The Houston Post. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 332, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 1, 1921 Page: 2 of 18
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THE HOUSTON POST: TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 1, 1921
*7 BODIES ARE
! RECOVERED FROM
I INDIANA WRECK
(Continued From lJaK<* One.)
j switch wan thrown after the train actual-
i jj- won on the crossing
♦ ♦ ♦
Thirty Bodies
• Positively Identified
Ansociuted I'rcw* Ileport.
POKTEK. Intl.. Feb. 28.—With the
death lint of Sunday night's wreck fixed
>t 48, only 150 of the victims had been
jioniti\elv identified lit hours after the
.wreck Monday night. The list of ideuti-
1 tied dead follows:
i Howard Arnold, t'leveland, O.
' Mrs. Km ma Bever, Augusta. Mich.
I J. C. Nevier, Augusta. Mich.
; Mrs. Florence See, Michigan City, lr.d.
j I'enrl May Cavanaugh, 8 years old,
Adopted datighter of Mrs. See.
! Mrs. Lillian Baehr, Michigan City. Ind.
• ■ Arthur E. Eckman, 2-year-old nephew
of Mrs. Baehr.
Arthur Collins, Tjondon. Ont.
■iiordan Campbell. Revels, Ont.
-"?'ati T)eland. Elkhart, lnd., fireman of
New York Central train.
• W. O. Engler, traveling on pass from
• JThicngo to l>etroit.
5 Claude Johnson, Elkhart, Ind., engi-
neer of New York Central train.
j l'eter Cain, Regina. Sask., Canada.
Mrs. B. Kramer. Michigan City, lnd.
■ Mrs. Frederick Schwier, Michigan City,
I : Three-year-old son of Mrs. Frederick
Schwier, Michigan City, Ind.
Mrs. A. H. Van Ryper, Michigan City,
i -Ind. _ ^ , .
A. H. Van Rvper, Michigan City, Ind.
i J. W. Baker. El I'aso. III.
Mrs. Sarah Moss. Montreal. Cana.la.
: Miss Fannie Ballon. Kalamnzoo, Mich.
• J'hillip Ooldstern, I>etroit, Mich.
j Mrs. Richard Eva. Jackson, Mich.
• Ij. A. Heck, Chicago.
> Frank Wayne, Milwaukee, Wis.
: Sam Livingston, Chicago.
I • Mr*. Florence Fleming. Kalamazoo,
•Mich.
i i Mr. and Mrs. Jack Muller, Crescent
• *3*^7. m.
Ilojr E. Greenwood, Kankakee, III.
Mrs. Justine Collins, Toronto, Canada
The revised list of persons missing was
issued Monday night as follows:
Miss June Campbell, stenographer of
Michigan Central division uuperiutendent
at Jackson, Mich.
T. J, Campbell (address unknown, but
•supposed to be a relative of Miss June
'-Campbell or Gordon Campbell).
Mrs. .1. L. Miller. Michigan City, Ind.
J. L. Miller, Michigan City, Ind.
Mrs. McCray. Chicago, 111.
——— McCray, Chicago, 111.
f Wooler. Detroit, Mich.
Mrs. Justin Collins, London, Ont.
(husband killed).
Mrs. C. H. (Joldstein, Detroit, Mich.
Fred Liggett, Niles, Mich.
Mrs. George Baker, Michigan City,
lnd/
♦ ♦♦
Telegraph Operator
Gives Version of Events
■ PORTER, Ind., Feb. 28. — Charles
Whithead, telegraph operator in the sig-
nal tower which regnlatCH the passage
of the trains over the crossing where
a New York Central train Sunday night
smashed Into a Michigan Central train,
killing more than forty persons, Monday
night for the first time gave his version
of the actual events in the signal tower
preceding and during the collision.
He substantiated a statement of Joe
Cook, operator of the fifty-six levers in
the tower, that the signals were set
"against the Michigan Central train, and
.exonerated Cook of any blame of the
•disaster.
! Whithead, too unstrung to talk con-
"neetcdly Sunday night. Monday night was
|back at his job. outwardly calin. His
ieyes. deep set from loss of sleep, re-
peatedly darted back and forth from one
track to the other and many times he
'paced the floor. To railroad officials,
.he said he "thanked God for his own
• narrow escape and was feeling fine, :W-
though his appetite was gone."
Mass of Switches.
"I send and receive all messages tell-
Jing when various trains will arrive," he
'.said. "I have nothing to do with the
joperation of the signals and am not con-
sidered in any way responsible for them.
? "Ordinarily a fellow named Piering
•runs the levels, but lie wanted to tak<
ii nijfht off and hired Joe Cook, who is a
Substitute operator, to work for him,
"Because of the mass of switches, de-
tours and the intersection, both of us
jmust be on our toes all the time, and we
.'were Sunday night.
• "Far down each track is an appliance
■which rings a bell In the tower when
:n train h;t* il Last night we were wait-
ing for No. 151, the New York Central
train, to urwve. We heard the bell and
looked up at the recorder, Weeing it was
the New York Central. About 30 sec-
onds later the Michigan Central rang the
bell. Joe set the tvignala against the
Michigan Central, opening the track for
the New York Central. We safe peering
down tl*; New York Central tracks
watching the* headlight gradually grow-
larger and larger. "\Ve had not noticed
the Michigan Central.
"'Che N<*w York CeJitml engine grad-
ually grew larger and finally outlines
were visible. Suddenly I heard Joe
shout:
Heard Grinding Smash.
" 'My God, Charley, the Michigan Cen-
tral is coming through the block!*
"I can still hear that shouted warning.
"I turned quickly to the right and
there, not feet away, was the Mich-
igan Central, No. 20, crashing down at
sixty milfs an hour. It was so close I
could see the spaces betwen the fender-
bars. Joe jumped for the door and I
jumped after him. Something, intuition,
I guess, made us realize that to go down
stairs would be fatal. We grabbed the
door and held on for o<ur lives.
"We heard a terrific grinding smash.
There was a hiss of steam, a brilliant red
glare lighted up fhe tower, and our little
building shook all over. The crashing-
of glass—the tower windows breaking—
tingled in my ears and the tower con-
tinued to rock.
"We lay against the door for a moment
and then collapsed to the floor. Later, a-
few seconds later, I supposed. Joe got up
and dashed down stairs. I followed him.
System Interlocking.
"When I reached the groun^ Joe was
running full speed up the road to Ches-
terton. two miles away. I am told that
he never stopped until he reached there,
although several persons tried to stop
him.
"I went down to the wreckage. The.
conductor of one of the trains came up
and tried to ask me something. He
•ould not talk, he was shaking so, and I
guess I could not have answered. I don't
remember much after that. I went home
but could not sleep. I kept, seeing those
two glaring headlights—they seemed gi-
gantic—rushing down on me. I dreamed
of them."
Whitehead explained that, the signal
system was interlocking so that both
tracks could not have been open at the,
same time. Closing the tracks to the
Michigan Central automatically opened it
to the New York Central and vice versa,
he said.1
Whitehead said the Michigan Central
probably was making sixty miles an hour
but that the New York Central was trav-
eling slower—probably forty miles an
hour.
"They always travel nearly full speed,
but last night the. New York Central
seemed to be coming slower than usual."
Sunday night was the first night off
the regular towerman had taken in over
a month. His job is a seven-day one.
I'iering was back at work on the cross-
ing Monday afternoon.
Clara Hamon Charged i
With First Degree Murder
Associated Press Report.
ARDMORE, Okla., Feb. 28.—Though
her attorneys announced she was still
<*>o ill to stand any length of time, Mrs.
Clara Smith Hamon late Monday en-
tered a plea of not guilty to a charge
of first degree murder in connection with
the death of Jake L. Hamon, when she
was arraigned in district court here.
H. H. Brown, special prosecutor ap-
j pointed by Judge T. W. Champion, read
' the lengthy information charging Mrs.
Hamon with murder. The defendant was
asked if she would stand while the in-
formation was being read. After her
attorney explained that she had been ill
and was not able to stand, Mrs. Hamon
replied: "I am not. I will stand."
After argument concerning the pre-
sentation of names of State witnesses to
the defense, the conrt asked if Mrs.
Hamon wished to plead guilty or not
guilty.
"Not guilty," she said.
It was agreed that a full list of State
witnesses would be completed by March
4, and given to the defense.
42 STATES ATTACK
. TRANSPORTATION
ACT VALIDITY
Measure Takes Away States'
Rights, Brief in Case
Declares
Associated Press Report.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28—Validity of
the transportation act was attacked Mon-
i day in the supreme court by 42 States and
j defended by counsel for the railways. The
j suit was tiled by the State of Wisconsin,
but attorneys general and railway and
utilities commissions of 41 other States
were permitted to become parties to it.
The only action in the case Monday
was the filing of a brief. Oral argument
probably-will be heard this week.
The States' brief declared that as now
administered, the act, by centering all
power over rates in the interstate com-
merce commission, took away from the
States rights specifically reserved to them
by the federal constitution.
The provisions for a fixed return on
railway investment was made a subject
for special attack as "unnecessary and
unconstitutional."
Emphasis also was directed to the re-
quirement that the commission group sev-
eral roads together and make rates that
would yield an aggregate fixed return to
all roads in the group. This was alleged
to place a "double burden" on shippers,
in that it compelled them to support
"poor and worthless roads" as well as
those which rendered legitimate service.
BANDITS GET $12,000.
Associated Press Report.
PIEDMONT, Okla., Feb. 28.—Three
unmasked men entered the First State
bank here Monday afternoon and robbed
the girl cashier, Jessie Wadscheek, of
.$2000 in cash and $10,000 in Liberty
bonds. She was alone in the bank when
the men entered. They escaped
waiting automobile.
in a
DALLAS WATER RATE LOWEST.
Houston Post Special.
DALLAS, Texas, Feb. 28.—Dallas will
have a wator rate of 27 cents a 1000
gallons, including a 2-cent increase, which
will require a $400,000 bond issue, pro-
posed and voted upon in the April elec-
tion, to build filteration plant, city offi-
cials said Monday. If the bond issue
passes authorizating the increase the city
will still have the lowest domestic water
rate of any city in the State, officials
said.
Texas Historical Society
To Meet on April 21
Houston Post Special.
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 28—The annual
business meeting of the Texas State His-
torical association, which has formerly
been held in March, will Tie held this year |
at 10:30 a. m. Thursday, April 2t, in |
room 158 of the main building of the ]
University of Texas.
All the. income of the Historical society
goes into the publication of the South- j
western Historical Quarterly, which is j
regarded by historians as one of the lead- j
ing historical journals in the United I
States. A recent appeal made to the sub-
scribers of the journal to increase th/ir
subscription to $3 owing to an increase
in the cost of printing met with a hearty
response in nearly*every instance, the
January. 1921, Quarterly states.
The Quarterly has been published for
24 years. Through its influence during
the past 15 years the history of the
United States has practically been rewrit-
ten at every point where it touches
Texas.
Arkansas R. R. Service
Forty Per Cent Normal
Associated Press Report.
HARRISON, Ark., Feb. 28.—Service
on the Missouri and North Arkansas rail-
road, tied up Saturday by a strike of
employes, was declared to be 40 per cent
normal Monday, by General Manager
Phelan.
The walkout was the result of a cut in
wages, and, according to the general man-
ager, was unwarranted in view of the
fact that he had offered to confer with
the men in an effort to reach an agree-
ment.
THREE KILLED IN HEMP RIOT.
Associated Press Report.
MANILA. IV I.. Feb. 28.—Two Fili-
pinos were killed and ten Chinese stores
burned in fights over hemp purchases in
the islands of Hamar and Leyte, more
than 300 miles soxitheast of here, accord-
ing to advices received Monday.
It Is Not Safe
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• desk drawer, or on the
► top shelf of the kitchen
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Deposit your money in a
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64928
74667
64929
64933
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Thoughts of You Frances Alda
John Pool Emilio De Gogorza
Interludium in Modo Antico Flonzaley Quartet
When Chloria Sleeps Amelita Galli-Curci
Mefistofele—Dai campi, dal prati (From the Green Fields) Beniamino Gigli
(a) Berceuse (Paul Juon) (b) Valse du Ballet Raymonde Jascha Heifetz
Samson et Dalila—Printemps qui commence
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Lassie o' Mine Edward Johnson
Nina Violoncello * Hans Kindler
(a) The Next Market Day (b) A Ballynure Ballad John McCormack
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Arturo Toscanini and La Scala Orchestra
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Arturo Toscanini and La Scala Orchestra) ^
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88627 12 1.75
64930 10 1.25
64932 10 1.25
64926 10 1.25
74668 12 1.75
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Roses of Memory
I Have a Dream
I Cannot Sing the Old Songs
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Somebody—Medley One-Step
Honeydew—Medley Waltz
Honeydew—Medley One-Step
Rosie—Medley Fox Trot
Honolulu Eyes—Medley Walts
Broadway Rose—Medley Fox Trot
Sweet Mamma—Medley Fox Trot
Down by the O-HI-O
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Roee of My Heart
When I Looked in Your Wonderful Eyes
I Used to Love You but It's All Over Now
Dolly (I Love You) i
Beautiful Annabelle ,Lee
Louisiana
Medley of Irish Jigs Accordion
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Gems from "Jimmie"
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12
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18718 10
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18722 10
18723 10
18724 10
18725 10
18726 10 .85
18727 10
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35705 12 1.35
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