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VOLUME LXXX.—NO. 33 123. SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY MOR G, OCTOBER 1, 1896. —— DEATHAND | UTTER RUIN “adar Keys, Fla, Is Swept X Away by' the Awful A 3 f Torunado. CALAMITY OF VAST MAGNITUDE. filr F Yvftv Persons Killed and Thrice ' #s Many More or Less \ H Injured. - ' YENTY NEIGHBORING TOWNS ‘WRECKED. ' Thirty-Six. Hours It Has Been| Impossible to Establish Com- muunication. Yor ATLANTA, Ga. Sept. 80.—A special | from Jacksonville, Fla., to the Constitu- | ticn says: The West Indian hurricane which en- tered Florida at Cedar Keys yesterday | morning and swept through the southern E‘ rtin & nortiieasterly direction left death ' $ad destruction in its path. Owing to the | § Prostration of telegraph wires and delay to | %/ Jftrains, due to washouts, only meager re- poris have been received, and yet, meager | as these reports are, they show that over | twenty towns and villages have heen | wrecked and forty or fifty persons have been killed, while probably tfrice as many more received wounds more or less serious. About 4 o’clock in the morning the hur- rigane, which had been churning the sea, left the water and swooped down upon | Cedar Keys, a town of 1500 inhabitants, | Thirty-six hours have efapsed since the | place as tothe damag/ & ber of lives to reach there, becans ered with heavy fimbt by way of Gainesvil) east of the /& or the num- 4 have been able £ tracks are cov- ost. Moy The only report frop ‘ar Keys comes Aty miles north- town and is to the effect that Cedar Keys hai been swept away and many persons killed and injured. Tmis report reached Gainesville by courier from Williston, which is twenty miles north of Cedar Keys. The report is hardly exaggerated, as Cedar Keys was directly in the path of the hurricane and received its full force as it leaped raging from the guif. After demolishing Oedar Keys the | storm, moving 1n a northeasterly direc- tion, struck Williston, & village of 400 in- habitants. At that place eleven houses were wrecked, one person was killed and fifteen injured. Near Williston is a large turpentine farm, on which many State conyicts are emaployed. Twenty of these conviots were huddled in a cabin across which the storm blew & great tree, erushing six of the in- mates. Leaving levy County#the hurricane dashed across Alachua, one of the most populous counties in the State, where a number of persons were killed and many more severely injurad. At Fort White, in Columbia County, it is reported that six persons were killed, but the report has not been confirmed. From Columbia County the hurricane dashed across Duvall, its edge striking Jacksonville, but doing little damage and causing no loss of life. In Nassau Gounty, however, just north of Jacksonyille, the hurricane seemed to gather additional force and did awful work. 3 At Boulogne, the schoolhouse, in which were over thirty children, was wrecked and five children killed. Miss Ada Stew- arm. Lillia Raines, 8 12-year-oM girl, ran from the schoolhouse just before it col- lapsed and hastened to her home. Asshs entered the house it was wrecked and the child was killed. Harry Johnson, who was with her, was also killed and Mrs. Raynes was fatally injured. At Hilliards the schoolhouse was wrecked and four children were killed. At Kings Ferry, on the St. Marys River, Andy Johnson, Moses Adler, Simon Hen- derson, Mary Jones and her child, all negroes, were killed. Mrs. Fisher was nursing a sick child and the infant died as the house collapsed. The mother escaped. Two schooners, loading lumber at King's Ferry, were blown from their moorin, and landed in a marsh, three of the sailors being killed. [form struck Cedar Keys, but not one / gord has been received directly from that | From Nassau county the hurricane passed into Georgia, destroying a logging art, the teacher, escaped with a broken | settlement in Camden County, just across the line, killing four people. Folkston, Ga., near the Florida line, was also struck, the schoolhouse being wrecked and four children killed. Itis impossible to accurately estimate the property loss of Florida, but conservative men say it will exceed $2,000,000. At Lacrosse fifteen buildings were de- stroyed. Rev. W. A. Barr, Mrs. F. F. McIntosh and her by are reported killed. Near there. four laborers, who were in a cabin at the turpentine farm, were crushed by falling trees.. Newberry, in West Alcahua, is totally wrecked. C. J. Eastlin, Mrs. Naney Oimstead and David Jones werekilied, At High Springs, Mel'issa Harden, Jane Morris and. Sallie Nobles, colored women, are reported to have been killed. X At this place a number of people took refuge in a boxcar which wasin the path of the cyclone, It was blown along the track and then off a distance of fifty feet, and every person in it was badly injured. Steve Mason and George Johnson have since died. At Grady, a smell place, twelve houses were blown down. A woman was killed, but a babe at her breast was unhnrt, al- though it had been carried some distance by the force of the wind. At Lake Butler, Bradford County, C. H. Harkey, Mrs. J. M. Futch and her infant were fatally hurt. Many buildings were blown down. At this place the wind blew the tops of two cars off and killed a negro named Henry Mullin. On Judge : Richard’s turpentine farm four convicts were killed by falling trees. In Baker County fofir towns were alibst totally destroyed. They are McClenny, Sanderson, Glen St. Mary and Otustee. No one was killed outright in these towns, but/many were injured, among | whom were Mrs. C. 8. Richardsori,)James | McAlpin and North Webster, all of whom will die. 4 At Live Oak the destruction is com- plete, but no loss of life is.reported. g L i ELEVEN DEATRS AT SAVANNAR. Reports From Surroundisg Sections Will Swell the Roll. SAVANNAH, Ga., Sept. 30,—The fatali- ties by yesterday’s storm s¢ far foot up eleven. The body of Captain Charles E. Murray, of the ill-fated tug Robert Tur- ner, which was blown ashorein the Savan- nah River, wad founda to-day. It was brought to the city by a rescue tug. Later the boay of one of the deckhahds was picked up by the United States revenume | steamer Tybee, which has been on relief duty since the storm subsided. James McClure, a passenger on the Turner. and two deckhands are still mis- sing. Fanny Jrckson (colored), who was { Continved on Second Fage. ‘e o S TR - T SRR NN D \‘ CoL. CHAM ' HONEST GOVERMENT Far MA¥GR ¢.LTAYLOR TRIED PION OF WHITE-CATOR YOKE 1S THAUST ASIDE Democrats of Los Angeles Will Not Be Whipped Into Lina, REFUSE T¢ BE TRADED. — State Committee Again Asked to Demand the Senator’s Resignation. —_— HIS PAST RECORD REVIEWED. s The Combine For@?ed to Capture Two Senatorships Is Bitterly Denounced. Los AngELES OFFICE oF THE CALL, . 328 South Broadway, Los ANGELES, Cal,, Sept. 30. Alva Udell, secretary of the provisional committee for the reorganization of the Los Angeles ocracy, has addressed the following letter to the Democratic State Central Committee: 7o the Chairman of the Democratic State Central Comitfec—StR: To & Tecent leiter Iadvised you that the provisional comnitiee for the re- organization ‘of th® ‘Los Angses Democracy had resolved - that Ehe State Committee, of which you areehafzman, be respectiully re- quested by appropmate action to call for the resignation gof 8t M. Whie as. United States Senator, to the end thataDemocratic Governer may appolait & worthy Democrat to il the 'vacaney created. We again in- sist upon su¢h #ekien by your commfittee. If godlessness being inconsisent then Stephen M. White s godless indeed. He wasa member of the Congressional District Conven- tion that recently nominated H. W.Patton as a candidate for Congress in this district. After the convension thad taken 130 ballot\in a tie vote for two othercandidates Mr. Patkn was nanied as a means of dissolving the d When his name was mentioned his oppenents in the conyen'tion suggested Charles A. Rurlow s the most avatlable candidate. It wasthen that Mr. White iaid before his confreres atrue word pi¢ture of the socialistic nominee. In measired lenguage the Senator de- nounced Barlow in the most vehement terms; yet this same Stephen M. White, wholly disre- garding his duty as a Democrat, if he be ore, | and unmindfal of the obhgation he owes to the Democragy, has since brought Mr. Barlow before a county convention of the late Demo- cratic party of this court; end insi it was the auty of all gosd Democra b istrict to enpwors vt ' 4tk far Cheries A. Burlow, aciReddon oy e fact that Mr. Bariow d1d not proiess to be a Democrat, ‘The Senator to oune set of delegates subsian- tially declared that Buriow is unworthy of | confidence, snd thes, b less than thirty days, presents Mr. BarlWw to another set of dele- gates, saying in substance that Barlow is good enough for sincere Democrats to vote for. As Barlow is the fawning protege of T.V. Cator, whose henchmef demund that White support the socialistic nominee, the Senator takes his political medf:ine, says it is the best that can be had, and dfclares that Barlow is his candidate for Congress. It, therefore, be- comes paipfully evideft that Senator White and his hihchmen are purposely aiding Cator and his faction of socigists to humiliate the Democracy, and that nfther will permit any- thing to stand in th¢way of the deal by which Cator and *‘Oud Steve” are trying to elect each otner to thefinited Staies Senate. This pair of intrigug statesmen have an obedient servant in Chirles A. Barlow, who in this city has recently dclared that, 1f elected to Congress, he would p directed by the para- mount wisdom of the §nator from Los Ange- les. Mr. White is prof§sedly a Democrat, and was a Cleveland cuckd untii he got the Fed- eral offices in Californg Mr. Cator is a Popu- list, & socialist, a nutfalist, a revolutionist, or anything else to g4 into the United States Senate; and both hop to succeed by fusion ) TH‘E|\ REPUBLICAN PARTY AND | and machine manipdition of the Populists and Democratic i The greater intélle® of the State,jthe emi- NS N Te== R\ ITS FOES. = W SENESRISS nent jurists and publicists among our dis- tinguished men, the more profound of the towering statesmen of our commonwealth, are to be turned down, to give place and position to this pair of intriguing politicians. The senatorial election hangs upon the throw of their loaded dice. The game is made and, without reference to the question of fitness, capability or other qualifications necessary to a proper and honorable discharge of their offi- cial duties, the socialistic candidates from Congressmen down are programmed, and their socialistic bosses boldly announce to thou- sands of sincere and deserving Democrats: “It is heads we win and tails you lose.” In markea contvast to Mr. White asa con- sistent and veracious gentleman stands the organizer of the dying People’s party, the Hon. Marion Cannon, wWho has retired from Congress to the tranquil pursuits of private life, but who will stand by the truth though the heavens fall. Mr. Cannon writes as fol- lows: “When in 1892. I entered San Luis Obispo County on my campaign Mr. Barlow and his friends came to me and begged me to assist him or he would be defeated (for the Legislature). SBome of my warmest friends were against him, as they claimed he could not be trusted to vote for Stephen M. White for Senator. I assured them that Barlow would not go back on his pledges, and they went to work for him and saved his election. He afterward acknowledged to me that Ihad secured his election and thanked me for it. After he was elected I wrote him that as the administration was Democratic I would have very little to say about the patronage in my six counties unless White was elected. But, with White as Senator, I might have'some in- fluence in regard to the Federal appointments to be made in the Sixth District, and for this reason I urged him Dot to go back on White, In his answer to that letter he wanted me to give him the appointments in San Luis Obispo County, which I could not and refused to do. I wi)l place my word against his in this matter and the acknowledged fact that my campaign in my county secured his election. This fact is further strengthened by his defeat for Sheriff in 1894 by the same influence that elected him in 1892, although the People’s party in State and county greatly increased in votes at the last election.” The truth of Mr. Cannon’s statement can be corroboratad by & cloud of witnesses in this Congressional district. But how did Charles A. Barlow keep his pledge? Any person who will take the pains to inform himself will, in the Ban Francisco daily newspapers of January 19, 1893, learn that on the evening of the pre- ceding day Mr. Barlow, with & number of other Populists, did in writing declare that the means by which Stephen M. White was elected United States Senator were ‘“false and treasonable and an outrage, humillating and disgraceful, and an infamous wrong to over a million of voters now struggling to enact measures which alone can save the Nation from terrible evil.” \: In view of such an arrangement, and know- ing these things, Mr. White denounced Barlow in the severest terms that ingenuity could in- vent. Butsoon another sound is heard. The Cator henchmen whistle a different tune. The commanding volce of the aspiring socialist sounds ia the ear of our ambitious Senator, and he makes unseemly haste to dance with Barlow before a so-called Democratic conven- tion, Clearly there is method manifested in the selfish, unfaithful and desperate ambition of these socialistic politicians who have surren- dered Democratic principles and betrayed the Democracy {ato the hands of men who are naught but the masked apostles of foreign socialism. It is a game to gull and humbug ftie 2hose of 51 country by bringing men to in which the politician mountebauk, the curse of every country on the face of theglobe, plays & uotorions pazt. He bas invarisbly betrayed his party, humiligs 1 bis frionds 8.4 impertied his' ald who were “unrelisble, unwerthy of confidence snd vens: " Not since the curseof the sin of Paris, in his Iust for Helen, destroyed Troy, has the guilty passion of any man so wrecked the cause of his countrymen as the wicked perfidy ot the ambitious bosses who have traded and sur- rendered the principles of Democracy for the support of men wholly “unreliable, unworthy of confidence and venal.” ALvA UDELL, Secretery provisional committee for reor- ganization Los Angeles Democracy. Los Angeles, Sept. 29, 1896. —_— CHLOROFOKM AND DI_.NAHITE. Bold Methods Employed in a Kaslroad Hotel Robbery. PITTSBURG, Pa., Sept. 20.—News was received here this morning of a crime of unusual Boldness committed at the little village of Walls Station, situated on the line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, about fourteen miles east of this city. The af- fair took place last Saturday night or Sun- day morning, but has been. kept a secret in'the hope that the guilty men might be cagmred. he safe in the hotel al Walls Station was blown open with dynamite and nearly $1000 in coin was secured. Before begin- hing operations on the safe the burglars chloroformed the twenty or more persons in the hotel to prevent interruption. VICTORY FOR J .U SPRECKELS His Position Sustained by the State Committee Yesterday. THE AUDITORIUM TICKET RECOGNIZED. Order Evolved Out of Chaos and Harmony Restored in the Party Ranks. . JAMES W. REA’S DENUNCIATION OF THE EXAMINER. The Committee Warns the People Against the Conspiracy of White and Cator to Elect Themselves. WHEREAS, It is the presumption of law that official duty has been properly performed; and whereas, it is the legal duty of the Registrar of Voters of the City and County of San Francisco to file the certificate of nominations made by the regular Republican convention of this year when ten- dered; and whereas, pursuant to such duty he has filed the certificate of nominations of the Republican con- vention held at the Auditorium and which was called by the County Com- mittee, of which Charles Manwaring Esq. is chairman and John Jackson ¥Eug, is 9 eretary, now, therefove, be it RESOLVED, That the Republican State Central Committee hereafter recognize the above-mentioned Kepub- lican convention and the Republican County Committee as the regular Re- publican organization of the Republi- can party in the City and County of san Francisco until such time as the presumption of law aforesaid be over- come by decision of a court of compe- tent jurisdiction. The foregoing resolution was adopted by the State Central Committee at a meet- ing held in its rooms in the Palace Hotel yesterday afternoon. It is a declaration that John D. Spreckels has won the fight which he has been mak- ing for months against pretended Repub- licans, who have been attempting to dis- rupt and disorganize the party, aud there- by defeat its candidates, both local ande National. The practically unanimous decision of the State Central Committee, there being only one vote against it, that of Mr. Ruef, has evolved order out of chaos. There is but one course for loyal Republicans to pursue. As the regular Republican party of this OCity bowed - to the decision of the Na- tional Committee regarding the Fourth Congressional District Convention and are supporting the candidacy of Thomas B. O'Brien for Congress, so the paxs represented by Mr. Ruef should now acquiesce in the decision of the supreme governing body of the party, and as loyal Republicans, which they earn- estly assert themselves to be, they should support the Republican party ticket. Republicans will understand that this is purely a local controversy. It will re- sult in bringing out every Republican voter in the City who will vote and work to carry California for McKinley, Thomas B. O’Brien set a good example yesterday. He was around the commit- tee-rooms telling the country delegates that the Aunditorium convention was a legal body, according to right and prece- dent, and that its action should be sus- tained. The decision of the State Central Com- mittee is regarded on all sides asa triumph for decent politics and as the overtbhrow of a would-be faction, which thinks more of spoils than of party and more of office than of principle. It is admitted that the committee could not have acted otherwise than it did. The Registrar, the highest official authority under the municipal government, had been obliged to place the nominees of the Auditorium convention on the official ballot, after advising with a score of the most eminent lawyers in the State. They all gave the opinion that the Anditorium convention was the only Republican con- vention and that its nominees were the regular Republican nominees. Now that the matter has been decided not only by the Registrar, but by the State committee of the party, nothing re- mains to be done except for all Republi- cans to get behind the ticket and work loyally for its success. The Citizens’ Committee and the repre- sentatives of the State Committee met in the headquartey: 2t 50 e'clock yesterday ‘morning, Irving B. Dudiey ¢ %41 Diczo in the chair. The following = Citizens’ Commitics - % Horace Davis, P. N. Lilienthal, M. H. Hecht, Louis Sloss, A. L. Brown, A. Dunham, W. Baker, A. J. Ralston, F. W. Van Sicklen. From the State Committee—Irving B. Dud- ley.of San Diego, Allen B. Lemmon of Santa Rosa, George Bryce of Humboldt, S. N. Ane drous of Los Angeles, N. W. Boyd of Mono, Frank L. Coombs of Napa, George C. Ross of San Mateo, H. A. Averill of Santa Barbara, L. J. Dake of Santa Cruz, J. L. Read of Lake County. J. Alva Watt, representing the Audito- riom conventiqn, appeared before the joint committee and read the following resolutions, adopted at the meeting of the Republican County Committee on the ‘evening beforo: WHEREAS, The County Commitice of the City and County of S8an Francisco did on the 10th day of September, 1896, issue a call for & primary election to elect delegates to a Repub- lican municipal, legislative and judicial con- vention to be held on the 22d day of Septem- ber, 1896, for the purpose of nominating ean- didates for all the county, municipal, legis« lative and judicial offices to be filled at the election to be held November 3, 1896; and whereas, a primary election was held in ac- cordance with said call and delegates were elected to said convention; and whereas, the delegates so elected met in convention on the 22d day of September, 1896, at Auditorium Hall, and thereaiter nominated candidates for all the offices aforesaid; and whereas, a cers tificate of the nominations so made has been regularly made and presented to the Registrar of Voters for filing; and whereas, the said Registrar of Voters, aiter due and caretul con- sideration, has recognized the tickets, both municipal and legisiative, so nominated as the Republican ticket in and for the City and County of San Francisco, and has accordingly filed the same, and the said ticket is the Re- publican ticket in and for the City and County of San Francisco; and whereas, the regularity and validity of said ticket has been drawn in question at a meeting of the Republican State Central Committee this day held;and whereas, James Alva Watt appeared at said meeting as the representative of said convention and of this committee; therefore, be it Resolved, That the Republican County Com. mittee fully indorses and approves the posi- tion assumed at said meeting by onr represens tative, James Alva Watt. Rsolved, That we cordially invite the co. operation and assistance of the so-called “Keily-Mahoney Municipal Convention” in our efforts for the election of the ticket, National, Congressional, judicial, municipal and legislative, and extend assurances of that recognition which all Republicans true to the party are entitled to. Resolved, That we unanimous! y request the State Central Committee to sustain and uphold us in our work for the National, Congrese sional, . judicial, municipal and legislative ticket. Resolved, That we unanimously decline to permit our representatives to withdraw or modify the ticket nominated by the Republi. can convention called into existence by this committee. Resolved, That this committee hereoy pledges its earnest and unceasing efforts to sustain Major McLaughlin (chairman) and the State Central Committee to return the electoral vote of this State for McKinley and Hobart. The foregoing resolutions were adopted at a special meeting of the RKepublican County Committee of the City and County of Sam Francisco at the committee-rooms, 850 Market street, at 8:30 o’clock, Tuesday evening, Sep- tember 29, 1896, at which there were present thirty-three out of thirty-six members, and the vote for the adoption of the same was ag follows: Ayes—Albert Houston, James Daly, John Browning, F. Hagenman, C. Beriiner, F. E. Wallace, Charles Clear, William Smadeke, R. W. Heilman, J. Ahern, James Gately, John Jackson, R. Sehlueter, I. H. Thompson, John T. Dare, Alonzo Davidson, J. A. Watt, T. E, McCarthy, Grove P. Avers, John L. Koster, A. Louderback, Charles Breigenstein, Jesse E, Marks, David Short, E. J. Casey, J. M. Chre. tien, H. N. Gray, P. J. Walsh, John Lachman, G. Bacigalupi, Phillp Krausgrill, Thomas Chandley, Harry Lewis. Noes—None. Absent—Charles C. C. Clinch. In witness whereof we, the vice-chairman and the secretary of the Republscan County Committee, have hereunto set our hands thig 29th day of September, 1596. Jomrx M. CHRETIEN, Vice-Chairman, JOHN JACKSON, Secretary. At 2 g’clock 1n the afternoon the State Centrsl Committee held a session at which the report of the joint sub-committees wasg received. 'he report of the committee was ag Manwaring, £. J. Conn, follows: SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., September 30, 1806, To the Homorable the Republican State Ciatral Committee of California—GENTLEMEN: Your sube committee appointed for the purpose ol ene deavoring to suggest a method of comprg between the opposing factions in the Cliy aud