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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24
MANAGERS STATEMENT.

W. H Greenebaum. manager of
the Indiana Transportation COM
pany, who was in charge of the
excursion. said:
I'VE had chartered five steam
ers for the excursion of the West
ern Electric employees to Michi-
gan City. Ind, today. We had
the steamers Eastland. Petoskey.
Theodore Roosevelt, Racine and
haywood.
THE EaStland was the first
boat to load and the docks were
crowded with passengers who
were to be taken on the other
boats nearby. One United States
steamboat inspector and two as
SiStantS watched the EastIand
load They stood at the gang
plank and counted the passen-
gers as they went aboard. Their re
port shows there were 2,5OO pas
sen2erS on the EastIand. its full
capacity under the United States
steamboat regulations. / have no
idea how the accident occurred
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24

Panic struck the passengers when
the boat began to turn over.
Best accounts of witnesses said the
steamer rolled slightly twice, then
turned further, and that hundreds of
screaming, struggling men women and
children slid across the sloping decks,
fought for room and clutched at COM
panions, deck chairs or any other OBJ
ject that came to hand.
Women and Children by Hundreds.
Women and children by the hun
dreds were caught below decks and
the scratched faces, torn clothing and
bruised bodies of the dead bore mute
evidence of the desperation with which
they had fought for life.
Sixty per cent of the dead were
women, a deputy coroner said.
The big steamer turned over in less
than five minutes.
Thousands on Excursions.
Members of the crew shouted warn
ings as the steamer first tilted, and
Captain Petersen ordered lower deck
ports opened and all passengers ashore.
There was no chance for such a meas
ure to succeed.
Some seven thousand tickets had
been distributed for the excursion and
five steamers chartered by the COM
pany. The Eastland was first to re-
ceiVe Its quota and when its char
tered capacity was reached federal in
spectors ordered that no more be TAX
en- aboard.
The boat was docked on the south
side of the river, and when the hum
dreds hurrying to the boat were turned
back from it they streamed across the
Clark street bridge to the steamer
Theodore Roosevelt, which was to take
the second load.
Screams of the Eastland victims
halted this rush and the bridge was
jammed with persons until police,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24
T0PEKANS IN BOAT
PianlOndOnS, Former Residents,
on Passenger List.
Many Other Persons known
Here May Be Included.

Five Topeka people, all children or
grandchildren of Mr.. and Mrs. Peter
Plamondon, 1114 Quincy street, are
supposed to have been on the ill-fated
excursion steamer Eastlard that went
down in the Chicago river with $500
employees of the Western Electric
company on board, this morning.
Ambrose J. Plamondon, 81 years
old; his brother, e. X. PIamondon,
"A, his daughter, Marie Plamondon,
IS, and w. J. PlamOndon and wife
grandson and granddaughter of the
PlamOndonS were on the boat at the
time of the accident. Word has been
received that w. j. Plamondon was
rescued but no word has been received
concerning the others.
All of the PlamOndOns worked for
the Western Electric company. Am
broSe j. has beer for many years su-
perintendent of the millwright de
in Topeka a short time ago where he
spent his vacation with his parents.
The grandson, W. J. Plamondon was
only recently married in Chicago.
The Plamondons have been in To-
peka since 1879 When they came to
Kansas IN 1866 they settled at Atchi-
son, but later moved here. Most of
the family IS in Chicago and Mr.. and
Mrs. PlamOndon had intended to move
there soon- There is a chance that
the P1amondOnS did not all get on the
wrecked boat. Mr.. Plamondon has
wired for informal ton and his wife is
going to Chicago prOba bly, tonight, if
knowledge of the safety of her chill
dren is not received.
Sister of Charles Sessions.
Malcomb MacNei1l and family may
have been passengers on the Eastland.
Mrs. MacNeill is a sister of Charles
Sessions, secretary to Governor Cap
per, Her husband was a field repre-
sentative of the Western Electric COM
pany and Mr.. Sessions is today anx-
iously awaiting news concerning the
catastrophe.
Mrs. MacNeill and children expected
to make the excursion trip for West
ern Electric employees and their fam !
lies Whether the family took pas
sage on the Eastland, however, is not /
known. Mrs. MacNeill. who is a sis |
ter of the we'll known Topeka newspa-
per man and private secretary to the |
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24
Repetition of Attacks Would Be
Deliberately UnfriendIy.
U. S. YIELDS IN NO RESPECT
No Answer Necessary; Way
Open for Lusitania DisavOwaI.
Washington Will Always Con-
tend for Freedom of Seas.

Washington, July 24.-With
the publication today of the note
warning Germany that any repe-
tition of acts by her submarine
commanders in violation of
American rights would be re-
garded as deliberately unfriend-
ly," the United States govern
ment awaited further develop
ments.
The note does not necessarily
call for reply. 1t leaves the way
open, however, for an answer
from Germany disavowing the
sinking of the Lusitania and of
fering reparation, submitting as
surances as to the future actions
of her naval officers, and even
asking directly for medic tion by
the United States between the
German and British govern
ments on the general subject of
warfare on the sea.
Final Word of United States.
The use in the note of the phrase
deliberately unfriendly' is viewed
here as expressing the final word of
the united States government regard
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GRAND JURY To ACT.

Chicago. July 24.-Federal
Judge *. NJ. Landis ordered a spe-
ciaI grand jury empanclled to
make an investigation of the East
land disaster. The Jury VIII meet
next Thursday.
Scores of leading city and state
officers, headed by Mayor Thomp-
son and Governor Dunno. are i'm
San Francisco, where illinois
day. is to be celebrated at the
Panama-Paciffc exposition today
and "Chicago day next Tuesday.
c. C. Healey, general superin-
tendent of police, and the chief
government engineer, were also
out of the city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24
700 PERSONS DROWNED IN CHICAGO RIVER
LIST OF KNOWN DEAD.

Chi cago. July 24.-Following is the
list of dead, so far as identified, at 10
o'clock:
Mrs. Pauline Vantak, A years,
mother and three children; husband
saved.
Mrs. Peter Kommer.
List of missing:
p. Gildinack.
P. Merrick.
Fred Christianson.
Edward Finn.
Frank Harrigan.
Mrs. Agnew Olson.
Miss Anna Uzarekmz.
Mrs. Mary Fries.
Mrs. Bessie McCrory.
Edna and Mildreth McCrory.
William Holts.
Benson Mochewicz.
Gus Chakora.
John Gar'iski.
Lloyd DolleseOch.
William Peterson.
Mrs. Ida Peterson.
Catherine Heiser.
Anna Bremmer
Belle Mathewson.
James Ryland, wife and four chill
lren.
TCODtiDued on Papa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24
Won REVENTL0W DEFIANT
AS NOTE REACHES BERLIN

Berlin. July 24.-The American
note was not published in this
mornings Berlin papers, but prob
ably will appear i'm the afternoon
editions.
Count Ernest Won ReventlOw, in
an article in the Tages Zeitung,
headed ''Cngrounded Anxiedes,"
declares that, no matter what the
note contains, the submarine cam
paign will not be restricted. So far
as the German empire Is concern
ed, he says, there can be no further
question of its attitude. Germany's
stand will be maintained.
The LokaI Anzeiger says the con-
tents of the American note do not
preclude the possibility of further
negotiations between Washington
and Berlin
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24

fearful that the structure would COL
lapse, ordered it cleared.
Remember the Iroquois.
Every resource of the city was
turned to the rescue work. Remem-
bering the Iroquois theatre disaster,
mercantile concerns in the vicinity
hurried motor trucks to the scene lad
en- with blankets t warm the living or
cover the dead.
PulmOtOrs by the score were sent to
the docks.
Physicians, police, firemen, govern
ment life savers and nurses were sum-
moned and all hospitals and morgues
notified to prepare for patients or
cOrpses.
The steamer floated on its side into
midstream and tugs, motorboats and
other river craft swarmed about it;
Flremen climbed on the hull, forced
openings in the steel hull, and through
these searched the cabins for possible
victims.
Robert H. McCrary, chief of the
marine bureau of the customs office,
in the federal building, was present at
the dock from GAS o'clock this morn
ing with two of his steamboat naviga-
ton inspectors. He declared that the
exact number of passengers on the
boat was 2,50O: that the boat was not
overloaded, and that the passengers
could not have been more accurately
counted if they had known there
would be an accident.
Efforts to Rescue Victims.
For the first two hours attempts
were made to revive every person
taken from the wreck. Then as the
hopelesSnesS of resuscitating later vic
Tins became apparent. divers were
summoned TO explore the depths of
the boat Equipped with ropes they
CROPPED their way into the innermost
recesSeS of the hull. Every other
minute their assistants We're signalled
to pull" and another victim was
added to the numbered dead. 1t was
the result of the divers work THAI
caused the coroner and police esti-
mates to mount above one thousand.
Police and fire tugs organized river
craft into rescue fleet. Boats were
to cruise down the river and
watch for bodies and the sanitary
canal trustees were asked to close
the dam at Lockport, ILL.,, shutting
off the current of the river in order
to aid in this work.
Trucks Piled High With Bodies.
Rumors of the disaster spread rap
idly. Its full significance was real
lied when motor trucks piled high
with blanketed forms rolled through
the loop district to morgues and un-
dertaking establishments.
CONTINUED on Page 3D.
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BOWS IN TRIBUTE
All Chicago Looks With Horror
Upon Disaster.
Flags on Public Buildings Rest
at Half Mast.
pecial TO State Journal:

Special to State Journal:
Chicago, Ill, July 24.-With the
bodies of thousands of Chicagoans ly-
ing in the sunken hulk of the East
land, Chicago gathered at the foot of
Clark street to pay solemn, silent
tribute.
During all the daylight hours, a
throng that was strangely reverent,
strangely quiet for this irreverent,
rackety town, lined the Chicago River
to do homage to the city'S dead.
There were never fewer than twenty
thousand persons, standing in the gray
drizzle. Sometimes there were twice
that number. Perhaps one hundred
thousand persons went to the river in
an attempt to get a glimpse of the
disaster.
Afloat and ashore the spirit of
mourning seemed in the air When
the word spread through the city,
flags on all the public buildings flut-
tered at half mast. So did those of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24
IS BACK TO NORMAL.
Weather Has Returned to the Regu-
lar Summer Temperature.

There have been a few scattered
showers in Kansas in the last twenty
four hours. The temperature is back
to normal today following several
days of cool weather. The sky was
clear this morning ut Topeka follow
ing an early morning sprinkle that
netted .02 Of an inch.
The Kaw river is still falling, and
soon will be back to the normal sum-
mer stage, provided there is no heavy
precipitation. The stage today was
1873 feet
The forecast calls for unsettled
weather with showers % Tobable to-
night or Sunday.
The wind was eight miles an hour
from the southwest this afternoon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24
SIDEWALK FALLS WITH
MOURNERS;; SEVEN HURT

Chicago. July 24.-Seven per-
sons were injured, two seriously.
when the sidewalk in front of un-
dertaking rooms in North Clark
street collapsed under the weight
of the crowds seeking entrance to
the rooms where tWenty-One
bodies of victims of the EaStland
Law. The crowd dropped ten feet
to the basement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24
C0RIzIA is TAKEN
Italians Win Signal Victory
Over Austrian Forces.
Persons Arriving at Milan Tell
of Roman Triumph.

Geneva, July IA dispatch to the
Tribune from Milan says:
Many persons arriving at Milan
state that after severe fighting the
Italian troops have taken GOrizia.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24

London, July 24.-On the battle
fronts of the Warsaw triangle, what is
generally considered the most impor-
tie on the Marne IS still raging without
any indication of the ultimate out
come The Russians are not yet pre-
pared to abandon the Salient, contin-
ued occupancy of which against a
successful enemy would threaten the
very existence of their armies
Petrograd comedies there is fight
ing six miles southwest of the fortress
of Ivangoord, where the Germans
smashed wire yntangleu1entS, but were
hurled back with heavy losses by
Russian counter-attack.
Both Vienna and Berlin claim,
without giving details that AnIstro-
German forces are now fighting vir-
tually along the famous Lirblin-Chelm
railroad The battle for this impoHg-
tant Russian line of communication
has now been under way for ten days.
and the Russians assert their oppo-
nentS are approaching the limit of
their endurance.
The impression is growing here that
Grand Duke Nicholas is now fighting
in the hope of saving Warsaw and
defeating the Germans
That the Germans feel their forces
are not entirely adequate is indicated
by the news from Riga that a Ger
Libau has been dispatched to the
south to strengthen the attack on
Warsaw.
The German campaign in COurland
is admittedly progressing favorably to
the invaders
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24
Sanders and Vance Pitch in
TOday's Game.
BOStick Out of the Lineup for
Some Time.
The Lineup.

Sanders and Vance were announced
as the pitchers for the last game of
the St. Joseph series at w. L. park
this afternoon. Tomorrow Des Moines
will play a doubleheader here, be-
ginning at o'clock and Higgins will
work in one of the games.
Shortstop Bostick is in bed as the
result of an infection caused from a
skin abrasion and will probably be
out of the lineup for the next week
or ten days.
Jimmy Callahan. former manager
of the White Sox and at present
time scout for Comiskey, arrived in
Topeka today to look over Pitcher
Sanders. of the local club. and Vance
of the Drummers.
Callahan came to the city with
Jack Holland, who it is understood.
advised him that Sanders was worth
the ''once over" Holland also
brought in a new right-handed pitch
er today from Battle Creek by the
name of Keifer The Drummers will
leave tonight for Wichita
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24

Chicago, July 24-Hundreds of persons drowned to-
the Eastand crowded with $500 employees
Electric capsized in the Chicago
Four hours still taking
through chopped its hull estimates of the
death list from 1900 to 1,5OO.
At o'clock 679 dead had been found
crowding of passengers side of the boat
posed the tragedy but authorities not satisfied
explanation ordered the of officers of the boat
and Captain Harry M Dell Fisher first mate
taken to police headquarters.
Coroner David Jones and Sheriff Jno raeger OF
directing the work of removing bodies
hull of the Easand stated that from reports of the
within the hull they feared the list of dead would
reach 200, and might reach 1900
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24
GERMANS FAIL
TO CRUSH RUSS
Battle Around Warsaw Is
Waged Without Issue.
Nicholas Still Believes He Can
Save Capital.
STRUGGLE FOR LUBLIN ROAD
Germans, Hard Put, Now Rush
Up ReinfOrcements.
TeutOns Hurled Back South
west of IyangOrOd.
STRUGGLE FOR LUBLIN ROAD

Berlin, July 24.-(Via London,
p. m. )-The German army, un-
der command of General Won
BueiOW, has defeated the Rus
slams in battle near Shawl, ac-
cOrding to the official statement
issued today by the war office.
The Germans fighting toward
Warsaw have also StOrmed the
fOrtresseS of ROzen and PuItusk
and have forced crossing of
the Narcw river, the statement
adds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24
Society Has Show.

Newport, r. l., July 24.-Fashion's
passing show conceived for charity by
Mrs. Herman Oelrichs at Rose Cliffs
is occupying society's thought today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24
TURKS IN new ATTACK
Allies Report Ottoman Drive al
Dardanelles RepulSed

London. July 24.-Official an
nouncement here today that the
Turkish forces at the Dardanelles
have made a new attack on the allies,
and have been repulsed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24
mutt And JEFF"
State journal Will Soon Resume Pop
ular and Famous Comic.

Readers of the State Journal un-
doubtedly will be pleased to learn that
Bud Fisher will resume drawings of
his famous comic strip, Mutt and
jeff" on August 10.
There probably has never been a
daily comic before the public which
has proven so popular as Mutt and
jeff
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24

Weather Forecast For Kansas.
Unsettled. tonight and Sunday; prob
abIy showers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24
Nearly 700 Bodies Already Recovered and Many
More Are known To Be in Sunken Hulk Or
Stream-City Is Vast MOrgue.
MANY WOMEN And CHILDREN Die
Two Thousand Five Hundred Excursionists,
Electrical Workers and Families, on Ill
Fated Steamer Eastland When Ship
Tips Over-Captain Under Arrest.

Chicago 24-At $40 O'Clock this afternoon
estimated the number of dead at 1,30O. First
Deputy Chief of Police number
dead at 1700
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24
Remember the Iroquois.

fearful that the structure would col
lapse, ordered it cleared.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24
BASEBALL TODAY.
FEDERAL LEAGUE.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.

Barger, Rogge and Berry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-24
AMERICAN LEAGUE.

Batteries: johnson and Ainsmith,
Henry; Dubuc and Stanage.
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Trucks Piled High With Bodies.

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New Britain herald., 1915-02-17
Back to the Land. Springfield ReDublicanD

Encoura cement to families in the crowded districts of our cities to go to the country and occupy and culti- Vate unused land is the purpose of a bill which has been introduced in the leSlSlature based on the report of the state homestead commission The bill and report include features which have much to commend them While there are many families. living under most unWhOleSOmc conditions in con gested districts, who would be glad to move to the country and till the soil, to send them there without knowledge of any phases of agricul- ture would be to invite almost certain failure. The homestead commission therefore urges the establishment of local schools for the teaching of aeri culture to families, a plan which would result in sending to the country those desiring to become producers with at least a working knowledge of how protitab bly, to raise their crops.
 The state board of education has recently conducted an investieation to learn how city families of the poorer classes, many of them recent immi- grants, would regard agricultural in struction and removal to the land. The report was based on inquiries made of 500 typical families in Bos- tons north and west ends and 16s expressed a desire for agricultural in struction. This is regarded as a higher percentage than actual facts warrant, but probably it would not be a difficult matter to people the states waste acres if a proper plan could be devised for locating there these city dwellers.
 The bill provides that any city or town accepting the act "may stablish and maintain schools for teaching to families and to individuals in day, part time and evening classes, gar dening, fruit growing, Horticulture, poultry keeping. animal husbandry and other branches of agriculture and horticulture.'' As soon as the act becomes effective the school commit tee is charged with the duty of se- curing information as to how many desire such instruction and the city council of a city, or the inhabitants of town, are authorized to take or lease land to be used for the school either within outside the limits of the municipality. The school com mittee is also given authority. to erect school buildings and to make pro- vision. "on terms that will not in volve loss to the city or town, for nouses and plots of ground for the temporary use of families attending the school and complying with it's regulations, who have not access to other land suitable to give proper eff feet to the instruction of the school" A referendum is attached to the act and in case the measure should pass it would be acted upon by the voters at the next state election.
New Britain herald., 1915-02-17
GREAT BRITAIN'S REPLN.
TO American Note Of Dec. 26 Being
 Prepared For Publication

Washington, Feb. 17.--Great Brit aims reply to the American note Of Dec. 26. protesting against interfer- ence with United States commerce was being prepared at the state de- partment today for publication. The full text of the document, containing approximately seven thousand words, will be given out simultaneously here and in London tonight for publication in tomorrow mornings papers.
 The British note in addition to giV- ing statistics on neutral commerce and making a general denial of any unwarrantcd interference with legiti- mate shipments points out that the recent government decree taking oV- CT the flour and gra in supply in Ger many required added precautions on the part of the allies that conditional contraband might not be permitted to reach the armed forces of the en- emy. It also constitutes a further statement of the British government on the legal questions involved.
New Britain herald., 1915-02-17
WHAT OTHERS SAY
Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in cx- office
Stronger Than Cannon.
(COlliCrS. ]

Belgian hoth0use grapes appeared in the Chicago markets some days ago in normal quantities and at nearly normal prices. Two WekS after the bombardmcnt of Antwerp, Belgian market women were pushing their carts through the streets loaded with pears and apcs--heautiful hOthOuse grapes, at Zen cents a pound. Nature seems to say: What are all these little men and their little guns and their rushingS this way and that to me? Is the morning any less beauti- ful the rain any less kind, because those tiny sDeClls, set here and there across the landscape like a child's lead soldiers, choose to kill each other?" MT Shaw, in one of his flashes of realism, smiled recently at those who thought that war could "destroy' country. France, crushed in '71, emergcs torty-three years lat e. stronger than ever. A writer in the Century speaks of the thrift of the French peasants: 'They are won derrul gardeners. Their cabbagcs and DOtatOcs formed a moro sub stantial entente cordiale with Eng- ial I1dWarG.' You remember that scene in Holu's "Downfall" where the young French soldier, in the thick of the sedan disaster, saw a peasant blowing Iehind a big white horse: "Why lose day? It was not be- cause they were fighting that the wheat would stop growing or the world go on living.' Of all the nu- tions fighting. the Russians. l. <,
 are the only ones who canot be bat en. They have plenty of men and they can take their time. But Moth CT Earth is bigger than the Russians. She has all the men and all the time.