The Wingham Advance, 1911-10-05, Page 7THE AWFUL HORROR
AT TOWN OF AUSTIN
• Reservoir Burst at Austin, Pa. and Wall of
Rushing Water Carries Away Town.
Awful Scenes Described by Survivors of)
.Tragedy in Which Many Children Perish.
Austin, Pa., Oet. L—Three bundred
or more persons met their /loath
though the bursting of a dem
above this town yesterday, Fire fol-
lowed aud completed, the work of de-
ittruction. The eurtein of night, welch
wee rung down on the flood seemly
before its victims had all been delisted
and its surviving, spectators fully real -
bed how greet a, tragedy the elements
of water and fire had enacted in the
•-• textural amphitheatre in the Allegheny
Mountains here, was lifted by dawn to-
day, revealing a ghaetly scene of death
end devastation,
Austin itself, yesterday a busy mill
• town. of 3,000 people, many of whom
mere enjoying a tine aututnn afternoon
us a, Saturday half -holiday, is only a
ghost of a town to -day. Toro to pieces
by water aud eaten by the. the wet and
Oared remnants of it$ buildings be-
lieved to hold the remains Of eat) or
more persolts, were strewn olong the
valley edge, piled in winrows, where the
main street bilsIness section was, or
swept in scattered moo far aown the
ravine,
Spectators, many of whom arely
escaped being victims of the disaster,
:tad hundreds of people from sur-
rounding towns, looked down from the
steep hillsides on Austin aud Costello
through a veil of fog this trimming to
see the wreckage here of some four
hundred houses; a score of bueiness
Minks, three churches and several large
lumber mills, and three miles further
down the river at Costello the ruins of
more then fifty buildings. The flood
Ma not apend its force until it raced
for more than :ten miles from the re-
servoir. Wharton, still further on,
suffered somewhat, .but is practically
Wad. The loss of life at Costello,
where the residents had more warning,
it believed to be but thre.,
The property loss in the valley is
eatimated at upwards of $9,000,000. In
Austin out of the hundreds directly
enveloped in the deluge hardly a doeen
• survive. The furious flood iet loose
wilen the Bayless Paper & Pulp Com-
pany dam crumbled yesterday alter-
itoon picked up a huge battery of heavy
timbers in the inill yard at the foot of
the dam and with these thousands of
planks and logs rammed its path with
terrible bavoc. .
ONLY SIX INJURED AT HOSPITAL.
At the hospital to -day there were but
six injured for itte are of the small
army of physicians and nurses that
e poured into the devastated town and
night and to -day. All medical supplies
remained unused in the cars rushed
here by the Buffalo 86 Susquehanna anti
the Pennsylvania Railroads, and the
ouly use found for blankets and bed-
ding was in the care of the few recov-
ered dead, which up to a bite hour this
afternoon numbered but fifteen. • The
State constabulary arrived this after-
noon and took .charge of the situation,
which seemed too appalling for the loud
committee, which had welled all night.
• Immediately orders were issued to the
railroads •to bring no more sightseers
to Austin, and sentinels were placedon
the chief roadways with instructions to
pass none but workmen. Handreati of
automobiles and carriages were turned
back.
During the night swelling parties
with engine headligh Le antomobile
temps, pine torches mid improvised
lanterns of every sort poked their way
into every pile of wreckage that was
accessible, seeking any who might be
alive, but scarcely a body was found in
whicb life was not extinct. The night
had been one of hardship 'and horror
filled with experiences which had se-
vetely -tested the mettle of the men
witom eircumetances had impressed. into
first aid rescuers of the flood -devastated
village.
The immediate scene of the obliterae
Lion of Austin covers an area, three-
-eighths of a mile wide and one and
three-quarter miles lobe. This com-
prised the business section rod the val-
ley residence portion. Nearly es, mile
above stood the manunotlt concrete dam
of the Bayless Papea ,& Pulp Com-
pany, 600 feet long, 52 feet high and 30
feet thick at the bottom tapering to a
thiekness Of three feet at the top.
Patcic of this cleat yesterday lay a
reservoir oi water 4 mile and a half
long And an average of thirty-five feet
deep. Directly in front of the darn
stood the plant of the Bayless Cora-
. pany, with four main buildings.
Stacked high nearby was 700,000 cords
of 50-3nch wood and slabs, and also a
portion of the comnany's immense tim-
ber stook, totalling in the Austin valley
14,000,000 feet -of hard wood, and 25,000o
000 of hemlock. This was a five-year
sapply, practically the last large eut of
the region, valued at $2,00,000.
A mild. stream, Freeman Bun, flowed
through the town into Sinnemitnoning
Creek, leading to the Susquehanna River.
The town proper was A Mart little place
of comfortable frame bonsai and more
substaritiat !easiness buildings along the
main trot, which rar, front side to side
across the ravine. The principal bust-
ness buildings ineTuded the brick strue.
tore oetemied jointly by the Austin
flank and the postoffiee, the department
store of A. R. Buck, the Goodyear Betel
and the Ontuttercial Hauge and numer-
One general stores.
WIDEN THE DAM BURST.
Pi ve ittiriuteb after tba dam burst the
gage hact been swept of its scenery and
setting. Along the foothille were thrown
the houses, while both sides and frag-
ments piled and eatimulted together, At
either end of Mal street, bet& build-
ings acted ite Wanes its the 25 -foot wall
of water rushed downward with its mast
af debile. Almost billehigle the wood,
Meet and MIA were plied, a strange
mixture Of the contents of atom and
innate and of varied length timbers and
sticks shot into the Mass.
The Wreckage of the dent has been
eostiplete ite Witl .stidden. TWO lire
mense meetions front top to bottom, 156
fed wide, were thrown out bodily like
the immenee gates rif a (*hal look. The
eutivard swing wits more than 50 feet,
and on either Aide the eentaining etrue-
toe began .graduntly to ernmide away.
Repairs last spring hail consisted of a
patch of eement 34 feet square. One of
the severed seetions yesterday began at
the patch.
The cause of the breaking of the anin
is a plotter which the district attoroey
of Potter County has taken steps to nt-
reAtigate. The Bayless dam Wag exam-
ined by experts over a year ago, end
certain recommendations were made
looking to its safety. The district at-
torney Ints seeared tlle names of smite
of the experts who submitted the report
to the Bayless Company and will sum-
mon them to testify at an inquest to
begin some day this week.
Relief work has not been systematic-
ally organized to -night, but it is hoped
that by morning the chaotic condition
will have been somewhat relieved,
Shortly after 1 a.m. to -day the first
relief train arrived over the Penusyl-
vania railway, Four carloads of food
and medical supplies loaded at the State
arsenal comprised this train.
At Subery, Pa., 21 men of Troop 0,
of the State constabulary, all the
available men at hand, were taken
aboard, and a delay of an hour was
caused by the loadbag of the treop
horses.
PILLAGERS AT WORK.
It was shown this morning that there
Was need of a strong hand to guard, the
town. Pillagers had been at work dur-
ing the night following the rumor that
the vaults of the Austin Bank and the
safes of several others had been wee Os -
ed. The rainier was not true, awl the
firemen and volunteers did effective
work in keeping off would-be plunder-
ers. In several eases the guardians had
hand-to-htend conflicts •with the maraud-
ets, in which the latter were woreted.
The survivors of the flood had not re-
covered from the horror of the seen°
this morning and for many hours none
but sightseers visited the ruins. As the
day progreseed small knots of surely-
nrs met and visited the site of the rubs.
Many striking- incidents of the flood end
escapes were recounted.
Credit for the quick spreading of
the alarm was given to Lena, Bificktey,
a' telephone operetor. Upon receiving
the message front the Cliff Bettie that
the dam had broken, she pushed the
alarm button connecting with the fire de.
pertinent and the engineer's office of the
Goodyear lumber mill below the town.
The engineer tied Ids whistle • down
and the fire bell in the town /tan wee
soended contimiously. She then rushed
to the street screamine the warn-
ing ery, "The darn has broken." Then
she fled for her life toward the eteep
hillside at the north end of Main street.
Turning toward the valley, she saw the
great wall of water descending upon the
town.
AN AWFUL SCENE.
"From where I stood," she said,
to -day, "the wall of water seemed nay
feet high. Above it rose a great °Loud
of spray, in which .houses seemed to
Loss, bumping against one another,
spinning and turning as they tell • to
pieces or were swept out of my sight.
noise was appalling.
"When 1 fled from Main street there
were crowds of people behind me, many
of them children. They did not seem to
appreciate the imminence of their dan-
ger.
"Some turned into stores as if to make
a casual purchase. While I was looking
down on them, utterlyhhelpiess to glee
further warning, the cloud of mist that
seemed to precede the flood hid them
from view, and a moment later the
green water buried the housee from my
Melt."
Chief or Police D. E. Baker took am
informal census to -day, an& front Ms
list calculatea that at lose 300 of the
residents were unaccounted for. Bark
5. M. Stebert, chairman of the citizens
committee, and Michael Murin, the bur-
gese, pointed out that this reckoning
necessarily is inadequate beeause many
of those who emoted the flood are
wandering about today, trying to
house themeelves and those depend-
ent upon them. Burgos Murrill said
to -day that in his opinion not more
than 150 lives were lost. "it is pgssi-
ble that this figure will cover the loss/'
he said, "and it is possible that there
will he not more than 100 dead,"
One of the striking and pathetic tea -
theca of the day, oeeording to Dr. Thoe.
It A. Stytes, chief of the State dispen-
saries, was the practical absence of child -
rest among the survivors. it is thought
than when the wreakage has been clear-
ed away and the bodies of victims reeov-
ered--although maey bed been entirely
destroyea—it would be found that a
large proporeion were those of cluotren.
Boyd Loekliard said that when he heard
the alarm given he thought sonteone was
playing, a practical joke, and he went in
the street to watch the people's notions.
lie looked in the direction of the dam,
and sew the °wonting flood Was three
blocks away.
LOOKED LIKE A WALL OF WOOD.
"It looked like a wall of wood 25 feat
high/' he said. "At first glance 1 did
not see the water at all, beeause the
wood of the pulp mill Was Carried be-
fore the water and Weenie a Sort of
battering ram that Ore away the buekt-
ings f the town. I ran towards the hill,
and by the greatesb effort got iebOvie the
level of the water lines it was surging
within ten meet of me. The groUnd began
to give way under tee, bet 1 managed to
dumber a few feet farther up mid catch
hold of a ttee, to which 1 eltune."
The people of Costello received ample
warning from Auatin that the dam had
broken, and although forty or fifty
hotteee were demolished only three fa-
talities •oeeurred.
CAME' AT MOMENT'S NOTICE.
The armihilation of the Town of AIM -
tin earl* on a beautiful maim% after-
noon. The fine weather bad attracted
many of the younger element to a ball
game in a nearby town, and, luckily,
they escaped the fete of their many
freinds and relatives. Women were
about the etreets for their Saturday af-
ternoon ebopping, and these ami the
merehenbi who were sciling them goods
were relight by the onrush or water O-
rient behire they tea time to think Of
escape. There were emelt erowds emus -
ink tkomotkos abto at Moving pletttra
theatre*, which were swept away by
the water. Women rocking their babies
at preacher* preparing tneir tionatty
sermon*, were hurled to eternity at
one and the same time, before their
startled James could realize the mean
ing of It v.II.
Vie greatest loss of life by fire oc.
kurred at a *harp turn of the valley just
below Main street, where the debris
was caught and compressed with terrific
power by the cireling sweep of the flood.
The wreckage of the busiest portion, of
the towt was carried to that point, and,
front upset stoves and lamps, -caught
fire. It Is believed that scores of per
sons are buried under from ten to twen
ty feet of wreckage there, and the task
of recovering them will necessarily be a
difficult one.
In a drizzling rain, wilich later clang
ed to o storm, intisdreds of volunteers
carried on the work of rescue to -day
while many, hysterical frothn the fate
that overcame friends and relatives
viewed the muddy corpses anxiously and
fearful to lepow if any among them werc
loved ones.
Fires were still , burning briskly in
some portions of the wreckage this a
ternoon, although they had been nutlet
control for some hours.
Not a mitoulactuelag. industry is left
standing, and not a business place is in-
tact. A few elleaply-erected wooden
houses, °coupled by foreigners and lo-
cated on the hilleide ,is all that remains
of the resideoee portion, A fortmuete
exceptiou to the general destruction is
the fact that the little hospital remains
practiitally undamaged on the hill side,
The school building was alio saved,
OWNER OF DAM TALKS,
Binghamton, N. Ye Oct. 2.—,e, J. ata,Y
ess, of the Bayless Pulp & Paper (Jo,,
gives out the following statement:
"W are greatly shocked because of
lie loss of life, injury to person$ and
ainage to property at Austin. We have
aken steps to aid in the relief measures
ow (ming forward.
"Trio- loss to our plant will not exceed
100:000; It will in no way aftece the
olveney of our company, as the irate,: of
uv Canadian properties exceeds the am
-
tint of our bonds. A large part of our
ilea retuning uninjured, save for Water
Image. The larger building$ are m tate
lieve that the loss
ot exeeed 100, and that the inlulii-feeit ‘ v1
w::1
umber 300 at the most."
WAS PRONOUNCED LiNsA.trie.
Wilmington, Del., Oct. 2.--T. cimiatey
niton, the civil engineer who designed
he dean of the Bayless Pulp & Paper
o., at Austin, Pt., is a resident of evil
ington,
"1 have not seen the dem since Jean-
ry, 1910, When Mr. Weemann, consuit-
g engineer of the New°York aqueduct
cmmission, and I inspected it and pio-
ouneed it unsafe" said .Mr. Hatton.
We made certain recommendations j(,-
8 repair and reinforcement, but 1 was
ot engaged to supervise this work, and
o not know whether our xecommentia-
one were carried out. The dam wee
jilt in the best manner possible, but
le foundations were of eandetone. This
used damage when water got tooter
foundations, beouse of. Ossures
le rocks 'after we had bored mac tot
a seemingly safe bottom.
"A• good test „,,f the rook foundation
the dam was made before we began
lc original construction. :Fissures muet
ave extended further down, however.
te foot of the dam was set in a chart-
] four feet deep in. the reek tounda-
ens,- The sides of the 'lam, the struc-
re being of reinforced concrete, were
t twenty feet into the rock of the bills
1 each side. They were anchored there
steel rods 3% inches thick end 251
et long."
There was a breaking of the dam on
n, 24, 1910, when .a workman saw the
est wall tremble, buckle and slide for-
ard forty-four inches on ire bed. the
oused the town, and. the inhabitants
ok refuge in the mountains and for
o days remained there.
The imprisoned water escaaal through
breach made with dynamite and the
m and tassel were saved. Ma Batton
mediately pronounced that dam un-
fit and made extensive vecommendit-
ons along the lines of reinforeement.
HEROIC WOMEN.
Austin, Pa., Oct. 1.—Many eases of
heroism were reported to -day.
joseph McKinney, an employee of the
Bayless mill, struggled to get over a
board fence topped with barbed Wire,
which proved the death trap for scores.
He had his little child by the hand. Un-
able to get over it himself, McKinley
threw his child. over the fence to safety
and met death in the waters. A score of
survivors who saw this act have pledged
themselves to bring .up the child.
The young son of Mrs. Thomas Reese
was sitting on her dooretep on high
ground whets the flood came.iiis mother
had just darted out of the door when
she saw her boy swept bap the waters.
The frantic mother ,plunged in to save
hini, when a big Hungarian pulled her
out on the bank.
Infuriated with rage and fear, and
steeled with the hope that she might
save her boy, she turned back to the
flood and struggled so fiercely that her
clothes were torn from het and both
her arms broken before she could be re-
strained. Her boy Was drowned.
Mrs. Jay Gallup was helped over the
barbed wire fence where a number of
persons met death by an 1111.11.11uWa Wo-
Cari who sacrificed her life that a moth-
er might be sexed,
"You go," she said to Mae. Gallup.
"You have a baby in your. Arms." .
WAS PLAYING. WaTIL HIS BABY.
Thomas Lawlor, a bartender at the
Commercial Hetet, says he owes his
life to his attempt to save his baby
daughter. Ris told his story to -day.
as he lay oil a cot at the hospital.
with both legs brokee,
"I was upstaira in my home an
Railroad etreet," lie said, "playing
with my eightonontlis-old daughter.
My wife and little- boy were down-
stairs. Withoue waiting the tool
oved in over my head and then with
the riiiing water it floatea away, in-
stinetheitly I grabbed my baby, and
when I found myself floatingalong
with . the wreck of the house held
her above tay heed, 1 eatight held
Of the aide of My house and hushed
the baby on it mid held on tight. All
eround me was a Sea Of slabs. It
Wea all oVer irt three or four ininntee,
but it seemed years. The part of the
house 1 was clinging to was rammed
with terrific blamed into the hills,
where 1 serembled itehote with both
lege broken, How I dragged toyeelf
to the hospital With the baby I don't
know, but 1
Litivlorte wife and ems evere &omit&
DEAD ON TRAOK,
Brautford, OM., Oct. 1.—An unidentified
Mali of about 16 Was found dead • on the
Eirentford and laineonbura tracks here
eatly this soothing by two men Who were
erossing. the treekto Wait Ito yard* weet
of the south Market street cresting, The
body Was very beeny mangled, and it Wee
00160 that death had taken plaett sane
hours Witte the dietioversr wee Made
On the body was found a ticket for Perin,
a ton -dollar WI, shop a bark book. The
mar's identity Is being traced hy the
number Of the batik -book,
LATEST WAR ilLvvv Ifamid have been (*carded and drastic
T mcwo .h.v. made berate Wort* to put their
army on anh*tantial footing, lite Op
shod method* ot the days At Alhitt
reforms have boon lindituted,
Before the ar vrevolutlon the array had
coNTRADIcToRy no reguletoes of training. Now
the troops are drilled regularly, and
the different corps engage in minim
manoeuvres on a large tleale,
The troops are well uniformed it
clothing. of the modern type, and Armed
Reports of Attacks on Turkish War Vessels .",,ii,t,rh cloa;r1sy, ee cif (Ap
i jenetti rmiiiteus, hate AM
' Krupp field pieces, are the prrde of the
and Sinking of Torpedo Boats. army,
COMPARitTIVE STREW:ITU OP
NA.VIES
Over Thousand Refugees From Tripoli Ar-
riue at Malta.
Constantinople, Oct, 2.—The sale ar-
rival of the Turkisls fleet ill the Darr`
dawdles is eonfirmed. The commander
reports that he managed to eireutnvent
the 'Italian squadron. The British offi-
• ergs on the Turkish warahips are being
disembarked, Admiral William, who is
reorganizing the Ottoman navy, has in-
formed the Minister of letarine that,
owing to the state of wee, he is unable
to continue Ms duties.
The German Emperor's promise to the
Sultan to renew his efforts at interven-
tion, it is learned, it qualified by the
condition of "eircumsCatvies pernatti4"
WILL STAY OUT.
London, Oct, 2.—The Daily Mail's Con-
stantinople correspondent as;serts that
Kiamil lsasha will decline to enter the
ministry, knowing that sommittee of the
Union of Progress will oppose him. The
new Ministers set in council ell night
long. A. secret navy commiesion has
been formed.
REFUGEES AT MAMA,
• Malta, Oct. 2e-8. scene of considerable
confusion occurred at the, quarantine
station here shortly after midnight this
morning, when the British steamer Cas-
tiegart entered the harbor in the height
of a severe gale crowded with 1,300
Maltese refugees from Tripoli. The
1,300 passengers were buddled on the
deck, clamoring to get to land anti after
three days with an insufficient supply of
food and water. Although these liad
hen no casualties, practically all of the
refugees were faint from hunger and
thirst.
The port authorities promptly ordered
emergency measures, directing the vessel
to dock immediately. Once ashore the
passengers found. relief forthcoming.
The members of the Maltese Colony in
Tripoli went aboard the Ceetlegarth on
Istiday morning at the suggestion of the
British eonsul, ,wlee feared for their
safety in the threitened bombardment.
.Their provisions were soon exhausted,
and the severe weather added to their
discomfort. The etOrm .eontinued with
severity throughout their three days
on the water.
Although the isassengers boarded the
Castlegarth on Friday the vessel did
not leave Tripoli until 11 o'clock on
Saturday night. Up to that time the
ttalians had not bombarded the city or
landed troops. The Italian admiral, how-
ever, had warned the captain of the
Castlegarth on Saturday afternoon that
he would not guarantee the. safety of
the ship after sunset.
The Italian consul and other officials
boarded the Italian flagship, The con-
suls of other powers went aboard an
English vessel. Telegraph operators and
a few Europeans remained in Tripoli,
being accommodated at the British
consulate.
POSTPONED BOMBARDMENT.
Chiasso, Switzerland., Oct. 2.—It is re-
ported that on Saturday Admiral Au-
brey was suddenly ordered to postpone
the botobardmene of Tripoli, as there
were signs of a possibility of reaching
an understanding with Turkeythrough
the intervention of certain powers, thus
avoiding a continuation of the war, , •
The above may explain the conflict-
ing reports regarding the aetion of the
Italians at Tripoli, The best inform -
Mon has been -that the bombardment
by the fleet eves set for late • Saturday.
A despatch from Tripoli received Satin --
day night said that the Italians opened
fire on the ports that morning, but that
the firhig ceased almost immediately, An
earlier despateh had stated that the
bombardment was begun at 10.30 aan,
Saturday.. Refugees arrivieg at Malta
to -day said that Tripoli had not been
bobberaed or invaded up to the thne
that their vessel sailed at 11 o'clock on
tta turtber night.
GERMANY row:mass,
fienday's despatches. from Constanti.
mope) -stated DM the German Ambassa.
dor, Marsehill Von Bleberstein, has hand-
ed the, Sultan the flermen Enmeror'e
reply to the former's appeal for.media-
tam. After expreesing feelings of real
friendsaip end veneration for the Sul-
tan, the Emperor Said that in the in
terests of immanity he had instructed
the Ambitegador to ineke efforts looking
to intervention, but the isolated action
Of Gie•notnyeunsuppertea by other pow-
ers. woeld Pot be effedive.
However, in deferencZ to the Sultan's
wisbo, he would make another proposal
for mediatiosi and also submit a similar
eoggestioeeto the other powers.
Later till Gentile' Ambassador visited,
the Porte and lutZ a -long conversation
with the Grand .Viziet, to whom Ito re-
peated the communicetion from the Era-
peror, but explaining at the same time
that it was most onlikely that Ger-
many's efforts would lead to any re-
sults.
TORPEDO BOATS 8UN1C.
Londob, -Ott. 2.—A ilespittelt to Lloyd's
from Corfu IMAM, off the toast of Al.
bania, siva thite two Turkish torpedo
boats were stink and ft third opturea
off Gumenitza, near Prevesa, by the
patrolling Italian fleet.
Despatches from Athens on Seturday
laid that the vessels engaged by Vice -
Admiral the Duke of the Abruzzi, off
Prevesa, were intereepted in an attempt
to join four other Turkish torpedo boat
deetroyers at Gumenitze. Vollowieg the
fight at Prevesa, emmorading was heard
off Gurnenitze, on Friday night, and it
Was .11.841110184 that the Italians had ot-
taaked the Turkiell werships at that
place and bibekaded the port.
STILL ANXTOattl 1SOR PEACE, e
Constantinople. Oat. 2.—A meeting of
the Cebitiet was 'held last night. A new
ote to the poWers was not elaborated,
but a circular was prepared which was
telegraphed to all the (Woman embas-
sies. The eircular gave:
-"We Answered the Hallett ultimatum
lita eoneiliatory tone, implying it peftee-
ful Solution. Yon know under what con-
ditions Italy iletlared war and how hos-
tilities began, eontrirry to the rules of
itsterhationiti law. Ilv this feet we are
at liberty to take all measures rkeeesei-
tated by a "tate of war, guile apart
I from military operations strktly speak-
ing. Out, while reserving for herself
this right, Turkey holds the conviction
that a state of war can be avoided.
"Thus, she addi.esses herself to the
powers and postpones recourse to arms,
"In acting thus, the Ottoman Govern-
ment is going contrary to tbe legitimate
sentiment of the 'Turkish people, and
hopes that the powers will give it favor-
able answer to her request.'
CONTRADICTORY REPORTS.
London, Oct. 2.—A despetch to the
Times from Malta says that the report
that no landing has occurred at Tripoli
seems ta be trustworthy.
A Constantinople despeteh to the
Times says it is reported that the Hal-
lam battled 1,600 men at Prevesa, after
bombarding the Jolts, and then seized
the promotory on whith the forts are
built. The Turkish garrison retired to
agait reinforcements front Janina, which
it is believed, have now arrived.
The Italian attack, saye the despatch,
probably had as its object the destruc-
tion of A possible basis for torpedo boat
attacks on the Italian Hue of eommuni-
catkins from Taranto to Tripoli.
MOHAMMEDAN APPEAL TO BRI-
TAIN,
0 •
Celcutta, Oct. 2.-4. cablegram Was
forwarded in the llama of the Moham.
medene of India, urging Great Britain
to take A hand in the ItelosTurkish situ-
ation. The messrage was addressed to
the Foreign Seeretary at London, and
a -duplicate went by telegraph to the
Indian Secretary at Simla. 11 was dis-
patched at the behest of a mass meet -
log of Mohammedans held here under
the presidency of Mr. Ariff, it promin.
ent native, and asked. England, as "the
greatest Mohammedan power In the
world," to cheek ltaly's career of ag-
gression,
Another message from the Sitme source
went forward to the Grand Vizier at
Constantinople, urging that Turkey de-
fend the honor of Islam,
That the Molminmedmis of India are
thoroughly aroused is indleated by the
Mass meeting's stetter.— in forming a
strong committee styled ••the. Inainn
Crescent Society, whieh peoPoses to take
such steps as seem advisable to prevent
war. Other centers of India have been
requested to form local committees
along similar lines.
HARD TO GET THE NEWS.
London, Oct. 2.—The atria, Italian
censorship is keeping the world in the
dark in regard to the progress of events
la the Mediterranean. From Italy itself,
Tripoli, Turkey and the sons where the
Italian navy is operating, conflicting re
port continue to come in. it is believed
that, what actually happened was that
the Turkish vessels in the vicity of Pre -
vests were seattered and the forts de-
stroyed to prevent raids upon the Ital-
ian coast shipping. Probably this was
sufficient for the population, as one
cable says that the telegraph operators
deserted the place as soon as the bom-
bardment WOS commenced.
Europe is greatly relieved at the re-
ceipt of news that Turkey lute assured
Greece that :she has no attention of
attacking her, as has been rumored.
The reports of capture or Turkish
torptdo boats come from several sources.
PREVIOUS WARS Or THE CENTURY.
1812-14—Britain-II 8. War.
1821-9—Greek War of Independenee.
1831-9—Belgian War of Independence.
1841-2—First Afghan War.
1840-8----U. S. -Mexican War,
1854-6—Crimean War,
1850-7—Brito-Persian War. .
1857-9—Indian Mutiny.
1861 -5 -.—United States Civil War. .
1866 —Prussian -Austrian Was-.
1870-1—Franco-Prus5ian War.
1877-8—Russo-Tut-MA War.
1878 --Second Afghan Was.
1879 —Zulu War.
1874) —Peru-Ohileen War.
1882- —Egyptian War (Arabi Rebellion)
1894-5-0hina-Japanese War.
1897 —Greco -Turkish War.
1898 —SpanisleAmerican War.
1898 --Sondanese War.
1898 —Spanish-American Was,
1899-1902—The Boer War,
1004-5--R118804apaileSe War,
WHAT THE TURRO-ITALTA.N FUSS
IS ALL ABOUT.
abeoVultlias this Terkcaltalian imbroglio
Same thing the tiorneean foss is
about. Same thing the French wars in
Algiers were about.
Italy wants her share of the Barbary
coast—not being willing to stand off
without nutking a holler and. see Frame
and Germany get their sta,res.
Italy has wanted Tripoli for a long
while. Now, baying screwed up her
courage, she eleveands the right to ex-
tend it "protectorate" (the diplomatic
term for plain land grab) over Tripoli,
Unfortunately for Hely, Turkey as-
sumed the rigid to extend a "protector-
ate" over Tripoli some 300 years ago. •
Renee the rumpus. The Turks say
there won't be any Italian protectorate
if they can Imip it. Nevertheless, the
Italians go ahead preparing fleet and
at erroytof4r. the oceupation of the ceveted
Incidentally, the first "protectotate"
extended over Tripoli was that put
through when the Romans finally
whipped the Carthageniang,
COMPARATIVE STRENGTH OF THE
ARMIES,
ITALY. --The Italian armythough
nominally smaller than that of Turkey,
is a inuelt more effieient body, its
peace strength is 225,000 mew; ita re-
eetares 300,000. Thus the war stretigth
of the army is 525,060. This total could
Isifieopritittfinto the field in it eomparatively
In equipment the Italian atmy eon).
Pares fratoraidY with the armies of the
first-claes powers. in addition to the
enetonsary militttry bmnehee stub 118
have figured: in the battles of the past,
Italy lute newly -organized e6r1)54,
equipped with dirigiblee and aero -
piano.
TURKEY.--Turkey'e navy may be A
joke, but her army is not. She has s
peace eittablignment of 375.000 men, end
it nominal force of "valorem." estimated
at 350.000. This make e Tntkeyti war
streugth moon men. The reeervee
can't be renbilized in a huvry. though.
The Tnake are figbterS, as the flrooki,
have found in their sorrow, Anil mum
the revolution of ifiOft the Young ',Curio
ITALY. ----The Italian navy isn't what*
it was it decade or two ago, compara-
tively, but it is still it snotty efficient
arm. It consists of seven modern bat-
tlesbipss five older battleships, seven
first -elm cruisers, three second-class
eruisers, thirteen third -Mates cruisers,
thirteen gunboats, thirty-three destroy-
ers, 75 torpedo boats and oineteen sub.
marines,
Toe personnel of the Italian navy
includes 29,941 officers and men, which
is
it liberal force for manning the ships
available. Notable among the officers
is the Duke of Abruzzi, who ift an ad-
miral and who will command a fleet in
event of war.
TURKEY.—The Turkish nary is prae.
tically nil. It has one firsaeless cringer,
the Ittedjkliele completed le Americo, in
1904, five old battleships, two second.
class cruisers, two third -eines cruisers,
two gunboats, four destroyers and eight
torpedo boats,
The battiesems are known to be prase -
Holly ineffective, and it is believed
that most of the lesser boats axe out
of conunission and in bad shape. The
Turks know little or nothing about
navigation and engineering, end, when
they attempt to sail their cotes vessels
disaster generally follows. So they have
been cereful to put English or American
officers and engineers in charge of their
best ships.
WAR NOTES.
New. York, Oet. 2. --The Commercial
Cable Company, ftom its New York of.
nee, to -day notified its patrons that the
eable between Malta and Tripoli was
-interrupted,. cutting off telegraphic com-
munication with Tripoli.
8
d e c It.arfteiotenwebotOe
t, neutt.rattyTheis ulsveiilawn
drafted and will be submitted to Enver-
josti-usaredielflooll,asa awteekYallaa ft will pot be
Tokio, Oct. 2.—it is announeed that
'Japan will issue it proclamation declar-
ing her strict; ne_ntrality in the Italo-
Tit rk ish embrogl ho.
London, Oct. 2.—A correspondent eat
Mallet telegraphs this messege to -day:
"I am Informed by one of the erew
of the British cruiser Aboukir, which has
arrived here, that the vessel received
a wireless despatch stating that Tri-
poli had been oec_apied by an Italians."
Marseilles, France. Oct, 2,—Telegraph-
le communication with Tripoli by way
of Milan has been interrupted since four
o'dock yesterday morning,
Athens, Greece, Oct. 2.—A semi-official
statement made to -day says that the
Tut -Isiah chatge has informed the Foreign
Minister that Greece need not take of-
fence at the Turkish military movements
on the frontier, as they are due to the
etate of war with Italy,
London, Oct, 2.—A news despatcli
from Rome says that the captain of the
Greek steamer Marte witnessed the
engagement off Prevesa, and says that
the figbting was of a determined char-
acter, Projectiles fell as thick as hail,
and the air vibrated with the passage
foofr sThtoati When the Turkisb VOSSO1
disabled the crew of the Marte capered
411 • 1.
A SAD END.
French Nobleman Died in
Poverty in New York.
•••••••••••••••••••••
New York, Oct. 2.—Leon Le Metayer
Masselin, Baron de Guiehainville, died
lest night at Bellevue Hospital of in-
juries received last Wednesday night,
when hewas run down by a trolley car.
Tile baron, who was eighty-one years
old, lived With n blind daughter, :Eliza,.
and it son, Raoul, in the basement, of the
apartment house at No. 34 West Sev-
enteenth street.
The French Consul -general will take
cher& of the ola nobleman's body,
for he died in poverty, after having
eked out a living for years by- odd jobs
for coin dealers:When he eame to Am-
erika, soon after the elese of the Franco-
Pi-mei:tit war de Guichainville was it
man of weal& and eetabliebed a neeve-
peeler in Montreal.
THE ROYALISTS
Portuguese Rebels Surpris-
ed and Many Captured. •
Lisbon, via tho frontier, Oct. 2.—The
revolt in the north is considered 'very
serious. At midnight on griday the
ctief of police received an anonymous
Ir -iter that a royalist revolution would
break out at 4 o'clock, Saturday morn-
ing. ,The plan embodied an attack upon
all the military barracks, where the
Royalists counted upon adherents who
would assist then in massacring the
troops faithful to the republic.
All the troops were called out under
tee. officers, and it general ate& was
made upon various tesidenees suspected
of harboring Royalists. The plotters
were surprised arid promptly attempted
to make their escape over the roofs of
housea, They were perceived by the
troops, who fired numerous volleys.
Many of the Royalists were arrested.
They were armed with revolvers, dag-
gcrs and rifles. A large quantity of
arms and ammunition waa seized.
The Royalists declare that the rising
will take plate during the teetivitio, be-
ginidug Oct 5, in commemoration of the
revolution.
• - '4e.
'COTTON REPORT.
Washington, Oet, 2. --The tensile bur-
ceit to -day reported 3,03,066 Dalai of
eotton ginned in the tinitea Steam Iron
the growth of 1011 prior to Sept. 25,
against 2,312,074 in 1010. Round iattes
belittled were 27,948, against 3020 In
1910; sea islet& 11,51a lades, eompared
with 7,004 in 1010.
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CHEAP MOO RIOT.
Warsaw, llusaialt Poland, Oct, 2,—
There WAS a Momper food" riot direel-
ra :waited the Jewe in the eutturbe of
the city to -day. Theee dews and two
Chrietinne were wailful/al. The pollee
.mtieldy restored ottler.
NEWS OF 1HE
DAY IN BRIEF
Murderer of Canadian Con-
victed in States.
1,1••••••••,"
Lady Drummond Seriously
Ill at Montreal.
German Socialist Has Re
markable Victory,
•
bele'itiveitilteyorigtOedn!ario eompanice have
• North Toromo loet it ease KORA
the Toroato & Nagare Power Company,
The Moving Picture Operators' 'Union
has condemned the Provincial Govern-
ment for peglecting inspection work.
Mr, C, Smith, a well-known Alon-
treat manufacturer, died suddenly at the
the Royal Victoria flospital, aged 71.
Lady Drtinunona, wife 0? the late Sir
George Drummond, is seriousiy ill at
twlitethlatopypaelndaiscifettiosi:ht 'Hospital, Montreal,
no Dutch banker, M. Visaering, hes
accepted the counter-offer of $25,000 it
yorfaresteo abeoc,o,enirnenifeitnetat advisor to the
The New York Senate passed the dir-
ect nominations bill and Adopted it re-
solution oiling for sine die adjourn -
Meat of the Legislature.
Sir Andrew Fraser, formerly Lient-
epant-Governor of India, arrived in To-
ronto, on las way west, to attend a.
series of Methodist conventions.
Duncan 'McDonald, of Beaverton, tvlio
Is to be supported in the foreign field
by Knox Church, wilt be designated to,
%Ilia in tenox (Miura, UCala0» Oetober
Alexander Sundfield Langloie ,of the
legal firm, of Smith .46 Langlois, of Corn-
iIesnoe, .dritiliefittigleerat'oa f fthe ilotel ella' e Hospital fn
The *alga brig Leo, Halifax, N,
of New York, which arrived at Vine-
ayitprdor Uri eon?' aMaasesei,d oraepdololisialitaivisi ndgu Ilionsgt
a southerly gale off Cape Cod.
The death occurred et Brockville of
J. H. Botsford, one 9f the rising young
lawyers of the eastern Ontario Oar and
nit joinneumleb.er of the firm of 13nell & Bots-
ford; Deceased had been ill for several
City Architect MeCalltun has issued
sunnuouse,s against eleven Tbronto citi-
zens for infringing the building by-laws
by making alterations or erecting new
buildings without having Bret obtain-
adoaw ieniegrmtiot,
the rush of settlers into
Poo River district, Mounted Police
officials have issued it warnhig that
there is no surplus food supply, and new
peormoveirssio:srewaillivtistehdeint.o bring plenty of
The expropriation of Wolfe Park, at
the corner of Queen staeet west, and
Stamyside avenue, Toronto, a a pee.
stble site for the new ltarkdale railway
station, is contemplated by the Grand
TITulreisagrati
itlekitailwaYe°°11inearielYa'se in the Mon-
treal Custom House dues for the
molith of September this year over last
year. Last month the amount collected
was $1,716,002,97, while for September
sahyolevairngaagontilineeraenrienhotf $9
w433,37$10,728:832.29,
William Cerses, it Hungarian, charged
at Ashland, Wig., with the murder of
Charles McMahon, of Midland, Ont.,
by shooting, was convicted. in the sec-
ond degree. lefettalon was wheelman-
on the &teenier .Alva, Dinkey. Gerses was
drunk at the time of the shooting.
The Socialist, Karl Haberland, has
won a by-election for the German
Reichstag from Dr. Friedrich, a member
cif the Central. The vote wee 39,204 to
36,111. The victory is considered re-
markable, as this has been it Cents -al
stronghold:Iuipiresince the foundation of the
I
PURE WATER.
International Association to
Keep Great Lakes Clean,
Chicago, 111., Oct. L—At a largely -at-
tended meeting of the city health offi-
eel's and sanitary engineersfrom nearly
every impmeant city in the United
States and Canada., held io the Coliseum
here last uight munieipal congress,
to be known as the international Pure
Water Assoehttion, was formed, and in
the formeng is the nucleus of it great
organization hexing for its object the
prevention of the pollution of the waters,
of the Great Lakes.
-Dr. C. E. Ford. 'of Cleveland, Ohio, city
health commissioner, was chosen tem-
porary president, and Dr. Charles J.
treatise," medieal health offices. of To-
ronto, temperary vice-president of the
new orgaoization.
The delegates to the new congress are
to be chosen by the Governors of each
States and the Premier of each Cana-
dian Province on the lakes. These dele-
gates will then fotm a permanent or-
ganization and elect their officers.
One of the first moves of the ass°.
elation will be to secure legislation
making it it criminal offence to dump
wake material into the lakes at any
point. It is also planned to interest
physicians all over the country ht the
work, particularly with it view of put -
Hug a cheek to the gradual increase of
typhoid fever which is noted all along
the line of the lake.
HAMILTON AUTHOR
Miss Mabel Burkholder En-
tertained at Winnipeg.
Winuipeg,tildam, Sept. Mabel
liurkholder, who WS been here the last
few dare after a year's trip in NVesteru
Canada, halle from Hamilton. She has
equently eontributed to leading Cana-
dian publications, and now makes her
bow to the publie as an author in a
book entitled "The Course of Impattence
Caroaghan." Miss -Barkholder hise been
seendirg the melt year te the Atnertean
and Canadian West, gathering material
for it future literary Work, fold it iii her
Wallets to write another book dealing
with life mod saasu' itt the last i•ireet
Vet,"Uembelq of the Woman's 11144
CIA entertainta her on Eaturday.
Women's AUXillgr Of t}19
Chur'ch ot England.
the(t)t ellit2iTThehoef SkI;:ngiLiti
in triennial Conference here to -day,
eleeted officem /or the ensuing three
years. Stlie re-electioo to the Presi-
Ailey of Mrs. Pattereon Rail by unani-
mous vote wee tbe feature of the eating.
Other elections were: Honorary presi-
dent, Afrs. Tilton, Ottawe; recording
Secretary, afre. Jayne, Montreal; cor-
responding seeretery, Meet Rogers, Ot-
tawa,.
Chinese work, Mrs. G. Green, Ot-
ttaalevia: Dorcea seeretary-treasurer, Miss
Gavillier4 liamelton; eeeretary-treas-
urer, Miss Edith Cater, Quebec; convener
Hulse, Toronto; janior isecretary,
ros.
tvrice-presidents will be elected to-mor-
MrS. Robertson ,of London, Ont., read
a paper on conditione among the Ind/.
ans, and complimented the effortof
the Itstperta Land Diocese in improving
teat/ conditions of the Red men.
MUSICIAN SHOT
• .1•0,......•••
Mr. Dudley Cranston Killed
at Rhnouski,
Met Death at a Political
Demonstration.
Quebec A inysterions
tragedy occurred at Rimouski last
evening at 8.15 on the arrival of the
f. O. R, Maritime Expreso, elt eoute
for Halifax.
Mr. Daelley Cranston, of London,
nenglance trnpreeario tit the famous
Russian pianist, affair Hambourg,
who had just arrived from Europe on
boagel the Einprees of Britaih, WAS
killed by buliet that struck hia
head. The Author of this tragedy is
unknown, and We one can +say if this
Is an accident or a murder. There
was' a political demonstration going
on. The new Conservative member
for Rimouski, Mr. H. G. Booby, watt
being given a .send-off by his friends
itt the station. -iSteddenly a report was
heard, and 'a men felt with a bullet
in hie head, He was brought into the
Lenglian Hotel,' where Drs. Belisle
and Drapeau attended to him. Rev.
Mr, Pelletier, curate cf Rimouski,
was aleot ealled to the unfortunate
victim, although Mi. Cranston was a
Protestant. He. died an hour later.
He was going to •oraanize concerts for
Mark Hambourg in 'Ille Maritime
Province, He was married, and
father of two children. A coroner's
inquest is taking place.
Mr. Jan Hambourg said last night
thee Mr, Cranston was a manner in
the employ of Baring Bros., of Lon-
don, England, and prior to coming to
Canada he was their local manager
at Cromer. Ile stated that Mr. Cran-
ston had been in Canada. once before,
and had not an enemy in, the world.
Nr*. Cranston was six feet three inch-
es in height,
LAND SALE.
Peculiar Case Settled by
Chancellor Boyd.
Toronto despatch: The first ease of
its kind in Canada has been decided by
Chaneeilor Boyd in a judgment which
declares Gordon N. Kennedy entitled to
Dr. James Spence's half interest in nine
and a half acres up Bathurst street, near
St. Clair avenue, Last March Dr. Spenee
agreed to sell the property to Kennedy
for $1,000 an acre. Later he found that
hia wife had a half interest and so he
could not give a title to the property
to Kennedy. The latter was satisfied to
take the doctor's half interest in pro.
portion:Ile abatemea in the price. To
this the doctor did not consent and Ken-
nedy brought action.
, Tho case was tried before Chancellor
'Boyd with the result that Kennedy is
declared entitled to receive a half in-
terest in the lands with Mrs. Spence on
paying $500 an acre. The property is
said to be worth $3,000 an acre now.
Unless Mr. Kennedy and Mrs. Spence
come to some agreement as to the prop-
erty it may be necessary for an applica-
tion to be made to the Circuit Court for
a partitiem of n.r.00pe.ity.
-SAD FATALITY.
••••••••••.•••••••
Man and Horse Killed a
Crossing.
St. Thomas despatch: C. J. Parker,
of Sparta, was instantly killed, to,geth-
er with his roCe horse, Lady Brine, on
the M. C. R. track, east of Sheddeh, itt
noon to -day by number 30 express. Mr.
Parker had been to Wallaeetottos fair
with his horse, having won the 2.30 rase
with Lady 13rmo on Thursday, and was
making his way to St. Thomas when he
met his death. He was driving in a
sulky at the time of the aceident, and
this was sina,shed to smithereens, 'Male
both horse and driver were thrown a
considerable distance. Mr. Parker's
brains were dashed out. He WAS trying
to get across the track ahead of the
train. Coroner Guest, of St. Thomas,
was uotified and will hold an inquest.
The deceased was tVienty-two years of °
age, it son of the late judeon Parker, of
Sparta, Ile Was unmarried.
CRUSHED TO DEATH
Schoolboy Run Over by
Wagon in Montreal,
abk4.1.0.46,1i
Montreal despittelt: With his school
boolos under his Arm, Alexander Trio
dettu, ten years of age, stood on the
.corner of Atwater avenue and St. atones
street, at 7,35 this snorting. Two 1,500
pound horses atteeheil to a heavily lad.
en lee wagon swung around the eorter,
unnoticed by the boy as he started
iserose the street. A moment later he
lay it huddled heap in the lentil, trattip.
led by the horses, with hia skull (limb -
tel by one of the back wheels. Ite lived
for 'barely ten minutes,