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V', ciinzzii VAZZ3 rrvvv trAj owe A COLORED PER.SON AXurvC .11 11 ii ilV vIN WHO HAS NO PRICE 5 CEifTS 27TH YEAR HOUSTON, TEXAS MONDAY; MARCH 24. 1 913. A 3 WIDESPREAD ESTKUCTION I ft INVESTIGATION IS UNDER WAY STATES OF THE MIDDLE WES IT 1 rsa t-rFS f- lv (( 1 h-An NOT.A Kansas, Iowa and Indiana Also Sustained Heavy LossesNews FroV. Omaha and Vicinity Grave and "Cowboy" Jim Dahlman Has Called Lieutenant Bloom's Case Is Claiming Attention. for Militia to Prevent Looting Several i-t 88 Being Completely Wiped Towns Out.

THE COWBOY MAY0B WHO CALLED FOE TffiE MILITIA 111 Dahlman of Omaha. sons ars known to have been killed at that 10 are missing, while 60 more are injured. With the water works out of commission, a fire broke out and the entire town was threatened with destruction. The known1 dead are: TT MRS. GILLESTER.

MRS. ZINBAUGH AND BABT. FRED HAYENS' TWO CHILDREN. MR. AND MRS.

M. R. HAMMOND AND TWO CHILDREN. MR. MRS.

HERMAN STARMAN. -The known dead elsewhere' i BABY DAUGHTER of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ohm, killed on a farm near Mead. HENRY HICKORY.

40, killed on a farm near Mead. Valley Still, a town north of Yutan, was reported hard hit. with ten more persons missing and many others In jured. The heaviest loss of property occurred near Greenwood and north of Ashland. Will Be at No Ones Mercy Under -This: I eKKcLL jrECtat; MRS.

S. H. WILSON DIED FROM I EFFECTS OF A BULLET WOUND CAUSED SURPRISE At Ralston much property -1 strayed and the railroad line blocked with debris, necessltat; de nes were necessitating the noiaing oi several trains. Wire service in the eastern portion of the State was demoralized and only comparatively, meager reports of -the storm war received over the telephone wires. PART fir TERRE HAUTE WIPED OUT Llghfilng Fired Houses snd Citissns vrusnao 10 u.sm in b.o.

(Aenciatti Preu Report.) TERRS HAUTE. March 21. Loss of life and severe property damage was caused by a tornado which wiped out the southern part of Terr Haute at 10 o'clock1 tonight. At 12 o'clock seven bodies had been recovered. Scores were injured and property damage will reach Into the hundreds of thousands, of dollars.

4 AU wires were blown down In the district affected. This prevented rescue work, although every available fireman and policeman was rushed to the stricken district. It Is expected thodeath list will be In- creased. With no warning the terrific gale swept down upon the district. Parts of the Room Glass Company's plant was flattened.

The foundry room of the Garland factory was caved fci. Brick and atone structures suffered alike. Lightning set fire to many houses. Men, women and children were crushed to death In bed. 8ome escaped to the cellars.

Whole structures were blown away by the force of the wind. The maimed were rushed to hospitals as fast as they were extricated. Difficulty was experienced in obtaining doctors and the firemen were unable tu cope with the flames which swept thn district. The heavy downpour of rain I all that prevented scores of Injured from being burned in the debris of their homen. YUTAN, NEB IN FLAMES.

Town Burning Following Destructive Blsst of Tornsdo. fHouston Port SpedA) lAiiocioie Preti Report.) KANSAS CITY, March 21. At i the Union Pacific offices here it waa said that Yutan, had been partly destroyed by a tornado and that the town was burning- Five persons were dead and many Injured, the report said. Another rumor reaching hart through ,1 Continued on Pag Two.) of the family, leaving her alone in. her own room.

Five minutes later, while at 'the table, a loud noise waa heard from the invalid's room, and her husband made the remark that aha must hava pushed over a 'd or chair, and Went up to investigate. There he found her Just breathing her last Mrs. Wilson Is survived by two 'children in addition to her On Is a boy of the other a girl baby 1 months old. Three sisters also are living, onu at Wharton, her former home; one at Fort Worth and the third at The body will be shipped to Wharton' this morning by Settegast A Kopf, and interment will be made there. Both her mother and father are dead.

Justice John H. Crocker will hold an inquest this morning over the body. Mr. Wilson Is, connected with the Trinity and Braxos Valley Railroad. in ship channel Dredgeboat Houston Went Risked Lives.

who could not swim. Blackette, It was' stated by observers, was swimming towards the dredge boat apparently alt right, when he suddenly sank and the' fact that his, body was found near that of Mlxensky waa taken aa evidence that A Complete Novel With The. Post Saturday Estimable Wife of Houston Railroad Mao Passed Away fc Houston Heights Home. Failed to Take Precautionary Measnrei to Injure Order Upon Arrival of Troopi at Texas City Ii Alleged. Ifl th smallest, tent, next to the end of tents which are occupied by the officers in charge of the Fourth Field Artillery, a man whose army career has been filled with trials and' tribulations Jilts during his leisure, hours, reads Shakespeare, and writes letters to his many friends.

man Is Frank Bloom and his entrance Into the army was made under conditions that would have turned the heart of many a weaker man. At present. Lieutenant Bloom Is in a status of arrest because on the arrival at Texas City of th section commanded by Captain Merrill, under whom Bloom serves, some 'of the enlisted men grew unruly and discharged firearms within a house In the restricted district. It is charged against lieutenant Bloom tha.t he failed to take- sufficient precautions for the maintenance of order on the arrival of th troops and that this failure was th cause of the. disturbance In Texas City.

An official investigation Is new under way, the result of which Is expected to be announced at an early date. Lieutenant Bloom lived in Fort Myer, during, his childhood and his father was a tailor at the army post. His early days were spent in study' and preparations generally for his entrance into the army, which was at first attempted during th administration of Theodore Roosevelt, who was. asked to appoint Bloom to West Point. President Roosevelt saw fit to declln to appoint Bloom to the academy and Bloom" then enlisted as a private In the Third Field Artillery which was stationed at' Fort Myer.

Storm In Army Circles. In 1911 Private Bloom applied for examination for th. rank of second lieutenant and stood-, examination befor a examining Bloom failed to pasJ iHe examinations and wh.a'the report pT the examining board was returned to Colonel Joseph Garrard ha approved the findings, and wrote an -the papers, "The applicant is the son of Joseph A. Bloom, of Jewish persuasion, who is now and has been for a number of years a tailor at Fort Meyer. His associations as far as I know and thosf his famUy with the enlisted men am Qtelr families have been respectable.

Th. "young man Is undoubtedly honest and upright, ambitious and probably deserving, but for the reasons stated I would not desire him in my command -as aa officer and social and personal When this Inscription on th papers was made public, every Jew in th United States rushed to the aid of their creed brother, and a storm arose in army circles. Following an Investigation made by the oAler of President Taft, Colonel Qarrand was publicly reprimanded for the recommendation he had attached t'o the. papers before forwarding them to Simon Wolf of Washington. President Taft's reprimand to Colonel Garrard was worded: "Ths statements made by, Colonel Garrard are fiot true with reference to the standing that Jews have in this country, and I resent, aa commander in chief ol the Army and Navy, that any officer of either should permit himself In an official document to give evidence of such unfounded and narrow-minded race prejudice as that Contained in this document" Tbe official reprimand Issued by President Tsft to the Secretary of War, to be given to Colonel Garrard, read: "The President directs the, Secretary of War to Inform Colonel that his attitude In this matter Is strongly disapproved and Is contrary to the Ideals and principles of this country.

Colonel Garrand haa been told that he has not the moral right to exert Influence In his official position to bar the advancement of a courageous and efficient young man, simply because that man was of the "Jewish raes." Passed Kxammatlon. Bloom was ordered to go to Fort Leavenworth, on August ltll, where he was given another examination. September II It was announced that Bloom had passed his examination and he received his promotion. Following this promotion Bloom was assigned to th Sixth Field Artillery, stationed at Fort Riley. Kan.

Bloom was afterward transferred to th Fourth Field Artillery, stationed at Fort D. A. Russell. Wyoming, and en February SI, 1913. he was tried by a general court martial on a charge -of striking a superior officer.

The results of this trial have not yet been made public. This waa not the nrst time that aa In vestigation has been made of Lieutenant Bloom's conduct while occupying the rank he now holds, but the trial befor th general court martial was the result of several Investigations made by men In charge. During the hike-of the Fourth last year through Colorado, Lieutenant Bloom la said to have struck a colonel In the army, but It haa never been proven. Since his entrance Into the army Lieu tenant Bloom has praotloally been left to himself by his brother officers, and It la said by enlisted men la th Fourth Artillery that he enter into none of their activities of a social nature, When asked tf this was so. Lieutenant Bloom replied that he had nothing to say la regard to the matter.

Neither would he discuss the reuse for his arrest, bat confirmed the rumor that he was in a status of arrest In regard to th occurrence at Texas City. One of the last acta of President Taft was to order ths Secretary of War to trtka frem the record the BUhHo snaod given Colonel Garrard. lAnociafi Prtu Rtporl.) CHICAGO, March 23. A terrlflo wind storm, causing" wldesporad destruction snd loss of llf end practically wracking ths already d.morallx.d t.le-graph aervlo, raged over the Central West Snd Middle West States late todsy. Reports from Nsbraska.

Kansas, Iowa and Indiana Indicate heavy damsge, but owing to th wrecking of tslegraph lines, reports sr fragmentary snd lacking In detail. tOmaha, Berlin, Ashland snd Yutan, N.b.; ths latter towns nssr Omaha, Shal-lowtown, Acklsy, Woodblns snd Carroll, Iowa; Terr Haute, and Abll.ns, are plsces from which scattering tttm naui. a mmm destruction have been received. The death list at Yutan was placed at 15 and the Injured at 0. Heavy Damsge In Nebrasks.

A dispatch from Lincoln says' at least to persons were killed In Eastern Nebraska. 10 are missing and mors than a hundred wer Injured. For more than four hours no word was received from the stricken city of Omaha. Lata bulletins report tnat half the city was swept by. a tornado.

All wires wer down snd Berlin, a neighboring town, waa said to be In flames." The message was received over a single long distance telephone wire which Worked at Intervals. Dahlman Asksd for Militia. Mayor Dahlman of Omaha has asked the Governor to call out the militia to prevent looting. Terre Haute, suffered severely. Scores of persons were Injured, an unknown number were overwhelmed In the ruins of houses Mown down by ths wind snd many fires were started In different parts of the city.

First reports from Nebraska were, that the towns visited by the storm had been wiped out and that the wreckage wss on fire. Trains loaded with rescuers, nurses and physicians wer struggling toward th scene, being compelled to feet their way without running, orders, owing to paralysis' of the telegraph aervlqe. loss of life and property in. Iowa. was less severe, according to messages from the swept district.

Dust storms, rain, hall and tremendous electrical disturbances prevailed over Kansas and Nebraska the greater part of the day. Where railroad service was Imposslbls motor cars were pressed into service and surgeons and supplies were rushed to the wrecked towns at the beat speed possible over the washed out roads. Great Disaster. Is Fesred. Shortly' after midnight the storm reached Chicago.

Its coming was presaged by practically total failure of telegraph lines in all directions. Reports of disaster in the southern and other cen tral parts of Illinois could not be confirmed because of impossibility of getting Into communication with the endangered cities. Damags in Chicago was confined st the storm's first coming to broken windows, small buildings unroofed and trees blown down. "The condition of the wire service Indicates that the storm area radiates from Omaha a great distance in every other direction." said a Western Union wire chief. "Wires are down between Omaha and points north as far as St.

Paul, as well as in every other direction." Great alarm is felt here for Omaha because of a dispatch that the Mayor of Omaha has asked far State troops to prevent looting. A grat disaster is feared, but no authoritative Information could be had from any source. At 2 a. ni. (Monday) virtually every telegraph and telephone wire into the offices of the telegraph companies and press agencies had failed.

DESTRUCTION THREATENS YUTAN. Eleven Known Dead and Flames Are R. ported Raging In Nebraska Town. lAssodatti Prtu Report.) LINCOLN. March 21.

A tornado, forming near Greenwood, today swept the eastern part of the State, resulting in the death of at least 20 persons, while 10 more are missing snd over 100 are Injured. Tutan, 1 miles north of Ashland, suffered the most of any city. Eleven per- GUARD ROYAL CASTLE AGAINST THE SUFFRAGISTS Special Staff of Detectives on Duty at Windsor, Where English Court Is in Besidenoe. (Astociotti Prist Report.) LONDON, March IS. A great crowd of youths armed with various kinds of missiles, tin whistles, mouth organs and bells gathered In Hyde Park today, prepared to repeat the rowdy scenes of Isst Sunday ahould ths suffragettes attempt to hold their regular Sunday meeting.

Th women, however, wisely refrained. Aa officer, who has had long experience In handling mobs said that It was a good thing the women did not appear, as the men were in an angry mcod because of the burning M. the fine country residence of Lady Amy White, widow of Field Marshal Sir George C. Whit, the her of Ladysmlth. Windsor Castle, where the court haa gone Into residence.

Is being closely guarded and special prscautlona hav been taken to prevent women frem making any demonstration or committing any outrage. A special staff of detectives has been sent to Windsor and th north terrace of th castle, which haa always heretofore been open to the, public, has been dosed. Hampton Court Palace also has been dosed. Speaker Was Believed to the Platform H. KLUS.

-Heuaton lMt Staff Cormpendwtt. AUSTIN. Tnu Harolr U. Th. -visit of th.

lawBuUcen to Cones Station yoa-tarday and th. remark of Speaker Terrell oa that occasion bare formed, tbe chief lubjeot of conversation here today. It was known that quit a number of th members were Inclined to chafe under the Governor's strictures as contained In his Good Friday maasace wherein- he. read them a lecture about their etc But It was not thought that the Sneaker would take up the gauntlet and assume to speak for th antladminlstra-tionists who have been flchtlns the Gov-' ernor throughout the session. Especially Is that true when It Is recalled that early in th session when Kennedy offered his resolution giving platform demands precedence over other maaaurea.

it was bitterly assailed by the opposition which Insisted that th pledgee of th individual members were entitled to first consideration, 'and it was only B0MBSELOFFIN TENEMENT HOUSE Inmates of 6-Story Structure Jarred From Beds When Lower Story Was Wrecked. I iAstociatti Prm Report.) NEW TORK. March IS. The 50th bomb set off In this city since January 1 exploded In the lowest East Side today with greater force than any Infernal machine placed by Black Hand operators within the memory of the police. The lower part of a five-story tene meat building was badly wrecked and there was a panic when the scores of tenants In the upper stories, who had been thrown from their beds by the shock, found their exit blocked by a great hole torn In the second floor hall way.

Several persons were painfully injured. A baker, near whose apart. ment the bomb Disced, denied he ad received threatening letters. Eighty-three bombs were exploded In Manhattan and Bronx Boroughs during 1S13. At the present rat the record of explosions for the current year will bo more, than 300.

Two other bomb explosions on the East Side, one of them In a building almost next aoor to me tenement oaaiy a few hours before, occurred to night, bringing the total to 62. Considerable damage was dona In each case, but no" one was Injured. AUDIENCE AT "CARMEN" VIEWED DUEL TO DEATH Jealous Baritone and Tenor Inter- polated Beal Battle of Swords in Third Act Ptttt Jtert) MADRID, March U. The stage of the Uttl theater at Argamasina de Alba, In th Province of Cladad Real, was th scene ol a duel to the death last night. The "opera was "The baritone, Padro, took the part of Don Esca-mlllo, the Toreador, and the tenor, Martines.

filled the role of Don Jose. Between the singers there wss Intense rivalry over a love affair and they resolved to settle their differences with the sword. They declared, however, to defer the combat until the end of the season. This closed with "Carmen" last evening and the audience was horrified when a real duel was Interpolated In the third act. The men fought savagely and Martines received a sword thruet from which he rapidly succumbed.

GASOLINE GUS PICKS UP THE WALLET JACOB BINZ; PIONEER RESIDENT PASSED AWAY AFTER LONG LIFE Be Firm Advocate of after Speaker Terrell had come go the aid of the resolution that it made, safe landing. Platform Demands Naturally It was. expected, after this that platform measures would have smooth sailing, at least so 'far aa con alderation wss concerned; but on the contrary they have been relegated to the rear while individual bills cov- erlng other; sublect. save those, mentioned to 'th. party platform have com WthVfert and been' either passed or Commenting upon the Speaker'a College Station address, the remark 'that the Governor had to make 'was' that' it was strange, passing strange, that the consolidation bills i and, other measures backed up and urged, by organised lobby that has been in" Austin sine th session begun, 'were permitted 'to take precedence over the local bills, none of (Continued on Pag 'Five.) Jones Lumber Company" Is aa well as farming lands In the county.

the Houston property, he was the-owner of much Galveston property, both la the county and in the city. Mr. Bins retired from active business about 1M, turning the management of his property over to his son. J. Bins, and his J.

J. Settegast- Jr. Although out of th business world actively, he never relinquished his hold on affairs and was thoroughly conversant with an that transpired within Houston where be was connected. Business took great deal of Mr. Blns's time, but he found th.

opportunity to visit Kurop with his family In his declining ag. and entered Into social activities with members' hi family to a great extant. was not a Vest talker, but when he did say anything h. was listened to, tot his knowledge, coming from an experience as varied aa that of any mad. him a dear thinker.

How seldom. his Judgment was at fault is best evidenced by his reputation In the business world of this city. Born In Oermeny. Although Mr. Bins achieved success early In llf his youth was on of trial and hardships.

He was bora-to the vlt-lage, of Beige, Oennany. October 18," 1811, and was on of a larg family (Continued on Pag Elrrvs,) Deceased Erected First Modern Office Building in Houston In 1895-Funeral Announcenient Later. JVp With a bullet wound In her head, Mrs. Margaret Van Zandt Wilson, wife of S. M.

Wilson, of Tenth and Allston Streets, Houston, Heights, was found dead In her room about o'clock' Sunday night by her 'husband, who was attracted there by the sound of a shot. 1 Mrs. Wilson had been in til health tor several months, and. It is said, despaired of ever getting well, bee's use previous treatment had seemed of no avail. Recently she msde a trip 'to other climates In the hope of becoming materially re covered, but long' aero returned very little Improved.

Despite her 111 health Mrs. Wilson Is said to have been in ex. cellent spirits until recently. It is said" that she was particularly despondent Sunday afternoon, however, and' Mr. Wilson had been in her room trying to cheer her up.

At about 6:50 ha went down stairs to eat supper with 'the rest wo'mTS'dw capsized Boat Load of Workmen From Down; Rescuers Overanxlety on the part of a party of levee men employed In connection with the dredge boat Houston to get their hands and faces washed In time to get first places at the general mess aboard the boat late Sunday afternoon resulted in Clarence Blackette," age 22 years, and Jake Mlsensky. age 40 years, being drowned. The accident occurred on the Houston Ship Channel opposite the cotton yards of Alexander Sprunt Son, at Harris-burg, about o'clock In the afternoon, when a skiff carrying a load of 10 levee hands, eight of whom wer Russian Jews, who could not speak English, or swim, was The men were being 'conveyed across the channel to tbe dredge boat for supper and caused the skiff to capaise by leaning over the aide to wash their hands and faces. Others 'of the party. Including John Christiansen, Who was skulling th.

boat, and Peter Lee. mate on th dredge boat, assisted la securing some of the party, and narrowly escaped being diuwuod. I Only Thre Could Swim. Three occupants of th skiff were Americana and could swim. Th.

remainder were Russians, none of whom could swim and but on or two of whom could speak even broken English. The skiff eapslsed at a point about mid stream: Th Americana struck out to save themselves and to assist those Jacob Bins, on of th wealthiest ana best known eltlsens of Houston, died Sunday night at the resident' of his son-la-law, J. J. Settegast Jr. at' th age of r.

Bins was one of the of Houston, eomtng bar when such a thing as a brick building was unknown and when th town was merely a settlement. Th basis of his Immense fortune was laid in Houston, and he was the nrst man In this, city to erect a modern up-to-date ofAc buttdfng. This bulldtng was computed. UK and people earn from miles around to star at Its Immensity, it Ming six stories In height. When this structure was first built, men looked at Mr.

"Bins with astonishment, many: declaring him: to be vary daring In even eon templatlng'suoh a building, for then the future of Houston was la tbe dark land was supposition only as to tbe soundness of his Judgment In this matter. Soon.1 however, Houston took on' new life, and. th Bins bunding, which- is now standing on Main Street, Is the oldest mod era. building In the- city. i-'V Owned Much Jtesl Besides this property, Mr.

Bint Invested heavily In Houston real estate, owning a valuable quarter block at' th corner of San Jacinto and Peas Avenue, and the Quarter Mock oa which th Jess Next Saturday The Post will issue a complete npvel, "Who," written by Elisabeth 'Kent A stirring tale of mystery it Is with a detective of real abil-Ity engaged 1 most of. the The mystery Is in the char-. acter whose Identity is coii i -coaled most cleverly and who 1 Is not revealed until most of the readers will have been really. puisled. This is the third of the novels Issued by Th Post.

and they have proved most acceptable to the readers of the paper. Printed In vconvenient form, they are given, aa lagnlappe, though they would cost St20 'each in any book atsr. -Ton know Tuesday of next swek Is April 1 and that the wallet an old trick for April Fools Day. Well, Gasoline Qua picks up a wallet in Th Poet Comlo See- 'tion next Sunday, Maybe he got a bunch of green bills and maybe he got only th laugh. rat, he' got on.

or the i eher Too will Sod out In next Sunday's Post rj, t-'X'.