Pensacola News Journal from Pensacola, Florida • 1

7 fcrr WEATHER FORECAST No weather report wt received from Washington last night. ESCAMBIA COUNTY'S AGRICUU-TURAL EXHIBIT ESCAMBIA COUNTY FAIR October 23rd to October 23th Inclusive VOL. 232. pensacola; Thursday morning, October 19, ioi6. PRICE FIVE CENTS i I vv FLiiTO FUDGE PLACED ON TRIAL CHARGED.

-WITH- MURDER HIS LITTLE' DAUGHTERS BUT DAMAGE IS SLIGHT WIND WAS 114 MILES mm Mil; SLIGHT FIERCE BATTLE iMwm BY BlillS hi i.o Ludij I Lashed by the highest wind in its Pensacola rode through a typical hurricane Wednesday morning with the l-js of some roofs, a few houses, lots of trees and untold quantities of window glass. The wind attained a velocity of 114 miles an hour just before the recording instruments blew away in one fearful gust, and the barometer was lowest on record 29.05. IN THE STORM CENTER. The hurricane, which Tuesday night was 300 miles south of New Orleans and bound due north, recurved bc- fore reachirtf thr T.oiiUiana and its exact center Passec over Pensacola. From the east and northeast it blew at first, reaching the velocitv of 98 miles an hour at 9K)5 a.

with a 3-foot i i. i uui it wis nui inc cnu was just xnc tcinci, jusi middle of things, and the weaher bureau hauled down the storm signal and replaced it with the hurricane warning. THE STORM BREAKS. As sudden as a gust through an open door, the wind FUDGE. Charged With Murder of Children.

came again, and at 9:12 it was blowing at, the fearful rate of 114 miles an hour. rrnshed nn v-rir i hj course as by some miracle. Wind at 110 Miles an our; B-mae is About 3.000.- NEGrcECS KILLED BY LIVE WIREj i IS Damage to Shippin I or Slight City in Part Darkness. fFECTAi, to the JOURNAL A' Oct. is Mobile -was "sited most wind "torm this morning on record.

At one to the instruments in the west for fi'v- "lift "out of the sr--h. ro i Despite-tins the entire damage in the city. sr in the river front will' not-exceed 55,003. One small, old steamboat, the Charles May, sold last. Saturday at auction for $1,000.

was blown to pieces and sank in th The b.iv steamer Ato11. rommy the- eastern was blown on a sand pit, but can be easily gotten The greatr si darr. age to property was the destruction of a shed over i the Fkviiht b- th MoVit x- nin Railroad. I Voraan Killed. A negre ing into St.

Etf phr Tht f' a- "ectroriitH by com-1 u-t with a live wire In I rot ''y' in n.a recou.ee- ther i Jury is Selected and Formal Charge is Presentedj-Fudge Pleads Not Guilty. Trial Continues at 9:30 This Morning. THE JURY. George Lock, Pitts, It. 13.

Little, Henry Blum, A. Bartley, W. T. Dewberry, C. D.

Morris, W. W. Dunn, B. Doll, William A. Keeper, Jaime? L.

Godwin, J.i W. Majors. With the court room crowded to overflowing, E. J. wasplacea on trial Wednesday afternoon before Judge A.

G. Campbell for the murder of his daughters, Ethel and Tennie, on June 27. Much tinye was consumed in the selection of a jury, and it was late in the afternoon before the case went to trial. State Open As soon as the jury wat sworn in, State Attorney John P. Stokes addressed the outlining in brief the nature of the crime charged in the indictment of the grand jury.

Mr. Stokes said that the state would attempt to prove that the children haa been poisoned choked before tht were shot. He said that he thought the evidence would show that Tennie, the older of the two, who was found, cold, upon the floor of a had died of poison, and was afterwards shot through the heart so that it would appear that she had, committed suicide. Suspicions Actions Defendant. The state's attorney then comment ed upon the suspicious action of the lefoniant after he Tcft In a hrn em Tuesday morning, June 27., He reviewed the sending of Bascom, the seven-year-old son of Fudge, to a distant neighbor for the purpose of setting a brace, which he did, returning with 5 cents, the money gained by the transaction.

Mr. Stow said that Fudge, without allowing Bascom t9 i i sent enter tne nouse, imraeuioijr him back to buy some milk. Aftef down, and a boy Was blown through gla5S window. Almost by magic the tide went down-the water driven far a-sea. -J DAMAGE NOT GREAT, iie winQ WS not Only considerably Stronger it W3S JTUStier than in the Tulv Storm, but in SOite of this, damajie tide Then there was a lull, a 1 i.

rirrc of rnnfinf whirled: t. Roofs crashed and trees went tne cc i. wnarves were on some ships. The big grain AA which stnpr'i ofT, auit. chimnevs were blown down, German Attacks in Carpa-thians Ae Easily Repulsed.

FRENCH HOLD VILLAGE CAPTURED Situation in Greece Still One of Exceeding Great Tension. BT ASSOCIATED PRESS. London, Oct. IS. Violent fijrhtinr is still in progress in GaliHa whpr on Maraj-uvka front the Bavarian stormed Russian positions, capturtn prisoners and cannon.

Repulse of AustrcKGerman attacks in the Carpathians is announced by( BoTnorth and south of the SommJ the French troops have made fresh The of Sailly-Saillisfl is entirely in French hands and the Germans were driven back from hills north and northeast of that place. German first defenses were driven ha rj. i of.a "tit, 1 e- cnette an Tr- X. xi rppntentb. suceessfai- stopping i 'e, ail aioi h.

5 nor vtctonet against I Lon'va rctcrds gain lt-e sc r'rt edecourt in ir. 'e jc de 1 advance: A.ir.i tin-t i 1 f' The pitwitir.n in Greecs feature! fresh rations of bitterness -r i result of the landing of entente mit to Washington by a committee of Greeks at Athens. Carranza- Again Says tt0 Will Pursue Villa BT ASSOCIATED PRESS, i AtJantV City Oct. IS. Ti.a rirsn-Se-ioan joint commijj on touay reiMvc'.

Supplemental assu; anie that he is begt--nint a vivc rd more vigorous agkiiif Villa." All availa to troops be i in pursuit of Vii! i. 0 0 KJUl on tne watertront, unroofed and the roofs piled Vrtei if. Ulf SIlJKS; 1 or enwr 4 ii 0 VL Crew Clinging for Hours tc an Oyertumed Lifeboat, LIFE PRESERVER LEADS TO DEATIH Flanders, Pumps Clocdj by Coal, Founders CU Red BlufT. One of the closest calls from the rtom was that of Ceptai Ben Rocheblave and crew cf thsq steamer Flanders, that vessel tavrjr3( foundered when off Bed Fluff, fink- ing in perhaps twenty-five feet ct? water. With the exception cf th negro cock, whose" name waa fca Cobb, all aboard were Th-i drifted about, holding to aa ovrrtszr ed lifeboat for about four hours bJ fore finally being washed ashco-a.

Then, walking in the fierra ncrt-rare s-ter, which was then howling ever, the bay, the little party who isd tJ narrowly escaped death, made way to the marine ways, about eit miles distant, where they were provided with warm food and clcCr by Captain Junius of the sinack Al-cina, and Liter were bronht over t-- the city on the tugboat Dixie, hi command of Capt, John Ingram, whirn had been dispatched by the Aiken Tow bo at Company to search for the Flanders and to assist in puling off the several smacks which were blown up on the beach across the bay. Those Aboard. Those aboard the Flanders wrs fireman; Dan CoLb, fc.rc.;, Cobb, the man drowned, wii the life preserver. Capt. RocLetlave's Story.

Capt. Eochtbla-ve, hurying to his bom on West Garden rtiwt as soon. as he reached the- city, was sen Lut night and told his story, lie trji: with the smack Amy Vv'Ltcn in iha VTtAer lft a ritv shnrtTr' after o'clock tn the morning, with intention oi ancaonng ua nvcic across the twy. On the way over, he said, the seas continued to wK the decks and this resulted in coil washed into the pumps, hokir thenv.1 The steamer' predicament nfrlmn nnA the B'ruick was cut locs-i and the Flanders vas brought with a view to clearing tne and later making for a tafa placa. Capt.

Rocheblaye about this dts covered that his barometer sbowei 2S.E0. This was durin? the lull fcl-1 owing the first blow." The captain tried to run out cf the way cf C.a expected second blow, vf-ich, he radiated would come out frcm the wrt-Before the steamer couii get the lee of the other shore, the stem cante out cf the west and the rtssrrjtr; soon settled. When it was teen the tug was to founder, Capt, Ea e-blave called all "hands together and announced that they trere 1 went while others at the pier suffered minor damage. The tug Flanders, caught in the worst of the hurricane, was wrecked at Red Bluff. In the city the Pensacola Electric Light Company r- 4-1-.

-A XT'Iit- i 1 i i 1 as nit wuiai wiui iic uiiujc awi Ubs inline Tnvou down, and many poles on the ground, 'the damage uCercd wn" considerable. The power hbusc itself was un- 1 tne city; ana astomsning "'Vr Tv--' i 17 occurred during storm'. When 1 es uproo broken. On parts of Gov- who desire to remain free, was handed V1 T'unl nUmberS of 'c wuiwu ui.aLv.cs uujuo -v ail cars stopped to prevent injury to' 1 he damage at the navy yard was confined to the unpeople, roofing of building No. 45 (the office building), and the The city tonight is without arc, ctrinnintr nf cnm.

cliatliJno- frnm fTi iprnnnn Bascom returned. Fudge made ready no other vessel and remained atan-t to go to Tensacola, but, according tojehor in the stream last night. His TORI 0 UT Sit AHHflTO Vessels in Port Escape With Slight if Any "Damage. Shipping in the harbor" suffered little or no damage despite the hish wml ant rough peas Ano'it tre di'v "i- vc-i, nene as that fcustamd by Norwegian bark Oaklands, whier- breaking from moorings at the G. A the was lands The Russian bark Albvn from her moorings and drifted into the stream.

The Albyn collided with ii.o uamagc was susiamt'u Dy oincr shipping, so far as could be ascertained, with the exception of that sustained by small craft. FEED BIDS DHGED III STORM The Mellen warehouse, at the cor- ner of Garden and Alcaniz suffered seriously from the storm, a section of the roof having been carried away. The bins, where are usually filled ith bushels of were not filled to capacity and that is the only reason the loss did not figure as greatly as had been first estimated. i BERT G. DUUALJS SERIOUSLY HUM Bert C.

Duval, residing at 1018 Nr street, and who operates a planing mill, near FisherviUe, was the victim (of an exceedingly painful injury while trying to save -a boat during the storm, when, his leg was caught -and broken in two places. Earthquake In Southern States BT ASSOCIATED FBESSL Atlanta, Oct. 18. Two but slight earthquake shocks were felt through Georgia, Eastern Alabama and Tennessee and Kentucky about 4 o'clock this afternoon. Some chimneys were knocked down in Birmingham.

Losses were othense trivial. OES JI JILL -uk being repaired nearby. The Oak- ex a aKvuim iaay kiiiiw Loses $8000 When Boat Sank injured miic mi.iuc iiKtciiiucij Cornices were blown off, AO macnines were nun The was not hurt. SCHOOLS iihged Loss is Slight, Howeveri and Repair Work Will Not Interfere. All the public schools throughout the city were suspended yesterday, and the few children in attendance were dismissed with no lessons.

The sessions will be resumed today, ac cording to announcement from the school officials, and while there ar some repairs be made on "the buildings, it is not expected to interfere with the work. Buildings Damaged. The greatest damage to any of tne schools was that suffered by the new Joseph B. Lockey grammar school, on "A street. The roof of the building was torn almost entirely off, and the small section that remained will prob ably have to be relaid.

The interior of the building was not damaged to any extent and repair work will be commenced immediately. The public high school for negroes. on West Jackson street, also suffered by the loss of the roof, hut as in the other case, it Is not expected to interfere with. the session. Other school buildings were damaged slightly by the loss of windows, and falling plaster, but on the whoi the loss is not considered serious.

ITALIANS MAKE SLIGHT G4LNS OVER AUSTRIA-. Rome. Oct. IS. The Italians Mount Ffaiifcio.

Trentmo, yesterday brke the AurUian lines of resist. Between ofiragnon ana ts. strro'ng the Austrians on the crrr. was iea inrougnour ov panes were ights, but- all homes are with oleciric current. LITTLE ALLEIN LURTON EXPIRED AT EARLY HOUR1 i Little Allein Lurton, 21 months tiie daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Harry A. Lurton, expired at an early hour this morning. Funeral, arrangement have not been. definitely arranged.

OWLIV Howley, with other survivors, was taken to Newport by destroyers ofj th tjj states navy which picked: Up persons found being tossed aboirsi enormous dirigible, hangar KILLED OLD-UP Robbers Escape After Looting U. S. Mall and Kill-mg Trainen. BT ASSOCIATED FHES3 Bliss, Ok Oct. The Santa Fe mail express train number five, northbound, was held np and robbed near here tonight.

The express messenger and baggage man were shot and killed by the robbers, who, after looting the train escaped in an automobile. A special train of nolice have been placed on the tra.iL The number of robbers and the names of the victims aire unknown. VAVY- YARD ESCAPES WITH LOSS OF ROOF Damage at the navy yard was tically coTnra to the unroofing rf bulldiag 5, the office building. Oze of the lest a little sheathing; but oona cf the aeroplanes were The big Eligible hangar, despite the target it offers the wind, waa oat jmed. PRESIDENT OTEEltED ON AY TO CHICAGO Syracuse, N.

Oct. IS President Wilson" was greeted by cheering crowds at ten New York towns this afternoon and tonight as he par 1 en route to Chicago, for three addresses tomorrow. Til 10 II Mr.1 Stokes, forced him to wait unta tied the dog. In going to the rear of the house fo tie the dog, Mr. Stokes asked the jury to bear in mind that the state contends that he -went around the east side of the house.

His reasons for stressing this point he did not divulge but assured the jury that it had an important bearing on tha case. Did Not Go To Work. After leaving the house, Mr, Stokes said that Fudge went to the service club of W. R. Kay, vrho delivered him a letter from a man at Warrington, statingthat if he, Fudge, would come to the navy yard at once, he could secure work.

Mr. Stokes sala that he did not go, but that his reasons- were not lack of money for ha had $1.50 which he had received for sellipg a dress 'and the brace) and plane 1 already mentioned. Instead of iroinir to the he went to the wharf where he engaged in assisting some man land a shark. Stokes faid thafhe did not take the -job, te-cause he knew what was at his! hom 1 on East Hill, and 'his conscience would not let him work. Rends Bascom on Other Errands.

Mr. Stokes said, 1 that Tuesday afternoon Fudge and n.uom home, but -did not enter the house. Stopping to drink water at a faucet in the yard, the two proceeding to the front porch arid sat upon the steps. According to Mr. Stokes.

Bascom was again sent on er rands so that Fudge could reconnoitre. riaacom returned and was Sent to Bawiew for his the re- turn a wcona iw, gested that he get in, the window ana look ttiromgh the house. Finds Only Open Window FirsL Without hesitation, Mr. Stokes said. Tudge went directly to the only open window in th 3 house, and lifted Bas com into the house.

The prosecuting attorney asked the jury" if they thought it was chance that Fudge went dirctly to the only -open -window, or if he 'did not know that il was the inly one; open. He then took up the1 gruesome, scene which, greeted the small "boy, when he descended into that room, where his sister lay dead, but warm, on the floor, a bullet yK I. i i I I 1 -f i Ml' v-'si I 'Cl I rJ I I ik t'J take to the life boat. He drew his knife and was slitting- the canvass covering the boat, when the steamer gave a lurch and the boat ard crew-were thrown into the rarirr seaa-Cobb, in the meantime, had a life preserver and had become arated from the rest. The tin-.

he was seen was when about twenty-five or thirty- feet from th bct, trying to twfm to. the overtarneO. craft. Captaiii Ilocheblave crr.e CiOe to this' time to being lost his lifa was saed by a bit of rope, possibly four feeVIong, hanging to the boat. Exhausted after a brave the skipper was too weak to reach the boat, and it was drifting by when he saw and grasped the rcpe.

The same article saved his life another time. Before the boat reached the beacn, was overturned again, all cf t. struggling men again beizg t-roa off. It was again that the cs- pulled himself to the boat by t.w of rope. The- Flanders, whr.

Utt Captain F.ochc-blave state 1, was r.r-ing by the stern and I neath the waves. In case the stsarrw fi location can be found, her is possible, tut none aboard were to definitely state at just uhit tT' (Cotnirued cn Faje Four) lls Miss Louise Howlev is one of sur-I -wi fW rJ boat Stephano was sunk by a U-boat. SUTEClit Of LatCtlO. in lifeboats. She lost in the wreel (Continued on Fage TwoO.