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Loup Ctty Northwestern volume xxx LOUP CITY. NEBRASKA. THURSDAY. MAY 2. 1912 NUMBER 25 Profession Cards KOBT.P. STAKE Attorney-at-law. LOUP CITY. NEBRASKA NIGHTINGALE & SON towr iu CownvLii LOUP CITY. NEB K H MATHEW, Attorney-at-Law, And Bonded A t*>tr*ctor. Loup City, Nebraska AAEON WALL Lawyer Practices in all Courts Loup City, Neb. ROBERT H. MATHEW Bonded Abstracter Lorr Citt. • Nebraska. Oah set of Abstract books in county oTk. LONG ACRE PBYSICIAN and SURGEON Office. Over New Bank TKLKPHONK CALL. NO. A. J. KEARNS PBYSICIAN AND SURGEON 2M» ofllte at Uecldrorr I «© Utura East of Tr epbute (V&trtl Luup City - Nebraska A. S. MAIN PHYSICIAN ill SURGEON Loup City. Nebr. < rtbce at Kesiit no*•. T«.i«i»h<mc Connection S. A. ALLEN. OE.YTMST, UNTP CITT. !»EB. ep stair* in tb* re* Stile iSmL buildm*'. W L. MARCY, DENTIST, LOUP CITY, NEE-, UK PICS: Ka*l Side Public Sciumie. Phone. 10 on M C. E. Thornton The Drayman Att*-nd» a I r<ier> promptly andj t»rel-.:> I i..«t either lumber yard or T*| tors, eitiuer. V. I. McDouall Prompt Dray Work Call lumber yards or Taylor’s elevator Satisfaction guaran teed Phone ♦> on 57 % Satiate « aauMrr is of More Value Than Saat **kelieU <•! kilter. A. L. GILBERT High Grade and Artistic BOOSE PUNTING run ::::izz isi m PAPERING W. T, Draper The Old Reliable PLASTER E R Be** of work always Phone 1*< on ti Loup.Ot) Neb. C. E. Stroud Formerly of Kaiwas city. Painting, Papering and Decorating Special attention paid t» Autos and Carriage'. All tops re newed and repaired All work guaranteed. Phone 0 Enele & Cook Ceatrartnr* and Builder* LOUP CITY NEB. Call and see us and allow us to figure with you on above work. Allen J. Furgeson LOUP CITY, NEB Treata all diseases of all dometic animals. All calls answered promptly. day call, Phone 0 Bight ” 7 on 72 Here’s a Real Bargain Big 1912 Atlas Map FREE To the Northwestern Readers Here is an opportunity for your friends and our friends to obtain a yearly subscription to the Northwestern, a yearly subscription to the Neb* raska Farm Journal and the new 1912 official Atlas map of Nebraska. ALL FOB $1.50 This is the best offer we have ever made. Read it over carefully and then act at once. Never before have we been able to offer such a ITe'ws'pa'per Bargain We want more new subscriptions and we want all of our old subscribers to take advan tage of this offer and renew their subscriptions We have made arrangements with the Nebraska Farm Journal of Omaha, tne lar gest and best twice-a month farm and stock paper published in Nebraska, whereby we are enabled to offer one year’s subscription to the Northwestern, one year’s subscription to the Nebraska Farm Journal (‘24 big, interesting, ho’pful issues containing departments of special interests to all the family) and the 1912 four page atlas map, si/e 28x3(> with metal hangers: containing the official state map of Nebarska, complete map of United States, com plete map of the world and many o’, her features. And also, as long as they last, we will add the map of Sherman County, of which we have several hundred on hand, all for only $1.50 You want your home paper, of course, ami we believe you want a live, up-to-date farm papkh that is devoted to the agriculturial and livestock interests of this state. Now is your time to get a bargain. We cannot make this offer fora defiuaie period. tlse Cbis Order Coupon To take advantage of this offer fill out the coupon in the corner of this advertisement and either mail it or bring it to the office of the North western, Loup City, Nebraska. Date 101 Gentlemen: I enclose herewith $1.50 for which please send me the .and the Nebraska farm Journaf for one year and the new 1012 offcial state atlas map of Nebraska as per your offer Name _ . Address Several Injured In Tornado. Considerable damage done to St^ck and Property Last Thursday evening about 5 o'clock the heavens became overcast with the inkiest black clouds ever noticed by our people and darkness settled over the city. To the west immense clouds were seen approach ing, rolling and tumbling over each other in extricable confusion. As the clouds apcroached from the north west moving rapidly they assumed a lighter cast giving the appearance of great wind in the heavens. People sought their caves, preparing to get into safe quarters and all feared re sults. However the bigger end of the storm passed to the north of the city and save for a high wind, heavy rainfall and some small hail, no evi dence remained in a short time after, when the storm passed, the air balmy and the sun shone forth with brill | iancy. However, elsewhere all had not been so well. Two miles out from North Loup on its way to Ord. the passen ger train with Joe O'Bryan at the throttle got the full benefit of the storm. Will I'eterson. who was at Grand Island, as a federal juryman last week, had a talk with Engineer O'Bryan the day after the storm and he gave the following account of the disaster to his train, which was blown from the track and a number of passengors injured. He said he pulled out of North I.oup and saw the storm approaching and attempt ed to cross its track. The wind com t mg so -trong and hail so heavy he ; and the tire man could not stay in the '■ cab. and fearing the result should ? the train be going, came to a full sx>p just liefore the full force of the storm wa> on. and he and the tireman got under the engine for safety. Soon they heard the noise of the air brake system and thought something wrong when about that time the baggage man came forward and crawled under the engine with them. The baggage . man informed them the cars had been blown from 'lie track and were lying on their sides, some of them leaving their trucks on the rails. Climbing back into the cab they pull ed rapidly to Ord and getting phy sicians returned to the scene. They found some 14 passengers more oi less injured and took them to Ord while a special was called from Grand Island with physicians on board, who ! assisted the locals in caring for the J injured. When the storm struck tin train it was accompanied by huge hai stones tiie size of a base balls, wbih one picked up measured 11 inches ii circumference. All the window light! in the care on the storm side weri broken out and when the cars went over the passengers were huddled to gether on the far side.and the train being at a standstill probably ac counnts for the less fatal results, al though one passenger was feared to have concussion of the brain, at last accounts as he was found uncon scious and afterward relapsed into, uncosciousness after coming out of it for a few moments. The complete list of injured is as follows: ('lias. Davis, Ord, abdominal bruises, bruises on right leg and cut about head:S.C. Stephenson, Aurora, wrist cut: M. H. Mann, right arm and shoulder bone bruised, possibly slight internal injuries: Levi Hamil ton, Ord. brakeman, face cut and hands bruised: S. IL Battson, Lincoln, bruised on leg and cut on head: Wm. O'Hara. Kansas City, hip hurt and knee bruised: C. A. Hager. Ord. head bauised: Mrs. Stevenson. Inglewood. Colo., left arm sprained: J. S. McDon nell. Omaha, sprained wrist: Myrtle Schaurs, North Loup, ear cut: F. W. Henderson, Grand Island, bruised thigh: Henry Herald, I’lattsmouth. scalp wounds and cut about face: Oliver Fox, North Loup, face cut: George M. Simms, Burwell, left wrist sprained, leg bruised: Haul Lane, Lincoln, right knee bruised; B. F. Masters, conductor, right ankle sprained: I. V. Woods, mail clerk, slight internal injuries. A phone message from Adam /aim, in the extreme northwest corner of Elm township tells of severity of the same storm probably that wrecked the Ord passanger. About two miles west of Mr. /aim's the storm, which partook of the nature of a twister, tore to pieces the new residence, and other buildings of \Vm. Smith, level ing everything to the earth, scatter ing farm machinery, waggons. bug gies and other articles all over the land. Farther east at Corey's it still got in its work, leveling things here, if we understand aright, it took tive head of horses, hurling them into the air. carrying them some ten rods and down through a bunch of trees, one of the animals being so badlv injured it had to be shot. Two miles far ther. it struck the Mills farm doing destructive work, reducing buggies and wagons to kindling wood and making havoc generally. And from what wecan learn from other sources, the storm took windmills, barns, out buildings and loose stuff all along its route eastward, and how much beyond the wrecked train we are not in formed. Telegraphic dispatches later in the dalies say the storm played smash all over the country between Ansley and Mason City in Custer county, the Algernon school house, in which were the teacher and twelve pupils, wa* lifted in the air and carried over lot feet, and being litterally torn tc pieces in the fall, but only one of the 1 pupils being slightly injured. A mar : ana wife, named Runkey, in a bug?] between Ansley and Mason were in the path of the storm, their buggy being torn to pieees and the woman injured so badly her recovery was doubtful. Another sehoolhouse near Ansley was badly demoralized, but no serious results to pupils. The home of one I>ebosh was unroofed and kitchen blown to pieces, while at the Lyman West farm the same results prevailed, the entire house being moved from its foundation, but in neither instance were any of the families injured. The home of Ernest Bristol was blown away, ex cept one corner, in which Mrs. Bris tol and children took refuge and were unhurt. The home of a Mrs. Ash worth. near the first-named school house, was blown irora its foundation and turned around. At the home of Andrew Comer, the wife was pinned under a heavy cupboard until re leased by her husband later, the wind playing havoc with the house. A Burlington passenger just missed the same results attending the Ord train, just getting into Mason ahead of the storm. coming back to aherman county, the storm struck hardest, seemingly at Fritz Bichel's, where the center of a branch of the big storm passed between his big residence and mam moth barn, picking up loose stuff and lifting a hay rack up over the barn and plunging it head down into the ground. Luckily the house and barn escaped. Some joker without the fear of such storms, cabled to the Northwestern that Fritz had notseen his big auto plow since the storm, while another fearful liar sent us a wireless that the storm lifted the mammoth machine over into an ad joining field and plowed up an hun dred acres of Bichel's soil before the storm let up. Besides the reports above, the Northwestern has not received from its corps of correspondents notice of any further damage the tornado twister did in its wild race for doing destructive work. Our people who have the friend ship and acquaintance of Mr. and i Mrs. R. H. l’erry, since Mr. Perry I has been connected with the Key i stone Lumber Co., will regret to learn that they left us yesterday morning for lloldrege, this state, where they will make their future home. Mr. Perry being connected with his father in his big lumber in terests iu this state, and will have his headquarters in that city. The worthy couple have made a host of friends who will sincerely regret the change in Mr. Perry s future bus iness relations, which takes him away from the best town and people in the state (with apologies to the people ol ; Holdrege for the truthful remark) : when we had thought him bound to us for the future in business with 1 the Keystone. However our loss is j Holdrege s gain, and we wish Mr iand Mrs. Perry abundant success anc happiness in their new home. Resting On Ocean Bottom. ~ Monster Liner Now Probably A Flat Wreck, Does the wrecked liner Titanic now \ rest at the bottom of the Atlantic j two miles below the surface, the depth of the ocean where it went down. or« would it stop and tloat at a consider able depth under the water owing to the enormous pressure? This is a question that many have asked dur ing the past week. According to university professors the wreck is now resting on the ocean bed two miles below the surface. It is probably crushed to some extent: and occupies less space than when on the surface, ow ing to the enormous I pressure of the water at that depth, j With a column of water two miles! high pressing dow n on it it is apt to1 be more or less flattened out. The i pressure at a depth of two miles un-: der the water is +.000 pounds per i square inch, or twenty times the > pressure in a locomotive boiler under high pressure. There are fortunes in money, jewels i and other valuables in the wreck, but > these will never be recovered. Divers: are never able to get anywhere near a wreck unless it is comparatively near the surface. According to Naval Re cruiting Officer C. B. Bradley, the lira- j it below the surface at whicli divers ' usually work is 100 feet. Some have 1 worked as far down as 120 feet, but1 several of these daring ones have paid the penalty with their lives, expiring after being brought to the surface. The pressure at even that depth is too great for man to live in. The depth j which the divers can reach is about j the same in the diving suits and in the diving tells. Ultimately it is a question of pressure, and it is neces sary to keep up enormous air pressure i for a depth of 120 feet, so that few can stand it and live. Mr. Bradley said that it would be difficult to see an iceberg at night at a great distance. A light could be easily seen a long distance away, but a berg is so near the color of the water, and then too the Titanic was steaming through ice. The slap was i traveling at a good rate of speed, and | it could not have cleared the iceberg i unless the berg w as sighted close to a , quarter of a mile away. For the great length of the Titanic would make short turning difficult, as the stern would tend to keep her on the i straight course. The compartment doors on the big liners are worked from the bridge, Mr. Bradley said, and. when such a i vessel sttikes, the officer, by jerking a lever can close the compartments and prevent the water from getting back into the other compartments. Had the Titanic struck squarely, he said, the first compartment would have filled, but the drop or side-clos ing water-tight doors would have been closed at once and prevented the other compartments from being filled. ! the ship would have gone down a lit-! tie by the head and itcould have kept | afloat. But the Titanic struck a glancing blow and ripped the steel plates from the bow back through several compartments, so there was no way to keep her afloat. The bodies, with the exception of those in rooms of the ship, if any i were in rooms when the vessel sank, would not go to the bottom as did the ship. They would go down to con-! siderable depth and there float about until destroyed or disintegrated The ship probably does not rest directly beneath the point where she went under, but may be a mile or even several miles away. For she went down bow first and would take a slanting course to a great depth and then probably slowly would settle for the remainder of the distance.—State Journal. Results of the Primary Election Republican Democrat President Roosevelt Clark U. S. Senator Morris Shallenberger Commit, Leman Howell Hall Governor Aldrich Morehead Lieut. Governor McKelvie Diers Secretary of State Wait Kelley Auditor Howard Richmond Treasurer i George . Hall Attorney General 1 Martin Morrissey Superintendent Delzell Clark Railway Commissioner Taylor Harman Land Commissioner Beckman Eastham Congressman- 4>th Kinkaid Taylor Senator—22nd Hermansen Wink Representative—5"th Wolfe Trumble Oonnty Attorney Pedler Pedler Assessor Owens Charlton A. C. OGLE Blacksmith and Wagonmaker & Does all kinds of plow work --Lister Lathes made to FIT Agency for Ford Autos Your patronage solicited A. C. CHiLE Big Discount Safe I Will Sell the Balance of the GREAT WESTERN MANURE SPREADERS At a big discount until the first of May, owing to lack of room I also have on hand a large line of John Deere Farm Machinery And other Implements O. S. Mason, Owner 4* 13 0 See Loup City B 5 & IF YOU ARE GOING To Build a House or Barn OR ANY KIND OF CEMENT Construction As Cellars, Caves, Sidewalks, and Floors, Call and get our prices SUY STOUT, Manager Handpainted China In Your Home eflects your good taste \\ heu it is of correct quality. 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