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ress South of Dixmude.
AUSTRIANS RUSH
10,000 SOLDIERS
TO GERMANS’ AID
ENGLAND ADMITS
BOER REBELLION
84 U.S. SEAMEN
CLINGTOTORPEDO
BOAT ON SANDBAR
ENGLAND SEIZES
AMERICAN SHIPS
CARRYING COAL
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AUSTIN MAN’S NIECE
BELIEVED KIDNAPED
FROM ST. LOUIS HOME
Government Hopes to Crush
South African Uprising by
Immediate Action.
GERMAN ADVANCE
ON FRENCH LINE
Steamers Bound for Mexico,
Australia and Guaymas.
All Are Neutral Ports.
DEMOCRATS PREDICT
GAINS IN CONGRESS;
FIVE NEW SENATORS
>ns of next Tues-
Democratic cam-
Heavy Seas Pounding Frail
Craft to Pieces Off Vir-
Swedish Papers Report English
Losses Are Enormous on
Belgian Border.
Secretary McAdoo Makes Pub-
lic Inner Workings of Huge
Cotton Loan Fund.
WEDDING PARTY AUTO
HITS ARKANSAS GIRL
returned in the elec
day, according to
paign leaders here.
Explosions Wreck Mam Shaft—Mine Still Burn-
ing—Little Hope of Rescuing 106 Still
Beneath Ground—27 Bodies Recovered.
Many of Those Escaping Are Terribly Burned.
Women and Children Crowding at Top
Render Rescue Work Difficult.
Upward of 50,000 Bondholders
of U. S. Common Stock
Are Affected.
You Must Act Today If You Would Make Glad
Hearts of Thousands of European Orphans
Detectives Trail Woman With
Gerhard Child on Train
in Oklahoma.
Thousands Are Wounded and
Killed in Conflict on Bel-
gian-French Frontier.
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The <»Uc
blown’d
plosion,
where,
rd body.
Leaders Think Pennsylvania Is
Close—Hopeful Palmer
Will Be Named.
Fear Vessels Would Deliver
Cargo to German Cruisers
in Pacific Ocean.
Ambassador Denies Any Inten-
tion of the Kaiser Invad-
ing United States.
Loan Applications Must Be Ac-
companied by Approved
Warehouse Receipts.
REPLY TO FRANK’S TELEGRAM.
Dallas, Oct. 27, 1914.
292 ARE ENTOMBED
IN ILLINOIS MINE;
186 BROUGHT OUT
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METHODISTS LAY PLANS
TO RAISE $10,000,000
me was the body
had been instantl;
Advices received by Mr. Franks assure him and Austin American that the Katy and the
connecting lines will haul the gifts free of charge from Austin to Brooklyn. The Pennsyl-
vania Railroad has notified the Katy officials that the Austin car will be handled over its
lines from East St. Louis without charge.
Following telegrams received and sent by Thad Franks, Austin commercial agent for
the Katy Railroad, indicate what a service Mr. Franks has performed:
Detectives were last night trailing
Julia Krasusky, the nurse alleged to
have kidnaped little Virginia I ce Ger-
hard in St. Louis Monday, according
know,
for thi
l
of them did not
"‘I crawled over my brothers body
in an aimless effort to get away from
that particular "spot I ran into an
n”
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ulo-
Emperor’s insistent demand for the capture of Calais was take
to mean nothing less than a serious determination upon the par
of the Kaiser to threaten England from the Straits of Dover.
Particularly interesting in this connection was the statemen
attributed to General Baron Armand von Ardenne, lately attache
to the Adjutant General’s office in Berlin. The statement ap
peared in the Saxon State Gazette and follows:
CAUSES TROUBLE DIRETRSOESTEEl,
— CORPORATION REDUCE
IHROUGH the efforts of Thad Franks, commercial agent of the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas Railroad, Austin American has obtained a car in which to send Christmas gifts
for European orphans to Brooklyn, N. Y., to be loaded on the Red Cross ship and trans-
ported across the ocean. .
whose name I do not
yelled at me to make
aft; that it was our
broke into flames.
An official Austrian
body, Miss Ozment and friends were
, returning from a wedding. Idema is
to be married here tomorrow night to
Miss Mary Phillips.
The prospective bri
and friends were ret
Methodists of North America in con-
ference here today began a campaign
to raime 110.000,000 for pension funds.
A letter was read from President
Wilson in which he wished the move
HOUSE IS NAMED ON
COMMITTEE TO DIRECT DEAD STREW -FIELDS
and groom
gg from a
Maur when
until a thin
hich gradually
thing wai
trie light
■wn by the force of the ex-
Debris was piled every-
Mere and there was a twist-
Rome of them moved. Most
Opportunity for the good people of Austin and Travis County to contribute money or
gifts to the thousands and thousands of hungry children shivering from cold and crying for
bread, is open today. Remember, you must act at once. If you send your money or articles
to Austin American today you will be in time to help make some child happy.
The “free car" will carry a banner on each side announcing that it is loaded with Christ-
mas gifts for little ones in the warring nations. The banner also will let the world know
that these gifts are from the people of Austin, Texas, and surrounding counties. Think
of what a chance to do good.
Every father and mother in Austin should be glad of the opportunity, to gladden the
heart of a German, English, French, Belgian, Austrian, Russian, Servian child whose father
is fighting at the front or already is slain upon the battlefield.
This is the last day you may have the privilege of giving a few pennies to make a home-
less, fatherless child enjoy Christmas. You who imagine “times are hard” can not conceive
of poverty such as now exists in Europe. The sting of cold, the pangs of hunger, the deso-
lation of these children is terrible. They cry out to YOU across the ocean for bread, for shoes,
stockings, trinklets ! Will you turn a deaf ear?
Remember, TODAY is the time to perform a great service to humanity.
NORFOLK, V«., Oct. 27.—Eighty-
four officers and men dressed in life
belts are clinging desperately to the
United States torpedo boat Paulding
tonight while the little craft is appar-
ently pounding to pieces in heavy seas
inside Cape Henry, about half a mile
off Lynn Haven inlet. •
Half a mile away the battleships
Michigan and Delaware, powerless to
go to the rescue, are anchored and in
constant wireless communication with
the Paulding, Closer in but also un-
able to send out lifeboats or land as-
sistance in any other way the repair
boat Panther and the supply ship
Dixie are standing by waiting for the
wind and seas to abate.
At midnight the Paulding had been
ashore for twenty-two hours, having
been caught by a terrific northeast
gale that swooped down on the entire
the disaster and not
wreath of smoke, w
gan almost as soon as the smoke
came out of the mine. The fans were
reversed and doctors and undertakers
from all the neighboring towns were
summoned. The State mine rescue
crews at Benton and Springfield and
at Evansville, Ind., were called.
Htteen Bodies Huddled Togetter.
The State rescuers from Benton
weretthe first to arrive, and made an
nto a cloud. bean to rise from
ne mouth, did they realise what
ppened.
work of attempted rescue be-
London Stirred by Threat of Germans to
ture Calais—Reported Artillery Fire
Force Allies' Warships to Retire 14
From French Coast—Zeppelins May
Channel to Hurl Bombs on Great Bri
Capital—Steamer Is Sunk by Mine.
effort to get into the mine. They
were successful only near the west
entry, and there fifteen of the bodies
which were brought to the surface [
were found huddled together,
by the force of the explosion.
FORT SMITH. Ark., Oct. 27 — Miss
Irene Ozment. 19-year-old daughter of
a prominent local physician, was run
down while stepping from a street car
and was probably fatally hurt by an
automobile driven by Edward Idema.
son of a wealthy manufacturer of
Grand Rapids, Mich., at midnight last
night.
" Two wheels ran over Miss Ozment's
F-25. The Austin American will have car holiday goods for European
poor and ask if we will arrange dead-head rate. They say Eastern lines
will handle car if we will deliver to them. Are you agreeable handling
. this ear and can you arrange with our Eastern connections for its trans-
portatiop to New York? I strongly recommend-this if it can legally
be done. THAD FRANKS,
Commercial Agent, M. K. & T.
Thad Franks, Austin, Texas.
Your wire F-25. Will apply dead-head rate. Packages should be
marked “Dead-head, account European War Orphans Christmas Fund,
care Pennsylvania lines at East St. Louis, care S. S. Jason, New York.”
Small packages should be cased or crated. B-78.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—Secretary
of the Treasury McAdoo tonight made
known the Inner workings of the
$185,000,000 cotton pool to be admin-
istered under the supervision of the
Federal Reserve Board.
The pool, to be known officially as
the "cotton loan fund,” will be ad-
ministered under the direction of a
committee to be known as the "cot-
ton loan committee” designated by the
reserve board, the members of which
are:
W. P. G. Harding, chairman, Wash-
ington. D. C.; Paul M. Warburg,
Washington: Albert H. Wiggin and
James S. Alexander, New York; James
B. Forgan, Chicago; F. J. Wade, St.
Louis; Levi L. Rue, Philadelphia;
William A. Gaston, Boston, and Col-
onel E. M. House, Austin.
The pool for purposes of adminis-
tration will be divided into two classes
as follows:
A: Comprising as subscribers banks
or other corporations, firms or indi-
viduals located in other than the cot-
a distance of thirty-one miles. Bor-
deaux reports admit that the German*
have bombarded and destroyed Arras,
but claim, unofficially, that signal suc-
cesses for the French have been re-
LONDON, Oct. 27.—Tho official
press bureau of the War Office an-
nounces on behalf /of the South
African government that, at the in-
stigation of certain prominent indi-
viduals, a number of burghers in the
northern districts of the Orange Free
State and the western districts of the
Transvaal have been so misguided as
to defy the authority of the govern-
ment and make preparations for
armed resistance and rebellion.
The government, although aware
of the rebellious preparations. and It-
self ready to deal with the situation,
has spared no effort to preserve peace
without bloodshed.
Now the government learns that
in the Northern Orange Free State
the burghers' military requirements
are being commandeered under the
authority of General Christian Fred-
erick Beyers. Armed and reblpous
commandoes already are in existence
and the town of Heilbron has been
The leaders say that Pennsylvania
is close and that A. Mitchell Palmer.
Democrat, has a good chance to van-
quish Senator Boies Penrose.
Ambassador James W. Gerard, run-
ning for Senator in New York. is. ac-
cording to intimate reports of the
Democratic chieftains, a sure winner
against James W. Wadsworth.
The Senators whom the administra-
tion confidently expects will be elect-
ed beside Ambassador Gerard are:
Illinois, Roger Sullivan; Ohio, Tim-
othy Hagan; Connecticut. Governor
Simeon E. Baldwin; Kansas, George
A. Neeley.
Thee Democrats consider that they
also have a "good chance” of electing
their candidates to the Senate from
New Hampshire, North Dakota. Wis-
consin and Idaho.
They say they* have "encouraging
(Continued on Page Two.)
PARIS, Oct. 17.—In a laconic an-
nouncement of less than twenty words
the French war office tonight made
known a gain by the allies which is
weighty with significance. After de-
claring that "there is nothing to an-
nounce," the communique makes the
exception of "‘some progress on our
part in the region to the south of
Dixmude.” ,
Taken in connection with unoffi-
cial details of the fighting in the in-
ferno which has come to be known
as the battle of Flanders, publication
of which was not permissible until
the official announcement of the com-
pletion of the maneuver was made,
this bare declaration gains Vast im-
portance.
Since the fighting of Friday, Sat-
urday and Sunday, which carried the
Germans across the Yser in small de-
tachments numbering between 7000
and 10,000—all that was left after the
machine guns had decimated the
ranks of the corps upon corps that
started the desperate charges—the
main effort of the Anglo-Belgian
forces, supported by the French, has
been to cut through upon the left
flank of the main body of the Ger-
mans. The blows of this great Teuton
triphammer were leveled at Dixmude
and the region just north of that
point.
Today, by a supreme rally, the Bel-
of my brother. He
r killed
lai black as night.'
wires had been
JOHN JACOB ASTOR WOUNDED.
LONDON, Oct 17 —Captain John
Jacob Astor of the First Life Guards,
younger son of William Waldorf
Astor, is reported wounded in active
service. He ia 21 years old. He was
appointed aide de camp to the viceroy
WASHINGTON, Oct 17. — Five
United States Senators will be gained
and a house majority of seventy-five
T ONDON, Oct. 27.—London today was left in a maze by
I conflict of reports emanating from the various war off
1, of the belligerent powers. And to their own war office 1
looked in vain for enlightenment.
Interest eentered upon the efforts of the Germans to :
advantage along the coast with the prospect of an attempted
vasion of England by water or through the air. The Gen
16 ENGLISH OFFICERS
LONDON, Oct. 27 —The Bl
fielal press bureau tonight
additional list of casualtiee
ficers, giving sixteen killed,
wounded and - -
Special to The American.
ST. LOUIS. Mo., Oct. 17.—Virginia,
the 4-year-old daughter of Harry H.
Gerhard, a St. Louis manufacturer,
formerly of Bonham, Texas, disap-
peared yesterday morning with Julia
Krasusky, a nurse who had cared lor
the child ever since Virginia was born.
Tbe nurse was to be discharged un-
day, and she is believed to have start-
ed back to Texas with the little girl
lather than be separated from ber
A clue to the pair was received in
a postal card today to Gerhard from
Manton Da via, Mr Gerhard's attor-
ney, who said he met the child on a
Rock Island train yesterday afternoon
near Eldon, Mo., with her nurse. They
were presumably bound for Kansas
City and Manton had no idea the baby
was being kidnaped.
Virginia's mother died when sho
was a baby and Gerhard married
again. Her grandmother is in Bon-
ham and the police believe that the
nurse is taking the child to her old
home.
BERLIN. Oct. 27.—(By wireless,
via Sayville)—Reports received here
from Rotterdam set forth that the
British warship struck by German ar-
tillery fire off the coast of Belgium
LONDON. Oct. 17.—A Reuter
dispatch from Pretoria says it
was officially announced tonight
that General Louis Botha, the
Premier of the Union of South
Africa, has left for the front to
take personal command of the
forces which have taken the field
to put down the Boer revolt led
by Generals De Wet and Beyers.
NEW YORK, Oct. 17.—Upward of
50,000 holders of United States Steel
common stock in the United States
and foreign countries suffered a war
time cut in their incomes today when
the board of directors of the corpora-
tion reduced the quarterly dividend
from 1 % per cent to % of 1 per cent
This takes the stock from a 5 per
cent basis, on which it has been since
1910, to a 1 per cent basis.
In total dollars and cents this means
that the holders of steel common will
divide among themselves for the quar-
ter ended Kept 10 last the sum of
$1,641,511, compared with a dividend
disbursement of $6,358,781in preced-
ing quarters. The outstanding com-
mon stock totals $505,502,500.
The dividend in the preferred stock
remains at 7 per cent, outstanding
preferred stock amounting to $360,-
251,100 and is held by more than
eighty thousand investors, who also
are scattered all over th© world. The
total disbursement in dividends for
Pick Gerard to Win in New
York—Claim Ilinois Sure
to Elect Sullivan.
_________ __ ____ ____ Some
of the qthers taken out later had
been overcome by the black damp
started to work and but twelve or
Spurteen of them had been let down
S the cages when the explosion oc-
curred.
To those on the top there was no
WASHINGTON. Oct.
given out in Berlin today says that
combined Austrian and German
forces held strong positions in the
long and almost continuous battlefield
from Stary and Sambor in Galicia,
thence to a point east o? Przemysl
and along the San River in a straight
line to Plosk in Russian Poland.
The main Russian army is being
engaged. The Austrian offensive be-
yond the Carpathians has compelled
the Russians to send reinforcements
into this territory.
The battle is still raging In Central
Galicia. Austrian troops have been
successful on the lower San River to
the southeast of Przemysl. Vigorous
encounters are proceeding between
Ivangorod and Warsaw.
A total of 5.200.000,000 marks
(5500,000,000) has been paid in on th©
German war loan. although the loan
itself was for only 2.500,000.000
marks (55 50.000.000). The latest re-
turns of the Imperial Bank show spe-
cie to the amount of 1,828,000,000
marks ($457,000,000). an increase of
27,000,000 marks ($6,750,000). Notes
in circulation show a decrease of 94,-
only hope of safety.
"I guess I owe my life to him. He
dragged me along and we fell against
timbers and over bodies. The air
wm stifling. We could not breathe.
"I wanted to give up. but he would
not let me, and all the time he kept
praying Finally we reached the air
shaft and were brought to safety.”
Helion y said there were between
sixty and seventy men in the main
entry, and he believed that he and
the Italian were the only ones who
escaped.
Sid Ssney, another miner who es-
caped without injury, said that he
passeel at least fifty bodies on his
wav out He sold there were few
in the partv with him and that most
of the men he was working with
were killed.
corded there, the Garmans beta#
forced to evacuate several positions.
Berlin reports are that violent ar-
tillery engagements are taking place :
in Southern Alsace, where the French •
are trying to storm the German po-38
sitions between Belfort and Muelhawe
sen.
According to a Copenhagen dis- l
patch the Emperor of Germany, under I
a new military agreement betweeh.
Germany and Austria, has undertake* 4
the leadership of the united armies.
Manuel, former King of Portugal,27
has offered his services with the Por-
tuguese army in the event Portugal 1
goes to war on the side of the allles. |
Proffer of his services to King George ;
on a previous occasion was made by
Manuel, but without suecess.
The steamship Manchester Com-
merce, plying between Manchesters
and Montreal, was sunk by a mine
off the west coast. The captain ana
thirteen members of the crew were
lost and the remainder of the ship‘s *
company, thirty sailors, were rescue*
by a trawler and taken to Carte lough.
Bay. according to Lloyd's agent C
This is the first casualty from a
on the west coast.
"If the English watch on onr na
stations in the neighborhood of Hi
goland is impossible now, it will 1
come quite impossible when Belgh
and the north coast of France to 1
mouth of the Seine are in Gera
hands.
"In the course of time we shall Di
sees Calais and probably Dieppe a
Havre. Our 12-inch guns have 1
long range of fourteen miles and 1
17-inch guns a still greater ran
England may expect still greater I
tillery surprises. Even if we can 1
shoot from the French coast to 1
English coast, a safety sone could
made for German ships covering mi
than half the navigable water.
Will Serve as Base.
"The French harbors will serve
bases for torpedo boats, submarig
cruisers and Zeppelins and can
made impregnable from the sea
a double and triple row of ml®
If this triple mine field should be J
from the French coast to the Eng)
coast, then Portsmouth and Plymo
would be cut off from the North I
and connection around Scotland wo
be difficult.
"The possibility of laying su
mines is not doubted, as they could :
be laid under cover of artillery. Our ;
submarine and torpedo divisions wouldii
also come into action.
"An invasion of England would be j
easily possible.”
The admiralty is silent on the Ger4 2
man report that all the British shipe 5
have been forced to withdraw fromt
the attack before Nieuport and
tend by the accuracy of th© fire fromp2
the German big guns. Also the admi- 2
ralty ignores as lacking confirmation 1
the report that one of the Britishii
ships was hit and is now in flames. 12
Most startling of the unconfirmed j
reports of the day was that published ]
in a dispatch to the Evening News
from Rotterdam that General von a
Bese ler, the commander of the Ger-
man besieging army which took Ante f
werp, had committed suicide by shoots 9
ing himself in his quarters at Bruges. 1
One report was that the conqueror of5
Antwerp was overcome by grief be- J
cause, after opening the way for the
Germans to the coast, the supreme 8
command of the troops operating 2
against the allies to the west of the g
/scene of his triumph was given to thei |
Duke of Wurtemburg.
News From Front Contradictory.
Claims regarding results of the -
fighting around Arras are at variance.
The Germans aver, in a semi-official. J
announcement printed in the Cologne 7
Gazette, that the French have been 3
pushed back in the vicinity of Arras., A
OYALTON, Ill., Oct. 27.—One hundred and six men of the
K 292 miners who were in the Franklin Coal and Coke Com-
• * pany mine here this morning when two explosions wrecked
the main shaft, are still entombed, according to the best esti-
mates of the officials tonight. The mine is still burning and there
is little hope that any of the 106 will survive. •
Twenty-seven bodies had been taken out up to 9 o’clock to-
night. One-hundred and fifty-nine of the miners escaped between
the first and second explosions, an interval of about fifteen min-
utes. Many of these are terribly burned or in a serious condi-
tion from the effects of gas following the explosion.
The cause of the explosion is unknown. Ralph Mitchell of St.
Louis, president of the company, said tonight that as near as he
could ascertain the accident was caused by the ignition of gas
in one of the west entries. An investigation will be started to-
morrow. < -
The men of the day shift had just —.
NEW YORK. Oct. 27.—Count von
Bernstorff, the German ambassador,
when seen at the Rita Carlton Hotel
tonight, said that if the United States
wanted assurances that in the event
of victory Germany would not seek
expansion in North America, includ-
ing Canada, or South America. Ger-
many would give them immediately.
"Germany,” he said, "has not the
faintest intention or desire to violate
the spirit of the Monroe doctrine. I
say this as emphatically and distinct-
ly as I can, so that there may be no
possible opportunity to mistake our
attitude in the future.”
The German ambassador said the
discussion concerning the matter was
the result of an erroneous inference
drawn from an interview he gave in
Washington some time ago. His gov-
ernment's attitude in regard to ex-
pansion. he said. has already been laid
before the United States Government.
The State Department took up of-
ficially today the seizure by the Brit-
ish cruiser Newcastle off the west
coast of Mexico of the British ships
Lowther Range and Bankdale, sailing
under an American charter, laden
with coal and bound for Mexican
ports.
Officiate here understand that Great
Britain became nervous over a sus-
piclon that this coal would eventually
be stransferred to German cruisers in
the Pacific The same question was
up about six weeka ago when Great
Britain held up a steamer off Ran
Francisco, which she had reason to
believe was in communication for coal
with a German cruiser then lying off
San Franqsco harbor.
The seised vessels were under char-
ter by J. J. Moore & Co. of San Fran-
cisco and the Lowther Range was
bound from Australia and the Banka-
dale from Norfolk, Va., for the ports
of Guaymas and Mazatlan, Mexico, the
consignees being the Southern Pacific
Company and "Martinez," a Mexican
merchant. One of the peculiar cir-
cumstances of the seizures is that the
Newcastle coaled from the Lowther
Range and then sent her to the port
Women and children gathered at
the main entrance, rendering the work
of the rescuers difficult. The apace
around the entrance was roped off
and as the living and dead were
brought out they passed through a
line of wailing wives and widows,
from whose hearts hope fled when
the news came that the mine had
caught fire.
Water was poured into the shaft
In an effort to stop the flames, hut
it was useless, and it was reported
tonight that the sealing or flooding
of the mine will have to he ordered
tomorrow.
Survivors’ Stories Many.
Stories of survivors are many. Al-
most every one of the blackened men
who have escaped from the fiery pit
in the west entry was brought bark
to life only by the most desperate
escapes. Each one has a tale to
tell of greeting death in the dark
Leo Bellomy. whose brother
Charles was instantly killed almost at
his side, and who escaped only after
hardships that were almost unbe-
lievable. told of his experience as a
doctor bound up the cuts and gashes
he received while stumbling through
tne darkened tunnels of the entry.
"I was in a main entry,” he said.
"With my brother, preparing to go to
work. suddenly the explosion came.
I was hurlod to the side of the wall,
and must have lain there unconscious
for many minutes.
"The screams of Injured men and
the prayers of others who believed
there was no hope came to me dimly
as I returned to consciousness. Near
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal., Oct 27.
The big Japanese cruiser Hizen
hovering three miles outside Honol
waiting to pounce upon the little
man cruiser Geter as soon m
clears port and reaches the high _
according to officers of th© Mat
Navigating Company's liner MatsoL..
which reached port'tod ay from Hom
lulu and Hilo.
Aa the Matsonia wm steaming fi
Honolulu her passengers saw th© '
anese cruiser waiting patiently for
prey. It is expected that th©
will be compelled to put to sea _
ly, her repairs being nearly oomph
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Sevier, H. H. Austin American (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 151, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 28, 1914, newspaper, October 28, 1914; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1448862/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .