Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 June 1889 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1889.

hons9 remains in the city. Tho upper portion above tho bridge has ttetn completely submersed. The' water dammed up against the viaduct, the wreckage and debris finishing the work that the torrent had failed to accomplish. The bridgo at Johnstown proved too stanch for tha fury of tho water. It Is .a heavy piece of masonry, and wa used as a viaduct by the old Pennsylvania canal. Some of the top atones were displaced. The story reached here a short time ago that a family consisting of father and mother and nine children were washed away in a creek at Lock port. The mother managed to reach the shore, but the husband and children were carried out into the Conemaugh to drown. The woman is crazed over the terrible event. After night settled down upon the mountains, the horror of the 6cene was enhanced. Above the roar of the water could be heard the pitieons appeals from the unfortunates as they were carried by. To add also to the terror, a brilliant illumination lit up the sky. This illumination can be plainly seen from this place. A message received from Sang Hollow a few moments ago states that the light comes from a hundred burning wrecks of houses that are piled up on the Johnstown bridge. A supervisor from up the road brings the information that tho wreckage at Johnstown is piled up forty feet above the bridgo. The .startling news also comes that more than 1,000 lives have been lost. This cannot be substantiated. It is known by actual count that 110 people were seen floating past Sang Hollow before dark. Forty-seven were counted pass-" ing New Florence, and the number had diminished to eight at

Bolivar. This will give some idea of the terrible fatality. The darkness coming on stopped further count, and it was only by tho agonizing criesSthat rang out above the rise of the waters that it was known a human being was being carried to his death. The scenes along the river are wild in the extreme. Although at this hour the water is gradually subsiding, still, as it dashes . against the rocks that fill th narrow channel of the Conemaugh, its spray is carried high up the shore. The Water Thick with Teople. Bolivab, Pa., May 31. Tho water is higher here than was ever known, and twostory houses, barns, stables, whole forests of trees, out-houses, smoke-housos, railroad bridges, county bridges, rafts, inverted spiffs, and driftwood by the acre, from all of which imploring hands were held out to those on the banks willing, but impotent, to help, .have floated down the swollen torrent of the Conemaugh. Information received is meagre, but for the most part, accurate. At Lockport, two miles east, more than twenty people have been taken from tho flood. The first great rush of water reached here at 7 o'clock this evening. This came from the bursted dam above Johnstown. It came like a frenzied whirlpool, and before the peoiQi could realize it, they were ; in its gTasp. Fortunately tho people living on tho low-lying ground escaped At 7:30 o'clock a great pile of driftwood was swept along and from it shriek upon shriek for "help," "help," "for God's sake come!" The horrified spectators on the shore saw three women, to one of whom were clinging two children, neither of whom was apparently more than an infant. The rapidity of the current and tho position of the raft upon tho stream, together with the lack of facilities for rescuing, precluded the possibility of ever thinking of the matter, and the raft passed out of sight, the screams of the women and children blending in their pleadings for aid long after the raft was around the bend. The stream then became thick, strewn with men, women and children clinging to all sorts of temporary means of salvation. Two men and two women were clinging to the tops of huge trees, the men emulating the women in their shrieks for help that it was not possible to give. Just at dark a lad was seen clinging to a log. James Curry secured a long line and ran to tho river bank. The noose of tho lasso fell over the boy's neck and shoulders, and a moment later the drenched, povertystricken littlo fellow was hauled to the bank. He was soon restored, and stated that his name was Edwin Harsten, thirteen years of age. He has lived with his father aiffl grandfather and mother in Cambria City, a part of Johnstown. At 4 o'clock their home had been caught in the volume of water let loose by the burst- . ing of the dam. They had all climbed upon a mass of drift-wood, and were carried along. Their raft went to pieces against a bridge pier, and he had not seen his relatives since, but thought that they were drowned. An Old Man's Story. Blairsvillk Intersection', Pa. May 81. At Lockport, about eighteen miles from Johnstown, the scene of tho disaster, EH Benson, an old man. Mrs. Boyle, Paddy Madden aud two Hungarians were rescued. Mr. Benson said: "I livo in Cambria City. I think not less than 1,500 people were lost. In the house with me, on Chestnut street, were ten persons besides myself, and I feel sure they . were all lost. Up to 4 o'clock in the afternoon the water, which was seven fret deep in the streets, remained stationary. About 4 o'clock in the afternoon the great rush came. In fifteen minutes tho water rose fully ten feet, and in live minutes more I am sure fifty houses came floating down the streets. There were people in everyone of them, and God only knows how many of them were lot. As they wero carried oft the houses were jammed togother and' against the houses still standing, and iu a few minutes they were all battered to piece?, before they had gone far. The house I was in 'was soon smashed to pieces, and I managed to jump on a cellar door. In a few mi mites I was washed off by the flood, and when I looked back to where Cambria City had stood, there was nothing but a great lake of water. It looked to mo as it every honse had been razed or covered over. The vast sheet of water was full of floating timbers, roofs of houses, rafts, boards and other articles. Tho sceno was indescribable. Tho cries of the men. women and children were fearful. I passed Paddy Madden's wife, my son's wife and a man. clinging to the roof of a house. I called to them and bade them good-bye. In a short time I was caught by the water aud turned under every once in a while into a whirlpool, and more than once almost lost my grip on the cellar door. I saw people in the water ahead of me and all around me. Many of them were struck by the crashing timbers and killed outright. They wero so badly hurt that , they fell into the water and drowned at once." Mrs. Boyle was also rescued at Lockport, The poor woman was moaning and crying, and would not be comforted. Her nine children and husband aro supposed to be drowned. DAMAGE TO RAILROADS. Tracks Washed Out and Trains Caught at TTsy-Statious A Narrow Escape. Philadelphia. May 31. All the wires of tho Pennsylvania railroad westof Wilmore, a station on tho Pittsburg division, twentyfive miles west of Altoona, have been down since 9 a. M., and consequently the informatics in regard to the break west of that

place is very meager. Enough has been learned, however, to indicate that tho rush of water is the worst ever known in that section. At Broad-street station the following bulletin, for the information of travelers, was posted alout there at H o'clock. "On account of tho unprecedented storm prevailing in the western part of this tttate, the lines west of Altooua have been damaged, to what extent cannot be ascertained nntil the water subsides. The storm is still raging, and it is thought no trains will be passed until Sunday." Tho Chicago limited express, which left New York at 9 o'clock this morning, the fast line leaving there at the same hour, and the train leaving that city at 8 o'clock last night, are all laid up nt Altoona. At IChSO to-night a dispatch was received by General Manager Pugh, dated Wilmore, from the conductor of the east-hound New York and Chicago limited, which left Pittsburg at 7 o'clock this morning, saying the train was safe and that all were well ou board. Mr. Pngh inferred from this that the limited was laid up somewhere west of Lilly's. Tho conductor reported that the bridge at South Fork was washed away, and expressed the opinion that all the bridges betv.een South Fork and Johnstown would be swept away. The Chicago andNew York dayexpressandallothereastbound trains are supposed to be laid up between Cresson r.nd Pittsburg. When Mr. Pugh was shown a cony of the Associated Press dispatch from Piitsburg announcing the breaking of the dam near Johnstown, he said that this report confirmed a dispatch received from Wilmore, to-night, which stated that a man had reported to the Pennsylvania railroad operators there that the South Fork dam had broken, and tho water had carried away the "coal tipple" and telegraph tower at South Fork station, and also a portion of an east-bound freight train. The telegraph operator, who was in the tower, managed to escape, but several of the train hands are reported to have been drowned. The reservoir or dam at South Fork, which is said to have burst with such terrible results, is described by a gentleman acquainted with the locality in which it was situated to bo an immense body of water, formerly used as a water supply for the old Pennsylvania canal. It has been owned for several years by a number of Pittsburg gentlemen, who used it as a fishing ground.. The gentleman who gave this information said that if the report of the bursting of the dam was true, he had no doubt that the damage and loss of life was fully as great as indicated in the dispatches. The conductor of the east-bound New York limited express.who reported the safety of his train, also said that a report had reached him of the breaking of the dam. He said nothing abont the damage caused thereby. General Manager Pugh was out of town early in the day, and 'he said tonight that he could not understand what was meant when he received dispatches announcing damage to the tracks at Lilly's. "Such a thing had never been heard of before," said Mr. Pugh to-night, "and nothing short of a water-spout could have caused such damage. Lilly's is a little mining town of about three hundred or four hundred inhabitants. For the water to rise high enough to obstruct the passage of trains is unprecedented. A dispatch just received by me says that the water is rushing over tho tracks at a height of at least five feet above the road-bed, and this, I say, could be brought about by nothing short of a water-spout." Dispatches received up to midnight at the office of the general manager of the Pennsylvania . railroad indicate that the situation is hourly growing worse. The effects of the storm are now being felt on the middle division of that road, extending between Harrisbnrg and Altoona. Landslides and wash-outs are reported along the linef between these two places. Not a train will be seut out west of Harrisburg until the storm abates and the extent of the damage can be ascertained. A telegram from Pittsburg places the location of the various east-bound through trains as follows: The New York limited, which was previously spoken of as being safe, is at Wilmore. The Atlantio express, which left Pittsburg at 3 o'clock this morning, and the Sea-shore express, which left Johnstown at an eirlv hour this morning, are both laid up at Portage. The day express from Chicago, and tho mail train leaving Pittsburg at 5:30 this morning, are at Conemaugh, the foot of the western slope of the Allegheny mountains. The Philadelphia express, which started east from Pittsburg at 4:30 a. m., is at Bolivar Junction. The New York limited express eastbound, which is at Wimore, had a narrow escape from destruction. The conductor reports that immediately after his train had passed over the bridge which spans the river at South Fork, that structure was swept away by the rushing water. General Manager ru?h said at midnight that no trains would be allowed to proceed until the tracks were cleared away, and rendered entirely safe for travel. Orders have been issued for construction trains to bo put in readiness for work. The condition of affairs on the Philadelphia & Erie railroad is almost as bad as on the middle and Pittsburg divisions of the Pennsylvania road. The telegraph lines on that road between Harrisburg were lost shortly before 9 o'clock, and no information has been received from the latter place since that hour. Information received early in the evening indicates that there are washouts and land-slides all along the line, completely suspending travel. FLOODS AT OTHER POINTS.

Damage and Loss of Life Along the Juniata and Susquehanna Rivers. Tyrone, Pa., May SI. The Juniata river has overflowed its banks at this place and flooded the entire southern portion of the city, causing great destruction to property end the streets. People living in the flooded districts had to be removed from their homes in wagons to places of safety. All the railroads centering in this place are greatly damaged by the floods. The water was never know to bo so high at this place. At Curwensville one man was drowned, and at Clearfield two young ladies were drowned in trying to escape from the flooded district. The Susquehanna river has overflowed its banks at Clearfield, and the entire place is under water, and all means of -escape is cut off. Many people have gathered in the court-house and opera-house as a place of safety. This evening it is still raining hard and the waters are rising rapidly. Danger at Harrisburg. Hakrihbubo, Pa., May 31. This city has been in tho midst of a deluge all day long. There has been a steady down-pour since before daylight this morning, and up to 12 o'clock to-night, four and one-half inches of rain has fallen. Dangerof a disastrous flood in the Susquehanna river is imminent. Paxton creek, which separates East Harrisburg from the main section of the city, is a raging torrent to-night, and higher now than in 1805, during the great flood. People were taken from their houses in Sibeltowu in boats to-night, and collars along Cameron street are filled with water. Tho storm is still raging at a late hour, and there are grave fears for the safety of people on tho lowlands. Furnaces along the river below the city are being banked. JSteelton is partially inundated. No trains have arrived from Pittsburg since S:80 this morning, owing to a big washout near Lilly's station. Passenger trains for the North were canceled to-night, owing to reports of high water at Williamsport. A landslide is reported on tho Pennsylvania railroad at Kockville, five miles west of this city. The Allison Hill branch of the East Harrisburg motor-lino is not in operation to-night, owing to a wide break near Cameron aud Market streets. The Storm at Fredericksburg. FitEPERiCKSBURff, Vs., May 31. One of tho most disastrous storms that has visited this section for fifty years commenced here about 10 o'clock last night and has continued with unabated fury up to this hour. Bridges wero washed out on the Kichmond. Fredericksburg &, Potomac railway between (Juantics and Richmond. All trains north and south have been abandoned hero. Trains will not run before Saturday noon. The part of tho city bordering tho river front is entirely snbinerged. The water is rising at the rate of twenty-two inches per hour. The electric-light wires in the city aro under water. Water is now rushing into the gas-house, and the supply of gas is shut off. The town is in total darkness. The streets are completely Hooded with water, and communication by wire is paralyzed. The Philadelphia and Baltimore steamers bound for Fredericksburg had to make harbor at Blackwelrs, on account of the

fury of tho T storm. The fire department has been called out to take families out of flooded houses iu the lower part of the city. The storm still continues here at this hour 9:15 rM. Bridges Washed Away Near Altoona. Altoona, Pa May 81. The highest and most destructive flood that has visited this place for fiffyjy ears occurred to-day. It has been raining continuously for the past twenty-four hours, and is still falling. The Juniata river is ten feet above low-water mark, and is still rising. Tho lower streets of Gaysport, bordering on the river bank, are submerged, and tho water is two feet deep on the first floor of the houses there. The water rose so rapidly that the people had to be removed from the houses in boats and wagons. Three railroad trestles and a number of bridges over the stream have been carried away, and railroad travel between this place and the surrounding towns has been interrupted. This afternoon the railroad bridge over the river at this place was held in place by heavily loaded cars. Property of all kinds was carried off. The truck gardens and grain fields along the river were utterly destroyed and the fences carried away. The iron furnaces and rolling-mills at this place and Duncanville were compelled to shut down on account of the high water. Overflow at Bradford. Bradford, Pa., May. 31. The heavy rains of yesterday and this morning have swollen Lima creek, east and west branch, into rivers. Several streets are under water. People living on Hilton street were compelled to move their effects to the upper streets. The tracks of the Buffalo, Rochester Sc. Pittsburg railway are a foot and a half under water, and all trains north have been abandoned. No trains on the Western New York Sc. Pennsylvania railway have left or arrived this afternoon. This evening the waters wero falling slightly, but the rain continues and may cause further floods. In the Kanawha and Tributaries. Charlkstown, W. Va., May 31. Heavy rain began falling hero at noon yesterday, and continued until a late hour last night, which caused a flood in tho tributaries of tho Kanawha river. Tho Chesapeake Sc. Ohio railroad bridge over Cabin creek was carried away, and booms in Elk and Coal rivers swept away, and millions of dollars worth of timber, lumber and railroad tie3 swept away. It is feared that a portion of the city will be submerged. The rivers are still rising. The thermometer registers 48. Above Williamsport. Williamsport, Pa., May SI. Tho reports at 10 o'clock are alarming from points up the river. At Clear Field the water is considerably higher than in 1805. Two or three bridges have been carried away, and there are fears for tho safety of the boom at Lockhaven. A largo force of men are at work on the boom here trying to make it secure. The water is expected to reach sixteen feet here by morning. It is feared that 15,000,000 feet of logs in Lovall's creek will bo lost. It is still raining hard here. In the James Kiver. Lynchburg, Va., May 31. There is a great flood in James river; the river is now reported twenty-five feet and rising a foot an hour. Many of the factories and machine 6hops on tho river front are flooded, and couconsiderable damage has been done. The river is higher than it has been since 1871. A PREVIOUS DISASTER.

The Flood That Drowned Two Hundred People In a Massachusetts Town. On the ICth of May, 1874, a disastrous flood occurred in the State of Massachusetts, caused by the breaking away of the dam which confined a large reservoir 'in the upper part of tho town of Williamsburg. This reservoir contained a reserve water supply for the factories on Mill river, in the villages of Williamsburg, Skinnerville and Haydenville, in the township of Williamsburg, and Leeds and. Florence, in Northampton, and covered 124 acres, with an av-( erago depth ot 134 feet. It was three miles above the village of Williamsburg, on a level about SOO feet higher, and contained about 1,000,000,000 gallons of watfr. At about 7:30 o'clock in the morning the dam was discovered to be giving way, and before the warning could be sutliciently spread iu the villages below, an onormtus flood rushed down the valley, carrying everything before it. A large part of the village of Williamsburg was destroyed, including, the button factory, woolen-mill,, saw aud grist mill, and several dwelling-houses. The silk-mill at Skinnerville, together with some fifteen dwellings, was swept awav. At naydenviile t he extensive brassworks of Hayden, Gero &. Co. were entirely destroyed and several dwellings dashed to pieces. The village of Leeds was alnioxt entirely destroyed, including the Honobuck silk factory, and considerable damago was done in Florence and Northampton, thoush the flood lost most of its force on the broad meadows above Florence. The valley was strewed with the debris of the destroyed villages and covered with desolation. The pecuniary loss amounted to about $1,500,000, and nearly 200 lives were lost in the four villages. The destitution and suffering which might have followed were averted by timely relief from diflerent parts of the State and other sections of the country. A coroner's inquest was held at Northampton to ascertain the cause of the disaster, and a verdict was rendered on the Sd of July. - This verdict censured all parties connected with the construction of the dam, not excepting the Legislature, under whose authority the owners acquired their privilege. The owners were blamed for parsimony and tho contractors for gross delinquency in its construction, and the county commissioners who examined and accepted it, were charged with a superficial discharge of a most important duty. SEVERE GALE ON THE LAKES. Strong Winds Sweep Over the Waters, Doing Much Damage to Shipping. Chicago, May 31. Yesterday and last night a fierce gale raged over lakes Ontario and Erie, aud portions of lakes Huron and Michigan. All around tho lakes vessels are reported wind bound and driven ashore. At Chicago the wind reached a velocity of forty miles an hour, and a number of vessels were forced to anchor outside. At Port Huron the white caps wero driven before a gale of forty -eight miles-, and across the river at Sarnia a fleet of big boats wero bound up afraid to move. At 7 o'clock last night a north wind was blowing at tho following ports, with the velocities indicated: Chicago, 40 miles an hour; Milwaukee, 42; (ireen Bay, .i8; Port Huron, 4S; Detroit, 35; loieuo, o.; 2andusky, so. The propeller E. S. Pease is ashore north of Port Hope, Mich., and is trying to work herself off. A life-boat from station No. 2 lost her rudder, broached and capsized in going to the Pease, but all got ashore safely. The Canadian steamer Chamberlain came into Sand Beach, Mich., about 5 o'clock, with her gangways stovo in and her fires out. Sho was helped up to the pier by harbor tugs. Her consort, the Victor, ran ashore south of there. Tho life-saving crew procured a team and took the surfboat and Lyle Gun apparatus down, and rescued five men, one woman and a littlo girl. This is tho first time a chance has been had to use the beach apparatus, and everything worked nicel, owing to diligent practice of the crew. The crews of tho Josephine and Eugene were taken ashore in the surf-boat. Both schooners dragged ashore last nigh. Red-Tapelsm Costa Eight Live. Watertowx. N. V.. May 31. Further f particulars have been received about the barge Bavaria, one of tho Calvin's boats that was reported stranded on (lalloup island. It seems that when tho barge struck the shoal, the crew, eight persons in all, took to a small boat, but on account of tho terrific galo they could not reach the island, and were lost. They were seen at one time by a passing tug. clinging to their yawl. The tug could pot render any assistance. The yawl was afterwards seen floating with no person in her. Permission

had to be obtained from the Treasury Department at Washington before any wrecking assistance could be sent to the barge. When the barge was reached they found her in very good condition, w ith scarcely any water in her. The clothes belonging to the men were dry, and had tho men remained aboard of the barge all would have been saved. DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN.

Indications. Washington. May 31 8 p. m. For Indiana Showers; warmer; westerly winds. For Lower Michigan Threatening weather and rain; variable winds; slight rise in temperature in northern portion; stationary temperature in southern portion. For Illinois Showers: a slight rise in temperature; northerly winds. For Minnesota Local rains: variable winds; cooler in northwest portion; warmer in southeast portion. For Wisconsin Rain in southeast portin; fair in northwest portion; generally warmer, variable winds. For Dakota Local showers; cooler, except in extreme northwest portion; warmer, variable winds. Local Weather lie port. Indianapolis, May 31.

Time. liar. Ther. It. II. Wind. Weather. Vre. 7 a.m. 29.81 38 87 West Lt rain. O08 7 P.M. J9.91 44 83 West Cloudy. 0.03

Maximum thermometer, 47; minimum thermometer, 3(3. Following is a comparative statement of the condition of temperature and precipitation on May 31, 1889: Tern, Pree. Normal 70 0.13 Mean 42 O.ll Departure from normal 28 0.02 KTcess or deficiency since May 1.. 70 1.53 Excess or deficiency since Jan. 1.. 97 Plus. General Observations. Indianapolis, May 317 p. m.

tj Th'rmtr. j Station. fc; ; Weather, S ? X 3 : : r s New York city. . . 30.02 60:00 72 .06 Cloudy. Buffalo, N. Y 29.80 50 50 60 .50 Cloudy. Philadelphia, Ta. 29.9U G8 G4 76 .01 Cloudy, mtsburff. Ta.... 29.H4 54 54 56 .04 Cloudy. Washington. D.C 20.76 OS 68 72 2.08 Rain. Charleston, 29.82 68 61 7 .06 Cloudless. Atlanta. Ga 29.9S 52 40 58 Cloudless. Jacksonville, Fla 2i6 OS 64 76 Cloudless. Fen?acola,Fla... 29.96 66 48 74 Cloudless. Monttfoniery.Ala 29.98 62 44 66 Cloudless, Yloksburg.Mian. 30.00'66 50 70 Cloudless. New Orleans, La. 29.96 72 54 76 Cloudless. Little Rock. Ark. 29.98 64 .52 68 Cloudless. Galveston, Tex.. 29.90 70 60 72 Cloudless. Han Antonio, Tex 29.84 74 54 80 Pt. Cloudy. Memphis, Tenn.. 30.00 62 46 64 Cloudless. Nashville, Tenn. 30.00 52 40154 Cloudy. Louisville, Ky.. . 29.96,46 36 48 T Cloudy. Indianapolis, Ind 29.90 44 36 46 .02 Cloudy. Ciucinnati, O.... 29.94 46 10 48 .04 Cloudy.' Cleveland, 0 29.88 50 50 56 Cloudy. Toledo, 0 29.88 46 40 48 T Cloudy. Marquette, Mich. 30.08 44 38 44 .04 Cloudy. Sault Ste. Marie. 29.96 48 38 50 T Cloudy. Chicago. Ill 29.86 42 38 42 .38 Cloudy. Cairo, 111 29.96 60 40 62 Cloudy. Sprinfrneldjll... 29.96 44 38 48 T Cloudy. Milwaukee. Wis.. 29.84 42 34 42 .34 Rain. Iuluth. Minn.... 30.14 32 36 54 Ft. Cloudy. KLFaul, Minn... 30.02 56 34i66 Pt. Cloudy. Moorchead.Mlnn 30.04 62 34 6S Cloudy. fct. Vincent, Minn 30.06 60 48 66 Pt. Cloudy. Davenport, la... 30.00 44 42 46 .06 Cloudy. Dubuque, la..... 29.98 46 42 46 .06 Cloudy. Des Moines. Ia.. 29.94 62 34 66 Cloudless. 8t. Louis, Mo.... 29.96 54 46j60 Cloudy. Kansas City. Mo. 30.00 62 4266 Cloudy. Fort Sill, Iml.T.. 29.96!6S 58174 Cloudless. Dodpe City, Kan 29.92 70 46 74 Cloudy. Omaha, Neb 30.02'66 42:68 Cloudy. North Platte.Neb 29.94 166 4616 Cloudless. Valentine, Neb.. 29.90 70 48(72 Cloudless. Yankton, D.T... 30.00 64 40 68 Cloudy. Fort bully, D.T.. 29.90 6S ... 72 Cloudless. Bismarck, D. T. . 29.88 72 42 74 .02 Cloudless. Fort Buford. D.T 29.86 54 50 64 Cloudy. Pr. Arthur's L'd'g 30.12 52 34 62 Pt. Cloudy. Qu'Apelle.N.W.. 29.68 52 42 68 .14 Cloudy. FLAsnah'ne.M.T 29.92 62 48 64 .02 Pt. Cloudy. " Boise City, I. T.. 29.94 74 44 76 CloudlessCheyenne. W. T. 29.82 61 46 68 Cloudy. Ft. McKin'y.W.T FLWasU'kie.W.T 29.72 68 38 72 ..... PL Cloudy. Denver, Col 29.K0 6S 54 68 .01 Cloudy. Pueblo. Col 29.94 64 52 80 .01 Cloudy. Santa Fe, N.M... 29.82 70 50 76 Cloudy. Salt Lake City... 29.84 72 50 76 Cloudy. Helena. M. T.... 29.90 62 50 66 Cloudless.

T Trace of precipitation. Steamship News. Montreal, May 31. There is no truth in the report that tho steamer Lake Ontario was wrecked olf Anticosti island, and that all hands were lost. Inquiries at various points along: the coast of Anticosti elicit the same answer that nothing has been heard from the steamer since sho passed out to sea on Wednesday. Plymouth, May .il. The new HainburgAmerican lino steamer, Augusta-Victoria, from New York, May 23, for this port and Hamburg, arrived olf the Lizard at 1:45 a. m. to-day. London. May 31. Sighted: Iowa, from Boston; Lydian Monarch, from Xew York; City of Chicago, from New York. Piiiladklphia, May 31. Arrived: La Frandre, from Antwerp. Quef.nstown, May 31. Arrived: Bothnia, from New York. Liyertool, May 31. Arrived: Cufic, from New York. Bremen, May 31. Arrived: Hermann, from New York. New Yoiik, May 31. Arrived: lihaetia, from Hamburg. Marseilles, May 31. Arrived: Alesia, from New York. ISoth Wanted to Die. Chicago, May 31. In a ramshackle twostory house ou Fifty-first street live two families named Sullivan and Bell. Last night Nellie Sullivan, a girl of nineteen years, and John Bell, twentv-ono years old. together took enough morphine to kill a dozen men. The other members of the families discovered this fact some hours later, but it did not seem to agitate them until they discovered that the girl was dying. Then they sent for a physician. He arrived too late to save the girl, but administered emetics to Bell, who will recover. The police are investigating the case, and are completely mystified. They cannot find what prompted the young couple to attempt suicide. They were lovers, and there was no opposition to their marriage. The police have arrested Frank Gardner, who is believed to be the boy who procured the drug for tho Sullivan girl. They have also locked up James Bell, a brother of Frank Bell, and Annie Korker, who lives in tho neighborhood, who will bo held as witnesses. Both the Sullivan and Bell families have a very unsavory reputation. Their neglect to summon apnysicianat once is attributed to stupor or indifference superinduced by drink. Tils Skull was No Thicker Than Paper. NewYoijk, May 31. Francis Rafiertv, the laborer J who was killed by Charles S. Partridge, the lumber merchant, on Wednesday, had a very thin skull. This was the principal reason why the blow dealt him by the lumber-dealer with a hickory board rule proved fatal so quickly. Coroner llanley was accompanied by Deputy Coroner Donlin and Dr. Frank Ferguson, the expert pathologist who made the autopsy on mind-reader Bishop's body at the New York Hospital yesterday afternoon. Dr. Ferguson wielded the knife, and the tw,o doctors were surprised to find that Itafierty's skull was the thinnest one they had ever seen. In some places it was no thicker than heavy paper. Parts that in an ordinary adult's skull aro one-eighth of an inch thick, in Rafferty's head showed a thickness of barely one thirty-secondth of an inch. Humored Sale of the Cincinnati Enquirer. Special to the Iuolauapolis Journal. Columiuts, O., May SI. The Journal this morning prints a special dispatch from New York, in which it is stated that negotiations are pending with fair prospect of completion, for the sale of the Cincinnati Enquirer. The price is said to be $1,000,000, which does not include the real estate. The iutending purchasers are a syndicate of New York and Ohio Democrats, of whom Calvin S. Brice is understood to be. tho chief. While it is possible the deal may not be consummated, there is reason to think the parties are very close to an agreement. The change, if made, is likely to involve a radical readjustment of the editorial force of the paper. A Hlff Dry Cooda Fallare. New York, May 31. Frederick Almy, Otto Van Arnim and Theodore Lam son (F. Almy & Co.) dry goods commission merchants at No. 53 Leonard street, have mad a general assignment to (ieorge Leask, without preferences. The liabilities arc taid to be $050,000.

INDIANA AND ILLINOISNEWS

College Eloquence to Flow Unimpeded from the Graduates at Franklin. Yesterday's Races at Columbus A Crawfords . ville Cnrio Martinsville's Vacant Office Youthful Suicide. INDIANA. Franklin College Faculty Ilelent and the Stream of Oratory Vi lli Flow Unimpeded. Special to the InalauapoUs Journal. Franklin, May 31. The serious difference which had arisen between the graduating class of the college here and tho faculty Neems now to be about bridged over. The faculty held a meeting this afternoon, in which their action of a few days since, limiting the number of speakers from the class on commencement day (June 13) to four, was reconsidered, and relented. The faculty admitted that they had erred, in their former action, and passed a resolution permitting all members of the class to speak, and requiring that no less than four members shall speak. The seniors will accept the compromise, and most probably the entire class, consisting of Hattie Palmer, Lizzie Overstreet, Klmore Fisher, L.J. Curtis, C. D. Hazelrigg, W. W. Israel, Washburn Til.son, Walter Riley and J. W. Clevenger, will speak. Much iutense feeling had been engendered, the citizens being practically unanimous in their opinion that the seniors were right in their stand in the matter. If the class had been notified a few months ago there would have been no trouble. A Crawfordsville Curiosity. Epeclal to the IutUanavoUs Journal. Crawtordsville, May SI. At the drugstore of Smith & Morgan there is on exhibition a remarkable freak of nature in the shape of a double pig. The sow was owned by W. II. Wilson, near Round Hill, and the late rains killed her entire litter of pigs, nine in all. This freak had one head of natural size, two eyes, two throats and a tongue with a ridge in the middle. Thero are four ears, two of them being joined tof ether; eight legs and two perfect bodies, f the animal had lived it would have been able to walk on two front legs and the four hind legs. The other two fore legs would have been thrown over the backs. The animal will be preserved in some manner. The bodies commenced to be joined together about the middlo of the under part. No Prosecutor Elected. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Martinsville, May 31. Judge Livingston Howland, of Indianapols, just to-day rendered his decision in the contest case for the prosecutorship between W. It. Asher, Republican, of this city, and W. H. Beaman, Democrat, of Owen county. He declares he has gone over the evidence carefully, and decides that neither was elected. He therefore declares the office vacant. There is difference of opinion as to whether tho Governor has the appointing power or there shall be a new election. A Youthful Suicide. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Brazil, May SI. Albert, the seventeen-year-old son of Daniel Anderson, of Poland, Ind., fourteen miles southeast of Brazil, was found hanging from a rafter in his father's barn this morning, dead, with a halter ronnd his neck, the hanging being tho work of his own hands. Ho had just recovered from an attack of fever. No reason is assigned for the deed. Ho was a reputable young man and a member of a good family. . 'Minor Notes. Vincennes and Montezuma will sink test wells for oil and gas. Thomas L. Smith, son of Hon. Webster Smith, has been appointed cadet at West Point, from the Columbus district. Damage to the cribs for government piers at Michigan City is reported as the result of this week's "northeasters." Brookvillo is arranging for an old-fashioned celebration of next Fourth of July, with Gen. Samuel F. Hunt and others as orators. Rockville has the prospect of a wrestling match this evening, between Mervine Thompson, who weighs 230, and "Modoo Dick," who weighs 245 pounds. Mrs. Sherman Havens, of Shelby county, had her hand terribly mangled oil Decoration day by the explosion of a shot-gun cartridge she was handling. Decatur is exercised over the disappearance of Dr. B. R. Freeman, who went West some weeks since, and whoso family and frieuds have not heard from him. 'Little River Ditch" which is to drain 20,000 acres in Allen, Whitley and Huntington counties, and which is to cost $137,000, is reported nearly finished. Mrs. Susan Fink, of Washington county, divorced twelve years ago, and married ' to a second husband, has recently been divorced from number two and remarried to number one. Charles Elder, of Lawrenceburg, has been arrested charged with being one of the parties engaged in recent burglaries at Greensburg. Some of the stolen property was found in his trunk. Hon. John V. Hadley, of Danville, delivered two very acceptable addresses at Rockville on Decoration day, making a special talk in the evening for the benelit of the G. A. R. on tho prison at Macon, Ga. Oscar Terrell, a young man living near Franklin, was taken ill on the streets of that city, on Decoration day, and died a few hours afterward in ereat a iron v. Poi soning is suspected, and an inquest will bo held. Tippecanoe County Commissioners made a contract with Geo. P. Haywood and M. W. Miller, agreeiugto pay them 25 cents for every dollar of omitted property they caused to be placed on the tax-list, and the Tight to make such a contract is now questioned in tho courts. Yesterday morning John E. Snyder, of Kansas City, was married to Miss Kittie Lou Allen, at the home of tho bride's parents, near New Market. At 11:' last night the brido was taken suddenly ill, and died almost instantly. Rev. G. P. Fusou, who married the couple, will conduct tho funeral services to-morrow. ILLINOIS. The Largest Civil-Service Examination Ever Held Outside of Washington City. Special to the Indlanaimlls Journal, Bloomixotox, May 21. In this city, today, was held a civil-service examination, conducted by E. B. Niver, of the CivilServtce Commission, assisted by Postmaster James S. Neville and six employes of the Bloomington postofSce. Thero were 183 applicants, amoug them ten ladies who desire employment in the departments at Washington. This is the largest class ever examined outside of Washington. Of the applicants, seventeen want to be postouice inspectors, thirty-live pension examiners, twenty-two department clerks, and the remainder railway postal clerks. Very few are young men. The majority are middleaged, and several are upwards of sixty years of age. Jewish Synagogue Dedicated. pecial to tlio Indianapolis Journal Bloomington, May 31. The newly-constructed Jewish Synagogue of Moses Montefiore congregation, of this city, which cost nearly $20,000, and is a gem of Oriental architect are. was dedicated to-day, Rabbi Calisch, of Peoria, conducting the impressivo ceremonies. To-night there was a grand banquet, attended by many visitors Irom Chicago, St. Louis aud Cincinnati. 'Ilrict Mmtlon. Mattoon's High-school graduates this year are Edward C. Craitr, Kate Keely. Katrine Morgan, Gertrude F. Perry and ElishaT. Puleston. Governor Fifer has thirtv-five bills passed by tho last Legislature still under consideration. Of the ICS measures passed be has vetoed but one, and the volume of statutes w ill be the largest siuco 1879. Tho Salvation Army held a jubilee at Springtield on Decoration dav, the occasion being the celebration of the ninth anniversary of tho commencement of any

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Absolutely Pure. This pow.W never varirs. A marvel of purity, renorth ant whnlesomrnrM4. Moro fconoraioal than the ordinary kinds , and cannot be sold In competition with the multitude of low-tegt, short. weight alum or pho-phate powder. Sold only in ran. HoVAb SiAKINU POWDER CO.. lot Wall Btrwt. N Y. operations in this countrv. Delezation participated from Decatur, Lincoln and Jacksonville. Serious Runaway Accident. Tlecftriitinn lnv tirAjinn r a , from the cemetery, yesterday, a ream be the Street in thu lin nf rnrrin-PK Tlintf made a turn that brought the wagon iuj contact with a lipht wagon, in which were three womeu and rive children. Uoth wag ons were thrown into the air and came to. gether in a heap. The occupants of tha wa eon which wps run into wito ininr.r and two or thre of them will lio 'Vita ir. hired are Mrs. S. A. .Sneak, Mrs. Chariot White and infant, Mrs. W. L. Jones and inrce small cimuren. Miners Killed In a Collision. this morning on the Dayton, Ft. Wayne Ai Chicago railwav. half a mile, oust of' Conl-, town. O., between two freight trains, to one of which was a cahoose with thirty miners going to work. The collision wag on a sharp curve, lloth trains were badly 1 sinasueu ana nearly everj passenger on th$ Cflboose was morrt or Ip ininrfwl ThrH men, Mike Dowe. Marshall Shead and John nrown were killed, llio following wera others were injured, but not seriously. Capture of .1 Murderer. Nebraska City. Neb.. May 31. Bee Hav den, the cold-blooded murderer of Richaii ttramhall at Ked Oak, la., seven years ago; was captured here to-day. He was found! living in. a hidden cavo on the river bank lie shot isramhall during a nuarrel and then buried an hxo in his brain. He also shot Mrs. liramhall, aud escaped until to day. Obituary. Kichmond. Va.. May Ul. Dr. S. P. Moore. who was sureeon-ceneral of tho Confeder ato States, died sudden ly at his residence in this citv. this morniuir. of concestion ol the lungs. The Tarty Will Sustain the Present. Washington Letter in Xew York Times. The President is asked to sustain Mr. Tucker because Mr. Garfield once gave him an appointment. President Harrison will ?robably be glad to follow tho example of Ir. (iarfield in somethings, but it would be presuming too much to ask him to indorso ever3'thing that Mr. Gartield did, or to im itate him in all respects. Some of the Indiana men who are disposed to . .1? A. T-k t 1 , 1 a iMtneve ium me iTesiueni reiuu UK) implicitly upon Mr. Illaine's judgment iu this matter say that old Kenublicans of that State, who. like Harrison, wero associated with Oliver P. Morton 111 Indiana during the war. will be surprised to hear than Tucker's appointment was made at all, and they will approve the prompt correction 01 wnai was piainiy a nustaKe. uovernor? Morton had as dillicult an enemy to conteud with at homo as that he fought in tho field. His great energies wcro put forth constantly lor many months to discover and break up the orgauiznA. ' 1 , 1 r . . uuu kuumi as mw jv in Kiiis 01 my Golden Circle. This organization waj stimulated aud recruited by tho emis saries of tho Confederacy in Canada, of which Mr. Tucker says ho was one. It is supposed that tho President did no know that Tucker had been chosen by Mr. lilaine, or that he failed, to remember that this Tucker and the Tucker whom Gen. Wallace was called upon to try as a con spirator was the same. Corporal Tanner's Wife. Washington Special. At an entertainment given this evening by the Woman Suffrage Association of tho District of Columbia 111 tho lectuie-hall of Carroll Institute the wife of Corporal Tun- ' ner, Commissioner of Pensions, read a spicy argument 111 favor of tho sutlragd cause in the form of a dialogue (in rhyme) between Mr. Abner Jones and Mrs. Jane Joneshis wife. Mrs. Tanner, who has thus unwittingly mado a social innovation upon : the prescribed routine for the wives of hii officials of the government, is a decidedly pleasing lady on the sunny side of forty, plump, piquant and comely. She has tho courage of her convictions, and her paper contained homo truths difficult for tho op ponents of the cause to answer. She w.n received by the goodly audience with marked deference and respect, and pro sented with a bouquet of roses at the rtosd ot her address. Commissioner and Mrs. Tanner have leased a cool and airy mansion on Georgetown Heights, which thev will occcupy as soon as it is put in readiness. Their household is conspicuously a happy one. Mrs. Tanner was Miss fero White, of Schoharie county, Xew York, and married her gallant husband several yean after he became disabled in the service. The Vlce-rresident's Wire. New York World. Mrs. Levi P. Morton, hefore her trip abroad, in which she is Accompanied by her daughters, spent some timo iu preparn tion. Mrs. Morton is a pretty woman ainj can aflord to use many daring colors. Go ing her rounds of shopping she wore a siin pie gown in two shades of grav. The under skirt waslaid in triple box plaits and no hem at tho bottom, with a wide border of Persian tigures in dark gray finish at the foot. Over this was a lighter hade of cashmere directory coat, tho lajnls and tails of which were faced in peau de soi of the same shade. Tho vest was full at the throat and again at the waist, where an inside sack crossed. The silk of tho vest collar and deep culls was heavily embroidered in silver thread, nnd button of carved smoked pearl ran in double row s down the front and on tho culls. Her bonnet was entirely of tho smoked gray silk! ner, puffed in front and cauzht by a small cluster of forget-me-nots. The gray ant de Suede had smoked pearl buttons and tho parasol had a handle of the dark carved pearl. ' Larokatokv ami Oi kioj: of J. N. IIlt.tt, ) Analytical Ciikmi-t. -Ixuianaiolis. Iul.. April r, 1S7. ) Messri. Mnllaney & Hares IuitlanaiK.lU: Gentlemen In accordance ith j our lrtter of March IS I purchased from Mr. Kobcrt Browning, individual!)-, a Itotlle of your special wine, Coted'Or. Tliin viim I uave exhaustively ant carefully analyzed, and hcrewiih tutmiit my result: Tbe wine iosscko.s a heavy loly. has a deep wine-red color and n ttnrul, rivh tlavor. Its po cine gravity l.oin, conum o.s ier cent of h1 coholanrt lo.ril i-r eeit of fulld matter. This Kolid matter is found 11 uul!y in the Krape, and is composed principally r, crtoo susrar. It contains also, mhiio vcj;?:?:i idtaunen, a little uatural coloring matter, ."1 t train mineral iho. phates. This wine, then. ortn!ly U a pure, fermented frrape Juice, and haAiic I .-ecu "manipulated" iu any way. I wish to call your alf:Mion to a fact not penerally known, namely; that pun? prapejuico in composition fatty matter excepted very closely rcKeniblea fresh lull W. Tht explain the valuable nutritive proixrtio and wliolrsomene of fTapoJuu:1 our vta'i. Oida d'Or, is very ri( a u the usual constituent .' ;raie luire, and con talus about the rlubt Q'u. ill?" of alcohol 10 per cent. to enhance taej nutritive and medicinal , properties J. X. Ilrurr. For sale by all ur&t-cla-: drui&U.

badly injured: Caron fchead, Frank Do von, Elmer Owens, Wm. Kobinson, Frank Culver. F. C. Dow nnd Wm. Traps. All t hit