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THE WEATHER
Fair tonight and Sun
day, with slowly rising
temperature.
VOLUME XIX, No. 129.
135 KNOWN
DEAD IN
QUAKE;
MANY
lURT
Fire Follows Volcanic Eruption.
Death and Ruin in Wake.
Enormous Damage Done —60
Shocks in All
Catania.—Earthquake and volcanic
eruption followed by fire, destroyed
many villages on the slopes of Mount
Etna. The number of injured will
reach several hundred. Refugees de
clare that the loss is as great as in
the Messina disaster of 1908.
Railroad tracks were torn up,
churches razed to the ground, houses
shaken to ruin and telegraph poles
overturned over a radius of several
miles around Catania.
Terror Stricken.
Terror stricken people rushed from
the villages imo Catania before day
break today, bringing stories of ruin
and disaster.
Interruption of railroads and tele
graphs made it impossible to obtain
any accurate details as to the loss of
life.
60 Shocks.
Catania—Official reports late today
placed the number of dead at 135 and
the injured at 283. These figures will
probably be increased by more com
plete advices from the wrecked vil
lages. A greater catastrophe was pre
vented by the fact that the final se
vere shock of eartho.uake was preceded
by sixty others and many of the popu
lation had abandoned their houses and
fled into the open country.
Dizen Villages.
Cantania, Sicily. — A violent earth
quake greatly resembling that at
Messina in 1908 late last night de
stroyed about a dozen villages in this
vicinity. No estimate of the number
of casualties has jet been made, but
it is known that the damage was
enormous.
The great gravity of the disaster
was not realized until this morning
when reports came in from the sur
rounding gcountry.
Heaps of Ruins.
The villages of Linera and Conen
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Clyde Liners Chartered
For Transport Service
Jacksonville, Fla—The steamers Hu
ron and Comanche of the Clyde nine
have been chartered by the United
States government presumably for
transport service to Mexico. . The lo
cal agent here today received notice to
re-arrange the sailing schedule con
taining the information.
Georgia Bankers Hold
Two Sessions Today
Atlanta, Ga —Two sessions were held
today by the Georgia Bankers’ Asso
ciation. in annual convention here.
Routine business occupied the atten
tion of the delegates at the morning
meeting. The annual election of offi
cers was set for the eloping session
late today.
Becker Trial Halts
Until Monday; 11 Jurors
New York.—With eleven jurors in
the box the trial of Chas. 8. Becker
for the murder of Herman Rosenthal
was halted today until Monday morning.
Twelve were in the box last evening,
but two were excused today. Jesse
O. Velie. a silk merchant, was accept
ed as a Juror but the panel was ex
hausted before the twelfth was agreed
upon A new panel will be on hand
Monday
TWO AIRMEN KILLED.
Stettin, Germany.—Lieutenants l'a
ber and Kurtz, German army aviators,
were killed today while attempting to
make a landing here.
Chautauqua Season Ticket Sale at Y.M.C.A. Ends Monday atNooi /
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THE AUGUSTA HERALD
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CLEARED OUT THE SNIPERS
This photograph, taken in Vera Cruz, conveys an accurate idea of the manner in which detachments of Jackies
from the American warships kept the streets clear of snipers and non-combatants.
MAZATLAN
IS ABOUT
TOjALL
Rebels Aouarantlv Victors.
City Officials Leave on Fed
eral Gunboat. People Terror-
Stricken
On Board U. S. S. California, Ma.
zatlan, Mexico, May B.—(By Wireless
to Sandiego, Calif., May 9.) —The fall
of Mazatlan seems imminent. The
city officials embarked last night on
the federal gunboat Guerrero and the
steamer Limantour, both of which
are ready to sail for Salina Cruz.
The American brig Geneva was
captured on the high seas April 26th
by the Mexican transport Korrigan,
according to information received
here today. At the demand, however,
of Captain Magruder, of the United
States cruiser Raleigh, the brig was
released
By order of Huerta light house ser
vice on the west coast of Mexico has
been abandoned and the coast last
night was in darkness.
Federals have abandoned the gun
boat Morelos. A wild shot from the
Guerrero today passed through a
street of Mazatlan, creating a panic.
As a result of a three days battle
the townspeople are in a state o!
terror and hundreds are fleeing. It
is reported that C. B. Helley, an
American, and G. H. Williams, an
Englishman, were killed and two
other Americans, Waiter Neal and
Patrick Baird, were wounded near
El Favor mine in the vicinity of Hos
tatiqullio.
Battleships Off For
Middies Yearly Cruise
Philadelphia.—The battleships Idaho.
Illinois and Missouri left the Philadel
phlaNavy Yard early today for Anna
polis where they will take on board up
per clansmen of the naval academy for
the annual cruise In deep water. There
Is a sufficient quantity of supplies
aboard the battleships for an extended
trip and while there are no orders to go
to Mexican waters they are prepared to
respond to any emergency call.
Dr. Ryan Safe and Well
on Board the Esperanza
Washington. —“ All safe and well,”
read a wireless message received at
the state department today from Hr.
Edward R. Ryan aboard the steam
ship Esperanza, which left Puerto
Mexico today for New Orleans with
between 500 and 600 refugee* from
Mexico City.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. SATURDAY AFTERNOON. MAY 9, 1914.
U. S. Jackies in the Streets of Vera Cruz
ORDERS GO TO 4TH ANO
GTH ARMY BRIGADES TO
BE PREPMED TO SAIL
Sec’v of Navy Announces Satisfactory Settlement of Yester
day’s Scare When Consignment of Arms For Huerta Re
ported on German Steamers
Was n ington —Secretary of War Garrison re-asserted today that as
yet no additional troops had been ordered to Mexico. When asked wheth
er orders had been issued for the Fourth and Sixtli Brigades at Texas
City to make ready to embark, he replied:
“They are supposed to be ready to embark at a moment's notice.”
Complications Averted.
Washington,—on receipt of inform
ation from American Consul Rogers
at Havana, that ammunition consigned
to General Huerta on German ships
would he returned to Germany as a
result of action “recommended by
agents of the vessels,” Secretary of
State Bryan today announced that any
threatened complications concerning
shipments of arms to the Huerta gov
ernment had been averted. %
Scare Over.
Washington. —Assistant Secretary
of the Navy Roosevelt announced to
day that the Btate department had
satisfactorily settled issues which had
arisen over the reported consign
ment of arms to General Huerta
aboard the German vessel Kronprin
zess in Cecilie and Bavaria to be de
livered at Puerto Mexico.
Nothing “Imminent.”
Reiterating today his declaration of
last night that there was nothing
"imminent” in the Mexican situation
and that no “aggressive” mave was in
contemplation by this government
Secretary of War Garrison continued
supervision of preparations to send
the balance of the second division of
the army to Vera Cruz as a precau
tionary measure.
Eleven Ships.
Orders have gone to the Fourth and
Sixth Brigades at Texas City to be
ready to reinforce General Funston,
hut when such an order will be is
sued still is undecided. Throughout
the day war department official*
were engaged in gathering transport*
and up to noon arrangements han
been made for eleven ships, including
the four regular army transports at
Galveston.
HEADS VIRGINIA T. P. A.'s
Norfolk, V«/—Robert I). Davis, of
Norfolk, was elected president of the
Virginia Travelers' Protective Associ
ation In annual session here today.
Read “The Story of Waitstill Baxter”
BEGINNING IN TODAYS HERALD
Chas. W. Post Kills
Self; Had Been 111
Santa Barbara, Cal.—ChaS. V.. Post,
the manufacturer, of Battle Creek,
Mich., shot and killed himself this
morning.
t«Mr. Post was taken 111 here sudden
ly several months ago and hurried to
Rochester, Minn., aboard a special
train for an operation. He returned
here recently, apparently recovered.
Summon Lehmann;
May Represent U.S.
Washington,—Frederick W. I.eh
tnarin, of St. Gouts, solicitor general
of the United mates under the last
administration, who is reported to he
under consideration to represent the
United Htates at the Niagara I--A IIH
conference, arrived in Washington
eurly this afternoon and will have an
audience with the president today.
Hurry Call Out
Militia Cavalry
Tacoma, With. Cavalry Troop It of
Ihe Washington National Guard was
ordered today by Adjutant General
Thompson to take the field at on«e
fully equipped for service. A hurry
call was sent out for the men, who
quit their civilian occupations and as
sembled at the armory.
THOUSANDS
OF WOMEN
MARCH
Immense Throngs View Great
est Parade Yei —Bands
Massed at Capitol As Peti
tions Presented to Congress
For Constitutional Amend
ment
Washington.—With banners flying,
hands playing and the women singing
a marching song, several thousand
suffragists from various sections of
the country today paraded along
Pennsylvania avenue from I.afayette
Square to the capltol. There were 631
Of them, representing every slate In
the Union, and assigned one to each
Senator and Representative, presented
to the members of Congress petitions
sslilng the passage of the Tlristow-
Mondell resolution calling for a fed
eral constitutional amendment enfran
chising women.
“March of the Women.”
Immense crowds viewed the proces
sion along the route When the Capitol
wus reached the bunds were massed on
the plaza before the East front, where
they played the “Mureh of the Wo
men," composed by l)r. Ethel Kymth,
of England, accompanying a chorus of
I>ooo women, wearing robes of white,
with green stoles and fillets of green
on their heads.
The parade followed a mass meeting
In a downtown theater presided over
by Mrs. William Kent, wife of Repre
sentative Kent of California, ami at
which stirring addresses were made
by Miss Caroline Cexow, field secre
tary of the Woman's Political Union
of New York; Mrs. Donald llooker of
Baltimore, and Miss Uucy Burns, of
Brooklyn, vice chairman of the Con
gressional Union for Woman Suffrage,
under the auspices of which the de
monstration was held Among those
occupying boxeH at the meeting were
Mrs, <) II I* Belmont of New York,
Mrs, Florence Bayard Wiles, of Wil
mington, Del., daughter of President
Cleveland's secretary of state; Miss
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THE ORION SAILS.
Norfolk, Va 'I lie collier Orion sails
Monday for Vera Cruz with coal f <Jr the
fleet.
$6.00 PER YEAR—S CENTS PER COPY.
HUERTA WOULD SEE CITY
OF MEXICO IN ASHES
BEFORE HE WOULD OUIT
Such is Report Brought By Refugees at Vera Cruz. Mediation
Mission Left Today For Niagara Falls—No Abatement in
Preparedness Plans of U. S. Army and Navy. Names Am
erican Delegates Not Known Until Monday
EXECUTED
BY MAAS’
MEN?
Funston Confirms Report on
Missing U. S. Orderly Who
Rode Into the Federal Lines.
Not to Precipitate Crisis
Vera Cruz. —Even if the reported
execution by General Maas' men of
Private Samuel Parks, the orderly
missing since Wednesday, proves
true, army officers are inclined not
to regard one such incident as apt to
precipitate a clash. They believe
such an act would probably be that
or a subordinanto officer without an
thority anil that Maas would ho whol
ly Ignorant oT the mater until the
Mexico City government asked for an
explanation.
Inadvisable.
It is assumed here, however, that
the matter will lie taken up by the
authorities at Washington. General
Funston deems it. Inadvisable to open
formal communication wltti General
Maas.
General Funston has asked that the
brigade equipment left at Galveston
because of luck of room on the trans
ports be sent forward. He is also
asking that recruits for regiments
here now asHomblod at recruiting de
pots In tlie United States be shipped.
Wagon Train*.
The equipment includes a majority
of the rcglrneutul wugon trains and
horses for the signal corps.
Army officers report that the Mex
ican police are doing satisfactory
work. Under the existing arrange
ment they handle only Mexicans,
wlille tile troops take care oT the
cases In which soldiers, sailors or
foreigners are involved.
Confirmed.
Washington. —General Funston to
day confirmed unofficial reports that
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Underwood's Father-in
Law is Much Improved
Orlando, Fla. — .l. 11. Woodward, of
Birmingham, Ala., father-in-law of
Hon. Oscar W. Underwood, left here
today for tils home rnncli improved
in health, lie was accompanied by
Mrs. Woodward, his daughters, Mrs.
Underwood and Mrs. Thomas Hop
kins, Ills son, a physician and two
nurses. They went In Ills private
car Mr. Woodward, who Is one of
Alabama’s wealthiest men, has been
very 111 at Orlando since January 18.
"Defectives,” Charities
and Correction Subject
Memphis, Tenn. ‘'Defectives” was
announced' as the general subject for
consideration today before the nation
al conference of charities and correc
tion, with discussion centering about
the report of a committee of which Al
exander Johnson, of Vineland, N. J., is
cbulrrnari, and a paper on the physical
study of Juvenile Psycoputhlc Institute
of Chicago. Two hours of the morn
ing session were assigned for the pre
sentation of reports of the various
state delegations
HOME
EDITION
Washington. With the departure of
ffuerta’a mediation mittalon from Mex
h'o City today the South American
envoys and government officials here
tank renewed confidence that there
would bo no hitch In the Niagara Falls
negotiations. Huerta's representatives
will proceed to the Canadian border
city by way of Vera Cruz and Key
West.
It was believed that If the names of
•ho United States representatives at
Hie meeting were not given out today
the announcement would come as soon
as President Wilson returned from
memorial services to the American
victims of the occupation of Vera Cruz
at the Brooklyn navy yard next Mon
day.
No Abatement..
There was no abatement today of
execution of the program of prepared
ness In the war and navy departments.
Secretary Garrison explained that he
was trying to gather transports at
Galveston that epuld be used to send
the fourth and sixth hrigades to Vera
Cruz “in case it is thought wise In
view of a precautionary attitude to
havo them there, lie asserted no ag
gressive move was contemplated and
Hint there wris no change In the situa
tion "so far uh hostilities are concern
ed.”
Reply Transmitted,
The South American envoys trans
mitted to Huerta today the reply of
the American government to his pro
test that the United Htates had bro
ken the truce by landing additional
troops at Vera Cruz. The three me
diators took the view that Huerta
could be convinced that the United
Htates had not violated the armistice.
In spirit at leust.
Developments In the lluerta-Car
ranza strife also attracted much at
tention today. Constitutionalists ex
pressed confidence that their troops
would drive the federal out of Tampi
co in the next IHree or four days. That
development. It was hoped in some
quarters would relieve tension over
menace to foreign property In the
Tampico oil district.
Not Credited.
Reports that Han l.uls Potosl had
been taken by rebels were not credited
by Carranaza’s Juarez agents. They
expressed belief that their forces were
not yet ready for a decisive attack on
that southern gateway to Huerta's
capital.
Refugees arriving at Vera Cruz stat
ed all was qpiet tn Mexico City and
that Huerta had asserted he would see
sen his capital In ashes before he would
quit. The refugees praised Mexi
can officers for their conduct and
evident anxiety to see that United
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U. S. Vice Consul
is Safe and Well
Washington.—American Vice Con
sul Hllllniiin, retorted imprisoned by
Mexican federal* at Saltillo, Is safe
and well, according to assurances
made to the Fiench legation In Mex
ico City by the Mexican war minister
today.
The Information wna conveyed ro
Secretary Bryan by Ambassador Jus
serand of France. General Huerta’s
minister of war also informed the
French charge In Mexico City that
the American consulate at Saltillo
was guarded by federal forces.
Summon Bums and
Lehon for Contempt
Atlanta, Ga. When the hearing on
the motion to set aside the verdict
against Frank was called before
Judge Hill today, Mr. Dorsey Request
ed Us postponement and the court
ordered It passed until next Satur
day.
Immediately afterward Judge Hill
ordered the issue of a rule nisi
against W. J. Burns, the detective,
anil Dan Lehon, one of his employes,
calling on them to appear before him
Tuesday next to shew catiee why they
should not be held In contempt for
having sent the Carter woman out
side the Jurisdiction of the court.