The Duncan Weekly Eagle. (Duncan, Okla.), Vol. 21, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 30, 1915 Page: 1 of 8
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ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR
THE OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER OF STEPHENS COUNTY
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR
VOLUME XXI
DUNCAN OKLAHOMA THURSDAY SEPT 30 1913
NUMBER 31
Five Thousand Miles h Auto
Two farmers living near Dun
can returned home Sunday from
a five thouiand mile trip to the
Panama Exposition'
Mr and Mre Dert Crown
Mr and Mra Warner Brown anc
Charley Brown started in two
Ford automobiles from Duncan
the 5th of August They visiter
the San Francisco exposition am
the San Diego fair besides talc
ing a side trip into old Mexico
making 5000 miles altogether
The cars do not look much worse
for wear and the party report a
most pleasant trip with no mis
haps ‘
Boys Arrested For Burglary
Two boys were arrested by
the sheriff's force here last week
charged with having broken into
and plundered a store at Gibson
The boys' names ’ are Charles
Cox and Lester Gibson aged 18
and 17 years respectively They
took from the store several arti
cles of clothing knives tobacco'
cigars candy in fact they sam
pled nearly every thing in the
store Most of the plunder was
found with the boys They were
put under $500 bonds each Cox
succeeded in making bond but
the Gibson lad is still in limbo
Off to State Fair
Hatten Travis Sam Kincan-
non Jim Rhinehart Birdie Ar-
cher Ella Mae Cates and Stella
Yeager composed a party con-
ducted by demonstration agent
W B Tucker going this week
to the State Fair with expenses
for the week paid as reward for
best exhibits in the boys and
girls club department
Harry Stietel Tells ol
Ardmore’s Plight
Harry Stiefel who has re-
turnnd from a trip to Ardmore
talking to a representative of
The Eagle says:
“It is impossible to describe
in words the havoc wrought in
that awful explosion The pro-
perty damage is far greater than
was at first realized and un-
doubtedly the life loss will be
more extended than is yet re-
ported ' Unquestionably more
bodies will be found beneath
ruins that have not yet been ex-
plored Every building on both
sides of Main street for three
blocks is damaged and from the
corner of Washington to the
railroad tracks the north side of
Main street will have to be re-
built” Asked what the people thought
at the time of the explosion Mr
Stiefel said: “I asked that ques-
tion of a policeman and his re-
ply was that the sky was lurid
with burning oil and the shock
was so great that he and others
thought it was the ‘day of
doom’”
of Ardmore will take the easel
before the corporation commit
sion basing the action on the I
alleged exiatence of regulations
by the Interstate commerce com I
mission requiring carriers to
place gssoline tank cars on side!
tracks removed as far as possible!
from buildings
Good Bye Joe end John
Down at the city Are station
there is mourning Joe and John
two of the best trained fire
horses in the state are to be
sold Their place will be filled
by the new motor fire truck
Bob Holt who has been with
the horses night and day for four
years and has trained them and
loves them as a father loves his
children is heart broken at the
thought of lossing his two
friends Bob dreads to think of
ARDMORE BUSINESS DISTRICT
WRECKED BY GASOLINE EXPLOSION
Gasoline Car Tank Explodca With Terrific Force and
Cansea Widespread Disaster— 50 or More Lives
Lost and Nearly 200 Seriously Injured
At about 2:15 o'clock last Mon
day afternoon a 250 barrel tank
of gasoline on a siding of the
Santa Fe railroad in theArdmore
yards exploded wrecking build-
ings throughout the business
district of the city and killing
50 or more people besides se
riously injuring a great many
others
The largest list of dead is
from the negro district on the
east side of the Santa Fe tracks
The tank car was near the
Joe and John leaving Duncan
tnd yet be know that the best U”'” wh"h almost
home they can have will be an- totliy destroyed Property loe
other fire atation He hesthem 10" M“n reet mn both
trained to obey a whisper a e“l a"d weat of ianta
pointed finger At the slightest W’U m°“ntt0
sign from Bob Joe and John will ?“W0 TheArdmore amt
spring from their Jstalls to their "“" ned "V“red Pf
pisses beside the pole of the fire P '- Mr“Ua!' h“ been
truck with their glossy necks in a"d ‘he 5“”"“
trict is in charge of the
department
Every building along Main
street in the business district is
more or less damaged
The Pennington wholesale gro-
cery is completely wrecked The
Whittington Hotel has the east
wall torn out and the Swift
he collars of the harness At a
whispered word either one
named will come into place alone
When it comes to the parting
Bob will not be alone in his sor
row Joe and John love their
master and if they could talk
they' would surely put up a re-
monstrance at parting from a
oved friend
Packing Co -building and the -down in a maze and tangle
Benefit of Ladies Aid
At the Lyric Theatre Thurs-
day night this week will be
shown a picture dramatization
of iaongfellow’s Evangeline
This remarkable play is pre-
sented for the benefit of the
Ladies Aid of the Christian
church and should be patronized
with a crowded house The op-
portunity to see this play taken
from Longfellow’s immortal
poem may never be presented to
you again ' See it now
building occupied by the Canton
hotel is wrecked and burned
The Union station and the Santa
Fe freight house are both demolished
oughfare were beginning to emp
ty themselves I noticed that
everywhere plate glass fronts
had been shattered and the side
walks were covered with broken
glass Great masses of dust
clouds were rolling out in the
buildings and soon the lower
end of town outside of that sec-
tion to which fiames had been
communicated was under a dense
cloud of dust
“The excitement amounted to
a panic Many persons had been
struck by falling glass One
woman came by us literally cov-
ered with blood We placed her
and the woman I had brought
from the sannarium in an auto-
mobile and they were taken to
the Hardy sanitarium which
was further removed from the
danger zone
“I believe it is not too muen
to say that not a plate-glass was
left in the business portion of
the town Shop windows were
completely der olished in many
instances Waxen display fig-
ures smashed in smithereens
were scattered over sidewalks
All along the street wires were
Cotton Coming In
The sunshine this week is caus-
ing cotton to open fast and the
gins here are beginning to as
sums the customary activity
which is expected at this time
of the year From now on with
reasonable amount of sunshine
the gins will be busy until fr os
comes An early frost will cut
the crop very short otherwise
there is prospect for a very gooc
crop here
Ardmore Boy Held For Morde
“In a short space of time the
streets became jammed Our
party was among the first to pen-
etrate the section where the
greatest damage was done This
The explosion is said to havej waa jn vicinity of the inter
been caused by a spark from ajsection of Main street wjth the
hammer in the hands of a work-1 ganta pe tracks The west wal
man who was trying to stop aofthe fam0U3 old Whittington
leak in the tank hatel had collapsed in part We
A vivid description is given in
the Oklahoman as told by an eye
witness
‘At 5 o’clock this afternoon
came upon the mangled body of
a boy not more than 10 years old
pinioned under the debris Two
feet away lay the body of a man
Change of Ownership
Mr -Kuykendall has sold his
interest in tfie Red Elevator
his partner Mr Coleman
Kuykendall takes over the Dun-
can milling property in the deal
and will remodel it at an early
date
Mad Dog Scare
On last Friday afternoon Miss
Ruby Nelson of route 2 had an
experience with a mad dog Just
as she started home from the
mail box which is a half mile
from her home she heard a noise
behind her and on looking around
she saw a mad dog just a few
feet away She says she does 01c:
plosion occurred at 215 o clock
not realize how she got home f T
a u w I In company with some friends I
Ardmore was a hideous inferno ! jjg face unrecognizible Both
of smoke and flame of pungent were
odors and blood and frioane” Across' tbe strcet ther
Such s the description of the caled for he He un
situation at the Carter county derthee fs n of
capital by W J Mlborn " debri bs limba beld by brick
operator here with offices in the1 and fitone3 We eitricated him
ing a-ho arrived in andhe waa rushed away to a
ty Monday evening i h iW- It seemed that almost
direct from the stricken town other iA the throng
The scene Mr Milburn said beg : bore some kind of woand Tbe
slclewalk9 became spattered with
gars description
I left Ardmore at 5o'ciock”
continued Mr Milburn ‘The ex-
without being bitten as she ran
a little way and would then walk
backwards She kept the dog
a ay by holding her umbrella
b£ i ween her and the dog It
fallowed her to the door and Mrs
Nelson securing a revolver shot
it twice— Contributed
To Hold Saota Fe Responsible
An attempt will be made to
hold the Santa Fe Railway com-
pany responsible for the disaster
at Ardmore The city attorney
Cotton Advancing
Cotton sold yesterday as high
as 1140 Today the price has
advanced to 1150 to 1175
on
at
Circus Day Special
On Satureay October 2
account of Ringling circus
Chickasha the Rock Island will
run a special train from Wauri-
ka to Chickasha and return
Special will leave Waurika at 7
a m arriving in Duncan at
7‘45 a m and will leave Chick-
asha on return at 6 p m
company
was sitting in the St Croix san-
itarium little more than a block’s
distance from the explosion
The noise of the explosion was
terrific far louder than a clap
of thunder it seemed We arose
instantly
“The shock was so heavy as to
jar the building as if the earth
had sustained some seismic dis-
turbance The window glasses
were shattered plastering felb
from the walls I recall that
each of us placed his hands
above hi3 head instinctively
Nurses commenced scream-
ing and several of the patients
ran out into the hall One wo-
man came toward me screaming
None of us knew the cause of
the shock and all were bewil-
dered I picked the woman up
and carried her down into the
street
“Even -as w3 reached the
blood groans and cries filled the
air
“The fire department came
clanging down the street and
this added to the noise and con-
fusion A great darting wall
of flame on the Santa Fe tracks
gave the first intimation of the
disafter’s cause Less than thir-
ty minutes after the first explo-
sion there came another not so
terrific as a tank of oil took fire
and exploded This shot a wall
of smoke and flames I should
judge 400 feet into the air
“Fires of which scores had
started already broke out afresh
in many quarters with this latest
explosion A string of overturn-
ed box cars filled with mercaifc-
dise was a mass of flames Up
and down the tracks on
sides box cars were aflame
Press reports of last Saturday
indicate that Frank Anderson o '
Ardmore is held in Philadelphia
on a charge of having killed a
saloon keeper in that city
It appears that Anderson at
tempted to hold up and rob Camp-
bell the saloon man and the
shooting occurred
Frank Anderson who is pre-
sumably the person mentioned
in the foregoing dispatch is the
son of Mr and Mrs L P An
derson of Ardmore He left
ther2 one we'ek ago for Philadel-
phia where he had promise of
work in tie shops of the Bald
win Locomotive Works He was
supplied with all the money he
needed and the report that his
necessities were great cannot be
true Mr Anderson had re-
ceived no news of the affair and
the first intimation he had that
his son was in trouble was when
the message which was sent was
shown him
Frank Anderson is 27 years of
age He h ad been : employed
with the Ardmore Ice Light and
Power company and helped to
install the machinery in the new
ice plant at Ringling He was
never placed under arrest before
and if he is really the person
named in the dispatch his act is
a puzzle not- only to his family
but to all those who know him
and especially those who have
worked with him
Hot Horse vi tide Market
Monday Ray'a wagon yard pre-
sented a busy acene Forty head
of hogs were sold there to Mr
Speegle R Dolcb sold SO head
and Jim Dixon sold 20 head
E Atterbury of Lathrop Mo
is making headquarters at Ray’s
this week while he is buying
mules for the warring nations of
Europe
Flowers & Thomas are buying
horses for shipment to Ft Worth
thence to Europe
There is still another buyer in
town who is loading a mixed car
of horses and mules for ship-
ment to Oklahoma City and even-
tually to Europe
Duncan is becoming better
known abroad as a good live
town with a good surrounding
country where the farmers are
raising good stock for the mar-
ket It brings in the buyers
with the money
Oil Man Here to Investigale
Mr Hines representing Pueb
o Colo capitalists is here this
week investigating the oil and
gas outlook in this field Mr
lines is a driller and has inti-
mated that a favorable report
rom him will mean drilling pro-
vided a suitable acreage of leases
can be obtained
Marriage Licenses
Got Evan
There is one Chickasha man
who will hereafter give more at-
tention to the demands of his
wife when she calls for expense
money Either that or he will
move
He was deeply in love with his
wife but awfully careless about
money matters He started away
on a long business trip leaving
ler short of money and promised
o send her a check which he
orgot to do The rent came
due and she telegraphed:
‘ ‘Dead broke Landlord insist-
ent Wire me money”
Her husband answered:
“Am short myself Will send
check in a few days A thou
sand kisses”
Exasperated his wife replied:
“Never mind money I gave
andlord one of the kisses He
was more than satisfied”
There is an estimable lady in
this town who is regarded as
about the shrewdest shopper in
the whole community She is
not “close” but just careful and
economical She reads the ads
in this paper every week knows
both J just where the bargains and best
offerings are to be found and
“The Pennington grocery was ! goes there to spend her money
She finds that advertising pays
her because of the numerous
savings on her' purchases It
Dun’t read the other fellow’s
Eagle Subscribe
soon a3 a giant bonfire The
office foice in the big establish-
ment including Mr Pennington
himself Colonel Doak George i pays the merchant too because
Stowe and others had a remark- of his increased sales But what
street buildings either way from I able escape from death By some of the dealer who neveradver-
us up and down the main thor-' strange trick the collapsing walls 'tises?
The following marriage ii-
censes have been issued in Steph-
ens county within the past week:
A H Evan9 of Gould Okla
and Minnie Boatman of Rush
Springs Okla
Earl Sidney Duncan of Co-
manche and Mandy Strothers
of Waurika
I H Sage and Mrs Ada Pat-
terson both of Doyle
Payton Armstrong of Marlow
and Lillie Mounds of Bailey
Burbon Robison and Effie
Bishop both of Geronimo Okla
Maids and Matrons 5 00 Club
(Continued on page five third column)
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The maids and matrons 500
club met Wednesday afternoon
at the home of Mrs A G Fisch-
er where they were delightfully
entertained with games after
which a delicious lunch was
served consisting of salads iced
tea and ices Mrs Harry Stiefel
won the prize a beautiful hand
embroidered table scarf The
following members were present:
Mesdames Morris Cooks e y
Sloan Robinowitz Smith Stiefei
Seymour Henderson Loyd
Langham Fischer and Misses
Fischer Ina Whisenant Kate
Pettigrew Mabel Long and Byrd
O’Neil
B Y P U Program
Sunday 4 p m
Lesson— The Parables
President in charge
Songs prayer
Parable of the Sower— Mark
4:1-9— Leader Mr Evans
Parable of the Mustard Seed--
Matt 13:31-36— Chas Paramore
Parable of the Ten Virgins—
Matt 25: 1-13— Cora Wright
Parable of the Taieits— Matt
25:14-30— Floyd Landon
Parable of the Vineyard— Mark
12:1-12— Elma Lewis
Parable of the Rich Man— Luke
12:16-21— Levi Hoskins
Parable of the Unjust Steward
Luke 16:1-14— Julie Gardner
Willard’s Cash Grocery is mov-
ing into the Speegle building for-
merly occupied by Lum’s restaurant
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Woods, Lee. The Duncan Weekly Eagle. (Duncan, Okla.), Vol. 21, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 30, 1915, newspaper, September 30, 1915; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1716231/m1/1/?q=led+zeppelin: accessed June 13, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.