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Green liAZETT FIVE O'CLOCK UTE EDITION ESTABLISHED IN OCTOBER, 1671, THE GREEN BAY GAZETTE, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 1G, 1912. "1ICE TWO CENTS, TO 83 itanic trikin rew Drowne The Bay Steoinn Slums Iceberg; HS41 TABwE OF C0N1 ENTA BADING TAKES SEIDEL'S PLACE MRS. W. E. MINAHAN AND MISS DAISY MINAHAN SAVED; DR.

W. E. MiNAHAN'S NAME NOT IN LIST OF RESCUED WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN BOATS, MEN STAY ON SHIP Butte who has been Mr. Taft's military aide since he entered the white house. The White Star line of officers kept the president advised during the day as they checked over the list of the rescued.

As the chance against Major Butte's name appearing among the saved grew fainter and fainter the president began to give up hope. "The chance is a slim one, but we're holding on yet," he said to his friends as he left for lunch. During the day GREATEST MARINE DISASTER IN MODERN DAYS TAKES PLACE OFF COAST OF NEWFOUNDLAND ON MAIDEN TRIP OF NEW WHITE STAR LINER. "ELKS' SPECIAL" DERAILED NEAR ONEIDA STATION Over One Hundred Green Bay Elks on Train Bound for Seymour. ALL ESCAPED INJURY WHEN CARS LEAVE RAILS Fireman Jumped but Engineer Re-mained on the Locomotive Engine and Baggaga Car Thrown from Rails and Front Truck of First Coach Wt Derailed.

Newly Elected Nonpartisan Administration in Charge at Milwaukee. PLATFORM CONSTITUTES CONTRACT WITH PUBLIC Mayor Bading Recommends Request for Passage of Nonpartisan Election Law Warns Against Unnecessary Taxation Makes Several RecommendationsMinor Officials Named. By Ananrlnted 1'rens.) Milwaukee, April 16. The RECENT BOAT DISASTERS Year. Steamship.

Lives Lost. 1890 Steamer Shanghai, burned. 300 1891 Steamer Utorsia, collision. 5Q3 1892 Steamer Nanchow, fourv dered 509 1893 Warship Victoria, collision. 300 189-1 Steamer Horn Head, sunk by iceberg 62 1895 Steamer Chicora, vanished in Lake Michigan 26 1895 Warship Reina Reglna, collision 400 1895 Steamer Colima, 171 1896 Steamer Copernicus, sunk.

152 1897 Steamer Kapunda, foun dered 300 1898 Steamer La Bourgogne, col 540 1904 Steamer Gen. Slocum, burned 958 1 Associated Press. Associated Pres. Local News. Associated Press.

State News. De Pere Department 6-EdltorlaL 7 Sporting Drpartment 8 State News. 9 Local News. 10 Associated Press and cal Markets. 11 City in Brief.

12 Associated Press. GARFERRY IN FIRST TRIPOF SEASON Ann Arbor Carferry Has Lttle Difficulty in Making Trip to Menominee. Cuts Way Across Field of Ice Wind row Encountered Which Took Little Time to Get Through Expect Green Bay to Be Open In a Short Time. (Ily Amorlated Trpss.) Marinette, April 16 Ann Arbar ter ry reached Menominee last night from These Were Rescued from Lifeboats In Which Women and Children Were Placed "When Sinking of Titanic Become Inevitable Men Remained Behind and Went Down with the Ship Complete List of Those Saved Not Yet ReceivedSurvivors Will 'Be Landed at New York By the Carpathia. dnnlBtratloii in Milwaukee sonal inquiries.

How the Disaster Occurred. Washington, D. April 1C Captain Charles A. McAllister, engineer in chief of the revenue cutter service, i expressed the belief that the mass which sent the Titanic to the bottom of the ocean was a salt water Iceberg and not a polar berg of glacial formation, lie pointed out thnt the ratio of ice above the water in such an Iceberg was only one-ninth of its bulk. In other words with only nine feet visible there would be eighty-one feet of solid, rock-hard Ice submerged.

George Chler. inspector general the federal steamboat section service, said today he believed the Titanic plunged into the iceberg with Ruch momentum that the Impact battered hpr fo nfpr TI. jy ran ovor a BU)merged end of the jberg whfch Hnped open bfttom ii.r iha filled and the vessel became a helpless mass of twisted steel wedged In a mountain of ice. Senator Seeks Information. uD.uUp,,y1() u.

io, cn- aior uuggenncim or Colorado in telephone communication with the White Star line offices in New York was unable to learn the fate of his brother, Benjamin, reputed one of the U'PfllthfpKt man In tha n-nrlt Cv. fnm i 1 otherwise ordered with about 800. After having consulted with Mr. Ismay I am considering circumstances. With so much Ice about so considered New York best.

Large number Icebergs and 20 miles field Ice with bergs amongst." Another message from the captain said: Titanic struck iceberg, sunk Monday 3 a. 41-40 north latitude, 50-14 west longitude. Carpathia picked up many passengers in boats. Will wire further particulars later. Proceeding back to New York." Interest centers In the gradual approach to New York of the liner Carpathia bearing the survivors of the Titanic.

It is this ship which promises to bring the first authentic details of the great tragedy and the scene which followed. The Carpathia is a slow boat and Is due at Sandy Hook about 11 o'clock next Thursday night. Meantime the Carpathia will be with Frankfort. on the first trip alongside the track while the tho season. She did not have wheels of the locomotive were 1904 Steamer Norge, 750 1905 Steamer Hilda, 123 1906 Steamer Valencia, dered 119 1906 Steamship Sirio, foundered 225 1906 Brazilian Cruiser Aquida- ban, sunk 212 1907 Steamer Larchmont, 185 1907 Steamer Hong Kong, strikes rock 130 1907 Steamer Berlin, 125 1907 Steamship Lakota, struck a reef unknown 1907 Steamship Columbia 70 1911- -Titanic 1,500 from the ill-fated ship.

No life rafts or bodies were sighted among the floating wreckaee which covered large area. The Parisian reported that the weather was cold and that any persons on the wreckage would have perished of exposure before they could have been picked up. Minia Has No Survivors. Halifax. N.

April 16 Sable is- 'li I The Kike' special" on the Green Bay Western railroad carrying over one hundred Oreen Bav Klki i. derailed last evening shortly before ju out mile this side of Oneida station. All escaped Injury including the engineer and fireman. The engine, which was backing out because of there being no turntable or at Seymour, was thrown completely off the track and tore up about sixty feet of track. The tender of the engine was thrown into tna fully five feet from the track when the train was brought to a stop.

The causo of the accident Is unknown. The railroad officials are now making an Investigation In order to determine the origin. The many Elks on the train wera unaware of the accident until they were, carried out of their seats as a result of the engineer throwing on the emergency brakes. When they ar-I rived at the head of the traln.it una F.Iks on the special arrived at the engine. Fortunate in Escaping.

It was very fortunate for the men on the engine and possibly many of not appropriate the da wTlnirn hia wifo 1 A I i trouble in cutting her way across ice fields but encountered wind rows of Ice at the door hich took some time to get through. Regular trips will be made from now on. Ice conditions are such that with a southwest wind Green bay ought to be open In a short time. URGE JOINING OF I AVCO A Klfl Pill L7 oon the enginemen LAM.0 UULr're Bafe- the man having jump- jcl. The engineer, Gus Nicholson, rt- Imalned at his post and was already Immediate Action to Provide at work pulling the nre when iianu came snip reported in wireless range of several stations along her course.

Her wireless current has a radius of about 15i miles. She will be abreast of Sable Island late today or tomorrow at a distance of about 150 miles and may come with in direct wireless communication with Sable Island. Her present communication is by wireless relays to the Olympic and other intervening ships having a greater radius of wireless. Number of Survivors S6G. New York, April 16.

The White Star line announced officially at 11 o'clock that they had received positive ws that the number of survivors was Stifi. This dispatch was sent from Olymptic which, it is understood, afternoon through the wireless eneiB not yet nearu tion here that she had sighted great mass of wreckage but no boats Artist Going to Madison, or rafts from the Titanic. This for Madison. April 16. Frank B.

the time being disposes of hope that Millett, the famous New York artist, the steamer anchored off Cape Race wno was reported to have drowned In when the Titanic first called for help wrM'k steamer Titanic, was Millions of Dollars for Project Urged. Committee on Commerce Urges Ing of Great Lakes to Gulf of riding in the coaches that the nm. uiu uui at-iuiiil'ttll him. "The company gave me one encouraging statement," he said, "that the 1 CRrriea the life boats re- lI)e taws or tne i nltert States and Great Britain. Of course, the number already rescued Includes a considerable number of seamen (necessary to man the boats.

It is pos- slDle pome or b01" got tltt'DV tfrlY (hit enHA nnrl tr 1. i to have paintf'd four panels In the su preme court room of the new Wisconsin state rnpltol. At the time of his death he was on his way to Madi son for a conference on April 24 with litol building commission rela William T. Stead, editor of the Lon don Review of Reviews, another passenger on the ill-fated boat and supposed to hRve been drowned, had accepted an Invitation to attend a news- nt tne Fniversitv of Wisconsin next June and deliver an address. i Chaplains Refer to Disaster.

li A i -I V' chaplains of both houses of congress I mentioned the Titanic disaster in lthlr 1 vi-icit lin tfwtnv Chiinlnin Pierce In the senate referred to the iiMlni.nAn .......1, and sad fate brot heron mid i and sad fate that overtaken our is in win-lew roinmuniration with thetanic Mrs reported aafei to the subjects for the panels arpathia now proceeding to New- York. The official announcement of the White Star line of positive news that there are 858 survivors of the Titanic on boerd the Carnation and the fact Mt din. Mad the train proceeded but co Today Head of Delegation Is W. twenty-five or fifty feet farther north K. Kavenaugh of St.

Louis. coaches would undoubtedly have rolled down a steep embankment and (Uy A-dociiitci rrcHs.) cnginetneii would have been pin- Washington, D. April 16. Iiu- no1 the derbris as they had mediate congressional action to pro-jbut llttIe t0 JumP to safety, vide millions of dollars for the project! The fns'neer showed great courage of connecting the Great I-akcs with ln remaining at post and putting the gulf of Mexico was urged by sen-Ule emergency brakes on before ate committee on commerce today by thinking of his own safety. If this a delegation of the Lakes to the Gulf hnd not carried out by Mr.

Deeper Waterway association beaded i Nicholson the wreck, which was not by President W. K. Kavenaugh of St. considered serious might have Mo. Isliam Randolph and Lynnel1 more disastrous one.

K. Cooley of Chicaxo and others' Conductor Witheral, In charge of pointed out that the Ohio, Missouri the hpeelal train, immediately mad. might have picked up some of passengers. Duluth Woman Is Safe. Duluth, April.

1C Mr. the and Mrs. W. K. Silhey, prominent resi dents of Duluth, were on board the word concerning the former has been received.

Life Saving Apparatus. New York, April 16. Statistical in- formation of the life saving apparatus i reRU Inspection or hteam easels. hfires for the 1 itanic are not avail able, but as two ships are almost iden- m.oi fhir iif utivihic fnninniiinf mi fri II fl i fiVm The Olympic has sixteen life boats unit fnur rnfls calculated to necom modate 1171 hmlp Tliia mnnna of passengers and which is a total of 2,4 17 that can be I new I which extended over a period of two years ended this afternoon when Dr. Gerard A.

Bading recently elected mayor on the non-partisan ticket took the oath of office. "Our platform constitutes a blnd- jing contract with the public and our first duty must be to do the thines we have obligated ourselves to do be fore we permit our attention to be drawn In other directions." That statement sounded the keynote of Dr. inaugural message before th new non-iiurtlsan council. "We are pledged to disregard poll-tics and consider each munieinal iquestion purely on its merits," continued the mayor. "We are pledged to De economical wnicn means we public funds for unnecessary purposes but also every man In city employ shall be fitted for his duty." The mayor recommended that the council take some action toward petitioning the legislature to enact at the corning special session a law providing for non-partlslan elections and a majority vote for cities of the first class; purification of the water supply; Improved street car service.

Improvement In housing conditions jin the line of eliminating unsanitary 'conditions and Improvement of har-'hor conditions are among his recom mendations. He said In conclusion that unnecessary taxation Is unjust taxation. "The extravagance and Inefficience which characterized the city government during tho last two years are responsible for the high taxes levied last year," he said. Cornelius Corcoran was elected president the couucil and Peter Letich, city clerk. Fred G.

Sirnmnns was appointed commissioner of public works. MARINETTE MAN IS GIVEN STRONG SUPPORT L. W. Everett Receives Strong Support As Candidate for County Judge of Marinette County. (Ry Assoclnt .1 l'ross.) Madison, Wis April 1 fi Fv-! etett of Marinette Is receiving strong support as a candidate for county Marinette county to succeed Wllliam Quinlan, circuit court lect REBELS IN COMMAND OF SINALOA CAPITAL Advices from State Department Tell of Capture of Cullcan by Rebels In-surrecto Movement Strong In Guer-riro.

(By I'rHs.) Washington, l. April cnn. the capital c.f Sinalon wan tured by the rebels according to Ht.ate department advices today. Cuernro was today added to the list of where the insurrecio inoveinent Is assuming greater proportions. It Is now avowed from Slnaloa, the western ter- minus of the railroad, ttiat this Pre.

being molested. SECRETARY KNOX NOV ON HIS WAY HOME Cruiser Washington Eearing the Party Home From Soutn Passed Cape Henry at 9:10 This Morning, (By AsiorlaUd Prf. Norfolk. April 16. --The cruiser Washington bearing the Secretary of i State Knox anil his party home from the southern American trip passed Cape Henry at a.

m. today. At Point Lookout the patty will board the yacht Sylph and continue Washington. that the nanus of .115 of those saved tne lter ship of the Tinas boon sent In by wireless shows was piVf'n out b' the Ku- i. i.

n-1 Definite news of the rescue of MIbs Daisy Minahan of this city and Mrs. W. B. Minahan of Fond du Lac was received In the night report of the Associated Press. No news has been given out by the wireless up to this time as to whether or not Dr.

W. E. Minahan of fond du Lac was rescued from the lllfated Titanic. Dr. J.

n. Minahan of this city left this afternoon for New York where he will meet Mrs. W. E. Minahan and Miss Dnisy Minahan upon the arrival there of the Carpathia.

The appalling magnitude of the wreck of the giant liner Titauic has been but little mitigated by the fragmentary information which has filtered in today. The rescuing steamer Carpathia has G8 surv.Vors on board, according to the latest news received at the of fices of the White Star line In tll city. This Increases the list or saved by about 200 from tho number first reported, but except for this favorable (hange details are Insignificant compared with the facts that the Titanic is at the bottom of the Atlantic and that the shattered wreck took with her dhoiit 1.350 victims to their death. The first report giving the total survivors at 675 was very soon followed by' more favorable news early today. First from Captain Rostron of the Carpathia, who gave the number at ebout S00, but later by positive announcement of the White Star line that there are RCS survivors of the Titanic on board the Carpathia.

Hut wiih these revised figures there remains 1,341 persons, passengers and crew of the Titanic, who are today unaccounted for. Hope clung desperately this morning to the belief that the steamer Virginian and Parisian of the Allan line may have picked up survivors in addition to those on board the Carpathia, but this practically was dispelled at o'clock when the Sable island wireless station reported that the Parisian had no survivors on board, and when the offices of the Allan linn in Montreal issued a statement that the captain of the Virginian had sent them wireless message saying she hud "arrived at. the scene of disaster too late to be of service." The Virginian proceeded on her way for Europe. The Carpathia having on hoard the only survivors accounted for is coming lowly to New York. All hope for details of the tragedy and Its effect are centered on this ship.

She will be In wireless communication with Sable island tonight, with Nantucket on Thursday, and she will reach New York some time Thursday night. London, Paris and New York are overwhelmed by the news of this disaster. Crowds of relatives and friends of passengers on board the Titanic thronged the steamship offices In all three cities waiting for news. Of the survivors on board the Car pathia, by tar tiie larger number are onten and children. Many men of great prominence on two continents are among the missing.

No word has been received of Colonel John Jacob Astor. His wife, however, has been saved. Alfred Vanderbllt was not on board the steamer as was first reported. He ia In London. Isador Strauss, the New York millionaire merchant snd philanthropist, who was on board, has not been reported among the survivors.

Major Archibald Butte, personal aide to President, Taft, also Is unaccounted for and it is believed he went down with the ill-fated vessel. (Ily Afoct(itci Prs.) New York, April Ifi. A wireless n'essnge sent by Captain Rostron of the Carpathia to the Cunard line here from latitude 4l-4a north and longitude 60-20 west, reads as follows: "Aiu wocecding to New York unless that there are persons rescued I from the Titanic whoso names lime been received 1k- Reach New York Thursday. Now York, April Rostron of the steamship Curpmhia sent a wireless incFsage to ('has. P.

Sum- ner, general agent of the Cu.iard llneaoOUt one'thlrd of the total number I mnilnteil It was stated at theled this morning giving information that I he Carpathia with S00 survivers of Titanic was proceeding slowly towards New York, whore Fhe will arrive Thursday afternoon. Men Passengers Mostly Drowned. St. John's, New Fnuiidlnnd. Anrll 18.

touaatrr frn I indicate that a very large majority of the men who were on the steamer1 Titanic went down with the shin i Messages from the Carpathia picked occurred at the point where aimiwiimni ujt- ih ic-suim tram noin me- wesi which was meet the special at Oneida, come down to the scone of the accident mnd the Klk and their baccaao WT.3 and the Klk and their baggago wr.a transferred to this train and taken remainder of their trip to Sey- Present Good 8how. Although the minstrel pTkmv wna h'te in ntaning it was presented in a most plcaslns manner nii'i laic number In niien. lance pleased with the ffii.rts of tit shnw was presented f()r the h'ts net-. Mcu's association and the ya pack'-d iO its capacity. The program aus ci.n'''ed opt last evenlfg iii Seymour a pre-s-neil a' iiiecto and eve.y member was i i rpi lutuied by tie larce number of Sew.rmr residents who 'et' in ilf'-tvliUiee.

Croon Pay 10 Iks t'cymo'tr c'i Hi-. sp.Tlal train a 11:3" ard it wa Lulu to t'cut't of nnt been cleared sway. Frank Schajb. Octfieldrr ha Been Released by Appleton BasebiM Club Officials. i r.v A- oi'lt' rrt Poekford.

Ill, April Sch.iiilt paroled Wisconsin pri been released by Appleton, the dun which signed him. Appleton club officials did not lik the notriely which was attached to the case Mississippi unify woumi lie vast- iy particularly tiy linKlng the commerce of the Inland waterways, 1'Hnanm canal now approach- inir rmnntotlnn FLOOD APPROPRIATIONS BILL PASSES THE SENATE Senate Today Passes Bill Appropriat-i Ing $300,000 to Maintain and Pro tect Levees Alunfl Mississippi. (My WuHhiiigton, .10. The April senate todu riassed ihe house bill to appropriate s.jihi.ouo in ancition to the IV i.t'fo alnady provided to maintain and pi'. the levees 0ri the Missis- sippl cainst the 'liHids goes to the president The li DELEGATES ARRIVE FOR STATE CONVENTION I bureau that no ship is required to have sufficient boat room to accommodate its complete passenger and crew list.

Tim fllvillDlc Carries life lire- Borvers and 48 life buoys and the equipments are made in compliance "Kb the regulation of the British board of trade. The I nlted States ments of its home government. Wait News of Disaster. CI. ijiii r-rlt 11! -TV." disaster to the Titanic has thrown Chei'liourg into proiomui soirow.

i up oy Cape Race wireless station states bureau has no power exiepi iu ie-that all of boats launched bv the 1 that each steamship meets the requlre- crew of the Titanic have been accounted for. The boats were filled fcy WQiVitll Itiiil but had sufficient members of tho Tltanlc'si crew to guide them. Helief was general here that nlrflit's tnP "uiKiinns are 'linth 'lt-tt, f.niit'irl liaplaln Louden in tne nousc pray- for more stringent laws for the protection of travelers by land and sea as well as for those in fire and exposed to fire and flood. President Taft today ordered two revenue cutters to meet the Curpath- 'lch is bear ng the Titan Ic su, vivors to New Vn.k. One 1.

at U.s ton and another Is at Woods Hole. Mass. The house of representatives unan imously adopted a resolution today extending sympathy to relatives of those who met their death in the dis- tfer fn the T1nl Will Search for Survivors. New York, April 10. Officials of the Marconi Wireless telegraph company said today that, they have been (Continued on page 2) (Hy Assocliitfd I 'reus I New York, April 16.

-Continuation of conference of the subcommittees appointed by the anthracite opera tors and miners was held late this afternoon at the Criioh League club. President White of the Mine Work- ers stated that negotiations between the committees are progressing satis factorlly but that It probably will be several days before any definite conclusion will be reached. I I is to who survived the wreck are on the floating at half mast. Thousands of Carpathia. The steamer Virginian 'citizens who had witnessed the liner's which halted her voyngo whon near departure on her niulden voyage wait-tho scene of the disaster saw nojel all day at the steamship offices for signs of sunhors.

The cable steamer details of the catastrophe. Republican Delegates Begin to Arrive IAPPLET0N CUJB NOT This Morning for Meeting This! npripciilC PC fSl'ITORlETY Afternoon Electors. to Select Presidential! (Hy A-wclat'-d l'ri's.) Madison, April Several of the republican delegates arrived this morning for Up- on cut ion this afternoon when pi. sidor.tial tors will be sel-ctf Arthur Paine of Flags at Half Mast, London, April 16. The number of people who gathered around the White Star offices increased In density every! win (thmf the lYinrnlnff I II t.

i ill uuiivmii. rt. Lines of automobiles and carriages are so extended that the late comers have been unable to get within several blocks of the office. On nil steamship offices and many public buildings flags nre flying at half mast. President Gives Up Hope.

Washington, D. (. April IC-President Taft and most of his cabinet and many of his callers were deeply concerned over the probable fate of Major Mlnla which left St. Pierre. Minnetnn I yesterday afternoon, Is supposed 1o he in the vicinity of the disaster but llttlo hope Is entertained thnt she will f'nd any of the Titanic people.

Only Ten Men Saved. New York, April 16. -Of the 201 first cabin passengers thus far ac counted for i'i2 are women, GH men, and children. Of the 116 second cabin passengers reported surviving, SS are women, 10 men and 10 children. No Survivors Among Wreckage.

Halifax, N. April 16. The steam er Parisian steamed through much heavy field Ice looking for passengers ifn thnt he n-i-ht accept vi cngng-would propose thejnvnt to play In the W. league Wansau said 'name of I h-nry Klletiliecker as elector for the Kahili district. It is said that no slate has been prepared, fiovi rnor McGovern will be Jchairnian.