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Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1921-09-11
ALL SOUTHERN
TEXAS IN PATH
SEVERE STORM
One Train Wrecked; Others
Are Held Up as Roadbeds
Are Hit by Floods
.lSAN MARCOS FLOODED
Rio Grande Still Within Its
Banks Between Brownsville
and Rio Grande City

DALLAS. Tex, Sept. 10 High
winds and heavy rains which swept
south Texas late yesterday and early
today, causing property damage of
thousands of dollars and injury to
many persons, had subsidized late to-
day, according to reports received
here
Only one fatality, that of Brakeman
Wagner. who was killed near Noonan,
in the wreck of a Southern Pacific
train, has been reported as resulting
directly from the storm, excluding the
persons killed in the San Antonio
flood. A train, a mixed passenger and
freight carrier, operating between San
Antonio and Eagle Pass, was derailed
when it plunged into washout. The
engineer and fireman were injured.
Near Austin property damage esti-
mated at $150,000 was caused and
eight persons injured by tornado
and cloudburst late today. Owing to
demoralized wire service, it has been
impossible to estimate the damage
wrought in several towns within Is or
20 miles of Austin.
During the "a ours ending at a
M today, 1928 inches of rain fell at
| Austin. the federal weather observer
announced, flooding the streets and
buildings.
All trains from Austin to San An.
tonic and Dallas are held up by dam
| age to tracks and bridges. Highways
are impossible. Reports from Cam
eron, south of Waco, said that the
| Little river there had broken its
| banks and caused much crop damage
| in Milan county. Rain totalling 11.45
| inches fell there.
| San Marcos was under water this
morning, and without light or power
although later reports said that the
water was receding. Several houses
were washed from their foundations
but otherwise the damage was said t.
have been slight.
Although railroad officials at Hous
ton were without definite knowledge
today as to the extent OF damage t
railroad tracks, it was indicated tina
the most serious was confined to th'
stretch between Austin and Elgin. oI
the branch of the Houston and Texa
Central, and at San Antonio and ives
on the main line of the Galveston
Harrisburg and San Antonio roads.
An announcement made by the Tex
as-Mexican Railroad at Corpus Christ
last night said IL bridges and 500
feet of their track had been washe
out betwene Corpus Christi an
Laredo.
In last advices. the business distriC
of Laredo was reported inundated.
At Georgetown and vicinity,
inches of rain which fell in the l
hour period to S.a. m, today, swelle
streams out of their banks. causin
much damage to farms and ope
crops The Missouri. Kansas an
Texas Railroad track for five mile
north of Georgetown are washed ou
zReports from Bolton tonight indica
ed a flood condition there with Nola
Creek running through the heart {
the city. torrent.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1921-09-11

Reports trickling in from outlying
sections tend to confirm the fear that
the flood is the worst in the city's
history Streets adjacent to the three
streams, in some instances, were
swept clean almost their entire length.
Houses in the southern portion of the
city were piled one upon another, or
driven through adjoining buildings.
Dead animals line the streams.
The flood waters from the San An
tonic river and from Alazan Creek
and small tributaries inundated in
area approximately two miles long Dy
one-half mile wide, including the
heart of the business section and a
portion of the residence section along
River Avenue and adjacent streets as
well as the thickly populated west
, side, where thousands of Mexicans are
homeless and the dead uncounted.
Many Heroic Acts
80 The water rose almost to the meg
canine floor of the Gunter hotel Sucn
structures as the Brady building,
Wolff and Marx department store,
Showers, st. Mary's church and school
buildings and st. Anthony Hotel, the
Elks' club, several, hospitals, the cen.
| trail telephone exchange, the city hall
| and police and fire department head.
| quarters and countless other struc'
| lures were in the path of the flood
| These were the things visible when
day dawned, gloomy and threatening
| But what occurred in the night when
men, women and children met death
| in the oil coated waters of the flood
as houses collapsed, bridges were
| swept out, trees and poles crashed
and their wires became entangle1
| with the other wreckage. is some
thing that will never be known in de
| tail.
Countless acts of heroism are cur
rent, as civilians and soldiers bravec
| the current and floating debris to car
ry women and children to safety
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1921-09-11
Believe Irish Will
Accept Offer; Dali
Eireann In Session

DUBLIN, Sept. TO- = (By the Asso-
ciated Press.) - The Irish republic
an cabinet was in session late to-
night. 1t was expected J. c. Barto.,
the Sim Fein envoy, will leave for
Inverness tomorrow night, certainly
before Wednesdays meeting of the
Dali Eireann.
This is taken to indicate that the
Dali Eireann will accept Premier
Lloyd Georges invitation to con
ference and that the meeting of the
Dali Eireann has been summoned 10
endorse the plenipotentiaries.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1921-09-11
Petition To Halt
Sale State Bonds
Refused By Court

PHOENIX. AriZ., Sept. 10.-The Pc
tition of the Bankers Trust company
of Denver, for a temporary restrain
ing order to prevent the sale of state
tax anticipation bonds was denied by
Superior Judge Joseph S. Jenckes to-
day.
The company asked for an order to
prevent the sale of $1.000,000 worth
of bonds bearing six per cent interest
The petition for the restraining order
was filed in connection with a suit to
compel the state loan commission to
deliver to 1t 100000 worth OF bonds
bearing interest at s 1-2 per cent in
accordance with a contract signed by
the Denver company and two other
banking firms with the commission.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1921-09-11
HUNDREDS INJURED.
AND MANY MISSING:
DAMAGE is GREAT
Relief Work is Well Under Way in Texas City Flood
Waters Recede; Heart of Business Section Under
Water; Thousands Are Homeless and Hungry
San Antonio River and Creek Rise During Night Catching
Hundreds Unaware; Hundreds of Large Buildings
And Houses Are Demolished by Torrents

SAN ANTONIO Tex. Sept oFory
$50. The millions
bodies believed oated
sanitary
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1921-09-11

Thousands of families were rescued
by men who worked the long hours
often neck deep in water, risking their
lives almost every minute.
/! And in keeping with such heroic
acts were the tragedies.
Babies were swept from mothers
arms, mothers were carried away, and
children rescued. Fathers were lost
saving little ones.
There are many people who do not
know yet whether they are widows
] or orphans, who are waiting the out
come of the search for bodies.
Caus >hout Warning
Residents wo.- caught without
warning The rain, which caused the
flood. fell after D. m. Friday in the
, hills along the Olmos Creek. UnQues
| tionably there was cloudburst.
While torrents of rain were still fall
| ing in San Antonio and the residents
went early to bed, roar was heard
Following the river and AlaZan
Creek and small tributaries. the wa
ter swept upon the city with terrific
force.
1T was impossible to stand on your
feet against the swift current" said
one man. II got away early as the
/ first waters rose in my home and
/ even then | was compelled to cling
to buildings, trees, fences and wreck
age. | could not stand upright. When
the crest came, a few minutes later.
| do not believe any human being
could have withstood it,"
In some parts of the city, wall OF
water yariously described as 10 TO 10
feet high, struck with a rush.
Il seized hold of a picket fence.
said one youth The fence was torn
away and when | got out, still had
picket
Large houses were swept about on
the floods crest as though they were
paper. Some were swept along until
they encountered trees or other OBJ
stacles when they were wrecked and
boards and timbers of all kinds whip
ped about like clubs in the water.
Some of the bodies recovered were
cut and crushed and bruised as though
beaten with mighty fail.
Through the night the terrified
screams of women and children echo
ed across the water. Men and women
sank to their knees in the mud and
water. and prayed. Others ran about
in a distracted manner. seeking rela-
tives and friends. and calling incoher-
emily. weeping and shrieking.
Police, Firemen Aid
! After the first rush of water. ft
was possible for rescuers. to work at
/, the edge of the flood. retreating
steadily backward. The waters quick
ly swept up Houston and Commerce
streets for blocks, running over side
walks into Easements and rising stead
lily. The rescuers quickly made their
way from street to street, up alleys.
miniature waves slapping against the
side of the buildings angrily. Now
and then wreckage was tossed here
and there through the streets until il
collided with a show window. A crash.
shower of glass and merchandise
was seized by the waters and carried
away while a thick film of crude oil.
muddyooze and gravel spread through
a once spotless store.
The fire and police departments re-
sponded whole-heartedly to the call
for rescuers. At every danger point.
where ever people were appealing for
aid. the blue-coated figures could be
seen doing yeoman service.
River Five Miles Wide
TENIpI II TaxaS. Sent 10 Tho
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1921-09-11
REACH ATLANTA CITY

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Sept. IL
President Harding and party arrived
here at 1890 o'clock this morning for
a stay of several days. The presi-
dent and Mrs. Harding motored here
from Washington, leaving the capital
at 2 p. M, with two-hour stop at
Philadelphia for dinner.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1921-09-11

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1o.--
Roscoe ("Fatty") Arbuckle, mo-.
tion picture actor, was tonight
charged with murder in connec-
ton with the death of Miss Vir-
ginia Rappe, film actress, folicw-
inc a party in Arbuekle's suite at
a hotel here last Monday. Ar
buckle was locked up in the city
prison for the night.
Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1921-09-11
River Five Miles Wide

TEMPLE, Texas, Sept. 10. The
Little River at Burgess, near here.
where about ten families reside. was
five miles wide today and at p. m.
the water had touched the tops Of
houses and was still rising. The fam
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Sunday and Monday. not
much change in temperature.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1921-02-28

wooden coaches of the Michigan Gen.
trail train were scattered for so yards.
Passengers in the four coaches Of the
Michigan Central train behind the
death cars, were unhurt except for
the shake-up. and all of the passengers
on the New York Central escaped.
climbing down from their cars through
the wreckage.
Wounded In Head.
Most Of the identified dead and the
seriously injured were from Indiana
and southwestern Michigan.
For no reason that railroad officials
could assign, almost all of the dead
taken to the little fnorgue at Chester
ton. across the tracks from Porter,
received their fatal wounds in the
head. Some were decapitated. ac-
counting for the failure to identify
nine OF the bodies taken there up to
six o'clock.
Die in Ambulance.
The first group of those critically
injured were rushed in an ambulance
to Michigan City, Indiana, and two OF
them died on the way. Railroad Of
ficials expressed the belief early today
that all of the others injured would
recover Hospit ais and private homes
at Michigan City and Gary received
the injured.
Preliminary investigation and the
handling of the identifications at the
Chesterton morgue were taken oveI
early today by Coroner Seipel, of Val
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1921-02-28
Heart Problems

Dear Mrs. Thompson: l am twenty
two years old and married. We have
been married four years this July and
have two dear children. My husband
and / cannot be happy together al
though l try my best to do what is
right in every way.
There are others that tell him things
that are not true about me and he is
easily led to believe what others say
and will not believe me at all. Do
you think 1 should stick up for my
self when I know l ought to, or let
him believe what he hears?
Will you answer me personally II |
send a self-addressed and stamped en-
velope? UNHAPPY.
1t is certainly a great problem to
know just how much to try to please
a husband. Some women try too hard
and others do not try enough. think
you should stand up for yourself but
1 would not advise you to waste many
words arguing. Close your lips and
let him do all the talking when the
conversation becomes unpleasant.
It is very difficult to talk matters
over: usually the right words refuse
to come and the purpose of the talk is
defeated. Perhaps it would help to
write a letter, saying that you believe
in him and want him to have faith
in you Say that your future happi.
ness together depends upon the conf
! dence you can place in each other, To
have the word of outsiders believed
when you are telling the truth natural
ly hurts deeply.
l will answer you personally if you
! send self-addressed and stamped
| envelope.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: We are two
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1921-02-28
The Girl Who Had No Chance
BY MARION RusINcAM

go-and he made them so real. that
Ruth was quite grown up before she
knew they were only sort of fairy
tale that he lived and that she had
been living with him.
You'll 60, of course" Ruth said.
Your father wants you to and 1t is no
question Of money. can't. That's
flat, Even father admits it now"
/ won't go if you don't" Myra said.
why, Myra, of course you will.
Think of such a chance!"
"But don't you miss me?" Myra
almost sounded childish in her ques-
tion.
miss you! Dear, you know I will" )"
Ruth's arms were around her IN "a
quick, warm embrace. But I'll be
glad you can go to college"
mo, won't go unless you can.
That's fiat too. I will tell mama"
So that matter ended. For Myra
had her way in a surprising number
of cases where usually it is the elders
who decide.
And Ruth took it for the greatest
piece of self-sacrifice on her chums
part, and adored her for it, even
though she felt wretched that the girl
should give up such an opportunity
1t never occurred to her that Myra
had any reason for her decision but
the loyol one of wishing to keep her
company at home.
So with never cloud in the smiling
sky of their friendship, the days flew
by, almost up to the very day of the
graduation itself. Myra, busy with
the elaborate dresses her mother was
having made for her, barely got
through the tests-only did so, in fact
because of the late hours that Ruth
sat up to help her.
"Who is taking you to the dance
Myra asked-the dance followed the
graduation exercises.
"Oh, Tim, suppose" Ruth answer
ed, her blue eyes softening as she
mentioned the name. Myra said moth
ing-a queer little smile went over
her face. But Ruth was so intent or
her book that she did not notice it
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1921-02-28
RAIL WRECK
Continued from Page One)


A statement by towerman J. C. Cook
on duty at the crossing, declared the
block two miles away was set against
the Michigan Central train while the
track was left clear for the New York
Central. Railroad officials at the
scene Of the wreck said Engineer w.
F. Long of Jackson. Mich. who escap-
ed unhurt. declared he had received
a clear signal and had checked it with
his fireman. He left early today for
his home.
Train Crashes Through.
When the Michigan Central train
struck the derailer six hundred feet
from the crossing, it was the first in
dication he had of the impending
crash, Long is said to have stated.
From that point the eight coaches of
the Michigan Central train bumped
along the ties. coming to a standstill
with the third and fourth coaches at
the intersection of the tracks, and an
instant later the New York Central
train burst through.
All except the two baggage and mail
cars Of the New York Central train re-
mained upright, although bits OF the
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1921-02-28

girls sixteen years OF age. Why do
we never have any dates when all Of
our classmates have them very often?
We are not homely, neither are we
beautiful. Our parents would not OBJ
ject to our having company.
DOT AND DASH.
Surely you are exaggerating when
you say all OF your classmates have
dates. If you study the situation,
think you will find that few of all
the girls have them. At the age OF
sixteen you cannot expect attention
from boys because you are too young
to have "sweethearts and most boys OF
your age are ashamed to show an in.
terest in girls. Wait year or two
and conditions will change, believe.
Betty: Write note to the young
man inviting him to the dance. 1t
would be better that way than to
telephone,
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1921-02-28

Cook told an Associated Press rep
resentative at his home in Charleston
early today. 'T threw the distant
block AGAINST the Michigan Cen
trail train threw the block two
miles back from the crossing. do
not know why they failed to catch the
signal"
Representatives of the Indiana rail-
road commission were expected on the
scene early today, to start the states
angle of the investigation. An official
statement issued from the office of the
chief dispatcher Of the Michigan Gen.
trail engine crew apparently failed to
observe that the crossing signal was
set against them
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1921-02-28

raraiso, Ind. assisted by Division
Supcrintendents Mckee, Wright and
Markay of the Michigan Central
Employees Missing.
Records OF the Michigan Central
train disclosed large number of rail-
road employees. travelling on passes,
scheduled to go on the wrecked train.
hut they could not be located in the
Chesterton morgue. Efforts OF volun-
teer doctors and nurses from Michigan
City and Gary to rush the injured to
hospitals led to confusion in the check
of railroad officials upon the list of
casualties, but it was believed the
total would not exceed 35.
The speed of the New York Central
train, while fatal to passengers in
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1921-02-28

the two death cars. saved the passen-
gers in the rear coaches Of both trains
from worse than a severe jolting.
Find Bodies Of Crew.
Bodies Of Engineer Claude johnson
of Elkhart, Ind. and Fireman George
Deland of Elkhart, engine crew of the
New York Central train, were recov-
cred early today from beneath the
tangled mass Of iron to which their
engine was reduced by the impact
Engineer W. F. Long of Jackson,
Mich, and Fireman George Block of
the Michigan Centarl train. of Michi-
gan City, Ind, were able to save them
selves, their engine being far beyond
the point of the collision.
II was not to blame" Towerman
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1921-02-28
10 ANIMALS ARE TOO MUCH
FOR HUBBY: GETS DlVORC

MUNCIE, Ind, Feb. 2S.-James o.
Hayden was granted divorce from
Nessie Hayden in superior court Sat.
urday after he testified that his wife
had seven dogs and three cats in the
home at one time and when he wanted
to get rid of them she told him ii he
didn't like it to "get out" He charged
her with cruel treatment
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1921-02-28
ASPIRIN

It's criminal to take a chance on any
substitute for "Bayer Tablets of As.
pirin." Unless you see the name
"Bayer" on the package, or on tablets
you are not getting genuine Aspirin
prescribed by physicians for twenty
one years and proved safe by millions
Take Aspirin only as told in the Bayer
package for Colds, Headache, Neural
gia, rheumatism. Earache. Tooth
ache, Lumbago and for Pain Handy
tin boxes of twelve tablets cost few
cents. Druggists also sell larger pack.
ages. Aspirin is the trade mark Of
Bayer manufacture of Monoaceticacid-
esrte of Salicylicacid.-Adve
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-13
STUFFED PHONE BOX RAINS
 NICKELS
Clerk Arrested While Col lecting From Route" of Plugged Boxes That Yielded Tidy Income.

New York, Dec. 13.-Next time you go into a. telephone pay station, de- posit your nickel, wait five minutes and fail to get your party, and the op- orator says 'I will return your mon- ey," and you wait for the familiar tinkle of the jitney in the metallic 'coin return" box, and it doesn't come; and you are about to tell the operator that she is not playing fair with you; just take a close look at the slot through which the coins are supposed to drop.
 Perhaps you will find there a wedge, of paper, wood or some other substance, which prevents the release of the coveted coin. And when you take out the plug perhaps you will get, not one nickel, but a whole rain of them.
 This novel method of acquiring funds was discovered here when de- tectives apprehended David Levitch 1S-year-o1d clerk, in the act of col 1ecting from his ''route'' of telephone coin boxes.
 Levitch says he got the idea when he found coin box in the subway plugged that way.
 One evil result of the practice is said to be that a lot of perfectly dear telephone operators are talked to in language that is not suited tc their feminine ears and understand ing.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-13
ITALY WANTS
 WAR DEBTS DISCUSSED
Berlin Newspapers Core spondent at Rome Says Italy Won't Play Big Part at Washington Con ference While Only Arma- ment Limitation Is Under Consideration.

Rome, Dec. 13.-The Italian press Is pretty well agreed that Italy will not play a very active part at the Washington conference as long as only the question of the limitation of ornaments is on the program.
 Italy feels that as far as the ques- tion of disarmamnt Is concerned she has already done what she can do by demobilizatiOn; as for further arma- nents she is of course obliged to gov ern herself by the action of other powers.
 Unquestionably Italy is deeply inter- ested in having a general reduction of military and naval armaments brought about. But she sees France going to Washington with intentions that are far from such an aim, and she knows that the resistance of a single European Power to disarma- ment binds all others.
 Thus Italy would be directly inter- ested in the Washington conference only in the event that the American President should also bring up the question of war credits, as it is hoped he will. If it should come to a dis cussion of this question Italy will of course take the stand that the finan- cial relief of Europe is the very first condition for its justification. These questions are, of course, safer in the hands of a Schanzer and 0 Mada and can be treated by them more objec- lively than they could be by a for eign minister. These two men. b7