.
The property damage is not esti-
mated as yet.
The storm exceeds the 1909 hurri-
cane
In the Louisiana marshes 80 schoon-
ers are ashore. Many were capsized.
Many aboard them persisted.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct, q
There were one hundred and fifty ia
talties east of New Orleans, twelve
being within the city, is the weather
bureaus report.
The property damage is two mill
ions of dollars and the shipping loss
nine million and a half.
Telegraph lines were not reestab-
lished until this morning.
NEW YORK, Oct, 2.-The first
game of the worlds series will be
played October 8 at Philadelphia. The
national commission has decided.
1t was decided by a toss Of a coin.
The first two games are to be play
ed at Philadelphia on October 8 and
8 and the third and fourth games
at Boston on October IL and IL.
If fifth game is necessary it will
be played at Philadelphia on the 18th.
Should there be sixth game it will
be played at Boston on the 14th.
If there is seventh game the COM
mission will toss coin to see where
it will be played.
NEW YORK, Oct, 2.-The coming
worlds series promises to evolve it
self into a pitchers battle from the
very start. On the one side, Alex
ander, on the other, five of the best
pitchers in the American league-JOe
Wood, Dutch Leonard, George Fos-
ter, Ernie Shore and Babe Ruth.