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Newspaper
Steubenville Herald
Location
Steubenville, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1915
Page
1
The cloudburst at Erie and Eastland causes widespread ruin with property losses estimated at five million dollars. Hundreds are left homeless as Mill Creek floods streets and basements while coroner and police teams search debris for victims. Rail lines are blocked and city lights fail as emergency crews work through night to recover bodies and restore services.
In Asheville on August 4 Senator James Hamilton Lewis warned that Russia Germany Japan and China could unite against the United States. He urged a South American alliance to protect republican government and predicted Allied powers would seize territories and challenge U S interests if aid from England or other sources proved impossible.
Katherine Alice Page daughter of the American Ambassador and Mrs Walter Hines Page married Charles Greeley Loring son of General Charles Loring at the Chapel Royal London. Bishop Boyd Carpenter presided with Rev Sheppard assisting. Bride given away by her father. Frank Page served as best man. ceremony kept plain to avoid social fuss amid wartime.
London reports that British papers acknowledge neutrals including the United States have a grievance in the World War exchange with Ambassador Page and Foreign Secretary Grey. They say Britain modified some accepted rules because Germany deliberately broke the rules.
A 16 year old girl near Quaker Valley was ejected from a Chicago express car, knocked unconscious, and taken to a hospital. She remained unidentified until later revealed as Mrs Louis Bittner of Valparaiso Indiana en route to New York with three children, husband notified.
Storm in Harrisburg area damages fruit and vegetables worth thousands as electrical wires fall and trees topple. A huckster named John Plank was shocked by a downed line while en route to market. Wind reached 40 miles per hour, temperatures dropped from 78 to 60, with over two inches of rain and the Suasquehanna rising.
Ohio will have generally fair conditions tonight and Thursday. Cooler temperatures are expected tonight.
Reports to police describe a house float down Mill Creek carrying four women and three children, firefighters losing lives in a rescue. State street floods, fifty houses wash away, Jarecki plant washed out, twenty autos lost. A girl on the bank dies as the bank caves. John Higgins is identified as the first flood victim. Wreckage peaks seventy feet high, flood crest passed by midnight with 23 dead tallied. The flood rose four feet in five minutes. timing and full damage to be assessed. A similar flood occurred in 1893 at Eric.
Great Britain's replies to American protests against neutral commerce deny illegality of orders in council and defend the blockade as within international law. The notes, issued with Neches correspondence, argue that modern warfare changes require applying international law, citing submarines airships and alleged German atrocities. The dispute includes seven thousand words of correspondence and promises continued enforcement with neutrals in mind.
In Cape Haitian Haiti August 46 officials fled to Fort Liberete aboard the dispatch boat Pas hique as revolutionist troops move into the city. Marines from the U S gunboat Nashville have been landed to keep order and prevent chaos.
In Connellsville Fayette county Aug 3 vegetables valued at 10850 were raised in two H C Frick Coke Company plants gardens. Leisenring plant produced most with 8150 and Sunflowers supported vines beans while 165 backyards in the colony all but two were cultivated. Boy scouts gardens and George Orr strawberries on former quarry ground highlighted the effort. Cabbage heads weighed six pounds each and Adelaide plant also showed strong results with 40 percent of lots cultivated. Awards covered 99 percent of plots.
The Ohio State Firemen's Association convened in Bellaire with hundreds of firemen and wives from across the state. Steubenville and Toronto are represented. Chief Martin attends from Bellaire. The opening program at Elk Hall included prayers, welcomes, and responses by Chief T J Gough and Kenneth G Cooper.
Steubenville council discusses summer heat as six members and officials close a long meeting. City Solicitor and Auditor propose handling finances without a November bond issue, considering six month certificates of indebtedness and a levy request to fund the next year’s bond payments plus a filtration plant project.
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