Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 24, 1901, Page 2

the tracks and whoy of them were carried ddvn the streams A rough estiniato places the number of bridges washed awny between Blueheld and Vivian Yurd, a distance of twenty-eight miles, at from fifteen to twenty and from present indications it will be impossible to get trains through to Vivian and points west of there under A week or ten days This will render it impossible to get relief into the stricken district and for those who escaped with their lives, homeless and without food, iudescribable suffering is inevitab! On the Clinch Valley branch of the Nor- folk & Western railway between this city and Norton communication Is entirely sev- ered west of Tazewell, Va. Reports come from that point of great loss of life and property throughout that eutire section. In Shakerag, a negro settloment on the out- skirts of Tazewell, the water stands to the depth of six or eight fect in the street and houseés, all of the occupants having been 1emoved to points of safety by means of a boat. ‘Three iles west of Tazewell on the Hig- ginbotham farni the home of Paris Van- dyke, a farm hand, was swept away, carry- 1ng with 1t Mra, Vandyke and four children, of whom two, John, 17, and Charles, 5, were drowned. Mrs maining children, Edgar and Laura, were found at % o'clock this morning in a dying condition one inlle from where the home stond by Mr. Vandyke, who was absent from home at the time of the cloudburst. While the rescutng party was searching for the Vandyke family it found the body of & white women, well clad, float- fog down Plum creek. No one thus fat bas been able to identify her and it is sup- posed the body had washed down from some distance. A report comes from Witten's mill, a small station between Bluefield and Taz well, that three children, Christian names unkuown, belonging to Religh Brush, were drowned eurly this morning. There |s no telegraph station at Witten's il and it is impossible to ascertain particulars Hundreds Working to Repair. The rallroad and telegraph conipanies are working betwoen 1,000 and 1,500 men day and -night. Officials are on the ground pushing the work of constructing telegraph lines and are bullding the road and hope to be able to communicate with both the storm swept districis by noon Mouday. Nothing whatever has been heard from the section of country between Vivian and Wil- lamson other than that the Tug river is reported as heing entirely over its banks and higher than ever known by the oldest inhabltanis. The town of Welch, county secat of Mc- Dowell couuty, necessarily must have suf- fered sérionsly and a number of the large lumber plants situated along the banks of Tug river mo doubt are entirely washed away. Some of the Dead. Detalls of the great Pocahontas flood are bard to obtaln owiiig to the inaccessibility of the miniug district where the fury and havoc of the angry waters caused the most appalling loss of life and property. At Keystone the water began to rise at 9 o'clock Sunday morning and by 11 o'clock the flood had spent its fury and at least two-thirds of the little city had béen washed away or demolieshed. It {s known that six- teen residents of the north side of the stream lost their lives and at least fifty of those living on the south, or lower, side were drowned. At Burke, a puburb of Keystone, a number are missing and eight are reported dead. It Is now certain that the total list of the dead from one end of the Elkhorn val- ley to the other will reach 200. A full list of the names of the victims cannot be certatned at this time. Hiundreds are miss- ing, having taken refuge in the mountaine to éscape the fury of the flood. The list of the dead so far recovered and identified a8 it has been possible to obtain at this time are: John Lewis and Martha Morgan, white Samuel Poyndexter, Bettie Brown, John Bal- lard, Annie Smith, Laura McCoy, Nellle Smith, all colored and all of Keystone; Ivan Solosky, white, and a colored family named Hairston, consisting of mother and four children, at Algona. At least 300 mine mules were drowned. Little damage is done to the mines proper, as the drift mouths were high up the mountainsides. Several mines, however, are reported flooded, but it is impossible to ascertain the extent of the damage. Camping On the Mountains. On the North Fork branch of the Nor- folk & Western, which {s five and a half miles long, there was no loss of life, a: Headache Blliousness, sour stomach, const! tion and all liver ills are cured Hood’s Pills nn-lmhuna cathartic. Price or by mall of Mass. Omaha Bee, 0“ vote for Miss Address. 000000000000000000, Works for 0 CUT THIS OUT.—Deposit at Bee Vandyke with the two re- | 0000000000000000000000000000000000000 CUT OUT THIS COUPON. A Summer Vacation For the most popular young lady. —_— office or_ mail to “Vacation Omaha, Nebraska. Contes! Department.” far as known, but hundreds were rendered homeless and tonight are camping in the mountains. The damage to property on this branch is heavy. Only one of the ten collleries located on this branch caped, the Ashland being located at the head of the stream. The McDowell Coal company lost twelve residences. The Roanoke company lost its boiler house and the 100-horse power boflers were swept four miles down the stream. The Louisville company's storehouse is a wreck and the stock of goods a total lose, At Rolfe a large number of miners’ houkes were swept away, as well as the handsome rexidence of the company's physiclan. Twenty-five houses are jammed together in one large mass of hroken timbers and debris. At the Gilllam com I pany's colliery the powder house and four- teen houses are demolished. At Indian Ridge the country store wa completely demolished and the stock lost The residence of Captain C. Botsford, the manager, i wrecked also. The North Fork track Is nearly all washed away, all tres- tles being gone except one. In the Elkhorn valley it is sald that the | loss to the raflroad and coal interests is | expacted to reach $2,000.000. Out of the twelve miles of main double track only one mile remains and all the bridges are gone. Only the bridges with the heaviest masonry and foundation resist the force of the flood Cozler & Co., one of the largest operators, lost & 1,000 horse power electric plant and many coke ovens. Luss is said to be $50,000 The Houston company is damaged’$20,000. The Tierney interest, conaisting of four col- lerier, was largely damaged. Many miles of their tracks leading to coke ovens and mines are gone. In some instances mine locomotives and cars have been swept for miles down the stroam Fitteen hundred laborers have been rushed to the scene to work on repairs and it is expected that the complete communi- cation will be established before noon to- morrow. Later advices from the Clinch Valley di- vision confirm the reported drowning of ten persons. A family named Hook, river, close to Pounding Mill station, on the Clinch Valley division, were all drowned, six perishing. A pathetic story is told of a Hungarian tamily at Keystone. The father at work in the mines and when the alarm was given aia not reach the drift mouth until the town was partly fnundated. He made his way to the cabin, where his wife and new- born babe were lying helpless. He tried to rescus both and after a fierce battle with the waters, logs and debris, he reached a place of safety with them, only to discover that both were dead. MAY REACH SIX HUNDRED oke Estimates an Even Greater Loss of Life—Some Re- markable Escapes. living near the ROANOKE, Va., June 23.—There was a great deal of excitement and anxiety cre- ated here today when it was reported that an awful flood and cloudburst had swept over the Eikhorn coal reglon in West Vir- ginla. This territory is near the Virginia line and is about 125 miles west of Roanoke and some twenty-five miles west of Blue- fleld, W. Va. The reglon visited by the flood s said to be devastated and the Po- cahon! coal flelds reported in ruims. More than thirty miles of the rallroad tracks of the Norfolk & Western railroad are gone and reports are still coming in to the general offices of this system in this city reporting washouts on the various sections of lines In the flooded district: One of the breaks in track whl r at least 1,000 ) and several work to repair it. ‘The rallroad yards at Vivian, a small town in West Virgini were completely destroyed and it {s re- ported that much of the town was washed away. North Fork Junction and a few other smaller towns suffered greatly. Saturday night is pay night in the eoal fields and it is supposed that the coal miners had flocked into the towns in the district to do their trading and there is no telling how many of them were caught in the flood and drowned. It is stated that the greatest damage so far as known s at Keystone, W. Vi which 1s only one mile distant from North Fork and was thirty miles west of Bluefield. Like Johnstown and Galveston. From the meager reports describing the force of the storm at Keystone it would ap- pear that the damage rivals that of Johns- town and is equal to the Galveston horror in its intensity so far as the percentage of population lost and property destroyed is concerned. There is no telegraphic communication west of Bluefleld, as the telegraph lines were swopt away along with the railroad tracks. It is sald by the telegraph of- ficlals that the lines are u between Kenova, W. Va., and Bluefield distance of 200 mi It may be several days be- fore the telegraph lines will be restored sufficiently between the two points to ob- 99 Single Coupon. fame, 000000000000000000 80000000000000000000 onoooooooooooooooofo Omaha Bee THE BEE. counts No Votes for Miss, Address, Works for Send Bee to (name), Address, Conatersigued by 800200000600000000000020000C000000000000 v 00000090000000000'0009090000 CUT OUT THIS COUPON, A Summer Vacation For the most popular young lady. This coupon, if accompanied by a cash payment on a new or old subscription to tes for each 15c pald, 100 votes for each dollar paid, etc. T T e T N. B.—This conpon must be countersigned by The Bee Circulation Department, or the town agent to whom the subscription money Is paid Deposit or mail to “Vacation Contest Dept.” Bee, Omaha, Neb. Subscription Coupon Agent 900000000000 0000000000000000000000000000 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1901. tain a full report of damage done In that territory. It is stated, however, that every bullding In the town of Keystone was de- molished or carried away by the water #ave one and that was a barroom which stands on a high hill. The normal population of Keystone is about 2,000 souls and as last night was Saturday night there is no telling how many miners had gone into the town to swell its population. It s estimated that 200 1ives were lost at Keystone alone. The flood seems to have extended over a vast area of mountain country and so many mountain streams being swollen served to swell the Elkhorn river until it had reached great proportions and carried great de- struction in its wake. Rallroad ties and tracks, small bulldings of all descriptions, trees, telegraph poles, huge boulders and every imaginable moving thing that came within the sweep of this mighty torrent of maddencd waters went down the moun- tainous district in a seething, roaring mass of debrls. Dead hodies could be seen floating along the valley by those who had gained a place of safety on the high hills. Darknesa Precedes the Flood. All day Saturday the rain fell in sheets and it was evident that if it did not cease there would be a flood and great destruc- tion as the result of it, but it was not until after darkness had enveloped the coal ro- glons that the great catastrophe was upon the country and was making a clean sweep of the valley for miles around. Shortly after midnight Saturday night it seemed as if the heavens had opened their foodgates over the town of Vivian W Here a passenger train was caught In the flood and the 11 of the frightened pas- sengers were saved by the use of ropes which were quickly thrown over from the coke ovens which skirt the railroad yards at Vivian. The passengers were glad to | cateh the ropes and willing hands dragged them from the submerging train and over the oven barricades to a point of safety Owing to the fact that the telegraph lines had been prostrated by the storm Norfolk & Weetern officials detalled messengers by foot to cover the territory as could, reports of the terrible destruction which had been done In their respective tetritory. One of these messengers in walking over the devastated dlstrict came back and re- ported having seen thirty-eight dead bodies. There are supposed to be many who will never be accounted for. The loss of life will probably reach 500 or 600 and possibly this number will be swelled when fuller de- talls are obtainable. Many people In this city have relatives in the coal regions which have been struck by the flood, but not a word can be heard from them, as there is positively no no way of communicating with them. The telegraph offices, railroad offices and of- flelals and telephone offices are besieged by many eager people seeking information of their relatives and friends. Extent Not Yet Known. The Norfolk & Western railroad general officers In this city are reticent, but they admit that at least 200 lives have been los the town of Keystone lald waste and mil- llons of dollars’ worth of property de- stroyed. It is not known how far back into the mountalns the storm extended and it will be days and perhaps weeks before all the storm-stricken country is heard from. The flood has not only damaged the Elk- horn valley, but it is ted that every one of the thirty-three Flat Top coal oper- ations or plants have suffered to some ex- tent. Great damage is also reported to have resulted in the Clinch valley section, which extends south from Graham, Va. No lives, however, are reported to have been lost along this valley. The next train from Bluefleld, which is the farthest point west from which the trains are’ running, is ‘dué here at mid- correspondent at this hour (9:30 p. m.) that this train s now two and a half hours late and probably will not reach here before after 3 o'clock a. m. The dispatchés say at this hour that they have heard nothing further than that stated above and that it is not thought there h been any further damage by rains toda: A message reached the Assoclated Press tonight from Coaldale, W. Va., fourteen miles west of Bluefleld, saying that there had been an immense loss of property and some lives at that point. The town of Keystone, which {s sald to have been swept away, all save one saloon, is sald to have contained thirty-four barrooms. The Western Union Telegraph operator at Bluefleld wired the Assoclated Press correspondent at 9 o'clock that the loss of life at the lowest estirhate is 200. He says there is one wire now working through to Ennis, eighteen miles west of Bluefield, but that this wire is monopolized by the rallroad people. Hundreds of telegraph poles are being shipped from Richmond and Roanoke to the West Virginia coal flelds to replace those destroyed. The telegraph people are exhausting every means to open up com- munication and already have sent a number of gangs of )inemen, builders and workmen with carloads of material to rebuild their lines. CLINCH RIVER 0 ON RAMPAGE Sweeps Away Mill Dams Near Tase- well, Virginia—Landslide Kills a Family, TAZEWELL, Va 23.—Clinch river hes done an imme: amount of damage and has swept away many mill dams. It has not been so high within the memory of any perfon now living. It was an immense landslide that occurred on the farm of A. J. Higginbotham, three miles from this place, which swept away the house of Parls Van- dyke. So sudden was the catastrophe that inmates had no warning at all. Two of the children, one a young man of 17 and the other 4, were killed or drowned and their bodies recovered a mile and a half below where the house had stood. Another son, 7 years old, is badly bruised and cut and will Ilikely dle. A little girl was carrled half a mile in the mass of stones, logs and other debris, but will recover. The mother was carried 400 yards and was only slightly wounded. ARE PREPARING FOR FLOOD Great Kauawha Valley Hard Hit by Rain and People Fe the Wor CHARLESTON, W. Va,, June 23.—The verest storm in years struck the great Kanawha valley last night. There was a high wind and rainfall of 3.25 inches. The Kanawha river was thirty feet at 8 o'clock tonlght and is rising. Wires are down above. They are preparing for a flood. The Kanawha & Michigan rallroad lost three bridges north of here and is tied up. A landslide on the Chesapeake & Ohlo tled up that road, leaving three through trains 1aid up between here and Hinton. Great damage has been done on many tributaries of the Kajawha. GIVE OHIO HARD WETTING Severe Storms Do Considerable. Dar age Aro wmbus and in Other Vicluiti COLUMBUS, O., June 23.-~There were severe atorms In several sections of Oh aturday and Saturday night and con erable damage was done to property. No fatalities were reported, but a number of people were Infured. A veritable tormado swept Delaware county, destroying a num- ber of bufldings. A barn on the t*m of Caled Harsh collapsed and Fraak Phlllipe va | best they | they returning in a short time with | aud George Heath were caught by falling | imbers. Phillips had two ribs broken and | may not survive, Heath had a leg broken A terrific storm prevailed this morn- ing in Columbus and vicinity. The chief damage was from water, which flooded the | basements of many business houses. The | losses amount to maty thousand dollars Considerable damage was done by the wind; a long stretch of telephone poles carrying long-distance wires were cut down. Several buildings were unroofed. A motorman on an owl car was caught by | the wind and carried out into a vacant lot, but escaped injury. At Grove City, a few miles south of Co lumbus, several houses were blown down A tornado, the path of which was thirty yards wide and three or four miles long, cut through Mount Sterling this morning Everything in the path of the storm was leveled. The house occupled by George Bird and family was turned upside down Mrs. Bird had an arm broken and Bird and a Aaughter were brulsed CINCINNATI, June 20.—A severe wind- storm, accompanied by heavy rain, visited this section of the state st night, but beyond the crippling of telegraph and tel- ephone service little damage i reported. At Anderson's Ferry four persons, who took refuge under n wall Which was blown over by the wind, were slightly injured. TORNADO TOUCNES ILLINOIS Bears Down Hard at Lincoln, Doing $100,000 Damnge to Property In that Vieinity, LINCOLN, il June 23.—Damage esti- mated at fully $100,000 was done last night by @ tornado that swept across Logan county, unroofing public bulldings, wreck- ing residences and business houses, laying low great tracts of graln and demolishing outbuildings of all sorts. It Is almost miraculous that there was not great loss of life, but o far no casualties have been reported The storm came rom the southwest and was {0 two sections, the first coming at § o'clock and the wecond and more destruc- tive an hour later. Its path about a mile and a half in width and probably twelve in length One end of the large brick chapel bufld- ing at the Illinois Asylum for Feeble Minded Children was torn out and the for- est surrounding the state property was ruined. The county poor farm west of the city was almost entirely wrecked. The main building of the Institution, constructed of brick and stone, was demolished and the occupants barely escaped with their lives. Lincoln college, which was on the north boundary of the storm's path, was partly unroofed. The large campus, covering eleven acres, is a mass of wrecked trees. In this city the worst damage was done to the Lincoln mattress factory. The brick building was almost destroyed, the top story belng blown off and the roof carried 100 yards and dropped on the Chicago & Alton right-of-way. The roller flour mills, on the south line of the storm’s path, were struck and a large hole was bored through the brick bullding from west to east. The residence of Mayor Miller was crushed in by falling trees and the family sought shelter from the storm at a neighbor's house. Several store bulldings were un- roofed and the torrents of raln which ac- companied the wind flooded the stocks, caus- Ing great damage. Reports from Middletown in the south- western portion of the county show that the Warren grain elevator was blown from its foundation and that a number of stores were unroofed. New Holland, Burtonview, Beason and Mount Pulaski were also touched by the toenado. At Bikhart, south of here, three boxcars, in which were quartered. workmen on the Alton section werg blown from a sidetrack and one of the occupants was killed. Hun- dreds of farmers suftered heavy los This city was entirely cut-oft from com- munication with the outside world from 9 o'clock last night until tonight. STORM by MORE PITTSBURG Damage to Allegheny County Satarday’s Deluge Greater Than Firat Reported. PITTSBURG, Pa., June 23.—The storm which broke over Allegheny county on Saturday afternoon carried with it deaths by drowning and deaths by electric shock, floods that caused much damage and wind that created terror and bavoc. Every part of the county suffered. The storm broke about 2:30 o'clock after darkness had grad- ually been settling down for half an hour. The day until then had been a beautiful one. The rain was very heavy, the wind strong and often the lightning seemed to be playing right overhead. Killed: » CHARLES BITTNER. farmer, Spring Garden borough, drowned In Spring Garden run. MOSCO MARCOS, Italian laborer, drowned in a sewer. JAMES P. DUNN, aged 12 years, of Brad- dock, drowned in two feet of water at Ranm- kin. CONRAD HART, aged 12 years, of Du- quesne, killed by a live wire on the viaduct of the Monongahela Traction company, near his home. Injured: James Fleming, aged 81, by a live wire, Andrew Cole, dairyman, shocked by light- ning. There was one fatality in addition to those reported last night which was not generally badly shocked Tim Ormsby “I see It's the fashion now for women to remove their hats In church,” sald the desk sergeant, as he folded the paper and tossed it to the emergency officer. “Not enough to hurt, it ain't, retorted Tim Ormsby. *‘The style Is Inaugurated all right, as the reporter says, but it's like the vaccination down In chickamauqa park it don't take. The queens removes thelr 1ids when they's as't to—sure they do, ‘cause it's up to 'em to do it, but they has their fingers crossed.” *'You mean the custom will dwindle out in & few weeks?" “I mean they's got something up their sleeves. They's doin' the meek an' lowly act just now. It looks like they aln't goin' to have nothin' to say, that the gents has drawed the pole an' stand to show ‘em the way around all four quarters, but it's a ten-to-one shot the gents swings wide on the last curve an' draws up lame In the stretch. That's the way I've got ft mapped out with myself an’ that's the way I'm makin' books. I'm bettin' that while thelr lids is off there's somethin' doin' under them coyfers." v The turnkey and a epeclal officer from the wholesale district joined the group and while they were adjusting themselves Tim prepared a fresh stogy for the mateh, Then he resumed - along in the '80s, before 1 re- formed, that I'm gettin’' my board free in a little town down in Missoury, an' one o those ministerin' jam ladies comes around every day with tracts an’' felly and a little qulet harpoon work about her neigh- bers. She's one o' those broad-gauge girls with a three-deck chin that goes In for snatchin’ brands from the burning. Well, from her I gets wise that the town is about swamped under lodges an' churches The grocery store, th' livery stable an' th' postoffice all plays second fiddle to th' lodges an' the' churches, and th' two known until this afternoon. Charles Bitt- , ner, a farmer of Spring Garden borough, was drowned in Spring Garden run and his hody was not found until tod; His house was close to the run and notieing from the porch that the water was rising, he went to the bank to save his wagon, which was there. His wife went to get bis coat and hat and when she minutes her husband was not in sight. Two nelghbors had seen the flood, like a tidal wave, sweep Bittner away with the wagon and part of the porch. “The body was found stuck fast in the running gear of the| wagon, among a pile of debris at the mouth of a culvert a mile below, near the city 1ine. From all over the county tonight come tuller reports of damage done by wind and water, but with the exception of Bittner,n0 fused an invitation from the populists to additional Tartle Creelk fatalities are recorded. Revisited. The Turtle Creek district was again vis- ited by a heavy rainstorm today and the conditions of yesterday were followed with more destruction. The town and valley have suffered to the extent of many thou- sand dollars. At East Pittsburg the West- inghouse plant, which extends for nearly a mile parallel with the hill, was submerged today with nearly six feet of water on the lower floor, which left three feet of mud More than 400 street car motors are Ap- parently destroyed and the loss to West- inghouse, it is belleved, will reach $500,000 HARD BLOW IN MIDDLEPORT Houses, Barns, Treea and Telegraph Wires Tossed About the Ohlo in Town, POMEROY, 0., June -A tornado struck the residence portion of Middleport early this morning. Two houses and six barns were blown down, about twenty buildings unroofed and 500 trees uprooted. All the telephone, clectric light and tele- graph wires were torn down and fell across | the trolley wire of street cars, Horses were killed by contact with the wires and one man was fatally burned. Thousands of dollars’ damage was done to bridges REFUSE PERISHABLE FREIGHT Norfolk & Wentern Ofcinls at Colum= bus Renlize Probability of Long Delay by ¥l COLUMRUS, O., June 23.—The Norfolk & Western railroad officiais here have no in- formation regarding the disaster in West Virginia beyond the fact that great dam- Age has been done to the road in the Po- cahontas district, a number of bridges hav- ing been wasled away. Orders were issued to accept no perishable freight for ship- ment to points on the eastern end of the line. No attempt is being made to run trains east of Kenova INDIANA FARES BADLY ENOUGH Terrific Storm Strikes Central Part, but Princip to W INDIANAPOLIS, June 23.—Central diana was visited by a terrific storm last night, played with the telegraph and telephone wires, little damage was done. Telegraphic and teleghone sorvice was practically at a standstill during the storm last night. The storm vas preceded by an intensely hot day and was accompanied by a deluge of rain. LANDSLIDES ALSO BOTHER n% ' Encounter Other Difficulties Than Floods— Two Started at McKendree, HINTON W. Va., June 23.—Traffic is en- tirely suspended west of Hinton by several landslides. Two Chesapeake & Ohlo trains are stalled at McKendree. The wires west are all down. e ISLANDS AS TERRITORIES (Continued from First Page.) Is to say, that revolution may be looked for with each change of season; but the Platt amendment and its adoption by the tslanders will prevent any such con- tingency, and it is predicted that within five years Cuba will be settled down to housekeeping on her own account as stead- ily as any republic on the continent, with & mixed population such as she has, * Andrews to Speak at W WAUNETA, Neb., June 23.—(Special.)— Wauneta will have a notable celebration on July 4 The Sunday schools of Wau- neta, Hudson, Zion, Lincoln, Ough and others will render songs and recitations. Speeches will be delivered by C. W. Wiley, Rev. B. L. Galther, Rev. Sayles. Chancel- lor Benjaman Andrews of the University of Nebraska will speak afternoon and even- ing. There will be a fine display of fire- works at night. atriotic Ponca. PONCA, Neb, June 23.—(Special.)— Ponca will celebrate the Fourth. C. A. Irwin of Sloux City will be the orator. In the morning Martinsburg and Ionia wiil play base ball and in the afternoon Ponca and the stock yards team of Sioux City will play for a purse of $50. Hon. J. J. McCarthy of Ponca will deliver the oration at Wayne July 4 heavyweights gets along together about as peaceful as two buzzsaws. It seems they don’t Mocha and Java worth a cent. “Mind, this is a little backwoods town down in Missoury, where you can't expect no fancy team work between ‘em. It's different here. But it's easy worth the price of admission to hear that old girl play the (attoo on the charactérs with her little meat axe. Sa-ay, that town's got an anvil chorus that's a tollapalcozer! When it's In dress rehearsal they.-can't hear the cowbells over in the next town- ship an’ it's got Giimore's band beat till it sounds like the Heavenly Twins playin’ jewsharps. Th' wimmen all belongs to th' church an' the men to the lodges. They's two papers in the town an' one heads its local column, ‘Raps of the Gavel, an' th' other, ‘Splinters from the Pulpit.’ “Well, one morning this princess with th' Jam goes into session with me an' tells all about the lodges, an’ the secrets, signs, grips, passwords an’' things. She says every man that breaks into th' lodge has got to furnish a secret along with the ini- tiation fee, and’ usually has to go out an' kill someone to get the secret. Then all the rest of 'em helps him keep his secret, an' that's why you never hears of a lodga hein’ strung up for murder. ““That's the way they feels about it down in this Missoury town, which is 400 miles away by chalr car an' 1,000 by blind bag- gage. Then, one day while I'm getiin' my board free a lodge man dies, an' the widow wants the plantin' pulled off accordin' to league rules. She wants a preacher, an' pall bearers marchin' down the aisle, an’ all that. But does she get it? Not on your tax certificate she don't. The preacher, that's been blackballed in the lodge, ain't got no opinions comin' as to the after lite of th' deceased till th' lodge members re- tifes to the ante-room an' deposits thelr regalla with th' ushers. Then th' mem veturned in two |CONSIDERS FUSION A FAILURE THERE | ! maeting here of the democratic committee, electrie | but beyond the havoe it | campaign a large percentage of the popu- [DEMOCRATS BREAK THE TIE Central Ocmmittes Refuses Future Poyulin Allian. o Kan Past Two Elections Proot A'Plenty of Folly of the Scheme ~Herenatter Pops Must Come to Them. Give TOPEKA, Kan., June 23.—The democratic state central committee of Kansas has re- Join In the formation of a new fusion party under a distinet name. This action was tuken last night at a presided over by J. Mack Love, state chair- man. Twenty-three members of the com- mittee were present and twenty others were represeuted by proxy J. G. Johnson, national committeeman, counseled caution. “We do not want,” he sald, “to appear arbitrary as a committee It must not appear that we turned down this proposition and denied our rank and file & chance to have & say who shall con- stitute the party.” A letter from W. J, Dabb, chairman pro tem of the populist state central commit- tee, declining the offer to merge into a new party was finally adopted and ordered sent After the meeting Chalrman Love said ““The committee was unanimous in de- claring that the democratic party should take an independent stand. The last two elections have satisfied us that fusion, as | it has been practiced in Kansas, is a fall- ure. We believe the democratic platform embodies all the cardinal reform move ments and feel that the populists of the state who are earnest in wanting to see | reform movements succeed can reasonably | enter the democratic camp. The action taken simply means (hat the democratic party will go it alone in the future and that those who take part in democratic primaries and conventions must do a0 as democrats. 1 belleve (hat in the next state lists of Kansas will be found fighting under the democratic banner." HYMENEAL. Two Huron Weddt HURON, 8 D, June 23.-(Spec Homer Lapler of Huron and Miss Stella Frazell were married at the farm home cf the bride's parents, John Frazell and wifo, near Brooklyn, Ia.. June 19. The bride was formerly a resident of Huron. The marriage of Willlam C. Raasch ot Wolsey and Miss Maud Roberts of Wes- sington was pronounced by Rev. Edwin Brown of Wolsey at the bome of the bride's parents, June 19. Dahiberg-Peterson, OSCEOLA, Neb, June 23.—(Special)-~ Carl Dahlberg of Chicago and Miss Millle Petereon of this place were married Thurs day night at the home of the bride’s pa rents by Rev. Will J. Scott. After a few days’ visit here the couple will go to Chi- cago to live, Kadlec-Vondracek. WEST POINT, Neb., June 23.—(Special.) —Miss Antonia Vondracek and Ludwig Kad- lec of Dodge were married in this city by County Judge Krake Friday. While These Queens Has Their Lids Off in Church, He Says, They's Somethin' Doin' Under Their Coyfers, Destruction in Doniphan. DONIPHAN, Neb, June 23.—(Special.)— A barn belongiug to Richard McMullin was struck by lightning at this place yesterday morning and the barn and corncrib were destroyed by fire. There was no finsur- ance. ZIMMER FEELS VINDICATED Players' Association Re-Eleets Him President After Hot Debate by Close M NEW YORK, June 23.—After five and & half “hours' “discussion the Association of Protessional Base Ball Players, which met in this city today, elected Charles Zimmer president, ‘thus, if is sald, vindicating his course in'signing the agreement suspending players in the Ameriean league. Attor having been re-elected President Zimmer resigned and Tom Daly of the Brooklyn club was elected president. All Zimmer wanted, he sald, was to show that hig assoclates approved his course. The meeting was stormy from the start and resulted In a vote declding that the “option” or “reserve’ clause in contracts is not binding and will_not be heeded by Players in the future “This dectsion ia" fol. owing the precedent established by the court In the Lajole case. The meeting had hardly opened before a petition came in from “Dufty, Cross, “Cy" Young, Tenney, Lewis and ‘others,’ suspended members of the National league and members of the American league, asking that they be ad- mitted to the meeting. Hot discussion fol- lowed when this was put hefore the mem- T ng finally in the American leaguc members belng admitted, and the spension of the members raised. The suspension, President Zimmer declared, had been only temporary. Each club repre- sented at the meeting had one vote. De- troit had no representative present. When the question of officers came up there was great confusion. Every one realized that it meant either sustaining or rejecting the action of Zimmer and every club in the National league stood by him Dale Gear of Washington had been nomi- nated for the office as an opponent of Zim- mer_and the vote was exceedingly close, § 10 7. Dole Gear was elected secretary, former Secretary Jenninge announcing thit as he had to attend Cornell this winter he could not attend to the dutles of the office properly. Frank Donahue was made Weas- urer. | The meeting adjourned, subject (o the call of the president. bers holds a Iittle heart-to-heart talk with th' widow and the funcral adjourns to the lodge room. a week later that th' jam woman comes to me with a package o' hard-luck talk about th' men orderin’ th' wimmen to take off their hats in church. ‘It's all spite work,' she says, “cause th' preacher refuses to be Interviewed at the plantin’ bee. ‘Did you take 'em oft I says. ‘Sure,’ sho says. ‘But you just walt, Mister Ormsby, till next Sunday; you just wait,’ she says. “Well, my time is up on Saturday, an' 1 bids the marshal goodbye an' Inquires ths nearest way to th' rallroad water tank. On the way T stops In front of what I takes for a bird store. The window is full of fine wire things about as big as a churn that looks like canary bird cages, an’ on ‘em 18 a card that eays: ‘Th' chapel coyfer—very latest conception for church wear, direct from Paris.' ““Then T looks up at the sign an’ sees it's one o' them bair dressin' bazars. 1 aske th' shirtwaist behind th' counter what them things is, an' she says (hey's ‘rats,’ to be covered with phony hair. Very chic an’ stylish, she says, an improvement on th' pompadour {dea. Six bits for this one, an “Just then I hears a freight whistle an’ tells her I'll call n. 1 don't get to g0 to church mext day, but when I sees them bird cages I knows what th' old girl means when she says to wait till next Sunday. You couldn’t see aver ‘em with a steplad- hodh Looks as though the women down in that Missouri town had the men done up,” sald the desk sergeant “Done up In & bundle an’' labeled,” said Tim. “Had ‘em sirapped to th' operating table an' th' chloroform ready. An' tha why 1 say that whil e qu . 4pm. Benlon o SAME SHAPE TWO QUALITIES v ARROW BRAND » CLEMSON for 2 CLUETT PEABODY&CO “('/mu‘ HN()R/\ The Bee Building Is the only building in Omaha having all night and all Sunday elevator service. Doctors are not the only peopls who find this an advantage, but they In particular find this an ad- vantage to themeelves and their patients. Nor Is this the only point In which The Bee Bullding service {8 better than other bulld- ings R. C. PETERS & CO. Rental Agents, Bee Building, Ground Floor AMUSEMINTS. Popular Music —BY-— Belistedt’s Concert Band. Program. MONDAY EVENING, 8 0°CLOCK, JUNE 24. POPULAR CONCERT. 1. March—"Omaha Audltorium" i ; ... Bellstedt 2. Overture — * Somiramide " Rossinl 3. Waltz—"Potocka™ (new).... .<Van Alstyne 4. Gems from “The 11 L APPPPPPPPN Singing « Herbert 20 MINUTES INTERMISSION Refreshments by the ladies of the Y. W. C A Overture—"Poet and Peasant" . Suppe 6. 8olo for Cornet..... Mr. Chas. B ..Selected Jones. 7. Popular Rag Time Airs....Hospe 8. March — “The Man Behind the Gun,” with battery ac- companiment Sousa Grace Cameron Will Sing Thursday Evening at the Pavil- ion. Reserved Seats on Sale Ko C.HA.0S First and Best Fair of tue & All Attractions of High Order. C ¢ a Speciul Feature. y Ob. Congert Mus! Fourth of July Patriotici served. s 43 Paved Streets for all Concesslou Reduced Rates from all Points. SPECIAL, _ATTR. r*rmNn NOON and EVENIM K Evening, Dox d ‘ Illr Woodwar ey COLE. Manager Famout® d Pony Clrous 8. THE AFTERN: W, W. -nun m Afternoon_and features. Take MORR! And a B d ed other fine a hundred of ny Yars op ra on Walnut Hill line. BOYD'S i ———8. M_BEAR Presents-—— FERRIS STOCK COMPANY Matinee Todar..CAMILLE oniwht...FALSELY ACCUSED Commencing Thursday night," East Lynne." Prices—10c, 15c, 2c and % BASE BALL on Street Park. COLORADO SPRINGS vs. OMAHA their lids off they's sometbing dola’' under thelr coyfers," JUNE 22, 23, 34, Games Called at 3.4 p. ;)