Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 17, 1886, Page 2

IXTEENTH YEAR TALKS ON CRUISERS. The United States' New Navy as Seen by Foreign Eyes. FRENCH AND ENGLISH OPINION An Admial Who Thinks the Boats Alto- gether Too Slow, HOW THEY COULD BE IMPROVED Marine Warfare and Destructize Engines Minutely Diccussed Btandpoints. NEWS BUDGET FROM BERLIN Increasing the Exports from Germany 1o the United States—Suppressing Noclalism—Warlike Attitude of European Powers. The New Pants, Oct. avy Discussed. [New York Herald Ca Bee | —I had an intery hursday with Admiral Auve, the French minister of marine, at his cabinet in the ministry on the rue Royale, in- reference to the utility of the new swel cruisers now being built by the United States government. 1 showed the admiral the diagrams and sketehies of the Boston. The admiral praised the ingenions contrivances for fizhting, the pilot house, the cimbral superstructure of the pattery, ete., and then, looking at me with a sharp, penetrating glance, asked: “What is her speed ot anite thirteen knots, sir,” I replied. le admiral shook his head and said em- phatically: *“Then asaas war vessel she is useless. A eruiser is of no use whatever, un- loss she has speed enough o cateh a fast ocean steamer—that is to say, unless she has aspeed of ninetcen knots, Cruisers of less speed than thisarea weakness, nota strength to a navy, for they will only be captured or sunk by the enemy. The new cruisers to be built for the French navy are to have a mini mum speed of nineteen knots, capable of being increased to twonty knots during five hours at a streteh by the application of an apparatus of terage farce. If they don’t at- tain this speed tue government will refuse then HOW T0 MAKE A NAVY, 1 then asked the Admiral if he would ex- plain the best way for the United States to set about to get a navy. The Admiral rang 1 electric bell and said to the attendant, “Don't let anyone interrupt me for halt an hour.” He rolled a cigarette, and said: “You have a truly magnilicent body of naval ofticers, and you have splendid sailors, and you have no heavy lron-clads—th {umh upon which you are most h 0 be congratulated. Naval experiments nave now clearly demonstrated that huge tron-clads, In which European governments have spent bhundreds and hundreds of millions, have had their day. These mastadons of the ocean have had their day. ‘They will be scarcely more useful in the next naval war than the grand old line of battle ships of Toufalsean and Aboukir. These mastadons have been rendered worthless by those microbes of the sea, torpedo boats and swift cruisers, The fault has been thatall the naval construe- tors till lately have attempted the impossi- ble. They have tried to unite in the same vessel all the means of modern naval warfare ~—the ram, heavy guns, armor, fleetness and torpedoes. ‘The result is a vast, unwieldy, floating fortress, liable to be sunk by the first well-directed torpedo. The United States, I Tepeat, are sincerely to be congratulated on having none of these useless mousters. Your situation is this: In the first place you are not hawperedby having any mercantile marine to protect. In anaval war this will give you great advantage. All your naval operations can be, therefore, confined to pro- tecung your harbors and destroying the enciny’s commerce. You can make your harbors impregnadle with your land forts, torpdoes und torpedo boats, Forty or fifty unarmed eruisers with suflicient speed could destroy your enemy’s commerce, for all the fron clads of all the fivets of the world would to-day be utterly inadequate to blockade your coasts and prevent these cruisers from getting to sca. But these cruisers should have & minimum speed of nineteen knots: that Is to say, they should be faster than the great trans-Atlantic steamers, They should, besides the ordinary machine guns have two or three guns of the longest possi- ble range, firing projectiles filled with the latest explosives discovered by science. Such cruisers could to-day destroy or demoralize the entire marine commerce of united Europe. Even 1f one of these cruisers were to be com- pelled to fight a high European iron the advantage would still be with the crusier, for a crusier, being small and moving about with rapidity, is almost impossible to be hit, while the high iron clad is a splendid target,and the high steel plates are now pertectly vulnerable to projectiles charged with fulminating cot- ton or with menlilene,” NEW ENPLOSIVES, Here theadmiral showed me three stee plates pierced by projectiles containing ful- minating cotton, menilene and, as & third substance, a composition, which is the secret of the Freneh goveruwent, wiieh has twice the power of wenilene and is no wore dan- gerous to manipulate than the ordinary gun loader. This new explosive will enable the calibre and consequent weight of the guns to pe diminished and makes the steel plates al- most a5 penetrableas the wooden walls of shipy in the days of Decatur and Bainbridee, The admiral continued 0w, compare one of these cruisers with an ironciad in attacking a fort. Both are equally vulner- able, but the cruiser is almost invisible from the distance from which she ean throw her explosives, while the ironelad is so high and cnmbersome as to be a good mark from the land, for even at night all of the movements of thls floating fortress can be followed by eleetrio ghts, The cruiser, on the coutrary, is almost invisible because of her smullness, and uncatehable because of speed. These proposed cruisers are oy the application of lessons taughit by eat elvil war, v are merely Ala- adapted to the latest advantago of selence, The motto of your naval reform should be: Les Alabawas, eucore les Ala- bawas, et toujours les Alabamas.” THE NAVY FEANCE WANTS. Affer expressing the highest appreclation of the Anerican naval officers, their pluck, their sclentilic attainwents, and their splendia seamanlike qualities, the adwiral sald: T am going to demand of the chaabers the two hundred willion of francs to put the KFrench navy ou the footing that it ought to e, I shall lusist upon the necessity of fasé erulsers of & minimum speed of unineteen nots. I shall not have these cruisers built Llhogovunm-mdwk yards, but i the preat | to th commercial dock yards of France. 1 shal say to the mercantile constructors: Build me \iser with & minimum speed of nineteen ki pabie of being increased to n twenty knots, for a period of five hours critical period of a chase. By the application of the tirace force instrument, lately in- vented, skiliful eneineers me tha this speed is perfectly attainable. I also say constructors: If the cruiser, on her trial does not attain this speed, then the government will refuse h and she can be utilized for the merchants’ marine. he constructors will to these terms, for there is alwavs a demand in commerce for vessels of this type, and thus there is no risk o the government having on its hands a quantity of failures, as might be the case if the cruisers were to be construeted in the government dock vards. 1L s, in fact, just Jike ordering a pair of boots from the boot- maker. 1f tney nt, well and good. I take them and pay for them, 1f they don't fit, I don’t take them.” assure English Naval Opinions, Losnoy, Oct. 16.—(New York Herald Cable—Special to the Brr.]—1 interviewed, to-dny, Admiral Sir Spencer Robinson, & former lord of admiralty, who speaks as an expert in naval matters, because under his management the change was made from wooden ships to iron-clad, and trom smooth- bore to rifled cannon. 1 found him at his residence in Eton Place, just recovering from an illness, but quite willing to give the bene- tit of his long experience in ship construction. He said: ““Your 4,000 ton cruiser seems to me to com- binemore of the goodqualities a eruiser should possess, always, of conrse, provided shs at- tains an estimated average speed of eighteen knots an hour, This speed 1s about as high as is necessary. as cruisers must be built to combine many opnosing qualities, none of which can safely be subordinated to sveed, For instance, they must be able to keep at sea in the rough- est weather without straining, they must carry coal for long cruises, and mustalso earry cannon and war stores of considerable welght. It is true that the Italia and various other heavy iron-clads at- tain nearly the same speed as the unarmored crunisers, but can we take the Italla as a sam- ple? It is an admirable boat for Mediterra- nean defence, {She irakes the Mediterranean practically an Italian sea, but in the Bay of Biscay she would roll herself to bit: She might carry coal enough to cross the Atlantie, but when across she would have no coal to return with or for bombardments or cruiser ing. Yes; I have studied care- fully the subject of coaling at sea from coal 1t's too risky. It is a long and You must remember that the modern ship is like an infantry soldier to carry on his back food for the whole campaign or walk back to the depot for supplics when the food he carried is exbausted, To attack Italy, America must have vessels of the Italia type, as well as Mediterrancan coaling stations orpedoe storms and coal supply will, however, effec ually limit the action of the heavier armor- clads against the American coast defender: who now have so much advantage that even with our West India coaling st British armor-clads can hardly endanger York.” CRITICISING THE CRUISERS. “I would like to criticise one point in your s, namely, the riggine. In action this and probably in and wreck the el. Moreover, there Is nothing to be gained by running such a risk, since if these plans are drawn to scale your cruiser, nine daysout of ten, would not make two knots an hour under sail—hardly steerage-way.” TALK WITH A NAVAL ARCHITE After quitting the admiral I met at the oftice of the Thames Ship Buildinis company, George Mackrow, the naval architect, who possesses the unique distinetion of having elther designed or superintended the con- struction of the first ironclads ever owned by the seven European powers, including Germany, Russia and Spain. While await- ing for Mr. Mackrow to finish his business with the Japapese commission sent over to report upon English naval architecture, I examined a collection of royal decorations awarded Mr. Mackrow for ships constructed during the last fifteen years, Regarding the new American cruis- ers Mr. Mackrow said: *‘I have not checked their designs, but 1 judge the ships are likely to be a credit to the American na The British navy has no man- of-war with over an eighteen kuot speed, nor any ocean cruiser as yet even desiened to exceed eighteen knots. One thing puzzles me. 1do not see how, with their stated horse pows the American cruisers can attain this eighteen knot speed. Yet; such speed is possible with sufticient engine power. In fact, we have just offered to build an ocean cruiser of guaranteed nineteen knot speed. If the American cruisers reach eighteen knots, that will be. I think, as fast as is needed. Never- theless, Lexpect within a year or two to sce ocean cruisers of twenty knots' speed.” AN IDEAL CRUISER. “Yes, my plans are sufficiently advanced to give you a general idea of what such a ship would be lik about 5,000 tons, 14,000 horse power, coal for 5,000 miles at ten knots an hour, cost £1 000, the frame strong enough to support four twenty-five- ton kuns, as against the six-ton guns the American steamers will carry, Of course this is a Jittle in advance of the times, but the deyelopment of he triple expansion engines and other improvements make such @ craiser to be expected, Butavmor clads of over seventeen knots speed are not probable 10 be lannched while steam is used for power. People forget that ships are built for special purposes, and iron eclads are for fighting Beyond a certain poivt speed can only be ob- tained by sacrifieing armor or coal supply or welght of cannon as you say. By vast size it might be possible to obtain great speed added to the other requirements of au iron- clud, For instance 1 conld design a heavy urmor-clad, say of 16,000 tons, cost ten million of your dollars, which would steam twenty knots. But no docks and few harbors, how- ever, exist for such a vessel. On the whole cruslers are such masses of compromise that if the Awmerican vessels develop their speci- about as good as pres knowledge can produce,” THE LATEST SHFL “Have you seen the new shell?” coutinued the great constructor, changing the subjeet. 1t pierees sixteen inches of armor and ex- plodes inside the vessel. IU's a terrible weapon. I do not sce Low navies can guard against ity effect,” Allthe great naval powers of Europekeepin London vne or more naval attaclies to gather information regarding British progress in shipbuilding. These gentlemen are all ex- perts and watch naval matters with a closcness which may be judged from the fact that 1 was shown by oue forvign attache, whose nauie, obyiously, Icanuot give, & portfolio containing almost every article yet priuted regarding the new Amenican cruiser, 1 took pains to gather the ideas of these mitaches regarding the new Awerlean wan-of-war, As diplomatic naval ebiquette forbids me thelr names in such erit- | teisms, 1 OMAHA, St divide thelr opinions into three classes: OTHER FOREIGN OPINIONS, 1. “America deserves congratulations on her new cruisers. 1s realized it will be sufficient. There are few vessels so fast in the world as eighteen knots. The speed of naval vessels 1s greatly over es timated, The fact is, we have th ghteen knots about reached the limit for ocean cruis- ers. This is shown by the fact that in the Iast ten years We have only really added one knot to the speed of the fastest ships, America must remember one point in construction by the lowest tender that it does not guarantee the best workmanship; also that the speed ob- tained trom marine engines depends almost as much upon the bullder's knowledge as upon the size of the engine.” 2. “The new American cruisers will be admirable shivs. Ot course your 4,000 ton- ner, with its estimated elgnteen knots, will, after the trial, never exceed fourteen knots an hour. That does no harm, however. With all their talk about speed no English cruiser can make over fifteen knots steadily and regularly. A fonrteen-knot speed will over- take slow merchantmen. As for speed to overhaul big passenger steamers, that cruis- ers will lie in wait for, such s not needed, for they can use cannon ball to overtake theni if they try their heels,” 8. The American navy necds minimum ten-knot cruisers which, on emergency, could steam eighteen or twenty knots an hour for five hours. An eighteen-knot cruiser would now compare well with any afloat, but navies o ahead quickly. Your cruisers may be an- tiquated before they are built. Why not build new vessels from new designs, gnaranteeing at least equality with the mercantile marine? Of what use will your new cruisers be if the Atlantie lines and European eruisefs steam a knot or two faster than all vour eruisers?” Such 15 a summary of what 1 gleaned from the naval attaches of four lezations, GERMANY PORTS. A Large Increase in Her Trade With This Country. Benrriy, Oct. 16.—|Special Cablegram to the BEE.|—Retarns giving the exports from Germany to the United States during the past year show that the exports from Berlin have increased $1,120,000; from Bremen, $062,834; from Chemnitz, §1,500,000; from Dresden, $380,000; from Iamburg, $2,100, from Lepsie, $8:0,8, and from Stettin, $5%0,600, Returns from South Ger- man consular districts have not been issued. They, however, will probably indicate the same rate of increase, Frankfort heading the list withan increase of $700,000. The protec- tionist orga Kk to prove that the increase i8 due to the protective policy of the wovernment, while on the other hand the National Zeitung, a free trade journal, con- tends that the return of stability in American trade is the sole cause of the revival of busi- ‘The annual report of the Dusseldorf chamber of commerce states that the expor- tation of puntings to Ameriea has almost ceased since the rise in the Ameriean tariff, The exportations of paintings from Paris to America has decreased from 8,000,000 fraunes 10 1,500,000 francs, ON THE BOURS Toward the close ot business on the Bourse to-day 1t was reported that the Impe- rial Bank of Germany would raise its rate of discount on Monday. The rumor arose from the fact that a meeting of the bank committee has been called for Monday. An uneasy feeling exists in tinancial circles over the extent of German capital risked in Russia. Leading bankers have placed a full statement of the position of German invest- ors in the hands of Prince Bismarck, and have received from him private assurances that the extente cordiale between Germany and Russia remains undisturbed, and that a perfect understanding exists between both courts, i EMPEROR WILLIAM'S MOVEMENTS, Emperor William will return to Berlin on Wedne: He will give zn audience to M. Jules Herbett, French ambassador, on Friday, and will afterward go hunting at Blankenburg. Crown Prince Frederick William, King of Saxony, and Henry of Prussia, Duke of Saxe Alteburg and Duke of Saxe Coburg, will meet the emperor at Blank- enburg. Itis supposed that the object of the rendezyous of the princes is something beyond hunting. SUPPRESSING SOCIALISTS, ‘The socialists attempted to hold reunions in the suburbs of Leipsic to-day. but the meetings were suppressed by the authorities, The mass mecting which was to have been held at Kaufbeuren, Bavaria, wi also torbidden by the police. Herr Vie- reck, editor of the socialist organ, Deutsch ~ Wortenblatt, which was re- cently suppressed, WAS, to have presided at the meeting, Krewinkel, chief of the socialists at Aix, has been sentenced to ten months’ imprisonment. He was charged with sending socialist pamphlets, printed in the German, Polish and Russian languages, to confederates at Thorne for secret circulation, The crusade of the police against socialism 1s being carried on more vigorously than aver. The authorities have succeeded in completely sup- pressing every labor organization in Berlin Hamburg, Leipsic and Zurich. The Social Demokrat boasts that police persecution can- not stop the socialist propoganda. and it asserts that socialisn: is especially spreading in the ranks of the army PEACE OR WAR, It All Depends Upon the Abllity of Russia to Disentangle Herself, PARIS, Oct. 16,—[New York Herald Cable— Special to the Bee. |—Peace or war all de- pends upon how Russia gets out of her Bul- garian entanzlements. The ezaris by nature obdurate, impetuous, overbearing: he eannot allow the idea to gain ground that he is devi- ating from the traditional Muscovite forelgn policy, Hehas the moral support of Ger- many to re-establish & Russianized Bulgaria $0 long as he eonfines himself to pacitic means, but that is the end of the tether that. binds him to the triple alliance. The mili- tary occupation of Bulgaria—s move for which four infantry divisions in south Rus- sla havebeen designated and fully prepared since the end of August—would be a leap in the dark that the czar, with all his rashness, does not dare yet to make. The PUESENCE OF BUSSIAN TROOPS 1N BULGARIA would so arouse Hungarian public opinion, fan into lame the latent Austrian hatred of Russia, and force the hand of Franz Joseph that war would be the inevitable result, ‘Those who kuow ber statesmen best feel that Russia would neither abandon Bulgaria nor oceupy It but with tough perseverance and seless pertinacity would threaten, promise, tease, cajole, buily and worry the Bulgarian regency and the Bulgarlan people until they had been worked up into a state of acute fever and had becowe from sheer fatigue humble pawns of the czar, FLIBTING WITH FRANCE, Meanwhile Russia keeps up a desperate flirtation with France, based upou the propo- sition already submitted to the sultan by the Kussian smbassador, by which Frauce would regaln her piestige in the Jevant aund in Baypt, but the flirtation is not warriage, and the Franco-Russian alliance yet exists. GLAKING AT EACH OTHER. Thus Hussis, Austila, Germavy, Frauce ness, 11 an eighteen knot speed | 50 ntain passes did not last year prevent the and Turkey all stand with liands upon their sword hilts, and there 1§ no telling at what moment the blades may feap from their scab- bards, for even winter snow and choke Bulearians and the' Servians from fizhting each other until far into December. ~ Russia, in fact, is impregnable from attack in win ter, but winter will not prevent Russian troops from occupying Bulgaria. THE FRENCIARMY IN FIGHTING TRIM. One thing is certain—it is clear to the most unattentive tourlst—that, whether Boulanger be an Alciblades or not, French ofticers. and soldiers have never before been so neat and clean or in such first rate fighting trini as to day. No doubt Boulanger is a splendid war minister. Hels daily becoming more popu lar and still keeps on introducing new arny reforms, the latest of which allows soldiers to rest on Sundays, instead of putting on fine uniforms and parading about to please holi- day makers. Baron Rothschild Dead. FraNkrort, Oct, 16.—Mever Karl Roths- child, head of tha great banking firm, died suddenly to-day from heart disease. A CONVIVAL PARTY, The President’s West Virginia Trip Reported as a Jolly One. WASHINGTON, Oct. 16, —[Special Telegram to the Ber]—Those who went with the president on his trip to West Virginia say that they had a grand time. Certainly the party was a convival one. Secretary Fair- child, it is said, chn enjoy a good drop of liquor. Commisgioner Miller is the govern- ment head o1 the liquor business and can sample as well as anyone. Thomas Bikins is u fac simile and the president does not mind a sip or so. Colonel Lamont plays pro- pricty and carries the bait. Ihey all wot Lome at 6 o'clock this morning and one of the first things the president did was to ap- point Cousin Bennie Folsom to be consul at Sheflield. England. Ben is Mrs. Cleveland’s cousin and took her to Europe. He intended to come here and spend the winter at the white house, but evidently Cleveland did not want him. Some' people are saying to-day that Mrs. Cleveland was so put out by the president’s leaving her for the bunting trip that as soon as he got home she made him appoint Bennie. Certainly the appointment has caused more talk than any made for ayear, especially since the president has talked so much lately against nepotism. Sheflield is one of the best consuls at the dis- posal of the government. It pays a salary of $2,500 :and many fees, There were hundreds applicants for the place. MRS, CLEVELAND SAID 3 Among the eallers on.the president to-day were two saloon keepers from Buffalo, old triends of the presidéut. He used to go to their place wlen he lived in Buffula, and this was their first visit to him. Last year two others called .on him and he took thiem out nding. The visitors to-day ex- pected the same gvuv.mcm, but Grover is warried now, and Mrs. Cleveland said “No.” A BUFFALO MAN FINED.. As indicated in these dispatches, the pres dent is beginning to et frightened at the action of his old Buffalo {riends, and he in tends to give them some plac To-day he appointed Frank (;uug{ be coumii sioner to examine the No Pacific rai road. Goodyear s a brother of Charles Goodyear, a law. pagtner of W. 8, Bissell, the president's best friend. — Cleveland offered this rap to Bufflo, but, his friends do not think mueh of it. 81 DAN-JI0LIAE GENONIMO'C FATE, After a vast amouny qf talk and red tape, General Sheridan.witf probably have theeast- ing vote in_Geronimo's fate. The general impression is if Sitting Bull’s life was spared after the Custer massacre; it would be incon- sistent to hanifz Geronimo, and if the knotty question is decided 1 favor of handing the insurgent over to the military anthorities, which {5 now expected, General Sheridan’s dvice as to the punishment will be followed. seneral Sheridan has just returned from a visit of inspection of the division of the Mj sovri, and has had a conference with th president within a day or so. A prejudice existing against General Mil & volunteer officer, and in_favor of (iener Crook, as a West Pointer, it is generally con- sidered that General Miles has the strongest political influence of any officer in the army. WESTERN POSTAL CHANGES. William Golkan has been commis: postmaster at St. Charles, Neb, “The tollowing new aflices and postmasters were established to-day in Nebraska: Wayne, A. Zullenberger; Leonard, Dawes county, Hamilton M. German; Yankee, Keith county. COLEMAN'S CHARGES, N, E. Coleman, a former ac disbursing office of the United States coast and geodetic survey, to-day iiled charges and specifications with ’the district attorney here alleging fraud azainst the fol- lowing oflicers and emploves of the burea F. M. Thorne, superintendent: B. A, Calona, assistant superintendent: C. O. Boutelle, 11 G. Ogden, John W. Parsons, Edwin Smith, F. I, s and R M Bache. Warrants have been issued forall those implicated in the alleed frauds, and it is expected that there will be a general shaking up in this stad old department. WHOLESALE DISCHARGE OF PRIN Senator Manderson, who has been for a day or so, has been quietly vestigating the numerous removals changes in the government printing oflice under Benedict. ~The senator is chairman_of the senate printing committee, and he has notliied Public Printer. Benedict that the committee is empowered to investigate the government printing office atany time and he thereby served notice on him that the committee would begin an investization of lus dismissals and methods in a very few aays. Messrs, Manderson, Gorman and Hawley, * compose the ‘seuate print- ing “committee, aud there s a lively ~time in prospect. Gorman has suffered most, and his men have been turned out unmercifully, 1t is stated this morning that there will be a discharge of 500 more eniployes of the government printing office to-night. The employes of that place state that the large dischaige already made, nearly 600 have crippled the” work going on there, “There s need of every one discharged and morc besides to do the work required by the government. In the bookbinding department the work Is three years behind time. 'The rush of reports {romn the departinents which n placed in the prin large Torce to ket RTS8, hen the will make nearly ewployment since oned Colonel ant in th unt- iRS. here in- and ° soon to be s hands will require a 1 readiness for con- e takes place it ns thrown out of pedict took charge. The First Assispant®. M. G.'s Report, WasuiNatox, Qety (16.—First Assistant Postmaster Geteral A. Stevenson h submitted to the post: v general his an- nual report upon the dperations of the burean for (he fiscal vear June 30, It shows the number of postefficgs established during the year to be 8,482;' pumber discontinued, 1,120; net Inerease, $4062; whole number of postoftices, 53,014; muiiber filled by appoint- ments of the vestuaster general, 51,649, The appointments mad Ahie year are given as follows: Om 1 ous and commis- sions expired, 9,113, " inorease, as compared with the previous yar, 2905 on removals and suspensions, 9,500 increase, as compared with the previous year, 5,70: on deaths of postimasters, 385; on establishment of new postoftices, $,482" total, 22,747, General Stey- enson renews his recommendation of last year that the goverument pay oftice-rent for postuusters of the third class, Arrested for Car Kobbery. 8r. Louis, Oct. 18.—For some tlwme past freight cars on the Missouri Pactfic and Iron Mountain railways have been systematically robbed. The thefts in-every instance have been so completely covered up thut detection for a long time seemed i) ible. The mat- ter wus in the hands of detectives and nineteen 0 were artested at Fort Smith, charged with belng tmplicated in the loa. Hundreds of dollars of werchan: dise have in this way been stolea. | SAD TALES OF DESOLATION, | Heartrending Incidents of the Terrible Storm Along the Gulfl A FEAST FOR THE BUZZARDS Wives and Ohildren Drowned Before Husbands and Fathers—The Death List Growing—Appeals for Immediate Aid, The GALVESTON gram to the Dir the great disaster at Sabine 1 stantly being received. The situation has not been exagzerated in the least. A corres pondent who has just returned from Sabine ass telegraphs from Orange that turkey buzzards are soaring over Sabine for miles around on land and water. It is one vast charnel house. 'The town is swept out of ex- istence, lat was & prosperoas vill when last Tuesday dawned, is now the center of wreck and desolation. There are 127 per- sons missing ana supposed to be dead. Only about twenty-five bodics have thus far been recovered. There is not one sound house in the town ot Sabine. The residences of Dr. Gilliland and Editor McClanahan are the only ones that can be repaired. Every other house is an absolute wreck. This, in brief, is the story of the storm. Innumerable touching and heart-rending incidents of the storm arc related by the survivors. One house, containing fourteen colored persons, was seen to go down with a crash and eve one of them wa ents are related eat Disaster, Oct. 15,—[Special Tele: Further particulars of 58 are con- of husbands lashing wives and ehildren to floating wreckage and then sceing them killed by heavy logs being driven against them. The damage to property can only be estimated by the value of the town, for all is lost. "The Sabine and East Texas railroad is washed out for a distance of ten miles. The ties have floated off and the rails are twisted like wires. An effeet of the great hurricane i3 that millions of dead fish were cast up by and thousands of birds also strew the ground, A young woman in a perfectly nude state was found roaming around on the prairie, five miles from Sabine. She was de- mented and could not tell her name When the government tug Penrose reached Sabine yesterday Columbus Martin wa found rowing around the delta looking for the bodies of his family. He said: “Myself, wife and three children were clinging to the floating roof, which was gradually breaking 10 pic One of the little ones went and then another. as holding the younuest, and soon my wife ‘Good-bye, husband, 1 am going. 1 could not reach her. The cees of the roof supporting her broke off and she sank before my eyes. I held on to the youngest child, named " Pearl, some tin longer. “The child, addressing’ me, said ‘Papa, I'm tired: won't you walk with me. ¢ of Toof 1 was o1 was now crimbiing to pieces. T told the little one to kiss mc. She put botn her liitle arms around my neck and gave me a big squeeze, and just then a ave dashed us off and Lsaw her no woie. why didn’t 1 20 down too.” He was pressed to o on board the Penrose, but refused, saying, “lere among these lazoons are the hodies of my wife and chil- dren, and here will T stop till 1 find them,” 0 tonzue can tell low the people have suffered during the past few d Destruction at Johnson's Bayou, ORANGE, Tex., Oct. 16.—| Special Telegram to the Brx.]—The village of Johnson’s Bayou is on a high ridge on the sea coast, and the bayou from which it takes its name runs through the inhabitable parts of that seetion of the settlement, in which is also situated the postoftice station known as the Radford. "They are in Canicron parish, on the Louisiana shore, six miles of Sabine Pass. Th bayou is nineteen miles in length and varies from oneto four miles in width. Ridges face the gulf twelve fect above sca level, and in the rear is a dense ana impenetrable marsh. The population of Johnson’s Bayou Tuesday numbered 0 souls. To-day eighty- five of that number are counted with the dead. Radford was very thickly settled and populous, 1t boasted of its cotron gin and cotton and cane plantations. 1t was the head of navigation and the stores were many. Principal among these were those run by J. Pavert, who also operated a gin, and turned out annually 500 bales of cotton, produced in that section. Other stores wer owned by A, B. Smith & Co. and J. Griflith, general merchandise, and other small mer- chants constituted the commercial eommun- ity. ‘The handling of cotton and sugar cane products in the disttict was the principal in- dustry, These ridges composed some of the richest and most fertile grazing land in country, 8,000 head of cattle and horses being owned by the thriving community. Com- munication with the outer world was had through two steam vessels, both owned in Jolnson's, Bayousand Kadford, while a fleet of trading vessels plied the waters of the Bayou, On the morning of Tuesday last happiness and contentment was the lot of the people, until 4 o'clock that evening. When the stormn descended upon them all took to their homes. and waited with bated breath the fate which they for The waters began rising and the wind swept through the lower storics of the building, driving the affrighted people into attics and’ upon roofs, By 10 o'clock the first ridge, which was twelve feet above the sca lovel, was ten foet under water, House after hotise foll in or was swept away. Cotton and stores next suceumbed, It @ night of terror, de- seribed by the survivors as appalling. poople codld only eling to each other and pray for merey nd for the souls of those whase despairinz shrieks rang in tueir For twelye hours the storm raged over the devoted settlewents, and then there came o lull. Hope was soon revived as the waters recéded and the storm passed away, and the survivors gathered on the most elevated Doints,” vlewing the scene of 'desolation wround them. 'The houses that had stood the aetion of the storm were completely gutted. “There was no food nor drink, tho salt water having invaded everything, Then the search for the dead began. " Those whose bodies lay pinioned by the ruins of the houses were speedily recovered. From the marshes more corpses were taken and buried, THE DEATIL ROLL, ‘The death roll was then made up as fol- lows: BANK TURNER and two children, wife and seven children, OLD MEs, LOCKE. Mis. W. FERGUSON and three children, Bravronp Berwy and daughiter, Mrs. ALBERT LAMBERT and two childre BAn BUurwick’s eight children. Muis. SuELL WALLEY and four ehildren, GroRak STIVENOK and four ehildren. Mit. FiiANSUHALL, wife and grandson, Mg, 5. GALLIER aud four children, Loxzo Syivi and ehild, Mis. TooCHAKE'S four clildren, Jack ToooHAKE and seven children, Mgs. HAWKINS and three children, DR GEORGE Byity, wife and four chil dreu. Ali te above were white people. The fol- lowings a list of the colored people whose bedies bnye been recovered and identified: E1LEvERJoNNSON and wife, JACK LEws, wife and brother. Ricuakp HAmBRIOK, wite and five chil- dren. Yesterday momli’g & packet stern-wheel steamer cafled the Enily P, arrived at John- son’s bayou and broughi to' Orange as many as she could earry —about sixty people. Not oue of Lad uulhl““ but what they slood in, and many ‘of them were winus Lats, shoes, eoats and dres: Thelr wan's weré promptly supplied by the paople of this Jlace and the refuges were made comfort le for the night, I'his morning the Emily P and steamer Lark will return and from | thene ake regalar trips until all are | orought to a place of sat AlL the people, save a few who have lars ok intorests, they have \e ToTever, They a a race of people wha, it Johnson's ba vast' oranice frost cam | ruined them and then they tarned to ¢ and sugar and stock raising, only to me fate of their forefathers, Of the 8000 head of stock which of which onee the bayou boasted, 6,000 are drowned, while the reman der will die of thirst, as all the water is salt OTHER PARTICULARS, NEW OREEANS, Oct, 16,1t I8 now learned that over eighty five of the inhabitants ot Jolinson's Bayou lost their lives in the stor, Forty of their bodies have been recovered and consigned to graves in Shell Reefs, winle the decomposing corpses of the remainine for'y five lie festering in the marshes, Kodford was very thickly and wlen the storm bezan T everybody took o their homes ¢ wilted” with bated foresaw. > ing, the wind swept throngh stories of the buildings driving the ited into atties and upon rools. By K the first ridge which was telve sove e sea level was ten feet under, 1ouse after house fell in or was swept away, cither Baeying the doomed people in the debris or, huriing them intg the passing waters. The village of Rodford and Johnson Bayou were destroyed as complefely as if an invading army naddone the worl For twelve hours the storm razed. Of 000 ad of stock which < nee the bayou boasted, 000 are drowned, while the remainder will die of thirst. as all water is salt. J. S, Spen- cer, one of the inhabitants of_the place, says this is the third storm e has experienced, having been through the storm at Morgan® thaw in June last, and at Indianola in August. He was miaking a handsome liv- ing supplying northern and eastern markets with bird skins and feathers. He loses over SG00 in potterics, Spencer was formerly editor of the Bloomington (1IL) Pantagraph ‘There is no estimating the total loss, as there is no way of ascertaining the valuation, lienee it suflices to say that the town is des- troyed and abandoned. BEAUMONT, which went toward Oc Ihe train abin s far the track allowed, returned here at 8 p. . Fifteen bodies were tecovered on the high Iand catled Back Ridge, west of Sabine, and were buried. Six bodies of wonen were re- covered on the - west shore of the lake, two colored and four white, of being that of Mrs, W. A. Junker, of Cariis Mr. Junker is still_ missing. ‘The steamer Ewily I’ returned from Jolinson’s bayou, {0 Oranee and reports that those drowned at that place were chiefly coloved people. “The deatlis at Sabine Pass and_ vieinity will ag- wregate more than ninery and at_Johnson’s bayou about eighty-five. Only three houses are left - Lt for = human labitation, though perhaps a dozen are standing in a precarious condition. The people who eseaped with their_lives are com- pletelv_ruined financially, a majority of them not heing able to provide themselves with tiie bare necessities of life. A telegram from the merchant of Galyeston to the relief eom- mittee, here says: “Galveston subseribes £1,000.” " “The Mexican schooner Heienles is’ high and dry at a point called Oil Ponds. Her cabtain reports that he w Lound for New Orleans with 105 malogany Iozs all of whicl aro now supposed tobe v 16, A civenlar will be addressed by the finanee counnittee to the principal business houses i the leading trade cenfers of the eountry. It will require from $75000 to 5100000 to meet the emergencies of the case. The Michigan Storm. Derrorr, Mieh, Oct. 10.—Reports are slowly coming in of thg damage done by the storm. In most damage is to fences, trees, 100fs, et Lses the gale was up the river, 519 Clait_was rajsed height, being seven bigher than ever known reported all along the shoro of ticularly on the Americaf Haven and Ne gare. Ihe vfiter upon the land, and tended a mile and a floated aw: much “valuable timber and small hou “The sloop vacht Turk, of De- troit, was carried away by the water,'and fin- ally lodged in an orehard 150 fect from shore. Fields were generally inundated, 'The sloop yacht Annie S., of Detroit, broke her cuble i the eastern’ side of the lake, and v landed Ligh and dry a quarterof a mile from shore at Suy Cart; GREAT BRIT Extensive Destruction and Loss of Life by the Storm. Loxpoy, Oct. 16,—The troop ship Tyne, which is thirty hoiirs overdue at Plymouth, hus been sighted off there, laboring terribly n the storm. The greatest anxiety Lias be entertained concerning her for the last twenty-four hours. The British ship Teviot- dale, which sailed from Cardiff, Wales, on Thursday last, was wrecked during the storm on Carmarthan bar. There were on board at the time twenty-eight persons. A boat, rescued nine from the wreck. The others, among whom were the captain and officers, left n a boat, and_but two of thein succeeded In reaching shore alive. The other seventeen perished in the waves, Fhe great hurricane which has just passed over England and Irclund was accompanied by the heaviest rains within memory. During last night there were many colfisions and wresks, and a number of “channel fishing boats were stranded. The storm was ver furious on the Irish ouast. ‘The streets in many towns were flooded. Corn-stacks were blown away. and corn standing in the fields destro; The damage is immense, There have been destructive floods in Wales. The gale and floods along e south and wost English and Irish coast continue, having extended far northward. Many re- ports of bridges and bulldings boing wept away are consti coming In Ulster, storm floods serionsly Taily Many small - ves wreeked. Tl 1oss of caused by the storm, has no British Dark Bellaport h Skeligs Islands, on the southeast coas land. She was being towed by the tug cock, when the hawser parted and the bark was thrown on the rocky shore and destroyed, AlLher crew perished. - The Congregational Conncil, Cnicaco, Oct, 16.—-When the Congreg tional council was called to order to-day 1'ro fessor Benner, president of the Salt lake academy, spokc against polygamy, ‘I'he fol Jowing was adopted: Resolved, That we recognizo with respoct the loyal and intelligent minority resident in Utah, and that we protest in advance against the admission of Utah as o state at an time without the consent of that loyal ml- nority. A short report on the new west aducation commission was read, and other churches were urged 10 take more interest in assisting the work of in the west, Re Albert Alvah Des Moings, Ta., reud & on Border Land of Self-s s powerful plea for dejpendent chur The couneil will continue its work next week. They Still Protest, CuicAGo, Oct.10.—Great crowds were pres- ent ut the session of the Episcopal eonvens tlon to-day to Hsten to the elosing arguments on the proposition to expunge the words “Protestant Episcopal” from the prayer hook and laws of the clurch. At the conelusion of the debate s vote wis tuken by dioceses, with the followin.s e Clersy of forty? nine dioceses ve was 17 ded, 10, Lay de ot sos votings Yeas 11, nays “The resolution was, theretore, ‘Pie couvention najourned torty-for 20, dividea, 41, {eetared lost. itil Monday. Lot B Capiain and Crew 81, Jouxs, N. F., Oct. 16.—Friday night the schooner Emiline, Captaln Grant, bound from St. Pierre o Bay Despair, struck on the west coast of New Foundland, and sank im | mediately. ‘Tbe captalo and crew of six wen | Were all loss | Dragon prowontory in Hermitage bay, on the | NUMBER 111 THE PACKERS' WAR STILL ON, Orowds of Idle Men at the S:tock Yards Using "'Moral Suasion.” WORKING IN THE NEW HANDS. Complete Arrangement for the Pros tection of Property ~Everything Ready for an Kmergenoy Few Violent Acts, The Great Lockout, Cuieaco, Oct Special Telegram to the Bk, |— "1t 1s war uow for sure,”” sald @ stock man, as he stood on the Transit houss steps after his 6 o'clock breakfast. At this Nour, nsually so marked by erowds of me on their way to work, there was little sign of life on the streets, Where a week ago thous- ands of men trooped through the big gate ling to the yards, searcely & dozen at & me could be seen. Over in the exchange building, nsually teeming with cattle buyers and scllers, eager and nolsy as so wany board of trade speculators, the great hall wag almost deserted. and the few that, from old association and eustom, still made their ap- pearance, stood around in a hstless kind of way. A passenger ftrain came in on the Michigan Southern tracks, but instead of pulling up on the usual side-track at the depot, the engine . on around *“The Horn,” and took three coaches up Forty- ventli street and stopped at the alley which® leads down to Armour & Co.3 houses, | Nearly two hundred men alighted and 't walked to the of-ce, where they were given Jumpers and overalls and set to work in_the old house, What work there was for them to do is a mystery, us no hogs were being killed, but the authoriti say that they were ‘st to work, and as no one could see them there is no evi- dence to tho contrary. ‘There has been & committee, either appointed by the strikers or self-constituted, for the purpose of dis suading any new men from going to work, The members of the committee keep close watch on the terminus of the street car line and on that of the dummy traing, and sue ceeded in inducing & number of seekers after employment to return to the citv. ‘The, cannot obtain nccess to the Al traing, however, and consequently succecd in divers: ing but a very small proportion of the ecrowd that daily applies for work from the pucking houses. However, they are enthusiastic i their work and hail each man who weakens with Tusty cheers, The precautions for wuarding the pronerty of the packers have been greatly increased. ~In the town hall are ascore of cotson wl the regulur police sleep. wraph wires lead to cach of the picking inouses, and night and day an opera- tor is on duty. ‘The watehmen at the pac report by signal to the telephot \ali hour, aud a patrol wagon crew is y ata moment's notice, Klee- ave been hung throughout all ways and illuminate every nook ner, turning the derkest nivht into the brightest dav. st, but by no means least, in protective measures, is the Pink ‘Lheir cks in Washinglon B ons’ packing houses present the ap- ce of a military eamp. All through the day and night sentinels, armed with their Winclieste ,pace upand down the alle nd_tracks’ which surround it, s e men remaine vieinity of thepaekinz houses to day and be- soncht men who could be reached not to work., Many applicants for work, however, went out.on the regnlar and specinl passen- ger trains and were landed at the duors of the packing houses, which were guarded by armed patrols. ‘Che strikers stopped a wagon eontaining clothing and bedding for the Pinkerton men fust outside_the city limity to-day and handled the driverroughly, throw= ing the clothing i the street. A’ wagol loaded with bread for the Pinkerton guar was stopped outside the eity limits, when the police arrived the wagon had disappe. rad. = i The Minneapolis Switchme: MINNEAPOLIS, Minn,, Oct. 16,—The switeh- men’s strike stands in status quo, Superin- tendent Egan, of Manitoba, complains that a crowd of 200 strikers this afternoon un- coupled the cars und killed the engine of a trainlond of wheat the company was try ngto move: Also that the police refuse o nuers fere and Mayor Ames cannot be found, - B AAI\'ic INTERVIEWED, Strike, His Views on Prohibition and Henry George's Candidaoy. NEW Yok, Oct. 16.—[Speclal Telegram to the BEE.]—A Boston specinl gives the follow- g account of an interview with Juwes G. Blaine: L am just from Augusta,” sald Mr, Blaine, “and on my way to Philadelphia, where I speak Saturday night. I shall visit Pitts- burgh and seyeral other cities, returning avout the middle of next week.” “What Is the situation 1 Pennsylvania?” was nsked. “Itisabout the sameas it was in Maine, The prohibitory party ‘are creating havoe, and seem determined to destroy the republi= can party.” “How about New York state? “It is @ little different there,” replicd Blalie. "L preswine if the question were submitted to a popular vote it would be de- feated, and that is the very reason why thy temperance fanatics oppose such a proposis tion. It istrue that the republican party has never formally advocated prolibition in its platform, but every law that has tended in any way to suppress the liguor traflic state his been passed by republican tures, 1 remeniber an anéedote that Goverior Seymour told me himself, which bears on this very question, and which is, by the way nst prohibition. Seymour was converss ing with Mr. Delavan, of Albany, about the effect of apsolute prohibition in the state of New York, ‘Now,’ said Seymour, suppose we had community in state where the sale of intoxicating diinks Yas absolutely vrohibited, where everybody d all the food he wanted to eal and othing he wanted 1o wear.’ ‘But vou wa king of Elsinms,” interrupted Mr. Dela: ‘But that's the kind of a comnmunity you ar Siving to create, isn't i’ CYes' per 80, replied Mr. Deluvan. ‘Well,' said Seymour, ‘we have 2,200 of just such people as theso'in Siog Sing.! Deluvan saw the point.” g “Do you think the prohibitory party moves ment iuch more dangerous than th wovewent? inquired the correspondent. Uy r the reason that the former tends to disrupt and destroy the republican party. Lt is the strangest thing to wme why the thif party men think that we are continuall; fighting temperance when we are for it. [t is a perversity of human nature almost inex- licable. 1 think that the campaign i Maine njured the thind party movement very much, Neul Dow’s conduct can only be explained on the ground that he is an old wan,” “What do you think of Henry ( eandidacy for Mayor of New York?’ “1 don’t see how he is golng to carry his laud schemes into practice,” said Blaine.” "1t may be all well enough (o' limit the auouns of Tand one man can hoid, but I don't ses how you cau limit the fime. You can't limit it to less than a year, for & man will nob #ow unless he can reap.” SAre vou satisied with the campaign in Muin “Yes, und more than satisfied. We had ood didate for Governor in Bodwell, aut L will muke an excellent Governor,” Hewitt and Roosevelt Accept, New Yourk, Oct, 16.-Messrs, Hewitt and Roosevelt lave written formal letters accep- ting 1espectively the dewmocratic and republis can uokinations tor wayor of New York, - —— Nebraska and lows Weathor. For Nebruska and Lowa: Fair weather, fol- lowed by local rains in the esstern pertiong wearly siationary temperature.