The Marion Star from Marion, Ohio • 1

The Iarion Daily tar, VOL. XXXIX. NO. 190. SIXTEEN PAGES.

MARION, OHIO, THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1915. SIXTEEN PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. LIBERTY BELL ENR0UTE TO THE SAN FRANCISCO FAIR. Li 35 ARE DEAD II STORM IN CINCINNATI EXPLOSION FIRES SHIP FAR AT SEA ftry tu.

v. The picture shows the famous old Liberty bell, the most precious relic of American history, leaving Independence hall, in Philadelphia, on an auto truck, to he loaded on a specially constructed flat car for Its trip to the Panama-Pacific exposition, where It will be on exhibition for four months CRUISER SENTT DTTOM no COSTS 21 US Car Leaves Rails and Rolls Down Embankment. NEARLY FOUR SCORE SUSTAIN INJURIES 'Niagara Falls Electric Line Has the Accident. Victims Are Members of Excursion Party from Toronto on Their Way Hack to Queenstown To Take Roat for Home Nine Killed Outright Car (iolng at Top Speed. Hits Curve and Jumps, Ruffalo, N.

July 8. Twenty-one persons are dead as the result of a trolley wreck at iueenston, Ontario, last night. Nine persons were kill ed outright, the others dying on the way to and In the hospitals in Toronto and Niagara Falle, Ontario. Seventy-live were injured. The victims were members of an excursion party to Niagara Falls and were returning to Queenston on board a trolley -ar to board the boat which would take them to Toronto.

The car wa.s going at top speed when it junied the track at (JueeiiKton Heights. Those who are known to have lost their lives are as follows: LIST OF THE DEAD. Mrs. Margaret Sloan. Mrs.

M. J. Hart. Mrs. Alexander Wensey, Harold J.

I'atridge. Charles i. Dennings. Dorothy Kcates. Mrs.

William Orr. Mr. Corendle. Robert Watson. V.

W. Drank. Roy Young. R. Wiggins.

V. Grant. P. Roge. Miss Rose Wheal er.

P. Page. Mrs. Westernay. Mrs.

.1. Sloan. Mrs. Ilarlans. Mrs.

Mary Orr. An unidentified girl ahout sixteen years old. SLIPPERY RAILS RL.AMED. The ofliclals of the International Rjiflway company, which operates the line, attribute the wreck to the slippery condition of the rails due to the heavy rains. The wreckage has been cleared away this morning.

The scene of the reck is at a curve on the sharp incline leading from Vueenstown Heights to the village. The car rolled down a steep embankment after it left the rails. Passengers said the car seemed to buckle in the ceriler when the accident occurred. It was virtually In two sections when it stopped. Owing to the inaccessibility of the smiI, there was a long delay in getting the dead and injured into Oiiecnstoun and Niagara Falls.

Special cars were rushed from both ends of the line. STRANGER ATTEMPTS TO SEE ROCKEFELLER! Has Ilirthday Cake for Hint' Report' He Is Would-Iie Assassin. Tarrytown, X. July 8. Excitement was caused at the Poran-tico hills estate of John I).

Rockefeller today by a rumor of an at- The Amalfi Torpedoed in the Adriatic Sea. PRACTICALLY ALL THE CREW RESCUED According to the Statement Issued at Rome. Austrian Submarine Down Lost Vessel 1905 and Registers Sends Anialli Is Built in ,058 Tons. Russians Win Fight with Turk Submarine Also Sink, Nine Other Turkish Veel, Says Petrograd. BY BRIXTON D.

ALLAIRE. Rome, July 8. The Italian armored cruiser, Amalfi. has been torpedoed and sunk by an Austrian submarine In the adrlatic. Official announcement pf tho destruction of SEVENTY-SIX IS OIL KINO TODAY John D.

IVIebrates lliii Inlay Tarrytown Estate. Tarrytown, N. July S. "I'm In excellent health and good spirits," this was the only comment John Rockefeller would make today when anked how he felt on his seventy- sixth birthday. The oil king celebrated his anniversary quietly.

A round of golf and dinner with his children and grandchildren was his program. Mr. Rockefeller will not go to his Cleveland estate until later in the month. The oil king was well guarded on his Poctanlc hills estate today. Tho place 1h well fortified, more since the atleniped ussaBxInatloii of J.

P. Morgan, and is proof against bombs and agitators. TEACHER KILLED BY AUTO IN CLEVELAND Miss Clara Slty.enstork Struck Alight. lng from Street Car. Cleveland, July 8.

Miss Clara Siuenstock, twenty-six, schoolteacher, wag run down and instantly killed by an anto today. Frank Con-lln, twenty-five, driver of the car, Is held on a manslaughter charge by police, MIks Sltzenstock stepped from a 'Street. car and win Htruck hy the She was hurried to a hos pital, but was dead before reaching there. IS ON ORDERS ISSUED BY SECRETARY DANIELS To Prevent Sending of Uncen-sored Messages. 1 TOLL OF STORM THAT SWEEPS FTVE STATES Chicago, July 8.

Latest information shows these results of the tornado that swept five states: Ohio Cincinnati swept by the storm. Thirty-five dead. Property loss in Cincinnati estimated at nearly $1,000,000. Train wrecked at Plainvtlle, thio. Kentucky Covington, Ludlow, Dayton.

Helleview and Newport suffered heavy properly losses. Reported nearly a score of lives lost in the cities. Illinois Kussellville is struck by tornado, seven reported dead. At Lawrence-ville, two reported killed. Enormous proerty damage at both these cities.

IS Indiana. One killed Vincennes. One killed at Lawrenreburg. Heavy prop, erty losses in both places. Missouri Seven reported dead in St.

Charles. Town of St, Peters said to be par-tially wied out. i IS i r. 3 mmmm TOLL OF STOI Path of Ruin Is Left Through Middle West. FIVE STATES REPORT GREAT DAMAGE DONE Greatest Loss Is in Cincinnati and Vicinity.

Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri Are Hit by Last Night's Tornado Deaths Reported from Points in All of Those States. Property Damage In Area Visited by Storm Is Knormous. St. Louis, July 8. Seven persons lost their lives In the tornado that swept St.

Charles county, Missouri, according to unconfirmed reports that reached here today. More than $250,000 damage was done in St. Charles, St. Peters and Coolesville, according to the same reports. Mrs.

Thomas Slattery and her two children were reported killed when their home, eighteen miles west of St. Charles, was wrecked by the storm. An unidentified man was killed In Wentsville and another at Gilmore. The St. Charles Borromo church, which was erected in 1896 at a cost of $70,000.

was totally wrecked. St. Joseph's hospital was seriously damaged. Late in Afternoon. The storm struck St.

Charles late in the afternoon. A small funnel-shaped cloud with a twisting tail appeared as the storm appeared, moving with terrible speed toward the city. A Wabash passenger train, from St. Louis to Kansas City, passed Gil-more. Missouri, just before the storm reached there.

The train rode into the tornado a few miles heynnd there and the forward four coaches were blown from the track. The engine and the remaining five coaches stayed on the rails. Mail Clerks, V. O. Whitehead, William T.

Clary, Ear! D. MeKinley and Rolla M. Botts, were slightly injured in the wreck. Leaving Missouri, the storm took a northeasterly course into Madinon county, Illinois, where heavy damage-was reported to have been Inflicted. lOO May He Dead.

Chicago, July 8. Reports filtering In to Chicago over badly-damaged lines of communication, today Indicated that the death list In the tornado and storm that itruck five middle western states list night may reach 100. Twice that number have been unaccounted for In Ohio, Kentucky. Indiana, Illinois and Missouri. Thousands of houses were reported to have been leveled and property damage of enormous proportion was Inflicted on the storm-swept section.

The greatest damage was done In Cincinnati and Ohio river towns In that vicinity. The latest authentic report from Cincinnati said that thirty-three persona were known to be dead there. RepotH Tell of Havoc. Meager advices from Milford and Terrace Park, Ohio, and Covington, Newport, Bellevlew, Ludlow and Dayton. Kentucky, indicated that several persons were killed In those cities.

An inestimable amount of property was destroyed. The storm smashed down upon St. Louis and St. Charles counties in Missouri. An unconfirmed report btated that seven persons were kill-Continued on Paf Three.

I 00 the warship was made today by For Heavy Loss of. Life When Falaba Is Sunk. SUBMARINE CAPTAIN IS HOTLY DENOUNCED For His Failure To Give Any Chance To Escape. Verdict Is Handed Down Today by lord Mersey, Who Presided at Inquiry into Sinking of the Fnlnlia. Mersey Declare He Thinks Ger mans Designed To Sacrifice Liven of Passengers and Crew.

JI1Y JOHN London, July verdict holding that tho Itrltlsh liner, Fntabu, was sunk without warning. In Mrch, and that the full lire of the (ieriuan Hulniiarinn which destroyed tho slnatner to afford the piiKst'ii-Kors an opportunity to take to the boats was responsible for the heavy loss of lite was handed down at Westminster today hy Lord MerHey, who presided at tin. investigation. Leon ('. ThieHher, an American, perished when the Ealiiliii was sunk and his death formed part of tins basis for tho protest made by I'resl-dent WIImoii against the Oertnan submarine policy.

"It Is not our province to decide whether the submarine was within II. I- I I 1. nn iiKiiin 01 riiiKillK ine Ilium, said Lord Mersey in IiIh decision "but! she was bound to afford the nun and women aboard an opportunity of getting Into the boats. The submarine did not do so. "The ship was unarmed and carried no means of defense or offense.

The boats and life-saving apparatus were In good order. The captain, officers and crew were competent and efficient. Cargo Is Ordinary. "The cargo was an ordinary one. included thirteen tons of cartridges and gunpowder for the government's use In West Africa.

This was no more than usually carried In peace time." A scathing denunciation of the, captain of the submarine was given In tho following words: I ieen City and Vicinity Are gwepi Jjasi ii SEVERAL SCORES OF PEOPLE AKi iiNJuriii Sgouses Blown Over and River Craft Capsized. YnMMUNICATION IS GREATLY HAMPERED Velocity of Seventy Miles Is I Reached bv Wind. iafflc Is Demoralized for Hours and Attempt Is Made To Run Street Cars on Schedule Today Storm Lasts Only Half an Hour Prop erty Damage Is Heavy A Freight Train Is Wrecked and Race Horses Are Killed Other Towns in Ohio Valley Hit Hard Wire Service Is Only Partially Restored Today. Bl LI.KTIN. Cincinnati.

July 8. Fairly complete reports from cities and tonus on the southern side of the Ohio river today swell the mil of the storm in southern Ohio and Kentucky to fifty. The known dead in Cincinnati number twenty-one. Only siv of the crews of imiboats. Fulton and Convoy, now are thought to have perished.

GREAT HAVOC CAVSED. Cincinnati, July 8. Hncin- i today is recovering from mfW'f twst devastating storm I that ever visited this city. Tho I miniature cyclone tore through I the western end of the city last I night and within half an hour I took a toll of lives estimated at I thirty-live, injured scores of persons, wrecked huildings and caused ahout 81,000,000 damage to property. A survey by the police of Hie suburb today, which were rut off from telephone communication with the city last nicht, swelled the list of known dead and increased the numher of missing.

MM OF K0WX DEAD. James Allen, agent Ohio Hn- Diane society. Mrs. Murcus Cohen, thirty. eight.

Mrs. He Tennenhaum. Rachel Tennenhaum. fnnr. her tinimliter.

"iiliam Hempelman, manufacturer. fharln Kline, conk. RradiV.nl Williams captain of Kulton. Irene six. Phillip "ree Fatran.

thirty. five. fifty. Sp(rp tnjrty.ninp lis wife. R'n Mieronn.

MaT I ri2eers. fifly. J'eph en. colored. urtis.

colored. Pin4 "a'ker. colored. rnidentitied negro, about thirty. fnldrntltied woman and two men.

killed when shanty. 'ertnrnpd. "UlMs CHOKES STREETS. The f(l(lay gre mtmd Many avenncs are "97 Milldinw blown from nir 'lUfinillltl rnt nff from 41. itn.l telephonic enmmnnj.

tltil ith the outside world ex for press wires. toil 'h list wait enf down hy i. nB rui lion ii iij "H'roie work ih. "ii ainhiilunce rnmpanles "ere called ont on a general P''1 "rn.a,i, nsf(l many people Pre Mnned down hy wreck. JW ruined the injured to hns.

"ifn. caretakers of race tj ln a Pennsylvania train, ill I when fonr far fniu c'1'1 'he horw, were Mown 'he at ruinvllie, thir. mile, of nprp The fonr "nirn were between the en-I nl the passenger roache, hy force of the ry futk ni ont of th train j. damage to the other far, three dead men and a doien "Te brought here. Hard Hit.

-i-i. July 8. Thirty-three killed and at leaat "iunued, on Pag Three. Minnehaha, with Ammunition for Allies Aboard, IS ENDEAVORING TO RETURN TO HALIFAX Wireless Says the Flames Aro Confined to Hold. SUFFOCATION AND STEAM BEING USED To Keep the Flames Under Temporary Control.

The Minnehaha Has (ev of 150 Aboard, but No I 'n-ssengers Carrie, it.ooo Tons of Ammunition Conslgn.Nl to England, as well a General Citi-go Is Steamer of M.TII Tons Explosion Have Keen the Result of Itouib rtierd AlM.ard by Rolf, Week, It Is 1.1 1 HUM I. fltV ItOlll liT C. CRANSTON 1 New York, July The nriu Ish steamer, largest ship engaged In carrying niMiiltloiis of war from America the Hi lies, mm M.t trft an explosion IiaI occurred late. yesterday Afternoon In hold, No. ik when the vessel waa about Homiest of Hiilirax.

-i The cause of the nr was repealed for the llrst time by a despatch received at the Allan-He Transport company's office shortly after noon today. The Information came in a wlreleas message from Captain Prank I-'. Claret, of the Minnehaha, who stated that the flame were under control. MA HAVE IIEEV ROM II. The message sf rciigflicncd the IM-Ilcf that had been growing In shipping circles that a bomb placet! by Prank Holt, the tlyn.

Milliter and assailant of J. I. Mm gan, was resMHishn for the lire. The despatch announcing that the lire ttMslcuuscd by an explosion follows: "Eire caused by an explosion. Now coot rolled by suffocation ami sleam.

Much smoke In hold. I rc in Is expedient to make Halifax. Dun Chebiisto head at 9 o'clock I'riday," This despatch from Captain tlnret, was sent last, night. In an earlier one, sent at 5: 30 o'clock, he gave the Information that lire hail broken nut in No. .1 hold anil that the ship was making for Halifax.

Liner on Eire. New York. July 8. The British steamer, Minnehaha, is on Are 670 miles off Halifax, Nova Rcotla. The steamer bus ammunition for the British army aboard.

She sailed, Sunday, for Liverpool. 'I he Mlritieliaha, a liner of 13.714 tons. Is owned by the Atlantic Transport Company. Limited. Her commander Is Captain F.

3. H. Claret. The news that the ship was on fire however, that ho was speeding Halifax. The Minnehaha tarries a crew of 150 men, but had no passenger aboard when she left here Sunday.

In view of the revelations in connec tlon with the operations of Frank Holt, It. was regarded as a possibility here that the dynamiter had placed some of his explosives aboard the Minnehaha Instead of the ships he mentioned In the letter he sent hla wife. Tons of Ammunition. The liner carried 17,000 tons of ammunition consigned to the British government, and purchased here through the firm of J. P.

Morgan Company, whose head Holt tried to ssatlnate last Saturday. In addition to the ammunition the Minnehaha also carried a general cargo. The wireless despatch from Cap Haret, telling of the fire, was 1 frnm 1lnpr ":30 0 c'ock yesterday itfteroon, but was not rt- celved at the Atlantic Transport company office until this morning. The captain gave his location at that time at 570 miles southeast of llnllfsl Officllita Of the line FTDresS. ed the opinion today that the liner Continued on Tage Three ministry of marine.

Almost all tho crew were saved, rne Amain car ried 68 4 men. The official announcement of the loss of the Amalfi follows: While, an Italian squadron was reconnoite ring in the northern section of the Adriatic sea, an Austrian submarine torpedoed the cruiser, Amalfi, which afterwards sank. "Before leaving the ship the i I sailors cried Long live Italy!" Thojposscsgjorl Taken of German crew was almost wholly saved." Wirolps Plant This is the hardest blow suffered! wireless ridm by the Italian navy In the war withj 'cle Sam's Naval lUlio It "Ho grossly insufficient was thoi'ame In a wireless despatch from opportunity afforded tho paKsengers Captain Claret, lie stated that the to escape that I am driven to tho It" confined to hold. No. 8, conclusion that tho captain of the i and that It was not serious.

He said, tempt to assassinate the oil king on his birthday. The rumor was un-The founded, but the police are watch-i ing a visitor who presented him- self at the gates of the estate and! asked for Mr. Rockefeller. When asked his name and his Austria, me Amain was a vessel i of 9.95S tons, was 426.5 feet long and waa capable of making 22.5 knots an hour. Iluilt Ten Years Ago.

The cruiser was laid down in May, 1905, at Sestrl Ponente and was completed three years later. She was equipped with two sets of triple expansion engines. The Amalfi, had an eight-inch mor belt amidships and a 3 -Inch i belt fore and aft. The main turrets were protected hy an eight-inch belt secondary turrets by a i.cii. utrtaum; oi ine strength of her armor and armament she was regarded by gome authorities as a battleship.

She rarried four ten-inch guns. ifcuv i.w-iiiv.11, niAif.ru inurrepn- pounders and two twelve-pounders, ship was equipped with three torpedo tubes. The warship was sixty-nine feet wide and her maximum draueht was twenty-four feet. The official report announcing the believed that her sailors or most of them at any rate, were able to take to her boats and were picked up by tne otner vessels in the Italian squadron. Turk Vessels Sunk.

Petrograd, July 8. In a battle between Russian destroyers and a Turkish submarine, In the Black sea near the Bosphorus, the OtUfnan vessel was defeated, the Russian ad miralty announced today. The fol. lowing report from the commandant at Sebastopol was issued: "Our destroyers attacked, near the Bosphorus, a Turkish submarine which fired a torpedo without result. A heavy accurate fire was opened on the submarine which dived.

Its fate is unknown. "During a bombardment of the coast of Banguldak, Asia Minor, a Russian warship sank fire Turkish sailing vessel and four Turkish galleys laden with coal for mission, the man said that he waslAmlafl's destruction indicates that Anton Von Wings, of Chicago. d'" tin" immediately. It is Service Wiks Into the Alleged Secret Code Invented by Philadelphia -Man by Which (iermans Are Said To Have Sent Information to Their Submarine. Washington, July H.

Secretary Daniels today announced that he hail instructed Captain Dullard, chief of the radio service of the navy, to take posses-, sion today of the wireless station at Snyvllle, Captain Dullard was In Philadelphia yesterday, Investigating the inventor of the alleged secret code by which (ermuri residents In the I'nited Slate are said to have sent, military information from Snyvllle) to their submarine fleet off the British coast. The government assumed direct charge of the Sayvllle plant, because it as unable to prevent hy censorship the sending of euch unneutral message. Captain Dullard, director of the naval radio service, tele graphed Secretary Daniels from New York shortly afr o'clock today that he had taken over the Say villa wireless station. Captain Dullard stated he conferred with the Atlantic Communication company, which han been ofieratbuz the station and made all arrangements for taking possession. London Silver Market.

London, July 8. Bar silver Is off 18 pence at 22 3-1 6 pence, submarine desired and designed not merely to sink the ship, but ahio to sacrifice the lives of the pnsengers and the crew. The submarine remained In the vicinity after firing the torpedo, but made no attempt to save life. "Tho evidence shows that there was laughing and Jeering aboard the submarine while Its victims wer struggling In the wafer. I prefer to keep silent on this matter, hoping that the witness was mistaken." Lord Mersey said that, since he closed the formal Investigation, lie had obtained from the chief officer of the Kalaha a denial of the allegations made by Ormany that, signals for assistance had been sent from the Palaba.

Archbishop Oululey No Better. Rochester, July K. The condition of Archbishop James K. Quigley, of Chicago, remains unchanged. Dr.

T. J. corner, of Chocago, announced at 8:30 o'clock this morning that the patient had passed a restless night and was somewhat weaker. Strychnine Is still being employed to keep the archbishop alive. Tl, kllie.

MarLel New York, July 8. Commercial bar silver la oil 1-4 at 47 cents. 1 I that he had come here to present Rockefeller with a birthday cake. The guard refused to admit the visitor, but accepted the cake for Mr. Rockefeller.

The Tarrytown police were immediately found and are keeping close watch on Von Wings, who is a German. He gave his address In Chl-cage as No. 1850 north Robery street. Appeals Damage Case. Columbus, July 8.

V. M. Duncan, receiver of the Wheeling Lake Erie railroad company, today appealed to the state supreme court from the Judgment or the Jefferson county courts which awarded Mike Pezl $550 for the loss of service of his minor daughter, Rosie, and for expenses incurred while caring for and nursing her. She lost a leg as a result of being run over by a cut of cars in the company's yards at LM1-lonvale on September 25, 1912,.