The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 2, 1903, Page 1

VOLUME XC l\ —\(l SAN' FRAI\CISCO T{ ESDAY JUNE 2, 1903. PRICE FI‘ E CENTS. WORE THAN ONE HUNDRED LIVES LOST IN GEORGIA TORNADO 4 Ga., at-noon yesterday. y demolished by the terrific g 1.. The perishec storm_came upy > hundred persons were killed by a !ornadu that pariially dmfrowd the toti Nearly -all nf the fatalitics: occurred in two cotton mulls, gale.. In one of these every person with- unusual V”ddL nness, gwmg t/zc residents . znf w 'orl"mg on Ih | " lasses [)mz‘e tp 4 1 have been too conservative. Earlier estimates “of the . property ONI' LY in the cthatc af the number of dead at North Topeka has ‘the. latest news from the flood districts. proved less dismal than previous advices. It is now ‘tims il itumber less than forty. Great loss of life, however, is-reported from other sections. Famiine and an epidemic of contagious diseases confront the suffercrs. ) believed.that the North Topeka vic- DisMlgatl ENDG ROLE CRVALRYMEN (0t DOWN THE HII]TEBS% Renewal of Aitack Col. Prior of Brit- ish Columbia Ousted. at Kishenev Prevented. " - . VI g - 1t - the oppr W i « 1 to form a Ministey remier s no evidence, how- t his firm had knowledge ted by in dismissing Prior. said t hisa tlons were not in 18 with received the ndependence of Pailia- Aigrnfssed. Premier satd Govertior was eon: d-been no wrongdoing ‘he » Premier's “actions. ‘wént “independence ‘of Parlfament | et ‘He'added that perhaps hé had been 1mpolitic t-the who is leader of the opposi- A Conservative, and but two:days mora mp ago appealed for an immediate elec- tion on party lines, but it is reported that ROAR OF A HAILSTORM he has mad compact “by taking-some | STARTLES THE FARMERS | Liberals into his Cabinet and will make | carry on for the remainder | He was not in his' place ble- to ‘resume his: seat re-elected by his constituents. is rumored that McBride's Cabinet nsist of T. W, Patterson, .member rth Victoria; McPhillips, ‘member R. F.. Green, member for Oliver, ‘member -for " Delta, iptain Tatlow, miember for. Van- Remarkable Dowx on a Str 11 of Frozen Rain Country in 3 ————— ing . HERMANN IS ELECTED 5 OREGON CONGRESSMAN| Republican Will - Fill the Vacancy Caused by Death of Thomas Eldrédge's farm f hogs was .Arowned p in fepce Gorners — A Tongue. FRIENDS ARE ALARMED PORTLAND, Or., June 1.—At a special TOR ALVINZA HAYWARD election in the First District to-day Bin: geér Hermann (R:) was elected Congress- man. to_fill - the vacancy causéd by the death of Thomas H. Tongue, defeating A. . Beames (D.) by about 2000 pluralify. airman-Harris of the Republican com- mittee claims.that Hermann's plurality Aged - Capitalist. Seriously -II1 With San Bronchitis at: His Mateo Home. SAN MATEO. 1 W, S5 1 will reach 2000, geriously ill &t his beme here for ur days and his s are. fearful thai hé | GOLOMBIA CALLS EXT may mot recover. Mr. Hayward’s dllment i by OOMNGRESS j& bronchitis severe form. He is | about 80 years not be of strength & » and his tem ‘may [ - WASHINGTON, June-l.—Senor Herran, clent to counteract | Colombian Charge d'Affaires, has .re- the disessc ;..;\ d a cablegram from the Colombian One of the physicians at the Havward | Mir r of Foreign Affairs, dated at Bo- residence said to-night that the patient | gota, May 25, officially anneuncing -that was in no immediate danger, but ths# Wis | an extraordinary session of Congress has ocondition had not improved. been called for June 20. OF PREMIER | ;MI” Toilers - Crushed by Storm. AINESVILLE, . :Ga. June- ¥ —= Within the space of two minutes to- day a tornado dealt death to- the of and “destruction Gainesville “and. environs;, more than injuring ! 150 mare, leveling 100, cottages to-the ground -and tearing t,\\n stories off the factory “of ‘the Gainesville Cotton- Mill. killedt ‘probably: two-thirds: were women. and’ children’whovere |'operatives the. cotton . mills [ The ‘death list -includes only:. six | hegroes. i The storm came from the'south, out of an-almost clear:sky, swoop- ing down-on -the Gainesville Cot- i ton Mill; near: the Southérn Rail- road " station, at " 123435 a'clock. With a terrific crash the two up- [ per stories.of the building. ‘were [ swept ~away, leaving - thirty-two operatives-dead in the raonts. The tornado then: $wept:around the outskirts of the city.to the sub- airb: of - New Holland, ‘two .miles away, where are located the Paco- city. IO0:persons; in | planits in- the State.: The plum of | the Pacolet Company was ot $ riously damaged, but probahly 10() cottages standing ‘near l))' ocei | pied by -operatives who:were em= ployed.in the mills, were: demol: ished, " their- falling walis' killing thirty-three persons. ' These were mostly svomen - and- children, - as | the heads.of families were in the factory at work.. # _TWO. STORES DEHOLIBHED The store of. Joseéph Logaz, | near the: Gainesville Cotton Mills, | was crushed to ruins by the wind and eight men who had taken refuge in it were instantly killed. killinf” OF the| let Cotton Mills, one of the 1argcct : b 1 ! ‘ ? I E H [ 1 £ 4 {1 | | | E i i e f4 e i «————;—-x- bl OF. FLOOD: * DISTRICT 7] I { AND ' SOLDIER - WHO ol { I TROOQPS . AND TENTS: | [ Sl | i Thlrty'Perl f o in a Smgle Butldmg Jhc Jones. General Store met al similz ar: fate; dnd in:the ruins t\xn ])QYQOHS. one niran and one -w vmen ‘were crushed to death. Reports -from- White . Sulphuit | Springs, seven miles from Gaines- ville, ‘aré -to:the éfféct that the | storm struck (here \\1&]1 This, however, is not confirmed. Mills, -occasioned by the dcstruc~ ‘ings, is estithated. at Gainesville (otton s xage([ to'. thc extent of-$40,000. Honier A:h,: Matd - Gordom, . Mary:. Duncan Miss W oods, — Knowles, Miss <Leggms, Ed- Habers, Mrs. J. M. Lamp and - baby, = “Waddell, Ethel ‘Lyle, Lulu Jackson, Miss rett, _]ohn Murphy, John G. Tiee, Dorothy ‘Sloan, Ed Nagles, Mrs Nathan Jones. * - . The fatally xnjured- terrlfic_ t force, kxllmff a2 dozen p(‘riOnS. The property loss atthe Pacolet | tion of the ’ottage% 1nd nutbmld— |z Clack, Claude Shedd, Annie- Gar- | _l\athan i Jones,: : i Hendcrson, Martde | 3 IEW —5 | Part of Town Is Lazd in Rums._ rdnn Bessie ol 'vkinney.‘ Joe hubut Daigy” - Beyson;. -Parry. “onrior (colored), Willie Bobne. Yoc Stavall;, - Alenzo - Ford; _] B Semerville, :Ota’ Mifter, Mis.-Dr. Clark, Simpson, L»hn.‘ Simpson; Miss: Noel, ¢ \Il~sleg | yins, Alice Subbers; William Ad- dison, “Carlisle Addi 1 r Blackshear;. - Ada * w_Thompsnn \‘ ‘- ""J. ::+ ; l,xmc» 2 | I'C i | { { | | [ L PAcoLM WiTLs vIeTrms. : y Ti_l_nse_\\llo ‘were killed: at- tHe’ I"Paéolet mills at: New Holland and whosé hiodies have béen recovered sare: -Mrs: HUH. \els n, W flllam I Iatum, i ‘\Iaflng W es{moreland Mrs; X, ,Mrs.- Ne"ele_w ‘\I_agee, Brydfl- Holland number -about ten, 2 cluding . Mrs. - Hmdn\ and: - two girls, Bryer Andersor - (colored},; Mrs. F.'K.Ivey ahd Mrs. Bass. - 1 Besides, these eight: men—si -white - and’. two colored—ivere | killed-in the. . defolition " of. Jo- seph Logans store: mnear .- the Cmflnugd on :q-'o 8, Column 1.’ | ‘or ‘three’ days, | Her very 1ife .| talk.if .the .one” of “the valleys. * OF JLANSAS, ATy *nowmo PQE,T.ON oF RETAIL wmsss DISTRICT, Dead i1 Both Kansas Cltys Number One Hundred. ANSAS CITY, June 1—With ex-| waterworks | sas; and. electric: lights tinguished, - the shut down'and the eity prac- tically ‘at ‘the of: the first fire. that break out;. With railroad transportation’ feeble and -uncertain, if” the waters do not 1 Kansas City m: de within the compelléd ‘ to- fight - for skies- are dark. and lowe rain i alling heavily, more stormy weather is sweeping up- from the west and the insatiable: river {-ac I 1s. practicaliy. sta- | 1s hoiding ‘its own. tionary. io-night, but what the flood has it keeps, -and thére- fs no:certain pre of when It wiitrecede..’ The stage to- .. agdinst 3 feet this morning. € h f.Comnor ot fhe. weather buteai says that -whilé the -qutldok ‘was fdr continugd | radns; 1t Would pecedsitase a very héavy High water:is té con- {ijué, -and whetli¢r this' will come.or .ot i3’ somethihg e cannot fell. The. first “authehtic . information - fram | “Kdnsas. City, ‘Kans., “was recelved - might. - In_that dlstéiet 20,000 persons ‘hameless, A .number -which canmot be' estimated have .been drowned: and Ppropértyi1oss “has . béen’. heav. udtion there. is_a -paraliel: to t Rere, xmmrrm! present - e situat hére Ilff' i, the giver ‘Wil be- further 1loss L of | does ‘ot rise "véry “sudc yml) CITY’S | DEAD : NUMBERS' CFTFTY. | 1t is lfkely that tlié ntimber of-fatalities inthis clty-will approxihace filty. Across the river’ the *ntimber. will be fully as larga.’ Down _in thé wholesale district of this city’ people at dusk to-night were ble. They have been held prisonefs for | two days, tlireatened ~with ‘death by drowning, at one time by fire, and for the most part without food. very effort is being made and they al will be saved to-morros unless the waters rise more, and this seems improbable. The. finapcial damage is about as great now as it is likely to become unless the water rises much higher thamr at present. To-njght - the city is in absolute dark- ness. There is not the glimmer of a gas jet or the flare df an electric Ught, ‘bulldings which_ have. their own electric | light ‘plants excepted. Steam for these is supplied from water hauled frgm the riv- er. Power for the three street car lines | that have resumed operations is furnished by water piped from a small stream in In all the buildings of ‘the city elevators have been digcorr- | inued unless provision. Has been ‘made ffor water supplies. Tho.newspupers have been tompo]lcr. o disconginue the use of théir typesetting’ ‘machines .and becausé of Jack of powey are “sticking” type In the old way. In the hgtels, all of which are ctowded to v.helr utmost capacity, the most elborate cnre is taken to prevent waste of Water. fi.zsnmx'rs FACE FAMINE. ’rhere 1s"but ‘bne wholesaie grocery store in the city that is .not under -water. The eniployes of this establishment -were al- Thost swept tram’ their feét to-day by the ‘rughr of buyers. * Merchants consider the food situation alarminig. Their. supply is ilmited to two .or three days in everything except canned goods.! Doubtless much of the. wholesale supply will have been, destroved and no provisions_can be brought until railroad communication is re-established. Butch- -| 'ers have only a limited amount of fresh maeat on hand and a few hams and sides ght’ ne-bétter and- no wWorse: _There is*ne great probabilify. thut the | -theé 4 The “sit- waving whife clbths to attract attentiop. F twenty miles from here, the only structure “THe condition of some of these is pitia- \"f the kind and by prepelling |'making their way into the houses through of bacon.: ‘Indications are that the supply will -not ter-to-morrow. None can be bought from the packing-houses. -An attempt’ to ‘prevent a meat - shortage will be. made By sending a ‘steamboat up to the b . .t Wfil\h sold.last week i wera ‘offered ice “was gradually omers bécame, mo dicy: egd sold dozZen.. T quickly "t 3 “cgnt ‘Storés optown .rai a.ddzén.- This. wr one_hindred cases. of *dealers’ uptown At noon-Mayor ¥ sued #n - order. for | 4ne’ closini of -all’ saloons in Kansas: City. | Within-an hous the order. had been-car- rfed Into” effect Mayor's action was ¢ to th 1% .of. Tefugees. At ngon’ hundr people: were ‘being fed at Convention: Hall 'NO- TRAINS 'ARE MOVING. 3 in..the ‘history" of the.-West has omplete: pr tion it the.presént time R of Kansas City. ridge of the Chi- td" St.. Paul field, east ‘of Kansas ( F@owy: this morning, although the bri proper is.intact and is high enough te stand any- ppssible stage of water. The fall of the approaches to this bridge leaves the Santa Fe bridge at Sibley, still standing. At the office of the Santa Fe it was said this morning that onie train had left for the West. The Wabash for the time is out of busi- ness. The Union Pacific has abandoned all efforts to run trains west. - The Chicago, Burlington and Quijncy ran a train out for Chicago at 9:30 o’clock this morning. ~Another train over - this road came in from Chicago during the might, and it is expected to send out an- other to-night. No trains went west. The Missouri, Kansas and Texas is operating the usual number of trains. Rock Island officials reported no trafile in that direction. The Chicago Great Western has had no trains for two days and sees no pros- | pects of any. The Chicago and Alton ran trains out of Independence, Mo., last night with Kan- sas City passengers. - Wora was brought to police headquar- ters this morning that a number of men were looting houses in the east bottoms. They had improvised rafts from boards them with poles were the second-story windows. As soom as this woré received by Chief Hayes he ordered a detachment of officers to the place, with strict orders that if the story was found to be true the thieves should be shot down at once. The relief promised by the War De- partment at Washington last night was being offered to-day. Colonel Charles Minor, commanding at Fort Leavenworth, received orders from the department last night to aid the sufferers by the flood in every way. Electric cars were at once loaded with blankets and provisions and sent to Kansas City, Kan. The first news from Armourdale since yesterday was obtained by river men act- Continued on Page 2, Columan &