Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 2, 1909, Page 1

PART ONE NEWS SECTION PAGES 1 TO VOL. XXXVIII—NO. TROLLEY LINES AND TELEPHONES First Report of State Railway Com- mission Goes Into Details of Their Business. SIX ELECTRIC LINES OPERATING Two Hundred and Eight Telephone Companies in Nebraska Year Ago. OVER 125,000 INSTRUMENTS USED At Date of Report, June 30, 1908, 54,338 Farms Had 'Phones. CITY SUBSCRIBERS OVER 36,000 Financial Showing of Street Rallway and Tele) e Companies T Prosperity, with Much New Construction Done. Number slectric strest rallways. 6. _Passengers carried year ending June 30, 1908, 51,182,942, Capital stock, $16,044,048. Btockholders, 693. Assets, $38,957,176.60; 977,890.89. Miles of track operated, 186, Gross earnings six ocompanies, $2,- 711,238.83. Mot income six companies, $1,397,853.94. Number telephone companies, 208. Stookholders, 13,953, Book cost construction of lines, plant, bulldings, cash assets, $21,984,503. Milen of wire, 61,549, Bubsoribers werved, 91,985, by 185,900 instruments. liabilities, 8§28, The forthcoming report of the Nebraska State Rallway commission, the first since the organigation of the body, will prove uf decided interest becavse of the detailed information 1t will put before the public touching the various corporations now un- der the control of the commission. The year covered by the figures ended June 30, 1008, This report, now in press, will show that there are six electric rallways doing busi- Pess in the state: two being credited to Omaha and four to Lincoln. These half dozen companies date named, W6 passenger motors and opern They carried au paving passen- Bers of 3.0%,49, and non- DAYIOR passcugers (v the number of §01.- L Tne six companies had a revenue from passcngers amounting to $2.630,i1154; from ©OLher sources. $30.77.29; total gross earn- ings. 82,711,888, The total operating ex- pense amounted to $1,315,857.72. Net Income {rom operation, $1,307,858 M. After paying interest to the amouat of $446.140.70. taxes to the amount of §140,- 47031, dividends to the amount of 461,823 and reserving for deprectation $253,%8.3, there was a surplus of L7083 for the #ix companies. One company, the Omaha, Lincoin & Beatrice, showed a_ deticlt of 2260085, Additions and bettermients: wur- ing the year ended June 3, 1908, -ost §784,- 61,23, » Ntoek Indebtednens. Capital stock of the companies, issus: and outstanding, was $16.044.648, of which $1L,2446 was common and 35,600,900 pre- ferred; authortsed capital stock, $20,415,000. Bonds outstanding, #.222000, of which at the cars and 3 s of track & revenu o the numbes amount $9,663.000 s charged to the Omaha | & Councll Bluffs company and $159,00 tc the Lineoin Tyaction company. The stock- holders in the six companies numbered 693, of whom M1 held stock in the Omana company, 2§ In Lincoln companies and one in the Omahs & Southern Interurban, which was operating eleven miles of track Book cost of structures oadway a equipment totaled $19.353,%1.51: lands, build ings and fixtures, $23190.64, and the total essets of every Kind were set down at 38, #7.175.60. Total abllities were set down at $38,977 %90 8. divided wmong the companies as follows: Omaba & Co Bluffs, $%, @8515.07; Lincoln Traction company. 31966 - $68.05; Citizens’ Raflway company, $359, g Omaha & Southern Tnterurban, $527,716,29; Omaha, Lincoln & Beatrice, $281,006.28; Lin- coln, Capital Beach & Milford, $57.600, Carrled Many Millions Passcugers carried Ly the varfous com- pan luring (he year ended June 30, 1%8: Omaha & Councll Rlurfs, 41,9164 Li Traction company. 65697 Citlzens’ 801 coln reve B SRRy, 38Ol 2.15, coln Rail- Omaha & Omaba. Lin- Averag Omaha & Caunci Lincoln Traction com- Raflway company, 4.46; Oma Southern Interurban. 8.73; Omaha. Reatrice, 5,08, & Council & comy 8 cents & Omaha Lincoln operated 108 pense of $97,810.41, divided into these items Maintenance of way and structures, $82- S20.15; maintenance of equipment. 391, power, $18568.58; transportation, $50,177.95; gencral. SI8462863. It had a revenue of 6 from passenger traffic and other ting to $76.040.08; total gross Net income from Bluffs company revenue @ earning opera T § .z pany paid N dividends, ved for taxes In the sum of $400.000; Interest. $433. reser depreciation, $500,000 edited $11.536.70, and spent for betterments during the $674,19.96, company at t d 400 passenger [ and 4 operated .24 o leased truck en miles of track were operated by Omaha & Interurban. at tal expense Ttems tenance way structures, bowe: 1 transportation yenera) 16.4. It had a revenue from patsenger trafflc of 0007, from other vources, $135: totul gross earnings. $36.143.07 Net income from operation. $10,059.48 Thils company paid in tuxes, $1,402.90; cred- ted 31,1038 to surplus. ed 33,500 for reclation. No interest was patd, aund no lividends. During the year 3$8.661.% went for betterments vear Phe time owr e miles wotors, and th Southern £24,000.78. and ' 88.17; $1.56277 resery was Omaka Company. Authorized capital stock of the Omaha & | ouncil Bluffs company, $15,000000, two- thirds common and one-third preferred he stockholders number 3. Book cost of tructures, roadway and equipn 49.46; lands, bulldings, B6.74; material and supplies on hand, 3%, S35 cash and current assets. 362,416 Nl other assets. $5.715,964.89; total ass: 26.028,915.07. The company's labilities June 3, wide from capital stock, were: 1908, Bonds out- AContinued on Fowth Page.) 46. miles of track at & total ex- | | Main- | - ‘THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. OMAHA, SUNDAY FOR ALL THE NEWS THE OMAHA BEE BEST IN THE WEST MORNING, ‘wo Million of Wheat Delivered to Patten Saturday | Bull Operator in Position to Resell it Immediately at Large Profit. | CHICAGO, May 1.—This was delivery day on the Board of Trade and the May option | which s the medium of the recent buil campaign led by James A. Patten, became cash wheat. On May contracts today 2,000,000 bushels of wheat were delivered, practically ali of it to Bartlett, Patten & Co. Brokers have hasarded a guess that Mr Patten paid an average of $1.08 for his May wheat Assuming this figure to approximately correct, Mr. Patten might have sold the morning at £1.12 for delivery in July, which would show a profit of 4 cents a bushel | May wheat, however, opened today at $1.24% to 1244 and a good demand for actual wheat would enabls the bull leader to sell at a much greater profit | While May 1 is commonly known as de livery day, sellers have until the end of the month to turn over the wheat which they have sold. Formerly only No. 2 red winter wheat could bs delivered on future contracts, but under a new rule of the board made two years ago No. 2 spring wheat was made standard. A large quan- its way down from the heads of the lakes when navigation opens, thus swelling the amount In the Patten elevators. No. 2 red wheat is selling at $1.41% to $1.44% and No. 2 spring at $1.3% Miss Davidson is Acquitted Young Woman Who Shot Man for Calling Her Vile Name Held Fot Guilty. NBOSHO, Mo, May 1.—Miss “Johnny Davidson, the young helress, on trial here charged with the murder of Roy Ramsour, her sister's suitor, was acquitted here this morning. The jury was out seventeen hours, having been given the case at 4 o'clock Friday aft- ernoon, after a sensational trial. Miss Davidson wealthy in her own right and her family is prominent. The Remsqur family also {s well-to-do, and be- eaus the case has caused intense feeling. Yesterday Miss Dadideon showed the strain of the trial for the first time. She broke down and cricd, as many other women in the court room did, when her attorney concluded his plea for her lite, Bihe also gave way to her feeling when the prosecutor condemned her as a ‘“cold blooded murderess. A dramatic scene marked the closing ar- #uments when Mrs. Bamuel Reynolds, aunt of (he slain man, became wildly hysterical duiing the arguments of the jrosecutor. | 8he screanied aloud a demand that the de- ffendant bo convicted and then collapees, completaly LIQUOR DEBATE NEXT TUESDAY il slon of Prohibition Amendment { to Come Ip Sennte =t thidt Time. JEFFERSON version of the CITY, May constitutionai 1.—A revised amendment | the house proposed to submit to the voters | of the state next November, was reported |10 the senate today. The measure will go {on the calendar for passage Monday | debate on it will probably begin Tuesda The senate measure strikes out the provi- elon adopted by the house which would | make 1913 prohibition, if carried, effective in Another change is the addition of a tux rider, allowing the state, counties and | \ municipalities to double thelr present con- sttuttonal rate of taxatiom to make up deficits caused by ihe loss of liquor, rev- {enues. It fs predicted that this portion of { the senate report will meet strenuous oppo- | sition in the house. lSILK MERCHANT A SUICIDE At Moen of Chicego K sclf im Chicago Because of Ul-Henlth. 1A Wi CHICAGO, May weul'liy retired sitk ' and rather o prising the mitted sulcide early | #iven as the cause L—August Mo nerchant aged 52 years Joseph and Julius Moos, com- firm of Moos Brothers today. Il a com- health js Prof. Fosmler to Madison. MADISON, Wis., May 1.—(8pectal.)—~Prof. | Laurence Fossler of the University of Ne- | braska has been appolnted a member of !the faculty of the German department for | the next summer session of the University of Wisconsin by the executive committes ! ot the regents. be | tity of this lafter, it 1a expected, will find | of the prominence of the principals | providing for state-wide prohibition, which | and | |MASSACRE IS ; LAID TO SULTA¥ Attacks on Americans Orderad\“ Abdul Hamid as Part of the Reactionary Plot. \ ilnlention Was to Murder All For- eigners in Constantinople. ;AB.HY TAKES PROMPT ACTION It Occupies City Before Diabelical Scheme Could Be Carried Out. | ORI wheat delivered him this| PURKS KILL MANY MISSIONARIES | Rev. R, owbridge Dee Ibes Shooting of D. M, Rogers and Henry Maurer While Fighting Fire. Stephen CONSTANTINOPLB, May 1.—The minis- istry of the interfor is convinced that the attacks on Armenians in the Cilicia dis. trict were arranged from Comstantinople, | synohronizing as they aid with the mutiny | of the troops here for the restoration absolutiem. Fleld Marshal Ghaz Moukar firmed the truth of the rumors that the massacre of all foreigners, {ncluding the ambassadors at Constantinople, was planned for Saturday, April 24, possibly | .W.lh the object of causing the interven- tion of the powers. It was the original | plan of Schefket Pasha. commanding the constitutional army, to enter Constantl nople Sunday, the %th, but when he learned of the plans to massacre he ordered his army to enter the city Saturday morning Moslems Kill Missionaries. Stephen R. Trowbridge, a missionary [ who witnessed the kililng in Adana of D M. Rogers and Henry Maurer, fellow mis- | sionarles at Adana, has supplied an ac- | count of the occurrence, dated Adana, | | April 24, to representatives of the grand vizler and has written It out also for the mission board at home. Mr. Trowbridge s “Firing and fighting began April 14 be- tween Moselms and Armenians, which re- sulted in & number of casualties on both | | sides. | “The next morning conflagrations result- ing from Incendlary fires had spread L Buch an extent that we were obliged t | watch closely the environs of the building | {of the girls' school and the residence of | William N. Chambers. Mr. Rogers was guarding the home of Miss Wallace and the dispensary across the street. It was clear that the large school was in danger. | Up to that time no one nad dared to go | on the streets because of the shooting from | one end by Moelems and the other by Armenlans. today con- No Attempt to Stop Riot. | “All this time there had been no aign of | any effort on the part »f the government | authorlties 1o stop the rioting, pillaging and | burning.” { Mr. Trowbridge then tells of the efforts MAY SECOND SLAUGHTER PLANNED | of | 1909 } | < o From the Washington Sunday Star, ~-SEVEN SECTTONS—FORTY-EIGHT PAGES, SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. Gz o~ THE WELL EARNED VACATION WELCOME FOR JAP SQUADRON San Francisco Gives Demonstration for Admiral Ijichi. NAVY 1IN RECEPTION LINE Ofcers Make the Day Notable One, Coming on the Anniversary of Admiral Dewer's Victory at Manila. SAN FRANCISCO. May 1.—Fer the first time In many vears San Francisco fs tending the hospitality of her harbor to & visiting squadron of Japancse warehips. Representatives. stafc sag’ fiaton united today in orpble greeting for Admiral Tjicht §ud tjfe officers and men of the crufsers Awo Hoya, which ar- rived this mernflig f 'm San Pedro. of himself, Mr. Rogcrs gnd Mr. Maurer, | working with crowba tinued: “Mr. Maurer was using the crowbar | against a wall, and I, higher up, was pour. | Ing water on places just catching fire. We had thus worked a considerablo time with out being harmed by the Moslems, wilen the Armenilans at the other end of the street commenced firing on the where the looters were at work. Suddenly | two shots rang out not more than eight | Rogers, who was in tha street bringing | water, was mortally wounded. He called | 0 me by name and then fell in the middle | of the street. The other bullet hit Mr.} Maurer in the left lung near the heart and | the crowbar foll from his hands. He then | ciimbed down the ladder and collapsed at | the side of Mr. Rogers. Il “Inimedlately after these two shots sev- | eral other buljets from the Mosiems | whizzed past me.) I dropped almost flat on | the roof and made my way to the edge. | Subsequently T climbed down.” A littie later when British Vice Consul Daughty-Wyle, with twenty Purkish sel- diers, arrived on the spot, the neighborhood was deserted and the murderers had fled. | “Mr. Maurer,” concludes Mr. Trowbridge, | ‘died a few minutes later in the school | building and Mr. Rogers lived only & few ! | minutes longer than BMr. Maurer, He aid | | nat regain consciousness. " “Both men died as good Christlan sol | diers of Jesus Christ.” | | New Sulta WASHINGTON ~Sultan Mehmed | V.. of Turkey, has cabled a message in| acknowledgement of the greetings sent to | him by President Taft on his ascension to the throne. The cablegram, l_..‘A dated at Para, yester- (Continued on Second Page.) :Oue | Down witti the Queen o | live the king' ! Whe i king of the May? The May Turkey dead ones May was the May! Long Jack Frost | aueen of the ard the sultan of are day broke The bright and clear sky aztre blue and the sun shone The dense follage of { balny breege and the | the alr- irresistable in their power of fascination. “Such @ day it was for the anmuai pienic and our peopls showed their sppreciath ,of ature’'r benediction by large nunibers down on the creek, miles west of John Smith's old place, | where pienics have been held lo these many years. The day was most enjoyably spen |ana was so warm and nice that some of :l"m young folks strolled off down Lover's !1.nm and did pot get back until way In brightly beantiful green sward and | the the trees sweet and fregrance of two " | the night Miss 8allie B the charming {ter of Mr. ond M Lemual Brown, | Rumor says she I afflanced .o | 8impson), was queen the May, | handsome queen she x own, daugh (Dame Dudley and a 1o |cepter with majestic grace. Her throne {was & bower of red and white roses. Her | iy, en of'flle May, Like A. Han}_id, the | | these elements of nature were | turning out In | She becamg her | Ignity and swayed h tanding, $9,08.000; loans and notes payable, | tPTON® With regal dignity an @yed her | agreeable, it has been spared the tornadoes i§ a Dead One. chariot wheels were entwined | end ali about her with them were fragrant flowers. | This is a tale of the long, sweet long- ago n springs came in their regular {turn and winter was content with at least | { six months duration: when the good, old- | fashioned folkc turned out on May day to| enjoy their annual pleric, and the young like the birds. cooed and mated, and | the children scampered over the grass and | threw roses at the queen of the May. But It's all over now. May day is a fic B et memary of & fantastic wi axe May day, 1%0, came upon Omaha with a temperature of % degrees above zero at 7 m., and upon many portions of Ne- braska with 18 to 20 degrees, and as far outh as Texas this frigid climate spread. | It is the coldest May day on record In | the Nebraska weather bureau district. The | lowest temperature recorded for the duy | was %, or one degree lower than the cold- est reported for thirty-nine year: May 3, {197, when It was 2 avove zero, or since | the establishment of the Omaha weather bureau After all Omaha While its weath has been fortunate. has been raw and dis- | that have struck other vortions of the coun- Exactly at the hous set for their arrival axes and carrying | the two vessels steamed through the golden | CUtion of the guilty persons,” Mr. Stimson water, to save the school bullding. He con- | gate, proceeded down the bay to Man-o'- | ¢clared. “There will be no let up, but on | War row, where the four gray crulsers of | {he other hand the case will be prosecuted Admiral Swinburna's fleet malute of welcome. Several miles beyond the harbor entrance the Japanese training squadron was met by the revenue cutter McCulloch. The cutter Golden Gate, with the official thundered a houses | ception committees as passengers, met the | Japaness warships in the strait fleat of excursion boats, mgny while of them yards from where we were working. Mr. |gally decorated with Japanese and Amer- i'mplfl,\r who have been gullty of criminal [fean flags, followed the larger vessals to anchorage. Coming on a day when American naval ! ofticers are accusfomed to obmserve nniversary of Admiral Dewey's victery In Manila bay, the officers and men of the training squadron were given a particular welcome by the steamers of the Pacific fieet Admiral Swinburne and General Wes- ton, accompanied by thelr staff. headed & committee of prominent men which made the first officlal call upon Admiral Tfichi the party being conveyed to the Japanese admiral's ship on the West Virgini warm words of greeting had been ex- changed, the party returned to the flag ship West Virginia, where Admiral Swin- burne, half an hour later, had the pleasure of receiving the Japanese admiral The most enthusiastic greeting to the squadron was that accorded their country- men by thousands of Japanese. In the Japanese quarter the flag of the Rising 8un is everywhere in evidence. FLOOD DANGER IS PASSED Rivers WNigh, seriom but Ne Over Preses Liability at of w PITTSBURG, May 1.—While today are ha and some of the low the rivers Iying districts in the uburbs are submerged, there is no danger f a serlous flood Watch the pen- nies and the dollars witl take care of themselves. The thrifty watch the want ads. Watch the want ads, they make the pemnies that grow to dollars. When you keep things you don't neod they are worth less every yoar, There are a lot of people who know this who waat to sell all sorts of things cheap. They sell them through Bee want ade. All you have to do is to keep reading the want sds. You will find you oan the | Atter | a foot above the danger line | Sugar Trust to Be Forced Into Criminal Court [ I | Special Attorney Stimson Will Prose- | cute Company for Gro | Customs Frauds. | NEW YORK. May 1.—Criminal prosecu- tions by the federal government will ba begun as a result of the disclosures in the recent suit of the government against the Amerlcan Sugar Refining company. This announcement was made today by Henry thneon, wiho is acting as special attorney for the government. Mr. Stimson's statement followed a con- ferenice with United States District Attor- ney Wise in the latter's office. Of course there will be a criminal prose- 1 10 & finish “The corporation already has been pun- ished criminally by the $134,00 penalties |imposed,” he added. “That was a punish- {ment for eriminal acts. The other $2000,000 | was restitution of back dutles accruing | from false welghing. The thing for us to now is to get at the human baings be- {ind the corporation, whether officer | do or acts and punish them. We cannot tell when the prosecution will begin, but it will be as | 500N as we get our evidence ready to pre- | jment. \Dominguez is in Mexico City | Mexican Representative at Corn Show s at Hotel Sanz in the Capital. EL PABO, Tex., May l-Zeferino minguez, representive of Mex | Natlonal Corn exhibition at Om | teader { Do- o at the | ha, and a In the scientific farming movement in Mexico, who was reporied in dispaiches from Omaha last Tuesday as missing, is In Mexico City at the Hotel Banz. Ac- cording to a telegram from Senor Do- minguez he has been receiving all mail | ‘dlredld to him elther at Mexico City or 1}‘\1?[)1!, and that at no time has he been { where his mail could not reach him. | CENSUS TILT _OLD HISTORY | Incident, Now Declared to Be Closed, WASHINGTON, May 1—Senators and representatives who have talked with Pres- | ident Taft during the last few da |ing the census bureau affairs are con- | vinced that the incident is closed. The | cogtroversy did not attain to the seriou regard- | sary, { neks of formal charges, however, and con- | sequently will no official an- | to the adjustment of the ' ther | nouncement as { matter. Interstate Commerce Commission May Take Hand in Missouri Case. WARNER MAKES CHARGES Resolution troduced in Senate Says Tarifis on Interstate Trafc Are Too High and Asks Investigation, WASHINGTON, May 1.—There will be an opportunity next Monday for the senate to order an investigation by the Interstate Commerce commission into charges that the rallroads of Missour! doing an inter- state business are charging unreasonable rates. When this resolution was fntro- duced In the senate by Senator Warner yesterday he asked for immediate consid- | eration, but Senator Culberson ebjected, as | he | ment. had not had time to examine the docu- The eighteen rallroads of Missouri r ferred to wera recently engaged in litiga- tion with that state on the ground that the state laws in wviol on of the four- teenth amendment to the constitution in that the rates fixed by them did not per mit a reasonable return upon the value of thelr property. preamble recites that the figures submitted by these roads show that they have in fact been charging un- reasonable rates. [t is now proposed (o instruct the Interstate Commerce commis sion to Investigate all of these charges order that the commission may, If neces- issue orders to the abuses, are correct | There will be an effort to take up the res lutien for after the consideration Monday senate assembies. shortly 1Smith and Williams Give Their Bonds| Indianapolis Newspaper rested and Arraigned Panama Libel Charge. on INDIANAPOLIS. Smith and Charles of the Ind. May lL—Delavan Williams, proprietors Indianapolis News, were formally arralgned late this afternoon and released on $5,000 surety each Smith and Willlams were indicted by the grand jury of the District of Columbla, together with the proprietors of the New York World, on the charge of having com- mitted criminal libel in publishing certain statements bearing on the purchase of the Panama canal by the United States gov- ernment. |LARGEST STEAMER ON LAKES ngo, Largest Inte Service at Ahout M elghter Goes Detroit—~Cont 1t Million. DETROIT, Mich, May 1 steamer on the Great Lakes Bhenango. was successfully The Shenango feet 000, e largest launched today is o0, long and cost ! PEORIA N, May 1.—At 5:80 this morn- | ing three arches of the concrete-steel new wagon bridge, which was recently opened for traffic, fell into the river and lies at the bottom & total mass of ruins. At the time of the disaster no one was on the bridge and consequently there was no loss of life. Bridge Superintendent Finley was at the bridge tender's office when the disaster occurred. He sald “Costello and myself were in the bridge tendei's Louse th morning at 5:% o'clock when a farmer ossed the bridge. driving toward the city About twenty minutes later we heard a nolse ke a team driving up on the approach of the bridge. At the same time there was a rumbling noise as if something had struck the big channel pler where the house s located, A ‘Big Concrete-Steel Bridge at Peoria Crashes Into River “Both of house 1 od to the door stepped out we were e the first arch from the side of the big channel pler rise into the air and crash into the river. There was a creaking and splinter- ing sound of steel, as the ribs of the arch snapped off like matchwood. The arch raised a fearful height Into the air and then top- pled over. One after another of the arches took the same Just like cards standing on end and pushed over. We could hardly realige what had happened and im- mediately gave the alarm. The Marsh Bridge company of Des Moines, Ta.,*was awarded the contract for construction, and the price proper was $14,000 1s unpaid <@ and when w Just in draw cast course, r the about bridg of which Men Ar- the freighter | 00 | 'TWO HUNDRED | KILLED BY STORM Awful Loss of Life Caused by Series of Hurricanes and Tornadoes in Eight States, | fnmm DEAD IN THE SOUTH lLou Appears to Be the Heaviest in Tennessee and Alabama. BLIZZARD IN LAKE REGION Snow is Reported in Parts of Wisconsin and Michigan. COLD WAVE IS MOVING EAST Region West of the Misaisaippl River is Comparatively Clear—Freer- ing Temperature as Far South as Missouri. CHICAGO, May 1.—The siorm which be- &an Thursday and the death list of which approximates 200 persons in the states of Illinols, Tennessee, Arkansas, Misslssippi, Georgla, Alabama, Missouri and Penn- sylvania took the form of a mild blizsard in the upper lake region today, Including Chicago, where a moderate wind was ac- companied by snow. At Buperior, Wia,, there was snow enough for slelghing. Winnipes reported many cattle killed, and from the southwest came stories of blasted orchard, Wire conditions, according to the tele- graph and telephone companies, were much improved The wenather b tions today, sald: “The storm this morning is centered over the Lake Superfor region, while a swecondary dlsturbance covered the Atlantie coast states. The weather in the rear of the | storm is slowly clearing, snow still falling n the western lake region and the upper Mississippl valley. The weather, however. beyond the Misaissipp! valley is now fair Abtormally cold weather has advanced from the Rocky mountain region eastward over the central valleys, freesing tempera tures being reported as far south as south ern Missouri and frosts as far south ae Texan and Arkansas.' i Hundreds Dead in South. MEMPHIS, Tenn. May 1.—~While some sections in uie pathway of the storm are still to be heard from, Information so far recelved from Arkansas, western Tennessee and northern Mississippi bring the total number of killed by the tornado of Thurs- day night to 100, the injured, some of whom | are believed to be fatally hurt. to twice the number and while an accurate estimate of the monetary loss Is not yet possible ench dispatch describes the storm as the most destructive that las ever swept over this portion of the country. 1t was aimost the most remarkable as to the extent oi the territory affected The greatest number of dead and injured is reported from Horn Lake, Miss. Here eighteen bodies have already been disco ered among the ruins of the farm dwal- lings. Of this number seven are those of | white people. The number of injured 13 | placed at fifty, many of whom are seriousl hurt. The properly loss is roughly esti. [mated at $100,000 in this vicinity. Cadda Gap, Ark., reports a similar number of dead and many wounded At Fayetteville, Tenn., the death st |placed at fitteen and the injured at fifry Other towns from which reports bave | been recelved here are In Arkansas—Marianna, four dead twenty injured; near Hot Springs, four in ! Jured; Palestine, fifteen injured; Bee Branch, two dead, three injured; Heber | two dead ven injured; Wilburn, one | dead; Wheatley, one dead, threc injured Crawfordsvxille, one injured; Marlon, fi dead, elght Injured; Zebuon, one dead, one | njured. | In Tennessee—Somerville, five dead, four |injured: Bolivar, one dead, thirteen in | Jured; Dechard, four dead, twelve injure. | Monezuma, twelve injured; Humboldt, four dead; Medina, three dead, elght injured; Whiteville, two injured; Bells, six dead, | twenty-three injured; Quillo, three dea { twelve injured; Lula, four dead; Deliach, | two dead; Hanley, two dead, ten Injured. | Clarksville, one dead, six injured. cau's summary of condi- in Forty Dea NASHVILLE L-Burly re- ports this morning of yesterday's storm 4dd to the gravity of the situation at Pu- laski, Giles county; Centerville, Hickma county; Fayetteville, Lincoln county Franklin, Willlamson county, | sections of central county's death list, it is said, may reach forty, while the property damage ap- proximates $150,000. Hickman eouunty re- ports seven dead and 100,000 damages; Lin- coln county reports elght killed, a long lfst of injured, and hamlet of Harms al- most completely destroyed. Half a dozen deaths are known of fn Willlamson ebunty, where the property damage is vast, and from every point In the central section come stories of buildings and crops de- stroyed, live stock killed, and in seversl instances fires. | At Bells, in Crockett county, six persons wero killed and a hundred others rendered homeless. the ennessee Pivot of Wind. LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 1.—-May day, fol- [lowing the windstorm, which caused per- |haps 100 deaths throughout the southern states, will be spent by the telegraph com- panics In repairing thelr wires, With the overland line of communication from Lo ville to New Orleans once established au- thentic lists of the victims of the storm be secured It has heen years since the winds have gathered s0 many victims, Tennessee, sloping westward from the Virginia moun taing to the dunes along the Mississippl ded angle for the wind to piy upou, and the list of sixty dead in th |state scems to have been corroborated Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi and Geor- gla also suffered. Word from Guthrie, Ky early today is that three persons were killed there today fatalities in Ken- tucky, 8o far as Is now known, Loulsiana and Texas scem been unscathed, but poor communi makes even this doubt{ul As far east as Mount Sterling houses were unroofed ed turnpikes fires started an the only to have on Ky., barns tobacco sheds made rivers of in overturned awa and | dwellings. ! At Frankfort | vaitea iens | Other counties 0 the same Iy 'm the Mississippl river the Big Bandy have similar reports. Twenty-One at Norfolk. NORFOLE. Neb. May 1-The tempesss conditions ypre-