Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 21, 1902, Page 1

f Y THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. ESTABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871. OMAHA, MONDAY MORNING, JULY 21, 1902. SINGLE CQ PY FIVE CENTS. OVER ACRES OF CORN Excursionists Look Upon Devastating Scene Along Mississippi. RIVER TEN MILES WIDE NEAR QUINCY Water Oontinues and Mighty Btream Keeps Rising, LEVEES CRUMBLE BEFORE THE CURRENT Farmers Fleo to High Ground and View Destruction of Property. RBush of ESTIMATED DAMAGE SIX MILLION DOLLARS Beven Munmdred Square Miles Under Weter and as Rise Conmtinues the Worst 1s Yet to Come, KEOKUK, la., July 20.—Exploration of the flooded districts of the Mississippi river from Keokuk south shows conditions be- yond the appreciation of anys but people of long experience with the Father of Waters in its most destructive mood. The situation s growing worse and a great conflagration in a great city would not be more rapidly destructive of values than the antithesis of a hundred miles below Keokuk. There is not the siightest chance of stopping this dozen times most costly flood in the great river above St. Louls. The correspondent of the Asso- cited Press went all over the worst dam- aged area today in the steamer Silver Cres- cent and found everywhere the greatest crop ever known under water deep enough to float & steamboat. Peaple at the river cities give an im- mense amount of information, all to be eneralized In millions of dollars loss, hun- dreds of farmers, prosperous ten days ago are penniless and homeless, hundreds watching and praying that the great levees may hdld, which are their bulwark against milllons of loss, and many cases of penury. The extent of territory covered and gen- eralizations of the statements of thousands of people indicate that the loss up to today 1s six millions of dollars, with every pros- pect of two or three millions additional by the rise above not yet reaching the lower stretches of tho river. Most of this loss 18 on the Missouri side of the river between Keokuk and Hannibal. Passing the water-lapped lumber yards of Keokuk the mouth of the Des Moincs river is seen to be mearly two miles wide. Normally there are two mouths and an is- nd delta, covered with farms, which are under raging torrents. Alexandria was protected to the last by the Egyptian levee, the breaking of which would send four feet of water all over the town. Gregory s submerged except the White church, In which services were held today, the pray- fug congregation from the country reaching the house of God by the railroad track, which {s still above the flood in a waste of waters miles wide. Other towns and cities on the islands are beyond the danger line. Immense flolds are seen In a great Sake with the shore lines barely visible with a glass, where the high bluffs bound the bottoms, ¥ sl Islands dotting the river at its normal stage have disappeared except for the tops of trees or fringe of high shore willows protruding Itke a circulay coral reef. Oc- caslonally a house on piles is seen, but generally only roofs protrude to mark the center of farms of corn. On the edge of the flood corn gradually rises on a slope, tassels, ears, stalks appearing in order. In a few of the bhalf-submerged flelds is shocked wheat In the background, the rem- nants of many more washed to the Gulf of Mexico. In the middle of the present river the tracks of the St. Louls, Keokuk & North- ern rallroad, normally the Missour! shore, are only a few inches above the water, and under it some stretches. Shore lights are standing in the midst of waters where steamboats can run over them. The river 18'five to ten miles wide and seventy miles long and another great lake is added to the geography. This tract was practically covered with corn a fortpight ago, estimated to make seventy-five to 100 bushels to the acre. Previous estimates of the loss have greatly ncreased by the prospective yleld being found much greater than ever before, re- ports telling of many farms that were good for 100 bushels to the acre before the flood. The loss is total. The experience s that if water stays forty-elght houre even four inches under the surface it kills corn and every stalk perishes from rotting Toots. ds Are Gon River Still Ri The height of the flood is Indicated by an incident at La Grange. The steamboat ‘warehbuse was well back from the river bank and sits high. A gale and the cur- pent caused_the pilot to make an imperfect landing and the cornice of the roof of the ‘warehouse was torn off by the forward guards of Siiver Crescent. The river s rising sll the time, six inches during the day in the Immense aroa of 700 square miles and the worst to come by the extension of the flooded area by the water passiug levees it 1s now topping ‘The chiet flood thus far is on the Missourl side from Keokuk to Louisiana, with Can- ton and West Quincy as centers of the country hurt wors On the Illlnols side are the three continuous levees for forty mlles, from Warsaw to Quincy, above the water and are thus far safe, but farmers \are afrald of crevasses from muskrat holes and every rod of the redoubt is watched !day and night. The breaking of these lavees would flood 175 square miles in Illinols d destroy from $2,000,000 to $3,000,000 worth. of corn, The levees below Quincy are in the same situation except that they wre lower and less firm. Opposite Quincy In Missour! is still an- other center of speclal dev: tion, which is appalling. North twelve miles to Le- Grange and south to Holton, large prairies are well under water, reaching from the Illinols bluffs to the Missourl bluffs, at least ten miles. Levess hastlly thrown around farms have disappeared in a strong current rushing from above through t! draw of the Burlington route bridge, carry- ing everything before it. Lone Tree Prairle, ten miles square, is deserted, the people ing flown to Quincy and the bluffs on the Miseourl side, from which they watch the complete destruction. Fablus ri fifteen miles above Hanni- bal, & high apd furnishing a route for the Mississippl to flank and reverss the levee as ¢ Fox river does forty miles up the Mississippl. This flanking move- ment makes even the highest Missourt levees lneffectiv: Around Lamotte, Sav. erton, Busch station, Olemen: north of Hannibal, there more wheat than at other places and ali in the shock ——eeeeeee (Coattmued en Becond Page.) PALMA MAS "GREAT HOPES Will Emerge Vie- the Present HAVANA, July 20. quotes President Palma s in an Interview that he has great s that the country will emerge victoriously from the present crisis. President Palma said: It Amerlcan syndicates have bought all our cigar factories and considerable land besides & number of sugar estates, It is because they have falth in the economic future of Cuba. Moreover, Senor Terry, who is a planter, asserts that price of § reals per twenty-five pounds of Sugar of- fers @ profg which though not very B , makes it worth while for those to cultivate sugar who can avall themselves of the best methods. Furthermore we of the best methods. Furthermore we are approaching a day when Sugar bounties will be suppressed and when Cuban sugar will be able to compete with the European product and there are besides favorable symptoms| of reciprocity with the United States. With these reasons as a basis we may )\ul‘l that “spanole the economic futire of Cuba will soon improve. ~When once the economic problem s solved the po- litical situation will not present difficuities, The inexperience regarding official organ- ismp Is compensated for by the good sense of the people. Annexation is not the way to save Cuba as it will hot come when the present population of Cuva would bene- fit by it, but when the Americans choose that is, when the influence exercised by the Latin element in Cuba shall have ceased. SULTAN BECOMES FRIENDLY Leader of Mindanao Forces Now Says that He Has No Fight Americans, Desire to MANILA, July 20.—The sultan of Baco- lod, Mindanao, who recently sent an insult- ingly worded communication to the ‘com- mander of the American expedition to Lake Lanao, in which he threatened to begin offensive operations in August, has now written a friendly letter to the com- mander of the American forces, in which he disavows all desire to fight and says he will confer with the Americans in the future. The general Moro situation is regarded as favorable. Two natives implicated ip the massacra of American soldiers at Binangan, Rizal province, island of Luzom, on Decoration day, have been arrested on a charge of murder. Their identification is complete. The cholera is decreasing in Manila and the provinces and the health board has dos cided to relax the quarantine regulations which bave been enforced between cities and provinces. This step has been decldod upon because of the failure of the natives to co-operate In the measure and the general native opposition to sanitary plans. COMMENTS ON NEGOTIATIONS Paris Paper Says Vatican's Reply to Tatt's Last Note is Tantamount * to a Rejection, PARIS, July 20.—The Tempe, comment- ing upon the negotiations between Willlam H. Taft, governor of the Philippine islands, and the vatican, says: Notwithatanding the courteous langusys used by both sides the vatican's reply to Governor Taft's last note s tantamaunt to a refection of the American offer, which Smounted to nothing more ar:less than the “conclusfon of dh- in t ‘concordat with the United States. The signature of such a convention would have given the stolic delegate In Washington a sort of diplomatic exequateur permitting him to confer directly with President Roosevelt or the government without the interme diary of an American citizen such as Arch- bishop Ireland. The vatican in refusin to lend a hand In the gradual expulsion o the congregations from the Philippines has at the same time stified the germ of an American concordat which would be a triumph for the policy the pope h seemed so ardently to pursue eince his advent, WITHOUT VIOLATING TREATY Rome Correspondent Holds United States Can Expell Friars with Du Regard for Treaty of Paris, LONDON, July 20.—The Rome corre- spondent of the London Post, detalling the negotiations between Judge Taft and the vatican contends that the American au- thoritles can unquestionably expel the triars from the Phillppines without violat- ing the treaty of Paris. What the vati- can gained by its obstinacy, says the cor- respondent, 8 not clear, but it certainly will have lost: about £1,000,000. y A dispatch to Reuter's Telegram com- pany from Rome says the pope granted an audlence Sunday to Judge Willlam H. Tatt, governor of the Philippine islands, and his a tants in the negotiations with the vat- jcan regarding religlous conditions in tke Fhilippines. KING DOING Edward Attends Divine Servic Continued Improvement Sur~ prises Doctors. SPLENDIDLY COWES, Isle of Wight, July 20.—King Edward today attended divine services, which were conducted by Commodore Le.ab- ton, the commander of the Victoria and Albert. Queen Alexandra and the other members of the royal family aboard the yacht were present. A cold northwest wind nec tated the inclosing of the sl nd stern of the deck, where the king usually stays. r His majesty now rises at § o'clock in the morning and takes his breakfast a half hour later, after which he is visited by his physicica The king's progress con- tinues to surprise his doctors. QUEEN IS SOURED ON WORLD Her Majesty of Belg Says She Haws but Her Dogs and is Already Forgotte BRUSSELS, July 20.—La Reform publishes an extraordinary alleged interview with the quecn of the Belglans (Marle Henrlette) in which her majesty is quoted as saying that the papers have made her out to be dying too quickly, and then bitterly lamented her utter loneliness. According to La Reform, Queen Marle Henrlette said: “I am thor- oughly soured. In times past I was so gay, and am now il from loneliness. I have only my dogs to amuse me and am already torgetten." SHORT BATTLE IN TURKEY ng to Lon s Twenty- Five Were Killed in LONDON, July 21.—The Constantinople correspondent of the Daily Telegraph re- ports than an engagement has taken place at Strumitza, European Turkey, between a force of 300 Bulgarian troops and a body of Turkish irregulars. Twenty-five Turks, the correspondent says, were killed In the engagement. e Oolonel Groesbeck Disousses Noted Oase of General Smich, BELIEVES IN PRACTICE OF WATER CURE Says that it is the Most FHu- mane Method of Obtaining In- formation Modern Warfare. Known to SAN FRANCISCO, July 20.—Colonel Ste- phen Groesbeck, formerly judge advocate of the Division of the Philippines, has arrived here from Manila enroute to Chicago, where he will take station as judge advocate of the Department of the Lakes. Colonel Groes- beck was chlet reviewing authority in the trials of Major Waller and General Jacob H, Smith, both of whom were court-mar- tlaled for methods used in the Samar cam- paign. Discussing the Waller trial, Colonel Groesbeck characterized Major Waller as a tacticlan, not a leader. In reviewing the case he sald: Only Qualified Approval. “I could only give a qualified approval of the findings of the court because I be- lieved him responsible largely for the condi- tions that caused his men to commit the offenses charged. An attempt was made to lead a detachment of his command, con- sisting of four officers, fifty-four enlisted men and thirty-thres ‘cargadoros’ from east towns across the island of Samar in search of the enemy, and when about mid- way of his course he found himself in the heart of an uninhabited, mountainous sec- tion, without rations and without medical attendance. The march had been begun without proper provision being made. The men’s shoes had worn away, their cloth- ing hung in tatters, many were stricken with fever, their feet bruised and bleeding, their bodies lacerated by thorns and, added to th's wretchedness, the leeches which abound attacked and greatly aggravated thelr ex- posed wounds. To the cry for food the ‘cargadoros,’ it is alleged, did not efficently respond and the suspiclon arose in the minde of the starving men that the ‘carga- doros’ were conniving at their destruction. For this they were placed under fire, and all of those from whom a cry of retalia- tion came were executed.” Talks of Famousx Order. Referring to the famous “kill and burn" order alleged to have been {ssued by Gen- eral Smith, Colonel Groesbeck sala: “No such order was ever issued by Smith, but he i{s an impetuous and erratic man, and, when golng over the ground at Balan- glga, after the massacre of an entire com- patly of the Ninth infantry, ho remarked to Waller that they would be justified in kifl- ing and burning as they went. He did not think that Waller or any of the officers of his command should be held accountable for the lives destroyed, but he belleved that had mere careful provision been made when the fatal march was begun it would not have ended with such destre- tive results. He spoke of General Smitn ai a fine officer ,and expressed regret at the humiliation attached to the recent:orders for hia retirement. Colonel Groesbeck belleves in the water cure and eaid that in all the complaints caused by this method of forcing the In- surgents to give information as to where arms were hidden, ete., It had been abused only by young officers over zealous and in- experfeniced in thelr work. “I beliove,” sald he, “the water cure as practiced by the American army in the Philippines to be the most humane method of obtaining informa- tion from criminale of war that is known to modern warfar On the Philippine question in general, Colonel Groesbeck sald: ““We are there to stay. The price that ha been paid for the islands demands that we hold them, but to civilize and establish a government that can be ultimately given into the keeping of the natives is a task beyond the comprehension of those unac- quainted with the treachery that has been instilled into the people by thelr former rulers. The uplifted bolo is the onry law that they have feared for ages and strenu- ous means must be adopted to eradicate such ideas. ALL "QUIET AT LEAVENWORTH Report that Man Who Was Stabbed ay Recover Has Sgothing Effect on Soldiers. LEAVENWORTH, Kan., July 20.—The In- ciplent riot started late last night by sev- eral hundred soldiers from Fort Leaven- worth, who démolished the house of & ne- &ro In the low quarter here following the stabbing of Ell Loucke, a cavalryman, by an inmate of the place, ended quletly shortly after midnight and today all was quiet. A company of the Fourth cavalry arrived at 2 a. m. and rounded up theos soldiers who had not voluntarily returned to the post. Today Loucke was reported to have a chance of recovery. Groups of oldlers continue to discuss the trouble and there were threats to finish up to- night the work of last night, but it is be- lieved no further trouble will occur unless Loucke dles. The general sentiment fs with the soldiers and there is mild talk of organizing a vigilance committee to drive cut the tough characters and thugs unless the pollce take decisive action in that di- rection. DRIVEN INSANE BY Miner Shoots Relatives and Then Out His Own Brains ‘While Demented. ILLNESS Blows SEATTLE, Wash., July 20.—Driven in- sane by illness, Samuel H. Lake, a miner, shot and killed his brother-in-law, Davit Thomas, mortally wounded his sister, Mrs. Mary J. Thomas, and then blew out his own brains last night at the Fredonia lodging house. When Policeman Stuart arrived cn the scene he found the woman huddled in a corner of a bedroom, hardly able to speak, her husband lylng on his face close to the bed and the body of the murderer and suicide blocking the passageway lead- ing to the room. FIND REMAINS OF FARMER y of Wealthy M Disappea KING CITY, Mo., July 20.~The remalns of Willlam York, a wealthy farmer, who disappeared last Monday, were found to day in a hog lot three miles from here. remalned. Mr. York was 86 years of age and feeble. It is supposed he was stricken l ith heart fallure and while prostrate was attacked by bogs The skull and thigh bones were all that | One Man Killed and Nineteen Others Are Injured ley Wreck. ROCHESTER, N. Y., July 20.—A fatal head-on collision occurred between two pas- senger trains on the Lehigh Valley rail- road, near Hope hospital, this city, this evening, In which one person was killed and nineteen others more or less seriously in- jured. Both traine were running at a high rate of speed when they came together. An engine and one passenger coach of one of the trains was thrown down an embankment and into the Erle canal feeder and was completely wrecked; the other engine was demolished and remained on the tracks. The following is the list of killed and in- jured: Tho killed: PETER W. PUTNAM, aged 36, of Roch- ester, fireman westbound train; leaves a widow and two children. Injured Injured—At the Hanneman hospitat: Robert Mathews, Lima, N. Y., shoulder badly bruised Byron B. Vary, Lima, wrist badly cut with glass. Fred McVittle, Rochester, face cut badly and eeriously bruised. Charles Hoffmann, Rochester, turrier, ra- dlal artery of wrist cut and brutsed; in- juries serlous. L. A. Bause, 1307 Seventh street, Wash- ington, shoulder, arms and legs badly brused, severe cut on right elbow, tnternal injuries; will probably recover. Charles R. Barnard, Rgchester, bad cut on forehead, seriously bruised, euffering from shock; will recovef unless internal injuries develop. Emma J. Balley, Rochester, side serfously bruised, injured internally, suftering greatly trom shock; recovery doubtful. Gladys Vogen, aged 9, Rochester, scalp wound and suffering from shock; will prob- ably recovey. Mrs. Minne Tyler, Rochester, shoulder badly injured, suffering from shock and in- ternal injuries feared. Sydney G. Tyler, husband of Mrs, Tyler, severely brulsed; not dangerous. Taken to homes: Mrs. Honderf, Rochester, hurt about head and left shoulder; not serfous. Mr, Zorp, Rochester, cut on face; not se- rious. ¢ At Homeopathic hospitals Mr, Mercer, New York Oity, badly cut. Mrs. Merver, New York, Slits and brutses. J. G, Longfellow, Reghester, badly wrenched shoulder; hands and arms cut; will recover. Mrs. J. G. Longtellow, Hoohester, badly injured internally, severe ®ontusions; will probably dle. » Charles Danlels, Rochestdr, engineer in- coming tralf, jumped frofi engine, struck on head, very bad scalp wound and fs per- haps internally injured. = Charles Schuotte, Rocheébter, baggage- master incoming train, 4 in back and other bruises; jumped f of car into the feeder as the crash by falling wreckage. Frank De La Vergne, ductor, scalp wound; m! The incoming train, & combination smoker and two day coaches, was d 6:30 o'clock, but was The outgoing ¢raip:. bination smoker and baggage car and one day coach, left- promptly on time at 6:30 o'clock. The two trains came together with terrific force on a straight lfne of track one-halt mile south of Clarissa street bridge, near Hope hospital. Just before the crash came the crew of each engine, with the exoeption of Fireman Putnam of the Incoming train, jumped and escaped with slight injurfes. Putnam was caught in the wreckage of his engine and horribly mangled, death resulting in- stantly, GARMENT WORKERS WALK OUT Twenty-Five Hundred Strike Fifteen Thousand Others Will Likely Follow. iy affected. \consisted of car and clity at late. NEW YORK, July 20.—Twenty-five hun- dred outside garment workers went on strike today, and It is predicted 15,000 more will follow. The unions affected are tho PBrotherhood of Tailors, makers' union, the Knee Breeches Make: union, the Children's Jacket Makers" unfon, the Sailor Jacket Makers' union and the Buttonbole Makers' union. The Brotherhood of Tallors demand of the manufacturers a fifty-six hour work- ing week, the payment of last year's union scale, a guarantee that the contractors of middlemen will pay union wages and em- ploy union men, and also a guarantee that in case a middleman defaults they will get their wages. Conferences between representatives of the union and the employers were held last week, but no settlement was reached. The employers were willing to grant the fifty- six hour working . ek, but were not will- irg to take any pledges as to the payment of wages by the contractors. The Brother- -hood of Tailors and the unions that are on strike belong to the Garment Workers' Trade council and the other unions went out in sympathy with the tailors. The delegate of the Goldbeaters' union to the Central Federated union reported to that body today that a general strike of g0ld beaters to enforce a demand for an increase of wages will go into effect in this and several other cities tomorrow. He sald that the gold beaters intended to make the demand on September 1, but the employers hearing of it, began to discharge men arbitrarily, then it was decided to strike at once. The gold beaters, he said, will demand $21 a week. At present the rates are irregular, ho sald, and from $12 a week up. WILL NOT RENEW STRIKE At Special Meeting Frelght Handlers of Chicago Decide to Re- main at Work, CHICAGO, July 20.—There will not be a renewal of the freight handlers’ strike in Chica This decislon was reached at a epecial meeting of the Frelght Handlers union tonight called by President Curran to consider a report that four of the roads are discriminating against the old employes who went on a strike two weeks ago. After a careful {nvestigation committees appointed to investigate the supposed grievances re- ported all the roads, with the exception of the Pan Handle, are living up to their agree- ments and that in some Instances the men bad been accorded better terms than had been demanded while they were on strike. While the Pan Handle people have been unable to place all the strike it was re- ported that all the oid men would be back at work in the course of a few days or a soon as the contracts of the nonunion men who had been engaged during the strike should expire. This state of affalrs met with the approval of the union and 1t was decided that there was Do cause for any ltuture controversy with the rallroada. NO KILL AND BURN ORDER|PASSENGER TRAINS COLLIDE|jgily , NACKAY IS DEAD|CONDITION OF THE WEATHER President of Postal Telegraph Oompany Buocumbs at London Heme. THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN IMPROVING Was Days Strioken with Heat but Investigation Symptoms of Several Ago, Shows Pneumonia. (Copyright 1902, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, July 20.—(New York World Ca- blegram — Special Telegram.) — John W. Mackay died this afternoon at his London residence, Charlton House Terrace. The immediate cause of death was heart fall- ure. The right lung was found to be con- gested, and the symptoms indicated pneu- monia. He was consclous most of the time today. Mrs, Mackay is prostrated with grief. Mr. Mackay came to Europe for his health and apparently had benefited by the change, but the sudden hot wave affected him Injuriously and while attend- ing to some business in the city last Tues- day he was taken with faintness and diz- ziness. A doctor was sent for immediately and advised that he be taken home. The unexpected news that he was seri- ously 111 ‘was a great shock to Mre. Mackay. She instantly summoned four of the lead- ing speclalists in London. On Wednesday and Thursday the patient showed sigos of holding his own, but on Friday he began to grow worse and early this morning de- veloped symptoms of sinking, againet which all the resources of science proved power- less. Hope had been abandoned on Friday and his son, Clarence Mackay, was cabled for. He is now on the ocean. The last sacrament, according to the Catholic rite, was administered on Saturday. Mrs. Mackay was most devoted in her attentibne to her busband. She, her mother, Mrs. Hungerford, and Countess Telfner, were by his bedside when he peacefully and painlessly breathed his last at €:30 p. m. Princess Colonna, Mrs. Mackay's daughter, did not arrive until an hour later. It was noticed by friends on the occasion of Mrs. Mackay's great concert some days ago that her husband looked 1l and fatigued by the ordeal of assisting to re- celve the guests. Princess Louise sat be- tween Mr. and Mrs. Mackay in the front row that evening and entered into an ani- mated conversation with him. That was the last entertainment he took part in. No arrangements for the funeral have been made yet, but it Is understood that the body will be taken to the United States for burial, Great eympathy is felt for Mrs. Mackay at this tresh afiiction. Causes |Shock at SAN FRANCISCO, July 20.—The news of the death of John W. Mackay in London caused quite a shock here, notwithstanding the public was in a measure prepared for 1t. Mr. Mackay was the last surviving mem- ber of the four bonanza kings, Flood, O'Brien and Falr, the other three having long since dled. For the past eighteen years Mr. Mackay had not been actively identified with the life of this city, but had passed most of his time In the east, making annual visits to the coast to look after his property interests in this state and Nevada. On the occasion of his last visit to this éity, early this summer, Mr. Mackay com- pleted arrangements for a landing place for the new Pacific cable, a project he was much interested in. During a visit in 1892 Mr. Mackay was shot and slightly wounded by W. D. Rippey, who had a fancled grievance agalnst him, growing from the stock banking days of the Com- stock. Mr. Mackay came to Californla in 1851 via Panama. He at once entered a mine, working with pick and shovel in the placers of the American river and at Down- feville. In 1859 he went to Virginia City, Nev., and began mining on the Comstock with varylng success. His first real start toward success was made when he became superintendent of the Kentucky. mine in Gold Hill. In 1863 Mackay formed a part- nership with Flood, O'Brien and Falr. In 1867 this famous quartet purchased the site of the Bonanza territory north of the Ophir mine on the celebrated Comstock ledge. They began work on a slide abandoned by Sharon and other large operators. The en- terprise was a fruitful source of ridicule in mining circles, nothing but financlal dls- aster being freely predicted. Without iosing heart or patience the four men continued expending half a million dollars in pros- pecting operations. The ledge was struck and over $110,000,000 were added to the world’s stock of preclous metals. No ac- curate estimate of Mr. Mackay's holdings in this state and Nevada can be made, but it will run up Into the millions. He was the owner of valuable real estate in this city and had interests in mines throughout the state and Nevad EXPOSITION BUILDING BURNS Largest Structure for Texas State Fair at Dallas Goes U in Smoke. "Frisco. DALLAS, Tex., July 20.—Fire broke out shortly after 8 o'clock this morning in the exposition grounds, Jocated in the suburbs of East Dallas, and in thirty minutes the main exposition bullding, one of the lar- gest buildings in the country, the mu- sic hall annex, the poultry bullding, the private buildings of the J. I Case Plow company, Southern Rock Island Plow com- pany and that of the Parlin-Orendorft company were destroyed. The loss will reach $100,000, with insurance of $30,000. The fire will not interfere with the hold- ing of the annual state fair. The Dallas fire department is crippled through the absence of its acting chiet and four firemen, who have gone to the Pasteur Institute in St. Louls to be treated for supposed hydrophobla, caused by tho bite of & mad horse. FOR REFUSING TO WED HIM Marshall, Missouri, Man Kills Sweet- heart and Then Commits Sulcide. MARSHALL, Mo, July 20.—George Wiley shot and killed Miss Dovie Fiynn step-daughter of Richard Dearking, a Chi- cago & Alton rallroad employe, at the lat- ter's home here at midnight last night and then committed suicide. The woman. had refused to marry him. Wiley had inter- cepted Miss Flynn on her way home from a religlous meeting and walked with her to her home. Mrs. Dearking had called to ber to come into the house and as she was padsing through the door, Wiley shot Miss Flynn from behind. She died within u few minutes without making a statement. Later Wiley's body was found in the straet in front of the Dearking bome. He had shot himself between the eyes and appareatly dled instastly, Foreeast for Nebraska—Falr and Warmer Monday; Tuesday Fair. Temperature at Omaha Y Hour, De, Hou » » » ». » » GUARD FLEES FOR HIS Miner Shoots Negro Workman Dure | ing Riot and is Forced to Take Refuge in Woods. FLORENCE, Cdlo., July 20.—W. H. Whits, a negro miner employed by the Coloradu Fuel and Iron company in its mines at Chandler, was fatally shot by Ed Bakewell, a guard at the mine, during a riot late last pight. About midnight a mob of negroes compelled Bakewell to flee for his lite into the woods, where he was overtaken and besieged. Yesterday was payday at the mines and following the usual custom the credit due at the company store was de ducted. This Infuriated some of the ne- groes, who became intoxicated, brandish- ing weapons and terrorizing the guards. White and his compantons came upen | Bakewell and another guard and White threatened to shoot. Bakewell ordercd him to lower his gun and uvon his re- fusal shot him in the stomach. The negroes aeserted that Bakewell had shot White in the back and gathering a crowd chased the guard out of town. Sheriff Simon of Canon City arrived this morning and find- ing Bakewell besleged on a hill by the negroes, hustled him into a buggy and drove him oft. The blacks pursued them, firing over 100 shots at the officers, none of which took effect. The mines are heavily guarded tonight, but no further trouble is expected. |MUST ANSWER FOR MURDER Man Who Broke Jail in 1808 and Killed Sheriff Back Behind the Bars. CLAY CENTER, Kan., July 20.—(Special Telegram.)—Sherifft Guthrie of Marshall Telegram.)—Sheriff Guthrie and a deputy of Marshall county brought J. S| Dalton in the Clay county jall for safe keeping awalting his trial at the October term of the district court of Marshall county. D: ton, in company with 14 Royal and Tom Taylor, are charged with committing bur- glary at Irving in {89S. They broke jail April 6, 1898, killing Deputy Sherift Bas- lerson at the time. Dalton is about 23 years old, and was captured at San An- tonlo, Tex., by Sheriff Guthrie. Royal and Taylor are still at large. Sherift Need of this county will not allow the prisoner any privileges while incarcerated here. SERVICES AT A MONASTERY Youthful Oandidates for Priesthood Take Vows and Listen to Admonitions. GRANVILLB, Wis, July 30.—At the monastery of the Berville order here today an interesting ceremony was witnessed by the parents of a number of youthful can- didates for the priesthood. Francls W. Munson and J. H. Gallagher of Chicago, G. J. Miller, Thomas,Mayer and Thomas Fritz of Detroit, James Cam- erford of New York and Herman Kester- mann of Granville P}nvlnl completed thelr first year's novitiate, took their vows and listened to admonitions from the master. The provinclal of the order In America, Father Hugh Crevier, s at present In Denver and was not able to reach here to take part in the ceremonies. TRY TO ROB PLACER MINE Robbers Attempt to Force Entrance Inte Hayden-Lama Workings and Shoot Watchman, LEADVILLE, Colo., July 20.—At day- light this morning three robbers attempted to force an entrance to the Hayden-Lama gold placer workings near Leadville. The watchman, Ora Iman, was shot through the arm before he could fire. He then suc- ceeded in shootfng one of the robbers, who was placed on a horse by his companion and carried away. Before Iman could fire the second time he was knocked senseless by another robber who had entered the window. The robbers secured no money. Prospectors report seeing horsemen carry- ing & dead man with them through the hills, 6o it is presumed ihe robber shot by Iman died. JUMP RESULTS IN DEATH Whe Leaped Dies from Injur DENVER, Colo., July 20.—Patrick J. En- right, who was & delegate to the Hiber- nian convention last week, and who be- came suddenly insane last Thursday and jumped from a second story, dled at St. Joseph’'s hospital today. His heart was weak and, although his only Injury was a broken leg, he falled to rally from the shock. Mr. Enright was born In Syracuse, N. Y., In 1868. For the last six years he has been general officer for the Anclent Order of Hibernians for the state of New York. The remains will be taken to Byracuse for interment. |been dlsmissed when the storm broke. SAY HIS NAME IS SEVERENS Fugitive Harry Tracy Alleged to Be Native of Wisconsin Instead of New York, ST. PAUL, July 20.—Harry Tracy, the | tugitive Oregon bandit, according to a report received from Grand Rapids, Wis. | 18 a native of Pittafield, Wis., and his true name 1s Severens. His grandparents, it 1s said, live in Grand Raplds, Wis., and are prosperous. After his imprisonment in the Oregon penitentlary he is sald to have written to his grandfather, asking the lat- ter to undertake to get s pardon for him, | but the old gentleman declined to ald him. The grandtather hes siuce become an in- { valld, and all reports of the desperado’s crimes have been kept from him. Movements of Ocean Vessels, July 20. At Lizard—Passed: Koenigin Louise, trom Bremen, for New York: Zeeland, from Ant- werp, for New York. At Liverpool—Arrived New York, for Queenstown. | overian, for Boston. At Gibraltar—8ailed: Trave, from Genoa tand Naples, for New York At New York—Arrived Glasgow and Moville; Southampion and Cherbours: Liverpool and Queenstown. At Queenstown—Bailed: | Liverpoo!, for New York. Btruria Sailed: from Han- Columbla, from Louls, ' from Umbria, from Lucanian, from ELEVEN LOSE LIVES Tornado Bweeps Suddenly Down Upen Oity of Baltimore, HUNDREDS CF TREES ARE UPROOTED Little Damage Done in Business Part, Wind Btriking the Leves. NINE MEET DEATH Were Out Rowing When Storm Oame and Failed to Reach Shelter, INCIDENT OF A DROWNING IN THE HARBOR PATHETIC Mother and Children Had Gone for a Sail When Wind © Boat, Throw Into th BALTIMOR, July 20.—A flerce tornade characterizéd by a wind storm of extra- ordinary velocity, thunder, vivid lightning, suddenly burst upon Baltimore at 1:30 p. m. today, coming from the southwest, with the net result that eleven persons lost their lives, hundreds of trees in the public parks and streets were torn up by the roots, many bulldings damaged and several peeple in- jured. The storm exhausted its fury in less than fifteen minutes. The damage done in the business part of the city was comparatively slight, being confined to the blowing down of signs and injuries to roofs. It was worst in portions of the city along the river front and in the harbor, where the wind spent its violence. Of those who perished nine were drowned in the harbor from open boats, one was killed by a falling tree and one by a live wire. The following is a.list of the killad: Drowned in the harbor: ROY BATEMAN, 12 years old. JOSEPH CAIN, 10 year old. JOHN CAIN, 6 years old. THOMAS CARROLL, 21 years old. HARRY M'CORMICK, 19 years old. MRS. MARY SCHULER, 28 years old. HARRY S. SCHULER, 10 months old. OLIVE SCHULER, 4 years old. CHARLES SCHULER, 7 years old. Killed by falling tr WILLIAM CORNISH, Killed by live wire: CHARLES SHAEFFER. Out in Rowboat. The first three of the above list wers out in a rowboat. When the storm broke the boat was capsized, three being drowned, and the three others in the boat being rescued by the tughoat Bdna V. George. The boy killed by a live wire had, in company with two other boys, gone into a shed for protection, when the shed blew down and a live wire fell on one of them, resulting in his death. The drowning of Mrs. Schuler and her children was the most pathetic incident. of the hurricane. Michael Schuler, with his wife and ‘three children, accompanied by his brother-in-law, Joseph Cooper, and. his wife had gone out fnto the harber for a sall in a thirty-foot boat. 2 ‘When ‘the storm eamé Schulet and Cooper took in sails. Schuler sent his wife and children into the little cabin and stood at the tiller to keep the vessel head to the wind. A sudden gust of wind threw the boom of fhe vessel around, knocking Schuler down and pinned him to the deck. Another gust capsized the boat, releasing Schuler, who with Cooper and his wife were thrown Into the water, leav- ing Mrs. Schuler and her children penned in the cabin. Cooper saved himself and his wife by hanging to the bottom of the overturned boat and Schuler saved himselt in the same way after making frantic ef- forts to get at his imprisoned wifo and children. A crew from the schooner Edward H. Hunt rescued Schuler and Cooper and wife and towed the capsized vessel to the wharf, where it was righted and the dead bodies of Mre. Schuler and the children were taken from the cabin. Thomas Carroll, with four other young men, were out in the harbor in a rowboat, which was capsized. Carroll was drowned, while his four companions clung to the rud- der of the Merchant and Miners' steamship Chatham, from which perilous position they were rescued by the tug Mary. Tree Falls Onto Tent. A colored campmeeting was in progress in Paradise Grove. The congregation had just A huge tree fell on the tent in which the services had been held. Several of the worshipers were caught beneath 1t as it tell. The tree had to be sawed into pleces before the Imprisoned men and women could be released. Willlam Cornish was erushed to death by the falling tree. The others were not seriously hurt. A hole several feet in diameter was blown In S, Mary's Star of the Sea Cath- olie church, South Baltimore. A portion of the stone cornice weighing more than a ton tell to the street. Fortunately no one was injured by the falling stone snd brick. The damage to the church is estimated at 7,000, While the storm was at its beight a boat's crew from the German asteamer Breslau, at anchor in the harbor, plcked up two men from a boat which had beea zed oft Wolf street. At the foot of Concord street the Mer- chants' and Miners’ Transportation com- pany’s warehouse was unroofed with small damago to the bullding, but the rain poured in on the valuable cargo stored therein, doing damage estimated at from $100,000 to $300,000. The gas reservoir in South Baltimore, contalning about 300,000 feet of gas, was blown over, the gas exploding without fn- juring anyone, the damage being placed at $15,000. The damage to the shipping in the harbor was general, including such as the ripping of salls and the loss of masts and spars. The weather bureau here re- ports that it was more in the nature of a whirlwind than a tornado. The wind blew at the rate of sixty-four miles an hour and the rainfall was 56-100 of an inch. The first indleation of the storm was apparent at 1:25 p. m. and the sun reappeared at 1:45. Reports from outlying districts are meager, but o far as is known the storm was confined to Baltimore and suburbs. colored. Two Execursionists Drown. TOLCHESTER, Md., July 20.—James B. Post aged 20, and Theo. C. Parker, 22, of Baltimore, who came here today on an ex- cursion were drowned this afternoon. They with four companions were rowing in the bay. A wind squall overturned the boat. The other occupants of the little cratt clung to it until rescu Presiden OYSTER BAY. N. Y., July 20 Roosevelt passed a quiet Sunday at hfl more Hill. There were no cailers on {h | president and his family attended religious services in the morning at Christ pil Ehurch, of which Mrs. Roosevelt is & mem- er,