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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1916
Page
7
Rescue teams rush to a waterworks tunnel in Lake Erie to reach a wrecked death tunnel where eleven bodies are believed trapped. Officials had estimated twelve, raising the death toll from twenty-one to twenty-two if confirmed.
Rainfall stretched along the Gulf coast to New York with Texas towns reporting varied totals. Brownsville had about one inch, Corpus Christi .24, Taylor 1.36, Houston .06, and Galveston 0.18. San Antonio cooled after the rain with a high of 92 and 73 degrees at 7 AM Wednesday.
Applications for discharge under the dependent family clause flood War Department headquarters at a rate exceeding 1500 weekly. Many come from families of militiamen on border duty seeking relief for dependents, with investigations required before any release.
Washington July 26 The army bill carrying over one hundred million dollars in increases over the House measure was expected to pass the Senate today. Most committee provisions had been acted on when the bill was taken up with a vote in prospect before adjournment. The bill would create a council of national defense with the secretaries of war navy and interior the army chief of staff a navy officer and up to six industrial experts.
The late Henry Beach Needham, famed flying expert killed in France with Lt. Warneford, advised a Seattle inventor to shift from planes to submarines. After reviewing a triplane model, he said the submarine would fly, a sharp quip cited by the Cincinnati Enquirer.
A force of 200 bandits is said to have gathered south of the border near San Carlos fifteen miles from the line. Terlingua troops guard the Texas side while Colonel Gaston notes the movement though exact location is unclear. Reports tie the group to forces under Colonel Rojas and postwar health notes dismiss dengue fever in the Brownsville Illinois Cavalry camp.
Associated Press reports a new phase of inter allied talks in Paris covering commerce with enemies contracts debt collection inside enemy territories sequestration of enemy goods patents and trademarks import export controls and postwar economic coordination with a December maritime conference planned among entente delegates in Paris for merchant marine understanding.
A hurricane of unprecedented violence ravaged Saragossa Seria Valilolid Leon and Pontevedra. Torreon village is in ruins and three churches were swept away in Ateca Araza. Eleven bodies have been recovered and damage is enormous. The Interior Minister will seek emergency funds to aid farmers in the stricken district.
The Red Cross watermelon booth committee met at the YWCA to arrange a booth for the rally and pic nic in Landa Park New Braunfels on Saturday August 5. Mrs L B Clegg chairs the committee with Circle No 1 and For My Country Circle members aiding along with Mr and Mrs Eugene Nolte Sequin R J Pruitt Roy Campbell and L B Clegg.
Yonkers N Y street car workers strike in sympathy with Yonkers trolley men causing all Bronx to Yonkers and Mount Vernon trolleys to idle. Union Railway Company workers demand higher wages. The walkout began ten days ago.
A young man who shot over a farmer’s land claims no luck yet the farmer notes his near-misses. The man meets the farmer later and admits luck, when the farmer reminds him he almost hit the best shorthorp this morning.
New York July 26 More than 7000 steamship ticket agents nationwide were asked to telegram members of Congress protesting Britain's blocking of money transfers to Germany and Austria. Karl Schenck, secretary of the American Steamship Ticket Agents Association, led the campaign and expected a flood of messages to arrive in Washington tomorrow.
Dr. Arthur Warren Waite awaiting electrocution for murder of John E. Peck was found in his Sing Sing cell last night with a cross shaped wound in his chest from a piece of broken glass. He was moved to the prison hospital and refused to answer questions as guards investigated how he obtained the glass.
A 19th century style pitch for Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe replacement for calomel. It claims calomel causes salivation and weakness, while Liver Tone is a pleasant vegetal liquid that cleanses the liver without side effects. The ad promises quick relief from biliousness constipation and headaches and offers a money-back guarantee if not superior.
Authorities suggest the inmate did not intend suicide given the chest wound, describe the injury as not serious, and vow strict monitoring when Watte returns to the death house.
Twelve people died and 22 were injured when a northbound National Lines train derailed near Morales Mexico forty miles north of Monterey. Only one American aboard escaped uninjured. A Monterey relief train carried the injured to Salinas with fears some may die. The engineer was killed and the fireman died later.
Peter Van Vlissingen was released from Joliet after serving nearly eight years for real estate mortgage forgeries totaling 1.6 million dollars. He confessed in 1908 and received an indeterminate eight to fourteen year sentence, with good behavior earning early release.
A court report recalls a watcher of corpses who earned up to ten dollars weekly by staying with dying or dead Jews until burial. Undertaker touts and runners rush to secure funeral orders, while sham fakers prepare beggars to evoke pity.
A writer spots odd job ads in a London labor exchange board including a maggot breeder and a blood collector. The piece questions the meanings behind such roles and notes the eerie use of sympathy to attract public interest.
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