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TRER EPR AR IATA SERN IAEEVEY FARA BR NA SES SE SEE TR RR TROD RE GS ASAE CLA RY RES Rag CLEVELAND TOLL OF DEATH GROWS AS RESULT OF GAS (Continued from Page 1) ious-faced men, women and children streamed through the county morgue, hoping almost against hope that they would not find the body of some loved one, killed in the Cleveland clinic dis- aster yesterday. ealization of stark tragedy came to many as a sheet was raised, re- vealing the face of a relative, graven with the horror of his death. The struggle with the gas which killed most of the victims, left their faces distorted with terror and in several cases closest relatives could identify the dead only by their clothing and jewelry, Beneath the sheets doctors lay be- side the patients they had been tre- ing; men beside the wives they had accompanied here for treatment in- cluded among the dead were all class- es--clubmen, day laborers, Catholics, Protestants, and Jews. Three priests moved between the ows of sheeted bodies, annointing 'hose believed to be Catholics. A death-like hush which hung over the bare-walled morgue was broken now and then by a woman's shriek as she came to the end of her quest. Death Told Rising Cleveland, May 16.--The death toll in the Cleveland Clinic Hospital reached 116 early today. Victims who had fought for their lives through the night succumbed onc after an- other, and physicians predicted that eventually others whose bodies were poisoned with gas would die, There is little hope for them, they said. Survivors of the double explosion and poisonous gas at the Cleveland Clinic' Hospital, estimated at 40 or more, lay today waiting for death. Physicians at the hospitals where those who escaped yesterday were un- der treatment said there was little hope for them. The gas had attack- ed the blood, they said, slowly de- stroying the red corpuscles and bringing death nearer as it worked. Like ar Victims The victims were compared to the "walking gas cases" of the Great War--gassed soldiers who withstood the inroads of the poison for a few days and then fell over dead. ome of the survivors were patients, nurses and doctors at the clinic. Oth- ers were firemen and policemen who risked their lives in the acrid, yel- low smoke to remove the bodies. Some were volunteers who had work- ed fevewmishly with them. Physicians said most of them had but little chance for their lives. The impossibility of nourishing the blood against the attacks of the gas points to death in more serious cases, the physicians declared. Administra- tion of oxygen and blood transfusions already have failed in some instances. : Extreme Measures Fail Such a case was that of Dr. John Phillips, a Canadian, one of the founders of the clinic, Two tanks of oxygen were used but he collapsed after walking some distance to his home from the clinic. This recourse having failed, Dr. George W. Crile, co-founder and head of the clinic, performed a blood transfusion upon his colleague. In spite of everything that could be done for him he died. Six Similiar Cases Six similar cases were recorded at Mount Sinai Hospital last night, three of them victims who had left the charred clinic with no apparent effects of the noxious fumes. One was Miss Ella Moeller, stenographer at the clinic who jumped from a window and went home, believing she was untouched. Later she felt ill and went to Mt. Sinai. She laughed and talked while waiting for treatment and then collapsed. A blood transfu- sion was ordered with the hope that what seemed the inevitable might bé averted, The gas was identified by Dr. Wil- liam E. Lower, one of the chiefs of the clinic, as. nitrous peroxide, re- leased by burning x-ray film. © The celluloid preparation was fired in an unknown way in a basement store room, 4 Official Investigation Official investigation from several quarters today turned toward learn- ing the cause for the explosions, De- puty State Fire Mar als and repre- sentatives of the State Division of Safety and Hygiene were assigned to enquire into the causes of the myster- ious catastrophe, * Both the Cleveland police and fire department organized their own " in- quiries, and City Manager William R. Hopkins declared he would devote his offices to determining the reasons for the explosions. Coroner A. Pearse laid plans for an inquest as| soon as the dead are identified. Official interest in the investigations was turned to the fire door to the storage compartment. Officials had been upable to learn whether this door had been left open or was blown out by the force of the bursting film. The open door released the flames and sent the spiraling column of mu- stard-colored gas up through the foyer to the roof. The gas reached the foyer on the second floor through the stair cases. There it rose through the open cen- tre of the building to the roof, pene- trating to examining rooms in the clinic from the balconies which oper- ed on the foyer below. Ontario Man Safe Brantford, May 16.--Dr. John T. Anderson, heart and lung specialist at the Cleveland clinic and a native of Wilsonville, twelve miles south of Brantford, is one of the few who es- caped from 'the terrible blast which took a toll of 90 lives at the clinic yesterday. Dr. Anderson's parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. Anderson, of Wil sonville, last night received a tele gram from their son giving assuranc that he and his wife and little daugh! ter were safe, Many Canadians Safe' Toronto, May 16 -- Information reaching Toronto from Cleveland in- dicates that many Canadians nedr the scene of yesterday's explosion are. Dr. Wallace Duncan of Stratford is suffering from poison 'gas but is expected to recover. Miss Delma Raberts of , Peterboro has' minor injuries. MAKING A ECT THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, MAY i6, 1929 Heads Turn to.Loud Speaker as RESCUE IN CLEVELAND TRAGEDY PAGE FIVE . ---- r-- --c i - FIREMEN DOING HEROIC WORK This picture shows a fireman in the act of rescui ng a woman through an upper storey window of the Cleveland Clinic Hospital after yesterday's explosion. Those canadians who are safe in- clude the following: Miss Doris Cowan, Peterborough. Dr. James Dickson of Goderich. Miss Ella Robinson, Kincardine. Miss Bertha Morris, of Guelph. Duncan Campbell, Oshawa. BiG DIRIGIBLE NOW OVER OCEAN (Continued from Page 1) hangar at 545 a.m. and at the pil- ot's command was released for its long voyage at 5.57, 11.57 p.m.,, ES. T. Wednesday). It rose slowly in an intermittent drizzle, while 200 or more spectators cheered. It circled the field once, and disappeared in ten minutes in the direction of the Lake Constance and Basel, Switzer- land. After flying over Walashut and Saechingen the dirigible arrived ov- er Basel at 7.30 a.m. A fog obliging it to descend close to the ground to discharge its first load of air mail Five Swiss aeroplanes joined it there and acted as an escort as far as the French frontier which it wirelessed it had crossed at 7.55 a.m. Dr. Eckener before he left announ- ced his course. "After leaving France we will go along the coast of Spain until we reach Gibraltar and then we will see what next. "Waether we will cross the Azores I cannot tell as yet, When we get out there we'll stick our noses.in the air, take a good sniff, and decide where to turn next." Passengers and members of the ship's crew began to arrive at the dirigible's hangar shortly after five o'clock. The gorilla, "Susi," was taken aboard first, the dirigible's human freight following. SHIELDS BATTLE "STILL CONTINUES (Continued from Page 1) Earl C. Callaway, dean of the:phar- macist school "and his whole crowd." Doctor Shields was exonerated by unanimous vote by the delegates yesterday for his conduct of schoos affairs, Dean Callaway disclosed today that unless either he or Rev. Minor Stevens, dissenting trustee, were given the right to talk, they would distribste handbills inviting delegates to a meeting at a local hotel to hear Mr, Callaway discuss "How Mr. Shields wrecked the uni- versity." Dean Marl Callaway of Des Moines University, envoy of Presi- dent H. C. Wayman, dismissed with the faculty of the fundamentalist school by the trustees, charged from the floor that his side had been "steam rollered" by Dr, T. T. Shields, and the board and had "not been given a chance to pre- sent their case." Dr. Shields hotly denied Calla- way's statement, branding him "guilty of gross misrepresentation of facts." Callaway was declared out of or- der by the chairman, Maxmilian Schimpf, of New York City, and told he might speak more at length later. He was given time to invite delegates to. a meeting tonight at a local hotel where, he said, he would present Dr. Wayman's case. EXPERT ENGINEER GIVES EVIDENCE (Continued from Page 1) also as a boiler expert for the French government. He said the "foaming" of an engine was a very serious mat- ter and a difficult problem for an engineer. Alexander said yesterday his engine was foaming prior to-the wreck. x Questioned by Mr. Justice Raney, the witness said he would not have stopped a passenger train in a case of a foaming boiler. The engineer had to maintain his chedule. "Surely he does not have to main- tain schedules at all costs, or at the risk of the lives of the passengers or crew," said his lordship. "No" said the witness and the judge continued, "then there is a higher responsibility on the engineer than to maintain schedules.' On cross examination by the Crown Bradiord admitted he had been dis- charged from the Canadian Pacific Railway after the wreck he had fig- ured in, "That's the price we have to pay" he said. Will G. Strachan, master mechanic of Allandale said 'he had charge of the inspection and supervision of lo- comotives. He said he had ridden in the engine with Alexander repeated- ly 'and had found him an excellent engineer, "There is nothing that causes more anxiety to an engineer than a foam- ing boiler" he said. Strachan was questioned both by defence counsel and the judge as to the possibility of stopping the train to correct the boiler trouble. He sa:d it would have taken at least 30 min- utes and he would not have done so had he been driving the engine. He said, however, that had Alexander stopped he would not have been cri- ticised, In reply to a question by Mr. Roe- buck, Strachan. said Alexander had been chosen to drive the train carry- ing the Prince of Wales when he tra- velled over the Canadian, National lines. The evidence was completed and Mr. Roebuck at once began his address to the jury. Federation in Great Britain. as to the miners themselves. the year," the manifesto says, "and conditions throughout the coalfields, the benefit of all." ment "became the executive British Miners Issue Manifesto Urging Labor Governments Return London, May 15--An appeal to all classes in the mining districts to "make common cause with the miners in helping to give the Labor party on opportunity of succeeding where the older parties have so lamentably failed," is contained in an election manifesto issued today by the Miners' The manifesto emphasizes that the return of a Labor government would be equally important to the shopkeepers, business people and others living in the mining areas, but not directly connected with the mining industry, "In the majority of districts wage agreements terminate at the end of a Labor government is an essential condition to their replacement by terms which will give just and proper "A Labor government will undertake the great task of reorganizing the industry on a basis of public ownership. r e and plants will become the property of the nation and will be worked for the mines, minerals, by-products At the outset of the manifesto the federation says the mine workers will remember that during the 1926 general strike, the Conservative govern- committee of the coal mine owners Lives Snuffed Out As Crowd Attempts to Rush To- wards Exits DEATH LIST GROWS Fumes Prostrate. Pedestrians on Street--Rescue Efforts Hampered Cleveland, May 15.--Poison gas and two explosions which followed burning the X-ray films in the Cleveland clinic today claimed near- ly 100 lives. Tonight there were 99 known dead and hospital authorities work- ed desperately to administer arti- ficial respiration to 43 more who were overcome. Vietims of the disaster were dying at short inter- vals and physicians gent out appeals for additional oxygen in the fear that the supply in the city might prove insufficient. Oxygen is de- Ielared the only effective means of overcoming gas burns. Nearly all of the deaths were at- tributed to the deadly gas which filtered through the four storey brick building slowly at first and then, augmented by a second and greater explosion than the first, rushed up from the basement and cut off escape down the stairways and elevators. Survivors said those asphyxiated were dead, their faces turning a sickly yellowish-brown color, with two minutes after inhaling the gas, Like War Gas The fumes were gfven off by fire of undetermined origin which de- troyed X-ray films in the basement, Some pharmacists said it was bro- mine gas, while Dr, William &. Lower, one of the founders of the clinic, said it resembled the deadly phosgene gas employed in the Great War. It was ironic that the disaster occurred in the very place where the most advanced instruments and laboratories of science had . been turned against pain and death. The clinic was owned principally by Dr. George W. Crile, nationally known physician, who was too occupied with relief work to comment un the catastrophe. Despite the heavy loss of life, firemen estimated the properiy damage at only $50,000. Identification Slow Identification was slow. As rap- idly as the names of the victims were learned they were posted at the morgue and police established another bureau of information af central station. The work of identification went on tonight. Police declared it might require several days to complete the roster of those who were killed. Discoloration hampered identifica- tion of some, although none of the H CANADIANS AMONG VICTIMS WHO FOUGHT AGAINST POISONOUS GAS bodies were disfigured otherwisw. Many Ontario People at Clinic Throughout Ontario the news of the disaster brought anxiety. Early reports stated that a Miss Roberts was listed among the dead and classified the young woman as a nurse. The parents of Miss Doh- ma Roberts, of Peterboro, were plunged into mourning only to be overjoyed last night by a wire that she was safe and only slightly in- jured. Tales fro mthe surviving Cana- dians were fraught with horror. Patients, nurses and doctors were caught in the spots were they stood. Fumes from the burning film crept insidiously through the corridors and dropped victims before they could even reach the windows, Some nearer the windows ana doors on the upper floors jumped uo the ground below. Many suffered severe injuries but escaped the fumes which left its victims writh- ing and bleeding from their eyes, ears and. noses. Flames followed the fumes and bodies were fouua scorched and partially burned. Other hospitals were crowded. An emergency clinic was opened in a nearby house and as the victims brought into it died, the bodies were taken by ambulance, motor car and truck to the county morgue. Mount Sinai hospital filled its cor- ridors with cots. Dozens of pa- tients were carried into its corri- dors and rooms, only to die a few minutes after their arrival. Cleveland became the centre of the nation for a few hours. The telephone company was swamped with longdistance calls. An emer- gency information bureau with ex- tra staff was created and into it were diverted all long distance calls to the city which sought in- formation of the dead, injured and missing. were known to have been in the building or to have been in Cleve- land for treatment or diagnosis by the clinic, were kept posted before the operators, and as information was brought in regarding them re- latives and friends were given the information by this bureau. Early despatches failed to tell of the fate of the Canadian doctors and nurses who form between 40 and 50 per cent of the clinic and hospital staffs. ' Then the part played by Cana- dians gradually came out of the confusion. The following shows a list of Canadian doctors, members of the clinic staff and their in- juries, in addition to those above, DR. HARRY ANDISON, gradu- ate of the University of Manitoba, and member of the medical depart- ment of the clinic. Died from tne gas. DR. WALLACE DUNCAN, grad- uate of the University of Toronto, member of the clinic orthopedic de- partment. Suffering from effects of gas. Recovery certain. DR. J. B. ANDERSON, graduate Lists of the persons who } ROTARY GOVERNOR JOHN MELSON Mont «al, Supervisor of Public Relations, Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada, who was elected Governor of the 28th District Rotary International, at the Rochester conference last week, of the University of Toronto and member of the medical department of the clinic. Suffering from slight gas effects, Jumped from thira storey window to safety. DR. PERRY McCULLOUGH, of Vancouver, graduate of the Uni- versity of Manitoba. Suffering from gas fumes, DR. JAMES DICKSON, graduawo of the University of Toronto. Not in clinic at time. Was parking his car in the hospital grounds when explosion occurred. DR. ROBT. HUGH Mc¢DONALD, graduate of the University of Tor- onto, and member of the medical department. Suffering from ut- fects of gas. Toronto Comments Toronto, May 16.--Toronto fire- men last night recalled having had a trying experience fighting a fire which broke out a year ago in a building occupied by a clothing concern, where there was a large pile of buttons made of celluloid, and which threw off apparently the same type of gas which wrought such havoc yesterday in the Cleve- land hospital fire. =Duncan mc» Lean, Assistant Deputy Chief of the Toronto Fire Department, who has made a careful study of fire haz- ards and fire fighting, last night described the experiences of big strong men like District Chief Alex- ander Deans and his men after en- tering the building. According to the firemen the in- temse heat and the heavy gases em- itted from the fire in the button pile' were something they never en- countered before. In this case the first gases thrown off were not confined in:a small space and, therefore, there was no explostou. Films Probable Cause Firemen expressed the opinion last night that the films which ex- ploded in the Cleveland hospital were probably confined in an air- tight room, and the result was the two explosions described in the de- spatches published this morning. Last Saturday morning the fire- men responded to a call to the Con- naught Laboratories, where an ex- plosion of ether caused a small fire and injured three women assist- ants engaged in research work. While they were rather seriously burned, there was no serious ex- plosion, Little Danger in Toronto That there is little or no danger of an explosion or fire in the Tor- onto General Hospital such as caus- ed a heavy loss of life in Cleveland and the partial destruction of the Cleveland Clinic Hospital yester- day, is the contention of C. J. Deck- er, Superintendent of the Toronto General Hospital, According to Mr. Decker, all X-ray films are stored in a building separate from the hospital so that if an explosion did occur the hospital would not be placed in jeopardy. "I would hate to think there was any chance of anything happening at the Toronto General Hospital like that at the Cleveland Clinic Hospital," he said last night. "A catastrophe of that kind certainly gives ground for thought and, de- spite all the precautions we have taken, we will look things over very carefully, Eight years ago, in order to minimize the danger of an explosion and fire, we removed all the X-ray films from the hos- pital to an old brick garage direct ly across College Street from the hospital. The garage is thorough- ly ventilated and, as far as we know, there is no possibility of an explosion occurring there, We do not store any films in the hospital except those that are in use from day to day. We feel that we have done exerything to minimize the danger, but at the same time we feel and realize that we cannot be too careful. All the X-ray mach- ines and laboratory equipment in the departnient are housed in fire- proof rooms, and every machine is thoroughly grounded in order to minimize the danger of shortcir- cuiting." Chased, Reporters Wisdsor, Ont, May 16.--Armed Detroit river rum-runners today chased newspaper' reporters ann comera men away from a disabled rum cruiser lying in shore at the foot of Pillett road, Ford City. Before the newsmen left the scene the liquor cargo was transferred from the cruiser and taken down- stream. Quick Pile Relief Dr. Leonhardt's Hem-Roid is guaranteed to banish any form ox Pile misery, or money back. It gives quick action even in old, stubborn cases. Hem-Roid is a harmless tablet that removes blood congestion in the lower bowel--the cause of piles. It brings joyful relief quickly and safely or costs nothing. 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This week saw the installation in the barns of the Detroit Creamery Company near Mount Clemens, of a whole battery of radio loudspeakers Music is turned on being groomed and while being milked. "We don't know what effect it will have on the quantity of milk pro- duced as yet, but we do know the cows like it and are vastly more contented " said W, H. Porter, chief herdsman. while the cows are The experiment with WHY NO BASEBALL IN BOWMANVILLE? Town Is Unrepresented in Intermediate O.B.A.A. Series (By Staff Reporter) Bowmanville, May 16.--This sunrmer the outlook for baseball in Bowmanville is not good, So far the only interest taken is in soft- ball, for which a town league has been organized with a number of teams representing the factories, high school, and several pick up teams. This game, however, does not develop hardball players. There does not seem to be any reason why Bowmanville has not an intermediate team in the O.A. 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