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OCCURS NEAR GARY
GARY, Ind., Juno 22—One of the
most serious train wrecks ever oc
curing in the history of Gary hap
pened here .today when a high
speed passenger train while run
ning at sixty miles on hour crash
ed into the rear er.d of a train of
circus sleeping cars. The fast train
completely telescoped four of the
rear end sleeping cars of the circus
train, all of which were full of
sleeping circus performers, crushing
and mangling their bodies heyohd
recognition. Sixty people were kill
ed out right, twenty five are be
lieved to be dying andeighty have
been seriously injured in both trains.
The wreck occurred just outside
of Gary on the Michigan Central
railroad and is believed to have
been caused by the engineer of the
' passenger train being dead at the
throttle or else fast asleep but it
will never be known which as he
perished in the wreck of his train.
He paid no attention to the signals
all being set against him or to the
hand signals which were frantically
given and railroad officials cannot
account for his failure to stop un
less he was dead or asleep and of
course did not see the signals
Relief trains bearing doctors and
nurses were rushed to the scene of
the disaster from this city as quick
ly as possible and every effort made
to save those pinned beneath the
wreckage from the fire which
started soon after the collision oc
cured. It may never be known
just how many lites were lost.
Mostly all of those who were
kill d outright were riding In the
circus train but quite a number of
people riding in the passenger train
were seriously injured and many
were slightly injured when the trains
crashed together. The passenger
engine and seven cars were com
pletely demolished by the flames
and traffic was held up for hours
befoce wrecking crews could clear
the main lines. An investigation will
be started at oiico bythe railroad
company and by the Interstate
Commerce Commission to see wheth
eror not the safety regulations were
complied with by the company and
to ploce the blame for the disaster.
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ITALIANS CAPTURE
15,000 AUSTRIANS
ROME, June 22—The Italian
Premier' announced today that the
Italians have been victorious in the
great battle along the Aalago pla
teau'. The number of Austrian
prisoners taken by the Italians is
placed at fifteen thousand and the
■Premier says that the Italians have
also captured the town of Costel
unga and its surrounding positions
with a large number of machine
guns and small arms. The Italians
now have full control of the Aslago
plateau that the Austrians are being
slowly forced bacyward.
On the lower Piave river the
Austrians have crossed the railroad
to the South of Nervosa towards
‘Villorba, on a two inile front but
■have been chocked by the Italians
befpre they could do material dam
age ’ to the Italian communications
to any extent. Allied reinforce
ments are now arriving on the
lower Piave.
LONDON, June 21—The Italian
Premier announced today that the
attempted advance to the Westward
of Montello had failed and the
enemy thrown back.
The Italian attack on the Aus
trian positions at Nervesa had been
entirely successful and the Italians
have greatly weakened other enemy
positions on tho west bank jf the
river Piave, Nervesa is an im
portant railway point eleven miles
to the Northeast of Montello and
eighteen miles North of Treviso, and
guards the approach to Montello.
A large body of Austrian troops
have been cornered between the
river Piave which is flooded at this
point by the advancing Italians
and are cut off from retreat.
The total number of Austrian
troops now on the East bank of the
Piave is sixty thousand.
Keep Posted, Read the WORKER.
$45,000,000 APPROPRIATION
FOR MANUFACTURE RIG GUNS
WASHINGTON, D. C. June 23*— |
*Tbe House Appropriations Commit
tee have favorably reported tiic
House Fortifications BUI back to
the House.
The House Bill provides an oil
nance program extending over a
period of three years and which will
entail an outlay of war appropria
tions in excess of *5.000,000,000
In that time. The program provides
for the expenditure of thirty five
million dollars for big guns to be
used for the reduction of fortifies
tions alone. These big guns will
in all probability be used for the
purpose of reducing the Btyosg
German fortifications along the
Rhine and clearly shows that the
Committee has no expectations of the
war ending speedily. Of the entire
sum to be used for ordnance no
mention is made of any part of
the appropriation being set aside
for coast defense ordnance.
WASHINGTON, D. C. June 22
General Pershing In his latest re
port states that the American sol
diers and marines holding positions
to the Northwest of Chateau Thierry
on the Aisne-Marne battle front have
again advanced their lines forcing
the Germans to fall back. The
new positions taken up by the Amer
icans makes the Allied line much
stronger and the Americans are now
in a better position than before
to make a telling assault upon the
enemy positions.
Keep Posted, Read the WORKXR,
GOV’T WILL TAKE OVER
FIB-LOG LUMBER OUTPUT
WASHINGTON, D. C. June 22—
The Government today decided to
commandeer the entire fir-log lumber
output of the Northwest and an
official order has been issued to
that effect. The Government war
industries will receive the first
choice of all lumber coming from
the sawmills and then if any re
mains the commercial buyers will
he Supplied.
The War Industrie® Board has
fixed a price to be paid by the Gov
ernment for all lumber comman
deered.
Some of the inepabers oj Con
gress believed that the Government
should take over the complete con
trol of all lumber supplies but an
agreement was finally reached where
by the Government was guaranteed
all necessary supplies with the un
derstanding that the plants should
stay under the control of the lum
ber companies. This will be done
but should any further trouble I
arise between the lumber companies
and their employees, which would
in any way hinder the Government
work the Government will undoubt
edly take over the complete con
troll of the lumber business during
the war.
GET THE .VKWS RIGHT. REAR
THE Wt>RKHR.
ALLIED AIRMAN IN
SUCCESSFUL RAID
LONDON, June 21—Allied air
men have made another raid upon
the German positions in Belgium
dctfng a large amount of damage
to the enemy’s supply and ammu
nition depots. At Brugges, the
German submarine base, the airmen
completely destroyed the Germans
torpedo depot where the Germans
had' stored hundreds of torpedoes
to be supplied to the submarines.
The flyers dropped many explosive
bombs and scored a number of dl-r
rect hits on the docks and factories
which are supplying necessary
equipment for the subs.
Reports from Berlin say that
Herr ^loffman a Socialist member
of the* Prussian Chamber of Depu
ties, -in a speech delivered before
the Chamber, charged the Govern
ment with uselessly sacrificing 500,
000 men on the fighting fronts in
Prance since March 21st. He said
Germany nor no other country can
afford to sacrifice such a number
of liven in an indiscriminate man-!
ner and expect to win.
ROME, June 21—The official re
ports comling from the fighting front
along the Piave say that the Ameri
can arimen played a prominent part
in the battle in the Montello dis
trict which resulted in the Italians
regaining possession of Nervosa. The
Italian officers are loud in their
praise of the work done by the
American flyers. These men were
all trained on the Italian flying
fields by Italian instructors.
IiK as estimate on your Job Work.
RIOTS IN VIENNA
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LONDON, June 22—The bread
riots which started in Vienna and
other cities throughout the Aus
trian-Hunghrian Empire have grown
until at the present time the Gov
ernment has ail it can do to prevent
open revolution in Vienna and
some of the larger cities.
Following the rioting in Vienna
yesterday which was participated in
by upwards to fifty thousand peo
ple the Vienna Labor, Council openly
demanded that the Government at
once restore the full ration of bread
claiming that anything short of the
ration existing before the last order
would be starvation for the people.
They further demanded that the
Government us© every means possi
ble to restore a general peape and
that the peace without annexations
clause be included in the peace
plans.
Rioting of the most sorious kind
continues unabated as the Govern
ment has not seon fit to mike any
announcement with regard to the
restoration of the full bread ration,
in Vienna one hundred thousand (
workmen who are employed at thei
Government arsenal went out on
strike against the reduced food ra-1
tion and workmen in many plants
are preparing to follow thotr exam
ple.
WASHINGTON, D. C. June 21—
TIio House Committee,, having under
advisement the Administration
Water Power Bill, today reported
the bill favorably to the House.
The bill provides for tho leasing
of all the water-power sites on
navigable streams, on public lands
and in the forest reserves to cor
porations for a period of fifty
years.
UNITED MINE WORKERS WANT
SEN. SHERMAN INTERNED
SPRINGFIELD, 111. June 21—
The Sub-District Committee of the
United Mine Workers of America
at a meeting here today adopted
a resolution condemning Senator
Lawrence Y. Sherman for his al
leged hatred of Unions. The reso
lution also recommended that the
Senator be interned during the war
as an undesirable citizen.
WASHINGTON, D. C. June 21—
The Provost Marshal, General Crow
der today gave out a public state
ment "in which he says that all
draft age men must be employed
or reek employment at work which
the Government holds to be produc
tive employment. All men who
are now employed as elevator op
erators, waiters, sports and other
unproductive occupations must make
up their minds to either fight or
b-?. productively employed by July
1st. No exceptions will be allowed.
ROME, June 21—The French
troops on the Asiago plateau bat
tle line launched an attack upon
the Austrian positions at Bertine
Hennar. The. battle lasted about
three hours the French capturing
the positions together with over
>ne hundred prisoners and quantities
it supplies.
During the engagement the enemy
ost fourteen aeroplanes while the
Miles only lost one. The captune
the Bertlno Hennar positions
;reatly strengthens the Allied front
>n this sector and the French are
preparing for another advance on the
same sector.
Keep Posted, Bead the WORKER.
U. S. TROOPS ARE HOLDING
39 MILES RATTLE FRONT
WASHINGTON, D. C. June 21—
Secretary of War Baker while be
fore the House Military Affairs Com
mittee told them that by the end
of the present y.ar the United States
will have enough men in France to
hold the Western front. The Sec
retary said that from then on the
offensive would begin in earnest
to drive the Germans out of France
and back across the river Rhine.
The American troops now on the
lighting line In France are holding
thirty nine miles of the front at
thfs time.
WASHINGTON, D. C. June 22—
General March Chief of Staff an
nounced today that American troops
have been transported across the
seas with the greatest dispatch.
That the movement of troops has
been far ahead of the time it was
believed possible to place them in
France. We now have 900,000
troops in France and they arrived
there five months ahead of schedule
time. General March says that the
troop movements .though far ahead
of tl»e can be accelerated to a
great extent if the shipping facilities
were bettered and he firmly believes
,'uat this will be done in the very
lear future.
LONDON, June 22—According to
l late dispatch from Zurich, Swit
lerland the latest repor-ts from Rus
iia are to the efTect that the Rus
han Premier, Nickola Lenlne has
■eslgned but no details are given
t3 to the cause.
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