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ALISTIN AMERICAN: MONDAY
Thousands Search Morgue
N
SEA UNFRIENDLY
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is found in the recent declaration by
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Judgment Among Officials.
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to-
“We are constantly getting our
Many
lead-soled
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CUEF
searchers grasped each person as they Mansfield and Mr. Nicholas.
along the river and a ceaseless parade
Plea Before Justice Ford Will
of curious
side elevated trains passed the bridge
BAIL!
Fl
north of London.
81,400,000
81,000.000
70,500,000
52.580,000
of America . . .
. ” 60,000.000
4
it means. In the last analysis.
26,500,000
444
Total ...
... 8540,800,000
53 F1
the submerged vessel
place*’
reach the armory and were
•pe-
■ cctui dj
‘DI
si
for Victims of Eastland;
1500 Are Estimated Dead
$200,000 IS RAISED
IN FEW HOURS FOR AID
OF EASTLAND VICTIMS
MEN WEEP AS WOMEN
FAINT AT GRUESOME
SIGHTS IN CHICAGO
50.000.000
45.000.000
GOVERNMENT BEGINS
EASTLAND DISASTER
INQUIRY AT CHICAGO
among officials here is that Germany
will abide by her solemn declarations
of the
night.
bodies I had to pull loose from wires,
piles of suit cases, lunch baskets and
s to care for the
iter. Health Com-
Robertson today
SING SING IS READY
FOR EXECUTION OF
BECKER WEDNESDAY
Sterling Gum
The- point gum
PEPPERMINT - RED WRAPPER
CINNAMON - BLUE WRAPPER
ni to teat, a threatening, domi-
demand
not. will make a conceivably
IMAN DISLIKE
R U. S. NOTE
Be Made Today—Wife
Visits Husband.
/ossische Zeitung Says Bellig-
erents Must Protect Neutrals
Where Protection Possible.
are stacked up under the water. Many
bodies we can not get loose until the
ship is raised ”
Searchlights played upon the mu-
tilated hull of the ship tonight while
stood near the line gave ice water to
those who trudged past their doors
Two or three hours was often re-
quired by the people in the waiting
line to gain entrance to the bunding
Weak from standing in the hot sum- ,
to operate.
York asked a three-cornered inves-
tigation of the Eastland, a hull, life-
taking establishments
The scenes of identification are ter-
Specia
HP I
day o
opene
by th
busine
paper
in Re
of Pa
seconc
that (
ries n
This i
The n
•ions
Rev
Studtr
TO CREATE NEW
STEEL COMBINE
.... 878.600 000
Iron
'he note uses language which will
no response with the overwhelm-
ROME, July 25.—The reservists of
jhe infantry arm of the Italian army,
belonging to the classes of 18 85 and
1 888. together with the specialists in
the several other arms of the service,
have been called to the colors.
GERMAN PRISONERS ESCAPE.
Tin
went
inche
crete
gates
show
depth
fifty-1
es almost hateful disregard of;
rman government’s standpoint.”
Morten Post. liberal and seri-
l declares that fhe note shoves
rman proposal aside, and that
hor “lifts his finger threaten-
‘ ters that an especially
St*blishing his point.”
official) says:
de on tbs letter of the
stigate an investigation.”
Captain Westcott gave a similar ex-
planation for his presence in Chicago.
He went a step further regarding the
“thorough investigation.”
When asked if the past records of
the boat will be taken into considera-
; land, which is violating its spirit. Ger-
majority of the German nation, i many gave Americans good advice
- aa mnaene in the last analvsis 1 when she warned them against com-
I ing into the danger zone. America’s
j rejection of the proposals concerning
passenger ships breathes any spirit ex-
cept that of thankfulness
"While there may be further nego-
l tlations. the Germans have decided on
state Im MAY term
FAILURE TO FREE
1 Lord Crewe that his country has de-1 ton, acting supervisor general of
I cided to no longer regard the seizure steanfboat inspection, and Charles H.
and detention of an American shin or Westcott of Detroit, district supervis-
stands alongside the Eastland, ready
to hoist the ship when the order is
given. When that is done a net is to
be strung across the river just below
to catch any bodies which may start
downstream.
From the Fastland the corpses are
taken by launch and motor truck to
the Second Regiment Armory. Twen-
ty-seven were removed during the late
afternoon and evening.
Identifying l’rogresses Rapidly.
The piteous task of identifying the
dead progressed rapidly today and to-
Performs 8000 Operations.
PARIS. July 25. — The surgical rec-
ord of the war is held by Dr. Rutsca
of the Jaegersdorf Hospital, near Cra-
cow, who performed more than right
thousand operations between Novem-
ber of last year and June.
was kept moving across
treaty was ratified by Great Britain,
and that no matter how strong the
diplomatic exchanges may be, nor how
full they may be of possibilities of
crowds filled the roofs of buildings
One of the most Important witnesses
in the investigation will be John Dev-
ereux York. prominent naval archi-
tect, who today delivered to State’s
Attorney Hoyne a copy of a letter
alongside the other victims whos
bodies were unclaimed.
over everything in the hold and on
men in copper helmets.
epecal
CUE 1
day her
polled a
the ame
but by
try box*
from.
The »
amend n
home v
ballot, i
generall
of "jok
the poll
judges t
ident H B. Thayer — -----
not reach the conference. kepresen-
tutives of the leading store, and cor-
porations and many members of the
Association of Commerce took part in
raise another $200,000 within forty-
eight hours. A total of $500,000 in
cash by Tuesday night is what is
the meeting.
Scores of clubs, lodges and civic so-
cieties have begun raising funds. Many
theaters, which were dark last night,
have arranged to give benefit per-
formances. , ...
While practically all who lost their
lives were employed and the family
larders were presumably well stocke 1
it is only a week until rent day and
the most of the survivors wll soon be
in need of supplies. A canvass of
the situation was begun today by Red
Cross workers and all immediate
wants will be made known.
ITALIANS CALL RESERVISTS.
rible beyond words. In the great hall,
suffocating with fumes of disinfect-
ants. the relatives of the dead and
missing were admitted in small groups
Each was taken in charge by a nurse
or physician and led down the long
rows of bodies. One by one the
clothes were lifted from the blacken-
ing faces. Early in the day it re-
quired an hour to view all of the
bodies. It was an ordeal to make a
continued tu
Special 1
HAGL
little mi
sounding
Fire was
house or
San Anti
< ne sma
one othei
impression among the people. t
it lacks utterly the friendly
of the German note and i
pLONDe who escaped from 15 In- night at » o'clock only rorty-seven
Ernment camp at Alexander Palace) bodies remained unclaimed in the
on Tuesday, were recaptured today
the (’lark Street bridge. As the north
their course.”
The Boersen Zeitung, financial and
nonpolltical, says that it regrets that
it is compelled to say the note is a
very unsatisfactory one and that “one
can not escape feeling that the shad-
ow of England stands behind it.” The
truly friendly feelings of Germany for
the United States are put to a hard
test by the note, especially the last
it to Eng- l paragraph," the newspaper says. "
I strong man and a stranger faint. What
I must it have been to those seeking a
mother or child? In this terrible vast
sarcophagus every few moments some
one shrieked or someone fainted
And when those who had been
through once saw a new truck load of
bodies arrive they fell into line again
and went through the ordeal once
more.
That many bodies are still in the
wanted. . .
‘ This is no disaster, ’ the appeal
reads, “thousands of miles away like
those of the Titanic, Lusitania or Slo-
cum. No less terrible in its toll of
lives than these, the Eastland disaster
was in the heart of our city.”
The Acting Mayor named a com-
mittee to raise money and one to co-
operate with the Red Cross in the
distribution of relief. Julius Rosen-
v.ald. the multi-millionaire mail order
man, heads the finance committee and
Dr. John Dill Robertson, commissioner
of health, the relief committee.
Present at the conference in ad-
dition to city officials were J. J.
O’Connor of the National Red Cros3----- - . - „ . .
-ng William Sidley, vice president of j two Diocks west the passengers might
the Western Electric Company. Pres-be seen pressing their faces against
tme west — r or New York did‘the windows. Other thousands in the
-- - streets tried to get near enough to
It would have to wait until the vessel
was raised
The ballast tanks. It was explained,
run the length of the vessel on either
side .and are filled by valve opera-
tions on one side and emptied in a
'similar way on the other. Sometimes
■ the captain, sometimes the engineer,
give* the orders for filling or emptying
either one to even the ship’s balance.
The undercurrent
5 BERLIN July 25.—The text _
E^martcsn note was published in this
Smorning's papers. Its contents and
I wording exeeeded even the most un-
tavorable anticipations, and the edito-
Hal omment was distinctly antag-
r onistic., s., cgigTe | danger, ’there’ is still the treaty on
The Vossiche Zeitung. Conservatve which to fal back and continue dis-
tion ...........
Colorado Fuel and
Company ........
the decks went with the people. All
Laackawanna Steel Com-
pany.................
Republic Iron and Steel
Company ............
Jones & Laughlin Steel
Company ...........
Crucible Steel Company
shoes entangled.
see something, but were kept back
by the thousands in front. The crowds
were much greater than on Saturday
and nearly a thousand weary, sleepy
and irritable policemen were required
to keep them in check.
Coroner 'Hoffman and Police Dep-
uty Schuettler visited the scene during
the night and went out across long
planks and stood upon the side of the
Fastland looking down into the black
holes. They conferred with Captain
Carland of the lifesaving station, who
was at that hour in charge of thie
rescue work, and decided to reconsider
their decision to have the ship lifted.
A dredgeboat carrying a derrick
cussion.
There is no such treaty with Ger-
many. but officials have stated as the
German foreign office informed this
Government that It agreed to the
Merchants’ Transfer
. M. Caban las. Prop.
Merchant accounts, receiving,
forwarding and storage, heavy
hauling.
Office and warohouse Me. 3, 406
Colorado Street Both phonos 816.
Warehouse facilities on tracks.
Pennsylvania Steel Com-
pany .................
Cambria Steel Company. .
Youngstown Sheet and
Tube Company.......
armory. There are others in under-
to the United States to deal care-
fully with all American ships and ships
on which there may be American citi-
zens. It is pointed out that if a Ger-
man submarine should attack a Brit-
ish merchantman and there should be
loss of American lives, it would still be
competent for Germany, even under
the President’s note, to prove, or be
permitted to prove, that it was at-
tacked first by the merchantman.
This Government knows that Ger-
many has advised the United States
that Great Britain has issued orders
to her merchant commanders to at-
tack German submarines and to es-
cape with all hazards. Recent cases
have shown that certain British mer-
chantmen refused to be overhauled.
The whole question of the attitude
of the United States toward the Ger-
man submarines has undergone some
notable changes.
In the United States note to Sir
Edward Grey on Feb. 20, 1915, pro-
posing a modus vivendi to Germany
and Great Britain, this language is
used: “That neither (Great Britain
nor Germany) will use submarines to
attack merchant vessels of any nation-
ality except to enforce the right of
visit and search.” This language im-
plied that a submarine could enforce
the "right of visit and search.”
In the note of the United States to
Great Britain on May 13, 1915, this
language is used:
“It is practically impossible for the
officers of a submarine to visit a
merchantman at sea and examine her
papers and cargo.”
In the last note to Germany the
following language is used:
“The events of the past two months
have clearly indicated that it is pos-
sible and practicable to conduct such
submarine operations as have charac-
terized the activities of the German
imperial navy within the so-called war
zone in substantial accord with the ac-
cepted practices of regulated warfare.”
State Department officials say it is
futile to speculate as to what action
this Government may or may not take
if Germany, which is not expected,
should break off diplomatic relations
with the United States. They say
there is no warrant for the assumption
that Germany will not reply in friend-
ly and diplomatic language, but that
she will take advantage of the fre-
quent appearances in the last note of
invitations to her to continue the dis-
cussion on the main question, which
is the freedom of the seas.
•ent out 156 physicians in automo-
biles to make a house to house can-
tass and administer treatment to pre-
vent typhoid fever.
“Persons who fell into the Chicago
River and swallowed the polluted
water are in serious danger of ty-
phoid,"" said Dr. Robertson. "Ths
vaccine treatment administered is that
used in the United States Army."
State’s Attorney Hoyne, in a sensa-
tional statement tonight said:
"We insist that a considerable por-
tion of the blame for the Eastland
disaster rests upon the United State*
inspection bureau.
“If the inspectors of the bureau had
done their duty the accident could not
have happened.
“We know ths ship was considered
unsafe bv them because there are let-
ters on file in Washington which pre-
dicted Saturday’s occurrence. I have
copies of these letters.”
Mr. Hoyne tonight had life preserv-
ers found by the divers reinoved from
the Eastland and sent to marine ex-
perts to find if they were up to stand-
ard.
W. C. Steele, secretary-treasurer of
the Indiana Transportation Company,
is held incommunicado by the police.
He was placed in a cell late Saturday
night and since that time has not been
allowed to communicate with anybody.
Not even application for bail has been
made. This is the first time that an
officer of a public service corporation
has ever been held in a cell in Chi-
cago on account of a disaster in which
there was a hint of criminal negli-
gence.
“What does Steele know? Will he
accuse men higher up or Government
aids?" were the questions asked to-
night.
Bpecin1 t
CUHI
ator Jul
ths mor
the pent'
hr is a '
yesterda
meet II
their go
accompli
investiga
ments
would be
Renato
return t
complete
Mlsays:
-“The refusal to accept Germany s
2 practcal proposal to protect Ameri-
| can passengers shows an absolute lack
k of read mess to understand the German
[I standpoint. The principle that bellig-
S erent states must protect neutrals is
f -untenable if applied in the fullest
l sense, as it would mean abdication to
F neutral states.
E “It is true that belligerents must
r' respect neutral rights, but only pro-
g Tided neutrals do everything to Pre-
‘ vent their citizens getting into a situ-
8 ation where protection is impossible.
■ “Victory over the enemy is the' Su-
E preme law for every belligerent. Those
k who render more difficult this task
k than does international law, support
E the enemy. The war on land has
£ shown clearly that restrictions are nec-
5 essary. A person who remains Within
I a beleaguered fortress or walks into
a gunfire zone risks his life without
F the right of protection from his home
E government. ]___
L “The same also is true of naval war-
E fare in spite of the mistaken phrase.
Hredom of the was.' It is. Eranted
E that the ocean is free for peaceful
f travel, hut naval battles also take
E place on it Neutral ships salling be
I tween nighung battleships run therisk
f of being hit by shells and also of be-
■ ing struck by mines. Th® submarine s
§only instruments are the firing of tor-
, Pe Rules Are Laid Down.
g "Those who demand that Germany
! should conduct the war according to
i rules laid down by some academic
E professor expect Germany either to
I endanger her submarines or to give
J up this warfare, which means me
weakening of Germany in the interest
I of her enemy. This is not neutrality
B but partisanship against Germany.
‘ “We know today that the passen-
K gers (of the Lusitania) could have
) been saved, but that they were neg-
R lected. Germany regret* their death,
f but she has a glean conscience and has
f no reason to disapprove of the conduct
■ of her submarine commanders.
2 “President Wilson considers the
l further torpedoing of British warshiPs
t carrying American passengers a dellD-
I erately unfriendly act. While Ger-
k many always is glad to respect Ameri-
I can friendship, she has conceded
E everything that can be conceded. One
E. bit more would be considered humil-
2 iating by the German nations whose
I armies have been victorious upon all
[ the battlefields in the east and in the
E "Srhe Vossiche Zeitung says that
E courteous proposals have not been able
I to change the President's obstinacy,
B and that from his standpoint he not
F only rejects all proposals, but clothes
e the rejection in a form that is any-
E thing but friendly.
K "Whoever plans such a thing, tne
f paper continues, "is no longer neutral,
f but takes sides against Germany and
r for its enemies."
M. The newspaper defends the sinking
■ of the Lusitania, which it terms a war
E ahip says that a different course can
I no be followed toward a warship sim-
E ply because Americans are on board.
E and add*:
"The note further shows that not
[ only is President Wilson’s policy in
the matter of the German submarine
F policy influenced by an especial rela-
l tion to England, but also by the in-
B ternal political situation in the -nited
[ 8ta Americans Can Avoid Danger.
"The only answer to the concluding
Eh paragraph of the note is that Ameri-
I can citizens have it in their own power
I to avoid danger."
K Th* Kreuz Zeitung (official) de-
E Clares that almost every sentence in
Eg th* note demands a sharp disagree-
l ment. It adds that it must be SuP-
3 posed that the German government
F will stamp as a misunderstanding the
K statement that it has acknowledged as
K a principle of law that the character
hand cargo of a merchant ship must be
F established before the ship can be de-
E stroyed, and that the lives of non-
I combatants may in no case be en-
E dangered unless the vessel attempts to
K flee or to resist.
The newspaper asks whether it is
E just that Germany should surrender
Eher fighting power in order that a
E few neutrals may follow their whim
ED-to cross the ocean on enemy ships.
E The Kreuz Zeitung in conclusion says:
"We resist the thought that the
| United States, in its position on the
E submarine matter, aims at the indirect
f support of England. But we must
r confess that the contents of the note
E are with difficulty understandable to
I u* from any other viewpoint.”
The Tagleblatt (Liberal) says:
"The note shows clearly that the
E American Government cares more for
E the crippling of our submarine war-
E fare than for the safeguarding of
EAmerican lives.
"The United States must realize that
E to change our submarine warfare is
E out of the question. The note proves
5 that pro-British Influence has gained
, an upper hand in President W ilson s
’ We hope that the common sense of
a the Amprican people will prevent citi-
E- sens from serving as protection for
t EngHsh munition ships.”
E- Captain Persius, naval expert of the
E"Tageblatt, commening on the note,
■P®The American note expresses a de-
I cided will to rob us in our battle
against England of the weapon on
which we place the biggest hopes By
5Pthe rejection of the German proposals
Sregaring special ships, the (’nited
dsttes shows that it is not striving for
the safety of its citizens, but rather
| for the laming of our submarine cam-
Bahn.
"t distinguishes be ween the rules
or international law on land and on
pea because it now suits the chief
"delper of Great Britain to do so
• • • The note shows that the pro-
British agitators have now secured
domination over the President.”
The Tages Zeitung, radical, says: ।
“Neutrals have rights, but so also
B hhas a great nation fighting for its life
EnKough maintaining submarine war-
■Bara. Germany always is willing to re- <
Espect ths justifiable wishes of Amer- <
Eagans, but not at any price.” <
K- Count Ernest von Reventlow, writ- 1
Eng in the Tages Zeitung, says: I
Will Find No Response.
I he wrote in August, 1913, to the
I United States harbor inspector in Chi-
I cago, directing the latter's attention
to the fact that the steamer East-
land. in York's opinion, was unsea-
worthy and should not be permitted
cases of beer. When the boat went
tion in the Investigation, Mr. West-
cott said that he did not know "what
things will enter Into the considera-
tion”
"The first thing, of course," he said,
"is to determine what caused the boat
to capsize, and discover who was re-
sponsible. Then if the department
asks for the past history of the boat,
that will probably be brought in col-
laterally.”
Hoover and Westcott are not ex-
pected to remain in Chicago more than
twenty-four hours unless they receive
other orders from Secretary of Com-
merce Redfield.
Mny Subpoena Officers.
Inspector Nicholas asserted that he
would endeavor to get in touch tomor-
row with State’s Attorney Hoyne, so
that he might subpoena officers of the
Eastland for the commerce investiga-
tion when th air presence was not
needed before the State grand jury.
“I am not at all satisfied that there
was any sudden shift of weight on the
vessel at the time the line was cast
off,” said Nicholas, after spending the
morning interviewing river men who
viewed the disaster. "It was reported
that a squad of mounted police, pass-
ing over the bridge, caused the crowd
to surge to the rail. It was also re-
ported that a motion picture machine
in a launch caused this rush I have
fairly authentic information that there
was no rush."
Nicholas asserted that he had tried
to inspect the ballast tanks of the
Eastland, but that this he found would
be impossible until the ship was
righted.
"If it is found that there was Ao
shifting of the crowd, as I am reliably
informed, it may develop that the
operation of the ballast tanks was
faulty.
”I have read a statement in th*
newspapers that Captain Pederson says
the tanks were empty. Just who was
to blame for that condition is a mat-
‘er for investigation. Chief Engineer
J. M Ericson would be th* man to
operate the ballast tsnks. But he is
under arrest, and I haven’t had an
opportunity to question him."
Inspector Nicholas asserted that the
bureau had no divers and that he
vas unwilling to trust the inspection
to other*. For this reason, he sald.
an American -ownea cargo as a diplo-or, are in the city prodding the local
I mafic question. lhe L nited taie I inspectors to co-operate with the Fed-
Iha* challenged that assertion, anderal grand jury. They also will make
I there seems to be no way of compro- I their own investigation and report to
ofthemising on such a grave principie. Washington.
or -5 Officials say that it is just for such ----
emergencies that the bryan-W iison
(Continued from Page One.)
of judgment
whose holdings have been optioned to
William H. Donner, president of the
company and close personal friend of
1 Henry (’lay Frick, capitalist, banker,
promoter, coke king and nestor of the
new idea of a second steel trust
Beyond these companies actually
named as scheduled for entry into
the new steel trust, conjecture runs
riot It is reported that the Republic
Iron and Stecl Company may be in-
cluded: that the Youngstown Sheet
and Tube Company, a corporation
closely affiliated with the Pickands,
Mather A Co. Interests, may also join
the merger.
Should it go as far as this, It can
be taken for granted that it will also
take in upwards of 8100,000,000 worth
nf lake steamship and l-ke Superior
Iron ore enterprises controlled by the
leading capitalistic interests of this
city.
And it may even reach down the
line and take in such smaller con-
cerns as the International and Steel
Company of Chicago, the Brier Hill
Steel Company of Youngstown, th* Ia-
belle Iron Works of Wheeling and
a number of others in the same clans
operating throughout the Mahoning
and Shenango Valleys.
The last great obstacle to a merger
of Independent steel companies was
swept aside when the Federal Court
in New Jersey a few weeks ago gave
the steel trust absolution on the
charge of combination In restraint of
trade.
The writer has no knowledge as to
how many of the independents have
signified their willingness to enter the
new steel merger, but below la given
a list of the possibilities, including
those who can come in if they will,
tgether with the capital investment
of each, as represented in the com-
bined par value of their stocks and
bonds outstanding:
Companies. Capitalization.
Bethlehem Steel Corpora-
Kilian.
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from S
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trict cl
At 1
comm
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addres
(iood
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the sei
istry."
turned to the slow moving lines each
: time she left the hospital and re-
mained in the building until she had
found and claimed all of those whom
the capsized Eastland had taken as a
tell.
"I have not a relative left in the
world,” mourned Mrs. Maran to a hos-
pital attendant. "Everyone who was
dear to me was aboard the vessel when
it turned over. I have nothing left
to live for."
Search is Unsuccessful.
For two hours Mrs. Frank Danak
searched’ along the lines of bodies fot
her husband, who was a drummer in
the excursion band aboard the East-
land. Her search was unsuccessful.
"My husband was reluctant to leave
heme the morning he was lost." said
Mrs. Danak to a nurse. "He kissed
our children fondly. He feared some-
I thing would happen."
A careful record of each identifi-
cation was made by the assistants of
Coroner Hoffman. They obtained the
name and address of each victim ree
ognized, the name, address and rela-
tionship of the person" making the
identification and the name and ad-
dress of the undertaker to whom the
body was delivered.
As rapidly as the records were made
attaches of the coroner’s office made
a check of them and in scores of in-
stances where it was suspected that
the identification made by friends >r
other parties who were not relatives
might not be regulr. Independent In-
vestigations were instituted.
A score of volunteer embalmers
worked in a curtained corner of the
big room during the day in efforts to
preserve the bodies of the victims.
Early in the day the conditions in the
hall became so menacing that Coronel
Hoffman issued a special appeal to
every undertaker and embalmer in
Chicago to lend assistance to him
Neither policemen, coroner's assist-
ants or nurses and doctors stopped in
their work for food or rest until late
in the afternoon Learning that the
men were without food, officers of ,
Reid, Murdock & Co., who tenderort
tneir building at the North Clark
Street bridge Saturday morning for a
temporary morgue, had a luncheon
served at one side of the room.
Throughout the day additional
bodies recovered from the depths of
Bank to the fluor and hurried them, "Captain Westcott and I are in no
to the emergency hospital, where re- sense conducting an investigation, or
storatives were applied, for that matter even supervising one
Mrs. Marion Maran. <3 years old We are to be the ultimate judges if
collapsed three times while Searchins an appeal is taken from the decision
for the bodies of her two sons . of the local inspectors. Therefore. It
dt ughter-in-law and a grandchild, would hardly be proper for us to in-
With dogged determination she re- ......
There is none more interested in get-
ting at the bottom of this situation
, than I am—than is the Department of
mer sun and from grief over the lossi,. ", .. .. .
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after entering the armory. ousness of the disaster that tiie depart-
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peal in case of serious diplomatic J the boat had a 38-foot beam and
conflict to the principle of continuous i should have been provided with a
argument until there should be a keel, but that no such provision had
world declaration of principle after the been made.
He also stated that the vessel had
listed on occasions when it was carry-
ing only a fraction of the crowd that
was on board when she turned over
yesterday.
that time restored more than a thou-
sand of the victims to their relatives.
Heart-rending sights took place on
every hand. Aged women came to find
the bodies of lost sons and daughters,
while wives and husbands searched
for each other and for children who
were aboard the vessel when it cap-
sized.
The heat in the hall was stifling and
to the difficulties of the situation were
added the fumes of ammonia and
other disinfectants which the. attaches
of the coroner’s office were sprinkling
along the aisles between the bodies.
Nurses Take Precautions.
Groups of volunteer nurses bathed
the faces of the bodies with disinfect-
ants and took what precautions they
could to relieve the ghastly aspects
of the unembalmed bodies.
Another corps of nurses from the
Illinois Training School and the Red
Cross were stationed in the emer-
gency hospital which Coroner Hoff-
man established.
Lines of people waiting to be ad-
mitted to the hail frequently reached
for three and four blocks away. As-
sistant Chief of Police Hermann
Schwettler establishod a blue-coated
cordon around the armory at a dis-
tance of two blocks, giving instruc-
tions that no one be permitted to ap-
proach the building except in the line
Gt persons waiting to search for vic-
tims of the steamer disaster.
Outside the police lines were gath-
ered thousands of people who gazed
silently toward the towering armory
or watched the lines of ambulances
and hearses approach and leave the
entrances.
To aid persons in finding friends
and relatives, the Welfare Club of the
Western Electric Company stationed
an automobile at Washington Boule-]
vard and Sangamon Streets, in which,
a telephone was installed, and such ;
information given as would facilltate
the work of locating bodies and hav- .
ing them removed from the armory
The sun shone hotly on the waiting
line of people seeking to enter the
building. Women whose residences
NEW YORK, July 25—Ring Hing is
ready to execute Charles Becker on
Wednesday morning. The fact that
Hecker is appealing for a third trial,
that an able lawyer today will beseech
Justice Ford to save the condemned
police lieutenant, and that new facts
have been disclosed means nothing in
the pulseless routine of the shabby
stone prison up the Hudson.
There remains to be done nothing
except to test the electric chair in
which Becker must die unless Justice
Ford decides that the new facts are
new evidence, and that this new evi-
dence warrants a third trial. Becker
is quite as ready as Hing Ring is. He
is as stoical as a brazen image.
His wife spent more than three
hours in the uncanny death house to-
day, talking to her husband. John
H. Johnston, one of Becker’s attor-
neys. was with her.
The proceedings tomorrow before
Justice Ford may entail nothing more
than argument by W. Bourke Cock-
ran for Becker and by a representa-
tive of the District Attorney's office.
But Justice Ford may, as did Justice
Goff in the final fight of the four
gunmen, call for the testimony of wit-
nesses if he does this, Joseph Mur-
phy, the Hing Ring convict, who was
examined on Saturday by Governor
Whitman, will be hustled to New York
as fast as a motor car can take him
Deputy Warden Johnson declared
today that Murphy’s story of the al-
leged "frame-up” conference between
Webber, Rose and Vallon in the Tombs
remains unshaken. Mr. Johnson says
that Murphy stuck to his story In the
Governor’s presence.
Mr. Johnson was with the prisoner
all the time.
Jack Rose, the State’s main wit-
ness, visited District Attorney Rerkins
offices tonight. He was with Mr.
Perkins for forty-five minutes.
Justice Ford has no power to delay
the execution unless by granting a
new trial. Much action would auto-
matically effect a stay Becker's at-
torneys believe that this will come to
pass. Becker seems totally uncon-
cerned. If this last stand fails, Becker
will go to the chair without emotion,
because he is a man without physical
fear
Mr. York's letter was read at a
conference. Chief of Police Healey
submitted documents seized by the po-
lice in Captain Harry Pederson's cabin
on the Eastland tending to show that
the maximum of passengers allowed
by the Government on the ship was
2070 instead of 2500, as Pederson and
th® Government checkers declared-
After the conference. Chief Healey
said:
“The turning over of the Eastland
was due to criminal negligence.
“There is no doubt of criminal neg-
ligence,” said the chief. "These papers
point to it. There’are two distinct
sets of papers for the ship."
City’s Greatest Tragedy.
That the investigations would show
bad seamanship was largely responsi-
ble for the city's greatest tragedy, was
the opinion of many lake men today.
It is hard, they said, to explain Cap-
tain Henry Pederson's statement that
the Eastland never took water ballast
until out in the lake in view of the
statements of naval architects and
former officers of the steamship that
she was top-heavy, and safe only when
heavily ballasted.
The conflicting statements of the
captain, who said he had not ordered
the ballast pumps started, and of men
in the engine room who said the
steamer was taking ballast when she
upset, apparently show disobedience
of orders.
Among the grand jury witnesses
subpoenaed is John V. Elbert, a sur-
vivor of the Titanic disaster, who was
employed as gaugeman on the East-
land. In addition to waking up a
dozen members of the crew and sav-
ing their lives, Elbert found time to
help Engineer J. M. Erickson fill the
injectors in the boilers, thus prevent-
ing an explosion, and to save a half
dozen passengers. He was probably
the coolest head on the ship. And,
regarding the ballast. Elbert today
said to the International News Serv-
ice:
Pumpin'- Water Onto Starboard.
"They were pumping water onto the
starboard side hen the crowd on the
docks began to notice the boat listing
and moved over to the river side.
That settled the Eastland. The bal-
last water would have righted the
, boat, but the crowd caused the boat
to list so much that the ballast
pumps on the starboard were sucking
in air while those on the river side
pumped water. That, of course,
helped the boat to go over.”
That the recovery of bodies from
the capsized ship is not nearly finished
was shown by the fact that those
found today were taken out of the
holes cut in the side of the vessel and
no systematic attempt has been begun
to find those in the river. Holes were
• cut in the promenade deck this eve-
| ring, facilitating the work.
Tremendous difficulties confront the
divere. They can work only a few
moments, generally, before being
forced to come to the surface to re-
cover from bumps and bruises.
Bodies Mixed With Debris.
“The bodies are mixed up with all
sorts of debris," said Otto Bladorn, one
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