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MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 191.5. TWELVE PAGES.

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THE ROCK ISLAND ARGUS.

I

GREATEST NAVAL DISASTER

OF THE

IERMANS IN

Capitals of the Entente Al

lies Jubilant Over Un

expected Victory.

ELEVEN OF SHIPS SUNK

Petrograd Claims Surviving

Units of Enemy Fleet

Driven to Sea.

,i r". 'Vi , A;;g, 23.-- Reuters rorrc-s-P'.r

. a' Petrograd telegraphs that,

tre Pn;r3n na.a! surrf-55 has comf

3,--. a rm1. relief to the capital, after

the Mr;, in of th last week. The pub

oration ,'asted until late last

n-.tK' A'ter gathering jn front of the

gis-r;j:i"it building, crowds march-c-i

-i e Bri'ish embassy

;.;-.n. A tie 23, 12:17 p. m.'i The

-ii 1 ' th" entente allies are jubi

.s,t:i t.vist- over the unexpected victory

v: h he Russians, according to their

.v '.;(.:.. have won in 'he gulf of Riga.

K i" ; a t i 1 had more than a sympathetic

:rte-e: - in the battle, as a British sttb

n.artrse a- nuntM for the German hat

t"'. r-:sr McitKo, the loss of which,

S'h.od -n 'he dfrtruct inn of two CTljis-

- - e.ght torpedo boats and four

transports, constitute? the greatest,

r.avni di-astor suffered by Germany

d-tr'ng the war.

."'r ia.-t week both Petrograd

s;v! Hrri.n hove been sending meager

rt-rortf of naval operations in the gulf.

of RUa, which were interpreted to

rn-.n that Germany was attempting

:' hind forces for 'lie purpose of siip

P""it:i -tic left flank of Field Mar

sh t! v.-n llindenburg in his efforts to

n-f.rr,;n Tnp ivjvilf of t'ourlaud and

thereby establish his armies along tiie

fc,).:'- route to tiie Russian capital.

The official Russian report, claim

ing a decisive victory for the allies,

together with the expulsion of the

surviving units of the German naval

forces from the gulf, contains few- de

tails in addition to en enumeration of

German lossejygtyijed that. In

asmuch 35' pet.rog.ra i Announced sev

er si ,j jy ago that her large warships

ha-! retired from the gulf, the mosqui

to. fr,t;h. assisted by suhmarines and

lar.-l defenses, wreaked unexpected

da mate on a part of the German fleet

an 1 i: e transports.

May Allay Rom Depression,

Th- moral effect of this action on

the -ssian people is expected in Lon

ci"i be great, as it probably will do

much f ' allay the depression incident

! the continued Russian retreat,

which has been arrested nowhere ex

cept in '"tte northern sector, from Riga

to Kcvno.

Br"!?h military critics regard the

Baltic advance of the Germans as of

surr.-me importance, if the invaders

reTv contemplate marching on Fe

trncr On that account the Russian

mrui victory may be of large effect on

the German plans.

From the Franco-Belgian front

orr.e reports of artillery duels, tinac

corr,f anted by infantry activity.

tnnboat Only Loss of Etnss.

Petrograd, Aug. 23. tvia London.

J: lu.-.- The little Russian gunboat

fi'iifch. with a crew of 14$ men, is

satd by the Petrograd newspapers to

be -he only Russian warship lost, in

th ' arri in the gulf of Riga. Com-V:::ir,-.--r

Tcherkassov, who distinguish

ed h msflf at Port Arthur, was in

'r.arg of i.he Sivutch. The number

of survivors has net been announced.

A i-bough the president of the dunia

Frno iticed that the German battle

rru.. r Moltke had been sunk by a

Prius'u submarine there still appears

to (. souse doubt whether it was the

M.v.tke or a vessel of that type which

'as sent to the bottom.

The only othr German warship of

the type of the Moltke. according to

naval records, is the battle

cruiser Goeben. sold to Turkey in 1914

snl renamed the Sultan Selira.

Petrograd, Aug. 23. (via London.

12-3-1 p. rn.) The recent naval battle

in the gulf of Riga is described as fol

i 'w-s jn a statement from navy head

rs carters:

"The German fleet on Aug. 15 re

newed with large forces its attacks on

our positions at the entrance to the

P'.i'if of Rica. Our ships during the

(Continued on Page Twelve.)

SMOKE CLOUD OVER

BRITISH COLUMBIA

Vancouver. B. C, Aug. 23. From

Alter Bay to the international bound

sry line the coast of British Columbia

'as shrouded today in stnoke as a re

suit of numerous forest fires.

An army of fire wardens has been

f ghttr-g the flames in various districts

for several days, but lack of rain is

Feriously handicapping their efforts.

Thirty dwellings and farm houses, sev

eral saw- mills and hundreds of tele

graph and telephone poles have been

t-urnei.

White Rock, a resort where a large

dumber of residents of Vancouver and

Westminster have summer dwellings,

is threatened by one of the fires.

WAR

SUFFERED BY

GULF OF RIGA

VILLA ORGANIZES

AGAINST 0BRE00

( hief Is Mobilizing Forces at Torreon

Preparatory to Jieginnhig

Guerilla Warfare.

E! Paso. Texas. Aug. 2.1. Arrivals

from northern Mexico today declared

General Villa is mobilizing his forces

at Torreon preparatory to a guerilla

warfare against. General Obregon, in

the belief that Ohregon's forces are

superior In organization and equip-

n i n t .

Sixty pieres of arnllery have ieen

parked at Sarsta Clara and Sar.t.a Ro

sario, many miles north of Torreon.

as a result of ibe guerilla hands

which are reported to he p-.anned at

units of l.iV'O men. General Villa 'S

said to have 20,ow !n. including the

expeditionary for-e arrived reentiy

front the south.

A report of the hospital service at

Chihuahua shows more than 12,000

wounded treated stiv e Mar- h I.

Washington, A tic. 23. .Consular dis

patches from Piedras Negras toci.;y

report a battle at Icaaiole. near Mon

terey, between Carranaa troops and

fee combined forces of Villa. Hernan

dez and Raoui .Madro. Rotii sides,

the report states, claim victory.

METAL TRADES IN

NEW PAY DEMAft

Ask Eiirht-Honr Day and IniproTed

( onilitimis Which War Fronts

F.ntitie Them.

Washington, D. ('.. Aug. 23. Execu

tive officers of the metal trades division

of the American Federation of Labor

met here today to plan the movement

for an eight-hour day and improved

conditions to which they contend man

ufacturers' profits from war orders en

title their workers. t ,,-

The International .Association ot 3IST-

chtnists already has begun an eight- j .,.t -,ai j r

hour campaign with promises of a ; First np,r.T A Mine and roru

strike, if necessary, and the metalj fieatious In Adriatic Sea

trades are expected to give their moral I Strafeeic Possession,

and active support. j

Affiliated with the Federation are)

the metal workers, electrical workers, I

pattern makers, machinists, black- j

smiths, boiler makers, metal polishers, f

moulders, plumbers and other trades, j

FRIENDS GREET RUEF ;

WHEN HE IS SET FREE

!

San Francisco. Cai., Aug. 23. The

gates of San Quemin prison were open-j

ed today to give freedom to Abraham:

Ruef, who was paroled Saturday after !

having served four years, five months

and 15 days of a 14 -year sentence for

offering a bribe to a supervisor of this

city.

Relatives of the former political

leader motored to the prison today to

accompany him to Mendocino eounfy

where, by the terms of his parole, he

is to remain for three months before

returning to his home here.

Ruef will spend ftO days on his ranch

in Mendocino county at his own re

quest, because a city election is pend

ing in San Francisco, in which he does

not care to participate. Later he will

enter the real estate business. He is

said to he worth $450,000 or more.

IDENTIFY BOY AND

END 4-YEAR SEARCH

Fort Worth, Texas, Aug. 23. Con

cluding simultaneously a four-year

search for a son and five months' po

lice mystery in this city, Mrs. Julia

Delo of Quebec. Canada, today positive

ly identified as her son the S-year-old

boy held by the authorities here since

the arrest of Charles F. Corell March

5. Mrs. Delo came to Fort Worth at

the instance oi tananian omctais w no

were in communication with officials j

here.

At. the time of Corell's detention on

an assault charge, both he and the

boy told many conflicting stories. The

boy recognized his mother immediate

ly, although stolen from his home when

only four years old.

CHICAGO CITIZENS

TO BACK UP MUNRO:

Chicago, 111., Aug. 23. The Citizens'

association of Chicago today announced in a few days. I

that its board of directors had decided j j

to take part in the prosecution of the l,ay California Keel Sept. 10.

suits recently started by F. S. Munro.j .New York. Aug. 23. The keel of the j

John A. Watson and others to test the ! battleship California will be laid in i

constitutionality of appropriations of; the New York navy yard on Sept. 10.

more than $2,000,000. made by the Iili-jit was announced today. The Caiifor

r.ois legislature. President M, E. I nia will be the first fighting craft in

Greenebaum, in making known the de-lany navy to be equipped with electric j

cision of the association, said that an

attorney representing the citizens' as

soeiation would be entered as counsel j

In each of the five injunction suits in-j

stituted by Mr. Monro and his asso- i

ciates, to prevent the payment of these , cumulated in the navy yard for several !

appropriations out, of the state treas- i months and about 1 2.000.00!) pounds of!

ury. and now pending in the circuit ! steel are ready to be used in the build

court of Sangamon county. ing ot the shin, j

JapantoGhe

More Help to

Allies Cause

All Resources to Be Lent in

Increasing Output of Mu

nitions, It Is Stated.

Tokio. Aug. 2?,.

-The Kokumin Shim-

bun says :

"Premier Okuraa

has decided to give

states that Japan

greater assistance I

.ii e the war. He I

to Russia to prosecu'e

could not discuss derail

it to be understood that,

would take the form -if

of greater supplies of t.

. en allow ed

his assistance '

ie lorv ard'ns j

litiitions." I

The Associated Press learns that '

Japan has decider! to enudov all avail-'

able governmental -xn 1 ;riva'e re- .

sources for increasing tm output of

munitions for the allies, particularly j

Russia. ' j

The Japanese government bebevesj

the time has arrived for more concert-

ed action against Use enemies of Japan

and her allies. ;

One of Russia's greatest embarrass

ments in her conduct of the war ics

been a shortage of guns and ammuni-l

tion. Military writers, while no' di -

counting the effectiveness of the

enormous Ausf ro-German offensive

movement, have stae1 that the extent1

of Russian reverses in the last few'

months has been due in part to inade- :

quale supplies of munitions.

Notwithstanding every effort to in- :

crease the domestic output. Russian

facilities are stin. comparatively small

and entirely insufficient to meet the

large demands of such a campaign as

is now under way. Wirh the Baltic

sea closed to her vessels from without, j

she has been able to import supplies:

only through the port of Archangel,

closed by ice during a large part of the ,

year, or over the trans-Siberian road. !

The anenipt of the allies to force the,

Dardanelles has as one of its greatest i

objects, the opening of the straits,

route for the assistance of Russia.

Large orders have been placed in

the United States by Russia and extn-;

sire shipments have been made front :

Seattle and other racifte ports. Japan

also has forwarded war supplies to

Russia. ;

ITALIANS DESERT

i ISLAND IN RUINS

Vienna. Aug. 21, (via London. 3: HO

p. rn.- The admiralty announced to

day that reronnaisanees on Saturday

established the fact that Italians had

evacuated the island of Pelagosa in

the Adriatic sea, having destroyed ail

buildings and fortifications.

The Pelagosa twin islands are in the

Adriatic, half way between the pro-

montory of Gargano and Dalmatia.

They are of volcanic formation. It was

announced from Rome on July 2f that

because of the strategic situation of

the islands Italian naval forces had

established themselves there. On Aug.

17 an Austrian fleet of 21 vessels, as

sisted by an aeroplane, bombarded

Felagosa. but. according to the Italian

admiralty, retired without attempting!

to disembark after four members of

the Italian force had been killed and

three wounded.

GALVESTON GETTING

BACK ON FEET AGAIN

Galveston, Texas, Aug, 23, Relief

work in Galveston found necessary as

a result of the tropical storm which

struck this city last Monday is mak

ing satisfactory progress. No applica

tions for help have been received so

far. Cleanup work in the city has

been steadily going forward. The city's

water works system will likefy be in

operation by tomorrow- at the latest.

In the meantime there is. abundant,

water for drinking and cooking pur

poses. There has been no illness as a result

of the storm. Telephone service is

being rapidly restored and street car

and electric lights and power service

wlll be resumed when ample water is

assured.

MURPHY CANDIDATE

FOR GOVERNORSHIP

Chicago, Aug. 23. The candidacy of'

E. J. Murphy, banker of Joiiet. 111.,

former warden of the penitentiary in

that city, for the republican guberna- i

torial nomimnation, was announced

here today by O. N. Jordan. Mr. Jor- j

I dan said that headquarters would be

j opened at Joiiet and in Chicago with-

engines for her own propulsion, al

though such engines have been thor-

oughly tested in their use by the col-

Her Jupiter. Materia! for the con- l

struction of the California has been ac- j

ITALY SENDS

WARSHIPS TO

FIGHT TURKS

Large Porce of Troops Sail

From Several Ports Un

der Sealed Orders.

FOR THE DARDANELLES

Berlin Reports Sofia and

Constantinople Signed

a New Treaty.

Washington. V. C, Aug. 23. With

Italy's declaration of war on Turkey

the American embassy at Constanti

nople probably will be asked to take

over the Italian interests in Turkey

and those of Russia for whom Italy

has been acting.

Rome. Aug. 23, uia Paris, 3:20 p.

m ) Several transports laden with

troops and escorted by warships have

departed ironi Naples, Syracuse, Ta

ranto and Brindisi for an unknown

destination.

They sailed under sealed orders. It

is generally believed that they are to

be employed for operations against

Turkey.

Berlin, Aug. 23. (by wireless to Say

viiie, N. Y.i The Overseas News

agency today gave out the following:

"Official reports from Sofia and Con

stantinople state that Turkey- and Bul

garia have signed a new treaty, Tur

key granting Bulgaria her desired di

rect railroad connection with the sea.

and Bulgaria agreeing to observe a

benevolent neutrality if not more.''

This demonstrates the definite fail

ure of the efforts of the entente powers

to revive the alliance of the Balkan

states and induce them to join in the

war against Turkey.

Unofficial reports late in July stated

that a convention had been signed on

July 22 by which Turkey ceded to Bul

garia the Turkish portion of the De

deaghatch railway. The reports stat

ed that the treaty left Eulgaria un

pledged concerning her attitude in the

war. . "

That Bulgaria had not been pledged

to any definite course as regards the

war, has been the assumption under

which negotiations have been conduct

ed by the entente allies leading to a

satisfaction of her reported demands

for territorial concessions from Serbia

and Greece as the price of her entry

into the war on the sides of the allies.

One of Problems Settled.

Milan. Italy, Aug. 23. tvia Paris, 3:45

p. m i fine of the main difficulties in

the way of a solution of the Balkan

problem favorable to the entente al

lies has been settled, according to an

interview with Premier Pachitch of

Serbia, published in the Corriere Delia

Serra. The premier is quoted as say

ing that Serbia has given way to Italy

regarding Albania.

ALIENS ARE TOLD TO

RESPECT THE LAWS;

Washington, D. 0. Aug. 23 Respond

ing to numerous inquiries, the bureau

of naturalization today issued a gen

eral letter relative to its views as to

the course which should be followed in

training the alien population in Amer

ican citizenship.

While pointing out, the impossibility

of laving any hard and fast rules on snens at i- neun.-nsnaien. ana was in

the subject the letter declares that the j terned near St. Gothard. has escaped,

prime requisite is ability to speak the! Gilbert arrived in Paris last, night, and

English tongue. "It is through this reported for service at the French min

method alone," it says, "that aliens istry of war today.

can acquire a practical knowledge of i Before joining the French aviation

our institutions." ; service after the outbreak of war Gil-

Above ail. the letter says, aliens j hert gained fame in several interna

shouid be taught that the supreme au- j tional aviation meets,

thoritv in this country is the law and I In April, 1913, Gilbert broke the

that the first duty of an American cit- ! world's non-stop record in a f.ieht

ii-.en is obedience to that law. ! from Villa coulhlav to Viftoria. Spain.

I when he traveled a distance of 513

Loading Ships With Munitions. j miles. In August, 1913. the French

Philadelphia. Pa.. Aug. 23. Fifteen j man made a flight from Paris to Pe

iooomotives. 5.000 tons of steel rails ! Jaho. a town on the Portuguese fron

and other railroad equipment aggre-jtier. He beat The record for a long

gating 7,000 tons, part of a large order ". Sight held at that time by Moitlinais.

to local firms from the Russian gov-! who flew from Paris to Warsaw, a dis

ernment. were being loaded on the i tanee of S7S, without stopping.

Bri'ih steamship St. Leonards todav. !

It is estimated that it will take a week i TROLLEY STRIKERS

7f r St!" t'lLT let cars operate

then sail for Vladivostok via the Pan

ama canal or may proceed to Arch

angel ami unload there. A second ship-

ment is evnected to be made on the

," ' . " " ir.An "V!,.,-,,

jananei-e Mrtjusi'-f

here Sept. 20.

THE WEATHER

Forecast Till 7 P. M. Tomorrow, forujarv wouid be called to protect the

liock Island, DaTenport, Molin section where a car was burned and a

and Vicinity. j number derailed late last night was

Thunder showers this afternoon or i denied by police in towns through

tonight, cooler tonight; Tuesday prob- ; which the line passes,

ablv cloudy and continued cool. J

Temperature at 7 a. m., 6S. High

est yesterday, S3; lowest last night.

Velocity of wind at 7

per hour.

Precipitation. .03 inch

Relative humidity a

7 a. m.. 75, at 1 p. m. today. o4.

Stage of water S.fi. a fail of .2 in. last

48 hours.

J. M. SELERIEK, Local Forecaster.

Officers Die

on a Ship Hit

By Germans

Lamport and Holt Liner Is

Chased Four Hours Be

fore Surrendering.

Queenstown. Aug. 2,1, (3:23 p. m.)

The Lamport and Hoit liner Diomed

has been sunk by a German submarine.

Her captain, quartermaster and stew

ard were killed by shells fired by the

submarine durii

hours.

g a pursuit of four

An officer of the Diomed who land- !

ed here today with other survivors says

that two submarines were sighted Ac

cording to his report they were rig

ged with dummy funnels. One of them,

this officer asserts, subjected the Dio

med to a heavy shell fire.

The liner attempted to escape, but

surrendered after being pursued for

four hours. Two boats were lowered

; and 40 members of the crew got away,

! taking with them the body- of the cap

: tain.

; Shortly afterwards one boat was

swamped. Two Englishmen and five

Chinese were drowned. The others

j were picked up by the second boat.

' This boat, being overcrowded, was

j in danger of being swamped, but its

1 occupants were saved by the arrival of

I a steamship.

Sofia, Bulgaria, (via London.) The

j Turkish collier Espahan bas been tor

i pedoed by a British submarine at

! Haidar Pasha and the steamer Budos

of the German -Levant line, loaded with

j munitions and provisions, has been

sunk in the sea of Marmora.

' Paris. Aug. 23. "Two French tor-

pedo boats encountered and sank a

j German torpedo boat destroyer off Os

i tend, Belgium last night," says an an-

nouncement made here today. "Our

boats were undamaged."

HAITIENS PLAN TO

FIGHT AMERICANS

Reinforcement, to Re Sent to Admiral

aperton Cnstom House at

St, Marc Taken Oter.

Washington, Aug. 23. Reliable re

ports have been received that Haitien 1

(rebels have been organizing an army

: to attack the American forces on the .

! island and reinforcements will be sent

j to Rear Admiral Caperton. I

The marine artillery battalion of,

i Annapolis, comprising 3.9 men and :

; twelve 3-inch field pieces, will be em- '

barked on the armored cruiser Ten- '

! nessee and sent to southern waters'

; this week. j

i Admiral Caperton today reported 1

! quiet at Cap Haitien and Port An

Prince, but said it had been neces

sary to take over the custom house at:

I St. Marc. !

TOR GILBERT

IS BACK IN PARIS

Interned After Bombardinc Zeppelin

t

Sheds, lie Escapes from t amp at

St. On t hard.

Paris. Aug, 23, 3 30 p. m.i -Eugene

Gilbert, the French aviator, who

was obliged to land in Switzerland

June 27. through an accident to his

motor, after bombarding the Zeppelin

Pittsburgh. Pa.. Aug. 23.- The tele

phone system used in dispatching cars

on the Natrona-Aspinwall division of

I the West Penn railways was put out (

...

commission for a time today when a

booth at Breckenridge was burned, but

striking trolley men and their sympa

thizers made no effort to interfere with

five cars sent over the line soon after

ward Renorts that the state constab-

Quarantine Annulled.

Springfield. III., Aug. 23, In a proc-

a. m., 3 miles , iamation signed Saturday before the

! departure of Governor Dunne for Chi

! cago, the quarantine prohibiting the

p. m.. 55, at j importation of hogs into Kankakee

j county was annulled. The quarantine

; as established June 25. 1914 for the

J purpose of aiding the county aut.hor-

Jjiie jA Ui& arauicaUoa oi to cholera,,

GERMAN GOVERNMENT STILL

SILENT ON ARABIC SINKING;

WASHINGTON ASKING FACTS

SAVE HUNDREDS

FROM JRO WNING

Mutor li iuis I.Vscne Peoplp Driven Into

Trees by .Merauiec Floods Crop

Loss Enormous.

i

St, Louts, Mo., Aug. 23, St. Louis

county s reeoeriuE somewhat todav

from tiie third calamity which had

descended on this community in as

many days a flood which snuffed out

at least 12 lives, possibly many

more destroyed more than a million

dollars worth of property and made

2,000 families homeless.

Twelve deaths had been reported to

the coroner this morning and almost

one hundred persons were listed as

missing. River men who are closely

acquainted with the situation fear the

falling of the Meramec today may dis

close a heavy toil in human lives. They

also said the bodies of many of the

drowned probably would he w-ashed in

to (tie Mississippi river, carried far

ilorii stream and might not be recov

ered soon because of the mass of flood

debris now- in the river, and of its un

usually strong current.

Equally distressing conditions pre

vail throughout southeastern Missouri

ami parts ot western Illinois, where the

tcii, lei-s severe in the number of lives

lost, is far greater in damage to prop

erty and crops. Railroad, telephone

and telegraph facilities in many coun

tries ar" interrupted; the physical

dan-age may aggregate 15,000,000 and

teis f.f thoufands of farmers and vil

lagers are homeless.

In Greene and Jersey counties, III.,

from ten to fifteen thousand acres of

farm land are under w-ater as the re

suit, of the breaking of three levees

if. J.faliso i and St. Clair counties, and

all rivers and creeks are flooded to the

point, cf breaking their levees.

All these conditions are due to a

branch of the Texas coast storm, which

last Friday swept through Arkansas

into Missouri and across the Missis

sippi to Illinois. St. Louis had hardly

recovered from the effects of the tor

nado and its accompanying record

breaking downpour Saturday, when the

river Des Peres went a mile out of its

banks and on receding disclosed II

dead. Before the Des Peres had fallen

to its norma! level, the Meramec, ten

to fifteen miles west of this city, went,

four miles out. of its hanks with much

more disastrous results.

The Meramec rose during the night

while thousands of campers and pic

nickers slept in club houses and sum

mer cottages winch dot the river's

banks. From 2 o'clock yesterday morn

ing until last midnight the river rose

a. foot an hour. Tiie flood, waters of

swollen Ozark mountain streams

which emp'y into the Meramec came

rii.-iiing down the river in layers a

foot high, tearing farms, club houses,

bridges and barges from their moor

ings and hurling them against trees,

telegraph poles and against each other

in the mad rush toward the Mississippi

river. Men, women and children caught

in the whirl of debris screamed, dis

charged firearms and climbed to their

housetops to attract rescuers. Calls for

help were sent to St. Louis and hun

dreds of rescuers with motor boats and

other craft, were on the scene at dav

break. They toiled ail day and all

la.-t night and rescued 60') persons

Tiiis morning men, and in a few cases

women, who had ciimbed f tree tons

and root's, still were crying for help.

Scores of them had spent 24 hours or

more in the trees dressed scantily and

snaked to the skin.

Valley Park. Drake. Eureka Decke,

t'lin'on. Pacific and every other city on

either side of the Meramec for a dis

tance of more titan 50 miles were inun

dated but th.'S morning the water began

to recede. Almost the entire popula

tion of Valley Park 2.300 families

were driven from their homes and

large manufacturing plants about

which i he town is built were rendered

useless probably for weeks.

Little Rock. Ark.. Aug. 23. -Flood

water from the White river is roming

over the Rock Island levee at New

port and the town will be flooded, ac

cording to reports here today. The

$25,000 causeway just completed over

Newport lake, has been broken.

Hundreds of volunteers this morn

ing were working on the levee and

negroes had been forced at the point

of shotguns to join them. The levee at

Ingleside near Newport has broken.

Reports were received here last

night that a family of five persons had

been drowned in the bottoms near Oil

Trough.

In Newport all business has been

suspended. The water and electric

light plants have been put out of com

mission by the water. The dauage t j

crops in White river bottoms will be

enormous.

The steamers Muskogee and Mary G.

Lucas are running day and night, res

cuing families from the overflowed dis

tricts, many of the lowland dwellers

being taken from trees.

FatalHy Nar Starred Rock.

Ottawa, HI.. Aug. 23 J. A. Schwartz

, o, in., -uR. w-. j . t, o-:iiwarti

of Canton. 111., was killed and mem-1

ners ui nis lamiiy were injured last : Miner, alias Otto Kiedle. and James

night when Schwartz's automobile j Morrison, cionvirtg who escaped yester

overturned near the Starved Rock day, had not recaptured the fugitive

Capital Considers Informa

tion so Far Received

Very Fragmentary. -'

GERARD ISNOT ADVISED

Ambassador Queried for Re

port, but Is Told Not

to Bequest One.

Eonion, Anir. 23, (5:04 p. m.)

There were 77 Americans In the

crew f the steamer Baron Enklne

which was sunk hy a Oerman sub

marine last week. The Ameri

cans, who were horse tenders,

were landed safely with the rest

of the crew.

Washington, Aug. 23. Official an

nouncement was made at the White

house today "as soon as all of the facts

regarding the Arabic are ascertained

our course of action will be determ

ined." This official announcement was giv

en out by Secretary Tumulty after a

conference with President Wilson. Mr.

Tumulty said the statement u all he

was authorized to say.

The statement bore out previoua un

official statements made at the Whit

house and state department that Pres

ident Wilson had not determined what

action the American government

would take and would suspend judg

ment while aw atting receipt of all facts

available from all sources.

Washington, D. C.. Aug. 28. Secre

tary Lansing today cabled Ambassador

Gerard at Berlin asking if the German

government had received an official re

port on the sinking of the White Star

liner Arabic. The ambassador. how

ever, was not instructed to ask for one.

It was officially stated that, the Ameri

can government is not yet at all sure

of the facts and considers its informa

tion very fragmentary.

Secretary Lansing said the situation

was exactly as It stood Saturday; that

no steps had been taken other than to

get accurate, information as to what

had talten place.

From the fact, that Ambassador Ger

ard was not directed to seek an ex

planation, the inference was drawn

that the state department has decided

to let the German government initiate

any explanation it may have to offer.

Ambassador Page at. London had

sent hy mail some affidavits and other

data, but has been instructed to cable a

synopsis of the material.

In the view of the state department

no points have been established beyond

doubt: regarding the present question

of convoy, the change of course of the

Arabic just before the torpedo struck

and other essentials. All the Informa

tion received, aside from the newspa

per reports, which reflect censorship,

is embodied in one affidavit of an

American. The department regards It

as essential that this shall be corrobor

ated and supplemented.

The American embassy will be ex

pected to find survivors and secure

their statements, which may be slow

work.

Claim Vessel ot Armed.

London. Aug. 23. ( 1:30 p. m.) Sup

plementing official information given

out. previously concerning the sinking

of the Arabic, the British admiralty to

day made the following announce

ment :

"The Arabic was an unarmed pas

senger ship, outward hound to a neu

tral port. It. was thus impossible for

her to have been carrying contraband

to this country.

"She was sunk by a German sub

marine without warning, and she

neither attempted to attack the sub

marine nor to escape from It."

The admiralty today authorized a

denial of the report that the steamer

Dunsley, torpedoed shortly before the

Arabic was Bunk, was an armed patrol.

The admiralty states the Dunsley was

a peaceful and unarmed trader.

Survivors of the Dunsley ptated yes

terday that she was torpedoed Just be

fore the Arabic was sunk and that the

German submarine hid behind the

Dunsley to lie in wait for the Aralde.

11.000,000 Fair Visitors.

San Francisco, Cal.', Aug. 23. The

'total number of visitors to the Panama

. Pacific exposition has reached 11,000,-

ooo, it was announced today. The

; 10.000,000 mark was recorded Aug. 9.

The average daily attendance since

!tbe exposition opened Feb. 20. has been

59.919. The average for the last two

weeks has been 79,277.

En m ley Sent Up For Life.

Boone, Iowa, Aug. 23. Arthur hum

ley, aged IS of Des Moines, was today

sentenced to life imprisonment In the

penitentiary in district court for the

murder of T. J. Smalley, a wealthy

Boone county farmer. Lumley con

fessed to the murder last week.

Joiiet Convicts Escape.

iii'rto, in., Auft. .o. uuai us tn i'io

prison at Joiiet, searching for Frank

Chicago, 111., Aug. 23. Guards of the