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VOL. XLVII NO. 280.
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Secretary Wants Immediate
Legislation to Provide More
Revenue; Country Faces
Twenty-Three Billion
Dollar Budget.
". . (By Associated Frew.)
1 Washington, May 9. Congressional
leaders have been advised by Secre
tary McAdoo that legislation at this
session of, congress iv imperative to
provide reventts to meet the unex
pected increases in expenses inci
, dent to the vast expansion of the na
tion's war program. , i, ;
, A statement of the country's finan
cial situation, upon which the amount
f additional taxes and bonds needed
iay be calculated, has been prepared
St the treasury for submission within
the next two or three days to the
committees of the senate and house.
BLOCKS ADJOURNMENT.
. Whether congress will, undertake
at the present session upward - re
vision of the war revenue law of last
fall, leaders at the capitol. said to
night, depends upon the impression
made by this statement. If V it
demonstrates that.it is essential -to
act now instead of waiting until De
cember, as planned, hope of adjourn
ment by July 1 will go glimmering
and congress probably -will be here
until fall. '
Secretary McAdoo's , belief that
legislation must be enacted at once
was expressed in a letter to Senator
Simmons of North Carolina, chairman
of the senate finance committee.
; The unexpectedly heavy estimates
of expenditures fo'r the coming year
include the $15,000,000,000. army pro
gram, , about $1,500,000,000 fo$ the
: navy, with further estimates expected
and $2,250,000,000 for the shipping
board. .
May Double Levies. '
Senator Simmons said tonight the
tacit agreement to eferurtM ..Hit
. nut legislation 'until ;net rfeeeember :
was" made before these new estimates
were submitted. 'l The situation nWj'
' he said, is materially cfcaued' ahd-. H;
uavc io ue sonnaerea. m ,a tns k new
ljghtwhenSecretary McAdoo's forma
statement is presented. ".".
Representative Kitchin of North
Carolina, democratic, leader, oL the
house and chairman" of the" ways and
means committee said if additional
taxes were decided upon, the levy of
the last tax bill probably -would be
doubled. He estimated that $2,500,
000,000 in new, taxes would be levied,
,bt other leaders placed the' probable
, figures at from ' $1,000,000,000 tS
i:,3uv,uuu,uuu, making a total ot
' around $6,0O0,0O0,00Cr, based upon the
estimated returns of between $4,000,
000,000 and $4,500,000,000 from the
- present law. y
Will Issue More : Bonds. '.
Further bond issues also will have
to be authorized during the present
session, according to Senator Sim
mons, regardless of when revenue
legislation is enacted. The amount of
the issues, however, of course.- will
depend upon the decisions as to
taxes. '
; Incomes and profits, both Repre
sentative Kitchin and senator Sim
mons indicated, are regarded as the
. principal source from which any
revenue increase must come. ; The
former said both can be doubled
while the latter believes additional
tax burdens should be spread more
generally over the population. More
' consumption taxes are regarded as a
- strorj probability.
' Republicans Opposed to Plan.
. Strong republican opposition to any
jgfcneral revenue legislation at' the
"present session of congress is ex
.pected. ! ' .:
, Senator Simmons explained tonight
that a decision regarding immediate
legislation largely depends on SecreJ
' tary McAdoo s showing of actual
treasury receipts in sight between now
and rebruary, when it is assumed a
. new bill, begun next September,
would be available. '
This basis of calculation upon which
$23,000,000,000 is fixed upon as the
amount needed for next ear necessar
ily is inexact, since conditions which
cannot be foreseen may either in
crease or reduce the actual govern
mental outlays.
The treasury's estimates of expendi-
tures in the fiscal year opening next
July V as made up last Junevfrom de-
fartment forecasts, provided for, only
12,804,000,000, not including loans to
the allies.
It placed needs of the military es
tablishments at only $9,991,000,000 in
stead of $15,000,000,000: now asked by
, the War department, the navy de
, partment's budget of $816,000,000, in
stead of the $1,500,000,000 carried in
the pending naval appropriation bill;
and the shipping board at $900,
000,000, instead of the $2,250,000,000
sew sought by the board.
Plan to Ship to France
Ton of Dried Milk Daily
.New York, May 9. With the ob
ject of shipping abroad each daj a ton
, of dried milk, the equivalent of 8,400
quarts of liquid milk, to relieve suf
fering caused by scarcity of the prod
uct in France, a group of American
woman today started a country-wide
' Campaign for funds in the name' of
the committee for free . milk for
France. Mis? Josephine Osborne is
. cSuirmin Of ths tommittc -
COMMONS-BACK
BRITISH PREMIER;
ASQUITH BEATEN
.
Appointment of Select Committee to Investigate General
Maurice's Charges Refused After Plea By Lloyd
George to $top Sniping, As Germans Are Pre
paring Heaviest Blow in War.
(By Associated Press.)
London, May 9. -Ex-Premier Asquith's motion for the ap
pointment of a select committee to investigate the charges made
by General Maurice was rejected in the House of Commons to
night by a vote of 293 to 106.
The premier, in a speech, declared such controversies as
the present one were distracting and paralyzing.
"I beg that they may come to an end," he added. "National
unity and the army are threatened. The Germans are preparing
the biggest blow of the war, and I beg and implore that there
shall be an end to this sniping."
DENIES CENSURE. Q
Former Premier Asquith denied that
his motion respecting the Maurice af
fair was designed to obtain a vote of
censure of the government, saying it
was absurd to describe it as such,
Should he find it His duty to censure
the government, he said, he hoped that
he would have the courage to do so in
direct and unequivocal form.
The former premier said he knew
many of his friends had thought he
had been faint-hearted in this matter
and that there were persons other
than his friends, who thought of him
as being, devoured by impatience to
resume office;
,. "I . am quite content," he added, "to
leave judgment of that kind to the
house and my fellow countrymen."
Unless an act of Parliament were
passed, he said, the tribunal of judges
propoed for an inquiry into the Maur
ice affair would have no compulsory
powers of any kind. He considered
far better to adopt the familiar ma
hl8ryiflf a -select tommittee from
the house The government's pro
pofal iors coucfe rof- honor Amounted
to ah" aamissibn thalt an inquiry was
nedessarV and. that. the matters raised
were so ttcUi they c6uld hot be dis
cussed even by a select committee.
;, PREMIER EXPLAINS.
Denying that the, strength of the
British fighting forces had, been mis
represented, as stated by General
Maurice, Mr. Lloyd George asserted
the figures which he had given were
taken from official records at the war
office' , Since that time he had made
inquiries on this point, he added, and
the, figures were not inaccurate. The
demand made by Mr. Asquith for a
select committee was -characterized
by the premier as without precedent
in the history of the-house.
.During the time General Maurice
was in office and .when he had access
to information and to the ministers
themselves, Mr. Lloyd George said,
he never challenged statements of the
ministers. -
In regard to the comparison be
tween'the enemy and the allied forces,
the premier added, he was charged
with misleading the public, but all
the ..figures on which his statement
was based came from General Maur
ice's department. .
The , statement that 4hree British
divisions were present in Egypt, he
explained, was made at a cabinet
meeting when General Maurice was
(Continued on Pace Two, Column One.)
Comrades Start Inquiry
, About Missing Aviator
With the American Army in France,
May 9. Comrades of Captain James
Norman Hall, aviator, missing after a
combat on the Toul front, have asked
the American embassy in Paris to
communicate with Germany through
Switzerland in an effort to ascertain
whether . Hall, was killed or made
prisoner. They have furnished the
embassy, with a description of Hall's
airplane and the number of the motor.
A French artillery observer report
ed that Hay was apparently making
a. safe landing when he disappeared
from sight. ,
Yankees Avoid
Hun Feigns Wound to
Lead Foes to . Death
Teutons' Trap
(Br Associated Pren.)
With the American Army in France,
May 9. A large German patrol at
tempted to rush the American posi
tions on the Picardy front during last
night, but was driven off.
' The enemy patrol parties were ac
tive during the night and one German,
pretending to be wounded, lay outside
the wire entanglements before an
American position beseeching help.
He was acting as a screen for the
others, who were armed with hand
grenades.
The . Germans, failing to entice the
Americans from their trenches, at
tacked, but the Americans made it so
hot for them that they fled in confu
sion. Their casualties are believed
to have been comparatively heavy.
xuc roar oi neaw ariinerv con
tinues day and night in this sector,
t r-
HUN DRIVE FOR
SCHERPENBERG
ENDS IN DEFEAT
Germans Brought to Standstill
in Ridge Wood and Later
. Forced to Yield Ground
They Had Gained.
(By Associated Preu.)
British Headquarters in France.
May 9. (Via Ottawa.) Throughout
yesterday the enemy pushed his attack
in the direction of the northeastern
slopes of Scherpenberg with great de
termination. At first he made several
successive stages of progress, opening
with an infantry attack launched at
9:30 a. m., wide cover of n intense
bombardment. It was directed against
the right Aank of the British northern
army, and t overlapping the British
junction with the French. .
..?', Came In Waves.
An hour later,' after throwing in
several waves of assault troops, the
Germans had gained a. footing of con
siderable width on the British front
line and enemy parties had penetrated
the Kleine Vierstraet, cabaret. The
situation at this time seems to have
been, rather difficult. Thenceforth,
until the early afternoon, the Ger
mans made vigorous efforts to get
through the ridge, wood.
About 1:30 p. m.. when the battle
was still raging with unabated fury,
the British still held the hamlet of
Kleine Vierstraet, but had been
pressed back south of the wood. The
French were than holding the line
along the Wyverbeek. The Germans,
continuing to throw in fresh troops,
pressed British toward the western
edge of the ridge wood and mo
mentarily occupied the greater por
tion. Germans Suffer Heavily.
Parties of British were still
holding out in Kleine Vierstraet,
and later the French hebed to restore
complete possession of this place. Be
fore sunset, the Germans had fought
themselves to a standstill, having suf
fered heavily, but had gained ground
of some tactical importance in the
ridge wood, being a distinct step to
ward Scherpenberg. the coveted point.
Just before dark, the British counter
attacked under cover of a terrific
bombardment, and the enemy was
forced to yield the ground he had oc
cupied; at such cost. By night the
original line had been restored vir
tually everywhere, leavinsr only one
or two little pockets of Germans to be
mopped i!p further south, i
MILITARY COURT
DENIED AIRCRAFT
BOARD MEMBERS
Washington, May 9. Secretary
Baker announced today that he had
received from Major General Squier
and Colonels Deed and Montgomery
of the signal torps formal applications
for appointment of jmlitary boards to
examine into the relations of each
to aircraft production.
Mr. Baker said that in order to pre
vent any interference with the in
quiries already instituted by the De
partment of Justice and the senate
committee on military affairs, he had
decided not to act "for the immediate
present" on these applications.
General Squier, chief signal officer;
Colonel Deeds, executive officer for
production, and Colonel Montgomery,
in charge of contracts, are the War
department's representatives on the
aircraft board.
Bolsheviki Foreign Minister
, Accepts Germany's Terms
London, May 9. An official wire
less dispatch says that M. Tchitcheriii.
bolshevik foreign minister, has wired
the German government at Kiev that
the Russian government accepts the
proposal of Germany concerning
peace negotiations with Ukraine at
Kiev. The conditions include un
hindered facilities for Russian exports
to cross the frontier at Kursk and the
Russians to have a direct wire to
Moscow.
GERMS'
BOMBARD
AMIENS
Parts of Picardy Capital Heaps
of Ruins; More Than 200
Civilians Killed or
Wounded.
(Br Associated Press.)
On the 'French Front in France,
May 9. German artillery under
orders from the Prussian and Ba
varian crown princes, is doing its ut
most to turn Amiens into another
Rheims. Picardy's capital has already
suffered terribly from this effort to
carry out the German idea of striking
terror into the fatherland's enemies
by the destruction of their most loved
works of art and every day adds to its
suffering.
The correspondent today went all
over the abandoned city and observed
the effects of the bombardment, which
has turned parts of the town into
heaps of ruins and killed 52 men
civilians, 30 women and five children,
besides wounding 62 men 48 women
and 19 children before the population
had an opportunity to evacuate the
place. Since the Germans have been
within cannon shot of Amiens, they
have hurled no fewer than 5,800 shells,
mostly six-inch and eight-inch, into
the city.
Cathedral Struck by Shells.
Every indication points to a sys
tematic effort to destroy the public
buildings, as the cathedral has been
struck by shells, which have pierced
the roof and Walls, and the object of
firing incessantly upon the town can
not be explained except upon the as
sumption that it is carried out with
the purely barbarous idea of the de
struction of the beautiful objects it
contains.
This follows from the fact that no
troops whatever are in the city and
that . the railroad passing through, it
is hot in use. The cannonade generally
ceases at nightfoU, wily o be replaced
by air raids, wich octur slmbst every
night. Aerial .t,orptdo:tt-th number
of b80 have been launched from air
planes upon various parts of the city.
As most of the shells and torpedoes
are of the incendiary type they have
caused enormous damage, so that up
to the present 1,200 houses have been
destroyed. When the firemen, who
gallantly stuck to their posts, have at
tempted to extinguish the' flames, the
German gunners,, seeing the glare of
the fire they have caused,, have con
tinued to throw, in. shells upon the
spot, while at night the German air
men have circled high over the blazes
and dropped more bombs.
Population Removed.
The cathedral, which possesses the
finest Gothic nave in existence, has so
far escaped serious damage, but any
moment may see irreparable injury
done it, as projectiles continue to fall
all around it.
The task of the authorities in get
ting the people away when they dis
covered the intention of the Germans
to destroy the city was a tremendous
one, as the refugees from the devas
tated districts had increased the pop
ulation to 120,000, all of whom had to
be removed from danger within a few
days. The arrangements have worked
perfectly and all the people are now
safely housed elsewhere. .
All traffic is forbidden to enter the
city, so that the enemy may not be
given ground for declaring the bom
bardment one of military exigency.
Confidential Secretary
Of Late J. P. Morgan Dies
' Ottawa, May 9. -Cornelius Kinney
Smith, for 31 years confidential sec
retary of the late J. Pierpont Morgan,
died today, following an operation.
He was 82 years old.
U.S. Steel to Build
And Operate Plant
For Making Cannon
New York May 9 Tfce
United States , Steel corpora
tion, at the request of the gov
ernment, will enter into the
manufacture of heavy artillery
and projectiles in great quanti-
ties. In a statement in regard
to the undertaking, Elbert H.
Gary, chairman of the corpora-.
tion, said that a manufacturing
plant for the purpose would be
constructed as speedily as prac
ticable at the expense of the
government on a site located in .
the interior of the country.
The work will be in charge of
a committee of steel corpora
tion officials, who will receive
no compensation for their ser
vices. "The corporation," Chairman
Gary said, " in consequence of
the magnitude of its business,
most of which, directly or in
directly, is in aid of the mili
tary necessities of the govern
ment and its allies, had hoped
to avoid the necessity of en
gaging in work of the kind
now entered upbn, but was per
suaded by the War department
that it was imperatively re
quired under existing conditions."
BRITISH-FRENCH
FLANDERS LINES
RE-ESTABLISHED
Germans Lose Very Heavily in Futile Fighting to Retain
Positions Captured on Ypres Front; Canadians
Sucessful in Attack South of Arras; Artillery
Duel Raging on Italian Front.
BULLETIN.
With the British Army in France,, May 9. The Germans
had intended to make a much more pretentious . assault in
Flanders yesterday than they were actually able to carry out, it
has been learned. Their failure was due to the excellent work
of the allied gunners and to a small coincident operation by the
French east of Scherpenberg, which came at the right moment
to help upset the enemy plans in this sector.
The allied deense on the Flanders front to the southwest of
Ypres has again been tested by the Germans and has been)
found adequate.
Two divisions of Teutonic troops were employed oi a rela
tively shor front and were sent into the fight under cover of a
terrific artillery fire. . v
The front chosen for the attack extended from the village
of Voormezeele but the center of the assault seemed to havejj
been at Vierstraat, a hamlet northwest of Kemmel hill.
LINE RE-ESTABLISHED. 0
The flanks of the German attack
ing line "were stopped short by fire
from the French and British artillery
posted on high ground and which was
able to enfilade the German regiments
as they, tried to advance. In the
center, however, the Germans made
quite a serious dent in the allied line.
Wednesday night however, the allies
drove forward in a counter attack and
the latest reports from Field Marshal
Haig are to the effect that the line
has been re-established. The Germans
are reported to have lost very heavily
during the fighting.
CANADIANS SCORE , ,
There Is a 'constant rumble of
heavy artillery fire 'along the Somme
front,' but here' the1 British have again
improved their, position by .local at--tacks.
TheTanadian fbrteifrom New
Brunswick iud Kovs.. Scotia-have en
gaged in a successful local attack
south of Arras.
On the southern sectors of the
Somme salient, as welt' as in Lor
raine and other sectors further south,
there has been no noteworthy-combats.:
'. .
Artillery Active on. Italian Front.
The i artillery ; of the contending
armies (Continues Very active in .the
Asiago basin region on the Italian
front. The official reports from Rome
tell of enemy troops being "ham
pered" by the allied fire. The Bren
tai and Maserada sectors also have
been Centers of heavy bombardments.
The city of Amiens is being system
atically destroyed by German artil
lery fire in spite of the fact that there
are no allied troops in that place and
it is of no military, value since the
allies have constructed new lines of
communication outside of 'the citv.
The venerable cathedral, one of the I
finest in Europe, is reported to have
been struck by shells and to be in
peril of destruction.
HOUSE VOTES FOR
.CHANGE IN BASIS
OF DRAFT QUOTAS
Washington, May 9. The house to
day adopted the conference report on
the bill to base draft quotas on the
number of men in Class 1, accepting
the elimination of its amendment au
thorizing credits on quotas for volun
teers. The report awaits action in the
senate.
Because of a senate amendment ex
empting ministerial and medical stu
dents, the house sent bae)c to the con
ferees the conference report on the bill
providing for the registration of
youths attaining the age of 21 years
since the registration last June s.
Representative Cannon of Illinois
vigorously opposed rejection of the
amendment ffivinir states credit fnr
(Voluntary enlistments, and was -sup
ported by Representative S. Mondell
of Wyoming and Shallenberger of
Nebraska, author of the amendment.
Chairman Dent of the military com
mittee, said he had not changed his
mind regarding the credits plan, but
since1 President Wilson, Secretary
Baker and Provost Marshal General
Crowder had opposed it he would
subordinate his own desire.
Colyn Denies He Went to
England on Peace Mission
Amsterdam, May 9. On his return
from England, .former Minister of
War Colyn stated to the Nieuwe Rot
terdamsche Courant, when asked as to
rumors that he went there in connec
tion with a reported peace mission
that his business in England was in
the interest of an oil company of
which he is manager.
Regarding the coupling of his name
with peace rumors, he said he was in
entire accord with what Foreign Sec
retary Balfour said in Parliament
Monday, when he stated that there
was no representative of a neutral na
tion in England for the. purpose of
making suggestions of peace negotiations.
PMAN U-BOAT
SPLIT IN TWAIN
BY U. SCUNNERS
Jackies Who Sink Submarine
Given Ten-Day Furlough;
. , Unable tq Save Teu-. .
. ton Warriors. '
An. Atlantfc Port, May vThe snk
iiigvor German submarine - &jr
United States " warship v'ith a shot
which lifted thd U-boat completely
out of water and broke it in two,
was reported by officers of the ship
on arrival here today.
Beirfuse of the fine work of j the
gunners, the crew of the' ship was
given a furlough of ten days.
; On the voyage over, the warship,
previously reported from German
sources as having been wrecked,
sighted three ; submarines and the
gunners sprang to their guns. ,
T!,f first two shits, fired in quick
succebsion at the nearest enemy,
missed. But the third went home. It
caught the U-boat just below the
water line, and so great was its force
that the craft was lifted out of the
water and in another moment, its
back broken, it doubled un and sank
to the accompaniment of a chorus of
-yells from the warship crew.
No survivors were seen in . the
water and the other submarines, as
the destroyed ' submersible disap
peared, dived and did not reappear.
Two Airmen Killed in Fall;
One From Waterloo, Iowa
San Antonio, Tex., May 9. Lieu-j
tenant James D. May, New York City, I
was. killed and Lieutenant Milo H.
Miner, Waterloo, la., was seriously
iniftred tonight when the airplane in
which they were flying fell six miles
northwst of this city. Both men were
pinned under the machine when it
fell. They were taken to the base hos
pital at Fort Sam - Houston, where
May died shortly afterward.
Miller's father is Herman Miller of
Waterloo, la.
vThe men were flying low when the
accident occurred. Both men, it was
said, were scheduled to leave Kelly
field here tomorrow, having com
pleted their instructions.
The death of Lieutenant May is
the 15th fatality among fliers at Kel
ly field.
Lord Aberdeen J
Stars Advertised Fail
to Appear at Benefit.
Gets Grilling
(By taoolatcd Pren.) '
New York, May 9. Lord Aberdeen,
formerly governor general of Canada
and lord lieutenant of Ireland, was
questioned today by District Attor
ney Swann relative to the arrange
ments for yesterday's benefit enter
tainment at Carnegie hall under the
auspices of the Child Welfare associa
tion, of which Lady Aberdeen is pres
ident. When it was announced from the
stage yesterday that the French Ublue
devils," Pershing's veterans, Miss
Amelia Bingham and Charlie Chaplin
"would be unable to appear," as ad
vertised, several hundred persons in
the audience, left, after demanding and
receiving the money they had paid for
admittance. .
Lord Aberdeen acted as chairman
for the; benefit and E. H. Sothern as
master of ceremonies.
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TWISTERS
Twelve Persons Killed and
Many Injured in Vicinity of ,
Nashua, Newhampton
and Calmar.
Br Afaoetoted Pnw.) . ' ' f
Des Moines, May 9. Five persons
are known to be dead, six other deaths
were reported at midnight and scores
of persons are injured as the result of
several tornadoes that swept through
northeastern and eastern lows late to
day. The known dead are Mrs. Thomas
Down, Theodore Kreiger, jr, and
Albert Smith, near Newhampton, and
Roy Husand and Mrs. A. Q. Carpen
ter, near Nashua. ;
Six additional deaths were reported
at Calmar, according to a dispatch
from West Union, 18 miles south of
there.
TRAIN WRECKED.
The wreck of a Chicago, Milwaukee '
& St. Paul train at Calmar was report-
ed in a telephone message from West
Union, after midnight. It was be
lieved the train was from Austin,
Minn., but details were unabailable. ,
The report received at West Union
was that a string of box cars, blown
out upon the main track, struck the
Austin train. It was impossible to
confirm the report here or learn the
exact nature f the fVm'n reported "
wrecked. ' - , , :
Many Towns Suffer.
Many towns and large section of
the countryside suffered heavy prop
erty damage. It was reported two or '
three small villages were virtually'
wiped out, -,:..
Virtual cessation of wire communi-
cation with the affected districts made
it dithcult to get accurate details to
night, but indications were that while
a terrific rale Was prevalent over most
of centraf and norther Iowa, the tor?
yadoet'Nwr confined to, Chickalaw.
Wmrteihiek, . Scott and '"-Mmcatine
counties. , . t 7 , , i ' ; , .
-One .twister struck near Nashua, Hi' '
Chickasaw county, and traveled north-
nmnuu s 1(411 1 JUIICS IM XVCpUUIIC,
over a width of about one mile. An
other tornado, just north of the for
mer, Settled five miles southwest of
Newhampton and destroyed "40 or .
50 farmsteads. ; "..';,,,
It was reported that. Fort Atkin- ,
son, Fredericksburg, Ossian and Cal$
mar all suffered severely and that the
villages of Republic, Pearl Rock and "
Plainfield were virtually destroyed.
Other disturbances of a serious nature
caused more than a score of injuries i
at Eldridge and Bayfield in Scott and '
Muscatine countie?, respectively, .
Farmer Crushed to Death, . :
Roy Husband, a farmer residing
three miles from Nashua, was crushed
to death when a building' crumpled
upon him and many other' persons
in and near Nashua were mjured.
Confirmation of railroad reports ,of
other deaths in that .vicinity were
lacking. , . ,
Every building in the path ot the
Nashua tornado was wrecked over a
district seven miles long and one
fourth to one-half mile wide. Five ;
children of Clarence White, alone at
the time, rushed tn tb& hafmnt
as their house was hurled away. They
escaped injury. , - ' f
Aged Woman Severely Hurl. r
Slow approach of the tornado that
hit Eldridge gave residents ample
time to seek shelter. ' Mrs. , Henry v
Ehlers. 80 vear old ' mtffprd Kf-vrrat -
ribs broken and internal injuries and -
her condition is critical. She was bur- v
ied beneath timbers in her cellar. ... , .
Miss Emma Daman was the victim
of a freakish prank of the Eldridge1
storm. She was carried more than 5
300 feet by the wind and then flropped
only with sufficient violnce to break,
her collar bone.
Davenport physicians and nurses,
rushed to Eldridge ss soon as news : J
of the tornado reached that city,
cared for the injured and . removed '
several of them to Davenport The
(Continued Jfmf Two, Column Two.)
HIGH WIND, WITH
MEKCUEY DROP,
NOTED IN OMAHA
Aituougn tne netgnoor state, ot
Iowa was hit by the fury of a tornado
yesterday, Nebraska suffered only
from the heavy gale that prevailed
during the entire day. The .tempera
ture fell here from 88 degrees, the
high mark, to 53 degrees at 8 o'clock '
and kent on descending v . durincr the
later hours of the night. 1 -;-
The threatening sky during the
early evening gave rise, to great sp- .
prehension- Weather predictions are -fair
and warmer for Friday. '
Lillian Pettiford, 270$ Corby
street, was badly cut on the feet tnd .
legs about 6:30 o'clock last night,
when the wind broke, a plate glass
transom over tne door at 1326 Dodge
street. She was standing in the door-,
way and was injured by falling glass.
A large electric sign of the Brod- ,
key Jewelry company at Thirteenth -and
Douglas streets, was blown dov r '
and crashed through a plate jr'rss
windowuring the, severe wind lasv
.ni'" ' - ' ' " ' , ,
. V." s' .