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CHEAT DA3IAGD DONE THROUGHOUT IXDIAXA TUESDAY MGIIT. 3Iany Buildings Wrecked or Unroofed, AVlndowa Smashed, Trees Uprooted and Fences Scattered, 300,000 LOSS IN OIL REGION hundreds of derricks rloyvx doyvx axd outfits ruixed. Indlananolln Xntarnl Gas Company Pumping Stntlon Injured Few Serious Accidents to People Reported. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELWOOD, Ind.. Nov. 2C. Elwood was visited by the most destructive storm ever known here last night. About 10 o'clock the rain ceased and hurricane swept over the city. The casting hall at the Pittsburg plate glass factory was demolished, the roof falling In, and one end of furnace No. 1 was caved in. There were over four hundred men at work in the plant at the time, yet only two were caught by the falling roof and wreckage, and fortunately neither of these was killed. One was Jack Howard, finishing boss of the casting hall, and the other II. It. Carrlngton, the night watchman. Both were crushed beneath the falling roof, bu escaped alive and will recover. The loss to the plant exceeds $10,000, and three hundred men will be idle for a few days until repairs can be made. The W. It. McCloy lamp chimney factory was moved a foot off its foundation, and three hundred men will be Idle for a few days. The new Clyde window glass factory, at Frankton, was lifted off and set to one side. Several business blocks at Frankton were ruined, and from the meager reports from there the loss will reach $30,000 at the least. The First M. E. Church building, of this city, was badly damaged, and the lumber yards of Geo. W. Heffner were literally scattered over everything and its buildings destroyed. A gas well belonging to the McBeth lamp chimney factory broke its anchor during the storm and added to. the consternation. The employes of the different factories quit their work and fled from the structures for fear they would be wrecked and the inmates killed. Telephone wires were all down, and the long-distance service was dent roved hv n across the line between here and Alexandria. The telegraph lines were all down, the Western Union lines were useless and no connection could bo secured with outside cities. Several business blocks In this vicinity were ruined, and a gas well derrick, standing near the plate glass factory, was blown down and demolished a small frame house. The fires at the plate glass works were all turned out as quick as possible after the roof fell in. and a terrible conflagration was narrowly averted. The damage In this city will exceed 50,000. and may possibly reach $70,000. Several small private residences were moved from their foundations and several others were unroofed. ENORMOUS LOSS. Damage In the Oil Field KMlmnied nt r About jt3H,M. Special to the Indlampolis JourniL . MONTPELIEIt, Ind., Nov. CS.--Thls section of Indiana was visited last night ly the most destructive windstorm in years. The Indiana oil Held suffered to the amount of $300,000 In the way of blown down rigs. The Montpeller bicycle works. Just com-r-leted. was destroyed. Loss on building 53,CX). It is estimated by conservative oil men that two thousand producing wells are disabled. Jt will require ninety days for the field to resume Its normal condition. BLUFFTOX, Ind., Nov. K.-A terrible gale swept over the city and county early this morning doing a tremendous amount of damage to buildings and orchards. All telegraphic communication was cut off and trains on all roads arrived late to-day. In the oil fields, pouth of the city, five hundred derricks were leveled. Carpenters and ris builders have been busy the entire day repairing damages. Gnu Pumping Stntlon Dnmaigcd. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NOBLES VI LLE, Ind., Nov. 26. A storm swept over this city last night about 10:20, lasting about one hour. The courthouse tower was considerably damaged, having a large hole in the west side. The upper front part of the Becker Hotel was blown down. At the American strawboard works one wall of the engine room was blown In and one man dangerously Injured. The buildings of the American Cabon Company was also damaged. The pumping station of the Inilanapclis Gas Company, near Strawtown, Was partly wrecked. Telephone wires all over the city were blown down, and the electric light wires were so disarranged that the lights went cut. Chimneys and a great many trees were blown over and the rain fell in torrents. The storm was most furious Just as the people were leaving Wilt's Opera House, last night being the opening night. Tito Men Injured. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FOBTVILLE. Ind.. Ncv. 26. About 1 o'clock this morning this section was visited by a furious windstorm. The steel roofing on the Order of Red Men's Block was torn off, the Hngen & Shultz elevator unroofed and part of the glass front in the Odd Fellows' Block torn out. The gas well derrick of Goldried & Wartleld, on the Elder farm, two miles east of town, was demolished, and Mr. Wartleld and Murphln. who were In the derrick drilling at the time, were seriously injured. Murphln perhaps fatally. The powerful force of the storm can be realized from the unroofing of two box cars of a freight train near here. SEVERE AT FORT WAYNE. Trains Relayed lj the Storm anc.' Absence of Running; Orders. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FORT WAYNE. Lnd.. Nov. 25. -The worst blizzard and fiercest gale that has visited this part of Indiana for years prevailed this morning between 1 and 4 o'clock. Telegraph poles were prostrated and bill boards and tin roefs scattered all over the city and much damage done to residences by falling chimneys and broken windows. Fort Wavne was entirely Isolated until noon to-day from surrounding cities by a general demoralization of telegraph and telephone service. The Postal Telegraph Company was the first to secure outside connection, it suceerMng in R-ettinfr one wire through to Cleveland at 1 o'clock this afternoon. Passenger trains on all road.i were several hours late, being delayed by telegraph poles blown across the tracks and In several Instances by the locomotive encountering tree. At Montpeller. thirty mile south of Fort Wayne, in gas and oil district, $10,000 worth of oil derricks were destroyed and a new shoe factory was destroyed, entailing a loss of CITY Ill'l LDIXCa WRECK KD. The Netv Structure at Franklin Deiuliitietl by the Storm. special to the Indianapolis Journal. FltAXKUN. Ind.. Nov. 26. Last nigrht's windstorm was the heaviest experienced In this community since ISM., Shade trees were demolished, roofs torn away, awnings torn and scattered, windows broken and buildings blown down. The heaviest loss came in the destruction of the city build Ing. That twenty-thousand-dollar structure had been built of brick up to the rooL and

was awaiting the trusses for the roof. It is to be 66 by 120 feet in size. Three of the walls were blown to the ground, entailing a loss' to the contractors of thousands of dollars. Robert Waggener has the contract, and the brick work was sublet to Asa Eden, of Indianapolis. The falling walls crashed through the roof and walls of Pritchard & Mullendore's agricultural Implement store and Weddle & Wolfs Jlv- j ery stable. Weddle & Wolf lost a fine cab and other vehicles. Pritchard & Mullendore lost a number of vehicles and farm imple fhents. The loss on the city building wiil probably lead to much litigation. Without Telegraph Service. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WABASH, Ind., Nov. 26. The most severe windstorm ever experienced in this locality visited Wabash between 12 and 1 o'clock this morning, and though the actual damage done was slight, much alarm was felt. The noise of the wind, which came in furious gusts, could be heard for several miles, and the velocity attained Is reported at over fifty miles an hour." Throughout the county thousands of rods of fencing were thrown down, com shocks scattered over the fields, and much timber and many orchard trees destroyed. In this city the gable end of the -new M. E. Church was blown in and the business room of Pierson & Co. was unroofed. Numerous windmills were overturned and ruined. The telephone and electric light wires suffered a great deal, and on the -Wabash and Big Four roads poles and wires were blown down. Not a message has been sent out of the Western Union Telegraph ofllce to-day, and some of the trains on the Wabash railroad have been moved on orders transmitted by telephone. " In Southern Indiana. LOUISVILLE. Nov. 26.-No loss of life has been, reported as a result of last night's gale, but much damage was done along ,the Ohio river towns In Kentucky and Indiana. In lioulsville several residences were unroofed, chimneys were leveled, and awnings and signs demolished, but across the river the damage was more severe. At Jeffersonville many barns were wrecked and along Front street residences were unroofed and windows blown in. At Arctic Springs Capt. Hoffman's coal fleet was wrecked. Three shanty boats at Port Fulton were sunk, and Captain Duffy's coal fleet was lorn from its moorings and twenty-five empty coal boats lost. Several men on the various coal boats narrowly escaped death, being rescued by small skiffs. At Utlca, Ind., thft residence of William Hooper was demolished, but the family escaped Injury. A family on board a wrecked shanty boat at Utlca barely escaped with their lives. At Bird's Kye, Iid., many , roofs were blown, off by the storm. i Diitnne ut Aleinndrla. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ALEXANDRIA, Ind., Nov. 6. A very severe windstorm, which prevailed in this city from 11 o'clock last night to 2 a. m., did considerable damage to a number of business blocks and manufacturing industries. The Whiteside Block! occupied by Daniel Davl., clothier; the,' Roth & Swltz Block, occupied by the postotlice. Whltely's restaurant and Paul Henry Teurffs; the Heer Block, occupied by. Swisher Brothers' restaurant, all adjoining and fronting on Harrison street, were partially unroofed, the buildings sprung and otherwise damaged. Also, the west end of the American plateglass works was blown down and the work of reconstruction since the destructive fire of some months ago will be materially delayed. One of the new buddings In process of construction by the Union Steel Company was jlUo almost completely demolished. m In Delaware County. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., Nov. 26. The damage done in Delaware county : by last night's wind etorm will amount to several thousand dollars, the heaviest losses coming from the rural districts, where miles of fence were laid low, shocks of fodier blown to adjoining fields and much timber and hundreds of outhouse3 damaged. Saveral buildings in course of construction in Muncle were damaged and the following factories suffered

rore vr ipssr T-ie T' 3!and Steer Company, the Muncle pulp mill, 'Gill Brothers glasspot factory, Muncle wood-working factory, C. H. Over Window-glass Company, Herningrny G'.aan Company and the Eureka Washing Machine Company. At the woodworking factory a large tree fell across one of the buildings, demolishing it. Nearly every building In Muncle was shaken and there was great fright. Dunkirk Suffered Heavily. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. DUNKIRK, Ind.. Nov, 2. This place was visited by a severe windstorm early this morning. Several residences In the course of construction were razed, while the En terprise window-glass factory, the Ohio flint works, Maring & Hart's bottle houses, the car shops and the Dunkirk windowKlass works each lost a portion of their roofs and were otherwise damaged, l'art of the framework on the large factory being erected for the Dunkirk Window-glass Company was blown down. One-half of the front of the postotlice building was Mown in and several small buldings were torn from their foundations. The total damace will reach into the thousands. Reports are coming in from the surrounding country to the effect that houses and buildings of all descriptions were more, or less damaged. Rushvllle's Losses. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RUSIIVILLE, Ind., Nov. 26. Last night's storm was one of the severest and most destructive ever felt here. It raged with unabated fury from 11 p. m. until 2 o'clock this morning. The wall of a brick buliding at the Rushville Furniture Company's factory was blown down and n loss of $SX) entailed. The east half of the courthouse roof was blown off and part of the roof of the store of Albert L. Allen. Telegraphic communication was shut off, and trains today were delayed to remove trees from the tracks. Electric light wires were broken and the city was in daritnesa after midnight. Murh damage was sustained by fencing and trees In the country. A young son of Thomas Felts, on Jackson street, was cut and knocked insensible by falling plastering. Trees Pulled Special to the Ind.anapolls Journal. RICHMOND, Ind.. Nov. 26. One of the fiercest gales that this city has experienced in many ytars was that of last night and this morning. Shado trees in many portions of the city were blown flat on the ground and the roots of the trees pulled out entirely. Chimneys were blown down and a number of roofs lifted. One house in prscess of construction v-n Mown down and the telegraph l!nes were to knocked oat that communication could not be had for reveral hours in any direction. Fountain City suffered severely. everal barns being - demolished and one horse k.neu. No injury to human life is reported. Danville's Tin Itoofs Suffered. Special to the Indianapolis Journal.' . DANVILLE. Ind., Nov. 2.-Last night's storm was the most severe ever experienced in this section. In Danville trees were uproot ed and roofs damaged. The cornice over the postoflice and Wingate's restaurant whs thrown into the street and the tin roof over both room rolled up and deposited in the back yard between adjoining buildings, doing them no damage. The roof cf the schoolho'ise was rolled up and considerable darraqe was done at the water works purr.T.house. In the country fencing was torn down and com shocks scattered. The Icms will run up into the thousands cf dollars. 1 nlnn .City Also Suffered. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. UNION CITY, Ir.d.. Nov. IC. The rain which had been falling for th2 pa?t four days ceased last night before a wlnJsdorm of great intensity. In different parts of th? city shade trees were uprooted. outhoues were tipped over, fences blown down, windows blown out, houses unroofed, and general alarm prevailed until about 3 o'clock. Perhaps the greatest sufferers were the Urion City carriage manufactory, their lar.e three-story building being unroofed. Fnrloim AVlnd nt frymour. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SEYMOUR, Ind.. Nov. CC This vicinity was visited by a heavy windstorm last night, which did considerable dsmase. For two days preceding continuous rain had been falling. About 6 p. m. yesterday the tConttnacd on Second Fcpc)

GALE ON THE LAKES

TUESDAY MGIITS STORM OXD OF TUB WORST IS MANY YEARS. Three Vessel Blown Ashore Near Chlcnuro and the- Crews Rescued vrlth Great Difficulty. HIGH WATER AT BUFFALO RANKED UP ALO.YG TUB WHARVES RY THE FORCE OF THE WIXD. Wires Prostrated Throughout the West and Much Damage Inflicted Street Cnrs Snovr-ltonivL CHICAGO. Nov. 26.-Up to 11 o'clock this morning this city was practically dead telegraphically. Last night's"1 storm of mingled rain, sleet and snow prostrated electrical communication of all sorts within the city limits. The heavy accumulations of sleet and snow broke down wires of all sorts. In the business districts telegraph and telephone wires are underground, but in the outskirts they are carried on poles. The weight was so great in many places that the poles were broken and went down with the wires. Even the heavy trolley wires were unable to withstand the strain and were mingled In inextricable confusion with the telephone and telegraph systems, including the city police and fire alarm wires. Finally the Postal secured Intermittent communication between this city and Cleveland, over which the 'Associated Press managed to get a little news anl both that company and the Western Union had established communication with St. Louis, and were accepting the news and general business. The Chicago & Milwaukee Telegraph Company also got up its wires between the Board of TraJe anl Milwaukee, and news and business were moving. Altogether it was the mos complete telegraphic isolation which this city has suffered for many years. Freight traffic from every direction by railways was practically blocked and all passenger service, including suburban trains, was much delayed, even inside of the city, in spite of every effort. Passengers on the Calumet electric streetrailroad were snowbound In a desolate portion of the city and some of them were compelled to remain last night in the cars, being unable to reach their homes In South Chicago. Car No. 11, which runs over South Chicago avenue, was stalled at Seventy-seventh street at 10 o'clock last night, and remained there until this morning with five passengers In addition to the motorman and conductor on board. A car of the Scventy-flfth-street line shared a similar fate near Stoney Island avenue, as did also a south car on South Chicago avenue and Ninety-first street and another at Sixty-seventh street and Vernon avenue. Each of these cars carried passengers who spent the. night aboard. When the cars were first stalled they carried the usual number of passengers, but as the hours passed and no indications of progress were given the majority of the passengers left the cars and continued the remainder of the Journey on foot. Some, however, who lived a greater distance than did the others refused to leave the cars, preferring to spend the night in them to fiClns the etorm. ' ' . 1 , The steamer J. Emery Owen and her barges, the Michigan and Nicholson, from Buffalo, laden with coal for this city, were driven ashore off Glencoe. twenty miles north of fcere, about 3 o'clock this morning. Just how the pdot lost his hearings is not known, but It was probably due to the blinding snow storm. In nil there were between fifty and seventy-five people on board the three vessels, a large majority of them, however, being on the steamer. Signals of distress were at once given, Lut it was not until after daylight that, they were seen and answered. Great delay whs caused by the wrecking of one of th Evanston lifeboats a few minutes after It was launched. Another boat was soon secured, and it was afternoon before all members of the wrecked crew were safe ashore. The work of rescuinsr was necessarily very slow. as the lake was running high, and the life boat had to proceed slowly on account of larce cakes or ice. All three vessels are pounding badly and It is feared they will go to nieces before to-morrow. Word has been received here that the steamers Jay Gould and City of Traverse, for whose safety fears were entertained, are safe at Mackinaw, and the Peerless is at Detroit. All are snowbound. Nothing has been heard from the City of Duluth. The stpamer It. A. Packer, of the Lehigh Valley line, which arrived this afternoon from Buffalo, was out In the worst of the gale last night. The steamers Majestic. Usyptlan and Viking, the latter towing the w. iv. .Moore, aiso arnvea. DAM AC n AT BUFFALO. Water of the Harhor Ranked Up and Forced Over the Sen Wall. BUFFALO, Nov. 2S.-High winds prevailed here. The telegraph companies experienced great trouble In getting off business. Wires' are down in all directions. The lake is very high at this point. The water is over the breakwater at the en trance cf the harbor and freight is be ing taken up to the second story of the transfer houses, which are inundated on the ground floors. "The harbor has risen to an almost unprecedented height.. While the steamer Syracuse, of the Western line, was being towed into the harbor she be came unmanageable and cut the tug Elk almost in two. .The captain and crew of the tug escaped by jumping. The Elk sank almost Immediately. The gale Is subsiding to-night. The dam age to various kinds of property has been very great, but no fatalities have occurred Most of the loss has been due to the high water In the harbor, caused by the prevail Ing direction of the wind. The water in the harbor and river has risen at least six feet fine? yesterday. As a result the New Y'ork Central tracks at the foot of Georgia street have been washed away, and no belt line trains have run all day. The tracks of the Philadelphia Si Reading also have 'been washed out at -the same plaee. and train on that road are staiien there. iiuav i?!and. situated north of Ferry street, an I extending to the International bridge, wan almost completely, submerged, and some of the residents cn the Island were force! to hastily pack up and leave their homes to the mercy of the waves. A Rreat dual of damage was done alone: the sea wall, and squatters there had their homes washed away. Down in the Erie basin considerable damage was done to the fleet of excursion steamers which had been laid up there tor the winter. The water had risen nine feet in t went v-f our hours and played havoc wita the boats. The $1').(W0 side-wheel excursion steamer Shrewsbury w?8 washed away froat the supports on which It was place! ani beached. The damage to the steamer will be at b?ast half its value. The steamer Harrison met a similar mishap and has sustained very great damage. Several persons have bM'i injured by Hying objects, but none fatally. Havoc at and IS'ear Cincinnati. CINCINNATI. Nov. 23. The rain which began here Friday stopped last midnight after having precipitated two and a half Inches of water. A high wind clearvd the sky and, descending, proceeded to clear the earth. It played - havoc with fences roofs, signs, windows, telegraph and telephone wires. Several steamboats were torn from their moorings, bat all were safely secured. The Uedford, arriving; from Pittsburg, was driven toward the big stone piers of the Louisville & Nashville with e.:ormous speed. For a long time steam struggled against the storm for the safety of the paidc etrlcken passengers and tinally steam triumphed, landing the human freight in safety. The tastern fence of the League baseball park was. Mown down. A portioa of the roof 4 of Odd 1'eilows' Templs

and of St. Taul's Protestant Episcopal Church were blown off. A cabman driving through Newport was shocked Into unconsciousness by a live electric light wire fall

ing on him. His horse was kuiea. ine Weather Bureau reports the highest velocity of the gale as forty-eight miles an hour. The Commercial-Gazette specials from Ohio points report as follows about the storm: At Fort Recovery forty derricKs in the oil field were blown down, anl wiaeppread damage was done to roofs and fences. At F.aton many houses were un roofed and churches suffered the loss of chimneys and turrets. At Dayton the Sol diers' Home was rocked like a craale. ana there was the usual demolition of chimneys and fences. At Oxford several houses were unroofed and the usual demclitlon of feaces and trees occurred. In all these places buildings In the process of construction were prostrated. Western Trains Delayed. KANSAS CITY, Nov. C6. The recent storm as far as Kansas City Is concerned is practically at an end. It reached its climax In point of low temperature at 7:00 o'clock this morning, when the mercury fell to 10 points above zero, nearly 10 degrees lower than the lowest pint yesterday. The wind, however, had spent its force neariv twelve hours before. ine storm seriously affected the train schedules in this city this morning and most of the trains from the east and west punea into the Union Derot behind time. The con ductors reported no serious trouble with the snow. The delay was due to the cnppiea wire service, which made the running of the trains hazardous and uncertain. The trains were running on regular schedules again to-night. But little news has been received from Kansas points, but it is known that the storm still rages in the western portion of that State as well as through the territories. Telegraphic communication with that part of the country has worked slowly all day. Rivers Rising nt lMtlsburKT. riTTSBL'UG. Pa., Nov. SG.-High winds followed the rains of the past forty-eight hours and the wires are prostrated in all directions. The telegraph companies re port communication with the West as entirely cut off and all messages for the East are taken subject to delay. So far no damage has bten reported by the high winds. The rivers are rising and by tomorrow nisht It Is expected that ten million bushels of coal will be on its way to the South and West. This will be-the first shipment for seven months. A ten-foot rise In the river has been promised by the weather bureau for tomorrow, and it Is safe to say that more than fifty tows will start for the South. Everv Idle boat as far down as Cincinnati has been telegraphed for to come up the river and change so as to allow other boats to come back for more. Ranches Covered with Snow. ST. LOUIS. Nov. 2S. The blizzard which set in here early last evening subsided this morning, after leaving six to eight inches of snow on the ground, badly crippling railroads and greatly impending all lines of traffic; telephone wires were broken In numerous places and telegraph lines are down in all directions. No damage, however, has yet been reported in this city. It Is learned that the storm raged violently through Missouri, Arkansas anl Texas. In the latter State it swept over the ranches, covering them with snow several inches deep and severely exposing all kinds of live stock to its fury. If the temperature falls much lower there will be great loss of cattle and sheep. As it is there is much suffering. The mercury has not fallen below freezing point in this citv or vicinity, nor has there been anything like a gale Delude Followed liy n Gale. . DETROIT. Nov. 28. Last night's deluge was followed, about midnight, by a terrific gale, that wrecked chimneys, plate-glass windows, signs and trees In all parts of the city. The wind reached its maximum, sev enty-six miles per hour, and the highest. r!i nn PTCpntlon. ever recorded at the weather office here, at 8 o'clock th.s morning. Two electric towers were blown ov?r and a horse killed by stepp'.npr on a live wire. The water in the Detroit river has fallen five feet since yesterday nd only ti e regular ferries are running, j aree vt.s are aground at Grosre Point and manyothapo am nr tn. waltlnr for tho water to raiiBi. Northern and western Michigan polnt3 report heavy snowstorms ana trams badly delayed. Rnildinsrs Wrecked at Cleveland. CLEVELAND, O.. Nov. 26. The damage done by the storm in this city will foot up to many thousands of dollars. The roof of Music Hall, one of the largest structures in Vi r.v vnci Innsrned and manv build ir.gs wrecked. The roof of a shed fell upon John Zimmerman, of No. 19 Marquard street, injuring him so badly that he wld probably die. Special dispatches from the Ohio field-i show that hundreds of od derr'eks were blown down and general havoc wrought throughout the entire section. The loss cannot yet be estimated, but it will be very heavy. . Wind Attained Great Velocity. TOLEDO, O., Nov. '. Last night's storm had, for a time, a velocity of seventy-five miles an hour, the highest ever, recorded at the weather efflce here. There were no serious accidents but a great daal of minor damage. Several frame houses In process of building were wrecked, roofs injured, chhnneys toppled over, and several hundred shaic trees uprooted. There was no damage in the harbor, though vessel men are anxiouslv awaiting news of their craft which were on v during the night. DnroflKc Mi Columbus. COLUMBUS, , O., Nov. 2. The storm of last night was widespread in its effect, the entire State bearing evidences of the fury of the wind this morning. The North Congregational Church, in North Columbu-, was demolished and at v- Panhandle railroad shops havoc was created, buildings being moved from their foundations and. in some cases, demolished. Telegraphic and telephone companies suffered greatly from the etcrm. Streams Fllllnp Up with Water. WILLIAMSPORT, Pa., Nov. 2G.-LIght rains have prevailed throughout this section for seventy-two hours, and the small streams that have been dry for four months are showing signs of reviving life. Reporrs from along the Susquehanna river as far west as Clearfield Indicate a considerable rise, and the lumber people are hopeful of getting in the 43.000,000 feet of logs. Old Niagara Rooming:. NIAGARA Falls. N. Y., Nov. 2.-The cataract Is greatly augmented in volume by the force cf the westerly wind and the wind i'Felf has attained a velocity scarcely parelleled here. The suspension bridge has boen sibeetpd to a tremendous strnin and it was feared that some of the cables might part. The Erie freight sheds 'were blown down for a distance of 225 feet. l.OOO Derricks Rlown Down. BOWLING GREEN. O.. Nov. 2G. The Standard Oil Company reports over one thousand derricks blown down in this field by last night's storm and states that Its lo?-s will reach JIDO.CCO. The loss to private operators is enormous. Wires are down everywhere. The village of Cygnet, in this county, was partly blown away. Soucht Safetr I" Cellars. AKRON, O., Nov. 26. The severest gale in the history of this city raged here from midnight until 5 a. m. The wind reached a frightful velocity and many persons sought satcty in cellar?. Many residences and factories were d-?moi.shed or unroofed. The property less will be heavy. No one was killed so far as known. Cold West of the Rockies. SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 2C. The severe storm that has been raping through the East does not extend west of theRockies. The weather on the Pacinc coast has het-n unusually cold durirg the past few days and is still cold in places in Nevada, Oregon and Washington. Sixty 3IIlc nn Hoar. DUNKIRK. N. V.. Nov. 25. The wind Is blowing sixty miles an hour here and all craft In the harbor are in danger of being torn from their anchorage. Drop of SO Decrees. NASHVILLE. Teen.. Nov. 20. Last nifiht's storm was followed by a cold wave and a light snow and a drop of temperature from sixty-three to thirty degrees.

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EWER REV, AX A VTI-CIIRISTI AX, GIVEN A.Y IMPORTANT OFFICE. Fresh Evidence that the Sultan Is Not Sincere In Ills Pro mine of DealIns; Justly with Armenians. LOSSES BY THE OUTRAGES PROPERTY DAMAGES IX A X AT O LI A ALOXC PLACED AT 30,OOO.OOO. Forty Thousand Lives Reported to Have Reen Sacrificed Xo Firmans Y'et Granted the Towers. LONDON, Nov. 2T.-A dispatch to tht Times from Constantinople says that the nomination of Enver Rey as Mutesart ut Constantinople has produced an unfavorable Impression, deplorable In the extreme, as the new official is fanatically antiChrlstlan and notorious for his venality. The Chronicle this morning publishes a dispatch from its special correspondent at Constantinople giving an account of a peculiar reply made by the Turkish officials. According to the correspondent, seven men from the Kharput district applied to the Constantinople authorities for Information about the massacres said to have occurred there. The olficlals were forced to tell that the outbreaks had been most serious. When the men expressed a hope that their families were safe, the officials replied: "Better that they should have been killed outright than that they should die of famine." A dispatch to the Daily News from Constantinople says that a telegram has been received there from Kharput explaining tho manner in which the iecent destruction of the American mission property occurred. The American mission buildings at Kharput wero set on fire separately, according to the telegram, in the presence of the soldiery, but the college building was saved. Missionaries say that in the outbreak at Marash, on Nov. 19, many hundreds of people were killed, and that all the school tuildlngs were burned by the rioters. The Times this morning publishes an article written at Erzenim, dated Nov. 9. The correspondent fays: "The massacre here certainly occurred by the order of the authorities and thh order must have emanated originally from the central authorities at Constantinople. Much circumstantial evidence can be produced to corroborate this statement." The correfpondent then proceeds to repeat a conversation which he overheard going on between the Turkish soldiers who were guarding his door. Their statements were to the effect that their officers had ordered them at a given signal to massacre the Armenians. The correspondent then continues: "I had been visiting at the Erltlsh consulate with Mr. Chambers Sundiv afurnoon. Nov. S. ,wben lie now outbreak took place. The Armenians again crowded to the American school. A number of persons were killed on this day, the estimates . ranging from IS to . The scenes In the cemeteries where the victims have been burled-try-the cuffi-t era have been heart rendering. On' NdV.j 7. I visited all of the rulne-d bazaars, going as far as Serai, but during the entire Journey I did not Eee a single Christian." COtXTISG UP THE LOSSES. 10,000 People Killed nnd .0,CMK,OCO Worth of Property Destroyed. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 2&-Kow that matters seem to be quieting down again. . here and In the Asiatic provinces people are beginning to form estimates of the amount cf damage done and tho number of lives lost during the recent disturbances. Well Informed Armenians estimate the losses through the events which have Just taken place in Anatolia alone at 0.000.000 and the number of victims at forty thousand. Of course these are Armenian estimates, but there seems good reasons for believing that the property destroyed, tho number of lives sacrificed and the terrible outrages committed are far beyond anything hitherto estimated or described. . Rut this is not alL People competent to pronounce an opinion on the subject say that with the coming of winter there will be very many more deaths from exposure and famine and that even the prompt collection of relief funds, food and clothing cannot avert loss of life and great suffering. Famine Is threatened In a number of districts and there seems to be no way of preventing it. The powers. Instead of ordering their fleets away from Turkish waters as the Sultan earnestly requested, seem to be determined on keeping them in this vicinity for an indefinite period. A portion of the British Mediterranean fleet, it is reported, here, will soon leave SaJonica bay for Smyrna, where the powers are musterinj their fighting ships. The -warships of Great Britain, expected to rendezvous at Smyrna this week, will consist of nine battle ships, four cruisers and four smaller boats. The rest of the Salonica bay fleet, will, it is said, remain off that port for the rresent, ready for any emergency. France has already at Smyrna one battle ship, two cruisers and two smaller ships. Italy's flag floats from two battle ships, two cruisers and four small craft in the waters of Smyrna. Russia has two crulsern on the way to Smyrna in addition to a powerful fleet cruising in the western portion of the Rlack sea, The United States will be represented at Smyrna by two cruisers and Germany has one small gunboat there; but. It Is rumored that two German battle ships are on their xrzy there. Austria off Smyrna, has one battia Fhip, two cruisers and two small gunboats. Of course this is not a "naval demonstration;" It is simply the concentration cf the foreign fleets at the point agreed on apparently between the rowers. No progress has been made in the matter cf the application to the porte of the representations of Great lirltaln. Italy and, Austria for permission for the racr-a through the straits of the Dardanelles and on into the Rosphorus of an extra, gunboat, to act as an additional guard ship for their respective embassies. The embas5adors will hold a formal meeting In order to decide what steps to take to put an end to the so-called "ehuining" of the porte. Tho Impression prevails that If the firmans are not very soon granted the extra gunboats will pass the Dandanellea without the porte's permission, even tf they have to be convoyed through by battle ships stripped for action. Indeed, nobody here can see how the powers can retreat frora the position they have assumed without serious loss of prestige, and especlaly as their demands are based on treaty rights which are admitted by the Sultan and his advisors. In some quarters it is sail that the Sultan's ebJction to granting the firmans Is really caused by his belief that he can do so with impunity in view of the objection raised by Russia to Austria's proposal on the subject, and that this constituted a difference of opinion among the powers. A memlr of the diplomatic corps to who::i this vijw of the affair was submitted, nald that if the Sultan actually thought thero was any material difference of opinion amor.if tho jwrers he would do well to ct rid of that belief as soon as possible. News from the interior of Asiatic Turkrl" is more dlihcult to obtain than for a lor. tline past, although it Is rumored it.z, Turkish operations against Zeitoua cr: still progressing with tho procpect cf r, peaceful ending of the disorder there. ,