The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 30, 1896, Page 1

+4++ ATRaQIT 3:{—1 , woaj usye} 8q oy | 30u aaded sy VOLUME LXXX.—NO. 122 EPTEMBER 30, 1896. 3G STORMS D FLODDS - Fury of the Elements in Eastern and Southern : Sections, "LIVES LOST IN RAGING . “CYCLONES. Great Havoc Caused by Mad Winds in the Fair City - of* Savannah, DEPOT U.F THE PLANT SYSTEM DEMOLISHED. ; Pelegraphic Communication Cut Off in ° Many Localities—Damage Only 3 Partly Known. * "ATLANTA, GA., Sept. 29.—The equi- 1qctial storm which was reported moving 1orihward off ‘Cuba two days ago reached ihe southern coast of the United States this morning and spread northward with ‘edoubled fury. Reports received by the United Associated Presses to-night indicate kloss of eleven lives and tremendous dam- \ze to ptoperty. The storm is believed to 1avé exceeded in fury that of 1893. Tt will be geyeral days before the full extent of the damage is Known. ° No intormation has been received from point sofith of Brunswick, and it is ‘edred that the lamage in Soutbern Flor- da has been immense. The sform struck ‘Brunswick shortly before noon, but it -was .. nidnight‘before.any report was. had from «hatplace, and then only meager informa- don couid be learned. Several lives were ost there, but mo names were koown, as :ommunicaiion’was not established. The bss there wijl reach nearly $500,000, the Plant railway system being among the ."deaviest sufferers. The storm is stiil rag- ng, and communication is had only at in- * _ ervals. ° The wind reached a yelocity of mixty- wo miles an hour at Charleston, and but or the big seawall the damage to the city vould have been immense. Fears are en- ertained for the safety of vessels out- e From Savannah comes the worst news »f the night. The storm seems to have “eached its fullest intensity here and the .cgs of life is larger than at any other *dlace thus far ‘heard trom. As far as - tnown seven lives were lost and thisis jut an estimate. The loss to property . ‘eacues the $1,000,000 mark. The information obtasined from the ‘ountry below reached this city from Willen, which seems to be the only point vhich the telegraph companies can reach vithreliability. All railroad traffic is at-a tandstill > trainschave passed over the Florida al and Peninsular Railroad to-day tnd. it is feared that, the damage to the ountry round about Jacksonv.lle, and *yossibly to that city itself, has been tre- nend SA VAH, Ga., Bept. 29 —Seven ives lost, & miliion dollars’ worth of prop- Irty destroyed—that is the record of a cy- slone Which swept Savannah from 11:3) L, M. until 1 2. M. to-day. The loss of ife and damage 1o property are yet mere istumates and Loth may be greater than known. - The storm, which "had been “lurking in he®easiern guf for the last few days, .'wept rapidly across Florida at 8 o’clock his mqrning and without warning burst ipon Savannah. In baif an hour it had lone its work.. The streets were fillea yith wreckage. Hardly a house in the " lity escaped without more or less damsgge, shough there are few comparativeiy total . wrecks. Belore the -storm was at its height the veafher observer said it would not be over “orty miles ah hour. 1f began to rise at e’ o’clock. Hali an hour later it was slowing sixty miles an hour and the air vas filled with-flying debris. When the ¥ind reached a’velocity of sixty-six miles ° an hour the instruments at the weather itation were plown away. The storm was terrific in its intensity, xceeding the great cyclone of 1893, whith levastated the South Carolina coast. * The - lbortness of itg duration was all that aved an annihilation of evervthing within its range. The storm came from the southeast ana twept directly over the city..- Hardly a sublic building escaped its fury. The orests and the city were laid in swaths, fhe parks are in ruins and many build- ngs were razed to°the ground. The im- nense Plant system passenger depot was he first building in the path of the storm ind was a complete wreck. The magnifi- ent prize train of 'the Plant svstem ex- tibited at ‘the Cotton States Exposition ind stored in the shed was wrecked and . the cars are almbst a total loss. The Central Raiiroad of Georgia and Llabama Railroad freight warehouses on he opposite side of the city were unroofed ind the walls demolished. The public narket was blown in. Tuetheater was jaftially unroofed, and the SBecond Bap- ist Church 1s almost a total wreck. The SBavannah Hospital and the Georgia [nfirmary were unrocfed. The city ana mburban‘ street railway car sheds, in vhich were stored twenty cars, were Mown down. The Georgia Hussars’ rmory was badly dama ed. Nearly every itore in the retail part of the city was niore or less damaged. The damage to the shipping was less han in 1893. The Norwegian bark tosenious, anchored in the harbor, wes fapsized. The German bark Cuba, loaded vith naval stores for Hamburg, went fground sbelow the city. The bark Miza, vaded with naval stores and ready. for sea, tas blown against the. training wall five biles below the city and is lying on he; ide. Tre tug Robert Turner went to pieces against the Government jetty. Three of her crew and caprain C. H. Murray are supposed to have been lost. The others were rescued by a tug. Two vesselsat quarantine were blown across the river and are high avnd dry. The United States revenue cutter Tybee sustained slight damage. Small -boats were thrown about in every direction. The Flora left at 9 A. M., with a heavy cargo for Brunswick, She is in charge of Captain Jenkins, her owner. Tie steamer Governor Stafford, Captain Strobnar, was to leave Beanfort for Savan- uah at 10 o'clock A. M. Grave fears are en- tertained for the vessel. She was due at Tybee at noon, and it is thought.the storm was at that hour &t its height at the island. The steamboat Star arrived from Bluffton at 11 o’clock, getting in just in time. The bark Hilda, owned in Savan- nah, left last night for Brunswick, in tow of the tug Cynthia, snd no news has been received of her. One hundred thousand to $150,000 is believed to be a low estimate of t..e damage to the shippinz. Telegraphic communication was cut off at the beginning of the storm and no wires have been working in any direction since noon, this rep rt being sent by train for transmission from Miller, Ga. 'The Western Union has its force of linemen out in all directions. The¢ only train to arrive in the city since the storm began is the northbound Piant system fast mail, which arrived two hours late and is still here awaiting information as to the con- dition of the track north of here. A spe- cial train'was sent out late this afternoon over the Plant system, but has not yet re- tarned. The Central Railroad will run out & special train to-night. No trains have passed over the Floriaa Central and Pen- insula Railroad. One of the most complete wrecks is Forsythe Park, which has been the pride of the city. Three-fourths of the trees are blown down and are lying in every direc- tion. The city is a tangle of wires, " The streetcar lines stopped running soon after the blow bégan and the cars are standing on the tracks in every part of the city. The waréhouses on the river front were heavily damaged. The Savannah Guano Company’s mills, Gomar, Hull & Co.'s guano works and the Southern Corton Oil Company’s mill and storage sheds on the river front were | badly wrecked. The heaviest dgmage was sustained by Gomar, Hull & Co,, their mill being almost a total wreck. R At Gordon wharf 4 flying timber'from a building 100 feet away struck Wallace Johnson, a clerk, killing bim instantly. W. G. Thompson was kiiled at the wreck of A. 8. Bacon & Co.’s mill, Sey- erai people wer: also injured in the de- struction of Gordon’s wharf. Four negroes in Southville, a colored set- tlement in the southern portion of the city, were caught under a falling roof and killed. ore Toere is no communication with the adjsicent surrounding country.’ Foroces of men were sent out on suburban car lines to near-by resorts, but have yet been un- able to reach them, and every road has been impassable owing o0 fallen’ trees. Nanews has.been Teeeived from Tybee Island, which suffered so severely during the cycione of August, 1893, Tne reports indicate that the damage and loss of life will be greater than then. MACON, GA., Bept., 29.—News -received from Brunswick, Ga., by passengers on in- coming trains is that a severe gale swept over that section. The Oglethorp Hotel, WILLIAM C. WHITNCY WEDS A PRETTY WiDCW Mrs. Edith Randolph Beccmes the Bride of the ex-Secretary of the Navy. NO BRIDESMAIDS OR BEST MAKR Quiet C:remony P:rformed at Ba: Harbor’s Little Stome Church of St Saveurs. BAR HARBOR, Mk, Sept. 29.—William Collins Whitney snd Mrs. Edith Randolph were married at 12:30 o'clock this atter- noon in the pretty little stone church of Ex-Secretary of the Navy William C, Whitney and Bride (formerly : Mrs. Edith May Randolph). the largest in the city, was unroofed and windows blown out. Storehousesand ware- houses were more or less damsged and some entirely demolished. Residences were blown down, and it is ceriain that lives were lost, but no connection can be | had by wire. Telezraph poles are down for miles around. CHARLESTON, 8. C., Sept. 20.—Blow- ing at the rate of sixty-two miles an honr a gale of cyclonic fury swept Charleston to-day from end to end. ‘At 11 o’clock the sky filled rapidly with ominous looking clouds and soon the wind began -to swirl and tear throu.h trees and around build- ings. From noon until about 8 o’clock the wind.rose rapidly and the official recora showed that sixty-two miles per hour was reached. Trees, fences and loose signs came down. Almost before the storm had reached a serious point here it was-under- stood that the city was pariially shut off from telegraph communication with the world. At 5 o'ciock this afiernoon in- quiries at offices of the telegraph com- panies develuped the fact that Cnarleston was entirely cut off. Not a wire was working in any direction, During the beight of the storm hundreds of people went down on the south and east battery. Over the seawall on both fronts the waves dasbed in cataracts. The walls and grass plats on the south side were submerged about 1 o'clock and the water extended to the asphalt driveway. o CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 20,—A heavy rain and wind storm struck Charlotte this fternoon. It was the severest ever known, The warehouse at the gingham mill was Condinued on Seccond Page .roses, lanrel, b sy St. Baveurs by Rev. C. 8. Leffingwell, the pastor. B There were no bridesmaids and no best man. The church and grounds Wwere thronged with people long before noon, and as there were no formal invitations to the affair the townspeople and society con- tentedly shared seats with each other. The interior of the church was a mass of hydrangeas and potted piants. Promptly at 12:30 the bridal party en- tered. The bride was accompanied by her prother, Frederick May, and with Mr, Whitney walked M. Bruin, the Danish Minister to the United States. The bride was dressed in blue and white silk, adorned with pink roses, and wore a bon- net with forget-me-nots and roses. Mr ‘Whitney wore a biack Prince Albert coat. The service was over in ten minutes and Mr. and Mrs. Whitney walked down the aisle anc were driven to the Anchorage. the home of the bride, where a wedding breakfast was served to a few intimate friends. The invited guests were: Mr. and Mrs. ¥rederick Gebhardt, Mrs. J. Frederick May (mother of the bride), Mrs. C. 8. Wright (her sister), Frederick May, Mr. and Mrs. 'R. H. Townsend. Joseph Pul- itzer, Mrs. Dorr, George B. Dorr, M. Bruin, Dr. and Mrs. 8, W. Mitchell. Mr. and Mrs, J. Montgomery, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Rice, Mrs. James G. Blaine, Mrs. Scott, Edgar Scott, James Scott, Miss Scott, Mrs, Sturgis and the Misses Sturgis. Mr. and Mrs. Whitney will remain here for a week and then go to Hot Springs. Mrs. Randolph isan exceptionally hand- some and very charming womgn. Sheis a daughter of the late J. F. May of Wash- incton and a sister of Fred' May, who has gained some notoriety in New York and Newport. Her sisters §m Mrs. C. K. Wright and Mrs. Beavor Webb. Mrs. Ran- dolph has two children, a son and a daughter, aged about 13 and 15. She owns a cottage here, where she entertains quite extensively. 3 Itis said that Mr Whits and Mrs. Randolph have been engs for some tinte, Mr. Whitney and Mrs. Randolph decided last week to have the marriage come off as soon as possible, and at s pri- vatedinncr on Sunday at Malvern cot- tage, where Mr. Whitney has been stay- ing, the time of the wedding' was an- nounced. Mr. Whitney regretted very much the inability of his children to attend. He says there has been no estrangement. Harry Payne Whitney and his wife, who nave just been married, did not attend the wedding, as they are to leave Lennox for New York, thence to go to Vancouver, B. C., where they are 1o sail on the Em- press of India for Yokohama, Japan. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Paget, the latter Mr. Whitney’s daughter, are now in the Adirondacks, and neither was able to be at Bar Harbor. FRIM THE MONOKGAKELA Identification of the Hradless Bedy as That of Colonel Parry Lee Downs. Was a Well-Known Baitimors Attor- ney and D}'sappeared After In- - dictment for Forgery. PITTSBURG, Pa., Sept. 29.—Bunday last the headiess body of a man was found in the Monongahela River, near Elizabeth, and later the head was discovered buried in the sand. Itis now said that the dead man was Colonel Parry Lee Downs of Baltimore, Colonel Downs was a well-known attor- ney of Baltimore. Hestood high socially and had been a member of the staff of ex- Governor Jackson. On the morning of January 31 he was arrested in his home, 2113 Maryland avenue, charged with forg- ing the name of his mother, Mrs. Mildred C. Downs, as indorser of a mxty-day promissory note for $2400. When arraigned at the Central pe ice ~tation he waived an examination and was released on $2500 bail for court, the bail being furnished. The colonel disap- peared from Baltimore, and the detectives have been fruitlessly searching the coun- try for him for the past seven months. Since his disappearance several other forgeries have been charged against the colonel. —_————— Thraatened by Fovest Pires, WEST SUPERIOR, Wis,, Sept. 20.—At 4 o’clock this afiernoon the sun was al- most obscured by smok - from forest tires and to-night a black cloud of smoke hangs over the city and Lake Superior, necessi- tating the blowing of the Government fog- born. Bcores of fires can be seen in three directions, the great mountains of flames <hooting above each other and illuminat- ing the horizon. Residents of the forest are escaping to places of safety in droves and hundreds of men are fighting fire in the suburbs. ST W - Grounded in the Channel. NEW YORK, N. Y., Bept. 29.—The North German Lloyd steamer Saale ar- rived at Sandy Hook early this morning. She grounded on the edge of Fiynns Knoll after rounding the southwest spit, Her engines were reversed and kept working full speed astern, and after five hours she slid into the channel unin- jured. —— 4 Close of a Rolling-Mill, CLEVELAND, Onro, Sept. 29.—The Cleveland rolling-mill, one of the largest plants of its kind in the United States, has closed down and 4600 men are thrown out of employment. it STRIKE OF THE TRAIN-DISPATCHERS, Majority of the Operators on the Canadian Pacfic Road Quit Work. FREIGHT TRAFFIC IS TIED UP. If the Brotherhood of Traiomen Tak: @ Hand thi Whole Line Wiil* B: Biockaded. MONTREAL, Quesrc, Sept. 20.—It is learned here that a fair proportiom, in fact a. majority, of the Canadian Pacific telegrapherson the main line have stopped work. On the Ontario lines the effect of the call to strike appears not to have been general, and things are better there than elsewhere. From Montreal to Quebec and east to St. Jobn and north to Chalk River, a majority of the operators are out. The officials say they will be able to get hun- dreds of operators from the United States in a few days. Meanwhile they do not exprct passenger traffic to suffer, though freight may be delayed. The commercial tetegraphers are not affected by the strike, and the company is accepting messages as usual. The great question of the. hour in connection with this matter 1s whether or not the Brotherhood of Railroad Train- men, which 1s the organization ot the brakemen and a large section of the con- ductors, will take a hand in the fight and join the telegraphers out of sympathy. Officials of the company on the other hand are confident it will not. TORONTO, Oxr., Sept. 29.—Dispatches from various pointson the Canadian Pa- cific Railway indicate that the strike of train-dispatchers along the line is stili on, All but one of the Canadian Pacific Railroad’s telegraphers here have gone on strike, but their places have been filled by other operators, and the strikers 1.ave not succeeded in tying up even freight tramns. There is said to be a possibility of the Brotherhood of Locomoutive Engineers ordering its men out, partly in sympathy with the strikers and partly to protect them against accidents under the orders of inexperienced men. Unless something Continued on Second Fage. ML THE TICKET IS RECE Mr. Hinton Acecepts the List of Candidates for the Legislature.‘ NOMINATED BY THE AUDL “TORIUM CONVENTION. This Makes the Filing of the Reg- ular Republican Ticket a Harmonious Whole. LEGAL OPINION AS TO THE REGIS- “TRAR'S ACTION. Conference. Committees Appointed by the State Central Committee to Harmonize Opposing Interests. Registrar Hinton last evening placed on the official ballot the nominstions made by the Amnditorium convention for the Senate and the Assembly from the Fourth and Fifth Uongressional distriets. This completes the filing of the whole ticket nominated by the Repuplican Mu- nizipal Couvention in the Auditorium. The Registrar did not act in the matter until he had made himself thoroughly familiar with the law on the subject and the history of the case together with the precedents established by =il the politienl parties in tnis State. Then he consulted not only his own attorney, but some of the most eminent lawyers in the City, and they were unanimously of the opinion that it was his duty to file the Auditorium convention ticket, including the candidates for the Senate and Assem- bly nominated by that convention. A« this advice agreed with his own opinion of the matter he had no hesitation in. recog- nizing the convention presided over by Thomas D. Riordan as the legitimate suc- cessor of all the Republican conventions that had preceded it in the history of this City. g The long-established and undisputed reputation of Mr. Hinton as an honest, conscientious man and as a faithful ser- vant of the people is a sufficient reply to the Republican bolters who have been making the air dizzy with their clamor for weeks past. 2 As soon as the news of the Registrar’s action reached downtown leading Repub- licans desirous of the success of the ticket called upon Chairma: Thomas D. Riordan and J. Alva Watt, who made such a powerful argument before the State Cen- tral Committee in the afternoon, and ex- tended to those two gentlemen their most hearty congratuiations. The action of the Registrar settles the dispute which has scandalized the csuse of Republicanism in this City for many weeks past. The bolters, headed by Mar- tin Kelly and Senator Mahoney, cannot get on the ticket except by petition, as provided for in the purity of election law, but it is not expected that they will brave nublic opinion by thus putting’ an inde- pendent ticket in the held to assist the Democrats. The Republican County Central Com- mittee nas made to Messrs. Kelly all the concessions that could, in honor and short \.dies or resigns. of abdolute surrender, have beent made by any party to another. It took down Dinkelspiel for Congress and Montagae for Presidential Elector in the Fourth Congressional District in order to promote "harmony, and left-the field clear for Thomas B. O’Brien, the nominee for Congress in that district. The complete regular Republican ticket is now in the field with a full list of can- didates for municipal and legislative offices. All that remains for good R pub- licans is’ to support it loyallv and stana shoulder to shoulder for McKinley and protection. An eminent attorney, high in the con- fidence of Registrar Hinton, said to a CALL reporter last night that the position of the Auditorium or regular Republican convention and County Central Com- mittee was unassailable. He could not see how the Btate Central Committee could acquire any jurisdiction in the matter. ‘‘Assnming that that committee should create or attempt {o create a new conven- tion,” he added, it would have no author= ty whatever. It would be revolutionary and violent. But assume that it should create a new conyention and nominate a new ticket, how could it get that ticket on the official ballot? The regular Republi- can ticket stands on the official ballot and it cannot be taken off. Not a single name can be taken off it unless the candidate The State Central Com- mittee cannot legally call a conyention of its .own creation either before or after the session of the.regular County Convantion, nor can the State Central Committee prop- erly interfere except by request of all the parties to the controversy. Local organi- -zations are extremely jealous of the inter- ference of State organizations, and State organizations are jealous of interference by local organizations. #The_convention which nominated the ticket that has been accepted by the Regis- trar is ‘the legitimate successor in lirfe of descent of the Republican County Com- mittee, and the Republican County Com- mittee,.of which Mr. Manwaring is chair- man,+is the regular lineal descendant of the Republican County Convention, which preceded 1t. The Registrar ascer- tained that these were the facts, and the ceriificates of nomination beinz in due form he placed them upon the official bal- lots. He isthe highest authority, and there isnoreme iy for Kellr ana Mahoney,excent to apply to the Supreme Court for a writ of mandate to compel the Registrar to do something else.” 5 The rooms'6f the Republican State Cen- rin Goodall, Perkins & Co.'s Cha-tered Steamship Umatilla, Now on the Beach at Point Wilsons