Show I CREAM OF THE NEWS I IA A violent distant earthquake was re reO recorded recorded ret re- re corded O in the I observatory o at Austria t a iras last night beginning fug ait at and d lasting fifty minutes It is calculated that the earthquake was distant miles from C C S SCharles Charles J. J Root an automobile manufacturer manufacturer manu manu- and his lila mother and sister were killed when their auto ran into a railroad train at Crossing near Great Barrington Mass Mr lr Roots Root's daughter and his niece were seriously injured All AU out of ot doors at Long Island were startled last t tl night l when they I ta n ai n heard c a terrific i roar and a at the same time saw a blazing mass shooting through the I heavens over the ocean ap apparently only a a. little way out from shore The blazing I object appeared to many to be about twenty feet teet In diameter Those who witnessed witnessed witnessed wit wit- the flight say the meteor must have W weighed h several tO tons When e it I struck trix the ak ocean ea huge e breakers came a tumbling shoreward Several bathing pavilions pa I were washed away and fishermens fishermen's nets were wore battered from their moorings while considerable damage was caused to I Ig property along the ocean ocen front Great tin numbers g of dead fd fish were werd ns swept in S I II Philip Shaffer the year old son of ot I I. L. L W. W Shaffer a business man of Idaho Springs Colo Cob is dangerously ill Ul and will probably die as the result of ot eating rhubarb rhubarb rhu rhu- barb Thursday which he found growing In a vacant lot near pear his home The boy became ill soon lOOn after atter eating the vegetable the but cause was not learned until today S S S The Arm Army and Navy departments h have ve arranged to operate co-operate in maintaining wireless communication communication- between Nome and St. St Michaels Ii Alaska and Seattle and San Francisco |