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177, NO. 1 8 Sections PHILADELPHIA, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 1, 1917 76 Pages News Section Copyright. 19X7. bv The PhiUidelvhia Inquirer Co. MACHINE GUNS AND ARMORED GAR OPERATED BY LOCAL BAKER TELLS DEFENSE MEN THEY CANNOT FIX PRICE OFNA TION'S COAL i a MmlMw wife vVfsS.

y. i GUARDSMEN wis? ZT FRAILI FIELD RALLY PRODUCES 1HCR0ITS Patriotic Demonstration Greets Big Military Maneuvers Final Returns of National Guard Week Expected to Exceed Other Carnpaigns Before more than 6000 spectators units representing every branch oY the land fighting forces of the government partici pated Let a spectacular and picturesque military pageant yesterday afternoon on Franklin Field. Represented on the field were the National Guards, tle Engineer Corps, the United States Marines, the Radio branch of the Signal Corps, Machine Gun Companies, the Motor Truck Corps, armored trucks and the field service corps. Scattered through, the crowd were representatives of the American Red Cross attired in the uniforms of that organization. The feature of the exhibition was the appearance of Company 9th Regiment of Engineers, in a special field drill.

Time and again the grandstands responded to the exhibition with tumultuous applause, as the company executed the most difficult field maneuvers with the precision of a picked company of seasoned and experienced men. Three weeks ago many of the men in the company were working in the machine shops of the railroad companies and the great manufacturing plants of Pennsylvania. Few of them had ever seen military service. Since that time they have been turned into i well-drilled, full equipped company attached to one of the Engineering Regiments that, within a few weeks, will be on French soil. Credit for showing made by the company, it is said, belongs to Lieutenant C.

W. Smith, 1st U. S. Cavalry. That this is appreciated by the men was shown when, following the" exhibition drill, Lieutenant Smith was presented by the company with a special cavalry saddle and bridle.

The presentation was made on the field by private George J. Coles. The incident drew forth a storm of applause from the thousands of spec tators occupying -Jthe grandstands and lining the edges of the field. Lieutenant Smith leaves today to join his regiment in the New England States. With its machine gun company, its armored truck, the powerful motor tractor, provided the regiment by the War Department, its supply company and seventy-five "rookies," the First Regiment N.

G. P-, made the final drive for recruits for the week in a spectacular demonstration on the field. Leaving the First Regiment Armory, Broad and Cal- Continued on 8th Page, 7th Col. A company of the First Regiment, equipped with the wicked rapid-fire guns, was one of the features of the war maneuvers staged at Franklin Field to boom recruiting. The men are shown in action in the upper picture.

Below i3 the armored car in the Broad street parade. SUMP BY 0 EXPLOSION OF 70,000,000 PEOPLE Many Ideas Jam-3d in Heads, Brains n't Boil" Country Has Swallowed ormous Idea, Suffers t-rorrr Painful Digestion' By ARNO DOSCH-FLEU ROT icial Cable to The Inquirer. Copyright, 1917, Press Publishing Co. (The JV. Y.

World) PETROGRAD, May 19 (Russian time) General Alexieff, Commander-in-Chief of the Republican Armies of Fors-sja, has excused all the goings-on in that Immense machine by saying: "The soldiers have had so many new ideas suddenly jammed into their heads that their brains can't boil." Therein he expressed the mental state of most Russians. I find fhat my brain refuses to. boil for several hours after merely reading the morning's batch of ews in the -Petrograd newspapers, even I know the essentials in advance. Uid when it comes to the Moscow and Vieff papers, each with a boiling of its own, I sometimes hardly have the courage to face the multitudinous congresses iat cvop up and pass on, each boiling -iously all the time, and each leaving nark "on the history of the day. The eation is that of faaing a surf with a wave hitting you in the lace every rf seconds before you can spit out the I water you get with the last.

Gives One a Headache For everything in the world seems to going on in Russia every day and it lves one a headache simply to try to 'fathom events as they occur. I believe am writing about them here, as much clear my own mind and save my own sanity as to inform the readers of The Inquirer more clearly titan is feasible Di bble. I want to lind some order, some ie direction in the flood of events. For ile there are some people in Russia know where they are going, they til on their way. To extricate, place in order the shifting ten- yies of the Russian revolution is as tncult as to segregate and place- in a ieat row a bunch ot snakes.

"'If right," he said, "here it is almost possible to keep pace with the daily odings of 170,000,000 people. I do not how the American people can have thing better than a wild guess at is going on here. I wonder what he mental picture in America when 'fraternization' first went over -I wonder if these large Smia-rs were pictured sitting up in heir trenches chewing sun now-cds with their German brethren. would not be so far off." Don't Want Water Take in this picture: The discission (abstract discussion, largely) of the self- aenniiioii ui peuiJies auu tiitr questions annexations and compensations, hich so unexpectedly brought on whole-Ae fraternization on the front, was oeing explained one day by an officer to his men. Constantinople naturally iropped up and the Dardanelles.

"What ie Dardanelles?" asked one of the sim- water, then commented the sol- 11 sr in surprise. ater, chorused all soldiers, you ao not mean to tea we have been ngrntmcr ior water. a want any water, vy want land. )r imagine the trains going from Petro--d to Moscow in a snowstorm with diers sitting all over the tops of the fS. Imagine the Buffalo trains leaving York -w ith thirty or forty soldiers tine on the tons of every car.

Some uld freeze, some would roll off; oth- would be jerked trom their precarious vereh on the sharp turns and turn up with broken necks in the ditch. That is hardlv a news item in Russia. Imagine the soldiers coming out of the trenches and calmly announcing they going home to take a look, and when they tret ready they will come back. Im- agine also these same bodies of soldiers ivine on trains by the thousands, cross- sno moo nWo r.ntrV. for- Tig as they go.

They get together Ch the peasants as they pass along, and ve tne brains oi the peasants so cnoK-1 thoi' pannnt ovon cim-mo-r Tli o7 -find I lings to drink and nobody strong enough to keep them from drinking it, 1, when they recover, go their way re- A nobodv wantino- anv -noioP It is a merciful thing that the Russian is nat urally amiable. Thoughts in a Small "Village To undpratand at all what is cnino- on in Russia it is to nlano one's self mentally in a small village built of logs, but pretty comfortable in a iiQ-h wav. each vi tnere. are 1 people still living who were born in serfdom. The life fs verv simple, the v-ople good-hearted, and, now that there no vodka, decent and regular visitors ttussian baths.

ery tew know how ead and write to any extent, and mental limits are pretty close. They stiU in the dark, and, like the In- is, fear and distrust the horizon. Nu irically thev represent four-fifths of the i it -n- viiiciii peopie. oome oi tuese villages re remote from railwavs. and there are idoubtedly places in this land whera the 'olution is not yet known.

A traveler came out thmucrh th TTr-nl Mmm. ins told me the other day lie was told 1 a vuiage up tftere that Kussia had new niler, a woman, named Liberty. Consider what happens in a villasrs tuat when a bunch of soldiers with- arms come tramping through, tell- ntinued on 8th Page, 4th Col. GOULD TO WED AN ARTIST ON MONDAY 1 Is Annunziata Lucci Wedding in St. Patrick's Cathedral 4ciated Press.

Uillv June 30. Kingdon Vald eldest son of Mr. and Mrs rge J. Gould, obtained a license here to marry Annunziata Camilla TVTn. ucci, daughter Condido and For-ta Menci Lucci.

She is an artist, ouple said the marriage would take Monday at St. Patrick's Cathedral I Gould is 20 years old. His mother jvnigaun. ne nas Deen in- Lcntli Kingdon. He has been in prises since he lett Columbia College, iie ne biuaieu engineering jn tne ool of Mines.

In 190S he went to Creek. Col iS. a. tit liiv LOST AND FOUND ine bun of kevs, ttnds; lib -a I reward. '--lQsuran book.

Return citu imonc ue-a. i-cwra. a Disavows Agreement Between Government and Operators Saying Committee Is Without Power Declares $3 a Ton for Bi- tumious Coal at Mines as Agreed on Is an Exorbitant, Unjust and Oppress sive Price Special to The Inquirer. IXQVIRER BUREAU, POST BCILD1XO. WASHINGTON, June 30.

A bomb was thrown in the Council of National Defense, when Secretary of War Baker, in a letter to W. S. Gifford, director of the Advisory Commission, today, denied the legal power of the committee on coal production or of the National Defense Council itself to fix the price of bituminous or anthracite coal. This action is considered equivalent to tearing the National Defense Council wide open." It implies a lack of power in that body which would render any at- -tempt at an agreement on any question connected with the products of any of the industries of the Nation absolutely without value. As a part of the war machinery of the government, uncXer the interpretation of Secretary Baker, its im potence" becomes manifest.

Secretary Disavows Agreement Not only does the Secretary of War disavow the agreement entered into between the 400 bituminous coal operators and representatives of the government, resulting in the fixing of the price of bituminous coal at the mines at $3 a ton, but he proceeds to stigmatize that figure as "an exorbitant, unjust and oppressive price." It is understood that Secretary Baker's letter to Director Gifford was written with the approval of President Wilson. This makes of its closing paragraph, in which the Secretary expressly rejects the idea that the attendance of members of the. Council of National Defense, as well as of tne irederal lrade Commission, at the conference added anything to their legal powers, a stunning blow at the prestige of the National Council, and i in consonance with the statements peatedly made iii The Inquirer that functions at the furthermost were mere' ly advisory in character. The fact that the arrangement to which Secretary Baker takes objection in his letter to Director Gifford was reached at a conference with the coal operators at a conference called by Francis S. Peabody, secretary of the Committee on Coal Production, and that Secretary of the Interior Lane, who is a member of the Council of National Defense, hailed the results as a victory for the government, sufficiently emphasizes the cross purposes at which this body is working.

While making admission in his letter that not only were these officials present and active, but that members of the Federal Trade Commission were also in attendance, the Secretary of War specifically denies their right to enter into any agreement whatsoever. Daniels Is in Sympathy That the position taken by Secretarr Baker is one with which Secretary of the Navy Daniels is in full sympathy is made clear -by his revolt today against the decision to submit to the coal pro ducers price, of $3 a ton at the mines for coal for government use. This determination was evidenced in his announcement today that the Fed eral lraae Commission would continue its investigation to ascertain the actual cost of production of coal. J- A uu.Boi propose to pay ,5 a ton for 1 i iL. -at.

i.ue iuiutws wncn we are now get ting it for S2.8o on shipboard." Mr. Daniels. When t.hr post nf tion is fixed, the Secretary declared." he would determine on a fair profit and would pay no more than that. Secretary Daniels announced late todav that pending the Federal Trade' Commission's" determination of the cost of fuel oil and gasoline, expected about Sep tember JOv the. Navy will pay on the following basis of prices: Fuel oil, $1.26 a barrel delivered a.t Port Arthur, and at Francisco; gasoline, 18Vs cents a gallon in bulk at Port Arthur and 17 San Francisco.

These figures are to be understood as advance payments noon the finally fixed by the Trade Commission. Baker's Letter to Gifford Secretary Baker's letter" to Director Gifford is as follows: attention has been called through the newspapers to the action reported to have been taken at Wash-' mgton during the last week by the so-; called committee on coal production of the Council of National Defense, in co-' operation with certain coal producers and representatives of coal mining en-terprises, with regard to the price of bituminous and anthracite coal. "The facts seem to bethat the Coal Production Committee invited to Washington various coal: operators and arranged conferences between the members of. the Coal Production Committee v- ouminuea on tn rage, 2a UoL CDrrnnu nnnnronnnnniT FIRST KILLED IN WAR Noted. Writer Dies While Watching Rifle Fire Near Lens Salient AY HEADQUARTERS FRANCE June 30.

By the Associated Press Serge Basset, a distinguished French war correspondent attached to the British armies, was killed yesterday by rifle fire-while watching the fighting about the Lens salient. Although several correspondents have been wounded Serge Basset is the first journalist to be killed in the field during the present war. He had been awarded the Legion of Honcr for literary rvd dramatic work. He will burie5H morrow- witn military, honors. Baker Splits Defense Council "Wide Open Secretary of War Baker tore the National Defense Council "wide open" yesterday when he wrote Director W.

S. Gifford, of the Advisory Commission, condemning the agreement made to permit the sale of bituminous coal at $3 a ton at the mines. He declared the Council had no legal power to fix the coal price, and by implication the price of any other commodity. Secretary Daniels is declared to be in full sympathy with Secretary Baker's stand. HEW SHIPPING DAYS FOR FREIGHT P.

R. B. MOVE FOR ECONOMY System for "Less Than Carload" Lots to Increase Capacity Transfers -to Be Eliminated, Car Supply to Be Conserved, as War Aid Tn make possible a greater degree of economy in the nse of box cars and locomotives, and to eliminate delay and congestion caused by the antiquated system now In operation, the Pennsylvania Railroad is about to inaugurate a new plan of receiving and forwarding small freight shipments on Pittsburgh. all lines east of Under the present system freight is received at any station at any time of destination. This neces sitates delay at transfer points and the freouent dispatch of partly filled cars.

Under, the new-plan shipping days for various destinations will be fixed according to a carefully devised schedule The innovation will affect only "less than carload" freight. hen it is operation freight will automatically be concentrated into full carloads at the point of shipment," and instead of trans fers being made at designated points, the cars will go straight through from one nla.ro to another. The outstanding features of the new 11 be fixed on which cars will depart from various points of origin to specified destinations. Freight will be accepted oniy on i.ne proper shippinz days, and the cars will depart only as specified. Particular stations win oe tieiguaicvi for the receipt of shipments for specified destinations.

Freight for such points will be accept ed at the stations named only. Aims of Revision of System The purpose of the new system, as outlined by the traffic experts who are at present arranging the schedule, are these: First. Elimination of the delay incident to the rehandling of freight, under the present methods of consolidating small shipments into full carloads at transfer stations. Second. Conservation of car supply by affecting better average loading than is possible under the transfer system; this will increase the cars available for commercial freight, as well as government supplies.

Third. Reduction in the number of car and train, movements- required to transport a given volume of freight; thia will increase the capacity of the whole railroad plant, and will release tracka and locomotives ior the movement of troops, government supplies and commercial freight. Fourth. Improvement in the. regularity of the freight service by systematizing and simplifying operation; this will result from the elimination of a large proportion of the complicated rehandling of freight, which is now unavoidable, with the attendant liability to damage.

At present when a shipper has a small consignment to send from City A to City he takes his goods to any station at any time. In the course of that day or two or three days later it js loaded into a car, which is run out to Continued on 8th Page, 1st CoL way from eight to a score or more and the injured from 50 to 70. Every ambulance in the city was called into service and the injured are scatter ed in hospitals throughout the city. Many of them are unconscious and several are not expected to live. S.

The accident happened so suddenly that there was. no chance for the men on the deck of the steamer to escape The report when the great tank struck the vessel could be heard for several ALLIED ARMY DRIVES ENEMY IBGROMD LLOYD GEORGE SAYS Beginning of the End British Premier Informs the Irish Prussian Taught Virtue of Humility With Fierce and Re-fentless Lash By Associated Prcs, DUNDEE, June We have driven the great army of Germany under ground," said Premier Lloyd George in speech here today. "When a great army is driven to these tactics it is the beginning of the end; it means that we are pounding a sense of inferiority uuo everv P1-e of the German military mind. It is good for the war, is even bet ter for after the war. As long as the Prussians have an.

idea of superiority in their minds Europe will not be a rUf-ont nlace for neonle to live in peace. It -will oe easier aner uns. Ml Pi J.V. I nas mauy vuiuw, a i- Uii4- fnnCA "XT niiTnil. ity has never been among them.

xne prPTT1ipr added that the Prussian is now being taught the virtue of humility with a fierce and relentless lash. The Price of Bread Mr. Lloyd George said that is neces- sary the government would resort to the exchequer in order that the price oi bread should be within the compass of the bulk of the people. Speaking of the sacrifices the people had been' called 01 to make in, the war, Mr. Lloyd George said 'there had been no privations in thia country thus far and that while there were privations in Germany and Austria thos- countries A were still fighting.

Men restricted their luxuries should not give themselves tne ajrg Gf men who were enduring tor- Complaints did not come frm the men who were making the real sacrifices, but th country was entitled to ask the gov- ernment that restrictions and limitations should have a genuine war purpose; and he included in that the demobilization aft- everv restriction that had been made The restriction of horse racing the premier said was entirely a question ot the extent to which it could be permit- ten witnouc uiiciierring wnn me woih. of the war. Anything beyond that would be irritating and mischievous, anything short of it inadequate to meet the case The Problem of Drink 'v "If you apply those principles to the question of drink," he continued, "you will find that it will work out all right. No man in his senses would sacrifice the food of the country for any drink, however alluring it may be." The second condition which the coun try was entitled to ask from the sovern- ment, the premier continued, was that it should not nermit tne- ouraens. ot the country to be increased by what was call- ed pronteenng, as distinct irom pront.

Profiteering was unfair in peace; in war it was an outrage. That ia why the gov- ernment had taken action to restrict profits and proposed to deal very drastic- ailv with untair pronteenng in iooa. Thexthird condition which the people Mere entitled to expect, Lloyd George went on, was that food inust be brought within the reach ot the people. Present prices were largely dependent on prices over which the government had no control, in America and elsewhere, but steps such as were within 'its power Continued on 4th Page, 6th Col. MRS.

WILSON SIGNS PLEDGE TOH'RACTICE ECONOMY Will Be Woman's Share in Conser vation of Food Supply By Associated Press. WASHINGTON, D- June 30. Mrs. ocarow ilson todav sizned the worn r- aumiiim- I stmg conserving the food IQr a successrui conduct ot the war. Beginnine Arondav the nldares will hr circulated generally among all women of the country who are invited to become members of the food administration bv nirS113 Tomorrow will be I conservation Suniiav.

anil in manv 1 cnurcnes ministers will preach food con- I serration sermons. IDAHO. GREATEST WARSHIP! IM, QUIETLY LAUNCHED Champagne and Water From Snake River Christen Fighting Craft Only Seven Principals in Most Remarkable Launching in History of Navy With a conspicuous absence of the' gay-ety and color that usually mark a government launching, the superdreadnought Idaho, largest and most formidable warship in the United States Navy, took her maiden plunge yesterday at the plant of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation in Camden. The huge fighting craft slipped down the ways at precisely 9.44 o'clock in the 1 -A AU morning, tooK a graceiui sweep io me north and lay in the middle of the Delaware with her keel dead level. As she started "to move Miss Henrietta Amelia Simons, the 14-year-old granddaughter of Governor Moses Alexander, of Idaho, broke a bottle of champagne against her side, saying: "I christen thee Idaho." It was the most remarkable launching in the history of the navy.

Because of the war the ceremonies were cut to the Continued on 2d Page, 4 th Col. TEACHER AND 4 PUPILS DROWNED AT RED BANK Tipping on Raft on Which They were Floating CauseS Panic Among Girls RED BANK, N. June 30. Bathing -in a pond on the Isaac Hosford estate at Chapel Hill in Midletown town ship, this afternoon, JUiss iixiun mtney, 39 years old, a teacher in the. Newtown High School at Elmhnrstfi L.

and three school girls who were in her charge, were drowned. The other victims were Meta Janquaski, aged 17, of 61 Corwith 1 avenue, Elmhurst Katherine Halleran, 16 years okU of 41 Mevers avenue, Elmhurst, and Kataleen O'Connor, 13 years of S8 Sixteenth avenue, Astoria. Ii. I. Miss Putney, who lost her life in attempting to gave the girls, lived at 839 Broadway and Shell road, Elmhurst.

The four donned their bathing suits this afternoon and went to Hosford's pond, pushing out from shore on a homemade raft. The girls were having a merry time when the raft was tipped, according to the story told by Marjoria Gunard and Olive Hons, of Leonardo, the only two witnesses of the drowning. They said the Halleron girl fell in, and Miss Putney, the only ne who could swim, dove after her. The teacher swam with the girl to the raft, but in an effort to get on the raft it tipped and the other two girls fell in. They all grabbed the teacher, who made a great struggle to get back, with them to the raft, but all four sank.

The two young women on shore screamed for help, and James Kelch and Herbert Moran, two employes at the Hosford place, rushed to tne scene. It was fullv tweny-five mintutes later that they brought the girls up with poles. Miss oPutney and the Halleran firl were clasped in each other's arms. rs. Hendrickson and Rosenwasser, of Atlantic Highland, werf summoned and used a pubnotor on the but in BRAZIL'S IVY JOINS 0.

S. FLEET TO SEEK BEli SEA RAIDERS Nation Unites. Against Common Enemy Without Declaring War Plan to Send Mission to South American Country for Closer Co-operation By Associated Press. WASHINGTON, D. June 30.

-Brazil's navy has begun co-operating with the American fleet in South American waters in hunting down German sea raiders and watching for German submarines, Sending of a special diplomatic mission to Brazil to arrange for greater coordination of forces and the closest possible co-operation of the two governments is under consideration by the United States. Without formal declaration of war Brazil thus practically joined the United States against Germany. Protecting Merchant Ships Coincident with the inauguration of Brazil's naval operations a plan for protecting her merchant ships in their voyages to allied ports with frozen meats and other foodstuffs has been put into effect. Whether Brazil will supplement her action by a formal declaration of war is not known here and by some officials such action is regarded as doubtful because the government at Bio De Janeiro is inclinded to regard its, action rather defensive than aggressive. For the present it is believed Brazil's part will be adequately done if she contributes to the safety of Southern seas and to the movement to Europe of foodstuffs.

Her navy is the largest of the South American roup -and in connection with the American fleet, commanded by Admiral Caperton, it is believed the work of keeping the South Atlantic clear of enemy crait will be greatly tacintated. Intentions of Brazil It is not the intention of the Brazilian Government at prerent to use its navy in patrolling waters off Argentine, brtt that feature, it is believed will not weaken materially the scheme of ocean, sweeping since the long field of operations off the coast of Brazil comprises the more importan sector of Southern opera tions. The decision of Brazil not to operate in waters off Argentina is due. it is un derstood, to a desire not to give unneces sary oitense to the government of Argen tina and also because British warships are operating the vicmity of the Falkland Islands off the Argentine coast. Hope is still felt at the State Depart ment that the Argentine Government yet may join the war for world democracy This was indicated by- dispatches from isuenos Aires, which sav that it is re garded by some there as merely a question of time before Argentine will adopt a course similar to that ot Jtsrazu.

U. S. Will Send Mission President Wilson now has under con sideration the personnel of the mission to Brazil. It probably will leave the United States within a month or ix Continued on 3d Page, 5 th Col Crown Prince Tries at Verdun Once Again The Crown Prince is vicious ly attacking Verdun, but the French have succeeded in holding their own. British forces continue to succeed in their drive on Lens and captured important positions.

A revival of the Russian fighting spirit is indicated in Petrograd reports. ASSAULT ON VERDUN WITH FRESH FORCES LS BUT LITTLE French Regain Most of Lost Ground From the Crown Prince Germans Driven Back With Heavy Losses in Aisne Front Fighting LONDON, June 30. -The Crown Prince of Germany is violently assaulting Verdun. Foiled a year ago in his attempt to take the famous French stronghold, the heir to the German throne is delivering blows of such magnitude and force as to make some impression on the lines assailed. The work is being done with picked forces.

For the most part the enemy ef forts have been nullified by the French, but the Germans did succeed in retaining some conquered ground on the west slope of Dead Man Hill. The German attack began on Thurs day. The first drives were made on Hill 04, to the northwest of the fortress city, one of the commanding defenses, which has protected Verdun on the westerly side of the Meuse. The blow struck yesterday was apparently of great force and was delivered on Dead Man Hill, the sec ond of the towering eminencdk in this region. French Regain urouna i In neither case, the reports of the de fenders show, were anything more than rst line trenches penetrated and General Petain's forces last night got back most of the trenches lost the day before at Hill 304.

In the Dead Man Hill sector the Germans carried the line on the entire front attacked, about a mile and three-quarters, but the French reaction drove them out of the trenches there ex cept on the western slope of the hill. The offensive tendency of the Germans under the Crown Prince is also in evi dence on the Aisne front where they have attacked violently in the vicinity of Cerny and Corbeny. lhey were driven back with terrific losses yester dav in the latter region but succeeded lat night bjr blowing the French po- ntinued on 4th Page. 2d CoL STEAMER BUMPS DOCK; TANK FALLS ON DECK KILLING TEN PERSONS Whaleback Liner Crashes Into Milwaukee Pier, Dislodges Huge Tank Which Falls From Roof of Five-story Warehouse on Deck of Ship Causing Deaths and Injuring Many By Associated Press. MILWAUKEE, June 30.

At least eight persons were killed and more than a score others were injured here late this afternoon, when the whaleback steamer Christopher Columbus in swinging away for her return trip to Chicago crashed into a dock on the Milwaukee River, causing a huge water tank to fall from the top of the five-etory Yahr Lang Warehouse onto the. deck of the vessel. Up to a late hour two bodies had been brought to the morgue, but esti mates give the number of dead all the.