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REGGIO AND MESSINA REEL AS EARTHQUAKE SHATTERS WALLS LEFT ON LATE RUINS Population Flee in Panic and Attempt to Seize by Force TempoGOVERNOR BROWN'S BIG SUGAR TRUST rary Houses Built With American Money. INITIAL MESSAGE CALLED TO ANSWER SOLDIERS AND SAILORS ARE HURRIED TO KEEP Document Contains Between Six Six Directors and Two Other InVANDALS FROM LOOTING and Seven Thousand Words and dividuals Were Indicted in New Is Conservative in Its General York by Federal Grand Jury Shocks Began Wednesday Night Tone. Thursday. and Continued Until Early Thursday, Causing the Wildest Governor Brown's initial message to (By Associated Press.) NEW YORK, July 1.-The American the general assembly was transmitted Panic Everywhere. Sugar Refining company, six of its dito the two houses Thursday The rectors and two other individuals were message contains between seven and (Py Associated Press.) indicted by a federal grand jury today eight thousand words, and deals with MESSINA. Sicily, July 1.-Six months on a charge of conspiracy in restraint of after the devastating earthquake of Demany perplexing problems of state actrade. cember 28, which laid waste more than a cording to the views of the chief exThe individuals indicted are Washingscore of cities and towns in Calabria and ecutive. It is a conservative docuton B. Thomas, president of the AmerSicily, and killed 200,000 people, Messina ment, dwelling, in parts, upon the proIcan Sugar Refining company; Arthur and Reggio were this morning again visvisions of the platform upon which Donner, Charles H. Senff and John E. ited by an earthquake which, had they Governor Brown was nominated, and Parsons, of New York: John Mayer, of been built, would have laid them a secreferring frequently to constitutional Morristown, N. J., and George H. Fraond time in ruins. It would seem that provisions of law. zier, of Philadelphia, all of whom are nature is determined to blot out MesThe message in full, follows: directors of the company. sina, but recently one of the fairest cities STATE OF GEORGIA, Indictments also were found against in the world. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. Gustave Kissel and Thomas B. Harnett, It is as yet impossible to accurately deATLANTA, July 1, 1909. counsel for Adolph Segal. There were termine the number of casualties. Some 14 counts in the indictment. To the General Assembly: of the reports are alarming, but they The indictments charge the corporation, At the threshold of the assumption the American Sugar Refining company cannot be verified. of the duties which the call of a free and the persons accused of conspiracy in So far as is positively known. only a people has imposed upon us, it is well restraint of trade in violation of the Sherto remember the constitutional limitafew people were hurt, One woman was man anti-trust law. The defendants will tions of each department of the state killed by a falling wall and a child was answer to the indictments in court next government, and, while maintaining the seriously injured. Tuesday. integrity and inpedence of each withLONG NIGHT OF HORROR. HISTORY OF THE CHARGES. in its proper sphere as the surest safeThe thread of events leading up to toWhile minor shocks have been of freguard of our republican institutions, day's indictments may be traced back to quent occurrence in Sicily in the last six to so generously co-operate that our 1896, when Adolph Segal, of Philadelphia, months, last night they became more seunited labors may enlarge the benesold to the American Sugar Refining comrious and caused considerable alarm. The fits of the public service, and thus pany a suger refinery which he had built most severe quakes came at 7:20 and 7:25 and for a time operated at Camden, N. J. fulfill our obligations as faithful servSome years later Segal took over the this morning, and were similar to the faants of the people. old Pennsylvania Sugar Refining comWhile the executive may recommend tal disturbance of December, being acpany, of Philadelphia, which had suslegislation, the duty and the responsicompanied by the same roaring noises pended business in 1898. By 1903 Segal bility of making laws must. and should that added to the horror of that fateful had started a new plant to compete in rest upon you as the chosen agents of sugar refining. Meantime he had engaged night. the people to give legislative expression extensively in other real estate promoThe population again fled in fear and to their will. tions and became pressed for funds. cries of terror rent the air. In full recognition of this responsiJust at this time Gustave Kissel, a Wall The people hurried to the open places bility. and in a kindly spirit of comity street broker, turned up with an offer to of the city and the surrounding country, and co-operation. I beg to lay before secure for Segal a loan of $1,125,000, you certain matters which to me seem praying to the saints that their lives which was accepted. It afterward developed that the loan came from the might be spared. timely and expedient. treasury of the American Sugar Refining A CONSTRUCTIVE GEORGIA. Gradually, as the confidence of the peocompany, but Segal claims he did not ple returned after last December's catasIn endeavoring to solve the problems know this then. confronting us as the result of events trophe, Messina had acquired a populaTo secure the loan for his real estate reaching back into the years 1905-'06, tion of something over 25,000, but today operations, Segal entered into a bond we must ever have in mind the motto with Kissel by which the borrower turned the people again are in terror and do not words of our great state: "Wisdom, over, along with other securities, 26,000 el-themselves safe, even in the tempojustice, moderation." We must "put, beof the 50,000 shares of the Pennsylvania rary huts erected for their shelter, and Refining company and agreed that the hind us animosity, discard -denunciahave fled to, the country, preferring the sugar securities should be put in a voting tion, and accord to those who differ shelter of trees and caves to the danger trust, which gave Kissel, or whoever he with us the right to hold individual represented, control of Segal's sugar comfrom falling walls. opinions and to exercise individual pany. The new controlling Interest in the SITUATION IS FRIGHTFUL judgments-the right guaranteed to all Pennsylvania Sugar Refining company They lack food and covering and are by the spirit of our institutions and forthwith elected a new board of directhe letter of our laws. camping out in pitiful and desolate tors and this board soon afterwards passMoved by this spirit, let me quote groups. ed a resolution that the Segal refinery to you the following words from the should not be operated. Sailors, soldiers and policemen have Democratic platform, whereunder the BORROWED ELSEWHERE been sent out through the district to prepeople of this commonwealth entrusted Segal also borrowed heavily from the vent looting and to give courage to the the administration of their affairs TO Real Estate Trust company, of Philapeople. our hands: delphia. with whom he deposited the seBetween 8 o'clock last night and 7:20 curity for the so-called sugar trust loan. "We pledge, not only to citizens of o'clock this morning eight shocks were President Hipple, of the Real Estate this state, but to citizens of other Trust company, had been made custodian recorded and the instruments at the obstates, that all capital invested in of these securities. The trust company servatory have registered a total of ten legitimate enterprises in Georgia, became involved hopelessly, and suspendwhether foreign or domestic, corporate shocks of varying severity since 7:20. ed. President Hipple committed suicide. or private, shall have the equal proNews received from the provinces indiAfter George H. Earle had been made tection of the laws, and the equal cate that damage has been wrought receiver for the Real Estate Trust comfriendly consideration of those who there, but it is as yet impossible correctpany on August 18, 1906, he claimed administer the laws." ly to estimate the extent of the disaster. that the difficulties of the trust comThe first one was followed by an éxThe above words are but an amplifipany were due to the pressure brought cation of the principle enunciated in the plosion like the roar of cannon, and by the American Sugar Refining comlasted between eight and ten seconds. pany upon Segal for the discharge of bill of rights of the constitution of his obligations, while at the same time It is said that this quake was of Georgia: Segal, not being permitted to operate greater severity than the fatal one of "Protection to person and property is his refinery, could not pay. Mr. Earle the night of December 28. the paramount duty of government and appealed to the department of justice, CRIES FILLED THE AIR. shall be impartial and complete." alleging, among other things, that the Hence, we find the synonymous words The wooden houses and huts erected minority interests associated with Segal "equal" and "impartial" in the two for the accommodation of the peope in his sugar refinery were being demandates which declare the will of seemed to be thrown from one side frauded and that the "trust" in keepthe sovereign people another. to ing the refinery closed, was acting in restraint of trade and in violation of Cries filled the air as the people fied "Equality" and "impartiality," thereinto the road. fore, we may esteem the key-words in the Sherman anti-trust law. Representations made by Earge to Justice As on the night of December 28, the the state's relationship to the ctizen: Moody, then attorney general. and subfirst shock was followed by a circular equality of obligation by the citizen to sequently to Attorney General Bonamovement of the ground. Five minthe state; equality of opportunity for parte, continued, but without the relief utes later there came another quake the citizen with the citizen; and equalsought. accompanied by further roarings. This ity of the protection to the citizen by It is understood that the attitude of completed the destruction. the state. And this equality or imthe department of justice was that SO The remains of wrecked houses colpartiality the state explicitly decrees for as representations had been made, lapsed and the entire district was covshall apply to property exactly as it the facts did not differ in theory from sred by dense clouds of dust. does to the citizen. Just as there shall the Knight case. in which the federal Detachments of police and caribibe no discrimination against a citizen cour ts had held that the acquisition of neers were despatched for the protecfour competing refineries by the Ameriin favor of other citizens, SO there tion of the wooden huts built with can Sugar Refining company did not shall be no discrimination against one American money, but which had not constitute a violation of the Sherman yet been distributed. species of legitimate property in favor anti-trust law. POPULATION TAKES FLIGHT. of other species of legitimate property. SUIT WAS THEN BROUGHT. All must obey the law, and all while The population, fleeing in the disSuit was then brought in the United tricts where walls threatened to fall obeying the law, must be protected in States district court at New York. the upon them, rushed in toward the equality of rights. And if there he Pennsylvania Sugar Refining company American huts with the intention of found abuses in the handling of propseeking damages of $30,000,000 from the taking forcible possession of them. erty, we must apply the hands of the American Sugar Refining company. Between 8 o'clock last night and law to those who abuse their trust, inAfter a trial of two weeks a comtwenty minutes past seven this mornpromise was effected on June 8. The stead of impairing or destroying the ing a total of eight shocks were exexact terms of settlement have not been income of the innocent; for events have perienced here. made public. but it is understond that proved that when we destroy, or seriLOST LIFE SAVING CHILD. the "sugar trust" cancelled the Kissel ously curtain that income, we force The woman who lost her life was standnote of $1,125,000, paid Segal $2,000,000 out of employment thousands of Georin cash in lieu of losses which he claiming in the doorway of her house when gia's sons of toil. whose wages, while the first shock occurred. She rushed cii ne had sustained through the idleproviding sustenance for their famiDOFS of his refinery and returned to inside and caught up a child eight lies. are distributing benefits in every months old and started to run to the han the twenty-six thousand shares of community wherein they dwell. Therestreet. the Pennsylvania company which had Before she could reach the exit, a secfore. upon equality. or fairness, is built been deposited as security for the loan If 3. of end shock caused the floor of the house up prosperity and the state whose laws to fall and both mother and child were 1' was this victory over the Americommand or permit the contrary incan Sugar Refining company which burled. The child was taken out alive, vites catastrophe. With equality as a seemed to open the way for a federal but up to the present time the body of standard. let the people's will be done suit against the corporat along the the woman has not been reached. In fraternity and co-operation let us She was heard ten minutes after the lines drawn by Mr Earle three years move forward a constructive Georgia ago. second shock crying for assistance. constructive
