The Herald-Sentinel. (Cordell, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 29, 1915 Page: 7 of 8
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THE CORDELL H E R A L D - S E N T I N E L
THE BIER OF A THOUSAND SOULS
From the Okiahoman's picture, made from a photo by Mrs. Paul M. Pope of Oklahoma City, taken in 1905
Outing of 7,000 Western Electric Em-
ployes and Their Friends Ended Be-
fore Start, Two-Thirds of Victims
Are Women and Children
POLICE DECLARE INSPECTION PAPERS
SHOW VESSELL HAD BEEN OVERLOADED
THREE INVESTIGATIONS STARTED
CAPTAIN PEDERSON AND MANY
OF CREW ARRESTED.
HIS WIFE'S NAME OMITTED
Considerably Depreciated the Value
of the Book Containing Speeches
of Greatest Talkers.
"Sir,-' said the Bleek-looking agent,
approaching the desk of the meek-
looking man and opening one of those
folding thlngamajigs showing styles of
binding, "I believe I can interest you
In this massive set of books contain-
ing the speeches of the world's great
est orators. Seventy volumes. on«
dollar down and one dollar a month
until the price, $680, has been paid.
This set of books gives you the moBt
celebrated speeches of the greatest
talkers the world has ever known,
and—"
"Let me see the index," said the
meek man.
The agent handed it to him, and he
looked through It carefully and me-
thodically, running his finger along the
list of names.
Iteaching the end he handed the in-
dex back to„the agent and said: "it
Isn't what you claim it is. 1 happen to
know the greatest talker in the world,
and you haven't her in the index."
Barnum's Frankness.
On one occasion Barnum had an
elephant engaged in plowing on the
sloping hill where it could plainly be
seen by the passengers on the New
Haven and Hartford railroad, an agri-
cultural innovation that he knew
would get notice of some sort in every
newspaper in the country.
It was even said that he received
letters from farmers far and wide
asking how much hay one elephant
ate, and if it were more protable to
plow with an elephant than with
horses or oxen.
His replies were invariably frank
and were of this purport:
"If you have a large museum in
New York, and a great railway com
pany sends trains full of passengers
within eyeshot of the performance, it
will pay, and pay well; but if you
have no such institution, then horses
or oxen will ^.rofe more economical."
An Instance.
"We do everything in this country
by machinery."
"Yes, everything. Why. even in this
very apartment house, they bring up
the children by elevators."
Illllll
No bother to
get summer
meals with
these on hand
Yienna Style
*i -r Sausage and
Potted Meats
Just open and serve.
Excellent for landwiches.
Insist on Uhby j ai
your grocer i.
Libby, McNeill A Libby, Chicago
OhhbohaStaieFaip 8-
0
Authorities Expect To Secure Convic-
tions For Criminal Carelessness'
of Someone.
Cause of Tragedy Remains Mystery,
Removal of Water Ballast, Making
Ship Top-Heavy, Favored;
Naval Architect Had Con-
demned the vessel
Chicago.—Three investigations are
in full swing here to ascertain the
causo of the Eastland disaster and aft-
er that where to lay the blame.
D. N. Hoover, government inspector,
of Washington, and Federal Supervisor
Charles Westcott arrived and con-
ferred with the local inspectors, who
began to gather facts for the federal
grand jury ordered impaneled by Dis-
trict Judge Landis.
"State's Attorney McLay Hoyne has
a full force of men seeking witnesses
to go before the county grand jury.
The entire police department is ac-
tive. That evidence of criminal negli-
gence in connection with the wreck
had been obtained by them was hinted
at by Chief of Police Charles C. Healey.
He said valuable information was
found in the inspection papers seized
in Captain Harry Pedersen's cabin by
Deputy Chief of Police Schuettler.
Two different documents were seized
and the captain and twenty-eight offi-
cers and members of the crew were
arrested. The documents showed that
following inspection the boat was to be
permitted to carry 2,000 passengers
and seventy members of the crew.
Coroner Hoffman issued the follow-
ing statement Sunday night:
"I intend to use every effort within
my power to punish every person di-
rectly responsible for this great dis-
aster. None shall escape."
Numerous theories have been ad
vanced but the evidence thus far ob-
E,ery effort ™ . th. ;h.rt ,o =
the drowning men, women and children, but many drowned almo one theory given credence by many
grasp of the bank. Mothers went to death while their children were snatcne : Jg ^ thg water ballast of tbe boat
to safety Other children died in the arms of their parents, who were finally had been pumped out ln order to light-
saved Hundreds of girls, freed for a day from their tasks of making tele- en her and ^ weight of the large
Dhones and other electrical apparatus in the factory of the Western Electric number of passengers made the boat
ComDany dressed in their smartest white frocks, and some in the fancy cos-1 top-heavy to such an extent that when
tumes used in the parade that preceded the start, were drowned. I the passengers crowded to one side the
tumes used P ^ ^ ^ ^ naturally turned over that way.
,. . .. fl_ollv divert under the Another theory is that the boat was
turned before it finally div«d under he j overcrowded wWle a thlrd the.
swift current which, owing to the ^ Jg ^ the ^ Qf the boat had be.
drainage canal system, flows from the j cQme embedded jn the mud and that
lake. During the mighty turning of the j when ber enda were started and she
ship with its cargo of humanity, life- di'd not release herself the boat ca-
boats, chairs and other equipment on | reened to one side and the weight of
the decks slipped down the sloping the passengers carried her over. Faulty
decks, crushing the pasenger toward construction is alleged by some but
Kif KrvfVt tlm mtmora arm
Chicago.—A thousand persons lost their lives in the Chicago river Satur-
day by the capsizing of the excursion steamer Eastland while warping from
its wharf with more than 2,400 employes of the Western Electric Company
and their relatives and friends on board, bound for a pleasure trip across Lake
^The" bodies of over nine hundred victims of the catastrophe, most of
them women and children, were collected from temporary morgues and taken
to the Second Regiment Armory. When the bodies had been tagged. Coroner
Hoffman, taking into consideration estimates of bodies thought to be in
the hold of the steamer lying on its side in the river and in the stream itself,
said he had hopes that the total dead would not exceed one thousand.
The Eastland, declared by marine experts to have been top-heavy and
ballasted in an uncertain manner, turned over inside of five minutes after
began to list, pouring its passengers into the river or imprisoning them in its
submerged hull.
WHERE THE INCHES COUNTED
British Statesman's Remarkably Neat
Retort to Chairman's Shaft
of "Wit."
Lloyd-George's wit on the platform
Is well known, but here is one of the
neatest retorts he ever made.
He was addressing a meeting ln
South Wales, according to Pearson's
Weekly, when the chairman, thinking
to be witty at the chancellor's expense,
remarked to the audience that he was
a little disappointed in Lloyd-George's
appearance.
"I had heard so much about Mr.
Lloyd-George," he said, "that I nat-
urally expected to meet a big man in
every sense; but, as you can see for
yourselves, he is very small in stat-
ure."
Many an orator would have been
grievously upset by such an unfortu-
nate beginning to the proceedings, but
not so Lloyd-George.
I am grieved to find," he said, with
mock seriousness, "that your chairman
is disappointed in my size, but this is
owing to the way you have here of
measuring a man. In North Wales we
measure a man from his chin up, but
you evidently measure him from his
chin down!"
After that the chairman made no
more personal remarks.
Malted Away.
John Grier Hibben, president of
Princeton university, said at the Lake
Mohonk arbitration conference:
The day is not yet come when vio-
lence and oppression will melt away
before right like the plumber's bill.
Like, I repeat, the plumber's bill.
For a plumber, you know, once pre-
sented a millionaire a bill of $100
for mending a pipe.
"But the millionaire handed the
plumber a dollar note and said se-
verely :
" 'Receipt that bill of yours in full.'
" 'But—but—' said the plumber.
" 'Receipt it in full,' the millionaire
repeated. 'I used to be a plumber my-
self.'
"The plumber at this gave a great
start, receipted the bill and handed
the millionaire 50 cents change."
YOUTH HEADS BIG CONCERN
Canned
"Is .your wife putting up any fruit
this summer?"
"No, but I've canned a few peaches
myself"
"You have?"
"Yes. I've had three different
stenographers this year, and not one
of them knew half as much about
spelling and grammar as she did
about the latest fashions."
Beating the Bakers.
"Oh, I am almost tired to death!"
said the woman who spends half her
time addressing club meetings. "Our
political economy club has been in
session all day passing resolutions
and drawing up petitions demanding
a law regulating the price of bread.
Only think! Three dollars' worth of
flour costs, when baked into bread,
$13. It's outrageous. We'll soon all
be bankrupt. The bakers must be
made to feel the power of the law.
You should have been at the meet-
lng."
"I couldn't come, I was too busy,"
said the calm-faced woman.
"Busy on a club day? What on
earth at?"
"Baking bread," said the calm
faced woman.—New York Times.
Youngster of Fourteen in Charge of
Corporation Which la Well on
Its Feet.
Russel Monbeck, a fourteen-year-old
Dayton (O.) boy, is president of the
Boys' Box Furniture company, incor-
porated under the laws of the state.
It is a co-operative organization, num-
bering among its stockholders 28
boys, ranging from ten to seventeen
years.
The company operates from 4 to 6
p. m. daily and the company products
are chairs, music racks, piano benches,
writing desks, llower boxes, bird
boxes and other light articles, for
which It finds a ready sale.
The profits are divided ut> at the
end of the ydar on a basis of the num-
ber of hours worked by each boy. Last
year the 28 stockholders divided near-
$9,000.
The capital stock is one dollar a
share. Some of the boys are anxious
to buy more Btock, but the rules of the
company prohibit it.
Young Monbeck haf systematized
the producing and selling endB of the
business.—Cleveland Leader.
Under misty skies, 7,000 men, wom-
en and children wended their way to
the river wharf early Saturday to fill
five large lake steamers with holiday
mirth in a trip to Michigan City. The
steamer Eastland, brought to Chicago
from Lake Erie after an unsatisfactory
career, was the first to be loaded.
Rain began to fall as the wharf
superintendents lifted the gang planks
from the Eastland, declaring that the
government limit of 2,500 passengers
had been reached. White dresses
peeped from raincoats along the shore
trails, as those aboard waved good-bye
to friends on shore waiting to board
the steamer Theodore Roosevelt and
other vessels-
Passengers Swarm to Left Side.
Then the passengers swarmed to the
Jeft side of the ship as the other steam-
er drew up to the river toward the
wharf. A tug was hitched to the East-
land, ropes were ordered cast off and
the steamer engine began to hum. The
Eastland had not budged, however.
Instead, the heavily laden ship
■whipped sideways
river. The lurch was so startling that
many passengers joined the large con-
course already on the river side of the
boat. , ..
The ship never heeled back, it
turned slowly but steadily toward its
port side. Children clutched the skirts
of mothers. The whole cargo was im-
pelled toward the sinking side. Water
began to enter lower port holes. The
Topes snapped off the piles to w ic
the vessel was tied.
In a Restaurant.
Angry Diner—Waiter, you are not
fit to serve a pig.
Waiter—I'm doing my best, Bir.
A la Bible.
"If I kissed you on one cheek, what
would you do?"
"I'd turn the other cheek, also."
Contrary to the general belief, flies
do not pay particular attention to
baldheaded fnen.
Female suffrage, says an old bach-
elor, 1b causc/1 by a scarcity of hus-
bands
What He Did.
"Papa, who is this Thaw that the
papers are always talking about?
"He's the man who put the 'b'
'rainstorm'"
Of No Further Use.
"What are these volumes you are
throwing out?"
"My library on international law."
If the man who gives advice freely
knew it was good he would probably
use It himself.
Occasionally we meet a man who
has sense enough to do the very best
he can.
The average brass band is harmless
I —until It begins to play
Mean Disposition.
Before engaging rooms in your
house," said the bachelor, "I want to
know if there are any families with
crying babies staying here."
"I'm afraid there is," replied the
landlady; "but we—"
Well, I was just going to say," con-
tinued the other, "that if there are, I
want you to put me in the room next
to theirs. I want to wake up in the
night and hear their trouble, so that
I can congratulate myself again that
I'm not married."
Directions Wanted.
Oculist—you will drop a little of
this into your eye three times a
day.
Patient—Before meals, or after?
It isn't what you say but how you
say it that makes a woman either
your friend or your enemy.
My notion of a perfunctory per-
formance is that given by two wom-
en engaged in kissing each other.
The double life would not be bo dan-
gerous if the fool love letters could be
avoided.
the rising water.
I this is denied by both the owners and
J the inspectors.
Then there was a plunge with a hiss j A copy of a letter of a naval archi-
of air escaping from the hold, mingled tect condemning the construction of
with crying children and shrieks of the Eastland will be part of the evi-
women. and the ship was on the bottom ' dence used by United States Attorney
! Hoyne in his investigation of the dis-
! aster. The letter was written by John
of the river.
Then all the horrors that accom-
panied the burning of the Gen. Slocum,
the sinking of the Titanic and the tor-
pedoing of the Lusitania, were reen-
acted.
Devereaux York of Chicago, to the
United States harbor inspector here.
August 3, 1913.
"I stated in that letter," said Mr.
York, "that the Eastland was a dan
The steamer Sastland was built in gerous boat. Every naval architect
1903 and owned bv the Eastland Nava- who knew the construction will tell
cation Company of Cleveland. It was you she was dangerous. She has a
265 feet long. 38 feet wide and has a 38-foot beam for which the law of
leavny | draft of 23 feet, with a net tonnage of steamboat construction requires at
, leaning toward , ^ ^ R wafJ brought t0 Chicago in least a 40-inch keel. The Eastland had
1904 and was used in the excursion , no keel at all."
busiress to South Haven, Mich., fort The last annual inspection of the
several years. Later it was taken to Eastland was made in St. Joseph.
Cleveland nnd placed in the excursion Mich., May 7, 1915. Steamboat in
service there This spring the boat spectors from Detroit. Mich., which is
was remodeled and brought to Chicago the center of that government district
and put on the run to St. Joseph, Mich, j made the inspection. On July 6 a dry
It had a steel hull and was known as dock examination of the boat s hull was
one of the fastest excursion boats on made by Captain Ira B. Mansfield and
the great lakes. It had a speed of 21 William Nicholas, local steamboat in-
mlles an hour. spectors.
SIMILAR DISASTERS IN MARINE HISTORY
^•LATAA-1-< m.. . ... a™* tho larval The EmoresB of Ireland
The EmpresB of Ireland sank in
twenty minutes off Father Point in the
St. Lawrence river May 29, 1914. after
being in collision with the collier Stor-
stad. In this wreck 1,024 persons per-
ished. The burning of the Volturno in
The survivors num-1 midocean on October 9, 1913, was re-
iunk by ! sponsible for the death of 136 persons,
off the j The President disappeared in mid-At-
u « unc ai Chicago I The Titanic, at the time the largest
New York—The sinking at Ch g | the world whlle making hei
of the steamer Eastland calls to nun . maiden voyage( Btruck an iceberg ofT
the disaster here June 15, 1904, when ^ New F0Undiand banks on April 14,
thesteamer General Slocum caught fite ] l912 and gank witbin two hours. Of
In the East river and before she could her pasgengers and crew 1.595 persons
v k!o7L,i nn North Brother island, l08t tbeir lives. The survivors num-1 miaocean on uciooer *. ismo. was r*-
be beached ^ usitania was sunk by ! sponsible for the death of 136 persons,
upwards of 1,000 excursionists b ^German submarine on May 7, off the The President disappeared in mid-At-
their lives. Among the calamine Qld Kinsalet ireland. The; lantic with 120 passengers in 1841.
the water ao:ompanied by great loss ot • Qf ons who iost their livec | Months later a bottle picked up at sea
life in recenj years the disasters to the dl8a8ber was more than eleven | was found to contain the announce
Titanic, the .usitania and the Empress bundred ] ment that the ship was sinking,
of Ireland b >ld chief places.
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Gunsenhouser, M. H. The Herald-Sentinel. (Cordell, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 29, 1915, newspaper, July 29, 1915; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc168570/m1/7/: accessed March 29, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.