INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS EASTLAND SINKS I INVESTIGATION TO PROFESSIONAL CARDS Five ten twenty years from today the files of LESLIE'S V. o- Visit AT CHICAGO DOCK,-| PLACE BLAME FOR will be priceless. For LESLIE'S California's JOHN H. BROWN The Minneapolis Dollar-Hotel is the one great national illus- 1 200 MODERN ROOMS Attorney at Law Located in Heart of I ITIHII trated weekly nezupaper of today. Expositions $1.££ SINGLE RATE $1.°£ 1.000 MEET DEATH! DISASTER BEGUN Office hi the litis Block KUHOPLAN RATE FOR TWO NRIOM TT^EO PRIVATE BATH ANO TOILET EXTRA Special war correspondents International Falls. Minn. COMPLETE SAFETY THe AUTOMATIC SPeiNKLIRS and photographers by the score North Pacific AIIO WWPHOOf GOMSTSeCTlOf* "cover the war" for LESLIE'S DR. H. H. IHRIG •oonoe •HBW MO ueae idbt a BnwKub fn ram-| Coast —in Germany, in Austria, in •DOM MS MOT WD «OU WMMM DENTIST STATE'S ATTORNEY HOYNE! VESSEL TURNS OVER IN RIVER •vans ewrr. QM mo a iwi CALLS SUPERVISING INSPEC- 1 France, in Russia, in Britain, AS IT LEAVES WHARF—MAJORITY Office over Holler's Confectionery seveH avow Mm and stop over enroute at TOR OF FEDERAL SERVICE OF VICTIMS WOMEN Yellowstone in Belgium, in Turkey, in International Falls, Minn. BEFORE GRAND JURY. I AND CHILDREN. Egypt, in the Far East, on National Park the high seas. ll THE S3S1TI0H OF F. J. McPARTLIN FIRST FUNERALS HELD 500 BODIES RECOVERED THE ALTER AUTOMOBILE You can make one trip and include LAWYER The news and pictorial LESLIE'S all—two great expositions, DREDGES RESUME WORK INVESTIGATION ORDERED the wonderful North service "covers" not only the war, Office over International Pacific Coast country and Yellowstone but the world, for the benefit of its National Park, besides State Bank many other scenes— OVR DEMONSTRATOR 350,000 subscribers. At home or Than Three individual features in themselves International Falls, Minn. Jtescuers Cut Holes in Hull and Con­ More Hundred Funeral IS HERE and worthy of note. abroad—wherever news is happening Corteges Pass Through Streets—264 tinue Removing Bodies from Boat— You can travel either by water DR. H. S. ROSENHOLTZ —there the unparalleled service or Shasta rail route from Portland Remain Unaccounted for According Feared List of Dead May Reach 27 HorsePower to San Francisco or via DENTIST this great weekly newspaper is to Most Reliable Estimates of 1,500—Tragedy Over in Less the new coast-wise steamship Electric Starter line. Office over litis Drug Store Obtainable. recording it and picturing it for the Than Five Minutes. Lights Great Northern Office Phone: 245 people of the United States. Foot Accelerator Res. Phone: 274 Chicago, July 27.—Chicago took the Chicago, July 26.—The death ship Pacific For sixty years has LESLIE'S first actual step toward fixing respon* Eastland has giver up the bodies International Falls- Minn. Everything Complete at sibility for the Eastland horror when brought to the American people ©1 809 of its dead. The estimated Steamship Co. State's Attorney Maclay Hoyne called total number of those who week by week the most important G. F. SWINNERTON before the county grand jury, Charles •were drowned in the Chicago river $745.00 news of our own and every other from Astoria, Oregon to San M, D., C. M. H. Westcott of Detroit, supervising inspector when the steel steamer bearing 2408 Francisco. Meals and berth country, not in words alone, but of the Eighth district, Federal PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON excursionists rolled over at her dock, included. Write, call or phone inspection service, who issued the remain at approximately 1,000. Of the also in pictures—that universal for detailed rates, information, Eyes examined and glasses fitted INTERNATIONAL FALLS, license that gave the Eastland owners etc. total of 2408 persons on board at the language which tells more at a Offiice over Empress Theatre time of the catastrophe, 1072 including government permission to carry glance than pages of words could Low Pare Daily to Nov. 30 International Falls- Minn. the crew of 72, have been reported safe. 2,500 passeng^s. Ready to push the Button Of the 558 thus remaining unaccounted Westcott, Hoyne announced, would describe. Built for Rough Roads lor it is believed 400 are still alive be the only witness under present Dr. JENNER PERRY CHANCE No wide-awake American can p.nd have failed to report and that 199 plans. As good as any $1200. car made bodies still are in the river. I'nited States District Attorney afford not to have Leslie's in his PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Strictly in a Class by Itself One of Greatest Marine Disasters. Clvne at the tiifie announced that he home every week. Every member Office over litis Drug Store The Eastland lies on her side in the would hold to his plan to get every 1 the family will profit by it. It plver with divers still floundering possible piece of evidence in hand before of LET US SHOW YOU Phone 11 through her ghastly interior and burrowing presenting his case to the specially not too "old" for the youngest is Night Calls at Hotel Koochiching in the death search while Chicago, called grand jury, which will convene child, while every page teems with S.E.TH0MPS0N&S0N appalled, is just beginning to Thursday. interest every realize the real and terrible significance for man and woman DR. J. F. PETERSON Inspectors Plans Halted. International Falls, Minn. of one of the greatest of marine the in family. Plans that Federal steamboat inspectors j&ieasters. DENTIST had laid for an investigation While the aggrieved thousands who Get the current issue at any newsstand— of their own service apparently wa^ Minnesota & International Ry. Office OTer International lost their dear ones are walking cents. IO halted, temporarily at least, by the State Bank C. G. WHITNEY, through the morgue in the Second DOROTHY FRALEIGH calling of Westtott before the county Local Agent Regiment armory gazing into the Better subscribe by the year {$$) and International Falls, Minn. will give International Falls, Minn. grand jury. 11 faces of the dead, half in hope, half be sure of receiving every issue promptly Another factor that entered into this despair, Chicago citizens and offi-. Private or Class Lessons in on Thursday. FHINNEY & CAMPBELL phase of the investigations was the fcials have turned their attention to Modern Dancing widespread sentiment, openly expressed, the investigations that must bring LAWYERS against permitting Federal inspectors fr forth eome explanation of the catastrophe Land for Sale Cheap. 160 acres. Over International State Bank to investigate their own acts, Get The and to the work of providing Sawyer Hesitation in Township 154, Range 28, esti-* which are under heavy fire of criticism. International Falls, Minn. relief for those left destitute. FALLS DECORATING CO. Maxixe No mated to cut 25,000 cedar poles.. Families Made Dependent. To do Painting, Papering jemr un­ The coroner'^ inquest hung fire While no families were made wholly Savolt Castle and Decorating. We sell $650 or $500 for the timber. It til Coroner Peter Hoffman is satisfied W. E. LAWRENCE dependent by the disaster, as might WALL-PAPER and PAINTS One Step that most of the bodies are removed is cheaper to buy this land than be the case in a flood or great fire, Marvin BdUbg from the wreck. He said that he THE REXALL STORE It was said the victims, employes of CHILDRENS' DANCING to homestead. Must be sold at might decide to wait until Wednesday 4th Street and 5th Am the Western Electric company, had International Falls, Minn. A SPECIALTY once. O. Olson, R. 2, Box 83 or possibly Thursday. Phone 182 keen working only half time or less in The first funerals of victims were Phone 69 Fort Frances Ceres, California. 7 28 recent months. Several men who held. The first body to be returned to H. STUBEE made this report, in asking for aid, Its earthbed was that of Mary Kane were asked why they started on the ARCHITECT of Cicero. •xcursion while in poor financial circumstances. They replied that an organization 30© Funerals Held. and of employes gave the picnic During the day more than 300 funeral BURN-ALL Superintendent of Construction pnd that experience had taught them corteges passed through the Office over litis Drug Store that it was best to buy tickets if they streets of the city. Arrangements desired preferment for work. They International Falls, Minn. have been made to hold similar services paid said the company had nothing to for the victims on each day of do with this condition or the giving this week. DR. GEORGE HOEY Cf the excursion, but that as members Divers and dredgers resumed their the employes' organization purchase gruesome hunt for bodies at 7:30 a. m. ®f tickets for the lake trip, an annual INCINERATOR VETERINARY SURGEON At the same time efforts were started ^ffair, was almost compulsory. and to raise the Eastland's hull, whvph Evidence of Desparation. showed flat and round against the DENTIST Panic of the worst kind struck the dock. Phone 41 THE NEW INVENTION FOR DESTROYING passengers when the boat began to The crux of the two chief questions International Falls, Minn. turn over. Best accounts of witnesses of where lay the blame and how many ALL KINDS OF CITY GARBAGE. lost their lives centered on the single said the steamer rolled slightJy twice, then turned further, and issue to how many were on board the DOUBLE SEBTIC1 that hundreds of screaming, struggling Eastland. Officials of the Indiana AUTOMIBILE TIRES Transportation company, which chartered men, women and children slid Guaranteed 7000 Miles Service dcross the sloping decks, fought for the boat from the St. JosephChicago •r r-v ABSOLUTELY PUNCTUREPROOF Steamship company, and was room on the companionways and double the Double Service Tire* are V' thickness of standard make in charge of the excursion for the the best clutched at deck chairs or any other Western Etectric company, reiterated tires. cbject that came to hand. ilium This 100 per cent greater wearing Women and children by the hundreds that the boat's capacity of 2,480, Surface more naturally gives that much which included a crew of 72, was not were caught below decks and mileage of and service The average 12 miles the scratched faces, torn clothing and exceeded. of tough fabric and one inch surface tread rubber makes these tires bruised bodies of the dead bore mute 1,264 To Be Accounted For. absolutely punctureproof. evidence of the desperation with Working on these figures as a basis, These tires excell all others for use which they had fought for a chance JUST REASONABLE in the country over rough and rugged recovery of 816 bodies would leave a roads as well as on hard pavements. for life. total of 1,264 to be accounted for. The They are as easy riding and resilient The whole tragedy occupied less number saved is given by some as any as other pneumatic tire—the air IN than five minutes. Members of the I,000, perhaps more. This would leave space and pressure being the same. They crew shouted warnings as the steamfr are the most economical and 264 missing or unaccounted for, mafeing "care free" tires made and are used first tilted and Captain Pedersen a total of dead and missing of PRICE THING Where tires must be depended on and Ordered lower deck ports opened and 1,080. tire trouble canijot be tolerated. Many pll passengers shore. There was, Andrew Furuseth, president of the Double Service style tires are in use in Jjowever, no chance of guch a measure EFFICIENT the United States government and International Seamen's union of America, to succeed. European War service. said: Our output is limited to a certain "No passenger boat is a safe boat Five Steamers Chartered. amount, but for a short time we offer VILLAGES IN SERVICE up that will not stand without water Some 7,000 tickets had been distributed the following reduced cpecial prices as ballast and with its maximum load «f on introductory Offer: for the excursion and five Extra Heavy passengers all on one side. Water ballast pteamers chartered by the company. ECONOMICAL Size Tires Tubes is not used as a safety device at The Eastland was first to receive its 28x3 $ 7.25 $2.20 R:y all, or should not be, if the lake boats 30x3 8.60 2.30 uota, and when its chartered capacwas CITIES OF 30x31/2 10.85 3.10 are properly inspected." IN reached federal inspectors ordered 31x3y2 11.40 3.15 that no more be taken aboard. 32x31/2 12.75 3.20 midstreamTand motor-boats and tugs, The boat was docked on the south 34x3% 12 90 3.60 OPERATION other river swarmed about it.j craft 30x4 13i50 3.70 pide of the river and when the hundreds 31x4 14.25 4.00 (Firemen climbed on the wreck, forced to hurrying the boat were 32x4 14.90 4.10 openings in the steel hull and through] turned back from it they streamed 33x4 15.75 4.20 GUARANTEED these searched the cabins for possible! to the Across the Clark street bridge 34x4 16.70 4.35 victims. i" 35x4 16.80 4.60 pteamer Theodore Roosevelt, which 4 36x4 17.45 65 None of the officers or department! second boat ftras to take the load. 37x4 17.65 4i70 heads of the Western Sleotric com of the Eastland victims Screams 34x4% 18.50 4.90 jpany were on the Eastland when it Raited this and the bridge was tf rush 5.60 35x4% 21.20 overturned, according to an announce-, mmed people until police, fear- 36x4% 22.50 5.75 with 37x4% 23.60 6.20 [ment from the offices of the oosn-j that tHe structure would ooAapee, 6.35 35x5 24.40 :p*ny. Ordered it cleared. 6.60 36x5 26.30 City Turna to Reaeue Work. Survivors Unable to Talk. 37x5 26 30 6.60 All other sizes not included in above Every resource of the city waa Many survivors were too hyftaftoalj Ust also furnished. Non-skids at 10 per Aa to relate their experiences. soon! itvrned to the rescue work. Remembering •cut additional. as those received at the ttpspkals Payment with order at above the Iroquois thftttre disaster,! Terms: PLANS AND PRICES FURNISHED ON APPLICATION TO special prices, a 10 per cent discount were in condition to leare they were mercantile concerns In the vicinity] on orders for two or more allowed itaken to their homes, many owners Iburried motor trucks to the scene All personal checks must certified. tire*. be of automobiles having offered their laden with blankets to warm the liv-j Try machines. these tires and be convinced of Ing or cover the dead. Pulmoters by tbelr very high qualities. phy-j An undertaking establishment to the score were sent to the dock, Sold direct to the consumer only. North Clark street was surrounded plelans, police, firemen, government tntli Servio# Ti*e and Kubber Co. by a crowd of onrloslty seekers that •life savers and nurses were summonad *r" Akron, Ohio. Apr 5 Aug-1 threatened to get beyond the control and all hospitals and morgues' ,!©f the police. A morbid crowd trailed INTERNATIONAL FALLS. notified to prepare for patients orj MINNESOTA through the rQ$fas wh«r« them Iff*, Get yoqr typewriter supplies (•srpsM. itwelve''bullae •fretcbefl out" oh 'the 3Tke steamer floated its aids into] at the Press office. floor. Kr7 "T* 1