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STANDARD SOUTHERN THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION NEWSPAPER Dully and Saaday, carrier delivery, 12 eenxa -weekly. Vol. XLVI.—No. 318. ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 29, 1914. —SIXTEEN PAGES. Single coptea OB the •treeta a»d mt •eTvafttaada, 6 ceata, OVER 200 MEN ENTOMBED A GROUP OF TONIGHT'S STARS ENVOYS SEEKING PEACE WHEN MINE IS WRECKED; BUT THE UNITED STATES MINE BURNING FIERCELY IS PREPARING TO FIGHT Two Distinct Branches of There Were Nearly Three Hundred Men at Work Activity Manifest at Wash- When Explosion Occurred ington—One for Peace and One for War. in the West Virginia Col- lieries. FDUNDIN PARK REPORTED KILLED f MEDIATORS NOT READY Identify of Man Not as Yet TO ANNOUNCE PLANS FOUR TAKEN OUT DEAD Known—Hole in Head I AND 59 RESCUED ALIVE dicates He Was Shot—Cor- oner's Inquest Today. Unconfirmed Report Reach- President Wilson Hopes for Peaceful Outcome, But Many of Those Saved Alive es Vera Cruz of Bloody Just as the gray dusk of evening Work at Cordoba—Victims Continues to Prepare for Are Badly Burned and Will fell over Piedmont park yesterday, and small boys began to quit games of Taken From Jail. Eventualities—Funston Is Die—Not Believed There baseball to return to their homes. negro man, employed by the city as a Ordered to Land 5,000 Sol- Is Any Hope for Buried laborer on the construction of a new sewer in the neighborhood, dashed up EMBARGO ON AMERICANS diers at Vera Cruz. Men. the hillside to the plaza from the deep- wooded ravine at the north end of the LIFTED\ BY THE DICTATOR lake, and frightened the small boya Washington, April "28.—The Mexican Eqcles, "W. Va., April 28.— Four min- with the news that a murdered man crisis now is centering on the issue ers are known to be dead, fifty-nine lay within fifty yards of their ptay. between those who are seeking •were rescued, many of them severely Officer Freeman was watching- the They Are Free to Leave through the good offices and interme- burned, and 203 others are entombed game of baseball, and he immediately telephoned police headquarters for Mexico City—Several Train diation of Latin-America to find some In two burning mines, and are be- detachment of plain-clothes policemen middle round for paeific ad ustment lieved to have but a small cbance for and detectives to come to the park. Loads of Refugees Are Ex- s J - Call Officers Dodd and Shumate were and those who regard a resort to'arms their lives, as the result of an explo- the first to arrive upon the scene. pected at Vera Cruz. as an inevitable consequence of what, sion of gas in mines Nos. 5 and 6 of Twenty-five yards below the north end has occurred. the New River Collieries company, of the lake, and to the right of the tennis courts, down in a deep hollow, Vera Cruz, April 28.—An unconfirmed Throughout today two distinct here late today. The dead and res- near a, narrow path leading through report was received here today to the branches of activity were manifest cued men were taken from mine No. 6, the woods, was lying the body of a dead man, apparently 30 years of afire. effect that sit: Americans had been here—that of the envoys of Argentina, and it is said all but thirteen who en- He wore good clothing. taken from the jail at Cordoba and Brazil and Chile in formulating a plan tered this shaft early today have been Siena of a Strasele. killed, and also that another American On a bench close by was the coat, of adjustment to be submitted to the accounted fpr. hat, collar and tie, arranged In order had been put to death at Cosama- United States and the Huerta regime, One hundred and ninety of the en- and with care. The man was lying on loapan, a town about 60 miles south of and that of the military and naval tombed men are in shaft No. 5, not a the flat of his back, his rlghh arm Vera Cruz. outstretched. One suspender strap waa forces of the United States which con- man having escaped from this opera- broken, as though done in a violent Neither Rear Admiral Fletcher nor tinue to go forward steadily In prepa- tion since the explositon. The mine struggle with the murderer. Consul Canada had what they regard- In the right hand pocket of the mur- ed conclusive information as to the tion for any eventuality which may de- tonight was burning fiercely, with dered man was found a half-dollar, ( execution of the Americans, but they velop. The arrival of General Fun- government, state and volunteer res- j two dimes, a nickel and a one-cent ston and a brigade of 5,000 troops at cnefs working desperately to subdue piece. were investigating the report. In his right-hand coat pocket were EMBARGO LIFTED Vera Cruz was one of the notable the flames. found two 38-caliber revolver car- ON AMERICANS. military developments of the day. tridges. In his inside coat pocket was Consul Canada^ was advised today by LITTLE HOPE a safety razor blade w hich had not CHIEF INTEREST OF SAVING MEN. been taken out of its wrapping. the Brazilian minister at (Mexico City IN WORK OF ENVOYS. The depth of the two main s,hafts Man Badly Bruised. that the embargo on Americans at the Chief interest was directed to the is 600 feet, and the mines are con- Bloody marics and dark bruises on capital had been entirely raised, and sessions of the South American envoys, nected underground. There are two the man's face and head indicated that that they were free to depart as they lasting- through the day and late into a bloody conflict had preceded his other shafts into the mines, but the pleased the evening. The meetings were held death. explosion totally -wrecked threfi out of The American consul also ascertain- at the Argentine legation, where, seat- the four. The long- entrance leads into His left eye was swollen as big- as an egg, and black. Behind his right ear ed that the women among the refu- ed about a long- mahogany table the mine No. 6, and by means of it the was a large black bump. Behind his gees detained at Cordoba had been re- three envoys deliberated much as i rescues were made. No. 5 mine, ap-par- left ear was a large hole, which looked •rtfoved to hotels! The wbmen still arc international court would weigh 1 , ^-;f- - ~' .«« aa though, a bullet f had nenetrated_bis experiencing __4|£fl,culty -4% -Dwicuxing case of- supreme. Importance. surface," and rescuers*~hold little hope head.'" Blood had run from this hole, , food,-but their -condltUw} Jsfsaid to have At the white house President Wilson of reaching the large number of men and formed a pool. | been jiriaterTallyilttiproved. a-nd his cabinet advisers held a lengthy Sergeant George Bullard, Detectives It Is known t&at many of the Amer- in time to save them. "Wiley and Tuggle arrived on the scene meeting-, devoted chiefly, however, to The explosion occurred in mine No. icans who [had been held at Orizaba and proceeded with the investigation of -will reach Vera Cruz on a train, the the Colorado situation, although the 5. The two shafts of th;s mine were the death mystery. arrival of which is expected hourly. Mexican crisis continued in the fore- demolished. It is believed the ex- G. F. Cunningham slated that he had A. B- Emery, of the JLa Pe Milling ground. To a Jarge extent, however, plosion traveled through this mine into seen the dead man about 12 o'clock company, of Aguas Calientes: G. it was felt that the Mexican situation No. 6. One shaft of thd latter mine leaning against a large tree about fifty Ei-ckel, a hardware merchant; C. A. was now before those who had under- feet from the scene of his death, and Smith, an Englishman, and a number was wrecked, but the other remains apparently in a watchful attitude, as Top row, left to right: Frieda Hempel and Margaret Ober; bottom, Marie Mattfield and Otto taken to exercise their good offices inta-ct, and was the salvation of at of other refugees from the state of' and care was taken not to embarrass though expecting some one. He stated Goritz, as they will appear in "Der Rosenkavalier." Ag-uas Calie*ites, are said to have been * least forty-nine of the workmen. that he thought that the man was a obllg-ed to pay 250,000 pesos for a train * the efforts of the envoys by any an- DEATH TOLL TAKEN detective watching some one down to carry them to Mexico City.' nouncement of conditions of settlement further in the woods. FAR UNDERGROUND. TRAIN LOADS which the United States would Insist The fact that two revolver cartridges upon. A spirit of optimism over the This little mining community of were found in the coat pocket of the OF REFUGEES. 1,500 persons was shaken by the muf- dead nian caused the detectives to think JUDGETHOMASG. JONES Rear Admiral Fletcher was advised progress of the negotiations was ap- fled rumbling of the explosion. At that probably it was a case of suicide. DORSET MAY ASK "by telegraph from Mexico City today parent In executive quarters. first, there was no smoke, but men on A thorough search was made in the that several train loads of refugees were While the mediators are not ready to the tipples knew that far underground high grass around the dead man's body ready to leave the capital.